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Chuck in the Morning 8-4 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, trade deadline thoughts & here comes Hard Knocks! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, great morning to you here on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: We're at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. It is Chuck
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Speaker 1: Powell and Ashley Ryan with you. As we move into
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Speaker 1: our number two. We have a cash word for you.
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Speaker 1: three KJR dot com. We got Greg Bell joining us
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Speaker 1: in two minutes, our Seahawks in center. We'll get the
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Speaker 1: latest from yesterday, day eight of a training camp from
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Speaker 1: Greg here in about two minutes from now. But let
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Speaker 1: me rip through your headlines here on a Tuesday brought
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Speaker 1: deadline came and went in Major League Baseball, and my goodness,
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Speaker 1: was it busy. Perhaps the busiest deadline day and any
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Speaker 1: sport ever. Yesterday the Mariners did make a move. They
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Speaker 1: added Taylor Ward from the Baltimore Orioles. A three eighty
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Speaker 1: three on base percentage this year for the thirty two
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Speaker 1: year old outfielder who has rebuilt himself into something we
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Speaker 1: don't even recognize in the American League West. He used
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Speaker 1: to be a power hitter with bad on base and
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Speaker 1: now he's an on base guy who has only seven
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Speaker 1: home runs this season, but he hits left handers and
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Speaker 1: he also gets on base, which are two things that
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Speaker 1: this team sorely needs in its lineup. Yes, so nice
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Speaker 1: move Taylor Ward to the Mariners yesterday, added to the
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Speaker 1: Luis Castillo trade for Sir Anthony Dominguez back on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and that's all she wrote for the Mariners trading deadline
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. The team will be in action
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Speaker 1: tonight against the Detroit Tigers, who, of course will not
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Speaker 1: pitch Derek Scooble. He would have pitched today it was
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Speaker 1: his turn in the rotation to pitch against the Mariners,
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Speaker 1: but he's now a Los Angeles Dodger who will debut
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Speaker 1: against the Cubs tonight at Wrigley. Meanwhile, Emerson Hancock will
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Speaker 1: go against what is believed to be Troy Melton, who's
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Speaker 1: been even better this season than Scooble. So not exactly
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Speaker 1: anup great there for us, But there's also a report
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Speaker 1: that the Tigers are still undecided as to who will
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Speaker 1: start tonight, So I'm not exactly sure what to believe,
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Speaker 1: but there's a chance that we're going to face a
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Speaker 1: guy that was much harder on us in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: a year ago in that Tiger Series than even Scooble
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Speaker 1: was in Troy Melton first pitches at six forty. The
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Speaker 1: Snahomish Little League softball team in action today. They are
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Speaker 1: facing elimination against the team out of Texas. They are underway.
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Speaker 1: They just started at seven am, and the Storm lost
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Speaker 1: their ninth consecutive game last night to the Liberty by
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Speaker 1: a final score of ninety five to eighty three. Brianna
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Speaker 1: Stewart twenty four points eight rebounds against her former team.
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Speaker 1: But the big story here for us today Seahawks training camp.
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Speaker 1: Joining us now Greg Bell as.
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Speaker 2: Part of our continuing NFL coverage for the twelfth Man.
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Speaker 3: Come onring, Greg, good morning.
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Speaker 1: Well all right, well, before we get into your Hard
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Speaker 1: Knocks debut tonight, I want to talk about Brady Russell,
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Speaker 1: because we just had Brady Russell. How great is Brady Russell,
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell.
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Speaker 3: He's a personality kid of a former marine pilot. Just
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Speaker 3: got married. He just got married this offseason. Yeah, guy
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Speaker 3: who goes out shirtless no matter what the weather, no
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Speaker 3: matter what the condition is.
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Speaker 1: He did show up in his shirt today at the set,
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Speaker 1: so I'll give him that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's different. But yeah, he's been a Mike McDonald
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Speaker 3: type of guy, a Seahawk guy, doing it seahawk way,
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Speaker 3: as McDonald likes to say, doing everything the coaches ask
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Speaker 3: of him, tireless worker, plays to pain. They got him
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Speaker 3: off waivers from Philadelphia a few summers ago, and he
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Speaker 3: just showed up and did everything. He fullback, he does,
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Speaker 3: tight end, he does all the special teams and one
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Speaker 3: of those jack of all trades guys that every NFL
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Speaker 3: team needs to succeed. You gotta have a couple of those.
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Speaker 3: It saves him and lets him use roster spots on
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Speaker 3: other positions. And now that Robbie Uots is out with
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Speaker 3: the ominous sounding issue that we'll find out Mike mcgoln says,
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Speaker 3: we're going to learn more in a couple of days
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Speaker 3: about Robbie Hoots. It could be Brady Russell beck to
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Speaker 3: some more fullback and more than he played last year
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Speaker 3: with Robbie Hooots. But yeah, he's he's been signed back
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Speaker 3: a couple times because they like him so much.
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Speaker 1: Well, give us the details on Oots. I was going
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Speaker 1: to transition right into that. So what is going on there?
