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4-27 H1: 2026 Seahawks Draft Class, Competitor Scale & Around the NFC West · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: point three KGRFM good. I had a good day yesterday
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  Speaker 1: away from football. I went down to Tacoma. I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been to the University of Puget Sound in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: The Upsloggers were hosting Lynnfield the Wildcats in baseball yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to say it was awesome. I got
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  Speaker 1: to see a pitcher, my favorite guy I've coached. I think,
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  Speaker 1: what a great young man is it, Zach Hampson. I
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  Speaker 1: coached him at the University Prep, the varsity baseball coach there,
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  Speaker 1: and he's now the closer for Lynnfield. But because of
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  Speaker 1: a ton of issues and the fact that injuries and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Lynnfield got lit up for nine in
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  Speaker 1: the first two innings yesterday, Zach Hampson came in and
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  Speaker 1: pitched five innings. It was his career high and pitching
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  Speaker 1: in college. I felt like I was watching him back
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  Speaker 1: at you Prep, just mowing dudes down for five inning.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. It's really rewarding to see Zach and excelling.
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  Speaker 1: He's a four point zero student down there at Mmonville
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  Speaker 1: at Lynfield. Linfield's going to make the playoffs in the
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  Speaker 1: Northwest Conference. Zach Hampson my guy. He leads the Northwest
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  Speaker 1: Conference in e RA as a closer Chris. He's got
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  Speaker 1: six wins, second most in the league, on top of
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  Speaker 1: five saves and the sub He's the only pitcher in
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  Speaker 1: that conference with sub three r e RA A. Damn.
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  Speaker 1: He's at a bulging disc. He came back from as
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  Speaker 1: a freshman arm issues and he's just mowing. It's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: He's so takes some credit, like, yeah, a few times,
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  Speaker 3: I you know, give him a little hey man, work
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  Speaker 3: on that and you'll be money.
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  Speaker 1: All I did was give him the ball that was
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  Speaker 1: my job. And then also he's a great first basement
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  Speaker 1: at like four or five hundred four US. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: gave him the ball in the state semifinals and achamug
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  Speaker 1: it's a number one team in the state. That's how
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  Speaker 1: much I thought of him as a junior. Wow at
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  Speaker 1: a senior ace, and I gave Zach Hampson the ball
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  Speaker 1: as a junior. Do your thing, Bud. Shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Yoshimen lady who said, yep, coach, that was the right
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  Speaker 1: thing to do my senior ace that year. Anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: was really cool. It's really rewarding. Those of you that
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  Speaker 1: are coaches out there, get this. If you're a youth coach,
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  Speaker 1: high school coach, to see your players you coached go
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  Speaker 1: excel at a higher level, be it club ball or
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  Speaker 1: college or minor leagues, professionally hopefully anyway, it's so rewarding
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  Speaker 1: to see how happy they are on the path there.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was my day yesterday on a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Sunday in the Puget Sound. It was a great Sunday
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  Speaker 1: and great weekend wherever you were. Remember you can listen
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  Speaker 1: whole weekend. We killed it this weekend. Maybe the best
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  Speaker 1: sound from the entire weekend was Hugh Millan with Julian Neil.
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  Speaker 1: The third round pick, the Seahawks got the cornerback from
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas slash Fresno State. It was great and we'll play
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  Speaker 1: that soon. You talk about brash and bravada, we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that common theme to the Seahawks draft picks. It was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they targeted a certain personality and they've won and they
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  Speaker 1: succeeded on that. Yeah. I know people are saying the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks had national people saying they have a great draft.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw a man Dane Brugler in the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: the Beast writer I think he rated him twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, really teams, Wow, that that bodes well.
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  Speaker 4: They won a Super Bowl. What do you need to do?
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  Speaker 1: Really exactly?
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  Speaker 4: What do you expect them to be?
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  Speaker 1: Number one? The grades are ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's tough. I would I haven't even walked through
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  Speaker 4: the door yet.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love how Mike McDonald presents it and talks about
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  Speaker 3: I know he didn't mention like all these are all
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  Speaker 3: guys coming in they haven't touched the field. But I
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  Speaker 3: love his answer and return in terms of Anthony Bradford,
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line, the running bast situation, Like, guys, we're
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  Speaker 3: in April, can we we have five months to prepare.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're gonna be okay. It's so I can
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  Speaker 3: only imagine just in terms of the draft grades, just
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  Speaker 3: going out and just oh, yeah, they didn't do this
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  Speaker 3: so bad grade like I would understand. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, I don't know if I could just grade
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  Speaker 3: a team and April based on tape from a guy
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  Speaker 3: that I've watched maybe a couple months of Like that's just.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the off season.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you know what draft grades are, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: It's draft analysts ticked off because the team didn't they
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  Speaker 1: got their Morck drafts wrong and teams didn't pick where
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  Speaker 1: guys that I'm slotted and made him look like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, nobody knows what
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks draft board is. Nobody except those of the
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  Speaker 1: work for the Seahawks. And if we do know what
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks draft board is, the guy who let us
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  Speaker 1: know is gonna get fired. So it is simple why
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  Speaker 1: these draft grades are hilarious because it's really a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of the draft analyst's ego. They didn't get their draft
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  Speaker 1: mock draft correct. Yawks picked jerrying Price at thirty two
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  Speaker 1: instead of trading down or instead of picking whomever a
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  Speaker 1: cornerbacker an edge rusher at thirty two. So the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: grade stinks, so they're draft stinks, And that's really how
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  Speaker 1: simple the what else do you have to go on?
