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4-22 H2: Josh Edwards CBS Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Yeah, we're I guess a little over twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours out. Now there's a little bit more joy
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  Speaker 1: in my voice at this point because we are getting
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  Speaker 1: so close.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I published my final mock draft this morning, so it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And what has it? What is noteworthy of your
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  Speaker 3: mock draft for the first round. I've seen you post
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  Speaker 3: this week, right this week that if Arizona takes Jeremiava
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  Speaker 3: of the Notre Dame running back at number three, that's
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  Speaker 3: a signal to you, Josh Edwards, that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: try to get Ty Simpson as well, the quarterback from Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Who is his interest up here in Seattle? Because if
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  Speaker 3: Ty Simpson's still on the board at thirty two, that
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  Speaker 3: makes a ripe trade down opportunity for the Seahawks, be
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  Speaker 3: it with Arizona or any other team that might want
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  Speaker 3: to get Ty Simpson in the first round. And your question,
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  Speaker 3: why try to jumpstart this team, meaning Arizona with a
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  Speaker 3: running back when you don't have a quarterback? What are
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  Speaker 3: you hearing or thinking about Ty Simpson to Arizona through
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  Speaker 3: a trade with Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I probably put too much thought into each of these
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  Speaker 1: SoCs because I'm sure we're going to have a surprise
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  Speaker 1: at number two overall, and it's just going to disrupt everything.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, with Arizona, I've consistently heard them linked
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  Speaker 1: with Tye Simpson throughout this process. And it's not to
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  Speaker 1: say that other teams are not interested. I am just
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  Speaker 1: less confident in where those teams are. So Arizona is
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  Speaker 1: the team that I continually come back to as being
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  Speaker 1: that Simpson team. And if you really have a conviction
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  Speaker 1: in that player, then you're probably going to want that
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  Speaker 1: fifth year option as well, which means you would ideally
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  Speaker 1: trade back into the first round, just as the Giants
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  Speaker 1: did last year moving up to get Jackson Dart. Where
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  Speaker 1: Seattle comes into the picture, I also believe that they
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  Speaker 1: want to trade down from number thirty two overall.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, they've.
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  Speaker 1: Only got four picks, you know, multiple needs to fill
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  Speaker 1: throughout this draft, and John Schneider is already voiced that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to move back, which you know is kind
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  Speaker 1: of in his wheelhouse anyway. So it makes sense in
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  Speaker 1: that regard. The only reason that I've been hung up
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  Speaker 1: on making that projection in mock draft, and I know
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  Speaker 1: it's only two spots so you don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: hung up on it too much. Does Seattle really want
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  Speaker 1: to be the team that kind of facilitates Arizona getting
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback at the future if that player works out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's kind of why I've leaned towards
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  Speaker 1: maybe Kansas City or Miami, one of those other teams
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  Speaker 1: with two first round picks that are sitting there towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of the first round. So as much as
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  Speaker 1: I think Seattle wants to trade out, I'm curious if
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be the partner with Arizona as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to maybe one of these other teams.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: And John Snyder we asked him at the press conference
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  Speaker 3: on Monday about that, and he says, yeah, I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: We trade with everybody. We got great, great relationship with Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: We get great relationship with LA and San Francisco. But
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  Speaker 3: to your point, you're handing him a quarterback game may
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  Speaker 3: end up facing twice of a year for the next
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  Speaker 3: three or four yeah, detually five years. So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: exactly I get the point there. Josh Edwards is joining
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  Speaker 3: us from CBS Sports Headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He's
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  Speaker 3: an NFL draft writer, one of the best ones for
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  Speaker 3: CBS Sports.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, Yeah, Jendarium Price coming to Seattle at number thirty
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  Speaker 4: two in your latest model would make people happy.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think that?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think they should prioritize more premium position like
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  Speaker 4: offensive line or defensive front, or you think this is
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  Speaker 4: the guy no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: I again, I've put a lot of thought into this,
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  Speaker 1: and I just think the way that they've sat back
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  Speaker 1: and allowed free agency and some other things to occur,
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder if they have a plan in place
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  Speaker 1: and they're just willing to pay a premium on the
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  Speaker 1: running back position throughout the course of the draft, in
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  Speaker 1: which case I've had them picking Jenerarium Price pretty regularly
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  Speaker 1: at number thirty two overall. You know, the counterpoint of
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  Speaker 1: that is it's almost like a placeholder for now, because again,
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that they want to trade back and
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're not able to get, you know, the significant
