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May 7, 2025 36 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Hugh Millen talk about his study on what Jalen Milroe can bring to the Seahawks, discuss all things NFL with PFT’s Mike Florio, then react to today’s Mariners comeback victory in Sacramento today before Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where we going.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
You sound tired, by the way.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
No, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
I'm rolling because first of all, I would be after
three days of me this week. I'd be exhausted if
I were you in four days last week. And then
I want to tell people what you just did. So
people have been paying attention to and know the name
of thirty third team, basically a big football think tank,
which you are a part of, by the way, and

(00:26):
you just got done in the last hour putting together
a presentation on Jalen Milrow and Shador Sanders. So I
think people be curious to know how that thing went
and what were some of the highlights for you man.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Well, yeah, it was about a thirty five to forty
minute presentation. They asked me to present on, as you said,
Shaudur Sanders and Jalen Milroe, which was great because you know,
I ended up studying just an exorbitant amount of film
and tape. And you know I can compare to cam
Ward because I watched a lot on him. I did
not present on him, but you know, I think the

(01:02):
thing for Milroe, there was a sequence in the Auburn
game five straight plays that kind that kind of they
were consecutive plays. Now there may have been a run
in between, but in terms of the path, five consecutive
passes early in the second quarter, that kind of tells
the story.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
He has this beautiful a whole shot.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
A whole shot is a go route against a two
deep defense, and uh, there was just three guys rushing
dropping eight and he just throws this beautiful on tempo,
three step, no hitch it, throws it up the sideline
and and he gets a big completion. Then he comes back.
He throws this deep balls flat footed. He kind of

(01:46):
got flat footed on a double post concept and and
almost flat footing. Takes a little tiny step so it
wasn't directly flat footed. But he throws it sixty one
yards in the area, just flicks it like it's a baseball,
right on target. But the kid dropped it, so you're going, whoa,
that's big time. And then he comes back next he

(02:06):
ball's on the right hash. They run a scissors concept
which is apposted from the outside and a corner rout
from the inside. And you pick a quarterback Josh Allen,
Pat Mahomes, Joe Montana, Tom Brady. There's no quarterback in
the history of football that has ever thrown it better
than what he had, just gorgeous deep down the field

(02:28):
to our boy Jeremy Bernard. Right, so you're just going, man,
this guy, this guy is just a first round draft.
Then he come back and he throws he misses a
read on the sideline. Who's number two for them? That
high school kid number seventeen. Maybe Jackson can help me,
but he's the best receiver for Alabama. I got a
lot of Oh the young kid, yeah, yeah, the seventeen

(02:48):
year old. So he should have thrown it outside to
the side and the balls on the right hash he should
have thrown it at the outrounte of the boundary. But
he's got a little what's called the Texas route. The
running back. Just think think of the running back in
the backfield just going out stopping and then running a
little angle right over the middle five yards like five
yards away, and he skymails this thing over the top,

(03:09):
like if if the running back had a butterfly net,
he might have caught it. But and it's almost picked
off because he overthrows it. And then he comes back
and he throws a seam route where he just the
You oftentimes you look at the helmet to stripe on
the helmet. He just he just stares down the receiver

(03:31):
and he skymails the seam and the and the safety
catches it for an interception.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
So just in a five place sequence, he looks.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Like Josh Allen and then the next minute he looks
like clipboard Jesus, right, you know. And and so the
income and that was just in the Auburn game. He
had a similar sequence in the Michigan game. And and
where where he throws this beautiful wheel route up the
sideline and then a fade route that that the vast

(04:00):
underthrows on the go round, and then he can't manufacture
a touchdown on a corner out that's wide open. He's
laid and it's and it's you know, caught five yards
out of bounds and and so it's just it's like
a yo yo, I think it's it's it's uh, it's
like being on a roller coaster with him, because the
good is so good.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'll close with this, Dave, and you can so you
can respond.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
I want you imagine this weird, funny little make believe
think tanking world. Well, one universe over one universe, over
the NFL. They only allow you to the only draft
based on your twenty five best highlight tape. Got it
all right, but got it okay, and they don't get
to see anything else. If that was the case, Jalen

(04:47):
Milroe would have been the number one pick in the draft.
Wow because Wow, because his what he does as a runner.
I mean it's not just running around the outside. I
mean they run Q power counter. What does that mean?
These are plays designed for tailbacks. When you put the
Q in front of it, you're saying the quarterbacks running it.

