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Chuck & Buck 3-2 Hour 4: If not Walker, then who? Spring Training tidbits and one last thing. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Bye, nine o'clock hour here on this Monday morning. Great
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Speaker 1: to have you with us. Chuck Howell, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson,
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Speaker 1: and Ashley Ryan with you. We'll talk more about the
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Speaker 1: Mariners coming up a little bit later on in this hour.
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Speaker 1: The kids. It was the kids. Also, we'll get into
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Speaker 1: the Ken Walker topic. We've had a couple of breaking
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Speaker 1: stories today in the NFL, including trade of David Montgomery
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Speaker 1: from the Detroit Lions to the Houston Texans. Has just
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Speaker 1: one year left on his contract. They gave up a
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Speaker 1: fourth round or a seventh rounder and a player in
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Speaker 1: exchange for Montgomery, and for a team that feels like
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Speaker 1: it's in a Super Bowl window themselves, it might just
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Speaker 1: be a couple offensive pieces away. That's a pretty nice
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Speaker 1: little move there for the Houston Texans, but it does
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Speaker 1: take another possibility for replacing potentially Ken Walker off of
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Speaker 1: the market, as Montgomery did seem going into today to
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Speaker 1: be a viable trade option for any team in the
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Speaker 1: National Football League, and now you can cross him off
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Speaker 1: the list then because he is no longer available to
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Speaker 1: potential suitors. Greg bell, our Seahawks insider, was with us
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Speaker 1: at seven o'clock this morning, we asked for a little
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Speaker 1: bit of an update on Ken Walker and whether or
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Speaker 1: not John and the Seahawks will get something done with
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Speaker 1: ken before free agency.
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Speaker 2: I could see them signing and drafting and running back.
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Speaker 2: The thing about being thirty two in the first round
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Speaker 2: is a team that had an earlier first round pick,
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Speaker 2: usually a bad team, but doesn't have multiple first round picks,
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Speaker 2: they want to go reach and get somebody they think
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Speaker 2: won't be around when they're picking again in the second round.
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Speaker 2: That's a great spot at thirty two to trade down,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's what John Schneider eventually will do, because,
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Speaker 2: as we've talked about, he never has thirty two on
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Speaker 2: their board for the first round worthy draft picks. Never,
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Speaker 2: not in my entire time covering the SEWKX that began
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, have they had thirty two
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Speaker 2: first round worthy players on their draft board. So it
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Speaker 2: would make a lot of sense for them to trade down.
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Speaker 2: And whether that trade down would involve a running back
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Speaker 2: could be But I think all of those things are
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Speaker 2: in play even if perhaps they signed Kenneth Walker, but
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Speaker 2: especially if they don't. If you just said, well, he's
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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl MVP and he's twenty five. Why can't
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Speaker 2: you resign him? It's so much more difficult than that
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Speaker 2: because of the injury history, not only with him but
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Speaker 2: in the position. And John Schneider has been very, very
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Speaker 2: responsible sticking to his plan. He rarely goes and reaches
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Speaker 2: because of a need, whether it's draft or free agency.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think of Draymond Jones as one of
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Speaker 2: the only reaches when they really need edge rusher a
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Speaker 2: couple of years ago, and they went for fifty one
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Speaker 2: million right out of the gate of free agency, which
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Speaker 2: he never does, and Draymond Jones did nothing, I mean
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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing for them, and a year and a half
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Speaker 2: later he was gone. And that and some draft misses
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Speaker 2: have really reminded Schnyder. Stick to your plan. What were
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Speaker 2: you going to give him at the beginning, when you
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Speaker 2: first charted out what Kenneth Walker would be worth you
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Speaker 2: beyond twenty twenty six? Stick to that plan, yes, Charbon
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Speaker 2: and got her to stick to the plant. Yes, she
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Speaker 2: only afforced to stick to the plant. It's really a
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Speaker 2: discipline that he tries to adhere himself too, and I
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Speaker 2: can see him doing it again this time. How much
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Speaker 2: of those extenuating circumstances about Charbon and nowhere apparent and
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Speaker 2: all that would raise the price. That's the question that
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Speaker 2: to me will decide whether Walker stays or not. If
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Speaker 2: he's strict to his what they have charted him to
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Speaker 2: be worth and what they were going to offerm before
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Speaker 2: during the season.
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Speaker 3: He's gone.
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Speaker 2: If they do change that number because of their situation
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Speaker 2: there and there's a chance will stay.
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Speaker 1: Well they have to change the number. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: forced them to change the number. I kind of think
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Speaker 1: they will and should change the number. I think that
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Speaker 1: can shit bring the other options out there for running
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Speaker 1: back and replacing Ken Walker. Yeah, I'm I mean right now.
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Speaker 1: I mean spoke Trek still has them valued at nine million.
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Speaker 1: I don't see any place on Earth where that's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. I think he's going to get up to
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Speaker 1: around twelve if he wants to enter the bidding from
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Speaker 1: teams across the National Football League. I think Dalvin Cook
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Speaker 1: drove it to twelve a year ago. If you're the
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Speaker 1: number one free agent on the market at that given position,
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Speaker 1: market value is going to speak to how much money
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Speaker 1: you make, not necessarily well, you're not better than not
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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, James Cook. You're not better than James Cook,
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Speaker 1: so you're not going to get the money. No, If
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Speaker 1: he's the number one running back and there's a need
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Speaker 1: for running backs out there and everybody just got thirty
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Speaker 1: extra million because they've created more cap space, ken Walker's
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Speaker 1: probably going to make more money than that this season
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Speaker 1: on the open market. Now do I go all the
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Speaker 1: way that far if I'm John Schneider, Probably not, But
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Speaker 1: you're certainly going up from what you were planning to
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Speaker 1: offer him a month ago. I mean, I think that
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Speaker 1: maybe four years forty four seems pretty reasonable to me.
