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Chuck & Buck 2-27 Hour 1: Will Lawrence be back? ICYMI: Cal Raleigh and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: I'm here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Good
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Speaker 1: to have you with us. I noticed that somebody brought
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Speaker 1: roses in yesterday and they're scattered all over the office.
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Speaker 6: Oh there everyone, Yeah, I saw one. I was like,
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Speaker 6: what did someone drop a rose? What's happening a bachelor here?
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Speaker 3: There was a rose?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, maybe he just maybe the bachelor
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Speaker 1: just decided right away. Nope, I don't need to play
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Speaker 1: this silly game. I'm just gonna hand out my rose.
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Speaker 1: And then he just had left over ROAs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's two in a jar above the sink.
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Speaker 1: There's one on the floor for goodness sake, there's one
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Speaker 1: on Jessamine's desk. So huh, yeah, somebody was flaunting their
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Speaker 1: rose petals. Uh, and just scattered them all across the office.
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Speaker 1: It's not that romantic.
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Speaker 2: No, it would have been a lot better.
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Speaker 6: I would have preferred it if, like when we opened
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Speaker 6: the door, we had a rose petal pathway to our
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Speaker 6: studio doors.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, that would have been inviting.
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Speaker 2: And then we would have come in and there would
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Speaker 2: have been candlelight.
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Speaker 3: Nobody's ever done that for me.
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Speaker 1: I mean, either it's not the heck, it's not really
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Speaker 1: not really something that's the guys get to do every
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Speaker 1: once in a while.
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Speaker 2: And wouldn't you like it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't know. Maybe I'd like to
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Speaker 1: take a bath when I get home.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe i'd like some champagne in an ice bucket.
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Speaker 1: Put my hair up, Yeah, with a little spa headband,
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Speaker 1: a little bubbles in the in a neck pillow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I hate maths, but just the gesture itself,
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Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. I mean, it wouldn't fall on
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Speaker 1: deaf ears. I'll tell you that I'd appreciate it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised you haven't had it happen for you.
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Speaker 2: Haven't geezles anywhere?
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Speaker 3: But is it cliche?
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Speaker 1: Like if he did it like you've seen this in
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Speaker 1: a thousand movies. This isn't even good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I mean I I part of me is like, oh,
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Speaker 6: that would be really nice, and then part of me
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Speaker 6: is like, ef, I gotta clean this all up.
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Speaker 1: Like if he would have been standing outside your door,
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Speaker 1: like your window to your bedroom and he's playing Peter
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Speaker 1: Gabriel in your eyes with a boombox.
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Speaker 3: Yes, like maybe.
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Speaker 1: Enough time has passed since say anything that that would work.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's cute and funny, and I appreciate the gesture,
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Speaker 1: but it certainly you're not going to walk away from
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Speaker 1: it going.
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Speaker 3: Man, my husband is one original son of his ard,
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Speaker 3: so creative.
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Speaker 2: How did he come up with that?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It seems like the rose petal thing, trickle to the
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Speaker 1: bedroom or to the bathroom has been overdone. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: yet it's never happened for me, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's happened for a lot of fellas out there, and.
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Speaker 3: I thought it. I think it would have been highly.
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Speaker 1: Amusing had they been sprinkled to our spots here for
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Speaker 1: our radio show.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll go rip all those roses apart and do it.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's it. Maybe we pay it forward. Maybe we
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Speaker 1: do it for Ian later on time.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and just sprinkle some spros right in there, and
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Speaker 6: then we'll make a heart out of rose petals on his.
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Speaker 1: Chair right right, and just let him and not, you know,
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Speaker 1: not tell him who did it, don't sign.
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Speaker 6: We don't need the recognition. We just want him to
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Speaker 6: have the feeling of being special.
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Speaker 3: Just want to see his face.
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Speaker 1: Actually, I don't know if we'll be able to do
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Speaker 1: it by one o'clock, and we certainly don't want to
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Speaker 1: do it for Mark. He he'll be like rose petals, jermy.
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe we do it for kid. Kid.
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Speaker 1: I think aciate it, love it. Yeah, And he never
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Speaker 1: watched anything before he was born. He probably never even
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Speaker 1: heard of sprinkling rose.
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Speaker 2: Brought a boom box. We could have played a music
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Speaker 2: at the studio to.
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Speaker 1: Anything you do for kid. He's from the movies. He'll
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Speaker 1: never know when it was. Yeah, never watched a single
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Speaker 1: thing before it was born.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna rip him apart and sprinkle it in for kid.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, anyway, even though the gesture once again was missed
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Speaker 1: on us, maybe we'll take advantage.
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Speaker 3: We have an opportunity here to pay it forward.
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Speaker 6: Large hearts, unlike the jerks out there who just selected
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Speaker 6: random people to give roses.
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Speaker 1: I've never done it myself either, by the way. For yeah,
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Speaker 1: for a female companion, I've never done it. I've never
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Speaker 1: done that because I thought it was cliche. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: did have a buddy that did it.
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Speaker 2: And what happened.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if I should tell this story.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, let's dude, Okay, I'll say at six
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, we're not to the prime yet.
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Speaker 1: He did it because he was like, had fallen for
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Speaker 1: a girl and he had like one problem that he
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Speaker 1: couldn't get over, and so he did the whole rose
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Speaker 1: petals and sprinkled him and then into the bedroom and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and then there was a bucket of
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Speaker 1: water with some shaving cream and a razor.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I bet that didn't go over very well.
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Speaker 3: I think she was taken off guard by it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: But they ended up getting.
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Speaker 1: Married, so so she forgot she forgave him at some point,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but good for her.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think.