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Speaker 3: Well, he had the next issue at the end of
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Speaker 3: last season. He missed the last two regular season games
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Speaker 3: because of it, and then he was practicing to start
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Speaker 3: this training camp. I actually saw him as an inline
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Speaker 3: tight end blocking with offensive tackles for a couple of
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Speaker 3: practices in the position drills, and then Saturday he wasn't
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Speaker 3: on the field and yesterday wasn't on the field. And
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Speaker 3: when we asked Mike McDonald after practice, he said, well,
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Speaker 3: we're going to try to find out more information on
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Speaker 3: Robbie's situation. We'll let you know sooner than later. And
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Speaker 3: that's usually not good. When it's we're going to give
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Speaker 3: you news sooner than later, that's often long term injury
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Speaker 3: injury list type information. I don't want to put the
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Speaker 3: car before the horse there. But he didn't sound very
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Speaker 3: good about it. He's usually more vague or all just
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Speaker 3: normal camp stuff is in the case of Julian Neil
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Speaker 3: and Jake Bobo, but that's not what he said about
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Speaker 3: Robbie Oaths yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Would they feel good enough about Russell if it came
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Speaker 1: to that, or would they be searching for another fullback.
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Speaker 3: They could be searching for another fullback. I talked to
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Speaker 3: Nick than that last week about some fullback he's played
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Speaker 3: in the past, and he hasn't done any yet in
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Speaker 3: this camp. But they are using tight ends in full back,
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Speaker 3: somewhat interchangeably in motion and setting up on offset wings
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Speaker 3: and Brian Flurry at least the forty nine or system
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Speaker 3: does this as well, sometimes using their tight ends in
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Speaker 3: the backfield. But yeah, if it sounds as bad as
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Speaker 3: it sounds, if it is as bad as it sounds,
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Speaker 3: then they could be shopping for another fullback. They're hard
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Speaker 3: to come by, of course, in this league, because the
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Speaker 3: aren't many teams that use them, and there aren't many
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Speaker 3: college programs that have them anymore. In fact, Oots was
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Speaker 3: a tight end at Alabama two undred and seventy five
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Speaker 3: pounds that they converted the fullback last year. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's somewhat of a concern for an offense that wants
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Speaker 3: to use fullbacks. It may end up being a hybrid
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Speaker 3: to I don't think A. J. Parner is going to
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Speaker 3: line up back there. But they've got Salvert, who himself
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Speaker 3: is injured not practicing right now. They've got Nick Farnett
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Speaker 3: who's done a little bit of in the past. Nick
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Speaker 3: Calerep has been on the practice squad. In the fringes
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Speaker 3: of the roster. They could convert some of that, but
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Speaker 3: in the short term, it looks like Brady Russell's tight
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Speaker 3: end days might be numbered.
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Speaker 1: Greg gub Bell with US our Seahawks insider, of course,
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Speaker 1: joins it's almost every day during the football season here
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Speaker 1: of the Seattle Seahawks all year long. Rashid Shahid big
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Speaker 1: contract in the offseason, and a lot of us wondered,
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Speaker 1: is his offensive role gonna have to expand? Is he
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Speaker 1: going to have to be used a lot more to
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Speaker 1: justify pandem seventeen million dollars per year? What are you
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Speaker 1: seeing that might address that?
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, they're Sam Darnold and Rashid Shaheed went to
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Speaker 3: Southern California. Worked out at Satebac Junior College and Mission
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Speaker 3: Viejo from the six weeks from the end of mini
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Speaker 3: camp in June of the start of training camp the
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Speaker 3: end of July to work on the timing of the speed,
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Speaker 3: getting Donald used to Shaheed's speed. There were a lot
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Speaker 3: of times lately season, including the very second minute of
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Speaker 3: the NFC Championship Game, that Donald underthrew Shaheed because he
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Speaker 3: just couldn't outthrow his speed and had he thrown that
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Speaker 3: ball out the go route past Williams the corner on
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Speaker 3: the very first there's two anfenx in the NFC Title game,
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Speaker 3: it would have been a touchdown. He's somewhat underthrew him,
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Speaker 3: being a fifty one yard game instead. So they worked
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Speaker 3: a lot on that. But last year, if you could say,
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Speaker 3: well he needed to be more to the offense, he
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Speaker 3: didn't get here until November. He was merging into traffic
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Speaker 3: midstream and that's not an ideal place for a quarterback
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Speaker 3: and a wide receiver to mess. Now they've had the
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Speaker 3: time the offseason working out on their own in California.
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Speaker 3: You can see it every day. It's a night and
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Speaker 3: day difference from last year to this year and how
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Speaker 3: connected they are. Yesterday, Darnald hit him and stride at
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Speaker 3: about fifty plus yards in a post route that sh
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Speaker 3: just ran right by the rookie corner. Michael Dansby and
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Speaker 3: Bud Clark misjudged the speed he was with stead of
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Speaker 3: inside leverage on the post route, and he just misjudged
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Speaker 3: how fast for she chated and she head ran like
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Speaker 3: five yards behind him. But Donald's throw. The most notable
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Speaker 3: part of that play yesterday was that Donald's throw fifty
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Speaker 3: plus yards in the air was in stride out in
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Speaker 3: front of Shaheed instead of underthrown. So they've gotten much
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Speaker 3: better at that. The idea is to have Shaheed and Horton,
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Speaker 3: now that he's back off his shine surgery, both on
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Speaker 3: the field at the same time to see how defenses
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Speaker 3: react to that speed going down the field and in
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Speaker 3: theory open up everything for Smith and Jigwick, Cup, Barner,
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Speaker 3: Price and everybody underneath. But when I brought that up
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Speaker 3: to mcmike McDonald yesterday, the coach said, yeah, that's true,
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Speaker 3: but we need to be balanced on offense when we
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Speaker 3: go to those both ghost guys in the field. We
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Speaker 3: just can't be chucking it straight down the field or
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Speaker 3: having those guys run down the field. We have to
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Speaker 3: be keeping defenses honest so that defenses can't pigeon holes
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Speaker 3: into Okay, the Seahawks are doing this because the speed guys.