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Speaker 1: I might even go a little bit further because I
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Speaker 1: don't really love the options for replacing him out there,
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Speaker 1: and I'm down two running backs, not just one. I'd
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Speaker 1: like to have something that I'm familiar with, that I
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Speaker 1: like that I trust, and ken Walker coming back. Plus,
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Speaker 1: he's a twenty five year old free agent, and nobody
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Speaker 1: likes young free agents more than John Schneider in the
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Speaker 1: entire world. So, I mean, there's a lot of reasons
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Speaker 1: to think that the Seahawks are going to get uncomfortable
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Speaker 1: for their offer to keep ken Walker. You just have
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Speaker 1: to wonder if the agent's going to know if the
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Speaker 1: agent's going to drive such a hard bargain that they're
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Speaker 1: at least going to test the waters. And once they
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Speaker 1: test the waters, Bucky Man, that price might shoot well
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Speaker 1: past eleven million per year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: When I first looked into it and saw the nine million,
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Speaker 4: I'm like, well, that's that's a pretty good deal. All right,
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Speaker 4: that would be a great deal when you go up
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Speaker 4: to eleven and you said you'd possibly even go beyond
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Speaker 4: that if you start thinking, okay, four years forty four,
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Speaker 4: like you're talking about what would that be two years guaranteed, right,
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Speaker 4: probably something like that. So then you're saying, okay, we're
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Speaker 4: on the hook for twenty two million bucks. Well, at
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Speaker 4: that point, are you trusting if you're John Schneider. Now,
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Speaker 4: if you are a Seahawks fan and you're trusting John
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Speaker 4: Schneider to make the right call, do you want to
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Speaker 4: put twenty two million bucks for sure? Twenty two million
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Speaker 4: bucks into somebody that has had one season of staying
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Speaker 4: fully healthy. That's something that I mean, I think there's
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Speaker 4: something to it. Maybe you've figured out the game plan
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Speaker 4: of you do have to have a one B. Do
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Speaker 4: you have to. You have to give him me and
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Speaker 4: that's not unusual. There's very few bell cows out there
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Speaker 4: that just kind of take the rock and run a
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Speaker 4: thirty times. There are still some there, some, Yeah, well
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Speaker 4: those are the ones that use the Saquon Barkley. If
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Speaker 4: you will that, you're gonna have to pay more for.
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Speaker 4: So if he's willing to dance with you, it's somewhere
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Speaker 4: around the ten million, ten eleven ish, then maybe you
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Speaker 4: go there, because otherwise your other option is do the
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Speaker 4: franchise tag and paying fourteen for one year, and now
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Speaker 4: all of a sudden he either gets hurt and you
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Speaker 4: still have to pay him fourteen million bucks or he
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Speaker 4: runs out of that contract and he's gone after a
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Speaker 4: year because you're not gonna then you've you've kind of
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Speaker 4: squashed the idea of them sticking around for any loyalty
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Speaker 4: reason because you didn't invest in them long term. So
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Speaker 4: I think that there's they're gonna come up to that number.
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Speaker 4: I just I'm kind of with you that if you
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Speaker 4: don't get this done before the tampering period and they
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Speaker 4: get to start receiving phone calls if they haven't already,
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Speaker 4: and finding out what other people are willing to pay
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Speaker 4: for him because you know that there's one GM out
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Speaker 4: there that loved him when he came out, loved what
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Speaker 4: he did his first year, and then blamed the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: and their ocs for not using him the right way,
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Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, when they start giving
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Speaker 4: him the rocket throughout the place offs boom. He helps
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Speaker 4: you know, lead you guys, or helps contribute to get
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Speaker 4: to a Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean they don't have a ton, right, I mean
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Speaker 4: they have Jakaria Wright who got.
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Speaker 1: Hurt last well, they got nothing. I mean they have
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Speaker 1: Macintosh and they've got some other guys that they don't
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Speaker 1: have anything. They have nothing to repeat a Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: with at running.
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Speaker 4: Back, right, they don't have something you could plug in there.
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Speaker 4: But I would be willing to bet that they think
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Speaker 4: of one of those guys as possibly the ability if
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Speaker 4: if they thought Zach Charboneay could be back and ready
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Speaker 4: sometime early next season, that maybe that could be the
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Speaker 4: one be to him. I'll bet you they think one
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Speaker 4: of those guys. But again, I think you're taking a
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Speaker 4: step backwards from where you just ended the season as
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Speaker 4: a super Bowl if you do that.
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Speaker 1: I think Charbonnay's value is the change up. I don't
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Speaker 1: think him being your Bell Coow running back works for me.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think you went a Super Bowl that way.
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Speaker 1: I think that, But it does beg the question where
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Speaker 1: do you go from here? Like I said a couple
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Speaker 1: of times, I don't love the options out there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you just call up a free agent list. B reys
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Speaker 1: Hall's going to get franchise tagged by the Jets, so
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Speaker 1: that's not going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then Travis at ten. But if the running back
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Speaker 1: market is coming I like Travis Attien, but he's two
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Speaker 1: years older than Walker. If the and if the value
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Speaker 1: of the running back market is coming up, and you've
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Speaker 1: got to go nine for at ten when you could
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Speaker 1: of gone ten for Walker, I'd rather have the guy
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Speaker 1: I know, Rather dance with the devil I know, and
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Speaker 1: Ken Walker at ten. I'm not gonna go with my
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Speaker 1: second option just to save a million dollars per season.
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Speaker 1: And then after that, I mean, I don't see really
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Speaker 1: a one guy that you could have. You got everybody
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Speaker 1: else on the free agent market is somebody that you
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Speaker 1: pair to be and their power guys which you already
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Speaker 1: have the Power Guy and sharbon A theoretically, but like
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Speaker 1: Dowdele and Pacheco uh and Brian Robinson and Rashad White. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think I'd be all right if they were my
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Speaker 1: one B option, but I don't want them to be
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Speaker 1: my one A option trying to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if I really love that group whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: And again, if that's the group I'm having to choose
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Speaker 1: from to find my starting running back, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: the agent like how much? How much more do I
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Speaker 1: need to go? What do we got to do here?
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Speaker 5: That's why I think that's why I lean more towards
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Speaker 5: him coming back, just because of that. Those other options
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Speaker 5: doesn't seem like anything that John Schneider would be comfortable with.
