June 13, 2025 • 32 mins
The NHL Finals was crazy, you just had to watch the game! Softy went a rant on Wednesday about the Mariners, and we had to replay the audio because the team has been playing so poorly as of late. Tyrese Haliburton has heard all the noise about being overrated, and he even called out the media, and Stephen A had something to say about that.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Open my big loud, fat mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All of you have the license to just destroy me
on the text line, on the voice text line, whatever
you want to do. Never speak before the line I'm
feeling supersonic, give me Gin and Tonic. You can have
it all, but how much do you want it? Never
speak before that. Hello everyone, MJ in the midday, Christopher
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Kidd on the other side of the glass, It's a
beautiful Friday. I don't care what anyone says. I love
days like this. It's gloomy, but it's cool. It's football weather,
it's not raining. I love days like this to me,
you know, and not that I would be I don't know,
affected by any type of rain, but I love days
like this. It, you know, gonna be out next week
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and down in the Sunshine state of Florida, and it's
gonna be hot as hell down there, heat and humidity.
So I'm gonna enjoy this weather while it lasts. Before
I get on a red eye bird flight tonight. I
hope all of you are having a tremendous Friday. So
I gotta just say this, and just going off of
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the sports headlines, what a Stanley Cup other than game
three games one? Two and four have been absolutely ridiculous.
We are watching right now what might be and everybody
thought it would be Connor McDavid, But Leon dry sidel
his fourth game winning goal. Oh, I believe overtime, fourth
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game winning overtime goal in a single playoffs setting an
NHL playoff record. That's unbelievable. He is doing what Tyrese
Haliburton is doing on the court for the Indiana Pacers.
He's had four game winning shots so are one of
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them was a tying shot. If his foot was a
little smaller, it would have been a game winning shot.
But they ended up winning the game anyway anyway, So
I love There's nothing more you like to see, and
the hockey's been great. And listen, i have four figures
worth of reasons that I'm rooting for the Edmonton Oilers.
It's financial interest, the same way with I'm rooting for
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the Oklahoma City Thunder when it comes to Seattle. Yeah,
if you know, if I don't win on the Thunder,
I'll be happy for Seattle that Oklahoma City loses in
everybody here, most people here will feel great that OKAC
and the Sonics curse will forever haunt the thunder.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I really need Edmonton to win though I got thousands
of reasons why I need the Oilers to win the
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But when I'm watching this.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Last night, and it's just like, you gotta appreciate greatness,
and you've got to appreciate greatness on the highest level.
And we've seen it from both athletes Tyree Saliburton, Leon
dry sidele two different sports, two different cities, but they're
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just clutch af and you either have it or you don't.
You have that gene, Kobe, Michael Steph You have that
gene or you don't. In the postseason. I'm talking about
regular season doesn't matter. Legacies are defined the postseason.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You have it or you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Lebron, Barkley, Stockton, Malone. I was thinking about this the
other day. I'm like, how about this. How great was
Michael Jordan That he's the reason why four Hall of
Fame basketball players, all four of them, by the way,
on dreamed the original dream Team, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley,
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John Stockton, Karl Malone, that those four guys do not
have were titles, all four of them because of Michael Jordan,
which is just crazy. But when you see clutch. You
saw it with Tom Brady time and time again. Fourth quarter,
actually down twenty eight to three with two and a
half minutes left in the freaking Super Bowl against the Falcons,
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and I mean Arthur Blank was on the Falcons owner
was on the sideline celebrating, kissing everyone, hugging everyone. Ah,
we did it, We did it. Tom Brady did the
leak carso not so fast, my friend, and Dante high
Tower sacked Matt Ryan and that killed everything. To get
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the fumble, Julian Edelman made arguably the greatest catch in
Super Bowl history, which was pretty much literally a millimeter
from touching the ground and he caught it and the
Patriots went on to win their fifth Super Bowl. At
that point, Clutch, it's just so nice to see because
a lot of players you see that. I mean, I'll
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give another clutch guy in NBA history, Kawhi Leonard Clutch,
af Clutch a f for.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Kawhi with Toronto.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Prior to that with San Antonio hasn't shown it with
the clips, but he's been clutch in the biggest moments
when his team need him to. He's like I'm gonna
put you on my back. He hit that three pointer
that bounced on the rim against the Sixers and Joel
mb to upset them.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
They go on.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Then they upset the Warriors in the finals. Kde got
hurt in the first game. He couldn't play the rest
of the series, but they were just you know, I
would have loved to see if Katie was healthy. I
don't know what would have happened, but that Toronto team
we look back right now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's rare to see this in sports.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And yeah, I hope even if you hate the Thunder,
your hate watching the NBA Finals, And I know you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
A horse in the race, a dog in the fight,
but I hope you're watching the Stanley Cup right now
because if you're not, you're missing what has truly been
some of the most clutch performances that I've seen in
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And Leon dry Sidle, Holy crap, this guy, this guy
unfreaking believable getting it done.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Last night.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I texted the mayor Ian Ferness last night when it
was three to nothing. And I kind of do this
sometimes as like a reverse jinx, where I texted Lee Sterling,
who you know from Paramount Sports. He's rooting for the Panthers.
He lived down in South Florida. Said when three nothing
last night, in the first period, I said, game over,
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series over, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Oilers come back,
score a goal, a three. Yeah, there's no way they're
not coming back three to two. Then all of a
sudden doing laundry, kind of walking around, and they tie
it up, and I'm like, uh oh, uh oh, We've
got to get And then the Oilers go ahead with
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about five and a half minutes to go. They go
ahead four to three, and then freaking Florida Panthers tie
it up with like nineteen seconds left in the game,
and I'm like, no, they're gonna lose. They're gonna go
down three to one. When you're down three to one,
you're not gonna win three in a row. And lo
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and behold man that overtime period where a shot hit
the freaking crossbar of Calvin Pickard, who came in the
game because Stuart Skinner couldn't stop a nosebleed, and he sucks.
But Leon Dreisidel, thank you, thank you. Got two more
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to go, Bro, two more to go. Edmonton's gonna bring
this thing home now. And I'm gonna say this too.