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Speaker 1: Many of women would have taken that well. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess he rolled the dice and it paid out.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, good morning, welcome into the show. We
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Speaker 1: do have four hours of sorts talk. This isn't the
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Speaker 1: Rose Pedal Show for goodness sake, and we're going to
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Speaker 1: start with a story that broke yesterday. And who knows
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Speaker 1: how much credibility there is to this who knows how
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Speaker 1: much the there's teeth to this story. And yet, man,
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Speaker 1: when you hear that one of the very valuable contributors
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Speaker 1: to your Super Bowl team is considering hanging it up,
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Speaker 1: even though he had a really great year this past year,
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Speaker 1: it gets your attention. We'll find out from Greg Bell
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Speaker 1: if there's what he's hearing about DeMarcus Lawrence probably possibly
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Speaker 1: not coming.
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Speaker 3: Back next year.
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Speaker 1: And it's not just one outlet, it's several different outlets
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Speaker 1: that are suggesting that the thirty three year old who
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Speaker 1: spent just one year here in Seattle might have had
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Speaker 1: enough of the National Football League and could hang it up.
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Speaker 1: And I suppose I get it. I mean, man, it
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Speaker 1: just seemed like DeMarcus Lawrence was having the time of
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Speaker 1: his life here in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: He won the Super Bowl, he rolled the dice himself.
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Speaker 1: On the chance to win a Super Bowl title with
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Speaker 1: a team that Vegas was saying was going to win
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Speaker 1: seven and a half games this year. Some outlets in Vegas,
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Speaker 1: and so it wasn't like he was just Kevin duranting
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Speaker 1: it and jumping aboard. Some can't miss have a shot
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Speaker 1: at the playoffs. Maybe you're the final piece kind of situation.
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Speaker 1: He left Dallas, which by his own admission, he loved
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Speaker 1: and didn't never and thought he was always going to
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Speaker 1: remain a Dallas cowboy. It's been eleven seasons there. His
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Speaker 1: best buddies were there, his family, his kids grew up there,
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Speaker 1: all of that stuff, and yet the business of sports
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Speaker 1: was pushing him out the door in Dallas, and he
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Speaker 1: had to find a landing spot, and he finds it
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Speaker 1: here in Seattle, and it couldn't have worked better. He
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Speaker 1: not only played well, he not only stayed healthy, which
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Speaker 1: he didn't the year before. He ends up making the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: he ends up making the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: He ends up.
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Speaker 1: Walking through our Seattle streets during the parade, showing off
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Speaker 1: his physique, and it looked like DeMarcus Lawrence is so
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Speaker 1: happy with his decision. So I guess that can cut
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Speaker 1: both ways.
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Speaker 3: Ashley either you have.
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Speaker 1: Man, I didn't expect to be this happy and this successful,
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Speaker 1: not this soon anyway, And man, am I gonna ride
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Speaker 1: this out? Man, I have found the place where I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna eventually retire. What a wonderful transition this turned out
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Speaker 1: to be. And I'm going to soak up every drop.
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Speaker 1: Or you say, I'm thirty three years old. I've seen
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Speaker 1: plenty of broken down football players in the past. I
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Speaker 1: got millions in the bank for a guy that started
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Speaker 1: out in junior college football and ended up in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League. That's probably more than he ever dreamed
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Speaker 1: he was going to do as a football player. I
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Speaker 1: just won a Super Bowl. My house is still in Dallas,
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Speaker 1: my kids still are attached to Dallas.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I just ride off.
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Speaker 1: As a professiontional football player into the sunset. Yeah, look
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Speaker 1: at how good I look with my shirt off walking
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Speaker 1: the streets of Seattle.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I want to preserve this, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, body of mind. Maybe I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: any more damage to it. I think that I am
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Speaker 1: perfectly content being a pro bowler a couple of times now,
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion, millionaire, and I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: go spend my time quality wise with my family, my children.
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Speaker 3: While I still have my wits about me.
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Speaker 1: I can understand while you're doing that, but it certainly
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Speaker 1: comes as a bit of a surprise to me.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that's the thing is, you know,
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Speaker 6: as a Seahawks fan, obviously I still want him on
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Speaker 6: the team.
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Speaker 2: I want him to play. He was great.
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Speaker 6: He was a huge reason why we were so successful
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Speaker 6: this year. So you don't want to lose him because
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Speaker 6: now you've got to figure out how you're going to
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Speaker 6: replace him, and that's stressful. And I just I really
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Speaker 6: like him. I've become a fan of his in the
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Speaker 6: year he's been here. But the other part of me, Yeah,
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Speaker 6: looks at it and says, man, if you retire right now,
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Speaker 6: good for you.
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Speaker 2: Not so many athletes don't.
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Speaker 6: They just keep chasing it, right and they and so
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Speaker 6: few people get to go out on top. And if
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Speaker 6: you can go out on top on your own, it's
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Speaker 6: not an you know, you didn't win a Super Bowl,
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Speaker 6: but you were carted off with an injury. You know,
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Speaker 6: you're healthy, you're young, you're a champion, and you could
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Speaker 6: go out that way.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how that would be a dream come true.
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Speaker 3: Not a lot can do it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if he's at peace and he's I mean,
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Speaker 1: it actually is pretty smart.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's wise.
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Speaker 1: He's he's taken twelve years of NFL abuse and and
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Speaker 1: still feels really good. Yeah, and maybe it is time
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Speaker 1: to get out.
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Speaker 3: So I guess.
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Speaker 1: I mean I would understand it, and in a strange way,
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Speaker 1: I would commend it. But I certainly didn't see it coming.
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Speaker 3: No, not at all.
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here thinking, man, DeMarcus Lawrence loves being a champion,
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Speaker 1: loves being a Seahawk, loves you know, his transition here
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Speaker 1: to Seattle.
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Speaker 3: He didn't. It didn't strike me that he.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't considering coming back and playing next year until yesterday.
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Speaker 3: And now we are faced with.
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Speaker 1: The possibility, not gonna say the reality, but the possibility
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Speaker 1: where there's smoke there's fire.
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Speaker 3: I have a feeling there's some legitimacy to these things.
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Speaker 1: But I would also say a lot of veterans that
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Speaker 1: play football and go through training camp and then think
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Speaker 1: about OTAs and training camp and starting it all over again,
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Speaker 1: a lot of them are turned off by that.