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Speaker 6: And then, yeah, you're gonna draft some Well.
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Speaker 1: The question is is there something that he's going to
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Speaker 1: be more comfortable with, because I think people would argue
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Speaker 1: he's going to be less comfortable overpaying a running back
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Speaker 1: than he is trying to find through three different methods replacements.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, and I do I do understand that.
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Speaker 5: I just I do think he'll they'll come to an
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Speaker 5: agreement on a price that's fair for Walker. That doesn't
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Speaker 5: make Schneider want to poop himself.
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Speaker 6: You know, I think he'll be well.
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Speaker 1: Yes, if they do that, then that's easy. Then you
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Speaker 1: sign him and you keep him. I think they want
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Speaker 1: to keep him, yeah, but you know, there's going to
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Speaker 1: be a limit to how much they're going to pay him.
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Speaker 1: And if they don't figure if the agent thinks I
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Speaker 1: can get twelve thirteen million dollars a year on the market,
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Speaker 1: then you're not accepting the Seahawks offer before Sunday. So
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Speaker 1: that's the trick of it all.
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Speaker 6: I mean, Javonte Williams got twelve.
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Speaker 1: Javonte Williams got eight million dollars a year from the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. That's sort of the off season market center
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Speaker 1: for the running back position. They gave him eight, So
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Speaker 1: you're going to have to go more than that, that's
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Speaker 1: for sure. Probably gonna have to go to nine minimum.
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Speaker 1: My guess is they are offering four forty. That's not
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Speaker 1: a problem. Here's ten. And keep in mind this is
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Speaker 1: NFL math, which isn't real math. Uh. And then if
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Speaker 1: you want to keep him, if I'm the agent, like, well,
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Speaker 1: what are you going to pay us to keep us
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Speaker 1: from testing? The market. Okay, we'll go eleven forty four.
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Speaker 1: But my guess that's about where it's going to end.
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Speaker 1: And if he wants more than that, they think they
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Speaker 1: can get more than that, then I think he hits
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Speaker 1: the open market. Somebody who's not as good at what
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Speaker 1: they do as John Schneider is will pay him more,
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Speaker 1: and we might say goodbye to him at that point.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it ends up making you kind of go down
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Speaker 4: the list of what's the new offensive coordinator's name slip
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Speaker 4: in my mind? The new offensive coordinator for a Sioux flurry. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that maybe he has someone in mind right that he
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Speaker 4: was running with Robinson, the guy that was a backup
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Speaker 4: to McCaffrey in San Francisco. You go, they're gonna have
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Speaker 4: there's obviously names on their table when they're they're making
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Speaker 4: their plan and their contingency plan of Okay, I think
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Speaker 4: that they would most certainly want Walker back if it's
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Speaker 4: the number that makes them feel good or even comfortable.
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Speaker 4: There's an uncomfortable number they're not going to go to.
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Speaker 4: And then they start looking at okay, well, and the
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Speaker 4: fact that you have a new offensive coordinator, that's a
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Speaker 4: new set of eyes, it's a new brain. It's somebody
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Speaker 4: that wants somebody that runs it the way that he
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Speaker 4: wants them to run. And I would be willing to
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Speaker 4: bet that there's someone out there that they have their
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Speaker 4: eye on that if this doesn't work, they're not going
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Speaker 4: to feel.
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Speaker 3: Like they're like we have a hole, like we.
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Speaker 4: Aren't going to they have something in mind that they
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Speaker 4: would be able to figure out, which would be playing
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Speaker 4: b if ken Walker is their plan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well my guess is that if it's not Walker,
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Speaker 1: then maybe you make a run at at ten. But
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Speaker 1: if you end up having to pay pretty close to
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Speaker 1: what you have to pay Walker, then you go with
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Speaker 1: what you know, the other option you could trade. Now,
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Speaker 1: we just had somebody come off the board and Dave
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Speaker 1: Montgomery debn h Chan is an interesting name out there
13:44
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and he I think you have to
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Speaker 1: pair with a bruiser, and yet for some reason the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins decided to run him between the tackles and the
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Speaker 1: bigger running back outside. It's really strange, strange philosophy that
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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel used a lot of injury history there, but
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Speaker 1: obviously an explosive running back. He's got one year left
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Speaker 1: on his deal. It looks like the Dolphins are going
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Speaker 1: to rebuild. Sounds like they are going to trade him.
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Speaker 1: Their stories all over the place about how the Chicago
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Speaker 1: Bears are trying to land e Chan to their team.
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Speaker 1: But that's interesting for the Seahawks. He'd make just six
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Speaker 1: million dollars for this upcoming season. A year ago, they
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Speaker 1: were saying a first rounder, but that was with two
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Speaker 1: years left on his contract. Now he just has one
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Speaker 1: year left on his contract, so I would imagine a
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Speaker 1: Day two pick. Maybe you'd have to give up a
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Speaker 1: late second rounder in order to get David at eight Chan.
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Speaker 1: But that's interesting, you know, you just we're in a
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Speaker 1: championship window stop gap running back. Maybe we don't invest
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Speaker 1: long term into an undersized, injury suspicious running back in
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Speaker 1: eight Chan, but we just use them for this year,
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Speaker 1: like the Texans apparently are going to use David Montgomery
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Speaker 1: for ye. Alvin Kamara is another guy that New Orleans
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Speaker 1: would like to get out from underneath his contract. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that the Seahawks would trade for Kamara under
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Speaker 1: his current deal, but if you could work out a deal,
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Speaker 1: a different deal where he's less of a cap hit
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Speaker 1: against you, even though he's got fading skills. That's somebody
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Speaker 1: that had a pretty high bar in terms of his
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Speaker 1: abilities to run a football. Maybe that's an option. Again,
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Speaker 1: I don't think it would be at his salary, but
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Speaker 1: I think a combination of a draft pick. I think
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Speaker 1: for sure the Seahawks are drafting a running back even
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Speaker 1: if they keep ken Walker, and then I think without Charbone,
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Speaker 1: you take that draft pick and you team him with
15:44
Speaker 1: either a cheap free agent or you pull off some
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Speaker 1: sort of trade on an expiring contract. At this point,
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Speaker 1: those are their options.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, they'll figure out something. But it
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Speaker 4: is interesting because you're kind of the clock is ticking
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Speaker 4: on what you would what I would think from an
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Speaker 4: outside and obviously I don't know all the information of
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Speaker 4: what they're talking about, and they who they love. If
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Speaker 4: there's somebody on that free agent list, or if there's
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Speaker 4: somebody in a trade that they're like, we know, we
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Speaker 4: love that guy enough that we would give them their
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Speaker 4: asking price to fill this in. If ken Walker does work,
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Speaker 4: I mean I would imagine ken Walkers their number one choice,
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Speaker 4: But if that isn't or if there's a close second,
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Speaker 4: if they're planning B is something they feel really comfortable with,
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Speaker 4: then maybe it doesn't feel like the clock is ticking
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Speaker 4: quite the same as it does to me. To me,
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Speaker 4: it feels like you just want a super Bowl. You
16:34
Speaker 4: are in the midst of a championship window for sure.
