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Chuck & Buck 3-16 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, brackets secrets and the countdown is on! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: For two two ground ball towards the middle, which their
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  Speaker 1: close play in time to out.
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  Speaker 2: So the time run is now ninety feet away and
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  Speaker 2: it's up.
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  Speaker 1: To Herado perdomoljas the miller's eighth pitch to per Domoll Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Davis.
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  Speaker 1: On FS one last night they hosted the WBC matchup
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  Speaker 1: between the Dominican Republic and the US, and the US
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  Speaker 1: wins a nail bider two to one. Excellent game, excellent theater,
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  Speaker 1: excellent drama for us to enjoy on a Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: Little baseball in mid March, I mean, my goodness. And
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  Speaker 1: the US does win by a final score of two
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  Speaker 1: to one. They will play in Tuesday's WBC Championship game
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  Speaker 1: and they will face the winner of Team Italy or Venezuela,
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  Speaker 1: and that game will.
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  Speaker 3: Be played tonight at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, It's Chuck and Bucks Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM, Ashley Ryan, Bucky Jacobson, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Powell with you as we roll into our seven o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is going to join us here in about
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  Speaker 1: three minutes to talk about Noah Igbinoghany. He will break
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  Speaker 1: down the Seahawks' latest addition to the roster, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: do that. At seven five, Igbanogany was signed to a
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  Speaker 1: deal from the Washington Commanders. Over the weekend, the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: also announced their coaching staff, part of our frost brewed
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  Speaker 1: corps like choose Chill headlines to get us started here
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  Speaker 1: in this seven o'clock hour, Sounders one over the Earthquakes
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  Speaker 1: of San Jose one to nothing, handing the Earthquakes their
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  Speaker 1: first loss of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Scored another goal.
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  Speaker 1: Seems to be scoring all the goals for the Sounders
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  Speaker 1: so far this season. Randia Rose Arena returned to Peoria
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  Speaker 1: and Julio will be next as the Dominican was eliminated
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  Speaker 1: last night from the WBC. We will talk further about
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  Speaker 1: Handshakegate coming up a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 3: In the show.
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  Speaker 2: And of course it is selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: At least, actually it's bracket Monday yesterday with selection Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The sixty eight team NCAA.
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  Speaker 1: Tournament field was announced yesterday and to very little controversy,
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  Speaker 1: which was nice to hear. Didn't seem like too many
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  Speaker 1: people had too big of a problem with the sixty
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  Speaker 1: eight teams that did make the field.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk more about that a little bit later on
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  Speaker 3: in the hour.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to let you know that our March
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  Speaker 1: Madness Contest is back again this year. The Mayhem is
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  Speaker 1: Fill out your twenty twenty six bracket before nine am
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, March nineteenth, even though there are play in
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  Speaker 1: games tomorrow night and Wednesday night as well, and the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA women's field was announced yesterday as well. You dub
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  Speaker 1: will be taking on South Dakota State on Friday at
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  Speaker 1: eleven thirty, and so the Huskies get in the women's
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  Speaker 1: field and rather easily as a sixth seed, will be
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  Speaker 1: taking on South Dakota State on Friday, cracking six two
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  Speaker 1: winners over the Panthers. They're two and oh. Since Bobby
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  Speaker 1: McMahon has suited up for them. We'll talk to Ben
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  Speaker 1: Myers a little bit later on in the show. And
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  Speaker 1: so those are your headlines, brought to you by Frost
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  Speaker 1: Brewed Corse Light. All right, let's talk some Seahawks football
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  Speaker 1: with our own guy Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 4: With the Bell Tolls. It must be seven o'clock and
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  Speaker 4: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell, brought to
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  Speaker 4: only with Copola Diamond Foreco. Now with tk Man News,
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  Speaker 4: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bud. Something was bugging
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  Speaker 4: me that entire time.