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  Speaker 1: haul that you may have in prior years, just because
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  Speaker 1: that's what this draft is. But even if you move
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  Speaker 1: back four or five spots, you know, then does Price
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  Speaker 1: become a little bit more appealing to Seahawks fans. I
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  Speaker 1: know you want an edge rusher and a cornerback, and
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  Speaker 1: you know some of these other positions of need. I
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  Speaker 1: think that those positions line up more favorably on Day
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  Speaker 1: two than maybe the running back position. So I feel
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable if you're building a package of getting priced
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  Speaker 1: at thirty two or trade back into the second round
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  Speaker 1: and get an edge rusher and a cornerback on day two,
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  Speaker 1: I feel a little bit better about the package than
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  Speaker 1: if you were to take the edge rusher at thirty
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  Speaker 1: two and then get your running back in your cornerback
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  Speaker 1: on day two somewhere. That's That's kind of how I've
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  Speaker 1: approached it. But it will be interesting because John Schneider,
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  Speaker 1: as much as I think I have a read on
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  Speaker 1: what he wants to do in this draft, he's always
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  Speaker 1: somebody that throws a curveball. So that's going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: John Schneider, again eight, has traded his first round pick
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  Speaker 3: fourteen times in sixteen drafts, ten of them trading down
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  Speaker 3: and the other four times involving players the Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 3: trade and Jamal Adams and so on. So yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: wants to trade down, and he did advertise this is
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  Speaker 3: Josh Edwards CBS Sports Network joining us some Fort Latodo
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  Speaker 3: FDA before his coverage of the NFL Draft. I see
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  Speaker 3: on your Mark this morning you put out that you
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  Speaker 3: have Caleb Downs the consensus. A lot of people think
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  Speaker 3: that John Harbo and the Giants want to take Caleb Downs,
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  Speaker 3: a safety from Ohio State.
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  Speaker 5: At five.
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  Speaker 3: You have Jeremiah Love going to the Texans at four,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have the Cowboys doing what a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people think the Cowboys are going to do, trade
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  Speaker 3: up with the Browns to six and go get defense
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  Speaker 3: Sunny Styles, a linebacker from Ohio State. Then you have
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  Speaker 3: Carnal Tate, wide receiver Ohio State. I have the Browns
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  Speaker 3: trading down with Tampa Bay down to fifteen, and I
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  Speaker 3: think Washington ends up getting Sonny Styles to replace Bobby
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  Speaker 3: Wagoner as their green dot linebacker. Off the ball in
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  Speaker 3: Washington for coach Dan Quinn. But we all know Dallas's
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  Speaker 3: defense is horrible. It has been horrible for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years, and Brian Schottenheimer needs to fix that side
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  Speaker 3: of it. How confident are you that the Cowboys jump
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  Speaker 3: up like that they'd have two first round picks already.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Kids in the booth here stick in his head
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  Speaker 3: like he thinks that's going to happen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I've had this scenario mocked out dating back
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  Speaker 1: to the Combine, in which the Cowboys come up for
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  Speaker 1: a defensive player, and I just thought, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: why change it. You know, I've kind of thought that's
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  Speaker 1: been likely throughout this process. You know, just looking at
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  Speaker 1: the moves that the Cowboys have made being a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more aggressive, I think there's a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: urgency there to be competitive, and you know that's why
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  Speaker 1: I've had them trading up for one of these defensive players.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because working through that mock draft last night,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love was kind of the hang up there because
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  Speaker 1: we've heard them associated with essentially every team minus the
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  Speaker 1: Browns between three and seven, and where he goes, I
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  Speaker 1: think is going to be incredibly telling because if the
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  Speaker 1: first five picks are defense, which could have conceivably happened
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  Speaker 1: in my mock draft, if Jeremiah Love had gone seven
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  Speaker 1: to the Commanders as opposed to four to the Titans,
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  Speaker 1: then you're talking about the Cowboys and the Commanders who
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  Speaker 1: have both been eyeing defensive players in this draft, not
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  Speaker 1: even getting a chance to take one of those players,
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  Speaker 1: because in that scenario scenario, you would have rvl Reis,
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  Speaker 1: David Bailey, Sonny Styles, and Caleb Downs all off the board.
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  Speaker 1: So at that point, who are teams trading up for
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  Speaker 1: if not for Jeremiah Love. I think that Love is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the prospect to me that is going to
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  Speaker 1: shape this entire top ten in terms of where he's taken,
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  Speaker 1: because if he is one of those top five picks,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're more likely to see him little bit
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  Speaker 1: more action they're in the top ten overall, as teams
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  Speaker 1: kind of jockey to get maybe their player of choosing
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  Speaker 1: their whether that's six or seven. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the scenario that I'm watching and kind of waiting with
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  Speaker 1: baited bread to see how it plays out.
