May 19, 2025 • 37 mins
Where do the Seahawks land in the latest power rankings after the schedule release? The hate watch continues as the Thunder win game 7 and move on. MJ's bet of the day after a 4-1 week.
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Right here on MJ in the midday, wait for it.
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You know, I know he's back on ESPN now, But
when you watch Primetime with Chris Berman and Tom Jackson, Yeah,
and when you they got to this song for the highlights,
it was the game of the day. It was it
was the game of the when they played this music,
it was the best game on Sunday. So with that
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on MJ in the midday, Mark James andrews Hurst here
and for Christopher Kid. So here's what we got going
on Pro Football Network. And I'm not big on power rankings,
but you've got to hear this, folks, because I thank
god I didn't see this when I was driving, because
I would have ran my car off the road. I
would have gotten to a bad accident. So they came
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out with their power rankings post schedule release, which was
last Wednesday night, So it was a really quick turnaround.
So they did a comprehensive job. I'll give them that
on turning this thing around. So let's start at the
top of the NFC West Water's wet grasses Green. They
have the Rams rank seventh in the NFL, right above
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the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with a projected twenty twenty five
record of eleven and six. I actually think that they're
underrating them. Okay, you think they're top five. I think
that they're at least going to be twelve and five. Okay,
twelve win team. I just I really do now. It
says PFSN gives the Rams a healthy chance of winning
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their division at fifty three point one percent, making the
playoffs at eighty three percent. In fact, due to their
favorable draw despite the travel miles, the Rams have the
best odds to land the NFC number one seed of
any team vying for that top spot. No team has
improved its outlook more from the start of the offseason
in the La Rams. Wow, whoa they are? They are
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making that reference, drinking that blue and yellow kool aid.
They are all The Rams look like clear NFC West
favorites with the upside to potentially return to the Super Bowl.
So they are all in the Rams. Here's the thing.
I don't have an issue with it. They got Devonte Adams.
They're the only team who had any chance of knocking
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off the Eagles. And there's no way I thought they
were going to be able to do it because it
was snowing like a mother mother Nature. She took an
absolute crap all over Philadelphia. And some people think that
Philadelphia is already crap, but of snow, of snow in
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that game and the Rams went toe to toe. It
wasn't until late in the second half where Jalen Carter
and Graham and all those dudes up front just they
had no answer. Matthew Stafford fumbled the ball and they
just couldn't overcome that. And the Rams just barely, just barely.
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The Eagles hold on to win that game. So they
have them as the seventh best team in the power rankings.
All right, coming up next, right, gotta be the Seattle Seahawks, Right,
probably Yeah, not so fast, my friend, as lead Corso
would say. And this might even surprise you anymore. Who
do they have second in the NFC West, The Arizona Cardinals?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What I kid you not? I do know. I'm not lying.
I'm lying on the Cardinals, but I don't think they're second.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Their projective record, they have it rounded off to a
decimal nine point three wins to seven zero point seven losses,
eight nine and eight ish around there, and it says
quote Arizona's given a decent chance to pull out their
division this season at nineteen point three percent, but even
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a better shot at making the playoffs as a wild
card at forty three point six percent. The Josh swetsigning
was a statement of intent from the Cardinals after doubling
their win total from four to eight. Jonathan Gannon's team
seems intent on improving a defense that ranked twenty seventh
in the league last year. To snap the team's three
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year playoff drought, they drafted Walter Nolan out of Ole
Miss and Will Johnson out of Michigan to become day
one starters. With the Niners taking a step back, the
Cardinals now have a prime opportunity to clinch their first
division title since twenty fifteen. After starting strong at six
and four, they struggled down the stretch and finish at
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two and five. However, your sheer squad appears better positioned
across the finish line, especially following a solid draft. Did
not see that one coming, did not see that one
coming at all. Wow, the Arizona Cardinals. All right, okay, Mark, well,
you gotta be pulling our legs here. Surely the Seahawks
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gotta be there in third place? And what no, no,
and like here's the worst hears the like Okay, so
I left one thing out. They've got the Cardinals is
the fifteen best team in the league. They got them
upper half right after the Cardinals as the sixteen best
team in the league.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
They've got the forty nine ers ahead of the Hawks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Quote unlike the Cardinals above them here, the forty nine
Ers have a sixty two point three percent chance of
making the playoffs in a twenty one point two percent
chance of winning their division. That all equates to thirty
two point five percent chance of actually making the Divisional round,
the top figure of any of the wild card contenders.
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Teams ranked outside the top ten here Anders, I might
have lost for words.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You go, yeah, I just I don't get it. I
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't think they had a go draft. H They're
losing space with signing Brock Party. That's going to hurt
him in the long run. What was it sixty million
dollars a year, like.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
One hundred and eighty one? Guarantee you all all.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's just no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No no. That's that's why the only thing I can say,
like WTF or you thinking.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I see them losing players left and right. I
don't see them filling in any of those spots. I
get I like Sean, Mike Shane or Kyle Shanahan as
a coach, but I don't think he can mask the
roster issues that they've had recently. And uh, you know,
I just I don't know. I'm out of loss for words.
I have one thing to say, serious, yeah, right, seriously,
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that's great. That yeah, yeah, yeah to me. I look
at the Nyers, I look at last place. Yeah, I
just see last place. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I think Kyle Shanahan will be gone on his own accord,
or Jed York will just step in and say, hey, Kyle,
John Lynch I've given you a decade.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You eyes got us to two Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You pissed down your leg in the first one with
Jimmy Garoppolo with a ten point lead in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
God, it makes me so happy. I know it wasn't
that great.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And then and then Brock Purdy, but I.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hate the Chiefs too, and I just but I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The Niners to win in so so you gotta be okay, Mark?
All right, wait a second, So everybody out there driving
right now, and keep your hands at ten and two
and your eyes on the road, don't drive off to
not drive off the road. So they got the Rams
ranked as the seventh best team in the NFL. They've
got the Arizona Cardinals at fifteen. They got the San
Francisco forty nine ers at sixteen. Who've gotten They've had
more losses this year than Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Okay, so where are the ORP ditty? Where where are
the where are the Seal?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So? Mark, the Seahawks gotta be seventeen? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Houston Texans, well eighteenth right? No, former you dump Cornick
Michael Pennix and the Falcons, well, they've got to be
top twenty nope, Dolphins nineteen enving Dallas Cowboys at twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, where the he oh oh.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Folks, And this is where it all goes to hell
to me, this is where if I could print this out,
I would. I would print it out, and if I
ran out of toilet paper, would use it if I
ran out of toilet paper to wipe myself after a
solid bowel movement. They put the Jets at twenty one.
But if the Sahawk the Jets the worst franchise at
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Pro sports this side of Cleveland Browns. The Jets at
twenty one with Justin Fields, are you kidding me? That's
at this point I just said, okay, well, this thing's
full of crap. Then they have Geno Smith and the
Raiders at twenty two. Oh, and then it gets even worse.