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Speaker 3: That And so give.
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Speaker 1: Him a little bit of time, give him a chance
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Speaker 1: to remove himself from the season, and let's see if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't change his mind.
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Speaker 3: And it's not like he's made up his mind that
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Speaker 3: he's going to regain.
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Speaker 2: He just hasn't committed to six.
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Speaker 1: Right, And so give him a little bit of time,
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Speaker 1: give him some breathing room, and who knows what might happen.
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Speaker 1: But I think the other thing that has to be
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Speaker 1: discussed here is, boy, it does show you it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter how good the team was. It doesn't matter how
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Speaker 1: good the locker room seems. It doesn't matter how promising
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Speaker 1: the future appears. It doesn't matter how good a job
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Speaker 1: the executive of the Year did to not only win
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Speaker 1: a championship, but to do it earlier than expected and
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Speaker 1: be set up to possibly win one too.
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Speaker 3: Who knows how many more. It is so hard to repeat.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we have six free agents of significance.
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Speaker 3: We have more than that.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks have six free agents of significance. Like guys that
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Speaker 1: had that were starters or got plenty of minutes, plenty
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Speaker 1: of reps, and all of them are going to get
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Speaker 1: paid more than their market value. And that's just goes
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Speaker 1: with the territory other teams. See, hey, I remember that
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Speaker 1: Reek Woolen guy. I remember how talented he was, but
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Speaker 1: we didn't want to roll the dice on him. We
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Speaker 1: didn't want to take the chance on him because he
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Speaker 1: didn't seem very skilled. We were going to leave that
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Speaker 1: project to somebody else. And in the fifth round the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks take that on.
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Speaker 3: And now four.
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Speaker 1: Years later, it's like, Okay, he's a complete player, and
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Speaker 1: he may make some knucklehead moves, but he's developed some
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Speaker 1: skills some know how. He's got four years in the league,
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Speaker 1: he's been part of a world championship. Secondary, he's got
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Speaker 1: two years under the brightest defensive mind in the world.
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Speaker 3: Right now in this sport. Okay, now we'll jump in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now we're interested in the Reek Woolen business and
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Speaker 1: are and as we discussed with Greg and we were
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Speaker 1: even discussing at you and I ourselves earlier in the week,
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Speaker 1: he's probably going to be he and Mafey two guys
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Speaker 1: that are going to get a contract that.
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Speaker 3: Will surprise you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't think John and Mike are going
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Speaker 1: to I know they'd take them back, but they've got
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Speaker 1: a price in mind, and there's no way they're going
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Speaker 1: to get in some bidding war to bring Woolen and
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Speaker 1: boy A Mafey back. But it just the point is,
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Speaker 1: you win a Super Bowl and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you would think this would only happen to novices,
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Speaker 1: you know, And yet experts other general managers, there are
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Speaker 1: only thirty two of them in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: They're suckers for it as well. Oh he's a Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champion, now, well he's worth even more. Yeah I
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Speaker 1: thought he was. And they'll this happens to every Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champion. Their free agents get over value. Happened to
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Speaker 1: the last Seahawks team talking about Maxwell the last time
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Speaker 1: earlier this week, the last time we discussed it, And
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Speaker 1: so you know.
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Speaker 3: You lose that.
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Speaker 1: And then you also now very obviously have to entertain
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Speaker 1: the possibility of guys like DeMarcus Lawrence, a veteran, saying
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Speaker 1: I've had enough.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done enough.
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Speaker 1: This is a great way to end my career, which
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Speaker 1: other teams that are other veteran players on other teams
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Speaker 1: are still chasing that ring, aren't making that decision, aren't
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Speaker 1: having that contemplation right now.
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Speaker 3: You also have the aspect of if you do.
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Speaker 1: Pay the guy to come back in free agency, Is
15:55
Speaker 1: he going to be as hungry as he was before
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Speaker 1: because now he got his money and chase it. That's
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Speaker 1: what they're playing for more than anything, is for the money.
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Speaker 1: And so now they're rich. Are they going to give
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Speaker 1: me the same commitment that they were giving me before
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Speaker 1: when they were chasing.
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Speaker 3: That big contract. You got that to deal with. You've
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Speaker 3: got complacency to deal with.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody going to feel like they've accomplished something? Are
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Speaker 1: they going to be as fierce in their offseason workouts
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Speaker 1: to chase a Super Bowl title as they were this
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Speaker 1: past year when they were an underdog flying under the radar.
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Speaker 1: So it just all of those elements together, it shows
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Speaker 1: you just how difficult I mean, it's difficult to win,
16:37
Speaker 1: obviously a Super Bowl championship period, to repeat or to
16:41
Speaker 1: put together a dynasty. Look at all those factors, Ashley,
16:43
Speaker 1: that are working against you. And that's just a two
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Speaker 1: minute spiel. I mean, I could keep going on the
16:50
Speaker 1: various elements that get in the way of you repeating greatness.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing to reach greatness, but stand on top
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Speaker 1: of that hill when everybody else is gunning for you,
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Speaker 1: that's a different ballgame.
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Speaker 3: And only the best, only the best of the best
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Speaker 3: are able to pull it off well.
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Speaker 6: And that's the thing is, you know, all those things
17:08
Speaker 6: you mentioned are all basically off field issues, right or
17:12
Speaker 6: off season issues. They're all things that you're saying, this
17:15
Speaker 6: is our concerns going into the next season. Then you
17:17
Speaker 6: have the actual season to deal with, right, And you've
17:20
Speaker 6: got injuries, and you've got the health of your team
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Speaker 6: overall and other factors that you just can't even come
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Speaker 6: close to predicting. So it's just the entirety of the
17:29
Speaker 6: whole thing is it's it can seem overwhelming, especially coming
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Speaker 6: off of one Super Bowl win, to say like, all right,
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Speaker 6: now we're going to do it again. And you're looking
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Speaker 6: at all of these factors, all of these things, and
17:40
Speaker 6: you think, I've got all these free agents, all these things.
