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From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock & Sock on Seattle Sports. Brock Ewerd is my hero. James But he just punched me in the kidney. We're going to accuse you what I'm going to. That really work that way, Sherm. This is a show that has my name on it. It's kind of tough. Now here are your hosts, Brock Eward and Mike Salk. Hello. Hello. One of my favorite things about this Seahawks team, Brock, and I could probably start a segment a day with that line. One of my favorite things about the Seahawks. Let's do that this week. Okay. This week can be about the Seahawks. Every day at eight in the next few days here. Why don't we do that every day at eight?

One of my favorite things about the Seahawks team.

All right, I'm happy to keep doing that. All right, yeah. Well, one of my favorite things about them is how they kind of built this their own way. And maybe there's another team that did it in a similar way. it sure feels, though, to me, as if they kind of use their own model rather than following a script

of somebody else's. And I kind of came to this in two ways.

Brock, one was actually by thinking about the Mariners.

And as the Mariners went out this week and signed another big time international free agent and thinking about, all right, well, what is there, how are they trying to get it done?

Right.

They're not going to outspend the Dodgers and trying to go the Dodgers Mets Yankees route is probably not going to work here in Seattle for them.

You can disagree with whether you want that to be the case or not,

but they don't have a billion dollars to spend the same way the Dodgers do.

But they're also not going to out Tampa the Reyes, right?

They're not going to churn through players,

and as soon as they're ready, trade them away and move on to the next one

and try to maximize every little ounce of value. They're not that trade them away and move on to the next one and try to

maximize every little ounce of value. They're not that and they don't need to be that and they're not going to be better at it than Tampa is. So what do they do? They came up with their own plan. And, you know, Jerry always says, right, draft, develop and trade. And that's obviously a big part of it. I think what you're seeing now is that they've added a couple of elements to that.

And the biggest one for me is sign, your own.

Maintain.

I don't know what the, you know, throw whatever word you want on it.

But like when you draft and develop Cal, when you sign and develop Hulio, I'll consider international free agents draft for the purpose of the conversation, because I think that includes, you know, the idea of young players. What do you do? You sign them. You sign them long term, right? When you trade for an Andres Munoz, you sign him, you make sure that you, he's not going anywhere for a while. And Ailer, you make sure you sign in? Absolutely. is that a free agent signing technically, but it's signing your own? And I think that's been a big part of it. And that is, okay, their unique formula, and we'll see if they're able to have it keep working for them the way it did this past year, which was awesome. And then I was thinking of Evan Cohen. And he hosts the show before us on sportsmanlike nationally on ESPN.

He's a great guy. He's been on the show. He's a friend. He is a Patriots fan, although I think he's like a Miami guy. So I don't know where all that came from. But he is a Patriots fan. So maybe you should take it with that lens. but I heard him raving yesterday about how the Patriots were able to get back here without having to stink for more than a few years. He was like, oh, if you really look through it, it was really only like three bad years. Hey, dude, the Seahawks had none. The Seahawks have had none. The Seahawks have done this with none bad years. None. They've had, you know, the worst year, I think was, what, seven wins? They had one seven wins season. Their big down year was like nine wins. It's incredible what the Seahawks have done without the benefit of, you know, finishing so poorly that year after year they've had some really high draft picks the patriots

did it that way it worked out they got bad they drafted a quarterback they used the cap savings

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