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Chuck & Buck 3-12 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, Dawgs stay alive and the countdown is on! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Four oh Tony castro Cone on the call. Yesterday, Dogs
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Speaker 1: do win over the USC Trojans and they keep those
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Speaker 1: in a matter of moments, but we have course start
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Speaker 1: every seven o'clock hour with a few headlines brought to
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Speaker 1: win by four yesterday. Big game for Zoom Diallo in
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Speaker 1: the contest. He had twenty two points. He had eleven assists,
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Speaker 1: he had seven rebounds. Yeah, that's what you'd like to
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Speaker 1: see out of Zoom. They'll try to get it done today.
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Speaker 1: As I said at eleven thirty, Selection Sunday is now
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Speaker 1: just three days away. Arizona State's not going to be
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Speaker 1: in it. They were humiliated yesterday in the first round
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Speaker 1: of the Big twelve tournament and it was the final straw.
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Speaker 1: Bobby Hurley fired as their head coach. Cracking an action
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Speaker 1: tonight against the Colorado Avalanche. That's a difficult team to
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Speaker 1: get well against. And yet the Cracking have had some
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Speaker 1: pretty good success against the better teams in the NHL,
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Speaker 1: and they always picked themselves up off the ground. Just
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Speaker 1: when you thought that they were knocked down for the
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Speaker 1: last time, they lost three straight games. They'll try to
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Speaker 1: get things right tonight against Nathan McKennon and the Colorado Avalanche.
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Speaker 1: Will Bobby McMahon make his debut. Perhaps al Kiniski was
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Speaker 1: optimistic with US yesterday, but the trade acquisition at the
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Speaker 1: deadline still has yet to suit up for the Kraken
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Speaker 1: this season. WBC Italy won over Mexico nine to one yesterday,
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Speaker 1: which means team USA does advance to the single elimination
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Speaker 1: eighteen tournament in the WBC playpool is over Pool play
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Speaker 1: is over with, and now we get to that single
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Speaker 1: elimination tournament which is going to start on Friday, two
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Speaker 1: games on Friday and then two more games on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: And the US is going to face Josh Naylor and
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Speaker 1: Canada in the first round of that tournament. And what
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Speaker 1: else do we got going on? Mariner spring training continues,
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Speaker 1: another home run for Cole Young. He is muscled up
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Speaker 1: this spring. He's got a slugging percentage of seven thirty
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Speaker 1: three so far in spring training action, so he might
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Speaker 1: be solidifying that spot at second base. We'll talk more
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Speaker 1: about that later on this hour. And the new year
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Speaker 1: has begun. The National Football League rang in its new
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Speaker 1: year yesterday at one o'clock, even though the tampering period
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Speaker 1: featured about five thousand moves prior to free agency actually
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Speaker 1: officially beginning. The Hawks have been quiet since re signing
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Speaker 1: Josh Job and Rashid Shaheed, but they did make a
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Speaker 1: few signings yesterday to keep a few guys that they like,
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Speaker 1: even though they might not be big, splashy names. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about those guys. With Greg Bell.
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Speaker 3: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and but hey.
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Speaker 2: Y, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Well we got a few little things to discuss here today.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks weren't inactive yesterday. Jake Bobo, Chris Stole, Josh
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Speaker 1: Jones all being brought back. Yeah, they might look like
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Speaker 1: minor moves, but I'm glad that all three of those
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Speaker 1: things got done. Was there any doubt about any of
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Speaker 1: them at any stretch? And how important do you think
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Speaker 1: it is these three moves yesterday?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's a nod toward running it back with their
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Speaker 2: core locker room type guys. And you look at statistics
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Speaker 2: and you say, well, Jake Bobo two catches twenty yards
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Speaker 2: the whole season, a healthy scratch after they traded for
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Speaker 2: Rashichi Hea, how big of a loss would that have been?
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Speaker 2: So what he only played seventeen percent of the offensive
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Speaker 2: snaps last year in a much more reduced role after
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Speaker 2: they drafted Tory Horton. The locker room guys loved Jake
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Speaker 2: Bobo and since since the first of January. When I
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Speaker 2: hear the name Jake Bobo, I think of the block
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Speaker 2: he made on the third and seventeen running Week eighteen
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Speaker 2: in Santa Clair against the forty nine ers that Kenneth
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Speaker 2: Walker ran for a first down on him. Probably it
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Speaker 2: was ten three at a time late in the third quarter,
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Speaker 2: and Bobo took out three guys on one player with
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Speaker 2: three different blocks. Two of them they took each other
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Speaker 2: out after Bobo hit him, and players on the sideline
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Speaker 2: and then the locker room after the game were going
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Speaker 2: crazy about this that played at Bobo made. It was
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Speaker 2: one of like eight plays he was in in the
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Speaker 2: whole game. That's the kind of stuff Jake Bobo's done
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Speaker 2: since he got to the league. Bobo was undrafted, of course,
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Speaker 2: he played at two schools, Duke and UCLA. He has
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Speaker 2: pretty much self made himself into an NFL player in
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Speaker 2: a three now going on four year career. Those are
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Speaker 2: the type of players Mike McDonald wants. Yes, they won
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Speaker 2: Devin woo'spoon and Jackson Jig and Sam Darnold, but they
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Speaker 2: need Jake Bobo's too. They need guys that you tell
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Speaker 2: them that you're going to play half the time that
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Speaker 2: you played the previous year on offense. Okay, what do
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Speaker 2: you want me to do? Block? Okay, I'll block. You
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Speaker 2: want to play special teams forty five percent of the time,
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Speaker 2: all right, I'll do that. You want to play with
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Speaker 2: a broken hand, which he played the Super Bowl the
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Speaker 2: broken hand. He broke his hand in the NFC title
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Speaker 2: game and the next morning he flew to Los Angeles.