17:43
Speaker 2: That I know are happening.
17:44
Speaker 6: Now I've got the unknown of somebody like DeMarcus Lawrence
17:47
Speaker 6: potentially retiring something that we didn't anticipate. Well, that's not
17:51
Speaker 6: the only thing that's going to happen that you didn't anticipate, right,
17:54
Speaker 6: there are other things that will happen that nobody can predict.
17:58
Speaker 6: And so you put all that together and think how
18:01
Speaker 6: insanely difficult.
18:02
Speaker 2: It is.
18:02
Speaker 6: You look at the Seahawks coming so close to repeating
18:05
Speaker 6: last time and think how difficult that was.
18:08
Speaker 2: And so I liked, I'm hoping.
18:12
Speaker 6: Hoping that DeMarcus Lawrence loves the challenge right of saying like,
18:16
Speaker 6: all right, we did it once, I want to do
18:18
Speaker 6: it again. But then I, as I was saying earlier,
18:20
Speaker 6: to go out on top, not a lot of people
18:21
Speaker 6: get to do it. And so there's you know, at
18:24
Speaker 6: least with that factor, I just I can I can understand.
18:29
Speaker 6: And with the with the free agents we've talked about,
18:32
Speaker 6: we think what we're gonna probably keep three of the six,
18:34
Speaker 6: So it's just yeah, and then who are you getting
18:37
Speaker 6: to replace these the free.
18:39
Speaker 2: Agents that are leaving.
18:40
Speaker 6: And and as much as those are the only ones
18:43
Speaker 6: of significance, there's other ones that you know, you still
18:45
Speaker 6: have to find if they're gonna stay or if they're
18:47
Speaker 6: going to get replaced. I mean, all of it is
18:49
Speaker 6: you've got a new offensive coordinator too, I mean, just lots,
18:53
Speaker 6: there's a lot.
18:54
Speaker 1: If anybody's played the game King of the Hill, I mean,
18:57
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, the King of the Hills top the
19:00
Speaker 1: hill and he climbed his way and he threw his
19:02
Speaker 1: cousins off, and usually it's the bigger, the stronger one,
19:06
Speaker 1: and then he stands atop the hill, and then he
19:08
Speaker 1: maintains leverage over everybody else that plays because he has
19:11
Speaker 1: the high ground. But he's also going against everybody else
19:15
Speaker 1: trying to tear him down, looking for any way to
19:19
Speaker 1: weaken him and get him off the hill so that
19:21
Speaker 1: they could stand on top of the hill. And that's
19:24
Speaker 1: professional sports. It's certainly football this day, especially with a
19:28
Speaker 1: salary cap and all of the other things that conspire
19:33
Speaker 1: against you to keep your group together. It's very difficult
19:37
Speaker 1: to remain the king of the hill. It's a lot
19:40
Speaker 1: easier to become it than it is to remain. All right,
19:43
Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap of the show.
19:45
Speaker 4: Today, what's on tip?
19:50
Speaker 3: What's on tip?
19:51
Speaker 1: Greg Bell will join us today at seven five, So
19:54
Speaker 1: we'll ask him about what he's hearing on that front.
19:56
Speaker 1: And maybe it's much to do about nothing. Maybe maybe
20:00
Speaker 1: somebody just overheard DeMarcus Lawrence say at the you know,
20:04
Speaker 1: at a Panda Express, maybe I've had enough.
20:08
Speaker 2: They meant like orange chicken.
20:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he was talking about orange chicken, and some
20:13
Speaker 1: nosy reporter thought that he was talking about his football.
20:17
Speaker 2: Probably what it was.
20:18
Speaker 3: Maybe he was just talking about I've had enough MSG.
20:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't have any more.
20:21
Speaker 1: Today the NFL Combine Day number one is in the books.
20:26
Speaker 1: And I told you I was going to be your
20:28
Speaker 1: eyes and ears for that.
20:29
Speaker 3: I really didn't need to be. I mean, the three.
20:32
Speaker 1: Guys that were showcased yesterday, the defensive ends, defensive tackles,
20:37
Speaker 1: and linebackers were showcased yesterday. And I don't know if
20:41
Speaker 1: we're going to see better, more fantastic headlines in any
20:47
Speaker 1: of the other three days of workouts than what we
20:49
Speaker 1: got last night. Rvel Reese of Ohio State, David Bailey
20:53
Speaker 1: from Texas Tech, and Sunny Styles from Ohio State are
20:56
Speaker 1: all going to be top ten picks. The previous two
20:58
Speaker 1: are certainly going to be top five. But it was
21:01
Speaker 1: Sunny Styles who kind of put on a show yesterday.
21:06
Speaker 1: They could not stop talking about his workout. Six foot
21:09
Speaker 1: five inch tall linebacker who jumped forty three and a
21:12
Speaker 1: half inches and the vertical leap ran a four to
21:14
Speaker 1: four seven forty. I mean they did the side by
21:17
Speaker 1: side comparisons and he's faster than Ceedee lamb Oh playing linebacker.
21:22
Speaker 6: Okay at six five fifty and he is probably one
21:25
Speaker 6: of the best names.
21:26
Speaker 1: And he has a great name, and so we'll talk
21:29
Speaker 1: about that on the show today. Tonight, it'll be defensive
21:33
Speaker 1: acs and tight end. Saturday, quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs,
21:36
Speaker 1: and then the offensive line.
21:37
Speaker 3: On Sunday, the.
21:39
Speaker 1: Kraken were blasted by the Blues. This is worst case scenario.
21:43
Speaker 1: For all the hype, all the excitement that we had
21:47
Speaker 1: coming back from the Winter Olympic break, we expected to
21:51
Speaker 1: get at least one out of two from the Kraken.