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  Speaker 1: He's not even gotten a jersey yet, he's not even
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  Speaker 1: got in the building, let alone practice or played a game,
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  Speaker 1: and they're given draft grades pretty hish. As a reminder,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twelve Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: They got an f from those writing stories anymore, that's
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  Speaker 3: on Ford.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't just one. It was multiple dudes who've
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  Speaker 1: failed the Seahawks in twenty twelve. Remember that draft class,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson, Bruce Irvin, Robert Turbin, Jeremy Lane
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  Speaker 1: j R. Sweeze. I can go on and on guys
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  Speaker 1: who won rings as starters. So forget the draft grades
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  Speaker 1: and how they get a field content and airtime. But
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. I mean, thankfully, thankfully, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have bosses at the News Tribute. He pressured me to say,
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  Speaker 1: please please give absolute grades and final analysis and summation
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  Speaker 1: of these picks before they've even got in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they do want me to assess them. And I
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  Speaker 1: did that at the News Tribune dot com this morning.
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  Speaker 1: You can go there and see my Pick my Picks
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  Speaker 1: analysis on how the Seahawks fit these guys, the eight
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  Speaker 1: players that they picked, and each one I went through
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  Speaker 1: and how they would fit. I mentioned the wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Henderson six round pick. You say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba Cooper Cup, Tory Horton's coming back.
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  Speaker 4: What do we got a wide receiver for Jake Bobo?
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  Speaker 1: They resign. Emmanuel Henderson is going to be a special
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  Speaker 1: team's gunner on the punt team. He ran twenty three
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour. John Schneider said it was twenty two
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  Speaker 1: point nine the GPS tracking sat. He ran faster than
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  Speaker 1: you were allowed to drive in a school zone down
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  Speaker 1: the field covering punts for Kansas. That's what he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: He'll replace Derick Young. The Gunner. They'd had the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of seasons who signed in free agency with the
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders, So that's where he fits and all
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  Speaker 1: that's different fits like that. That's stories at the News
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  Speaker 1: Tribune dot com. But Chris, the swag of this draft
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  Speaker 1: is what really caught my eye and ear first round
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  Speaker 1: picked to Darren Price said, I stayed all my college
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  Speaker 1: years as a backup for Notre Dame for the challenge
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  Speaker 1: of playing behind the best player in college football, Jeremi.
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  Speaker 1: I love the third overall pick with the Cardinals second
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  Speaker 1: round pick Bud Clark, the safety from with cornerback skills
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  Speaker 1: from TCU. Here's what he had to say, invoking a
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  Speaker 1: legend of Seahawks football.
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  Speaker 4: My bad, which one is that Bud Clark gotcha? And
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  Speaker 4: it was hang.
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  Speaker 1: On Ham or not the nail?
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  Speaker 3: Geez Louise. Okay one second, let me get that kill
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  Speaker 3: some mayor Grey.
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  Speaker 1: I love Chris's honesty here. Yeah, Bud Clark. He invoked
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  Speaker 1: Cam Chancellor's name and that's his idol. That's the guy
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  Speaker 1: at Cam Chancellor. A Seahawk legend. He's been on the
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  Speaker 1: Bud Clark had been on the Seaux for five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And he says Cam Chancellor, and this is what he
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  Speaker 1: said about him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Cam Chancellor, of course, because he he's always
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  Speaker 5: about the park and I feel like he was a hammer,
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  Speaker 5: not the nail. And that's what I try to do
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  Speaker 5: all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the place, We're like wow, Okay. Clark and
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  Speaker 1: his fiancee and Nisha Cooper. By the way, they have
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  Speaker 1: a three year old son, Kenzo. He was born in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of his father's career. In the back of
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  Speaker 1: TCU's defense, while he's intercepting four point fifteen passes for
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  Speaker 1: the Horned Frogs of four Seasons, I asked him what
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  Speaker 1: was it's like being a fodder in his twenty early twenties.
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  Speaker 1: Is a full time college student playing big time college football.
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  Speaker 1: He was a two time captain. This is what he
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  Speaker 1: said about being a dad as a sophomore.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty much being patient man, and there's a lot more
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  Speaker 5: to light and I always wanted to go out and
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  Speaker 5: do different things, but I feel like being able to
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  Speaker 5: come out with my family is absolutely the best thing
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  Speaker 5: in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it's really cool to hear somebody just leaving college
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  Speaker 1: to say the family and being with the family, being
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  Speaker 1: out with the family. It's the coolest thing in the world. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that's cool. As a dad in me. I smiled at that.
