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Furness Show 4-22: Steve Palazzolo, Jason Botterill, Bobby McMann · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: I heard we got good times going on in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? Power situation is not resolved, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the generator is very loud and we have a
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  Speaker 2: very strong one which allows us to be on the
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  Speaker 2: air right now.
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  Speaker 1: But so I picked a good day to be on
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  Speaker 1: a remote at the thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: It helps, It helps, and you're gonna get Kenny's going
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  Speaker 2: to give you a great lunch too, and I'm very jealous.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to that. We'll see what,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what Kenny's going to fire on our way
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit. We'll get some food going on,
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  Speaker 1: so which I love. And then tomorrow, the next two
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: days will be the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, So I'll
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: see maybe by next Monday the building will be fixed. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's above our pay grades. So yeah, we are.
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  Speaker 2: We are very much hoping that it will be and
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: you know, place to go to a show man. We're
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: going to be at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center the
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  Speaker 2: next few days anyway, because we got drafted.
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  Speaker 1: Well listen, if it's not fixed by monday, Kenny, can
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  Speaker 1: I come back your Monday. Our building's got issues. Can
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: I come back your Monday. Nothing can I come back.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Our building's got power issues. Okay, I'll just be back here.
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  Speaker 4: He's completely serious to he doesn't know that, like you're
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: kind of just playing it off, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's because I'll come out here, tell people to
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  Speaker 1: come out to hit me out thirty two try the
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  Speaker 1: pizza fantastic. By the way, they got good specials during
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  Speaker 1: the NHL playoff game. So yeah, all right, well I
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  Speaker 1: got a home you guys, sorry, I'd bring you with me,
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  Speaker 1: but someone's got to be back there Tor on the show,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, where you go. All right, let's touch in
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  Speaker 1: our baseball team real fast? Shall we? Shall we do that?
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  Speaker 1: Why I thought the highlight for me was seeing the
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  Speaker 1: story this morning Adam Jude did on Ryan Healy and
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  Speaker 1: I and I say that with all sincerity because we've
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  Speaker 1: had Ryan on not we He's been in the morning
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  Speaker 1: morning show for a while now, towards the end of
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: last season, going through the playoffs, right, and remember the
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  Speaker 1: first time I heard his voice, and with Bucky and
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  Speaker 1: with Chuck, I'm like, Damn, this guy's good. He's really good,
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  Speaker 1: like really good. And then I'm like, I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna sound on. You know if he did, like
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  Speaker 1: actual brock up really good, really good, like has a
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  Speaker 1: great rapport with Goldie. I like that. That to me
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  Speaker 1: has been the highlight the last two nights. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: the baseball has not been a highlight. I and and
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  Speaker 1: good for Ryan, good for the Marris. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gotta be be honest with you. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: a little hard on Goldie. He's got how many they have,
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  Speaker 1: They've got Valley, Angie, Ryan, Roland Smith, Healey and occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: well they're all occasionally. Yeah, one's so five different. That's
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  Speaker 1: a lot, man, that's hard. Yeah, Goldie is a pro though.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he's a Sportscaster of the Year. The guy's
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  Speaker 1: an absolute pro. He's just a great job. But Ryan Heally, man,
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  Speaker 1: I note to the Mariners, use him more, use him more.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not it. That's not a slight on anybody
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  Speaker 1: else on the broadcast at all. I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to do that by any means. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: that Ryan Healey is really good and I'm glad he's
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  Speaker 1: part of our station doing stuff with with our morning show.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the highlight. The low light is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you just lost a series of the a's. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought Goldie last night, oh my god, he was Yeah, like,
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  Speaker 1: he's been there long enough now and has established himself
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  Speaker 1: well enough now that he can kind of pull off
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  Speaker 1: the Dave Knee house. Foresland does this as well. You
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  Speaker 1: got like you can say what you really think, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: what you can say is also what fans are thinking exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And they lost to a guy last night that throws
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  Speaker 1: about as fast as Benton's kid does up in the
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  Speaker 1: Evert Little League. Okay, so like and and how do
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  Speaker 1: I know that? Because Goldie said it about one hundred times. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that they lost to that guy was.
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  Speaker 4: One of the highest walk rates in baseball and has
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  Speaker 4: not had a start this year. That that where he
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  Speaker 4: gave up less than three walks and he gave up
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  Speaker 4: to yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Is that bad?
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty bad, I'd say, I'm just checking.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just I'm That's why I'm asking
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  Speaker 1: the question, because it just doesn't seem optimum at all. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's a frustrating start. Ten to fifteen is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It just it's at some point, though, you got to
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  Speaker 1: turn this damn thing around and and if and I
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  Speaker 1: guess maybe at some point what you've got to do
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  Speaker 1: is you've got to show something and a little sign
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  Speaker 1: of life. I think they I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: fall into a trap of this or not, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna just throw out a general assessment. It doesn't feel
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  Speaker 1: if because they go through this every year. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like there's like no sense of urgency. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: here we go again. We're fine, We've don this before, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you you should win this division going away. And
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  Speaker 1: if you you know, if if I had to bet
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  Speaker 1: a mortgage on it right now, mortgage payment on it
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'd say that they're gonna. I would put
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  Speaker 1: money on them winning the division. In fact, I would
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  Speaker 1: put them versus the field. I would put big money
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  Speaker 1: on to win the Ale West. I think that's how
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  Speaker 1: that's how good they are. But I think what we
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  Speaker 1: got to get to the point of remembering is it's
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  Speaker 1: not just about that. It's also about like, if you
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  Speaker 1: are who you think you are, and that's a really
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  Speaker 1: good team that is going to compete at a very
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  Speaker 1: high level and get deep into the playoffs and all
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: those things, you still want to have home field advantage, right, like,
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  Speaker 1: you still want to have that. You still want to
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  Speaker 1: have that home end. Last year they did not for
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  Speaker 1: Game seven in Toronto and they missed it by four games.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, every game still matters. The nailor thing has
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  Speaker 1: to be a concern, just has to be. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it on Mollywop over and over again and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Andrews, if you hit this on the postcast
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  Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, but the nailor thing, it has to
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  Speaker 1: be a concern, does it not?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And one hundred percent does.
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  Speaker 4: And it just because you have a game last night
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  Speaker 4: where Cal and Julio both get on base three times.
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  Speaker 4: So that was kind of the main issue for the
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  Speaker 4: first part of the season. Oh, we got to get Cal,
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  Speaker 4: Julio and Naylor going right and the last two games
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  Speaker 4: callin Julia have been doing just fine on the offensive
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball, and Josh Nayler's still just I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, Man's it's a bad ap pro it's it's
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  Speaker 4: You're right about the no urgency thing, because I get
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  Speaker 4: the same vibe and unfortunately I don't think they have
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  Speaker 4: the manager like for good or for for better or
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  Speaker 4: for worse, they don't have the manager that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be the kick and the butt type of manager there.
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  Speaker 4: They have the hey, we're playing the long game, get
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  Speaker 4: your head down, go to work, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, I don't know what the where
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  Speaker 4: the fix is on this. I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: a trade, but it just it just seems like they
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  Speaker 4: need some sort of change. And maybe that's Emerson getting
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  Speaker 4: called up.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, At the risk of pissing off our afternoon show.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait, you want to put a b in that pony.
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  Speaker 1: I already did that yesterday. It's okay, No, I yeah
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  Speaker 1: that No, I'm going a different route. Oh okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because and I heard Chuck this morning talking about it too,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's one hundred percent right like casey
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  Speaker 1: uh leg, I mean ends up being kind of a scapegoat.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, I think Chuck's words where he didn't deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be DF eight, but he should never have been
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  Speaker 1: in all the high leverage situations he was this season,
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  Speaker 1: and the rules that they put in place, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Dan or management or what have you, or the decisions
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  Speaker 1: that are made that have put him in that position.
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  Speaker 1: To all of a sudden you know, kind of be
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  Speaker 1: the guy while it's his fault, and there's refreshed everyone's
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  Speaker 1: memory about Game seven and Edward Bizarre.
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  Speaker 4: Do I need to please I think no, but I
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  Speaker 4: think it's needed.
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  Speaker 1: What happened in that.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're against You have the lead in Game seven
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  Speaker 4: to alcs for a chance to go to the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: Eight outs left, everyone knows, and you have the most
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  Speaker 4: the highest leverage part of the order. It's not the
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  Speaker 4: highest leverage moment in the game, per se, but the
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  Speaker 4: most dangerous part of the Blue Jays order, including George Springer,
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  Speaker 4: and that's yeah, that's who ended up killing you. You go,
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  Speaker 4: you have Moonnos available, but you're trying to save him
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  Speaker 4: for the ninth inning, and you go to Edward Bizardo
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  Speaker 4: and he you know, we all know the ending of
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  Speaker 4: that story. So that's why the frustration was there.
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  Speaker 1: So that decision, which will haunt Dan Wilson forever, is
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  Speaker 1: one of many that we look at with Wilson, the
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Heay decision, or Healey, the Luke Rayley decision, their buddies. Actually, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as I read today, decision to pinch it for him
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  Speaker 1: with a career, well not a career, but basically a
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  Speaker 1: four A guy in Connor, Joe and just pitching decision
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  Speaker 1: after pitching decision. There's a reason that Dan Wilson is
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  Speaker 1: under a lot of chrism. There's a reason that Joe,
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  Speaker 1: she and and other guys that know the game far
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  Speaker 1: better than all of us are coming on our show
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  Speaker 1: and saying, yeah, I think I have a concern about
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, not just Nate and Chris and Anders, but others.
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  Speaker 1: Here's here's my concern. And it's hard because I think
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  Speaker 1: none of us are buddies with them, or not drinking
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  Speaker 1: with them and hanging out with off with them. But
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  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, for any interaction anybody's ever happens a really
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  Speaker 1: good news of Mariner, Hall of Famer and all those things,
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  Speaker 1: there's a nice guy. My concern is this, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a legit them at. Concern that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fans would share is that there are enough decisions
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  Speaker 1: that are critical. Not just a Game seven decision, but
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  Speaker 1: in twenty five games this season, there's probably been a
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  Speaker 1: dozen that we could critique from Dan Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: You you may.
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  Speaker 1: Not get to the heights you need to get to
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  Speaker 1: with this guy as your manager. With this roster, this
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff, specifically the starting pitching, but even the back
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  Speaker 1: end of that rote of the bullpen, you may not
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  Speaker 1: reach the capabilities of this team with him managing. We
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: don't know yet. Time will tell. But remember why they
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: got rid of why they got rid of Scott Service? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because they wanted to take that next step. And in
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  Speaker 1: a sense they did playoffs, seven games all that. But
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  Speaker 1: would Service have got him there too? Maybe? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot there's a lot of speculation there, but
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  Speaker 4: I would even say this about Dan Wilson, you could
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  Speaker 4: take a step further. I think Casey Legemina situation is
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  Speaker 4: actually a microcosm of the Dan Wilson situation. He was
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  Speaker 4: put He was put in a position not to succeed, right,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just it's not a good spot to be.
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  Speaker 4: And he had never been a manager before, let alone
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  Speaker 4: at any level, not not in the major leagues, not
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  Speaker 4: in the minor leagues. He had not been a manager before,
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  Speaker 4: and he's expected to kind of lead this team in
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  Speaker 4: their self proclaimed World Series window and you take him
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  Speaker 4: over the over the hump, and I don't like you said,
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  Speaker 4: he's a great guy. I think he eventually could be
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  Speaker 4: a good manager, but you're not setting him up for
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: success in this situation.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: No, And I think that's the concern. And I just
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: it was weird, Lessen. It's so weird because I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the contract the contrast on like NHL playoff games back
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: and forth, Mariner game and it's April marinor game what
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  Speaker 1: have you, right, c as with you know, five thousand
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: people in the building and what have you. I get that,
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: but it just you're kind of watching the a's and
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: their body language and watching the Mariners and it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll COASTU. We'll turn it around. We always do. We
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  Speaker 1: always start slow and we'll turn it around.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I just think there has to be more of Hey,
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  Speaker 1: games in April matter more or matter as much as
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: games in May, June, July, and August and September, right
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  Speaker 1: like they just do. But I thought what Chuck said
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  Speaker 1: this morning was banging on as I'm taking my two
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  Speaker 1: hour commute out here, was he was a fact that
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  Speaker 1: you know, Aga Mina was put in a position to
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  Speaker 1: swift to fail, and like you said, maybe Dan was
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: putting that same position. Time will tell maybe it'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: They always do. Hit a switch, turn it around and
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: have these great maize and June's and away you go.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's not not too promising. All right,
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft, Eve, We'll take a break. Come back, Steve
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  Speaker 1: Powe's will check the Mike thirty thirteen, he'll join us.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Steve Pelozolo joined us thirty thirteen. Check the
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  Speaker 1: Mic podcast on this twenty twenty six NFL Draft Eve. Steve,
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  Speaker 1: how are you, buddy?
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  Speaker 5: Doing great? We're just about there, just about there right now.
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  Speaker 5: Feel good.
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  Speaker 1: Good time of the year, buddy. Good to listen. We've
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: been talking a lot of Seahawks specific stuff for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Now I want to do something little different today because
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  Speaker 1: I frankly have been guilty of this, of just kind
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: of ignoring the first round, to be honest with you,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: because our local team, Steve, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: know this, they won the Super.
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  Speaker 7: Bowl this year.
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  Speaker 1: That gives them the thirty second pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been kind of but I know people have
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  Speaker 1: a massive interest in the draft as a whole. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to kind of bounce around the first round
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  Speaker 1: and gets some thoughts from you on maybe some players
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  Speaker 1: and specific teams and what you kind of see they
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  Speaker 1: might do before I do that. Let me take one
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  Speaker 1: step back. We had Monday, we had the John Schneider
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald news conference. We were out there doing the
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  Speaker 1: show out there and Schneider was massively open Morse and
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: we all know his history. He likes to trade down.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he does it. I think it's fourteen times
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  Speaker 1: he's done so since coming to Seattle in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: He loves to trade down. I don't ever remember him
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  Speaker 1: coming out point blank and saying, hey, we're open for business.
