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5-4 H2: Beau Stephens & Mike Macdonald Presser, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: He was at right guard to begin his Seahawks career
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Speaker 1: at Ricky Manning camp this week. This is what bo
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Speaker 1: Stevens had to say about his first days of the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks walking out through today and what it's like pretty surreal.
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Speaker 2: Before practice, I'm just literally walking around in circles because
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Speaker 2: i was like the first one out there and I'm
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Speaker 2: just looking around. I'm like, wow, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be where I'm at for a couple of years, hopefully
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Speaker 2: for a very long time. But I was really eye
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Speaker 2: opening to see your number, to see a jersey with
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Speaker 2: your number on it, with your name on the back.
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Speaker 2: There's no really a better feeling than that than winning games,
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Speaker 2: you know. So yeah, I'm just really happy the apt.
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Speaker 3: Er.
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Speaker 2: It's just a show where you're at and as a
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Speaker 2: starting point, because there's a lot of time before the
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Speaker 2: season starts, just to show how good in shape you are,
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Speaker 2: show what kind of fundamentals that I've been taught over
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Speaker 2: the last couple of years and see how well that's
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Speaker 2: going to translate, and then just taking whatever Coach Britton
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Speaker 2: has for me and just trying to tweak my play
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Speaker 2: style and it's an opportunity to just get it better
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Speaker 2: as a as a player and in person.
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Speaker 4: How important is the communication aspect right now?
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Speaker 1: Time of your special what you guys don't have pads on,
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Speaker 1: and just being able to get used to your coaches
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Speaker 1: and what.
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Speaker 5: They're asking you.
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Speaker 1: What's the word paramount?
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Speaker 2: Just having guys next to you, having a center makers call,
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Speaker 2: listen to it, put in two and two from the
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Speaker 2: meeting to the practice field. That's all you can really
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Speaker 2: ask for. That's what you what the whole goal is
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Speaker 2: when you go out there and practice to get better
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Speaker 2: at that, and then your fundamentals and so it's just
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Speaker 2: putting those together right now. They're obviously throwing a lot
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Speaker 2: at you here early, but the first impression of the play,
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Speaker 2: what the offense and how that kind of fits with
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Speaker 2: the stuff you were running before, has what you're kind
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Speaker 2: of bah, I'm really thankful for coach Lester at Iowa.
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Speaker 2: A lot of it's the same, a lot of it's
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Speaker 2: similar to a lot of the same words. There's definitely
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Speaker 2: some differences. There's definitely more like complexity, but I feel
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Speaker 2: like I've gotten a great starting point and it's very helpful.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure some of these guys that have never heard
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Speaker 2: anything like how we did it at Iowa or here.
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Speaker 2: Coming in for that first meeting, you hear in it,
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Speaker 2: they're kind of like mind blown, like how different it is,
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Speaker 2: and I feel like I have I'm gonna have a
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Speaker 2: handle on it in the meantimes.
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Speaker 1: How much and how much to kind of have you
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Speaker 1: talked to me so over the last week.
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Speaker 3: Kind of prep you for coming in, what to expect them.
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Speaker 2: I texted him right before I came down. Obviously you
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Speaker 2: can't be around during Ricky why camp, but he just
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Speaker 2: wished me the best and he said if you need anything,
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Speaker 2: just text me. He's like, it's pretty much the same playbook.
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Speaker 2: So I was like, nice, it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: They had you on the right side today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to be It's too early to tell.
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Speaker 2: They obviously have a really good left guard, so I'm assuming.
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Speaker 2: But depth charts never mean anything at this time of year,
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Speaker 2: so it's something you just got to keep working formations.
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Speaker 6: You have communications up to this point with some of
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Speaker 6: the other linemen from the team here, like great.
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Speaker 2: I saw him what I walked inside for the first
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Speaker 2: time after getting flying throwing down, but we just said
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Speaker 2: what's up, and it's like good luck, have a good time.
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Speaker 4: You're gonna love it.
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Speaker 2: And that's about all the communication I've had so far.
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Speaker 2: He seems very similar to my office line coach at Iowa,
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Speaker 2: and I can appreciate that. He's something that I can
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Speaker 2: definitely relate with the way he teaches. Obviously, it's been
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Speaker 2: what twenty four hours that I've been with him, so
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Speaker 2: I don't know everything, but for right now, what I've
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Speaker 2: said is I'm very appreciative of how he's gone about it,
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Speaker 2: and it seems like he's got a plan for me.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't told me it yet, but I have a
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Speaker 2: feeling I can trust him.
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Speaker 1: That's both Stevens rookie fifth round pig all Mare and
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Speaker 1: guard from Iowa talking about being on the right side.
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Speaker 1: They have a really good left guard, so I'm assuming
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Speaker 1: is what he said, meaning Grey's Abel of course, And
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Speaker 1: it was interesting to hear him talk about John Benton
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Speaker 1: and we helped to get the offensive line coach for
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Speaker 1: both Stevens on the show maybe tomorrow from Iowa City
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Speaker 1: in the University of Iowa, and how the similarity and
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Speaker 1: he Stevens believes he's already got a head start and
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Speaker 1: how was prepared at Iowa and it's given him a
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Speaker 1: head start already among the other rookies on the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: offensive line. Mason, you heard Curtis Scraptory box thirteen ask
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Speaker 1: about have you talk to Mason yet? Mason Richmond was
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Speaker 1: his teammate Stevens's teammate at the University of Iowa. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks drafted him last year and because he has a
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Speaker 1: year of experience on the roster or he's not allowed
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Speaker 1: to be at a rookie minuting camp. There are rules
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Speaker 1: Minnie camp practices were over, we got to talk to
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and his what he had to say about
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Speaker 1: what he saw this weekend with the newest Seahawks.
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Speaker 7: First of all, I wanted to lead with congratulations for
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Speaker 7: our very own Michael Sean Dugar came to my attention
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Speaker 7: moving on to great things, and congratulations man.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna miss you and miss you man. Everything done
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Speaker 4: for us.
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Speaker 7: Honestly appreciate your work and hopefully we'll see you more
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Speaker 7: often than we expect from now on.
