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Chuck in the Morning 8-27 Hour 4: Keeping the crew together, Jackson Felts and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you here. Good morning to
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  Speaker 2: you all. Great morning to you all. Coming up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on this hour, it was a major
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  Speaker 2: trade made in Seattle this week. We'll talk to Jackson
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  Speaker 2: Feltz about it at 9.30 because it affects his sport
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  Speaker 2: that he loves so dearly. So we'll do that at
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  Speaker 2: 9.30 today. Also, one last thing coming your way here
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit. Spent a lot of time talking
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  Speaker 2: some Mariners baseball today, but that might be in our
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  Speaker 2: rearview mirror. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we probably talked about that
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  Speaker 2: enough here today. But they have a day off. They'll
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  Speaker 2: start a series with the Toronto Blue Jays tomorrow in Toronto,
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  Speaker 2: and we're still not sure exactly how the starting rotation
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  Speaker 2: will play out, whether they're going to go piggyback at
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  Speaker 2: some point this weekend, six-man rotation back to that, or
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  Speaker 2: remain with that, or if Bryce Miller will be chucked
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  Speaker 2: Forgive the verb.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you chucked yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I chucked myself. Yeah. Yeah. Go chuck yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's very often you do that.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Will he be chucked to the bullpen for
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  Speaker 2: the weekend and maybe the foreseeable future? We shall see.
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  Speaker 2: But we could wake up tomorrow morning two games out
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  Speaker 2: of first place, by the way. The Astros, the only
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  Speaker 2: team of the three atop the American League West who
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  Speaker 2: will be in action tonight, and they'll be taking on
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  Speaker 2: Garrett Cole and the Yankees. So there's a good chance
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  Speaker 2: that we wake up tomorrow morning The Mariners, when they
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  Speaker 2: get ready to face the Toronto Blue Jays, will just
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  Speaker 2: be two games back in the American League West, despite
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  Speaker 2: yesterday's 6-0 shutout loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. So, that
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  Speaker 2: gets you up to speed with everything, but I really
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  Speaker 2: did want to talk about Leonard Williams, who we found
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  Speaker 2: out earlier this morning, breaking news, that Leonard Williams, the
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  Speaker 2: big cat, has signed an extension with the Seahawks, so
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  Speaker 2: three years, $ 90 million to keep Leonard Williams in this
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  Speaker 2: championship window that the Seahawks have arrived at having already won, uh,
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  Speaker 2: one Superbowl and certainly have their eyes on, uh, at
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  Speaker 2: least one more, uh, here in the next few years.
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  Speaker 2: And they want Leonard Williams to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: So they give him, it's not really much of a
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  Speaker 2: pay increase. I mean, he's making 29 million this year,
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  Speaker 2: but it is an extension, uh, to show him their
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  Speaker 2: faith in him. Um, and so Leonard Williams is going
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  Speaker 2: to be here for a few more years and, really
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  Speaker 2: does not show any signs of declining whatsoever. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess he's at that age where they typically do
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  Speaker 2: start to show that, but we haven't seen it. Since
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  Speaker 2: he's become a Seahawk, he's only gotten better. Jeremy Fowler,
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  Speaker 2: in his story, he described Leonard Williams gets rewarded for
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  Speaker 2: coming off a monster season. Well, he's actually coming off
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  Speaker 2: of two monster seasons. He might have even been better
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  Speaker 2: two years ago than he was this past year. and
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  Speaker 2: he's been here for more than two years. So he's
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  Speaker 2: better now than what he was when he arrived as
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  Speaker 2: a much younger man to Seattle. So I see no
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  Speaker 2: signs of slippage. Obviously, I mean, we already knew this,
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  Speaker 2: but watching hard knocks, it's impossible not to see how
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  Speaker 2: beloved he is in that locker room, what a leader
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  Speaker 2: he is. I mean, Actually, just him going up to
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald saying, hey, we're sluggish. What do you want
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  Speaker 2: me to do? That sort of thing endears him to
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  Speaker 2: the coaches. The players obviously all love him. He's like
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  Speaker 2: a big brother. He's like a teddy bear, and yet
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  Speaker 2: maybe the toughest guy in the room as well. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: to me... Absolutely. I mean, at some point you do
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  Speaker 2: have to cut off how many guys get max deals.
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  Speaker 2: I know we don't have max deals in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: but in essence, you're paying them a top market value
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  Speaker 2: for their position, but they've clearly identified a few of
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  Speaker 2: them and I have zero problem that they identified Leonard
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  Speaker 2: Williams as one.
