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6-3 H1: M's On Fire & Seahawks OTAs · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that compared to Boye mafe in the
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  Speaker 1: choice that the Seahawks made. We'll talk about also how
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  Speaker 1: far the Seahawks have come all over the roster since
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  Speaker 1: the OTA's last year twelve years ago, at this twelve
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  Speaker 1: months ago, at this time. It's a stark difference when
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  Speaker 1: you go down the roster and the positions to where
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  Speaker 1: they were this time last year to where they are now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, they won the Super Bowl and that would
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  Speaker 1: suggest what they did last year is right, but not
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  Speaker 1: only did the differences, but how remarkably the same the
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  Speaker 1: continuity they've had from this at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl on February eighth to the start of these OTAs.
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  Speaker 1: We'll detail all of that. We'll talk about the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the Mariner's lineup, keeping the Mariners winning streak going
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  Speaker 1: from unlikely sources.
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  Speaker 2: Last night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also discuss I mentioned this a few times and
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  Speaker 1: Chris is tired of hearing it, but the Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 1: Finals on Sportsnet CBC the viewing experience compared to ab
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  Speaker 1: ESPN or TNT last year for the final, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just night and day.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a completely different sporting viewing experience. We'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a taste of that and describe the difference between
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  Speaker 1: the two broadcasts, and of coursh We're fortunate here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: I've mentioned him many times.
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna spend here at pay the five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred dollars when it seems like Comcast charges you
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  Speaker 1: for gable these days per month here in Seattle. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: the what makes it worth it is having CBC out
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  Speaker 1: of Vancouver channel ninety nine and six nineteen HD to
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  Speaker 1: watch the Stanley Cup Finals Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sportsnet CBC.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that at eleven o'clock. As I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Nate Atkins, Rams beat writer for the Athletic a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on with the Rams, the Seahawks' biggest obstacle to
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  Speaker 1: getting back to the Super Bowl, making massive moves. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people on the text line four nine, four
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  Speaker 1: to five one at the Comadots text line asking the
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  Speaker 1: last few is how do the Rams afford all this?
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  Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about how they afford Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett and his low base salary for the.
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  Speaker 2: Next couple of years. But Nate Atkins will talk.
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  Speaker 1: About that and we'll talk to him about how the
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  Speaker 1: Rams kick the can down the road, salary cap wise,
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  Speaker 1: draft pick wise, and are all in again all in
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  Speaker 1: for Matthew Stafford's age thirty eight season. We'll talk with
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  Speaker 1: Nate Adkins at eleven o'clock eleven thirty. We'll read back
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  Speaker 1: your text four ninety four five to one, as we
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  Speaker 1: always do.
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  Speaker 2: So what was your sports viewing last night? Chris Mariners?
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  Speaker 2: I guess or do we just with the wife chilling
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  Speaker 2: those Mariners? They are?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's been fun.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about it, I want to say, perhaps two
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, about where this team is and where they
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  Speaker 4: should be headed going against teams that aren't as good
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  Speaker 4: as them, and there are multiple reasons to be optimistic
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  Speaker 4: about this team, and there's some reasons that I think
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  Speaker 4: you can stay cautious. And one of those reasons I
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  Speaker 4: think we talk about have talked about in the past
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  Speaker 4: a lot, is about the home run situation. They've hit
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  Speaker 4: twenty one home runs in eight games, and that's not sustainable.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm hoping they can find a way to get
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  Speaker 4: on base and get RBIs driving runs in as opposed.
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  Speaker 3: To hitting homers.
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  Speaker 4: So the best offenses I think will cool off eventually
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  Speaker 4: and hopefully the Mariners can get on base and get
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  Speaker 4: hits as opposed to smacking the ball at the park,
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  Speaker 4: which is exciting and fun as we played through it
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  Speaker 4: in the headlines. But I'm looking at it for the
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  Speaker 4: long haul. Can this team manufacturer runs outside of home runs?
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  Speaker 1: You're right, that is the dark cloud on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: Better pitching, better teams can shut down an offense that
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  Speaker 1: just hits home runs. Of course, the flip side of
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  Speaker 1: it is, if you've got a one five ERA from
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  Speaker 1: your starting pitchers and you're only giving up a couple
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  Speaker 1: runs a game, perhaps you can win this way, but
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  Speaker 1: it isn't over the long haul proven to be sustainable
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  Speaker 1: to win that way. But this team has done this
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  Speaker 1: largely over the last couple of seasons the same way. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you, Chris on the home run dependent offense.
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  Speaker 1: They got home runs last night from two really unlikely heroes.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Patrick Wisdom that home run last night, the
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  Speaker 1: second inning into the bullpen into Edgards canteena there beyond
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  Speaker 1: left field. That was his first major league home run
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  Speaker 1: since September twenty twenty four, when he was a Chicago Cup.