It gets even worse. The New England Patriots, the New
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England Patriots who couldn't score with a fistful of one
hundreds at your favorite strip club at the Spearmint Rhino
in Vegas, The New England Patriots the worst offense this
side of the Jets or Browns. They ranked the Patriots
ahead of the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Get it, I do?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't get it at all. I want to hear
what their explanation is for Seattle.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They ranked the Seahawks below the Jets, the Raiders, and
the Patriots at number twenty four. I'm sorry, folks, it
took thirteen minutes to get here because I didn't come
up with this list, and now I think it's trash
all right. Projected record for the Seahawks seven point one
wins to nine point nine losses, So they basically say
they're going to be seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And here's what they say.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Seattle has some quote, Seattle has some tough road trips
this season and a far out chance of making the
playoffs at twelve point one percent.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's a good like.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm saying it in a question mark because I'm having
trouble believing it. Still, they can potentially play spoiler with
some intriguing divisional matchups down the stretch and some NFC
South matchups that could help shape both divisions. The Seahawks
underwent as much turnover as nearly any team in the
NFL this season after trading away Gino Smith and DK Metcalf,
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along with a host of veteran defensive releases. The Seahawks
are betting big on Donald and Mike McDonald to keep
a younger team in contention, Seattle made a smart first
round pick in Gray's abel, which should help improve the
last year's thirty th ranked offensive line by pfsn's metrics.
Elijah Royo also helps Donald as a seam weapon, adding
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a vertical element to compliment Jackson Smith and Jigbot and
Cooper cup. Still, Seattle's offense feels a little incomplete without
a true X receiver. Jaln Milroe is as interesting as
any QB prospect beyond cam Ward, but is unlikely to
contribute much to the twenty twenty five team. Hawks took
a big step forward on defense last year, finishing sixth
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and pfsn's metrics. Much of the young cores back in
place after McDonald found the right personnel left to push
following the team's Week ten by on its own, the
unit should keep the Seahawks competitive, but unless Darnold shows
he can thrive outside of the Kevin O'Connell ecosystem, Seattle
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could be hard pressed to improve on last year's ten
to seven record. Somebody there clearly does not like the Hawks,
because listen to this.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They got them ranked behind the Jets, the Raiders, the
Patriots in one spot above Jacksonville Anders.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't get it. I don't either.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, and I haven't been here long enough to
be drinking the kool aid. I'm just looking as objectively
as possible. I just don't They couldn't have the Seahawks
season as wrong as they could possibly if they tried.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And I think that they're gonna be eating their words
come this season. And I think the Seahawks are gonna
be one of the surprising teams in the NFL. And
to have them in last place and to have them
behind they have one of the top five defenses in football.
They even admitted on this thing they have them behind
the Jets, Raiders in Patriots.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, that just makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And I think the biggest off season acquisition was Klinck Koop. Yeah,
that's gonna be the type of offensive coordinator that gets
the most out of this offense, right without hindering the defense. Right,
You're not gonna lose games with your offense like you
did last year a couple of times. So Yeah, I
just don't get it. I really don't. Where would you
have them ranked if you were doing power rankings? And
I'm with you, I'm not a huge power rankings guy,
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especially like Okay, so the whole point of this article
is like power rankings after the schedule lease. Isn't the
point of power rankings to be like no matter who
you're playing against? So the schedule leae shouldn't have anything
to do with this. It's just about how good of
a football.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Team you are?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right? What is going on?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So where's you have them ranked in your power rankings?
Above halfway? Above sixteen? Yes, I would have them about
fourteen or fifteen, Okay, i'd go twelve for interesting, Yeah
maybe before like I would Yeah, I would have them
in the upper half of the league. Yeah, I think
I'm with you there. I think this defense might be
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the best in the NFL. Like, at the end of
the day, it might just be the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, I mean Philadelphius would probably have something to say
about it that day, will I right?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If you look at this, like Humillan goes over these
stats all the time, but if you look at the
second half after they brought in Ernest Jones. The Seahawks
were the best scoring defense and I believe the best
total defense in the NFL for the second half of
the season. But I have to double check those. But
as soon as Mike McDonald's starting to get his guys in,
and he's only doing more of that now with the
draft picks, I think this is gonna be a huge
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step forward. Plus I'm looking for big things from Biron
Murphy this year. I think his rookie year was a
little underwhelming, and I think he's gonna be a huge
piece and turn into that player that we all expected
when we drafted him in the first round last year.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah. I the fact that they have them ranked so
low is just they couldn't be more. ROW mean, that's
this is the one team And I'm looking at all
these teams ranked from twenty one and I'm like, did
they I mean, the Seahawks just missed the playoffs. Lest you,
I know, one of the games was a gift from
the Rams.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But this team, their defense is it just got better
em and worry. I mean, they're gonna be even better
in the secondary. That front line. Leonard Williams. I'm sorry
they couldn't be and I'm not and I'm not just
being a homer. I'm just saying that this team is
like if you think the Seattle Seahawks are a seven
win team, and that's why I'm shocked that Vegas put
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the over under at seven and a half. And like
you said, it's not just the schedule. Now, if they
were playing the AFC West and the NFC North, sure
I could, I wouldn't be as bullish on their record, right,
but they're playing the they're playing the the AFC South
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and they're playing the NFC South. So I'm sorry, I
don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it. I really
don't get it. I never will. I'm sorry, man, I'm
that to me, they couldn't have been more wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
See. To me, it's just like you look at last year.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm just looking at things from a kind of bigger
picture view logically. Here, you look at last year, you
go ten and seven. Fine, you say the last game
Rams played all their bench players, like, okay, we'll say
nine and seven and kind of acts that game. But
there's no way this team's worse than last year. Right, No, No,
I don't think any way this team is worse than
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last year. No, so at the very least you're a
nine win team, very least, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Very least.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I would say that's a pretty safe estimate. I would
say it's a pretty good if you're at a casino
and you can get the Seahawks at over seven and
a half wins. But do it, just do it. I
mean that to me is a really solid bet there.
I'm not someone who you know, like I said, when
I was okay for a little bit, but then they
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put the Niners ahead, I'm like, all right still and
then but then you put the Seahawks below the Patriots
and Jets.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It makes no sense, zero sense, absolutely zero sense. So
we'll see what happens coming up. Could one of the
worst things happen here in Seattle? The hate watch continues,
The hate watches on. It is on. Oh and by
the way, I got something here for the people in Toronto.
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Have you not come to grips Toronto with the Leafs
being the Chicago Cubs, the new Chicago Cubs of sports.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Bettam Meller, Chuck mean, Oh my lord, I mean it's
just oh and I'll tell you, I'll make a prediction
of the Kraken versus the Leafs in the future coming
up next.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh yes, okay, we'll.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Get there are certain guarantees in live death taxes and
the Leafs not getting forget about the Stanley Cup, not
even getting to the Western Conference final. Oh my lord, Hey,
Canada jump aboard those oilers because the bet don't no.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
No, but they're the best.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
They're the best chance of that country winning the first
Stanley Cup in thirty two years. You better jump aboard
that oiler bandwagon because other than that, man, you got
no chance at Canada winning a Stanley Cup anytime soon.
We'll get to all that next on MJ and the
Midday ninety three to three kJ r TM Everett fits
you coming up at the top of the noon hour.
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I put a future bet on OKC to win the
NBA Finals. Now I started to feel a little bit
different during the first round, I said, when Denver could
give them a run. So I actually put more money
on Denver to win the West and the NBA Finals.