21:53
Speaker 1: Not only did they lose both games, they got crushed
21:56
Speaker 1: in both games. They've been outscored nine to two over
22:00
Speaker 1: the span of two games since restarting their campaign. Ed
22:04
Speaker 1: Zoe himself at Olchek's going to join us today at
22:07
Speaker 1: nine o'clock to try to make sense of it. The
22:09
Speaker 1: team will play Vancouver tomorrow at seven o'clock, Sounders at
22:12
Speaker 1: Real Salt Lake Saturday at four thirty. Both of those
22:16
Speaker 1: teams look to go to and zero on the Young
22:18
Speaker 1: MLS season. College hoops You doub will host Wisconsin tomorrow
22:22
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. It will be Debtlift shremth Day tomorrow
22:26
Speaker 1: they will retire the number of the legend. Spencer Hawes
22:29
Speaker 1: is going to join us today at eight thirty to
22:31
Speaker 1: talk about that and Mariners spring training. They won yesterday
22:35
Speaker 1: eight seven over Cleveland. But the big story is that
22:38
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson this weekend Saturday, I believe, will be making
22:42
Speaker 1: his debut, not just for spring training, this will be
22:45
Speaker 1: the first game he's pitched as a Mariner since being
22:48
Speaker 1: made the number two overall pick in the draft a
22:51
Speaker 1: year ago and becoming the talk of camp at spring training.
22:56
Speaker 1: Another thing that we'll talk about later on in the
22:58
Speaker 1: show as I let you know what I learned at
23:00
Speaker 1: spring training, Part seven, But coming up next, in case
23:03
Speaker 1: you missed it, all week long, we've been playing one
23:06
Speaker 1: of our better to best interviews from last week spring
23:09
Speaker 1: training coverage, and Cal Raleigh, of course, paid a visit
23:13
Speaker 1: to the show last week, and yet it was late
23:17
Speaker 1: in the show late in the week, so if you
23:19
Speaker 1: haven't heard it, we're going to replace some of that
23:21
Speaker 1: for you next on Chucking Buck in the Morning Sports
23:24
Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. Hey, good Friday
23:38
Speaker 1: morning to you Chuck foul Ashley Ryan with you man,
23:41
Speaker 1: we got all sorts of things planned today. Greg Bell
23:44
Speaker 1: to talk about DeMarcus Lawrence and everything you learned at
23:47
Speaker 1: the NFL Combine, which is ongoing. Spencer Hawes to talk
23:51
Speaker 1: about Debtlift shrempth.
23:53
Speaker 3: I hope he likes Detlift SREMP. We do have clarification
23:56
Speaker 3: that he does like the party together.
23:59
Speaker 1: I would hate to do a thing about Debt of
24:01
Speaker 1: Shrimp featuring Spencer Awes and he's like, what it jerked
24:04
Speaker 1: that guy?
24:04
Speaker 2: Be hilarious?
24:07
Speaker 1: Ed ol Chick will join us, man, I mean, the
24:09
Speaker 1: guy that called the gold medal game happens to be
24:12
Speaker 1: one of ours, and so we'll talk to him about that.
24:15
Speaker 1: Joy and then the pain of having to call the
24:19
Speaker 1: last two games of the Kraken.
24:20
Speaker 3: Who I mean, could you play worse?
24:22
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, when our expectations are so high, I mean,
24:27
Speaker 1: could you fall any flatter than what the Krack and Abolis?
24:31
Speaker 6: Especially last night, like hearing Ian yesterdays day, the Dallas
24:34
Speaker 6: was really good and so we kind of the matchup
24:36
Speaker 6: isn't great for the cracking, okay, but Saint Louis is
24:38
Speaker 6: supposed to be terrible m m, and we were the
24:41
Speaker 6: only ones that looked terrible.
24:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, somebody looked terrible on the ice last night.
24:45
Speaker 1: And Jackson Felts with the super Bowl and spring training coverage. Man,
24:49
Speaker 1: we haven't even had a chance to do a Sounders
24:51
Speaker 1: preview with our guy, Jackson Felts, so we'll do that
24:54
Speaker 1: today coming up later on in the program as well.
24:57
Speaker 1: Speaking of spring training, our award winning coverage last week, Boy,
25:02
Speaker 1: we featured We tried to feature just about everybody that
25:05
Speaker 1: you want to hear from, including the superstar, the face
25:09
Speaker 1: of Seattle sports right now, Cal Rawley, coming off his
25:12
Speaker 1: sixty home run season where he became a household name
25:16
Speaker 1: this past year, and yet he's fighting, man, He is
25:19
Speaker 1: trying to remain the exact same person and he's doing
25:23
Speaker 1: a hell of a job of it.
25:25
Speaker 3: And so we did hook up with him last week.
25:28
Speaker 1: We had a long conversation which you can hear the
25:31
Speaker 1: entire thing at ninety three three KJR dot com.
25:33
Speaker 3: All our podcasts from last week are up.
25:36
Speaker 1: There if you want to check those out, But in
25:39
Speaker 1: case you missed it, it was later in the show
25:42
Speaker 1: last week. And so for those that can only listen
25:45
Speaker 1: at this time of the day, you can't get enough
25:47
Speaker 1: a Dumper in your life. So we're going to replay
25:49
Speaker 1: a portion of that conversation that we had with him
25:52
Speaker 1: last Thursday. I do believe we're gonna pick it up
25:56
Speaker 1: with the pitchers and how the staff looks under his guidance.
26:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I've got to know these guys really well.
26:03
Speaker 5: I mean, some of these guys have been catching for
26:05
Speaker 5: the whole time I've been here. I mean, somebody mentions it.
26:08
Speaker 4: I think it's like.
26:10
Speaker 5: Eight six six eight spring trainings I've been in now
26:13
Speaker 5: and I've been catching, So it's kind of crazy. I've
26:15
Speaker 5: been catching some of these guys that long. So you know,
26:19
Speaker 5: I know these guys really well. They're they're doing everything
26:21
Speaker 5: they need to do. Everybody looks good. I mean, you know,
26:25
Speaker 5: we're just trying to get everybody healthy, you know, healthy
26:27
Speaker 5: out of spring, get your reps in, do what you
26:30
Speaker 5: need to do.
