November 19, 2025 • 34 mins
Headlines and GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) Gregg brings us the latest 12th man news as we start looking ahead to Sunday’s matchup with the Titans. What is the one thing the Seahawks need to do to get a W in Nashville? :30- Josh Naylor was the first big free agency signing of the offseason, will he get the Stove kickstarted? Hollander mentioned that the Mariners are still aiming to re-sign Polanco and Suarez as well. :35- Can Ashley get off the Fact or Fiction struggle bus? :45- It’s time to get Reckless at Breakfast! What’s up with college coaches seemingly being unhappy in great situations? Steve Sarkisian at Texas and Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss- those are two great situations and yet it seems like they’re both looking elsewhere.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Had the Seattle Cracket retie the game.
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Wasn't a good night for the Kracking. They lost in
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Detroit to the Red Wings four to two. Despite the
triumphant return, or at least we thought at the time
of Joey decord In goal didn't work out for Joey
or the Kraken. Jordan Eberley did score a goal. He
now leads the team with eight this year. They'll play
again tomorrow in Chicago against the Blackhawks at five o'clock.
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More on that a little bit later on in the show.
But we now get to your frost brewed Coors Light
choose chill headlines on a hump day, and we will
start with major League Baseball. It was a trade last night,
Tyler Ward to Baltimore for Grayson Rodriguez. Of course, the
big news yesterday and major League Baseball was Josh Naylor's
press conference as he, with a giant smile on his
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face like the cheshire cat for goodness sake, announced that
he is so happy to be returning to Seattle. We'll
talk more about that later on in the hour as well.
College basketball, last night, you Dubb did win. Took him
two overtimes to defeat Southern, but they are now four
and one on the year. They won't play again until
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November twenty seventh. College football Huskies will be at UCLA
this Saturday. The Coop's taken on James Madison this Saturday.
College football playoff rankings three remained the same. That was easy.
Georgia jumped into the top four, But the real intrigue
exists pretty much when eight, nine and ten Oklahoma with
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the win over Alabama jumping to eight, Notre Dame actually
falling to nine, and that still head of Alabama who
fell several spots from four all the way down to ten.
It's going to be interesting to see how that shakes out.
We only have two weeks left in the regular season,
and of course conference championship games and in the National
Football League. The brand new week get started tomorrow in Houston.
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It'll be the Buffalo Bills taking on the Houston Texans,
who will be without C. J. Stroud once again for
concussion reasons. On Sunday, the Seahawks back in action, coming
off their loss to the Rams. They'll be in Nashville,
Tennessee to take on the Titans, and I guarantee you
that's a trip. Greg Bell does not mind making joining
us now our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
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Speaker 4 (02:53):
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Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nashville is one.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Of your favorite trips of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right It's probably the best NFL city, New Orleans is good,
but it's Nashville's really Yeah, it's pretty good. I was
joking in the summer when two summers ago we went
for a week because they had the two joint practices
and then the preseason game. I was joking with Mike
McDonald that this past summer we went from Nashville maybe
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the best city, to green Bay, Wisconsin. I like green Bay,
but it's a completely different deal than Nashville. What's the
what more joint practices than that?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What's the biggest country act that you've seen in Nashville.
I mean, I know that there's acts all over the place,
and most of them are not you know, Waylon Jinnings.
You know, not some big star Kenny Chesney. But have
you seen any any up and comer there that you love?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, they're all good, and I mean even the guy
on the street corner with a can is really good.
But I can't nobody I can name that. I ended
up saying, oh, I saw him at the bar and Broadway.
My goal, and I've yet to do, is go to
Ryman Auditorium for a show. I've been in. I've been
in there just to tour it and the original Grand
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Old Opery. It's right downtown. They've moved it since then.
The Grand Old Opry is moved out into a bigger place,
but the original one. I want to see a show there,
and that's my goal one of these times. Do that.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Well, you are you going to have time this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No? I don't even Yeah, I mean I'm home. I
mean I'm there at like six o'clock on Saturday, so
half there's a show going on. That's true.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Check that off the old bucket list right now.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not a huge country music buck He's probably more
country music, No, Bucky.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I like coun like pretty much everything. I really everything that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, man, all right, well let's dive into it. Seahawks
at Titans this Sunday. And of course this is the
day where really really kind of roll back our sleeves
on the opponent. And this is a team that is
one to nine this year. They have a five game
losing streak, but they've played probably the most murderous schedule
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in the National Football League. Is there anything in your
estimation to worry about, to fear about the Tennessee Titans
this Sunday?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, again, this isn't college football, even high school. Every
NFL game has players who were the best of the
best in their towns and then their schools. And cam
Ward's number one pick, and so yeah, they have to
play at the game plan. They help, But I'm not
going to sit here and tell you, like Lou Holtz
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that the one and nine Tennessee Titans are the best
team that the Seahawks will play this year. McDonald's the
way his approach is all process oriented. It shouldn't be
hard for these guys to worry about their own process
and worry about the week to week. And I don't
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anticipate the overlooking factor anything else, but it's the same
old deal. If they turn the ball over, it's gonna
be a close game, and they have a quarterback who's
just coming off a four interception game. I know it's
against the Rams, one of the better teams in the league,
but if you turn the ball over against anybody, it's
a close game. And that's the mitigating factor for any
contest between no matter what the records are, and that'll
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be the key on Sunday. If they don't turn the
ball over, this should be a win. And that's no
revelation I'm saying something not all. It's the age old thing.
Cam Ward is the number one overall pick prize quarterback
goes number one in the draft to a crappy team.
That's why they're number one in the draft. Go back
to John Lway and Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers, on
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and on. The first years are a rough go and
their offense is horrible. Their last and total offense they're last,
and rushing their thirtieth, and passing they're thirty second in points.
My good friend Teresa Walker at the AP in Nashville
used to cover Olympics with her. She wrote this week
after they lost sixteen thirteen to the Texans that the
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problem with the Titans is their inability offensively to play
anything close to complimentary football. They're the worst, and in
total yards and points they went three and out five
times and a ninth ninth consecutive home loss to Houston.