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Speaker 4: But congrats man. Yeah, pretty cool.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, a great rookie camp. There's a lot of work
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Speaker 7: that goes into making this thing come to life. I
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Speaker 7: think we you know, we brought in I don't know
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Speaker 7: the exact number, but it's a lot of tryout guys.
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Speaker 4: It's the chasing edges thing that.
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Speaker 7: We believe in here and we found some really great
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Speaker 7: players to be on our kind of one twenty idea
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Speaker 7: over the years.
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Speaker 4: And you know, logistically.
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Speaker 7: Between e K and uh travel folks, you know, Jeremy
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Speaker 7: and his team getting everybody here on time and uh,
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Speaker 7: you know, it's it's a it's a pretty big undertaking,
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Speaker 7: you know, for for some edges that we're trying to find.
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Speaker 7: But uh so I appreciate those people. Coaches did a
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Speaker 7: great job, We had a great spirit. Players did a
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Speaker 7: great job. Really took a jump this second this second
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Speaker 7: practice and started to look like a started to looking
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Speaker 7: like professional football out there, which is which is exciting.
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Speaker 4: So but we'll move on. Guys will come back in
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Speaker 4: a week and then.
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Speaker 7: Uh, Phase two starts on Monday, so really, uh, exciting
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Speaker 7: time of the year.
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Speaker 2: Something of your message to the.
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Speaker 3: Try out guys like, hey, just because you don't get
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Speaker 3: called next week.
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Speaker 7: Doesn't mean you're definitely yeah, definitely, everyone's on a different
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Speaker 7: timeline and uh, and so I think they understand that.
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Speaker 4: And that's part of the messaging too.
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Speaker 7: And we've had several guys that have come back, you know,
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Speaker 7: in camp or you know even you know, even after camp.
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Speaker 4: Or after the season.
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Speaker 7: You know, we've had We've had a couple of examples
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Speaker 7: of that too, you know, Jail and Gains is the
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Speaker 7: guy that comes to mind, that's with us now after
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Speaker 7: not being at.
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Speaker 4: The end of the season.
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Speaker 7: So just keep plugging away, try your best, don't worry
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Speaker 7: about the count and timing and all that, but trust
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Speaker 7: the process.
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Speaker 5: Probe a few passes up there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah he did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just just given that that's kind of one of
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Speaker 2: the things about it in the draft and that's not.
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Speaker 4: Like an extra point of emphasis.
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Speaker 7: I think it's just because of camp, probably more space
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Speaker 7: plays rather than keeping them in traffic and just trying
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Speaker 7: to be smart on how we utilize him in this camp,
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Speaker 7: you know, getting off, but getting off to the right start.
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Speaker 4: But did a good job, did a good job. But
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Speaker 4: it's definitely part of our offense.
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Speaker 7: I don't know you're gonna ask that one, right Uh yeah,
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Speaker 7: Bo's on the right side right now, but we're gonna
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Speaker 7: we're gonna train him at those.
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Speaker 4: Spots and uh, we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 7: We'll see how it goes, you know inside and but
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Speaker 7: you need you need flexibility across really on your interior
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Speaker 7: party rod line. So he's played both in his career
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Speaker 7: and right now he's playing right guard, but we'll be
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Speaker 7: training him in uh right and left.
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Speaker 6: Julian talked to us yesterday about how much Nick Perry
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Speaker 6: and Florence's decision to go to marketsofts.
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Speaker 4: Yeah that's cool.
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Speaker 6: Did you have any contact with him during the pre
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Speaker 6: draft process about Julian and how much how much did
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Speaker 6: that prop him up in terms of being somebody that
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Speaker 6: you guys are interested in knowing that he's been around
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Speaker 6: similar terminology.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a great point. I didn't talk to Nick specifically,
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Speaker 7: but Leslie did. I think Carl did so, Uh, you know,
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Speaker 7: obviously we we respect the heck out of Nick's opinion
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Speaker 7: and and the way he sees things, and he's a
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Speaker 7: talented coach.
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Speaker 4: So it definitely sparked interest.
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Speaker 7: Probably earlier in the process from the coaching from coaching perspective,
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Speaker 7: our scouts were, we're aware of Julian, you know, throughout
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Speaker 7: the process going back to Fresno.
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Speaker 4: So but yeah, that was a cool connection for sure.
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Speaker 8: Like you've talked about having former players come through and
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Speaker 8: pass it for those guys.
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Speaker 4: That Richard Sherman out there. Yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
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Speaker 7: Uh, it's great to see Sure's you know, he's hopefully
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Speaker 7: he's got a key here. He's welcome anytime. So it
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Speaker 7: was it was fun to see him out there and
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Speaker 7: get caught up. But I know the guys really appreciated it,
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Speaker 7: so that that was that was fun.
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Speaker 1: There's a sister of a coach.
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Speaker 2: Just how important with this these two days. I know
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Speaker 2: you talked about this, this next level, but how important how.
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Speaker 7: Must let Yeah, I think we hit our goals. I think,
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Speaker 7: you know, we have different different agendas for different guys.
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Speaker 7: The guys that we know we're going to be here.
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Speaker 7: I think I think we did a great job. You know,
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Speaker 7: they have a kind of an understanding about how we
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Speaker 7: operate here now and and it's good to get get
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Speaker 7: a look at him and get a plan together while
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Speaker 7: they're while they're out of the building so they can
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Speaker 7: come back and and be ready, uh, you know next week.
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Speaker 7: And that's really important. And then uh, to go through
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Speaker 7: it with with these tryout guys. You know there's some
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Speaker 7: there's some talented guys that uh, we'll be interested in
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Speaker 7: it and and uh we'll be a better team for it.
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Speaker 6: How important is it for you these two days to
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Speaker 6: be able to get additional looks at players like Ricky
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Speaker 6: Light the third guys that aren't rookie used, but I
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Speaker 6: can get extra reps out.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
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Speaker 7: And those guys had a great attitude there. They wanted
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Speaker 7: had a chance to play some extra football and it
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Speaker 7: was great to just see, you know, see them go
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Speaker 7: play ball and in our system with you know, some
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Speaker 7: some new terminology on offense, and it's an opportunity to
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Speaker 7: get ahead, so to speak. And Ricky did a great
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Speaker 7: job Montory did a great job. Chris Paul did a
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Speaker 7: great job.