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  Speaker 1: It was like I was looking at a string on
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  Speaker 1: my finger and I'm like, what did I put that
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  Speaker 1: on there for? So I did want to mention as
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  Speaker 1: I teased going into the break the NBA News before
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  Speaker 1: we bring Greg aboard, and I don't want to put
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  Speaker 1: it off any further. So Greg probably has a thought
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  Speaker 1: on this anyway. The NBA, according to Sham Sharanya of ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: is going to hold a vote at the Board of
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  Speaker 1: Governors meeting next week to explore adding expansion teams exclusively
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas and Seattle, with the two new franchises
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  Speaker 1: being targeted to start play in the twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine season. According to Sharanya, there is momentum within
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  Speaker 1: the Board of Governors in league office to approve moving
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  Speaker 1: forward with taking bids for franchises in Las Vegas and
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  Speaker 1: Seattle industry executives project proposals and the seven to ten
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar range for each team and estimate that both
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  Speaker 1: markets would be among the NBA's top eight revenue generators.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is a huge step forward as we've
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  Speaker 1: waited obviously years for something like this and been teased
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  Speaker 1: here in the last couple of years. But this is
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  Speaker 1: the biggest sign that this is going to happen that
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  Speaker 1: arguably we have seen yet. So that will be taking place.
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  Speaker 1: I guess within a week or so, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have that vote. Within a week they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: that vote. So we'll know a lot more than all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk to Greg.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Greg, Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, do you have a reaction to the
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  Speaker 2: NBA news, Greg, So enough.
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  Speaker 5: Two Seattle franchises could fetch ten billion dollars a few
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  Speaker 5: months apart.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a corporate money here. Yeah, people going
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  Speaker 5: to spend it it. Yeah, a long time timing. It
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  Speaker 5: will never happen to begin with, obviously it doesn't eight ago,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, it's good. They finally have narrowed down the
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  Speaker 5: they quit playing. So Madam Silver kept saying well, we've
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  Speaker 5: got lots of bids and we're considering it. So now
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  Speaker 5: they're just getting to the correct of the matter, the
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  Speaker 5: two cities that are in play, and let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny though that I couldn't even pull enough
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  Speaker 1: money together to get Shan Sharanya to write a story
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  Speaker 1: about expansion, all right, you know, and yet there's probably
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  Speaker 1: there's somebody out there that could buy both of these
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  Speaker 1: ten billion dollar franchises without even breaking a sweat. M nice, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be nice. I got five on it, five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I'll put five dollars there. Let's pull our money together
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  Speaker 1: and see if we can't buy one of the two.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, Well, let's dive into the Seahawk news
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  Speaker 1: from over the weekend. Uh noah ig monogony uh brought
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  Speaker 1: over from the Washington Commanders. What do we know about him?
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  Speaker 5: It's the first round pick a few years ago by
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  Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins for thirtieth overall pick. And that means
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  Speaker 5: that they're not the only team that was intrigued by him.
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  Speaker 5: And first John talent means that everyone had an opinion
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  Speaker 5: and evaluated him. He traded to Dallas and for the Commanders.
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  Speaker 5: Two years ago twenty twenty four, he was a nickel
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  Speaker 5: defensive back and primarily nickelback for them and got a
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  Speaker 5: lot of snaps. With most of his career he was
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  Speaker 5: an injury replacement at that position, and then last year
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  Speaker 5: this past season twenty twenty five, he barely played. And
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  Speaker 5: he's known as a physical jam the receiver off the
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  Speaker 5: line corner, a little shorter, little stockier. He's had problems tackling,
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  Speaker 5: which Washington people highlighted quite a bit, which is usually
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  Speaker 5: a problem in Seattle. If he can't tackle outside. This
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  Speaker 5: is yet another John Schneider fringe. Second third wave signing
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  Speaker 5: won't count toward the COMPIC formula because he didn't plan,
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  Speaker 5: didn't have a big contract, probably adder just above the
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  Speaker 5: league minimum for veterans, so million dollars low risk if
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  Speaker 5: he doesn't work out. I've seen people saying, well, he
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  Speaker 5: must be now the new Woolen and that the rotation
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  Speaker 5: will probably be him with Joe and Witherspoon. No, I
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  Speaker 5: think it's clear that there will not be a three
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  Speaker 5: cornerback rotation for two spots this year, and that the
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  Speaker 5: money they're paying Joe of eight million dollars a year
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  Speaker 5: and the money they're about to pay Witherspoon thirty plus
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  Speaker 5: million dollars a year. I mean, those are the two guys,
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  Speaker 5: and they're going to have two starters at outside corner
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  Speaker 5: with Emon Worry as their hybrid nickel and four to
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  Speaker 5: three Sam linebacker. And they're going to roll with that
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  Speaker 5: with Emon Worry being a fifth defensive back on the field.