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  Speaker 1: He spent last year playing professionally in Korea all the
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  Speaker 1: twenty five season, what even in the major leagues last year,
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  Speaker 1: so that was his first time for a major league
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  Speaker 1: home run in two seasons. Then Johnny Parreda up from
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  Speaker 1: Tacoma because of the injury to Kyle Rawley. Parreto, of course,
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  Speaker 1: splitting time with Mitch Garver. They pretty much alternate days
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  Speaker 1: as the catcher while Rawley's on the injured list. Parada's
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  Speaker 1: three run homer man that was ilew the game open.
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  Speaker 1: It was four to two games at that point when
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  Speaker 1: he hit it in the sixth thing. It was his
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  Speaker 1: only Parada's second home run in sixty major league games
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  Speaker 1: across a few seasons, including from the Miami Marlins, Florida Marlins,
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  Speaker 1: and then Julia Rodriguez again, thirteenth home run of the season,
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  Speaker 1: his eleventh home run since the start of May. But
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  Speaker 1: it was the bottom of the lineup yesterday. The bottom
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  Speaker 1: four of the lineup last night don Can Zone, Patrick Wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: John Rookie cold Emerson. They went eight for fifteen, with
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  Speaker 1: five of the Mariners seven RBIs. Five of their eight
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  Speaker 1: runs scored last night from the bottom four in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Chris mentioned the heavy dependents on the home run and
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  Speaker 1: the twenty one home runs during this eight game winning streak.
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  Speaker 1: That's contributed to the Mariners ops of eight eight seven
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  Speaker 1: during the win streak, But they also have a team
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  Speaker 1: ERA of one point nine to two, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: there's a run differential a plus thirty during this win streak.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can get an ra hunder two, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to scratch out more than two runs to
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  Speaker 1: win games like that. Their defense has improved. Yes, some
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  Speaker 1: of the competition has been sub and including the Athletics,
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  Speaker 1: who we all know are not a first place team.
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  Speaker 1: And now the Mets come in here. They've been dysfunctional
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  Speaker 1: all year with the massive payroll but no results. This
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  Speaker 1: is Chris. We talked about this at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the end of last week. The opportunity here. How long
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  Speaker 1: is this winning streak going to? Oh twelve, fourteen games?
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners play the last place Mets again today, could
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  Speaker 1: get the streak to nine. George Kirby on the Hill.
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  Speaker 1: They're off tomorrow, they fly to Michigan. They've have a
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  Speaker 1: three game series against Detroit where the Tigers are fourteen
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  Speaker 1: games under five hundred. We talked about Derek Scoogle in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he may get traded if he does come back early
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  Speaker 1: from his elbow surgery. They've been in last place most
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Tigers after their division title series and
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  Speaker 1: division series in Seattle last fall, then the Mariners. After
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  Speaker 1: the Tigers play the Orioles in Baltimore. They're also under
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  Speaker 1: five hundred. The Oriels have been at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the al least most of the season.
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  Speaker 2: That's six more games on top.
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  Speaker 1: Of the you would hope nine game winning streak they
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  Speaker 1: take into Detroit and then the Mariners finish off the
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  Speaker 1: three city road trip at Washington. The Nationals have lost
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  Speaker 1: two in a row. They're right at five hundred, ten
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  Speaker 1: and a half games out in the National League East. Chris,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this at the time for the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: to make their move, and they have in eight days,
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  Speaker 1: eight wins. They've gone from two and a half back
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  Speaker 1: to two and a half up, a five games swing
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  Speaker 1: in the division. Suddenly Texas is playing better, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to take much more winning for the managers
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  Speaker 1: to open up a sizeable lead here.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, this eight game win streak I don't think has
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  Speaker 4: been fluky. I guess is the word I'll use, especially
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  Speaker 4: on the close proximity for some of these games some
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  Speaker 4: of the wins they've had. Seattle is winning on a
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  Speaker 4: few different ways. Whether it's power hitting, which we talked
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  Speaker 4: about the Homers. You have quality starting pitching, which has
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  Speaker 4: always been a plus for this team, strong bullpen work
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  Speaker 4: as well, and even extra inning games so even when
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  Speaker 4: it gets late tenth inning or whatever, the managers are
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  Speaker 4: still able to find a way to win. And as
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned, the pitching has just been amazing. They are,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken, under era under two over an
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  Speaker 4: eight game stretch, and that's impressive, and I think that's
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  Speaker 4: something they can do for a little bit longer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping so at least.
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  Speaker 4: And the offense, also, I don't think is relying on Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we have our superstar right now and Julio he's carrying this.
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  Speaker 4: It's multiple different players, so that's really cool to see
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  Speaker 4: and let's just hope that it continues. I mean, even
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  Speaker 4: guys like Patrick Wisdom stepping up and Johnny Peretta, those
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  Speaker 4: are really key components to why this streak is happening.
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  Speaker 4: Granted they're playing against not good teams right now, but
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  Speaker 4: this is what you'd want to see from a good
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  Speaker 4: team taking on a bat team. You want to see
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  Speaker 4: them handle bins, winning eight to three, making it look
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  Speaker 4: really easy. And hope they get to sweep this afternoon
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  Speaker 4: and you move on to the next series and continue
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  Speaker 4: playing some good baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Fourtnite, four five one. How long is this streak going
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  Speaker 2: to go?