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  Speaker 1: Then there was the third pick, Julian Neil. He's got Bravada,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Friday night. These are some of his
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  Speaker 1: first words to us after the Super Bowl Champions draft
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  Speaker 1: him quote, we're going back to back.
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  Speaker 4: He just flap out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you haven't even been in the building yet. He is,
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  Speaker 1: because then Hugh Millon found that out first day when
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  Speaker 1: he said this, No.
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  Speaker 5: We're playing man, I'm gonna go punch on somebody. They're
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  Speaker 5: not getting passed me. And if you get passed, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna look back for the ball and.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna get that.
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  Speaker 5: It's simple. And are you gonna put somebody right the line?
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  Speaker 1: Love it? Now? Are you in off coverage or impressed
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  Speaker 1: in this situation?
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  Speaker 5: I'm in presis.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all up in your face.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna get down and dirty with it.
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  Speaker 1: That washes saying, Okay, it's fourth quarter. You need a
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  Speaker 1: stuf to win the game. What are you going to be?
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Zode again, a guy who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't even stopped putting an NFL locker hasn't signed his
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  Speaker 1: first NFL contract. That was Julian Neil, the third round pick.
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  Speaker 1: We told s John Schneider about an hour later, Julian
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  Speaker 1: Neil said, we're going back to back. GM just looked
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  Speaker 1: at and said, Julian said that, and Mike McDonald, the coach, said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk to him about messages. He's gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: word or two with his rookie safety. He's a confidence knucker,
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  Speaker 1: is what the GM John Schneider said of Julian Neal.
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  Speaker 1: Then Saturday, they traded one of their slash. They had
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  Speaker 1: a stash of twelve picks for next year's draft, which
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  Speaker 1: is a stronger draft, and they traded one of them
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  Speaker 1: because they couldn't believe that Iowa All American guard Bo
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  Speaker 1: Stevens was still available in round five and after the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks drafted him Saturday morning, Stephens said this about his
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  Speaker 1: definition of who he is as a player, breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Opponent's will to play. Doesn't want to stay in his gap.
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  Speaker 2: The linebackers have to make a play. It's making it
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  Speaker 2: to the guy that wants to put his eyes down
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  Speaker 2: and not really care about where the ball is at.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just I don't want to get killed by
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  Speaker 2: this person across from me.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like that sounds like John Benton's kind of
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I'm gonna make the guy feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to get killed by you.
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  Speaker 4: It reminds me of Gray's Abel in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: I think they had a micd up on him and
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  Speaker 3: he looked across at the d line for the page
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  Speaker 3: ands like, I'm ready to die. Excuse me, You're ready
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  Speaker 3: to what You're ready to die? And I think the
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  Speaker 3: defensive player on the side was like, yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, Jesus, man, this is okay. So
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  Speaker 4: Mike mcdonan type of guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got another guy and both Stevens just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm willing to just I don't want you even looking
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  Speaker 3: at me anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Just be afraid of the pain I'm about to endure
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  Speaker 4: on you. For the next four quarters.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about Stevens, and we left right guard on
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  Speaker 1: that whole issue. Stevens overcame a mental health challenge and
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  Speaker 1: intention deficit disorder with the help of a sports psychologist
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  Speaker 1: while he was at I A seventh round pick, Devin
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  Speaker 1: Eastern a big nose tackle from the University of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: He's talked openly while he was playing for the Gophers
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  Speaker 1: about his emotional behavior disorders. He credits the single mother
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  Speaker 1: who raised him, Tammy Berger, for being the reason he
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  Speaker 1: conquered that. Again, everyone has a path, Everyone has a
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  Speaker 1: story on how they got here and who they credit
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  Speaker 1: for it. Go all the way to the last third
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  Speaker 1: to last pick of the draft, Chris two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty fifth, Like three point thirty five on Saturday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: when everybody's out on the boats on Lake Washington and
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  Speaker 1: you and I are still coal mining out there at
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks headquarters. The Seahawks chose out Arizona quarterback Michael Dansby
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  Speaker 1: with the two hundred and fifty fifth of two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty seven picks in this entire draft. Dansby told
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  Speaker 1: us that he ran a four two five forty in
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  Speaker 1: his pre draft training, and we all looked at each other, like,
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  Speaker 1: the third to last pick of the draft in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh round ran a four to two five Really with
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  Speaker 1: does dad stop watch timing him on that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay? And then we told John Schneider about that
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  Speaker 1: about an hour later, and the GM said, yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: a cornerback. What he's going to tell you that he's
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  Speaker 1: swaggy is what he's the GM said, And that's the
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  Speaker 1: essence of this Seahawks draft gost swag. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: it last week, Chris. The number one discriminator into this
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  Speaker 1: draft wasn't forty times. It wasn't their game film, It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't how many positions they played. It was can they
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  Speaker 1: come into this locker room of super Bowl champions and
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  Speaker 1: not be in awe? Because that's what got snuck up
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  Speaker 1: on the Seahawks post legion of boom, post back to
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  Speaker 1: back super Bowls a decade ago. They brought in dudes
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  Speaker 1: who were just in awe of Richard Sherman and Cam
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  Speaker 1: Chancellor and Earl Thomas, and they wanted to find dogs competitors.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they had a competitor scale. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that during the show. They have a competitors
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  Speaker 1: scale to make up their Seahawks draft poark. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't have high marks on the quote competitive scale, And
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  Speaker 1: John Schneider told me, Greg, I could talk to you
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  Speaker 1: for hours about this, the components of the competitor scale.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have a high score on the competitor scale.