(05:08):
They had a play against LSU. You you have to
you have to watch the end zone copy to really
understand it. So Milro's in in the shotgun and about
midfield and he and he looks reads like he's gonna
go read zone and well you look, you think he's
looking to his left at the at the defensive end

(05:28):
to decide whether to give or keep. Well he keeps,
and he's like, no, no, no, you watch the end zone.
He's he doesn't look at him, he's not reading at all.
It's a fake read zone Q follow. I'll just use
terms of people. He is going to He's gonna follow
Kenneth Walker right up the middle of the defense where
linebackers can smack him and safeties can smack but you

(05:51):
get a lead blocker in the person of knine It,
and so you can do schemes with him that are
just I mean, he's just he He's a breathtaking athlete
and his best throws are as good as anybody on
the planet, and his worst, oh boy, it's like, you know,
watching it's like not watching Friday night because the varsity

(06:11):
plays on Friday night. It's Wednesday. It's when the jv
plays on high school football. Well, it's him. It's up
and down, bro.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Him as a.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Runner might be the number one most intriguing thing about
the Seahawks football team in twenty twenty five. So we'll
spend more time talking about that because here he is.
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Speaker 5 (06:32):
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Speaker 2 (06:53):
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Speaker 3 (06:54):
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(07:16):
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Speaker 2 (07:19):
Our friend, Mike Florio, how are you, pal?

Speaker 6 (07:21):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
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Speaker 1 (07:44):
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Speaker 3 (07:44):
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you kind of grew up a Pittsburgh fan of Steeler
jersey with the number forty.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
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Speaker 3 (07:54):
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Speaker 7 (07:58):
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Speaker 6 (08:02):
I just want the whole right under the next. By
the way, even though I grew.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Up in Pittsburgh area, I was not a Steelers fan,
which made for a very long and arduous childhood. As
the Steelers one not one, not two, not three, but four, Yeah,
super Bowls.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Like I got to ask because you're as articulate. It
pisses me off because you're way more articulate than me.
You got a lot agree You're you're you layer your arguments.
I mean, I just you're this beautiful intellect. Is this
like some crazy like alter ego, like you got to
just exercise something like like Halloween party, dress up as

(08:39):
a devil, like the butt whole thing. I'm very amused
by this coming out of your mouth. For the reasons
I stated.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Well, play saucy. Yeah, a product of seal with right.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
You're just adapting to the surroundings. I got it six.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Days, twenty three hours, and fifty minutes of my week.
It's just this ten minute it stretched that brings out
the absolute worst than me.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
He's a chameleon.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
He just adapts to his surroundings and every week at
six' Ten eastern, time he turns into a big pile
of dung.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
When he comes on this radio.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Show but speaking Of, Steelers, Mike, Uh George pickens is
now a.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Cowboy.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Uh we had thought that maybe the idea OF dk
And pickens and Even Aaron rodgers would be too toxic
to combine everybody into one pot In, Pittsburgh and Now
George pickens is.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Gone your thoughts on that trade to The.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Cowboys from the moment The steelers traded FOR dk Metcalf
i Said pickens is going to be, traded the handwriting
was already on the wall in permanent. Marker there were
plenty of things you could point to to suggest this
wasn't going to. Work guy's entering his contract, Year steelers
now adding a new number one.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Receiver who Supplants George.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
Pickens so they're not going to Pay, pickens not after
giving thirty million per year on a five year deal
TO dk metcalf and with chasing a contract, Elsewhere he's
not going to get the targets that he needs to
be as valuable as he be perceived as a free
agent because they've got a four speed the ball TO

(10:13):
dk metcalf to justify the contract they've given. Him so
from the moment that deal was, DONE i said on
our SHOW Pfd, live look metcalf In pickens is going
to be. Out i'm surprised it took as long as it.
DID i think The steelers should have done everything they could.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
To Trade pickens before.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
The draft can get twenty twenty five draft pick. Compensation,
now whether or not they would have gotten.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
A third rounder remains to be. Seen and they have
been a fourth round of this. Year it's loosely.