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Speaker 4: We had a couple others.
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Speaker 2: I can said said that he was about Tyle Broden
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Speaker 2: moving into clatter, which kind of the process.
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Speaker 7: Well, he was someone that made did did a great
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Speaker 7: job at the beginning of throughout the process last year.
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Speaker 4: Unfortunately got hurt.
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Speaker 7: But we love his movement ability and it's got ball
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Speaker 7: skills and he competes and it's great, a great attitude
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Speaker 7: and he felt like it could translate the.
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Speaker 4: Being heck of a dB one day.
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Speaker 7: So dealing with some some health things right now in
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Speaker 7: terms of his his timeline and when he when he
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Speaker 7: can get back on the field, So right now we're
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Speaker 7: not exactly sure when that's gonna happen. But he's in
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Speaker 7: meetings and it's got a great, great spirit about him,
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Speaker 7: and so we're excited about it.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a it's a it's gonna take some time,
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Speaker 4: but he's a great guy for the job.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that's gonna look like?
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Speaker 6: I mean, there's not I don't think any cornerback at
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Speaker 6: six six has ever played in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: What do you think that's gonna look like? For that
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Speaker 4: taller guy at that position.
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Speaker 7: Well, when you he can bend really well, he's not
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Speaker 7: like just a straight legged six whatever, six foot whatever.
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Speaker 4: He's he can move and he can.
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Speaker 7: Get in and out of breaks, and his lateral quickness
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Speaker 7: is is really good. And he's a great special teams player.
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Speaker 7: He's a great gunner. So I mean that those are
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Speaker 7: those are traits that you look for and defensive players.
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Speaker 7: So we think that's gonna translate.
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Speaker 1: Tough is the toughest oppositae.
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Speaker 4: Well for a guy.
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Speaker 6: And I don't know if he's played corner and asked
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Speaker 6: all trying to make that stuage over the either side.
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Speaker 2: Of the football.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know people people do it all the time,
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Speaker 7: you know, moving from one side of the ball the
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Speaker 7: mostly from receiver to dB. So I think, you know,
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Speaker 7: you don't want to put a timetable on it. You know,
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Speaker 7: Let's just see see where it goes and see how
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Speaker 7: he takes it up. And we haven't seen him take
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Speaker 7: a rep yet at corner, so we'll we'll we'll see,
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Speaker 7: you know, we'll see when when the time comes.
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Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
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Speaker 4: I don't think.
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Speaker 10: So.
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Speaker 7: After day two of the draft of John mentioned that
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Speaker 7: the energy that Button and Julian both bring.
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Speaker 2: It early, but you get a sense of that just
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Speaker 2: being practical with those two guys.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think John said he's the opposite of an
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Speaker 7: energy vampire. Uh Like he just broke down the broke
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Speaker 7: down the last suddle and you know, the team went
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Speaker 7: nuts and you could just tell he's got a contagious
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Speaker 7: spirit about him, which we obviously love that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Julian's kind of we had a third practice, it
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Speaker 4: would have been Julian.
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Speaker 5: Might here a couple of times. Don't put a timetable
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Speaker 5: on it?
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Speaker 6: Why is that important for players to understand that in
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Speaker 6: home their development?
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Speaker 4: Well, it's like it's like if you're asked, like how
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Speaker 4: many games you guys gonna win this year, It's like,
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Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, It's like, let's why don't
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Speaker 4: we just worry about having a great phase.
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Speaker 7: Two day and then let's go have another great one
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Speaker 7: the next day and make sure it's our standard and
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Speaker 7: then trust that that's going to create a team that
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Speaker 7: we're ready to go play football games. So same thing
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Speaker 7: with player development. When we have goals, you know, and
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Speaker 7: where we want players and there's timetables behind things. Sometimes
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Speaker 7: in terms of skill development and you know, body comp
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Speaker 7: things like that, and so you know, we want to
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Speaker 7: hit timetable goals on that front. But as long as
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Speaker 7: you're hitting those markers, you know, why put a cap
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Speaker 7: on put a cap on things?
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Speaker 1: What is there having a resource like Richard Sermon talking
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Speaker 1: to the guys like Neil.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's awesome.
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Speaker 7: I mean I want one of the best to ever
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Speaker 7: do it, which is which is cool when he's so
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Speaker 7: you know, we take a lot of pride and having
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Speaker 7: great players like that. But you know, technique is important.
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Speaker 7: But I think just like the ment like just the
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Speaker 7: mentality that it takes to play you know, dB and
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Speaker 7: corner at a high level for our organization, you know,
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Speaker 7: brief life into these guys, you know, there's there's a
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Speaker 7: lot of things going on in their minds right now
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Speaker 7: at this point in their careers. And have a guy
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Speaker 7: like Sherm or Cam come around and and encourage the
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Speaker 7: guys and have you know, and be positive and things
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Speaker 7: like that, I think that's uh.
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Speaker 4: I think that goes along way.
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Speaker 1: One of the guys not in an hob and is
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Speaker 1: it okay if they're in a hob?
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Speaker 7: Richard Sherman yeah, I think it's pretty cool right now. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'm kind of a a of them sometimes.
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Speaker 1: Seeing Brian Fleury kind of this first time you had
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Speaker 1: of yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah it's cool. Uh, he's Brian, you know, he's great.
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Speaker 6: I don't think we've asked you about hard If we have,
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Speaker 6: I can't remember, But Hard Knuts.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about it?
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be great?
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Speaker 1: Is that your initial thought?
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Speaker 7: When it was actually my idea that like, yeah, I
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Speaker 7: pitched it. So yeah, Now I mean it's like, okay,
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Speaker 7: we're doing Hard Knocks.
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Speaker 4: Great.
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Speaker 7: Let's honestly, it doesn't really affect like I haven't really
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Speaker 7: thought about that much. This hasn't really affected like our
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Speaker 7: day to day so it's just kind of okay, it's coming,
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Speaker 7: but make the best of it.
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Speaker 4: Will be fun.