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Speaker 1: Are in a lot of herbs for throw Uh, Greg,
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Speaker 1: I don't think you have to use chuck. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if that's I don't know if that's appropriate. And
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things.
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Speaker 3: Charles, get Charles down the fielder.
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Speaker 1: You can toss it, you can hurl it. There are
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Speaker 1: a lot of different things. I don't know. I'm just
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Speaker 1: just I could give you a fisaurus if you'd like.
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Speaker 1: When I see Greg bellis with us here on chug
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Speaker 1: a Buck in the morning. All right, So Riley Mills,
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Speaker 1: Riley Mills, Riley Mills. That seems to be the name
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Speaker 1: that was brought up his talk of camp. But is
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Speaker 1: Bud Clark starting to carve into that a little bit
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Speaker 1: here in camp early on?
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Speaker 3: Well, Bud Clark's making his move, He's Yesterday was his
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Speaker 3: most extensive day with the Ones yet as a deep
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Speaker 3: safety for Tyle Katta, playing next to Julian Love with
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Speaker 3: the starting defense and then Bud Clark second round pick
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Speaker 3: from TCU was in the Emon Worri role, and that
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Speaker 3: was interesting to see it to start a camp when
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Speaker 3: Emon Worry was put on the pup list, if it
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Speaker 3: would be Bud Clark, because when they drafted and they
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Speaker 3: said he had Bud Clark or Nick even Worey type
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Speaker 3: of talent and that he could tackle. He played close
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Speaker 3: to the bucks of college. He's a good run supporter,
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Speaker 3: run tackler, an additional cover guy and that sounded a
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Speaker 3: little bit like the hybrid role that even Worri started in.
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Speaker 3: And sure enough, yesterday, for the first time on the
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Speaker 3: starting defense, Bud Clark was doing just that to Nick
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Speaker 3: even warrior role. It had been the Anthony Bell at
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Speaker 3: the first week with the starting defense in that role,
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Speaker 3: but yesterday Clark alternated with Bell. He also alternated with
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Speaker 3: Okata and after practice McDonald's yep, we're trying to fire
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Speaker 3: hose him and give him all we can and see
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Speaker 3: how much he can handle, just like they did with
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Speaker 3: Nick even Worry twelve months ago. And of course Emon
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Speaker 3: Worrie came out splendidly and was a star in the
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Speaker 3: league guest last year doing all of that, from defensive
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Speaker 3: lineback to safety. They're trying to see how much Clark
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Speaker 3: can handle, and McDonald said it's not perfect. He's got
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Speaker 3: some things he still has to work on, assignment wise
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Speaker 3: and whatnot. But that's so far, so good. So that
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Speaker 3: sounds like that the experiment's going to continue. Nick emn
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Speaker 3: Worry's positive news is what the coach says, But nothing
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Speaker 3: new beyond well, he'll be ready when he's ready. He
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Speaker 3: was signing autographs wearing a bray a low race on
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Speaker 3: that right ankle they had surgery on early in July,
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Speaker 3: and he had a crutch with him. He wasn't really
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Speaker 3: using it when he was signing autographs for fans after
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Speaker 3: practice on Saturday. But it doesn't look like it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be a day to day thing, but more of a
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Speaker 3: week to week thing right now with emn.
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Speaker 1: Worry, well, they're already using a Hard Knocks clip of
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald to Nick emon Worre on social media right now,
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Speaker 1: a little meeting between the two of them. So how
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Speaker 1: big of a story has this been for you in
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Speaker 1: covering the Seahawks? I mean, is this something that you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to report about every single day after tonight?
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Speaker 1: Are you going to get information that is not made
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Speaker 1: available to you guys. Is HBO getting stuff that even
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Speaker 1: the beat writers aren't getting? So how do you cover
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Speaker 1: hard knocks tonight?
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, HBO is getting stuff. We're not things. We're
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Speaker 3: not in the locker room this time of year, we're
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Speaker 3: not all allowed in the meeting rooms. We're not in
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald's office. We're not recording everything said in there.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, of course they're getting more than the beat
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Speaker 3: writers do. So of course we have to watch it.
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Speaker 3: I have to watch it to see if there's anything
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Speaker 3: that newsworthy that we can't get to. That's part and
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Speaker 3: parcels NFL films and the billions of dollars a year
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Speaker 3: the television contracts give the NFL, and yeah, all of that,
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Speaker 3: but it's not an everyday thing. It's only every day
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Speaker 3: thing when we ask the players and coaches and they
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Speaker 3: talk about it. The players are starting to get used
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Speaker 3: to it. They were handled up for the cameras a
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Speaker 3: little bit at the start, and now there's just it's
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Speaker 3: kind of like just plants in the office. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they're just there. And we'll see tonight. The seas have
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Speaker 3: already seen this first episode. I was told there was
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Speaker 3: nothing objectable, something that they had to go back to
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Speaker 3: the producers and on only of this that the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: were happy with how it came out and how it
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Speaker 3: portrayed the team's operations. So, but yes, tonight six o'clock live,
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Speaker 3: if you have HBO Max nine o'clock, if you're just
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Speaker 3: going to watch it on cable HBO our time, that
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Speaker 3: you're going to see things that unprecedented access to the
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Speaker 3: Seahawks that we're not ever allowed to report.
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Speaker 1: Are we going to see a different side of Mike
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Speaker 1: McDonald than what he gives us publicly what he gives
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Speaker 1: the beat, or or is what you see what you
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Speaker 1: get with Mike McDonald as far as you can.
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Speaker 3: Tell, mostly is what you see is what you get.
