May 7, 2025 • 38 mins
Curtis Crabtree who overs all things sports jons the show to talk all things Mariners, from Julio Rodriguez's struggles, can the M's keep this up, and much more. 2025 NFL Schedule leaks, are they accurate, will the Seahawks start the season 2-0... We close the hour talking about Jalen Milroe and takeaways from rookie mini camp.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It just looks different.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This team wasn't able to pull out victories like they
did last night one year ago. What do you think
is if you have to one or three or five
reasons why this team, it really is the antithesis of
the twenty twenty four version.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh well, they can score some runs, which was a
big difference. You know, sometimes it can be that simple.
But you know, there's still flaws with this team obviously,
you know, with them picking up Layote Tavarius yesterday to
cover up some of their injuries, with with Victor Robus
and Luke Brayley out for long stretches here, and you know,
the pitching issues. You're still not sure exactly what Logan
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Gilbert's status is going to be. Like, there's still warts
on this team that they've got to work through and everything.
But the ability to actually put some runs on the board,
you know, and not have it be you know, once
in a blue moon, they're able to scrape across a
run or two like that part is different than last year.
But then again, they were also up ten games in
the standings last year as well, and that all disappeared too,
So it is still you know, quote unquote early in
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the baseball season, and there's still a lot we need
to learn about this team, but they are They have
a level of resilience because of their ability to score
some runs and you know, Polanco hitting three seventy and
cal leading the league in bombs and JP Crawford having
a healthy offensive year to start so far, all of
those are reasons why that they're able to score runs
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at a rate that they just were incapable of doing
last season.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's a great point, and you know it's interesting
and you talk about Taveras, it's an interesting reclamation project.
Here's a guy who was a top overall prospect in baseball.
He's got speed, he's averaging ten stolen bases a year
since twenty twenty one, hasn't been able to consistently hit.
And maybe now you look at what Edgar and Seitzer,
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Kevin Seitzer have done with this team, they feel like
they can do it. My only question on Taveres is
why would the Rangers let him go within the division
that's never usually a good thing. They're saying, oh, we
don't care where you go. You can even go to
our rival that's ahead of us now in the standings
that we're trying to beat out for a playoff spot.
So that's my only question. But we'll see, we'll see
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what happens. Obviously you want a big bad but where
do you see him For a guy like Taveries, Let's
just say that he's able to find a niche where
do you see him? He's a switch hitter, do you
where do you see him fitting in in this lineup?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, he can very clearly play right field and tell
any of their guys get healthy and return to the lineup,
and that's still gonna be a while. So you can
have him out there and at the very least you
know he can play a really solid defensive right field,
which given the fact that you were rotating Dylan Moore,
Miles Master, Bony, Samad Taylor, Ryland Thomas, you know, pick
you pick your random person starting in the outfield each day.
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It gives him at least a level of stability there
with a guy that's got well over a thousand, you know,
at bats in Major League Baseball, playing you know every
game for them, so in you know, if you want
to give Randy a day off and left I'm sure
he can help that out too. To where obviously with
him nursing his hamstring right now, he's not the most
capable of playing the outfield, and like today, today and
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tomorrow either as they don't want that to become any worse.
So there's places for him to get in the lineup
and help them in that regard. If you want to
give Julio day, you've got somebody you can play center
for you. So there's a lot of things that he
can do defensively that make the bat almost not matter
as much because they have other pieces in the lineup hitting.
It's not the biggest thing for them to go out
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and add a bat to fix this problem. They can
go get a strong defensive guy. And I mean, think
about it. All the little adjustments they've had to make
to the roster this year have skewed towards adding to
the defensive side, like when they bring up Williamson, when
they bring up Revos, and now you've got Tavaris and
right field, and the offense has still been able to
do enough to carry the way, So you can't just
rely on that. But the fact that they're keeping runs
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off the board as well at a clip that they
were doing better than the first week of the season
when Polanco was playing third and Ryan Bliss was at second.
They've kind of lucked into a better defensive lineup through
the injuries that they've had.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Curtis Crabtree from Fox thirteen here on MJ in the
midday on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Curtis, you know, the
interesting thing is that it's, like I said last year,
if this team was in that predicament last night where
they're going to trailing into the you know, the top
of the ninth inning, you really I mean on a
scale of one to ten. And I asked Christopher kid this,
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He said three or four. I said three, three and
a half. What would you have given their chance to
win it on a scale of one to ten a
year ago?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I would have been around there because they would
have had to do it with like multiple solo home runs,
because they had zero ability to string together it hits
and create offense in that kind of a way. So
ultimately that you know they're capabilities this year to string
things together and then set the table for cal to
come off the bench and get the big hit to
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drive in a couple runs. It's just kind of different
than what they've been able to do a year ago
when they had JP battling injuries and and Polanco's struggling
their injuries. And you know, you've got some guys that
have bat to ball skills that even if they're not
like the most like you know, powerful hitters in the
line up, they tend to find a way to make contact.
Whether that's Williamson or Rivas or Master Boney. It's it's
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just kind of a little bit of a different offensive
makeup construction where it's not just kind of home run
or bust for the offense too, so they can they
can put together bigger runs by string stringing together rallies
and not just needing to rely on the ball that
goes over the wall.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, and that's that's obviously something you can tell that
has been changed that Edgar and Kevin sites or they've
they've done. And Dan Wilson too, Let's give him credit
because it just everything looks much different when how long
and I think, as you can imagine, I'm getting a
ton of texts today, Curtis on the text line, people saying, hey, Mark,
don't eat Crow yet. This is the same team that
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blew a ten game lead last year. They have a
history of ripping our hearts out, stomping on it, picking
up and eating it. You cannot eat Crow until they're
mathematically in the playoffs. That's how it works here. So
I'm sure Curtis, you've been here a very long time
you can understand the skepticism of the fans here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, they've since I've been doing this job for fifteen years.
They made the playoffs once I grew up here, so
I certainly moved around for the other playoff runs too.
But like it's been a minute, you know, it's they
aren't somebody who does this regularly, and so there is
a very like you need to prove it to us
standpoint with what they because they you know, last year
wasn't the only year they've blown, you know, leads to
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miss the playoffs too. It's a very much kind of
a you need to prove it to us kind of mindset,
and whether you think it's justified or not, Like the
fan basis thoughts on the ownership group thinking like, yeah,
but when it comes time to go add something in
the deadline, they're not going to add to the payroll.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They're not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know, That's that's just what the narrative is going
to be until they again prove you otherwise. And so
picking up leote to Tavaris and eating the three point
seven million, I don't think is an insignificant thing to
at least, you know, mentally kind of note at the
time being. But you know, we'll see how they they
where they're sitting at the deadline, if they add some
more payroll to try to add, you know, to the
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mix to fix potentially first base, if that's you know,
scuffling along a little bit, thoughy rowdy Tlez has been
better since a pat start to the season. There are
things they can do to improve the team when you
get to that point in the year. But certainly doing
it from the top of the division is better than
the alternative.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No question about it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And overall, how much do you think that they can sustain?
I mean, they've gone seventeen and six in their last
twenty three since that extra innings excuse me, since that
rubber game against the Astros to win that series after
trailing five nothing early in the game of Rose Arena
hits the Grand Slam. How like do you think that
is this just a mirage, Curtis or is this just
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something that you know, like they can continue to keep
doing well.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We know that the starting pitching staff, if healthy, is
still very very good, and like with the baseline of that,
like the absolute bottom of their you know, their potential
for this year was like an eighty one win team,
Like the floor was not low because of the strength
of the pitching staff, and you know, barring this, you
know issue with the flexer strain with Logan Gilbert and
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exactly what that's gonna play out like and obviously we
know George Kirby's getting close to a comeback. Like, the
floor is still high for them. So I don't think
there's a ton of variance in what they do. And
if they continue to hit anywhere in the realm of
like this, like they're they're going to keep winning games.
I don't think the division's very good. The A's do
look like probably their toughest contenders so far to begin
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the season. I like the way that they've played in
every single game. But those guys has been really tight
and interesting. So maybe not what everybody expected coming into
the year, but that could be a really fun battle
to watch play out. And so yeah, I mean, I
probably only one team gets into the playoffs out of
this division at the end of the day. So you
got to win the division to do it. But right
now that you know, there's plenty to see the off
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of the same size that we have so far, it
seems relatively sustainable, barring barring more injuries. And you know,
the bullpen has been a touch shaky in moments, but
Brash is back now. I'm sure they want to give
Jackson Kohar a chance when he's ready to go later
in the season here too, We'll have to see how
that pieces together. But there's enough fundamentals here, I think
to think they're gonna be able to keep playing like
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this for a bit.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you'd like to see it, right. And Julio Rodriguez.
I've been very hard on Julio.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The night before he was zero for four, so I said,
Julio for four last night, you know, was awesome, three
for four, home run, monster shot.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Why can't he do this consistently?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Curtis Crabtree, Why is it just it's like every you know,
solar up like eclipse.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do we get Julio performing?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why can't we see this guy do it on a Now,
you're not gonna do it every game? He was one
hundred and sixty two, but just more often than he
usually does it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, I think the numbers have been trending this way
for more than you know, a little while, Like the
hard hit contact rate is up, and like he I
think he was getting a little unlucky with the Babbitt
numbers over the last couple of weeks here, so like
it was trending this way even if the balls weren't
starting to fall into play yet, and now I think
it's starting to potentially break through a little bit. I
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can't explain why he gets off the slow starts in
the season. I don't know to that necessarily, but he
certainly isn't the only guy who's tended to do that.
And if at the end of the year he's still
up around two eighty again with twenty five plus bombs,
like you're not going to really care about what to
start looked like. So I think Julio is kind of
on track to be Julio and maybe you want a
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little bit more out of it, but like, I think
he's starting to round in the form for the season
and to add to what they've already got, if they're
able to keep any of that kind of going as
a collective then, like they're in a pretty good place.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Polanco is as another guy that nobody saw before this season,
Curtis and here he is. He's having an MVP season.
I know it's thirty five games, but nonetheless he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And and then JP Crawford.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Who got off to a really slow start, he's starting
to turn it around now and he's has the current
longest active hitting streak in Major League Baseball after last night,
fourteen straight games. So both of these guys, if they
continue to be on these tears and trajectories, can this
team get to that one hundred win threshold.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh yeah, Well I don't think they're going to keep
doing this, but like they don't have to. Like I think,
you know, probably load of mid nineties is probably gonna
be enough to win this division and that's what they
need to get in the playoffs. And with the pitching staff,
it doesn't matter what the record was, like, you know,
once they get in with the pitching staff, they're gonna
be able to compete against anybody in baseball. So that's
the biggest thing for them is they just haven't been
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able to stack up enough wins to get there, because
they were always going to be dangerous if they could
get in because of the pitching staff. But yeah, I
mean getting Polanco out of the field to where he's
not beating himself up in the field every day and
playing DH And obviously the little oblique issue he's dealing
with means he's only hitting from the left side right now.
That's at least giving him some days off too, And
for what it's worth, he's taking advantage of her. Whether
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that's the reason or it's just circumstance, I don't I
don't know. I don't think he knows, but it's working
right now and he's hitting the he's hitting the cover
off the ball. And then ultimately with JP, like we've
seen him healthy and being able to hit in seasons past,
and it looks like that's where he's at right now.
He can get hot and on stretches and that seems
to be where he's at too. So sometimes just being
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healthy can be a big deal, And with those two guys,
I think it's shining through pretty clearly.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Curtis Curtis Crabtree joining us here on MJ in the midday,
and I'm not going to hit you with, you know,
kind of of a bunch of obscure trivia questions, like
your colleague Aaron Levine did me, Okay, I'm not going
to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
By the way, I leader board. By the way, yeah yeah,
by the way, I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Heard you had like eighteen minutes to answer questions. So congratulations. Yeah, no, no, no,
I heard you had like eighteen minutes there I had to.
I think he's asking me who sings sitting on the
dock of the bay. I'm like, yeah, maybe let me
call my ninety six zero grandfather in Florida and find out, like,
I'm sorry, it's not really in my demo. If you
had said, you know, I don't know something like Man
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in the Box smells like teen spirits, something more of
you know, or I don't know how about the World
is Mine or you know, of ether something like some
early nineties rap like nas or Tribe call quest or
you know, he's asking me questions, Curtis that like, you know,
what's the capital of this and that I'm like, I
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don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I'm like pass pass.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So congratulations, you want I heard it was a little
I heard from your colleagues, though it was a little
little a little shady there on those trivia and I
heard you had like eighteen minutes, So congratulates.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Here's the thing. We've got it on tape. I could
run it by you if you want to see it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, yeah, all right, well I still got I still
got I think nine in and you know, for for
what it's worth. But no, anyway, back to the MS.
Here come the Blue Jays and then the Yankees. So
they're going to face the Al East. They already won
two out of three against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
I'm really interested in. You know, they handle their own
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against Toronto, winning two out of three there at SkyDome,
and I want to see how they face against the
Yankees because this team is obviously a team that they
went to the World Series last year, and they have
arguably the best player in baseball and Aaron Judge, and
I want to see how they stack up. You want
to see the best versus the best, and so to me,
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that'll be a tell tale series.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well yeah, I mean Jorge Polanco is the best player
in baseball, right, That's what the opening says.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He's well, yeah, that's stats say that, no question.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, but no to think that that would be the
case that a Mariners hitter would be rivaling Aaron Judge
with the numbers that he's put up for the you know,
the best offensive player through the first month of the season.
Nobody had that on their Bengo card to start the year.
So yeah, they're often you know, that series is going
to be a lot of fun for sure, and you know,
at least there's not the short fortune right for right
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easy little Homer is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right exactly, But I know, no, seriously, it's it's like
it's worse. It's almost a remember like and still to
this day, we'd always say, well, you know Todd Hilton's
you know, home runs at Coors Field in Denver not
exact because they're just flying out at a rapid same
thing with Yankees. What is you know, two hundred and
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eighty five feet. It's not that, but it's close to that.
I'd like to see Aaron Judge's home run rate at
T Mobile.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, he would still hit the ball way out of
the park.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Here, Yeah, he probably, he probably would.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's still a forty plus home run guy in this
ballpark here too. But no, if you I mean, if he
wants to come join the Mariners. I'd be I'd take
up watching that every day. Oh yeah as well, like
I would would apply for that to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So let me out before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How far away is Julio from becoming a legitimate, true,
valid star.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I think he's a star. I don't know that he's
a superstar. And I think there's very few of the
guys in baseball that are that. So I don't know
that he's on the tier of you know, the Bryce Harper,
Aaron Judge, you know one Soto type.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He's not that. How do you how do you define
a star? Because I don't think he's a star.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, it's the same way people would have the definition
of quarterbacks in the NFL, right, like who's elite who's not?
Like it's everybody's criteria is going to be a little
bit different. He posts he plays every single game, dang
near he you know, hits two seventy in an era
where nobody hits for average anymore. Like I looked it
up with Jackson when he was in the station with
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us the other night. You know how many players in
Major League Baseball had a three hundred average last year?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Off the top of my head, I think it was
less than like twelve seven.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know it was.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was not much and you compare that to like
two thousand and one, I think there was over fifty.
So like it's it's a different sport nowadays. You have
to you know, have to have the power numbers kind
of play. He's got that and can still like he
still ends up being a well above one hundred ops
plus guy at the end of the season. Like he's
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he's a star. He's just not that like absolute, you know,
fear every at bat. He's in the box kind of
guy that goes up that absolute top tier of offensive player.
As yet, can he get there? Yeah, I think he's
got every skill to still get there, but he's he
hasn't been able to unlock that like some of those
other guys have it to this point. But he does
everything else in the game so well.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Defensively, you will know our I mean, he's Ken Griffy
Junior Skef with the glove. I'm not going to say
anything there about him. His defensive prowess is just and
he had another one the other night, and he's just
got it at the plate. Be more disciplined, more selective,
take more pitches, especially on the first pitch, and I
last night he did it too. And the ninth inning
he gets up there, he does take the first pitch,
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it was clearly a ball high and outside in the
dumb ass ump called in a strike and he just
he pulled back in the batter's boxes, like come on,
But uh, yeah, I think it's it's all relative compared
to what you define. Here's my thing, and I'm not
trying to Like I've seen it in Boston with Mookie Bets,
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Xander Bogart's and Raphael Devers.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I know what stars look like. And Julio's not there yet.
He's not.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, that's fine's I mean, look, speaking last night, the
umpiring was not very good. As somebody who saw how
it works in spring training like live, bring on the
challenge system tomorrow, like it's so much better. It's quick,
it's painless, and the Empires will get to wear it
when they're wrong, which is often. So I'm all for that. Yeah,
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I think there is a gap, you know, depending on
how you wanted to find that, which subjective of each person.
He's not in that absolute uffortier he's not at this point.
Can he get there? Yeah, I think he's got every
tool set to get there. He wants to come up
with the big hits so much. I think he chases
it at times, and that's where he gets in trouble.
But he's still got every skill you need to be
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to be that guy. Offensively, he's got every you know,
tool in the in the in the box. So we'll
see if he's able to unlock that here throughout his career,
because he's already a very very good player.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, so there we go. Now I feel like a
trial attorning today. You just went from star to very
good player.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There we got. There we go.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Curtis, all right, there there, okay, fair enough. That was
a That was a nice little one hundred and twenty
degree turn there. I appreciate that. All right, hey listen, man,
thanks for the time. Good catching up, and we'll have
to do it again soon.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Thanks man.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
All right, all right, Curtis Scrabtree from Fox thirteen here
in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, star two. He's a very good player.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's we all have different definition of stars.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We all do. Well. Listen.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I saw Mookie Betts, Okay, I saw him, and at
the time he was an All Star but then he
became the star, and he became that guy. And even
in Xander Bogart's now Devers, I mean those guys, and
of course Bregman's there now in Boston. So I've got
to see some guys and what it looks like. I
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think Julio has all the potential in the world. We've
just got to.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
See him do it consistently. Maybe last night was the
turning point. Maybe it is.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We'll wait and see, all right, something that never there's
no off season for the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We will go through the most.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Important dates and what you need, what we can go through,
and what you like and what should still be allowed
and what should be banned next on MJ in the
midday ninety three to three KJR FM. A week from
tonight or a week from today. Actually everything keep getting
used to the fact that get it's you know what,
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here's the thing about it, it gets all leaked earlier.
We all know this, we'll know you know what week
the Seahawks are going to Tennessee to face cam Ward
and the Titans, which they do this year. Seahawks have
a very winnable non division not schedule. It's like Titans
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Jaguars Colts. I mean, it's it's not tough. They have
some very winnable games. I already got some leaks. Oh
what do we got, Chris. Let's go all right, let's go, Bro,
don'ty crow, Bro.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Let's go at fourteen Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams? Where
at Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay? Okay?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thanksgiving Day slate is rumored to be one o'clock Steelers
and Lions for twenty Arizona Cardinals at Cowboys. Okay, finale,
Rams at the Titans.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Cam Ward's getting a Thanksgiving Day and well, by the way,
everybody here that night will be rooting for cam Ward,
right root, I'm to beat the Rams. I want to
just state one thing, just to let people know and
let me just please. I don't know why i have
to make this point of clarification, but I'm gonna do
it anyway. I hate Oregon, I hate the Ducks, but
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I think that Dan Lanning is an excellent coach, and.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I trade.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I would trade a lot of stuff in my life
for Dan Lanning to be the coach of the Miami Hurricanes.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A lot of things.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Look at this week one match, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So back to that so I don't like Oregon. I
just want all the Husky fans out there to know,
don't get butt hurt. But you have to admit and
give credit. Recrez due and Dan Lanning to me is
a good coach. All right, back to the NFL. What
do we got?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Week one? Raiders at Eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So that's going to be starting the season week one? Well,
that's the no. But that's the first game of year
on Thursday night. Raiders at Eagles. On Geno Smith? Gino
Smith on Thursday Night with the red carpet and all
the pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Where are you seeing this?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
By the way, this is twenty twenty five NFL schedule leaks.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh they do it every year.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So so you're already getting in a week ahead of time,
which is crazy. So Gino Smith, the Northstern Rack quarterback,
gonna go up against the Super Bowl champions on the
first game of the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh wow, Cowboys at Jets Week one, one pm.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Alright, am, start listen, let's keep it any What about Seattle.
I'm not seeing anything, not see anything.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Oh here it is?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What we got?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
What do we got Seahawks at the Titans.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Wee one, oh cam Ward, oh LFG, I might go
to that one.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Wow, whoa Christopher Kidd breaking news.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Very good, that's a very that should be an easy
due for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Well, don't forget on the road. It should be. But
you know, you know, Week one certain.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But yes, the Seahawks, I'm gonna go ahead and say right.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Now, want to no, no.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Hold on, They're gonna be about a three two and
a half to three point favorite in that game, maybe
about about there.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I would say five and a half.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't think. So let's leave the gambling lines up
to me there, sweetheart, I'm sticking by five and a half. Listen,
you gotta remember Seattle, Sam Darnold, right, I mean, this
isn't this isn't twenty fourteen Hawks. This is we don't know.
Here's the thing, we don't know. So that's what I'm
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telling you. A road favorite in the NFL, unless you're
the Eagles, the Chiefs, the Lions and those the Commanders,
Seahawks aren't gonna get that respect from the oddsmakers.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
And the Titans shouldn't get any because they were Well
I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But that should be a win. I would say one
to zer. Let's start there with the one and O
over cam Ward and please Seahawks fans after the Seahawks win,
don't say, oh can't Ward's a boss? Oh he sucks.
So it's one game. And remember who did y'all? Who
did the Seahawks beat in the first couple of weeks
The last season they beat the breaks out of out
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of this guy here in Seattle, BONEECKX and the Denver Broncos.
Remember that game, Christopher, And after that Bonex and the
Denver Broncos went on to make the playoffs. So don't
but I think Tennessee. Yes, Seahawks at Titans Week one.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Whoa week two they are playing their home against the Saints,
the easiest schedule.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Chew it. Oh baby, that's crazy toe it. Oh, here
we go, here we go to it all.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I love it, but here we go here I'm doing
the uh the classic w F A N Mike Francesa,
Chris rus.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
So, that's will win, that's a loss, that's will win.
That's a loss. That's two and oh right now for
the Seahawks, right then and there, book it to book it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I'm I'm hey listen. I'm all in there. That's a
two and oh start to the season. You can't lose
a Tennessee. I mean they they like like they and
in the city the eighths.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The Aints are coming in here.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No, no, Sants are coming to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The Aints are coming in here. The Aints are coming
in with Uh who did I'm trying to think, who
did they take at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Was it Shuck? I think that they took Shuck class.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, let's let's do that, I think because I know
that we obviously know they passed on on Chadure.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But uh, you know, yeah, that's that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So Tyler, Tyler Shock, there we go, Tyler Shock, Welcome,
Welcome to the Twelves fan. Welcome to Baptism by fire, sweetheart.
You're gonna get your ass kicked in Week two at Loomanfield.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Let's go two and oh. How about that, Christopher kid.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm impressed, man, you're your investigative research went up to
another level today with me.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I love it. I absolutely now Week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
The twenty twenty five regular season will end on January
fourth of next year. That much I can tell you
that much is guaranteed. So January fourth will be the
week eighteen, the final two and oh to start the season. Yeah,
you better not lose to a rookie quarterback on their
I don't give a crap where that game is at.
I don't care if they put that game back at
West Columbia, Texas where cam Ward's from. You lose that game,
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oh boy. Two and oh to start the year. Congratulations Hawks,
I love it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
The Seahawks will close the season at home against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's another win. And by the way, maybe they won't
need to win it. Maybe that time they sit their
starters like the Rams did. Delighted to hear that, all
right here the international games, the Chargers are at Corinthius Arena,
A very good.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Scar, very good Chris. Two and oh, there you go
Hawks fans too. And oh to start.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I mean those are guaranteed wins. Guaranteed wins. I don't
care what. Forget about the lines, forget it. Let's put
the spreads over to the side here for a second.
You were when I make my picks, you'll have that.
