Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to a Seahawks Saturday edition of Hock Blogger Mornings.

I'm Brian Nemhouser and really, really happy to be back with you all today as we get to do something that we kind of, I think, invented last year.

I don't know.

Maybe someone else does this, but I think this is the first time I saw it done.

And despite, I think, some healthy skepticism, we had a lot of fun and learned a lot from it.

We are going to do a live draft of every player in the NFC West,

or at least the top 80 players, according to this handsome quartet of fellas. We've got real Jeff

Simmons, who's always with us on CX Saturday. How you doing, Jeff? I'm good. It's been kind of quiet since the draft. It's nice to have like another draft going on. Like I've been feeling like I was texting Rob the other day. Like, what do we do now? And so it's nice. You called on us to do this because I'm missing. That was two weeks ago, the draft? I feel like emptiness. I don't know, man.

Yeah, yeah.

I think there's a fair amount of draft, you know, dread that has gone on.

I think people are a little done with the draft conversation, which I get.

Griff, good to see you, man.

Have you dusted off your deep deep big board for um this uh this muck draft i sure

have i'm i'm much more prepared this year than last year i'm shooting from the hip a little bit

last year i'm i'm i'm seasoned now though okay all right my second my second embassy west draft now so

your your owner allowed you to have a challenging first year,

and now you're ready to reward that investment.

Indeed, indeed.

Before I go to Rob Staten, I got to ask you,

your guy, Spencer Radler, has a wide open path to the starting quarterback job as Derek Carr this morning announces his retirement from the NFL.

What do you think about that?

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