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Speaker 2: He and Brady Russell did, and they got a two
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Speaker 2: for deal with doctor Stephen Shin, who is a hand
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Speaker 2: specialist in Los Angeles Caesars Sinai. They said they passed
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Speaker 2: each other in the surgery wing of that clinic and
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Speaker 2: they both came back and played in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Bobo played with a pin in his hand in that game.
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Speaker 2: So that's the kind of guys you need to fill
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Speaker 2: out your team. You just can't be all starters, all
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Speaker 2: dudes who will want the ball, who want lead roles.
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Speaker 2: You need guys who are about the team. Josh Jones
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Speaker 2: was that as a backup tackle sad all year. They
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Speaker 2: signed him from a veteran from Baltimore. Last season he
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Speaker 2: played with Houston and other teams. He wasn't doing anything
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Speaker 2: for four months, and then Charles Cross gets hurt and
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Speaker 2: they need him, and Josh Jones goes in and plays
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Speaker 2: left tackle for three starts and is brilliant, the three
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Speaker 2: best rushing games the season Seahawks had going into the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Those kind of guys are invaluable and it's worth a
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Speaker 2: couple million dollars to re sign him. In Bobo's case,
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Speaker 2: they went to the very last moment before the league
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Speaker 2: year began. The league gyear started at one pm yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Bobo would have become an unrestricted free agent. He had
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Speaker 2: been restricted one and the fact that they did tender
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Speaker 2: him at three point five million dollars four minutes before
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Speaker 2: the deadline tells you they thought some other team was
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Speaker 2: going to sign him and they didn't want to lose him.
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Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple other guys that were on that
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Speaker 4: same list of restricted free agents, and yet now they,
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Speaker 4: by not being tendered, are now unrestricted free agent. I mean,
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Speaker 4: Brady Russell's another guy. Doesn't he fit that same mold
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Speaker 4: of you know, great special teams guy. Do you figure
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Speaker 4: they're going to bring him back.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So what they do is if they calculate that
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Speaker 2: nobody else is going to sign him or probably won't
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Speaker 2: sign you, the Seahawks would rather not be tied to
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Speaker 2: I think we've talked about this. They don't want to
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Speaker 2: be tied to a tender set at fl tender value.
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Speaker 2: Tender for well, in this case, for Bobo exclusive rights,
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Speaker 2: meaning you get to match any offers three point five
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Speaker 2: million dollars. Brady Russell's case, it would have been a
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Speaker 2: little less because of a little less playing time, But
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Speaker 2: they don't want to be tied to this is how
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Speaker 2: much his cap charge in charge for twenty twenty six
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Speaker 2: is going to be. Let's let you go to be
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Speaker 2: an unrestricted free agent so we can strike any deal
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Speaker 2: we want. We're not tied to a tender number. And
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Speaker 2: that's what they're doing with him, probably with Cody White too,
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Speaker 2: the wide receiver they really like, who also was a
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Speaker 2: restricted free agent, is not unrestricted. But the danger that,
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Speaker 2: of course is they're free to their agents are free
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Speaker 2: to talk to Anyboddy and someone could beat the Seahawks offer.
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Speaker 2: Then the Seahawks would be hoping that they just want
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Speaker 2: to come back to their Super Bowl champions and they
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Speaker 2: love the locker room, they love the coaching staff, and
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Speaker 2: that works too for guys like Brady Russell. So that's
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Speaker 2: the calculus they've made in those cases. So they aren't
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Speaker 2: tied to a tender deal. AJ Finley had been a
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Speaker 2: restricted free agent, and it looks like they let him
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Speaker 2: go to unrestricted and then signed it back immediately as
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Speaker 2: an example of not being tied to a league mandated number.
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Speaker 1: Greg bellis with us our Seahawks inside. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: can follow is complete coverage of the Seahawks every single
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Speaker 1: day of the year. They're at the News Tribune dot
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Speaker 1: com and follow them at g Bell Seattle on x.
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Speaker 1: I guess you could say despite the three moves yesterday
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Speaker 1: that compared to some other teams out there, the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: have been a bit quiet here in the last forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours of this process. Is this the lull that
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Speaker 1: we expect out of John Schneider is do you have
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Speaker 1: a couple moves up his sleeve? He's just waiting for
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Speaker 1: price to come down.
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Speaker 2: This is the waiting till the secondary phase of pre
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Speaker 2: agency and running back is the market that will come
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Speaker 2: back to him. We talked about running back and teams
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Speaker 2: not wanting to invest a ton of money any running
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Speaker 2: back getting paid. Kenneth Walker, Algier, they've already gotten paid.