You'll be lucky enough to have to have that when
the time comes around. That's two and oh at Titans
Saints at home. Two and oh, No doubt, bro Two
(28:18):
and oh. So you're starting off the season. You just
gotta win nine more, get to get to that eleven
twelve win threshold. You're good. So the Indianapolis Colts are
going to Berlin, the Dolphins in Madrid, Steelers in Dublin, Jacksonville,
they shl might as well move to London. The Browns
mine as well move to London as well. Tottenham and
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the Jets will also be at Tottenham and London this year.
So two and oh for the Seahawks, Chris did not
know going into this segment you were gonna be able
to find out that information, mister Forgidt.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
As soon as you said schedule, I was like, oh yeah,
schedule leaks. They're pretty good at getting that information.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
How do you feel about that, Seahawks fans two and
oh to start the year. Is no chance they lose
either one of those games, and if they do, guess what, Seattle,
we got a problem. We have a major, major problem.
And here we go. Cam Ward's gonna be a boss
the yeap. Yeah, I know, I know, yeah, I'm Jay.
(29:17):
Once you're able to get a restaurant, sponsor, business, or author.
Do not scream the endorsement like no I will. I'm
not gonna say who does. No, I'm not gonna go there,
not gonna go there. Hey, I don't have a problem
with it, because listen, if they're sponsoring you, then whoever
it would be, I'm gonna go above and beyond for
(29:38):
my sponsors, for a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So that's what I'm gonna do. How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Not sure you've seen a Hawks game the last five years,
then no, I know, but you can't. You can't get
to you can't lose the first two. Those are those
are where you're looking at the schedule right now. Those
are winso would be guaranteed wins. I know, nothing's guaranteed
in the NFL. You lose to cam Ward, I don't
(30:06):
want to be in here on Monday, the day after
Week one saying you just lost to a rookie quarterback
who has nothing but trash around him. He well, Tyler
Lockett not trash, but you know what I mean, Tyler
Lockett is probably gonna be his number one receiver. Really,
I mean, he's gonna have his college guy, Xavier Streppo,
(30:26):
who probably will make the team who runs a four
to eight. So you can't lose that game. You just
can't lose to cam Ward and you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You can't. You just can't do it. So there we go.
Another thing. When are we gonna get this Aaron Rodgers
Steelers decision? Like? What's up with this?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Like, I listen, I have no problem with Aaron Rodgers
waiting until after the draft. He wanted to see if
the circus shoulder Sanders was coming in town now. Instead,
they drafted Will Howard in the fifth round out of
Ohio State. I think that could be good for them
down the road. It's a fifth round pick. But Aaron Rodgers,
do you want to play football this year or not? Bro?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Like, let's make a decision here, dude, let's go. I mean,
come on, man.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Aaron glid did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I just think Aaron Rodgers and the Jets was a
complete It was a cluster bleep to begin with there,
Aaron Glenn. I mean, you know, we'll see what happens there.
I don't know, but I think Justin Fields is better
for that team right now. But Aaron Rodgers, let's see
what happens. So how about Seattle Seahawks fans, Are you
happy you're gonna start off the twenty twenty five season two?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And oh, are you happy about that?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Allegedly?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We hope, we hope, but that should be an easy two.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And oh, right then and there, I mean, Tyler, you're
gonna face two rookie quarterbacks back to back, cam Ward
and Tyler shuck right there, back to back. That's you
can't lose to rookie quarterbacks. You know what Bill Belichick's
record was versus rookie quarterbacks. I only think he had
one loss in New England versus rookie quarterbacks as the
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Patriots head coach. He owned them. If you're gonna be great,
that's what the Seahawks need to do. They need to
own rookie quarterbacks playing and simple.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So Christopher Kidd breaking news here. I'm very impressed, Chris, very.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Hopefully it's right.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
How funny would it be if it's like, oh, the
Seahawks will take on the Steelers week one, which I.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Think would be a better draw if you ask me, Yeah,
we'll see them, right.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
The leagues have I mean, I don't know how long
they've been doing those leaks, but I've seen it before.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And I didn't think you did it this early. That's impressive.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's only a week now, but still, like I thought
we'd get it a few days before.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You got it really early. Man, I'm giving you credit. Man,
take it. We take credit credit.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Due me eating crow of these are all wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, if the schedule comes out in the first week
they're playing Houston, in the second week they're playing you know,
San Francisco, and be like wtf, bro, Like what happened?
I thought we were gonna thought this team's gonna be
two and oh.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Well, you know, well they can still be doing.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
They could be Niners are tra I not trash, but
they're just I don't believe in them.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They're old, they're injured.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I just think that that they are prolonging the inevitable,
which is I think Kyle Shanahan no longer being the
head coach.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I think Kyle's gonna leave. He's gonna see the right
in the wall and say, well I'm gonna go, and he'll,
by the way, he'll get a job in less than
eight seconds. He'll be a free agent as a head coach.
I just don't see anything. I think that window of
opportunity for the forty nine ers is gone. You went
to two Super Bowls, one with Jimmy G and one
with Brock Perty. You had leads in both and Jimmy
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G pissed down his leg in the fourth quarter with
a ten point lead. And I just think that that
San Francisco, that window of opportunity is gone. It's gonna
be different here in Seattle, all right, Christopher Kidd's co
host on the Seattle Seahawks podcast, Tell everybody.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
The name of it Seahawks Man to man, Man a man.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Mike Dugar went to rookie camp.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What does he think about Jalen Milroe and some other
takeaways will find out next on MG in the midday
ninety three to three KJR, the draftees rookie free agents
tryout participants in a couple second year pros. Jalen Milroe
was a guy that is the most intriguing player, and
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he was asked what it's like to be part of
this eleven man Seahawks draft class. He's wearing number six,
so that's going to sell a lot of jerseys. He said, quote,
it was a great feeling when I walked on the field.
I just acknowledged where I was at. My parents made
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a joke, it's like your first day of class today.
It's definitely cool to be an NFL quarterback. Get my
feet wet, get acclimated with everything. So for Seattle to
have a guy at that position, it's it's interesting to see.
(34:58):
And as you well know, Sam Darnold is QB one,
he got fifty two and a half million dollars guaranteed
to be the starting quarterback here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But Jalen Milroe is a guy who has.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
A ton of athleticism, is not going to be asked
to come in and produce from the pocket or behind
center from day one. And Mike Dugar's article in The
Athletic said, from Jalen Milroe quote, You've got to know
it like the back of your hand. In terms of
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the scheme, you've got to get extra time in with
the coaches. One thing that's for certain. The meeting time
is not enough for grasping the offense. You've got to
take extra time aside when you're not around the coaches,
whether you're with your teammates and whether you're at home.
Always take time to grow and learn the system. Because
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when you know the system and when you have great preparation,
you play even better, and it kind of rubs off
on the other guys. So Milroe was there. Will Rogers,
former Washington Huski's quarterback, was also there. He's got no
chance at making the team, but Milroe appeared to take
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most of the reps and obviously you can understand he's
gonna come in at QB three and they asked.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Him, what are your goals for.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
The year, and he says priorities are being the best
version of himself, a good teammate, and earning everyone's trust. Quote.
With that comes other things, but that's number one. Any
guy that comes in, no matter where you're selected, the
first pick in the draft, to mister Irrelevant, it doesn't matter.
You're trying to earn the respect and trust of everybody
in the locker room and organization. With that comes to
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being a good teammate as well, being a good teammate
to Sam Darnold, Drew Locke, everyone in the room, the coaches,
showing that I care, I'm studying. Other goals come with that,
but the heart of everything is that end quote. So
we'll see. But Milroe gave a strong endorsement in Mike
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Dugar's article on the athletic of tight End, Elijah Royo quote, well,
actually Royo did of Jalen as well. I love Jalen.
I love the way he plays. I feel like we're
going to have a good connection moving forward. The ray
he throws the ball, the way he moves, he has
a chance to be quote an elite quarterback at the
highest level. So interesting to see what's gonna happen, Mini
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Camp and all those great things.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
But Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Those number six jerseys you can buy him now, they're
going to be selling like hotcakes pretty soon. All right,
coming up next, time to eat Crow, bro, Time to
eat Crow And why this was brought to my attention
and I didn't figure it out? The clock is already
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ticking for Shadur Sanders in Cleveland. I'll explain that next
right here on MJ in the midday ninety three three
KJR FM
It just looks different.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This team wasn't able to pull out victories like they
did last night one year ago. What do you think
is if you have to one or three or five
reasons why this team, it really is the antithesis of
the twenty twenty four version.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh well, they can score some runs, which was a
big difference. You know, sometimes it can be that simple.