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  Speaker 4: If the Raiders, for whatever reason decided not to take
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  Speaker 4: Fernanda Mendoza overall at the number one spot, who would
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  Speaker 4: be that player that could come in as an alternative
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  Speaker 4: and really make a difference for this roster for this team.
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  Speaker 1: I so my top prospect is Rvel Reese. I just
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  Speaker 1: think that he has the highest upside in this draft class.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking specifically to the Jets, because they will have
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  Speaker 1: their choice of any player not named Mendoza. In all likelihood,
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  Speaker 1: I have given them rvel reefs throughout most of this process,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the direction that I would go personally. But
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  Speaker 1: what you have to take into consideration is where general
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  Speaker 1: managers and head coaches are in relation to their job
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  Speaker 1: employment timeline. It's been made very clear. I think to
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn that you know, he's on the hot seat
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  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty sixth season, So you know, are
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  Speaker 1: you more inclined to take a player that's more ready
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  Speaker 1: to contribute now, which would be David Bailey as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to taking an RVL Reese, who you know is again
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  Speaker 1: probably the higher ceialing prospect, but has a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a transition ahead of him, moving from more of
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  Speaker 1: an off ball linebacker role to full time edge rusher,
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  Speaker 1: I would assume is what's going to play out. But
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  Speaker 1: is the general manager on the same timeline as the
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  Speaker 1: head coach, you know, does he have more job security
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  Speaker 1: in which case he could take Reese instead of a
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  Speaker 1: David Bailey. So I could see there being a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of tension in the Jets' locker room as they,
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  Speaker 1: you know, approach the clock at number two overall. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's one of the interesting dynamics that I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people maybe haven't considered, is it
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  Speaker 1: will play out very quickly on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's ridiculous that Aaron Glenn would be under
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  Speaker 3: a hot seat. Ye had a defense that had no
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  Speaker 3: interceptions last year. He had an offense that had no
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  Speaker 3: threats to either catch the ball or.
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  Speaker 2: Run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And Bryce Hall was that, Oh yeah, if I'm Baron Glenn,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going down with guns blazing in my way, which
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  Speaker 3: is defense. And I have him taken Ava Reese for
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  Speaker 3: reasons you say that a longer turn up upside. Incidentally,
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  Speaker 3: the Jets canceled their pre draft visit, you know, Josh
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  Speaker 3: with David Bailey, the Texas Tech edge rusher, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people think, well, is that a smoke screen?
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  Speaker 3: Does that mean they really want them and they don't
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  Speaker 3: want the league to know they want them?
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  Speaker 5: Or why?
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  Speaker 3: The other school of thought is, if you really are
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  Speaker 3: going to invest the second overall pick and the guy,
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  Speaker 3: why would you cancel the pre draft visit with him?
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  Speaker 5: Once?
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  Speaker 3: You want to have every moment you can get to know,
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  Speaker 3: so you're right that's an interesting pick. Aaron Glennon man
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  Speaker 3: any Jets coach in the last including Robert Sola, that's
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  Speaker 3: it just state fair some of the things that they
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  Speaker 3: put up with that there will even take the job.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, exactly. Let's go NFC West. You have Reese,
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  Speaker 3: the Ohio state linebacker going three to Arizona, and Arizona
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  Speaker 3: staying pud although some people think they may move down.
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  Speaker 5: And then you have the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot believe the Rams have been any They cannot
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  Speaker 3: have been more vocal about wide receiver and specifically Mackay Lemon,
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  Speaker 3: hometown kid from USC not Lemon is not considered the
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  Speaker 3: game breaking wide Receiver's just very good at everything is
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  Speaker 3: Is it wide receiver or bust? And could you see
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  Speaker 3: the Rams becoming a player of trading back into the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the first round to get Ty Simpson as
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate replacement for thirty eight year old Matthew Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: To address the second part first, I could see it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it makes sense, right, they don't
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  Speaker 1: really have a backup to Matthew Stafford at this point.
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  Speaker 1: The only hesitancy that I would have in that scenario
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  Speaker 1: is I think now that Sean McVay has a taste
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  Speaker 1: of working with a veteran and that player being able
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  Speaker 1: to process quickly and get through all of his reads
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  Speaker 1: in mcveigh's system, I think there's a comfort in having
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  Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback at that position. That's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: my thought process with the Rams, So like, would they
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  Speaker 1: be inclined to take a rookie quarterback? I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but they are a team that on paper makes sense,
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  Speaker 1: and I think there's a few teams that make sense
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  Speaker 1: when you really dive into it. The Pittsburgh Steelers, of course,
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  Speaker 1: have been a popular team. The Buccaneers. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: entering the final year of Baker Mayfield's contract, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've already seen this situation play out once in Mayfield's
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  Speaker 1: career in Cleveland, So you know, could Tampa Bay possibly
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  Speaker 1: be creating an off ramp there. I think they're a
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  Speaker 1: sneaky team to want. But you know, Los Angeles is
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  Speaker 1: always aggressive, So even if it's not trading up in
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  Speaker 1: the back half of the first round, you know, could
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  Speaker 1: they possibly move into the top ten overall to secure
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  Speaker 1: a player of their liking as well. Wide receiver is
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  Speaker 1: a position that I've commonly associated with them. The same
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  Speaker 1: is true of offensive tackle. You know, just because you
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  Speaker 1: had Warren McLennon at the right tackle position, But is
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  Speaker 1: that enough that you would not target your long term
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  Speaker 1: solution at the position. I don't necessarily know. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a position that Los Angeles often finds themselves picking
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  Speaker 1: this early. So I think it's a rare opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: them to, you know, to get a right tackle in
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  Speaker 1: the future, because I think more often than not, the
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver becomes available in trade conversations than the offensive tackle.
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  Speaker 1: So for a team that's aggressive, like the Rams, you
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  Speaker 1: may be able to go out and get a veteran
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver via the trade market, where as those offensive
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  Speaker 1: tackles rarely become available. So that would be part of
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  Speaker 1: my thought process as to which direction they should go.
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  Speaker 1: But I also know that if you're looking for the
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  Speaker 1: players that can make the biggest impact on the Rams
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  Speaker 1: for this upcoming season, which of course they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: maximize their current window, there's no better player than a
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver or a tight end. You know, Kenyan Sadek
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  Speaker 1: could be in the mix for them as well to
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  Speaker 1: make an impact on the roster. For the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixth season, and I do think that that's their ultimate goal.
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  Speaker 3: Sadiqu the best tight end in the draft from Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: This is Josh Edwards the CBS Sports talking to us
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  Speaker 3: about the NFL Draft first round, and he mocked it
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  Speaker 3: out this morning.
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  Speaker 5: His latest one.
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  Speaker 3: If those of you listening saying, wait a minute, why
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  Speaker 3: the Rams picking thirteenth? That pick was from a trade
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  Speaker 3: from the Atlanta Falcons earlier.
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  Speaker 4: Josh, what pick feels like the biggest reach compared to
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  Speaker 4: consensus rakings and for instance, like Monro Feeling at number twelve,
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  Speaker 4: or is that just the case of scheme fit and
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  Speaker 4: overall rankings or excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Freeling would be the one that I kind of
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  Speaker 1: pinpoint there. There's a wide range of opinions on him
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  Speaker 1: because similar to Tyle Simpson, you know, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: very small sample size in terms of starting at the
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  Speaker 1: left tackle position. He certainly looks the part of an
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  Speaker 1: NFL left tackle. You know, he's tall, he's got the
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  Speaker 1: requisite play strength. He was incredibly athletic and showed that
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  Speaker 1: off the NFL combine. He moves really well. He was
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  Speaker 1: playing his best football at the end of the college
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  Speaker 1: football season, So you're talking yourself into buying the best
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  Speaker 1: version of that player, and the best version of that
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  Speaker 1: player is somebody that could potentially reach an all Pro caliber,
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  Speaker 1: you know type season for your franchise. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: playing the long games, someone like Monroe Freeling, who is
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  Speaker 1: still very young, could be the player that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a team like the Browns, who maybe takes a more
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  Speaker 1: patient approach to the position, could could possibly go in
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  Speaker 1: the first round. And there's gonna be other teams that
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  Speaker 1: are a little less risk averse, in which case they
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  Speaker 1: would probably steer clear of a player like Freeling, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in case, unless they've already got a veteran in place
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  Speaker 1: like Philadelphia, makes sense if if he were to slip
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to be the heir apparent to you know,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Johnson at right tackle, I could see that being
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  Speaker 1: a situation as well. But he's the one that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of got a wide range of opinions and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of how much do you wait what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen so far versus his potential down the road, And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why he's kind of one of the
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  Speaker 1: more volatile prospects as we go into Thursday, night.
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  Speaker 3: I have Monroe freeling left tackle Georgia going to the
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  Speaker 3: Browns in fifteen, and they're projected trade down from six
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  Speaker 3: with the Buccaneers. Rob rang Our, guy from Tacoma Fox
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  Speaker 3: sports dot Com says, quote, there isn't a blocker in
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  Speaker 3: this class who looks the part of an NFL left
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  Speaker 3: tackle more than the loose and long six foot seven
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  Speaker 3: three and fifteen pounds freely. Okay, Josh, to put you
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  Speaker 3: on the spot, what was going to what's the surprise?
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  Speaker 3: What's the thing tomorrow that will happen? What's your wild card?
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  Speaker 3: What's the thing that everyone's Friday morning is gonna be saying,
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  Speaker 3: whoa what did.
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  Speaker 2: They do that for?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Good question.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: The one that I've stuck with throughout the process, of course,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: is that Cowboys trade. But I feel like I've already
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: used that bullet in the chamber, So let's see one
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: other scenario is out there. I do think we're going
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to see a lot of movement, probably in the teams
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and early twenties. As you know, teams make some smaller
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: marginal moves, uh to get in position. For some players
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I did have maybe this counts as a little bit
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: of a bold prediction, but I had Chris Johnson the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: cornerback induce, you know, getting into the top twenty overall.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And he's not a player that's been commonly mocked there,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: but you know, he's the beneficiary of Jermad McCoy's reported
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: degenerative knee. If teams have concerns about that, and he
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: would have fallen into the second round, somebody has to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: fill in that cornerback two gap, and I think Johnson
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: is a player that checks a lot of the boxes.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You know, him and Coltonhood, I think would be those
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: next two players that would be behind mansor de Lane
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: wherever he ends up being taken. So him possibly going
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: into the top twenty, you know, I could see that
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: being a scenario and a lot of people being surprised
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: by it. But he does have a lot of fans
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: around the NFL.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Chris Johnson, somebody, a lot of Seahawks followers think they
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: may take him. There's been conflicting reports on under the
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Seahawks had a top thirty visit with Chris Johnson of
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: San Diego State at the cornerback where they did not
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I've been told.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: They did not.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Josh Edwards CBS Sports. Thank you. We'll let you get
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: back to your day job.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I appreciate joining me and enjoy the wildness of the draft.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, always a pleasure, guys, Thank you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Josh Edwards says the Cowboys are going to make the
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: biggest splash move of the first round, trade wise, moving
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: up with Cleveland to get the six pick in the draft,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and then going defense. Sunny Styles, the inside linebacker signal
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: caller from Ohio State. I have them. I have Sunny
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Styles going to pick later seven to Washington as dan
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Quinn needs to replace Bobby Wagner. Bobby Wagner for those
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: of you losing track of him, he is currently unsigned.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: He'll be thirty eight, and he doesn't have a suitor
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: at the moment. He's unsigned, and there has been talked
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to Washington may re sign him, but of course Washington's
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: going to see how this draft board falls to them.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: It's likely Hall of famer. I don't know if his
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: five year windows is going to start right now or not, Chris,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: but it looks like his time in Washington may be done.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Although they've Washington, dan Quinn will always hold up possibility
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: if the draft doesn't go this way that they bring
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: him back.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think it's pretty click,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: clear and dry on that one.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: That's off to Bobby Wagner, one of the best to
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: ever do it, one of the best I've ever covered.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Just a great dude. He's always still on me to
• 20:09
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• 20:12
  Speaker 3: And he had a place in Kirkland that he always
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: went to.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Nice no wonder he's playing for your twenty exactly.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: He said that that was a part of his diet.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And hot yoga and stretching was a big reason for
• 20:23
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• 20:33
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• 20:36
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• 20:40
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• 20:42
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• 20:45
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• 20:47
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• 21:02
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get things rolling with This is from
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: the two five three Tacoma Pierce County actually two six
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: What are the odds that if Boston falls to thirty two,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Denzel Boston, the Seahawks take them.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I saw that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I think Chris that if Denzel Boston, many people don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: think he's going to go in the first round. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: think the Seahawks would say, wait, if I can get
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Denzel Boston. Snyder would say, if I can get him
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: at thirty two, I could probably get him at thirty
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: four to thirty nine and trade down, and that might
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: even if the Denzel Boston was their guy, that would
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: maybe even propel them to me go to even more
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: trade down into the second round. They can find a
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: partner again. Ty Simpson, the quarterback from Alabama, would drive
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: a lot of this. If he's still available at thirty two,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Seahawks could find anybody like at Cleveland perhaps or more
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: likely like Arizona two at thirty four to move down
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: and then maybe still get Boston.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I don't see it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: As their first pick. But John Schneider has drafted since
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: twenty ten, when he took the job. John Schneider's drafted
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: twenty He won ride receivers in sixteen drafts. It's the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: most he's drafted of any position.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Twenty one.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: The number two position is defensive end sixteen times. He's
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: drafted fifteen offensive tackles fourteen guards, fifteen corners, corners third
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: most then guards. Interesting that it's guards at fourteen. Gray
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: is able to be in the best one I've gotten yet,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: So I don't see it. I think Boston's going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: go twenty three to the Eagles and AJ Brown's gonna
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: get traded.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: We'll see.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: But when Denzel Boston isn't the first one to me
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that comes to my for the seog about you, Chris, hmmm.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: I like it just because I think he adds another
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: it's another valuable piece. So the odds of it happening
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: very low. But if he is there, I think the
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Seahawks would think about it. Which will they take him?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think the odds are low,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: But if he's there, it'd be like hmmm, jsn Rashichi
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: he and Denzel Boston.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Upper Cup has two years left on his deal. Some
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: people think that he may not play beyond this year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: He hasn't indicated that yet.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's out there working out.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: He'll be back.
• 24:08
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  Speaker 4: From the two o six. I have more faith than
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the Seahawks to trade down and at worst hit on
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: eighty percent of their picks in a down draft than
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I do that the NBA will approve expansion to Seattle.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: The krack and actually improving the team doesn't have much
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: better odds than the NBA Gohawks.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, cynicism about the Kraken warranted. Cynicism about the NBA
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: coming back to Seattle absolutely warranted. It's been since two
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: thousand and eight. I sat in that courtroom in the
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Federal courthouse, done an eighth and olive and covered that trial.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: The Seawk Sonics were about to win before the city
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: caved and gave Clay Bennett what he wanted so they
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: could get out of the lease and get a check
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: to pay out the Key Arena lease. But we'll see,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: there's going to be another vote apparently an incremental vote,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: perhaps a final vote towards expansion and whether they approved
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Seattle in Las Vegas in July at the Summer League
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: in Las Vegas. That's the word on the street about
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: the NFL vote the NBA, but voting, though the league
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: may not actually officially announce it and be a done
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: deal on expansion until the fall. Again, the target date
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: for starting would be the fall of twenty twenty eight,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: so that's a short ramp of two years. That's about
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: twenty four months. Was about what the Charlotte Bobcats now
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Hornets got when the last time the NBA expanded twenty
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: some years ago.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: This isn't a fun one, but I think it's important.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Two six blah bl blah, blah blah, another failed season
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: game blah, Five seasons, three coaches, one playoff appearance. Seems
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: to be a front office issue. Do you think they
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: have two years to get the fans back in gage
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: before the NBA could potentially drown them all out. So
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: casual fans that will only show up for a winner
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: got to figure this out come on cracking.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: That's a popular theory around here. Ian Faness and I
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: have talked about this and then in terms of marketing,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: in terms of eyeballs paying attention, they're competing seasons. Of course,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: they starting to fall and in in the spring, both
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the NBA and the NHL they if the ownership group
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: of Samantha Halloway and Todd lay Wiki have their way,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they're going to be both owned by the same owners
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: one roof sports and entertainment, the entity just founded for
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the Sonics push, and they would play in the same building.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I think personally there's enough corporate money around the Pacific
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Northwest to go around for both teams to those suites
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: to be full season tickets to be sold, the building
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: to be sold out for the first few years back
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: for the Sonics and like it was for the Krack
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: and now the Krack and that building's been sold out
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: for the first five years. Chris and a lot of
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: them are seat licenses for season ticket contracts. A year
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: over year, those contracts are starting to end and the
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: team's not win it, you could start seeing some empty
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: seats and that's going to be really an impetus for
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Samantha Halloway and ownership to change things. They said in
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the press conference that started at ten am. You heard
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: live here on ninety three point three KGr. They said
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the internal audit tid Laywickie said that has already started.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: There has been a consistency in messaging of what they
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: want to do. Jason Barrow, the general manager, says that
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: he wants to fix the offense, specifically special team's power play.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: That schematically the team needs to spend less time in
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the neutral zone and more attacking time in the attack zone.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: That would help.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: And Jason Barrow's quote was I'm with our players, disappointed
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: players in the exit interviews for missing the playoffs for
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the fourth time in five years. There's some big contracts
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: of thirty plus year old veterans, the players that could
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: be on the way out. But I get it. Kracking
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: four to two five says the crack and presser was
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: a big nothing. Berger offered no new insights whatsoever. Actions
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: speak louder than words anyway, So let's just see what
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they actually do to improve the talent on the ice.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: It's starting to get it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe somewhat difficult to attract a veteran free agent, a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Brandon Montur type or Chandler Stevenson to Seattle when you
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: haven't won yet. Yeah, they have a really nice building.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah we have a beautiful city. Yeah we have mountains
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and ocean, but we also have rain and losses in
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: the winter and no playoff berths to an NFL player,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: that speaks louder than all the other stuff we can
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: offer so far. Anyway, three six zero Mariners have five
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: players sitting under the Windoza line, which is two hundred
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and that's not early anymore. Twenty five games in. The
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Mariners have a one to ten series in homestad finale
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: today against the Athletics. They're ten and fifteen after losing
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: the first two games of the series against the A's
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: up next, the Mayor and Maple ve is out at
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Northgate at the ice Plecks. From having the press conference
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: with Jason Botrow, he joins us next on ninety three
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: point three kJ RFM. That happy Friends music means it's
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: time to join our friend the Mayor Maple Valley I Infernez,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: who today is out of the krak and King County
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: ice Plecks at Northgate. From Jason Botta and toddlay Wickie's
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: press conference with the media, off the text line I've
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: got something I'm going to ask you Ian.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: Hey, I got something for you real fast. I'm sitting
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: here with the great crew at King Television. All right, Chris,
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Now we upgraded from Sylvie the Egan Breeze here instead,
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: so and she's awesome most of the time, but she.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Works on Brea.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: We're talking, We're talking about this all of a sudden,
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: Bent and chiming in about Dix versus in and out.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: The old age is like it just never ends, Greg Bell,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: where do you weigh in? Dix are in and out?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: In and out?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Well, you go do cross talk by yourself.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: I knew, I knew that would be a popular and
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: I know I know the seat I sit in.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: The President's that's set too. That's part of the reason.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: But no, I've just had it more.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I know my guy Tate's the only smart one here. Man.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you right now, I've got I've lost all
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: faith in Brie and Bent and I never read faith
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: in you anyway.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So and great, you just disappoint me, Captain.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: That's like my brothers lived in Huntington Beach, California for
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: about forty years. So I've gone way back with the
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: way back.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: All right, you had you had a sports question. I'm sorry.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I interrupted.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: No, that was This is a great conversation. I can
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: see what you do.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Has anybody ever had the French fries at.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I didn't say about the fries, about the burgers. The fries,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: no burgers.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Bring Egan back.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Next time, I will say the Dicks cheeseburger, not the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: double double, or you put double doubles.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Versus the deluxe. That's more of an even fight.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: If you just buy it straight cheeseburger at Dick's. It's
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: like it got run over by Oh stop it. It's
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: sog and small and.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: All right, you need you're probably a white Castle in Pennsylvania.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: White Castle. Now there you go. Now you're talking my
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Midwest roots. Yeah, twenty four hours white Castle. You can
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: buy them in the Safeway frizing foods.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Don't eat those.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: White Castle probably do well here because it's marijuana is legal.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: True, if you go to White Castle before two am,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: you're doing it wrong.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I just shouldn't.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Oh god, all right, what was your only question.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: For two to five? Ask on the text line. Yes,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: my five year season ticket contract ended. I was paying
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: four hundred dollars per seat. It's to cracking. There are
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: no casual fans spending one thousand dollars per game for tickets, parking,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and food. More likely, one roof sports and entertainment was
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: put in place to prevent another group from coming in
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: and undercutting the Crack and price strategy for the NBA
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: team MBA only expanding for quote stupid money like two
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: times what Portland just sold for not happening. Do you
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: see when you're out of the Cracking games, Ian, and
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I know you work for them, Yeah, so you probably
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: have to tow it a little bit.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Do you sense that season ticket holders feel
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: gouged and may not re up and that could be
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: an issue for the Crack in the next couple.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Of years complicated because of this. I think one they
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: saw they kind of got ahead of that last year
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: when they lowered prices for season tickets and then they
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: added the whole They had a pretty significant discount for
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: food and beverage for season ticket holders last year this
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: past season that they put in place, and I think
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: they're still looking at doing some of those same things
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: moving ahead. So they've been in front of it. They
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: understand what the market is. I think the one thing
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: that the Cracking are very good at is understand what
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: the market is and what it would bear. So you know,
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: I've always been impressed by the crowds. There were a
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: couple of games where you look up and you say, okay,
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: well upper reaches kind of behind the press box with
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: like the last seats to go and probably the least
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: desirable seats. And there's times there's all there's some empty
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: seats up there, but by and large, sometimes you see
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: empty sets lower bowl. Those are all all corporate seats
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: paid for, so I didn't worry about that. I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: their attendancy. You look around at any sporting event, NBA NHL.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: I think our building in terms of true capacity, not
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: just tickets sold, but true capacity on a given night
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: was at the top of the league. But they understand
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: what the market is. They understand you've got to win.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: As far as the undercutting for NBA prices, if anybody,
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: if anybody thinks for a second, then an NBA ticket
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: is going to be less expensive than an NHL ticket.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: I've look, I got an island to sell you in
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: the wheat fields of the Polue because it ain't gonna happen.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: You want to see sticker shock. I think Greg you
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: understand the world better than most. Right, you want to
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: see sticker shock, you wait until that happens. Yep, it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: going to be obscene for what. Frankly, if you want
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  Speaker 7: to just go for the eighty two game regular season,
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  Speaker 7: and yeah, I'm a hockey guy, I get it. But
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  Speaker 7: if you want to just go on the value and
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  Speaker 7: the actual product on a game in game out eighty
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  Speaker 7: two games, the NHL is far superior to the NBA,
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: and the NBA is regular season as a joke, and uh,
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: but you're gonna be paying top dollar for that, and
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  Speaker 7: that's great.
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  Speaker 2: We all hope the songs come back.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: I hope as much as anybody, But I don't think
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: they're trying to undercut us a price.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 7: They put themselves in a position, did Sam where if
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: there was another group that came in, and I mean,
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: I don't know, outbid them so to speak, they would
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: have to sign a lease and work through her because
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: she controls fifty she controls a building, right, so it
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: would be really one of the dumbest business moves.
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  Speaker 5: Ever, huge advantage for them.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just either don't know why it would not
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  Speaker 7: pencil out, unless again, you want an owner to come
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  Speaker 7: in and be like Tom Condon down in Portland and
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: be ultra cheap and cut costs elsewhere. Right, So I
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  Speaker 7: don't I think that's kind of a The NBA is
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: gonna come here, it's gonna be this group led by
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Sam Holloway and others. Obviously she's not going to be
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: the you know, ninety percent owner or anything like that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: I guess she'll have the fifteen percent required to be
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: the majority owner and then other money being invested. And again,
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  Speaker 7: unless you're blindly naive, uh, you probably understand that that
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: stuff is well well down the road.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. At this point I knew you'd have a more intelligent,
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  Speaker 3: informed answer than I would. That's why I read the TECHNT.
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  Speaker 7: I get it and listen. Now, if you want to
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: ask the question, you know the question has been asked.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: If you ask a question of Okay, well do I
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: think uh, Pharrell or or one of the one of
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: the Farrell or Caulkins wrote about, Hey, do you trust
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  Speaker 7: this organization, this ownership group, to make the right decisions
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  Speaker 7: with the NBA in terms of who they hired to
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: run you know, basketball operations, being as the crack and
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: have missed the playoffs four or five years. Listen, that's
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: a fair question. That's a fair question, right, I mean,
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: it's do you know are they going to hire the
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: right people? And but that's the same question that every
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: ownership group, for every team and every professional sport has, right,
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: you know. And as great as the Seahawks have been
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: over the years, they've made mistakes. Jim Mora, Right, They've
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: they've made mistakes along the ways I mean, and that
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: that does happen.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: So what do you have from the Ice Blecks today?
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Well, we're gonna talk to bots. Jason bottroo is gonna
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: join us ye the news conference on New Carrey and
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: chunk of it to start the show. We'll kind of
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: go a little deep with him. Coming up at one
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: twenty today, Steve Palozolo thirty thirteen checked the Mike Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We'll on Draft.
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: Eve will jump knee deep into the NFL Draft coming
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: up today at twelve, we'll kind of look more at
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: the first round because I'll be honest with you, I
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: have been remissing that I really haven't been as interested
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: in the first round as I am normally because well,
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: the team that we worry about, cover and talk about
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: doesn't pick till the thirty second picking. The GM just
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: came out and said, we're gonna do everything we can
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: to trade that pick, but we'll talk about the rest
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: of the first round. So I know there's a lot
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: of NFL fans, so we'll do that with Palazzolo and
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: also sit down with Bobby McMahon. Is I gonna stay
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: here in Seattle. We'll do that in the two o'clock hour.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: So h yeah, lot's coming up today.
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  Speaker 3: Buddy, you're in a good place and I'm in.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: The thirty two bar. Girls, I'm in a great but
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: there's a great pt. Have you eaten here yet? It's great?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It's run by a former O Day guy, Kenny Moore Yard.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Hey you go, Chris Legend. He's a Catholic legend in Seattle,
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: part of the mafia. So yeah, we're gonna we'll be
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: hanging out here today. Tell you what they got going
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: on too, So good times.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sara in Fornase. I will join you from
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: twelve until three. He's up next, Craig Bell, Christopher Kith,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: thank you you. We've got you tomorrow Big Draft Day.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: I'll be on Chucking Buck in the morning and then
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: all morning and afternoon Long on ninety three point three
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  Speaker 3: kJ RFM,