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  Speaker 1: I just laid out the last place team, pretty much
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  Speaker 1: last place team in Detroit. That's the next four games,
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  Speaker 1: Mets and Tigers and then the Orioles. They get to twelve. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I excite you about this manners win streak? What sustainable?
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  Speaker 1: And how concerned are you about this home run reliance?
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  Speaker 1: And four nine four to five one. We'll read back
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  Speaker 1: to text at eleven thirty. So when you get out
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  Speaker 1: to the yard, Chris, if you've been to a game
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  Speaker 1: this season.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was going to go yesterday, but I had
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  Speaker 4: a meeting with a friend and we just caught up
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  Speaker 4: and grabbed lunch. So I missed it going to the
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  Speaker 4: game live, but was still able to catch it on TV.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know if I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: I like being at the crib and enjoying the game
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  Speaker 4: inside quiet, eating when I want, using the restroom. Going
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  Speaker 4: to games is just you know, it's a little chaotic
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  Speaker 4: for you boy, unless it just depends. So I'll probably
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  Speaker 4: end up going to a game at some point this year.
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  Speaker 4: But I do enjoy being at the crib and just
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  Speaker 4: grabbing a hogdog at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they make it easy for television, but you go
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  Speaker 1: ton A on your way home twelve forty starting to Mattinee,
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  Speaker 1: it won't be quite as many people.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eight thousand last night.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Mariners are a couple thousand up
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  Speaker 1: on their average attendance home games over last season. It's
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  Speaker 1: I think the latest I looked at was like thirty
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  Speaker 1: five thousand and thirty four thousand a game, up a
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  Speaker 1: couple thousand over last year. And that's with the weather
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  Speaker 1: not being great, cooler, and that's with kids in school.
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  Speaker 1: It's only going to go up. They've got fire Night's
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for the next few Friday night home games. They
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  Speaker 1: had one last weekend that forty three thousand we're in
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  Speaker 1: the yard for. And now you got the first place team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there I was in thirty four thousand with
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  Speaker 1: a team that was really middling, and now here there
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  Speaker 1: in first place. So the Mariners at the box office
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  Speaker 1: there is another success, which is chicken and the egg thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to spend the extra money and they
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  Speaker 1: haven't shown the willingness to in the offseason add to
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  Speaker 1: payroll when they do get added revenue. But they have
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  Speaker 1: made the splash moves at the trade dead nine. We
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  Speaker 1: talked yesterday to Luke Arkins about that. We've talked to
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  Speaker 1: a couple of people about We talked to Gary Hill
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  Speaker 1: Junior last Friday about the Mariners. Pretty much the clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: expecting the Mariners to make a move before the trade
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  Speaker 1: deadline on July thirty first. But maybe it's as yesterday
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  Speaker 1: Luke Arkans said, perhaps incremental or supplemental pieces rather than
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  Speaker 1: the big splash Randy Rose Arena, Luis Castillo, Josh Naylor
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  Speaker 1: type trades that Jerry Depoto's pulled off the last few
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  Speaker 1: trade deadlines. Look, it's easy to say now with an
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  Speaker 1: eight game winning streak, but what would you add too?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you maybe a veteran presence in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Spier's back, but maybe you need Gabe Spier and
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  Speaker 1: Bat Brash are back, but maybe another veteran set up
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  Speaker 1: in the bullpen. You don't need another starting pitcher because
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  Speaker 1: he got six healthy ones right now and they don't
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  Speaker 1: have room to pitch all six of them without piggybacking
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  Speaker 1: and six men rotation stuff. We've talked about Brendan Donovan
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  Speaker 1: when he comes back, the log jam in the infield,
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  Speaker 1: and what you do with JP Crawford. Do you keep
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  Speaker 1: Colet Emerson where he is at third base Donovan because
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  Speaker 1: of his lingering issues from sports hernia surgery? Do you
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  Speaker 1: make him more of a d H which is what
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  Speaker 1: Luke Arkins on our show yesterday suggested. So you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: think they need to add more defenders in the infield.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't think that you need to add more in
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  Speaker 1: the outfield when you already have Rayley and road Blaze
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  Speaker 1: platooning and can zone platooning at DHA. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like as long as their offense can continue
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  Speaker 1: to produce consistently, with especially guys at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup, it seems like, Chris, where do you add?
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  Speaker 1: Where does the splash move at the trade deadline? Jerry
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  Speaker 1: to Poto is so famous for where does that happen? Man?
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  Speaker 4: That is the big question. I would say, get another
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  Speaker 4: bat just because of the injuries and everything going on,
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  Speaker 4: it would be nice to have more depth now. Not
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  Speaker 4: to discredit the guys that we mentioned that are playing
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  Speaker 4: well now, but when they go up against a better unit,
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  Speaker 4: how will they fare then? So I think if you
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  Speaker 4: can get a bat that you can rely on when
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  Speaker 4: someone gets banged up, I think that would be the
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  Speaker 4: route to go.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe another pitch or two.