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  Speaker 1: You're not on the sea draft board. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: how good of a player you are. You needed to
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  Speaker 1: show in your personality and you're off the field and
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  Speaker 1: your work ethic and your attitude that you were a dog.
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  Speaker 1: And when Julianils is we're going back to back, when
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  Speaker 1: Bud Clark says, I'm camp chanceller hammer, not the nail,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're talking about. Dudes who are coming in saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is me, Come come get some of this. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what they drafted on this year. So when you
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  Speaker 1: look at why did they get this, hie, why did
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  Speaker 1: they do That's why the competitor scale four nine four
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  Speaker 1: five one. That the coming out TEXTI will read it
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  Speaker 1: back at eleven thirty year opinion of the Seahawks draft.
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  Speaker 1: You like it, love it, hate it? Keep it in mind?
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  Speaker 1: Is a Super Bowl champion roster with twenty one of
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  Speaker 1: twenty two starters coming back? What about the trade of
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  Speaker 1: one of their draft picks from next year a better
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  Speaker 1: stronger draft to get Iowa's Bo Stevens the All American
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  Speaker 1: Guard four nine, four to five one. Your opinion of
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks draft. What you liked about it? Most what
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  Speaker 1: you hated about it most with this worries you? What
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  Speaker 1: excite you? We'll read that back at eleven thirty Up next,
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk about this competitor scale I'm right about for
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  Speaker 1: the Distry Young. We'll write about it in the story
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  Speaker 1: just going to publish tomorrow. It is uh Junique. It's
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  Speaker 1: interesting and it is what the Seahawks draft was all
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  Speaker 1: about this year. At eleven o'clock, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the TCU cornerbacks coach who coached the Seahawks second
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  Speaker 1: draft pick, second round pick, Bud Clark. All. That's coming
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  Speaker 7: Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd on your
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd. On
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a Monday post NFL Draft eleven o'clock, We're going to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: talk to the TCU cornerbacks coach Juice Brown for Washington
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Husky's assistant. He was the position coach for the Seahawks
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: second round pick Bud Clark eleven thirty where we back
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to text four nine, four to five, and we're also
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: going to tell you about the Seahawks reported undrafted free
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  Speaker 1: agent signings. They have spots for I think it's eight
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: now because of the trades back and ads, they got
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: ended up with eight draft picks when they were scheduled
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to have four thanks to John Schneider's trade backs. And
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about who the undrafted free agents in a
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: corner of college former college football quarterback, who's going to
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: be invited? I confirmed right into the rookie Minicamp this weekend,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: eleven forty five in fornassl join us before his show
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: druns from twelve until three, we talked about last segment,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: this competitor scale. Going into the draft, the Seahawks, John Schneider,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, their number one task was to find guys
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: who were not in awe of the Super Bowl champions
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in the locker room and on the field. Snyder has
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: said repeatedly that after the legion of boom back to
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: back Super Bowl years of twenty thirteen and fourteen seasons,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: that he brought in and drafted guys who were in
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: awe who just were deferring. I'm bowing down almost to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman and Camp chance On, Earl Thomas and Michael
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Bennett and Cliffe were and these strong personalities that went
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to those back to back Super Bowls. Rookies they drafted
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: came in and just wouldn't compete, and the practices weren't
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the same no matter how much Pete Carroll's always compete
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: signs were all over the building and they were tapping him.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: John Schneider recognized that he would drafting players who just
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: worked for lack of better. They were in awe of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks locker room and the players. So he sought
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: this year to avoid that and to get dudes through
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the open. And we just played the last segment, all
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the clips in the examples of the bravado that these
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: guys have, the eight draft picks they have, I mean
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the third to last guy saying he ran a four
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: to five and the third round picks in that we're
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: going to go back to back. Before you even got
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in the building, that was Julian neil.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I asked John Schneider about this. I said, Okay, you
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: had this goal to get the competitors, the dogs, to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: not be in awe of these Super Bowl champions. How
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: do you think you succeeded in that? And in doing so,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the GM started to talk to me about a competitor
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: scale that they used to make their pick. David did
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: their draft board this year based on a competitor scale,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: a rating that they came in in house, an organic
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: rating of intangibles, something to mel Kiper and Daniel Jeremiah
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and Dane berglet None of those guys can do. They
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: are looking at a game film and judging a competitor scale.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Because the Seahawks scouts went into dorm rooms and guidance
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: counselor's offices and assistant coaches offices to find out what
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: these guys really were like off the field. This is
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: what John Schneider had to say after I was asking
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: about all this. Your guys are cool. You've getting young
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: players who aren't in AWE Superbowl champions Where do you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: think people pleasure up thisstrict?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean they wouldn't have been underboard. Really, they
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: weren't gonna be underboard if we felt that way. And
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: I say that like this get like like that our
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: scouts felt that way.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: You know, how did that show up with scouting? How?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Because I.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: Guess sometimes these guys study these guys forever, so it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: like a we have a competitor scale, and like how
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: they fit in a competitor scale, and what's their self efficacy?