16:38
Speaker 4: When it comes to how that defense is. You got
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Speaker 4: your quarterback all lined up, your wide receivers lined up.
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Speaker 4: As far as JSN goes, it looks like everything is
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Speaker 4: pointing in the right direction. But that's a big piece.
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Speaker 4: I mean, as much as they undervalue because of the
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Speaker 4: injury history with running backs, that is such a big
16:56
Speaker 4: piece that you saw how important it was. I think
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Speaker 4: I'm with you. I think they probably win the Super
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Speaker 4: Bowl even if he doesn't run the way that he
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Speaker 4: ran throughout the playoffs. But at the same time, to
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Speaker 4: just come in with something that feels like a question
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Speaker 4: mark to me is not the practice that they want
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Speaker 4: to go with. I just have a feeling they have
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Speaker 4: other contingency plans that they don't feel are going to
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Speaker 4: be quite as bad as probably what it would it
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Speaker 4: feel like to me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that the I think they're more
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Speaker 1: worried about overpaying for somebody than they are being without something.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
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Speaker 1: I think that's just the way John Schneider. I don't
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Speaker 1: think that he with it. We're at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the offseason. I mean, David Montgomery's been traded. That's the
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Speaker 1: only thing that's happened to the running back market, right,
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Speaker 1: so we're at the beginning of it. I think he's
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Speaker 1: would be far I think he would be far more
17:43
Speaker 1: reluctant to overpay for ken Walker than he would I
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Speaker 1: don't think that he fears starting over, even if he
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Speaker 1: has to start over, because he has everything at his disposal, trades,
17:58
Speaker 1: free agents, and then of course the draft. And we've
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Speaker 1: found plenty of guys that make an immediate impact right
18:03
Speaker 1: off the bat through the draft. I will only point
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Speaker 1: out one because I pointed him out last week as
18:08
Speaker 1: the guy to circle at the NFL Combine. Over the weekend,
18:12
Speaker 1: Arkansas's Mike Washington Junior became the darling of the running
18:16
Speaker 1: back class with all of the measurables over the weekend
18:20
Speaker 1: six one, two twenty three runs like ken Walker four
18:24
Speaker 1: three three forty at two twenty three, four three three,
18:29
Speaker 1: that's moving, that's yeah, and that's you know, twelve pounds
18:34
Speaker 1: more than what ken Walker weighs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, you just think about it, and
18:38
Speaker 3: you're right.
18:38
Speaker 4: In NFL math, capology is not normal math, but it's
18:42
Speaker 4: still the fact of it is, you can go out
18:44
Speaker 4: and get you know, I mean, Bryce Hall and ken
18:47
Speaker 4: Walker are like the top two guys as far as
18:49
Speaker 4: our market value. Ken Walker probably even above him when
18:52
Speaker 4: it comes to what he would ask for this year.
18:54
Speaker 4: You can get another free agent guy and a rookie
18:58
Speaker 4: or two for the price of one ken Walker if
19:00
Speaker 4: he's wanting to get the top dollar out there. So
19:02
Speaker 4: then then you have three options to where you're like,
19:04
Speaker 4: hopefully one of these sticks and you're you're off and running.
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Speaker 1: Well, the countdown is on against the clock from this standpoint.
19:12
Speaker 1: The tampering period starts on Monday, so you probably do
19:16
Speaker 1: need to get a deal done before Sunday to avoid this.
19:20
Speaker 1: We shall see two trains leaving the station. Where will
19:24
Speaker 1: they intersect? All right? Coming up next on our radio program,
19:27
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little Mariner's spring training. The kids are
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Speaker 1: making noise Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A
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Speaker 1: r f M. You know, WBC's starting this week. They'll
19:58
Speaker 1: have some exhibition games for the exhibition tournament on Tuesday
20:02
Speaker 1: and Wednesday, some actual WBC games are going to be
20:05
Speaker 1: played as early as Wednesday, and then I don't think
20:10
Speaker 1: of a team USA plays until Friday. But so WBC
20:14
Speaker 1: tournament getting ready to begin, all the players have left
20:17
Speaker 1: the camp. There's another thing, another MLB event, the Spring Breakout,
20:22
Speaker 1: which is now an annual thing where they just for
20:25
Speaker 1: a couple of games show off all the top prospects
20:29
Speaker 1: in the sport, all at the exact same time. That's
20:31
Speaker 1: coming up on the nineteenth of March through the twenty
20:33
Speaker 1: second as well. So a couple of different events. One's
20:36
Speaker 1: going to hand off to the other where you're going
20:39
Speaker 1: to actually see baseball where people aren't just working on things,
20:44
Speaker 1: actually trying to get each other out all stuff. Yeah,
20:46
Speaker 1: you know, trying to hustle out round for reels. Yeah,
20:49
Speaker 1: maybe break up a double play? Better not do it, guy,
20:53
Speaker 1: imagine imagine. But I want to ask you, I mean,
20:58
Speaker 1: you've gone through this process before yourself. I think I
21:02
Speaker 1: can make sense of the spring training at bats Cale.