If you hate watching the NBA Finals, you're gonna watch
tonight about.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Five, five thirty, five thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Whoever wins tonight, Christopher Kid Tonight's game seven. If OKC
wins tonight, they win the series. If Indiana wins tonight,
they win it all. Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't want to wait and see. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't want to make any predictions because we had
on Rob you had on Rob Parker last week and
he said it was going seven games.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He did, he did.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
There's a possibility it can still go seven, even if
Indiana goes up three to one. But I have a
very hard time believing it gives back to Oka. See
if they indeed go up three to one, I think
Indiana closes things out and six if they win tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But then, oh, you think they could win? Hold on,
wait a second, so win tonight, you think they could?
Oh yeah, they would win at home?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Ye correct? Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree with that.
By the way, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Saying, whoever wins tonight's game will be the NBA World Champions.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's that's a tough one for me. It is that's
and that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And by the way, you know who's gonna win a night,
I'm gonna I gotta spoiler alert you ready?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Do you want to know this? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I already know who's gonna win the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They're winning, and I do. They are not losing this game. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Do I trust the five and a half six point spread?
Hell no, But they're winning this game. And if I
had Dave Portnoy money, I'd go, okay CE money line,
I'd go okay CE money line. But I'm not gonna
put up that much money to uh to, you know,
to win one hundred dollars. Just yeah, I'm not doing that.
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But ok C's gonna win tonight. They're six and a
half point favorite. Yeah that that money line is just
that's ridiculous. I can't six and a half point favorite
on the read minus two fifty, So that means you
have to put up two fifty to win a one hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I normally would say no, but if you have Dave
Portnoy or even more than that. We have fifty four
thousand millionaires in the Seattle metropolitan area. If you have
fu money take OKAC in the money line, and I'll
tell you right now, they might even cover the number.
They might even do it tonight. They're gonna win tonight,
and they're gonna win the series. Sorry, Seattle. And as
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my former boss Paul Hayman would like to say, that's
not a prediction, that's a spoiler period. All right, there
we go now, speaking of things that suck are this
was one of the most epic rants I ever heard.
And the rant didn't suck, But who he was talking about,
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and who is the gentleman I'm talking about. You might
have heard of them, The man who's the face and
the voice of KJR for the last thirty four years,
and the man who's still here. He told me he
got hired here and I believe him in nineteen ninety four,
and he said he had a credential to the nineteen
ninety six NBA Finals when the Bulls played the Sonics.
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Our own Dave Softy Maler's Softy in Dick in the
afternoon every day. You know the guys, Yeah, they don't
need any introduction. But on Wednesday, I heard it at
the end after yesterday's show. Otherwise I would have played
it Yesterday, Softie goes on a rant about the miserable Mariners.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Nick, I just think I'm gonna make this real simple
for you. The whole freaking thing sucks. Okay, everything sucks.
The bullpen sucks, the offense sucks, the coaches sucked, the
front office sucks, the owner sucks, and the offense sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The stupid ass patch.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They have on their freaking shoe sucks, The broadcast sucks.
Everything's dog meat. All of it is dog meat everything.
So you want to just pick a side or start
making excuses for this side of the ball or that
side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
They're all clowns. The whole thing is a freaking clown show. Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Wow, Nothing I can argue with there, nothing I can
I mean, this thing has been really, really, really bad.
And you look at where this team was a year ago.
And I got a statistic. Since June eighteenth of last year,
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the Mariners have won forty eight percent of their games
were coming upon the one year anniversary. Since June eighteenth
of last year, they've won less than fifty percent of
their games forty eight percent, to be exact. And I
have to tell you what I've witnessed over the course
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of the last seventeen games has been absolutely atrocious, pitiful, pathetic,
piss poor, any portive type of adjective that you want
to use. That's what these recent mariagers. Where's the team
that won nine straight series in a row? Where are they?
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Where are they? Buehler, Buehler, anyone, anyone? Where is this team?
What happened to that team?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Logan Gilbert is supposed to be coming back next week.
That's a figurative and literal shot in the arm. Daddy's
coming home. That's the guy that I know, like death
and taxes every freaking year, that Logan Gilbert every fifth
day is gonna pitch lights out. Probably arguably the best
pitcher in baseball. I will argue with anybody, and I
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do mean anybody, whether you're a Dodgers fan, a Mets fan,
a Phillies fan, you name it. Logan Gilbert when healthy,
is the best pitcher in Major League baseball. Cal Rawley
is the best catcher in Major League by But then
there's a drop off. There's a major freaking drop off
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after that. Oh, by the way, Jeremy Piven will join
us at the top of the hour. The tremendous actor
extraordinaire who's had a career that's gone back to the
movie Say Anything with John Cusack. It from like nineteen
eighty nine when John Cusack is holding up the boombox
above his head to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes. Jeremy
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Piven was in that movie. He's had an unbelievable career.
He was in Heat with Al Pacino, Robert de Niro,
Val Kilmer. I mean, wow, He's been in so many
great movies. He had a one recently called The Performance.
It's like, I can't wait. He's gonna be coming to
the Neptune Theater coming up on July twelfth here in Seattle.
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He's doing a stand up routine and I just can't
wait to talk to the guy. He's a huge sports
fan and we'll get his thoughts on this. And I
have a movie that Jeremy Piven should have been in
and he was not in. He should have been in
this movie and it's a classic movie. And I'm gonna
tell him this is the movie he should have been in.
And what was it like? Obviously being in Entourage, and
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he was in Two for the Money with Matthew McConaughey,
and Al Pacino and Renee Russo. So he's been in
some pretty big time. He's coming up to Seattle Portland first,
and then you know, like everybody, you know, when they
do the old scene, you got to go to you know,
you go to Portland first, and then you're like, Okay,
now we get to go to the big city. You know,
it's like, we got to go to Portland first. Oh,
then we get yet, now we get rewarded. We get
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to go to the Emerald City, a real market Seattle.
But he's gonna be here coming up on July twelve.
We're gonna have him on coming up at the top
of the hour. Right now is a US Open update
on ninety three to three kJ R F M. Well.