So their defense has played well and they get after
the quarterback, they pressure a lot, it's just offensively they've
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been inept and forty one sacks is what cam Ward
and the Titans have allowed. Forty one Sam downs won
have been sacked ten times. Cam Wodsen was ACKed forty
one times.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Jay, I mean, you know there's sometimes you get ready
for a week and you kind of feel like, Wall,
we better go out there and play our a game.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Now, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Think you ever overlook a team of professional football players
that are still fighting for their own job and job security,
and yet this is one where you better do a
few things right and obviously avoid the catastrophic you know,
four turnovers or you know, you know, four interceptions and
fumbles and whatnot. But what is the main thing you
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think that it's if the Seahawks just do this and
you obviously, like I said, eliminate a bunch of turnovers
that they should be able to handle, they run the ball,
or get Sam Darnold back on track, or just play
the stout defense against a bad offense. What is the
one thing that they do and you're pretty sure that
they're going to be able to win this thing fairly easily.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Get after the quarterback. Their front four has been doing
it all year and they haven't had the blitz much
and now they're playing a team that, as I said,
has been giving up forty one sacks in ten games
for a game over four game I'm pretty quick on
math there, so I think that should be the decisive factor,
and they should be able to do it without blitzing,
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which will allow them to cover with seven which should
be plenty to give cam Ward problems reading coverages. To me,
that would be the simplistic answer to Okay, this should
be the easy to pat the victory. But again, don't
play from me eind don't give a team that's buried
and trying to get out of the season an early lead.
And that often happens with turnovers. Donald's got to take
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care of the ball. We talked about this. He's tied
for the league league in turnovers. He and tungo Iola
have fourteen each. He has ten interceptions and four loss
fumbles in ten games. And it doesn't matter who they're playing.
They got to fix that and whatever the reasons are.
And we talked about the reasons against the Rams, but
it was before the Rams he was turning the ball
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over against the Cardinals. He was turning the ball over
against them, and they turned the ball over against everybody
by and large, and you are not going to get
away with too many victories and certainly not going to
win the division doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Greig Bell is with us. I see Owks inside of
Jones's most every day at this time, and you can
follow him on x at g BEL Seattle, And of
course you have all of that Seahawk information day by
day coverage available at the Neewstribune dot com spearheaded by
Greg Bell. Running Game. I want to talk about it again.
Bucky brought up a really good point yesterday, because I
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think everybody that watches the Seahawks run the football or
try to run the football can tell that ken Walker
is the more explosive, more talented running back between he
and Zach Sharbonay. And certainly we've heard a lot in
the last few days about it's finally time to commit
back to ken Walker. I mean, the foot injury can't
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be bothering him that much at this stage in the process.
Time to let it rip, let him go. But Bucky
brought up the fact that how much better the numbers
suggest Zach Sharbonay is in past protection over ken Walker.
How huge of a factor is that, and why Sharbonet
is carrying so much of the load versus Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, that does explain why he's in the game. In
two minute drill and on third downs and when you go,
I mean that often are a lot of plays and
that explains a large reason why he has got more
snaps overall percentage of snaps forty nine to forty five,
even though he's played one fewer game. That is why
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they've been trusting him in those spots. I would submit
it in a normal season. Yeah, that's a big deal.
The way that the Seahawks have kept Darnold for getting sacked,
the way Kubiak schemes off of play action and rollouts,
running away from pressure off the run game has kept
him away from sacks. Ten sacks and ten games. I
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would think it's time to say, Okay, maybe we don't
need the extra protector as the running back here. And
it's not like Walker doesn't do it. He's not as
good and he's just not as stout of a guy.
He's more of a shifty, elusive, eelite guy. But he
can do it if he has to. He's more of
an accid in catching and running after the catch in
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the pass game. McDonald mentioned that when I asked him
about m Walker getting more opportunities, because it's not just
in the run game, it's in the pass game. Two
he had the twenty three yard catch and run and
the fourth quarter drive that he ended up scoring the
one yard touchdown run later in the drive. He started
another drive earlier in the half with an eighteen yard
catch and run. But those are just two yard dump
out passes that he turned into twenty yard games. Charonie
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doesn't do that. So to me, let's hedge a little
bit on. Okay, we think our offensive line and scheme
can take care of Donald getting sacked. Let's go to
the more explosive player in the backfield for options, even
as a safety valve guy who can turn a two
yard pass into an eighteen yard run. Bottom line is
it's time for Kenneth Walker, both for him and for
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the Seahawks. Seven games left in his contract. Let him go.
I get the governing it and limiting him up to
this point, I understood it. I tried to explain it
to people who'd ask me why they're doing it, but
that it's go time to me now for him.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Does the health of Gray's abel affect how they should
try to run the ball or is it one of
those whoever you know, if it's Christian Haines or whomever.
You're still gonna go out there and try to maybe
up the volume for your running backs, especially Ken Walker.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, we've seen it. They're gonna run no matter what,
Bucky and no matter who's in there, no matter what
the situation, whether whether they're getting yards or not, Kubiak
is gonna run. He runs more than anybody in the league,
whether they're getting yards or not. On any given day.
If they go into the half with twenty yards rushing
on ten carries, thirteen carries, they're still running. In the
second half, they're done by two scores late and the
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rams they were still running. He's gonna do it. He's
gonna do it. Whether Christian Haines is in their left
guard or not. It's merging to traffic and keep up,
and they're not gonna do less of anything just because
Haines is playing. Haines is on spot. We've talked about him.
I had like three chances to win a starting job.
They kept him almost stowed on layaway all season on
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injured reserve before they finally activated him because they had
to because Sindell got hurt last week and now he
has to play. They didn't expect him obviously, to be
starting when they activate him from IR on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But Isabel, do we have a fresh update on him
as it looking good bad?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No? I mean yesterday was completely dark, players and coach.
Everything was off day yesterday, so nothing new from Monday
of day to day. I'd be pretty surprised if he
was even anywhere near the practice field today, some expecting
that it did not participate today.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do you at least when you go to Nashville have
one of them hot chicken sandwiches?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I do? Yeah, I do, yeah for sure, music and
hot chicken, little money on it, a little cold beer sometimes. Yeah,
I tell you it's not a bad place to go.
I have to be watching an NFL game. I'll tell
you that. A lot of Seahawk fans go because of
it too, and the team is not very good in Tennessee,
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so the home tickets are available and there'll be a
lot of Seahawk fans in that stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, well, I want to go. I've never been there.
