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10-8: SAS gets it wrong, Robert Henry Jr. and Farhan Lalji · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I just like Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee is a great city.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of soul in that city.
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  Speaker 2: Rays knocked the Yankees out in a three game series.
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees now haven't been to the World Series in
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  Speaker 2: 17 years. That's a franchise record drought. And this is
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  Speaker 2: what Junior Caminero said after the game on the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, shout out to knowing John Sterling's call.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: That is impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Ray Starr, Junior Caminero on Yankee Stadium's field, the ESPN
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  Speaker 3: Español last night. The Yankees lose.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he did it really well.
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  Speaker 3: He did. And he had a huge smile on his
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  Speaker 3: face and he walked off right after that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was it.
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  Speaker 3: The mic dropped.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was. But I mean, How much do you
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  Speaker 4: think a professional baseball player listens to opponents' calls? Because
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  Speaker 4: he had to know somehow, and he's so young, and
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  Speaker 4: Sterling's been around forever. I mean, I grew up listening
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  Speaker 4: to him, so that was pretty solid.
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  Speaker 3: And across two languages.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That's how much the Yankees are despised in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, right. He writes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: However, yes, we do not put it on the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: are very well aware. I've been talking to them for months.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Morrison, Return of the Mack. If you're just listening
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  Speaker 3: or play it, I think of her. So why not?
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  Speaker 3: Do it every day.
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  Speaker 4: I think I love it. And also, it's a very
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those on the text line disagree.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Robert Henry Jr. the Seahawks' newest running back
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  Speaker 4: Please do. I get very lonely, even though I have
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  Speaker 3: To some duties.
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  Speaker 2: 3 on what he's got going on today. The first
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  Speaker 2: text is going to lead me into the first thing
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about today. But the first text
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  Speaker 2: question on the Tacoma Dodge text line, 49451. Why in
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  Speaker 2: the hell do you ever, or do you still, watch
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  Speaker 2: or listen to Stephen A.
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  Speaker 3: Smith?
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  Speaker 4: Oof.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. End it. Just be done. Done.
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  Speaker 4: I would not like to give him more air time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to play what he said yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: I think most of us have seen it, heard it.
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  Speaker 2: It was ridiculous. You have a platform that large and
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  Speaker 2: have an irresponsibility that, see ya, done.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing is, I've met him several times. And
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  Speaker 4: he is a very kind person when you meet him
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  Speaker 4: in person. And it plays to me like he does
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  Speaker 4: this character.
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  Speaker 3: It's performative.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. And that is not who he is, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not defending what he said. I'm just saying it's almost
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  Speaker 4: more insulting that that's not who you are, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what you put out there to a very large audience.
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  Speaker 2: And he gets paid tens of millions of dollars by ESPN,
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  Speaker 2: who prioritizes this stuff. What calls me– I'll just give
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  Speaker 2: you the Cliff Notes version if you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the heck we're talking about. Lane Johnson, a Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 2: stellar guard for years and over a decade– for the
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles, abruptly retired yesterday, and he cited mental health
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  Speaker 2: as a reason. And that should be the story.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: In today's sports world, it is commonplace for athletes to
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  Speaker 2: recognize something that had been taboo to even talk about
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  Speaker 2: or ever recognize for centuries.
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  Speaker 3: Mental health. We all have mental health issues. We either
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  Speaker 3: touch by them or have them ourselves. If you don't,
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  Speaker 3: you don't. First of all, you're very lucky or you
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  Speaker 3: don't realize it. But we all do. We all got something.
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  Speaker 3: And some people got somethings that are really, really, really,
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  Speaker 3: really bad. And that's unfortunately what life is. And then
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  Speaker 3: when Lane Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Says that, this clown goes on ESPN on his platform
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  Speaker 2: of millions of people and says that he makes fun
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  Speaker 2: of Lane Johnson for leaving for that reason and.
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  Speaker 3: Says he's copping out.
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  Speaker 2: He said he was weak and he was copping out
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  Speaker 2: because the Eagles are after a 2-2 start and their
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  Speaker 2: offense is playing poorly and he's just jetting out and
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  Speaker 2: parachuting out of the situation.
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  Speaker 3: Why didn't you retire in the offseason? Why didn't you
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  Speaker 3: retire in preseason? Why didn't you retire now?
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  Speaker 4: We've seen multiple players retire at an undisclosed time where
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  Speaker 4: we go, hey, what? But he has that audience that
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about. He has that. By the way, World
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  Speaker 4: Mental Health Day is two days away from right now.
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  Speaker 2: And in the Pacific Northwest, we are keenly aware of
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  Speaker 2: this in the sports world because of the Holinsky family.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we are going to have the Helinskys on Ian Furness'
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  Speaker 2: show today. Ian just texted me as he's listening right
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  Speaker 2: now and saying, I just want you to know that
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  Speaker 2: the Helinsky parents will be.
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  Speaker 3: On our show today.
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  Speaker 4: Mark and Kim are amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And hats off to Ian for having them on and
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  Speaker 3: Mark and Kim for being there.
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  Speaker 4: And I, just to add to that, I remember Cole Madison,
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  Speaker 4: who was a third round draft pick, who was a
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  Speaker 4: Washington State graduate who lost Tyler. He also stepped away
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  Speaker 4: at a certain time and died. He was at the
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  Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers, and he stepped away for his own
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  Speaker 4: mental health, and no one threw shade at him for it.
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  Speaker 4: And everyone wanted him to be that guy that it
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  Speaker 4: was an offensive lineman drafted. in the third round and
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  Speaker 4: I thought I was so proud of him because everyone's
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  Speaker 4: dream your entire life when you go through college football
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  Speaker 4: if you get to that point and then you get
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  Speaker 4: drafted in the NFL course is to continue that and
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  Speaker 4: he gave it up yeah for himself I You know,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you have to think about you.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight is the final keg of the mayor's new brew
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  Speaker 3: down at Georgetown Brewery. You're going to Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Which also, I can't do it. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 4: think I could do that as a checked bag?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: If I get a keg?
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  Speaker 3: I do. Or a mini keg.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I think you could.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's also Student Athlete Mental Health Week. And as Jessamyn mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: two days away of National Mental Health Day. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we should be talking about, not this clown ass. But
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  Speaker 2: when he pops off and makes fun of mental health
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  Speaker 2: as a reason for Lane Johnson retiring, what calls me
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  Speaker 2: the most about this guy other than the fact that
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  Speaker 2: ESPN is paying him whatever it is, $ 10, $ 20, $ 30 million,
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  Speaker 2: whatever misplaced dollars are.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's $ 10 a year. It's $ 10 more than
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  Speaker 3: it should be. But he is a journalist. He was
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  Speaker 3: a writer.
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  Speaker 4: I would say was.
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  Speaker 3: Was a journalist. For the Philadelphia Inquirer, he was a
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  Speaker 3: sports writer for nine years. He was like me. We
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  Speaker 3: did it in the locker rooms.
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  Speaker 2: And he's first-person reporting what there are so fewer of
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  Speaker 2: these days instead of hot take artists.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's become this performer.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a journalist anymore. He's a performer and an
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  Speaker 2: entertainer and a bad one. But what galls someone who
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  Speaker 2: has been in the same arena, journalism, and first-person accountability
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  Speaker 2: for the subjects you deal with.
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  Speaker 3: And he's just– and ESPN rewards him.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, television media rewards not being that and being the
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  Speaker 2: opposite of that. And he issues this apology, which is
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  Speaker 2: half-baked and ridiculous. And then he issues another apology. I'm
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  Speaker 2: told this morning I'm never going to watch it, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what he said.
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  Speaker 3: No. Bump that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't watch it either. I will not give that
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  Speaker 4: a click.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: And you're not going to.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Performative art.
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  Speaker 2: Making fun of somebody on national television, then putting up
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  Speaker 2: some kind of something so that you can get engagement
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  Speaker 2: on that, and then putting some kind of something when
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  Speaker 2: you see overnight that you are getting absolutely lambasted by
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  Speaker 2: everybody in your own industry.
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  Speaker 3: People in their own network are going after him.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Not to mention the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: The amount of things I wanted to say, but all
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  Speaker 4: that does is create more engagement for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's really... on so many levels, regardless of the timing
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  Speaker 4: of any of it, is just disgusting. Like, why would
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  Speaker 4: you make fun of a professional athlete for actually being vulnerable?
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  Speaker 4: He was vulnerable in admitting that. He didn't just retire.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't parachute out of a bad start. He literally
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  Speaker 4: came out there and said why, and then you make
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  Speaker 4: fun of him. I don't understand how, even if you
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  Speaker 4: are in the performative art way of sports broadcasting these days,
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  Speaker 4: how you could feel okay about that.
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  Speaker 2: Doug Manyweather is a trainer of athletes and offensive linemen
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  Speaker 2: in particular, and he's worked with Lane Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: And on social media yesterday, he posted what I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Was a pretty good summation of a scope that A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people lack, including the person we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I'll parenthetically say, clown ass, your comments about Lane were
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  Speaker 2: ignorant and disrespectful, saying afterward that you would never make
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  Speaker 2: light of mental health doesn't erase the way you spoke
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  Speaker 2: about Lane. Lane is my brother. I know the man
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  Speaker 2: beyond the uniform. You're speaking with certainty about a decision
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  Speaker 2: you don't have the personal context to explain. You can
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  Speaker 2: assess what his absence means to the Eagles, but suggesting
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't walk away if they were winning is reckless.