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Speaker 2: So now the guys are the bargain basement shopping big
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Speaker 2: lots guys, and not to disparage their skill, but the
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Speaker 2: market is bearing that they aren't signed yet, so their
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Speaker 2: price will go down. And so now Snyder's in no hurry.
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Speaker 2: He's got guys in mind. And then wouldn't surprise me
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Speaker 2: if we Shad White, the rookie, former rookie that tore
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Speaker 2: up the Seahawks, and Munich for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
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Speaker 2: and Tom Brady a few years ago. Guys like that.
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Speaker 2: We talked about White yesterday. Brian Robinson's still available. He's
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Speaker 2: also twenty six years old, the mid twenty. These guys
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Speaker 2: still young enough, who aren't expensive, Younger cheaper, remember keep
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Speaker 2: talking about that younger cheaper. Well, they're going to get younger,
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Speaker 2: cheaper running back. They have to now because they let
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Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker go. It's those type of deals that are
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Speaker 2: coming up. The most noteworthy thing to me about this
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Speaker 2: week is the fact that the Seahawks and the Denver
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Speaker 2: Broncos the two number one seeds in the playoffs last year,
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Speaker 2: and you could argue who was probably going to be
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl mat tip if bow Knicks hadn't gotten hurt.
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Speaker 2: They're the only two teams in the league that have
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Speaker 2: not signed an outside external free agent. Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Because they're good teams and they'd want to bring back
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Speaker 2: all their own guys. And the Seahawks have spent almost
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Speaker 2: eighty million dollars now on their own guy, eighty two
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Speaker 2: million on their own guys, so it's not like they
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Speaker 2: haven't done anything. But they prioritize bringing back Rashichi Heat
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Speaker 2: for fifty one million, chiefly over everything else, and they said, well,
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Speaker 2: we'll make it work. Now everybody else is coming back
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Speaker 2: on offense except Kenneth Walker, and everybody else is coming
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Speaker 2: back on defense starters except Kobe brad. You could argue
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Speaker 2: that Riequillen was a starter, but Josh Jovid supplanted him
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Speaker 2: for much of last season, and they brought Joe back
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Speaker 2: to good. Teams want to keep their teams good, and
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Speaker 2: they want to keep the players that made him good,
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Speaker 2: and the Seahawks believe they've done that with the glary
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Speaker 2: exception of running back. And that's the one spot on
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Speaker 2: this team that you look at and go, Mmm, what's
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Speaker 2: a team that runs fifty percent of the time among
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Speaker 2: the most in the league going to do at the
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Speaker 2: primary running back position. With your heir to Walker injured
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Speaker 2: and maybe not coming back till November October, that's the
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Speaker 2: big question that's gone on for the last two three
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Speaker 2: weeks for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 4: Gee, what do you think about a guy like Naje Harris.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he had four straight thousand yard seasons before
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Speaker 4: he heard his achilles last year and didn't hardly play.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's creeping. I think he's twenty eight, so
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Speaker 4: he's creeping up towards that thirty number. But he's a
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Speaker 4: guy that I mean, you could get for two three
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Speaker 4: million bucks probably, and if he comes back from the
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Speaker 4: achilles injury, he might be a guy that fits the bill.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm following Nazie Harrison from Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Areia
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Speaker 2: and Steeler interested in the Steelers.
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Speaker 1: Still faster than him right now.
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Speaker 2: That's the problem is that that you your medical you're
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Speaker 2: leaning on your medical staff there and the Seahawks. Every
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Speaker 2: NFL team has a medical evaluation, not just on college
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Speaker 2: prospects every going in a draft, but on pro players
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Speaker 2: as well. They're pro personnel guys. Part of their job
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Speaker 2: is to identify the players that might fit the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: system and locker room and culture and then run their
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Speaker 2: medicals by the teams that the medical staff now, if
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Speaker 2: they become really interested in a player like that, they'll
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Speaker 2: invite him in. And now that the league year has started,
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Speaker 2: yesterday was the first day that you can actually have
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Speaker 2: somebody on your supremises for a free agent visit. Up
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Speaker 2: to now, guys have been getting signed without coming to
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Speaker 2: the facility. We're not allowed to remember Will Freeze last year,
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Speaker 2: the offensive lineman who eventually signed with the Colts that
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Speaker 2: guarded everybody in the Pacific Northwest one on the side,
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Speaker 2: and the Seahawks refused to sign a guy that Freeze
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Speaker 2: is coming off of major surgery, and the Seahawks John
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Speaker 2: Schnyders said, I'm not going to sign a guy with
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Speaker 2: the investment of the money we're talking about without having them
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Speaker 2: come in our building and see our medical staff. Well, yes,
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Speaker 2: so they didn't, and they got the teams that didn't
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Speaker 2: care about that sign them anyway, and that's what Snyder won't.
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Speaker 2: That's part of the conservative nature of what Snyder does.
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Speaker 2: But now we're into this. If they wanted to bring
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Speaker 2: a guy like Nauseia Harrison, now they can do that,
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Speaker 2: and they can have their own docks look at him
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Speaker 2: and screen them and see how the Achilles is. It's
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Speaker 2: those type of deals, Bucky, that we're talking about now
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Speaker 2: that we're getting into the third second free agency waves.