The twenty eleven NFL Draft could be the worst quarterback
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draft of all time after Cam Newton. Cam Newton's fine,
He's not a bust. He was a boom. He won
an MVP. I didn't like him, you know, he was
you know, I remember being in Charlotte at that time saying,
you know, will rue the day that Andrew Luck decided
to go back to Stanford for another year, because Andrew
Luck would have been selected over Cam Newton had Andrew
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Luck come out, but he wanted to go back to
Stanford for another year, so he comes out, and then
he ended up being the number one pick the following
year in front of RG three. That draft was so
atrocious for quarterbacks, Christian Ponder, Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert. In
the first round the top twelve picks, there were four
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quarterbacks taken. It was Cam Jake Locker at eight, Blaine
Gabbert at ten, and Christian Ponder at twelve. You've got
to be kidding me. That was the worst quarterback draft
of all time. Second round Colin Kaepernick. I mean, he
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did get to a Super Bowl, so I can't can't
knock that. Afterwards, you know, he lost his job ironically
enough to what he lost his job to Blaine Gabbert
in San Francisco at the end there I think he did.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, that's weird. He did.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Andy Dalton was selected in the second round too. Andy
Dalton still in the league, so he's still around. It's crazy,
worst drapped ever. All right, what if Sam Donald's season
last year was a fluke? But what if Dan Graziano
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from ESPN rights and I quote the somewhat tepid market
for Donald and free agency indicates that there was a
fair bit of skepticism around the league about the sustainability
of his breakout twenty twenty four season. Got a pretty
nice deal three years, one hundred and five million and
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just thirty seven and a half million guaranteed, and if
Donald does play the way he did in Minnesota, it'll
look like a massive steal. However, if Donald reverts to
the jittery, turnover prone ways of his early career, Seattle
is likely in for a rough campaign, but at least
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the Seahawks aren't committed to him beyond this season. Drew
Locke in third round rookie Jaln Milroe are the other
options on the roster if Donald falters. As of now,
Mike McDonald has been very clear Donald is the starter
and it would take an injury to change that. Expect
Donald to get the year, or at least the bulk
of it, to prove that twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Was not a fluke.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know what I was surprised about yesterday? Kid, We
had the great Cherene Williams on yesterday. She did I
love her. She did not pull any punches at all,
and she basically is fading Darnald. She does not believe
in Sam Darnald at all. Neither does Kevin Clark from
The Ringer, And it's like, whoa, so like I said.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Me, the glass half full in me? I like what.
I like what John Schneider did.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But then I wake up some days and I read
things from Dan Graziano talking to Sharene Williams talking to
Kevin Clark from The Ringer, and I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Man, Hey, I don't know that over under. Hey, believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I bet on the Mariners to win over eighty six
and a half games. That doesn't look so great right now,
you know what I mean? No, that ain't looking so
hot right now at all.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I think they're over and under was the same last year,
and if it wasn't for the Rams game, they wouldn't
have had ten wins.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So it's not that crazy to think about it. What
there's seven and a half this year? Half now?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But oh wait, wait, wait, what what book did? It's
that it moved Seattle moved to the eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah I moved.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, yeah, probably a lot of people are like the thing,
So eight and a half, eight and a half's probably
about right. That's probably about right right there.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I think that they could win ten is not too crazy. Again,
they won the tenth game because the Rams trotted out there,
you know the backup.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah that was the Rams laid down like the Seahawks,
right one. But yeah, the Rams. But the Rams laid
down like a porn star. I mean they just did,
you know, like they just they just laid down. I
mean that's what they did. They just said, here you go,
we don't need this game. You guys have fun. Gino
got his uh met, all his uhs he got. Yeah,
it was a six million dollar day for Geno Smith
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that day. So wow, it's great work if you can
get it. It's not inconceivable that the Seahawks could win
ten games. But I'm just thinking, I'm like, wow, man,
if if Donald does revert back to Jets, Donald.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Woo that you know what, I don't think it'll be that. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Do I think he can be He can struggle with
the offensive line and there's no run game. Absolutely, I
don't know if he's capable of playing well despite the
team not being good around him, not having the offense.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He can't be You're saying that he can't be the
guy that's gonna put the team on his back.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Now, I don't know if he I don't know if
he can do that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I haven't seen it consistently, but I'm not up watching
every game that he played last season with the Vikings.
The games I did watch and did see, he kind
of did not do that despite everything going around going bad.
The offensive line wasn't the best. He did not make
it work despite having the elite wide receivers.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What do you mean he didn't make it work? Like,
didn't make it work.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He didn't He wasn't able to use his athleticism because
he's not incapable of moving out of.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The pocket, right right, No, No, No, he's a fine athlete. No,
but like listen, he like he won it, what nine
games in a row at one point last year. Yes, yeah,
so like you can't we can't like overlook that. I mean, yeah,
he was the guy, and he was the leader of
that locker room, and I mean, Jesus man, it was wow.
I mean they had a you know, they won nine
and then they had won fourteen out of the first
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sixteen games of last year. Minnesota fourteen and two in
the first sixteen games. So that to me was like, whoa,
holy crap, Like, so he's capable.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But again, well that was because everything was great.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, I was gonna say, and here's the thing, and
that's fine, if everything is great, he can probably do that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And then some that's that's that's right, that's what you
would want. Why would you look at what Jalen Hurts had.
That's what every quarter would want, right. But here here's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
To paraphrase, well, to quote Rick Patino, Kevin O'Connell's not
walking through that door, folks. Uh, justin Jefferson's not walking
through that door, folks.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
K Metcalf's not coming back.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And Jordan Addison is not walking through that door. For
so it changes. I still embullish on the Hawks to
win ten. I actually predict them at eleven. I'm kind
of looking on the more looking on the ten mark.
But one thing Charene said, and I kind of agree
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with her. She really, I'll tell you, she was awesome yesterday,
she said. And I don't know if a lot of
people agree with this, and you tell me, but I
agree with what she said. If the Seahawks don't win
the division. They're not going to make the playoffs because
the NFC is too tough.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The NFC, Like, that's what we talked about when I
went to the schedule, I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You know, I forget which division.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I didn't say the NFC East, but I said they have, oh,
the NFC South, Like they're not. Those are teams you
just can't. Oh, we're gonna win those games, right Garante,
especially at Atlanta. You don't know, we know what Panics
can do. You don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't pencil in. No, no, no,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what I'm saying is here's the one team who
I think is going to take a step backwards this year.