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  Speaker 4: Especially with Castillo, everyone is raving and ranting about his play.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's been fine, but I do know there
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  Speaker 4: is room to improve, So I think that's an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to really get some depth there. So I'd say a
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  Speaker 4: bat and maybe another pitcher. I think those two things
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  Speaker 4: you can never go wrong with, and hope that this
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  Speaker 4: team can go in a nice long run going to
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  Speaker 4: the postseason for twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Louise Castillo has stepped it up since they went into
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  Speaker 1: this piggyback mode and it seemed like his place in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle was threatened. He has come on, he has responded
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  Speaker 1: to it. Still a lot of walks for his liking,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, he's had a couple now starts three in
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  Speaker 1: a row now of two or fewer earned runs allowed.
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  Speaker 1: He had a four innings shut out two hits against
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  Speaker 1: the A's when he threw a tantrum, and rightly so
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  Speaker 1: in the dugout when they took him out after four
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  Speaker 1: scoreless innings because they apparently hadn't communicated to him or
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  Speaker 1: to Bryce Miller when they were going to use him.
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  Speaker 1: But in this piggyback with Luis Castile, it's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: look at his pitch counts fifty four when he came
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  Speaker 1: in relief the first time of Bryce Miller against the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, that start against the A's when he had
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  Speaker 1: only two hits and no runs all out through four innings,
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  Speaker 1: and they yanked him anyway seventy one when he got
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  Speaker 1: five innings and at least got the win ending the
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  Speaker 1: final five innings against the Diamondbacks on Sunday when Miller
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  Speaker 1: started in the game won ten innings. So while they
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  Speaker 1: want to keep them the most Miller in Castillo stretched out,
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  Speaker 1: it's not like they have had starter usual starter workload
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  Speaker 1: pitch count wise or innings wise, and Castillo has so
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  Speaker 1: far responded to that two Urn runs alout, no Urn
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  Speaker 1: runs a out and one Aron run all out and
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  Speaker 1: the three starts since they started the piggyback, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: where that goes Again, The Mariners, as we mentioned, have
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  Speaker 1: sixteen games in seventeen days, which that has them thinking
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  Speaker 1: that maybe they'll go to a six man rotation to
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  Speaker 1: give every starter an extra day's rest rather than piggybacking
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  Speaker 1: Castillo and Miller on the same day. So they still
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  Speaker 1: have six starters for five spots basically, and they may
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  Speaker 1: just use all six of them and stretch everybody out
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  Speaker 1: on an extra day's rest. Four nine, four to five
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  Speaker 1: to one. Again, what do you feel like the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: could add at the trade deadline? Should add at the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline? And what if there are any rain clouds
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  Speaker 1: ahead the home run reliance? Will cal Rawley return? When
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  Speaker 1: will he return? Will he become cal Rawley again? When
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  Speaker 1: he returns. We'll readback your texting at the comodods text
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  Speaker 1: line at eleven thirty, as we do every day. Up
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  Speaker 1: next here from Seahawks headquarters, Let's talk about the OTAs
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  Speaker 1: now versus the OTAs twelve months ago when I was
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  Speaker 1: sitting here doing Seahawks offseason practices. It is really stark
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  Speaker 1: the difference between then and now, and not just because
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  Speaker 1: they won a Super Bowl. We're gonna go down through
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  Speaker 1: the roster and talk about the differences. Eleven o'clock, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to Los Angeles and talk about the dreaded Rams.
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  Speaker 1: Reloading with Nate Atkins, beat writer of the Lams for
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  Speaker 1: the Athletic All that's coming up at ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 5: Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd on your
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  Speaker 5: home for the Huskies, Krackett and the twelfth Man Sports
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, home of
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks along Lake Washington here in Renton, where they.
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  Speaker 2: Have Organized Team Activities practice. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 2: just don't call it. OTA's what they call them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they was called OPS for off
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  Speaker 1: season practices, because that's really what they are. But it's
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  Speaker 1: off organized team activities. This week and next week the
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  Speaker 1: last week and this week were the two OTA weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Next week the mandatory mini camp, the only mandatory event
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: of the entire offseason for the Seahawks, with three practices Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: and then they're done. They're off until the end of
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: July on the start of training camp. The big news
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: today here at Seahawks headquarters. Derek Hall. He signed his
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: three year contract extension ties into the team through twenty
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: twenty nine. He's got a forty two million dollars contract
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: with twenty one million dollars guaranteed.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Chris.
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  Speaker 1: That's six million per year less than the Bengals signed
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  Speaker 1: boy Mafey for.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a deal if you're the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: You got a guy who you think can be a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: better three down player, who supports the run better and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: fits what Mike McDonald wants to do with an outside
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  Speaker 1: linebacker better for six million dollars less per year.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a win for Seattle too.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely a win for this roster that is looking to
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: build something. They Mike McDonald the defense. They believe that
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Derek Hall is He is going to be phenomenal for
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: years to come, and that's why they made that move.