Yesterday I had to get that money back that I
placed on Denver, so I put money in a parlay
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on OKC minus eight and a half and the over
to go over twenty fifty two hundred and fifteen points,
and it went over in the end, thankfully.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oh did that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Does sweat that one out? So I want you to
know I was with you yesterday and I put my
money where my mouth is. I wanted Denver to win
that I had to hedge on OKC. But how much
were you disappointed anders into everybody out there yesterday when
you saw OKAC get to that second quarter into the
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third quarter and I mean just lay the SmackDown on
the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna admit something that because I was watching
the Mariners game at the same time with my buddy
and I just didn't want to put myself through it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So when it was like thirty seven, you decided to
not be a masochist.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
No, No, I got it. I don't like pain like
some people do. No, but no, it sucks, man. I
don't even know why. I mean, I know why, but.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Wait, but you still feel this way seventeen years later.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, and that's my point is like at first, I
actually what Maybe it was because I was younger, but
I wasn't as.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Like in twenty twelve when they went to the final
I didn't. I didn't hate the hate hate them.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I was reading for the heat at okay point, okay,
but I wasn't like hate hate the thunder as I
do now. The longer it goes you would think, the
less you would feel because it's farther away from it happening.
But the fact that we still don't have our team
makes me hate them even more.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I get that, by the way, excellent salient point out
of you. I can see that. And the fact that
where's the announcement, Like, where's give us something? I know
the Board of Governors is gonna meet in July. It's like,
are we gonna now have to wait for who's the
new team?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh? The Portland Trailblazers gonna be sold? Is that gonna
be another thing we gotta wait for?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Two it nothing should have to do with it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And I just if you're out there hate watching, that
was a tough one yesterday. That was that was That
was a tough one. And I understand that. I completely
totally get it. I know Softy had bought a nuggets,
you know, I don't know hood It's like sweat was
zip a poddy or sweatshirt or whatever he did or
on shirt for the game yesterday. I gotta tell you,
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I hate to say it. And that's why yesterday, after
putting the money some money when I was at the
casino here in Seattle on the Nuggets, after I had
already placed money on the Thunder, I had to get
that money back yesterday because I just said, I said.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's not gonna be the It's not gonna be the
Nuggets day. Today, They're gonna get to asses kick and
they started off so good.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But it go to show you in the NBA, you
can have a ten point lead, you can have a
twenty point lead. Hell, in the playoffs, the Thunder were
losing to the Grizzlies by twenty nine points in the
first half and they came back and beat them, and
they're no le listen. Having a large lead in the
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NBA is like walking through a line I've war zone.
It's never safe. It's never safe. It is just never safe.
Yeah you you you know what I mean. It's like no, no, no,
And like I just felt and I'm like, oh man,
and it was brutal once you got to the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And it was just s g a.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Jalen Williams Hartenstein Home Grin and it was just they
were raining and there's nothing Denver could do.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Wallace too, like that guy was right. I don't even
know his first name. I have their a wagon man.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh oh Cason Cason Wallace, Yeah, yeah, Cason Wallas and
they are a wagon.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And how about this?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
With like eight and a half minutes left in the
fourth quarter, Adamman pulled the entire Nugget starters wave.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He waved the way you never really see.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
They were down by twenty like but but no, actually
might even been earlier than that, early in the fourth quarter.
He just waved a white towel. He's like, we're done, Yeah,
We're done.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Does that? Does that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And I'm asking this to the text line the voice
text line out there as well. You could go to,
of course, the new improved i Heeart Radio app ninety
three three KJR. Hit the microphone icon button. Does it
kill you to see a team that you hate, whether
it be okayc the forty nine Ers, the Rams, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Does it hate?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Does it kill you more when they do well? Then
make you happier when your team does well? So do
you like? Do you would you rather see them lose?
On a bigger spot, Like, I know a lot of
people here. No sleep was lost or tears were shed
when Ohio State beat the living crap out Oregon like nobody.
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But did that make you feel better than it did
when Pennix and the Huskies the year before beat Oregon
not once, but twice.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
If it's against Oregon, so that counts both. Maybe, Like
the Texas game is a better Okay, the Texas won?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, did you feel better watching Oregon get their asses
kicked down thirty four to nothing Jeremiah Smith destroying them?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Then it did win?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You dubbed did the same thing in the semi final
playoff to Texas and Quinn Yours the year before. It's
it's a double sword edged sword question. You really don't know.
It's kind of like, oh wow. But for me, I've
gotten to a point in my life that I you know,
what's weird you have?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It depends what day you ask me.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I actually think I like to see my most hated
teams lose as much, if not more than my favorite
teams win.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, and let me go to the kind of bringing
this all back to the thunder. My biggest question is
because my biggest issue with the Thunder winning is because
we don't have a team right now. I don't know
how I'm gonna feel if when the Sonics come back, okay,
and then the Thunder win, well, I still hate them
as much as like text line, let me know how
you feel about that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I know, I'm j you're kind of new to the area,
but you understand, Yeah, the vitriol or Oregon, so yeah.
I mean, I don't know how you would feel if
you were a Seattle fan. Uh, and if the Sonics
get their team back, but then after that point the
Thunder win a championship, how would you feel?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Would you still hate them? Yes? I would.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean to say, series, I'm putting myself and someone
who was born like just say, I was born and
raised here in my whole life, and uh in Maple
Valley next to you know where Ian Forest lives and
I was there, and and I I would I do.
I would never want the Thunder to win a title.
I would never want Oregon to Well, don't worry about
Oregon whin the national title.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That'll never happen. We know that they'll always get there.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They always they could be the number one ranked team
all season long and then they'll get exposed and they
like they did last year. Yep, that all in the
middle of the fields stands for how many national titles
they have, so uh, you know, No, I would never
want the Thunder, I would never want Oregon. I would
never want the Astros to win another World Series, the Rangers,
and certainly not the freaking forty nine Ers. No.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh, my lord, by the way, that makes this I'm
kind of when I go to hate watching, I'm very
wishful thinking. I've been like praying on the Astros downfall,
saying that they're gonna finally the bottom is gonna fall
out underneath them for the past three years, but they
keep just fighting back and getting the playoffs. Same thing
with the forty nine Ers here, I'm really low on
them this year. I think the bottom could fall out.
I think they might be the worst team in the NFCI.
(27:30):
I agree, But I just love that they're like what
ten year run you could put the end of Harbaugh
Zra and then the beginning of Kyle Shanahan's era is like,
that's like the golden era of or one of the
golden eras of forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Football, and they didn't win anything. They didn't win nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They went to three Super Bowls since twenty twelve and
then came up Bow and three they came up. Now
the closest one, yeah, I would say the first one
with Jimmy g They were up by ten points in
that fourth quarter and and and what was it? I
heard Softy feel it now? And then and then afterwards
Greg Papa, we were so close, we were so go well,
(28:14):
not close enough their sweetheart, not close enough there. You know,
it's weird too, like as I was growing up, you know,
and like into the late eighties early nineties, the Niners
never lost to Super Bowl. They would four to oh
in Montana and one and oh with Steve Young, they would.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
They would five and oh in their first five.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They were the Patriots before the Patriots, they were, and
they overtook the Steelers. The Steelers had the most Super
Bowls until the Niners get and now they can't know
now I think this year that the forty nine Ers,
it's I can I have a premonition and I can
just see this team.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I don't see them.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, they're gonna win eight to to maybe seven to
nine games. I don't see them being a playoff team
at all, and that Pro Football Network power rankings is crap.
And here's the thing about it, not because they just
ranked the Seahawks last in the division. It's because they
ranked them below the Jets, Patriots, and Raiders above Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Somebody there clearly has some Seattle hate going on, no
doubt about it. Uh So you know that's all all right?
I had another winner for you Friday night. I'm gonna
give another one to you coming out in the next segment.
I hope you are listening to these picks. Anders Hurst
put together a montage. Now listen, i haven't been perfect
(29:37):
in the last week, but I've been pretty damn close.
We'll get to that next on beat the Books right
here at MJ in the midday, Everett fits you. Who's
gonna be the next cracking head coach? What are they
gonna do in the offseason? Mitch Marner. He's not gonna
win any Stanley Cups in Toronto. He's a number one
free agent out there. Could we get him over in
the PNW because I can.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Tell you, oh oh yeah, I'd be remiss.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let me pay off this tease the Cracking are closer
to winning a Stanley Cup than the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yeah,
I said it. Yeah, Hey Paul Bissonett, how's that working out? Now?
How you doing your little WWE promo on the oh
you were coming for you? You know, Florida Pit? How
that workout? You guys suck? You've sucked since nineteen sixty seven?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Did you know, Anders? I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Did you know there was a period and Leaf's history
from two thousand and five through twenty fifteen they missed
the playoff ten times in eleven years?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Did you know that? I did not, because they were
irrelevant at that point.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And I was there in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen
to see the Bruins beat the crap up. Hey, you'll
always be the Toronto loser Leafs. This is what you
are accepted. You're the new Chicago Cubs Boston Red Sox
of pro sports. The curses on you now. The Red
Sox got rid of that curse. They won four World Series.
(30:59):
The Cubs got rid of that curse. They won one
in twenty sixteen. The Leafs are the They are the
biggest cursed organization in pro sports. Let me just tell
you this right now, the Seattle Kraken are closer to
Lord Stanley Cupp than the Toronto loser Leafs. Beat the
books next on MJ in the Midday. Take that Toronto
(31:24):
Tonight's tough. Tonight's very tough. Friend of KJR. You hear
him on Softy and Dick for twenty five plus years,
Lee Sterling Paramount Sports. He's given out the Knicks tonight
plus six and a half at home again. I don't
like to bet on my favorite team, but if I
had to go one way for a game, I'd probably
(31:45):
lean that way. I don't think the Knicks win tonight,
but I don't think they lose by more than six
and a half points. All Right, So here's what I'm
gonna give you today.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I'm gonna go with the over. And if you've been
listening to my pixil recently, you're welcome. You're winning a
lot of money. You should be listening because I'm winning
money for you each and every day. Here, I'm gonna
go over to twenty one and a half on the
Nuggets thunder tonight. The Nuggets have to go all out,
they have to try to win this game, because if
they don't, then you're gonna have to try to win
Game seven on the road.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No case that happening. Nick Celtics.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Tonight gonna be ugly, but I think the Celtics will
pull it out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do I like that minus four and a half? I
don't like.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't like the sides, but I'm gonna go with
the total on this one. And I think both teams
are gonna come out, and I think the Celtics are
gonna find something with Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Derek White,
Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We'll see what por Zingis can give it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Al Horford, I think it's gonna be a high scoring game,
So go with the over two oh seven and a
half tonight, Nicks Celtics. Uh, the heart of a champion's
gonna be tested tonight at home.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
If they're gonna win, they're gonna have to score a lot.
Come on, Denver, yep, yeah, I'm balling for him. Two.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So it's gonna be both teams are gonna have to
score to win this game, and Denver's got to go
all out and they can't get one of seven from
Michael Porter.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So that being said, I'm not touching the sides.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Go over over to seventeen and a half, over to
seventeen and a half.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Bet it now, thank me later.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I don't ever like to take my favorite team, especially
in a big game, but myself and a friend of
the station. You always hear him on Softy and Dick
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports when we've agreed on going
in together on a bet and on a game. We
are undefeated in the playoffs, undefeated tonight take the Knicks
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minus two and a half. The next could have been
minus twenty and a half. It didn't matter on Friday night.
So so there you heard it. Thanks Andrew Hurst for
putting that together. A nice week. Believe that we heard
was that three and one or four and one last
four and one? All right for one last week? Not perfect,
but uh and Lee and I did this last week.
(34:06):
I wish I would have given this to you then
because the odds aren't as great now. But still it's
a wise investment. The New York Knicks are gonna win
the Eastern Conference Finals. Oh they're gonna win it. Lee
and I got it at plus one twenty five. Now
it's changed to minus one fifty I understand you don't
(34:26):
like to put up too much more money.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Then you're for one hundred dollars, but it could be worse.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'm not asking you to lay two hundred to win
one hundred minus won fifty to win the series.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Here's the thing about it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I think the Knicks are right now, and I look
at last year's series, because last year's series.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Was a killer.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
It went to Game seven, Jalen Brunson was hurt og
and Anobi didn't even play most of the series.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
He was really hurt.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
They didn't have a guy by the name of mchil Bridges,
and oh, by the way, didn't have a guy by
the name of Karl Anthony Towns. The Knicks are a
different team today than they were a year ago. They're
a better team today than they were a year ago.
And let me just ask you this. You know, and
I know, and even though see, the NFL.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Is different than the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Okay, green Bay is technically a small market, but it
doesn't matter in the NFL because you had Aaron Rodgers
there and then he had Brett Fahr before that, and
you got Jordan Love now and it's Green Bay. So yes,
technically it's the smallest market in the NFL, but it
isn't really. Can you imagine if the NBA gets Minnesota
(35:37):
in Indiana in the finalsoo, you.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Know what I mean? That's like, that's just.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Not that's a going to the dentist when you're ready
for like a complete total, and I went root canals
aren't bad anymore. So I can't say root canal. They're
actually not bad. I had one in January and they're
not as bad as they used to be. I never like,
but it's like, well, let's just say somebody putting ice
picks in your temples.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
That wouldn't be fun. That wouldn't be fun. Indiana, Minnesota.
You know what?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That screams toilet ratings in the toilet. You can't have that.
The NBA needs the New York Knicks to make it
to the NBA Finals because the Lakers aren't in it,
Golden State's not in it, you know, and the Celtics
aren't in it.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
You need the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
So let me just tell you, and I do believe this,
this series will be officiated favored towards the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's how the NBA works, That is right.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's the only sport that you can say that, uh
oh there, you can't have like unless Indiana blows out
and if it's a close game.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
First of all, it's a close game.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
We see how the Knicks performing close games anyway, we
saw what they did to the Celtics. I just believe
the Knicks are headed to the NBA Finals for the
first time since nineteen ninety nine, with possibly the best
chance in my entire life, well the best chance of
my entire life for them when the title was ninety four.
Blew a three to two lead in the OJ Finals
against the Rockets and John Starks was horrible. But I
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really believe they have a legitimate chance. And I think
this is a bad matchup for Indiana. And I think
the Knicks winning on Friday Night is gonna give him
some rest. They party Friday night with Timothy Shalome. I
read page six in New York Posts. Oh yeah, they
had a great time Saturday. They recovered Sunday, they rested Monday. Today,
They're gonna rest in Tuesday. Take the Knicks minus one
(37:27):
fifty in the Eastern Conference Finals. Bet it now, thank
me later, all right. Everett fitzgu haven't spoken to him yet.
On this show, we'll talk to him about where the
Kraken could go for their next head coach, and how
far the Kraken are away from celebrating as if they
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Right here on MJ in the midday, wait for it.