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Speaker 3: And some of the clips at HBO has put out
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Speaker 3: his teasers and trailers sound very Mike McDonald and are
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Speaker 3: consistent with how he is with us and saying he's
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Speaker 3: the most awkward guy in America and all those things.
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Speaker 3: But there will be interact just like the clip they
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Speaker 3: released this morning with Emon Worry in his office, there
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Speaker 3: will still be interactions in moments that we are not
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Speaker 3: privy to that will be unique and will be a
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Speaker 3: different side that the fans don't usually get to see.
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Speaker 3: But McDonald himself, Yeah, there's there's pretty much. He's pretty
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Speaker 3: much who he is. There's not a lot of pretense
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Speaker 3: to Mike McDonald or layers. He's pretty matter of fact
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Speaker 3: and who he is. There shouldn't be too much revealing
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Speaker 3: about Mike McDonald the person, at least not those of
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Speaker 3: us who deal with them every workday.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna force the issue a little bit so you
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Speaker 1: can get on the show. You're gonna ask some really
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Speaker 1: controversial questions throughout camp. What do you think?
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Speaker 3: No? I was sold. Chris Segan and Paul Sylvie and
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Speaker 3: the King Five Guys did a poll of which beat
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Speaker 3: writers will be most featured on Hard Knocks, and they
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Speaker 3: said it was me because of my questions sometimes ellicit
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Speaker 3: some responses from people. Sometimes because I ask questions, maybe
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Speaker 3: they don't want to be asked. But no, I'm not
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Speaker 3: going out of my way to be I when I
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Speaker 3: went to journalism school a long time ago, it was
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Speaker 3: don't be a part of the story, at least the
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Speaker 3: ones I write. So yeah, I don't think anyone's not.
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Speaker 3: Even my wife will tune into Hard Knocks and say, oh,
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Speaker 3: let's see if Greg from the show not, they'll probably
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Speaker 3: even if I accidentally make it on some kind of scene,
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Speaker 3: they'll cut that up.
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Speaker 1: But are you gonna tune in tonight? Is it gonna
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Speaker 1: be uh, you know, and Greg with some popcorn out
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Speaker 1: watching the show?
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Speaker 3: It'll be Greg and eric Son while I'm watching out
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Speaker 3: of curiosity more than anything. But yeah, I'm gonna look
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Speaker 3: for stuff and in the pad. I have beat writers
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Speaker 3: around the league who've dealt with this in their training camps,
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Speaker 3: and they've told me that they watch it because there
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Speaker 3: are things on there that become newsworthy, things that they
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Speaker 3: couldn't otherwise get to that you then have to follow
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Speaker 3: up and ask people about or whatever. I hate to
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Speaker 3: do journalism that way. I mean off of television or
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Speaker 3: off of somebody else's reporting that's really not what it's
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Speaker 3: supposed to be. I'll mostly watch it as a fan
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Speaker 3: and a viewer tonight with an eye to ward, WHOA
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Speaker 3: that was newsworthy, though I'm not expecting too much in
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Speaker 3: that regard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's gonna be our lead story tomorrow, so
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Speaker 1: you know, we're not bashful about it. We're gonna We're
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Speaker 1: probably gonna do our whole show on it tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: No, no, I don't. I just get I shouldn't be
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Speaker 3: producing journalism off of someone else's journalism this.
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Speaker 1: Way, get entirely get what you're saying. Yeah, but yeah
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Speaker 1: we're shameless.
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Speaker 3: No, it'll be what everyone's talking about tomorrow. You should
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Speaker 3: be talking about it in the morning for sure.
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Speaker 1: All right, what do you got for ten o'clock today?
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Speaker 4: Then I sat down with Noah ig Moanogamy after practicing
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Speaker 4: the veteran corners in his eighth year. His parents both
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Speaker 4: his parents, his mother was a four x four hundred
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Speaker 4: meter olympian for her home country of Nigeria in the
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Speaker 4: ninety two Olympics.
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Speaker 3: Or his father was a long jump and triple jumper
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Speaker 3: for his home country in Nigeria in the ninety six Olympics.
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Speaker 3: He himself, Noa ran track at Auburn on top of
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Speaker 3: playing football, and he loves Dan quint And we're going
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Speaker 3: to talk about the former Seahawks defensive coordinator who got
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Speaker 3: him to Davis, then got him to Washington, made him
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Speaker 3: a full time NFL starter, has made him a lot
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Speaker 3: of money man. One of the bigger Dan Quinn fans
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Speaker 3: I've come across a long time noigmanogamy. He's gonna make
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Speaker 3: the team as an extra veteran safety or corner excuse me,
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Speaker 3: that could also play Nickel that they've had him in recently,
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Speaker 3: and they need more veteran corners than a very young secondary.
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Speaker 1: All right, Greg, well we'll see it ten.
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Speaker 1: up next on the radio show, we recap yesterday's trade
18:28
Speaker 1: deadline in case you missed our thoughts at six o'clock
18:31
Speaker 1: here today, and I will dive a little deeper into
18:34
Speaker 1: something I didn't I just scratched the surface on at
18:37
Speaker 1: six o'clock, and that is whether or not the Mariners
18:40
Speaker 1: have enough relief pitching to get them through the dog
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Speaker 1: days of summer. We'll discuss it next. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Oh yes, the trading deadline is
19:03
Speaker 1: has come and gone and it was a wonderful holiday
19:06
Speaker 1: this year. I mean full of cake and punch. I'm
19:10
Speaker 1: lots of dancing, oh late night. So man, the cleanup
19:14
Speaker 1: I've got to do at my house when I get home.