21:07
Speaker 1: Rawley leads the team right now. He has had nineteen
21:10
Speaker 1: played appearances in five games. That's unusual. Usually the star
21:16
Speaker 1: player in the first five spring training games that he
21:18
Speaker 1: plays doesn't get nearly four at bats, right, but he's
21:23
Speaker 1: going to be in the WBC, so they're getting him
21:26
Speaker 1: ready for that, right, Yep, all right, So cal Josh
21:30
Speaker 1: Naylor is the has received the second most played appearances
21:35
Speaker 1: so far in the spring. He's playing for Team Canada.
21:37
Speaker 1: They're getting him ready. Miles Master Bony and Dom Canzone
21:41
Speaker 1: are fourth and fifth on the list in terms of
21:44
Speaker 1: plate appearances so far in spring training games. They're both
21:47
Speaker 1: playing for Team Italy. And Randya Rose Arena's sixth most
21:51
Speaker 1: played appearances and he's playing for Team Mexico. So that's
21:54
Speaker 1: pretty clear cut and dry, right, This is an excessive
21:58
Speaker 1: number of played appearances for a normal spring training for
22:02
Speaker 1: you know, five veteran players like this, and yet what
22:06
Speaker 1: they're clearly doing is ramping these guys up for WBC.
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Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt the I mean, I'm
22:15
Speaker 4: sure that they want more abs, right. You don't want
22:18
Speaker 4: to You wouldn't want to go through your normal amount,
22:20
Speaker 4: which is literally it usually is, first game you go out,
22:24
Speaker 4: get one a B maybe too, maybe too if you
22:28
Speaker 4: don't have to play defense another inning before you get
22:30
Speaker 4: your second AB. Okay, get two the first game or
22:33
Speaker 4: the first and second game, if I got to go
22:35
Speaker 4: play defense another one, They're like, nope, we're not going
22:37
Speaker 4: to risk that. We don't just go you can go
22:40
Speaker 4: hit in the cage. But the we when my family
22:43
Speaker 4: and I went to a game, I think we went
22:46
Speaker 4: to the Tuesday game and Cal had two abs and
22:50
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, we'll probably leave after this, and
22:52
Speaker 4: then I wanted to watch somebody throw, and so we'll
22:55
Speaker 4: leave after this inning. And then I was like, well,
22:58
Speaker 4: let's make sure Cal's not going to hit again. He
23:00
Speaker 4: hit again, and then he hit again, and so we
23:03
Speaker 4: ended up staying longer. I was a okay with it,
23:04
Speaker 4: but we ended up sitting sitting around and watching him
23:07
Speaker 4: and Naylor both actually get two more at bats than
23:10
Speaker 4: what I thought they would get.
23:11
Speaker 3: And I think it is just plain and simple.
23:13
Speaker 4: The guys want to get ramped up a little bit
23:15
Speaker 4: more before it kind of matters, because while it doesn't matter,
23:19
Speaker 4: it is an exhibition tournament, it matters.
23:22
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the.
23:22
Speaker 4: Equivalent of the Olympics for baseball, and you're not gonna
23:26
Speaker 4: want to go out there, and you know, I'm just
23:29
Speaker 4: working on some things getting ready for the regular season.
23:31
Speaker 3: When you have your country, you know, across your chest.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's I kind of figured out the math
23:37
Speaker 1: on this. So when I look at so that's the first, second, fourth, fifth,
23:42
Speaker 1: and sixth most played appearances in spring training games the
23:45
Speaker 1: guys I just mentioned. So there's one of your top
23:48
Speaker 1: six guys that is not playing in the WBC that's
23:51
Speaker 1: getting the most looks in live action.
23:56
Speaker 3: Colt Emerson YEP.
23:58
Speaker 1: Sixteen played appearances and seven spring training games. That's more
24:02
Speaker 1: than two per game that they're giving cold Emerson also
24:08
Speaker 1: pretty clear to read into that that they're giving him
24:11
Speaker 1: every opportunity they are trying to They are trying to
24:15
Speaker 1: expose him to the best pitching out there to see
24:20
Speaker 1: just how ready he is, how close he is for
24:23
Speaker 1: maybe Opening day activation.
24:26
Speaker 4: I think that it's part that and part we're getting
24:30
Speaker 4: him as much time as possible before he gets sent down.
24:33
Speaker 3: Both so you're covering both.
24:35
Speaker 4: Now, you're giving the opportunity if he goes out and
24:37
Speaker 4: balls out and Cole Young doesn't, for example, and maybe
24:41
Speaker 4: you can all of a sudden thrust him in there.
24:43
Speaker 4: And because I don't think Cole Young obviously didn't do
24:45
Speaker 4: enough last year to where it's like you are written
24:48
Speaker 4: in permanent marker in the second base spot to start
24:51
Speaker 4: day one. I think we talked to people and they
24:53
Speaker 4: said he's in the pole position. But I think that
24:56
Speaker 4: he's getting You know, cold Emerson, you're not sending he's
25:00
Speaker 4: he's not going anywhere except for Triple A or the
25:01
Speaker 4: big leagues, and so you don't need to send him
25:04
Speaker 4: down so he can get more looks at Triple A pitching.
25:06
Speaker 3: He's going to be facing some of that. I did
25:08
Speaker 3: notice a couple.
25:09
Speaker 4: Of things while we were there, and then the week
25:12
Speaker 4: that afterwards when they started playing games. Cold Emerson is
25:15
Speaker 4: one of those guys that's on the reserves even when
25:17
Speaker 4: he's not starting a game in spring training, he's on
25:19
Speaker 4: the reserves list. Whereas you know, I watched JP Crawford
25:23
Speaker 4: and other guys just when they got done with their
25:26
Speaker 4: early work or their infield outfield and taking some hacks
25:29
Speaker 4: and cages, they went and got dressed in their head
25:30
Speaker 4: and out.
25:30
Speaker 3: They don't even go over to the game. They're not
25:33
Speaker 3: on the reserve list.
25:34
Speaker 4: Cold Emerson's a guy that even with they're not going
25:36
Speaker 4: to start him, he's on the reserve list so they
25:38
Speaker 4: can get him in a bat or two later on.