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Speaker 2: And then now they can take their time and bring
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Speaker 2: guys in, get medicals, negotiate their price, and that they
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Speaker 2: shouldn't have. I have a huge bidding war for guys
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 1: Greg bella guest here this morning getting the latest on
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. The new year has begun. I'm sure that
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell celebrated it with a countdown with a Wendy
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Speaker 1: at home, you know, with a pointed paper hat on
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Speaker 1: and a noisemaker out of his mouth, probably pop some
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Speaker 1: diamond collection prosecco to celebrate the ringing in of the
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Speaker 1: new National Football League year. And here we are discussing
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Speaker 1: it with him here today. All right, so we do
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Speaker 1: have to get an update. I do have to ask
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Speaker 1: you about Max Crosby again, and not that you know,
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Speaker 1: not that we have to go over the entire situation.
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Speaker 1: I would just ask, have you heard anything, have you
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Speaker 1: heard anything that maybe the Seahawks have made an offer?
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Speaker 1: Are interested? Where did the Seahawks sit with this entire
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Speaker 1: wild story.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing it there waiting and there's no urgency now
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Speaker 2: because one again, he just had surgery in January. So
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Speaker 2: think what you will of what the Ravens said and did.
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Speaker 2: The facts, it still remains he had miniscus surgery in January,
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Speaker 2: that he's only six weeks or so out from eight weeks,
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Speaker 2: and that takes time to recover from. And now that
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Speaker 2: teams have already set their rosters and spent their money
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Speaker 2: and made their trades like the Cowboys did for Gary
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Speaker 2: from Green Bay, now everyone's circling up and saying, reassessing
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Speaker 2: the whole thing. How much would be we willing to
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Speaker 2: pay for Max Crosby? Now? How much would be willing
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Speaker 2: to give the Raiders. They're not getting two number what
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Speaker 2: picks for him anymore, they just aren't. And they may
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Speaker 2: ask for that, but they're not gonna get it. And
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Speaker 2: they may not even get a first round pick for
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Speaker 2: him now for what just happened. Now, that's why the
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Speaker 2: Raiders are saying he's playing with us, and Crosby's coming
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Speaker 2: out and saying I'm a Raider. That's their Leverage's the
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Speaker 2: only leverage they have now is to say they're going
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Speaker 2: to keep them to try to entice a better offer
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Speaker 2: from the rest of the league. The Raiders didn't exactly
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Speaker 2: come out terribly here because they still because they had
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Speaker 2: so much cash base the most of the league one
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars, they were still able to spend over
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Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars in total value of contracts. And
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Speaker 2: they get Max Crosby back, and if he returns to health,
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Speaker 2: they're a better team for him to have him than without.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the two first round picks anymore. But
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Speaker 2: the whole league is now sitting and waiting and said, Okay,
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Speaker 2: is he going to come back from this? Is is
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Speaker 2: he going to be ready for the start of the season.
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Speaker 2: If he proves to be healthy and on a field
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Speaker 2: in training camp, then I think you'll see the market
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Speaker 2: warm back up again for him. But it couldn't be
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Speaker 2: colder now compared to it was just three days ago.
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Speaker 2: For what happened in Baltimore?
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Speaker 1: All right, man, great stuff as always, Thank you very much. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the brand new NFL year begins. Didn't you enjoy all
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Speaker 1: that time off before the new year. Wasn't that great
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Speaker 1: for you? And you get rested?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I think I got six six hours. I
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Speaker 2: think the only time I got off was being stuck
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Speaker 2: in the lizzard in Baltimore time. I couldn't do anything.
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Speaker 2: I need another blizzard please.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know when we really relaxed, honey, was in
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Speaker 1: that blizzard in Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: That was well, Wendy, we always have the blizzard in
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Speaker 2: Baltimore our life stuff for day.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well we'll talk to you tomorrow and then yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll do it again. All right, Greg bell you were.
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Speaker 2: About to make a promise you're weren'ting to keep, so
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you did say that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. All right, Greg Beller joining us
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Speaker 1: point three kJ R FM. Oh I could moonwalk really?
19:13
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good for you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, well, just back then, it was with
19:17
Speaker 4: socks on the linoleum in the kitchen to learn how
19:20
Speaker 4: to do it. And then I got it to where
19:22
Speaker 4: I could do it, you know, with shoes on concrete
19:25
Speaker 4: or wherever. And then there came a point in time
19:28
Speaker 4: when I could no longer do it. Oh, it was painful,
19:30
Speaker 4: you lose the gift. Well, it became painful on the knees.
19:34
Speaker 4: There's a little bit of pressure you gotta put down
19:36
Speaker 4: through a bent knee. Oh, so I can still do
19:40
Speaker 4: it on Swiss socks. I've basically reverted back. I'm a
19:42
Speaker 4: little Benjamin button ish when it comes. I couldn't do it.
19:45
Speaker 4: I learned how to do it. I got good at
19:47
Speaker 4: me fix my n fix. Now I'm back to just
19:50
Speaker 4: only being able to do it on the linoleum or hardwood.