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: And like how are they gonna handle competition?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Self efficacy? Chris? How many general manager and coaches are
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: worried about self efficacy. That's the individual's belief if they
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: execute behaviors that's necessary they will get specific performance outcomes
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: from them. That's the scientific definition of what self efficacy is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It's bravado. It's believing in yourself and that you're better
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: than the people you're gonna come in and compete with.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Even super Bowl champions in the locker room, they were measured,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: they were projecting on this competitor scale. I find this
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: fascinating because nobody talks about competitors scale and self efficacy
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: when they're doing draft picks. They're talking about forty times
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and how many games he started and how many interceptions,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and not self efficacy and the competitor scale. And that's
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: what John shy. So when you wonder why the Seahawks
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: zag when everyone thinks they're gonna zig, it's stuff like this.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It's that their draft board is different, and you cannot
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: argue with the results. Two super Bowl championships with two
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: different coaching staffs and two different regimes. Yes, he's had
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: down years of drafting. Everyone does, and the law of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: averages that work out here, and I'm starting to sound
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like a cheerleader for Jocher, But let's give the guys due.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Two different regimes, two different Super Bowl championships, seventeen drafts.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Now in North American sports, being in a role that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: role for seventeen years and itself is rare, but it's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: things like this, and when he has a scouting department,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: scouts and personnel guys as consistent in the program as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: John Schneider staff. And now he's lost Dan Morgan and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: some others who have got Morgan's case the general manager
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: job of the Panthers, But by and large, his nucleus
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of scouts and area of scouts and pro personnel guys
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have stayed the same for most of those seventeen years.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: When you have that continuity and clarity of mission, this
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: is what you get. Competition's a competitors scale to judge
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: these players by. And that's the reason why Bud Clark's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the Seahawk and Julian Neils the Seahawk. I mean, heck,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that's why Andre Fuller, the seventh round pick from Toledo,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: talking about his competitiveness and how much confidence he has
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: in himself. Michael Dansby already told you so. He ran
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: a four two five as a seventh round pick from
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the third to last pick of the draft. Jenerian Price
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they did at Notre Dame the entire college career, his
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: entire college career, despite the fact that he was second string.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: How many backups I mean not talking was a backup,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: backup through his final game in colleges become first round picks.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: I mean that's unheard of.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: That's because John Schneider was judging it from a different lens. Now,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: let's be honest, Chris. This draft, Chris, was remarkable in
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that they lost Kenneth Walker, they got a running back,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: They lost Kobe Bryant in free agency, they got a safety,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: they lost Rik wooland they got a corner Anthony Bradford,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the right guard who's going to the final year of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: his contract. They got a guard. You know what I mean.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: The first four picks were turnkey, right.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fourtnite, four to five to one. Your opinion first
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of the draft and how you thought what the best
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: with the worst? But Chris, I would submit that, first
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: of all, we're not I'm not grading them until we
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: see him how they play in three or four years.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But that's me. But how'd you think about this whole
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: draft and viewing it from the lens of a more
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: macro view of how the Seahawks do things?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I think they noted, especially when you talk about the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: competitors skill. For instance, I'm gonna be honest here and
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, but you got eleven starters
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: and eleven offensive stars eleven to defensive stars.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: That's twenty two total players.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Correct?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Actually, yes, on the field, on the field at one time, correct, right, Yes,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: what that being said, I would argue that for the starters,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: and I'm not trying to discount the guys that are
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: subbing in and out getting playing time, but they're not
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the starters. But for those core guys, dare I say
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: those are all elite competitors like usually they are part
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: of your core. They all define the culture offensive and defense.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: So I think that right there is set the tone
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: when you have twenty two starters that are in that
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: realm of elite competitors, because then you would say the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: notch below that is high competitors and maybe, yeah, he
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: had my.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Pertrid, he might not be elite, but damn he's high.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Like I would say Josh Joby's elite just because of
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: he's already playing undersize. He doesn't care though that, he
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: doesn't go into the game thinking, oh damn, I'm going
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: up against Mike Evans, He's like, Oh, I'm gonna go
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: lock down Mike Evans, and if they send help my way,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that's great. So when you look at that competitor scale
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: what John Schnudder talked about, that's a championship level roster.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: And I'm just talking about the starters.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: That's not me going at the bench and looking at
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: guys that are rotating in like a Mike Morris, who
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: how is he not an elite competitor. This dude's on