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Speaker 9: Like you guys obviously you see some of them high
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Speaker 9: like keep doing the process gaming about these guys, but
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Speaker 9: now seeing the un and Garland Field, what's kind of
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Speaker 9: fit out the group in color? But I'll kind of
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Speaker 9: specifically about Daring and seen him.
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Speaker 7: In person, Yeah, yeah, it's it's, Uh, this is a
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Speaker 7: fun weekend because you do Yeah, you're finally seeing it
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Speaker 7: in person.
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Speaker 4: For a lot of the guys. I think I think
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Speaker 4: you have to.
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Speaker 7: You know, from the success of our really last year's class,
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Speaker 7: you can't be married to like what happened. It's kind
14:46
Speaker 7: of a microcosm for the whole team. You know, he's
14:48
Speaker 7: got to go at it with a with a new
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Speaker 7: like fresh lens and an excitement about who these guys
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Speaker 7: are and let them go be them.
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Speaker 4: You know, they can't be anybody else.
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Speaker 7: And there's a newness and a freshness to it that
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Speaker 7: really our team needs right now, which is cool and uh,
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Speaker 7: and then let's just go attack it. But I think
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Speaker 7: I think looking at it like with a with a
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Speaker 7: fresh perspective is important at this point. Uh, because they
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Speaker 7: are they are they're new guys, you know, they're they're
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Speaker 7: a new part of the team, which is uh, which
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Speaker 7: you'll add an element of excitement to our to our
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Speaker 7: the rest of the guys, the veterans to phase one.
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Speaker 1: So Sam darn up picture doing love Yep? Yeah, is
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Speaker 1: that reminiscent of this time last year when you ended
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Speaker 1: up with one hundred percent?
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Speaker 7: And the oka is, well, I don't know if we
15:32
Speaker 7: had one hundred percent. We had we had a great
15:34
Speaker 7: participation last year and we've had great participation so far,
15:39
Speaker 7: and so you know, we expect the same thing from
15:41
Speaker 7: the guys and and part of that to our responsibilities
15:44
Speaker 7: coaches to create the environment where they feel like they're
15:47
Speaker 7: going to be better and and develop their game and
15:49
Speaker 7: connect to their teammates and and uh and.
15:53
Speaker 4: Want to be here, you know.
15:54
Speaker 7: So it's kind of everybody's responsibility at this point in
15:56
Speaker 7: the year. But you know, they know our expectations right now.
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Speaker 7: We've communicated that to the guys and so we're it's
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Speaker 7: kind of like a new day one, you know, starting
16:05
Speaker 7: on Monday when we start Phase two.
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Speaker 4: So it's going to be it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 4: of fun. But there's a sense urgency too.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 7: We we have six weeks left in our off season
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Speaker 7: program and I think that's about twenty twenty four workdays,
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Speaker 7: and we want to make the best out of each
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Speaker 7: one of those days.
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Speaker 1: That was Mike McDonald on Saturday, clean up a couple
16:23
Speaker 1: of loose ends there. You may need some context on
16:25
Speaker 1: Michael Sean Dugard to start when he said congratulation, he's
16:29
Speaker 1: leaving the Seahawks Beat as the athletic beat writer, but
16:31
Speaker 1: he remains in Seattle he's going to be an enterprise
16:34
Speaker 1: writer nationally stories on and off the NFL beat for
16:38
Speaker 1: as he told me, Hey, if there's an F one story,
16:40
Speaker 1: I comes three six. So the second thing he mentioned
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Speaker 1: the participation. Now they're in the second phase of their
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Speaker 1: voluntary off season program, and just within the last hour,
16:50
Speaker 1: the Seahawks have posted on their social media accounts who
16:53
Speaker 1: has been arriving today at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center
16:56
Speaker 1: for the voluntary phase two of the off season program,
17:00
Speaker 1: and they pictured Devin Witherspoon, Byron, Brian Russell, Brady Russell,
17:06
Speaker 1: excuse me, Jackson Smith and Jegua. Cooper Cup was pictured
17:09
Speaker 1: Charles Cross, the left tackle, the right tackle a Lucas,
17:13
Speaker 1: Brandon Peeley. I saw nick emun worry. There. So a
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Speaker 1: host of veterans that are showing up for the voluntary
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Speaker 1: part of not even the OTAs yet, just in the
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Speaker 1: second phase where they're doing weight training and a little
17:27
Speaker 1: bit of football work on the field. This bode's well, Chris,
17:31
Speaker 1: compared to last year this time when they had one
17:33
Speaker 1: hundred percent OTAs at the end of May in June,
17:36
Speaker 1: and they got all these chucks coming in here. When
17:38
Speaker 1: we were excused from this and said don't come back,
17:40
Speaker 1: and now here they are rolling in.
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Speaker 3: This is the new Seahawk Way, y'all.
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Speaker 8: I'm telling you, man, Mike McDonald got these guys lined
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Speaker 8: up ready to play ball, and it's it starts with
17:52
Speaker 8: the culture.
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Speaker 3: What he sets the tone.
17:55
Speaker 8: And they won a Super Bowl based on showing up
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Speaker 8: in April and all these little things that I'm not
18:04
Speaker 8: gonna show up this week. I'm a little tired. I
18:06
Speaker 8: just got back from my vacation with my wife and family.
18:08
Speaker 8: Whatever the case. Maybe no, this is all about winning
18:14
Speaker 8: multiple championships, being the best version of themselves and now
18:17
Speaker 8: they got it. Not a whole new team, but there's
18:20
Speaker 8: new players that are gonna be involved in this process
18:24
Speaker 8: and they're learning the Seahawk Way and it's exciting to
18:27
Speaker 8: see that. Although he plays it down not one hundred percent,
18:31
Speaker 8: but at the same time, it's saying it's exactly where
18:34
Speaker 8: it was last year. You have guys that are ready
18:36
Speaker 8: to compete, Veterans, young guys, you name it, and they
18:42
Speaker 8: they are following in his path and his footsteps. And
18:45
Speaker 8: something that we talked about about two weeks ago in
18:48
Speaker 8: terms of Ernest Jones saying he's gonna miss the guys. Well,
18:52
Speaker 8: now it's that time to get back to the swing
18:54
Speaker 8: of things, practicing, watching film, learning the new scheme, offensively, defensively,
18:59
Speaker 8: you name that.