25:40
Speaker 3: In the game if they want.
25:41
Speaker 4: They're trying to give him as many opportunities as possible
25:43
Speaker 4: against the toughest competition he's ever faced, which is going
25:47
Speaker 4: to be in big league spring training.
25:48
Speaker 1: And usually at the start of spring training game. Yes, yeah,
25:52
Speaker 1: so yeah. I hear your point that he's being used
25:55
Speaker 1: even in reserves sometimes, which is adding to his plate
25:58
Speaker 1: appearance total. But I mean very first game he's in
26:02
Speaker 1: your starting lineup, yeah, spring training game, and they're trying
26:05
Speaker 1: to get him looks against major league pitching. They are
26:07
Speaker 1: trying to evaluate him right now against major league pitching.
26:11
Speaker 1: And I don't think he's gonna break camp with the club,
26:14
Speaker 1: But I think what you are seeing is them seeing
26:18
Speaker 1: just how soon they will be able to call them up.
26:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be his look.
26:23
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be sent down to the miners. He's
26:25
Speaker 1: not gonna face major league pitching. But it just feels
26:27
Speaker 1: to me, maybe I'm reading too much into it, that
26:29
Speaker 1: they're looking for every opportunity to have him get at
26:33
Speaker 1: bats against major league caliber pitchers.
26:35
Speaker 4: Well, one thing we heard straight from Jerry's mouth and
26:39
Speaker 4: Justin's both they were both saying, we're not going to
26:41
Speaker 4: be in the business of holding guys back. If they
26:44
Speaker 4: say I'm ready, then we're gonna find a way and
26:47
Speaker 4: you can do that. There's not a big league roster,
26:49
Speaker 4: maybe outside of the Dodgers, that you have to be
26:53
Speaker 4: major League All Star caliber ready before we can bring
26:56
Speaker 4: you up to the big leagues, including the Mariners. I mean,
26:59
Speaker 4: there's there's a couple spots at the end of the
27:01
Speaker 4: roster where I think, you know Miles Mastrimony.
27:03
Speaker 3: I like him.
27:03
Speaker 4: I like the way that he plays the game. I
27:05
Speaker 4: think he's a competitor. I think he can go out
27:07
Speaker 4: there and grind and can play multiple positions. But he's
27:10
Speaker 4: not His floor is lower and his ceiling is lower
27:13
Speaker 4: than a guy like cold Emerson. So if cold Emerson proves, hey,
27:16
Speaker 4: I'm ready, or if an injury happens, JP's dealing with
27:20
Speaker 4: some sort of shoulder thing, so that could be adding
27:22
Speaker 4: to some of his usage in spring training games as well.
27:25
Speaker 4: But I think it's more so the only way we're
27:27
Speaker 4: going to be able to find out if this kid's
27:29
Speaker 4: ready at the when we break camp, or if he's
27:32
Speaker 4: going to be ready when we need to call upon
27:33
Speaker 4: him three weeks into the season or five weeks into
27:36
Speaker 4: the season or two weeks into the season. You never
27:38
Speaker 4: know when it comes to injuries and whatnot. We want
27:40
Speaker 4: to make sure that this guy's gotten every opportunity to
27:43
Speaker 4: get as much exposure to what it's going to feel
27:46
Speaker 4: like as humanly possible. So they start making cuts here.
27:49
Speaker 4: Soon they'll start sending guys down because they have like
27:51
Speaker 4: ninety guys in spring training right now. I mean, it's
27:54
Speaker 4: like something. It's ungodly how many people they have at
27:56
Speaker 4: big league spring training. They're gonna start sending guys down
27:58
Speaker 4: this second. That minor league camp guys starters who arrive.
28:02
Speaker 4: I think cold Emerson's going to be there for the
28:04
Speaker 4: long off. He'll be there till the last cut. And
28:07
Speaker 4: even if they've already decided a week or two before
28:09
Speaker 4: that that you're gonna start in Triple A, they're gonna
28:12
Speaker 4: say you're gonna start in Triple A. You'll be down
28:14
Speaker 4: there for the last three days of minor league spring
28:16
Speaker 4: training before you go to Tacoma. We want you to
28:18
Speaker 4: get as many at bats here. We'll plan on seeing
28:20
Speaker 4: you at some point this season, and you know, for
28:23
Speaker 4: the future, you're gonna be one of our dudes.
28:24
Speaker 1: Well, according to buster Oney, he thinks the plan is
28:27
Speaker 1: by mid May, like, that's the plan like right now,
28:31
Speaker 1: without an injuries or slumps or anything, well out that
28:37
Speaker 1: they ideally what he's hearing is they would like to
28:41
Speaker 1: have him be major league I'm the major league roster
28:44
Speaker 1: by mid May.
28:46
Speaker 3: Wow, that's fast. Well, it is very fast. It's very fast.
28:50
Speaker 4: And obviously at that point you're just kind of looking
28:52
Speaker 4: into the natural order of things is out of Brendan Donovan,
28:57
Speaker 4: who's on fire so far, out of Brendan Donovan, AP, Crawford,
29:01
Speaker 4: Cole Young, which are the positions that he would play
29:04
Speaker 4: and d H. I suppose you could mix that in there,
29:07
Speaker 4: even though I don't think he's you're going to be
29:09
Speaker 4: bringing him up to take d H at bats that
29:13
Speaker 4: you're figuring on one of those is going to be
29:15
Speaker 4: something that if he goes down and studs out at
29:18
Speaker 4: triple A like he did in his short sample size
29:20
Speaker 4: he had last year, then when it's time that he's
29:23
Speaker 4: just saying, hey, you can't me for you. Yeah, we're
29:25
Speaker 4: gonna have to find room somewhere. Now, that's just they're
29:27
Speaker 4: just in there. I guess Buster one's probably saying someone's
29:32
Speaker 4: going to be opening the door. To some degree, right,
29:35
Speaker 4: Cole Young's going to not be because if Cole Young
29:37
Speaker 4: goes out and plays like a first rounder, I.
29:39
Speaker 1: Think for Cole Young to play, I think it's not
29:43
Speaker 1: Cold or Coal. I don't think that's it. I really
29:45
Speaker 1: do not. After what after speaking to them down there,
29:49
Speaker 1: I think Cole Young's are starting second basement. I think
29:51
Speaker 1: it's Emerson to third and then Donovan switches over to
29:57
Speaker 1: that super utility role where he's in the lineup every day.
30:00
Speaker 1: But it might be d H, it might be Smoutfield,
30:02
Speaker 1: might be stuff like that, the guy whose roster spot
30:06
Speaker 1: would then come into question. I'll just Luke Rayley better
30:09
Speaker 1: not get off to a slow start.
30:10
Speaker 3: Hit a bomb yesterday, Yes he did.
30:13
Speaker 1: Dom can Zone better not get off to a slow
30:15
Speaker 1: start with two options still in his back pocket. Because
30:20
Speaker 1: if their ideal plan is for Cold Emerson to be
30:23
Speaker 1: ready by May and contributing to this, they're not calling
30:27
Speaker 1: them up to play a bench roll right. Promise you
30:30
Speaker 1: that then you know a couple veterans may be looking
30:34
Speaker 1: over their shoulder at this stage, and rightfully so.
30:37
Speaker 4: I don't think that any of those names you just
30:39
Speaker 4: mentioned to have done anything that warrants them not looking
30:43
Speaker 4: over their shoulder. I mean, that's that is a rare
30:46
Speaker 4: air when you get to a place where you are
30:48
Speaker 4: on the big league roster and you know for a
30:50
Speaker 4: fact that you could go oh for spring training and
30:52
Speaker 4: you're still making the club. This team has a few
30:55
Speaker 4: of them. I mean they have more than a few,
30:57
Speaker 4: but there's definitely some guys that are on the bubble
30:58
Speaker 4: and they know it. They they looked like they showed
31:01
Speaker 4: up spring training and understanding exactly that, and they're gonna
31:04
Speaker 4: have to go out and perform to make sure they
31:05
Speaker 4: can hold off these youngsters.
31:07
Speaker 1: Young only has one hit so far in the spring,
31:09
Speaker 1: but it was a bomb.
31:10
Speaker 3: It was a bomb about that guy.
31:12
Speaker 1: He was actually some taters.
31:14
Speaker 4: Now yeah, and needs to mix in more hard contact, yeah,
31:17
Speaker 4: and then the taters will come yeah.
31:19
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:19
Speaker 1: But I didn't know he had that in him, but
31:22
Speaker 1: we saw a couple of them last year, and his
31:24
Speaker 1: first home run of this year was well four forty
31:27
Speaker 1: three or something like that.
31:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was big.
31:29
Speaker 1: It's insane, all right. Coming up next on our radio program,
31:32
Speaker 1: we close out our Monday show with one last thing
31:35
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM hright Vinyl segment
31:44
Speaker 1: here on this Monday, and why not use a Monday
31:48
Speaker 1: to head on out to Talala Resort Casino. Just soak
31:51
Speaker 1: in all the ambiance, if you will. You know what
31:55
Speaker 1: we are coming off. We're getting ready for the March Madness.
31:58
Speaker 1: I hear that it's already going to be crazy. But
32:00
Speaker 1: it's not just Thursday and Friday that they're playing the
32:04
Speaker 1: college basketball. They're going to be doing it for several weeks.
32:07
Speaker 1: What a nice little hub for you to take in
32:09
Speaker 1: some tournament action. And you got a Draftking sports book
32:12
Speaker 1: within walking distance. Why wouldn't you take advantage of that?
32:15
Speaker 4: I have no idea, and you'll probably be able to
32:17
Speaker 4: run into us one of the days down there, right,
32:19
Speaker 4: we're gonna probably head down and do a little something
32:21
Speaker 4: something during this March madness time, and I'm looking forward
32:25
Speaker 4: to it. I might even go see if I can
32:28
Speaker 4: find on their a prop bet of you hitting zero
32:32
Speaker 4: percent of your WAISTBA Basket Shop since I returned, because
32:37
Speaker 4: I did not know that I was your cooler. That's
32:41
Speaker 4: not intentional. I don't try to do that. I genuinely
32:44
Speaker 4: have heard you now twice. I've heard you wought up paper,
32:48
Speaker 4: and in my heart I'm like you got this, Come on,
32:51
Speaker 4: you got this. One thing I hate is when my
32:54
Speaker 4: friends will say something like hey, one time, like when
32:55
Speaker 4: I'm trying to make a putt a one time on
32:58
Speaker 4: my team, Like, how about you don't say it one
32:59
Speaker 4: time because that's insinuating that I never do it. They
33:02
Speaker 4: have at one time you come through, so now they
33:05
Speaker 4: do it all the time, and I don't think that
33:07
Speaker 4: with you. I'm like, come on, you got this. I
33:08
Speaker 4: would say one time, make it.
33:10
Speaker 1: There's something to it when you're one thousand percent, when
33:12
Speaker 1: you're not here in zero percent, Yeah.
33:15
Speaker 4: Well you can go to laylap and maybe I'll put
33:17
Speaker 4: some ducats on it and then maybe you can make
33:19
Speaker 4: money for it.
33:19
Speaker 3: You can.
33:20
Speaker 6: You know, do you think they're taking.
33:23
Speaker 1: I think they do.
33:24
Speaker 4: They take everything the big gambling place there far right
33:29
Speaker 4: corner that kiosk on the big board. Yep, far right corner.
33:33
Speaker 1: All right. One last thing, Bucky, what do you got today?
33:36
Speaker 4: First day of something real big? I know you are
33:39
Speaker 4: a big fan opening day. Don't know how big or
33:42
Speaker 4: how up you are in the time that today is
33:44
Speaker 4: the day in which Baron and we don't know our
33:48
Speaker 4: team name yet. Oh, but today is the first practice
33:51
Speaker 4: for Triple A Baseball Snookuamie.
33:54
Speaker 3: Valley Little League. Maybe first year of kid pitch.
33:57
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, up, I'm thinking first day of practice. All right,
34:05
Speaker 4: everybody get your helmets on. We're going to practice taking
34:08
Speaker 4: hit by pitches.
34:09
Speaker 6: Probably a good idea because.
34:10
Speaker 1: You're all going to get hit well, and you better
34:13
Speaker 1: find out now that it.
34:15
Speaker 3: Won't kill you.
34:16
Speaker 4: This is not a grenade, boys, this is a baseball.
34:20
Speaker 4: It will not blow you up.
34:22
Speaker 6: They're also going to have to chase a lot of
34:23
Speaker 6: the pitches.
34:25
Speaker 3: So we're going to probably practice that today. Wear it
34:28
Speaker 3: or chase it.
34:28
Speaker 1: We're going to practice pass balls and how we run
34:32
Speaker 1: after Yeah, all right.
34:35
Speaker 6: Up.
34:36
Speaker 4: I've spent a lot of time thinking about how do
34:38
Speaker 4: I teach this because I've coached a lot of baseball,
34:41
Speaker 4: and yet I have not coached eight you the walk fest?
34:46
Speaker 1: What what when do you choose your name?
34:49
Speaker 4: Well, they're trying to figure out basically it's usually a
34:52
Speaker 4: Triple A team for this for this season, so like
34:54
Speaker 4: last year we were the Durham Bulls or the Bulls,
34:58
Speaker 4: And yet it's something with the licensing and the hats
35:00
Speaker 4: that they can be made, so they don't know exactly
35:02
Speaker 4: what team names are available yet. Once they figure that out,
35:05
Speaker 4: then we get to go through and pick and I
35:08
Speaker 4: will fight someone if they try taking the bulls.
35:11
Speaker 1: So you want the bulls back?
35:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're defending champs. Yeah we should just automatically get it.
35:15
Speaker 4: You guys losers, You pick whatever you want.
35:17
Speaker 1: Man. I remember going through that process with my dad.
35:20
Speaker 1: That's you know, we were trying to figure out a name.
35:24
Speaker 1: We're going to buy uniforms. We had a sponsor and
35:27
Speaker 1: everything else, and I don't know, I couldn't have been
35:30
Speaker 1: but bears age probably and we're going through it and
35:34
Speaker 1: going through every single name. Every time we got in
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Speaker 1: the truck, we would go over the name and sort
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Speaker 1: of like picking a kid's name, like making sure that
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Speaker 1: nobody can make fun of this, right, And so we
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Speaker 1: were sure we had arrived at our little league baseball
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Speaker 1: name that we were going to use not just for
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Speaker 1: that year but for the rest of our little league lives.
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Speaker 1: Got the uniforms all printed up, cool looking maroon things,
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Speaker 1: white lettering. We were all set. I was sure that
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Speaker 1: my dad and I had hatched the perfect plan. No
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Speaker 1: one can make fun of this name. Go home. Tell
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Speaker 1: my sister's boyfriend older than me at the time, Well,
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Speaker 1: what name did you pick. I'm like, that's foolproof Trojans.
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Speaker 5: Oh no, what's no making fun of that name.
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Speaker 3: There's no chance to anyone who's you.
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Speaker 1: Know, ten eleven years old, could possibly find anything to
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Speaker 1: make fun of about the Trojans. It's not like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's not like an active Yeah, not foolproof. And he
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Speaker 1: starts laughing and then just made fun of me. Unmercify's
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Speaker 1: a condom you put it on. You're a bunch of condom,
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Speaker 1: a bunch of propylactics.
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Speaker 3: You know what that is?
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Speaker 1: Team condom over here. Hope you guys play hard. By
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Speaker 1: the way, Paul Hudson, now that I'm older, now that
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Speaker 1: I can defend myself, you couldn't do that.
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Speaker 3: Then you just had to sit there and wear it.
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Speaker 1: I was so demoralized, like we had spent so much
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Speaker 1: time trying to think of the perfect name, and my
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Speaker 1: dad never even mentioned that nobody will make one of
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Speaker 1: this name.
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Speaker 5: Paul Hudson clearly couldn't have been from your hometown. His
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Speaker 5: name's far too normal. It was from Godfrey, that makes.
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Speaker 3: Sense, loser, church goer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, why do you even know what that is?
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Speaker 3: Watching his sister, Yeah, you should fight him.
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Speaker 1: Exactly what do you got, Ashley?
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Speaker 5: I just want to say from the NFL Combine, my
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Speaker 5: favorite person, and I think a lot of favorite persons,
37:40
Speaker 5: was Jenning's dunker. Not only did his great name and
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Speaker 5: flowing bright red locks, but did you guys know that
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Speaker 5: he won back to back hatetos competitions?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Is that right?
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Speaker 6: Just makes him even better? Just pure Iowa hat tossing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah he's from Illinois, but yeah, just Pyre Midwest hatos competition,
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Speaker 5: back to back check.
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, farm work will make you strong,
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Speaker 4: that's right for sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Quinn Mirrez or whatever.
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Speaker 4: Remember when he was coming out in the draft and
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Speaker 4: they showed videos of him blocking trees like push literally pushing.
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Speaker 4: They weren't giant trees, but pushing them over. Broncos drafted
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Speaker 4: him all pro.
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Speaker 1: Bob Feller When I asked him, how did you get
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Speaker 1: your fastball? How did you throw one hundred miles per
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Speaker 1: hour by the time you were seventeen years old? Farm
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Speaker 1: work people don't do it. Cloud Fields carried muckets, carried buckead.
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Speaker 3: Fed animals, big over hay.
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Speaker 1: Kids don't do that. It's a different kind of strength.
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Speaker 3: Dad couldn't afford a tractor. I pulled the plot.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's pretty much what he said. All right,
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Speaker 1: All well, clothes with this NHL trade deadline is another
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Speaker 1: thing this week that we're doing Friday as the NHL
38:52
Speaker 1: trading deadline. So there's some out there suggesting the krack
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Speaker 1: and need a blockbuster trade at this stage in their
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Speaker 1: franchise's history, they need a blockbuster. That'll be something that
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Speaker 1: we discuss here throughout the week. All right, thanks for
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