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  Speaker 3: It's no surprise.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: We talked a little bit about it yesterday and some
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: of the plays that Derek Hall was able to make
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: and the reps that he got.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Boy Mafy had about.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: One hundred snaps more, and yet Derek Hall was still
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: making impact plays on the same realm as Boya who
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: had more snap so here given this guy more opportunity
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: to play some good football with a good defense.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: He seems to be a locker room guy that ayone
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: loved that.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I've never heard anything bad about Derek Hall, So you're
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: just keeping someone around that that fits what everything's going on.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Not to say that boy A didn't, but when you
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: look at where this team wants to go, they believe
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Derek Hall is definitely someone they got to keep around.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: And again, he's shown so many flashes he is.
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  Speaker 4: He's really good. So I think it was a no brainer.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people probably are like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: why would they pay him that much money? He only
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: had four sacks. Don't just look at the raw numbers.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: There's more to it than just what he's done numbers wise.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: You have to understand that he stops the run, which
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: is not a you don't see stats like, oh, he had,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: you know, thirteen stops in a game or something crazy
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: like that, But that's what Derek Hall can do. He
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: can stop the run, he can get out for the quarterback. Hell,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: he even drops in the coverage. I'm not saying he's
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: an elite at that or anything, but there are times
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: where Mike McDonald gets creative and he puts guys in
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: different positions, and I think Derek Hall just fits what
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald in this defense wants to be and where
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: they're going.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: They made their choice. It was Boy mafe or Derek Hall.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Is there outside linebacker the future they had drafted that
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: they wanted to re sign. This time last year, they
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: didn't know that they were still trying to make their choice.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Mafey was ending the final year of his contract OTA's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: this time last year, twelve months ago, June twenty twenty five,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: they didn't know who DeMarcus Lawrence was for them.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Really, he had.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Eleven previous years with the Cowboys as a defensive end.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: They were trying him at outside linebacker during offseason practices
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: last year. Last year twenty twenty five, they weren't sure
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: what they had in him yet. Last year at this time,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they weren't sure how Byron Murphy was going to get
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a bigger role.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: How would they use him?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Was he able to rush the quarterback to stay on
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the field on third downs. Mike McDonald really didn't know
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: how he was going to employ Nick Emon Worry as
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a rookie. He had visions of Kyle Hamilton and using
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: him in multiple ways, but he didn't really know how
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: much nick Emon Warry in June of twenty twenty five
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: would be able to absorb in all that McDonald wanted
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to use him when and then McDonald and John Schneider
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: were beginning the process twelve months ago of just trying
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to decide what whether it be Reek Wallen or Josh
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Job as the cornerback they wanted to resign beyond twenty
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: twenty five as the starter opposite of Devin Witherspoon. This
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: time last year, Drake Thomas and Tyle Cotter were special
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: teams players on the practice squad, no factors at all
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in the defense on offense this time last year, Remember,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: they had just traded Gino Smith and DK Metcalf. They
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: were a couple practices in in June to twenty twenty
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: five of Sam Donald being their new quarterback, and they hedged.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: They so much didn't know what Sam Donald was that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: they hedged and brought back Drew Locke on a two
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: year contract locks again back this year, but they brought
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a starter, a veteran NFL starter back that had been
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: with the Seahawks for the years at the end of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the Gino Smith regime, and they brought him back because
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: they weren't sure what Sam Donald would be for them
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: twelve months ago. They weren't sure what Cooper Cup had
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: left after the Rams had discarded him in the offseason
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, Jackson, Smith and Jigba had never been
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in the role he was entering this time last year
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: as a number one wide receive On the offensive line.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: It's like night and day there.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Abe Lucas was still coming off a knee surgery this
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: time last year, not sure how healthy he'd stay at
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: right tackle. Charles Cross was entering the final year of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: his contract at left tackle, and the Seahawks were trying
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: to decide whether he was a franchise cornerstone that they
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to resign at that position when they haven't done
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that under the John Schneider regime. All that often then
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: inside an interior line this time last year, Guys gals
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Ol with Timmy was the starting center for the Seahawks
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in OTAs at twenty twenty five, and former Browns and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: UW Husky center Nick Harris was signed from Cleveland to
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: challenge Oval.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: With Timmy, those were the two at June of twenty
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: twenty five.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Those were the two centers that it looked like one
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of the other were going to be starting last season.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Rookie Gray is able to yet to take an NFL
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: snap at left guard right guard Christian Haynes remember him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: He was battling.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: With some twenty twenty four undrafted rookie.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Named Jalen Sundell at right guard with Anthony Bradford in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five OTAs. Everyone was learning new line
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: coach John Benton's terminology is outside zone blocking system his
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ways of teaching. Nobody had ever heard of Eric Salbert
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: out here except hardcore football people. The veteran former Chicago
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Bears and Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco forty nine ers