I've never been, And it turns out it's only like
a five hour drive from where I grew up. I
never knew that until like last year, how close it
was to where I grew up, I just assumed.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, Tennessee is really long. It's true, it goes. Tennessee
goes from like the Atlantic seaboard to the Midwest. That's true.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah yeah, But I mean it's as close to me
in Illinois where I grew up as Chicago is. And
I never realized that. I never put the two and
two together. So I am definitely when I go home
to see Mom, I'm going to make sure I make
a trip out to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Bucky. Even in Nashville, yeah, oh yeah, played there.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, I've done a lot of really fun stuff in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What I was growing up, the Nashville Sounds, the Triple
A team, well, the Pirates, one of the Pirates Triple
A teams for And the joke in Pittsburgh because the
Pirates were so bad was nobody ever wanted to get
promoted from the National Sounds to the Pirates. And that's
part of the reason why was so bad. That was
all when I was really young, the Pirates Triple A
team was in Honolulu, and there was that was for sure.
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Nobody wanted to come get promoted from Honolulu to to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Two for three today Kevin, Man, you better cool down,
otherwise you better risk getting called up.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
All right, man, there was a there was a PCL team.
Did you know that, Buck, It was a PCL team
in Honolulu. Yeah. It cost a hell of a lot
of money for teams to travel to But yeah, the Pirate.
That was the Pirates triple A team in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah. Mom, the upside of getting demoted.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
All right, Uh well, thank you, Sarah. We'll talk to
you tomorrow, rounds Able tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Okay, Happy Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
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Copola Diamond prosecco. All right, coming up on the other side,
we will play some factor fiction Ashley's pick today, so
we'll see what direction that she heads. Also, Josh Naylor,
we talked a little bit about him a little bit
earlier in the show, a little more on him as
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he was all smiles yesterday announcing that he's going to
be a Mariner for the next half decade. And is
he going to kickstart an early stove period. I mean,
seems like we've gotten into this habit thanks to Scott
Boris of waiting until April to have an off season. Well,
maybe Josh Naylor's getting it started, because not only has
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he signed to get it going, but a lot of
other big name free agents. According to reports last night,
it's being suggested they could be on the verge of
signing as well.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'd like to have some hot stove activity before the
new year, So we'll get into that next. Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Let's talk some Major League baseball. Yes,
the hot stove season has started, and normally, I mean
it feels like to me it gets.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Later and later and later and later.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
This process, and I think Scott Boris is sort of
the biggest reason for that. He'll take his free agents
all the way to the middle of spring training and
he unless he gets the right deal, he's just not
gonna let them sign. Thank goodness, cal Raley moved away
from that guy. Otherwise I'm not sure we would have
ever been able to re signed cal Raley. But certainly
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it is a process that has gotten later. I mean,
we end up getting more moves after the new year
than before. It used to be winter meetings you'd have
several you'd have a flurry of moves. It's been a
while since we've had a flurry of moves at the
winter meetings, which you're coming up in the beginning of December.
Maybe Josh Naylor's changed that, and maybe Mariner fans are
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the reason for that, for him to feel such love here.
As he expressed yesterday in this press conference, it almost
felt like what we've talked about, like if you give
me a fair offer, I want to be there. And
the ownership presented him a fair offer and Josh Naylor
pretty much sprinted to the contract to sign it. That's
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a great sign all around, and I think a credit
certainly to Mariner fans and the love that they showed
this guy the entire end of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, it's each individual, you know, player is going to
be different about what's important to them when they you
finally reach this, you know, I mean for a lot
of folks. You know, I'm not sure how much everybody
understands the grind that it takes to get to where
Josh Naylor got. I mean the you know, he was
a first rounder and so he had a nice signing
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bonus and he was that The minor leagues are not
what they used to be as far as making nothing.
I mean literally not enough to be able to have
your own apartment, for crying out loud to me, I
lived in two bedroom apartments with four other guys majority
of my minor league career because that's the only way
you could afford it, or you'd have to cut out
like beer, which that wasn't gonna happen, no, no, no chance.
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And so you had to, you know, put your priorities
in order. And yet it's still then you get to
the big leagues and you know, you get three years
before at the minimum, which is good money. I'm not
gonna say nowadays seven hundred thousand dollars. It was like
four hundred when I played, but it was you make
good money.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
And yet it's is.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Three years before you become arbitration osable, and then three
more before you become where Josh Naylor finally got to.
And so agents, typically Boris being the worst of them,
will be like, this is your chance, man, you hold out.
I'm gonna play every single penny against the other people
that are interested in your services. And it might take
a while, it's gonna get uncomfortable, but you just stick
with me on this. And then there's other people that
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just flat out or like, I know what I'm worth,
want I want to go where I want to go,
and I hope they know what I'm worth. And if
those two things just as simple as that he came here,
He's been in Cleveland, he's been in Arizona, and now
he's been in Seattle. I'm sure that he liked players
on all the teams. I'm sure he liked his coaches
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or most of the coaches, even the front office to
some degree liked and maybe didn't like to some degree.
Without knowing any of that, all I do know is
that he came here when all of a sudden, there's
this Oh my gosh, how do I move my family?
I have a pregnant wife back in Arizona. The organization said, well,
we do. What can we take care of for you?
So they made it as little of a headache as possible.
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Then the team accepted him, the city embraced him. He
enjoys playing here. Apparently T Mobile Park isn't a bad
hitters park for him, and so he hit well, here
he got to go on this ride. There is something about,
and we've talked about it, the idea of being in
a situation where you've never made it to the World Series.
If you can be part of that team that does
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get to one and win one, this is extra special
versus oh you want another one for the Dodgers whooped
to do so. To me, it's just all of that
stuff included, and then the type of person that he is,
it just all kind of went down to where they
came to him with a good offer, and he said, yep,
this is where I want to be and that's what
I think I'm worth.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I'm down with it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I think it starts with the type of person
that he is. Because as much as you'd think that
major League Baseball players would reach free agency and they
would prioritize I'm going to be rich no matter what.
If you're a Josh Naylor. Do I have to be
the richest. Do I have to have the absolute most money?