But you know, there's still flaws with this team obviously,
you know, with them picking up Layote Tavarius yesterday to
cover up some of their injuries, with with Victor Robus
and Luke Brayley out for long stretches here, and you know,
the pitching issues. You're still not sure exactly what Logan
(00:42):
Gilbert's status is going to be. Like, there's still warts
on this team that they've got to work through and everything.
But the ability to actually put some runs on the board,
you know, and not have it be you know, once
in a blue moon, they're able to scrape across a
run or two like that part is different than last year.
But then again, they were also up ten games in
the standings last year as well, and that all disappeared too,
So it is still you know, quote unquote early in
(01:04):
the baseball season, and there's still a lot we need
to learn about this team, but they are They have
a level of resilience because of their ability to score
some runs and you know, Polanco hitting three seventy and
cal leading the league in bombs and JP Crawford having
a healthy offensive year to start so far, all of
those are reasons why that they're able to score runs
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at a rate that they just were incapable of doing
last season.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's a great point, and you know it's interesting
and you talk about Taveras, it's an interesting reclamation project.
Here's a guy who was a top overall prospect in baseball.
He's got speed, he's averaging ten stolen bases a year
since twenty twenty one, hasn't been able to consistently hit.
And maybe now you look at what Edgar and Seitzer,
(01:52):
Kevin Seitzer have done with this team, they feel like
they can do it. My only question on Taveres is
why would the Rangers let him go within the division
that's never usually a good thing. They're saying, oh, we
don't care where you go. You can even go to
our rival that's ahead of us now in the standings
that we're trying to beat out for a playoff spot.
So that's my only question. But we'll see, we'll see
(02:12):
what happens. Obviously you want a big bad but where
do you see him For a guy like Taveries, Let's
just say that he's able to find a niche where
do you see him? He's a switch hitter, do you
where do you see him fitting in in this lineup?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, he can very clearly play right field and tell
any of their guys get healthy and return to the lineup,
and that's still gonna be a while. So you can
have him out there and at the very least you
know he can play a really solid defensive right field,
which given the fact that you were rotating Dylan Moore,
Miles Master, Bony, Samad Taylor, Ryland Thomas, you know, pick
you pick your random person starting in the outfield each day.
(02:48):
It gives him at least a level of stability there
with a guy that's got well over a thousand, you know,
at bats in Major League Baseball, playing you know every
game for them, so in you know, if you want
to give Randy a day off and left I'm sure
he can help that out too. To where obviously with
him nursing his hamstring right now, he's not the most
capable of playing the outfield, and like today, today and
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tomorrow either as they don't want that to become any worse.
So there's places for him to get in the lineup
and help them in that regard. If you want to
give Julio day, you've got somebody you can play center
for you. So there's a lot of things that he
can do defensively that make the bat almost not matter
as much because they have other pieces in the lineup hitting.
It's not the biggest thing for them to go out
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and add a bat to fix this problem. They can
go get a strong defensive guy. And I mean, think
about it. All the little adjustments they've had to make
to the roster this year have skewed towards adding to
the defensive side, like when they bring up Williamson, when
they bring up Revos, and now you've got Tavaris and
right field, and the offense has still been able to
do enough to carry the way, So you can't just
rely on that. But the fact that they're keeping runs
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off the board as well at a clip that they
were doing better than the first week of the season
when Polanco was playing third and Ryan Bliss was at second.
They've kind of lucked into a better defensive lineup through
the injuries that they've had.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Curtis Crabtree from Fox thirteen here on MJ in the
midday on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Curtis, you know, the
interesting thing is that it's, like I said last year,
if this team was in that predicament last night where
they're going to trailing into the you know, the top
of the ninth inning, you really I mean on a
scale of one to ten. And I asked Christopher kid this,
(04:26):
He said three or four. I said three, three and
a half. What would you have given their chance to
win it on a scale of one to ten a
year ago?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I would have been around there because they would
have had to do it with like multiple solo home runs,
because they had zero ability to string together it hits
and create offense in that kind of a way. So
ultimately that you know they're capabilities this year to string
things together and then set the table for cal to
come off the bench and get the big hit to
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drive in a couple runs. It's just kind of different
than what they've been able to do a year ago
when they had JP battling injuries and and Polanco's struggling
their injuries. And you know, you've got some guys that
have bat to ball skills that even if they're not
like the most like you know, powerful hitters in the
line up, they tend to find a way to make contact.
Whether that's Williamson or Rivas or Master Boney. It's it's
(05:17):
just kind of a little bit of a different offensive
makeup construction where it's not just kind of home run
or bust for the offense too, so they can they
can put together bigger runs by string stringing together rallies
and not just needing to rely on the ball that
goes over the wall.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, and that's that's obviously something you can tell that
has been changed that Edgar and Kevin sites or they've
they've done. And Dan Wilson too, Let's give him credit
because it just everything looks much different when how long
and I think, as you can imagine, I'm getting a
ton of texts today, Curtis on the text line, people saying, hey, Mark,
don't eat Crow yet. This is the same team that
(05:51):
blew a ten game lead last year. They have a
history of ripping our hearts out, stomping on it, picking
up and eating it. You cannot eat Crow until they're
mathematically in the playoffs. That's how it works here. So
I'm sure Curtis, you've been here a very long time
you can understand the skepticism of the fans here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, they've since I've been doing this job for fifteen years.
They made the playoffs once I grew up here, so
I certainly moved around for the other playoff runs too.
But like it's been a minute, you know, it's they
aren't somebody who does this regularly, and so there is
a very like you need to prove it to us
standpoint with what they because they you know, last year
wasn't the only year they've blown, you know, leads to
(06:31):
miss the playoffs too. It's a very much kind of
a you need to prove it to us kind of mindset,
and whether you think it's justified or not, Like the
fan basis thoughts on the ownership group thinking like, yeah,
but when it comes time to go add something in
the deadline, they're not going to add to the payroll.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They're not going to do that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You know, That's that's just what the narrative is going
to be until they again prove you otherwise. And so
picking up leote to Tavaris and eating the three point
seven million, I don't think is an insignificant thing to
at least, you know, mentally kind of note at the
time being. But you know, we'll see how they they
where they're sitting at the deadline, if they add some
more payroll to try to add, you know, to the
(07:08):
mix to fix potentially first base, if that's you know,
scuffling along a little bit, thoughy rowdy Tlez has been
better since a pat start to the season. There are
things they can do to improve the team when you
get to that point in the year. But certainly doing
it from the top of the division is better than
the alternative.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
No question about it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And overall, how much do you think that they can sustain?
I mean, they've gone seventeen and six in their last
twenty three since that extra innings excuse me, since that
rubber game against the Astros to win that series after
trailing five nothing early in the game of Rose Arena
hits the Grand Slam. How like do you think that
is this just a mirage, Curtis or is this just
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something that you know, like they can continue to keep
doing well.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We know that the starting pitching staff, if healthy, is
still very very good, and like with the baseline of that,
like the absolute bottom of their you know, their potential
for this year was like an eighty one win team,
Like the floor was not low because of the strength
of the pitching staff, and you know, barring this, you
know issue with the flexer strain with Logan Gilbert and
(08:16):
exactly what that's gonna play out like and obviously we
know George Kirby's getting close to a comeback. Like, the
floor is still high for them. So I don't think
there's a ton of variance in what they do. And
if they continue to hit anywhere in the realm of
like this, like they're they're going to keep winning games.
I don't think the division's very good. The A's do
look like probably their toughest contenders so far to begin
(08:37):
the season. I like the way that they've played in
every single game. But those guys has been really tight
and interesting. So maybe not what everybody expected coming into
the year, but that could be a really fun battle
to watch play out. And so yeah, I mean, I
probably only one team gets into the playoffs out of
this division at the end of the day. So you
got to win the division to do it. But right
now that you know, there's plenty to see the off
(08:59):
of the same size that we have so far, it
seems relatively sustainable, barring barring more injuries. And you know,
the bullpen has been a touch shaky in moments, but
Brash is back now. I'm sure they want to give
Jackson Kohar a chance when he's ready to go later
in the season here too, We'll have to see how
that pieces together. But there's enough fundamentals here, I think
to think they're gonna be able to keep playing like
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this for a bit.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, you'd like to see it, right. And Julio Rodriguez.
I've been very hard on Julio.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The night before he was zero for four, so I said,
Julio for four last night, you know, was awesome, three
for four, home run, monster shot.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Why can't he do this consistently?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Curtis Crabtree, Why is it just it's like every you know,
solar up like eclipse.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do we get Julio performing?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Why can't we see this guy do it on a Now,
you're not gonna do it every game? He was one
hundred and sixty two, but just more often than he
usually does it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, I think the numbers have been trending this way
for more than you know, a little while, Like the
hard hit contact rate is up, and like he I
think he was getting a little unlucky with the Babbitt
numbers over the last couple of weeks here, so like
it was trending this way even if the balls weren't
starting to fall into play yet, and now I think
it's starting to potentially break through a little bit. I
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can't explain why he gets off the slow starts in
the season. I don't know to that necessarily, but he
certainly isn't the only guy who's tended to do that.
And if at the end of the year he's still
up around two eighty again with twenty five plus bombs,
like you're not going to really care about what to
start looked like. So I think Julio is kind of
on track to be Julio and maybe you want a
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little bit more out of it, but like, I think
he's starting to round in the form for the season
and to add to what they've already got, if they're
able to keep any of that kind of going as
a collective then, like they're in a pretty good place.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Polanco is as another guy that nobody saw before this season,
Curtis and here he is. He's having an MVP season.
I know it's thirty five games, but nonetheless he's doing it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And and then JP Crawford.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Who got off to a really slow start, he's starting
to turn it around now and he's has the current
longest active hitting streak in Major League Baseball after last night,
fourteen straight games. So both of these guys, if they
continue to be on these tears and trajectories, can this
team get to that one hundred win threshold.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh yeah, Well I don't think they're going to keep
doing this, but like they don't have to. Like I think,
you know, probably load of mid nineties is probably gonna
be enough to win this division and that's what they
need to get in the playoffs. And with the pitching staff,
it doesn't matter what the record was, like, you know,
once they get in with the pitching staff, they're gonna
be able to compete against anybody in baseball. So that's
the biggest thing for them is they just haven't been
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able to stack up enough wins to get there, because
they were always going to be dangerous if they could
get in because of the pitching staff. But yeah, I
mean getting Polanco out of the field to where he's
not beating himself up in the field every day and
playing DH And obviously the little oblique issue he's dealing
with means he's only hitting from the left side right now.
That's at least giving him some days off too, And
for what it's worth, he's taking advantage of her. Whether
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that's the reason or it's just circumstance, I don't I
don't know. I don't think he knows, but it's working
right now and he's hitting the he's hitting the cover
off the ball. And then ultimately with JP, like we've
seen him healthy and being able to hit in seasons past,
and it looks like that's where he's at right now.
He can get hot and on stretches and that seems
to be where he's at too. So sometimes just being
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healthy can be a big deal, And with those two guys,
I think it's shining through pretty clearly.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Curtis Curtis Crabtree joining us here on MJ in the midday,
and I'm not going to hit you with, you know,
kind of of a bunch of obscure trivia questions, like
your colleague Aaron Levine did me, Okay, I'm not going
to do that.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
By the way, I leader board. By the way, yeah yeah,
by the way, I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Heard you had like eighteen minutes to answer questions. So congratulations. Yeah, no, no, no,
I heard you had like eighteen minutes there I had to.
I think he's asking me who sings sitting on the
dock of the bay. I'm like, yeah, maybe let me
call my ninety six zero grandfather in Florida and find out, like,
I'm sorry, it's not really in my demo. If you
had said, you know, I don't know something like Man
(13:08):
in the Box smells like teen spirits, something more of
you know, or I don't know how about the World
is Mine or you know, of ether something like some
early nineties rap like nas or Tribe call quest or
you know, he's asking me questions, Curtis that like, you know,
what's the capital of this and that I'm like, I
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don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I'm like pass pass.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
So congratulations, you want I heard it was a little
I heard from your colleagues, though it was a little
little a little shady there on those trivia and I
heard you had like eighteen minutes, So congratulates.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Here's the thing. We've got it on tape. I could
run it by you if you want to see it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, yeah, all right, well I still got I still
got I think nine in and you know, for for
what it's worth. But no, anyway, back to the MS.
Here come the Blue Jays and then the Yankees. So
they're going to face the Al East. They already won
two out of three against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
I'm really interested in. You know, they handle their own
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against Toronto, winning two out of three there at SkyDome,
and I want to see how they face against the
Yankees because this team is obviously a team that they
went to the World Series last year, and they have
arguably the best player in baseball and Aaron Judge, and
I want to see how they stack up. You want
to see the best versus the best, and so to me,
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that'll be a tell tale series.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well yeah, I mean Jorge Polanco is the best player
in baseball, right, That's what the opening says.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He's well, yeah, that's stats say that, no question.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, but no to think that that would be the
case that a Mariners hitter would be rivaling Aaron Judge
with the numbers that he's put up for the you know,
the best offensive player through the first month of the season.
Nobody had that on their Bengo card to start the year.
So yeah, they're often you know, that series is going
to be a lot of fun for sure, and you know,
at least there's not the short fortune right for right
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easy little Homer is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Right exactly, But I know, no, seriously, it's it's like
it's worse. It's almost a remember like and still to
this day, we'd always say, well, you know Todd Hilton's
you know, home runs at Coors Field in Denver not
exact because they're just flying out at a rapid same
thing with Yankees. What is you know, two hundred and
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eighty five feet. It's not that, but it's close to that.
I'd like to see Aaron Judge's home run rate at
T Mobile.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, he would still hit the ball way out of
the park.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Here, Yeah, he probably, he probably would.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
He's still a forty plus home run guy in this
ballpark here too. But no, if you I mean, if he
wants to come join the Mariners. I'd be I'd take
up watching that every day. Oh yeah as well, like
I would would apply for that to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So let me out before I let you go.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
How far away is Julio from becoming a legitimate, true,
valid star.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I think he's a star. I don't know that he's
a superstar. And I think there's very few of the
guys in baseball that are that. So I don't know
that he's on the tier of you know, the Bryce Harper,
Aaron Judge, you know one Soto type.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
He's not that. How do you how do you define
a star? Because I don't think he's a star.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
No, it's the same way people would have the definition
of quarterbacks in the NFL, right, like who's elite who's not?
Like it's everybody's criteria is going to be a little
bit different. He posts he plays every single game, dang
near he you know, hits two seventy in an era
where nobody hits for average anymore. Like I looked it
up with Jackson when he was in the station with
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us the other night. You know how many players in
Major League Baseball had a three hundred average last year?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Off the top of my head, I think it was
less than like twelve seven.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know it was.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It was not much and you compare that to like
two thousand and one, I think there was over fifty.
So like it's it's a different sport nowadays. You have
to you know, have to have the power numbers kind
of play. He's got that and can still like he
still ends up being a well above one hundred ops
plus guy at the end of the season. Like he's
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he's a star. He's just not that like absolute, you know,
fear every at bat. He's in the box kind of
guy that goes up that absolute top tier of offensive player.
As yet, can he get there? Yeah, I think he's
got every skill to still get there, but he's he
hasn't been able to unlock that like some of those
other guys have it to this point. But he does
everything else in the game so well.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Defensively, you will know our I mean, he's Ken Griffy
Junior Skef with the glove. I'm not going to say
anything there about him. His defensive prowess is just and
he had another one the other night, and he's just
got it at the plate. Be more disciplined, more selective,
take more pitches, especially on the first pitch, and I
last night he did it too. And the ninth inning
he gets up there, he does take the first pitch,
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it was clearly a ball high and outside in the
dumb ass ump called in a strike and he just
he pulled back in the batter's boxes, like come on,
But uh, yeah, I think it's it's all relative compared
to what you define. Here's my thing, and I'm not
trying to Like I've seen it in Boston with Mookie Bets,
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Xander Bogart's and Raphael Devers.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I know what stars look like. And Julio's not there yet.
He's not.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, that's fine's I mean, look, speaking last night, the
umpiring was not very good. As somebody who saw how
it works in spring training like live, bring on the
challenge system tomorrow, like it's so much better. It's quick,
it's painless, and the Empires will get to wear it
when they're wrong, which is often. So I'm all for that. Yeah,
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I think there is a gap, you know, depending on
how you wanted to find that, which subjective of each person.
He's not in that absolute uffortier he's not at this point.
Can he get there? Yeah, I think he's got every
tool set to get there. He wants to come up
with the big hits so much. I think he chases
it at times, and that's where he gets in trouble.
But he's still got every skill you need to be
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to be that guy. Offensively, he's got every you know,
tool in the in the in the box. So we'll
see if he's able to unlock that here throughout his career,
because he's already a very very good player.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, so there we go. Now I feel like a
trial attorning today. You just went from star to very
good player.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
There we got. There we go.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Curtis, all right, there there, okay, fair enough. That was
a That was a nice little one hundred and twenty
degree turn there. I appreciate that. All right, hey listen, man,
thanks for the time. Good catching up, and we'll have
to do it again soon.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Thanks man.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
All right, all right, Curtis Scrabtree from Fox thirteen here
in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, star two. He's a very good player.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's we all have different definition of stars.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We all do. Well. Listen.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I saw Mookie Betts, Okay, I saw him, and at
the time he was an All Star but then he
became the star, and he became that guy. And even
in Xander Bogart's now Devers, I mean those guys, and
of course Bregman's there now in Boston. So I've got
to see some guys and what it looks like. I
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think Julio has all the potential in the world. We've
just got to.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
See him do it consistently. Maybe last night was the
turning point. Maybe it is.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We'll wait and see, all right, something that never there's
no off season for the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We will go through the most.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Important dates and what you need, what we can go through,
and what you like and what should still be allowed
and what should be banned next on MJ in the
midday ninety three to three KJR FM. A week from
tonight or a week from today. Actually everything keep getting
used to the fact that get it's you know what,
(20:53):
here's the thing about it, it gets all leaked earlier.
We all know this, we'll know you know what week
the Seahawks are going to Tennessee to face cam Ward
and the Titans, which they do this year. Seahawks have
a very winnable non division not schedule. It's like Titans
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Jaguars Colts. I mean, it's it's not tough. They have
some very winnable games. I already got some leaks. Oh
what do we got, Chris. Let's go all right, let's go, Bro,
don'ty crow, Bro.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Let's go at fourteen Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams? Where
at Los Angeles?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay? Okay?
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Thanksgiving Day slate is rumored to be one o'clock Steelers
and Lions for twenty Arizona Cardinals at Cowboys. Okay, finale,
Rams at the Titans.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Cam Ward's getting a Thanksgiving Day and well, by the way,
everybody here that night will be rooting for cam Ward,
right root, I'm to beat the Rams. I want to
just state one thing, just to let people know and
let me just please. I don't know why i have
to make this point of clarification, but I'm gonna do
it anyway. I hate Oregon, I hate the Ducks, but
(22:16):
I think that Dan Lanning is an excellent coach, and.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I trade.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I would trade a lot of stuff in my life
for Dan Lanning to be the coach of the Miami Hurricanes.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
A lot of things.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Look at this week one match, all right.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So back to that so I don't like Oregon. I
just want all the Husky fans out there to know,
don't get butt hurt. But you have to admit and
give credit. Recrez due and Dan Lanning to me is
a good coach. All right, back to the NFL. What
do we got?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Week one? Raiders at Eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
So that's going to be starting the season week one? Well,
that's the no. But that's the first game of year
on Thursday night. Raiders at Eagles. On Geno Smith? Gino
Smith on Thursday Night with the red carpet and all
the pomp and circumstance.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Where are you seeing this?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
By the way, this is twenty twenty five NFL schedule leaks.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh they do it every year.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So so you're already getting in a week ahead of time,
which is crazy. So Gino Smith, the Northstern Rack quarterback,
gonna go up against the Super Bowl champions on the
first game of the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Oh wow, Cowboys at Jets Week one, one pm.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Alright, am, start listen, let's keep it any What about Seattle.
I'm not seeing anything, not see anything.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Oh here it is?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What we got?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
What do we got Seahawks at the Titans.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Wee one, oh cam Ward, oh LFG, I might go
to that one.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Wow, whoa Christopher Kidd breaking news.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Very good, that's a very that should be an easy
due for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Well, don't forget on the road. It should be. But
you know, you know, Week one certain.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But yes, the Seahawks, I'm gonna go ahead and say right.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Now, want to no, no.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Hold on, They're gonna be about a three two and
a half to three point favorite in that game, maybe
about about there.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I would say five and a half.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't think. So let's leave the gambling lines up
to me there, sweetheart, I'm sticking by five and a half. Listen,
you gotta remember Seattle, Sam Darnold, right, I mean, this
isn't this isn't twenty fourteen Hawks. This is we don't know.
Here's the thing, we don't know. So that's what I'm
(24:38):
telling you. A road favorite in the NFL, unless you're
the Eagles, the Chiefs, the Lions and those the Commanders,
Seahawks aren't gonna get that respect from the oddsmakers.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
And the Titans shouldn't get any because they were Well
I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
But that should be a win. I would say one
to zer. Let's start there with the one and O
over cam Ward and please Seahawks fans after the Seahawks win,
don't say, oh can't Ward's a boss? Oh he sucks.
So it's one game. And remember who did y'all? Who
did the Seahawks beat in the first couple of weeks
The last season they beat the breaks out of out
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of this guy here in Seattle, BONEECKX and the Denver Broncos.
Remember that game, Christopher, And after that Bonex and the
Denver Broncos went on to make the playoffs. So don't
but I think Tennessee. Yes, Seahawks at Titans Week one.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Whoa week two they are playing their home against the Saints,
the easiest schedule.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Chew it. Oh baby, that's crazy toe it. Oh, here
we go, here we go to it all.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I love it, but here we go here I'm doing
the uh the classic w F A N Mike Francesa,
Chris rus.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
So, that's will win, that's a loss, that's will win.
That's a loss. That's two and oh right now for
the Seahawks, right then and there, book it to book it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I'm I'm hey listen. I'm all in there. That's a
two and oh start to the season. You can't lose
a Tennessee. I mean they they like like they and
in the city the eighths.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The Aints are coming in here.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No, no, Sants are coming to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
The Aints are coming in here. The Aints are coming
in with Uh who did I'm trying to think, who
did they take at quarterback?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Oh? Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Was it Shuck? I think that they took Shuck class.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, let's let's do that, I think because I know
that we obviously know they passed on on Chadure.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But uh, you know, yeah, that's that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So Tyler, Tyler Shock, there we go, Tyler Shock, Welcome,
Welcome to the Twelves fan. Welcome to Baptism by fire, sweetheart.
You're gonna get your ass kicked in Week two at Loomanfield.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Let's go two and oh. How about that, Christopher kid.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm impressed, man, you're your investigative research went up to
another level today with me.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I love it. I absolutely now Week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
The twenty twenty five regular season will end on January
fourth of next year. That much I can tell you
that much is guaranteed. So January fourth will be the
week eighteen, the final two and oh to start the season. Yeah,
you better not lose to a rookie quarterback on their
I don't give a crap where that game is at.
I don't care if they put that game back at
West Columbia, Texas where cam Ward's from. You lose that game,
(27:29):
oh boy. Two and oh to start the year. Congratulations Hawks,
I love it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
The Seahawks will close the season at home against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's another win. And by the way, maybe they won't
need to win it. Maybe that time they sit their
starters like the Rams did. Delighted to hear that, all
right here the international games, the Chargers are at Corinthius Arena,
A very good.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Scar, very good Chris. Two and oh, there you go
Hawks fans too. And oh to start.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
I mean those are guaranteed wins. Guaranteed wins. I don't
care what. Forget about the lines, forget it. Let's put
the spreads over to the side here for a second.
You were when I make my picks, you'll have that.
You'll be lucky enough to have to have that when
the time comes around. That's two and oh at Titans
Saints at home. Two and oh, No doubt, bro Two
(28:18):
and oh. So you're starting off the season. You just
gotta win nine more, get to get to that eleven
twelve win threshold. You're good. So the Indianapolis Colts are
going to Berlin, the Dolphins in Madrid, Steelers in Dublin, Jacksonville,
they shl might as well move to London. The Browns
mine as well move to London as well. Tottenham and
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the Jets will also be at Tottenham and London this year.