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: journeyman tight.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: End signed him.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Everyone didn't even notice that the Seahawks signed Eric Salbert
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: about this time last year. It was a lot this
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: time last year was going on OTAs in what was
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: unknown for Mike McDonald's second season as Seahawks coach. Now, well,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of course, the Seahawks know all about Delmarcus Lawrence. Absolutely
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: love him. He's a first time Super Bowl champion back
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: for his thirteenth NFL season, showed up last week for
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: voluntary OTA practices at age thirty four Byron Murphy's coming
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: off a breakout season, a stud tackle that McDonald can
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: now move up and down the defensive line against the run,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: and his pass rush so much improved last year. The
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: in fact, we've talked at length about how he splits
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: double teams with a kettlebelt Turkish get up, kettlebul move
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: off the ground after dropping the one knee to break
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: up double teams. McDonald saw for himself that Mafey really
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: didn't fit his mold as an outside linebacker as much
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: as Derek Hall did, so the Seahawks let Mafey sign
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: with Cincinnati and March, and now they re signed Hall.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: McDonald and Snyder have settled on Josh Job as their
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: starting cornerback opposite of Devin Witherspoon. They re signed Job
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: for four million dollars less per year than Woolan signed
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: with the Eagles in March, and another value deal. Tyocotta
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas now now starters on defense at safety and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Because they're so assignment sound. They did everything
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: right in training camp. Everything that McDonald asked them they
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: internalized and they executed and McDonald put them on the field.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks return if you count Tyo Kotta, who started
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: quite a bit at safety when Julian Love was out
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a couple months with the hamstring issue, and then a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: couple games when Kobe Bryant was hurt. The Seahawks are
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: returning all eleven starters from that defense that allowed the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: fewest points in the league last year. And even if
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you say, well, Kobe Bryant was a starter he left
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to sign with the Bears, that's ten ten and a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: half starters counting Okada coming back to the number one
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. Offense Donald, of course undisputed quarterback
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion, on his way to earning a massive
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: new deal this time next year. He's still only twenty
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: eight years old. They have far more clarity in their
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: quarterback position now than they did twelve months ago. Obviously,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Cup is coming off of down year statistically, but he's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: back again in his early to mid thirties as a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: massive locker room presence. Smith and Jigba, NFL's reigning Offensive
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year and All Pro First Team All Pro,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Stepping out of Metcalf's shadow. He's newly minted with the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: highest contract in NFL history for a wide receiver at
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight million dollars. The biggest difference
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: on this team, Chris, between last year and this year
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is the offensive line settled, returning all five starters Sundell,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he didn't play right guard last year. He beat out Oval,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Timmy and Harris so much so the Harris traded. The
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Seahawks traded Harris back to the Browns in the summer.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: At the end of training camp. Sundell was the starting
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: center as an undrafted rookie from two years ago last year,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and he's returning as the starting center, starting next to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: his college roommate at North Dakota State, Gray Zabel, who
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: was an absolute stud from day one last year. Bradford
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is returning for his contract year at starting right guard,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: may be challenged by rookie IOWA All American guard Bo Stevens,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the sixth fifth round pick.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: More on that in a minute.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Cross and Lucas are healthy, re signed and rooted as
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the bookend tackles for years, but John Benton is back
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: as the offensive line coach, and what I think was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the biggest coaching offseason move on this staff was bringing
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: John Benton back and how important that was. The clarity
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and the singularity of outside zone. John Benton back for
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a second year, and everybody now knows where they stand
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with John Benton, and they understand his system and how
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: he goes about business. Eric Soberts returning indispensable tight end,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: special teams player. He beat the Rams last season in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that second regular season game on the Thursday night with
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a two point conversion that got the Seahawks the number
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: one seed for the playoffs. The Seahawks on offense are
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: returning every starting offensive player, except of course for Kenneth Walker,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: who after the Super Bowl signed with the Chiefs as
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl MVP. In all, this is remarkable for
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team in this era of player movement
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: of free agency. In all, the Seahawks have forty nine
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of the fifty three players who are regulars on the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: active roster are back. They lost Derek Young, punt gunner,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: special teams guy, big wide receiver and free agency to
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. And that's about it. The mentioned Kobe Bryant,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, Rieke Woollen, Boy, Mafe, Derek Yeah, and that's it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And now they've got you could say, twenty twenty of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: twenty two starters coming back, and that is remarkable that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: they did that. They put the emphasis on bringing back
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Rashid shi He for fifty one million dollars. They put
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the emphasis on boy Mafe, Jackson Smith and Jig. But
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they're going to get Devin Witherspoon re signed here probably
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the start of trading Camp Chris. They are reloaded. The
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: best team in the NFL, with the best defense in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the NFL is coming back almost entirely whole. Which is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: why when the Rams make the moves they make that
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about with Nate Atkins at eleven o'clock
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: from the Athletic the Rams beat writer, Okay, come catch us.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: If you're Seahawks, you're not so much concerned as maybe
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you are flattered that the Rams are reloading to come