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  Speaker 5: Tyle Cotta right now being probably the starting safety next
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  Speaker 5: to Julian Love, although there's competition would be with that
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  Speaker 5: Robin Brodney Thomas from Indianapolis's safety they just signed. But
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  Speaker 5: they'll try the guys that are now signing for low
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  Speaker 5: risk deals and if they don't fit into depth pieces
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  Speaker 5: and special teams, they'll cut them and they'll roll it
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  Speaker 5: back with most of the guys they have from last season,
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  Speaker 5: and that worked out pretty well when they won the
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl. So Josh Tiers staying consistent here. It's obviously
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  Speaker 5: he's bringing his guys back as many as he can.
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  Speaker 5: The ones he lost. He'll gladly take the comp picks
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  Speaker 5: for and we'll see a huge resigning from Smith and
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  Speaker 5: Jigba for Smith and jiga in Witherspoon this summer. It's
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  Speaker 5: all that every signing has happened is fitting that pattern?
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  Speaker 6: Gee, the I mean the idea of this team continuing
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  Speaker 6: to be top of the league in special teams. Does
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  Speaker 6: this guy I'm just gonn called them iggy because I'm
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  Speaker 6: not going to try to pronounce that whole last name.
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  Speaker 6: Is he good at special teams? Does he play special teams?
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  Speaker 6: Is that a possibility where that's what he fits into
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  Speaker 6: beyond just depth behind the actual starters.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they've been not gonna If he wants to make
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  Speaker 5: the team, he's gonna have to make it on special
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  Speaker 5: teams because you have forty million dollar corners that's going
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  Speaker 5: to be starting outside and you better contribute on special
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  Speaker 5: teams or there's no place for you in Seattle. And
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  Speaker 5: that's true. Now probably have every cornerback on the roster.
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  Speaker 5: They've made their choice when they let Wooland go to
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  Speaker 5: Philadelphia for twelve million and one year and pay Joe
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  Speaker 5: eight million for three years, they've made their choice. Here
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  Speaker 5: are two guys, and Mike McDonald made it clear to
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  Speaker 5: the personnel staff here's who I want our two corners
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  Speaker 5: to be. And we don't have to pay and go
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  Speaker 5: into some kind of bidding for park wooland we're running
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  Speaker 5: with Josh Job and so all other corners, your snaps
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  Speaker 5: are coming on special teams or if one of those
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  Speaker 5: two dudes get hurt, and if you don't like that,
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  Speaker 5: don't sign here or be prepared to play somebody else
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  Speaker 5: somewhere else. It's pretty clear you don't give Josh Job
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  Speaker 5: back contract and then put him into a rotation with
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  Speaker 5: anybody else competing for his job. McDonald has made his
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  Speaker 5: choice and Josh Schneider has acted on it.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider here on
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  Speaker 1: this on Monday morning. Of course, you can follow Greg's
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  Speaker 1: coverage of the Seahawks at the Newstribune dot com. He's
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  Speaker 1: got stuff every day there, and you can follow him
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter as well at g Bell Seattle. And he's
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  Speaker 1: with us here this morning to talk about a couple
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  Speaker 1: of signings that did occur here in the last seventy
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  Speaker 1: two hours, including one that we didn't even ask you about.
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  Speaker 3: On Friday.
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  Speaker 1: We had the Rodney Thomas information on Friday and just
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  Speaker 1: overlooked it talking about Emmanuel Wilson for most of that segment.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you know about Rodney Thomas and how
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  Speaker 1: he fits in with the Mike McDonald's plan.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he graduated from Yale. That's the first thing that
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  Speaker 5: sticks out. There aren't a lot of players in the
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  Speaker 5: NFL who graduated from Yale. So now they have a
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  Speaker 5: Yale graduate on the coaching staff, Daniel Stern be an analyst,
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  Speaker 5: and Rodney Thomas the safety. There's since they lost Kobe Bryant,
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  Speaker 5: it's clear that they're they've got it in house. Candidate.
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  Speaker 5: I mentioned Tayo Kata, but they will explore where Rodney
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  Speaker 5: Thomas fitz and he has been a starting safety in
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  Speaker 5: the league first two years with the Colts. His second
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  Speaker 5: season as a starter there second year in the league
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, he allowed nineteen yards of completion
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  Speaker 5: and a sixty three percent rate of completions against him,
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  Speaker 5: and since then he just played on nine and thirteen
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  Speaker 5: percent of the defensive snaps for the Colts the last
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  Speaker 5: two years, which is why he was available, which is
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  Speaker 5: why he's cheap, which is why it's probably a one year,
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  Speaker 5: just at minimum salary contract. He has played special teams
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  Speaker 5: and when I signed him, that to me was a
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  Speaker 5: special team signing, and you're right, special teams was a
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  Speaker 5: huge reason why they went to and won the Super
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  Speaker 5: Bowl last year, and we talked about it was very
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  Speaker 5: obvious to see that in Rashid Jaheed and his kick returns,
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  Speaker 5: and they wouldn't have won that second RAMS game, the
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  Speaker 5: home game and even got into the Division championship for
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  Speaker 5: home games without it. But it was more than that.