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Speaker 1: So you probably can't do it, but professionally you wouldn't
19:54
Speaker 1: be a professional. No, but my pelvic hip thrust has
19:57
Speaker 1: never been better. Oh, I think we need video proof
20:00
Speaker 1: of all of this. We can do that. Uh yeah.
20:04
Speaker 1: And then that thing that the kids do today where
20:06
Speaker 1: they look like they're floating on air and they're like
20:09
Speaker 1: step one over the other. How was thaty? I mean,
20:13
Speaker 1: I know the moonwalk. At the time, I'm like, wow,
20:16
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson defies gravity, and so I kind of figured out, Oh,
20:21
Speaker 1: I see how he's doing that, But I still can't
20:23
Speaker 1: figure out out. And I've even seen like instruction videos
20:27
Speaker 1: on how they're doing it. Like No, Palmer the Great
20:29
Speaker 1: tried it last week.
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Speaker 4: I think it was.
20:31
Speaker 1: It was not as great as didn't look the same,
20:34
Speaker 1: didn't look like floating. No, Well, if you want to
20:38
Speaker 1: moon walk your way to the Talalap Resort casino, we
20:42
Speaker 1: encourage it. I don't know. Maybe maybe you get a
20:45
Speaker 1: little extra token if you impress them with your dance moves.
20:48
Speaker 1: I can't verify that, so don't count on it, but
20:51
Speaker 1: head on over there, whether you're skywalking or moonwalking, and
20:55
Speaker 1: get yourself to Talalap Resort Casino and have yourself uh
20:59
Speaker 1: well again old time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean you definitely can do that. I
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Speaker 4: mean you might as well. I was thinking about getting
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Speaker 4: learning that skywalking you called it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what a float walk.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what it's called either, but learning how
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Speaker 4: to do that so I could show off in the
21:13
Speaker 4: ballroom during the Soul Asylum concert on Saturday, because that's
21:16
Speaker 4: coming up, and I just think that, Yeah, I mean,
21:19
Speaker 4: if you're going to go to something like that, you
21:20
Speaker 4: might as well show off, right, the pelvic thrust that's
21:23
Speaker 4: a must. But if you can moonwalk and do the skywalk,
21:26
Speaker 4: bring your egg game, it's our point. Yes, bring your
21:29
Speaker 4: a gas.
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Speaker 2: All right.
21:31
Speaker 1: Let's talk Huskies hoops. They won yesterday. Good for them,
21:34
Speaker 1: Good for Danny Sprinkle. I know, in a couple of
21:37
Speaker 1: years it's been a little difficult for the Huskies to
21:39
Speaker 1: get going under the new regime. It's not through lack
21:43
Speaker 1: of effort, that's for sure. I mean Danny Sprinkle went,
21:47
Speaker 1: I mean went out there and got a team that
21:49
Speaker 1: a lot of people believed was gonna be NCAA Tournament
21:52
Speaker 1: to caliber this year. I haven't heard some Dog fans
21:55
Speaker 1: saying if you can't make it to the NCAA Tournament
21:58
Speaker 1: with this group, then there's something wrong. They didn't even
22:00
Speaker 1: get close. I mean, their only chances to win the
22:03
Speaker 1: Pac twelve tournament. It's the Pac twelve, look at me,
22:06
Speaker 1: the Big ten tournament, and there's a long way to
22:09
Speaker 1: go to get there. Even though they did pick up
22:12
Speaker 1: the victory, but at least they've showed more fight than
22:15
Speaker 1: USC with the win yesterday eighty three to seventy nine.
22:19
Speaker 1: But it looks inevitable that it's going to fall quite
22:23
Speaker 1: a bit short for them and Danny Sprinkle's second season.
22:26
Speaker 1: I mean, we're the flagship here for a Huskies basketball
22:30
Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not somebody that enjoys calling for jobs.
22:35
Speaker 1: It's just not what I like to do. But this
22:38
Speaker 1: is just a program that has had a really tough
22:41
Speaker 1: time trying to find that coach. And I remember the
22:46
Speaker 1: conversations we had about Romar, and then Mike Hopkins came
22:50
Speaker 1: in and they he was excellent at recruiting, and yet
22:53
Speaker 1: you weren't consistently winning. And now you go to Danny Sprinkle,
22:58
Speaker 1: and this is having a hard time get out of
23:00
Speaker 1: the gates. Thing about college basketball is you can turn
23:04
Speaker 1: it around overnight. We talked about the NFL. You have
23:06
Speaker 1: more than a two year plan in the NFL to
23:09
Speaker 1: rebuild it. You're making a mistake. College basketball can be
23:13
Speaker 1: done in one off season. And a lot of people
23:15
Speaker 1: thought that that was gonna happen. Maybe not national championship contenders,
23:19
Speaker 1: but certainly a playoff team, a tournament team this year.