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  Speaker 2: A winning record doesn't tell you whether someone is okay.
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  Speaker 2: Mental health doesn't follow the NFL schedule.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't linear. It's daily, in all caps, daily.
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  Speaker 2: A man can commit to a season and later recognize
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  Speaker 2: that continuing to comes at a cost he can no
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  Speaker 2: longer carry.
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  Speaker 3: He has every right to act on that.
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  Speaker 2: We ask these men to be accountable to their teammates,
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  Speaker 2: to coaches, organizations, and fans. That responsibility also extends to
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  Speaker 2: their children, their families, and themselves. Think about what your
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  Speaker 2: delivery tells the next person who's struggling and afraid to
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  Speaker 2: speak up, that their honesty might become material for someone
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  Speaker 2: else's next segment. Lane doesn't owe you the private details
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  Speaker 2: to earn your respect. He told us all what he
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  Speaker 2: needed to prioritize. That should be enough. You have a
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  Speaker 2: massive platform. Carry that responsibility that comes with it. Our
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  Speaker 2: world is divided enough. I thought that was a very
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  Speaker 2: poignant and accurate way to surmise this.
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  Speaker 4: And from someone who it actually matters from. We can
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  Speaker 4: talk all we want. We don't know, Lane. I tangentially
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  Speaker 4: know and have met Stephen A.
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  Speaker 3: Smith.
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  Speaker 4: But when you have that kind of platform, he had
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  Speaker 4: such an opportunity that was blown. He had such an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to actually focus on that and make it kind.
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  Speaker 4: And I saw the co-host being slightly uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: Kimberly Martin deserves credit for it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: She was not having it.
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  Speaker 4: No, she wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 2: She knows where her bread's buttered, and she didn't take
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: him to task live on the air because he's one
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: of the two mainstays of the largest sports network empire
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: in the world. And that network in our society rewards
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: the performative circus act that that was rather than the
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: substance of real humanity and empathy.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: And that's the bottom line. The attention that clicks, the
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: money goes to that and not what it should go to.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: And that is the failure here.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: This is a failure of journalism, a failure of humanity
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: of just being a plain, decent guy. or gal, and
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: not calling out somebody for whatever the reasons are that
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: they walk away from whatever they do.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: That's them. And everybody's got something. I learn this every day.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Every day. I got stuff. We all got stuff.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I got stuff that's layered on top of stuff on
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: top of stuff on top of stuff right now.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: We all got stuff.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: You got to respect and empathize with that to make
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: this a better place to live, work, and enjoy. And
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I know it's just sports and it's just games, but
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I've told you before, I learned a long time ago
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: that sports and sports writing and sports journalism is about
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the people.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: It's not about the games. It's about the people.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: And that is not how you treat people. So I
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: just wanted to point out that he was a journalist
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: at the Philadelphia Inquirer for nine years. He was a journalist,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: and he did first-person reporting. He was in the locker rooms,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: and he was accountable to the people that he talked
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to and the stories he wrote, just like I am
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: every day when I'm out at Seahawks or Mariners or
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: everywhere else I go. And he's lost that, and our
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: society rewards losing that. It doesn't reward keeping that. And
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: that's a damn shame, but that's the facts. And those
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: clown asses have these giant platforms, as Jessamyn said, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: as Duke Manningweather just said in his statement, they have
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: giant platforms that they could be so much better with.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: But because they get rewarded for whatever comes out of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: their mouth, unprepared and uneducated, they keep doing it. It's
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: an opportunity lost, but it's not an opportunity lost for
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: us to take a step back and go.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I don't need to put up with this. You don't
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: have to watch. Nobody's making you watch stupid-ass first take,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: whatever that show's called. People ask me all the time,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I don't watch the guy. I lost all respect for
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: him a long time ago, and I will never watch
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: or talk about him. Chris used to have one and
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: put clips of his on the air because he would
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: say something about the NBA that Chris adores. I'm like, no, man,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not giving this guy oxygen.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I'm just not.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: And again, I'll reiterate, it sucks to watch the performative
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: when you've got to engage with a person and know
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: that they're not that person. And I'm like, but you're
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: actually acting like a journalist on air. It's one thing
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: if you're an actor or actress and you're performing. You're
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: not that person. You are Stephen A. Smith and everything
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: that you do and you are in a journalistic body,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: everything you do is.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: It's out there and under the veil of journalism. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: it's just not.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It's not even human. But that gets rewarded. That's what
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: people watch. That's what people click. And that's what ESPN
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: pays for.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: And that's why guys like that get $ 30 million. While
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the people who are actually doing first-person journalism, those people
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: get to do their hot takes on, get cut and
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: fired and laid off and go away.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: That's hard.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: We are living in idiocracy, Greg.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: That's the society in a nutshell right now. All right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: let's talk about your Seahawks.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Why is Robert Henry Jr. suddenly the guy everybody's talking about?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Nobody was talking about him at the onset of this season.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about why he's the new Seahawks running back
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and why Joe Mixon is not. We didn't get a
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: really clear answer when I asked Mike McDonald that yesterday,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: but we have some crumbs and clues as to why
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Joe Mixon is not a Seahawk. 11 o'clock, Farhan Lalji,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: our buddy from TSN Canada, going to go around the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: NFL to talk about Rams-Bills.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Who's going to win that game? High of the 49.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Brock Purdy for real?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I was on the KMBR show this morning in San
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Francisco talking a lot about that with Brian Murphy, my buddy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: In San Francisco. That's coming up. $ 11.
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• 19:25
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• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Jessamyn has the pick today. All that's coming up on
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: our show on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back. We've reached the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: hard rock portion of 93.3 KGR FM. Yeah, we are.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It's a Thursday. Let's go.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Jasmine's heading on a plane. She's going to Utah. Ogden, Utah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: in fact. I guess you fly into Salt Lake City.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah, it's always a rough landing there. I don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: know how many times you've flown into that airport, but
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: it is kind of in between a lot of buttes.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: If you will.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Butte.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: B-U-T-T-E.
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Why is she going there? Because Washington State is playing
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: tomorrow night against Utah State. I can't remember a time
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: that Washington State and Washington both played on Friday night.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: But that's what's happening tomorrow. And they're kicking off at
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the same time on two different national television networks. And,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: of course, here on 93.3 KGRFM, the Huskies are hosting
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Iowa at Husky Stadium, a 6 p.m. kickoff, right smack
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: in the middle of Friday Night Lights high school football.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: That's too bad. I'll be at Eastlake High School, Mount
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Si and Eastlake in a big Kinko crown game over
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: on the semi-plateau. Eastlake High School, I'll be officiating that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: game tomorrow night. We're going to have our high school
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: football focus tomorrow. We're going to have two coaches that
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: aren't playing each other, but we're going to focus on
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: two coaches, one from Seattle Prep, Aaron Mullen, one from
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Mercer Island High School. Two different paths to getting to
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: where they are. You're going to hear their stories tomorrow
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: at 11 o'clock. At 11 o'clock today, you're going to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: hear Farhan Lazi of TSN Canada. He's going to take
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: us around the NFL and his view of how the
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: 4-0 49ers are 4-0 and Brock Purdy playing maybe the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: best quarterback in football right now. 11 touchdowns, one interception, 70% passer,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: has not been sacked in four games.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And guess who's starting on my fantasy team?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That's the first time since 2005 I learned from Eric
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle this morning when I
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: was on the roundtable with him, with Chuck and Anders.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: The first time since 2005 that a quarterback and a
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: team have gone through the first four games of the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: NFL season without a sack. Of course, 2005 was the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts that did that, and you know who the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Colts quarterback was in 2005. That was Peyton Manning in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the best offense ever that the Seahawks at the end
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: of that season just absolutely annihilated in Super Bowl XLIII
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: to VIII. That's the last time that a quarterback has
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: done what Brock Purdy and the 49ers have done and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: not be sacked through the first four games.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: That's the Seahawks' task.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: On Sunday, their task on Sunday against the 49ers is
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: also to run the ball with Jadarian Price on injured reserve,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: at least into November now. Emmanuel Wilson is the lead back,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: it would appear. But the reason that they brought in
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Robert Henry Jr., undrafted 24-year-old, is because of his speed.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: He's the opposite of Wilson. Wilson is more of a
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: plowing back at 220 pounds.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Which is also valuable.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Indeed. But he was supposed to be the short yardage
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: back coming into this season. Price was the cutback, the speed,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: one cut and go, outside zone, decisive cut runner. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: now he's on the injured list. So they bring in
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Robert Henry, who's something like him. He's 5'9 and under
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: 200 pounds. And speed is his game in the backfield.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: He averaged 6.9 yards a carry for Texas San Antonio
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: last year. He's now a 24-year-old undrafted rookie free agent
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: from the Washington Commanders. Had a good preseason for the Commanders.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Went on their practice squad at the end of the preseason.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And that's where he spent the first four weeks of
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the regular season. He also had a baby last year.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: He and his girlfriend.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: A son who's now one year and one month old.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: How big of a deal was this for Robert Henry Jr.? Well,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: he was making $ 13, 000 a week on the practice card.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: That's a good change for an undrafted rookie. But $ 13, 000
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: on the practice card per week.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: The Seahawks sign him. He goes on to the active
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: roster because that's the only way you can get a
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: guy off someone else's practice card. Put him on your
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: active roster. The minimum salary in the NFL says that
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: he is now going to make $ 47, 000 a week. So
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: he's gone four and a half X.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: How many diapers and formula can you buy a one-year-old
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: with that? That is life-changing. You talk about life-changing. It
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: is life-changing for Robert Henry Jr. and his young wife
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and young girlfriend and one-year-old son to have a four
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: and a half X raise. So that's one, which is
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: why he didn't mind dropping everything and moving across the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: country from Washington, D.C. to Seattle this week. when he
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: got the call that he was going to be a Seahawk.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: This was Robert Henry Jr. in the locker room before
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: his first practice yesterday when I talked to him.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: He was like, Seahawks been hitting me. I was like, okay, cool.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: He was like, they're trying to grab me for active roster.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: I was like, okay, okay, bet.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: So he was like, just be watching out for that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: So I did, and they hit me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I'm here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: You stayed at UTSA for three years.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Obviously, these days, guys have opportunities to move elsewhere or whatever.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Did you have any of those? Oh, well, yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: UNC was looking at me, but my girl, she was
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: pregnant at the time, so... I stayed, you know, to
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: see my son born, and I finished at UT as
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: a kid.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: How did fatherhood change you as a young man?