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Kickoff all right, He's out there giving it as all
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: on every single play. So I think for this roster breakdown,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: believe it or not, this roster might have like fifty
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: dudes that are of the elite competitor. And I'm not
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a scientist, and I can't look at the guy. I'm like, oh,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: off to the tape, he's an elite. I won't be
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: able to do that. But just how Mike MacDonald and
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: John Sider have built this team and this roster around
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: his vision of being physical and doing it the right way.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: How could you not look at this roster and be like, man,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: it's just elite competitors across the board, where in years past,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: maybe it was like seven or eight guys that are
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: elite competitors, but now you're seeing the whole team being
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: elevated to that, and they're just bringing in more guys
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: that could also get to that level of elite competition,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: like Julian Neil. Okay, maybe he's right now high competition,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: but you mean to tell me by week one of
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six NFL season, he's not in that
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: elite competition, just by how he carries himself, how he
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: was talking on the phone with Hugh breaking down a
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: specific play like oh wait, wait, wait, wait, you give
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: it hey mane playing man, and I'm going to go
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: lock up whoever that is in front of me. You
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: know what, He might have got me on that first step,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: but best believe I'm gonna come sprinting back, and I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: gonna turn and look for the ball. One of my
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: biggest critiques about cornerbacks in the NFL is they panic
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: too early. If they get beat, what do they do? They'
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: start getting handy and they never turn and look for
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the ball. Instead, they just panic. This kid's talking about Alma,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: turn my head and go get it. That is impressive stuff.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So he knows ball.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Now, let's be honest, if you're in the NFL, you're
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: an elite competitor, or else you wouldn't get there. But
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the point we're making is how the Seahawks evaluate and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: prioritize this intangible of competitiveness and how hard it is
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to judge. I mean, you can't just look at a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: game for like Chris's point and just say, oh, that
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: guy's competitive. Of course they're competing. They're in major college
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: football most of them, and they're trying to get a
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: job in the NFL. Yeah, they're competing. The point is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you got to go dig deep. You got to go,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: like I said, into the dorms, you got to go
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: into the meeting rooms with the college staffs, you got
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to go back to high school to guidance counselors. They
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: do that. They spend time doing that year over year,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and in some cases a lot of times two and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: three years. And for one draft class, they're working on
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the twenty eight draft class in some cases right now,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: interviewing and going on campuses. When they go to campuses,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: they don't just look at the days they're looking to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: draft coming up. That's why there's often a trend of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they get a guy from a school and then they
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: follow up and get the guy from the same school
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. Now, that didn't hold quite
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: as true this year, but that has happened before. Look
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: at Gray's Abel after signing a year after signing Jalen Sindel.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: They signed Jalen Sidel as an undrafted rookie free agent
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: from North Dakota State, and a year later his roommate,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Grey's Abel was the Seayarks number one pick. And now
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: there's studs left tackle, left guard, and center starting side
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: by side at the Super Bowl, former roommates in Fargo,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: North Dakota. So there isn't there. There's that as well,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: but they're projecting out one, two, three years on what
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: their draft is going to look like and players they're
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: going to put on their board early as guys, hey,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: let's follow this guy because of the competitor and things
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I've talked about with guys on their women on their
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: campus on how these players are off the field. That
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: is that takes time, that takes an investment, and that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: takes a belief and consistency in your messaging and culture
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and direction in your program.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: And when you are changing gms every three or.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Four years, like a lot of North American sports programs
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: are franchises are. That's really hard to do, and you're
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: just trying to keep your job and win games. You
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: don't have time for competitor scale and self efficacy. You're
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: just trying to keep yourself and getting fired if you're
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland or the Raiders or that's the see. That's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the benefit that Seattle has to have this consistency over
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: seventeen years of the same scouting philosophy with the same
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: general manager and only two coaches, is that you have
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: this unity and direction in this clarity and mission and understanding,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: and then you can do projects like self efficacy and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: competitor scales. I mean, and let's face it, they also
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: have the luxury of being the Super Bowl champions with
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: twenty one of twenty two starters returning and not a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: lot of holes. Now we're going to talk about there
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: is It's not like the Seahawks just solved everything with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: this draft. They still don't have edge rusher's depth that
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they want to have. They still have Derek Hall entering