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: And it was the same with, you know, with all
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  Speaker 4: the people they've paid so far, they all should have
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  Speaker 4: been paid. And I think that As you said, watching
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  Speaker 4: hard knocks, he's kind of a perfect balance of what
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  Speaker 4: everybody would want on their team. He is a good teammate.
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  Speaker 4: He has a good, calming presence. But he's ready to
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  Speaker 4: get after it when he gets on that football field.
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  Speaker 4: And he wants everybody to be at their best. And
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  Speaker 4: he's not afraid to let everybody know that. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's obviously very well respected by the coaches, by the players.
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  Speaker 3: And I just... I was happy to see that news.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely happy to see that news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And this is coming off. I did an interview
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week in Kansas city. Uh, I've got one
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  Speaker 2: of my best friends does sports talk radio in Kansas city.
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  Speaker 2: So I go on there every once in a while
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  Speaker 2: and pretty much every time he has me on, there's
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  Speaker 2: this leading question about another Seahawk player that signed to
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  Speaker 2: a new deal because he experienced it in Kansas city.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, He knew that, piece by piece, that championship
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  Speaker 2: roster that they had was going to age or price
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  Speaker 2: itself out of the market, and then you have to
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  Speaker 2: pick and choose which guys you pay, and you may
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  Speaker 2: not be able to draft the guy that can step
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  Speaker 2: in and do... on what the guy that vacated can do.
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  Speaker 2: So he's warned me for now two years, even before
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  Speaker 2: they won the Super Bowl, you're heading the right direction now,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll see. You'll see that the pieces will start
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  Speaker 2: being torn away. That's going to happen. Everybody needs to
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  Speaker 2: brace themselves for it. Not everybody gets a max deal. Again,
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  Speaker 2: max deal. I know this isn't the NBA. Max deal.
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  Speaker 2: Top of the market deal going forward. But I, and
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  Speaker 2: I know they've done this before. They did this with
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  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom squad. You know, they had, wasn't
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  Speaker 2: the story at one point that their eight players were
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  Speaker 2: taking up more of the cap than any eight players
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  Speaker 2: in NFL history. And that team never did repeat as
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champions, even though. John and Pete decided, no,
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  Speaker 2: we can't lose that guy. Keep that guy, whatever costs.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to keep that guy, that guy, that guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they got up to eight where they're like,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are going to get paid. Seems like we're
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  Speaker 2: going through that same exercise right now. And thus far, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Like Devin Witherspoon needs to stay. Pay him what he needs.
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  Speaker 2: JSN needs to stay. Leonard Williams, yes, he's not done.
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  Speaker 2: Let's extend this for a couple more years at least. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Byron Murphy needs to stay. He needs to be one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys. It gets top of the mark. And
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  Speaker 2: we're also going to have a quarterback next year that
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  Speaker 2: if he has another very good to great season, like
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  Speaker 2: he did a year ago, he's making $ 41 million against
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  Speaker 2: the cap right now for 2027. Maybe you just go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and play that out. But Sam Darnold's another one
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  Speaker 2: that probably is back to the drawing board this off
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  Speaker 2: season and And quarterbacks tend to make $ 55, $ 60 million
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  Speaker 2: in this league. And I don't think you want to
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  Speaker 2: lose them, especially if we're talking about back-to-back years where
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  Speaker 2: you've won a Super Bowl, maybe a second. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you want to lose your quarterback from that team.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to be on the hook for some
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  Speaker 2: really big salaries here in the next few years. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to cost a few of the glue players
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  Speaker 2: on this team from roster spots.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they seem to be making smart moves and it
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  Speaker 4: is interesting because the last thing we talked about after
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  Speaker 4: the JSN and Devin Witherspoon and Derek Hall extensions, they
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  Speaker 4: all got their money was with Greg and, Now, will
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  Speaker 4: Byron Murphy be next? And so we didn't even talk
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  Speaker 4: about the idea of extending Leonard Williams or offering anybody else.
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  Speaker 4: It was, well, now they're going to have to figure
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  Speaker 4: out Byron Murphy for next year. And so you add
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  Speaker 4: this in the mix. And again, very smart move. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad they did it. I wouldn't have changed it.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, you are going to run. This is why
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  Speaker 4: teams have a hard time. You can't repeat for the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl six times because you can't keep a team
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  Speaker 4: together because after every time you win, more and more
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  Speaker 4: people will demand higher, higher prices.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's why John Schneider kicks the tires on
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  Speaker 2: guys like Terryon Arnold and Trayvon Diggs. You just can't
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  Speaker 2: have enough depth in this sport. And it's why Hugh
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  Speaker 2: Millen tells us, hey, preseason, as boring as some of
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  Speaker 2: you might think that it is, it's valuable to find
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  Speaker 2: those guys. We found Drake Thomas and Ty Okada in
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  Speaker 2: the preseason. Yeah. last year, and now they're starters on
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  Speaker 2: a football team trying to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
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  Speaker 2: This is where you've got to find those depth pieces
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  Speaker 2: because you will have to make decisions, hard decisions, on
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  Speaker 2: guys you really like, like Kobe Bryant, that's going to
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  Speaker 2: price himself out of your market range. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to let him go, and you need the Bud
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  Speaker 2: Clark draft pick to come through for you in the
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  Speaker 2: next year. And now we don't have Bud. Poor bud. Yeah, exactly. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the game. That's the way it's played.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to play it any other way. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I want Major League Baseball to
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  Speaker 2: introduce this craziness because this craziness is better than their
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  Speaker 2: current state of craziness.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And yet the general managership that has to go on
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  Speaker 2: and how you craft contracts and how you fit everything
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  Speaker 2: under the cap, man, it is an ongoing battle. that
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  Speaker 2: John Schneider wages to try to figure out exactly when
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  Speaker 2: to pay, how to pay him, which guys to pay,
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  Speaker 2: and he's excellent at it. And and I think right
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  Speaker 2: now the path that he's on perfect. Like I you've
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  Speaker 2: identified the right guys, you're making them happy. Um, and
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  Speaker 2: they are centerpieces, but it doesn't stop. I mean, right
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  Speaker 2: now the cap is $ 301 million. Next year it's three 25.
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  Speaker 2: So you could just say like, okay, Leonard Williams gets
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  Speaker 2: on the, That $ 30 million is, well, you're just getting
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  Speaker 2: free money next year, right? Yeah, exactly. And then by 2028,
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  Speaker 2: they are projecting it's going to be $ 355. Now, 2028,
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  Speaker 2: that's when JSN and Devin Witherspoon. Devin Witherspoon and JSN
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  Speaker 2: don't start getting really paid. They're like $ 15 million next year.
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  Speaker 2: It's 2028 when they start getting the effects back. Of
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  Speaker 2: those pay raises.
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  Speaker 3: They get to dive into their money.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So you've got a little bit of time and
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  Speaker 2: the cap will go up at that point. But guess
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  Speaker 2: what else? That's two years from now, right? Now you've
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  Speaker 2: got to think about Gray Zabel extension. Now you've got
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  Speaker 2: to think about a Nicky Manwari extension. And they're projecting
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  Speaker 2: to be top of the market. guys as well.
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  Speaker 3: You got to make sure you don't insult anybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a nonstop game. Yeah. You're going to lose
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  Speaker 2: cup over the next couple of years. And that's a
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  Speaker 2: big salary. You're going to lose new OSU by next year.
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  Speaker 2: That's 20 million. Lawrence is going to retire. That's 12.
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  Speaker 2: Jaron reads probably on his last season. That's seven and
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  Speaker 2: a half. Julian love probably doesn't see 2028. I would
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  Speaker 2: think that's 13. So some money's going to come off
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  Speaker 2: of the books, but you also know, because you've been
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  Speaker 2: so good at drafting that, You also are going to
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  Speaker 2: have others whose bills are going to come due. And
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  Speaker 2: so you need to not only identify the ones that
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  Speaker 2: absolutely deserve the top market, circle them, but you also
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  Speaker 2: have to make sure that the reinforcement's going to be
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  Speaker 2: real cheap because those guys on the second and third tiers,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to go elsewhere. They're going to Boye Mafe
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  Speaker 2: this thing. They're going to go to a much higher
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  Speaker 2: salary than what John not only is willing to pay,
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  Speaker 2: but can afford to pay. That's the beast that is
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  Speaker 2: the National Football League working with the salary cap. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great problem to have because at least we have
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  Speaker 2: top-of-the-market type players to circle and pay, but obviously we're
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  Speaker 2: going to, over the course of the next two, three years,
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  Speaker 2: lose some of those guys who are really good and
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  Speaker 2: might be glue pieces, and we better have the draft
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  Speaker 2: picks from the last couple of seasons prepared and ready
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  Speaker 2: to go to step in for those dudes that are
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  Speaker 2: going to end up getting bigger paydays with other football teams.
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  Speaker 4: And that's where, yeah, Seahawks fans should have the biggest
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  Speaker 4: confidence because clearly Schneider is very good at this and
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  Speaker 4: not just Schneider, his whole staff. It's not just him
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  Speaker 4: out there, you know, deciding who is the best and
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  Speaker 4: who deserves this and who deserves that and who should
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  Speaker 4: be let go.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that is a coaching staff. That is a
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  Speaker 3: management staff. That is everybody.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, Just in terms of, too, looking at
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  Speaker 4: people you bring back, they decided to bring back Bobo.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now Bobo's hurt, right?
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  Speaker 4: So then you go back to this training camp thing
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  Speaker 4: and that it's interesting to watch these people. And what,
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  Speaker 4: two weeks ago we were talking about Montori Foster, but
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  Speaker 4: is there a place for him on this team?
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  Speaker 3: And then Bobo goes down. So now it looks like
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  Speaker 3: there's a place for him on this team.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's locked.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's just, I mean, those are the interesting,
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  Speaker 4: the intriguing parts of it. Training camp, obviously, you don't
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  Speaker 4: want anyone to deal with an injury. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: those little pieces.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to happen. Yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 4: And those little pieces, like Bobo, that's somebody that you're
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  Speaker 4: bringing back for not a lot of money. But you've
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  Speaker 4: got to be prepared for as well when those don't
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  Speaker 4: work out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, you can finagle money, obviously, in
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  Speaker 2: the National Football League. It's not real math. You can
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  Speaker 2: never teach this to anybody. It's not real math. So
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  Speaker 2: we understand that. But let's just take it at face value. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold's, even a conservative estimate, 50 million starting next year.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Leonard at 30. That's 80. Murphy at 35, maybe 40.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're 115.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Carter just got.
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  Speaker 2: 40 million a year and- Next year, the cap goes
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  Speaker 2: up another $ 25 million. It probably is going to cost
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  Speaker 2: 40 million for Murphy. We'll say conservative estimate, we'll go 35. Okay. 115.
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  Speaker 2: Then we've got 30 million plus for both. Well, 30
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  Speaker 2: million for Witherspoon, 40 million for JSN. So that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're up in the 190 range. And we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about just six players. Right. Up at 190. And so
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  Speaker 2: now all of a sudden you've got, 47 other roster
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  Speaker 2: spots and $ 135 million to pay with the cap. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be by 2028, 160. But you can see how
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  Speaker 2: fast the money can run out. But again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: do it any other way. We know some guys are
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  Speaker 2: going to leave that we'd like to keep, but you
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  Speaker 2: just can't afford to keep them all. If I'm running
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  Speaker 2: an NFL organization, I do exactly what they did with
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  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom team. I identify guys that I
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  Speaker 2: just can't imagine this roster not having, and I pay
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  Speaker 2: them what it is the market says that they're worth,
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  Speaker 2: and I keep them happy, and I keep them leaders,
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  Speaker 2: and I keep them as the core. And to me,
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  Speaker 2: so far, it's been nothing but no-brainers. Like, JSN's a no-brainer. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Witherspoon's a no-brainer. Leonard Williams' extension's a no-brainer. Byron Murphy
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  Speaker 2: next year's a no-brainer. Sam has another great year. That's
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  Speaker 2: a no-brainer. So far, it's easy. Zabel's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a no-brainer. Eamon Worry's going to be a no-brainer. I'm
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  Speaker 2: keeping those guys, and I'm going to draft my ass
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  Speaker 2: off to fill in for the guys that I have
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  Speaker 2: to unfortunately say goodbye to.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and you have to, we have to remember too,
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  Speaker 4: you've got people like Derek Hall who are taking a
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  Speaker 4: little less money to stay here because they like the
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  Speaker 4: culture and you might get another one of those. It's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be Byron Murphy, I'm sure because you're not,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Derek Hall wasn't going to get top of
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  Speaker 4: the market money, but you've, those are the important people
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  Speaker 4: you've created this culture that want to come back.
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  Speaker 2: And that's part of the equation. I mean, I guarantee
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  Speaker 2: you that conversation. Hey, look, I know your buddy, Boye,
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  Speaker 2: just got $ 20 million. You could get $ 20 million at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the year. But we're already doing the
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  Speaker 2: math on this. We're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: afford you with that. If you want to stay here,
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  Speaker 2: here's the offer. And we'll give you an extension now
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  Speaker 2: so you can put some money in your pocket and
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  Speaker 2: you can build another monster truck. But this is it.
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  Speaker 2: If you really want to be a part of this
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  Speaker 2: team and part of this culture, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: make you a rich man. But if you are going
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  Speaker 2: to play the game of, boy, I got that much,
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  Speaker 2: I want to get that much, then you're going to
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  Speaker 2: play on another team. So we can give you more
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  Speaker 2: money right now and we'll make you a rich man.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want to be a Seahawk, this is
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  Speaker 2: the deal because next year we're not paying you $ 20 million.
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  Speaker 2: They're already doing that math. They've already done that math.
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  Speaker 2: That math is done. And so it's a great example.
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  Speaker 2: So there's one of the guys that's not top of
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the market at his position players that looked in the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: mirror and said, okay, it's not 20 million. Maybe I
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: could even make 25 next year, but I really do
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: want to be here. And I really do want money now.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I'd like to be rich right now. And so they
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: worked it out. That sort of thing can happen, but
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: that's the type of player that we're going to lose
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: over the next couple of years. Unless they want to
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: play ball in terms of taking a lot less to
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: be a Seahawks. Right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And that is, you know, no one's going to fault
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: anyone for leaving to take more.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: You have a limited time in your career. Make the
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: money you can make. I get that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Nobody's angry at Kobe Bryant. No, exactly.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: But there are certain players, special players, who really do
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: fit this mold. And Derek Hall is a prime example
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: A.J.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Barner might be a guy where you're like.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's another one, though, that he might.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we did draft a Royal. He is
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: a year younger. He's pretty talented, too. We can draft
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: another tight end.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: But you can't call it the barnyard.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two years from now, Barner might price himself out
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: of this market because I think he's going to be really,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: really good.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope he is.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: So that's the game. I love it. I mean, I
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: don't love losing good players from the team I root for,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: but I do love the process. I do love the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: mental gymnastics that have to be done by general managers
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: out there to make all the puzzle pieces work. And
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: right now, John's as good as building a puzzle as
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: anyone in sports. And I think it's a lot easier
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to build the puzzle when you have the big pieces
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: that you can put in place. Yep.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: The edges, the corners.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Smaller the pieces, the harder the puzzle and the longer
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the puzzle takes.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yep. That's true.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: This is one of those where the little kid's sitting
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: there and there's like four blocks.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: They're like, oh, I got this.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: That's kind of the way he's doing things right now
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: for the future. But in him we trust right now,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and there's no other way to look at that. All right,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: coming up next, a big trade this week that we
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: haven't talked about yet. We'll do it next. Sports Radio
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, Ashley Ryan with you. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: There was a major trade made this week with our
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: professional sports teams here in Seattle. One that even got
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Anders Hurst's attention quite a bit yesterday. But we didn't
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: really break it down yesterday with Anders. We waited until
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: today so we could get somebody who knows soccer on
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the show joining us now. And his kid does.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Ruin Mariners games.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Joining us now is our own Jackson Feltz here on
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the program to talk about this big deal. Is that
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a fair introduction, Jackson?
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Absolutely not. Andrew's nose ball.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Andrew's nose ball. Okay. Yeah, I know he does. I
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: know he does. I just have to take my shots. Jackson,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: of course, host of Sounders Weekly. So I don't know
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: if I'm pronouncing this correctly, but I'm going to give
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: it a shot. Dejan Jevelicic. No, let me try it again.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Dejan Jevelicic. added this week by the Sounders. Did I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: get the pronunciation right, first and foremost?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Same answer as the first question. Absolutely not. Dejan Jovalic.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Dejan Jovalic.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Okay. Dejan Jovalic.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: So how good of a player are we talking about?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Because he reads like a really good goal score that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: this team could really use. It just seems strange to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: be able to acquire him in the midst of a
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: down season at this stage in the year. So tell
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: us how this came together and what kind of player
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that the Sounders acquired this week.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he is a top five striker in all of
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: the entire league. Yeah, it's pretty massive. You know, what's
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: interesting is how this came about. I'll be honest, Chuck,
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I'm taking a massive victory lap this entire week. Because
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: I have been on Jovovich to Seattle for three months.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: About three months ago, when the Sounders, about in May,
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: when the Sounders were going through all these scoring issues,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: on my Sounders Weekly show, I started pressing and asking
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: so many different analysts and experts, why not Dejan to
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: the Sounders? Jovovich to the Sounders makes so much sense.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Kansas City is having a terrible year. They are seemingly
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: wanting to rebuild with a new GM, David Lee, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: new ownership. Wouldn't they want a ton of cash influx
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: to just tear from the ground and just rebuild? And
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: I kept asking these questions. And what I kept hearing
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: from experts and analysts and everybody pretty much said the
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: exact same thing to me starting three months ago. Kansas
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: City wouldn't do that. He's their best player by far.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: He's their only productive scorer. He's the only player actually
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: doing anything worth a damn for Kansas City. Why would
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: they give him up? And I kept pressing it. And
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I said, well, no, I mean, if it's enough money,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: if it's enough cash, they might just do it. And
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: turns out, as I'm in these conversations, that is exactly
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: what General Manager Craig Weibel was doing with the Sounders.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: He was knocking on Kansas City's door. He's calling them
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: over and over. They went from giving him, and this
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: is from Craig Weibel directly, they went from giving him
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: a flat-out no and hang up the phone to, well, maybe,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: and then suddenly from a maybe, you kick the door
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: a little bit further, you put your foot in, you say, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: if you're giving us a maybe, let's continue talking here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: And as Kansas city season continued to go down the drain,
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: because they pretty much had nobody outside of Yovulich, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: maybes became a lot more maybeable and $ 6 million ended
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: up sounding like enough to make it happen.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. Crazy. So I was going to originally asked you, uh,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: is this sort of a Luis Castillo trade, like a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: piece to get you over the top star type player,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: or is it a, Josh Naylor, somebody that might be
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: able to be the final thing this season? Or is
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: it Jorge Polanco, where it's somebody that just fills a
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: big need on the team? But after hearing you describe that,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it feels like a Randy Orozarena trade. If you remember
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: from a couple of years ago where the team wasn't
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: playing well, they didn't have a great shot of overcoming
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: their struggles, and yet you got a guy that certainly
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: fills a need makes a little bit of money, but
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to hold on to him
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: for the next few years when you believe you're going
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to be healthy and competing for the next two years.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Is that about it? Is this kind of a Randy
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: or Rosarena type trade here, or is it something more
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: than that?
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say it's bigger than a Rosarena. I mean,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: we're talking about... Listen, we're not talking Aaron Judge Shohei Otani,
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: but we're talking a slight step down from Aaron Judge
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Shohei Otani. I mean, this is a guy... Over the
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: last couple of years, let's go all the way back
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: to his time with the LA Galaxy. He is a
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: top five scorer each season in Major League Soccer, whether
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: it's been for Los Angeles, whether it's been for Kansas City.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: This is a top-five offensive threat in this league, where
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: when he gets the ball anywhere remotely near him, he
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: can score with his right foot, he can score with
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: his left foot, he can score with his head. He's 5'11,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: but he plays like he's 6'3. He's extremely physical and
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: has so many different dimensions to his game. The thing
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: with Jovovich is... he instantly takes the Sounders from being,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I think, a weaker offensive team to being an above-average
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: offensive team. It's that dramatic. It's one of those moves
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: where kind of what our circles of Sounder reporters are
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: sort of saying right now is, all right, if Seattle
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: had gotten into the playoffs, if they had come back
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: from this long losing streak and they had snuck in, yeah,
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: they might be able to win a series, but they
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: just don't have the offensive horse's to get you any further.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: And it's gone from that to, oh, they could absolutely
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: make MLS Cup. It's that dramatic of a shift. So
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I would say it's bigger than Randy, it's bigger than Naylor,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: because it is a top offensive weapon in this entire league.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Wow, that does set off some bills right there. That's
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: an impressive little breakdown there. Um, so, uh, you just
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: said that, I mean, you stole the words right out
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: of my mouth. Um, does this take them over the top?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a very frustrating year. Um, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you do wonder if you got him in time to
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: kind of fix this thing, this, uh, this losing skid
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: that they're on. Um, but, but you believe it's, this
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: is just like instant success here by adding this to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the mix.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind. It's just kind
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: of even an afterthought. The Sounders are going to be
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: in the playoffs. They're right now only a couple points
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: behind the playoff line. They sit outside the picture right now,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: but they're going to get in for sure. I look
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: at the teams above them. The Portland Timbers are above
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: them right now. But what's funny is in the last
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: 48 hours, the Sounders add Dejan Jovovic, a top five
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: striker in the league. and the Portland Timbers sold one
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: of probably their best player in Kevin Kelsey, the guy
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: who's scored against Seattle a number of times. So Portland
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: loses their top guy. Seattle gets one of their new
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: top guys. So Portland's going to fall off. Seattle's going
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: to jump them easily. Seattle's going to jump, I think,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: a couple teams. And then, Chuck, I go back to 2016.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: In 2016, this team added Nicholas Ladero, and they– snuck
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: into the playoffs, they got a decent seed, and then
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: they ran all the way to the MLS Cup Championship.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: The way it works at MLS, it's not often you
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: see the number one seed just dominate straight through and
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: win the whole thing. That doesn't happen very often. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: know it's happened a little more recently in the last
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: couple of years, but over the last decade, it's very
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: much a rare thing. So for Seattle, it's just get in.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: You have a strong enough defense where you can ride
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: that on the road in road games if you need to.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: But overall, it doesn't matter if it's an 8-seed, 7-seed, 6-seed.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: If Seattle's in the dance, and the important part is
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: if they're healthy, and they're getting much healthier. Christian Roldan,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: Jordan Morris, both back this week. Jovulic out of the squad.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Ferrer will come back in a couple months. But even
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: he's kind of one of those accessory pieces now. You
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: get Yamar back soon enough. The team is getting healthy,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: and if they're healthy come playoff time, Chuck, I really
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: don't think it matters what seed they are. They're going
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: to be able to make a run at least to
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: the West Final if they're healthy.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Man, last time we had you on, and it was
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: toward the tail end of the World Cup, you didn't
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: even want to talk about the Sounders because they lost
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: to the Timbers 5-1. They have not won a match since.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And yet it sounds like the clouds completely lifted with
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: this trade, like the whole world got flipped upside down here.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: That's the impact that we've got from this player. That's amazing.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: It really is kind of that simple. It's the health
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: getting better. I mean, Christian Roldan coming back is sort
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: of the answer to all problems. He is just the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: absolute leader of the engine room. He's the motor of
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: this entire team. Him going back in fixes so many problems.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: But then again, the biggest problem all season has been
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: goal scoring. So you add that weapon in Jovovich. I mean,
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: it's really hard not to be extremely positive about this
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: team right now. And yeah, it'll take a little bit
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: for Jovovich to get centered, but he's a striker. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: strikers are a lot easier to work into a team
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: than any other position because... It's just, hey, get the
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: ball to me. I want the ball on my left foot.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I want the ball on my right foot. I want
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: it spinning in. I want it spinning out. It's as
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: simple as that. And if midfielders can follow what he wants,
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: which they can, Paul Rothrock, Rusnak, Christian, Jordan, Snyder, Brunel,
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: they're all smart players. They can feed him the ball.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: And if they do, good things are going to happen.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: The Sounders will get in the playoffs. And if they're healthy,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: they're going to make a big run like they always do.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Well, get your Jovalich jerseys right now. No reason. to wait.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: All right, so they play tomorrow. Give us just a
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: quick little breakdown of what you expect and whether or
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: not Jovalich is going to play or at least provide
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: a spark to the team even if he doesn't play.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Brian Schmetzer, head coach, guaranteed. Jovovich will be starting
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: when the team faces Chicago on Saturday at Lumen. 1.30
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: kickoff at Lumen on Saturday. And it's a tough game.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Chicago is a really good team. They're coached by former
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: United States men's national team coach Greg Berhalter. They brought
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: in one of the best strikers of our era across
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: the entire world, Robert Lewandowski. He is a little bit older,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: but he's still very dangerous. So it's one of those
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: high-profile games. It's going to be a tough test. In
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Jovovich's first game, I'm sure not expecting a win or
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: anything against a good team with trying to incorporate a
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: new striker into the fold. But I tell you what,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: I think it's going to be exciting because it's going
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: to be two teams right now that have, I think,
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: an interest in offense. A star players on both ends.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: I'm expecting fireworks coming up on Saturday at 1.30. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: hopefully we continue to get this beautiful weather and the
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: rain stays away for a little bit.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like the most excited you've been for
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a Sounders match in a while. Maybe since the playoffs
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Just a little bit, yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: All right. I love it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you, man. Awesome as always. We chose the right guy.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Thank you. We appreciate it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Chuck. Appreciate it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Jackson Feltz joining us right here on the radio program,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: host of Sounders Weekly. He'll be there for the pregame
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: show tomorrow. Sounds like 1 o'clock play-by-play from Chicago also
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: provided here on KJR. So, yeah. Boy, that's a 180
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: turn from the way that people were feeling about Sounders
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: soccer to suddenly getting healthier. Got enough time. You're not
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that far out off the playoff bubble. And now you add,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: you know, Damn near an Aaron Judge. Good night, nurse.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Good night. It happens fast in the MLS. So certainly
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: worth checking out tomorrow. Coming up next on our radio program,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: we will close out with one last thing. But I
• 31:56
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• 32:55
  Speaker 2: segment one last thing's all we got time for here
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: today and so uh ashley you remember how to do
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: this don't you Vaguely. Oh, really? Vaguely. Man, you have
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: been a while. I know. I remember.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: It's like when you go on the flight of the Navigator.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: He thought he was gone for like a week, you know,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: a week, a day. Turns out he was gone for years.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I thought I was gone for a week. Turns out
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I was gone for.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: A lot longer.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Because in Hawaii, that time stands still.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: What if you had gone totally interstellar and then you
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: would have come back and like you would have still
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: been your age, but Palmer the Great was 105 I
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: would have been so depressed yeah of course she was
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: on the trip with.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: You yeah so she would have also been 105 or
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: I would have all I would have been 130 40
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know too old yeah yeah basically well I
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: guess Matthew McConaughey was that age he just looked the
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: same because he traveled through space.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: And stuff That's right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: What do you got for one last thing?