26:31
Speaker 3: We already know.
26:32
Speaker 5: What each of these guys are capable of, so it's
26:34
Speaker 5: really just about going out there, you know, getting the
26:37
Speaker 5: innings that they need, getting it under their belt, getting
26:40
Speaker 5: acclimated to the season, getting that consistent, those consistent reps in,
26:43
Speaker 5: and taking that into a full full one sixty two
26:47
Speaker 5: and like I said, from there, I mean you know,
26:50
Speaker 5: you're gonna see some small tweaks that they're probably adding.
26:52
Speaker 5: You know, each picture says.
26:53
Speaker 4: There's last year you got to play what sixty games
26:56
Speaker 4: or something probably with Naylor since he came over.
26:59
Speaker 3: Gritty ballplayer.
27:00
Speaker 4: I mean, he just like what you call a ball player,
27:02
Speaker 4: the way that he goes about his business. I mean,
27:05
Speaker 4: how does it feel to continue to see more and
27:08
Speaker 4: more guys? I mean, that's what you want your squad
27:10
Speaker 4: to be, is just guys that go out there, you know,
27:13
Speaker 4: up and down the lineup, that you just feel like
27:14
Speaker 4: are going to go to battle.
27:15
Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:16
Speaker 5: I mean, I think in today's day and age, you know,
27:20
Speaker 5: you see so many metrics, you see so many ex
27:23
Speaker 5: avila velocity things like these, but you know, things that
27:26
Speaker 5: you can't quantify, you know, baseball. He plays talking about
27:31
Speaker 5: savvy in the game, knowing how to run the bases,
27:34
Speaker 5: how to hit with two strikes, do all these things.
27:37
Speaker 5: That's what wins ball games. And that's why I look
27:39
Speaker 5: at those two guys and what Naylor brought to the
27:41
Speaker 5: team last year. You know, he's you know, it's not
27:44
Speaker 5: the it's not the sexiest thing ever going on there.
27:47
Speaker 5: He's not hitting you know, forty hit for you home runs.
27:49
Speaker 5: He didn't have all these crazy, crazy long distances with
27:56
Speaker 5: exavilos or homers. But the guy uses all the field.
27:59
Speaker 5: He can hit the ball apart, he can hit with
28:00
Speaker 5: two strikes, he can hit for average, he can do
28:03
Speaker 5: all these things. You run bases and like that's what
28:05
Speaker 5: that's what winning baseball is and and implementing that to
28:08
Speaker 5: the rest of our team, you know, that's that's a
28:09
Speaker 5: really big deal. And Donovan seems like that same type
28:12
Speaker 5: of player can play multiple positions, run the bases, do
28:15
Speaker 5: do winning things that are gonna help us, you know,
28:18
Speaker 5: win those few extra games a year that we know
28:20
Speaker 5: are so important to put us where we need to
28:22
Speaker 5: go and and help us win a championship.
28:25
Speaker 1: So the challenge system this year, how big of a
28:31
Speaker 1: just your thoughts on it? I mean, how are you
28:33
Speaker 1: gonna approach it? Do you get to say have all
28:35
Speaker 1: the say with it or what?
28:38
Speaker 5: You know, It's something that's gonna get talked about probably
28:41
Speaker 5: a little more when we get into camps. So to me,
28:46
Speaker 5: my first initial thoughts coming off with last year, you know, no,
28:52
Speaker 5: like making the obvious ones, like, all right, that's definitely
28:54
Speaker 5: a strike challenge it, and then the thing you also
28:58
Speaker 5: just gotta be smart, like he can't be taken d
29:00
Speaker 5: and the first inning with nobody on base and uh,
29:05
Speaker 5: you know a one o count's that's completely different than
29:08
Speaker 5: seventh inning bases loaded, you know, three two count, That's
29:14
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Yeah, it's completely different. So I think
29:16
Speaker 5: it's all just context. It's game awareness, game situation understanding
29:21
Speaker 5: that trying to save them towards the end. I don't know.
29:23
Speaker 5: I've heard other teams talk about, oh, you need it's
29:26
Speaker 5: more valuable if you use it early on. You don't
29:28
Speaker 5: want to be left with them. It's just that's the
29:31
Speaker 5: analytics part of it. And I just don't know if
29:33
Speaker 5: I agree with that. But you know, we'll see how
29:35
Speaker 5: it plays out. You know, I trust our guys. You know,
29:38
Speaker 5: I trust our guys in the box, and you know,
29:41
Speaker 5: to me, it's just like, if it's egregious, challenge it,
29:44
Speaker 5: if it's borderline and it's not that important part of
29:47
Speaker 5: the game, then you know it is what it is.
29:50
Speaker 5: You gotta you gotta take one for the team. You
29:51
Speaker 5: gotta be a good, good team player. So that's kind
29:55
Speaker 5: of how I'm gonna approach it.
29:56
Speaker 3: So yet, the picture catcher standpoint.
30:00
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know.
30:04
Speaker 1: Some I've heard are you gonna get angry if WU
30:07
Speaker 1: challenges and is wrong when you didn't want to challenge.
30:09
Speaker 5: I don't know, so I've heard. I've heard different things.
30:11
Speaker 5: People are like, you know, we don't let our pictures challenge.
30:14
Speaker 5: Other people are like, you know, you know, if you
30:16
Speaker 5: want a challenge.
30:16
Speaker 6: You can.
30:18
Speaker 5: To me, it's just about emotion and ego. You can't
30:20
Speaker 5: let emotion. You can't let ego get in the way
30:22
Speaker 5: just because you want to strike out, or just because
30:25
Speaker 5: you thought it was a strike. But in reality, you
30:27
Speaker 5: know you're challenging and it's the fourth inning. It's not
30:29
Speaker 5: an important moment. You just it's an ego because you
30:32
Speaker 5: wanted to strike out. It's just like it's just an
30:34
Speaker 5: understanding situation and being very very certain to me, especially
30:38
Speaker 5: early on in the game, so you know, I won't
30:41
Speaker 5: say anything.
