February 6, 2025 • 34 mins
Gregg and Christopher get the show rolling with headlines around the sports world. The fellas catch up w/ Dr. Bhanu Gupta for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and the Seattle Kraken, he talks about the importance of having a healthy heart and much more. The Seahawks have a little more money, thanks to Leonard Williams restructuring his deal, will this create opportunities for the roster?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cracking game day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They in their home standing against one of the NHL's
better teams. We'll explain how restructuring Lenon William's contract cuts
the Seahawks amount of getting under the cap for twenty
twenty five in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It cut in half. He just did half their work
for him. In one fell swoop.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're trying to get people from the Super Bowl, Eagles
beat writers or Chief beat writers from the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
But Thursday's a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Media availability day, so we may not get them at
eleven o'clock, but we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We'll talk about the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Super Bowl, super Bowl fifty nine, of course, right here
on ninety three point three KJRFM on Sunday. The pregame
shows at eleven o'clock from Westwood one, and just after
three o'clock, everyone's man, Kevin Harlan will be on the
play by play of Eagles Chief super Bowl fifty nine
from the Superdome right here on ninety three point three
KJFM on Sunday eleven thirty, will be back your text
four nine four to five one on the telemon Doue
text line.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It was game time. It's Tully time. Bucky was laughing.
At me.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I guess I'll just say this publicly. I have a
colin oscopy today one o'clock, and Bucky's like, what are
you doing here? Work when you're still in your thirties?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Plus you, Chris, But when you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Have a Kolonosky, there is a ton of prep that
is very inconvenient. Let's put it that way. Those of
you out there listening to know exactly what I'm talking about.
If you take this gallon jug of powdered stuff that
keeps you confined to one room of your house for
the most of the evening, foundstie. So that's what I'm
doing it right now. I'm at the end stage of that,
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and at one o'clock I'll be doing that and get
above fifty. Better start doing that. I have friends who've
done that and saved their lives found cancer and their
colon or testins and other things.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So here we go. Headline's about you by Frost Food Corse.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I choose chill on that uplifting note. That fifty person
Hall of Fame Selection Committee Pro Football Hall of Fame
is meeting right now in New Orleans. They're voting on
which of up to eight players contributors and one coach
get into the Hall of Fame. There's only one coach
as a finalist, and that's Mike Congrin, our coach the
Seahawks and Packers Super Bowl coachist for Enshrineman. He's at
his home in Kirkland with his wife Kathy. They met
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when they were twelve years old, Chris, and the story
goes that when he was fifteen, he asked Kathy to
marry him, and she of course said no. The story
also goes that Mike Holmgren asked Kathy to marry or
had they married. Their wedding day was on June fifteenth
in nineteen seventy one, because June fifteenth is Mike's birthday
and the coach didn't want to forget his wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Smart man, sorry, put him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
On his That's the best thing you could do as
a young man. If you're like you know, I'm bab
with dates, Just do it on your day. He'll never forget,
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
He said. He's sure, say I mentioned he's still not
sure how this whole process goes. There used to be
they flew all the finalist in thirty some of them
to the Super Bowl City Walter Jones was explaining I
and Ferness talked about this yesterday. Walter Jones was explaining
the Hall of Famer the Seahawks off best left tackle
ever was. He said that when he got voted in
twenty fourteen, when the Seahawks were in the Midlands to
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play the Broncos in the Super Bowl, he landed and
they as one of the Hall of Fame finalists. He
didn't know yet. He landed there on the NFL's in
Pro Football Hall of Things invite and they handed him
two itineraries, one for if you make it, you'll do this,
You'll have this ceremony, you'll do this, you go onto
the field at halftime.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And be honored.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
If you don't make it, here's your itinerary, which includes
a flight home during the game. And he said, no, no, no,
the Seahawks are played in Super Bowl. I'm going to
the game. And he did go to the game, and
of course he didn't have to worry about being sent
home as not being inducted first time first ballot Hall
of Famer Walter Jones, Well, we'll hear from Mike Homegren.
(03:38):
He was on yesterday with the infer Nest yesterday afternoon,
and he said he's at peace his family not so
much pretty nervous about what maker down today. You'll hear
from him later in the show. You also hear a
funny story from Homegren about why he says he's not
going to New Orleans, at least not by Saturday night.
We'll have homegrown propriate gramming all day. The NFL Owners
(04:00):
Show begins at six pm. We will all find out
during that show, if not before. Chiefs are one and
a half point favorites over the Eagles on Sunday, Kansas
City trying to, of course, to become the first team
to win three consecutive Super Bowls and none one has
done that in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Era once again.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kickoff is just after three pm on Sunday with Kevin
Harmon and Westwood Wins Call here on ninety three point
three KJRFM. The Seahawks have restructured Lennon Williams's contract. It
creates fourteen million dollars in additional space under the twenty
twenty five league salary cap. I'll explained here during the
show on how it cuts the team's task and have
to get under the cap. They have to do that
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by March twelfth, that's the first day of the league
year in baseball, Pete A. Lonza not gonna happen, Chris.
He's going back to the Mets two years, fifty four
million dollars with an option to get out of the
deal after one year. Here we go with CA Emeritus
have afforded that. The answers obviously they think no. Their
owners say no, they're not going to pay twenty seven
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million dollars when they told you can spend fifteen million
dollars total for the year. So you get three and
a half million dollars in Donovan Solano and seven and
a half million in Jorge Polanco to play a new
position instead of twenty seven million dollars for Pete Alonzo
to be an all star power slugging first baseman.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Alonzo back to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Cracking nine points beyond Calgary for the final playoffs butt
in the Western Conference. They and their home standing night
against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Pregame of Mike Benn at
six thirty puck job at seven o'clock, of course, with
Everett Fitzchu and Al Koninski here on ninety three point
three KJF emy home with the crack and one of
the best teams in the NHL coming in the night
in Toronto, the Washington Huskies men's basketball team had a
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ten point lead at halftime over Nebraska. Then they just
got overwhelmed in the second half. The Corniskers shot the
lights out at Hecked. You'd got outscored forty nine to
twenty five after the break, lost eighty six seventy two
at heck Ed. The Huskies are now two and nine
in the Big Ten. Tasked to get in the top
fifteen of the eighteen team league to meet the Big
Ten tournament just got harder.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dub's women. They lost at Penn State yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Penn State had been one to ten in the Big
Ten before they beat the Huskies yesterday. Washington State's men's
team basketball plays tonight at Oregon State BASKETBA. As if
I was talking about the volleyball or the swim team,
I didn't have one.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Of those there.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Washington State's men play at Oregon State tonight. That's an
eight pm national game on ESPN two. The Cougars have
lost four straight road games. They got a sickness through
the team. I was reading from Greg Woods and the
Spokesman Review leading scorer Nate cow Meese and others have
been sick all this week.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And Chris's NBA more trades.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Remember we talked about Jimmy Butler getting suspended by the
Miami Heat this season three different times, including for missing
and just skipping a team flight to a road game. Well,
pat Riley and the Heat just gave up on Jimmy
Butler and traded him to the Golden State Warriors last night.
According to ESPN, Miami traded Butler to the Warriors after
Kevin Durant told Golden State he didn't want to be
traded from the Suns back to the Dubs. Warriors are
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sending Andrew Wiggins and Kyle Anderson, plus a top ten
detected picking the summer's draft to Miami guard Dennis Schroeder.