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Speaker 5: Todave Wooo, I'm sorry. That's a bad for you.
19:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably gonna find an Asian teenager in a closet somewhere.
19:25
Speaker 6: Probably that's usually what happens after a crazy holiday.
19:28
Speaker 1: Nineteen years old, that kind of team.
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Speaker 5: Right, Thank goodness for clarifying.
19:34
Speaker 1: You know that's always the case, though, isn't it. In
19:36
Speaker 1: those eighties movies, those John Hughes movies, there was always
19:39
Speaker 1: a yeah, Long Duck Dong was in the Yeah, yeah,
19:42
Speaker 1: that's what I was thinking of, Long Dun Dong. Yeah,
19:44
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in a closet, in the broom closet
19:46
Speaker 1: when I get home, And I got to figure out
19:49
Speaker 1: how to get him back to his parents.
19:50
Speaker 6: Just make sure you put the stationary bike away when
19:52
Speaker 6: he's over, because he gets a little kinky on that thing.
19:56
Speaker 1: That's half the joy of bringing over Long Duck Dong.
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Speaker 5: You're right, my bad, keep the bike out.
20:03
Speaker 1: So the Mariners did some things they weren't over aggressive.
20:08
Speaker 1: I don't think I was expecting them to be, but
20:11
Speaker 1: I think they're a better team for having gone through
20:14
Speaker 1: the experience of the trading deadline, and I think that
20:18
Speaker 1: they address some things. So let's let's figure out where
20:21
Speaker 1: they did improve. The two trades that they made Saturday,
20:23
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo to the White Sox for Boston Smith, the
20:28
Speaker 1: minor league prospect Nolan Jones, who's not going to contribute
20:31
Speaker 1: this year, and then the reliever Sir Anthony Dominguez, and
20:34
Speaker 1: then yesterday's trade of Alex Hoppey and two minor leaguers
20:37
Speaker 1: for outfielder Taylor Ward of the Baltimore Orioles. So number one,
20:41
Speaker 1: they cleared money for next year. That's what they did.
20:44
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry I even brought it up first. And
20:48
Speaker 1: obviously we're trying to improve this team this year, but
20:51
Speaker 1: certainly there are a lot of people that are celebrating
20:54
Speaker 1: the fact that you've cleared twenty four million dollars off
20:57
Speaker 1: the books for next year, because a lot thought that
21:01
Speaker 1: was not going to be achievable, that you weren't going
21:03
Speaker 1: to be able to find a team to take on
21:05
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo's contract for next season, and yet they were
21:09
Speaker 1: able to do that. So it is an accomplishment, but
21:12
Speaker 1: does it make the team better right now? No, that
21:15
Speaker 1: move in and of itself, I don't think made the
21:18
Speaker 1: Mariners better on Saturday. But couple it with the Taylor
21:22
Speaker 1: Ward move, and I think that it does. You clarified
21:25
Speaker 1: your rotation, which was a benefit, and leave it to
21:30
Speaker 1: the Mariners in their classic first half underachievement that they
21:34
Speaker 1: could take something that would be the envy of major
21:37
Speaker 1: League Baseball. They have a surplus a very good starting pitchers,
21:41
Speaker 1: and we've found a way to make that a negative.
21:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, we did, Maris.
21:50
Speaker 1: But they have once and for all clarified the rotation.
21:54
Speaker 1: We're going to go forward with the five and then
21:56
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson is the sixth in case anything goes and
22:00
Speaker 1: he is obviously that one step closer to contributing to
22:04
Speaker 1: the major league team, which I do believe that he will,
22:07
Speaker 1: either as our September South Paul as I've been talking
22:10
Speaker 1: about all year long, or used in the bullpen as
22:14
Speaker 1: an extra weapon to have out of the pen. Since
22:17
Speaker 1: he's really only pitch no more than four innings and outing,
22:20
Speaker 1: I don't think we can count on him to be
22:23
Speaker 1: some stalwart starting pitcher. But if he has the knack
22:28
Speaker 1: for coming out of the pen, can give us three
22:30
Speaker 1: scoreless innings every time you bring him in. Yeah, let's
22:33
Speaker 1: use that. Let's use that to its effectiveness. So that's
22:38
Speaker 1: an extra benefit. You added depth to your bullpen. I
22:42
Speaker 1: actually think Castillo to the pen would have been better
22:45
Speaker 1: than having Sir Anthony Dominguez. Just talking about it from
22:48
Speaker 1: a baseball standpoint, yeah, but to clear out that salary
22:52
Speaker 1: and keep Castillo from feeling like he was demoted, and
22:56
Speaker 1: to have somebody who is a practiced relief pier who
23:00
Speaker 1: has dominated right handers this year and has been taken
23:05
Speaker 1: out of the high leverage role which he should have
23:07
Speaker 1: never been in. I don't think he's that type of pitcher,
23:10
Speaker 1: but he's also not a mop up guy. He can dominate. Right,
23:13
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be used in your sixth and seventh innings.
23:16
Speaker 1: That's how I would suspect that Sir Anthony Dominguez is
23:19
Speaker 1: going to be used by Dan Wilson and the organization.
23:23
Speaker 1: And it does give you depth to that bullpen, and
23:26
Speaker 1: with the way Bizardo's struggling, that could be huge. You
23:29
Speaker 1: addressed your two biggest issues on the team in one player.
23:33
Speaker 1: You are struggling against left handed pitching as an offense,
23:37
Speaker 1: and you're not. You don't have enough guys getting on
23:39
Speaker 1: base routinely.