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  Speaker 1: We want to move down. He said, Steve, basically, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's no secret we want to move down. That thirty
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  Speaker 1: second pick because of the fifth year option, probably has
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  Speaker 1: more value to somebody than it does to us, But
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  Speaker 1: I think other team's going to want to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. How challenging do you think it will be
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  Speaker 1: for John Schneider to move down out of that first,
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  Speaker 1: that thirty second pick and do what he wants to do,
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  Speaker 1: and that's accumulate more picks, especially on Day three.
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  Speaker 8: I think it'll be easier at thirty two maybe than
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  Speaker 8: at the top of the draft. I think the top
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  Speaker 8: of the draft is challenging because there's so you know,
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  Speaker 8: there's only so many blue chip players to go around,
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  Speaker 8: and you have to give up a lot. I think,
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  Speaker 8: you know, now, the decision I think John might have
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  Speaker 8: to make is do I help a team in the
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: division like Arizona who might want Ty Simpson and maybe
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  Speaker 8: they're the team that wants to come up and get
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  Speaker 8: the quarterback and make sure that they get them ahead
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  Speaker 8: of the Jets again and make sure that they walk
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  Speaker 8: in the fifth year. That's more I think maybe one
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  Speaker 8: of the decisions John Schneider has to make there. But
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  Speaker 8: I think there'll be some opportunities there at the back
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  Speaker 8: end of the first Like that's every part of the draft.
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  Speaker 8: Every draft, there's a point where the boards diverge and
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  Speaker 8: opinions change, and I think in this draft it's earlier
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  Speaker 8: than ever. It's early in the top ten, maybe at
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  Speaker 8: two or three, where it's usually six or seven, eight,
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  Speaker 8: And I think sometimes it's the middle of the second
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  Speaker 8: where opinions diverge. It might be the late first where
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  Speaker 8: teams are just like, look, i don't care where everyone
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: else values this player. I'm taking him at twenty five,
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: or I'm taking him at thirty, or I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: get my guy, because I think opinions on this draft
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  Speaker 8: are going to be all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think one of the things that he
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  Speaker 1: did say that he goes, hey, we have great relationships
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  Speaker 1: with the other teams in our division. I'm not adverse
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  Speaker 1: to trading in our own division with somebody as well,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was also an interesting dynamics. I hadn't heard,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a guy actually say that before. But the
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  Speaker 1: ty Simpson one seems to be the logical run, right
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  Speaker 1: if if you have the ability to draft a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: later in the first round, so the salary goes down
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  Speaker 1: obviously with every pick, but you still if you like him,
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  Speaker 1: you have that fifty year option available for a quarterback
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: that would be ideal. I would assume that's probably what
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: in some ways they're rooting to see ty Simpson keep
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: dropping in this draft.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure.
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: I mean I think he's the he's the player to
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: keep an eye on, because it'll look a lot like
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: Jackson Dark potentially last year. Yeah, you know, you hear
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: people say all the time, Well, if Arizona loves ty
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: Simpson that much, why not take him at three? Well,
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: there's a there's not a lot of teams looking for qbs,
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: and ty Simpson's not a slam dunk top ten player,
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: and I think Arizona has a chance to either pick
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: somebody at three, trade down, pick someone else, but also
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: maneuver back up to get ty Simpson, or just wait
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: and get them early second.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: That's just where his value is.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: So yeah, I think that's that's the most likely play
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: and where a lot of the smoke is in part
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: because where the Jets also need a QB, but they
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: have all their picks for next year. They're not I
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: don't think, in a hurry right now to find their
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: quarterback or force it if they don't have to. So
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: Arizona does feel like the most logical spot for Ty
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: Simpson for sure.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I love talking to you about team, about roster building,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: because you love talking. That's kind of your thing. We're
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: out here at the Hockey Arena, the practice facility for
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: our NHL team for the cracking today and where the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: word rebuild gets brought up all the time, right, And
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: it's one of those it's not a four letter word,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: but it is a four letter word because you hear
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it tossed around a lot. And I was just talking
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: to the GM Jason Bottroll about this and we got
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: an interview coming up with later. It's not something you
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: see truly in a lot of sports, a quote unquote
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: true rebuilt, right, because usually you have guys on contract,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they're harder to move. I think the NFL might be
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the exception. Is the NFL a league where you truly
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: can't rebuild, and the Jets are doing that right now.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: You could.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: You could spend a couple of years now. It can't
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: take forever, you know. I mean, it's not like you can't.
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: You don't have time to do the five year deal,
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: but you can do it pretty quickly and you can,
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: you know, tear it down a little bit to build
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: it back up. I'll say this though, I think it's
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: I think it's becoming tougher because you know, it's tough
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: to you got to hit on your draft picks, and
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: then I think it's tough to sprinkle in free agents. Now,
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: I said, look, here's where the NFL is unique. The
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: individual player, the quarterback changes everything, and that's where you
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: accelerate it. So if you're the Bears, you know, getting
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Kayleb Williams, or you're the Patriots getting Drake may or
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: the Commanders getting Jadeen Daniels, that changes everything.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's why in.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: The NFL it could happen quickly if you find the quarterback,
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: but also to turnover the roster might still take three
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: years to fully you know, a team like the Titans
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: who found the quarterback, or even the Commanders who found
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: jade and Daniels. They had the one year of success,
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: but it takes a couple of years to really turn
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: the roster over. Even what John's done in Seattle, you know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: it takes a couple of years to get everybody in
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: and to build off that foundation. And you know, Seattle
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: at least had a better base. Tennessee is really starting
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: from a tough spot, and some of these teams just
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: don't have a ton of talent right now. So yeah,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: it's like it could be quick if you find the quarterback.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: It could be a little bit longer if the if
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: the quarterback takes a while like it has maybe for
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: a team like the Jets right.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Now and see pellas will to check the Mike Podcast
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: thirty third team. All right, let's get to it. Raiders.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: We I assume there's no drama expected tomorrow It'll be
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: for Banana Mendoza and away we go.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for Nanda Mendoza and then moving on, he'll be
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: the QB of the future for the for the Raiders.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So then we get to the Jets. The aforementioned Jets,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Cardinals have two and three, Titans four, and Giants five.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: A lot of different places we could go Reese the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: edge rusher out of Ohio State, the running back Jeremiah Love. Obviously,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: people like sunny styles, Caleb Downs. How do you kind
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of see the next few picks going in that draft
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: in that order? And do you think we'll see any
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: movement with Jets, Cardinals, Titans, Giants in that top five?
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: So from what there was originally a point where I
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: thought the Cardinals might be able to trade down. Maybe
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Tennessee could trade down from four. It sounds like a
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: lot of the movement might not start until six, maybe
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: with the Browns, and so I think they're gonna end
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: up making the picks at the top, the Jets and Cardinals.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: The Jets might still be undecided from what the rumors
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: are at pick two, and like they've basically been on
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: the clock for four months now. Height everybody's known it's Mendoza.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: The Jets have pretty much been on the clock since
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: the season end. It's a three months and I think
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: they might still be undecided. I think ultimately it comes
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: down to r Bel Reese versus David Bailey. Maybe there's
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: a wild card in there, but I would say it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: r Bel Reese at two. Would be the my final
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: answer if you had to ask me today what you are,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: it's tomorrow the draft, so I'd say it's r Bel Reese.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: So they're gonna go. They're gonna probably go edge because Bailey,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Bailey and Reese are the two top edge players.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and the Jets they brought in a lot of
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: defensive line help this offseason, but more second tier type
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: of players. They still need impact players on the defensive
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: side of the ball. They were offul last year, and
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: so I think it's one of those guys at two
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: for sure.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Caleb Downs, the safety out of Ohio State, was a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: player that we have talked about. Everyone had talked about
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It's for all season long as being like a top
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: two or three pick.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say he slipped, because you know
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: who who's to decide, right, But where would you where
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: would you see Caleb Downs going? How high should he go?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And where's the fit for Caleb Downs?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's the type of safety that should go
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: in the top ten.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: And then in a draft where there's not a clean
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: group of wide receivers, tackles, even pass rushers, it makes
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: even more sense for Downs to go in the top ten.
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: I think a team like the Saints would make a
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: lot of sense at eight. The Commanders could use the
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: defensive help at seven, but they might have some better
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: options on the defensive line if a Ruben Bain falls,
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: But I mean if he gets past Dallas at twelve,
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: I would be really surprised Downs, because it's just I
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: think people are getting bored of the process. He's a
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: great football player. He was a great football player for
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: three straight years, one at Alabama, two in Ohio State.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: He could play all over the secondary. He doesn't have
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: the freak athleticism that Nicki Manwari has or even Derwin
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: James and some of these other safeties who have been
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: first rounders or in even Warri's case, early second rounder
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: and have made an impact. Doesn't have the size of
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: a Kyle Hamilton. But he's a lot like Brian Branch
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: from the Detroit Lions, who is a second rounder but
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: has been an impact player, was a first round talent.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: And I think, look, somebody's gonna say, just give me
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: the football player. He's you know, football iq.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Off the charts.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: I think downs at least goes in the top twelve.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: You gotta plug and play high end safety right away.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Even worry, And I don't know if I asked you this
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: last week or and I know I'm discussing with one
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: with one of the guys we're talking to draft with
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: along the way coast Sell maybe, but Nick, Nick even
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: worry if he was in if we knew what we
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: knew about him, right and he was in this year's draft,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: how high would he go? Or maybe even this is
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a better question, a better way to phrase it, Steve,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: are people looking for that type of guy that like, Okay,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he doesn't really fit the trip to typical safety role.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He's more of a big nickel play that what have you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But you just mentioned with Caleb Downs, like, Caleb Down's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: really good, but he's not Nick even Worry, right, So
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: where would he even Worry fit into this year's drafter
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: or has he changed the way some teams think and like, Hey,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a take a guy that that I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: think can have this massive upside that doesn't fit into
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the typical box of This is what a free safety
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: looks like, This is what a strong safety looks like.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: This is what a nickelback looks like.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think it depends on the scheme.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: I mean, even Downs isn't Emon Warri physically, but he
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: could be a better football player than him. It certainly
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: was in college and wouldn't be surprised if he's a
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: better all around safety at the next level. But if
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: you have a plan like Seattle did for Emon Warre
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: and say, look, yeah he is our big nickel, He's
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: gonna play over the slot. He can cover tight ends,
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: he can cover slot receivers, he can make an impact
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: against the run as a as a blitzer. He can
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: do it all, and we're going to use him in
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: that capacity. Then you say, okay, he's a top ten
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: to fifteen pick. Now if you're saying if you're just
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: a normal team that's just gonna play, you know, split safeties,
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: and say, oh, even Warre is our safety, I don't
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: know if he's a top twenty pick in this draft,
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: you know, so, I mean it depends on usage and
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: where you know where you're gonna put him. You know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: if Caleb Downs becomes the next day, you know, like
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: I said Brian branch Or Antoine Winfield, even who's just
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: a traditional free safety, you could still justify that pick
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: in the top ten to fifteen, but it's it's a
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: different role. So safety of all positions, I think you
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: really have to have a plan, especially when he had
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: unique skill set. It's like Iman Wari, like Kyle Hamilton
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: in this case, like a Caleb Downs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It is as Steve Pallasila joining us Check to Mike
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Podcast thirty thirteen, what's the run going to be in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the early or mid first rounds? What position are we
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: going to see a run on at East? And I'll
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: throw a couple at you. Is it cornerback? Is it edge?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We just talked about a couple edge, you know, re Spailey,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: they go Ruben Baynes. Maybe it comes a like like,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: where is the run going to be? What position group?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden is going to start the typical
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: like we see every year in the NFL Draft, a
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: first round run.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: So I think there'll be some add rushers at the top,
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: but I think the actual run is going to be
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: offensive tackle.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: You know, receivers interesting as well.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: But if you look at the tackles, you have Spencer
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Fano from Utah, you have Francis Maley, Noa from Miami,
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: you have Caden Proctor from Alabama. Depending on who you
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: talk to, any of those three, and I'll throw Monroe
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: Freeling from Georgia in there. Any I've heard any of
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: those four as tackle one tackle two types, depending on
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: either the analyst you're talking about or you know what
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: teams are coveting. So Fano from Utah, Maui Noah from Miami,
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: Proctor from Alabama, Monroe Freelink from Georgia. I think they
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: could all go top fifteen. You have Blake Miller from Clemson,
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: and then you have Caleb low Move from Utah the
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: other on the other side, and then maxa Honaker from
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Arizona State. So those are just that's seven tackles right there. Wow,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: who I think could all go in the first round
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: before you even get to some of the guards. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: again in this type of draft where you say, okay,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: there's not you know, there might not be some superstars here,
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: the idea of getting a starting tackle in this draft
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: I think is gonna be coveted by a lot of teams. Now,
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: the tricky part is the teams who really need tackles.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: It doesn't start until the teams. So I don't know
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: that the run is like in the top ten or
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: anythink there's a couple teams that need tackles, but there's
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: also a bunch that are set. And so I think
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: in the teams and into the twenties, you start to
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: see some movement for the offensive tackles.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: It so maybe it's maybe this you're gonna wreck me
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and say it's been not that long. But remember back
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in the day, Steve, when the top offensive tackle was
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: an obvious number one overall pick. That doesn't seem to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: be the case anymore.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think you still if you had
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: if you had the blue chip guy, like if Piney
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: Sool came out right now, or like if Pine School
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: was in this class, you'd have some discussions about that
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: and fin a school at the top or Joe wallt
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: a couple of years ago from the Chargers.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's the thing.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: Like the the it does feel like, you know, School
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: came out the same year as Jamar Chase, and you
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: debate and there's a heavy debate about those two players.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: For say the Cincinnati Bengals at five, Joe Waltz came
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: out with Malik Neighbors. You know, two elite players at
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: valuable positions that there's a debate there for the Chargers
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: that year.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: So it seems like in next year's going to be
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: the same thing.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: We might have what the best wide receiver prospect in
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Jeremiah Smith and the best cornerback prospect in Leonard Moore. Uh,
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: you know, in a decade or more coming out at
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: the same time. It does feel like a lot of
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: the elite players are coming in the same draft clock
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: In recent years.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Here is Caden Proctor, the Alabama tackle. Is he really
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a tackle or is he a guard?