The other day he called it forced slavery, the NBA
trading deadline, when players don't have a say and then
just get dealt. Well, the Warriors sent him to Utah.
See how he likes that. That is not a popular
destination for NBA players. I'll just tell you that Schroder
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was publicly talking about that a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
He gets he.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Goes from the Warriors to Utah. The Jazz are sending PJ.
Tucker to the Heat. Oh yeah, the Pistons are involved too,
with players have never heard of. ESPN reported that it's
a condition of the trade. Butler will decline as fifty
two million dollar player offs. Would it be nice, Chris?
You say no, I'm not going to take fifty two
million guaranteed. I don't need that.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
There's an extension instead, Yeah, two years, eleven million instead
of paying nine million more so you getting sixty ms
a year, sixty plus ms.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Shout out to Jimmy, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm mass thirty five years old making sixty one M
a year.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Guaranteed, whether he fit three points a game, whether he
plays three.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Game next year. That's the beauty of the NBA, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You get that g at the end of it, Gary
on ted as Chuck always says.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That is that is the problem with the NFL, and
the NFL players have with every other sport pretty much.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And you wonder why players are playing with fractured fingers
and fractured ribs and dislocated whatevers, because it's not guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, NBA man what do you think of all
that Jimmy Butler to the Warriors wears now back into
the playoff mix.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You think they No, I never thought they were out
with with their tenth right now in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, but they're only two games out, Like that's a
that's a one week. If you win all your games
in a week, which that team can very well do
they they're right in the hunt. Jimmy Buckets brings another
avenue of scoring and defense Draymond Green. He's known for
his defense and just being Draymont. Well, now you got
a dude that can do it on both ends. He
can take out another small four, make it, make it
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a challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He's a good player, he is. But Jimmy, he's younger.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But you know they they'd rather take their risk on
Jimmy B Jimmy Buckets, And I don't blame them that
dude when he's locked in as you can imagine, he
wasn't locked in Miami. That's why I was like, can
you guys trade him already?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
What are you waiting for? He doesn't want to play
for you guys anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So they got it done when they needed to, And
I think I think this will make the Golden State Warriors,
you know, a formidable a formidable foe in the postseason
for sure. I like what they got pieces wise, they
still have uh Kevon Looney coming off the bench, a
big five that can just dominate in the paint. And
then you look at Buddy Hill that got shooting, and
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you got Steph Curry as always, Stephan Draymond. You got
two pieces to that puzzle championship pedigree. And then you
add a guy like Jimmy Buckets. Yeah, this is they
gonna be tough to beat in a seven game series.
But great move for them. Yeah, I think Miami did
all right too. You have a top ten.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, they're fine, They're fine.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And yeah Andrews he's a younger, he's younger, he's good,
he's he has a championship now attached to his name,
so you know what it takes. And he's going to
a head coach that is no nonsense. Eric Sposer, despite
his record and whatever's been going on with that Miami
heat and everything, I think he's still one of the
top coach in the league. I think you can, without
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question when you think of top NBA coaches, Eric Sposer
is always in the discussion, especially with the talent that
he has. He always has them playing above the means.
You're never saying, damn, Eric Sposer, he did that with
that Tim. Oh, actually you are. It's exactly what you're saying,
because every season you're thinking, I had the maam, he'd
be the eighth seed, and then they end up in
the NBA Finals. You're like, how did he do it?
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And he does that year in and year out. So
I'm excited to see what he can do with Andrew
Wiggins and those those guys over there.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It should be fun.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They still got Bam, who is a formidable offensive player
and defender in the league. He can get your bucket. Hell,
he just had a game winning jump shot. So you
know what, what about your Lakers? They got Mark Williams
from the Hornets. That was I didn't see that coming. Lakers.
Might Lakers might have on that trade. Now I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They needed to get bit big, especially with another.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Now you got a big, a lob threat. I think
Mark Williams is averaging sixteen and nine and he's coming off.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A severe team.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He's coming off with severe back injury. Like this, dude,
I think he's about to sixteen and eleven now just
playing with the Lakers, just him being around the rim,
Luca and Lebron's pick and roll game like this looks
as if the Lakers have won the deal right now
now that I don't know if Dalla's gonna make another move,
but right now, on paper, I like what the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
How about what's going on in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We talked to mac Engele about the Mavericks trade of
Luca the other day. They are reportedly giving refunds to
season ticket holders who are revolting and saying they're not
going to any more games anymore. They're done, they are ticked.
And Mac told us right in the morning after that
trade that this is worse than anying. Jerry Jones is
done with the Cowboys down there, and if you're bigger
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than the Cowboys, screw up you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Big in Dallas in Texas, and it's looking scary. Those
fans are TechEd, man, they're giving up on the team.
Well we'll see.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I just know I think right now the Lakers might
have won the trades just because you get a center,
now you have Luca, you still have Lebron. That's just
that's tough to beat man. You got a center, you
have a big, you have a guy that's a threat
and the paint. No he's not Anthony Davis, but hey, bro,
we just need you to grab ten boards, block a
shot or two and if you score points, great, and
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that's what they needed. And then you still have Jackson
Haes off the bench. So yeah, I might be losing
some money, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's the betagaan?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So actually it was me and Anderson discussing yesterday. I
bet one hundred dollars that the Mavericks would make the playoffs.
So that means no play in. That means six seed
or higher. Right, well, now the Lakers just made this move.
The Lakers might be fifth, sixth seed or even higher,
and that means the Dallas mass fall to seven, maybe
even eight, because right now, the Sun are ahead of them,
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the Timberwolves are ahead of them, so I think those
two teams they can catch. Also, the Clippers are ahead
of them, and there are then the MAVs are the
I believe the eleven seed. So if the MAVs serves
me right, that puts them at eight. They still need
two more spots to lock in because I'm not talking
about the play in. I don't count them seven versus
eight nine, Yeah, I'm not. I don't count that. So
to be in the playoffs, you gotta be one through
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six play in. I mean, anyone can do it for you.
That's a that's a well, now it's Dangers Stangers Greg,
but it's still a solid bet to not put the
play in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, I wasn't. That's too easy. Oh it's
the Mavericks. They're gonna be in the play in.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Cracking some other cracking news this morning. Remember talking about
Jordan Beverley who's been out since October. Well, he ditched
the red no non contact sweater apparently this morning at
the King County ice Plex and the skate around and
Raker Evans also just ditch the red non contact sweater.
So signs of them potentially coming back soon. Remember, the
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crack can have tonight against Toronto, then they have Saturday
at Calgary, and then they go on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The two week break.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
February eighth to the twenty second, they're off for the
Four Nations Cup, the Four Nations tournament of hockey that's
going to be going on in Canada and in the
United States and Boston from the eighth to twenty second,
there's nobody going to do anything with the Kraken. So
everly there's a good chance he's going to be back
here after that break to the plan. All apparently skating
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this morning in the skate around at the ice plex
before the night's game at Climate Plagerina four nine four
on Telemone. Text line, when it's game time, it's Tully time.
I'm interested when Chris and I talk about the NBA.
Are you cool with this or are you like, stop
it with the NBA until the Signs get back, or
are you still ticked even if the son lets get
back for them leaving in the first place. But I
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know there are a lot of you out of here
that are basketball fans, and this is a great basketball
tradition in this area and this heritage in this area,
and a lot of great basketball players come out of here.