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Speaker 3: So here they go again.
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Speaker 8: It seems like it was just yesterday, but here we
19:05
Speaker 8: are in May and they're getting ready for another long
19:07
Speaker 8: journey and hopes that they can go into the Rams
19:11
Speaker 8: Stadium and win another Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: It was funny to hear his comments about hard Knocks.
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Speaker 1: He was totally dead panning. As I've gotten to know him,
19:18
Speaker 1: he wants no part of this, But Bob Candona the
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Speaker 1: Sale Times ask him and McDonald's said it was actually
19:24
Speaker 1: my idea to do it. I pushed, I pushed it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah right, y're lying a great liar though, huh. He said,
19:31
Speaker 1: all right, we're doing hard Knight's great. It's not going
19:33
Speaker 1: to affect this day to day. That's the Mike McDonald way.
19:36
Speaker 1: He's about process and anything in his way. He just
19:39
Speaker 1: kind of pushes away and ignores, go through, not around.
19:42
Speaker 1: That's what he tells the players all the time. Four
19:44
Speaker 1: nine four five want to Koma dodge text line I appreciate. Yeah.
19:48
Speaker 1: A couple of comments on there, especially two five three,
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Speaker 1: just say and he could tell the great report we
19:53
Speaker 1: have I have with coach McDonald. I think so. I
19:55
Speaker 1: think it's he's he gets it and he's really good
19:59
Speaker 1: and his messaging both consistent with his players and with
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Speaker 1: the media. We'll read back your text next on the
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Speaker 1: Chris Crawford leading into his show twelve to three. He's
20:09
Speaker 1: pinch hitting for Ian Fornest today and they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: a Mariner's mollywap. That might not be the most uplifting
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Speaker 1: thing to talk about it in the marators after the
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Speaker 1: weekend they had that's all coming up a ninety three
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Speaker 8: One oh Let's start with some Mariners talk lots lots
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Speaker 8: from Matt out of the four, two, five, the Achilles
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Speaker 8: Hill of.
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Speaker 3: This team is Dan Wilson.
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Speaker 8: He just doesn't have that factor as a manager and
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Speaker 8: always looks nervous, just doesn't have a feel for the
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Speaker 8: for the games, always plays the analytics card on what
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Speaker 8: the paper tells me to do.
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Speaker 3: He's a quote unquote yes man.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm stuck on thinking when I watch the Mariners,
21:18
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, does he have his job because he's a
21:21
Speaker 1: yes man to the analytics, which I believe to Poto
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Speaker 1: and Hollander have said, you're doing this lefty versus righty.
21:27
Speaker 1: Your pitchers can't pitch a new ending all that analytics
21:30
Speaker 1: and approach stuff, or is he totally bought it on?
21:35
Speaker 1: Is he remember he played in an era of baseball
21:36
Speaker 1: that they didn't have that stuff. There wasn't analytics and
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Speaker 1: seam heads and accountants running Major League baseball teams. There
21:44
Speaker 1: were baseball guys running baseball teams. And he's a baseball guy.
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Speaker 1: So I wonder if the analytics are getting shoved onto
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Speaker 1: him as a condition for him to have the job.
21:53
Speaker 1: And maybe a guy like Madden who won the World
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Speaker 1: Series and was the most attractive of the Hoble manager
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Speaker 1: at the time, said, no, I'm not playing your analytics
22:02
Speaker 1: to have Hilt one hundred percent of the time. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not taking that job. Could be that maybe the
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Speaker 1: other people that they could have gotten that are more
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Speaker 1: experienced than Dan Wilson didn't agree to the conditions. I'm
22:15
Speaker 1: totally suppositioning here, that's not my beat. I don't know
22:17
Speaker 1: inside information on that. I just wonder if the analytics
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Speaker 1: are being hoisted upon him when he makes the movie.
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Speaker 8: Makes from the two oh six. My opinion regarding the
22:27
Speaker 8: Mariners the lack of focus. It seemed to have made
22:31
Speaker 8: more mental and physical errors the last five weeks than
22:34
Speaker 8: they did all last season. Play with some enthusiasm and focus.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is concerning, but it also is one hundred
22:43
Speaker 1: and sixty two game season and it is very hard
22:45
Speaker 1: for players at time. Now it's only April May, but
22:48
Speaker 1: it is hard at times to maintain a constant level
22:51
Speaker 1: of just consistency over one hundred and sixty two games.
22:56
Speaker 1: It's very hard, very very hard. But the troughs have
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Speaker 1: far outweighed the peak so far, and that's the concern. Obviously, yeah.
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Speaker 8: From the two five three, I would send JP packing
23:08
Speaker 8: and bring up Emerson. As for pitching, send Castile to
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Speaker 8: the pen, or DFAD bring up Anderson and move Cole
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Speaker 8: Young to lead off.
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Speaker 1: Be tough to DFA his contract, though, you'd run to
23:21
Speaker 1: get something for Luis Castillo that they're waiting, of course,
23:25
Speaker 1: until Bryce Miller comes back from his extended rehab. Stent
23:29
Speaker 1: that Emerson Hancock has helped facilitate Hancock. By the way,
23:34
Speaker 1: we just didn't even mention the top of the show,
23:36
Speaker 1: fourteen strikeouts and lost. The Mariners had seventeen strikeouts Saturday
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Speaker 1: night and lost. You have to try to lose pretty
23:44
Speaker 1: hard to lose a game when you pitch your strikeout seventeen.
23:49
Speaker 1: That's wild. I have a stat somewhere. I'm gonna dig
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Speaker 1: it out. But reading you're gonna read the next one. Chris,
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Speaker 1: got it.
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Speaker 8: You want to fix the Mariners from the two six
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Speaker 8: get rid of this lefty writing. Mat said garbage, A
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Speaker 8: hit or hits, and a pitcher pitches. If someone is hitting,
24:03
Speaker 8: keep them. If someone is pitching, well, don't just switch
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Speaker 8: them out for the stats.
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Speaker 10: Too.
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Speaker 3: Many close games are being lost to stats.
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Speaker 1: See I think it's being forced upon him. I thought that.