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: get you because you've himself. You're basically running it back
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: with almost the entire roster that won the Super Bowl
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: That just speaks to the organization and how they handle things.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I think they did a really good job of maintaining
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: and keeping some of the player that helped win a championship.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: They could have obviously kept Kobe Bryant, and we can
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: go down a list of players that they probably could
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: have kept but decided to move on from. But the
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: front office believes that last year's success was sustainable and
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: it's not a fluke, and they have guys in the
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: building that are going to build on that. So I'm
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: excited to see the new players that are going to
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: come in and try to I don't want to say
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: fill a roll or a void, but there's going to
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: be challenges, right. I think tyle Katta is a player
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: that has proven that he could earn some snaps wherever
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: he's lined up because he's that talented, whether it's playing
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: deep safety or coming down in the box. I think
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: ty has proven that he can do it. He can
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: be versatile in this defense, and that's something you have
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: to be with Mike McDonald. You have to be able
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: to do a couple of different things and still be
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: really good at your first task, whatever position that is.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So when you look at this roster.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: It's good that they were able to bring back a
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: lot of these pieces to the puzzle, and now can
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: these pieces of the puzzle go out and have another
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: great elites side on defense as well as the offense
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: with a new OC because then there itself, that's a
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: challenge you have a new guy calm plays Although he
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: said he said all the right things, we'll know more
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: about it when we get the training camp and you
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: get to see this offense in full effect going against
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: the defense.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: So what is left?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: What are the battles here in OTA's and training camp?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: What am I looking at when I go watch practice
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: today tomorrow and in training camp. We'll talk about that next.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: We'll also talk about the viewing experience of watching Canada's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: network for the Stanley Cup Final. You'll get an audio
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: glimpse of that when we return. Nate Atkins from Los
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Angeles to Rams beat right to talk about Miles Garrett,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Eric Donald and how what the Rams are trying to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: do to catch up and beat the Seahawks. All that's
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: coming up. Buy from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, Seahawks
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: headquarters on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Welcome back the in living.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Color section of The Greg Best Show with Christopher Ken
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: rolls on here from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renting.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I know some of you are like, who what is
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in Living Color every time you play that intro. Answer
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to the in Living Color in the early nineties, Jim Carrey,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: The Wayne and Brothers, Rosie Perez, I'm not dating myself?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Am I with In Living Color? Chris?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think our I think our
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: audience knows exactly what you're referring to.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Favorite party in Living Color four nine, four y five
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: one on the Comma Dodge text line favorite part, favorite
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: actor and actors set fireman Bill just to watch that
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: show religiously. It was on Sunday night on Fox. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: think it was right after before The Simpsons, way back
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: in the day in the nineties.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Four Comma Dodge text line, your favorite part.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Of In Living Color back in the day? Where I'm
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: out here at Seahawks headquarters because the OTAs are continuing
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: today and tomorrow. Ian Ferness will be with me at
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: eleven thirty or so before his show from twelve to three.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Also here from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. After practice
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: today which ends around midday. Sam Donald's scheduled to talk.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Derek Hall was scheduled to talk to the media this
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: part of the training of the offseason. We're not allowed
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: into the locker room, which has ninety players on the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: roster in it. So they bring players out to the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: media outside and they hand pick them for you. So
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it's not like open season. You could have talked to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: anyone you want. And it looks like Sam Donald and
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Derek Hall. Derek Hall just signing his three year contract
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: extension this morning, forty two million dollars twenty one million guaranteed.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: So what do I watch? People ask me what do
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I watch.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: At June practices and T shirts and shorts and helmets?
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: What am I watching?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: This Seahawk gotas we just spent the last segment detailing
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: how set they are at most positions. But there are
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a couple things I'm watching. First, is Bo Stevens, the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: rookie fifth round pay the All American guard, left guard
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: at Iowa, left guard the last two seasons for the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Hawkeyes right guard as a sophomore. The last time we
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: played on the right side, he was at right side.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: At the beginning of off season practices last month, We've
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: been asking Mike McDonald which side is Bo Stevens going
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to play on, because that's an indicator of whether he
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: pos Stevens, the rookie is in fact going to battle
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Anthony Bradford for the right guard job because Gray's abel
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Even Bo Stevens has said, I'm not playing left guard
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: because Great'sabeled pretty damn good at that position. So I'll
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: be watching today and tomorrow to see exactly where both
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Stevens plays. I'm sure he'll be on the second team,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: but will he be on the right side, expecting him
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to be on the right side to potentially battle Bradford
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: during this season in Bradford's contract year. Maybe I'll be
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: watching the rookie second round pick Bud Clark and Tyle