Sam Darnold's former team, Minnesota. I just don't trust JJ McCarthy.
He's a rookie. I don't trust him. So from that,
I think JJ McCarthy and Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
They're not gonna be but fourteen and two or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
The teams who are superior to the Seahawks are As Follows, Eagles, Commanders, Packers, Lions,
and maybe they're not superior, but what the year two
they've put together a wall in front of.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Caleb Williams in Chicago. So they're gonna be much better.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I'm not saying they're gonna be better than Seattle, but
and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are better than Seattle
and the Rams are So what Scheren brought up a
great point yesterday that if the Hawks don't win their division,
they might not make the playoffs. And I don't think
that she's going out in a limb. I think she's
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actually right. I don't think there's gonna be a wildcard
team from this division. I don't because there are other
teams and the other divisions are too good. And listen,
you can laugh, say what you want, and I you know,
Dallas's will always be Dallas. But they're still they still
have a lot of talent. They do have a lot
of talent there. So you're talking Eagles, Commanders, Packers, Lions, Bucks, Rams.
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That's seven right there. And then I'm telling you the
Bears are gonna be a double digit win team. So
you just don't allow yourself much margin for error. So
if you don't win the division, you better finish with
about twelve wins if you think you're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's all I'm saying. And I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I One day I wake up and I feel so
bullish about this team, and the next day I feel
like it's gonna be a bear market and everything's gonna
come up not very well this season. But I'm more
positive than negative going into the year. I just hope
they can protect him and they can run the ball.
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The one thing I will say, unlike last two years
with the Seahawks offense, this year's team won't be one dimensional, predictable.
We're gonna throw, throw, throw every freaking down. They're not
gonna do that. It's gonna be the run to set
up the pass, not pass past pass, pass past past pass.
We might sprinkle in a run here. Ryan Grubb has
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gone off. That's what that and that's just it. Run
blocking is gonna be huge to set up the pass.
So a lot of things to think about. But Dan Graziano,
Sharene Williams, Kevin Clark, and many others are very skeptical
of Sam Darnold being able to replicate his twenty twenty
four season with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We will see coming up next.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Uh oh, you know your big time in the media
when one of the top guys who's still going and
playing for a ring is basically throwing shade your way.
We'll find out who and what he said next on
hitting to all fields MJ in the midday, Jeremy Piven
in seventeen minutes right here on ninety three to three,
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kJ are at them all right. We got Game four
of the NBA Finals coming up tonight from Indianapolis. As
the Pacers try to go up three to one, OKC
tries to tie it up at two games a piece,
which I believe the latter will happen because OKAC is
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just better. I know they lost the other night, but
you know what, they're gonna come out tonight and with
reckless abandon and they're gonna come out and do We're
gonna impose their will just like they did in Game two,
but they got to do it on the road tonight
in a hostile environment. Well, Tyree Alliburton and called out
the media regarding him being underrated.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
And.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, let's just say one certain TV personality you might
have heard of doesn't take too kindly to that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
His name is Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Now you're talking about me, I'm the guy that wanted
them drafted by the New York Knicks. I'm the guy
that says that the players were wrong to label him overrated.
Did you remember that? So I give him credit. He
was smart enough not to mention my name because he
was assuming because had he mentioned me, I'd go in deeper.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But I won't. What I will say to you is this.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
In the end, it just amazes me how cats can
be sometimes win the damn chip Bro because the first
two games in this NBA Final series, you had your
mama with point three seconds left. Other than that, you
didn't play well, and shay Gil just was giving it
to y'all. He was averaging thirty six coming into the game,
Reign the league MVP. That ain't on me, that's on you.
And oh, by the way, just in case he was
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talking about me, my brother, I'm not going away.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm gonna be here for a while, said the news.
I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So next year, after that, ye, after that, after.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
That, I'm going to be here. And players far more
accomplished and far more superior have made their efforts trying
to call me out.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
How has that worked out? Mike Drop, Mike Drop, I
love it. Steven A. I love that so much. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, I oh, I can't tell you, thank you, steven A,
thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Now I got nothing umbers.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh and by the way, I wanted Halliburton, and the
Knicks took a guy by the name of Obi Floppin'
out of Dayton over Halliburton, and I knew the Knicks
would rue the day, which they did. I wanted Halliburton,
and I said to rue the day. And of course,
now ironically both Obie Floppin' and Halliburton are playing together
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after the Knicks gave up on Floppin'. Steven A, I
love that, and I love that and Frey and you
know what, and that man, steven A, I can tell you,
certainly not on your level, but I you know you've
been doing this a lot longer than I have, and
I've only been in Seattle for four months. But I
will tell you, and just to echo those sentiments to
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the haters out there, I ain't going nowhere, bro. I'll
be buying real soon. Okay, I won't be renting very
much longer. I'll be buying. So if you think that
I'm just here and I'm gonna be some vagabond carpet bagger.
That's gonna be here, and it's gonna be moving on
the bigger. No, no, no no. I love Seattle. I
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don't want to go in. I love KJR, Purple Sheet,
CrossFit Mark. They're the best bosses I've ever had. They're supportive,
they're trustworthy. I ain't going nowhere, So stephen A, amen
to you, and amen to guys who get paid to
make opinions on athletes. And it goes to show you
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how thin skin athletes truly are.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
They really are.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Media is more thin skin than athletes, but athletes are
very thin skin. But Halliburton, just play your game. Man,
you're good enough. But let me ask you this kid,
I'll give you. I'll just give you. Don't just will
get me. Don't don't google it. How many free throw
attempts is Haliburton taken in the first three games?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Probably like five zero zero, Mike, they're are, but bro,
you're too good to not have zero free throw attempts
in the first three finals games.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I couldn't believe when I saw that, like that is
you are. That means you're scared to go in the lane.
That jet olmgrin or you know, Wiggins or dort is
gonna him. You can't be dude, you gotta be more aggressive.