So two and oh for the Seahawks, Chris did not
know going into this segment you were gonna be able
to find out that information, mister Forgidt.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
As soon as you said schedule, I was like, oh yeah,
schedule leaks. They're pretty good at getting that information.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
How do you feel about that, Seahawks fans two and
oh to start the year. Is no chance they lose
either one of those games, and if they do, guess what, Seattle,
we got a problem. We have a major, major problem.
And here we go. Cam Ward's gonna be a boss
the yeap. Yeah, I know, I know, yeah, I'm Jay.
(29:17):
Once you're able to get a restaurant, sponsor, business, or author.
Do not scream the endorsement like no I will. I'm
not gonna say who does. No, I'm not gonna go there,
not gonna go there. Hey, I don't have a problem
with it, because listen, if they're sponsoring you, then whoever
it would be, I'm gonna go above and beyond for
(29:38):
my sponsors, for a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So that's what I'm gonna do. How about this?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Not sure you've seen a Hawks game the last five years,
then no, I know, but you can't. You can't get
to you can't lose the first two. Those are those
are where you're looking at the schedule right now. Those
are winso would be guaranteed wins. I know, nothing's guaranteed
in the NFL. You lose to cam Ward, I don't
(30:06):
want to be in here on Monday, the day after
Week one saying you just lost to a rookie quarterback
who has nothing but trash around him. He well, Tyler
Lockett not trash, but you know what I mean, Tyler
Lockett is probably gonna be his number one receiver. Really,
I mean, he's gonna have his college guy, Xavier Streppo,
(30:26):
who probably will make the team who runs a four
to eight. So you can't lose that game. You just
can't lose to cam Ward and you can't do it.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You can't. You just can't do it. So there we go.
Another thing. When are we gonna get this Aaron Rodgers
Steelers decision? Like? What's up with this?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Like, I listen, I have no problem with Aaron Rodgers
waiting until after the draft. He wanted to see if
the circus shoulder Sanders was coming in town now. Instead,
they drafted Will Howard in the fifth round out of
Ohio State. I think that could be good for them
down the road. It's a fifth round pick. But Aaron Rodgers,
do you want to play football this year or not? Bro?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Like, let's make a decision here, dude, let's go. I mean,
come on, man.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Aaron glid did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I just think Aaron Rodgers and the Jets was a
complete It was a cluster bleep to begin with there,
Aaron Glenn. I mean, you know, we'll see what happens there.
I don't know, but I think Justin Fields is better
for that team right now. But Aaron Rodgers, let's see
what happens. So how about Seattle Seahawks fans, Are you
happy you're gonna start off the twenty twenty five season two?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And oh, are you happy about that?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Allegedly?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
We hope, we hope, but that should be an easy two.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And oh, right then and there, I mean, Tyler, you're
gonna face two rookie quarterbacks back to back, cam Ward
and Tyler shuck right there, back to back. That's you
can't lose to rookie quarterbacks. You know what Bill Belichick's
record was versus rookie quarterbacks. I only think he had
one loss in New England versus rookie quarterbacks as the
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Patriots head coach. He owned them. If you're gonna be great,
that's what the Seahawks need to do. They need to
own rookie quarterbacks playing and simple.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
So Christopher Kidd breaking news here. I'm very impressed, Chris, very.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Hopefully it's right.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
How funny would it be if it's like, oh, the
Seahawks will take on the Steelers week one, which I.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
Think would be a better draw if you ask me, Yeah,
we'll see them, right.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
The leagues have I mean, I don't know how long
they've been doing those leaks, but I've seen it before.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And I didn't think you did it this early. That's impressive.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
It's only a week now, but still, like I thought
we'd get it a few days before.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You got it really early. Man, I'm giving you credit. Man,
take it. We take credit credit.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Due me eating crow of these are all wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, if the schedule comes out in the first week
they're playing Houston, in the second week they're playing you know,
San Francisco, and be like wtf, bro, Like what happened?
I thought we were gonna thought this team's gonna be
two and oh.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Well, you know, well they can still be doing.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
They could be Niners are tra I not trash, but
they're just I don't believe in them.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They're old, they're injured.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I just think that that they are prolonging the inevitable,
which is I think Kyle Shanahan no longer being the
head coach.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I think Kyle's gonna leave. He's gonna see the right
in the wall and say, well I'm gonna go, and he'll,
by the way, he'll get a job in less than
eight seconds. He'll be a free agent as a head coach.
I just don't see anything. I think that window of
opportunity for the forty nine ers is gone. You went
to two Super Bowls, one with Jimmy G and one
with Brock Perty. You had leads in both and Jimmy
(33:30):
G pissed down his leg in the fourth quarter with
a ten point lead. And I just think that that
San Francisco, that window of opportunity is gone. It's gonna
be different here in Seattle, all right, Christopher Kidd's co
host on the Seattle Seahawks podcast, Tell everybody.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
The name of it Seahawks Man to man, Man a man.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Mike Dugar went to rookie camp.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
What does he think about Jalen Milroe and some other
takeaways will find out next on MG in the midday
ninety three to three KJR, the draftees rookie free agents
tryout participants in a couple second year pros. Jalen Milroe
was a guy that is the most intriguing player, and
(34:17):
he was asked what it's like to be part of
this eleven man Seahawks draft class. He's wearing number six,
so that's going to sell a lot of jerseys. He said, quote,
it was a great feeling when I walked on the field.
I just acknowledged where I was at. My parents made
(34:37):
a joke, it's like your first day of class today.
It's definitely cool to be an NFL quarterback. Get my
feet wet, get acclimated with everything. So for Seattle to
have a guy at that position, it's it's interesting to see.
(34:58):
And as you well know, Sam Darnold is QB one,
he got fifty two and a half million dollars guaranteed
to be the starting quarterback here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But Jalen Milroe is a guy who has.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
A ton of athleticism, is not going to be asked
to come in and produce from the pocket or behind
center from day one. And Mike Dugar's article in The
Athletic said, from Jalen Milroe quote, You've got to know
it like the back of your hand. In terms of
(35:36):
the scheme, you've got to get extra time in with
the coaches. One thing that's for certain. The meeting time
is not enough for grasping the offense. You've got to
take extra time aside when you're not around the coaches,
whether you're with your teammates and whether you're at home.
Always take time to grow and learn the system. Because
(35:57):
when you know the system and when you have great preparation,
you play even better, and it kind of rubs off
on the other guys. So Milroe was there. Will Rogers,
former Washington Huski's quarterback, was also there. He's got no
chance at making the team, but Milroe appeared to take
(36:21):
most of the reps and obviously you can understand he's
gonna come in at QB three and they asked.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Him, what are your goals for.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
The year, and he says priorities are being the best
version of himself, a good teammate, and earning everyone's trust. Quote.
With that comes other things, but that's number one. Any
guy that comes in, no matter where you're selected, the
first pick in the draft, to mister Irrelevant, it doesn't matter.
You're trying to earn the respect and trust of everybody
in the locker room and organization. With that comes to
(36:54):
being a good teammate as well, being a good teammate
to Sam Darnold, Drew Locke, everyone in the room, the coaches,
showing that I care, I'm studying. Other goals come with that,
but the heart of everything is that end quote. So
we'll see. But Milroe gave a strong endorsement in Mike
(37:18):
Dugar's article on the athletic of tight End, Elijah Royo quote, well,
actually Royo did of Jalen as well. I love Jalen.
I love the way he plays. I feel like we're
going to have a good connection moving forward. The ray
he throws the ball, the way he moves, he has
a chance to be quote an elite quarterback at the
highest level. So interesting to see what's gonna happen, Mini
(37:44):
Camp and all those great things.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
But Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Those number six jerseys you can buy him now, they're
going to be selling like hotcakes pretty soon. All right,
coming up next, time to eat Crow, bro, Time to
eat Crow And why this was brought to my attention
and I didn't figure it out? The clock is already
(38:10):
ticking for Shadur Sanders in Cleveland. I'll explain that next
right here on MJ in the midday ninety three three
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