Speaker 7 (10:36):
EQUIVALENT a fourth round of this year is like a
third round of next. Year but still get help, now
not next year For George. Pickens they seem to be
doing everything they can this year to try to get
to the playoffs and win a postseason game for the
first time since the twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Season one more On pickens for, Me.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Mike i'm intrigued by kind of the dynamics down there In.
Dallas Jerry, jones who has said that his biggest regret
personnel regret was not Drafting Randy moss BECAUSE i think
he had smoked some hoots or something before the draft
and it just killed him to watch What Randy moss.

(11:14):
Did and SO i don't know if that relates to
the willingness to take On pickens and maybe his, baggage
but perhaps it. Does but then the other piece of
that IS i don't know About schottenheimer whether or not
he has the chops to be able to handle some
of the things that might develop if some of these
receivers aren't getting the. Ball just kind of what's your

(11:35):
take about how the personalities are going to mix down?

Speaker 7 (11:38):
There that was my first thought as. Well we had
Former cowboys Coach Jason garrett on the show this. Morning
we reached out to him after the news, broke and
kudos to The cowboys for getting it out there just
as a full day of radio AND tv was.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Going that's how you do, it. Folks if you.

Speaker 7 (11:54):
Want to co opt the, coverage you drop it just
in time for all the morning.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Shows to go. Live garrett made a great.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
Point it comes down To Dak. Prescott he's going to
be the guy at the heart of the relationship With George,
pickens and it's going to be up To prescott to
create the right atmosphere and environment For pickens to, understand
to buy, in to accept that the ball isn't going
to come his way all the, time to understand there
will be moments when it makes sense to throw the

(12:22):
go ball to him when he's single covered Because.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Ceedee lamb is double. Covered But presscott is the.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
Keam when you look at what The steelers have had
or haven't had a quarterback Since pickens entered the. League
is the third round pick in twenty or second round,
pick excuse me in twenty twenty. Two it's all post
For Office. Berger they haven't had a good quarterback and
they haven't had a good. Offense the moment that it
became abundantly clear That pickens wouldn't be back before The metcalf,
right was when they Asked, pickens that's the playoff loss

(12:49):
to The, ravens the optimisity about the, offense and he said.
Nah so this thing was done because they can't fix
the quarterback situation and the only hope Was Aaron. Rodgers
but still Met Captain. Pickens With metcalf being the guy
that's going to get the focus of the, offense it
just wasn't going to.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
Work AND i think it was a no.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Brainer now it's up To Dak prescott to try to
Get pickens in the right spot where he can be
helpful to The, cowboys helpful to himself and it can
be a win, win and maybe The cowboys signed him
to a new contract at some point before he becomes a.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Creator.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah SO i don't want to make this All steeler.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Talk but the natural follow up, is now that The
pickens thing is, done is The Aaron rodgers signing the next,
drop the next show to.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
DROP i was told before the draft That rogers Of
pittsburgh will. Happen the only question is when and then
during the, draft and this was obscured by all the
Short Shador sanders, stuff the free, fall the prank, call
and then the twist of The Bill belichick. Craziness Art
rooney The second said On Radio Friday night Of Aaron.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Rodgers he does want to be. Here it is just
a matter of.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
TIME i think at this point it makes sense for
him to wait until the schedule is, locked because look
at what the schedule makers did last.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Year to The jets And Aaron.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Rodgers they had a bunch of short, weeks prime, time
irregular schedule, games which aren't conducive to entering into a
kind of a rhythm necessary to win and win and.
Win so wait until the schedule is locked and loaded
announced it, then AND i THINK i Know.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Alan lazard is in play to be traded to The.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Steelers he cut his salary from eleven million down to
two and a half to stay with The. Jets that's
a very tradable deal to The. Steelers And Alan lazard
is a very different player with and Without Aaron.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
Rodgers as his.