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Man, I got a soft spot.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: I didn't think I did at first, but, you know,
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: just watching my son grow up, you know, he shaped
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: me as a person and definitely as a father. So
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: I look into that every day, you know, get a
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: chance to see him every day, every chance I get.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: How active roster salary bump up doesn't hurt for the family?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, not at all, not at all.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: How old is your baby now?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: He's one.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: What's his name?
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Dante.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Dante.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: When the Seahawks played the Commanders a couple weeks ago,
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: were you standing on the sidelines watching that game?
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was on the sidelines watching. Okay, what did
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: you think of watching the Seahawks? Great team, you know
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying?
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: Great energy, very physical, and I feel like Being in
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: Washington at that moment, we played a great game and
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: came out with the goal.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: For the 12s that haven't had a chance to see
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: you play, how would you describe your game?
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: A smaller elusive back, kind of like if I had
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: to say Alvin.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: I think I'd put Alvin.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they asked you, did Seahawks talk
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to you at all in the pre-draft process?
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I talked to Coach Ham a couple times.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: We got on a couple Zoom calls.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: We'll do a couple runs and takes and stuff.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: But how realistic is it you'll have enough of the
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: playbook to play Sunday?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Are you swimming a little bit right now?
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I am.
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: You know, it's a learning process. Every day I get
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: an opportunity to be getting the playbook every night.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: That's what I'm going to be doing.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: When did you first get it?
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Tuesday morning? Yeah, it was Tuesday I first got it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: How different is it from stuff you've been familiar with
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: in the past?
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: It's way different for sure.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: Because when I was in Washington, it was like the
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: plays was like, A little shorter. Here, almost every play
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: you got to kill, so the play is much longer
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: because you got two plays, you know what I'm saying?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: How much excited were you to look at, you can't
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: tell us, but I know there's a couple of plays
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that kind of, you kind of went, oh, okay, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: like that play.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Outside zone for sure. I feel like that fit my run.
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: Speed, you know, because I'm a speedy back too, so
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: outside zone fit me perfectly.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: What are the key sports for you back in the
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: outside zone?
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: The pressure landmark. You know, when you pressure a landmark,
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: defense flow, you'll be able to make your cut.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: What have you seen?
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I can see outside offense at all,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: but have you seen anything?
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Like, what do you mean? Like, anything?
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: Let me start again. That's a bad question.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Just since you got here, what have you noticed just
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: about the Seahawks offense?
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: They run similar routes, Washington, so I'm kind of used
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: to running the routes they run. And it fit my
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: plans because I'm also a receiving back, too. So I
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: think that'll come along pretty easy.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Did you play any receiver, like, through high school or anything,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: or was it mainly, like, primarily still running back first?
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: So I was, my 9th grade year, I was a
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: running back. My 10th grade year, I was a running back.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: 11 and 12, I was a quarterback.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, I finished at quarterback. Still throwing a little? Yeah, yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So I wrote a story for thenewstribune.com based on that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: interview I had at the locker room, myself and the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: beat writers talking before practice yesterday and in doing a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: research in Mississippi, he went to high school in Mississippi
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and ran first. He has a four-year starter at varsity
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: high school, ran for 7,000 yards and 99 touchdowns in
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: his four seasons in high school, 99 touchdowns, 25 a season.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of touchdowns in high school.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: You think it hurts him to not have the hundo?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's insane.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a lot. That's prolific. Yet he went the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: junior college route, maybe because he's 5'9 and 100. Well,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: he's not up to 196. He was probably, I'm guessing,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: in the 170s or 80s at the time.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But he went the junior college route before he got
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to Texas San Antonio. And as I mentioned, he was
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: a 6.9 yards per carry guy for UTSA last year,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: which is why the Seahawks scouted him and knew about him.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: But he didn't get drafted, partly.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Because he's 5'9 and below 200 pounds, but also because
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: he had a fumbling issue at the time. He fumbled
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: in college. And we see that that's not exactly what
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks need in their offense or any NFL team
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: needs in their offense. So perhaps that's why he wasn't drafted.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: He also was a good pass catcher out of the backfield.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And as you heard, he played quarterback of two of
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: those four-starring years in high school in Mississippi. So now
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: he's in the Seahawks' backfield. And why isn't Joe Mixon not? Well—
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: The two-time Pro Bowl running back got a tryout with
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks on Monday. They wanted to give a shot
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: and see how his foot injury looked. He missed all
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: of last season after a 1,000-yard year with Houston in 2024.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: He played in a playoff game in January 25. He
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: then had a foot injury in the preseason for Houston
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: in 2025 and didn't.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Play.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Everyone thought he was going to play. The Texans didn't
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: talk about what the foot injury was. Mixon wouldn't talk
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: about it. It's this big secret down in Houston. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: then he thought he could prove to the Seahawks that
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: he was healthy. So they agreed to sign him to
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the practice squad, Mike McDonald said on Monday. pending a process,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and that process, of course, involves a physical exam before
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you can sign a contract. That's standard for any professional
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: sports contract in North America, or probably Europe, for that matter,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: and South America, and Asia, and everybody.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: In the world.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And when he took the physical, he apparently failed it,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: because when I asked Mike McDonald what happened yesterday, this
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: is what his answer was.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: What happened with Joe Mixon? Why is he not.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: On the team? Just didn't work out. Didn't work out.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Probably the most we should say about it with respect
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: to the process, but those things happen and it's just.
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: Part of the process.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Man, does he say process a lot for his own
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: team and for other things.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Everyone has a crutch. Everyone has a crutch.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's Mike McDonald for sure.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Part of that process, and it's pretty easy to discern,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: is it's probably a HIPAA violation to discuss anything about
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: someone's health unless they allow you to. And obviously Joe
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Mixon doesn't want out whatever's wrong with his foot because
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: he's kept it a secret for now going on two
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: NFL seasons. There's all kinds of rumors in Houston about
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: what happened, unsubstantiated, but the fact remains the Seahawks did
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: not feel he was in shape enough to play. Now
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: there are national reports. I think it was Ian Rappaport
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: this morning, according to the text line. I didn't see it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I was preparing for the show, but one of the
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: texters on the text line saying Ian Rappaport is reporting
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: that it was a quote degenerative issue in his foot
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: that the Seahawks discerned, their medical staff, and that's why
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: he's not going to play for the Seahawks. And the
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: question on the text line was, why would, it's a 3-6-0.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: From the 4-3-4-5-1 Tacoma Dodge text line, the 3-6-0 says,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport reported that the Hawks failed mixing and said
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it was a, quote, degenerative foot injury and may never
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: play again. That doesn't sound like something the Hawks would release,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: and they aren't. Is that good reporting for the Hawks
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: wouldn't violate HIPAA issues?