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Cotta and the starting safety job against Julian Love Clark.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: For rookies, it's a little early, and especially in McDonald's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: eNTRI get defensive system, for a rookie to just get
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: throw into the starting lineup, although Nick emn Worried did
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  Speaker 1: that twelve months ago in June of twenty five in
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  Speaker 1: OTAs I would expect if Kott is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the first string center next to Julian Love while Bud
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  Speaker 1: Clark learns the rest of the offense, But McDonald's likely
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  Speaker 1: to move Clark around the defense just like Nick emn Worry,
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  Speaker 1: so it'd be interesting to see as that training as
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  Speaker 1: they get into training camp, where that battle goes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: interested to see Jeremiah Pritchet, third year corner. Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: has talked a lot about wanting to see more of
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  Speaker 1: him and him getting more of an opportunity with Riek
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  Speaker 1: wool And gone. Will McDonald go to a three cornerback
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  Speaker 1: rotation if Pritchett shows that much to him during the summer,
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  Speaker 1: would it be job and Witherspoon and Pritchet instead of Woolan.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I want to see what Jeremiah Pritchett and
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  Speaker 1: how they're using him. If they're using him with the
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  Speaker 1: first team defense this summer, and then Jadarian Price obviously
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  Speaker 1: stepping into the lead running back role as the rookie
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  Speaker 1: first round pick. They can say all they want on
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  Speaker 1: how it's a committee, but if they drafted him in
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  Speaker 1: the first round, Chris, they intend for him to be
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  Speaker 1: the starter. We'll see if that's right from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of training camp or not. But I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: keeping an eye on what kind of rotation they have
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  Speaker 1: as a lead running back. How much is Emmanuel Wilson
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  Speaker 1: they signed from Green Bay getting one reps, how much
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  Speaker 1: is George Hallani and back again for his third season,
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  Speaker 1: getting one reps. Of course, we're not going to see
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  Speaker 1: Zach Sharbonnay and Kenny McIntosh maybe until into August. Both
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  Speaker 1: are likely to start training camp on the pup list.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see about McIntosh he's eleven months out from his
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  Speaker 1: ACL tair. Much less of a recovery time so far
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  Speaker 1: for Zach Sharbonet who just tore his knee in January
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  Speaker 1: in that playoff game against the forty nine ers. But
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  Speaker 1: those are the things I'm looking at during practices when
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  Speaker 1: they aren't in full pads, to see rotations and what
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  Speaker 1: plans might be, especially for the newer guys switching gears.
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  Speaker 1: To the Stanley Cup finals last night, I did want
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  Speaker 1: to throw this in because it was striking to me
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  Speaker 1: sitting down and watch. First of all, they had an
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  Speaker 1: opening montage on CBC Sports Net that was fabulous about
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  Speaker 1: this being Canada's game, Canada's trophy, how revered the Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup is in Canada, and then also ABC and ESPN
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  Speaker 1: I thought had a really brilliant opening as well, talking
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  Speaker 1: about how difficult it is to win this trophy, highlighting
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  Speaker 1: Ray Borke playing twenty plus years in the NHL before
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  Speaker 1: he finally won a Cup, and all the challenges and
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  Speaker 1: moves and games and hits and injuries he Ray Borcad
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  Speaker 1: before he finally won a Cup with Colorado in the
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  Speaker 1: early two thousands. Philly Poignan reminders of the storied history
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  Speaker 1: of the Stanley Cup and the Stanley Cup Finals. And
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  Speaker 1: then I sit down to watch the game on CBC
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  Speaker 1: sports Net channel ninety nine or six nineteen if you've
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  Speaker 1: got Comcast cable here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: And twenty five seconds in this is what I heard
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  Speaker 2: watching the broadcast on CBC.
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  Speaker 6: It's a clear forty five seconds in and the Hurricanes
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  Speaker 6: are right come running. Can you talk about how it
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  Speaker 6: would lighten your building?
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  Speaker 2: Hair?
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  Speaker 6: It's Nick Deelers taking advantage of the greats of bench
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  Speaker 6: along the boards door. If he loses in barkershep can't
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  Speaker 6: get it in in Theodore wait for the cup. But
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: to miss the put you body get the body instead
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  Speaker 6: to speed it out your sea of Deelers.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear the tink of the put going off
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  Speaker 1: the post into the net. The audio alone, the crowd noise.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between the American broadcast and the CBC sports
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  Speaker 1: Net broadcast of the audio. Sports that could win an Emmy,
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  Speaker 1: a Sports Emmy for the audio of their broadcast at
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's incredible. It puts you right there.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: That was Chris Cuthbert and Craig Simpson on the call
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  Speaker 1: in Sportsnet CBC of the first goal for Carolina just
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  Speaker 1: twenty five seconds into the game last night. Eeler's scoring
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  Speaker 1: on a breakaway. But the sound, Chris, it's so it's
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  Speaker 1: like you're in the building. And when I'm watching the
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  Speaker 1: US I feel like I'm watching it from on top
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  Speaker 1: of Mountaineer or something. It the sound and how it
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  Speaker 1: puts you in the and that just adds to the
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  Speaker 1: intensity of the broadcast. Again, if you haven't done it,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: turn the channel ninety nine or six nineteen tomorrow night,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: five o'clock Game two, or if you're not near television,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: listen to the Game two of the Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 1: Here on ninety three point three kJ are Vegas leading
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  Speaker 1: Carolina one game to none, with Game two and Raleigh
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  Speaker 1: up next. Back to the NFL. Since I'm here at
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Seahawks headquarters, let's talk about the Rams. Let's talk about
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: somebody who knows the Rams better than any of us do.
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  Speaker 1: That's Nate Atkins. He's a beat writer for the Athletic
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. He's gonna talk about the Miles Garrett trade.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Donald coming back to reload the Rams even
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: more to beat the Seahawks. We'll talk to Nate Adkins
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of the Athletic from the Rams Beat next on ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM.