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Chuck in the Morning 7-27 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, camp reactions and Abe Lucas. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: This is fair and it rolls into the corner. Julio
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Speaker 1: is into third being a wave Tom headed to the plant.
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Speaker 2: Em the Mariners tack out a little insurance.
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Speaker 1: Dom Canzone called game here in Texas.
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Speaker 2: A little super sure with that call, but nonetheless right
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Speaker 2: Aaron Goldsmith on the call Mariners TV, Mariners do pull
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Speaker 2: it out. It was looking rather bleak two outs, top
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Speaker 2: of the seventh, down to and at risk of losing
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Speaker 2: three straight games to the Texas Rangers in this biggest
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Speaker 2: series of the season so far, and dom Canzone comes
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Speaker 2: through with a three run homer later in RBI double
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Speaker 2: to put the team up two and they go on
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Speaker 2: to a six to four much needed win on Sunday
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Speaker 2: and now have a chance to split this four game series.
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Speaker 2: George Kirby getting the start today at eleven thirty five
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Speaker 2: for the MS against Kumar Rocker, right hander for the
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Speaker 2: Texas Rangers. And that is where our seven o'clock hour
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Speaker 2: begins here this morning. It is Chuck in the Morning
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Great to have
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Speaker 2: you with us as we move into our number two
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Speaker 2: on this Monday, and yes we are on location live
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Speaker 2: from Seahawks training camp. Our broadcast coverage here at the
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Speaker 2: radio station starts today. Every show we'll be out here today,
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Speaker 2: including Greg Bell, who will start his show at ten o'clock.
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Speaker 2: We'll chat with Greg and his Seahawks Insider segment coming
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Speaker 2: up here in three minutes. But of course we have
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Speaker 2: the special treat today of Hugh Millen, who is joining
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Speaker 2: it is Champ Camp, day number three of Seahawks Training
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Speaker 2: Camp twenty twenty six. We're still waiting on a Devin
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Speaker 2: Witherspoon deal. Cooper Cup and Tory Horton both made a
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Speaker 2: lot of people write about them on Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 2: here at training Camp and hard Knoxes. Here they've got
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Speaker 2: three trailers taking up our old parking spots. But that's
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Speaker 2: good HBO because we got better parking spots because of you,
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Speaker 2: So thank you, Lee. And so that's sort of the
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Speaker 2: buzz here at the training camp. Some other headlines Mariners
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Speaker 2: winning six to four, as I mentioned, over the Texas Rangers.
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Speaker 2: And then we also had over the weekend WNBA All
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Speaker 2: Star Weekend dom Malonga twelve points in her first ever
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Speaker 2: All Star Game appearance. And now they get ready for
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Speaker 2: the second half. The MLS, for whatever reason, is having
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Speaker 2: an All Star break this week because I know they
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Speaker 2: really need some time off after having a month off
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Speaker 2: in the middle of their season. And Lebron James is
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Speaker 2: now a Philadelphia seventy six er, and so the Lebron
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Speaker 2: James story off season story for the most part, has
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Speaker 2: come to a conclusion. But I think he meets with
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Speaker 2: I asked Greg Bell with us pretty much every day
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Speaker 2: at seven oh five for the entire football season. And
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Speaker 2: here we are out here for our first show of
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Speaker 2: training camp and uh, Greg Bell's seat is empty across
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Speaker 2: the table. Yeah, disappointing. Disappointing at the crack of dawn,
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Speaker 2: where you've.
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Speaker 4: Been a weekend after all week practices.
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Speaker 2: I did see your new parking space out there. Look
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Speaker 2: at you got your name played out there and everything else.
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Speaker 2: I almost parked there just to you know, haze you
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Speaker 2: on day number one of my training camp this year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, they've done that every year for a while
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Speaker 4: for the beat writers. And you can see a lot
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Speaker 4: of credit for that, because it would be it would
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Speaker 4: be a lot of inconvenience for beat writers who were
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Speaker 4: in and out of there at all hours. Yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 4: we were.
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Speaker 2: We were always left outside the gate, so I never
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Speaker 2: even got inside to see. Well, yeah, you're living these days.
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Speaker 4: The hard knocks dudes are outside the gates. That little
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Speaker 4: grave a lot. They've taken over with trailers right outside
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Speaker 4: the gates. Now, by the way, when we're talking about it, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I was going to say they are omnipotent. They're everywhere.
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Speaker 4: They're chasing players all over the place. During scrimmages. There's
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Speaker 4: four or five boom microphones in the huddles. Behind the
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Speaker 4: huddles and Manda. They love Devin Witherspoon already. He's as
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Speaker 4: we predicted, He's going to be the personality kid of
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Speaker 4: the show. Even when he ties his shoes, they have
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Speaker 4: a boom mic over his head. He's they they're catching
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Speaker 4: him chirping at the offensive players and just what he
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Speaker 4: always does. He will be a featured star and the
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Speaker 4: rest of the country will get to see what we
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Speaker 4: know out here, what he is in practices. But the
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Speaker 4: guys are saying, wow, after a few days, we're probably
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Speaker 4: not going to notice it. I don't know how you
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Speaker 4: won't notice it after a month.
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Speaker 2: It's just a it.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think right now they're hamming up a little bit.
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Speaker 4: I noticed that the team meeting yesterday post practice, the
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Speaker 4: music was louder. The roarers are louder. There's a permanent
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Speaker 4: robotic camera in the team meeting room that NFL films
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Speaker 4: and they hard Knocks is set up. They've done the
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Speaker 4: same thing for John Schneider's office, Mike McDonald's office. There's
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Speaker 4: gonna be a handheld walking a person walking through the
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Speaker 4: locker room when they do it in the locker. It's
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Speaker 4: not a remote camera in there. But right now, I
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Speaker 4: think they're playing a little bit to the cameras. I
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Speaker 4: noticed a lot of guys got haircuts, for instance, to
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Speaker 4: clean themselves up a little bit, as if they're gonna
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Speaker 4: be starring in national television. But it's different. It's noticeable,
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Speaker 4: and the guys, the players, I think, are noticing it too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I did too. I did too. I want
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Speaker 2: to be on the next season of White Lotus and
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Speaker 2: this is my chance. That's Netflix. I've never even seen
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Speaker 2: the show. Greg Bell is with us here. All right, Well,
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Speaker 2: let's get into some news. Then. Where are we with
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Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon Since you brought his name.
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Speaker 4: Up, Well, it's eminent that he's going to get a
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Speaker 4: new contract. It's going to be thirty one million or
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Speaker 4: more a year. It's probably going to be eclipsing Trent
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Speaker 4: McDuffie's I think some of the interesting stall play circumstances
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Speaker 4: going on here is that Witherspoon and Christian Gonzale, the
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Speaker 4: other elite cornerback in Green in New England, who is
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Speaker 4: also due for an extension, they both have the same agent,
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Speaker 4: same agency, So it wouldn't surprise me that that agency
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Speaker 4: is leveraging those two players off each other to drive
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Speaker 4: each of their price up. Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner,
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Speaker 4: came out this weekend saying, man, we've already given Gonzalez
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Speaker 4: the offer that would make him the highest paid cornerback
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Speaker 4: in the league. Well, Witherspoon's agency knows what that offer is,
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Speaker 4: and if he want to make Witherspoon the highest player
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Speaker 4: in the league, bill piggyback and leap frog over that.
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Speaker 4: And so I think that's also some of it. I've
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Speaker 4: said it before. It's so guaranteed money when it's to
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Speaker 4: do how much does it do it signing? How much
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Speaker 4: of the total value of the contract is guaranteed? Those
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Speaker 4: are the eleventh and a half hour details that usually
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Speaker 4: hang up the deals type such as this. There's no
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Speaker 4: signs that it won't get done, and it's going to
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Speaker 4: be soon.
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Speaker 5: I know it's a story and as you suggest there.
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Speaker 5: I don't give any thought to it. I do give
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Speaker 5: a lot of thought to nick em and worry and
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Speaker 5: being on the physically unable to perform list. And you
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Speaker 5: were there interviewing Mike McDonald and just kind of repeat
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Speaker 5: what he said, what's the update that we're getting about
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Speaker 5: his injury? But then also Greg kind of share with
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Speaker 5: us any kind of body language or affect that you
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Speaker 5: may have observed from Mike McDonald that might, in your intuition,
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Speaker 5: suggest anything at all about where we are with this injury.
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Speaker 4: Well, started out by saying that it's not long term,
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Speaker 4: that they did it now because this is better for
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Speaker 4: his long term health and everything will be fine after
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Speaker 4: this surgery. Left um said, is why they waited until
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Speaker 4: July to do it. I think they were hoping the
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Speaker 4: rehab would fix it obviously without the surgery, and that
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Speaker 4: did not happen. So that I pressed McDonald, Well, you
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Speaker 4: say it's not long term, do you expect him to
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Speaker 4: be ready for the opener? Which is what I've been
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Speaker 4: told by a couple league sources in and around the team.
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Speaker 4: And McDonald's started sounding like Pete Carroll and he started
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Speaker 4: him and Hans he said, well, he could play, and
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Speaker 4: the Koy way that Carol used to do it, well,
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Speaker 4: he could plan the open. I guess it's possible. And
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Speaker 4: he started nervously laughing, and so I asked him. I said,
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Speaker 4: I said, well, sure he could play. Will do you
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Speaker 4: expect him to play? And he, finally, after a couple
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Speaker 4: of him and Hawsen last again said I don't know.
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Speaker 4: And what I took from that, Hugh, is that he
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Speaker 4: doesn't want to add pressure on to the kid, even
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Speaker 4: while he's still going twenty two years old his second year.
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Speaker 4: He's trying to make a big first impression that's lasting
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Speaker 4: from the beginning of last season through now, and he
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Speaker 4: probably feels pressure that. Well, man, I should have taken
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Speaker 4: care of this earlier. I don't want this to drag
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Speaker 4: on too much. I need to get back, and I
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Speaker 4: think McDonald publicly saying I don't know about the opener
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Speaker 4: was his way of saying to the kid the public
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Speaker 4: perception wise, don't rush back. I'm not going to put
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Speaker 4: a timeline on you that would make you the artificial
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Speaker 4: pressure that you don't need. The expectation I'm told is
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Speaker 4: that he will be back to the opener. It's just
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Speaker 4: that his coach doesn't want to add pressure to that.
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Speaker 5: And it should be noted Greg that this is the same.
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Speaker 5: It's the right ankle. You had the high ankle sprain
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Speaker 5: in week one, you had the low ankle sprain leading
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Speaker 5: up to the Super Bowl. He played through that. It's
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Speaker 5: all the same right ankle. And you know, I guess
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Speaker 5: for me, having been a teammate of Shannon Sharp and
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Speaker 5: watched him get injection after injection later in his career,
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Speaker 5: in icing and not being able to practice, and you know,
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Speaker 5: I guess there's at least a concern, however improbable, that
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Speaker 5: you want to avoid anything chronic coming to afflict this
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Speaker 5: beautiful athlete exactly.
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Speaker 4: And the fact that it was an arthroscopic, non evasive,
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Speaker 4: pencil sized scope surgery suggests they don't think it's to
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Speaker 4: that point at all. Yet I say yet, only that
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Speaker 4: we'll see how he responds from this and how it
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Speaker 4: goes from here. But it is true it's the same ankle.
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Speaker 4: They are saying it's two different injuries. The high ankle sprain,
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Speaker 4: of course, ligaments higher up in the end of the
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Speaker 4: shin that happened in the fourth play of his career
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Speaker 4: in early September last year and then this one four
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Speaker 4: days before the Super Bowl was a hate to use
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Speaker 4: garden variety sprain, but it was it was a twisted,
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Speaker 4: inverted ankle that twisted as he was trying to defend
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Speaker 4: the pass. So they consider it two different injuries, but
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Speaker 4: that they say, and McDonald reiterated Saturday that it was
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Speaker 4: the lower ankle spring from the Super Bowl that this
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Speaker 4: surgery was correcting. Mc lemon Wori said last month of
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Speaker 4: mini camp that he tested a three game. He actually
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Speaker 4: went back to practice a little bit on Friday, two
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Speaker 4: days before the Super Bowl, two days after the injury,
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Speaker 4: and it surprised everybody. But then he tested the pregame
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Speaker 4: and tested really hard, maybe more harder than he should have,
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Speaker 4: and it was fine, and he played seventy to seventy
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Speaker 4: two snaps and then he intensely rehabbed. He said, he
12:29
Speaker 4: stayed while a lot of guys went back to their
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Speaker 4: home areas and his in South Carolina. He stayed here
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Speaker 4: and intensely rehabbed in the facility. Then did it rehab
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Speaker 4: that on the East Coast, he told at the time.
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Speaker 4: In June, he says, all good, and then he's starting
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Speaker 4: prepare to show up in July for training camp and
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Speaker 4: says this isn't right, and that's when the team decided
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Speaker 4: to have the surgery.
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Speaker 2: Greg mell is with us our Seahawks in sign er
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Speaker 2: day number one over training camp, covered you Millan, Chuck
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Speaker 2: Powell with you here from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center,
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Speaker 2: and of course I get all of my Seahawks news
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Speaker 2: from Thenewstribune dot com and Greg Bell's writing, but I
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Speaker 2: couldn't help but notice, you know that pretty much everybody
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Speaker 2: that was covering the Seahawks weekend was talking about Cooper
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Speaker 2: Cup and Tory Horton on Saturday and Sunday. Did they
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Speaker 2: stand out just that much?
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Speaker 4: Greg Tory Horton stood out by the fact he was
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Speaker 4: on the practice field. I thought he might be a
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Speaker 4: physically unable to perform. This guy himself. He had not
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Speaker 4: practiced at all in OTA's in mini caamp from the
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Speaker 4: major shin injury in early November, and there he was
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Speaker 4: Day one, full pads, full go catching punts and run
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Speaker 4: around catching passes from Sam Darnold. He's running fluidly. They've
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Speaker 4: held him out of eleven on eleven drills so far
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Speaker 4: as a precaution, but all signs really good about Tory
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Speaker 4: Horton being back, and I thought maybe he might not
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Speaker 4: be at the start Cooper Cup, I mean, we've talked
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Speaker 4: about the fact that he's almost a dozen years in
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Speaker 4: the league now, thirty three years old, big family, young family,
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Speaker 4: made two hundred million dollars, been a Super Bowl champion twice.
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Speaker 4: And I asked him whether you considered walking away from
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Speaker 4: the leaving not on top, and he looked, scoffed at
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Speaker 4: me and said, no, way, loved the sport. Well, yesterday
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Speaker 4: he showed why he's still playing. He was down the
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Speaker 4: left sideline against Josh Job and eleven and eleven. Donald's
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Speaker 4: throw was a little too far to the sideline and
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Speaker 4: out in front of him, and Cup just turned on
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Speaker 4: the speed, went past Job and then reached out with
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Speaker 4: his left arm and in the crook of his left
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Speaker 4: arm caught the past well still, he was flat out
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Speaker 4: superman diving while still keeping himself in bounds before Julian
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Speaker 4: Love arrived and Loved, just from the center of the field,
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Speaker 4: just shook his head and looking at Cup Smith and
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Speaker 4: Jiggbas said after practice that's who he is, and it's
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Speaker 4: like a coach in the field who can also still play.
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Speaker 4: He can obviously, Cooper Cup still play, I will say,
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Speaker 4: and Hugh knows this this time of the training camp,
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Speaker 4: still in shorts and helmets and notepads and defenders not
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Speaker 4: allowed to are not supposed to challenge balls in the air.
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Speaker 4: The receivers and the quarterbacks do tend to look good
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Speaker 4: because they're relatively unchallenged. But that was an exceptional catch.
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Speaker 4: No matter what. If it had full pads in the game,
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Speaker 4: it would have been crazy.
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Speaker 5: Well, the fact that Kup would make a catch like
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Speaker 5: that surprises me zero, right. I kind of feel like
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Speaker 5: I know what we're going to get with Cooper Cup.
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Speaker 5: You know he's a declining asset. But let's stick with
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Speaker 5: the wide receivers. You don't pay seventeen million dollars for
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Speaker 5: a return guy in Rashid Shihied just for returning. And
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Speaker 5: you look at the numbers over twelve games for the
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Speaker 5: Seahawks last year, extrapolate that over a seventeen games. It's
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Speaker 5: just a little over three hundred yards. So that's not
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Speaker 5: enough what he did. It has to be improved upon.
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Speaker 5: What sense do you get from the coaching staff and
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Speaker 5: where we are or because I feel like for the
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Speaker 5: Seahawks to reach their potential, that he's going to be pivotal,
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Speaker 5: that there's there's got to be an uptick in his
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Speaker 5: performance as a wide receiver.
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Speaker 4: Well, you, I can't think there could be any lower
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Speaker 4: production wise receiver than he could have been last year
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Speaker 4: when he came in midstream to the middle of.
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Speaker 2: The offense November fourth, and.
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Speaker 4: That he gave him anything offensively would have been a
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Speaker 4: bonus on top of his kick game. Now he's had
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Speaker 4: the whole off season. He and Sam Darnal and everybody else,
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Speaker 4: Cooper cup Jackson's been the digbar are all starting from
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Speaker 4: the same square. With Brian Flurry the new offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 4: That's an advantage for Shhed that he's not behind anyone
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Speaker 4: as far as the offense in the in the schematics
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Speaker 4: of it. And Donald has made a concerted effort to
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Speaker 4: connect with Shaheed during OTA's mini camps and they started
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Speaker 4: training camp. And why what do you mean by that? When
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Speaker 4: it's his turn in the drill, Shaheed's turned in the drill,
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Speaker 4: Donald jumps in. Whether it's whether Donald had just thrown
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Speaker 4: three in a row between the quarterbacks. The three quarterbacks
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Speaker 4: alternate the two lines of receivers and they just rotate
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Speaker 4: three over two and when Shaheed turn comes up, doesn't
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Speaker 4: matter where it was in the rotation, Darnald jumps up
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Speaker 4: to make sure he's thrown to him. So there is
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Speaker 4: a forced connection that they're trying to forge. They're still
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Speaker 4: in the early stages of it, but I'd have to
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Speaker 4: think it's going to be way way ahead of last year,
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Speaker 4: just purely by time and a familiarity compared to jumping
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Speaker 4: in the middle of season.
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Speaker 2: Well, I got one hundred more questions, but I'm going
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Speaker 2: to have to just stick with the one to conclude
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Speaker 2: our first conversation with you here at training camp. So
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Speaker 2: that means ten o'clock. Man, you can just let fly
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Speaker 2: with all sorts of new material. But I do want
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Speaker 2: to ask you, what's this Michael Jordan connection that's going
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Speaker 2: on with Mike McDonald and the.
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Speaker 4: Seahawks the latest newest twist of messaging by Mike McDonald.
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Speaker 4: Julian Love shared yesterday he's learning something every day about
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Speaker 4: his new coach. So I said, Okay, what'd you learn today?
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Speaker 4: And he said, Love did chicagoan that McDonald came into
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Speaker 4: the team meeting today and talked about Michael Jordan's ninety
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Speaker 4: one Bulls and how Jordan had been a four time
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Speaker 4: NBA scoring champion, averaging thirty eight points a game for
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Speaker 4: four years, yet the Bulls hadn't won anything, couldn't get
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Speaker 4: past the Pistons. And only after Jordan pulled back on
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Speaker 4: the individual scoring and is exquisite scoring an individual play
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Speaker 4: and involved his teammates. And that's when the Bulls became
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Speaker 4: a team, when he bought into Phil Jackson's team mentality.
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Speaker 4: Of course, the Bulls got better players too around him,
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Speaker 4: but his point, McDonald's point was we win, not one guy,
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Speaker 4: not a couple of our stars, not the veterans. Twelve
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Speaker 4: is one is real? Is what the message was for
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Speaker 4: McDonald yesterday, and Love said, that's a new twist. I
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Speaker 4: highlighted it. I led my story for the News Tribune
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Speaker 4: with that, because I think it's fascinating to see how
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Speaker 4: Mike McDonald, at just aged thirty nine and just only
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Speaker 4: his third season as a head coach at any level,
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Speaker 4: is basically got to reinvent himself in his approach. Pete
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Speaker 4: Carroll tried to do it, but after fourteen to fifteen
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Speaker 4: years here, McDonald has really challenged himself to how can
19:11
Speaker 4: I perfect the process for a team that's already won
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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl? Now only two years of knew his
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Speaker 4: culture shifting program, They've won the Super Bowl, They've already
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Speaker 4: reached the mountain. So how does McDonald, as such an inexperienced,
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Speaker 4: relatively young coach, keep cracking the whip on these guys
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Speaker 4: to get him to do it again? And that's a
19:29
Speaker 4: huge challenge, leadership challenge for him, And it's fascinating for
19:31
Speaker 4: me because his West Point background, his dad's West Point background,
19:34
Speaker 4: and the leadership principles that he's instilled in Mike McDonald
19:38
Speaker 4: To watch this guy in a leadership lab every day,
19:42
Speaker 4: and he is evolving and he is trying to find
19:44
Speaker 4: new messaging and new ways to involve the players in
19:47
Speaker 4: a new, perfected process that we're still only a couple
19:51
Speaker 4: days into seeing how it works out. But yesterday was
19:54
Speaker 4: an example of that evolution. And it is fascinating because
19:57
Speaker 4: McDonald has succeeded in almost everything he's done since he
20:00
Speaker 4: got here. Can he succeed again and do something that
20:04
Speaker 4: very few coaches and teams can do, and that's went
20:07
Speaker 4: back to back Super Bowls?
20:09
Speaker 2: Well, I'll make sure that I don't know, Dante Fowler
20:12
Speaker 2: Junior doesn't get confused and parking your spot, so I'll
20:15
Speaker 2: keep that open for you. No chance of that. Yeah,
20:22
Speaker 2: So we'll be good on that front. We'll see you
20:24
Speaker 2: here at ten o'clock today, how about that.
20:28
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, you will. I'll be out even a few
20:30
Speaker 4: minutes before that. Good to have you guys out there.
20:32
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks great a bit. All right, our se Ox
20:34
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20:38
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20:55
Speaker 2: for the entire calendar year. All right. We'll react to
20:58
Speaker 2: some of the things that we learned from Greg, particularly
21:03
Speaker 2: the Nick Emon Worri stuff, because I think Hugh Millan's
21:06
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Speaker 2: All heavenly football it is back. And Hugh would have
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Speaker 2: walked here if he if he needed to to be
22:00
Speaker 2: here a part of training camp coverage and to welcome
22:04
Speaker 2: football back into our last What I would have done, Yes, yep, yep.
22:10
Speaker 2: Just get an old backpack, a sandwich or two, a
22:14
Speaker 2: couple walking sticks. Yeah, make your way. Yeah, you know,
22:19
Speaker 2: you cut your own water out of a cactus. You'd
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Speaker 2: survive it.
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Speaker 5: No, you get one of those water packs with the
22:25
Speaker 5: tube coming around in your mouth. You don't have to
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Speaker 5: stop for water.
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Speaker 2: You just yeah. Yeah, you'd be like Lewis and Clark,
22:30
Speaker 2: making your way, making your way through every river and
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Speaker 2: valley to get here to welcome football back. Yeah. That's
22:41
Speaker 2: how I always thought about training camp. I can't wait
22:44
Speaker 2: to canoe as fast as I can to get their
22:48
Speaker 2: canoe to work. All right, Well, let's talk about Nick
22:52
Speaker 2: even warr Greg giving us an update in our last
22:55
Speaker 2: segment about the safety and linebacker whatever you want to
23:00
Speaker 2: call him, cornerback, wonder kin h I mean, he's just uh,
23:04
Speaker 2: he's just the ultimate weapon. I can't wait to see
23:07
Speaker 2: him and what he does to improve this upcoming season.
23:10
Speaker 2: But suddenly we've got this ankle thing to worry about.
23:14
Speaker 2: And you brought up Sterling excuse me, Shannon Sharp, who
23:18
Speaker 2: you teamed with with the Denver Broncos, and he had
23:22
Speaker 2: a recurring ankle injury. We're not worried about this, are we.
23:26
Speaker 2: We're not gonna like that. I think you just factor
23:30
Speaker 2: the probability.
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Speaker 5: But I always like to say, well, well, h multiply
23:36
Speaker 5: that by the magnitude, and that the product of those
23:41
Speaker 5: two factors equals your concern level. And so we could
23:45
Speaker 5: say his ankle's probably fine. You could you could have
23:48
Speaker 5: that a bit, you'd say, you'd almost say it's almost
23:50
Speaker 5: assuredly fine. But then if it's not assuredly fine, then
23:56
Speaker 5: what's the magnitude. Well, a guy as young as him
23:58
Speaker 5: and talented as him, I mean, did Mike McDonald not
24:01
Speaker 5: say during the Super Bowl week that when he found
24:04
Speaker 5: out about his injury that like it kept him up
24:06
Speaker 5: like seventy times or something, that he woke up in
24:09
Speaker 5: the middle of the night three or four days before
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Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, because he understands, you know, the whole
24:14
Speaker 5: game plan was dependent on his versatility. I mean, here's
24:19
Speaker 5: a guy that is the only safety in the history
24:21
Speaker 5: of the combine over sixty three and under four to
24:25
Speaker 5: four in the forty yard dash. You know, so his
24:28
Speaker 5: length and speed combination, but how about his strength. Anybody
24:32
Speaker 5: who's been there, Jim, and you better tell me that
24:34
Speaker 5: you know what I'm talking about right now, and if.
24:37
Speaker 2: You don't, just lie, okay, lie to us.
24:41
Speaker 5: We understand when when a guy gets on bench press
24:44
Speaker 5: that your arm length has a factor in how much
24:48
Speaker 5: you can bench right because because the levers right, you know,
24:52
Speaker 5: it's harder with long, longer arms, it's harder to betress.
24:55
Speaker 5: All other things being equal, you do, you're better off
24:58
Speaker 5: to have shorter on arms if you want to bench
25:01
Speaker 5: a luck correct. Yeah, and you know that right from
25:04
Speaker 5: all of your experience in a weight.
25:06
Speaker 2: Room when I was throwing up one oh five. Yeah.
25:14
Speaker 2: Though he uh.
25:20
Speaker 5: He's one of four safeties in the history of the
25:22
Speaker 5: combine with seventy eight inch or longer wingspan and twenty
25:27
Speaker 5: more or twenty or more reps.
25:29
Speaker 2: So real long arms, but still strong.
25:31
Speaker 5: And so you see that in his play that when
25:35
Speaker 5: he needs to play hardball in the box and take
25:37
Speaker 5: on blocks and and and jam guys and use his
25:42
Speaker 5: not his core strength and his upper body strength, that
25:45
Speaker 5: he has this explosiveness to his athleticism.
25:48
Speaker 2: And so so you just you know.
25:50
Speaker 5: He's a rare guy and for him to have, as
25:56
Speaker 5: we discussed with Greg Bell, it's two different injuries. He
25:59
Speaker 5: got a high ankle, you got a low ankle. But
26:01
Speaker 5: but Shannon Sharp a teammate of mine, or I was
26:05
Speaker 5: a teammate of his, Uh, probably is more a better
26:07
Speaker 5: way to say it.
26:08
Speaker 4: Uh.
26:09
Speaker 2: He used to he.
26:10
Speaker 5: Would have about fifteen twenty UH injections per year, you know,
26:17
Speaker 5: just kind of to max the pain, what have you.
26:19
Speaker 2: And at some.
26:19
Speaker 5: Point he's like, this isn't working. He's always in the
26:23
Speaker 5: training room, he's always icing his ankle, he's limping in
26:26
Speaker 5: the locker, he's limping in practice, and somehow he tries
26:29
Speaker 5: to get himself all geeked up to play on someday.
26:32
Speaker 5: You know, it's just not how you want to live,
26:34
Speaker 5: it's not how you want to compete as an athlete.
26:36
Speaker 5: And so when you when I look at this young
26:39
Speaker 5: athlete who has the you know, throw in he's the
26:43
Speaker 5: don't forget safety. He's the only athlete at two hundred
26:46
Speaker 5: pounds or more that had a forty three inch vertical
26:50
Speaker 5: and he was at two twenty. You know, think of
26:52
Speaker 5: the explosiveness to to to lift yourself off usually that's
26:56
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty pounds receiver or corner or something,
26:58
Speaker 5: you know, to be at two hundred two need to
27:00
Speaker 5: get to forty three inch. Well, that that power, that explosion,
27:05
Speaker 5: you know, it shows up on the field. So for
27:07
Speaker 5: him to be such a uniquely blessed athlete and to
27:11
Speaker 5: be so pivotal to the game plan, and then to
27:14
Speaker 5: think that that even if there's a small percent chance
27:18
Speaker 5: that this could become chronic, you know, on the path
27:21
Speaker 5: to becoming chronic, nobody thinks that it's gonna be.
27:24
Speaker 2: Chronic, right right, Yeah.
27:26
Speaker 5: It's just it's just it's just what I'm dealing with now,
27:30
Speaker 5: and then I'll be healthy and then it won't become chronic.
27:33
Speaker 5: So I don't want to sound any alarms, but this happens.
27:36
Speaker 5: That I mentioned Shannon Sharp just because most people know
27:38
Speaker 5: his name, but that this happens to hundreds of athletes,
27:42
Speaker 5: you know, but all all parts of their body.
27:45
Speaker 2: But including their ankle. Everybody that's ever played sports at
27:48
Speaker 2: any level is turned an ankle, had an ankle issue
27:51
Speaker 2: at some points.
27:52
Speaker 5: Tear a ligament, by the way, a sprained ankle is
27:55
Speaker 5: a torn ligament. Yeah, and now there's very grades, uh,
28:00
Speaker 5: and you can rupture the ligament entirely. But but but yeah,
28:04
Speaker 5: it's a torn ligament. Yeah, and and and it's.
28:08
Speaker 2: Just to me the idea that he went all through the.
28:12
Speaker 5: Off season and he's he's practicing out here and then
28:15
Speaker 5: all of a sudden he he has surgery right before camp.
28:19
Speaker 5: And and surgeries, by the way, do we need to
28:23
Speaker 5: have how many segments do we need to burn talking
28:25
Speaker 5: about how what surgeries do to the body in some instances,
28:30
Speaker 5: and and how your body never really recovers and you
28:33
Speaker 5: don't have you don't have the explosion. So so maybe
28:36
Speaker 5: maybe it's not that that he feels pain or discomfort,
28:39
Speaker 5: but maybe he loses some explosion. Well that would be
28:42
Speaker 5: that'd be kind of heartbreaking. Yeah, you know that the
28:47
Speaker 5: Lord was in such a good mood when he crafted
28:50
Speaker 5: nick m and worry for the reasons I've been sighting
28:54
Speaker 5: here among others and then and then all of a sudden,
28:58
Speaker 5: you know, at at you know, he he's barely out
29:01
Speaker 5: of the shoot of his NFL career and he's already
29:04
Speaker 5: dealing with an injury situation like that looks probably fine,
29:08
Speaker 5: but he's he's so exquisite that I don't even want
29:11
Speaker 5: there to be the the the shred of a.
29:14
Speaker 2: Possibility that he's not fine. Right, yeah, So not worried,
29:18
Speaker 2: but certainly Oh I'm worried. Oh are worried? Yeah? Yeah, amen, worry. Yeah, Okay,
29:28
Speaker 2: I see what you did there. You're putting the worry
29:30
Speaker 2: and even worry.
29:33
Speaker 5: There's some worry in the yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, because
29:38
Speaker 5: not again, I'm not I'm not focusing on the probability.
29:42
Speaker 2: I could concede. We can like, like, this is not
29:45
Speaker 2: a difficult equation. We can we.
29:48
Speaker 5: Can simusttaneously say it's improbable, but it's not. The probability
29:53
Speaker 5: is greater than zero. So whatever that that that probability is,
29:58
Speaker 5: however remote, if it were to happen, it's it would
30:01
Speaker 5: just be heartbreaking.
30:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, well yeah, thanks you Yeah. Now I'm
30:07
Speaker 2: gonna wake up seventy times in the middle. I learned
30:11
Speaker 2: otherwise that little.
30:15
Speaker 5: It's just like, can we can we put that issue
30:17
Speaker 5: to bed please.
30:18
Speaker 2: Right, so I don't not have to am worry? Yeah, exactly. Well,
30:22
Speaker 2: Abe Lucas is going to join us next. Uh, now
30:25
Speaker 2: that you've said that, I hope that he's just carrying
30:28
Speaker 2: Nick around throughout training camp. I hope he's like in
30:31
Speaker 2: a backpack, you know, like a baby Bjorn strapped around
30:36
Speaker 2: Abe's chest, just so Nick doesn't put any weight on
30:40
Speaker 2: that ankle. All right, Abs, joining us next. Sports Radio
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30:50
Speaker 2: and nothing like it really in the National Football League
30:53
Speaker 2: to be right here on the lake, and it's just
30:56
Speaker 2: got this nice little temperature to it. To me, who
30:59
Speaker 2: else is having this kind of weather? Hugh Millan And
31:02
Speaker 2: at the end of July for the start of football,
31:05
Speaker 2: body give you Jim Harborugh, what's the worst one that
31:10
Speaker 2: you ever had to experience? What was what was your
31:12
Speaker 2: worst weather? City? Swannye, Georgia in August sound pleasant? No,
31:17
Speaker 2: it doesn't. It sounds kind of swampy. Sw yeah yeah yeah,
31:22
Speaker 2: with full pads yeah yeah no. Uh Well, joining us
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Speaker 2: here at our set here in a moment, we're gonna
31:29
Speaker 2: have h Abe Lucas, the koug is gonna be with
31:32
Speaker 2: us here on the radio program is our coverage of
31:36
Speaker 2: training camp. Uh, it does get started here this morning.
31:39
Speaker 2: Hugh Millan is here. My name is Chuck Powell, and
31:42
Speaker 2: joining us now is the starting right tackle for your
31:45
Speaker 2: world champion Seattle Seahawks. Abe Lucas is with us. How
31:49
Speaker 2: you doing, man, great, great to see you. How'd that
31:52
Speaker 2: sound you get to What did it feel like to
31:54
Speaker 2: come to training camp as world champ for the first
31:57
Speaker 2: time in your life?
31:58
Speaker 6: The same as last year?
32:00
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? I mean no different at all. You didn't
32:02
Speaker 2: even get a better parking space anything like that.
32:04
Speaker 6: I mean they moved me one spot closer. I don't
32:06
Speaker 6: know if that was.
32:12
Speaker 5: You're getting up in the world. How is the messaging
32:16
Speaker 5: most different than.
32:17
Speaker 2: A year ago?
32:19
Speaker 6: I don't really know if it's too too different. I
32:22
Speaker 6: mean it's it's I mean, if you guys listen to
32:24
Speaker 6: Mike talk, Mike has been pretty adamant on and it's
32:27
Speaker 6: about the process of everything, and that's kind of where
32:30
Speaker 6: we're staying, you know, just paying attention to our process
32:32
Speaker 6: and what we do as a team and as a
32:34
Speaker 6: collective unit, and not listening to any outside noise. So
32:37
Speaker 6: that's what we're trying to build.
32:39
Speaker 2: This year personally. I mean, last year, we're waiting for
32:43
Speaker 2: you to get healthy, which you did and then had
32:46
Speaker 2: a terrific season. What was it like to not have
32:50
Speaker 2: as many of those battles to be able to show
32:52
Speaker 2: up this year without having to be in a process
32:57
Speaker 2: where you're trying to get healthy for the start of
32:59
Speaker 2: the season, a race against the clock.
33:01
Speaker 6: I mean, it's super nice to be able to just
33:03
Speaker 6: focus on, you know, building strength and getting healthy for
33:07
Speaker 6: the season and not worrying about, Oh, have this injury
33:09
Speaker 6: to take care of her, this injury to take care
33:11
Speaker 6: of and I mean, regardless, you kind of take what
33:14
Speaker 6: life throws at you and you can't control any of that.
33:17
Speaker 6: But it was nice to just be able to get
33:20
Speaker 6: back and just fully go hit the ground running.
33:23
Speaker 5: Hey, Lucas with us and Abe. If you go back
33:25
Speaker 5: to last season, the first fourteen games, you guys rushed
33:29
Speaker 5: for one hundred and forty yards or more twice out
33:32
Speaker 5: of fourteen. Your last six games, including the three playoff games,
33:38
Speaker 5: five out of six times over one hundred and forty
33:40
Speaker 5: yards of market market uptick in the running game. What
33:45
Speaker 5: happened there that that really was, you know, in all
33:48
Speaker 5: likely the reason why you guys are super Bowl champs.
33:51
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it was just like a cumulative
33:54
Speaker 6: effect of continuing to work at the craft, learn the offense,
33:58
Speaker 6: and go against the greatest defense. Yeah, I mean it's
34:02
Speaker 6: not I've said this time and time and against this
34:04
Speaker 6: softening process, and like, you know, as we continue to
34:08
Speaker 6: progress on in the season, from Week one all the
34:09
Speaker 6: way through to the super Bowl, it just steadily got better.
34:12
Speaker 6: And that was the goal and that was kind of
34:14
Speaker 6: the point. So yeah, just continuing to trust the process,
34:17
Speaker 6: trust the offense, continue to learn, communicate, and just dial
34:20
Speaker 6: it in and execute.
34:21
Speaker 5: You had a hell of a season, but week one,
34:25
Speaker 5: fourth quarter, one of the greatest defensive ends who's ever played,
34:29
Speaker 5: Nick Bosa, gets into you a bit and impacts the game.
34:34
Speaker 5: Talk about the challenge for an athlete where you say, Okay,
34:40
Speaker 5: this is not what I trained for to have that
34:41
Speaker 5: play happen to me, and then you're able to turn
34:44
Speaker 5: it around, have the great season, do everything that you did.
34:48
Speaker 5: For those who haven't played at that level, what's the
34:51
Speaker 5: adjustment for you and how do you go about turning
34:54
Speaker 5: that into a positive?
34:56
Speaker 6: I mean, this may sound bad. I I want to
35:00
Speaker 6: say this effectively, like I didn't it happened. It just
35:04
Speaker 6: is what it is. I didn't really care too much
35:05
Speaker 6: about it. I mean, obviously disappointed that it was me, right,
35:10
Speaker 6: but I just don't ruminate on that stuff too too
35:14
Speaker 6: much because it's a it's part of the game. You know,
35:16
Speaker 6: Sometimes you get got and other times you get people,
35:19
Speaker 6: you know. I mean, and as an offensive lineman, like
35:22
Speaker 6: anytime something like that happens, it's like incredibly magnified, right
35:25
Speaker 6: because you know, nobody's supposed touch the quarterback, so and
35:29
Speaker 6: I understand that that's the nature of the position. But
35:31
Speaker 6: like when it happened already kind of after the game,
35:33
Speaker 6: I was just you know, I thought about it a
35:35
Speaker 6: little bit, and I'm just kind of like, okay, well
35:36
Speaker 6: it's on to the next you know. I mean, there's
35:38
Speaker 6: no use worrying about it or putting special attention to it,
35:41
Speaker 6: because I don't just keep you in the past.
35:43
Speaker 2: Abe Lucas is with us here at our set here
35:45
Speaker 2: as training camp coverage begins today at KJR Sports Radio
35:49
Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM. You got these hard knocks
35:53
Speaker 2: people following you around. Now you think this is going
35:55
Speaker 2: to turn into an Abe Lucas TV special going forward.
35:59
Speaker 2: You can really go to press these people with your
36:02
Speaker 2: entertainment skills.
36:03
Speaker 6: Probably not, We'll see what happens though, you know, maybe
36:06
Speaker 6: maybe people will like it. I don't know, I'm not.
36:08
Speaker 2: Really pain is it distracting at all?
36:11
Speaker 6: I mean, you just there's just cameras around every corner.
36:13
Speaker 6: That's really it. Other than that, it's just business as usual.
36:17
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, good that you're good that you're got tunnel vision. Yeah.
36:22
Speaker 2: Is everybody else the same way though, I don't know.
36:24
Speaker 6: I mean, you'd have to ask them. I'm just not
36:27
Speaker 6: I'm just like trying to focus on, you know, getting
36:29
Speaker 6: better at practicing, you know, executing. So that's that's my mindset.
36:33
Speaker 2: Hey, Lucas with us.
36:34
Speaker 5: And I'm curious from an offensive lineman's perspective, you had
36:39
Speaker 5: Clint Kubiak, he kind of a vall through the season.
36:44
Speaker 5: We can theorize from your perspective, how did how did
36:50
Speaker 5: the offense change? How did Clint Kubiak as a play
36:52
Speaker 5: caller change or did you notice anything? And then what
36:58
Speaker 5: do you expect from your position now? Brian Floor's in here?
37:02
Speaker 5: How how do you expect that to change it all.
37:04
Speaker 5: What have you noticed this this far as has it
37:08
Speaker 5: has It's only a couple of days and mini camps
37:10
Speaker 5: and what have you. But do you see any difference
37:13
Speaker 5: there from Clint Kubiak.