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Well, we've already talked about journalism a lot on the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: show today.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Is that good reporting? Well, it depends on who your
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: source is, I suppose. And national guys like Ian Rappaport
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and such is a scratch my back and I'll scratch
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: yours type of quid pro quo that goes on, usually
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: with the agents. You wouldn't think it was an agent
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: that would say that their client has a degenerative foot disease.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: That doesn't exactly– spawn new opportunities and tryouts from other teams.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: The hope for Joe Mixon is to get a tryout
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: with a team whose medical staff will now clear him
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: so he can earn more money as a 30-year-old running back.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: So that must come from someone around the team, which
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: is problematic when your coach is trying to protect the
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: player and it's a leak coming from a team. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: it's either the agent of the team or the player himself.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And it looks like Joe Mixon is doing his damnedest
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: to make sure his injury doesn't come out. But the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: bottom line is that Joe Mixon is not coming onto
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. And right now, they have Robert Henry Jr.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: on their active roster, and they have a Chiefs South graduate,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: a Chiefs South running back, Dante McMillan. We talked about yesterday.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: He's going onto the practice squad instead of Joe Mixon.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: So he's going to play for his second Seahawks, Seattle
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Seahawks team, in his football career, the Chiefs South Seahawks.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: He and McMillan, as a senior at Chiefs South in
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: West Seattle, he's a West Seattle guy, grew up there.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: He had 2,019 yards rushing and 44 touchdowns. He was
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the Metro League Offensive Player of the Year, first-team All-Metro.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: He also was a first-team defense in that league that year.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: He went to Weber State for a couple seasons, then
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: went to Eastern Michigan, and he had a 1,000-yard season
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: for Eastern Michigan last year.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I have so much respect for guys who play both ways.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: It's insane.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: And now he's back in his hometown team. He was
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: on the practice field yesterday. He's on the practice squad.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I'm hoping to talk to him today. He's 5'10 and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: 204 pounds, so bigger than Henry and smaller than Emmanuel Wilson.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: What's going to happen with Jadarian Price?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Well, it appears he's going to come back sometime, you
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: would think, November, December, November-ish.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: He can't come back at the earliest until November 2nd,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: the game against Chicago on a Monday night at Lumen Field.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: And that's because of four-week minimum on the injury reserve list.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: But John Schneider said on his pregame show Sunday before
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the Chargers game, it is not a season-ending injury, but
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: it's an upper rib injury. So we'll see when Price
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: comes back. But in the meantime, it's Emmanuel Wilson and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I would think Robert Henry Jr. And because he's been
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: on a practice squad practicing every day, running other NFL
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: offenses in Washington, I think he's ready to go physically.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: It's just how much can he assimilate the playbook? And
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you heard him talking about his head swimming a little
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: bit doing that. But if he can get some bases
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of the plays done, I think he could get snaps
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: and carries on Sunday when the Seahawks play the 49ers
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: because they need a running back who can be with
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: speed in the backfield besides just putting your wide receiver
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Rashid Shahid in there.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: 49-4-5-1.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: You're feeling about the Seahawks running back room right now
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: going into this game where they.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Do need to run against San Francisco. Their defense is
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: only averaging 16 points allowed per game. Third best defense.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: in the NFL.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Up next, baseball.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Huge piece of baseball history happened on this day 72
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, why am I talking about that?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Because we get to talk about Vin Scully, hear from
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Vin Scully, and talk about him.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: That's next. Farhan Lalji's up at 11 o'clock on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Welcome back.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Craig Bell and Jessup McIntyre with you on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: As we said earlier in the show, Ian Furness is
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: going to be on from 12 until 3. He's going
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: to have the Helinski's, the Helinski family, the parents on
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Helinski's Hope Foundation, the whole specter of mental health and sports.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: He's going to be on the show today, timely indeed,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: surrounding the retirement of Lane Johnson, the star.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Guard for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: And timely for the final mayor keg.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Mayor keg for part of those proceeds for buying that
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: beer go to the Holinsky Foundation, Holinsky's Hope, and it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: National Student Athlete Health Week and Day and National Health
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Awareness Day, Mental Health Awareness Day.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: World's Mental Health Day on October.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: 10th, yes. October the 10th, two days from now.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Today, October 8th, 1956— Yankees starter Don Larson, through the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: only perfect game in World Series history, beat the Brooklyn
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: The announcer on the call for NBC that game?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: A 28-year-old Vin Scully.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: Got it!
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: The greatest game ever played in World Series history by
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Don Larson.
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: A no-hitter, a perfect game.
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: In a World Series.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Never in the history.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Of the game has it ever happened in a World Series.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Only the second time in baseball history, a World Series,
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: where a perfect game has been pitched.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: 64,517 have seen it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Millions more on television.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Don Larson pitches a perfect game, retiring 27.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Dodgers in a row.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Vin Scully on NBC in 1956. That was on live television.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: 28. I mean, he had old-timey radio voice.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Didn't he?
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I looked it up. I had to double-check. He was
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: born in 1927 in New York City.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: That was amazing that he was 28 years old, national
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: broadcaster of the World Series, and get to do a
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: seminal game in baseball history. I've met Vin Scully... A
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: couple times. At spring training, when the Dodgers moved to Arizona,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I met him first at Vero Beach, Florida. I went
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: to Florida when I was at the Sacramento Beat. I
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: covered Jason Giambi going to the Yankees story, back when
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: newspapers used to send their writers to go chase the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: stories across the country.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: It was grand.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: And I met Vin Scully in Vero Beach, Dodger Town,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: and it was fantastic.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And he was cordial. He didn't know me from anybody.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: He treated me like he'd known me for years. And
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: then I met him again in Arizona when the Dodgers
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: moved to their new ranch out there in Arizona when
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the Mariners, I was covering the Mariners spring training for
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the Associated Press. You have a great story about Vin
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Scully and meeting him.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: And I just should set it up by saying that
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I was in L.A. to cover, to produce an ESPN
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: radio broadcast with Kevin Calabro of an NBA game. And
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: so I was there for the Lakers, and I had
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: to go to shoot around, get sound and things like that,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: do some interviews. And then I had the rest of
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: my day to myself. And I had a very good friend,
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Beto Duran, who was working for the ESPN station in
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles at the time. And he said, hey, just
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: come to the spring training game. So at the time,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: it was the end of spring training. So the LA
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Dodgers were playing the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. at
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: their own stadium, at the Dodgers stadium. So he just
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: told me to meet him there. And I was like, okay, like,
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to do. So I just parked
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: in the parking lot. And, you know, it was not
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: a very heavily attended game because it was spring training.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: So I parked there. And I I walk in and
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, I don't know how I'm going to
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: get in here because I had just been in spring
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: training with the Mariners. I showed my spring training ID
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: to someone with the Mariners on it. And just said,
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I'm here for the radio. And they were like, oh,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: let's get you up to the booth. And I was
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: just looking for my friend. You know, I don't know
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: how to get. He was going to get me in
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: and everything. But I didn't know where he was.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: The Dodgers booth. The Dodgers radio booth.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: The Dodgers. OK, we'll tell you where to go. And
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: I had a mariner's credential on. I think we're past
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: the statute of limitations for me to tell this story
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: where I didn't really commit a crime. So I go
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: up and I'm looking for my friend and I'm waiting
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: there for him. They put me up in the press
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: box and I'm like, okay, I'm just going to be nondescript.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: And then he texted me, oh, meet me in the booth.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: So I go walking over to the booth and Vin
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Scully comes in. It's like a cloud was carrying him.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: He's just the nicest person and treated me exactly the
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: same way that he treated you.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Hello, Jessamyn. using your first name.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: So nice to meet you. And how do I say
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: that again? Made sure he got it right. And it
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: was just one of the most wonderful times that I
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: had in a random place that I was technically not
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: supposed to be, but I was working a different sport
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: and I got to be up there and got to
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: meet him and He was just perfect. And I just
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: will always cherish that moment and realize, at least I
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: have the wherewithal to realize how special that was, because
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know that some people would have appreciated it
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: that much. But those who are in the know definitely
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: know how special that was. So I got to talk
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: to him for about probably about 90 seconds, and then
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to take any more of his time.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: But he made sure he said my name correctly. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: he said, well, that's beautiful. And I always come back
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: with a joke. Yeah, my parents got creative. Yeah, I
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: was like 26, 27 years old when that happened. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: I knew of the legend of Vin Scully and how
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: special that was. And he was so nice.
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: And then.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I went and met my friend, got to say hi.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: He had to work.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: And then I was like, okay, I'm going to go
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: have a beer in the stands and watch this game.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I doubt anything got better that day than meeting him.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Nope. A beer in the sun was just the cap.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: 91 years young, Vin Scully passed away in August of 2022.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: A legend. Vin Scully.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: There are only a couple people in my journalism career
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: that I've been blown away meeting, like an awestruck and
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: just stunned.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Vin Scully was one of them.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Muhammad Ali was another in the Oakland A's clubhouse at
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Phoenix Municipal Stadium in spring training in the early 2000s.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: He did a magic trick, and this was when it
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: was heavily on set of Parkinson's and wasn't able to speak,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: but he did a magic trick in front of the
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: A's in Rapture, 20-something-year-old.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: This is Giambi, Hudson, Mulder, Zito, Moneyball A's. It was amazing.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: And then he passed out. Landed flat on his back.
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the carpeted clubhouse at Phoenix Muni.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: I thought I watched Muhammad Ali die in front of me.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: He was out unconscious. And then he just snapped up
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and said, I got you, didn't I?