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the final year of his contract as one of their
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: primary ed rushers, they still have Delmarcus Lawrence entering his
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: age thirty four season and thirteenth NFL year. He's not
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: going to play forever, so they don't have long term
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: edge rushers. Boy Mafy leaving twenty million dollar a year
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to Cincinnati, we're going to We discussed that with John
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Schneider and Mike McDonald after the draft, and you're gonna
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: hear about that. But now we go into the next phase.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: We had this draft phase. Now we're going into free
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: agency phase. Dante Fowler is one of the veteran edge
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: rushers available with free agent. He visited the Seahawks last week.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I got that confirmed that well, I was at the draft, Chris.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Today is a milestone day in free agency. In some
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: ways people overlook Starting today and from today on to
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the rest of into the sea, every veteran free agent
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you signed does not count against the compensatory draft pick
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: formula for twenty twenty seven starting today, the Monday after
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the draft. All veteran free agents signed after that time
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: do not count toward the compick formula. And the Seahawks
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: have eleven picks next year because they're going to be
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: plus three. It appears in compicks from what they lost
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: between Wowood and Bryant and at all Kenneth Walker. So today,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: starting today, the Seahawks can sign at Will without worrying
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: about losing draft picks for him the following year. That
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: would in effect the twenty twenty seven draft. It would
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: affect the twenty eight ers the next year after this draft.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: That's how it works. The free agents you get this
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: year affect the compic for next year. But anyway, the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: point is, excuse me, I'm misdating there, because if they
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: signed a Dante Fowler on Saturday, that would count against
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven compick formula if he qualified. There's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a bunch of different ways of qualification the league puts in.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: But anyway, the point is now John Schneider has even
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: more reason to sign veterans. We talked about Harris to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: running back who's on a visit coming off an Achilles
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: injury and so on. So anyway, we've entered the next
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: phase of this process is the point. But this competitor scale,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the self efficacy, is something that the Seahawks relied on
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to get the competitors not in awe of the locker room.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: They're about to walk into. Starting this weekend with the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: rookie Mini camp coming up, we'll talk about the undrafted
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: rookie free agency. Reportedly the Seahawks are signing in a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: little bit about what the heck went on in the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: NFC West outside of Seattle in the draft, because there
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was some weird stuff going on between the forty nine Ers,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Rams and Cardinals. At eleven o'clock, the position coach at
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: TCU for the second round pick, Bud Clark, will talk
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to us from Texas. All that coming up. Thanks for
• 31:41
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• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome back the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid Rolls
• 31:53
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• 31:56
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• 32:04
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• 32:06
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  Speaker 1: to see that. The Christmas tree has gone behind me.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: The draft miss is over, so there's no Christmas tree
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: here in the studio behind me like there had been
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: for Chuck Powell in the morning show, I broke down
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  Speaker 1: my pick by pick analysis of the seahawks eight draft
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  Speaker 1: picks and how they fit with the team at the
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  Speaker 1: Newstribune dot co. Imann, go read that right now. While
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  Speaker 1: they don't have. They have a ninety minute roster. They
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  Speaker 1: had eight draft picks. There are eight spots for undrafted
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  Speaker 1: rookie Fred's Udfas you see that term throw it around
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit. That's what it means as guys who
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  Speaker 1: were not drafted, and a lot of times the seventh
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  Speaker 1: round picks they take were about to be undrafted free agents,
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  Speaker 1: and then they found out that they might be in
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  Speaker 1: a bidding war with the team and some other team
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  Speaker 1: was interested in him, and so they go ahead draft
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  Speaker 1: him instead of wait till the draft's over. That happens
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  Speaker 1: a lot in the seventh round as well. But these
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  Speaker 1: other reported Seahawks signings for the rookie free agents, there's
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  Speaker 1: room on a ninety man roster for eight. Of them,
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  Speaker 1: six have been reported already signed by Seattle. Levi Wentz,
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  Speaker 1: a wide receiver from Kansas, Aiden Hubbard, an edge rusher
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  Speaker 1: from Northwestern, Michael Briscoe, a wide receiver from cal Poly,
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  Speaker 1: Seyo Samalow say you omalo is a defensive tackle from
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State and an intriguing one. Lance Mason, a tight
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  Speaker 1: end from Wisconsin. Devin Deal, linebacker TCU. No doubt when
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  Speaker 1: they were looking at Bud Clark att TCU, they noticed
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  Speaker 1: Devin Deal. Of those who are interesting to me, Aiden Hubbard,
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  Speaker 1: who did very well in the Big Ten as an
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher in the position of need that we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about that they did not draft an edge rusher
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  Speaker 1: of their eight players. Samlo defensive tackle from Kansas State,
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  Speaker 1: another guy would be interesting me with a chance to
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  Speaker 1: make a team that has depth need at the interior
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  Speaker 1: defensive line spot. And Devin Deal, a linebacker the athleticism
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  Speaker 1: that Mike McDonald covet's at that position he used to coach.