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: I think teams see him as both.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: I mean, you could definitely justify putting the three hundred
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: and fifty pounder at guard.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: He actually moves really well.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: If you watched any college football, you saw Alabama feeding
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: him screens and him looking pretty good with the ball
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: in his hands. He doesn't always show up, yeah, I mean,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: he was great running the ball. He doesn't always doesn't
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: always show up in his pass sets. But I think
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: he got better as this year year went on. So
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: I think there are definitely teams who say he's so
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: big he is tough for rushers to even get around him.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: He's athletic enough keep him at tackle. But I think
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: if say the Chargers at twenty two had an opportunity
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: at Cayden Proctor and they have their two tackles all set,
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: they would love to plug him in right at right
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: guard and say, hey, go mall some people in the
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: run game. So I could see teams looking at Proctor
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: in both positions.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: What's the guard class look like to you? I mean,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it feels like we're not going to see a guard
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: go until maybe later in the first round. What does
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the guard class look like?
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: So Venga Yuana from Penn State seems to be the
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: consensus top guy.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: You know, Francis Maunoa from Miami.
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: I know a lot of the people I like to
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: talk to really like him as a guard. So he's
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: another hybrid player, depends on the team. But Youana is
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: the best pure guard by the consensus. I think he
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: could go as high as maybe fourteen with the Ravens.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: I'm interested to see maybe the Rams at thirteen if
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: they wanted to future proof that position because of the
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: power that he brings to the table. But I think
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: so Yoana could go top fifteen, and then I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: you have perhaps a couple guards sneaking into the late twenties.
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: Emmanuel Pregnan from Oregon. He could be of interest to
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: the Chargers if they really want to fill that need.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: And then we're in this season where there's about ninety
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: players who have heard their name as potential, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: potential first rounders. Never know if this guy could sneak
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: into the first round. So the Chase Basontis from Texas
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: A and m and Keelan Rutledge from Georgia Tech have
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: been in first round mock drafts toward the end. So
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: that's four guards plus whatever you think of Maui Noah,
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: you know, who have at least had their had their
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: name written down in some prominent first round mock drafts
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: over the last few weeks. So there there could be
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: some movement there in the in the twenties.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Jadarium Price running back too, He's what do you think
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in terms of grades? Is he a mid second round guy,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: high second round guy? Where would you put Jadarian Price?
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: I think I think he's a second rounder. I mean,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: if you look at him, he's a good player. He's
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: got some burst, you know, I think he's good up
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: to twenty yards. I think he's got some questions as
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: far as overall past game goes. But even you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: a couple of years ago when when Ken Walker and
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: Breece Hall went early second round, they felt like better
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: prospects than Price. You know, those were the top two
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: running backs off the board that year. Of course, in
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: recent years we've had Jon Robinson, Jamiir Gibbs, We've had
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: a few more of these, you know, Ashton genties, a
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: few more of these clean first round types. I think
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Price feels more like in a normal year, I think
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: he's like running back five to six, maybe seven, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: in in a deeper year, and he's got and he's
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: running back too. For a lot of people, I think
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: that ends up being the second round. If a team
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: has a desperate need, maybe they end up taking them,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: you know, high second or you know, I know Seattle
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: gets mocked, uh you know for him and at thirty two.
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I see that happening necessarily with
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: their few draft picks, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't do it,
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: but yeah, they feel much better take it. If they
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: could trade down, pick up an extra couple of picks,
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: they feel much better about taking them. With so few picks,
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: you don't want to use one of them on a
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: running back. But I think he's a mid second round
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: type of player.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Overall. It's just such a need for Seattle, right, Like
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I just I know, even on Monday when we're listening
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to these guys Schneider and mcdonnald and they're like, oh,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you know, we feel good about a running back room,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm like really, and like Emmanuel Wilson, like really, I.
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: Mean, yeah, w Wilson's been a good occational guy. But yeah,
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: you I'm sure they want the big playability of Kenneth
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: Walker is going to be really tough to replace, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: I'm sure they want at least something more dependable there
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: that they can have here in the draft if possible.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: All right, last thing, Steve, what's a wildcard here is
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: whether it's a player that all of a sudden drops
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: where we didn't think he would drop. Maybe I'll have
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to throw a name out there, like could ruben Bain
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Junior drop all of a sudden short arms, maybe a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: question about the car accident, whatever it might be. Is
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he is he a guy that drops? Or what's a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: wildcard that you can see happening tomorrow?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Well, there's been multiple mocks.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: Peter Schrager, my friend Ari Meyrov from the thirty thirteen
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: both have ruben Bain at twelve thirteen fourteen range. Yeah,
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: which was really surprising to me. I've just seen him
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: as you know, if the Chiefs have an opportunity to
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: get him at nine, I just figured that was a
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: slam dunk. But if he gets past ten, I'd be surprised.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: But that's happening more and more as we get closer
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: to the draft. The other name to keep an eye
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: on that's pretty big right now is Jermad McCoy, the
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: cornerback from Tennessee.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: He's got some maybe long term knee injuries.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: He was thought of as a top fifteen player, missed
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: all of last year with an acl but even unrelated
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: to that could have the long term injury implications. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: think teams lay first or into the second have to
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: weigh that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Especially.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: You know, a team like the Jets that has four
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: picks in the top forty four would make a ton
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: of sense to try for that. You know, big swing
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: on Jamal McCoy, So keep an eye on him. And
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: then the other player that I just love who I'm
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: really interested in is Eli Stowers from Vanderbilt as a
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: tight end who really can't block, so has a big
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: bodied receiver type. I want to see how the league
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: values him because I think he could be a really
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: good second round player, But I don't really know where
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: the league's going to value that as far as his
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: inability to you know, line up in line as a
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: tight end. But he's he's a really good pass catcher.
• 32:35
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• 32:43
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• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all right? What are you guys up to with with
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the draft? Check the mic?
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Yep, check the mic.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: We're gonna be live on YouTube starting a half hour
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  Speaker 8: before the draft.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be there for every first round pick.
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  Speaker 8: We'll be there on day two for every second and
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  Speaker 1: You guys will be doing great as always. Man, thank
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  Speaker 5: All right, sounds great, appreciate it. Happy draft Dve.
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• 35:14
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• 35:37
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• 35:39
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• 35:44
  Speaker 1: so we're not waiting until round six on Saturday, which
• 35:47
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  Speaker 5: On the air.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be doing that. It'll be Rang and I
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• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and then away we go. Be interesting to see we
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: have not again paid a lot of attention at least
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: on this show to the first round. I'm glad to
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: get Steve on a moment ago to kind of get
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: his thoughts. Raiders, Jets, Cardinals, Titans, Giants are the top
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: five picks Brown's commander, Saints, Chiefs and Giants again are
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the next five. That's your top ten, Like we're talking
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: with him a moment ago with Steve, the question is
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: like who drops? When do they drop? What happens along
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the way? The Rubin Bain things an interesting one. Still,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: you don't want to pass on the guy that could
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: be an impact player. Are there concerns about the car accident?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Are the concerns about the short arm. I'm not sure.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I did think it was interesting when he talked about
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the run on offensive tackles. That always is like, I
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: think corners could also. We've talked about that with Coselle.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: We could have a corner run as well. Uh And
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: how does that affect Seattle? I don't know, man. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: think the only thing that's going to really affect Seattle
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: is finding that dance partner for thirty two. And Steve
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: says he thinks it might be a little easier than
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: some others to move that pick because they want to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: move that pick. There ain't no doubt about it. They
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: need to move that they have. Now they have a
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: lot of picks. Next year, they can do some things
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to try to get accumulate more picks. On Day three,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: there's there's probably zero percent chances are going to end
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: up with just the one pick, the round six pick
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: on Saturday as well. I say that wishing it out loud,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: because if Rob and I are there for three hours
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and no picks, what the hell we talk about it?
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: That makes something happen.
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  Speaker 4: React to day too, he and react to day too
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  Speaker 4: for the whole Day three, you.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah, we will well because and they will be
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: busy on day two. Right now, they have the two
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: picks on day two, and that's probably where you find
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: your running back. Yeap, that's probably where you find your cornerback.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Schneider said something interesting on Monday about he did. He said,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you don't draft in terms of need. You draft in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: terms of roster need. You know, like everyone needs like
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a great edge rusher or a great whatever, Right, but
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: what's your roster need? Well, their roster need is really simple.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: It's their roster need. Top of the list, with I mean,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: without a question, top of the list is a running
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: back in my opinion. Number two on that list is
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: probably a cornerback, and number three is an edge rusher.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: And that doesn't mean they're picking or running back with
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: their first.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Pick, no, but those are your roster needs going into
• 38:33
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• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Those are your roster needs. All right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 1: have one too.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I like the towels. I think it makes makes it
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: look cool. Uh they it makes it really look cool
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Wow, legends are here, Like I
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: do like that. But people are losing their mind. They're
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: fighting it reason to say this guy is cheap and
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: we don't want him here. The NFL when they do
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: figure out who's going to own the Seahawks moving ahead,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: please do not go down that road. Because the one
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: thing about the Seahawks since Paul Allen bought the team
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: is since JODI's been running it, it has been one
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: hundred percent first class. Everything they do is first class.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing out here. I I kind of
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I bristled, not bristol. I laughed a little bit when
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Todd you say, a couple weeks ago or the press
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: conference last week, he was like, oh, you know, I'm
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: gonna make sure that players are treated right. You talk
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: to players here, they are treated right and then some
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: even some things behind the scenes, so I we'll get
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: into with families that were ill or players that had
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to go home or what have you. It's all taken
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: care of. Dundin doesn't want to have the three guys
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: at the end of the bench that are on two
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: way contracts. Caleb loves one of them, who's a former
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Arizona star if you remember him from the G League team.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: But theyve got three guys that are on two way contracts.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Doesn't even have those guys traveling to practice with the
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: team to save money, just like this is the NBA.
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I've worked in minor league sports a lot. I can't
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: even fathom that happening at that level. So it's a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: cautionary tale. Guys like it's a cautionary tale, And I think,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: you know, we want to rip on and say negative things,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: and sometimes rightfully so about John Stanton the Mariner's ownership.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: They're not that bad.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: No, they're not not.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Compared to the like this guy sits the bar and
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: people will bring up the Carolina Hurricanes, the great success
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: they've had on the ice. They've got a brilliant general
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: manager and they've got a great coach. Really good coach
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: that makes up for all the flaws off the ice,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: that makes up for the cheap tightening up of things
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: off the ice. The Blazers think about this, They didn't
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: even send their digital reporter for their dot com site
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and their photographer in today's world, like.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Like that's insane, brook Coles.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Why would you buy a team?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Brooke Oles? And they're doing local TV by the way,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: first round? Right, ye are they They're not? Are they not?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I think the NBA is not right. The NBA got
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: out of that business.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: But I know they have national broadcasts for the first round,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: but I don't know.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: If they're not even traveling. You know, their reporter in
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: brook Olsen, which is like our version of Piper Show, right,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: like what are we doing?
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: So?
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: You know? I I it's a great article. Jason Quick
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: wrote it in the Athletic. I would urge people to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: read it. Anytime you say I really care about ownership.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Ownership doesn't matter, read that, do me a favor. Read
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: that article matter.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: And take away all the take away all the cheap
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: stuff for just the cost cutting measures, which is gross anyway,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: like the whole what the way he's going about the
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: the head coaching stuff with Tiago Splitter, a guy who's
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: in the midst of their first playoff appearance in what
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: five years?
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Six years? Five years?
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're undermining him by having all this stuff
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: come out about how you're looking for his replacement while
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: you're literally in the playoffs trying to compete and doing.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: Having to answer questions about that, I know. And then
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the story comes out he's talked to all these other coaches.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: He's low balled all these guys. Yeah, Michael Malone. Michael
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Malone who's got fired by it, was doing TV but
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: obviously got fired by the Nuggets, who also won a
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: title with the Nuggets now at North Carolina. He offered
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: him four million less than North Carolina paid him. What
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: the coach of the NBA. I think about that, Yeah,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: that's it's It's bad. The other part of it that
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: comes into play for me. Honestly, he's got no ties
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and no loyalty of that city. And there is a
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: really distinct Clayton Bennett Field of this.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Very like a very it smells.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Now. They do have one local investor, but he's not
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the majority owner. He's a minority owner. It has a
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: very smelly Clayton Bennett Field to it.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: It's like a Major League script and.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: You know what. We all know how that turned out?
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Not well. Jess, do you have a cash on?
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: I sure do contest.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Remember it's a Grand Slam cash contest for your chance
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: at one thousand dollars every single hour, every single weekday
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: between nine am till or sorry, six am to six pm,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: and that is now through May twenty second. And we'll
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: have a word for you every single hour. And oddly enough,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: this hour's word is media.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: A how about that? Media? All right? Go to nine
• 50:23
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• 50:25
  Speaker 1: take a break. Come back Jason Bottroll, the GM of
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Kraken. We'll sit down with him. What's next
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: for this franchise rebuild? Is that a word that's uh
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: that's being thrown out there? We'll find out we're the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: thirty two bar and grill and uh let's uh. Let's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: take a break and hear from Jason Botrol coming up next.
• 50:45
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• 50:53
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• 51:31
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in Sports Radio ninety three point
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: three kJ RFM. We are on Draft E for the
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: NFL Draft. We're checks date, what about two weeks away
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: from the NHL Draft lottery, NHL Draft weekend last weekend
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: in June. Lots of draft talk, lots of off season
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: talk for a lot of teams in town. Enjoining me
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: right now, Jason Bottroll, the GM Executive Vice president GM.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I think that's the title now, right of the Seattle Kraken.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: He's the guy in charge, and he's enough to sit
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: down with us here at the thirty two Bar and
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Grill Cracking Community ice Plex. Had his news conference this morning,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, We're the crack and
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: flagship station. Damn it. We're gonna have them on one
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: on one afterwards and just give them the real hard
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: hitting questions. But they'll follow up on a lot of
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: stuff we had today. How are I man?