37:16
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't. I don't know yet. To be
37:18
Speaker 6: honest with you, I'm not and I'm not really comparing
37:20
Speaker 6: the two just because there's no one size fits all
37:23
Speaker 6: to coaching or coordination or anything like that. I mean,
37:27
Speaker 6: what I noticed about Clint last year is that Clint
37:30
Speaker 6: was really good at setting up plays later in the
37:32
Speaker 6: game to be effective. Like if you look at AJ's
37:34
Speaker 6: touchdown in the Super Bowl, like that was being set
37:37
Speaker 6: up basically the entire game and then it just happened,
37:40
Speaker 6: you know, the when we sold it to the right
37:43
Speaker 6: the linebacker's bit and AJ free release so he was
37:45
Speaker 6: wide open. That was happening throughout the entire game, Like
37:48
Speaker 6: we were setting that up all the way through to
37:49
Speaker 6: that to that score happening. And I think Clint was
37:51
Speaker 6: really really good at that. And that's just one of
37:53
Speaker 6: the things he was great at. And I know that.
37:55
Speaker 6: I mean, Brian's obviously in the position for a reason,
37:57
Speaker 6: you know, and he's gonna he's gonna do his own
37:59
Speaker 6: thing and ways that he knows how to, and I
38:01
Speaker 6: have the utmost faith, So I mean, I'm just looking
38:04
Speaker 6: forward to seeing it all kind of develop and open up.
38:06
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like training camp. It kind of
38:08
Speaker 2: reminds me. I was just telling you this earlier of
38:11
Speaker 2: the first day of school in which you always looked
38:14
Speaker 2: for that person that changed the most, or that new
38:17
Speaker 2: girl that moved into town. Yeah, that wasn't wasn't part
38:22
Speaker 2: of the process the previous year. So give me the
38:26
Speaker 2: person that in that facility that looks like wow, wow,
38:30
Speaker 2: that person looks different from a year ago. And then
38:32
Speaker 2: give me the new guy that has stood out thus far.
38:36
Speaker 6: Oh goodness, I might have to give you or you
38:39
Speaker 6: might have to give me a little bit more time
38:40
Speaker 6: on the first part of your question, just because I
38:42
Speaker 6: haven't really been paying so much to that as far
38:46
Speaker 6: as like new guys. I mean, obviously in our room
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Speaker 6: we have bo Is, a rookie, and so just excited
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Speaker 6: to see what he's gonna do to develop.
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Speaker 1: And then.
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Speaker 6: I mean we got you know, Dante coming off the edge,
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Speaker 6: and you know, I played against Dante for a couple
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Speaker 6: of years, and so I'm just excited to see what
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Speaker 6: he's going to do because I think he's a really
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Speaker 6: dynamite good rusher and adds a veteran presence to the team.
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Speaker 6: And then you have you know, I don't know too
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Speaker 6: much about the Rooks yet, but I mean, if Mike
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Speaker 6: picked them, they got to be good. So we'll see
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Speaker 6: how We'll see how they end up doing. I'm excited
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Speaker 6: for them as well. You mentioned bo and on sports
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Speaker 6: talk radio. We got to have stuff to talk about.
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Speaker 6: And one of the topics that.
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Speaker 5: Has, uh we've touched on probably more than once through
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Speaker 5: the years, has been Anthony Bradford and uh, he's lined
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Speaker 5: up right next to you, just to your left, and
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Speaker 5: there was a feeling like, hey, do we need to
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Speaker 5: upgrade there. I know you're gonna support your teammate, but
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Speaker 5: maybe take us to the listeners into to your perspective
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Speaker 5: about how he may have improved or what it's like
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Speaker 5: working alongside him. You mentioned bo Is coming in and
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Speaker 5: what have you. He's been able to stave off competition,
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Speaker 5: but just the relationship you have and what you notice
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Speaker 5: from your compadre there at the rech.
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Speaker 6: Gard, Yeah, I mean I think AB's only gotten better.
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Speaker 6: I think you saw that. I mean, if you're the
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Speaker 6: attention you saw that last year. Progressively, just Ab is
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Speaker 6: just continuing to put his head down, work and do
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Speaker 6: really really great things. I mean, like any other player,
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Speaker 6: like even myself. I mean there's times we can do better, sure,
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Speaker 6: but I mean it's it's a competitive process. It's I
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Speaker 6: mean there's a lot of moving parts behind the scenes.
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Speaker 6: It's also that I've said this, I think in the springtime,
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Speaker 6: it's very easy to ignore criticism from you know, outside sources,
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Speaker 6: just because there's so many intricacies to playing a position,
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Speaker 6: a football position that you know, most people don't really
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Speaker 6: understand how complex it actually can be. And so you know,
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Speaker 6: I would just say trust the coaches, you know, Coach Benton,
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Speaker 6: Coach Mike, all these guys who are actively coaching up Ab, myself,
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Speaker 6: everybody else to be the best that we can be.
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Speaker 6: And I mean, Aby's a phenomenal player, I think. I mean,
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Speaker 6: I enjoyed playing next one. We have great communication and
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Speaker 6: a great, great relationship. So I'm just excited to see
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Speaker 6: what we can do this year and just continue to
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Speaker 6: get better.
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Speaker 2: Where'd you put your ring in a shoe box or
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Speaker 2: an underground bunker? I mean, what kind of person are
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Speaker 2: you put tech that thing? It's hidden away, locked away,
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Speaker 2: is that right? Yes? Absolutely, you could probably serve dinner
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Speaker 2: for six on top of it is so large, it's crazy. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hey man, great to see you have a great camp,
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Speaker 2: have a great year, Abe Lucas. Always a pleasure to
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Speaker 2: have the right tackle along with us right here on
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Speaker 2: kJ R. Coming up next, we will get back into
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Speaker 2: some Seahawks football. Of course, that's what we're here for.
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Speaker 2: We got our camp battle coming up in the eight
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Speaker 2: o'clock hour. But also it was a rather interesting Mariners
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Speaker 2: So weekend, so Hugh and I will discuss that next.
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