So I'd like your opinion on the NBA talk we do,
whether that's nah, I'm done with the NBA, and I
know a lot of you are. But I also know
there are a lot of you, maybe the vocal minority,
that say bring it on. They're still NBA fans and
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they still watch the game up next matter Williams' contract restructure,
what it is? What did he do?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, no, no, We're gonna chat with doctor where is
he at? H Banu Gupta, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and
the Cracking Day to day.
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Welcome back to Greg Best Showed with Christopher Kidd on
ninety three point three KJRFM on a snow day in
the Pacific Northwest. One thing I wanted to correct from
early I just flat bluid. I was in a haze
last night and I mixed the score of the UB
women's basketball name won at Penn State last night, not
lost one by the exact score. I just played bluid.
Had no excuse eighty six. But they wouldn't outside I'd
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get to score right. Eighty two seventy one. Huskies beat
Penn State on the road and fourteen and nine overall,
middle of the pack into Big Ten. And to get
that straight, what how about Leonter Williams's contract restructure? But
first talk about something that's far more important than football.
It's like health prevention, about heart disease awareness and the
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importance of getting tests annually to make sure anything that's
wrong with your heart is detected. Doctor Banu Buka Ford,
certified Cardiologist, joins US American the member of the American.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
College of Cardiology.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He joins US as part of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
in the Kraken's Heart Health Day here on ninety three
point three KJRFM, Doctor Goodwi thank you for being on
the show.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Good morning, good morning, good morning. Thank you for inviting me, Christopher.
Appreciate your making this heart health awareness as a more
regional and national phenomena.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm told, as you know, and I'll tell you, half
of all Americans of some former heart disease. In every
forty seconds a person in the United States has a
stroke or heart attack, making heart disease at number one
cause of death in our country. What what have you
in your career noticed that annual screenings and checkups and
heart health can stave off and stop What is the
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effect on this of just going and seeing your doctor
and have your heard checked out every year.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So I think it's very important, as you know, as
we as we walk and get into the adult life,
the heart, the athruscurosis of plot there's a plaque formation
in the arteries starts even now in earlier ages, you know,
in the age of twenty five onwards. So preventive side
in a younger patient population is a very important management
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strategy to improve your heart health as a longer term
and add more years to your life. As you know,
average expected life expectancy is eighty seven years in the
United States of America for men and women is a
little bit longer. But if we can add more lives
if we start looking for and looking after our health earlier,
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especially in the early adult life is starting at the
age of twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What have you found that most people come in the
most common age that you need to start coming in
for this kind of annual checkup.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Most often patients come late, and when they are told
that they've got some of their risk factors which are
very common, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, the
access weight gain from a calorie standpoint, lack of physical activities.
Diabetes has already set in at an early stage of
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prediabetic stage, and that's where they come in. But these
are all preventable conditions, so early recognition is more important.
Most often patients are I'm noticing in general the trend
is in their forties that they end up coming in
the hospital, are in the clinics.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And if your recommendation, preventatively, sir, were to be in
the thirties, when does someone listening say, oh, maybe should
start making this a part of my annual health.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
So if you've got family history, I would say earlier
the better, But you know, if somebody has had earlier
premature coroinary artery disease or heart attack in the family,
or stroke, or diabetes or high blood pressure if it
runs in your family, the sooner the better. In fact,
early twenties would be the way to start that if
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you think that your lifestyle is not a very healthy lifestyle.
Most of the people do recognize that that they are
not having a good healthy lifestyle, then I think seeking
early preventive measures are more important. So finding out if
you are at high risk or high risk of coordinatter
disease or high blood pressure or diabetes, such as annual
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blood pressure check or at least blood pressure check at home,
checking your blood sugar in the preventive clinic, make sure
that it's not trending up, checking your cholesterol early, Improving
your physical activities because nowadays we can do a lot
of focus and a lot of discussion in the preventive
cardiologies to find out finding out your exercise capacity and
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if your exercise capacity is less, I think getting into
the exercise regimented exercise schedule will be very important to
prevent those diseases showing up in your forties.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Doctor Goop, do you mentioned the lifestyle aspect of maintaining
a healthy heart. But what about diet, what foods could
you eat to help your having a healthy heart?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, absolutely, I really recommend is that lifestyle is a
broad spectrum. In the lifestyle, the food is a very
important part of the lifestyle. The choices what we make
for our diet is part of our lifestyle. Exercise is
a very big component. But I think dietary choices, what
we make every day, constitute seventy percent of how they
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impact our health over time. It's almost seventy percent. And
so if somebody wants to lose weight or they want
to maintain their heart health, then seventy percent focus should
be on the diet. I'm just giving your arbitrary numbers.
That's just seventy percent. That tells us the diet is
a very important part of your lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Doctor joining us here on Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and
the Kraken's Heart Health Day on Beacon Plumbing Hotline in
ninety three point three KJRFM. We have a lot of
listeners who are either athletes, former athletes not too long ago,
competitive athletes. The perception would be that they're fine and
they probably don't have to worry about heart disease. Do
you find a link that there is later onset to
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those who have been athletes in the past, Is that
not necessarily a direct correlation or what would you advise athletes,
current athletes, former athletes in their mid thirties about when
to get regular check ups for this? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, absolutely, that's a very important point when you are
in a very active athletic time of your life, especially
in your early twenties. Is screening for or some of
the sudden CARDCT deaths protocols or the screening procedures what
we have established at virginmasion Trances can help, or any
other institutions that you can choose to are important because
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certain cardect death can be prevented, so finding out if
you have got hypertrophic cardomapathy. Some of the genetic testing
can be done early on if you had history of
certain cardict deaths in the family. So all those athletes
who who have a family risk family history of heart disease,
or the early screening process which is usually included in
electro cartogram, you know, putting them on exercise treadmill, or
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we call the cardiopulment exercise, stress testing. Those are the
things are very important to prevent certain corDECT death in
a very active athletic field. But the important thing is
that when they phase out from their active lifestyle what
they are very intense training program, that's where the risk
of heart disease may start accelerating, such as gaining weight,
blood pressure going up, you know bloodlook and their energy
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expenditures from their athletic activities has gone down, so they
may start gaining weight, their diabetes profile may start showing up.
So it is very important when if they are phasing
out of their athletic style, their active lifestyle, they need
to seek early help the preventive health strategies and seeking
more tension from their primary care doctors.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Doctor good Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'll let you get back to your more important things
like saving people's lives. We appreciate the time that you
gave us and the insight and we hope that people
listen and take heed of what the Virginia Mason Franciscan
Health has to offer.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Thank you, sir, absolutely, thank you so much for the opportunity.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Doctor Vanu Googa support certified cardiologists with Virginia Mason Franciscan
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Leonard Williams's contract restructure when we come back. What he did,
what it means, how it helps the Seahawks, and what
does Seahawks still have to do before March twelfth when
they have to be under the salary cap. That's coming up. Next,
we'll talk about Mike Holmgren and Hall of Fame Induction
Day today, his accomplishments, what he's done, and what people
like Steve Young and Joe Montana, Walter Jones, Brett Farr
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had to say about whether he should already be in
the Hall of Fame. You can imagine their answer. That's
all coming up on ninety three point three KJRFM, Welcome
Back to the Greg Best Show with Christopher Kid On
ninety three point three KJRFM, Mike Hongrian Hall of Fame
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Induction Day. They we hope everyone in the Pacific Northwest
host everyone in Green Bay, Wisconsin, hope should know that
probably between six and seven pm tonight the NFL Honors Show.