That's my biggest criticism of Halliburton. He's so good, he
could be a future MVP in this league. But I'm
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gonna tell you something right now. You get zero so
freak throw attempts in the first three games combined.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Please, dude, you gotta do better. You gotta do better.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Jeremy Freakin piven Odentourage heats say anything, gross, gross, point blank,
you name it the performance. He will be coming up
next right here on MJ in the midday on a Friday,
Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR FM
Open my big loud, fat mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All of you have the license to just destroy me
on the text line, on the voice text line, whatever
you want to do. Never speak before the line I'm
feeling supersonic, give me Gin and Tonic. You can have
it all, but how much do you want it? Never
speak before that. Hello everyone, MJ in the midday, Christopher
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Kidd on the other side of the glass, It's a
beautiful Friday. I don't care what anyone says. I love
days like this. It's gloomy, but it's cool. It's football weather,
it's not raining. I love days like this to me,
you know, and not that I would be I don't know,
affected by any type of rain, but I love days
like this. It, you know, gonna be out next week
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and down in the Sunshine state of Florida, and it's
gonna be hot as hell down there, heat and humidity.
So I'm gonna enjoy this weather while it lasts. Before
I get on a red eye bird flight tonight. I
hope all of you are having a tremendous Friday. So
I gotta just say this, and just going off of
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the sports headlines, what a Stanley Cup other than game
three games one? Two and four have been absolutely ridiculous.
We are watching right now what might be and everybody
thought it would be Connor McDavid, But Leon dry sidel
his fourth game winning goal. Oh, I believe overtime, fourth
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game winning overtime goal in a single playoffs setting an
NHL playoff record. That's unbelievable. He is doing what Tyrese
Haliburton is doing on the court for the Indiana Pacers.
He's had four game winning shots so are one of
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them was a tying shot. If his foot was a
little smaller, it would have been a game winning shot.
But they ended up winning the game anyway anyway, So
I love There's nothing more you like to see, and
the hockey's been great. And listen, i have four figures
worth of reasons that I'm rooting for the Edmonton Oilers.
It's financial interest, the same way with I'm rooting for
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the Oklahoma City Thunder when it comes to Seattle. Yeah,
if you know, if I don't win on the Thunder,
I'll be happy for Seattle that Oklahoma City loses in
everybody here, most people here will feel great that OKAC
and the Sonics curse will forever haunt the thunder.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I really need Edmonton to win though I got thousands
of reasons why I need the Oilers to win the
Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But when I'm watching this.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Last night, and it's just like, you gotta appreciate greatness,
and you've got to appreciate greatness on the highest level.
And we've seen it from both athletes Tyree Saliburton, Leon
dry sidele two different sports, two different cities, but they're
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just clutch af and you either have it or you don't.
You have that gene, Kobe, Michael Steph You have that
gene or you don't. In the postseason. I'm talking about
regular season doesn't matter. Legacies are defined the postseason.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You have it or you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Lebron, Barkley, Stockton, Malone. I was thinking about this the
other day. I'm like, how about this. How great was
Michael Jordan That he's the reason why four Hall of
Fame basketball players, all four of them, by the way,
on dreamed the original dream Team, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley,
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John Stockton, Karl Malone, that those four guys do not
have were titles, all four of them because of Michael Jordan,
which is just crazy. But when you see clutch. You
saw it with Tom Brady time and time again. Fourth quarter,
actually down twenty eight to three with two and a
half minutes left in the freaking Super Bowl against the Falcons,
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and I mean Arthur Blank was on the Falcons owner
was on the sideline celebrating, kissing everyone, hugging everyone. Ah,
we did it, We did it. Tom Brady did the
leak carso not so fast, my friend, and Dante high
Tower sacked Matt Ryan and that killed everything. To get
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the fumble, Julian Edelman made arguably the greatest catch in
Super Bowl history, which was pretty much literally a millimeter
from touching the ground and he caught it and the
Patriots went on to win their fifth Super Bowl. At
that point, Clutch, it's just so nice to see because
a lot of players you see that. I mean, I'll
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give another clutch guy in NBA history, Kawhi Leonard Clutch,
af Clutch a f for.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Kawhi with Toronto.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Prior to that with San Antonio hasn't shown it with
the clips, but he's been clutch in the biggest moments
when his team need him to. He's like I'm gonna
put you on my back. He hit that three pointer
that bounced on the rim against the Sixers and Joel
mb to upset them.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
They go on.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Then they upset the Warriors in the finals. Kde got
hurt in the first game. He couldn't play the rest
of the series, but they were just you know, I
would have loved to see if Katie was healthy. I
don't know what would have happened, but that Toronto team
we look back right now.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's rare to see this in sports.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And yeah, I hope even if you hate the Thunder,
your hate watching the NBA Finals, And I know you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
A horse in the race, a dog in the fight,
but I hope you're watching the Stanley Cup right now
because if you're not, you're missing what has truly been
some of the most clutch performances that I've seen in
quite some time.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And Leon dry Sidle, Holy crap, this guy, this guy
unfreaking believable getting it done.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Last night.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I texted the mayor Ian Ferness last night when it
was three to nothing. And I kind of do this
sometimes as like a reverse jinx, where I texted Lee Sterling,
who you know from Paramount Sports. He's rooting for the Panthers.
He lived down in South Florida. Said when three nothing
last night, in the first period, I said, game over,
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series over, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. Oilers come back,
score a goal, a three. Yeah, there's no way they're
not coming back three to two. Then all of a
sudden doing laundry, kind of walking around, and they tie
it up, and I'm like, uh oh, uh oh, We've
got to get And then the Oilers go ahead with
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about five and a half minutes to go. They go
ahead four to three, and then freaking Florida Panthers tie
it up with like nineteen seconds left in the game,
and I'm like, no, they're gonna lose. They're gonna go
down three to one. When you're down three to one,
you're not gonna win three in a row. And lo
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and behold man that overtime period where a shot hit
the freaking crossbar of Calvin Pickard, who came in the
game because Stuart Skinner couldn't stop a nosebleed, and he sucks.
But Leon Dreisidel, thank you, thank you. Got two more
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to go, Bro, two more to go. Edmonton's gonna bring
this thing home now. And I'm gonna say this too.
If you hate watching the NBA Finals, you're gonna watch
tonight about.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Five, five thirty, five thirty.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Whoever wins tonight, Christopher Kid Tonight's game seven. If OKC
wins tonight, they win the series. If Indiana wins tonight,
they win it all. Do you agree?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I don't want to wait and see. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I don't want to make any predictions because we had
on Rob you had on Rob Parker last week and
he said it was going seven games.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He did, he did.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
There's a possibility it can still go seven, even if
Indiana goes up three to one. But I have a
very hard time believing it gives back to Oka. See
if they indeed go up three to one, I think
Indiana closes things out and six if they win tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But then, oh, you think they could win? Hold on,
wait a second, so win tonight, you think they could?