23:40
Speaker 3: Well.
23:40
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward has a three to eighty three on base
23:43
Speaker 1: which ranks him among the top guys in the American
23:46
Speaker 1: League on base percentage, and he leads the league in
23:50
Speaker 1: walks with eighty seven. So he also hits lefties very well.
23:57
Speaker 1: And so Taylor Ward, that one player addresses two of
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Speaker 1: your biggest weaknesses on the team. I also suspect that
24:06
Speaker 1: he's going to be an everyday player, especially with the
24:08
Speaker 1: news that Luke Rayley's out for the rest of the season.
24:11
Speaker 1: Dom can Zone's gonna be irregular, Randy Rosarina is gonna
24:15
Speaker 1: play every day, and I suspect Taylor Ward's gonna play
24:18
Speaker 1: every day. Even Justin Hollander couldn't commit to what position
24:22
Speaker 1: he's going to play just yet. Lefty, right, left field,
24:25
Speaker 1: right field, designated hitter. We don't know just yet, but
24:30
Speaker 1: he's gonna be an everyday player. Then you get Donovan
24:32
Speaker 1: back tonight, So adding Ward and Donovan to this lineup,
24:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have scratched together a lineup,
24:39
Speaker 1: but my goodness, man, the difference one guy to your
24:43
Speaker 1: lineup can make to make it look fuller and deeper
24:46
Speaker 1: and more dangerous. Man, you had two in the span
24:49
Speaker 1: of twenty four hours, even though we already had one
24:51
Speaker 1: of them. We've been waiting on him for a long time. Man,
24:54
Speaker 1: that lineup suddenly looks long and deep and should be effective.
24:59
Speaker 1: Whether or not it is, I don't have any control
25:01
Speaker 1: over that, but it should be effective. It's definitely better
25:04
Speaker 1: than the Rangers lineup, and it's definitely better than the
25:06
Speaker 1: Astros lineup one through nine. We don't have a yor
25:09
Speaker 1: Don Olivarez on our team, but one through nine it
25:12
Speaker 1: is a deeper and better lineup than what Houston puts
25:16
Speaker 1: out there on the field. And then you're gonna get
25:19
Speaker 1: JP Crawford back in a week or two, so that's
25:22
Speaker 1: going to clear up your depth situation. And then, finally,
25:25
Speaker 1: what else did you get out of this? You kept Randy,
25:28
Speaker 1: you kept George Kirby, You kept Emerson Hancock, which Ashley
25:31
Speaker 1: and I both wanted to do as of yesterday, and
25:34
Speaker 1: so I thought that was the best news of the day.
25:37
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of benefit right there. Ashley.
25:40
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, and especially because even after we added Taylor Ward.
25:43
Speaker 6: People were still bringing up that, yeah, well, George Kirby's
25:46
Speaker 6: a possibility, and Emerson Hancock's still a possibility, and the
25:49
Speaker 6: Mariners are still taking calls on it, and so I
25:51
Speaker 6: kept refreshing just hoping one of them wasn't leaving.
25:53
Speaker 5: I'm same with Randy rose Arena.
25:55
Speaker 6: Especially to add somebody and then and then subtract. I
25:58
Speaker 6: would have been really frustrated with that situation. So I
26:01
Speaker 6: just think, you know, I would have loved to have
26:03
Speaker 6: seen Castillo make his way to the bullpen and be
26:07
Speaker 6: really great at it. But I understand with the contract
26:11
Speaker 6: and the fact that he hasn't done it, and yeah,
26:13
Speaker 6: them not wanting to demotim.
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Speaker 5: I understand all of those factors.
26:16
Speaker 6: And I'm hopeful that I heard somebody go on with
26:19
Speaker 6: Greg yesterday and Scott Murkin, and he was saying that,
26:23
Speaker 6: you know, he has been better in as long as
26:25
Speaker 6: it's not a high leverage situation. So yeah, okay, you
26:29
Speaker 6: know he'll have a place, that's for sure.
26:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes the bullpen deeper, yeah, and a little
26:35
Speaker 1: bit better, which is certainly something that I wanted to
26:38
Speaker 1: dive into here because that seems to be the biggest argument,
26:42
Speaker 1: and of course there's always going to be complaining no
26:44
Speaker 1: matter what, the marine is always going to be complaining.
26:47
Speaker 1: I swear that there's a percentage and I don't know
26:49
Speaker 1: how large a percentage it is, but it dominates social
26:52
Speaker 1: media that are going to be angry and blame Jerry
26:55
Speaker 1: if we don't have an All Star at every single position.
26:58
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just that that there's just that sentiment
27:01
Speaker 1: out there that he didn't do enough and what have you,
27:04
Speaker 1: and he could have been better. He could have certainly
27:06
Speaker 1: been more aggressive, but you're three games under five hundred
27:09
Speaker 1: at this point and I didn't expect him to be
27:12
Speaker 1: overly aggressive. And yeah, you could have gone another move
27:18
Speaker 1: for another player, but what was that going to look like?
27:20
Speaker 1: Was it gonna cost us George or Emerson or Randy.
27:24
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we didn't pursue that avenue. So I
27:27
Speaker 1: think this is a better team than what it was
27:30
Speaker 1: prior to the weekend, and obviously two and a half
27:33
Speaker 1: games back of first place in the American League West,
27:37
Speaker 1: we are in the race because there's a lot of
27:38
Speaker 1: baseball left to play. But let's get to that bullpen.
27:42
Speaker 1: Because so many complaints about well how did you not
27:45
Speaker 1: add another piece. I just have never been on this bandwagon.