Speaker 7 (14:34):
Quarterback and The steelers have a need now to Replace
George pickens Production.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Mike luria with.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Us, mike, obviously when you come, on we've got our
questions jotted down but occurred to. Me i'd rather just
kind of let you lead you what what else is
top of mind for you across THE nfl landscape in
terms of something we should be talking.

Speaker 7 (14:55):
About, well right, now you've got some unsigned player out
there free. Agents the question is will they sign Before,
OTA's will they wait until training? Camp what happens With
Kirk cousins In?

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Atlanta that's.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Percolating there's a lot of just kind of slightly below
the surface stories that we've maybe overlooked because the post
draft conversation has been so much About Shador sanders and
The Bill belichick, Craziness But cousins is, Looming Amari cooper's,
Available Keenan allen's.

Speaker 6 (15:27):
Available Gate davis is now. Available Nick schubb is looking
for a new.

Speaker 7 (15:31):
Home there's still a lot of recognizable names out there
that will or won't jump on to a team either
during the off season program or during training. Camp and
some of these GUYS i think are just going to
remain free into the regular season then wait for a
phone call in the event there's an, injury and that
that's the one reality that occurs to me every year
in the off, season we spend months dissecting who's, better who's,

(15:54):
worse who's, improved who. Hasn't the great wild card or
the injuries that we know will have.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
It we don't know, if we don't know, when we
don't know how long they're.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
Missed but those key injuries that are impossible to predict
will change our entire view of how entire franchises will
fare in a given.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Season, Well, MIKE i got a question for you THE nfl.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Draft the, PRESIDENT i think since you AND i spoke
last announced that it's going to be IN dc in
twenty twenty. Seven we're gonna have a million. People they're
a big old. Party pittsburgh's getting an asterisks on that.
Million what's that put an asterisk on that? Million THE
nfl is a bad habit of double and triple.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Counting fan to.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
Attend and also people who come and, go like On,
saturday to.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
Go to the bathroom or go to a restaurant or
go to their.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
Car they get counted multiple times every time they pass the,
perimeter and they act like it's six hundred thousand unique
different fans over three. DAYS i just wish they'd be,
transparent but they don't need.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
To they don't need to lie about the. Number it's
a lot of. People it's a pumping up into something
more than it. Is that's just my latest.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Set, Okay, yeah AND i get. It pet peeves are.
Good it keeps people. Responsible but if the draft is
In pittsburgh next, YEAR dc the year after, That buffalo
has been Rumored denver's. BEEN i mean think that's a
great idea by THE nfl guys to do this because
the weather for the most part across the country is damn.
Good Late april you're not running into any real weather related.

(17:17):
Issues but how does this process work like our city's
sports commissions and teams with them bidding on the rights
to the, draft Because i'd like to see it here
In seattle one.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
Day, well THE nfl realized seven or eight years ago
that having an open bidding process for The Super bowl
was counterproductive because what happened, was in an effort to
get the best possible deal in any Given Super, bowl
you would have several cities spend a lot of time
and effort to put a bid, together knowing that they
were wasting their time and just pumping up the value

(17:49):
of the final. Bid THE nfl has pivoted to a more,
selective discrete where they go to a city and they just,
say and they're big enough now that THE nfl can,
say these are our, terms take them or leave, them
and if they.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Leave, them they'll go to the next city on the.
List so it's all done very. Quietly.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Now teams will say we're, interested and they'll put in for.
It but every time you hear that a team is
putting in for, IT i think that wheels are already
moving toward them getting.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
It And baltimore is the LATEST.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
I saw that.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
Today haven't written about it yet AT, pft but The
ravens are exploring putting something.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
TOGETHER i think there's a lot.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
Of behind the scenes nudging and coaxing and coordinating to
tee up these, cities and in all, fairness everybody who
wants it should get. It every city is capable of hosting,
it and it's a unique, experience and it's going to
be a lot of people in every city where it goes.
In THE nfl is going to, double triple and quadruple
count the, numbers so it ends up looking like a