Oh yeah, they would win at home?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Ye correct? Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree with that.
By the way, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Saying, whoever wins tonight's game will be the NBA World Champions.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That's that's a tough one for me. It is that's
and that.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And by the way, you know who's gonna win a night,
I'm gonna I gotta spoiler alert you ready?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Do you want to know this? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I already know who's gonna win the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They're winning, and I do. They are not losing this game. Now.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Do I trust the five and a half six point spread?
Hell no, But they're winning this game. And if I
had Dave Portnoy money, I'd go, okay CE money line,
I'd go okay CE money line. But I'm not gonna
put up that much money to uh to, you know,
to win one hundred dollars. Just yeah, I'm not doing that.
(09:44):
But ok C's gonna win tonight. They're six and a
half point favorite. Yeah that that money line is just
that's ridiculous. I can't six and a half point favorite
on the read minus two fifty, So that means you
have to put up two fifty to win a one hundred.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I normally would say no, but if you have Dave
Portnoy or even more than that. We have fifty four
thousand millionaires in the Seattle metropolitan area. If you have
fu money take OKAC in the money line, and I'll
tell you right now, they might even cover the number.
They might even do it tonight. They're gonna win tonight,
and they're gonna win the series. Sorry, Seattle. And as
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my former boss Paul Hayman would like to say, that's
not a prediction, that's a spoiler period. All right, there
we go now, speaking of things that suck are this
was one of the most epic rants I ever heard.
And the rant didn't suck, But who he was talking about,
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and who is the gentleman I'm talking about. You might
have heard of them, The man who's the face and
the voice of KJR for the last thirty four years,
and the man who's still here. He told me he
got hired here and I believe him in nineteen ninety four,
and he said he had a credential to the nineteen
ninety six NBA Finals when the Bulls played the Sonics.
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Our own Dave Softy Maler's Softy in Dick in the
afternoon every day. You know the guys, Yeah, they don't
need any introduction. But on Wednesday, I heard it at
the end after yesterday's show. Otherwise I would have played
it Yesterday, Softie goes on a rant about the miserable Mariners.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Nick, I just think I'm gonna make this real simple
for you. The whole freaking thing sucks. Okay, everything sucks.
The bullpen sucks, the offense sucks, the coaches sucked, the
front office sucks, the owner sucks, and the offense sucks.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
The stupid ass patch.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They have on their freaking shoe sucks, The broadcast sucks.
Everything's dog meat. All of it is dog meat everything.
So you want to just pick a side or start
making excuses for this side of the ball or that
side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
They're all clowns. The whole thing is a freaking clown show. Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Wow, Nothing I can argue with there, nothing I can
I mean, this thing has been really, really, really bad.
And you look at where this team was a year ago.
And I got a statistic. Since June eighteenth of last year,
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the Mariners have won forty eight percent of their games
were coming upon the one year anniversary. Since June eighteenth
of last year, they've won less than fifty percent of
their games forty eight percent, to be exact. And I
have to tell you what I've witnessed over the course
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of the last seventeen games has been absolutely atrocious, pitiful, pathetic,
piss poor, any portive type of adjective that you want
to use. That's what these recent mariagers. Where's the team
that won nine straight series in a row? Where are they?
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Where are they? Buehler, Buehler, anyone, anyone? Where is this team?
What happened to that team?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Logan Gilbert is supposed to be coming back next week.
That's a figurative and literal shot in the arm. Daddy's
coming home. That's the guy that I know, like death
and taxes every freaking year, that Logan Gilbert every fifth
day is gonna pitch lights out. Probably arguably the best
pitcher in baseball. I will argue with anybody, and I
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do mean anybody, whether you're a Dodgers fan, a Mets fan,
a Phillies fan, you name it. Logan Gilbert when healthy,
is the best pitcher in Major League baseball. Cal Rawley
is the best catcher in Major League by But then
there's a drop off. There's a major freaking drop off
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after that. Oh, by the way, Jeremy Piven will join
us at the top of the hour. The tremendous actor
extraordinaire who's had a career that's gone back to the
movie Say Anything with John Cusack. It from like nineteen
eighty nine when John Cusack is holding up the boombox
above his head to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes. Jeremy
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Piven was in that movie. He's had an unbelievable career.
He was in Heat with Al Pacino, Robert de Niro,
Val Kilmer. I mean, wow, He's been in so many
great movies. He had a one recently called The Performance.
It's like, I can't wait. He's gonna be coming to
the Neptune Theater coming up on July twelfth here in Seattle.
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He's doing a stand up routine and I just can't
wait to talk to the guy. He's a huge sports
fan and we'll get his thoughts on this. And I
have a movie that Jeremy Piven should have been in
and he was not in. He should have been in
this movie and it's a classic movie. And I'm gonna
tell him this is the movie he should have been in.
And what was it like? Obviously being in Entourage, and
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he was in Two for the Money with Matthew McConaughey,
and Al Pacino and Renee Russo. So he's been in
some pretty big time. He's coming up to Seattle Portland first,
and then you know, like everybody, you know, when they
do the old scene, you got to go to you know,
you go to Portland first, and then you're like, Okay,
now we get to go to the big city. You know,
it's like, we got to go to Portland first. Oh,
then we get yet, now we get rewarded. We get
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to go to the Emerald City, a real market Seattle.
But he's gonna be here coming up on July twelve.
We're gonna have him on coming up at the top
of the hour. Right now is a US Open update
on ninety three to three kJ R F M. Well.