27:49
Speaker 1: This line of thought. To me, four quality relievers is
27:55
Speaker 1: something few teams have, and I think for the most
27:58
Speaker 1: part this year we've had that, and at times we've
28:01
Speaker 1: had five. Now, Bizardo is struggling as of late, and
28:04
Speaker 1: he has reason for concern, there's no question about that.
28:08
Speaker 1: But we do have Matt Brash coming back at the
28:10
Speaker 1: end of the month. We do have Carlos Vargas just
28:14
Speaker 1: about ready to return to this team here in a
28:17
Speaker 1: week or two. Chriswell is going to be back at
28:20
Speaker 1: some point. Kate Anderson's probably going to be activated by
28:25
Speaker 1: September at the latest to perform some sort of role
28:29
Speaker 1: for this team. And I also have it from pretty
28:32
Speaker 1: good authority that Ryan Sloan's probably going to be added
28:36
Speaker 1: to this roster two before the end of the season.
28:39
Speaker 1: And if you get to the playoffs, now you take
28:43
Speaker 1: let's say Emerson Hancock and he goes to your bullpen.
28:46
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a hell of a bullpen right there,
28:49
Speaker 1: especially if we can get Bizardo fixed at this point.
28:52
Speaker 1: So I've just never felt like this was some huge need.
28:57
Speaker 1: They did address it with Dominga's to a degree, but
29:02
Speaker 1: I think the bullpen's gonna be fine down the stretch.
29:05
Speaker 1: And let's also clear up another thing. Everybody thinks the
29:08
Speaker 1: bullpen's terrible. It's the fourth best bullpen era in the sport.
29:14
Speaker 1: So I don't know where you're getting this. The bullpen's
29:16
Speaker 1: been terrible all season long. I mean, I know that
29:20
Speaker 1: it stands out. It gets emphasized when you blow a lead,
29:24
Speaker 1: but a lot of teams have relievers that blow leads
29:28
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, not on a daily basis, but
29:31
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. This is nothing new. We have
29:34
Speaker 1: a bullpen with the fourth best era in the entire sport,
29:39
Speaker 1: and they're not tired either because they are number one
29:43
Speaker 1: in the sport and fewest innings pitch because of how
29:46
Speaker 1: good our starters are, So there's not a bullpen issue
29:50
Speaker 1: on this team. We've got a concern with Bizardo and
29:53
Speaker 1: we got to get Brash healthy, but other than that,
29:56
Speaker 1: I mean, we this team really has the potential of
29:59
Speaker 1: having a fantastic bullpen once the playoffs roll around, but
30:04
Speaker 1: obviously we have to get into the playoffs. So yes,
30:07
Speaker 1: I would have loved to have added another piece, but
30:10
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a make or break situation.
30:13
Speaker 1: Jerry's an idiot, Justin's an idiot because they didn't add
30:17
Speaker 1: a second reliever to Dominguez in this process.
30:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I would say too, our bullpen issues are
30:22
Speaker 6: amplified by the fact that our offense is so inconsistent.
30:26
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're hanging on to.
30:28
Speaker 1: It, biguess issue was the offense, and we added a
30:30
Speaker 1: player that's going to impact that, and we have Donovan
30:33
Speaker 1: Back that's going to impact that.
30:35
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:35
Speaker 6: And if you're putting your bullpen into cling to, you know,
30:37
Speaker 6: a small lead or and and they're not able to
30:40
Speaker 6: hold on to it and your offense can't do anything
30:42
Speaker 6: to help them out, then that's the struggle.
30:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I and in my opinion, they did make
30:51
Speaker 1: the team better. They could have made it even better.
30:54
Speaker 1: I get that, and that would have been nice, But
30:57
Speaker 1: I think we got a better team. And as Jim
30:59
Speaker 1: Boden told me two weeks ago, the Mariners could do
31:02
Speaker 1: nothing and they should still run away with this division. Yes,
31:05
Speaker 1: And the only thing that I disagree with and that
31:09
Speaker 1: statement is I don't think that at this stage they're
31:12
Speaker 1: running away with anything. So I would just correct it
31:16
Speaker 1: to the Mariners could have done nothing and still on
31:19
Speaker 1: paper should have won this division or should win this division.
31:23
Speaker 1: And the Astros did very little. They didn't address their
31:27
Speaker 1: biggest pressing need, which is starting pitching. As a matter
31:29
Speaker 1: of fact, they subtracted from it. And the Rangers tried
31:32
Speaker 1: to sell and were rejected by their own players who
31:37
Speaker 1: enacted no trade clauses and wouldn't allow themselves to be dealt.
31:42
Speaker 1: So who knows what kind of clubhouse mess they have
31:44
Speaker 1: going on in the Dallas area right now. But I
31:48
Speaker 1: think the Mariners in the American League West won the
31:51
Speaker 1: trading deadline and not running away with it, but I
31:55
Speaker 1: think they had the best trading deadline of anyone in
31:57
Speaker 1: this race. All right. Coming up next on the Pro
32:00
Speaker 1: It's a hard knocked life around here. I want to
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Speaker 1: get the Ashley's thoughts on the debut of the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks Tonight, Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 1: KJR FM. Party with Mike McDonald. I love how they
32:12
Speaker 1: feel obligated to say my full name throughout that entire promotion.
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Speaker 5: Don't let Chuck Powell drink alone. Party with Chuck Powell.
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Speaker 1: I get you establish it that it's this is that, Like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want people showing up wanting to drink with
32:27
Speaker 1: Chuck Norris and then having to break the news to them.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think you just established the full
32:34
Speaker 1: name and then you can just you know, drink with Chuck.