(18:47):
much bigger deal than it, wants.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
No no.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Doubt all, right, man great, Stuff enjoy it and we'll
talk in a.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Week. Pal thank you, guys all, right thanks.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
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Speaker 3 (19:44):
Us you, know just thinking here about how THE Nfl
draft is now getting moved. Around was In New york
every single, year and you know used to, always you,
know have a fun thing with The jet fans there
booing every damn, pick no matter who it, was, right
which was always a fun. THING i think moving the
draft around has been. Sensational and it's incredible how THE
nfl just finds a way to monetize every damn thing

(20:05):
they do and. Everything Like i'm trying to, Remember, hugh,
actually And i'm sure there's Something i'm. Forgetting you can remind.
Me when was the last time THE nfl did something,
new attempted to change, something monetize something whatever and it
turned out to be a disaster and they.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Stopped, it.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
RIGHT i, mean it's incredible. MAN i, mean you, know
the schedule comes out a week from. Tonight by the,
way at five, o'clock we'll have it for your life
here on kJ. R i'm sure there'll be plenty of
leaks throughout the day that like there always. Is BUT
i think THE nfl draft moving around from town to
town has been, sensational how about.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
YOU i love, It AND i think that they should
prioritize cities that have never had The Super bowl right,
right because Isn't New orleans in the next couple of
years there they've got to be up or out of
near the top right right For Super.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Bowl so, YEAH i don't, know it's a great, call great,
call you.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
KNOW i mean having The Green bay was, Great Kansas,
city just all those you, know Colder midwest cities that
have had great. Fans, NO i think it's it's almost
one of those is such a good idea that you,
think why did it take?

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Them?

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Song?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Right, well then you start, thinking, okay, well what else
can they? Do, like what else can they? Modeltize can
they have AN nfl schedule release show live on location
in somebody's? Hometown and what you just said, THERE i
think is a freaking phenomenal. Idea so kudos to, you,
because let's face, it these ideas don't happen.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Very often on this radio.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Show line for, everything.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Moving it around to cities that will never ever host
a Super, bowl right Like buffalo will never host a Super,
Bowl Green, Bay Kansas, City, seattle places like that will
never ever host a Super. BOWL i think it's a great, idea.
MAN i, mean, LOOK i mean having it here would be,
awesome be tremendous to have it in a place Like.

(21:54):
Seattle you, know hundreds of thousands of people would come
out for something like. That So i'm gonna make some
call and find out the next couple of, days, like
is The Sports commission behind? This are The seahawks behind?
This are they making this all? Happen and find out
if there's really an effort to get it here To.
Seattle but by the, way speaking of, effort the boys

(22:14):
fell behind it a five nothing At, oaklynn excuse me At.
Sacramento won't be the last Time i'll do. That and guess, What,
Hugh they've done it. Again, man. Unbelievable down three to
two last, night they get three in the ninth and
they win down five to nothing on a night here
Where brian wo does not have his best. Stuff six,

(22:35):
innings five, runs eight, hits doesn't matter because the offense
just bails them.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Out. AGAIN i, mean how many times IF i.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Were to come to you In, march by the, way and, Said,
hugh what is the over under on how many times
we will say the offense bails out the pitching staff
in the first month and a half or five weeks
of the, year what would the over under have bit?
On how many times you would have used that? Phrase
two said it about ten times. ALREADY i, mean, dude

(23:02):
they are seventeen and six since that comeback against The
astros in their last twenty three. Games that is boys and.
Girls and, again well it's only a twenty three game.
SAMPLE i get, that but that is what is? That
that would be one sixth of the season, basically is
what we're talking about right in the last twenty three. Games,

(23:23):
WELL i can one eighth of the season whatever it.
Is that is a one hundred and twenty win pace
that they are on in the last twenty three. Games
and it doesn't. Matter they get bad, pitching they. Win
they get good, pitching they, win their offense shows, up they.
Win they don't show, up they. WIN i, mean there's