(02:09):
You know, I know he's back on ESPN now, But
when you watch Primetime with Chris Berman and Tom Jackson, Yeah,
and when you they got to this song for the highlights,
it was the game of the day. It was it
was the game of the when they played this music,
it was the best game on Sunday. So with that
(02:31):
on MJ in the midday, Mark James andrews Hurst here
and for Christopher Kid. So here's what we got going
on Pro Football Network. And I'm not big on power rankings,
but you've got to hear this, folks, because I thank
god I didn't see this when I was driving, because
I would have ran my car off the road. I
would have gotten to a bad accident. So they came
(02:52):
out with their power rankings post schedule release, which was
last Wednesday night, So it was a really quick turnaround.
So they did a comprehensive job. I'll give them that
on turning this thing around. So let's start at the
top of the NFC West Water's wet grasses Green. They
have the Rams rank seventh in the NFL, right above
(03:15):
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with a projected twenty twenty five
record of eleven and six. I actually think that they're
underrating them. Okay, you think they're top five. I think
that they're at least going to be twelve and five. Okay,
twelve win team. I just I really do now. It
says PFSN gives the Rams a healthy chance of winning
(03:36):
their division at fifty three point one percent, making the
playoffs at eighty three percent. In fact, due to their
favorable draw despite the travel miles, the Rams have the
best odds to land the NFC number one seed of
any team vying for that top spot. No team has
improved its outlook more from the start of the offseason
in the La Rams. Wow, whoa they are? They are
(04:01):
making that reference, drinking that blue and yellow kool aid.
They are all The Rams look like clear NFC West
favorites with the upside to potentially return to the Super Bowl.
So they are all in the Rams. Here's the thing.
I don't have an issue with it. They got Devonte Adams.
They're the only team who had any chance of knocking
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off the Eagles. And there's no way I thought they
were going to be able to do it because it
was snowing like a mother mother Nature. She took an
absolute crap all over Philadelphia. And some people think that
Philadelphia is already crap, but of snow, of snow in
(04:43):
that game and the Rams went toe to toe. It
wasn't until late in the second half where Jalen Carter
and Graham and all those dudes up front just they
had no answer. Matthew Stafford fumbled the ball and they
just couldn't overcome that. And the Rams just barely, just barely.
(05:05):
The Eagles hold on to win that game. So they
have them as the seventh best team in the power rankings.
All right, coming up next, right, gotta be the Seattle Seahawks, Right,
probably Yeah, not so fast, my friend, as lead Corso
would say. And this might even surprise you anymore. Who
do they have second in the NFC West, The Arizona Cardinals?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
What I kid you not? I do know. I'm not lying.
I'm lying on the Cardinals, but I don't think they're second.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Their projective record, they have it rounded off to a
decimal nine point three wins to seven zero point seven losses,
eight nine and eight ish around there, and it says
quote Arizona's given a decent chance to pull out their
division this season at nineteen point three percent, but even
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a better shot at making the playoffs as a wild
card at forty three point six percent. The Josh swetsigning
was a statement of intent from the Cardinals after doubling
their win total from four to eight. Jonathan Gannon's team
seems intent on improving a defense that ranked twenty seventh
in the league last year. To snap the team's three
(06:17):
year playoff drought, they drafted Walter Nolan out of Ole
Miss and Will Johnson out of Michigan to become day
one starters. With the Niners taking a step back, the
Cardinals now have a prime opportunity to clinch their first
division title since twenty fifteen. After starting strong at six
and four, they struggled down the stretch and finish at
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two and five. However, your sheer squad appears better positioned
across the finish line, especially following a solid draft. Did
not see that one coming, did not see that one
coming at all. Wow, the Arizona Cardinals. All right, okay, Mark, well,
you gotta be pulling our legs here. Surely the Seahawks
(07:02):
gotta be there in third place? And what no, no,
and like here's the worst hears the like Okay, so
I left one thing out. They've got the Cardinals is
the fifteen best team in the league. They got them
upper half right after the Cardinals as the sixteen best
team in the league.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
They've got the forty nine ers ahead of the Hawks.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Quote unlike the Cardinals above them here, the forty nine
Ers have a sixty two point three percent chance of
making the playoffs in a twenty one point two percent
chance of winning their division. That all equates to thirty
two point five percent chance of actually making the Divisional round,
the top figure of any of the wild card contenders.
(07:49):
Teams ranked outside the top ten here Anders, I might
have lost for words.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You go, yeah, I just I don't get it. I
don't get it.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't think they had a go draft. H They're
losing space with signing Brock Party. That's going to hurt
him in the long run. What was it sixty million
dollars a year, like.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
One hundred and eighty one? Guarantee you all all.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's just no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
No no. That's that's why the only thing I can say,
like WTF or you thinking.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I see them losing players left and right. I
don't see them filling in any of those spots. I
get I like Sean, Mike Shane or Kyle Shanahan as
a coach, but I don't think he can mask the
roster issues that they've had recently. And uh, you know,
I just I don't know. I'm out of loss for words.
I have one thing to say, serious, yeah, right, seriously,
(08:44):
that's great. That yeah, yeah, yeah to me. I look
at the Nyers, I look at last place. Yeah, I
just see last place. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I think Kyle Shanahan will be gone on his own accord,
or Jed York will just step in and say, hey, Kyle,
John Lynch I've given you a decade.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You eyes got us to two Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You pissed down your leg in the first one with
Jimmy Garoppolo with a ten point lead in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
God, it makes me so happy. I know it wasn't
that great.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And then and then Brock Purdy, but I.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hate the Chiefs too, and I just but I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
The Niners to win in so so you gotta be okay, Mark?
All right, wait a second, So everybody out there driving
right now, and keep your hands at ten and two
and your eyes on the road, don't drive off to
not drive off the road. So they got the Rams
ranked as the seventh best team in the NFL. They've
got the Arizona Cardinals at fifteen. They got the San
Francisco forty nine ers at sixteen. Who've gotten They've had
more losses this year than Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Okay, so where are the ORP ditty? Where where are
the where are the Seal?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So? Mark, the Seahawks gotta be seventeen? Right?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Houston Texans, well eighteenth right? No, former you dump Cornick
Michael Pennix and the Falcons, well, they've got to be
top twenty nope, Dolphins nineteen enving Dallas Cowboys at twenty.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, where the he oh oh.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Folks, And this is where it all goes to hell
to me, this is where if I could print this out,
I would. I would print it out, and if I
ran out of toilet paper, would use it if I
ran out of toilet paper to wipe myself after a
solid bowel movement. They put the Jets at twenty one.
But if the Sahawk the Jets the worst franchise at
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Pro sports this side of Cleveland Browns. The Jets at
twenty one with Justin Fields, are you kidding me? That's
at this point I just said, okay, well, this thing's
full of crap. Then they have Geno Smith and the
Raiders at twenty two. Oh, and then it gets even worse.
It gets even worse. The New England Patriots, the New
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England Patriots who couldn't score with a fistful of one
hundreds at your favorite strip club at the Spearmint Rhino
in Vegas, The New England Patriots the worst offense this
side of the Jets or Browns. They ranked the Patriots
ahead of the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Get it, I do?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't get it at all. I want to hear
what their explanation is for Seattle.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
So here we go.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
They ranked the Seahawks below the Jets, the Raiders, and
the Patriots at number twenty four. I'm sorry, folks, it
took thirteen minutes to get here because I didn't come
up with this list, and now I think it's trash
all right. Projected record for the Seahawks seven point one
wins to nine point nine losses, So they basically say
they're going to be seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And here's what they say.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Seattle has some quote, Seattle has some tough road trips
this season and a far out chance of making the
playoffs at twelve point one percent.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That's a good like.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm saying it in a question mark because I'm having
trouble believing it. Still, they can potentially play spoiler with
some intriguing divisional matchups down the stretch and some NFC
South matchups that could help shape both divisions. The Seahawks
underwent as much turnover as nearly any team in the
NFL this season after trading away Gino Smith and DK Metcalf,
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along with a host of veteran defensive releases. The Seahawks
are betting big on Donald and Mike McDonald to keep
a younger team in contention, Seattle made a smart first
round pick in Gray's abel, which should help improve the
last year's thirty th ranked offensive line by pfsn's metrics.
Elijah Royo also helps Donald as a seam weapon, adding
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a vertical element to compliment Jackson Smith and Jigbot and
Cooper cup. Still, Seattle's offense feels a little incomplete without
a true X receiver. Jaln Milroe is as interesting as
any QB prospect beyond cam Ward, but is unlikely to
contribute much to the twenty twenty five team. Hawks took
a big step forward on defense last year, finishing sixth
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and pfsn's metrics. Much of the young cores back in
place after McDonald found the right personnel left to push
following the team's Week ten by on its own, the
unit should keep the Seahawks competitive, but unless Darnold shows
he can thrive outside of the Kevin O'Connell ecosystem, Seattle
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could be hard pressed to improve on last year's ten
to seven record. Somebody there clearly does not like the Hawks,
because listen to this.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Listen to this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They got them ranked behind the Jets, the Raiders, the
Patriots in one spot above Jacksonville Anders.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't get it. I don't either.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I mean, and I haven't been here long enough to
be drinking the kool aid. I'm just looking as objectively
as possible. I just don't They couldn't have the Seahawks
season as wrong as they could possibly if they tried.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And I think that they're gonna be eating their words
come this season. And I think the Seahawks are gonna
be one of the surprising teams in the NFL. And
to have them in last place and to have them
behind they have one of the top five defenses in football.
They even admitted on this thing they have them behind
the Jets, Raiders in Patriots.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, that just makes no sense to me.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And I think the biggest off season acquisition was Klinck Koop. Yeah,
that's gonna be the type of offensive coordinator that gets
the most out of this offense, right without hindering the defense. Right,
You're not gonna lose games with your offense like you
did last year a couple of times. So Yeah, I
just don't get it. I really don't. Where would you
have them ranked if you were doing power rankings? And
I'm with you, I'm not a huge power rankings guy,
(14:35):
especially like Okay, so the whole point of this article
is like power rankings after the schedule lease. Isn't the
point of power rankings to be like no matter who
you're playing against? So the schedule leae shouldn't have anything
to do with this. It's just about how good of
a football.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Team you are?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Right? What is going on?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
So where's you have them ranked in your power rankings?
Above halfway? Above sixteen? Yes, I would have them about
fourteen or fifteen, Okay, i'd go twelve for interesting, Yeah
maybe before like I would Yeah, I would have them
in the upper half of the league. Yeah, I think
I'm with you there. I think this defense might be
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the best in the NFL. Like, at the end of
the day, it might just be the best in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, I mean Philadelphius would probably have something to say
about it that day, will I right?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
If you look at this, like Humillan goes over these
stats all the time, but if you look at the
second half after they brought in Ernest Jones. The Seahawks
were the best scoring defense and I believe the best
total defense in the NFL for the second half of
the season. But I have to double check those. But
as soon as Mike McDonald's starting to get his guys in,
and he's only doing more of that now with the
draft picks, I think this is gonna be a huge
(15:40):
step forward. Plus I'm looking for big things from Biron
Murphy this year. I think his rookie year was a
little underwhelming, and I think he's gonna be a huge
piece and turn into that player that we all expected
when we drafted him in the first round last year.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah. I the fact that they have them ranked so
low is just they couldn't be more. ROW mean, that's
this is the one team And I'm looking at all
these teams ranked from twenty one and I'm like, did
they I mean, the Seahawks just missed the playoffs. Lest you,
I know, one of the games was a gift from
the Rams.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
But this team, their defense is it just got better
em and worry. I mean, they're gonna be even better
in the secondary. That front line. Leonard Williams. I'm sorry
they couldn't be and I'm not and I'm not just
being a homer. I'm just saying that this team is
like if you think the Seattle Seahawks are a seven
win team, and that's why I'm shocked that Vegas put
(16:32):
the over under at seven and a half. And like
you said, it's not just the schedule. Now, if they
were playing the AFC West and the NFC North, sure
I could, I wouldn't be as bullish on their record, right,
but they're playing the they're playing the the AFC South
(16:57):
and they're playing the NFC South. So I'm sorry, I
don't get it. Yeah, I don't get it. I really
don't get it. I never will. I'm sorry, man, I'm
that to me, they couldn't have been more wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
See. To me, it's just like you look at last year.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I'm just looking at things from a kind of bigger
picture view logically. Here, you look at last year, you
go ten and seven. Fine, you say the last game
Rams played all their bench players, like, okay, we'll say
nine and seven and kind of acts that game. But
there's no way this team's worse than last year. Right, No, No,
I don't think any way this team is worse than
(17:35):
last year. No, so at the very least you're a
nine win team, very least, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Very least.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I would say that's a pretty safe estimate. I would
say it's a pretty good if you're at a casino
and you can get the Seahawks at over seven and
a half wins. But do it, just do it. I
mean that to me is a really solid bet there.
I'm not someone who you know, like I said, when
I was okay for a little bit, but then they
(18:04):
put the Niners ahead, I'm like, all right still and
then but then you put the Seahawks below the Patriots
and Jets.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It makes no sense, zero sense, absolutely zero sense. So
we'll see what happens coming up. Could one of the
worst things happen here in Seattle? The hate watch continues,
The hate watches on. It is on. Oh and by
the way, I got something here for the people in Toronto.
(18:37):
Have you not come to grips Toronto with the Leafs
being the Chicago Cubs, the new Chicago Cubs of sports.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Bettam Meller, Chuck mean, Oh my lord, I mean it's
just oh and I'll tell you, I'll make a prediction
of the Kraken versus the Leafs in the future coming
up next.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Oh yes, okay, we'll.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Get there are certain guarantees in live death taxes and
the Leafs not getting forget about the Stanley Cup, not
even getting to the Western Conference final. Oh my lord, Hey,
Canada jump aboard those oilers because the bet don't no.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
No, but they're the best.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
They're the best chance of that country winning the first
Stanley Cup in thirty two years. You better jump aboard
that oiler bandwagon because other than that, man, you got
no chance at Canada winning a Stanley Cup anytime soon.
We'll get to all that next on MJ and the
Midday ninety three to three kJ r TM Everett fits
you coming up at the top of the noon hour.
(19:39):
I put a future bet on OKC to win the
NBA Finals. Now I started to feel a little bit
different during the first round, I said, when Denver could
give them a run. So I actually put more money
on Denver to win the West and the NBA Finals.
Yesterday I had to get that money back that I
placed on Denver, so I put money in a parlay
(20:03):
on OKC minus eight and a half and the over
to go over twenty fifty two hundred and fifteen points,
and it went over in the end, thankfully.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oh did that?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Does sweat that one out? So I want you to
know I was with you yesterday and I put my
money where my mouth is. I wanted Denver to win
that I had to hedge on OKC. But how much
were you disappointed anders into everybody out there yesterday when
you saw OKAC get to that second quarter into the
(20:34):
third quarter and I mean just lay the SmackDown on
the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna admit something that because I was watching
the Mariners game at the same time with my buddy
and I just didn't want to put myself through it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
So when it was like thirty seven, you decided to
not be a masochist.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
No, No, I got it. I don't like pain like
some people do. No, but no, it sucks, man. I
don't even know why. I mean, I know why, but.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Wait, but you still feel this way seventeen years later.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, and that's my point is like at first, I
actually what Maybe it was because I was younger, but
I wasn't as.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Like in twenty twelve when they went to the final
I didn't. I didn't hate the hate hate them.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I was reading for the heat at okay point, okay,
but I wasn't like hate hate the thunder as I
do now. The longer it goes you would think, the
less you would feel because it's farther away from it happening.
But the fact that we still don't have our team
makes me hate them even more.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I get that, by the way, excellent salient point out
of you. I can see that. And the fact that
where's the announcement, Like, where's give us something? I know
the Board of Governors is gonna meet in July. It's like,
are we gonna now have to wait for who's the
new team?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh? The Portland Trailblazers gonna be sold? Is that gonna
be another thing we gotta wait for?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Two it nothing should have to do with it.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And I just if you're out there hate watching, that
was a tough one yesterday. That was that was That
was a tough one. And I understand that. I completely
totally get it. I know Softy had bought a nuggets,
you know, I don't know hood It's like sweat was
zip a poddy or sweatshirt or whatever he did or
on shirt for the game yesterday. I gotta tell you,
(22:13):
I hate to say it. And that's why yesterday, after
putting the money some money when I was at the
casino here in Seattle on the Nuggets, after I had
already placed money on the Thunder, I had to get
that money back yesterday because I just said, I said.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's not gonna be the It's not gonna be the
Nuggets day. Today, They're gonna get to asses kick and
they started off so good.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But it go to show you in the NBA, you
can have a ten point lead, you can have a
twenty point lead. Hell, in the playoffs, the Thunder were
losing to the Grizzlies by twenty nine points in the
first half and they came back and beat them, and
they're no le listen. Having a large lead in the
(22:57):
NBA is like walking through a line I've war zone.
It's never safe. It's never safe. It is just never safe.
Yeah you you you know what I mean. It's like no, no, no,
And like I just felt and I'm like, oh man,
and it was brutal once you got to the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And it was just s g a.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Jalen Williams Hartenstein Home Grin and it was just they
were raining and there's nothing Denver could do.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Wallace too, like that guy was right. I don't even
know his first name. I have their a wagon man.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh oh Cason Cason Wallace, Yeah, yeah, Cason Wallas and
they are a wagon.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And how about this?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
With like eight and a half minutes left in the
fourth quarter, Adamman pulled the entire Nugget starters wave.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He waved the way you never really see.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
They were down by twenty like but but no, actually
might even been earlier than that, early in the fourth quarter.
He just waved a white towel. He's like, we're done, Yeah,
We're done.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Does that? Does that?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And I'm asking this to the text line the voice
text line out there as well. You could go to,
of course, the new improved i Heeart Radio app ninety
three three KJR. Hit the microphone icon button. Does it
kill you to see a team that you hate, whether
it be okayc the forty nine Ers, the Rams, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Does it hate?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Does it kill you more when they do well? Then
make you happier when your team does well? So do
you like? Do you would you rather see them lose?
On a bigger spot, Like, I know a lot of
people here. No sleep was lost or tears were shed
when Ohio State beat the living crap out Oregon like nobody.
(24:45):
But did that make you feel better than it did
when Pennix and the Huskies the year before beat Oregon
not once, but twice.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
If it's against Oregon, so that counts both. Maybe, Like
the Texas game is a better Okay, the Texas won?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Okay, there we go.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah, did you feel better watching Oregon get their asses
kicked down thirty four to nothing Jeremiah Smith destroying them?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Then it did win?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You dubbed did the same thing in the semi final
playoff to Texas and Quinn Yours the year before. It's
it's a double sword edged sword question. You really don't know.
It's kind of like, oh wow. But for me, I've
gotten to a point in my life that I you know,
what's weird you have?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It depends what day you ask me.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I actually think I like to see my most hated
teams lose as much, if not more than my favorite
teams win.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, and let me go to the kind of bringing
this all back to the thunder. My biggest question is
because my biggest issue with the Thunder winning is because
we don't have a team right now. I don't know
how I'm gonna feel if when the Sonics come back, okay,
and then the Thunder win, well, I still hate them
as much as like text line, let me know how
you feel about that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I know, I'm j you're kind of new to the area,
but you understand, Yeah, the vitriol or Oregon, so yeah.
I mean, I don't know how you would feel if
you were a Seattle fan. Uh, and if the Sonics
get their team back, but then after that point the
Thunder win a championship, how would you feel?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Would you still hate them? Yes? I would.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I mean to say, series, I'm putting myself and someone
who was born like just say, I was born and
raised here in my whole life, and uh in Maple
Valley next to you know where Ian Forest lives and
I was there, and and I I would I do.
I would never want the Thunder to win a title.
I would never want Oregon to Well, don't worry about
Oregon whin the national title.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That'll never happen. We know that they'll always get there.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They always they could be the number one ranked team
all season long and then they'll get exposed and they
like they did last year. Yep, that all in the
middle of the fields stands for how many national titles
they have, so uh, you know, No, I would never
want the Thunder, I would never want Oregon. I would
never want the Astros to win another World Series, the Rangers,
and certainly not the freaking forty nine Ers. No.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Oh, my lord, by the way, that makes this I'm
kind of when I go to hate watching, I'm very
wishful thinking. I've been like praying on the Astros downfall,
saying that they're gonna finally the bottom is gonna fall
out underneath them for the past three years, but they
keep just fighting back and getting the playoffs. Same thing
with the forty nine Ers here, I'm really low on
them this year. I think the bottom could fall out.
I think they might be the worst team in the NFCI.
(27:30):
I agree, But I just love that they're like what
ten year run you could put the end of Harbaugh
Zra and then the beginning of Kyle Shanahan's era is like,
that's like the golden era of or one of the
golden eras of forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Football, and they didn't win anything. They didn't win nothing.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They went to three Super Bowls since twenty twelve and
then came up Bow and three they came up. Now
the closest one, yeah, I would say the first one
with Jimmy g They were up by ten points in
that fourth quarter and and and what was it? I
heard Softy feel it now? And then and then afterwards
Greg Papa, we were so close, we were so go well,
(28:14):
not close enough their sweetheart, not close enough there. You know,
it's weird too, like as I was growing up, you know,
and like into the late eighties early nineties, the Niners
never lost to Super Bowl. They would four to oh
in Montana and one and oh with Steve Young, they would.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
They would five and oh in their first five.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They were the Patriots before the Patriots, they were, and
they overtook the Steelers. The Steelers had the most Super
Bowls until the Niners get and now they can't know
now I think this year that the forty nine Ers,
it's I can I have a premonition and I can
just see this team.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I don't see them.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, they're gonna win eight to to maybe seven to
nine games. I don't see them being a playoff team
at all, and that Pro Football Network power rankings is crap.
And here's the thing about it, not because they just
ranked the Seahawks last in the division. It's because they
ranked them below the Jets, Patriots, and Raiders above Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Somebody there clearly has some Seattle hate going on, no
doubt about it. Uh So you know that's all all right?
I had another winner for you Friday night. I'm gonna
give another one to you coming out in the next segment.
I hope you are listening to these picks. Anders Hurst
put together a montage. Now listen, i haven't been perfect
(29:37):
in the last week, but I've been pretty damn close.
We'll get to that next on beat the Books right
here at MJ in the midday, Everett fits you. Who's
gonna be the next cracking head coach? What are they
gonna do in the offseason? Mitch Marner. He's not gonna
win any Stanley Cups in Toronto. He's a number one
free agent out there. Could we get him over in
the PNW because I can.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Tell you, oh oh yeah, I'd be remiss.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let me pay off this tease the Cracking are closer
to winning a Stanley Cup than the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yeah,
I said it. Yeah, Hey Paul Bissonett, how's that working out? Now?
How you doing your little WWE promo on the oh
you were coming for you? You know, Florida Pit? How
that workout? You guys suck? You've sucked since nineteen sixty seven?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Did you know, Anders? I couldn't believe this.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Did you know there was a period and Leaf's history
from two thousand and five through twenty fifteen they missed
the playoff ten times in eleven years?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Did you know that? I did not, because they were
irrelevant at that point.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And I was there in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen
to see the Bruins beat the crap up. Hey, you'll
always be the Toronto loser Leafs. This is what you
are accepted. You're the new Chicago Cubs Boston Red Sox
of pro sports. The curses on you now. The Red
Sox got rid of that curse. They won four World Series.
(30:59):
The Cubs got rid of that curse. They won one
in twenty sixteen. The Leafs are the They are the
biggest cursed organization in pro sports. Let me just tell
you this right now, the Seattle Kraken are closer to
Lord Stanley Cupp than the Toronto loser Leafs. Beat the
books next on MJ in the Midday. Take that Toronto
(31:24):
Tonight's tough. Tonight's very tough. Friend of KJR. You hear
him on Softy and Dick for twenty five plus years,
Lee Sterling Paramount Sports. He's given out the Knicks tonight
plus six and a half at home again. I don't
like to bet on my favorite team, but if I
had to go one way for a game, I'd probably
(31:45):
lean that way. I don't think the Knicks win tonight,
but I don't think they lose by more than six
and a half points. All Right, So here's what I'm
gonna give you today.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
On this one.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I'm gonna go with the over. And if you've been
listening to my pixil recently, you're welcome. You're winning a
lot of money. You should be listening because I'm winning
money for you each and every day. Here, I'm gonna
go over to twenty one and a half on the
Nuggets thunder tonight. The Nuggets have to go all out,
they have to try to win this game, because if
they don't, then you're gonna have to try to win
Game seven on the road.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No case that happening. Nick Celtics.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Tonight gonna be ugly, but I think the Celtics will
pull it out.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Do I like that minus four and a half? I
don't like.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I don't like the sides, but I'm gonna go with
the total on this one. And I think both teams
are gonna come out, and I think the Celtics are
gonna find something with Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Derek White,
Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
We'll see what por Zingis can give it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Al Horford, I think it's gonna be a high scoring game,
So go with the over two oh seven and a
half tonight, Nicks Celtics. Uh, the heart of a champion's
gonna be tested tonight at home.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
If they're gonna win, they're gonna have to score a lot.
Come on, Denver, yep, yeah, I'm balling for him. Two.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
So it's gonna be both teams are gonna have to
score to win this game, and Denver's got to go
all out and they can't get one of seven from
Michael Porter.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So that being said, I'm not touching the sides.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Go over over to seventeen and a half, over to
seventeen and a half.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Bet it now, thank me later.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I don't ever like to take my favorite team, especially
in a big game, but myself and a friend of
the station. You always hear him on Softy and Dick
Lee Sterling from Paramount Sports when we've agreed on going
in together on a bet and on a game. We
are undefeated in the playoffs, undefeated tonight take the Knicks
(33:44):
minus two and a half. The next could have been
minus twenty and a half. It didn't matter on Friday night.
So so there you heard it. Thanks Andrew Hurst for
putting that together. A nice week. Believe that we heard
was that three and one or four and one last
four and one? All right for one last week? Not perfect,
but uh and Lee and I did this last week.
(34:06):
I wish I would have given this to you then
because the odds aren't as great now. But still it's
a wise investment. The New York Knicks are gonna win
the Eastern Conference Finals. Oh they're gonna win it. Lee
and I got it at plus one twenty five. Now
it's changed to minus one fifty I understand you don't
(34:26):
like to put up too much more money.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Then you're for one hundred dollars, but it could be worse.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I'm not asking you to lay two hundred to win
one hundred minus won fifty to win the series.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Here's the thing about it.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I think the Knicks are right now, and I look
at last year's series, because last year's series.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Was a killer.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
It went to Game seven, Jalen Brunson was hurt og
and Anobi didn't even play most of the series.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
He was really hurt.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
They didn't have a guy by the name of mchil Bridges,
and oh, by the way, didn't have a guy by
the name of Karl Anthony Towns. The Knicks are a
different team today than they were a year ago. They're
a better team today than they were a year ago.
And let me just ask you this. You know, and
I know, and even though see, the NFL.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Is different than the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Okay, green Bay is technically a small market, but it
doesn't matter in the NFL because you had Aaron Rodgers
there and then he had Brett Fahr before that, and
you got Jordan Love now and it's Green Bay. So yes,
technically it's the smallest market in the NFL, but it
isn't really. Can you imagine if the NBA gets Minnesota
(35:37):
in Indiana in the finalsoo, you.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Know what I mean? That's like, that's just.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Not that's a going to the dentist when you're ready
for like a complete total, and I went root canals
aren't bad anymore. So I can't say root canal. They're
actually not bad. I had one in January and they're
not as bad as they used to be. I never like,
but it's like, well, let's just say somebody putting ice
picks in your temples.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
That wouldn't be fun. That wouldn't be fun. Indiana, Minnesota.
You know what?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
That screams toilet ratings in the toilet. You can't have that.
The NBA needs the New York Knicks to make it
to the NBA Finals because the Lakers aren't in it,
Golden State's not in it, you know, and the Celtics
aren't in it.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
You need the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
So let me just tell you, and I do believe this,
this series will be officiated favored towards the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's how the NBA works, That is right.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's the only sport that you can say that, uh
oh there, you can't have like unless Indiana blows out
and if it's a close game.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
First of all, it's a close game.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
We see how the Knicks performing close games anyway, we
saw what they did to the Celtics. I just believe
the Knicks are headed to the NBA Finals for the
first time since nineteen ninety nine, with possibly the best
chance in my entire life, well the best chance of
my entire life for them when the title was ninety four.
Blew a three to two lead in the OJ Finals
against the Rockets and John Starks was horrible. But I
(37:05):
really believe they have a legitimate chance. And I think
this is a bad matchup for Indiana. And I think
the Knicks winning on Friday Night is gonna give him
some rest. They party Friday night with Timothy Shalome. I
read page six in New York Posts. Oh yeah, they
had a great time Saturday. They recovered Sunday, they rested Monday. Today,
They're gonna rest in Tuesday. Take the Knicks minus one
(37:27):
fifty in the Eastern Conference Finals. Bet it now, thank
me later, all right. Everett fitzgu haven't spoken to him yet.
On this show, we'll talk to him about where the
Kraken could go for their next head coach, and how
far the Kraken are away from celebrating as if they
would be the Edmonton Oilers, the Florida Panthers, the Carolina Hurricanes,
or the Dallas Stars. Next on MJ and the Midday
(37:49):
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