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Well, so we've talked a lot about the Mariners and
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: how they did while I was gone.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: And, you know, should I be allowed back?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: And how did my trip affect them? What we haven't
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: talked about, though, is how me being away affected the Seahawks.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Because while I was gone, we lost Bobo and Bud Clark.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody should be happy I'm back.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: We can't handle any more injuries.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: See, I don't remember one person saying that Bobo and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Bud got hurt because you weren't here, but pretty much
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: everybody said Cal got fixed while you were away.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's fair.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Everybody, like everybody, even like Cal's parents.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, I did send positive aloha vibes
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: to Cal, so maybe I helped. I mean, I think
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: people need to take the time to think about that.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: A little bit. I mean, it wouldn't hurt them just
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to look at it from your perspective.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just think about who's really at fault. It's
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: the baby.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: It ain't me.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Austin Hurst.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: It's Austin Hurst's fault.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: First Mariners game and Cal can't remember how to hit.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he got fixed because of Ashley's good vibe she
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: was sending from Hawaii.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: And then Austin Hurst showed up with all his baby
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: fat and whatnot and ruined.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: The whole thing.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: All his cuteness.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: That's what you get.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Cal was up at the play. He's like, do
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I smell a baby?
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love the smell of baby. Yeah. And then
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: he struck out.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Or he was like, I think that baby needs its
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: diaper changed.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: And then he struck out.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And then he struck out.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: He wanted to help.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to see it from your side.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I don't think you are.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I am.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that I'm getting where you're at with it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: So then it's your fault.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: My fault?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Well, you went to the game too.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's true. I did go to the game. Yeah.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: And I did actually feel bad about it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I wasn't even home yet, so I can't be blamed.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: I was over the Pacific Ocean.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, our most superstitious staff member, I think she's
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: pretty defensive.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: You had to know I was going to come with
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: reasoning so that I could not be blamed for this.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Over the fact that Cal Raleigh heated up her favorite
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: player while she was gone. Her daughter's favorite player. Oh, yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: While she was gone.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: And then the moments start flying back over 404Ks. Okay, well, we'll.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Just see how he does tomorrow in Canada. He loves Toronto.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Yay. Yeah, I'm just saying. Man, I got two, and
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know which one to go with. I think
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: that other one would take too long to explain. So
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I went to the local pub, The Kitchen, last night,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: and had myself a little dinner after my day at
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the ball yard. And so one of the staff members
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: was talking to me about the jerseys that she had
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: as they were getting ready for football season and obviously
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of traffic. And she was thinking about getting
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a new one. And so I brought up JSN. I mean,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you're going to have a little bit of
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: an element of some people that don't follow the team.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: wondering how to pronounce it uh but how could you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: get better than jsn agreed and she didn't really have
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: a reaction to it i'm not sure she knew who
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: jsn was oh but she goes what number does he
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: wear and.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I go 11 oh i love 11 11 is a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: number that i love oh yeah apparently she got married
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: on like november 11th stuff like that oh so she
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: loves the number 11.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: And then we married so i think we arrived at
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the conclusion she would get jsn But I started thinking
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: about it, and I'm like, man, is 11 the best
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: uniform between JSN, Edgar, Detlef Schrempf? Is that the best
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: combination of people who wore a specific number? I mean,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: you got Marshawn and Junior, but I don't think anybody
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: else wore 24. It's just those two would have to
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: carry the day at 24.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they would.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're two.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Strong people to carry that number, but 11's pretty good.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: 11's pretty good. I mean, I just started thinking about
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: this prior to the segment.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Now I want to give it more thought and come
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: up with.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Jovalich, if I'm pronouncing that right, he's
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: going to wear 9. So now you've got Penix, Ken Walker.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I thought about that. Scott Service. Yeah. That wore number 9.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: But I wonder if anything will trump 11 or if 24,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: just those two guys, just carried the day. I don't know.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Then again, we had two Mariners who wore 51 that
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: both went to the Hall of Fame.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Now I feel like you've sparked a really great conversation
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: that we don't have.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe it spills into tomorrow.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it might, because I want to give this some thought.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Well, you give it some thought, and then we will
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: bring it back up tomorrow.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe there's an obvious one I'm not, because I
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: just started thinking about this.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm wondering, like if there's something huge
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: we're leaving out.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It probably is. Probably is. All right, we'll talk to
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre. I think she
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: wears number 11, too, during the show. Makes sense. Sports
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• 39:15
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• 39:20
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• 39:24
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• 39:29
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• 39:32
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• 39:35
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