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Speaker 1: I think Dan Wilson is a condition of his job.
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Speaker 1: It was you must one hundred percent of the time
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Speaker 1: follow the analytics in what our iPad tolls us. I'm
24:24
Speaker 1: when I watch Manner games, I think that's when he
24:27
Speaker 1: pinch hits Luke Rayley for Joe. Then I'm like, wait
24:33
Speaker 1: a minute. He that can't be what his eyes are
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Speaker 1: telling him.
24:37
Speaker 3: Probably not.
24:38
Speaker 1: The Royal Saturday Night were the first team in Major
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Speaker 1: League history to walk zero times, strikeout seventeen times, hit
24:45
Speaker 1: zero home runs, yet still win. That's how bad that
24:49
Speaker 1: weekend series was with.
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Speaker 8: The Manors, all right, two five three. Everyone talks about
24:55
Speaker 8: how great Julio is in center field. He made two
24:58
Speaker 8: plays this weekend that directly cost the Mayor. Are his wins.
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Speaker 3: I'm not convinced he is the savior. Everyone thinks he is.
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Speaker 1: Four two five says start holding the players accountable. How
25:10
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson lose any of the games versus Kansas City? Two?
25:15
Speaker 1: Dan Wilson is softer than Charman. Bring back Lloyd McClendon.
25:20
Speaker 1: Got covered Lloyd McClendon, former Pirates player among other teams,
25:23
Speaker 1: and that was great? Hey two O six, I want
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Speaker 1: to say this. Shout out to my daughter in law, Noel,
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Speaker 1: first lieutenant in the US Army. There you go, just
25:33
Speaker 1: graduated officer training school, headed to Walter Reed Medical Center
25:36
Speaker 1: as a doctor of physical therapy. Hellou salute to her,
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Speaker 1: Salute to Noel. Be proud. We need some pets in
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Speaker 1: the army, some good ones. That's great, good news. Congratulations
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Speaker 1: to you, Marcus for a long time listener. Texter, call
25:50
Speaker 1: up Laz and let him play left move Randy as
25:53
Speaker 1: a rose arena to dh bench. JP Crawford, call up
25:56
Speaker 1: Colt Emerson Laz. If you don't know, Ozorrow is twenty
26:00
Speaker 1: one years old. He's a Cuban born in Havana and
26:04
Speaker 1: he's at Double A Arkansas. He's hitting two forty four
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Speaker 1: seven home runs, nineteen irbis, a couple of stolen bases
26:11
Speaker 1: as an outfitter, left handed batter. Six five to ten.
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Speaker 8: From our guy, Travis Kid, my recommendation a golf cart.
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Speaker 8: And this is in regards to me running the five
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Speaker 8: k and what other five k's I should run? He says,
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Speaker 8: not Chris, just hit the course, you know, go play
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Speaker 8: a nice little eighteen.
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Speaker 3: See see how you doing some golf, Travis.
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Speaker 1: You ready to do it again in two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Cresh, Yes, I would be up for two weeks. Saw
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Speaker 3: the six Yeah, the al Qai West Seattle five k.
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Speaker 1: Although that sounds like hills unless you go along the water.
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Speaker 3: No, it's they said it's a super flat corse.
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Speaker 1: Oh long.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm shout out to two o six.
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Speaker 8: I've seen it. I'll look that up. Well I did
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Speaker 8: look it up. So I just got confront with the wife,
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Speaker 8: and I think.
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Speaker 1: We'll be good. I think you should go with the
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Speaker 1: two oh six says the next five k should be
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Speaker 1: the BBFR.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you go ahead, Greg right away.
26:58
Speaker 1: Man, you want to the bear Buns five run a
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Speaker 1: Tiger Mountain Family newdist resort. Oh, man, bring your wife
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Speaker 1: to that one. See how that goes?
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Speaker 3: Probably t m I. But she's actually she wants to
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Speaker 3: go to like a nude beach.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure she appreciated me.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, hey, shout out. She probably have her
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Speaker 8: coworker like your husband was on airs saying that the
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Speaker 8: next So you have a good evening today, It's okay.
27:24
Speaker 8: Maybe won't have dinner. You're looking for a fan might
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Speaker 8: have dinner on the back. You might have dinner, all right,
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Speaker 8: but maybe not her. Let's see from the four two
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Speaker 8: five last one for me, because then we get the
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Speaker 8: mayor or not the mayor. We have Chris Crawford on Dick.
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Speaker 8: How did Dan Wilson lose any games versus Casey?
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Speaker 1: Good point. I understand that sentiment. I'm trying to find
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Speaker 1: the one about the five k that benefits the young gal.
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Speaker 8: We find that, I will do a quick search. Let's
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Speaker 8: see if I can find it for you. We got
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Speaker 8: that one that you just read. Yeah, don't know about
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Speaker 8: that one there, but hell, hey, nope, that's not it.
28:02
Speaker 8: Hey kid, check out the Casey ettter Rock Memorial five
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Speaker 8: K Monroe next year. Great events supporting the community and
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Speaker 8: remembering a child that left us all too early but
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Speaker 8: touched a lot of people's lives. Thank you for that recommendation.
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Speaker 8: Four two five, Casey ed Olrock. And you mentioned the
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Speaker 8: great five k run, the Roady Run in Mayport Townsend.
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Speaker 8: I've been to Port Towns in a really cool city.
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Speaker 8: I need to go back out there, so that's another
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Speaker 8: good space to go run. Beautiful scenery five O nine.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Raly goes on the show for an extended period
28:31
Speaker 1: of time do we start to question the Harry Ford trade.
28:34
Speaker 1: Remember Harry Ford, top catching prospect played in the futures Game. Yeah,
28:41
Speaker 1: we didn't seem to need Harry Ford last year. It's
28:44
Speaker 1: health two five three. Of course, Wilson has this job
28:48
Speaker 1: because he's following the analytics. He was not coaching anything
28:50
Speaker 1: when he was hired. He doesn't have a manager of
28:52
Speaker 1: gut field for baseball because he wasn't exercising that muscle.
28:55
Speaker 1: He has to go with the analytics. Of course. The
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Speaker 1: problem with that is the people in charge are the analytics.