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: He was always a jokester.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: To this day, I don't know if he was joking
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: or if this happened so many times because it was
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Parkinson's disease that it was just part of his act.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: That he just made it a joke.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: The people that his handlers and around him didn't seem
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: to be too alarmed. Like this happens a lot.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Either that was part of the act or that was
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: a joke or whether that happened so often they weren't concerned,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: but they helped him get back on his feet. And
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: everybody in the clubhouse was just stunned. They didn't know
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: what to do or say. And yeah, that was, I'll
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: never forget that moment actually. But Ben Scully was another
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: one of those immortals.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: You're just like, whoa. Here's another one. It's semi-immortal. Farhan Lalji.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: You'll laugh if he hears that I mentioned him in
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: the same sentence.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I think you shouldn't throw him that way when he
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: joins us.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: My buddy from TSA Canada, NFL reporter, is going to
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: join us next to talk about the Seahawks, the 49ers,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the Rams, the Bills, and much more next on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Hi, welcome back.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre with you on a Thursday
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: here in Seattle, foggy Seattle, where the Seahawks are going
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: to be hosting. The 4-0 San Francisco 49ers. We'll talk
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: to Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada, our NFL guy here in
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: a minute. I want to remind you that Hugh Mellon's
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: going to have an in-person Chalk Talk this afternoon. 4.30 check-in,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: 5 p.m. start at the Canoes Cabaret in the Tulalip
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Resort and Casino. Hugh Mellon's going to be there. Chuck
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Powell and Anders Hurst from The Morning Show are going
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: to be there. It's your chance to sit in on
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: a one-of-a-kind field session with a former NFL quarterback and
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: our quarterback here at KJR, Hugh Mellon, in person.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: It's free. All you got to do is text. Well,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: you don't have to, but we'd like you to text.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: So we have a head count. Text 49451.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Limited space, people. Your name, email, and how many seats
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: you want to reserve. Text that to 49451. Your name, email,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: and how many seats you want to reserve for this afternoon.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: 430.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Doors open 5 o'clock. The start of Hugh Millen's Chalk
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Talk at the Tulalip Resort and Casino. Talking about the Seahawks.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Probably throwing about the Huskies, I'm sure, as well. Who
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: play Iowa tomorrow night at Husky Stadium. The Seahawks play
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the 49ers. on Sunday at Lumen Field for the NFC
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: West lead. Farhan Lalji will be there, TSN Canada NFL reporter.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Great friend of mine saw him at Seahawk headquarters yesterday.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: He joins us in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline as he
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: does every Thursday at this time.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Hello, sir.
• 45:37
  Speaker 8: What's going on, buddy? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling young
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: and spry. Jessamyn just told me that my Apple pick
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: looks really, really good. And it's not even AI. So
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: she likes the jacket and the shades. I'm going to
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: have to tell my wife, like, this is how you
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: need to imagine me, you know, the next time, you know.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: So it's a great picture.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: She's great at making everyone feel very good and positive.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: No, you know what? I like Greg Bell's picture when
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: he's in the field. If you look at his Twitter profile,
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: the top picture, he's in combat. He's in battle. That's
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: the picture.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: I do have a pinned picture of my time at
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Fort Lewis out at Yakima Training Center out on the
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: firing range.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: That picture tells a thousand words.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: That's my squad of S2. That is true.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Far out of sight yesterday. You're going to be at
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: the big game on Sunday. What do you think about
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: the 4-0 49ers? I remember distinctly you saying at the
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: beginning of the season you thought this was a two-team
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: race between the Rams and Seahawks for the NFC West,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: but here come the 49ers with some health and with
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Brock Purdy, 11 touchdowns, one interception, 70% completion rate, 57.5 conversion.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Rate on third down, and he's yet to be sacked.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: He's the first quarterback.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Since Peyton Manning in 2005 with the Colts did not
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: be sacked through the first four games.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Of a season. What's going on and what is Brock
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Purdy doing right? What are the 49ers? Why are they 4-0?
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Like I'm starting to believe. And I, and I did
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: say that you can save that receipt and I'll absolutely
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: own it. I thought this was going to be, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: the reason for that was just their health, right? You
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: hit on it. And, and I, I think maybe on
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: some levels I overplayed it because of the people that
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: were injured at the time.
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: And, and, Christian McCaffrey wasn't doing much in training camp.
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: I wasn't sure what he'd look like at the start
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: of the season. You know, his, his role is elevating
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: 10 carries the first two games, 15 carries the last
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: two games. But then when you look at the receivers, right? Like, well,
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: Ricky Pearsall and DeMarcus Robinson and Deshaun Stribling, uh, are good.
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: They're not necessarily elite guys. They wouldn't have been their
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: top targets. You got Mike Evans. You know, he missed
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: a game early with health, but now he's playing at
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: a really high level. And then look at the guys
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: that have been injured that have come back, right? So
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: Fred Warner, George Kittle, those guys have stepped into the
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: lineup and played the game at a high level. I mean,
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: I know before that LA game, they were talking about
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: maybe Kittle starting the season on pop. He didn't played
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: in the first game. And now he's got four touchdowns
• 48:05
  Speaker 8: in four games. You've got Debo Samuel and Dre Greenlaw
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: who were away from the team a year ago. They'd
• 48:11
  Speaker 8: come back and it's like nothing ever happened. You know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: like it was like the Dallas dream season that never happened.
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: I mean, they're, they're right back and they're going after it.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: And, and Kyle, you check who's not going to be
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: available this week, but like a lot of these veteran
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: players are instantly playing at a high level. And then
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: you mentioned Brock Purdy, right? Um, If you look at
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: the numbers, I look at his EPA, he is leading
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: the league by a wide on backs. And then his
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: EPA on dropbacks when being pressured is second in the league.
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: So there's not really an easy answer in terms of
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: how to deal with him, right? Because whether you're, whether
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: you let him throw or whether you try to pressure
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: him and make it hard for him, he seems to
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: find a way. And, you know, he was always this
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: guy that, had Moxie, right? And Moxie's kind of a
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: word we use for a guy that's kind of young
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: and spry, but not overly athletic, but he can kind
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: of do some things in the pocket. This guy's not
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: turned from Moxie to pure playmaker, right? Like the way
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: he's able to extend and throw pass down the field
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: while going in the wrong direction and doing some crazy stuff.
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: Like he is living his life to the fullest right now. So,
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: you know, when you talk about that number that he
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: hasn't been sacked yet, he could become the fifth quarterback
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: ever to be above 100% pass or 100 passer rating
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: and two touchdowns in his first five games. If he
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: does it again this Sunday, the other four guys to
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: do that, Brady Manning, Aaron Rogers, Russell Wilson, not a
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: bad group to be associated with, man.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brock Purdy's got him going, and you mentioned Mike Evans.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: At his age, he played through a rib.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Injury, cracked or whatever it was, and that's why he
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: missed a game. I'm not sure he's fully healthy, talking
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: to some 49ers people of mine.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: All right, the Rams.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Now back to 2-2, the escape in Philadelphia when they
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: were down two scores in the fourth quarter, yet they
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: still won 24-20. Now they got the Bills at home.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Bills get their first loss of the season at home
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: to the Patriots, who you and I both agree are
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: not a very good team, I don't think, and I
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: think the I'm with you. I think the Patriots, you
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: said it first, aren't even going to make the playoffs.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: How do you see Bill's Rams? Do you think the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Rams could lose that one at home because of Josh
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Allen and the Bill's offense, or the Bill's defense really
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: worry you?
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: Both right. Like, I mean, Josh Allen can win any
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: football game. You just can't, you can will the team
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: that way, but you talk about them losing their first game.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: They should truly be one in three, Greg, right? Because
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: how did they beat the chargers, right? Like five turnovers
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: to one in the chargers favor in that game and
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: charge are very good, but really they were the better
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: team for big chunks of that game. Josh Allen was
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: pretty ordinary. The week before that they play Houston, Houston
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: drops a pass in the end zone and, an interception
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: in the end zone that should have ended the game.
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: They had multiple opportunities to put that game away between
• 50:57
  Speaker 8: some weird officiating and, and just gift opportunities back to
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: the bills. You know, the bills take advantage and all
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: of a sudden they're.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: Three in one.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: And like, I just don't think they've been particularly good
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: this year. So yeah, their defense is a problem. Um,
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: They're receiving core, like in terms of how Joe Brady
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: has called his games, you know, and sometimes just not
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: getting the Dawson's is involved as much.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: As he could.
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: And like, there's been some weird moments with that offense. Right. And,
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: and we kind of get force fed up here in Canada,
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: the bills, like they're a Toronto team. So yeah, like I,
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: I think the Rams are going to win that game.
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: I think the Rams will win it at home. I
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: think they're the better team. I think they've got fewer
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: holes in their lineup, but you can never write out
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: Josh Allen because if he decides to pull up the
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: Superman cape, there's not a damn thing anybody can do
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: about it because he's that good. We just haven't seen it,
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: and they've still miraculously found ways to win games this season.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Back to the NFC, Michael Penix and his couple games back,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: and the Falcons' offense, scoring 45.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: The other night in the Superdome, and I mean... Are
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: they legit?
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: And is Penix what we thought and saw as the
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Washington Huskies national championship quarterback? You and I watched that
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: game in Houston a few years ago. If Bajon Robinson's
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: going to go for 145 on the ground, this offense
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: with Penix and quarterback, this might be the division winner
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: in the South, no?