The twenty eleven NFL Draft could be the worst quarterback
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draft of all time after Cam Newton. Cam Newton's fine,
He's not a bust. He was a boom. He won
an MVP. I didn't like him, you know, he was
you know, I remember being in Charlotte at that time saying,
you know, will rue the day that Andrew Luck decided
to go back to Stanford for another year, because Andrew
Luck would have been selected over Cam Newton had Andrew
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Luck come out, but he wanted to go back to
Stanford for another year, so he comes out, and then
he ended up being the number one pick the following
year in front of RG three. That draft was so
atrocious for quarterbacks, Christian Ponder, Jake Locker, Blaine Gabbert. In
the first round the top twelve picks, there were four
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quarterbacks taken. It was Cam Jake Locker at eight, Blaine
Gabbert at ten, and Christian Ponder at twelve. You've got
to be kidding me. That was the worst quarterback draft
of all time. Second round Colin Kaepernick. I mean, he
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did get to a Super Bowl, so I can't can't
knock that. Afterwards, you know, he lost his job ironically
enough to what he lost his job to Blaine Gabbert
in San Francisco at the end there I think he did.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, that's weird. He did.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Andy Dalton was selected in the second round too. Andy
Dalton still in the league, so he's still around. It's crazy,
worst drapped ever. All right, what if Sam Donald's season
last year was a fluke? But what if Dan Graziano
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from ESPN rights and I quote the somewhat tepid market
for Donald and free agency indicates that there was a
fair bit of skepticism around the league about the sustainability
of his breakout twenty twenty four season. Got a pretty
nice deal three years, one hundred and five million and
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just thirty seven and a half million guaranteed, and if
Donald does play the way he did in Minnesota, it'll
look like a massive steal. However, if Donald reverts to
the jittery, turnover prone ways of his early career, Seattle
is likely in for a rough campaign, but at least
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the Seahawks aren't committed to him beyond this season. Drew
Locke in third round rookie Jaln Milroe are the other
options on the roster if Donald falters. As of now,
Mike McDonald has been very clear Donald is the starter
and it would take an injury to change that. Expect
Donald to get the year, or at least the bulk
of it, to prove that twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Was not a fluke.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know what I was surprised about yesterday? Kid, We
had the great Cherene Williams on yesterday. She did I
love her. She did not pull any punches at all,
and she basically is fading Darnald. She does not believe
in Sam Darnald at all. Neither does Kevin Clark from
The Ringer, And it's like, whoa, so like I said.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Me, the glass half full in me? I like what.
I like what John Schneider did.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But then I wake up some days and I read
things from Dan Graziano talking to Sharene Williams talking to
Kevin Clark from The Ringer, and I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Man, Hey, I don't know that over under. Hey, believe me.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I bet on the Mariners to win over eighty six
and a half games. That doesn't look so great right now,
you know what I mean? No, that ain't looking so
hot right now at all.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I think they're over and under was the same last year,
and if it wasn't for the Rams game, they wouldn't
have had ten wins.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So it's not that crazy to think about it. What
there's seven and a half this year? Half now?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But oh wait, wait, wait, what what book did? It's
that it moved Seattle moved to the eight and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah I moved.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, yeah, probably a lot of people are like the thing,
So eight and a half, eight and a half's probably
about right. That's probably about right right there.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I think that they could win ten is not too crazy. Again,
they won the tenth game because the Rams trotted out there,
you know the backup.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah that was the Rams laid down like the Seahawks,
right one. But yeah, the Rams. But the Rams laid
down like a porn star. I mean they just did,
you know, like they just they just laid down. I
mean that's what they did. They just said, here you go,
we don't need this game. You guys have fun. Gino
got his uh met, all his uhs he got. Yeah,
it was a six million dollar day for Geno Smith
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that day. So wow, it's great work if you can
get it. It's not inconceivable that the Seahawks could win
ten games. But I'm just thinking, I'm like, wow, man,
if if Donald does revert back to Jets, Donald.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Woo that you know what, I don't think it'll be that. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Do I think he can be He can struggle with
the offensive line and there's no run game. Absolutely, I
don't know if he's capable of playing well despite the
team not being good around him, not having the offense.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He can't be You're saying that he can't be the
guy that's gonna put the team on his back.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Now, I don't know if he I don't know if
he can do that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
I haven't seen it consistently, but I'm not up watching
every game that he played last season with the Vikings.
The games I did watch and did see, he kind
of did not do that despite everything going around going bad.
The offensive line wasn't the best. He did not make
it work despite having the elite wide receivers.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What do you mean he didn't make it work? Like,
didn't make it work.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
He didn't He wasn't able to use his athleticism because
he's not incapable of moving out of.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
The pocket, right right, No, No, No, he's a fine athlete. No,
but like listen, he like he won it, what nine
games in a row at one point last year. Yes, yeah,
so like you can't we can't like overlook that. I mean, yeah,
he was the guy, and he was the leader of
that locker room, and I mean, Jesus man, it was wow.
I mean they had a you know, they won nine
and then they had won fourteen out of the first
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sixteen games of last year. Minnesota fourteen and two in
the first sixteen games. So that to me was like, whoa,
holy crap, Like, so he's capable.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
But again, well that was because everything was great.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, I was gonna say, and here's the thing, and
that's fine, if everything is great, he can probably do that.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
And then some that's that's that's right, that's what you
would want. Why would you look at what Jalen Hurts had.
That's what every quarter would want, right. But here here's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
To paraphrase, well, to quote Rick Patino, Kevin O'Connell's not
walking through that door, folks. Uh, justin Jefferson's not walking
through that door, folks.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
K Metcalf's not coming back.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And Jordan Addison is not walking through that door. For
so it changes. I still embullish on the Hawks to
win ten. I actually predict them at eleven. I'm kind
of looking on the more looking on the ten mark.
But one thing Charene said, and I kind of agree
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with her. She really, I'll tell you, she was awesome yesterday,
she said. And I don't know if a lot of
people agree with this, and you tell me, but I
agree with what she said. If the Seahawks don't win
the division. They're not going to make the playoffs because
the NFC is too tough.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
The NFC, Like, that's what we talked about when I
went to the schedule, I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You know, I forget which division.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I didn't say the NFC East, but I said they have, oh,
the NFC South, Like they're not. Those are teams you
just can't. Oh, we're gonna win those games, right Garante,
especially at Atlanta. You don't know, we know what Panics
can do. You don't know, you don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't pencil in. No, no, no,
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what I'm saying is here's the one team who
I think is going to take a step backwards this year.
Sam Darnold's former team, Minnesota. I just don't trust JJ McCarthy.