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  Speaker 5: It was put coverage kickoff, coverage kickoff returned to blocking
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  Speaker 5: on the returns for sh and it was good before
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  Speaker 5: she got here, and Jay Harbaugh is a big reason
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  Speaker 5: for that. But the players that Jay Harbaugh has coached
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  Speaker 5: and the players that Mike McDonald has gotten here and
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  Speaker 5: John Schneer has gotten here to play those positions. The
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Bell is another signing that happened, signing back. He
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  Speaker 5: had been with the team last year after they picked
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  Speaker 5: him from the waivers from Cleveland. They let him go
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the season in January, and the
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  Speaker 5: Panthers snatched him up and they looked like the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: had lost the Anthony Bell. The Anthony Bell was a
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  Speaker 5: very good special teams tackler and blocker and he's back too,
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  Speaker 5: so they're restocking what was already the best special teams
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  Speaker 5: by all the metrics in the league last year, and
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  Speaker 5: that's what some of these signings are absolutely toward the
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Bell and Rodney Thomas seemed to be primarily for
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  Speaker 5: special teams. That was a big, big factor. I know
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people go to the refrigerator in the
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  Speaker 5: bathroom in the kicking game, and that phase of the
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  Speaker 5: game was a big reason the Seahawks went to the
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 6: Greg, do you expect that the John Schneider is going
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  Speaker 6: to do something to add at least a competition to
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  Speaker 6: the right guard position. I mean, Anthony Bradford got had
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  Speaker 6: some bad games, obviously, there were some things that I
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  Speaker 6: think they liked. He stayed out there and started every
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  Speaker 6: single game, I think. And so you've talked about O
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  Speaker 6: line and D line both being areas where they're going
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  Speaker 6: to try to provide some depth. Do you expect them
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  Speaker 6: to still do that in his right guard? Probably the
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  Speaker 6: spot that they would be looking at.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, And they're already looking and they've been shopping at
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  Speaker 5: veterans who might be available at that position, and they're
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  Speaker 5: already been in talks about who they may sign. And
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  Speaker 5: that could be another later and even into the summer
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  Speaker 5: and even in the training camp potentially The fourth and
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  Speaker 5: fifth wave of free agency is when teams cut players
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  Speaker 5: during training camp or at the end of training camp
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  Speaker 5: when they're setting them rosters. You also need money for that.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about salary camp management. Well, some of that
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  Speaker 5: cap management will also go toward the end of training
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  Speaker 5: camp in the summer. So it's not like the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: are just holding all this money and then you get
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  Speaker 5: to keep it. That's not how the league works. There's
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  Speaker 5: a minimum amount of cash and a minimum amount of
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  Speaker 5: salary you have to put out each year by the
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  Speaker 5: league rule. Because we all know what the maximum is.
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  Speaker 5: But the money, the salary cap space, and the cash
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  Speaker 5: they haven't spent yet. He sees this as an ongoing
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  Speaker 5: all the way up to the trade deadline and November
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  Speaker 5: type of thing. You have to have a stash the
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  Speaker 5: money for injuries. You have to stash your money for
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  Speaker 5: your draft picks, which is only four of them right
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  Speaker 5: now for this year. We talked about why that is.
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  Speaker 5: And then you to make moves like signing a veteran
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  Speaker 5: if he's cut in the summer and for roster purposes.
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  Speaker 5: A veteran you sign after that is most likely to
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  Speaker 5: be a one year minimum salary deal, but you having
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  Speaker 5: some money for that. And then we've already mentioned the
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  Speaker 5: extensions coming for Smith and Jigua in Witherspoon, So this
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  Speaker 5: is not spend all your money in March and see
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  Speaker 5: how good your team can get. That's not at all
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  Speaker 5: which Nighter looks at. He looks at Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: allocate this one's money for this. These extensions were given.