(23:44):
some kind of magic going on over there right, Now.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Pal, well, YEAH i, mean and even you're talking about
over that, period but even at twenty one and, FOURTEEN i,
mean it's sixty percent is.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Pretty legendary.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Too, now, absolutely, No i'm saying that that's their whole.
Record that's the kind of baseball that they've been, playing
obviously in the last twenty three. Games and, yeah, LOOK
i mean you look at this baseball team and the
contributions they're getting from, people that's just. Insane Kyle riley
gets the day off but then gets the big pinch
it TO rbi.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Single Rowdy tlez is on his freaking death.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
BED i, mean this guy is, just you, know walking
to the, gallows For god's, sakes and all of a,
sudden on the road, trip he's seven for twenty and
since that, comeback by the way against The astros that's
starting with the very next, game the guy's got an
eight sixty three ops For. Seattle just when people started
wondering if this guy's got the goods to stay on
a major league, roster he, says, YEAH i. Do when

(24:43):
he just freaking blows up you're talking about a baseball
team that right now is on pace to win ninety nine.
Games that's what they're on pace. For so DO i
think they're gonna win ninety nine? Games, NO i don't.
DO i think there's a little smoking mirrors going on
right now with this. Offense YES i. Do but like
we said earlier in the, week in late last, WEEK,
q this is an offense that finished twenty first and
run scored in. Baseball they may not be top three

(25:05):
or four when it's all said and, done but can
they be top?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Ten can we cut it in?

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Half and can they make a fifty percent jump from
where they were a year?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
AGO i absolutely think they.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Can well, yeah just that's the back of the baseball
ball card, analogy right, Yeah and that you, Know i'm
sitting here trying to, Say, okay we get this, phenomenon
which is the the OVERACHIEVING i probably shouldn't use that
word JUST i would just say the high powered, offense Right.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
And what's the?

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Cause is? It the new hitting is you, know with
the same hitting, coach would they be where they are?
Now it feels like probably. Not it's probably a combination
of guys just playing to their their, ability but you,
know changing the, approach and then there's got to be
a contagious part of. It, Right like everybody's walking into the,

(25:57):
clubhouse their chin's, up eer, up their chests, up they're feeling,
confident and and they're probably just you, know relison getting
out there and playing because they feel like the hitting is.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Contagious, yeah, well, LOOK i, mean to, me the add
to answer your, Question the answer is who? Knows, right
nobody can sit there and say with any authority whatsoever
certainty why they're doing what they're. DOING i would tend
to believe that the proper, answer the most likely answer
is what you just, Said that guys are just playing

(26:32):
to the back of their baseball, card. RIGHT i, Mean
polanco is obviously. Ridiculous right, NOW Jp crawford's having a
much better year than he had a year. Ago Julio
rodriguez is having a better start than he had a
year ago after five. Weeks Luke rayley is playing a
little better when he is. Available Dylan moore is doing his.
Job you, know Cal rowley signs the big, contract AND

(26:53):
i mean maybe there was some. CONCERN i never had any,
concern but some concern that, hey now that he's got his,
deal will he still the same guy he was before the?
Deal and he's even better than he was before the
deal because a lot of what we thought was potentially, Possible,
hugh with this pitching staff is actually. HAPPENING i, mean
they're banged up and they're not performing as good as
they did a year. Ago and all of, us all

(27:15):
of us saw that coming, That, hey if you're banking
on this rotation staying healthy and doing exactly what they
did a year, ago you're probably asking for too. Much
well they're not getting, that but they're getting an offense
that is finally performing the way That Jerry depoto thought
they would perform when he signed them fifteen months.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Ago, yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Finally and you, know, here you're in a stretch where
you got forty percent of your starting pitching, now right
and somehow you, know as you Said Wu, woo you
could Argue wu was the best uh on the staff
up until.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Today and so.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
You say forty, percent what do you mean of the
of the starters, That, well you don't have, sixty, Right,
Well kirby And logan are. Out you Got, wu you
Got Bryce, miller and you Got Luis.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Castile right, Right, yeah, yeah sixty. Percent you're forty percent,
out so you have sixty percent.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
In you said you got forty percent of your pitching,
staff WHICH i, SAID i. Misspoke it doesn't really. Matter
this is me just, board all. RIGHT i THOUGHT i
said forty percent. Out but IF i, DIDN'T i, misspoke my.
Bad all, right forty percent. OUT i know that two
out of five is forty, percent, yes and so h
BUT i think that that, uh you, know they doing what.