30:42
Speaker 4: They get it right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well it just
30:45
Speaker 4: makes sense. Good, you're another one falling off the mound
30:48
Speaker 4: after just you know, unleashing a pitch. You're back there
30:51
Speaker 4: receiving it. It just makes more sense.
30:53
Speaker 5: Trying to be objective, trying to be you know, I'm trying.
30:56
Speaker 5: You know, I think everybody's thinking that way too. It's
30:58
Speaker 5: like it's such a team or in a facet at
31:01
Speaker 5: the end now, and it's gonna be interesting.
31:03
Speaker 3: So I think it's smart.
31:04
Speaker 4: I think it's smart to let I mean, just okay,
31:06
Speaker 4: everybody has free reign. You can do it. But you're
31:08
Speaker 4: only gonna have a couple of mess ups before it's
31:10
Speaker 4: gonna be like you just let cow. If he thinks
31:13
Speaker 4: it's one and he understands the situation, then he's going
31:16
Speaker 4: to do it. We'll just trust you that you're gonna
31:18
Speaker 4: have it. Just another thing on your plate. By the way,
31:22
Speaker 4: add that to the time you pulled your weight around
31:24
Speaker 4: here and you said, yeah, I think they're.
31:29
Speaker 1: Going to leave it all to you based on the
31:31
Speaker 1: intel that I received, And I think they're okay with that,
31:34
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably what should happen.
31:37
Speaker 3: Frankly.
31:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna hear it. I'm
31:40
Speaker 5: gonna miss one or I'm not gonna challenge one, and
31:42
Speaker 5: they're gonna come back and they're gonna say something, and
31:45
Speaker 5: so it'll be you just gotta be locked in. You
31:47
Speaker 5: gotta be locked in for every pitch, you know, just
31:50
Speaker 5: like as catcher, you should be you know, you should
31:51
Speaker 5: be dialed in, And it's just more of a reason
31:54
Speaker 5: that you have to be on your game every single
31:56
Speaker 5: pitch and you can't take pitches off because you know, guys,
32:01
Speaker 5: guys obviously you know we need wins, we need strikeouts,
32:05
Speaker 5: we need walks.
32:07
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just it's interesting cal Rawley.
32:11
Speaker 1: Soon he'll be reporting for WBC duties. As a matter
32:14
Speaker 1: of fact, I think they do that Sunday and then
32:16
Speaker 1: the games start a week from now. So yeah, that's
32:19
Speaker 1: going to be a painful moment for the Mariners, like
32:22
Speaker 1: their leader leaving camp for a couple of weeks and
32:25
Speaker 1: handing them over to Mark Durosa and trusting him, you know,
32:28
Speaker 1: not to screw up.
32:29
Speaker 3: Screw up our guy.
32:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, makes me nervous.
32:34
Speaker 3: It makes them nervous. Believe me, it makes them nervous.
32:37
Speaker 2: Sure it should. Hopefully all will be all right.
32:39
Speaker 1: And it is interesting that you know that the portion
32:43
Speaker 1: that we played was talking about out I've pitched these
32:45
Speaker 1: I've caught these guys since the beginning of my career.
32:48
Speaker 1: Ryan divis just talking about earlier this week that maybe
32:52
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert will test free agency to get closer to
32:55
Speaker 1: home in Florida. He couldn't be further away right now
32:59
Speaker 1: and made Your League Baseball, even though he loves his
33:02
Speaker 1: teammates and he loves that he's a Mariner and sees
33:04
Speaker 1: all the potential. I just can't imagine those two now
33:07
Speaker 1: on the same team together. I feel I can't.
33:09
Speaker 6: It would be like watching mom and dad break up
33:12
Speaker 6: a little bit. I'd just be sitting there.
33:16
Speaker 3: At least get visitation rights with Logan.
33:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel like I'd be in I'm picturing myself
33:21
Speaker 6: as the kid in the back of the car when
33:23
Speaker 6: like one of the parents drives away and the other
33:25
Speaker 6: one's just standing there waving h And I'd be the
33:28
Speaker 6: kid crying in the back of the car, just looking
33:30
Speaker 6: behind me.
33:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so will you visit? Yeah?
33:35
Speaker 1: We get two Christmases, though maybe maybe it does mean
33:38
Speaker 1: we'll get a Logan Christmas and a big dump for Christmas.
33:41
Speaker 3: All right, coming up next.
33:43
Speaker 1: I've been doing this all week long at different spots
33:45
Speaker 1: on the show. It's one of our staples during the week,
33:48
Speaker 1: Reckless at Breakfast, and so we get Reckless next. On
33:51
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33:54
Speaker 2: Bring it.
33:54
Speaker 3: You think, just because we're.
33:55
Speaker 1: So wonderful in every other way that we aren't complete talents.
34:00
Speaker 3: And yet we've got news for you.
34:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're an idiot.
34:02
Speaker 3: We're gonna beat you at your own game, right, Yeah,
34:05
Speaker 3: all right?
34:05
Speaker 1: Headlines coming up at the top of the hour. Greg
34:07
Speaker 1: Mell's going to join us at seven o five. A
34:10
Speaker 1: lot to discuss with him, including the story yesterday about
34:13
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence perhaps wanting to hang it up after winning
34:17
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So we'll see if Greg's got any
34:19
Speaker 1: insight to that at seven oh five. But right now,
34:21
Speaker 1: we're getting Reckless at Breakfast. That's the song that goes
34:24
Speaker 1: with Reckless at Breakfast, which is a segment I do
34:26
Speaker 1: Wednesdays at seven point fifty, and this week with Bucky
34:30
Speaker 1: not here to judge me, I've decided to do it
34:33
Speaker 1: every single day this week, and today I'm going to
34:35
Speaker 1: get a little reckless at Breakfast with the Las Vegas
34:38
Speaker 1: Raiders and specifically you, Tom Brady.