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Speaker 1: Hollander and the Poto are the one to decide who
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Speaker 1: the manager is. And John Stanton has obviously cast his
29:07
Speaker 1: lot with the analytics side of baseball, and that's why
29:10
Speaker 1: he has who he has. It's a president and the
29:12
Speaker 1: general manager. Well, it looks more and more to me
29:16
Speaker 1: like that was the condition of the job and they
29:18
Speaker 1: couldn't get Joe Madden or anybody else if they wanted
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Speaker 1: to because of that condition. That's just my opinion. I
29:24
Speaker 1: don't know that for a fact. Keith two five three,
29:31
Speaker 1: last one, I was a huge NBA fan, then we
29:33
Speaker 1: lost our team. Now I invested that part of my
29:35
Speaker 1: heart into the NHL. Watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs versus
29:38
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs has made me wonder if I will
29:40
Speaker 1: ever be as big an NBA fan as I once was.
29:45
Speaker 1: I hear you, if you haven't done it, do it,
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Speaker 1: all the text. Some kind ones too, Tooto six saying kid,
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Speaker 1: I thought you don't run next to large bodies of water.
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Speaker 3: Hey, hey, leave me alone. We've had this discussion last week.
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Speaker 1: Next Chris Crawford joining me for Crosstock because the infness
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Speaker 1: is not here. On ninety three point three kJ RFM,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Greg Bell Show. Christopher Kidd with
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Speaker 1: you In ninety three point three kJ r FM. News
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Speaker 1: that has broken in just the last hour. Troy Tiger's
30:39
Speaker 1: manager A. J. Hintz told reporters that two time defending
30:42
Speaker 1: cy Young Award winner Trek Screwball of course, went to
30:46
Speaker 1: Seattle University start for them before the Tigers got him.
30:48
Speaker 1: He is out indefinitely, probably many months, because he's having
30:52
Speaker 1: left elbow surgery for the dreaded loose bodies in his
30:55
Speaker 1: left elbow. He was supposed to start tonight against the
30:58
Speaker 1: Red Sox, but Terry Scruble is going to be out
31:01
Speaker 1: for multiple months, maybe three, maybe four, maybe longer with
31:06
Speaker 1: left elbow surgery. And that's nothing that a pitcher ever
31:09
Speaker 1: wants to hear. Our baseball guy, Chris Crawford is sitting
31:12
Speaker 1: next to me. He's filling in for Ian Furness today.
31:15
Speaker 1: You're shaking your head at that news.
31:17
Speaker 11: It's just such a bummer because he's such a fun
31:20
Speaker 11: pitcher to watch and now All Star Break at best
31:24
Speaker 11: is when you're going to see him back. No guarantee
31:26
Speaker 11: even that by then. Usually that's a two to three
31:28
Speaker 11: month thing, and you know that's another competitive team that
31:33
Speaker 11: is dealing with injury stuff. It's the one nice thing
31:36
Speaker 11: about what the Seattle's absolutely disastrous start is that outside
31:40
Speaker 11: of the Yankees, I don't think anybody looks all that good.
31:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yankees are twenty three and eleven, and then that's
31:45
Speaker 1: pretty much his Yeah, because the Red I mean, we
31:48
Speaker 1: talked about this a couple times, Chris. As bad as
31:50
Speaker 1: the Marions have been, and they're now three games under
31:52
Speaker 1: five hundred. Again, it's still only two and a half back.
31:54
Speaker 1: It's crazy, it's only two games number five hundred. It's
31:57
Speaker 1: first place.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and that one team is it's still the Athletics
32:01
Speaker 11: who are in first place, right, Yeah, I just can't
32:03
Speaker 11: see that holding up. As much as I love that lineup,
32:06
Speaker 11: there's not enough pitching. The fact they're playing in a
32:08
Speaker 11: triple A ballpark, literally playing in a Triple A ballpark
32:11
Speaker 11: creates some interesting disadvantages for them. So yeah, I mean
32:15
Speaker 11: that's the thing to hang on to here, is that, yes,
32:18
Speaker 11: it's a basically a quarter of a season of mediocrity,
32:22
Speaker 11: but it's a quarter of a season for mediocrity from
32:24
Speaker 11: everybody but at the Yankees in the American League.
32:26
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah. The only other team in the American
32:30
Speaker 1: League that has more than two games over five hundred
32:33
Speaker 1: record right now are the Rays at twenty one and twelve. Yeah.
32:36
Speaker 1: The AL Central first place is eighteen and seventeen. Yeah,
32:39
Speaker 1: that's what the Tigers in the Garden, the Guardians are
32:41
Speaker 1: both Yeah, so that's the saving grace here for the Mariners.
32:47
Speaker 1: But we've seen them go from way way back to
32:50
Speaker 1: way way good.
32:51
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's but the disappointing thing there is imagine if
32:56
Speaker 11: you're talking about the Mariners being nineteen and sixteen, and
32:58
Speaker 11: how much better you're feeling about your first You're in
33:00
Speaker 11: first place, You've got a three game lead over a
33:02
Speaker 11: team that still isn't really consideredcerned about winning all that much,
33:06
Speaker 11: and just looking at the disaster that has been the Astros.
33:10
Speaker 11: The Angels are just literally a disaster every year. The
33:13
Speaker 11: Rangers aren't great, but instead they're playing catch up again,
33:17
Speaker 11: and that's a little frustrating.
33:18
Speaker 1: That definitely frustrating. What would you do with Luis Castie.
33:21
Speaker 1: It's obvious that they want to keep him long enough
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Speaker 1: that if Emerson Hancock stays in the rotation and they
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Speaker 1: get their full compliment of everybody by s Biller, everyone's
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Speaker 1: back healthy, that they want to be in a position
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Speaker 1: I would think to be able to deal that contract
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Speaker 1: in his experience, would be worth something near July yea,
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Speaker 1: I would think, but not at zero to three with
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Speaker 1: a plus six era.
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Speaker 5: No, he's going to have to pitch better.