Or do I want to be in a city I like,
with a team that I like and really just settled
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down my roots. They usually choose the money. I mean,
that's usually the case. So I didn't know. I don't
know Josh Naylor well enough. I thought he was the
type of guy that might buck that trend.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Sorry to use that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And chuck it out. Yeah you don't. Yeah, you don't
know until it gets chucked out on paper. But I'm
glad that he's one of those because, believe me, he
wants to play this process out. He's got Scott Boris
as an agent. He's not signing until mid February early March,
and it's probably with the Red Sox, and it's probably
for twenty two million a year instead of eighteen and
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a half. And if that would have been his priority,
he wouldn't be a Mariner. So I'm glad he's one
of those type of guys.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah, I am too, and just watching him yesterday and
listening to him yesterday. He seemed so genuinely happy, the
fact that he said, I love the fans and I
hope they love me, Like that's pretty obvious. They all
love you, but you're He's just still that type of person,
like I love them and I hope that they love
me too, like I want to be here.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I don't know. I just I.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Already loved him yesterday. I was like smiling listening to
him talk. It was just I loved it.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
He's a Mariner.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
He's a Mariner for the next half decade. Let's buy
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Speaker 1 (24:44):
All right, Ashley's pick today that for you to get
on a heater, the team could use you to get.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
On a heare I know, my I was real excited
to get just at least not go over to last
week and get one right but I'd like to get
my only pick right this week.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Baby step Yeah, now we move for for now we
get hot.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yes, and hopefully this is the pick that's going to
do it. We're gonna go to the NFL. Okay, we've
got Chicago hosting the Steelers. They are only two and
a half point favorites, and I do love that because
I think they could win by a field goal and
that's all they need to do. So give me the
Bears minus two and a half versus Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And this is regardless of whether Aaron Rodgers plays or not.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yep.
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Could be playing with a bothered rist. Now it's the
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Yees still, but if he falls and hurts himself or
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football segments, because I want to talk about something that
I mean, I've talked frequently about how I didn't see
this college football coaching cycle turning into this because of
the new era that we are in. It did catch
me by surprise. And here's where I'm really worried. This
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is the area that I'm really worried. There was a
Desmond Howard video yesterday where he said Steve Sarkeesian's not
happy in Texas, and Texas isn't happy with Steve Sarkeesian
and he they're probably going to have a mutual parting
of the ways at the end of the year. There
are coaches all over college football that would leave their
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jobs tomorrow to get the Texas job, that would leave
no matter how many promises they made on campus. I mean,
that's supposed to be as great a job as there
is in college football. So if the guy that has
the job isn't even happy with it. Then where are
we with college football? I thought, maybe, well, maybe it's
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not about blue bloods anymore. Maybe it's about, you know,
just establishing a program. Kurt Signetti's staying in Indiana. He
could have possibly had the Texas job if he knew
Steve Sarkisian wasn't happy. That's how hot his name is
right now. But maybe we're in a new era of
where you can build a powerhouse anywhere as long as
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you've got the right program. If you've got the right
nil money's coming in. So maybe we're done with just
having those dominant programs out there. It's not like Kaylin
Debor went to Alabama and is having more success than
he had here at Washington, right, So maybe that's what's
entered in. People are just looking. And then we've got
Lane Kiffin, who couldn't have a better situation at Old miss.
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They love him. He's getting nil money, probably more than
he'll get at Florida because those boosters are maniacs in Oxford, Mississippi.
Now that the rules don't exist anymore, all they got it.
All I gotta do is give you some of my billions.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But it's stay here at ole, miss I had a
million of my wallet. Yeah, exactly. Here you go go
get yourself a linebacker. Will you take it in thousands?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah? So?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, so here's Lane Kivin, who's in a great situation,
building a great program. They're in the national conversation every year.
Looks like he will make the tournament this year, and
he wants to leave for one of the better programs
out there. So, I don't know, if you're not happy
at Texas and you're not happy being the king of Oxford,
Mississippi and your program is rising a little bit every
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single year, can any of these guys be happy anywhere?
I mean, where what are we doing in college football?
I mean, if the coaches aren't the adults in the room,
what kind of example are you giving to the players?
It just feels to me like there's not a person
in college football that isn't looking where it's slightly better,
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where I can make fourteen more dollars, And that, to me,
is a terrible spot to be in.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
It's not a good spot to be in. I mean,
I'll just say this.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I think the Signetti types that's it's kind of like
what we were talking about with Josh Naylor's. That's an
individual that's just okay with being the stud of a
small town, you know. Program I shouldn't say small town
because it's not like it's that small small, but you
know what I mean, it's not the big name, and
yet who cares Signeta just looks like the type that's like, Yeah,
I like the fact that we're known for hoops forever
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and right now we're a feared team in college football,
and I'm gonna just kind of keep us relevant for
a long time because with the twelve team tournament, now
you can do that and all of a sudden you
can build a fence around a big chunk of the Midwest,
at least Indiana. You can say, we're gonna get a
bunch of people that are gonna want to come here for
the next generation. Anyways, as long as you're doing this
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bunch of losers, Yeah, is that what it is?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And yet I think that you're always going to have
as tough as recruiting is now, it's tough and easy.
It's tough because there's always somebody else trying to poach
your guys. Because transferring all the time is legit and legal,
and so to some degree, it's is it easier to
get folks to come to Ole Miss or to Florida?
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Is it better for Kaylen de boor to get people
to come to you know, Seattle or to play at Alabama?
Like it's the is there little perks that you think
make your job, that make you capable of being even
better at your job? I think that you're going to
have some people are going to do that, and then
if the money on top of that, or if the
money first is the priority, then you're going to be
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able to woo people away with that as well.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I mean, like I said, Kaylen de Bor's programs in
this two years at Alabama is no better than his
last two years here at Washington, except that you're at
a bigger program. Yeah, you're at a bigger, well known program.
But also we hear about how Alabama just doesn't have
the rich alums and the rich boosters that other people have.
I mean, I don't know. I guess Florida. Yeah, Florida
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has a better history, but I'm not sure Florida is
a better job than Ole Miss right now now that
we have nil I mean that movie Blindside, Michael Orr
has said there's really nothing true about it other than
the fact that I lived with these folks. Yeah, the
only thing that really was true that is undisputably true
is that those people are crazy. And the people that
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have millions of dollars and are tired of being in
Alabama shadows.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Now that we have.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
NIL, they're like, well, we'll spend a fortune on players.
I'm not sure you're going to get more NIL money
at Florida than what you're getting at Ole Miss. You've
got better local high school football talent, but it doesn't
seem to me like Florida kids are having any trouble
going anywhere else in the country as long as there's
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a bigger paycheck for them. But if the coaches aren't
operating any differently than the players that they've been complaining
about since NIL began, then where is that going to
leave us? Because I just don't think it's healthy for
college football to have some of its biggest names sitting
here on the verge of leaving the next time the
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wind blows and a program that may or may not
be better than the program that they're at is knocking
on their door and they think the grass is slightly greener.
I mean the grass is plenty green at all at Oxford,
plenty green in Austin, but maybe it's slightly greener there.
I mean, where are we if the adults in the
room have the same greed and wish washiness as the
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players in the in the locker room. Yeah, it's a
great question. I have no idea. Sad. Yeah, you're not
happy at Texas. Where can you be happy? Then you're
not going to be happy anywhere. Coming up next camp,
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But we now get to your frost brewed Coors Light
choose chill headlines on a hump day, and we will
start with major League Baseball. It was a trade last night,
Tyler Ward to Baltimore for Grayson Rodriguez. Of course, the
big news yesterday and major League Baseball was Josh Naylor's
press conference as he, with a giant smile on his
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face like the cheshire cat for goodness sake, announced that
he is so happy to be returning to Seattle. We'll
talk more about that later on in the hour as well.
College basketball, last night, you Dubb did win. Took him
two overtimes to defeat Southern, but they are now four
and one on the year. They won't play again until
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November twenty seventh. College football Huskies will be at UCLA
this Saturday. The Coop's taken on James Madison this Saturday.
College football playoff rankings three remained the same. That was easy.
Georgia jumped into the top four, But the real intrigue
exists pretty much when eight, nine and ten Oklahoma with
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the win over Alabama jumping to eight, Notre Dame actually
falling to nine, and that still head of Alabama who
fell several spots from four all the way down to ten.
It's going to be interesting to see how that shakes out.
We only have two weeks left in the regular season,
and of course conference championship games and in the National
Football League. The brand new week get started tomorrow in Houston.
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It'll be the Buffalo Bills taking on the Houston Texans,
who will be without C. J. Stroud once again for
concussion reasons. On Sunday, the Seahawks back in action, coming
off their loss to the Rams. They'll be in Nashville,
Tennessee to take on the Titans, and I guarantee you
that's a trip. Greg Bell does not mind making joining
us now our Seahawks insider.
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Speaker 1 (03:14):
Nashville is one.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Of your favorite trips of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Right It's probably the best NFL city, New Orleans is good,
but it's Nashville's really Yeah, it's pretty good. I was
joking in the summer when two summers ago we went
for a week because they had the two joint practices
and then the preseason game. I was joking with Mike
McDonald that this past summer we went from Nashville maybe
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the best city, to green Bay, Wisconsin. I like green Bay,
but it's a completely different deal than Nashville. What's the
what more joint practices than that?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
What's the biggest country act that you've seen in Nashville.
I mean, I know that there's acts all over the place,
and most of them are not you know, Waylon Jinnings.
You know, not some big star Kenny Chesney. But have
you seen any any up and comer there that you love?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, they're all good, and I mean even the guy
on the street corner with a can is really good.
But I can't nobody I can name that. I ended
up saying, oh, I saw him at the bar and Broadway.
My goal, and I've yet to do, is go to
Ryman Auditorium for a show. I've been in. I've been
in there just to tour it and the original Grand
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Old Opery. It's right downtown. They've moved it since then.
The Grand Old Opry is moved out into a bigger place,
but the original one. I want to see a show there,
and that's my goal one of these times. Do that.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Well, you are you going to have time this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No? I don't even Yeah, I mean I'm home. I
mean I'm there at like six o'clock on Saturday, so
half there's a show going on. That's true.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Make it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Check that off the old bucket list right now.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not a huge country music buck He's probably more
country music, No, Bucky.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I like coun like pretty much everything. I really everything that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, man, all right, well let's dive into it. Seahawks
at Titans this Sunday. And of course this is the
day where really really kind of roll back our sleeves
on the opponent. And this is a team that is
one to nine this year. They have a five game
losing streak, but they've played probably the most murderous schedule
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in the National Football League. Is there anything in your
estimation to worry about, to fear about the Tennessee Titans
this Sunday?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, again, this isn't college football, even high school. Every
NFL game has players who were the best of the
best in their towns and then their schools. And cam
Ward's number one pick, and so yeah, they have to
play at the game plan. They help, But I'm not
going to sit here and tell you, like Lou Holtz
(05:51):
that the one and nine Tennessee Titans are the best
team that the Seahawks will play this year. McDonald's the
way his approach is all process oriented. It shouldn't be
hard for these guys to worry about their own process
and worry about the week to week. And I don't
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anticipate the overlooking factor anything else, but it's the same
old deal. If they turn the ball over, it's gonna
be a close game, and they have a quarterback who's
just coming off a four interception game. I know it's
against the Rams, one of the better teams in the league,
but if you turn the ball over against anybody, it's
a close game. And that's the mitigating factor for any
contest between no matter what the records are, and that'll
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be the key on Sunday. If they don't turn the
ball over, this should be a win. And that's no
revelation I'm saying something not all. It's the age old thing.
Cam Ward is the number one overall pick prize quarterback
goes number one in the draft to a crappy team.
That's why they're number one in the draft. Go back
to John Lway and Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers, on
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and on. The first years are a rough go and
their offense is horrible. Their last and total offense they're last,
and rushing their thirtieth, and passing they're thirty second in points.
My good friend Teresa Walker at the AP in Nashville
used to cover Olympics with her. She wrote this week
after they lost sixteen thirteen to the Texans that the
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problem with the Titans is their inability offensively to play
anything close to complimentary football. They're the worst, and in
total yards and points they went three and out five
times and a ninth ninth consecutive home loss to Houston.
So their defense has played well and they get after
the quarterback, they pressure a lot, it's just offensively they've
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been inept and forty one sacks is what cam Ward
and the Titans have allowed. Forty one Sam downs won
have been sacked ten times. Cam Wodsen was ACKed forty
one times.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Jay, I mean, you know there's sometimes you get ready
for a week and you kind of feel like, Wall,
we better go out there and play our a game.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Now, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Think you ever overlook a team of professional football players
that are still fighting for their own job and job security,
and yet this is one where you better do a
few things right and obviously avoid the catastrophic you know,
four turnovers or you know, you know, four interceptions and
fumbles and whatnot. But what is the main thing you
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think that it's if the Seahawks just do this and
you obviously, like I said, eliminate a bunch of turnovers
that they should be able to handle, they run the ball,
or get Sam Darnold back on track, or just play
the stout defense against a bad offense. What is the
one thing that they do and you're pretty sure that
they're going to be able to win this thing fairly easily.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Get after the quarterback. Their front four has been doing
it all year and they haven't had the blitz much
and now they're playing a team that, as I said,
has been giving up forty one sacks in ten games
for a game over four game I'm pretty quick on
math there, so I think that should be the decisive factor,
and they should be able to do it without blitzing,
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which will allow them to cover with seven which should
be plenty to give cam Ward problems reading coverages. To me,
that would be the simplistic answer to Okay, this should
be the easy to pat the victory. But again, don't
play from me eind don't give a team that's buried
and trying to get out of the season an early lead.
And that often happens with turnovers. Donald's got to take
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care of the ball. We talked about this. He's tied
for the league league in turnovers. He and tungo Iola
have fourteen each. He has ten interceptions and four loss
fumbles in ten games. And it doesn't matter who they're playing.
They got to fix that and whatever the reasons are.
And we talked about the reasons against the Rams, but
it was before the Rams he was turning the ball
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over against the Cardinals. He was turning the ball over
against them, and they turned the ball over against everybody
by and large, and you are not going to get
away with too many victories and certainly not going to
win the division doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Greig Bell is with us. I see Owks inside of
Jones's most every day at this time, and you can
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Greg Bell. Running Game. I want to talk about it again.
Bucky brought up a really good point yesterday, because I
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think everybody that watches the Seahawks run the football or
try to run the football can tell that ken Walker
is the more explosive, more talented running back between he
and Zach Sharbonay. And certainly we've heard a lot in
the last few days about it's finally time to commit
back to ken Walker. I mean, the foot injury can't
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be bothering him that much at this stage in the process.
Time to let it rip, let him go. But Bucky
brought up the fact that how much better the numbers
suggest Zach Sharbonay is in past protection over ken Walker.
How huge of a factor is that, and why Sharbonet
is carrying so much of the load versus Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, that does explain why he's in the game. In
two minute drill and on third downs and when you go,
I mean that often are a lot of plays and
that explains a large reason why he has got more
snaps overall percentage of snaps forty nine to forty five,
even though he's played one fewer game. That is why
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they've been trusting him in those spots. I would submit
it in a normal season. Yeah, that's a big deal.
The way that the Seahawks have kept Darnold for getting sacked,
the way Kubiak schemes off of play action and rollouts,
running away from pressure off the run game has kept
him away from sacks. Ten sacks and ten games. I
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would think it's time to say, Okay, maybe we don't
need the extra protector as the running back here. And
it's not like Walker doesn't do it. He's not as
good and he's just not as stout of a guy.
He's more of a shifty, elusive, eelite guy. But he
can do it if he has to. He's more of
an accid in catching and running after the catch in
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the pass game. McDonald mentioned that when I asked him
about m Walker getting more opportunities, because it's not just
in the run game, it's in the pass game. Two
he had the twenty three yard catch and run and
the fourth quarter drive that he ended up scoring the
one yard touchdown run later in the drive. He started
another drive earlier in the half with an eighteen yard
catch and run. But those are just two yard dump
out passes that he turned into twenty yard games. Charonie
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doesn't do that. So to me, let's hedge a little
bit on. Okay, we think our offensive line and scheme
can take care of Donald getting sacked. Let's go to
the more explosive player in the backfield for options, even
as a safety valve guy who can turn a two
yard pass into an eighteen yard run. Bottom line is
it's time for Kenneth Walker, both for him and for
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the Seahawks. Seven games left in his contract. Let him go.
I get the governing it and limiting him up to
this point, I understood it. I tried to explain it
to people who'd ask me why they're doing it, but
that it's go time to me now for him.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Does the health of Gray's abel affect how they should
try to run the ball or is it one of
those whoever you know, if it's Christian Haines or whomever.
You're still gonna go out there and try to maybe
up the volume for your running backs, especially Ken Walker.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, we've seen it. They're gonna run no matter what,
Bucky and no matter who's in there, no matter what
the situation, whether whether they're getting yards or not, Kubiak
is gonna run. He runs more than anybody in the league,
whether they're getting yards or not. On any given day.
If they go into the half with twenty yards rushing
on ten carries, thirteen carries, they're still running. In the
second half, they're done by two scores late and the
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rams they were still running. He's gonna do it. He's
gonna do it. Whether Christian Haines is in their left
guard or not. It's merging to traffic and keep up,
and they're not gonna do less of anything just because
Haines is playing. Haines is on spot. We've talked about him.
I had like three chances to win a starting job.
They kept him almost stowed on layaway all season on
(14:05):
injured reserve before they finally activated him because they had
to because Sindell got hurt last week and now he
has to play. They didn't expect him obviously, to be
starting when they activate him from IR on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
But Isabel, do we have a fresh update on him
as it looking good bad?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No? I mean yesterday was completely dark, players and coach.
Everything was off day yesterday, so nothing new from Monday
of day to day. I'd be pretty surprised if he
was even anywhere near the practice field today, some expecting
that it did not participate today.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Do you at least when you go to Nashville have
one of them hot chicken sandwiches?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I do? Yeah, I do, yeah for sure, music and
hot chicken, little money on it, a little cold beer sometimes. Yeah,
I tell you it's not a bad place to go.
I have to be watching an NFL game. I'll tell
you that. A lot of Seahawk fans go because of
it too, and the team is not very good in Tennessee,
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so the home tickets are available and there'll be a
lot of Seahawk fans in that stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, well, I want to go. I've never been there.
I've never been, And it turns out it's only like
a five hour drive from where I grew up. I
never knew that until like last year, how close it
was to where I grew up, I just assumed.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, Tennessee is really long. It's true, it goes. Tennessee
goes from like the Atlantic seaboard to the Midwest. That's true.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah yeah, But I mean it's as close to me
in Illinois where I grew up as Chicago is. And
I never realized that. I never put the two and
two together. So I am definitely when I go home
to see Mom, I'm going to make sure I make
a trip out to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Bucky. Even in Nashville, yeah, oh yeah, played there.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, I've done a lot of really fun stuff in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
What I was growing up, the Nashville Sounds, the Triple
A team, well, the Pirates, one of the Pirates Triple
A teams for And the joke in Pittsburgh because the
Pirates were so bad was nobody ever wanted to get
promoted from the National Sounds to the Pirates. And that's
part of the reason why was so bad. That was
all when I was really young, the Pirates Triple A
team was in Honolulu, and there was that was for sure.
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Nobody wanted to come get promoted from Honolulu to to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Two for three today Kevin, Man, you better cool down,
otherwise you better risk getting called up.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
All right, man, there was a there was a PCL team.
Did you know that, Buck, It was a PCL team
in Honolulu. Yeah. It cost a hell of a lot
of money for teams to travel to But yeah, the Pirate.
That was the Pirates triple A team in the seventies.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Yeah. Mom, the upside of getting demoted.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
All right, Uh well, thank you, Sarah. We'll talk to
you tomorrow, rounds Able tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Okay, Happy Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
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we'll see what direction that she heads. Also, Josh Naylor,
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(17:47):
he was all smiles yesterday announcing that he's going to
be a Mariner for the next half decade. And is
he going to kickstart an early stove period. I mean,
seems like we've gotten into this habit thanks to Scott
Boris of waiting until April to have an off season. Well,
maybe Josh Naylor's getting it started, because not only has
(18:09):
he signed to get it going, but a lot of
other big name free agents. According to reports last night,
it's being suggested they could be on the verge of
signing as well.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I'd like to have some hot stove activity before the
new year, So we'll get into that next. Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Let's talk some Major League baseball. Yes,
the hot stove season has started, and normally, I mean
it feels like to me it gets.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Later and later and later and later.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
This process, and I think Scott Boris is sort of
the biggest reason for that. He'll take his free agents
all the way to the middle of spring training and
he unless he gets the right deal, he's just not
gonna let them sign. Thank goodness, cal Raley moved away
from that guy. Otherwise I'm not sure we would have
ever been able to re signed cal Raley. But certainly
(19:04):
it is a process that has gotten later. I mean,
we end up getting more moves after the new year
than before. It used to be winter meetings you'd have
several you'd have a flurry of moves. It's been a
while since we've had a flurry of moves at the
winter meetings, which you're coming up in the beginning of December.
Maybe Josh Naylor's changed that, and maybe Mariner fans are
(19:26):
the reason for that, for him to feel such love here.
As he expressed yesterday in this press conference, it almost
felt like what we've talked about, like if you give
me a fair offer, I want to be there. And
the ownership presented him a fair offer and Josh Naylor
pretty much sprinted to the contract to sign it. That's
(19:50):
a great sign all around, and I think a credit
certainly to Mariner fans and the love that they showed
this guy the entire end of the season.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, it's each individual, you know, player is going to
be different about what's important to them when they you
finally reach this, you know, I mean for a lot
of folks. You know, I'm not sure how much everybody
understands the grind that it takes to get to where
Josh Naylor got. I mean the you know, he was
a first rounder and so he had a nice signing
(20:18):
bonus and he was that The minor leagues are not
what they used to be as far as making nothing.
I mean literally not enough to be able to have
your own apartment, for crying out loud to me, I
lived in two bedroom apartments with four other guys majority
of my minor league career because that's the only way
you could afford it, or you'd have to cut out
like beer, which that wasn't gonna happen, no, no, no chance.
(20:41):
And so you had to, you know, put your priorities
in order. And yet it's still then you get to
the big leagues and you know, you get three years
before at the minimum, which is good money. I'm not
gonna say nowadays seven hundred thousand dollars. It was like
four hundred when I played, but it was you make
good money.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
And yet it's is.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Three years before you become arbitration osable, and then three
more before you become where Josh Naylor finally got to.
And so agents, typically Boris being the worst of them,
will be like, this is your chance, man, you hold out.
I'm gonna play every single penny against the other people
that are interested in your services. And it might take
a while, it's gonna get uncomfortable, but you just stick
with me on this. And then there's other people that
(21:22):
just flat out or like, I know what I'm worth,
want I want to go where I want to go,
and I hope they know what I'm worth. And if
those two things just as simple as that he came here,
He's been in Cleveland, he's been in Arizona, and now
he's been in Seattle. I'm sure that he liked players
on all the teams. I'm sure he liked his coaches
(21:43):
or most of the coaches, even the front office to
some degree liked and maybe didn't like to some degree.
Without knowing any of that, all I do know is
that he came here when all of a sudden, there's
this Oh my gosh, how do I move my family?
I have a pregnant wife back in Arizona. The organization said, well,
we do. What can we take care of for you?
So they made it as little of a headache as possible.
(22:05):
Then the team accepted him, the city embraced him. He
enjoys playing here. Apparently T Mobile Park isn't a bad
hitters park for him, and so he hit well, here
he got to go on this ride. There is something about,
and we've talked about it, the idea of being in
a situation where you've never made it to the World Series.
If you can be part of that team that does
(22:27):
get to one and win one, this is extra special
versus oh you want another one for the Dodgers whooped
to do so. To me, it's just all of that
stuff included, and then the type of person that he is,
it just all kind of went down to where they
came to him with a good offer, and he said, yep,
this is where I want to be and that's what
I think I'm worth.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I'm down with it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But I think it starts with the type of person
that he is. Because as much as you'd think that
major League Baseball players would reach free agency and they
would prioritize I'm going to be rich no matter what.
If you're a Josh Naylor. Do I have to be
the richest. Do I have to have the absolute most money?
Or do I want to be in a city I like,
with a team that I like and really just settled
(23:10):
down my roots. They usually choose the money. I mean,
that's usually the case. So I didn't know. I don't
know Josh Naylor well enough. I thought he was the
type of guy that might buck that trend.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Sorry to use that.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And chuck it out. Yeah you don't. Yeah, you don't
know until it gets chucked out on paper. But I'm
glad that he's one of those because, believe me, he
wants to play this process out. He's got Scott Boris
as an agent. He's not signing until mid February early March,
and it's probably with the Red Sox, and it's probably
for twenty two million a year instead of eighteen and
(23:47):
a half. And if that would have been his priority,
he wouldn't be a Mariner. So I'm glad he's one
of those type of guys.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah, I am too, and just watching him yesterday and
listening to him yesterday. He seemed so genuinely happy, the
fact that he said, I love the fans and I
hope they love me, Like that's pretty obvious. They all
love you, but you're He's just still that type of person,
like I love them and I hope that they love
me too, like I want to be here.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I don't know. I just I.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Already loved him yesterday. I was like smiling listening to
him talk. It was just I loved it.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
He's a Mariner.