23:23
Speaker 1: And to fall this short does leave you to wonder,
23:28
Speaker 1: do you have the wrong guy again? Slash still? Why
23:32
Speaker 1: can they not figure out how to get the coach
23:36
Speaker 1: in place that delivers for this program a consistent winner. Man,
23:42
Speaker 1: it has been a really difficult task. Yeah, I'm not
23:46
Speaker 1: sure where the blame lies. I mean, yesterday I listened
23:49
Speaker 1: to the pregame show part of my drive home. I
23:52
Speaker 1: was listening to Tony and crew kind of talking about
23:56
Speaker 1: this season right and getting ready for that game last night,
24:00
Speaker 1: and and there's a lot of people talking about USC
24:03
Speaker 1: and the way in which they've you know, stumbled and
24:06
Speaker 1: they're not going to make the tournament again. And people
24:10
Speaker 1: were saying, well, they're just so injured, And then it
24:12
Speaker 1: was basically when it was well. The Huskies have their
24:14
Speaker 1: own injuries to deal with, which everybody does. But it
24:18
Speaker 1: does feel like with the Hans kid and if Zoom
24:22
Speaker 1: played the way he played last night, that they would
24:24
Speaker 1: have been better than what they were this year. There
24:27
Speaker 1: was a lot of couldn't shoot, Yeah, I couldn't shoot
24:29
Speaker 1: a lot of non competitive games, and so I don't know,
24:32
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I'm with you. I'm not going
24:34
Speaker 1: to be the first one most certainly call them for
24:36
Speaker 1: somebody's head. But at the same time, you Dub's a
24:39
Speaker 1: proud basketball school and they're not going to sit by
24:42
Speaker 1: idly and watch, you know, a program that there's a
24:45
Speaker 1: lot of pride in it just kind of middle around
24:48
Speaker 1: in mediocrity or below. I think that's I think what
24:52
Speaker 1: you just said is where And it's difficult for me
24:56
Speaker 1: to say, you know, because we're operating here out of
24:58
Speaker 1: the flagship. But I think that this proud athletic department
25:04
Speaker 1: that I think just expects that it's going to happen,
25:08
Speaker 1: and it's not just going to happen, you know. You know,
25:12
Speaker 1: Mike Hopkins was a decent name. It was a decent name.
25:16
Speaker 1: Longtime assistant seemed to be waiting for the Syracuse job.
25:20
Speaker 1: That program's certainly gone to dust. But that wasn't like, Man,
25:25
Speaker 1: we got a sure thing here and he recruited his
25:29
Speaker 1: ass off, Markel Foltz, Marquise Chris Jade, McDaniels, Isaiah Stewart,
25:35
Speaker 1: he recruited his ass off while he was here, and
25:37
Speaker 1: it still didn't turn into that consistent winner. But the
25:40
Speaker 1: pride that the that the fan base has and there's
25:45
Speaker 1: just sort of this expectation, well, this is just supposed
25:48
Speaker 1: to happen for us, and I don't want you to
25:51
Speaker 1: get into the place. I mean, I did fifteen years
25:54
Speaker 1: in Arizona, and my criticism of Arizona Athletics was that
25:57
Speaker 1: they just celebrated way too much any kind of achievement.
26:02
Speaker 2: You know.
26:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Bobby Hurley gives us notoriety. Yeah, but you're
26:06
Speaker 1: not winning, you know. Yeah, but we competed last year.
26:10
Speaker 1: We got a good Bowl game. Yeah, but you're not
26:13
Speaker 1: competing for the I mean, they did make it two
26:16
Speaker 1: years ago because they got the right coach in place.
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Speaker 5: But to me, I just I don't see that move
26:24
Speaker 5: that says, no, we're an elite program and we're going
26:27
Speaker 5: to get an elite guy, because an elite guy turns
26:30
Speaker 5: the thing around overnight.
26:32
Speaker 1: In college basketball, where is that move? Where is that
26:36
Speaker 1: aggressive move? Because you haven't made it in like a
26:38
Speaker 1: quarter century.
26:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say I do think with this year, though,
26:43
Speaker 6: it's hard to put it all on the coaching or
26:46
Speaker 6: the lack of a big move because they have been
26:48
Speaker 6: so injured. I mean, only three players have played in
26:50
Speaker 6: every single game this season, and they've got what seven
26:53
Speaker 6: or eight scholarship players that are currently able to play,
26:57
Speaker 6: So that is going to take its toll. I mean,
26:59
Speaker 6: that's the team that he recruited, that's that's out there
27:02
Speaker 6: right now, and that makes a big difference.
27:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. I mean I'm with you. I mean,
27:08
Speaker 1: you know you guys know me.
27:09
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be the one that will I don't want
27:10
Speaker 4: to say make excuses, but recognize reasons why something falls short.
27:15
Speaker 4: And I do think that something has to go there.
27:18
Speaker 4: But to your point, I mean, I think like a
27:21
Speaker 4: Calin de Boris signing, for example, was one. It was
27:24
Speaker 4: not the splashiest. It's in a way it's almost kind
27:26
Speaker 4: of cute. And watch us watch this diamond in the
27:30
Speaker 4: rough that we found and it was one. And yet
27:33
Speaker 4: sometimes you don't need to try to find the guy
27:36
Speaker 4: that no one knows about, right, right, just go find
27:39
Speaker 4: the guy that everybody knows about.
27:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
27:41
Speaker 4: I mean, especially when it's when there's been a couple
27:44
Speaker 4: different experiments that aren't necessarily working out the way that
27:47
Speaker 4: you want them to work out. Because unfortunately, for like
27:50
Speaker 4: Danny Sprinkle, he's coming in here and in his second year,
27:54
Speaker 4: while there's legitimate reasons why it's not doing as well
27:57
Speaker 4: as it would like, he unfortunately he is carrying the
28:00
Speaker 4: weight of kind of a couple failed ten years before.
28:04
Speaker 4: You know, it's and it's not right, but it's the fact.
28:07
Speaker 4: The fact is the basketball program has not been as
28:09
Speaker 4: good as most Husky fans and most people around here
28:13
Speaker 4: most certainly expect it to be. And so you're kind
28:15
Speaker 4: of tasked with, Hey, pull us out of this, pull
28:19
Speaker 4: us out of this. And when you don't, you're one like, okay,
28:21
Speaker 4: we'll give you that pass. It was your one, now
28:23
Speaker 4: it's your two. Hey pull us out. Well we're injured. Okay.
28:27
Speaker 4: We don't have much more patience because it's not just
28:30
Speaker 4: two years that you haven't been relevant or haven't been good.
28:34
Speaker 4: It's been more than that, and that's why you've been
28:36
Speaker 4: turning over a bunch of coaches.
28:37
Speaker 1: So, I mean, Texas Tech lost its best player in
28:40
Speaker 1: the middle of the year. They haven't slowed down. They're
28:42
Speaker 1: top ten team in the country. They're gonna get a
28:44
Speaker 1: three seed. I mean, I get injuries are a part
28:47
Speaker 1: of it, and maybe you weren't as good as you
28:49
Speaker 1: thought you were going to be injuries, but to be
28:51
Speaker 1: that far away, I mean, I don't know. I don't
28:54
Speaker 1: think this happens under the watch of an elite coach.
28:58
Speaker 1: And yet this program has proud as it is, hasn't
29:02
Speaker 1: gone to the level. You're right, Bucky, it's not to
29:05
Speaker 1: the level of all right, if we want to be special,
29:09
Speaker 1: then why are we just always trying to find that
29:12
Speaker 1: hidden gym? Maybe they do, Maybe they think Sprinkle is
29:15
Speaker 1: the Kaelin de Boor, and maybe that he will be
29:19
Speaker 1: eventually if he can, you know, give it a little
29:21
Speaker 1: bit of a time. And I'm not sitting here calling
29:23
Speaker 1: for his job, But to me, it's you're trying to
29:27
Speaker 1: find hidden gems and then expecting to be elite, And
29:31
Speaker 1: I don't know if that works. And I would think
29:34
Speaker 1: after a quarter century of this that maybe you'd realize
29:37
Speaker 1: it all right? Coming up next here on the program,
29:40
Speaker 1: we are on a countdown officially today Sports Radio ninety
29:44
Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Not a lot of people predicting
29:47
Speaker 1: that for the Zags this year, but we'll get his take,
29:50
Speaker 1: as we do every year at nine o'clock here today,
29:53
Speaker 1: we are on a countdown toward the start of the
29:56
Speaker 1: Major League baseball season. Today. Here we sit Mariner's opening
30:01
Speaker 1: day in two weeks from today. How about that? That
30:05
Speaker 1: grab you? Where does that grab you? Right? Pretty good spot?
30:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, in that area A little bit definitely around me. Yeah, okay, Well,
30:17
Speaker 4: that's interesting to say the least. It's got It kind
30:21
Speaker 4: of surprised me when I read it on the rundown earlier.
30:23
Speaker 4: To be honest, I did not realize it was that close.
30:26
Speaker 4: And yet I think that's because of the WBC. It's
30:28
Speaker 4: been a little bit of a distraction away from at
30:31
Speaker 4: this point you think, oh, we're a month into spring training.
30:35
Speaker 4: I'm over this, right, I'm over playing the Padres and
30:38
Speaker 4: seeing him finish at a nine to nine tie.
30:40
Speaker 1: Who cares?
30:41
Speaker 4: Right that the WBC is kind of taking that away,
30:45
Speaker 4: and that's a good thing. So it is crazy that
30:48
Speaker 4: it's right around the corner.
30:50
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I think I'm throwing out the
30:52
Speaker 1: first pitch this year. Is that right? Yeah, they were
30:55
Speaker 1: looking for a Mariner legend.
30:57
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's good.
31:01
Speaker 1: That'll be cool. I'm not saying they've reached out to
31:04
Speaker 1: me to do it. I'm saying I'm just getting this feeling.
31:07
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like that. You know, we saw Jerry
31:11
Speaker 1: and Justin and Kevin and uh Stanton John Stanton John
31:15
Speaker 1: I call him, Yeah, uh and Uh. I don't know.
31:18
Speaker 1: They were just kind of giving me the warm and fuzzies.
31:20
Speaker 1: It was a vibe you were getting off of them.
31:23
Speaker 4: So like when they you walked in, they're like, hey,
31:25
Speaker 4: they grabbed your shoulder, like, squeeze your shoulder. You were like, oh,
31:28
Speaker 4: you've seen if it's strong enough to get it there? Yeah,
31:31
Speaker 4: that maybe you were onto something. I didn't read into
31:34
Speaker 4: it like that. I don't know, but I hope you're
31:37
Speaker 4: onto something. That'd be great. I'll be there to watch it.