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: I think they're going to win the division. And when
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: you look at the difference a quarterback can make, It's
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: remarkable because the first two weeks, it looked like they
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: were dead and buried. And, you know, forget what Panics
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: did at Washington, which is certainly hard for me as
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: a big Husky fan to do. His first year when
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: he got the ball from Kirk Cousins over, I thought
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: he looked pretty good that year. And then the second
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: year before the injury, I thought he looked terrible. So
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: he looks like the guy we saw in the first
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: year that he's building off of that. If you look
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: at a quarterback in a better position to succeed, you're
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: going to have to let me know. Because it's not
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: just Bijan Robinson who, for my money, It's the best
• 52:55
  Speaker 8: running back in the league right now. Like the most complete,
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: the most fun to watch, the most exciting. With all
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: due respect to Kenneth Walker and what he's doing in
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: Kansas City, I love watching Dijon Robinson play football, and
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: his line is outstanding. So you've got a quarterback who
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: has the ability to be protected, which certainly matters when
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: you consider Pennix health history. You've got an elite running
• 53:16
  Speaker 8: back that you can lean on, and you've got a
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: receiving core that maybe isn't like... you know, they, they
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: might not have a Justin Jefferson, a type of player,
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: but they've kind of got that next year, right? Like they,
• 53:27
  Speaker 8: they might not have that elite one, two guys, but
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: they've got, you know, a bunch of guys that you
• 53:31
  Speaker 8: can win with. You know, I've always talked about how
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: bad the chargers or Stephen core is like the Falcons
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: are still a group that you can work with and
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: have success with, you know, even if Drake London, you know,
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: can't run a 40, right. They still do some good things.
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: So I think, and their defense is solid, right? So
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: like I look at Enix, And unlike most quarterbacks who
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: take over a team early in their career, and this
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: is now your three, she is in a position to succeed.
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: And it's cool to watch him do it because he
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: can make every throw and he looks comfortable currently making
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: every throw. Cause first game he played those remember the
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: first quarter and it changed like the first 20 minutes.
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: I'm thinking, Oh boy, this is like the second year
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: of Michael Penix. And since then it's the first year
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: of Michael Penix.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: They still have Tua Tungvalu on their roster in Atlanta.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Is he possibly a trade, somebody that the Falcons could
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: trade to a quarterback-needy team? You get another injury, a
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: quarterback or some teams that, I don't know, off the
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: top of the head who might do it, but Giants perhaps.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: They just got J.G. McCarthy. Do you think they're going
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: to keep Tungvalu as insurance, or what do you think
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: they do with the trade deadline November 10th?
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, it all depends on where you're at
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: at that point and what you're getting offered for, right?
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: Is it worth training to a tongue of a law
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: for a, for a fifth or sixth round draft pick,
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: which is probably what he would command at this stage
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: of the proceedings, right? So if you all of a
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: sudden have won a bunch of games till then, and
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: you look like you're in really good shape to win
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: the division, you might want the insurance, right? And then
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: maybe you don't think Cooper rush can be that guy.
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: So especially after you saw the first two games. So
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: And it doesn't seem built.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: To win now, right?
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: I don't know that they're a Super Bowl contender, but
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: they can go a couple of rounds deep in the playoffs.
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: They're not young, young, right? They're not old at all.
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: So I would, again, it depends on where you're at.
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: I mean, if they win their next six before then,
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: which I think they can absolutely do if you look
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: at their schedule. and they don't get offered a lot
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: for two of them. They don't get at least a
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: second-round pick for two of them. I don't know that
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: I'd trade them. I'd hang on to them.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: If the Falcons win that NFC South, they're going to
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: have a home playoff game, at least one home playoff
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: game in Atlanta.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: The next game's coming up for Atlanta to start on
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Sunday night. It's the Sunday night game at home against Baltimore.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Then they've got Chicago and San Francisco at home. Three
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: games at home in a row for Atlanta at Tampa
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Bay versus Cincinnati tonight. before November 15th versus Kansas City
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: and then a bye week for the Falcons.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Is Justin Herbert broken? Because in the first half he did.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: He's five for 14. He looked broken for the Chargers
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: offense looked broken. Then the Seahawks started giving him drive-extending penalties,
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden Herbert started throwing dimes all
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: over the field and brought him within seven points. The
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, Jim Harbaugh, Meshing– the whole Mike McDaniel and
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: the orbit motions and all the pre-snap candy and funky
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: does Justin Herbert, not meshing.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: What do you think is going on there with the
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: chargers and Herbert?
• 56:25
  Speaker 8: It looks broken. And like, look, maybe that half of
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: football where he finally had some success this season is
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: going to lead to something that they can build on. Maybe,
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: but my doubt should I have since the start of
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: the year, just because I got to like Mike McDaniel.
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: I think he's an incredibly creative guy, but you know,
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: When you have Mike McDaniel, you kind of need a
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: quarterback that does some different things in my estimation. And,
• 56:51
  Speaker 8: you know, you've got to have a guy that kind
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: of can get the ball out of his hands quick.
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: You know, the reads tend to get a little simpler.
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: Justin Herbert is much more of a downfield passer. And
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: when you look at his downfield accuracy this season, it's
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: a disaster. Like, I don't know who we're watching. You know,
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: I know they were tweaking his stance at the start
• 57:09
  Speaker 8: of the training camp because they thought it would lend
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: itself more to McDaniel's offense in the quick game and
• 57:15
  Speaker 8: some of the things that they're trying to marry up.
• 57:19
  Speaker 8: I'm not a big Jim Harbaugh guy, but I also
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: feel that Jim Harbaugh has never been afraid to try
• 57:23
  Speaker 8: something different. He wanted to get more out of Justin Herbert,
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: so he hired Mike McDaniel. Because when you look at
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: the offense in the last two seasons, when you look
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: at Herbert's performance, even though they were 11-5 and got
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: into the playoffs both years, his numbers were slightly down
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: over what he'd done earlier in his career when everything
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: leaned on him as opposed to trying to run the
• 57:45
  Speaker 8: football a bit more. So they're still trying to figure
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: out that marriage. But people don't realize that Mike McDaniel
• 57:53
  Speaker 8: is a run-first coach. A lot of that eye candy
• 57:56
  Speaker 8: is set up for the run game, not just for
• 57:58
  Speaker 8: the pass game. They haven't really been able to get
• 58:00
  Speaker 8: that going. The offensive line is really, really banged up.
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: um so I like I just don't know that if
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: Herbert can build off what he did last week because
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: of the state of the roster so I you know
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: I think it's gonna stay bad right I don't know
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: that this team's going very far and are going to
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: be able to rescue themselves I think they're going to
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: be 0-5 this week and we've never seen an 0-5
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: team make the playoffs.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Right exactly Farhan Lalji TSN Canada NFL reporter for the
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: National Network up there a great friend of mine we
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: see him all the time down here around the Seahawks
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: and Huskies and more. He joins us on the Beacon
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Plumbing Hotline every Thursday at 11 o'clock. You've been a coach.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: You're in the B.C. Football Hall of Fame, for heaven's sakes.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: You know about officials. And what is going on with
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Aiden Hill, the referee, going after a guy for accidentally
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: hitting him from behind? And the referee, the back judge,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Jeff Seaman, just F-bombing.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, just going after Trey McBride.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Is this becoming like an ump show in Major League Baseball,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: or do you think this is just the abnormality of
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: one real bad Sunday for the Stripes?
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you sure hope not, right? I know
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: that we study officiating and which officials... make.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: We may have lost Farhan for a second there.
• 59:15
  Speaker 10: No!
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: Farhan is in the BAC, British Columbia Football Hall of Fame.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did not know that.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all kinds of little things.
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: That's why he looks so fly in his picture. That's
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: probably from his induction, that's right. But if you missed it,
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: the question was about the officiating. First of all, there
• 59:32
  Speaker 7: were a ton of penalties this past week. And you
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: saw the Seahawks-Charger game have 30 accepted penalties, 150 yards,
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: a team record. But then Aiden Hill in a game
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: went after a player who accidentally was pushed into him
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: from behind. The official got up and started swinging.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: And then we had Jeff Seaman, a back judge at
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: the Giants-Cardinals game, F-bombing Trey McBride. I think we got
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: you back now, B.C. Hall of Famer, B.C. Football Hall
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: of Famer Farhan Lalji. Signing autographs, you had to step away.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: You know what?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, and I had four bars this time,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: so this time it was you, not me.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: Blame me. It's always the producer's fault, Farhan.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: No, it's never your fault because you say.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: My picture's good.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 8: You're right, though, like, You know, when you look at
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 8: the NFL, we study officials and, you know, this officiating
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: crew is likely to make more pass interference calls. They're
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: likely to make more holding calls, whatever it happens to be.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 8: But officials don't take the game over, right? Like, you know,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: the umpires, it's a strike zone, right? Even now with
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 8: the ABS, it's gotten better. But sports like hockey and baseball, like,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: you know, the officials take things over. You know their personalities.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: They bark back. We don't get a lot of that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: in football. We don't get a lot of that in basketball.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: And I don't want to see that change. So, you know,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: I'm glad the NFL kind of, you know, they, they
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: hit an ant with a sledgehammer in this case, right?