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  Speaker 5: Our two best players are going to happen in July.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to cost this. We need some money for
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  Speaker 5: August when veterans get cut. That's when I expect them
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  Speaker 5: to get defensive linemen, tackles primarily inside. They need death four,
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  Speaker 5: perhaps the right guard. Now you'd like to add offensive
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  Speaker 5: lineman at the beginning of training camp so they have
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  Speaker 5: the whole training camp to work with John Benton to
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  Speaker 5: know the offense. But it's not impossible that they won't
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  Speaker 5: make that kind of move then. And then, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: have a stash of money and cap space in cash
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  Speaker 5: available to take on the trades in November at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the deadline, like the Rashid Sahi, like Leonard Williams,
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  Speaker 5: like they've done a lot. It's one of the most
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  Speaker 5: active trade teams. So this is an on ongoing process.
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  Speaker 5: I know we joke about this March and draft miss
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  Speaker 5: even and all of that is these are just steps
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  Speaker 5: toward building what they'd like to talk to as a
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  Speaker 5: seventy man team, and that thing goes all the way
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  Speaker 5: up into and pass the trade line deadline in November.
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  Speaker 1: In our last couple of minutes here, coaching staff set
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend as well, I think going all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to Friday, actually, but I mean your World champs,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be shake up on your staff when
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  Speaker 1: that happens. You've lost the offensive coordinator, You've lost the
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach coming off a season in which Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: had such a breakout year, and so would I would
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  Speaker 1: ask how comfortable they are with the decisions that they
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  Speaker 1: made to replace those two fellas well.
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  Speaker 5: Jessin Outen is going to be part of a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of everything of the offense. He was a former
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  Speaker 5: defensive their offense coordinator for the Denver Broncos few years ago.
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  Speaker 5: He's still on the team as a run game coordinator.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Pets, who's been a past game coordinator, is now
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: also going to work with the quarterbacks. With Prince who
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: they had he was an offensive young offensive assistant. He
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: just graduated from college a few years ago. That Prince
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: will now be the quarterbacks coach in name, but he's
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: going to have help out in the help of Peetez
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: has got a title of quarterbacks. So they're going with
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: a CONSORTI there of guys that Darnold and the quarterbacks
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: are already familiar with. And we mentioned a long time
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: ago to Thomas Hammock, the Northern Illinois head coach that
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: has gone way back to the Ravens staffs with McDonald
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: the coach together for about five years. He's now the
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: dude running backs coach, replacing Kennedy Palamael who left the
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: team for personal reasons during last season. I mentioned this already,
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: but the biggest of all the guys. There's twenty plus
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: coaches on the staff and most of them on defense
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: return intact John Benton, the offensive line coach. And when
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: they announced John Benton and as part of the entire
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: staff for twenty twenty six, the line coach has a
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: new title of senior offensive assistants that meet That means
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: that's how they got him to stay. They gave him
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: a raise. They gave him an additional title to justify
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: that raise. John Benton's the most important of all, maybe
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: even including coordinators put certainly of the position coaches, an
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: offensive linemen of just swear by him for how he
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: taught and how clear he was in a singular purpose
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: lester and how that helped. I mean, you ever talked
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: to Abe Lucas he will spend He didn't. He kind
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: of has short answers. He has our long answers talking
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: about John Benton and what he did. John Benton's gigantic
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: to get him back. The Raiders try to get him,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: and Clint Kubiak tried to bring him with him, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: they gave him a raise and a new title and
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: east staying that's a big big deal for them.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: He didn't sprain an ACL or anything. Skiing this weekend,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: did you No?
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Everything told though, because of the Seahawks song season. That's
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the first time I've skied all year. We usually skied
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: half dozen ten times a year of round. But my
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: wife and I zipped up there and had a great time.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Mount Baker For those who haven't gone the Mount Baker one,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: it snows a ton sometimes. Most of North America but
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: it's the last independent White Passes too, but one of
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: the last independently run ski resorts. And yeah, it's so
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: expensive and you gotta have money to do it, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: it's become outpriced for a lot of people, but they
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: aren't part of the consortium of in Veil and these
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: like snow Calmi has become, and and Crystal Mound has become,
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: and Stevens has become and Whistler has become. It's a
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: mom and pop shop and it's awesome. It's you just
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: drive up, there's a little bit of mud, there's a
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: couple of Porter putties. They it's it is so cool.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: A family runs it. The owner is out there putting
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: down traffic cones for the parking lot in the morning.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: And we really if you're gonna give your money to someone,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: want to give it to a family as Northwest and
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: boor and raised and making them integrat.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to give my money to making T
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: shirts that just say sore and old.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to do.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Greg, thank you, We'll talk to you again.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: You just defined fifty plus.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah word.
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• 21:32
  Speaker 1: coming up next on the radio program, it is Bracket Monday.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And uh yeah, we got tips.
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  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r F M.
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  Speaker 5: All.
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  Speaker 2: The madness is ill most here. It's right upon us.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It's sitting next to us in the chair.
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  Speaker 1: Ahi, Madness, How are you great to see you?
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Hi, mad This is kind of evil. You're very sweet.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Sid to see you as well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You gotta have it all otherwise it's not madness, right, Yeah,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, I gotta good evil got all
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Like our madness. It's all one madness. There's just a
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: lot of different sides to it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's mad like Illinois good.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was like oh shucks, guys.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Meanwhile, Penn clearly evil and.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It's Chuck a Bock in the morning. Sports Radio ninety
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: three point three k j R f M. And if
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you're looking for like an alternative place to take in
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament and all of the madness, well guess what.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Bucky and I are going to be back out uh
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to ring in the tournament on Thursday. Come on out
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and join us Talalap Resort, Casino, DraftKings, Sportsbook. We're gonna
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: be there from eleven to one, so we work only
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: people that do UH, but we work till like nine
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, and then well we are home for March Madness.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: So we then hand it over to the NCAA Tournament
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and the Westwood broadcast, which they do a fantastic job
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: every single year.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know why this year would be any different.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And so then Bucky and I are gonna head up
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to t Lalip and just watch a couple hours of basketball.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: If you'd like to join us, who knows, maybe we
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: watch ten hours of basketball together. But we're gonna have
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a contest that we're going to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: hold in which you come out and you just are
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: going to fill out the portion of the bracket that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: happens Thursday once we're there. Okay, So you come out,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you join us, watch a little basketball. You fill out
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that day's games, just that bracket. We'll have them there
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: for you. Handy, you just fill that out, and then
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you're gonna compete against Bucky and I for prizes.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: You got to beat one or the other. Don't have
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: to beat us both. But it's a little bit of a.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Different challenge, just a way to say, hey, come on out,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: let's watch some basketball, let's hang out, and you.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Can win prizes.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Well, Bucky and I just have to suffer losing at
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: your hands.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but good luck with that, because I've already thrown
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: all these games into AI and they popped out all
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: the answers, so pretty much perfect. Oh so you could
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: tie me, and whoever I guess ties me, maybe we'll
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: give you a price.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Well, then it'll come down to you beating me.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: I suppose I feel good about your bracket, because I
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: do not.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do feel good about when
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: it comes to the bracket, as how little complaining there
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: has been.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: And I don't understand.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Why we do this to begin with. I get it
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in college football. I get that Notre Dame had a beef.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I get that with an NCAA tournament that has expanded
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: that until you know, it's brand new to us, until
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: we can figure out some of the holes to patch up.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: There are going to be some issues with the NCAA
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Tournament selection process for college football, and I get why
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Notre Dame was angry and cranky that they were left
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: on the outside looking in.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I don't get it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: In college basketball, there are sixty eight teams that make
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: this field. I don't think that anybody who's on the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: outside looking in. Yes, you can have an argument that
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: your resume is better than somebody else's, but I'm not
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: going to shed one tier for and the lazy thing
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: to say is the sixty ninth best team in college basketball.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We know that it's not that, but still, what forty
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: at large teams get in. I'm not going to shed
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: one tier over the forty first arguing and haggling over
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: fortieth or forty first.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I think the committee nailed it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Apparently Joe Lonardi nailed it, and so I think it
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: was kind of obvious for them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And I absolutely think part of that process.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Was putting Miami of Ohio into the field an undefeated
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: regular season. They lost in the first round of the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: MAC Tournament, and some people thought they're just because they
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: wouldn't beat Auburn head to head, that they didn't deserve
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a spot in the NCAA tournament. I mean, to me
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: an undefeated regular season versus a team that finished eleventh
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in the SEC.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I get that the SEC is better.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Than the MAC, and Auburn probably is better than Miami,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: but there is ten times out of ten I am
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: rewarding a team from a decent conference that went undefeated
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: in the regular season a spot in a sixty eight
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: team tournament field over some team that finished seventeen and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: sixteen out of the SEC one hundred percent.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: I don't understand why there would be an argument. I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: if you have that bad of a season, because that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: bad season seventeen to sixteen, I don't care. If you're
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: playing you know, your college team and you're playing in
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: the you know, the D League of the NBA, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: don't you don't deserve a spot. I think that it
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: is especially those final let's say ten or fifteen spots, right,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I mean some of the at large bids or Okay,
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: you didn't win your conference, but you played well throughout
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: the course of the season. You beat some ranked teams.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: The bottom part of this sixty eighteen tournament should be
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: teams like that Mohami Miami of Oile, like the team
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: that's just like, yeah, we're not we're probably not world beaters,
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: but we took care of business when we had to,
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: with the exception of one stumble in our conference tournament.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: And so to me, I think that's that's where those
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: rewards belong is for those teams that have went out
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: and done something that puts them on the map to
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: some degree, and then all of a sudden, like what
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: you didn't You weren't absolutely perfect the entire season, all
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: the way through your conference tournament, and so now you
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: don't get the opportunity. But some team that, yeah we
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: got a buck kick majority of the year, but we
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: did it against good teams who cares good. You should
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: be better than Miami of Oile. You play in the SEC,
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: you should be better. But you weren't good enough to
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: make this tournament, in my opinion, And if you're bitching
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: and moaning about it, then don't get bitter, as my
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: mom would say, get better.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The eleventh team, I mean ten teams made it out
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of the SEC, and so they drew the line there
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: and put in a team that went undefeated in the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: regular season and in a decent conference. I mean, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: realized there are some really small conferences here. I mean
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: my alma mater we had fun with a year ago.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: They got to win their tournament. They've got to get in.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: They're not going to put two teams in the tournament
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: from that small of a conference. But this is the MAC.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Max got a pretty good Wally Zerbiak
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: was in the MAC. You know, there's a pretty good
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Bonzi Wells and ball State had a good run in
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament a couple decades ago. I mean, this
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: is a this is a true mid major and if
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you went undefeated in a conference, a true mid major
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: conference during the regular season.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: You better get in.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And even then they barely got in. They were an
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: eleven seed. They got to be a play in, but
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: at least they made it into the tournament field. So
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it feels to me like there was less complaining about
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the sixty eighteen field than maybe I've ever heard, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that's good. As a matter of fact, I don't want
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to ever hear complaining again. Actually, I'll take you back Miami.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I think could have complained and should have complained Miami
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: of Ohio if they did not get into the into
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the tournament field. But I really just have never wrung
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: my hands over the thirty. I mean, we had a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: college football system where the third best team in the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: country got denied playing for a national championship. I'm never
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: going to be crying a river for the forty fifth
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: best team in college basketball being left out of a tournament.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: It's never, nor should you, nor should anybody?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: All Right, coming up next, we have a countdown going on. Oh,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: it's sneaking up fast, and it's.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Going to be wonderful.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: I don't know about you guys, buy him.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I had a feeling you might be yep. When I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: came in, I'm like, I bet your buckie's ready.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: In start of the baseball season, Yeah, spring training. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: mean I don't even have to get up early to
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: go out and do spring training stuff anymore. And yet
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: I'm already over it. I'm over the spring training. If
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: we went down there.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: We've even had the WBC distracting us from springs ring
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Still still over, Still over it. It's time. If you're
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: not ready by now, then should have got ready sooner.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to tell you.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Well, and I can tell I had noticed when I
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: came in today that both of you guys, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: your faces are all cleaned up. And I figured it
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: was because of the countdown now being you know, the
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: last day of double digits until opening day. Yeah, I
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: figured that's what was going on.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, long shaggy whiskers were getting in the way of
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: my countdown's opening day.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: No, I just basically trimmed my mustache because it was
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: getting in the way of eating.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Oh it was.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when you take a bite of food and you
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: bite down on your mustache, it's not idea. It doesn't
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: feel good first of all. Second of all, it's messy.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, probably stinks, but I'm not I'm not.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: Really sure if I like it like this. I feel
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: like I kind of halfway to Abraham Lincoln. You know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: it's like a half ass mustache with a real beard.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: I like it. I might trim the beard up too,
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: Oh out, I can't grow the mustache.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I get that it's funny that you described it
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: that way, because I did think it did cross my mind, like, well,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he definitely trimmed his mustache, but he didn't trim his
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: beard at all, trimmed at interesting enough, And now I