31:39
Speaker 4: I'll cheer for you.
31:40
Speaker 1: I guess I'll do it. Maybe heckle you. Yeah.
31:43
Speaker 6: I did a lot of weird feelings, like premonitions. That's
31:46
Speaker 6: not one that.
31:46
Speaker 1: I you it's weird. I mean, but you weren't there.
31:50
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. Well, that's what I was gonna say.
31:52
Speaker 6: You forgotten that that feeling for you, but I was
31:57
Speaker 6: left at home.
31:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:59
Speaker 1: Well you could have cut the love with a knife.
32:02
Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, that was a lot of love.
32:04
Speaker 4: Even though with all the love floating around, I still
32:07
Speaker 4: didn't I didn't necessarily pick up on the same feeling.
32:10
Speaker 4: Oh but I'm hoping his feeling is true.
32:15
Speaker 1: I think that would be great. Would you throw from
32:18
Speaker 1: the mound or in front of the on the mound,
32:20
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go three quarter side arm? Yeah, because
32:23
Speaker 1: i can't lift my shoulder.
32:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:24
Speaker 1: I did that in Everett when I did the one
32:26
Speaker 1: in Everett. Ask actually, how that one went? He hit
32:29
Speaker 1: the backstop? Yeah, is that right? Yeah? But I brought it.
32:32
Speaker 1: It was heat.
32:33
Speaker 4: It was straight side arms from the top of the mound,
32:37
Speaker 4: side arm and winged it right to the backstop.
32:41
Speaker 1: Just a loud ass clung. Yeah, it was awesome. I'm
32:45
Speaker 1: going to hit the bull now you said that. I
32:47
Speaker 1: was like, uh, bull, Durham, I'm just gonna throw it
32:50
Speaker 1: right at the mast. I'm gonna throw it right at
32:52
Speaker 1: the moose. I understood that reference. I'm going to hit
32:58
Speaker 1: the moose when I throw out the first pitch on
33:00
Speaker 1: opening day. Look Out news. I can't wait to see it.
33:02
Speaker 1: I'll be there, by the way. Cole Young is crushing
33:07
Speaker 1: it here. As of late, he has a seven to
33:09
Speaker 1: thirty three slug in spring So, I mean, yeah, you're right.
33:13
Speaker 1: WBC's kind of distracted us from the normal routine of
33:17
Speaker 1: Mariners spring training. I mean, how much baseball can you
33:20
Speaker 1: watch in one day in March when it's really not
33:23
Speaker 1: counting towards the standings and my baseball's kind of committed
33:26
Speaker 1: to the WBC these days, but certainly the highlights every day.
33:31
Speaker 1: Cole Young seems to be popping up there here. As
33:33
Speaker 1: of late, it's at four home runs. He has two
33:36
Speaker 1: doubles so far. I mean, I noticed how much wider
33:39
Speaker 1: his back looked this year, So I think the dude
33:41
Speaker 1: got himself a bowflex. Yeah, in the offseason, I think
33:45
Speaker 1: that he might have been a little more beefed up
33:47
Speaker 1: than what we realized. Plus, I mean, people forget how
33:50
Speaker 1: young he was last year, and he's he's I think
33:54
Speaker 1: he's locked in as the starting second basement for this team.
33:57
Speaker 4: Well, he definitely has some hidden juice in there. I
34:00
Speaker 4: mean we saw that last year when he'd run into
34:02
Speaker 4: one and it'd be like a no doubter, which is
34:04
Speaker 4: I didn't spring yep. And yet I mean he started
34:09
Speaker 4: out spring kind of slow. It's all a small sample size, right,
34:12
Speaker 4: I mean, I think has thirty at bats or something
34:14
Speaker 4: at this point, but he was over his first eight
34:17
Speaker 4: and since then. I mean you were commenting on the
34:19
Speaker 4: seven thirty three slug percentage. I mean in his last
34:22
Speaker 4: twenty five at bats or whatever, it's like a thousand
34:25
Speaker 4: slogan percentage.
34:26
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's raking ever since five walks, So
34:29
Speaker 1: he's not just up there just free swing and he's
34:31
Speaker 1: taken quality at.
34:32
Speaker 4: Bats yep, yep, He's He's a kid that I think
34:34
Speaker 4: most certainly has what it takes between the ears to
34:37
Speaker 4: be able to grow big, from your first taste of
34:40
Speaker 4: the big leagues to what it feels like to be like, Okay,
34:44
Speaker 4: now what do I have to do to stick and
34:46
Speaker 4: do some big things around here? And last year kind
34:48
Speaker 4: of sputtered there towards the end and gets left off
34:51
Speaker 4: the playoff roster. I think that probably was a motivator
34:53
Speaker 4: for him if he's ready. I mean he's ready.
34:57
Speaker 1: I'm ready to be the starting second basement on a
34:59
Speaker 1: World's Series contender. Ooh boy, ooh boy. Man already I
35:04
Speaker 1: keep climbing this wind total up. I gotta stop, all right.
35:07
Speaker 1: Coming up next on the radio program, we will tell
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