(28:27):
TEAMS i, Mean i'm just trying to think of the
times in AN nfl locker. Room you get you get guys,
injured and then there's this kind of sense Of, okay
we've got to pick it, up and we've gotta uh we.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
We got to.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Cover we gotta be a little bit better because we're
missing some, horses right and and and maybe the offense
just feels that way that forty percent of the pitching
staff is, out thank.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
You and, yeah well there's six and. Three there's six
and three in the nine games so far that have
been missed By George kirby And Logan gilbert right spots
that would have been filled by. Them SO i, mean
the biggest factor there Is Emerson, hancock who's gone four to,
one and ever since that first start of the year
that got him sent back To, tacoma he's been. SENSATIONAL i,
Mean hancock gets the win yesterday or is phenomenal. Yesterday

(29:16):
AND i did this math last week And i'll do
it again just to update. It Emerson hancock just quickly
here before the break has started twenty games in his
major league. Career he's allowed fifty three earned runs in
those ninety six and a third. Innings but if you
take out his worst three, starts including the first game this,
year he's got a three point FIVE. Era in the

(29:38):
other seventeen, starts he's been. Outstanding so let's do. This
we'll get a. Break well, yet we'll talk More mariners
of the four o'clock. Hour petro's going to join us
a little fun will audio? Next on ninety three THREE.
Kjrfm it's now time For sufday in digg's one With,
Audio jimmy.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
G paunt Starred jimmy mister.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Garoppolo now let's have some fun with, audio.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
All, right little fun with audio. Slash hey did you hear?
That by the, Way petros needs to move to four to.
TWENTY i have no idea what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Today that's so damn important for him to disrupt the
schedule for the radio show high, maintenance mother effort. Loser
so what we will do is respond and react to
another mariner of victory over the age today at four,
o'clock and Then petros will join us at four to
twenty on the radio. Program all, right it's time for
a little fun with audio. Slash hey did you hear? That, Hey,

(30:32):
hugh did you happen to hear? That what's?

Speaker 8 (30:33):
That?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Dick The Indiana pacer studying number one Seed cleveland last,
night taking a two oho series lead thanks to the
game winning three By Tyrese. Halliburton here was the final
call on local. Radio you can compare this to what
we heard from The denver guy, Yesterday hugh By Mark
boyle And eddie gill on one oh seven to five
of the fane In. Indianapolis second one is short and

(30:55):
it's rebounded By.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Halliburton The pacers have a time, out will they use? It,
well they, Don't, yes they do have a time. Out
four seconds to. Go haliburton four three.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Three ball up Top indiana by one one in.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
One ten seconds to go.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Inbound merrill didn't get it off and this.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Rivals The milwaukee. Finish you have got to be kidding.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Me, see that's how you do. It that's how you do.
It it's not a game winner until it's a game.
Winner there was one point one left on the. Clock
you notice what he did not. Say he didn't say
game winner BECAUSE i wasn't the game.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Winner not.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yet, yeah, yeah, NO i. Agree and that was a
hell of a step back by. Him oh, yeah you.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
See like then two game winners in What.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Aaron Aaron gordon And, Haliburton and now we Got denver
AND okc. Tonight AND i THINK i might approach, this
by the way the Way i've approached The Apple cup
every year and just bet ok s they don't, Win
i'm and they fall down two great if they win
AND i make some, money great either. Way guess who's a?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Winner? Meet how's that?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Sound you bet on The kougs Every Apple? Cup Every Apple?
Cup AND i have gotten my ass kicked for like
nine of the last eleven. Years all, right hey here
did you happen to hear?