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: Very good?
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Thank you for having me.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on. We you and I have
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: done this a couple of times here we did. We
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: did a couple of season ticket things this year.
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: This is an ongoing process in terms of putting this
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: hockey team together, and we're gonna get to that in
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: a second. Let's take a step back. For folks that
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: maybe didn't hear it live this morning, and cracking fans
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: didn't hear it, let's just get your thirty thousand foot view,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: although you're far from that, but just your overall view
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: of this past season.
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: Past season. Let's let's go with us start.
• 52:40
  Speaker 11: You know, we brought in, we made a lot of
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: changes both on the ice and off the ice. New
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: coaches brought in, some new players, wanted to work with
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: some of our younger players, such as the Berkmancatton. You know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: I was happy at where our group was going. If
• 52:55
  Speaker 11: you said at the Olympic break, I really happy how
• 52:58
  Speaker 11: we performed in January. I think we had seventeen games
• 53:01
  Speaker 11: in the month of January, really tough stretch. I want
• 53:03
  Speaker 11: to say we went ten to five and two. Proud
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: of you know, how we handled it there, Proud of
• 53:08
  Speaker 11: the adversity that we'd already gone through in the season.
• 53:11
  Speaker 11: It wasn't just all smooth sailing. We obviously we had
• 53:14
  Speaker 11: some injuries at the start of December, went through a
• 53:16
  Speaker 11: one to nine and one stretch. And the fact that
• 53:18
  Speaker 11: we had that one nine to one stretch and then
• 53:20
  Speaker 11: turned that right into I think it was an eight
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: oho to two stretch to me shows you know, leadership
• 53:25
  Speaker 11: showed you know, drive from the group type of thing
• 53:28
  Speaker 11: for sure, and put it on the right track. And uh,
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: you know, we got to the Olympic break. You know,
• 53:33
  Speaker 11: I liked how we played it in January. I think
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: we won something, you know, our last four or five
• 53:37
  Speaker 11: home games, uh there, and then went in you know,
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: went into Vegas, Anaheim, LA won two out of three.
• 53:44
  Speaker 11: So it was feeling good about being in a playoff
• 53:46
  Speaker 11: spot at the Olympic break, in a playoff spot the
• 53:49
  Speaker 11: trade deadline. At the end of the day, we didn't
• 53:51
  Speaker 11: get it done.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: It was a frustrating month of March and April. Not
• 53:57
  Speaker 11: finding enough wins to find a way to get into
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: the playoffs, you know, is disappointing that, you know, we
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: had some key wins against Carolina, Vegas, Tampa Bay, but
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: playing against some of the teams that we were really
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: battling for a position, whether it was Nashville, Utah, Saint Louis,
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: those games really hurt us from that standpoint. So overall,
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: the way we look at it, there's frustration, there's disappointment
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: because in our eyes, it's a missed opportunity just the
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: way our division set up this year, it was a
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: missed opportunity for capitalizing on getting in the playoffs.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Bots was this So along those lines, I look, you
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: know in the month by month was a fascinating study, right,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: You're looking what this team did five two and three
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: out of the gate, ten five and five to start
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the season, really rough December at times, and then you
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: mentioned it January ten five and two and strong heading
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: into the Olympic break, solving in third place in the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Pacific and then just seven wins after the Olympic break. Yep.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: So with that as context, did this team overachieve in
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: month it's like January? Or did they were they kind
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of over there? Did they just underachieve at the end?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Like what who were who were the krakend this year?
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: Well, probably a little bit of both in that regards
• 55:10
  Speaker 11: for sure, right Like you look at some of our
• 55:13
  Speaker 11: numbers and stuff, like we had outstanding goaltending in January,
• 55:17
  Speaker 11: we had exceptional power play in January, and that sort
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: of helped us carry along. I think at the start
• 55:22
  Speaker 11: of the year we were a little bit more balanced,
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: doing a better job at five on five.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: And I think it's just it's the situation of you know,
• 55:30
  Speaker 11: you've heard it from some other teams in the league too,
• 55:32
  Speaker 11: just how much things ramp up heading into the playoffs.
• 55:35
  Speaker 11: And I think there was a clear you know, in
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: most years, you just don't know when does the really
• 55:39
  Speaker 11: the big playoff push start. Well, it was very clear
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: this year because of Olympic break as soon as that
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: Olympic grant that the playoff push was going on. And
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: it's something that we have.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: To review moving forward here.
• 55:50
  Speaker 11: We felt we did things the right way coming out
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: of the Olympic break, but clearly, you know, our record
• 55:56
  Speaker 11: after that wasn't good enough. It's something that we will
• 55:58
  Speaker 11: have to dig into a little bit more on just
• 56:00
  Speaker 11: what we did from a practice standpoint, what did our
• 56:02
  Speaker 11: players do during that break just to put them in
• 56:04
  Speaker 11: a better opportunity for success moving forward.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I was I was a little surprised a couple times
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: when I heard Lane mention things like, yeah, guys are
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: trying to get used to what you just said. Like
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: after the Olympic break, it was like everyone's full throttle,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and you gave this team an opportunity. You went out
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: and picked up a thirty goal scorer Bobby McMahon and
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: did all that. But he said, you know, we're not
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: matching the intensity level on paraphrasing or some of the
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: other teams. You just kind of alluded to that as well.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, yeah, well, there's a team here that's got
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that were on that playoff team
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: and have playoff experience. I mean, your core guys have
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: been there. Was that all on the young guys because
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Jared McCann almost kind of insinuated that in his press conference,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: So I was kind of trying to figure that one out.
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: No, what I would say too is, look, we did
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: have run into some injuries with Schwartz and mccannn not
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: being in our lineup, and that really hurt us and stuff.
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: For sure. We've talked about it all year, Right, how
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: do we win? We win with our depth, you know,
• 56:57
  Speaker 11: there's some teams in the league with star power. They
• 57:00
  Speaker 11: have an injury or two in their second line or
• 57:01
  Speaker 11: third line, it doesn't even impact them that much because
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: of their star power. I think throughout our season this year,
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: you notice whenever a couple players were out because we
• 57:11
  Speaker 11: had to utilize on our depth so much. From that standpoint,
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: we have some veteran players. I think it's a learning
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: experience for our younger players to be a part of it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 11: You know, what I would say is there's a challenge
• 57:23
  Speaker 11: to our veteran players because a lot of our veteran
• 57:25
  Speaker 11: players are on say the power playing stuff too. In
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: the power play which was clicking so well at top
• 57:29
  Speaker 11: ten pretty much in the league until Limprigage went quiet.
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: That's something that we have to improve on for March
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: and April. I think with their young players, there's a
• 57:36
  Speaker 11: reason why these young players are in the NHL at
• 57:38
  Speaker 11: such a young age. They are driven, like there's an
• 57:41
  Speaker 11: edge to them. They are wanting to be in the
• 57:43
  Speaker 11: National Hoccha League. You know Berkeley cat And may have
• 57:46
  Speaker 11: a big smile on his face most time, but he's
• 57:48
  Speaker 11: a driven young man and stuff. These players such as
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: you know Jacob Malants and Ryan Wintern and have played
• 57:54
  Speaker 11: ahl playoff games. They know they're ready to play in
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: the National Hockeleague. Now, you know, you can always say, oh,
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: let's just play the young kids. It takes time for them.
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: And then this year was the first year where we
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: felt those two players especially were ready to play at
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: the national league. They get here, but it's always in
• 58:08
  Speaker 11: a unique situation, and that was at least a positive
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: on the team is that we were in the playoff
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: hot hunt to about the week to go in the season.
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: They were playing important games, finding out how strong the
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: one to one battle while a battle it is, how
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: difficult is get to the front at how you know,
• 58:24
  Speaker 11: in so many of these games against say Saint Louis
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: or Nashville, it wasn't a big difference, but it's just
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: that one goal that won play. And I think that
• 58:33
  Speaker 11: experience is so valuable for our young younger players and understanding, hey,
• 58:37
  Speaker 11: how much stronger they have to get in the offseason
• 58:39
  Speaker 11: and just what the intensity has to be every game,
• 58:42
  Speaker 11: because I do think, you know, I always referenced the
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: game in Tampa Bay. You know, that was a game
• 58:47
  Speaker 11: where they were very physical against us at the end
• 58:50
  Speaker 11: of March there. We got the lead early. They wanted
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: to push it to get the victory. They were battling
• 58:55
  Speaker 11: for playoff position at the time, and we stood up
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: to it and we pushed back and we handled it
• 58:59
  Speaker 11: very well, and that was it was a proud game.
• 59:01
  Speaker 11: But that's what we have to do over a course
• 59:03
  Speaker 11: of eighty.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Two games, and that's the challenge. Yeah, that's that was
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: the mind boggling part at times. And I'm sure for
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you the frustrating part is you'd see, I mean, the
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Carolina home game was an incredible hockey game.
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: That team came in here, they had the best record
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. They are rolling, They play a hard,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: heavy game. You guys matched it and then someone got
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: that win Tampa, Florida. Obviously Florida was down this season,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: but going down, there's no joke the Buffalo that that
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: little trip was. You get some points out of those
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: final three games and you're thinking, Okay, they've they've turned
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the corner. But you mentioned it. Injuries are one thing. Special.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Teams faulting, you know, kind of falling apart did another thing.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Let me take one other step back before we look
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: ahead of the future. And what's gonna happen in this offseason? Jason,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: And that would be this, Uh, when you were hired
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: last year or not hire? Promoted from within and you've
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: been here since day one, but you were pumped up
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: and Ron was also bumped up as well. Remember you
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: and I sat here and talked about it, and and
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Todd told us like, hey, this is your team. Then
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Ron leaves and there's like the mixed message. How did
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: it work this year in terms so who had the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: final say, who would making the player moves, who were
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: doing who was doing everything? Yeah, and then how does
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: that change this offseason? Or does it? It really doesn't
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: look at the day. I utilize Ron as a resource
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: all the time. You know, he's a mentor of mine. Uh,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: He's the reason I'm at in the organization. He's the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: reason why our entire Hockey Ups organization is here.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: For sure.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 11: Ron also was a former GM, and he made it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: clear at the press conference last year and and and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 11: just our discussion. You know, you can't be a general
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 11: manager without having that final say in his mind, and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: that's how you have to have success. And look, I
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 11: utilize him as a resource for sure in our organization
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 11: We have a lot of collaboration, whether it's it's with ownership,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: whether it's with our you know, our scouts, with our
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: with our staff. There's always collaboration from that standpoint, But
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: as a general manager, I have to make the final
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: decision on that, and that's certainly what what materialized moving
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: forward here. You know, it's certainly it's emotional and it's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: tough not having run around every day, just being blunt
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: with you from that standpoint, but I'm also I trust
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: our staff. I trust that we have some people with
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 11: some great ideas that can handle more of a role.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: Last year we brought in Ryan Jankowski to help from
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: player development standpoint and amateur scouting, and his sort of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: new ideas and fresh ideas I think have been very
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 11: helpful not only in those departments, but hey, when we're
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 11: starting starting to talk about players that he has a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 11: rolodex on, you know, these players from other organizations and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: stuff that he's seen over the years. Over the next
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 11: couple of months here will continue to look at different
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: people to possibly bring into our organization to make it stronger,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 11: to make sure that we have the right people in
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: place to make the right decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Next year, the Yeah, that's an interesting dynamic too because
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: there have been very few changes in the hockey ops department.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, Tampa goes to Tampa, you bring Ryan in,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: But I mean really, for the most part, it's kind
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: of been intact along the way, and you're building this
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: thing up. What do you hear from ownership? What's Because
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: we heard Todd today in the disk conference, and I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: mean if I if I when I listen toddlight Wiki,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I hear a guy that is he's been in pro
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: sports for wherever he wants to win. I think he
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: probably is parroting what Sam and the ownership group think
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: is Well, what's there, what's their message to you? What
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: is their directive to you in terms of getting this
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: thing back into the postseason, whether it's next year or
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: is it five years down the road.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's built.
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  Speaker 11: Let's let's keep building, right Like a big part of development,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 11: big part of it is winning. So keep working on.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: From that standpoint, we understand that there needs to be changes,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 11: there needs to be additions to this group, but we
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 11: also are very excited about where this group's going, and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 11: we have to make some adjustments and different things. We
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 11: have younger players coming up who are going to be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 11: ready to hind If we can find some more players,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 11: especially at the Ford group, that have sort of a
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 11: history of scoring in this league, I think that will
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 11: help out a lot from that standpoint. But no, we
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 11: feel that there's a lot of things in place, correct,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 11: so we want to build off of that.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Do they put pressure on you to win right away?
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, and I say that not in a negative way,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: but I mean, is there pressure that, hey, this thing
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: has to get back into the postseason?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: Asa they don't look the conversations and like it's not like, hey,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 11: you have to be in the playoffs next year. You
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 11: want growth, you want it's what we all want to be.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 11: Who doesn't want to be You've watched NHL Hockey last
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 11: couple of nights, Like, who doesn't want to be a
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: part of that environment right now?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Stuff? Right?
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 11: You know you're jis you go through you know, the
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 11: player exit meetings last week. That's part of the reason
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: why there's such a depression and disappointment is because like,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 11: you want to be a part of that energy, that excitement,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 11: and to put bluntly, like our coaches and our players
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 11: the hours that they put in during the year you
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 11: can say, which is that like, yes, we're disappointing it,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: but like they want to that's ultimately as the Stanley Cup.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 11: But a big part of it is to be in
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 11: part of those environments where you have a billing just
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 11: packed and there's an energy and intensity that's just through
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 11: the roof. So yes, that's where we want to get
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 11: back to. It's you know, we want to make sure
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 11: that we continue to build it the right way for
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 11: success of getting into the playoffs and then eventually after
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 11: years experience, to really push through to be a national
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 11: you know, to be a Stanley Cup champion and stuff
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 11: that's going to take time. From that bit, they understand
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: that bit. So it's always that balance of hey, how
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 11: do we help the group right now while continue to build.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I always Jason Bondervill joining us. I've and not just
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: because you're sitting across from me. This is one of
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: those things in sports media that drives me nuts. I
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: hear rebuild all the time. Are you rebuilding a retooling,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: you're reimagining or whatever, And there's people say the krack
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: and need to tear it down and rebuild it back up,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: and I counter with, well, like define what that is yep.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: So I'll ask you what is this organization in. Is
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: it a rebuild you need to rebuild? Is there such
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: a thing as a rebuild? Is it a retool? Is
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: a reimagination? What is where is this franchise right now?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 11: I'll go back to what I said before. We're building.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 11: We're building it right. And look to me, it's not
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 11: always just going to all young players. There's two different
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: things here. If you go all young players, a lot
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 11: of times they're not ready for it, you know, and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: it's why we.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: May take a step back at that point.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 11: If you put it, put them in too many different roles,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 11: and it's a losing environment NonStop. That doesn't is not
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 11: successful either, you know. It's Hey, we saw it with
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 11: Brooken Katton this year. You want to make sure he's
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 11: in roles that he can have some success, but at times,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 11: you know, you have to be patient with him from
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 11: that standpoint. Look at the two players that we brought
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 11: up we mentioned earlier, Ryan Winterton Jacob Malonson. I thought
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 11: both those players helped our group out a lot. Jacob
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 11: brought a physicality our group that was great. You know,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 11: Ryan brought us speed and four check ability that was
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 11: really good. Whenever he wasn't in the lineup, I think
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 11: we really missed his speed. From that standpoint, as much
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 11: as you want to say, like they weren't ready until
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 11: this year to help our team at the National Hockeygue level.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 11: So that's why you know they were part of our
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 11: first draft in twenty one, I believe it was so. Yes,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 11: as much as coming out of that draft, you know,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 11: I think we have five players from that draft who
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 11: played in the National hoche League. Four of them are
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 11: now almost regular in the National Hockey League. Yeah, Matty
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 11: Beniers is there in year one right away, but most
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 11: of them take this long to get there. From that standpoint,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 11: you know, we're excited about the twenty two draft. You know,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 11: you have players such as Yanny Newman, Furkus, Coco jug
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 11: Nath Nelson, these players, they're not all of them are
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 11: ready for the National Hockeleague this year, but next year
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 11: and the year afterwards, they're gonna be ready for the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 11: National Hockey League and add more to our competition and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 11: drive From that bit. So to me, it's constantly adding
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 11: these young players to the mix, but it's also constantly
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: adding veteran players that we know can help.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: This group moving forward.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 11: Getting Jordan Eberley signed at the trade downline was huge
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 11: just because one he's he's a great leader for our
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 11: group and two he contributes on the ice and take
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 11: some of the pressure off some of.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: Our younger players.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: So the foundation's in place, okay. So if they built
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: from there, built from within, and away you go, does
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: this team need to be heavier, a little tougher, and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: I say even bigger. Like I just talking to Lane
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: on Friday, and I just kind of got the impression
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: that he'd like to see like the game is changed,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: it's evolved, yep. I mean I always joke and I
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: worked in the WHL back in the wild West days
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: and it was a different game in the in the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: nineties and early two things. But there's still an element
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: out there. Hell we saw at Montreal and Tampa last night, yep,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: is that one of the things you need to do
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: in the off season. Get a little bit.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 11: Bigger, heavy, you know, you know, we want to always
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 11: want bigger, heavier, more skilled players, right, you always want
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 11: the perfect well rounded things. And that had of Conor McDavid.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 11: While you're out of it exactly, you know, keep keep
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 11: them going for that staff. But so there's always that balance, right,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 11: Like I do think, like you know, for us to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 11: be successful, we have to continue to improve our speed.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 11: That's it's when you don't have that elite player on
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: your team. To me, when we're successful, we're utilizing our
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 11: depth and we're having the waves and we're really pressuring
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 11: play you know, an opposition all over the ice. That's
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 11: the key element for us to have success. So speed
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: continues to be something that we have to right It's
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 11: to me, it's our challenge to our strength staff is
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 11: younger players just trying to get them physically stronger. You know,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 11: there's there's so much growth with all these players that
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 11: we just talked about Malanson Winter to Moule Guard, you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 11: know obviously Berkeley, Shane Wright, Maddy Benier's like they're all
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 11: twenty three and Understill they're still physically growing. And to me,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 11: it's it's continuing in the summer, having strong summers where
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: they can add more weight, they can add more strength
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 11: to handle those those those games. Because you know, to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 11: Lane's point and to what you see with your own eyes,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 11: there is a difference in the National League in October
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 11: versus April and you know that's what I think. You know,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 11: it's great that our players were at least a part
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 11: of some of those big games in March and April
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 11: to see where where the league goes.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Can you win in this league without a high end
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: offensive player? And I'll just I mean, everly was your
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: leading score yep, goals and points taking McMahon out of it,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: sixty fifth in goals, I think it was or one
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: hundred and twentieth in points, And those are rough numbers.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Can you win with with those types of numbers? If
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: I know they did three years ago? Yep?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: But can you still do that? Do you need a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 4: high end guy?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: Look, high end guys certainly help things a little bit.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 11: They hid a lot of problems and a lot of
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 11: mistakes and stuff for sure. It's why we'll continue to
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 11: look for that type of player if available, right, But
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 11: in the meantime we'll continue to develop. We truly believe.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 11: I believe that when you have strong depth and more
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 11: throughout your entire lineup, that's what you can help. But
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 11: I think where this year when we played very well,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: it was because our power play was going. If you're
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 11: not going to have that elite player, having a power
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 11: play that can help you and sort of put you
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 11: give you that your team, that extra boost that really
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 11: helped us in the first part of the season is
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 11: something that we're gonna have to continue to work on,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 11: to continue to develop.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: What kind of step can a guy, what can we
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: expect to see from say a Berkeley Cat next year.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 11: Well, I think this guy's the limit for Berkeley just
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 11: because he hit his hockey sense, his knowledge. He takes
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 11: so much out of every situation, learns from it. You know,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 11: he's a dedicated player off the ice from that standpoint too,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 11: on getting strong or getting faster, and you know, it's
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 11: something that we touched on there. Like you know players,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 11: he has speed now showing that speed every day, you know,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 11: on every shift. That's where the next thing is is
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 11: to oh, it's a coff thing. I just understand the game.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 11: You know, these kids come from junior where they're playing
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 11: you know sometimes twenty five to thirty minutes a night.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 11: They're almost pacing themselves a little bit outside, you know,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 11: or on the game type of thing. You come to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 11: the Nation Hockey League and your mints drop from twenty
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 11: five down to say twelve or thirteen. Hey, you realize like, hey,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 11: the game is just that much faster. And I think
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 11: it's just utilizing, you know, knowing when to utilize your speed,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 11: when to continue to attack. And those are the big
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 11: things that we're gonna work with him on an offseason.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 11: And to me, that's where we think there's we know
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 11: the hockey senses there, we know that the skill is there.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 11: It's now just put him in the right positions there.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I think it goes without saying I'd be a fool
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: to say that Bobby McMahon wouldn't be a high priority
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: for the off season. He's gonna have a market. We
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: all know that. Having a conversation with him sitting in
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: that same chair last week, he sounded really plausitive about Seattle.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I think he's on a golf trip with a bunch
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: of guys right now. I think Cale Flurry, I think
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: is in charge of recruitment right now, giving him some
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: strokes or however it's gonna work out. But is there
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: a chance you could get him done if he does
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: want to stay before the draft or before the free agency?
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Do you think that's going to go all the way
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: into July.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 11: Look, it's something in there. We've stayed in touch with
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 11: his agent and the communication it's and from our standpoint
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 11: was a great fit. I think from Bobby's standpoint was
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 11: a great fit to Just the fact that he's sticking
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 11: around a little bit longer, I think is a good
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 11: sign for from that bit. Look, he's worked hard to
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 11: he's got he's a player that's gone from the EHL
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 11: to the HL to the AHL. It's a great story
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 11: behind the scenes with us. It was great to see
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 11: just his professionalism, how he's always working on his craft too,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 11: and just get to know him a little bit more.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 11: I think he think the fact that he had a
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 11: relationship with Lane from Toronto last year was very helpful
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 11: in making the mix. The connection over here got to
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 11: play a little bit more than and had a bigger
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 11: role here than in Toronto and stuff too, So I
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 11: felt it went very well. Just his interaction with our organization,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 11: interaction with the city, the fact that he's staying around
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 11: a little bit longer too, just to see the environment
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 11: is a good sign. And you know, this is where
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 11: we'll have to push things with this agent for sure.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 11: At the end of day, you know he's gonna have options.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 11: This is a unique environment for him from that standpoint,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 11: But no, we were we were glad to get him
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 11: at the trade deadline, and uh no, we'ld certainly do
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 11: that over again for sure.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Uh And Boss, before I let you go, I just
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: kind of look at the the overall off season. There's
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: gonna be changes. It's that's just the way the NHL works. Yep,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: what's the easiest that's the wrong word. What's the best
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: way to do it? And you kind of alluded to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: this in the news conference, But I mean it's like, hey,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: go out and everyone's got salary cap room right attracting
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: free agents and you can address it if it's a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: challenge here or not. You talked to Stevenson and Monty
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: and guys like that, Ebbs are stuck around. It feels
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: like if you get people here, you're good. It's just
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: like trying to convince them that's not somewhere out in
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Alaska or something like that. And but but what's the
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: what's the best way to try to build that? And
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: add to what you just said earlier, Yep, there's a foundation.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: How do you add to that?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 11: So from a free agent market, we'll certainly be engaged
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 11: with them, but you just look at it right like,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 11: it's not a It's not a monster year this year
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 11: because of the extra cap space and the cap continue
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 11: to go up, most teams have r av signed their players.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 11: So are we going to be engaged? Are we going
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 11: to be looking at that? Yes, but it can't be
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 11: your only model in improving your team. I think the
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 11: bigger area is continuing to find creative ways of developing
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 11: our own players. That's what we're on too. And hey,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 11: it's the trade market. I think that's the way to
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 11: go it. Looking at different teams that hey, are in
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 11: similar boat, USTs that maybe just missed the playoffs or
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 11: wanted to make adjustments to their group. That's what you
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 11: have to focus in on and stuff a lot.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: So the word aggressive off season has been used a lot.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: So aggressive probably means whether it's and you said earlier, yeah, no,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: I mean this is you're open for business, right like,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: like you know or would you be open to trading
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: a young guys? I think you said yes, a ton
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: of draft picks as equity and that's probably a really
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: good place to be, right. So to find aggressive off season.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 11: Hey, it's our team has to take a step next year, right,
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  Speaker 11: we have to continue to go from there. We're going
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 11: to make changes from that bit and we're going to
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 11: be involved in Look, trade discussions are always interesting. Sometimes
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 11: it happens right away, sometimes it takes time. And I
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  Speaker 11: can't sit here and say that it's going to happen
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  Speaker 11: on you know, June fifteenth or June twenty fifth or
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  Speaker 11: July fifteenth, but I can just assure you that, you know,
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  Speaker 11: throughout the summer, throughout the fall, we're going to be
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 11: aggressive and trying to add to our group here and
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 11: stuff from that standpoint, because we have pieces that we're
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 11: very proud about. We're excited about some of these pieces,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 11: how much they want to be here in Seattle and
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 11: their growth. Now it's imperative that we find some pieces
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 11: to support them, to help them and take the nextcept
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 11: next year.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there's discussions taking place with assistant coaches,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: So that's still up in the air right with it
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: with Lane's staff, But Lane is back. Correct.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I've enjoyed working with Lane. It's as I said
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  Speaker 11: in my press conference, he came as advertised, was very
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 11: direct with our players, brought the intensity, brought accountability, brought
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 11: structure to our group, which I like to see and hey, look,
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  Speaker 11: I enjoyed having that partnership with him. Over the next
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 11: couple of weeks here, his staff our players will continue
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 11: to those that dialogue, then roll into pro scouting medians
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 11: and amateur scouted meetings, and then obviously the combine at
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  Speaker 11: the sort of end of May.
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  Speaker 1: Starters June decent chance, I'll leave you alone and tell
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  Speaker 1: a lot of June. All right, sounds good, Thanks Spots,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 11: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: The captain is here, Mike Benton, Bobby McMahon coming up.
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  Speaker 1: In about fifteen minutes or so, we'll hear from the
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  Speaker 1: free agent to b is he coming back to Seattle
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  Speaker 1: is he thinking about coming back to Seattle? Is Seattle
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  Speaker 1: even a consideration for him? We'll find that out. We
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  Speaker 1: heard just now from Jason Bottrel and if you miss
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: the interview, we'll have a podcast. We'll probably throw some
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  Speaker 1: stuff up on social media as well. Anderson Hurst had
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: a question I did fire away. Yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 1: know because we got Mike Benton with you.
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  Speaker 4: So the captain is here?
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  Speaker 7: Can I have us here? The mayor's here, Andrews is here.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a name, so that's fine, Lord Duke
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  Speaker 4: of Hurst. I like that, Lord Duke of Hurst. All right,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: all right for both of you guys. What does this
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: successful off season look like for the Seattle Crack.
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  Speaker 12: Mikey, I'll go first, extend Bobby McMahon. Find a top
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 12: line guy. Be prepared to say goodbye to some individuals who.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 7: Have been here from the beginning. Change is coming, culture thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So so all right, so let me just read
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: this correctly, So McMahon get him back. Yes, add another
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: top six guy, Yes, top, top top three, top three,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: top And if I'm reading this correctly, you're saying, move
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: some guys that have been here for a while to
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: change the climate and the culture of the lock.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 12: Let's raid the tea leaves here. Todd light Wiki about
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: a week and a half ago, said most players have
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 12: been proud to put on this jersey from this dressing room.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 12: Jason Bottral today said change is coming. Lane Lambert said
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 12: this room was way too quiet. I'd be seeing some
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 12: change there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay for me successful offseason, I'll start with what
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: Mikey said. I think Bobby McMahon is a must. I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: just do. I think they got it. You you made
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: a trade that looks eerily similar to Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheat. You gave up draft capital for short term.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming with the assumption that you're gonna sign said
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: player long term, which is what the actually with all
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: three of those guys.
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  Speaker 11: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't and it wasn't easy. Like remember, I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: mean they didn't think they're get rehid. I mean there's
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of talk about, oh, she he's not going
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: to come back, and you know, people were like people
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: were down on Leonard Williams.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 7: And then back back up the breaks truck.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: People were down on Leonard Williams on our station. People
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: were down on.
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  Speaker 11: That first year.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, ah, I want to give up too much?
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  Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: Do you just watched the Super Bowl? Okay, so but
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: that's I think that's number one. McMahon fallows into that
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: same seahawk category of that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: And I think number uber two has to be that
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: you make an impact edition. I don't necessarily say top
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: three or I think top six guy, but make an
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: impact addition, a guy that can finish, not from Finland,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: but can finish. So we're kind of on the same
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: page because I think and I think you're going to
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: have to do that via trade. A successful off season
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: to me is using some of your draft capital. All
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: these draft picks you have, move them and get a player,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: get a warm body that can help you right away. Today.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. They didn't miss the playoffs by much.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: They just didn't. And I think the one thing you'll
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: see in the NHL playoffs that we have seen in
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: the NHL playoffs. Yes, are you a Stanley Cup contender?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: Are you thought to be a Stanley Cup contender? Yes?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: And no. Right, but the way Stanley Cup playoffs work,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: we've seen this already. Upsets happen, hot goaltending can carry you.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: The pressure of being that team can get to some teams,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: right and I just get into the dance, And I
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: thought Bot said it, Well, if not, you want to
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: be a part of it, that's your goal. It's almost
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: like March madness, like just getting in is the first goal.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Once you're in, who knows what can happen. I think
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: it's also imperative that and I asked him this, Mikey,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's imperative that you get those playoff games
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  Speaker 1: in that atmosphere because you keep talking about the young guys.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: Those guys haven't been a part of it. The Calder
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Cup playoffs in the AHL are not close to that.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: If you play high level college hockey Final four or
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: something like that Rosen four, that's close. That has pressure.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: I would tell you the WHL playoffs, guys that have
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: played in those championship series, you've been a part of that.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: You've seen that. Yeah, but it's not the NHL. So
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's important to get those guys there. My
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: frustration would be when they fall fall apart in the
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: second half or the last part of the season. They
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: had a bunch of guys, a core group of guys
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: that had been there and nobody handled it well.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 12: See, and that's a as a culture thing because it's
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: not just how quiet was the room. But something that
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 12: stood out to me from Lane Lambert was we gave
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 12: the guy as a blueprint. We gave the guy as
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 12: a plan before in one of their break games in March,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 12: and they just went up and did their own thing. Yep,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 12: you're needing to find a change in culture with guys
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 12: who are going to be a line now with the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 12: current coach. To me, Brandon Montour is a Lane Lambert guy.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: Madd even hears it seems as if he is a
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 12: Laine Lambert guy. Is you've got to find more Lane
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 12: lambertin mc mahon's also one too.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I like, I'll just say it right now. I
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: think that you need to say goodbye to Schwartz and
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: Alexiak period undrapted or unrestricted free agents. I think you
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: just have to. I think that's where it starts. What
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: did it say that twenty four was scratch last game
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: of the season and I don't buy seventeen was hurt.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: So I think that I think that that's what you start.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: I just that's how I mean that's just that's that's
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: how strong I feel. And do we answer the question, Yeah,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: he did.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, It's a lot of the same lines as mine.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, Number one, if you are going to
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: go the route of you think you can compete next year,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: Bobby McMahon's the way to go. Number two, I still
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: think the most important thing for this franchise is finding
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: a way to note not necessarily get one of those
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: top line guys, because I don't think they're that easy
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: to find. It's either a luck into the one of
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 4: the top four picks in the draft, or b find
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: a way to develop, whether it's Matt e Beneer's Berkeley
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: Catten into one of those guys, because that's the most
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: likely route forward that this team is going to take
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: that next step. As someone that's already.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 12: Here, do I have time to lob one question out
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 12: here very quick? If there is a top line guy available,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 12: a guy that can get you eighty ninety points, is
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 12: any prospect untouchable?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I agree, yeah, no, I agree.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 1: We had this conversation as zillion times with the Mariners,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: like it's listen, Jcobrien's really intriguing, really exciting, but he's
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: seventeen and he needs to put about forty pounds on.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 12: This is how you use bring in the big trade pieces.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 12: Now you've got to have something. Look at what we
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 12: got for Quinn.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: Hughes and and O'Brien's would net you something? Yeah for
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: sure the year he had, Yeah, totally net you something.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: So yes, I think the guy. If you're talking about
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: who's off limits, I think it's for I think Berkeley
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: is for anybody. Yeah, well, I mean anybody's big, but
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: it's a yeah. I think if we're just being let's
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: be realistic. Yeah, they're not gonna get them. Yeah, if
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: you're being realistic, Berkeley the coord probably Maddie, but not necessarily.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: Uh not for me. I right, but I said I
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: said probably, but not. I don't think he's one hundred
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: percent right, Uh you know, I think, but I think
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: those are that that kind of ends right there. I
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: think you could listen if you want to have the
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: hard conversation, you can move Vince Dunn for a lot. Yeah,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: you got replicated with sixty two. So all right, we
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: got to take break. Mikey. What you got coming up?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: You got you've got podcasts coming crack.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: In weekly two nights.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 12: We are gonna have a lot to break down here
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, conversation.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: They just need to find a way every year to
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: have a break So Coppo come back if it did
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: not have enough.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 12: Time here to get this all within like one hour,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 12: so have a length of your podcast version also up
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 12: once the show is all done after this evening.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: All right, Bobby McMahon will join us. Coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Mariners lose yesterday again to the A's. They lose the
• 1:23:41
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon to start a series against Cardinals coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. Excuse me, we got for a club there
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  Speaker 1: but again losing the last night five to two, ten
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: fifteen on the season. Spurs star Victor wembin Yama, who
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: was the unanimous defensive Player of the Year in the
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: National Basketball Association, sustain a concussion on a hard fall
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: during a second quarter of Tuesday night's game to playoff
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  Speaker 1: loss to the Portland Trailblazers. Speaking of the Blazers, interim head
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: coach Diego Splitter says he's focusing on the team's first
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: playoff appearance in five years, as reports swirl about new
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  Speaker 1: owner Tom Dunnan talking, I was like candidates to replace him.
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  Speaker 4: It's a slow news day, it is, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all good with that. Chelsea has sacked head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Say his name, Liam Rossen. You are after less than
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  Speaker 1: four months and charge five straight losses, zero goals, apparently
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  Speaker 1: like the fire coaches at Chelsea. Right, Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's their second coach fired in the last four months.
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  Speaker 1: And today is the day before, not the day before,
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  Speaker 1: the day before. Oh, today is just the day four.
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  Speaker 4: As long as it's not Canadian dollars?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. What's the Canadian dollar worth these days? We
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  Speaker 1: know that's a good point. The loon the looney, well
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  Speaker 1: they you know what they have the coins, aren't they?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the the loonies and the townies.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on the second. Oh that said, but they got
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  Speaker 1: rid of those like a dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So it's sixty three cents? Correct? Yeah, sixty three cents
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  Speaker 1: is the Canadian dollar right now?
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  Speaker 3: Nice math on the fly there.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I'm known for my math. I really am.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the things, I'm known for math at the topless.
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  Speaker 1: laughing driving around going yeah, like my buddy bags or something.
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  Speaker 4: Like really, yeah, no, no, I.
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  Speaker 1: Did take I did take four years of math in
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  Speaker 1: high school.
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  Speaker 5: Though.
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  Speaker 1: for heist for college? Yeah, because I got that out
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  Speaker 1: Year, twelve and a half million dollar aa V deal. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how much twelve and a half million dollar? Like per
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  Speaker 1: year twelve and a half million year, So what is
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  Speaker 1: that time? Seven?
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  Speaker 4: All right, matthean twelve and a half times seven.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: That would be fifty sixty one sixty. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if someone so the calculator, I have no idea. What
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  Speaker 1: that come out of their back end. And now let's
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: remember a couple of things. All boys school. Uh yeah,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: so you're not worried about such a thing because because
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: there's no girl, you know, you don't. I didn't care
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: about impressing Brett Vaalist next to me, right like whatever, dude? Uh?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: And so like if you did it, if you had to,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: you just let her rip. That was fine. He would
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: go sideways. This dude would go sideways. And by the way,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: he looked like a math teacher except for one thing.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: What y'll explain. He had so this dude had like
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: the glasses, like the black like the Eugene Levy kind
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: of black class black riom glasses. Yeah, the Chris Berman
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: short sleeve dress shirt from the Chris Berman collection. Polyester pants,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: but the short sleeve dress shirt and the pocket protector.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: He had. He had it all going on as far
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: as school there, what's that? What era are we talking
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: about here? This is this was the eighties. This was
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: the eighties. So but yeah, fortunately he would he would
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: now where he didn't look like the normal guy.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 4: He's a former hockey player. Really, he had forearms that
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: looked like Popeye.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: Wow, Like, so the dude, the dude looked like he
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: just looked at his face and how he'd like, this
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: is the biggest nerd I've ever seen. He is. This
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: is this is like if you're going to design, what
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: a math teacher looks like? This is what he looks like.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: That'll kick your ass. But yeah, there's a potentially kick
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: your ass, yeah, because the dude played hockey back in
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: the day where that's what you did. Yeah. Yeah, he
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: was an interesting cat. I liked the guy in retrospect.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: I remember seeing him after I graduated, and I wasn't
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: bothering Himore. But yeah, we would get you get kicked
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: out of class, which resulted in detension all the time
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: for for such things, for such acts coming out of
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: a human human body.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: So was he quoting that song can't you smell that smell?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: Or that oh that smell?
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: Well, that was that's uh Leonard Skinner?
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's what I was wondering.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would have been. It would have been Leonard
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: Skinner was yeah, no, he that God, I didn't think
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: As soon as you said it. I was like always
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: quoting that song. That smell is the name of the song.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: That is a Leonard Skinner song, right, it is, yes,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: And Leonard Skinner was popular in the.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: Seventies seventy seven that song came out.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: Okay, there there you go. That's I never thought of
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: it that way. And now see we've learned something today.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: This is good. This is good. This is really a
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: good thing. On the day before the draft, we've learned something.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: We have learned something here today which we're very excited about.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: All right, listen, we're out here at Cracking Community, ice Plex,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: thirty two, Bar and Grill on the eve of NFL Draft.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: We will be all over that tomorrow. Will tell you
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: about that. Check the text four nine four to five
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: one at the bottom of the hour on the Tukmadage
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: text line. But earlier today I got a chance to
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: catch up with Bobby McMahon, pending free agent thirty gold
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: guy almost twenty nine for the Kraken after you get
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: traded over from the Toronto Maple Leafs, and we started
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: up by just saying, hey man, how you doing great?
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: You'd rather be.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 7: Playing, of course.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: How frustrating is that? I know when you came here,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: this team was kind of on the verge. One of
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: the reasons they traded for you is this team was
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: thinking about the postseason. You put up your numbers, you
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: did your job, but the team fell a little short.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: What how frustrating is How would you describe that feeling
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: when you fall short of the postseason.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's hard.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 13: It's something that I definitely wanted to come in make
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 13: an impact, be a part of this.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 7: They had some good success. They're leading into the.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 13: Break not paying a ton of attention to this team,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 13: obviously being on the East Coast, so it was kind
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 13: of like a bit of a fresh start, kind of
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 13: just coming in, getting to check out a new place
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 13: and trying to bring some energy. So it's been it
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 13: was hard. It's been hard. I guess kind of know
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 13: when we're out of it for the last few games there.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 13: But definitely an organization that I've been happy to be
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 13: a part of, and after kind of the dust settled
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 13: from the trade, was super excited to be here down
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 13: the stretch.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 4: How hard is it to get traded in the middle
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: of the season.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I asked it because it's just I think
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: we all think sports fans media is like, uh, you know,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: these guys make a lot of money, They're fine, They're
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: just up. How hard is it though, And what are
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: the challenges of moving, especially from a place like Toronto
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: to here, because that's a whole different world.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's difficult.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 13: I think it's exactly what you say, Like guys or
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 13: people think and fans think, you make a lot of money,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 13: it's you'll be fine. It's kind of your job, and
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 13: it is your job, so you have to be ready
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 13: to go and be ready to play, but it's also
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 13: you're a human being. You kind of grow some roots
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 13: in a certain city. I was there for a while.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 13: You get to know the streets, you get to know
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 13: the restaurants, you get to know all those things, or
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 13: you get to find your favorite spots all those things,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 13: so just to be uprooted like that. Luckily I had
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 13: my girlfriend come with me. That was kind of part
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 13: of the comforting side of it, but also like tough
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 13: for her as well. Coming over here and changing time zones,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 13: all of that is a big battle and part of
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 13: something that you just got to get over. And luckily,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 13: once you get playing on the ice that's familiar for me,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 13: and once I was able to get into.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 7: Games, I was super nice.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 13: But yeah, it's definitely difficult trying to figure out the
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 13: smallest things like how to get into the rink, what
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 13: door to go in. All those things that are minor
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 13: inconveniences add up to be a lot when you come
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 13: to a new organization and things that you take for
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 13: granted when you're at your place you've been at.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 7: For five years or whatever it is.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 13: All those things add up to take a lot of
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 13: energy from you, So it takes that much more focus
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 13: to kind of switch teams like that.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: I think everybody can relate to that in whatever world
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: you live in, right Like you're working in a job
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: or in a city and you move and it's like
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: the unknown is kind of frustrating at times, but you
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: seem to acclimate yourself quite well. The chemistry you had,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: especially with Maddie, it didn't take long. Why do you
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: think that is?