Even if at the very beginning before that, even if
the inductees are informed, they're all, of course it sworn
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not to say anything or do anything until the NFL
announces as part of their award show from the Super
Bowl in New Orleans tonight. That'll be on Fox and
NFL Network television starting at six pm Seattle time. We're
expecting to know six thirty is maybe seven ish o'clock
and the Hall of Fame inductees for the class of
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Five this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You may have missed it because you've been shoveling wet,
heavy cement snow out of your driveway or off your car,
or your kids are playing in the backyard and they're
home from school. Letter Williams restructured his contract. Jason Fitzgerald
of orth cap dot com that follow these intricacies of
NFL salary caps and contracts, reporting that the Seahawks have
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restructured to say, fourteen million dollars under their salary cap
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So how does it all work?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, Williams signed a sixty four million dollar contract over
three years before last season. That cap charge for this
year on the second year of his deal was supposed
to be twenty nine point one million dollars. The Seahawks
and Williams agreed to convert base salary. This is how
it's done in all of these restructures, like ninety nine
point eight percent of them. How it works is you
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take base salary that is countable all in that year
and you convert it to bonus cash. The player gets
it up front, so he's all for it, right. He
doesn't have to wait till seventeen eighteen game checks during
the fall into the winner. He gets it all up
front and bonus cast guaranteed, and that money can then
be spread across the rest of the deal. Now, what
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the Seahawks did to kick the can further down the
road and spread the money over more years.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is they added two void years.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
In this restructure, So now Williams this bonus cast doesn't
just get spread over this year and next, it's over
the next two years after that. Those void years are
not contract to play years. Some people have the misconception
that void years means well that Williams then has the
option to play for the six The void years mean
nothing as far as whether he's on the roster and
playing for the team. In fact, he's no longer under
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contract to play after twenty twenty six. Still, that's the
way it was before yesterday and it is today even
after the restructure. But the void years it's an accounting
tool that allow the Seahawks to spread his cash money
is excuse me, his bonus money and signing bonus money
across the life of now a four year deal instead
of the remaining two years because of two void years.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But that'll make sense.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So that's what benefits the Seahawks, what benefits the player.
He gets the money up front, he doesn't have to
wait for it's cash in his bank account. He doesn't
have to get it spread across eighteen payments weekly payments
during the regular season of that portion of his base salary,
so you can't turn you can't convert all of your
base salary into bonus because the NFL requires that each
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player get at least a minimum salary for each year,
which for a veteran player of Williams's ten years, about
one point one million dollars. Seattle was twenty seven million
dollars over the salary cap for this year before yesterday.
We expect the cap to be a two hundred and
eighty million in the league announces just before the league
year begins on March twelve. The rule is you have
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to have your top fifty one contracts under those under
that cap by March twelve, by the time the league
year begins, So the Seahawks have gone from twenty seven
over to about fourteen million dollars over the cap with
this restructure, and Williams alone, when you see a team
that is within a striking distance of the cap a
little bit over, a little bit under, just go to
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the first three or four guys on the top list
of cap charges for the coming year, and those are
the guys who are going to get restructured. It happens
every year to every team. Williams was fourth on that list.
Who's above him Gino Smith forty four and a half million,
DK Metcalf thirty one point nine million, Tyler Lockett thirty
point nine million. We've discussed that length all three of
their deals. The Seahawks are still now after the Williams
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restructure fourteen million dollars of the cap, so where they're
going next Gino Smith forty four and a half million dollars,
He is not playing for that number now. Unlike Leonard
Williams's situation where he had years remaining on his deal
to kick that can down the road, the Seahawks don't
have those years remaining after this year.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
With Gino Smith.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
He's entering the last year of his deal, so and
his position at his point in his career thirty five
years old.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Williams just turned thirty.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Gino Smith's not gonna be amenable to just getting guaranteed
cash up front adding void years to his current deal
because that doesn't give him any job security beyond twenty
twenty five. He's gonna want a ironclad contract to play,
not just void years. So in order for the Seahawks
to keep him at a lower cap cost, they're going
to have to extend him and give him either a
two or three year Deal'll be on twenty twenty five,
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so they can they can spread that forty four and
a half million over two or three more years and
divide it in half or thirds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's how they do the accounting of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If they traded them or cut them again, what would
they have a quarterback? That's a whole other question, which
would be the.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The question of the team.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But if they did that, they would have a thirty
million dollar cap charge, saving fourteen million dollars, which is
the signing bonus probation for this year. They aren't gonna
do that because they don't have a quarterback. They aren't
going to hand the keys to Sam Howe. We've already
talked about that. And they are not in a position
to draft a quarterback at eighteen and John shinner hears
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don't trade up in the first round, not to mention,
because of their cap situation, not going to be able
to go resign or go sign a veteran free agent
quarterback that could help them improve the team. So at
all signs are they going to give Geno Smith by
March twelfth a new contract, perhaps to redo even the
sixteen million dollars he's currently scheduled to be guaranteed if
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he's on the roster in March sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's the next dominant likely to fall.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Then you got dk Metcalf, who we said we think
is going to get a three year, four year, one
hundred million dollar contract before the training camp or right
when it begins. And then Tyler Lockett situation we've talked about.
Lockett said goodbye to everybody from the front office to
the coaching staff to the cooks in the team dining
room after that final game in Inglewood January fifth. He
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thinks he's going to be gone. He kept talking about it,
talked about it all season. I asked him point blank
after that Rams finale, if the Seahawks give you any
money in an offer to stay, would you take it,
meaning the veteran minimum of one point one and he
said n. I got to know what my role is.
I got to know what that number looks like. There's
the discussions we have to have and what other teams
obviously would would give him if he went into free agency.
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So those are the three situations up next for the Seahawks.
And oh, by the way, they need to re sign
Ernest Jones pronto. That's what the Seahawks task are next,
now that they've got their offensive coordinator, Clint Kubiak four
nine four y five one on the Telemore New Text sign.
When it's game time, It's Tully time. Your reaction to
all of that, your thoughts on all of that, does
to make Letard Williams one of more favorite players. It's
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not like they're Robin Hood really helping the team. They
like this because players get the money cash up front,
guaranteed in their bank account. So yeah, they're helping the team,
but they're also helping themselves.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Four nine four to five one on the Telemore New
Tech sign. When it's game time, It's Tully time.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We'll be back your text at eleven thirty up next
the Big Show. Will he be on the big stage,
immortalized forever? Can will Mike Homan get into the Hall
of Fame. We will restate, not just state, but restate
his case and all that he has done to transform
not only Seattle but Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
People forget what.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
The Green Bay Packers were from the time of Vince
Lombardi left in nineteen seventy to about nineteen ninety five.
When ninety six, when Mike Holeman came around, that's next.
On ninety three point three KJERFM,
Cracking game day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They in their home standing against one of the NHL's
better teams. We'll explain how restructuring Lenon William's contract cuts
the Seahawks amount of getting under the cap for twenty
twenty five in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
It cut in half. He just did half their work
for him. In one fell swoop.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're trying to get people from the Super Bowl, Eagles
beat writers or Chief beat writers from the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
But Thursday's a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Media availability day, so we may not get them at
eleven o'clock, but we're trying to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We'll talk about the.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Super Bowl, super Bowl fifty nine, of course, right here
on ninety three point three KJRFM on Sunday. The pregame
shows at eleven o'clock from Westwood one, and just after
three o'clock, everyone's man, Kevin Harlan will be on the
play by play of Eagles Chief super Bowl fifty nine
from the Superdome right here on ninety three point three
KJFM on Sunday eleven thirty, will be back your text
four nine four to five one on the telemon Doue
text line.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It was game time. It's Tully time. Bucky was laughing.
At me.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I guess I'll just say this publicly. I have a
colin oscopy today one o'clock, and Bucky's like, what are
you doing here? Work when you're still in your thirties?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Plus you, Chris, But when you.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Have a Kolonosky, there is a ton of prep that
is very inconvenient. Let's put it that way. Those of
you out there listening to know exactly what I'm talking about.
If you take this gallon jug of powdered stuff that
keeps you confined to one room of your house for
the most of the evening, foundstie. So that's what I'm
doing it right now. I'm at the end stage of that,
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and at one o'clock I'll be doing that and get
above fifty. Better start doing that. I have friends who've
done that and saved their lives found cancer and their
colon or testins and other things.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So here we go. Headline's about you by Frost Food Corse.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I choose chill on that uplifting note. That fifty person
Hall of Fame Selection Committee Pro Football Hall of Fame
is meeting right now in New Orleans. They're voting on
which of up to eight players contributors and one coach
get into the Hall of Fame. There's only one coach
as a finalist, and that's Mike Congrin, our coach the
Seahawks and Packers Super Bowl coachist for Enshrineman. He's at
his home in Kirkland with his wife Kathy. They met
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when they were twelve years old, Chris, and the story
goes that when he was fifteen, he asked Kathy to
marry him, and she of course said no. The story
also goes that Mike Holmgren asked Kathy to marry or
had they married. Their wedding day was on June fifteenth
in nineteen seventy one, because June fifteenth is Mike's birthday
and the coach didn't want to forget his wedding.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Smart man, sorry, put him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
On his That's the best thing you could do as
a young man. If you're like you know, I'm bab
with dates, Just do it on your day. He'll never forget,
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
He said. He's sure, say I mentioned he's still not
sure how this whole process goes. There used to be
they flew all the finalist in thirty some of them
to the Super Bowl City Walter Jones was explaining I
and Ferness talked about this yesterday. Walter Jones was explaining
the Hall of Famer the Seahawks off best left tackle
ever was. He said that when he got voted in
twenty fourteen, when the Seahawks were in the Midlands to
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play the Broncos in the Super Bowl, he landed and
they as one of the Hall of Fame finalists. He
didn't know yet. He landed there on the NFL's in
Pro Football Hall of Things invite and they handed him
two itineraries, one for if you make it, you'll do this,
You'll have this ceremony, you'll do this, you go onto
the field at halftime.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And be honored.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
If you don't make it, here's your itinerary, which includes
a flight home during the game. And he said, no, no, no,
the Seahawks are played in Super Bowl. I'm going to
the game. And he did go to the game, and
of course he didn't have to worry about being sent
home as not being inducted first time first ballot Hall
of Famer Walter Jones, Well, we'll hear from Mike Homegren.
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He was on yesterday with the infer Nest yesterday afternoon,
and he said he's at peace his family not so
much pretty nervous about what maker down today. You'll hear
from him later in the show. You also hear a
funny story from Homegren about why he says he's not
going to New Orleans, at least not by Saturday night.
We'll have homegrown propriate gramming all day. The NFL Owners
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Show begins at six pm. We will all find out
during that show, if not before. Chiefs are one and
a half point favorites over the Eagles on Sunday, Kansas
City trying to, of course, to become the first team
to win three consecutive Super Bowls and none one has
done that in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Era once again.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Kickoff is just after three pm on Sunday with Kevin
Harmon and Westwood Wins Call here on ninety three point
three KJRFM. The Seahawks have restructured Lennon Williams's contract. It
creates fourteen million dollars in additional space under the twenty
twenty five league salary cap. I'll explained here during the
show on how it cuts the team's task and have
to get under the cap. They have to do that
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by March twelfth, that's the first day of the league
year in baseball, Pete A. Lonza not gonna happen, Chris.
He's going back to the Mets two years, fifty four
million dollars with an option to get out of the
deal after one year. Here we go with CA Emeritus
have afforded that. The answers obviously they think no. Their
owners say no, they're not going to pay twenty seven
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million dollars when they told you can spend fifteen million
dollars total for the year. So you get three and
a half million dollars in Donovan Solano and seven and
a half million in Jorge Polanco to play a new
position instead of twenty seven million dollars for Pete Alonzo
to be an all star power slugging first baseman.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Alonzo back to the Mets.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Cracking nine points beyond Calgary for the final playoffs butt
in the Western Conference. They and their home standing night
against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Pregame of Mike Benn at
six thirty puck job at seven o'clock, of course, with
Everett Fitzchu and Al Koninski here on ninety three point
three KJF emy home with the crack and one of
the best teams in the NHL coming in the night
in Toronto, the Washington Huskies men's basketball team had a
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ten point lead at halftime over Nebraska. Then they just
got overwhelmed in the second half. The Corniskers shot the
lights out at Hecked. You'd got outscored forty nine to
twenty five after the break, lost eighty six seventy two
at heck Ed. The Huskies are now two and nine
in the Big Ten. Tasked to get in the top
fifteen of the eighteen team league to meet the Big
Ten tournament just got harder.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dub's women. They lost at Penn State yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Penn State had been one to ten in the Big
Ten before they beat the Huskies yesterday. Washington State's men's
team basketball plays tonight at Oregon State BASKETBA. As if
I was talking about the volleyball or the swim team,
I didn't have one.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Of those there.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Washington State's men play at Oregon State tonight. That's an
eight pm national game on ESPN two. The Cougars have
lost four straight road games. They got a sickness through
the team. I was reading from Greg Woods and the
Spokesman Review leading scorer Nate cow Meese and others have
been sick all this week.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And Chris's NBA more trades.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Remember we talked about Jimmy Butler getting suspended by the
Miami Heat this season three different times, including for missing
and just skipping a team flight to a road game. Well,
pat Riley and the Heat just gave up on Jimmy
Butler and traded him to the Golden State Warriors last night.
According to ESPN, Miami traded Butler to the Warriors after
Kevin Durant told Golden State he didn't want to be
traded from the Suns back to the Dubs. Warriors are
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sending Andrew Wiggins and Kyle Anderson, plus a top ten
detected picking the summer's draft to Miami guard Dennis Schroeder.
The other day he called it forced slavery, the NBA
trading deadline, when players don't have a say and then
just get dealt. Well, the Warriors sent him to Utah.
See how he likes that. That is not a popular
destination for NBA players. I'll just tell you that Schroder
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was publicly talking about that a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
He gets he.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Goes from the Warriors to Utah. The Jazz are sending PJ.
Tucker to the Heat. Oh yeah, the Pistons are involved too,
with players have never heard of. ESPN reported that it's
a condition of the trade. Butler will decline as fifty
two million dollar player offs. Would it be nice, Chris?
You say no, I'm not going to take fifty two
million guaranteed. I don't need that.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
There's an extension instead, Yeah, two years, eleven million instead
of paying nine million more so you getting sixty ms
a year, sixty plus ms.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Shout out to Jimmy, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm mass thirty five years old making sixty one M
a year.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Guaranteed, whether he fit three points a game, whether he
plays three.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Game next year. That's the beauty of the NBA, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You get that g at the end of it, Gary
on ted as Chuck always says.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That is that is the problem with the NFL, and
the NFL players have with every other sport pretty much.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And you wonder why players are playing with fractured fingers
and fractured ribs and dislocated whatevers, because it's not guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
All right, NBA man what do you think of all
that Jimmy Butler to the Warriors wears now back into
the playoff mix.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You think they No, I never thought they were out
with with their tenth right now in the Western Conference.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, but they're only two games out, Like that's a
that's a one week. If you win all your games
in a week, which that team can very well do
they they're right in the hunt. Jimmy Buckets brings another
avenue of scoring and defense Draymond Green. He's known for
his defense and just being Draymont. Well, now you got
a dude that can do it on both ends. He
can take out another small four, make it, make it
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a challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
He's a good player, he is. But Jimmy, he's younger.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But you know they they'd rather take their risk on
Jimmy B Jimmy Buckets, And I don't blame them that
dude when he's locked in as you can imagine, he
wasn't locked in Miami. That's why I was like, can
you guys trade him already?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
What are you waiting for? He doesn't want to play
for you guys anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So they got it done when they needed to, And
I think I think this will make the Golden State Warriors,
you know, a formidable a formidable foe in the postseason
for sure. I like what they got pieces wise, they
still have uh Kevon Looney coming off the bench, a
big five that can just dominate in the paint. And
then you look at Buddy Hill that got shooting, and
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you got Steph Curry as always, Stephan Draymond. You got
two pieces to that puzzle championship pedigree. And then you
add a guy like Jimmy Buckets. Yeah, this is they
gonna be tough to beat in a seven game series.
But great move for them. Yeah, I think Miami did
all right too. You have a top ten.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, they're fine, They're fine.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And yeah Andrews he's a younger, he's younger, he's good,
he's he has a championship now attached to his name,
so you know what it takes. And he's going to
a head coach that is no nonsense. Eric Sposer, despite
his record and whatever's been going on with that Miami
heat and everything, I think he's still one of the
top coach in the league. I think you can, without
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question when you think of top NBA coaches, Eric Sposer
is always in the discussion, especially with the talent that
he has. He always has them playing above the means.
You're never saying, damn, Eric Sposer, he did that with
that Tim. Oh, actually you are. It's exactly what you're saying,
because every season you're thinking, I had the maam, he'd
be the eighth seed, and then they end up in
the NBA Finals. You're like, how did he do it?
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And he does that year in and year out. So
I'm excited to see what he can do with Andrew
Wiggins and those those guys over there.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
It should be fun.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They still got Bam, who is a formidable offensive player
and defender in the league. He can get your bucket. Hell,
he just had a game winning jump shot. So you
know what, what about your Lakers? They got Mark Williams
from the Hornets. That was I didn't see that coming. Lakers.
Might Lakers might have on that trade. Now I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
They needed to get bit big, especially with another.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Now you got a big, a lob threat. I think
Mark Williams is averaging sixteen and nine and he's coming off.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
A severe team.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He's coming off with severe back injury. Like this, dude,
I think he's about to sixteen and eleven now just
playing with the Lakers, just him being around the rim,
Luca and Lebron's pick and roll game like this looks
as if the Lakers have won the deal right now
now that I don't know if Dalla's gonna make another move,
but right now, on paper, I like what the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
How about what's going on in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
We talked to mac Engele about the Mavericks trade of
Luca the other day. They are reportedly giving refunds to
season ticket holders who are revolting and saying they're not
going to any more games anymore. They're done, they are ticked.
And Mac told us right in the morning after that
trade that this is worse than anying. Jerry Jones is
done with the Cowboys down there, and if you're bigger
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than the Cowboys, screw up you.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Big in Dallas in Texas, and it's looking scary. Those
fans are TechEd, man, they're giving up on the team.
Well we'll see.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I just know I think right now the Lakers might
have won the trades just because you get a center,
now you have Luca, you still have Lebron. That's just
that's tough to beat man. You got a center, you
have a big, you have a guy that's a threat
and the paint. No he's not Anthony Davis, but hey, bro,
we just need you to grab ten boards, block a
shot or two and if you score points, great, and
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that's what they needed. And then you still have Jackson
Haes off the bench. So yeah, I might be losing
some money, and that's okay.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
What's the betagaan?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So actually it was me and Anderson discussing yesterday. I
bet one hundred dollars that the Mavericks would make the playoffs.
So that means no play in. That means six seed
or higher. Right, well, now the Lakers just made this move.
The Lakers might be fifth, sixth seed or even higher,
and that means the Dallas mass fall to seven, maybe
even eight, because right now, the Sun are ahead of them,
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the Timberwolves are ahead of them, so I think those
two teams they can catch. Also, the Clippers are ahead
of them, and there are then the MAVs are the
I believe the eleven seed. So if the MAVs serves
me right, that puts them at eight. They still need
two more spots to lock in because I'm not talking
about the play in. I don't count them seven versus
eight nine, Yeah, I'm not. I don't count that. So
to be in the playoffs, you gotta be one through
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six play in. I mean, anyone can do it for you.
That's a that's a well, now it's Dangers Stangers Greg,
but it's still a solid bet to not put the
play in.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, I wasn't. That's too easy. Oh it's
the Mavericks. They're gonna be in the play in.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Cracking some other cracking news this morning. Remember talking about
Jordan Beverley who's been out since October. Well, he ditched
the red no non contact sweater apparently this morning at
the King County ice Plex and the skate around and
Raker Evans also just ditch the red non contact sweater.
So signs of them potentially coming back soon. Remember, the
(13:55):
crack can have tonight against Toronto, then they have Saturday
at Calgary, and then they go on.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The two week break.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
February eighth to the twenty second, they're off for the
Four Nations Cup, the Four Nations tournament of hockey that's
going to be going on in Canada and in the
United States and Boston from the eighth to twenty second,
there's nobody going to do anything with the Kraken. So
everly there's a good chance he's going to be back
here after that break to the plan. All apparently skating
(14:22):
this morning in the skate around at the ice plex
before the night's game at Climate Plagerina four nine four
on Telemone. Text line, when it's game time, it's Tully time.
I'm interested when Chris and I talk about the NBA.
Are you cool with this or are you like, stop
it with the NBA until the Signs get back, or
are you still ticked even if the son lets get
back for them leaving in the first place. But I
(14:44):
know there are a lot of you out of here
that are basketball fans, and this is a great basketball
tradition in this area and this heritage in this area,
and a lot of great basketball players come out of here.