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: understand you were eating, you were tasting your mustache, and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you're like enough, YEA, God doesn't how much flavor to it,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'll just tell you, but it does.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: It does carry pain when you chomp down on it
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: over in the side, right like just a forkful is
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: fine right in the middle, but of like a sandwich boom,
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: chomped out, like it's like yankee mustache hair out with
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: your teeth. A good thing.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I just like the idea you're in the mirror and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you're just you didn't even wipe your mouth. You're just
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: cutting barbecue sauce and chunks of meat and everything else
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: right out there with your mustang.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Get in a way you were out of here.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: I picture had the sandwich in the bathroom with you,
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: and then you'd trim a little bit and then take
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: a bike bike still a little bit more.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Knocked her down a little bit right now, I gotta
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: knock some more down. Yeah, well, well I come in
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: bald face tomorrow. All I might be crazy.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think you will ever do that, by the way,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: with us ten days away, that means ten days away
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: from seeing Brendan Donovan play in.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: A real game, a real Mariner's game.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And yes, boy, you gotta like what you're seeing out
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: of what he's doing so far here in spring training.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: He is on fire.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: He had a perfect day at the plate yesterday, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: he is just he He looks ready, he looks like
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: game ready. And so the excitement for Brendan Donovan's debut
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: only builds when he's on fire in spring training.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, I mean, I don't know if it really I mean,
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: four fifty is okay, right, I mean for hitting for
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: fifty two or whatever, that's decent. I mean, it's it's
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: spring training. The thing that I love about Brendan Donovan
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: is the week we were there, you watched the guy
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: and it was not a there's a lax atmosphere at
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: major league spring training, right, you're just getting ready for
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: the season. But I don't think that he takes that
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: that way. I think he takes it as this is
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: the time that I get to put in all the work,
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: and really the outcome doesn't matter. It's all about the work.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: And then he goes out there and the outcome kind
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: of speaks for itself. So hopefully he can continue what
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: he's doing in spring training, just to some degree to
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: start off, because we've watched I don't know how many
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: years of this offense going out there and struggling to
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: score runs early. If you can have a guy that
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: start at the beginning of your lineup, hitting is contagious,
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: and so if you can have a guy right up
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: there at the top of the lineup that just kind
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: of goes and grinds out AB's I think it could
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: be a nice formula for the rest of the squad
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: following him.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: I'm excited to see him.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Over five hundred on base as well, so you know
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: he's I mean, he only has two doubles, so for
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: actually yeah yeah, two extra base hits, two extra base hits.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: The rest of it is singles.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But for a guy's reputation is that he gives you
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: good quality at bats and puts the ball in play,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: four strikeouts and is thirty one at bats so far
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  Speaker 1: here in the spring. And this is somebody who admittedly
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is one of those types that and he told us
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  Speaker 1: this that you know, I kind of have to work
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  Speaker 1: the spring I used I do use this process to
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  Speaker 1: get ready. You know, he is somebody that I think
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: has to build up to where he's comfortable. Well, he
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: looks awfully comfortable already, and I don't think opening day
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  Speaker 1: could get here soon enough for somebody that is hot.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. He's not sitting there like boy. Just a
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: couple more days, a couple more days, I think I'll
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: be locked right in. I think he's locked in. He'll
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: keep doing the work that, you know, just kind of
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: solidifies that you want. There's I've had multiple spring trainings
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  Speaker 6: where I'm scuffling and I was like, I can't wait
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  Speaker 6: to get out of here so I can just get
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  Speaker 6: into the normal routine. I've had other ones where I
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: was kind of raking and I'm like, I can't wait
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  Speaker 6: to get out of here. I'm I'm ready to rock
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: and roll, like I want these hits to start counting
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: for reels. And so either way, you're ready to get
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: going during the During this point in spring training, I'm
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: sure he's ready for the season to start, especially because
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: his swings feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: Mayeh, Well, he's expected to be everyday third baseman at
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: this stage. I don't think anything's gonna change that. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: don't know if Colt Emerson's killing it so much in
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: spring that they've got to put him on the opening
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: day roster. It kind of feels like Donovan's your third baseman,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and Cole Young is going to be your second baseman,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and Donovan going to be in that leadoff spot. That's
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: how it's feeling to me anyway at this stage in
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the process.
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  Speaker 3: So ten sleeps from opening day.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And of course, so we'll be down at Jimmy's to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: bring in that special holiday next Thursday and get you
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: ready for the Guardians and the Mariners to start the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: season next Thursday. All right, coming up next, speaking of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the Mariners. All right, enough already the col and Randy
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