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 7: Uh? I think uh.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 13: I think he's so dynamic in the way that he
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 13: plays east west, and I think he that's kind of
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 13: the strength of his game in the way that he's in.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: You're north south guy's that's the thing covered all the geography, right,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: And I think when you cover the whole map like that,
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: I think it works out well so and I think
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: we neither of us try to deviate from that.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 13: Obviously, he's a super dynamic player. He can do almost
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 13: anything on the ice, so he plays north south as well,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 13: but like he can, he can play that east west,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 13: and I think that because I was more north south,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 13: I kind of created more space. Try to get the
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 13: puck to him, let him carry it in zone entries
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 13: things like that, and then just try and find open ice.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 13: And he knows I like to shoot the puk and
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 13: seems like he's a bit more of a past first guy.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 13: He's got a great shot as well, but he was
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 13: definitely looking for me, which I appreciate.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Every fan listening right now, Bobby McMahon is like, Okay,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: that's great. What does he think of this place? So,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got you put yourself in a great position.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: Twenty nine goals, You're right there. You have a chance
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: to make life changing money first time is a like
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: real big time free agent, a lot of market for you.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations, that's gotta be nice. Like you know,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: you've you work your whole life to get to this point, right,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: to get to this point of having those opportunities as
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: a free agent, So how do you approach it?
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's weird because I've always been my whole life
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 13: on that side of working towards something, and now that
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 13: the season's over, it's kind of like you transition to
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 13: maybe looking at the contract side of it, and it's
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 13: a weird thing that I haven't really had a chance
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 13: to do yet. But this is definitely an organization that
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 13: has treated me well, coming in, super super warm, welcome,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 13: enjoyed the time with the guys, as the coaches, the
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 13: management have all been super nice. So it's something that
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 13: I'm gonna have to look at really seriously. Obviously it's
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 13: a point in my career where I want to make.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 13: It's gonna be some big decisions. Obviously I want to
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 13: make the right one. So it's a city that I've
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 13: got to know a little bit, didn't know what time
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 13: coming in. Enjoyed my time here, and I feel like
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 13: it's it's definitely spot that I could see myself ending
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 13: up at.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: Where does Lane fit into that Lane Lambert.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, he's a big part. He's a big part in
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 13: me coming here and feeling comfortable. I think because having
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 13: him for a year in Toronto as an assistant, I
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 13: got to know him, so we kind of skipped the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 13: get to know each other part and just jump right
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 13: into the hockey. And then he also was super confident
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 13: in my abilities and super excited to have me here,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 13: and I think that that helped kind of solidify my
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 13: game and kind of the confidence of my game to
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 13: try and play to my strength and play to an
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 13: ability that could contribute to this team. And he was
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 13: really forward with that and understand, I mean that we're
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 13: just gonna get right down to it and try and
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 13: put you to work here. And that was helpful and
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 13: get me acclimated.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: You when you come here and you're and he puts
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: you on the top line. Not always PP one, but
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: you were on the top line. And I mean that's
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: in this situation, and maybe I guess the question would
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: be how much do things like that way into what
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: you want to do or what you will do, because
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: you know, in Seattle you're a top three guy, You're
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: gonna get top line minutes, You're gonna get opportunities with
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: Mattie or whoever like that. The hockey part of it.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: They're not a playoff team this year. Hopefully next year
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: gets back to that and there's a contender like what
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: goes into the hockey side of things because from a
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: hockey standpoint, these guys are gonna give you opportunities and
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: not every team would give you.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think that's a factor in it. I think
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 13: the biggest factor is obviously winning. I think that's that's
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 13: the biggest thing. And then some of the best feelings
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 13: you get in hockey is when you contribute and you're winning.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 13: So if I'm in a role where I can contribute
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 13: every night and have that opportunity, I think that that's
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 13: a massive factor as well. Because I love playing this game,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 13: and I love being a piece of a puzzle that
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 13: has success and a piece of a puzzle that gets
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 13: completed and reaches an ultimate goal at the end of
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 13: the season. So I'd love to be a part of
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 13: that and be a big piece of that for sure.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: Is this team on the right path in your mind?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 13: I think there's a lot of details and small habits
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 13: that are being instilled here that can pay dividends in
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 13: the long run, and not just in one year, but
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 13: in several years.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: Is that a lame thing?
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 13: I think Laane's been trying to establish at like a
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 13: lot of teaching, a lot of understanding that this is
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 13: a younger group, that there is a lot to be learned,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 13: even for veteran guys. I think guys that see the
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 13: game maybe like not many other players in the league,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 13: like Abs, like he sees the game so well.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 7: I think they're still learning and growing.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 13: And he's still such a competitor that he still wants
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 13: to be so much better. And I think that that
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 13: carries all the way down in the group from Lane
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 13: and Ebbs and then all the way down that everybody
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 13: wants to grow and learn those details and be better
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 13: with their habits, and all those things pay off come
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 13: the end of the season and several seasons.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Forward, Bbby McMahon for a couple more moments with us,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: all those things kind of come into play. The city
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, And I talked to Brennam on tour and
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: and just asked him about this, because he obviously came
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: here with Chandler and they signed some pretty healthy contracts,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: and they came here and didn't know a lot.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 7: About the city Seattle.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: The city of Seattle, the fan base has had a
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: chance to recruit you for the last you know, a
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: couple of months, which is good, but again, you didn't
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: know much about it. What about this city is enticing?
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: And can this franchise and more specifically, because the facilities
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: are great, can this city attract NHL free agents and
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: top players?
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think it's hard to get your name out
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 13: there as a new organization.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 7: Vegas had some success.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 13: Luckily right off the bat, so that kind of draws
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 13: guys in and Seattle's Vegas seeing that it's a winning team.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 7: It also helps us Vegas. But I think yeah, with
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 7: the with.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 13: The word and the buzz that the city gets, with
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 13: how pretty it is, I didn't know that there's mountains
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 13: coming in. I really didn't know how visually only the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 13: city was coming in with the water in the mountains
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 13: and everything. I think that's a draw for guys. But
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 13: also seeing how invested the fan base is here, how
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 13: loud they are games, how much they care and want
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 13: to see us win, I think that's a huge factor
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 13: in getting guys here and getting guys to stick around
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 13: for longer deals. And then I also think this organization
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 13: is gaining a bit of a reputation for treating guys well,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 13: and I think that that's another way that you can
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 13: pull guys in. And ownership and management has been trying
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 13: to do a good job since I've been here, and
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 13: I've noticed that and making sure that guys are treated well,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 13: making sure they're taken care of, making sure families are
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 13: taken care of, and that all goes a long way.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 11: And recruiting, Yeah, how is the locker room?
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: How many guys are recruiting you right now? Because that's
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: how it works as well. I know MANI and other
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: guys are like, what's the Listen. Everyone understands, because in
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: every business you want to separate business from that. But
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: the reality is these guys want to win. They know
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: you help them win. So do you have that like guys, Okay, Bobby,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: come on now, let's go.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 7: How does that work?
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, definitely, they've been They've been giving me a
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 13: nudge here and there, trying to give me a stay.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 13: Looks like I'm getting out on the course of with
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 13: some guys. I'm sure they'll be playing some negotiations there.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 13: We're going on a bit of a trip. Nice good
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 13: with some guys Northern Washington. I think, what do you
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 13: play out right now?
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 7: I don't play enough. It's been the hockey season.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 13: But screamed sambag or screaming sandbag, I usually say at ten,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 13: that's usually what I'm going with.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: All right, that's see, that's that's there's people are gonna
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: be wanting strokes, right, That's how it's gonna be. You're
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: gonna try to grobble some strokes for somebody. Who's a stick?
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: Do you think out there?
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 13: I think flour is a stick. He was trying to
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 13: tell me he is a three point four. So anytime
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 13: you're getting into the point, so.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: Your single digit and you're throwing a point in. Yeah,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: because I know what I am. I'm a point, but
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: it ain't single digits.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, I like it.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Some cheese and some strokes along the way. Well, finally,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: it's been great to see you here. Do you expect
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: to make a decision at all before free agency? You
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: didn't try to hit the market.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, I don't really have an answer for that.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 13: It's it all depends on kind of where we can
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 13: get here. Hopefully we could get something done that would
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 13: be great. Yeah, definitely nice to be somewhere that I'm
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 13: familiar with. But yeah, I'm not really taking any negotiations
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 13: right now. I think we'll kind of wait a little
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 13: bit and get into it later.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: Go play some golf, get some strokes, especially from Fleury.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: Get some strokes exactly.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't let them cheese you out of those things,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: and and enjoy your time. Great watching you play here
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: this year. I know fans enjoyed really watching you play
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: as well. Hopefully you found a home here, but if not,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: congratulations on a hell of the season and whatever happens next,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: best to luck to you.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
• 1:41:35
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  Speaker 4: Have a couple of pops, have some good food. Uh
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  Speaker 1: In Rent told, told they got the uh Millan mall
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  Speaker 1: or mall or Millan mock draft coming up at three
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  Speaker 1: o'clock today.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Oh, it's a fabulous time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm looking to text you guys. Anything
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  Speaker 1: jump out at you before I start. Anybody, anybody, anybody
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  Speaker 1: verification code?
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  Speaker 4: So hold on?
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  Speaker 1: Got I know?
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: Uh, well, here there are some that are slightly critical
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: after listening to the Gtailla interview far away here we
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: go building. It's been five years and I see zero improvement.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 4: Records speak for themselves.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: They're better. Oh I don't want to put this. I
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: mean here, you one in year two, you had nobody
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: in your system because you were two drafts in and
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: kids were still eighteen nineteen. You've got more depth in
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: your system, you're a better I mean, the first year
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: that team wasn't very good. Second year they I still
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: can't really sit outside. They had this crazy high shooting percentage,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: which is a stat we don't always use in hockey.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: That was kind of lightning in a bottle, and then
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: they regressed. They're a better hockey team today this year,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: and they're better rostered this year than they were the
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: last two years. Do you think that we got and
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: they're better coached and they're better coach.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 3: We got spoiled right with their playoff push.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: I think there's other expectations that are Vegas doesn't help.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 4: And that in that that playoff in twenty three. That
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: is what I want to It's gonna weird be saying this.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 4: That's what I want to avoid, is where you just
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: have a one off like, oh, this is where we
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 4: are now.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: I want to because because there's a president for that.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: It's three hours north. Vancouver had that a few years ago,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: right exactly. It's a great comparison and they came away.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 4: The other part you're gonna hear and this is where I.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Think fans sometimes get confused, and it just weird talking
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: about talking about it here today. Like Utah is non
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: expansion team, but everyone every time you watch a Utab
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Mammoth playoff game right now, they're being portrayed as an
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: expansion team. Right. All their great draft picks came courtesy
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: of wait for it, tanking years in Arizona. So it's
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: it's yes, that's that's you gotta kind of you know,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: Dylan Gunther's one of their best players. He was, He
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: was Maddie van Ear's draft.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 4: He was drafted.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: Eleventh, ninth, ninth, Yeah, yeah, by the Arizona Coyotes, not
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: the Utah Mammoth. The Utah Mammoth. I'm telling you right now. God,
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: I was just torn last night.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was like all over the place.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: I know, you just feel to me. They feel to
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: me too much. Do the Utah Mammoth like the Oklahoma
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: City Thunder just drive me nuts?
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 4: I bet if you were in Arizona you would feel
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: that way for me, because it does.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: All kind of I kind of feel that way not
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: being in Arizona, because I went through the sonic stuff
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: and I it's I'm looking at Cooley Gunther and these
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: guys going oh, that feels a lot like Durant and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: Westbrook and you know Sergebaka, Sergebaka and Jeff Green and
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: all the way we go. Right, Yeah, I mean, I
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: do you realize west Russell Westbrook, Russell Westbrook and Sirgebaca
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: the last two first round picks by the Seattle super Sonics.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: That is correct. We had a draft. We did a
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: draft press conference and shows at the Frankfurt Toddle Center,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: which is now longer with us. It's now the Bill
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: Gates Foundation. Is that that's that location, and we were
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: there and those guys got drafted that day. I remember
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: arguing with Percy Allen from the Times, I don't think
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think Westbrook's any good. Oh boy, you said
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: you said that? Or okay Oka's good? Argument we had Yeah,
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: I was right, he was wrong. But and listen, I
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: can't say that all that often. But the point is
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: is that we had debate, and we would have been
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: fun to actually talk.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: What.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: No, they never played in Seattle because a week later,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: not even a week later, the team was gone. Anyway,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: continue what else we got?
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, some corrections on our Canadian dollar. It's
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 2: seventy three cents.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 4: Actually it's thirty seven, Well it should be sixty three?
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: Is not wrong? Am I wrong?
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: I said it was a dollar? Yeah, no, I thought
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: you were correct?
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: Wow yeah soon mouth and it was actually really bad mouth?
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  Speaker 1: Is what you're telling me?
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I didn't. I googled the conversion rate
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: and not actually, uh that.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: Was point seventy three US. Yeah, I just checked. Yeah,
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: Tom Condon Dundon, I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I wait, content, Tom Condon?
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: Did I call him Dundon? What I call him?
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 4: His name is Tom Dundon.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about Dundon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I thought.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's his name. I responded to that texter that
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: is literally his name.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what the hell?
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom, I.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: Just confused me. Did I get that wrong?
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: Oh? Ian, we got a text eight four three?
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: See lives rent free on kJ R. I wonder where
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 4: that ARIA code's from? Block him?
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  Speaker 14: What?
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 4: Oh South Carolina? Actually interesting?
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, Tom Condon was a former football players, like
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: an offensive lineman and yeah for a long time.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: No, don't don't listen. Don't try to correct me. When
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: you're the one that he's corrected. I'll make listen. I
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: will make enough mistakes on my own. I don't need help.
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  Speaker 9: Don't try to.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: Confuse me, all right, don't try to confuse me. The
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: thirty two bar and grill uh building, and I see
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: zero improvement? Was he talking about the crack of the building?
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: KJR building? Although do we have power back?
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: We do?