So I'd like your opinion on the NBA talk we do,
whether that's nah, I'm done with the NBA, and I
know a lot of you are. But I also know
there are a lot of you, maybe the vocal minority,
that say bring it on. They're still NBA fans and
(15:07):
they still watch the game up next matter Williams' contract restructure,
what it is? What did he do?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, no, no, We're gonna chat with doctor where is
he at? H Banu Gupta, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and
the Cracking Day to day.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
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(15:52):
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Welcome back to Greg Best Showed with Christopher Kidd on
ninety three point three KJRFM on a snow day in
the Pacific Northwest. One thing I wanted to correct from
early I just flat bluid. I was in a haze
last night and I mixed the score of the UB
women's basketball name won at Penn State last night, not
lost one by the exact score. I just played bluid.
Had no excuse eighty six. But they wouldn't outside I'd
(16:40):
get to score right. Eighty two seventy one. Huskies beat
Penn State on the road and fourteen and nine overall,
middle of the pack into Big Ten. And to get
that straight, what how about Leonter Williams's contract restructure? But
first talk about something that's far more important than football.
It's like health prevention, about heart disease awareness and the
(17:02):
importance of getting tests annually to make sure anything that's
wrong with your heart is detected. Doctor Banu Buka Ford,
certified Cardiologist, joins US American the member of the American.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
College of Cardiology.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
He joins US as part of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
in the Kraken's Heart Health Day here on ninety three
point three KJRFM, Doctor Goodwi thank you for being on
the show.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Good morning, good morning, good morning. Thank you for inviting me, Christopher.
Appreciate your making this heart health awareness as a more
regional and national phenomena.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm told, as you know, and I'll tell you, half
of all Americans of some former heart disease. In every
forty seconds a person in the United States has a
stroke or heart attack, making heart disease at number one
cause of death in our country. What what have you
in your career noticed that annual screenings and checkups and
heart health can stave off and stop What is the
(18:08):
effect on this of just going and seeing your doctor
and have your heard checked out every year.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
So I think it's very important, as you know, as
we as we walk and get into the adult life,
the heart, the athruscurosis of plot there's a plaque formation
in the arteries starts even now in earlier ages, you know,
in the age of twenty five onwards. So preventive side
in a younger patient population is a very important management
(18:38):
strategy to improve your heart health as a longer term
and add more years to your life. As you know,
average expected life expectancy is eighty seven years in the
United States of America for men and women is a
little bit longer. But if we can add more lives
if we start looking for and looking after our health earlier,
(18:58):
especially in the early adult life is starting at the
age of twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What have you found that most people come in the
most common age that you need to start coming in
for this kind of annual checkup.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Most often patients come late, and when they are told
that they've got some of their risk factors which are
very common, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, the
access weight gain from a calorie standpoint, lack of physical activities.
Diabetes has already set in at an early stage of
(19:35):
prediabetic stage, and that's where they come in. But these
are all preventable conditions, so early recognition is more important.
Most often patients are I'm noticing in general the trend
is in their forties that they end up coming in
the hospital, are in the clinics.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And if your recommendation, preventatively, sir, were to be in
the thirties, when does someone listening say, oh, maybe should
start making this a part of my annual health.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
So if you've got family history, I would say earlier
the better, But you know, if somebody has had earlier
premature coroinary artery disease or heart attack in the family,
or stroke, or diabetes or high blood pressure if it
runs in your family, the sooner the better. In fact,
early twenties would be the way to start that if
(20:24):
you think that your lifestyle is not a very healthy lifestyle.
Most of the people do recognize that that they are
not having a good healthy lifestyle, then I think seeking
early preventive measures are more important. So finding out if
you are at high risk or high risk of coordinatter
disease or high blood pressure or diabetes, such as annual
(20:46):
blood pressure check or at least blood pressure check at home,
checking your blood sugar in the preventive clinic, make sure
that it's not trending up, checking your cholesterol early, Improving
your physical activities because nowadays we can do a lot
of focus and a lot of discussion in the preventive
cardiologies to find out finding out your exercise capacity and
(21:09):
if your exercise capacity is less, I think getting into
the exercise regimented exercise schedule will be very important to
prevent those diseases showing up in your forties.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Doctor Goop, do you mentioned the lifestyle aspect of maintaining
a healthy heart. But what about diet, what foods could
you eat to help your having a healthy heart?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, absolutely, I really recommend is that lifestyle is a
broad spectrum. In the lifestyle, the food is a very
important part of the lifestyle. The choices what we make
for our diet is part of our lifestyle. Exercise is
a very big component. But I think dietary choices, what
we make every day, constitute seventy percent of how they
(21:57):
impact our health over time. It's almost seventy percent. And
so if somebody wants to lose weight or they want
to maintain their heart health, then seventy percent focus should
be on the diet. I'm just giving your arbitrary numbers.
That's just seventy percent. That tells us the diet is
a very important part of your lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Doctor joining us here on Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and
the Kraken's Heart Health Day on Beacon Plumbing Hotline in
ninety three point three KJRFM. We have a lot of
listeners who are either athletes, former athletes not too long ago,
competitive athletes. The perception would be that they're fine and
they probably don't have to worry about heart disease. Do
you find a link that there is later onset to
(22:38):
those who have been athletes in the past, Is that
not necessarily a direct correlation or what would you advise athletes,
current athletes, former athletes in their mid thirties about when
to get regular check ups for this? Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
No, absolutely, that's a very important point when you are
in a very active athletic time of your life, especially
in your early twenties. Is screening for or some of
the sudden CARDCT deaths protocols or the screening procedures what
we have established at virginmasion Trances can help, or any
other institutions that you can choose to are important because
(23:13):
certain cardect death can be prevented, so finding out if
you have got hypertrophic cardomapathy. Some of the genetic testing
can be done early on if you had history of
certain cardict deaths in the family. So all those athletes
who who have a family risk family history of heart disease,
or the early screening process which is usually included in
electro cartogram, you know, putting them on exercise treadmill, or
(23:37):
we call the cardiopulment exercise, stress testing. Those are the
things are very important to prevent certain corDECT death in
a very active athletic field. But the important thing is
that when they phase out from their active lifestyle what
they are very intense training program, that's where the risk
of heart disease may start accelerating, such as gaining weight,
blood pressure going up, you know bloodlook and their energy
(24:01):
expenditures from their athletic activities has gone down, so they
may start gaining weight, their diabetes profile may start showing up.
So it is very important when if they are phasing
out of their athletic style, their active lifestyle, they need
to seek early help the preventive health strategies and seeking
more tension from their primary care doctors.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Doctor good Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I'll let you get back to your more important things
like saving people's lives. We appreciate the time that you
gave us and the insight and we hope that people
listen and take heed of what the Virginia Mason Franciscan
Health has to offer.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Thank you, sir, absolutely, thank you so much for the opportunity.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Doctor Vanu Googa support certified cardiologists with Virginia Mason Franciscan
Health and the Crack and this is Heart Health Day.
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(26:21):
Leonard Williams's contract restructure when we come back. What he did,
what it means, how it helps the Seahawks, and what
does Seahawks still have to do before March twelfth when
they have to be under the salary cap. That's coming up. Next,
we'll talk about Mike Holmgren and Hall of Fame Induction
Day today, his accomplishments, what he's done, and what people
like Steve Young and Joe Montana, Walter Jones, Brett Farr
(26:42):
had to say about whether he should already be in
the Hall of Fame. You can imagine their answer. That's
all coming up on ninety three point three KJRFM, Welcome
Back to the Greg Best Show with Christopher Kid On
ninety three point three KJRFM, Mike Hongrian Hall of Fame
(27:05):
Induction Day. They we hope everyone in the Pacific Northwest
host everyone in Green Bay, Wisconsin, hope should know that
probably between six and seven pm tonight the NFL Honors Show.
Even if at the very beginning before that, even if
the inductees are informed, they're all, of course it sworn
(27:27):
not to say anything or do anything until the NFL
announces as part of their award show from the Super
Bowl in New Orleans tonight. That'll be on Fox and
NFL Network television starting at six pm Seattle time. We're
expecting to know six thirty is maybe seven ish o'clock
and the Hall of Fame inductees for the class of
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Five this morning.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
You may have missed it because you've been shoveling wet,
heavy cement snow out of your driveway or off your car,
or your kids are playing in the backyard and they're
home from school. Letter Williams restructured his contract. Jason Fitzgerald
of orth cap dot com that follow these intricacies of
NFL salary caps and contracts, reporting that the Seahawks have
(28:09):
restructured to say, fourteen million dollars under their salary cap
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So how does it all work?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, Williams signed a sixty four million dollar contract over
three years before last season. That cap charge for this
year on the second year of his deal was supposed
to be twenty nine point one million dollars. The Seahawks
and Williams agreed to convert base salary. This is how
it's done in all of these restructures, like ninety nine
point eight percent of them. How it works is you
(28:37):
take base salary that is countable all in that year
and you convert it to bonus cash. The player gets
it up front, so he's all for it, right. He
doesn't have to wait till seventeen eighteen game checks during
the fall into the winner. He gets it all up
front and bonus cast guaranteed, and that money can then
be spread across the rest of the deal. Now, what
(28:58):
the Seahawks did to kick the can further down the
road and spread the money over more years.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is they added two void years.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
In this restructure, So now Williams this bonus cast doesn't
just get spread over this year and next, it's over
the next two years after that. Those void years are
not contract to play years. Some people have the misconception
that void years means well that Williams then has the
option to play for the six The void years mean
nothing as far as whether he's on the roster and
playing for the team. In fact, he's no longer under
(29:25):
contract to play after twenty twenty six. Still, that's the
way it was before yesterday and it is today even
after the restructure. But the void years it's an accounting
tool that allow the Seahawks to spread his cash money
is excuse me, his bonus money and signing bonus money
across the life of now a four year deal instead
of the remaining two years because of two void years.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
But that'll make sense.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
So that's what benefits the Seahawks, what benefits the player.
He gets the money up front, he doesn't have to
wait for it's cash in his bank account. He doesn't
have to get it spread across eighteen payments weekly payments
during the regular season of that portion of his base salary,
so you can't turn you can't convert all of your
base salary into bonus because the NFL requires that each
(30:09):
player get at least a minimum salary for each year,
which for a veteran player of Williams's ten years, about
one point one million dollars. Seattle was twenty seven million
dollars over the salary cap for this year before yesterday.
We expect the cap to be a two hundred and
eighty million in the league announces just before the league
year begins on March twelve. The rule is you have
(30:30):
to have your top fifty one contracts under those under
that cap by March twelve, by the time the league
year begins, So the Seahawks have gone from twenty seven
over to about fourteen million dollars over the cap with
this restructure, and Williams alone, when you see a team
that is within a striking distance of the cap a
little bit over, a little bit under, just go to
(30:51):
the first three or four guys on the top list
of cap charges for the coming year, and those are
the guys who are going to get restructured. It happens
every year to every team. Williams was fourth on that list.
Who's above him Gino Smith forty four and a half million,
DK Metcalf thirty one point nine million, Tyler Lockett thirty
point nine million. We've discussed that length all three of
their deals. The Seahawks are still now after the Williams
(31:14):
restructure fourteen million dollars of the cap, so where they're
going next Gino Smith forty four and a half million dollars,
He is not playing for that number now. Unlike Leonard
Williams's situation where he had years remaining on his deal
to kick that can down the road, the Seahawks don't
have those years remaining after this year.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
With Gino Smith.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
He's entering the last year of his deal, so and
his position at his point in his career thirty five
years old.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Williams just turned thirty.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Gino Smith's not gonna be amenable to just getting guaranteed
cash up front adding void years to his current deal
because that doesn't give him any job security beyond twenty
twenty five. He's gonna want a ironclad contract to play,
not just void years. So in order for the Seahawks
to keep him at a lower cap cost, they're going
to have to extend him and give him either a
two or three year Deal'll be on twenty twenty five,
(32:01):
so they can they can spread that forty four and
a half million over two or three more years and
divide it in half or thirds.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
That's how they do the accounting of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
If they traded them or cut them again, what would
they have a quarterback? That's a whole other question, which
would be the.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
The question of the team.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But if they did that, they would have a thirty
million dollar cap charge, saving fourteen million dollars, which is
the signing bonus probation for this year. They aren't gonna
do that because they don't have a quarterback. They aren't
going to hand the keys to Sam Howe. We've already
talked about that. And they are not in a position
to draft a quarterback at eighteen and John shinner hears
(32:40):
don't trade up in the first round, not to mention,
because of their cap situation, not going to be able
to go resign or go sign a veteran free agent
quarterback that could help them improve the team. So at
all signs are they going to give Geno Smith by
March twelfth a new contract, perhaps to redo even the
sixteen million dollars he's currently scheduled to be guaranteed if
(33:01):
he's on the roster in March sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's the next dominant likely to fall.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Then you got dk Metcalf, who we said we think
is going to get a three year, four year, one
hundred million dollar contract before the training camp or right
when it begins. And then Tyler Lockett situation we've talked about.
Lockett said goodbye to everybody from the front office to
the coaching staff to the cooks in the team dining
room after that final game in Inglewood January fifth. He
(33:26):
thinks he's going to be gone. He kept talking about it,
talked about it all season. I asked him point blank
after that Rams finale, if the Seahawks give you any
money in an offer to stay, would you take it,
meaning the veteran minimum of one point one and he
said n. I got to know what my role is.
I got to know what that number looks like. There's
the discussions we have to have and what other teams
obviously would would give him if he went into free agency.
(33:49):
So those are the three situations up next for the Seahawks.
And oh, by the way, they need to re sign
Ernest Jones pronto. That's what the Seahawks task are next,
now that they've got their offensive coordinator, Clint Kubiak four
nine four y five one on the Telemore New Text sign.
When it's game time, It's Tully time. Your reaction to
all of that, your thoughts on all of that, does
to make Letard Williams one of more favorite players. It's
(34:12):
not like they're Robin Hood really helping the team. They
like this because players get the money cash up front,
guaranteed in their bank account. So yeah, they're helping the team,
but they're also helping themselves.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Four nine four to five one on the Telemore New
Tech sign. When it's game time, It's Tully time.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We'll be back your text at eleven thirty up next
the Big Show. Will he be on the big stage,
immortalized forever? Can will Mike Homan get into the Hall
of Fame. We will restate, not just state, but restate
his case and all that he has done to transform
not only Seattle but Green Bay.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
People forget what.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
The Green Bay Packers were from the time of Vince
Lombardi left in nineteen seventy to about nineteen ninety five.
When ninety six, when Mike Holeman came around, that's next.
On ninety three point three KJERFM,
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