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 8: Like they want to make a point. Obviously the PA
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 8: is going to support that, right? Because they're protecting their players.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: And I look, I've been on sidelines for games where
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: there are times the officials go free or the coaches
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: go crazy on officials and make Rabel who got a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: 15 yard penalty in the last game. I talked about
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: the fact that what I said, I probably have said
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: 87 times before in my career. I think it should stop.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: I think respect has to go both ways. I think
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: players and coaches shouldn't be able to say some of
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: the things they do to officials. I think that's just
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: flat out wrong. You create a level of tension and hostility.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: We're not used to seeing the officials bark back, and
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: they've been instructed not to, but... You know, like, I'm
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: sure this isn't the first time it's happened, but I
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 8: hope it's the last. And I hope that that works
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: both ways because, you know, it can create a pretty
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: intimidating environment for officials to work in. We talk about
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 8: youth officials and, you know, parents screaming from the stands.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: It's not great for a professional official, whether they're getting
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: paid $ 300, 000 or not, like that doesn't matter. What we
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: see on the sidelines both ways isn't good. Truthfully, I'm
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: glad that the league reacted the way it did because
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 8: I hope it sends a message to both sides, not
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: just the officials.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: I think they're sending across the bow message to everybody
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: with the suspensions, whether you think they're heavy-handed or not.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Farhan, I appreciate you, man.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: I'll see you at the stadium on Sunday, and we'll
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: talk to you next Thursday as well.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Thanks, man.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: Let's have an omelet together.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: We shall. An omelet together. Let's go. In the stadium.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: What's your favorite filling on an omelet?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 8: Let's see. Turkey sausage because they don't eat pork and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 8: they have that there.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on that.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: Green and red peppers. Onions and mushrooms.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 6: There we go.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: We can have an omelet together. That's like literally the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: exact order that I would make. Get there.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Get there. Well, hey.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: Let's do it.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: I have a Friday night game. I actually will be
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: home on this Sunday.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you will.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: Come on out to the stadium. Thanks, Farhan. I'll see
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: you Sunday.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 8: See you guys.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lalji, TSN Canada, the NFL reporter, will be in
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: the stadium with me on Sunday when the Seahawks and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: the 49ers play for first place. The undefeated 49ers play
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: for first place in the NFC West. Lots of comments
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: on the Tacoma Dodge text line about their starting the show,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: talking about Journalism, performative journalism on television. I'm not even
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: going to call it journalism. Elaine Johnson, mental health. We'll
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: talk about that. We'll talk about any talkbacks you have
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: on the TalkBack app. Jessamyn's going to play those back.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: She's also going to give you a fact or fiction
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: pick for your chance to win $ 1, 000 from the Lucky
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• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: I'm jetting out down.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: To Seahawks to get there in time to talk to
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, maybe talk to another new running back the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Seahawks have in the locker room. Jessamyn, next with your
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: talkbacks and part of the show.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: So send them in.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: Give me more. I want more voices because Greg is
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: saying goodbye.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: Factor Fiction next. I'll talk to you tomorrow on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 12: If we somehow manage to beat the 49ers, and I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 12: hope we do, on Monday, we better have that Marshawn
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 12: Lynch clip ready when he's walking around Vegas scrolling 49ers
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 12: fans going, if you obviously edited, but we need that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 12: on standby.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: Appreciate that edit.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 10: Hey there, Jessamyn. Good luck, Greg. I really, really hope
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 10: that the Seahawks are listening. Your most reliable option behind
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: the line of scrimmage to hand the ball off to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 10: is Emmanuel Wilson. Just don't make him go side to side, please.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 10: Try to make this an inside zone situation this weekend.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 10: I really believe in this kid to just carry us
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 10: until Charbonnet's ready.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: Go Hawks!
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Again, this is Jessamyn McIntyre at
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: the Greg Bell Show. Greg is off to do what
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: he does best, and that is to cover the Seahawks.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: And I also very much appreciate the self edits that
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: you guys do throughout this show. When you send in,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: when you hit that little red microphone on the iHeartRadio
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: app and just self edit, because it's so much work
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: for me to beep it. I do appreciate passion though.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: So I am always open to editing as well. We
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: have a ton coming in on the text line as well.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: Speaking of the text line, I do want to remind
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: everyone that we have a huge, very special event that
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: is happening tonight. This is at 5 o'clock, and it
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: is hosted by Hugh Millen with Chuck Powell and Anders Hurst,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: and it's at the Canoes Cabaret at Tulalip Resort Casino.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: So what you don't maybe, I don't know, those who
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: listen a lot and get to hear Hugh a lot,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: He breaks down game film almost like none other. This
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: is why I always love listening to him and Greg
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: Gassell once a year, getting it together and having the
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: opportunity to actually break down film. So what you will
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: get at this is an in-person game breakdown, all 22.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: And if you don't know what that is, then you
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: should go and actually see it because Greg And Hugh, Hugh,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: Greg won't be there, but Hugh breaks down film like
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: none other. And he'll actually tell you why. He'll give
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: you all of the experience that you want. All you
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: have to do is text in your name and your
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: email address and how many tickets you want, because they're
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: going pretty fast. We still have some openings. So please
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: just text in 49451. If you want to go earlier today,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: two Oh six says, what a great clip from the
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: 28 year old Vin Scully, that fabulously scratchy audio. I
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: can't believe he was 28. That was very back in
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: the old timey days. You could hear the classic voice.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you for sharing that special moment on KJR, Greg,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: a great decade in baseball. It absolutely was. And yes,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: we will have factor fiction on time. Four to five.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: We are just about a minute away from, And then
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: there are a lot more people who want to come in.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: 206 says, y'all had me with the omelet until you
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: said mushrooms.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: I don't like raw mushrooms, but I really like them cooked.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you that. We have a lot of people
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: coming in about the running game. But you know what
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: we have to do? I have to abandon the text
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: because it is time to win $ 1, 000. We're set to go.
• 1:07:42
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• 1:07:44
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• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: And I'd like to stay true to my theme because
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: I do not pick college football games. As someone who
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: works in college football, it feels unethical to me, even
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: though it probably isn't really that big a deal. But
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: I am going with a pick. Again, if you agree with.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: Me, text.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: Fact 2049451. If you disagree with me, text FICTION. I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: don't care. Either way, you don't have to agree with me.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 4: You could win $ 1, 000. And you could also get entered
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: in to win $ 10, 000. The more you vote, whether it
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: be fact or fiction.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: The more chances you have at 10 grand at the
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: end of this contest, which ends on December 11th. So
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: you can fact, fact, fact, fiction or fiction or fiction.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going with the Vikings minus two and a half
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: as they face the Saints. And I will tell you why.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: Minnesota is 4-0. and oh, and I know that they're
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: going to the Saints. But I just really believe I
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: can't believe no one picked this yet. And I can't
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: believe the line is what it is. But I'm taking
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 4: the Minnesota Vikings minus two and a half. at the
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints, and that is this Sunday. It's a
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: 10 a.m. Pacific time game, so get up early if
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: you choose to subscribe to whatever I say. I just
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: think it just makes a lot of sense that even
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: if they're going to win, they're just going to win
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: by a field goal or more. And this one is
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: just a little too easy for me to pick, and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: no one else had picked it I'm going through the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: sheet right now. By the way, Greg and I, let's
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: look at the show standings. We still remain in first place.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: I'm batting a solid 500 when it comes to Factor Fiction.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: So I do appreciate those who agree with me. And
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: I do appreciate those who don't because I just like
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: your participation. And anyway, we do have some more people
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: who are very, very much in to the Hugh Millen
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: Chalk Talk. Again, that's at the Tulalip Resort and Casino.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: So just make sure you get in. And by the way,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 4: if you hadn't got a confirmation quite yet, don't worry.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: Chris Kidd will get back to you and you will
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: get in. You will get in because we have not
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: hit capacity quite yet. But please, please get in as
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: soon as you can because these are filling up very,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: very quickly. I do like those people saying that's a
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: good call. So thank you very much. I do like
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: to be flattered. Let's see.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: I'm getting back to the text right now because we
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: did have to get that fact or fiction pick. I
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: mentioned that tonight I'm going to be flying into Salt
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: Lake City for the Cougs game, which is tomorrow night.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: So tonight I'm flying in and the 206 said it's
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: awesome to fly in there. You drop down so quickly
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: into that airport like a roller coaster flying through LA. Yes,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: I do agree that that is the case. It is
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: for those who have flown into Salt Lake City. It
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: is quite a drop once you get in between those.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: It's not cliffs. It's buttes. It's very wind driven plains
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: that are in there that are mountains. Anyway, do appreciate
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: you guys letting us know that Greg's mic was on.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: We were giggling about an off-air joke, and luckily you
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: couldn't hear the joke. It wasn't even inappropriate, but yes,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: I do appreciate you letting us know that Greg's mic
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: was on. We also, at the beginning of the show,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: talked about the unfortunate way that Stephen A. Smith had
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: chosen to address an NFL player's coming out and talking
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: about mental health issues. This from the 360. I appreciate
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: you guys taking the time to talk about Stephen A.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: Smith and Johnson's retirement because of mental health. It's real.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: And that's what it's about. I appreciate you guys. Absolutely
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: love the show. We love you for listening. Thank you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: very much. I do appreciate the U.S. Coast Guard listener.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: Sarah's a brethren, Sarah Bell, out there. And I think
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: she is out in Tokyo or Okinawa right now, but
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: stationed in Hawaii. So thank you very much for your
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: support in my pick. I do think I am correct
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: on that. Also, just remember that Ian Furness, especially, I
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: wouldn't call it fortuitous timing, but it is pretty important
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: timing that The Holinskis, both Mark and Kim, will be
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: on with Ian Furness today. And it has to coincide
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: with the end of the Mayor of Maple Valley. The
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: final keg is being sold tonight at Georgetown Brewery. So
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: please come and say hi to Ian as he hoists
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: the last one of that. And go buy whatever you can.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: They do growlers. They do growlers. And at this time,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: I think it's a very important time. conversation that both
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: Mark and Kim Holinsky can add to. I added earlier
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: that former offensive lineman Cole Madison, who was drafted in
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: the NFL, he went to the Packers, he stepped back.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: And no one shamed him for that. But he was
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: a very good friend of Tyler Holinsky. And even though
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: he was a drafted NFL player, He was in the NFL,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: the pinnacle of his career, and he stepped back to
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: take care of himself. And I was so proud of
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: him for that. Instead of going on television for $ 100
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: million and shaming someone for doing so. And whatever trite
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: crap Stephen A. Smith said later, I think the damage
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: is done. Anyway, thank you for listening. This is Jessamyn
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: McIntyre and The Greg Bell Show. Ian's up next and
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: will tell us more about what he's got coming up.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: Welcome back to The Greg Bell Show. My name is
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: Jessamyn McIntyre. Greg is doing all the jobs right now.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: All the jobs.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: He's going to get you ready. Welcome in with the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: guy I left.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 11: You left me.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: You left me. Anders left me. You left me. Shockey
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: left me. Sobrowski left me. They all left me.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: There's a lowest common denominator here, Ian.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 11: There is.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 9: Ashley!
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: No, she's still here.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: She's still here.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 11: I've already been with her today. She's already working. Hey,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 11: I want to mention this real quick because at noon,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 11: not earlier, not 11-59-59, at noon, we start getting our
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 11: fun syntax. Last week we had Jess, last week we
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 11: had a dozen that came in within one second.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: After the hour.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 11: Another like 20 that came in two to four seconds after.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: It was crazy.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: I appreciate the tenacity.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 11: So let me just tell people about this because you
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 11: want to do it right now. Tonight up at the
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 11: Tulalip Resort Casino, Hugh Millen is hosting a chalk talk
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 11: that only Hugh Millen can do.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 11: Because he's Hugh. He's Millen. There's one guy that can
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 11: do this. We used to do this for the KJR Carousel.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 11: I thought it was a huge hit and sold out
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 11: every year. So you could basically, you're going to watch
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 11: all 22 coaches tape with Hugh and he'll give you
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 11: the perspective, hidden details. It's going to be a ton
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 11: of fun. You can sit on it. Basically a film
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 11: session that NFL players and coaches get experienced every week.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 11: You get to sit on that with Hugh Millen, our guy,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 11: Hugh Millen. It's free doors open at four 30. If
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 11: you want to go text four, nine, four, five, one,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 11: your name, email, and how many seats you want to reserve,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 11: and our guy Chris Cade will get back to you.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 6: All right, boom.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 11: What do you got? What's going on?
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: Well, what is going on with you? Actually, we had
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: a pretty intense conversation off the start of the show
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: with Stephen A. Smith. His comments. We did not play
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: it because he does not deserve another click.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 11: I actually asked Ashley to pull that audio in thoughts
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 11: of playing it, and I heard you guys talking. I
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 11: think you're right. I'm not going to give it the airtime.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 11: I don't think he deserves it. I don't think it
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 11: deserves the oxygen. No, I don't think so.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 8: I don't either.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I did for building. No, he basically took a
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 11: shot at Lane Johnson, the all pro future hall of
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 11: fame tackle from Philadelphia who retired this week, uh, both
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 11: physical and mental issues, uh, going on with him and
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 11: he's done, he's walking away. And Stephen Smith was very
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 11: critical of him if his decision to do that. Uh,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 11: the irony is it comes on this particular week, which
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 11: across the country is student mental health week. Uh, student
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 11: mental health week is a huge deal, uh, over 200
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 11: colleges and universities 600 teams have joined up across the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 11: country from the SEC to the Pac-12, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 11: big conferences, small conference, D1, D2, D3, NAIA, all across
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 11: the country trying to get the word out that mental
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 11: health is a really, really big deal for our young people,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 11: especially young student-athletes, but young people as a whole, also
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 11: those in the military. So for him to do it
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 11: this particular week is... To say it's egregious and disgusting is, again,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 11: probably being too light. But we move on from that
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 11: because that's not what this is about. It's about helping
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 11: folks out. We're going to talk to the Holinskys today, Jess,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 11: at 1.30.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: Please tell them I say hi.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 11: Mark and Ryan are going to join us. Tyler's brother
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 11: are going to join us. Mark, his dad. And just
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 11: kind of talk about the efforts to help this out.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 11: They've partnered with a great group across the country. that
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 11: involves Mia Hamm and the Muhammad Ali Foundation and others
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 11: to help with this. And really cool thing in our state,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 11: our Washington State Coaches Association is involved with it now too.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 11: And you're going to see, if you're going to a
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 11: high school game this weekend, you're going to see a
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  Speaker 11: lot of our high school teams wearing the green ribbons
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  Speaker 11: on their helmets this weekend as well. That's very special.
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  Speaker 11: And we see the pink every year for breast cancer awareness,
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  Speaker 11: rightfully so. Well done. For all football levels, high school, college,
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  Speaker 11: in the NFL, and that raises awareness. You know, there's
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  Speaker 11: the crucial catch stuff and all that. The little green
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  Speaker 11: helmet sticker you see back there, that's the window. That's
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  Speaker 11: the door to open up to ask for help. And
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  Speaker 11: just to make us aware that many people are struggling
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  Speaker 11: like Tyler did, and you may not know it. And
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  Speaker 11: you may not know it, but I love the fact
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  Speaker 11: that our local high school associations in our state of
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  Speaker 11: Washington have partnered up with Alinsky's Hope this year. We'll
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  Speaker 11: talk about that and so much more. So that's coming
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  Speaker 11: up today at 1.30.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I love that. And I brought up the fact
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  Speaker 4: that Cole Madison did a similar thing. Yeah. And I
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  Speaker 4: had talked about that earlier. And if I.
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  Speaker 11: Cole plays in our golf tournament every year, too, which
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  Speaker 11: is awesome.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He's an amazing person.
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  Speaker 11: He's with the rest of that... He's probably too nice
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  Speaker 11: to be with the rest of those guys, like Bo
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  Speaker 11: and Colt and those guys, but the former Wazoo players. No,
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  Speaker 11: those guys, I love you guys if you're listening to
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  Speaker 11: those great dudes.
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  Speaker 4: No, they're all awesome. They're great. I love seeing them
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  Speaker 4: every single year that I get to be down there.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it.
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  Speaker 4: The point that I brought up is that, especially because
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  Speaker 4: I know Cole, if someone had shamed him at that point,
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  Speaker 4: how would I feel now? I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the Eagles offensive lineman. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: personally know. And I was still mad. And it just
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  Speaker 4: reminds me of how much, okay, if this was a
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  Speaker 4: person you cared about, how would you feel if this person,
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  Speaker 4: a talking head, a bobblehead of a person these days,
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  Speaker 4: went out, a former journalist, went out and said that?
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  Speaker 4: And you could tell his co-hosts were not comfortable with
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  Speaker 4: the way he was talking, too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: How would you feel?
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  Speaker 11: I think more important than that is just looking inside
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  Speaker 11: your own house, your own team, your own world, and
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  Speaker 11: asking if everything's okay.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's... I think that's the better message to send.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't think anything has to do with SAS.
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  Speaker 11: I think it has to do... I would actually almost
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  Speaker 11: take it a different direction. He probably helped the cause
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  Speaker 11: a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: You're probably right.
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  Speaker 11: In a weird, perverse way. He helped it a little bit,
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  Speaker 11: but yeah, I mean, I know so many people when
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 11: I was working in junior hockey in the Western League
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  Speaker 11: with Seattle and Tri-Cities and other teams, like I know
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 11: some kids struggled and in a bad way and years
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 11: later did, you know, a lot of times you end
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 11: up with addictions and things like that. Obviously that's not
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  Speaker 11: good at all. The worst alternative is what happened to Tyler.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Death by suicide. So anyway, we'll touch in on that
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  Speaker 11: a little bit today. And again, just a shout out
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  Speaker 11: to our Washington State Coaches Association and Don Bartell and
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 11: those guys that took the lead in that. We're big
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 11: into high school football here. You guys do something every week. Fane,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: on a non-Husky night, Fane would have Varsity Football Live.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 11: I don't think they'll have it tomorrow because the Huskies
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: are playing in the postgame, but we're all in on that.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 11: And we'll talk to them at 1.30 today. as well.
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  Speaker 11: So big day coming up in that regard. We've got
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 11: a big show. We've got Ross Tucker coming up today.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 11: He's got the Denver Chargers this week on CBS. He's the...
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 11: I think he's got a Westwood one game, too, but
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 11: we'll see. But we've got Ross coming up at 1220 today,
• 1:21:02
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• 1:21:08
  Speaker 11: see with the 49ers and Seahawks matchup? He can't talk
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 11: enough about that and the rest of the NFL. The
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go. I do miss being a part
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: of that segment. And please tell all of your callers
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• 1:21:40
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• 1:21:43
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