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  Speaker 1: So those are three I'm interested in looking at this
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  Speaker 1: weekend at the rookie Seahawks Mini camp at team facility
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  Speaker 1: in rent And they also I've also confirmed that the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks have invited former Tulane and BYU quarterback Jake Getzlaf
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  Speaker 1: to rookie mini caamp this weeken on a tryout basis,
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  Speaker 1: not signed as a rookie friedan with another tryout. They
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  Speaker 1: have some tryout players. They're more tryout players than the
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  Speaker 1: rookie free agens they actually sign at these mini camps
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  Speaker 1: because they got to fill out a couple fields of
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  Speaker 1: practices players. And in the quarterbacks case, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: one quarterback throwing his arm out, and so they they
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  Speaker 1: may have Jalen Milroe out there at rookie mini camp
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  Speaker 1: because that happens often the first or second year player,
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  Speaker 1: say second third year player that hasn't played much in
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  Speaker 1: needs development. And in the quarterbacks case, you can't have
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  Speaker 1: one quarterback out there throwing his arm off, so you
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  Speaker 1: bring gets laugh. They'll probably bring a local guy from
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  Speaker 1: one of the local schools as well. In I hate
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  Speaker 1: to use the word mini camp arm but that's what
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  Speaker 1: they are. So that one quarterback hasn't been throwing his
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  Speaker 1: arm out, So Jake gets Leaft gets a jack and
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  Speaker 1: if by the way, along the way they to use
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  Speaker 1: Ian Ferness's term, along the way, if they impress the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: then bam, maybe they look at potentially signing him for
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  Speaker 1: the preseason or on the offseason roster. But that's how
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  Speaker 1: that works. So there'll be other quarterbacks beside just Jake
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  Speaker 1: Getz left from Tulane and former BYU quarterback in this
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  Speaker 1: mini camp Riocky Manicamp this weekend. Okay, what happened around
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the NFC West, Well, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: ty Simpson being the Rams first pick when Sean mcvayh
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  Speaker 1: is wedded to Matthew Stafford, and how the Rams were
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  Speaker 1: in a rare position to be picking that high, a
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  Speaker 1: NFC title game participant, picking thirteenth and they pick a
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  Speaker 1: layaway quarterback. That was bizarre. In Arizona, they took Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: Love with the third pick. Some people are knocking that, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: but come on, that's a number one running back in
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  Speaker 1: the draft and an offense and needs re build.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta take a swing at some point, and they did.
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  Speaker 1: So. People wanted a lineman. Some people want a lineman there,
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  Speaker 1: but you can I was talking. I heard Hugh on
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  Speaker 1: the way in talking about that, you got to get
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  Speaker 1: the splash guy first. I think he thinks, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It it's a fun one.
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  Speaker 3: You know, four years from now, he's either going to be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all pro every year, and even then the
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  Speaker 3: value for our running back is like, yeah, you're all pro.
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  Speaker 3: But man, we've done a fourth pick on you. Like
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  Speaker 3: they needed to be Saquon yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Well they need a lot of that. In Arizona, the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals drafted Carson Beck as their quarterback of the future.
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  Speaker 1: They have no quarterback, remember, of the future, unless you
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  Speaker 1: cut well, I don't think you can. Can they No,
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  Speaker 1: they don't. Gardner Minshew is he the quarterback in the future?
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 1: Good, good back up?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well they cut Kyler Murray and then they drafted
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  Speaker 1: Carson Beck, who was in college for like ninety two
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  Speaker 1: years for seven schools or whatever ended up being. And
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  Speaker 1: then in San Francisco, we're in Santa Clara. The forty
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  Speaker 1: nine ers chose up their first pick if they're trading
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  Speaker 1: down twice out of the first round, the first pick
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  Speaker 1: in the second round, just the wide receiver John's stribbling
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  Speaker 1: from Ole Miss And many people thought he was a
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  Speaker 1: third or fourth round pick, and he went thirty third
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  Speaker 1: overall to the forty nine Ers general manager John Lynch
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  Speaker 1: and coach Kyle Shanahan. They're getting clobbered by the media
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  Speaker 1: down in the Bear in Nashley for their drafts. I
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  Speaker 1: saw Brian Baldinger comment and the NFL network Brian Boldinger
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  Speaker 1: today saying what are they doing? Basically, this is what
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  Speaker 1: Lynch and then Shanahan had to say about one of
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  Speaker 1: their beat writers asking him about reaching all the time
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  Speaker 1: in recent drafts.
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  Speaker 3: John, your draft board seems to deviate quite a bit
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  Speaker 3: from the consensus.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you confident with that?
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  Speaker 7: Giving your track record drafting the last few years, it
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  Speaker 7: seems like it leads to you making reaches.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate that you think that depends who's consensus.
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  Speaker 7: We got consensus in this building and that's the That's
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  Speaker 7: the consensus I care about.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that was one of the coolest things with his drafts,
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  Speaker 9: you know, so you don't reach on somebody, like if
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  Speaker 9: there's somebody you know you're going to take at that
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  Speaker 9: spot and your consensus or all your homework from around
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  Speaker 9: the league, not necessarily like Twitter or media stuff, just
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  Speaker 9: like think you investiget them when people are going to
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  Speaker 9: go and if you know you're going to take someone,
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  Speaker 9: you think's the best player, but you don't think they're
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  Speaker 9: going to go into like fifteen picks later, twenty picks later.
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  Speaker 9: It's always a huge risk.
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  Speaker 1: Because you never find out when they're going to go
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  Speaker 1: if you take him there gotta Shanahan with a subtle diggot, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't draft based on Twitter's basically what he said there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, things are going swimmingly in the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers area. I thought Seattle fans might want to hear
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  Speaker 1: that up. Next, Juice Brown. He was the former Washington
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  Speaker 1: Husky's quarterback coach under Kavin Debor. Now he's the TCU
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach. He coached Bud Clark the last two years,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks second round pick. The position coach on the
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  Speaker 1: air next on ninety three point three KJRFM,