Speaker 1 (32:12):
That what's?

Speaker 6 (32:12):
That?

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Dick another day OF Nba playoff dramatics like you just talked.
About Charles barkley reacting to it and sent a message
to basketball haters during THE nba on TNT's postgame, show The.

Speaker 10 (32:25):
Boston, game THE okc, game and earlier, Tonight i'm, like,
damn this is why you love, sports because you, know
you could talk about who's supposed to win and who
you think gonna, win but until you go out there
and lace them. Up but the last three, games if
you don't like, basketball it's something wrong with.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
YOU i, mean the last three games have been, phenomenal
there's no question about. That but the first couple of
months of THE nba season were also dreadfully awful and
ratings were. Terrible both those things can be true at
the same.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Time.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Here, YEAH i think those who are critical of THE
nba it's because of the relative, league lame regular. Season
and you still had a game a couple of days
ago where you had forty five miss threes.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Right Correct, boston and.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
You, know, SO i don't know if that's exciting. Basketball
it just seems like a horse game out on a.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Playground well that was the game where the next were
down twenty and they came back and. Won, obviously so
there was, dramatics but for three fifths of that, game
it was terrible because the next were getting.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Destroyed, yeah, yeah, NO i get, that But i'm just saying,
offensively that's part Of i'm trying to enumerate why THE
nba for a lot of people who used to love it.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
And they're kind of, eh, right, well THE. Nba here's the.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Point THE nba still has to solve their regular season,
problem Right there is no doubt about. That playoffs dramatic,
playoffs great, playoffs terrible either, Way Next november is gonna
come and they're still going to have to solve their
regular season issue at some.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Point let's get more here before the. Break, Hey, hugh did.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
You happen to hear?

Speaker 2 (34:03):
That what's?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
That Dick royals came back to beat The White sox
yesterday thanks to an air filled ninth didning that Allowed
Kansas city to tie the. Game AT Nbc Sports chicago's postgame,
show Former White sox Manager Ozzie gien and Host Chuck
garfin reacted, Accordingly.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Just when you think you've seen it all In Kansas,
city but there is a lot of weird thing coming right.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
There it's, amazing you, KNOW i mean the pop up
Sound loup miss hit.

Speaker 10 (34:29):
Him the Hit i'll just laugh if you threw the boat,
away guess to see he, Is, Uh i'm calling Doctor.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
OZZIE i need an appointment.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
Tomorrow Baby dotros meet one, too but an a reason
availability for Doctor ozzie.

Speaker 10 (34:43):
Tomorrow DOCTOR rossi to take care of.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Himself you know what he had to. Do this is. Ugly,
YEAH i wasn't manage your.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
West so, Says, hey everybody's telling the field leave the lies.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
On we predicto two o'clock in the. Morning everybody go
back to the.

Speaker 10 (34:56):
Field let's.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Go there's nothing you can do about. It he's just, like,
or oh my, god what is.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
THIS i don't know how Much White sox baseball you're aware, of,
YOU i, mean they're kind of becoming something that people
pay attention to just because they're so fricking. Terrible BUT
i just looked it up that since the beginning of last,
year The White sox are fifty one and one hundred
and forty. Seven fifty one and one hundred and forty
seven they. Are that's twenty five point seven percent two

(35:25):
five seven baseball since the beginning of last. Season that's
how god awful this baseball team.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Is, man it's amazing how terrible they.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Are it flies in the face of the recent narrative
that you have the small market teams right that don't
have the. Money you, know obviously The a's top of
mind in that, regard but.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Obviously.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
CHICAGO i don't know who's making decisions, there but you're,
right it's been as bad as we've seen from.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Anybody, well they're going to lose one hundred games, again
and they lost one hundred and one games two years,
ago and they lost one hundred and twenty one games
the year before. That so why don't we talk about
a good baseball.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Team it feels good to say that.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Done let's talk about a good baseball team because The
mariners have done it. Again next on ninety three to
THREE kjrfl

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