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Speaker 11: I will tell you, I thought yesterday was encouraging if
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Speaker 11: you take away the fourth inning, which you know, if
33:51
Speaker 11: you take away a lot of guys innings, they can
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Speaker 11: have good starts. But the eye test, he passed it
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Speaker 11: better yesterday. The other five innings were totally fine. Probably
33:59
Speaker 11: got left in too long by a manager who usually
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Speaker 11: leaves guys in for too long or makes the wrong
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Speaker 11: decision quite often. But ultimately, the ultimate question Mark two
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Speaker 11: or two is Kate Anderson has a zero point three
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Speaker 11: to seven ERA and a thirty eight to four strikeout
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Speaker 11: to walk ratio in Double.
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Speaker 5: A at Double A Arkansas, at Double A Arkansas.
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Speaker 11: But still and there are better prospects in Double A
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Speaker 11: than there are in TRIPA A now at this point,
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Speaker 11: that is just the way baseball is going. That's another
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Speaker 11: thing to keep an eye on here. Ultimately, I think
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Speaker 11: the Mariners want Luis Castillo's twenty one million dollar contract
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Speaker 11: to be worth a twenty one million dollar contract, because
34:33
Speaker 11: they're not going to sell low on him either. They're
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Speaker 11: not going to just give him away. As much as
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Speaker 11: I can get frustrated with Seattle marin or ownership, I
34:41
Speaker 11: don't think that they're willing to just give a player
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Speaker 11: like that away. I think ultimately what's going to happen
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Speaker 11: here is he's going to get at least two or
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Speaker 11: three more turns through the rotation, and if he struggles,
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Speaker 11: then he becomes a really expensive multi ning reliever.
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Speaker 1: Man. Chris brought that up last segment. That would be
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Speaker 1: Chris is pretty smart, So we talked last segment also,
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Speaker 1: I I'm how do you feel about this? I am
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Speaker 1: of the belief that Dan Wilson, the moves he makes
35:10
Speaker 1: the analytics let's take out Luke Raley for Connor Joe
35:14
Speaker 1: Sure are forced upon him by a management who this
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Speaker 1: was a condition of him being hired. And the reason
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Speaker 1: why we they don't have Joe Madden in that dugout
35:22
Speaker 1: right now is because Joe Madden looked at this job.
35:23
Speaker 1: Maybe they have maybe they did ask her and they said,
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Speaker 1: what Joe Mann's you want me to do analytics one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time what an iPad tells me,
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing it? I see you. So they got
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Speaker 1: Dan Wilson who was willing to do that.
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Speaker 11: Sure, I mean, there is definitely something to be said
35:37
Speaker 11: about the people I've talked to suggest this front office
35:41
Speaker 11: is as involved in decision making, not in game. Some
35:45
Speaker 11: people picture it like Jerry calling down to Dan and saying,
35:48
Speaker 11: this is a decision to make.
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Speaker 1: That happened with the early two thousands, as I believe
35:53
Speaker 1: that very Bean had a direct line to art Hound
35:56
Speaker 1: how you used to fume about it to speed writer.
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Speaker 11: I'm sure that's probably why they've art how Will be
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Speaker 11: the bad guy in the movie, which is not accurate.
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Speaker 5: But no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 11: No, And the same thing with Eric Caboda, by the way,
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Speaker 11: But I think that there is something to be said
36:10
Speaker 11: about they are very much in Dan Wilson's head.
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Speaker 5: They are very much in there now.
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Speaker 11: Ultimately, the decision making is still Dan Wilson's and Dan
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Speaker 11: Wilson is still the guy who gets to decide what
36:21
Speaker 11: relievers come in, what guys are going to be pinch
36:24
Speaker 11: hit for. But if you don't believe that they're not
36:26
Speaker 11: having meetings about, hey, this is what we want to do,
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Speaker 11: then you're living in la la land. And this is
36:31
Speaker 11: true for a lot of Major League teams, but I
36:33
Speaker 11: think specifically for Seattle, they are saying, Dan, this is
36:37
Speaker 11: how we want you to do this. And remember you're
36:40
Speaker 11: a Mariner Hall of Famer and you can keep your
36:42
Speaker 11: job for a long time if you can do what
36:44
Speaker 11: we tell you to do exactly.
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Speaker 1: Chris, you're going to make your radio history in about
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes.
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Speaker 5: All all right, So excited.
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Speaker 11: I get to ask Hugh Millan at least two questions
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Speaker 11: in the twenty minutes that we're going to be talking.
36:56
Speaker 11: We're going to talk about rookie training camp. We're also
36:58
Speaker 11: going to be talking a little bit about the NBA,
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Speaker 11: a little bit about the NHL. Did you watch any
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Speaker 11: of that game? Yes night, Oh my goodness, great, I got.
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Speaker 1: I came out of eighty degree sun to watch Game
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Speaker 1: seven Montreal Tampa Bay on CBC sports Net. So good was.
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Speaker 5: Captivated, Oh so good. And then a nine to six
37:14
Speaker 5: game one.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to open that.
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Speaker 11: That was a lot of fun as well, because Anders
37:17
Speaker 11: makes me talk about hockey. He has weapons that I'm
37:20
Speaker 11: not going to disclose. That make sure we talk about that,
37:23
Speaker 11: and of course we'll talk a lot about the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: In Molliwap Monday, Chris Crawford is, Oh, that Mollywop is
37:28
Speaker 1: probably gonna be up.
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Speaker 5: Should be a good one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys, you guys aren't going to be sarcastic
37:33
Speaker 1: or down at all of them.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, there's no Canadian to try to talk to us
37:36
Speaker 11: about anything, to talk us down.
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Speaker 5: We will be just fine.
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Speaker 1: That's Ian Fornessa's gone today. So Chris Crawford is going
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Speaker 1: to be in with Andrews and Jessmin. That's for the
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Speaker 1: next twelve to three. He'll have keywords a thousand dollars
37:48
Speaker 1: keywords on our Grand Slam cash gave away. Greg Bell,
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Speaker 1: The News Stribune, Christopher Kidd, thank you as always for
37:53
Speaker 1: joining us, Thanks for giving us suggestions. I'm with Chris's
37:56
Speaker 1: next five to ten k race should be including to
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Speaker 1: the newdest camp on Tiger Mountain.
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Speaker 5: Beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Christ is up next to ninety three point three KJFM.