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: We do, we do.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: Although the sales team rightfully so bounced as soon as
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: their laptops were going to die.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: They couldn't plug them in anywhere.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: I have to leave before you get the power back. Also,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 4: you can't have an excuse to leave.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, John Percival, nice thing. We don't have to recap
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: the interview. He got that way out in front of
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: that I did. That was last Friday. I did, thank you,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: well done, well done.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tom Sa Speaking of pushing on bruises, did you
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: see how the m E. T A's Mets Mets Mets
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: lost their twelve straight game.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: I just saw they lost their twelve straight I don't know.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: Well, here we go the same person.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 2: How do Mets manage to snatch defeat from the jaws
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: of victory?
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 3: What's their mantra? Refused to win? Or maybe two outs?
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: Give up?
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: Yes? All those things?
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ken confirmed.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: Two five three after hearing that interview, watching him play
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon is a must have. Yeah, he's a fun
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: guy to talk to you. Definitely very honest. Like I said,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: hopefully cal Fury gives him some strokes and he's happy
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: about Seattle and comes back. So come on, good honestly,
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: team here, come on if you're just looking a pretty
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: good sign that he's been here for what a month
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: and a half, yep, and he's on a golf trip
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys from the cracket. Yeah.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: But by the way, definitely did not pre record that
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: interview last week and thought we played it live, but
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: we didn't.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely didn't record it on Friday and recap
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: it on Friday when I forgot that we played it that.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: We Sorry, I just had to get I had to
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: give that one. I just.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: God, that was that was like that was like an
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: all time old man moment when I started doing that
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: with Andrews. What do you think about it?
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: You had just talked to him like it makes sense
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 3: from some of.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: Them sometimes sometimes it does. Just so you know, the
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: murders suck. Okay, are we sure?
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 9: We sure?
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: Are we sure?
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 3: Mode yet?
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: Speaking of your school days. I wish you would have
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: beat up Bobby a couple of times. He'd be better
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: for it. Uh, Bobby Ferguson, I only went to school
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: with Ferguson twice. I wasn't the beat up kind of guy.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 4: No, No, I was a nice guy. I'm a very
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: nice guy.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: Listen, I tell you this. I I listen Bobby Ferguson
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: being in power. He had four years at Blanchet. I
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: blame all those people Blanchet.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 4: Wow, Okay, I see how it is.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: And again we just point out he's a Blanchet guy.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: So you want to compet it on the state. This
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: is a Blanchet all right. This is not an O
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: Day issue. This is not a cap issue. This is
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent not a st AND's issues, undred percent
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: a Blanchet issue. Yes, student Bonnie president Blanchet, you know,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: student body president? You do, Bobby Ferguson, I wonder if
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: he tried to implement like a school sales tax.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: See that's why I think it's more of a you
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: dub issue than a Blanchet.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: You think so I like that. I like agree on that.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see how to you guy, I can. Yeah,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: I'll agree upon that. You know what, Robert Ferguson is
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: Udub's fault problem. Yeah, you guys do you guys deserve
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: all the blame for that? Gosh? Oh lord, all right?
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: Anything else here? Do we have a Keith Keith Miller today?
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: No, we have a couple.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always a Keith Miller.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: Keith Miller will find me a Keith.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: I'll do one of them, justing to the other one
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 4: two five three, Keith. If the masses think Arizona wants
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 4: to hop the Jets to get a QB, why not
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 4: squeeze the Jets from more draft capital. Those os for
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 4: the Jamal Adams deal.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: They do always for Jamal they really do, they do?
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: They true? That is true?
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: Keith also also wondering did you ever get a penance
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 2: for the sinners yesterday? I think he should have to
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: listen to a Nicaraguan pickleball podcast. Paul and Andrews gets
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: oiler fan Kate as his phone screensaver for a month
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: and for their transgression.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: Kate the one that got naked, Yes, that took her
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: shirt off. Yes, yes, it's not a bad punishment, was it?
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: Nicaraguan pickleball podcast? I think he's making fun of basketball
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 2: in the Philippines.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: Well, here's a funny thing. I know a guy that
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see in about an hour and a half.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: I played golf with that. He wagers on table tennis
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: out of Pakistan.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Yes.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 4: You can do that. You can have should do that.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: That is, can you make a podcast about it? He's
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: not well spoken, but and I just think that's I
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: try to point out to my I said, listen, I
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: know there's nothing to bet on that day when you're
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: going to the casino, but I think you got a problem,
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: if you got a massive problem, to be honest with you, fella.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna head over to Dinos in a
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: second check in with the the pregame show for the
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: Mallar Millan Millon Maller Mock Draft. Next, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: this is the first time you're gonna hear from Dino's
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: Pub for the twenty eighth annual Mauler Millon Millon Maller
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: Mock Draft. I think he may not be on Mike
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  Speaker 1: just yet. Oh my god. That's great.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 4: He asked me how much time I was left in
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 4: the break About a minute a half go, I said
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 4: about a minute and half.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: He's a productshit all for not.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 3: I mean he'd be socializing at Dino's.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'll probably getting himself on Tito's and SODA's
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: what he's doing.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, he wouldn't do that.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: There's no chance a true professional like that guy. Yeah, right,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: there's no chance he'd be doing that. So the the
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: the draft mock draft coming up in just a couple
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: of minutes at three o'clock day, twenty eighth time that
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: they've done. This is what I heard. I guess there
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: was a there's a there's always a controversy of his
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: Is it twenty seven is a twenty eight? I remember
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: having this conversation last year. Yeah, is it twenty six?
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: Is it twenty seven? Is twenty eight years? And are you?
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 4: I am twenty eight years old? Wow, nineteen ninety seven.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 3: Maybe his birth was the inspiration.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: Think about that? Anderson, what do we call it? Would
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: you call him earlier? Jess?
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 4: The first bell it was Ben What do they call you,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 4: the Duke of Hurst or something like that?
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: Duke of Hurst? Yes, I like that.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: I like that, Sir Andrew duer Hurst or something.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: You were born the first year. What's your when's your birthday?
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety seven?
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: No, I know what's what's the birth third? June?
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 11: Third?
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you had not even been born yet when
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: they had this for the first time at Ozzie's. I
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: think he said it was Ozzie's the first time they
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: had that SOFTI there, I'm here. So did you hear
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: that the first I didn't hear any of it?
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 9: Okay, so are you?
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: My name is Hugh Millin.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 4: How are check check check?
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: SAFTI there? We can't hear you?
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 5: What two one?
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: So if I get nobody to plays that game better
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: than me, Now, nobody plays it better than You're not
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: going to trick me into that game. Well, if I
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: get this correct, If I get this correct, yes, the
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: first one was twenty eight years ago at Ozzie's.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 9: I think it was Ozzie's first one at Ozzie's.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 15: You think over Queen Anne, Hugh, you remember where it
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 15: was twenty eight years ago?
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 9: Where was our first draft?
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 5: Any idea?
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, go ahead and jump on the heads.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: Jump on the hell what am I brought you for?
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  Speaker 1: I brought that up for this reason. I thought our
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  Speaker 1: producer Anderson Hurst was not even born yet.
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  Speaker 9: That's right. That's right. Well, when you're fifteen years old,
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  Speaker 9: a lot of stuff happened.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's true.
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  Speaker 9: I think you may be right here.
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  Speaker 15: The first one of this that we ever did happened
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  Speaker 15: in the studio way back in the day. Was that
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  Speaker 15: would have been that would have been three point fifty. No,
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  Speaker 15: that would have been h one ninety Queen Anne, right,
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  Speaker 15: the old Bunker. Yeah, yeah, because you never worked at
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  Speaker 15: the old Bunker?
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  Speaker 1: Did you eat?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I was, I came to three. I I waited till
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  Speaker 1: you guys got the three fifty one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: That that that that was the bomb shelter we ever
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  Speaker 15: got attacked. That's where we were all going one, Queen Anne,
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  Speaker 15: that thing was bulletproof, man. But I think he was
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  Speaker 15: right the first one we ever did, and I think
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  Speaker 15: we had did we have media people join us for
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  Speaker 15: that one? I think we had media people all over yea,
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  Speaker 15: all over the country. And then nobody would call in
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  Speaker 15: and Sam Meyer would have to go on the air
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  Speaker 15: and just impersonate these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's a mic from Arizona.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, I'm all take I'm gonna go with Donovan mcnaem,
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  Speaker 15: Sarahcuse quarterback.
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  Speaker 9: I mean that's who it was.
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  Speaker 1: Did you actually do a show? Did you do a
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  Speaker 1: draft at Aussie's or not?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: We did, we did.
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  Speaker 15: We did a couple of drafts to Ausi's. We've done
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  Speaker 15: car We've done Ausi's, We've done the Queen Ann Beer Hall,
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  Speaker 15: We've done Dino's.
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  Speaker 9: A bunch. I don't know, man, I lose track.
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  Speaker 1: I was asked.
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  Speaker 15: I was a It's like it's like the PGA Championship
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  Speaker 15: just floating around the forever courses around the country.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I was new guy KJR doing a
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  Speaker 1: night show and you asked me to be the commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: which Dick Fan will fill in be fantastic at today.
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  Speaker 1: And we did it at a bar in Fremont that
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  Speaker 1: no longer exists. It was like some yes, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I think it's the name of the bar. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've been all over the place, man. But anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was a great honor. By the way, I took
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  Speaker 1: it as a great honor that day. You shouldn't have,
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  Speaker 1: really I did.
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  Speaker 9: I thought it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: A new guy, and you know, so think about that.
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  Speaker 1: That was nineteen years ago.
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  Speaker 5: The right.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, we Uh, we've decided you and I that
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  Speaker 15: we're gonna do two more years of this and then
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  Speaker 15: we're done.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, We're going to thirty and we're finished. I'm
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: sick of him, he's sick of me. Enough enough of Listen.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, right, that can't happen. And here's why
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  Speaker 1: I got the divorce lawyer on light. That can't happen,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: because if that does happen, Yeah, then what's going to
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: happen is Purple Sheet is going to make somebody else
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't want to be that guy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no work involved in this at all. Listen, I
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  Speaker 1: know it what fall in line with how you do
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  Speaker 1: things anyway. So we know why I'm telling you I
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  Speaker 1: don't want that to happen is because I know I
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: know the amount of work you put into it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the situation. So, uh, you guys do
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: do a ton of work, are you good? Yeah?
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  Speaker 15: The worst thing about this is coming down for the
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  Speaker 15: pregame for the mock draft, which is about two hours long.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and uh, you know, yeah, we've already had.
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  Speaker 1: A couple Oh really, it's weird what they're doing out
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  Speaker 1: here at the bar we're all we're all in a
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  Speaker 1: good mood.
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  Speaker 9: Man, Well right, we're all in a good mood.
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  Speaker 1: Really. The only people that kind of have to keep
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  Speaker 1: it in check would be Faine when he announces the
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  Speaker 1: picks and Hugh when he destroys the picks that are making,
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  Speaker 1: which will.
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  Speaker 15: He'll destroy somebody and then that team will take that
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  Speaker 15: guy tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Billy Price drafted.
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  Speaker 15: What year was Billy Price drafted by the Bengals, whatever
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  Speaker 15: year it was, twenty twenty maybe I don't know, but
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  Speaker 15: we had a guy, some poor bastard came down here
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  Speaker 15: to a Dinos and selected Billy Price to the Bengals.
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  Speaker 5: And I think you made him.
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  Speaker 11: Cry ruin from you, Jesse, you weigh in as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, And I don't know if anders can.
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  Speaker 9: I need a rule in that music, by the way,
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  Speaker 9: that says that we gotta go over. So if a
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  Speaker 9: guy comes in.
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  Speaker 7: Any and he with the tenth pick, he picks the
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  Speaker 7: Cardinals to take.
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  Speaker 16: Josh Rosen right right, and I killed the guy right right? Okay,
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  Speaker 16: because what do you take Josh right? And then the
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  Speaker 16: next day the Cardinals take Josh Rosen?
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  Speaker 1: Correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Who's right?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've got an answer in retrospect.
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  Speaker 1: In retrospect, it was you to criticize it because Josh
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  Speaker 1: Rosen was a horrible pick.
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  Speaker 14: My answer would be you could say they're both right, right,
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  Speaker 14: because wait, we don't give the prize out like who
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  Speaker 14: we think the guy is most closely?
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  Speaker 1: Uh hit, what the team's gonna do.
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  Speaker 9: We give the prize out for what's the best pick?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here's what's fair.
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  Speaker 9: You know what, you know. It's not your turn to
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  Speaker 9: talk yet. All right, just wait until three o'clock.
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  Speaker 15: All right, the headset people come down here, they make selections,
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  Speaker 15: and we rip them.
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  Speaker 9: That's not gonna happen. There's no way in hell now
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  Speaker 9: you can.
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  Speaker 15: Say, like, hey, that's a horrible pick, and if that
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  Speaker 15: happens tomorrow, I'm gonna rip the team for doing it.
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  Speaker 9: But you fried the guy.
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  Speaker 15: For like you you you you acted like the guy
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  Speaker 15: was dead forgotten.
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  Speaker 11: No, no, I acted like it was.
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  Speaker 14: And by the way, the Billy Price that you're talking
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 14: about five years in the league, four teams with a
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  Speaker 14: terrible it was in the bottom ten percent of PFF
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  Speaker 14: grades every time.
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  Speaker 1: So guess what.
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  Speaker 14: But the Bengals if they knew what what we know now,
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  Speaker 14: do you think they would to take him.
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  Speaker 9: Hell no, knowing them, they probably would be you know.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, I know somebody like like, this is got to
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  Speaker 16: make sense to somebody.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is this. I've got from from North
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  Speaker 1: Gates to Maple Valley. I got a long ass commute. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited because I believe that you guys will
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: be this way for the next Here's the thing we
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: just for segment.
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  Speaker 15: We got nothing left to talk about. This is all
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  Speaker 15: we were going to talk about at three o'clock. So
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  Speaker 15: let's just get right to the pics. Raiders on the
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  Speaker 15: clock next.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the raiders are the clock. The Maller millon
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  Speaker 1: million Maller mock draft coming up standby.
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  Speaker 3: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
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  Speaker 9: This is Paddled Day saying so long everyone,