34:40
Speaker 3: Oh, I beat you in karaoke.
34:42
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, yeah, you and your dimpled chin.
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Speaker 3: Right, and then that should break the tie between us.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people think that we have
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Speaker 1: the exact same awesome life, and I think that would
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Speaker 1: break the tie.
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Speaker 3: If I proved I was a better singer this.
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Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
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Speaker 1: So you know, Fernando man is the assumed number one
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Speaker 1: pick of the Las Vegas Raiders. There's not a mock
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Speaker 1: draft that doesn't have him going to the Las Vegas Raiders,
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Speaker 1: and there's a little bit of maybe the Raiders aren't
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Speaker 1: completely sold on him sort of. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it's suspicion or if some people have picked up on
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Speaker 1: some words and kind of ran with some loose interpretations
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Speaker 1: of it. But maybe there's still this possibility between now
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Speaker 1: on actual draft day that the Raiders won't ultimately settle
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Speaker 1: on Fernando Mendoza as the number one selection. And there
35:34
Speaker 1: are a couple of red flags. He's a bit of
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Speaker 1: a spas, he's a little bit nerdy and goofy, and
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Speaker 1: you know, you're not just leading college kids anymore.
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Speaker 3: That might overlook some of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna act that spastick around thirty four year
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Speaker 1: old defensive tackles, are they really going to follow you?
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Speaker 1: Are you going to be a leader that way? I
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Speaker 1: think it can be overcome. I would take him number one,
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Speaker 1: but it's not like he's some perfect prospect. As a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, pff Ty Simpson rated ahead of Fernando
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Speaker 1: Mendoza for most of the college football season. Wasn't until
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Speaker 1: he won the national championship that they've jumped They've jumped
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Speaker 1: him ahead. I think that's foolish of PFF. I would
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Speaker 1: have always had him number one about midway through the season.
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Speaker 1: I would have had him number one and kept him there.
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Speaker 1: But this is Tom Brady, and what is Tom Brady
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Speaker 1: known for?
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Speaker 3: Greatness? Handsomeness and his story.
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Speaker 1: Right, he's the guy that got overlooked in the draft process,
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Speaker 1: the scrawny kid out of Michigan who was the anti
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Speaker 1: Combine darling that fell all the way to the end
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Speaker 1: of the draft, and the New England Patriots took a
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Speaker 1: flyer on him and he ended up being better than
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Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe. It sounds like by the end of his
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Speaker 1: first training camp and then went on to immortality. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'd say he's the best quarterback of all time and
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Speaker 1: maybe the best player of all time an NFL history.
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Speaker 1: But Tom Brady continues to wear that chip on his
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Speaker 1: shoulder even to this day, even though he seems to
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Speaker 1: have a better life than any of this. He seems
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Speaker 1: to still have that chip on his shoulder to this day,
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Speaker 1: and he's not shy about telling us that he will
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Speaker 1: flaunt that he uses that chip on his shoulder to.
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Speaker 3: Try to best people at all times. I try.
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Speaker 1: I'd hate to beat him once at pool in his
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Speaker 1: basement because I think that he would hold it against
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Speaker 1: me for the rest of my life. That's the kind
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Speaker 1: of person that Tom Brady seems to be. So why
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Speaker 1: would we think that tom Brady even wants a quarterback
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Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick if he's going to
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Speaker 1: make the decision and it kind of sounds like he's
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Speaker 1: going to make the decision on this. Does it even
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Speaker 1: make sense that tom Brady would want a quarterback. Wouldn't
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick being a quarterback be the
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Speaker 1: everything that tom Brady overcame. Wouldn't the number one overall
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Speaker 1: picks and a draft be that the chip that went
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Speaker 1: on his shoulder, that Peyton Manning and Eli Manning and
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Speaker 1: all of these guys that got ushered to the front
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Speaker 1: of the line, that he used as motivation to get
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Speaker 1: better than all of them. Why would we even think
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Speaker 1: that he would want a number one overall selection. If
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Speaker 1: he's making the choice, would tom Brady want somebody more
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Speaker 1: like him, some diamond and the rough that he found
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Speaker 1: that he would have a chip on his shoulder. I mean,
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Speaker 1: John Schneider doppel Gang's draft picks all the time. If
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's choosing the quarterback, and Tom Brady is the
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Speaker 1: greatest quarterback of all time, and he's the greatest quarterback
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Speaker 1: of all time partly because of the chip that he
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Speaker 1: used on his shoulder to motivate him every second of
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Speaker 1: every single day, maybe he doesn't have an affinity for
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Speaker 1: number one overall selections, guys that got ushered to the
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Speaker 1: front of the line.
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Speaker 3: So I'm here to tell you.
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Speaker 1: And Reckless at Breakfast, that maybe the Raiders aren't sold
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Speaker 1: on Fernando Mendoza. And maybe it's because Tom Brady just
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Speaker 1: can't live in a world where he's choosing a peyton
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Speaker 1: manning over himself.
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Speaker 3: What do you think of that?
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Speaker 6: I mean that would it would really surprise me, honestly
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Speaker 6: if they didn't go with Fernanda Mendoza, just because it's
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Speaker 6: been already so ingrained in our minds. But I could
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Speaker 6: see him loving that story of trying to find someone
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Speaker 6: and not only be the person that had that story,
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Speaker 6: but then be the person that finds the person that
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Speaker 6: also has that story.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.
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Speaker 1: You heard it first here, right here, on the twenty
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Speaker 1: seventh of the February. I'm not here to say the
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Speaker 1: Raiders won't take him, but I do believe we're gonna
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Speaker 1: hear a lot of conversation about whether or not they
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Speaker 1: are going to trade the pick, keep the pick. I
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Speaker 1: think that's going to happen between now and actual draft day.
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