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Yes, and hopefully this is the pick that's going to
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And this is regardless of whether Aaron Rodgers plays or not.
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Okay, And we don't know, we don't know, but one
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Could be playing with a bothered rist. Now it's the
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Yees still, but if he falls and hurts himself or
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They play a lot of close games those the Chicago
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(27:09):
the Sport of college Football. So back to back college
football segments, because I want to talk about something that
I mean, I've talked frequently about how I didn't see
this college football coaching cycle turning into this because of
the new era that we are in. It did catch
me by surprise. And here's where I'm really worried. This
(27:31):
is the area that I'm really worried. There was a
Desmond Howard video yesterday where he said Steve Sarkeesian's not
happy in Texas, and Texas isn't happy with Steve Sarkeesian
and he they're probably going to have a mutual parting
of the ways at the end of the year. There
are coaches all over college football that would leave their
(27:54):
jobs tomorrow to get the Texas job, that would leave
no matter how many promises they made on campus. I mean,
that's supposed to be as great a job as there
is in college football. So if the guy that has
the job isn't even happy with it. Then where are
we with college football? I thought, maybe, well, maybe it's
(28:16):
not about blue bloods anymore. Maybe it's about, you know,
just establishing a program. Kurt Signetti's staying in Indiana. He
could have possibly had the Texas job if he knew
Steve Sarkisian wasn't happy. That's how hot his name is
right now. But maybe we're in a new era of
where you can build a powerhouse anywhere as long as
(28:39):
you've got the right program. If you've got the right
nil money's coming in. So maybe we're done with just
having those dominant programs out there. It's not like Kaylin
Debor went to Alabama and is having more success than
he had here at Washington, right, So maybe that's what's
entered in. People are just looking. And then we've got
Lane Kiffin, who couldn't have a better situation at Old miss.
(29:01):
They love him. He's getting nil money, probably more than
he'll get at Florida because those boosters are maniacs in Oxford, Mississippi.
Now that the rules don't exist anymore, all they got it.
All I gotta do is give you some of my billions.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Oh you got it.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But it's stay here at ole, miss I had a
million of my wallet. Yeah, exactly. Here you go go
get yourself a linebacker. Will you take it in thousands?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah? So?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean, so here's Lane Kivin, who's in a great situation,
building a great program. They're in the national conversation every year.
Looks like he will make the tournament this year, and
he wants to leave for one of the better programs
out there. So, I don't know, if you're not happy
at Texas and you're not happy being the king of Oxford,
Mississippi and your program is rising a little bit every
(29:50):
single year, can any of these guys be happy anywhere?
I mean, where what are we doing in college football?
I mean, if the coaches aren't the adults in the room,
what kind of example are you giving to the players?
It just feels to me like there's not a person
in college football that isn't looking where it's slightly better,
(30:10):
where I can make fourteen more dollars, And that, to me,
is a terrible spot to be in.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
It's not a good spot to be in. I mean,
I'll just say this.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I think the Signetti types that's it's kind of like
what we were talking about with Josh Naylor's. That's an
individual that's just okay with being the stud of a
small town, you know. Program I shouldn't say small town
because it's not like it's that small small, but you
know what I mean, it's not the big name, and
yet who cares Signeta just looks like the type that's like, Yeah,
I like the fact that we're known for hoops forever
(30:42):
and right now we're a feared team in college football,
and I'm gonna just kind of keep us relevant for
a long time because with the twelve team tournament, now
you can do that and all of a sudden you
can build a fence around a big chunk of the Midwest,
at least Indiana. You can say, we're gonna get a
bunch of people that are gonna want to come here for
the next generation. Anyways, as long as you're doing this
(31:04):
bunch of losers, Yeah, is that what it is?
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And yet I think that you're always going to have
as tough as recruiting is now, it's tough and easy.
It's tough because there's always somebody else trying to poach
your guys. Because transferring all the time is legit and legal,
and so to some degree, it's is it easier to
get folks to come to Ole Miss or to Florida?
(31:29):
Is it better for Kaylen de boor to get people
to come to you know, Seattle or to play at Alabama?
Like it's the is there little perks that you think
make your job, that make you capable of being even
better at your job? I think that you're going to
have some people are going to do that, and then
if the money on top of that, or if the
money first is the priority, then you're going to be
(31:50):
able to woo people away with that as well.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I mean, like I said, Kaylen de Bor's programs in
this two years at Alabama is no better than his
last two years here at Washington, except that you're at
a bigger program. Yeah, you're at a bigger, well known program.
But also we hear about how Alabama just doesn't have
the rich alums and the rich boosters that other people have.
I mean, I don't know. I guess Florida. Yeah, Florida
(32:14):
has a better history, but I'm not sure Florida is
a better job than Ole Miss right now now that
we have nil I mean that movie Blindside, Michael Orr
has said there's really nothing true about it other than
the fact that I lived with these folks. Yeah, the
only thing that really was true that is undisputably true
is that those people are crazy. And the people that
(32:37):
have millions of dollars and are tired of being in
Alabama shadows.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Now that we have.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
NIL, they're like, well, we'll spend a fortune on players.
I'm not sure you're going to get more NIL money
at Florida than what you're getting at Ole Miss. You've
got better local high school football talent, but it doesn't
seem to me like Florida kids are having any trouble
going anywhere else in the country as long as there's
(33:03):
a bigger paycheck for them. But if the coaches aren't
operating any differently than the players that they've been complaining
about since NIL began, then where is that going to
leave us? Because I just don't think it's healthy for
college football to have some of its biggest names sitting
here on the verge of leaving the next time the
(33:24):
wind blows and a program that may or may not
be better than the program that they're at is knocking
on their door and they think the grass is slightly greener.
I mean the grass is plenty green at all at Oxford,
plenty green in Austin, but maybe it's slightly greener there.
I mean, where are we if the adults in the
room have the same greed and wish washiness as the
(33:48):
players in the in the locker room. Yeah, it's a
great question. I have no idea. Sad. Yeah, you're not
happy at Texas. Where can you be happy? Then you're
not going to be happy anywhere. Coming up next camp,
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