32:36
Speaker 5: Then if they get confused after that, that's kind of
32:38
Speaker 5: on them.
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Speaker 1: Hey, great morning to you. It is Chuck and Ashley.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Powell and Ashley with you here on Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJR FM. And tonight, well, Hard
32:52
Speaker 1: Knocks does make its debut with the Seattle Seahawks. The
32:57
Speaker 1: start time, I believe is six pm. But that's always
33:02
Speaker 1: a little tricky because sometimes you can like watch it
33:04
Speaker 1: earlier on HBO nine and so you might be able,
33:08
Speaker 1: but it might have to be a lower quality, you
33:11
Speaker 1: know how they do that stuff. Yeah, but I got
33:13
Speaker 1: in front of me. It says six pm start time
33:16
Speaker 1: on HBO here this evening, And what are you going
33:19
Speaker 1: to do? What do you how are you prepared to
33:21
Speaker 1: watch ard Knocks tonight?
33:22
Speaker 5: O Oh, I'll just be sitting on the couch.
33:24
Speaker 6: We have the app, so I think we can watch
33:26
Speaker 6: it at six o'clock, but I'm not. I also don't quite.
33:29
Speaker 6: We had someone texting and ask what time it is.
33:31
Speaker 6: I said, I don't know. I don't want to tell
33:32
Speaker 6: you the wrong time. Just check your local listings because
33:34
Speaker 6: it depending on what you have, is depending on when
33:37
Speaker 6: you can watch it. But I will be flopped down
33:39
Speaker 6: on the couch ready to go. The whole family is
33:42
Speaker 6: excited to watch it. I'm I just I mean, I understand.
33:46
Speaker 1: I think it is, well what I kind of night
33:47
Speaker 1: it is. When I was a kid, I mean, we
33:50
Speaker 1: watched television as a family. We had one television. Six kids,
33:53
Speaker 1: you know, and we had one television, and so there
33:57
Speaker 1: had to be like an agreement, you know, you had
34:00
Speaker 1: to take turns and stuff like that. And there were
34:02
Speaker 1: a few things that we all watched as a family
34:04
Speaker 1: and then and then there are a few things that
34:07
Speaker 1: only certain people watch. But we would have like the
34:12
Speaker 1: special movie events Wizard of Oz, for example, whenever Wizard
34:16
Speaker 1: of Oz, that was a popcorn night, and Mom would
34:18
Speaker 1: make the popcorn and the old fashioned way with the
34:21
Speaker 1: oil and the pan on on the stove where you
34:23
Speaker 1: gotta hold the lid on top of it because it's
34:25
Speaker 1: gonna bubble over, that sort of thing. She'll make it
34:28
Speaker 1: that way, and and so we called them popcorn nights
34:32
Speaker 1: when certain television events or movies or like Charlie Brown
34:37
Speaker 1: Christmas stuff like that, that was a popcorn night in irous.
34:40
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like tonight is a popcorn night
34:43
Speaker 1: for the hard knocks.
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Speaker 5: I love that.
34:45
Speaker 6: I mean, I do love the popcorn as well. We
34:47
Speaker 6: have the thing you can like put it on the
34:48
Speaker 6: stove and you turn it. M Yeah, it's a really
34:51
Speaker 6: fun little thing with some.
34:53
Speaker 5: You got one of those, yeah, yeah.
34:55
Speaker 6: Well five irons rill into making good popcorn and I
34:58
Speaker 6: just let him do it because I'm find it.
35:00
Speaker 5: Just put it in the air popper and letting go.
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Speaker 1: But the point is in the quality of the popcorn.
35:06
Speaker 1: Is the show worthy of the Medley family?
35:09
Speaker 3: Tonight?
35:10
Speaker 1: Absolutely everything stops. We're all on the couch at six o'clock.
35:15
Speaker 1: The popcorn's already popped. We got Sody Sody pop to
35:19
Speaker 1: drink with it. What do you think?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's absolutely worthy of it. It's it's a
35:23
Speaker 6: full family. Everybody should be sitting in front of the TV.
35:25
Speaker 6: I think every Seahawks fan should be plopped down in
35:28
Speaker 6: front of the TV, excited to watch it. I can't
35:30
Speaker 6: wait to see just the behind the scenes stuff of
35:32
Speaker 6: this team, but also you know, like just the when
35:35
Speaker 6: they're My favorite is when they showed people on the
35:37
Speaker 6: field and kind of the relationships and the trash talking
35:40
Speaker 6: and keep hearing about Devin Witherspoon and how much he
35:42
Speaker 6: trash talks, and I really want to see that in
35:44
Speaker 6: you know, just in person or not in person, but
35:47
Speaker 6: on TV. I'm excited for all of it.
35:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's gonna be a big part of our show.
35:52
Speaker 1: We're going to have to react to it to me tomorrow.
35:55
Speaker 1: So this is some this is some must watch stuff.
35:58
Speaker 1: And I am curious to see how Mike McDonald does
36:01
Speaker 1: come off behind the scenes. According to Greg, he doesn't
36:05
Speaker 1: think he's gonna come off all that differently. I think
36:07
Speaker 1: he's what you see is what you get kind of guy.
36:09
Speaker 1: But I want to see it. I'm here for it.
36:11
Speaker 1: So tonight the debut of Hard Knocks at six o'clock
36:15
Speaker 1: on HBO Max, and so we'll be talking about it
36:19
Speaker 1: a lot tomorrow. Coming up next, it's an annual tradition
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Speaker 1: Mike Sando from The Athletic, who is our NFL insider
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