He's a rookie. I don't trust him. So from that,
I think JJ McCarthy and Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
They're not gonna be but fourteen and two or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
The teams who are superior to the Seahawks are As Follows, Eagles, Commanders, Packers, Lions,
and maybe they're not superior, but what the year two
they've put together a wall in front of.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Caleb Williams in Chicago. So they're gonna be much better.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I'm not saying they're gonna be better than Seattle, but
and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are better than Seattle
and the Rams are So what Scheren brought up a
great point yesterday that if the Hawks don't win their division,
they might not make the playoffs. And I don't think
that she's going out in a limb. I think she's
(24:53):
actually right. I don't think there's gonna be a wildcard
team from this division. I don't because there are other
teams and the other divisions are too good. And listen,
you can laugh, say what you want, and I you know,
Dallas's will always be Dallas. But they're still they still
have a lot of talent. They do have a lot
of talent there. So you're talking Eagles, Commanders, Packers, Lions, Bucks, Rams.
(25:22):
That's seven right there. And then I'm telling you the
Bears are gonna be a double digit win team. So
you just don't allow yourself much margin for error. So
if you don't win the division, you better finish with
about twelve wins if you think you're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's all I'm saying. And I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I One day I wake up and I feel so
bullish about this team, and the next day I feel
like it's gonna be a bear market and everything's gonna
come up not very well this season. But I'm more
positive than negative going into the year. I just hope
they can protect him and they can run the ball.
(26:06):
The one thing I will say, unlike last two years
with the Seahawks offense, this year's team won't be one dimensional, predictable.
We're gonna throw, throw, throw every freaking down. They're not
gonna do that. It's gonna be the run to set
up the pass, not pass past pass, pass past past pass.
We might sprinkle in a run here. Ryan Grubb has
(26:26):
gone off. That's what that and that's just it. Run
blocking is gonna be huge to set up the pass.
So a lot of things to think about. But Dan Graziano,
Sharene Williams, Kevin Clark, and many others are very skeptical
of Sam Darnold being able to replicate his twenty twenty
four season with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We will see coming up next.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Uh oh, you know your big time in the media
when one of the top guys who's still going and
playing for a ring is basically throwing shade your way.
We'll find out who and what he said next on
hitting to all fields MJ in the midday, Jeremy Piven
in seventeen minutes right here on ninety three to three,
(27:10):
kJ are at them all right. We got Game four
of the NBA Finals coming up tonight from Indianapolis. As
the Pacers try to go up three to one, OKC
tries to tie it up at two games a piece,
which I believe the latter will happen because OKAC is
(27:34):
just better. I know they lost the other night, but
you know what, they're gonna come out tonight and with
reckless abandon and they're gonna come out and do We're
gonna impose their will just like they did in Game two,
but they got to do it on the road tonight
in a hostile environment. Well, Tyree Alliburton and called out
the media regarding him being underrated.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
And.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, let's just say one certain TV personality you might
have heard of doesn't take too kindly to that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
His name is Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Now you're talking about me, I'm the guy that wanted
them drafted by the New York Knicks. I'm the guy
that says that the players were wrong to label him overrated.
Did you remember that? So I give him credit. He
was smart enough not to mention my name because he
was assuming because had he mentioned me, I'd go in deeper.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But I won't. What I will say to you is this.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
In the end, it just amazes me how cats can
be sometimes win the damn chip Bro because the first
two games in this NBA Final series, you had your
mama with point three seconds left. Other than that, you
didn't play well, and shay Gil just was giving it
to y'all. He was averaging thirty six coming into the game,
Reign the league MVP. That ain't on me, that's on you.
And oh, by the way, just in case he was
(28:51):
talking about me, my brother, I'm not going away.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm gonna be here for a while, said the news.
I'm gonna be here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So next year, after that, ye, after that, after.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
That, I'm going to be here. And players far more
accomplished and far more superior have made their efforts trying
to call me out.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
How has that worked out? Mike Drop, Mike Drop, I
love it. Steven A. I love that so much. I
love it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, I oh, I can't tell you, thank you, steven A,
thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Now I got nothing umbers.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh and by the way, I wanted Halliburton, and the
Knicks took a guy by the name of Obi Floppin'
out of Dayton over Halliburton, and I knew the Knicks
would rue the day, which they did. I wanted Halliburton,
and I said to rue the day. And of course,
now ironically both Obie Floppin' and Halliburton are playing together
(29:55):
after the Knicks gave up on Floppin'. Steven A, I
love that, and I love that and Frey and you
know what, and that man, steven A, I can tell you,
certainly not on your level, but I you know you've
been doing this a lot longer than I have, and
I've only been in Seattle for four months. But I
will tell you, and just to echo those sentiments to
(30:15):
the haters out there, I ain't going nowhere, bro. I'll
be buying real soon. Okay, I won't be renting very
much longer. I'll be buying. So if you think that
I'm just here and I'm gonna be some vagabond carpet bagger.
That's gonna be here, and it's gonna be moving on
the bigger. No, no, no no. I love Seattle. I
(30:37):
don't want to go in. I love KJR, Purple Sheet,
CrossFit Mark. They're the best bosses I've ever had. They're supportive,
they're trustworthy. I ain't going nowhere, So stephen A, amen
to you, and amen to guys who get paid to
make opinions on athletes. And it goes to show you
(30:57):
how thin skin athletes truly are.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
They really are.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Media is more thin skin than athletes, but athletes are
very thin skin. But Halliburton, just play your game. Man,
you're good enough. But let me ask you this kid,
I'll give you. I'll just give you. Don't just will
get me. Don't don't google it. How many free throw
attempts is Haliburton taken in the first three games?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Probably like five zero zero, Mike, they're are, but bro,
you're too good to not have zero free throw attempts
in the first three finals games.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I couldn't believe when I saw that, like that is
you are. That means you're scared to go in the lane.
That jet olmgrin or you know, Wiggins or dort is
gonna him. You can't be dude, you gotta be more aggressive.
That's my biggest criticism of Halliburton. He's so good, he
could be a future MVP in this league. But I'm
(31:56):
gonna tell you something right now. You get zero so
freak throw attempts in the first three games combined.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Please, dude, you gotta do better. You gotta do better.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
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you name it the performance. He will be coming up
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