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March 14, 2025 10 mins
ESPN Los Angeles Reporter Lindsey Thiry joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the breaking news that former Rams receiver Cooper Kupp is joining the Seahawks on a three-year deal, plus her time in Seattle and what she’s up to now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Play action from Adams Puffs fires team looking for Cooper
Cup cut touchdown Eastern Washington forty one yards.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Adams to Cooper Cup.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Adams the quarterback empty backfield throws looking for Cooper Cup
touchdown Eastern Washington. Vernon Adams this second time he has
found Cup for a score.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Today for the sideline.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Cooper Cup dance his way toward the goal lineies in
cups third touchdown.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
That sounds like Roxy Bernstein.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
By the way, fifty nine fifty two final, Washington gets
the win over Eastern Washington. Cooper Cup eight catches one
hundred and forty five yards and three touchdowns that game.
Another receiver you may know Kendrick Bourne. In that game
eight catches a buck fourteen and Vernon Adams big old
vern thirty one for forty six four seventy five seven

(01:10):
touchdowns were against you. Very lucky to escape with our
life with Sidler Miles playing quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
By the way, that day. Well, joining us right now.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
She covers the Rams, covers everything in LA for ESPN
LA and the NFL down there and Tinseltown. Our old
friend Lindsey Theory is with us on the show. Hey,
how are you?

Speaker 6 (01:29):
What's going on, Safie? I was just thinking about you
the other day, and I promise you this is a
true story. I'm going to Malley on Sunday and one
of the best memories of Malley is seeing your glowing
red space there. Coincidentally a few years ago. Gosh, that
was a good time.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
I think that was the day it made fun of
my my turtle swim trunks, by the way, which I.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Burned turtles right, had the shirt up with the Islands
ful person, best person, Saftie there is.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
So embarrassed that you called me out. I threw that
stuff in the trash can. Cooper Cup is a Seahawk.
You've been covering him. You know what the deal is.
He's missed a bunch of games the last three years,
but when he's healthy, he's been more than fine. Tell
us about Cooper Cup and what Seahawk fans are getting.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
In this guy.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean you guys know you've had to
face him twice a year every year since he was
drafted at twenty seventeen. And look, there's nothing to know
about Cooper Cup. I know he's been dealing with injuries
the last couple of years. He's dealt with a couple
nagging ankle things coming in and out. But there's a
very motivated Cooper Cup coming to Seattle. This is a
guy who really thought he was going to finish his

(02:34):
career here in La. Frankly, I thought he would finish
his career here in La, knowing how much Shammivay loved
him and leaned on him throughout his young career. But
obviously Cooper Cups became available. It was a great gap
for the Seahawks. The biggest question is obviously just the health.
Can he stay healthy? I think he will be able
to do. He puts a lot of work into his body,

(02:55):
has a very special diet. You're not going to find
someone that works harder than Cooper Cups. And then on
top of that, obviously you guys know the kind of
playmaker he is, whether the ball's in his hands or not.
So this is a really nice pickup for the Seahawks.
It's going to be a really nice target for Sam
Darnold's and I think Sakstan should be pretty excited about
what he can.

Speaker 7 (03:12):
Do when he is healthy. Lindsey, how is he a
getting open compared to the Cooper Cup of twenty twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah, just so he's lost the steps. I will have
to say he doesn't look quite like he doesn't have
quite the birth he used to. There isn't about him.
If he's such a technician and he's so good with
his routs and he's so Chris that he finds a
way to make it happen. I don't know that we
saw the ball end up in his hands as much
recently because they had Cooper Nakula, who is just kind
of that step quicker than Cooper. Mean he Matthew Stafford

(03:45):
was kind of looking for it on his first look
throughout the last couple of seasons here. But I think
Cooper Cup is still very capable of getting open, and
he's very capable of making guys miss on the catch
and run opportunity.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
How much does he owe to Sean Veay Lindsey, I
mean clearly right, because you're taking this guy out of
his bosom, You're you're you're taking his binkie away and
Matt Stafford and Sean McVay and that famous Rams offense
down there, And now I was coming up here to
play for Clint Kobiak that runs the outside zone. He's
playing for Sam Darnold's had one really good year in
his life. So how much is he kind of in

(04:20):
debt to Sean McVay and how much of a concern
would that be bringing him out of that system?

Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well, I think it's actually kind of goes both ways.
I think Cooper cups in debt to Sean McVay because
shann Vey knew exactly how to use him. But to
Cooper cuffs credit, I mean he brought a lot of
that guy will do anything that is asked him, I think,
regardless of the system, right, he's a guy who's going
to block for his teammates. He's a guy that's going
to figure out a way to get open and just

(04:47):
a football mind that he is. Sean mc davi would
often talk about how it's like another quarterback on the field.
Cooper cup is more than happy to bring his ideas,
bring you insight. He is such like a film junkie.
He's the first I know, listen, first one in the buildings.
He really is. Like him and Matthew Stafford had the
breakfast club. They're the first ones in the building. So
that's going to be Cooper Cup like, he will study

(05:09):
any offense and he will find a way to make
himself work in that system.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Lindsay, as you know, as everybody knows, we have a
terrible offensive line. It is a work in progress.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Way.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm sorry. Sorry for the bricking YouTube.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
I made a comment and tell me if it's just
totally off base and totally nuts, because I say nuts
things all the time.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I made a comment last second.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
I said, it seems like Cooper Cup is the type
of receiver that could actually help out a bad offensive
line because most of his targets correct me wrong if
I'm wrong, or within ten yards of the line of scrimmage,
the quarterback is going to get.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
The ball out of his hands quickly to Cooper.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, you are correct. I mean, I don't know if
we can make up for a really bad offensive one,
but he can help the situation. He like if he's
a kind of catch your run guy, and he will
get there to his spot quick and Sam Darnold will
be able to know and depends that he's going to
be exactly clean where he needs to be, and Samily
will look at the ball on the hands very quickly
knowing Cooper Cup is going to be exactly where where planned.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, lindsay theory esp and l A is with us
a former Mariner ball girl, I believe as well.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
Girl.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Sorry, Rally Fry.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Rally fry girl, it's been so long I forgot what
your actual job was, to be honest with you, But
now you're a mom.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
How many kids you got?

Speaker 7 (06:24):
Now?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
By the way, I.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Am the mom is that wild? Crazy? Two kids? And
in fact I'm sitting in the Target parking lot because
I have a few aft minutes things to get through
a one year old birthday tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Oh when you did the phrase, did you ever walk
down and deliver the big turkey leg for the King's
Court too?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
No, the King's Court was after my time. That makes
me feel really old, But yes, definitely I did deliver
rally prize.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
That should be in your Twitter bio is your claim
to fame? But how much sea are the Rams today?
I mean, we know they got Davonte. Obviously they tied
with the Seahawks A year ago, they won the tiebreakers,
so they won the West. Do you feel like the gap,
whatever the gap was between the Rams and Seahawks a
month ago, is now closing. Is it the same, is
it getting bigger? How do you kind of, you know,

(07:18):
dice that down.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
I mean, don't choose the messager here, but I think
it actually got a little bit wider. The Rams, you know,
getting Davante Adams. I really think he is going to
be a great piece for them in his ability as
just a bigger target for Matthew Stafford. I was obviously
at the game in Philadelphia. They lost, but one play.
They rather win an ENFTY championship if it were not

(07:41):
for one play there at the end and the snow
and all the things. But I think that the Rams
definitely got stronger. That young defensive front they have. I
certainly want to want to face them. That's that's a
really solid group that the little wat to get better.
They had a couple of rookies up there this year,
so uh, you know, kind of like the bigger picture
looking at the NFC West here, I would pick the Rams,

(08:02):
and then I easily go with the Seahawks. The Cardinals
are hard to trust. At any point, and then the
forty nine ers right now just seem to be a
little bit of everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
So I think it will have been close between the
Rams and the Seahawks. But I definitely have to give
the nod to the Rams and what they did by
by going out and getting DeVante Adams the big loss

(08:23):
for Cooper Cup, but Cook and a Cop really kind
of led the way for them last year, so I
don't know that they're going to miss Cooper hard to
say that that much.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
DeVante also is well, clearly you don't know what the
hell you're talking about. So that's fine. Nobody's perfect. I'm
kidding you. Hey, listen, we love you.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Congrats on everything you're doing down there in LA and
we'll talk soon, all right.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Thank you, Thanks guys, appreciate it all right.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Lindsey Theory with us ESP in LA on the Cooper
Cup signing. The Seahawks again have not announced this, but
multiple reports including your Buddy Chefty three years, forty five
million dollars for Cooper Cup to the Seahawks.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
And Cooper Cup has now confirmed himself at social media
with a special graphics saying.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Time when do you get him on the air.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
I think a real producer would have him booked by
five o'clock tonight for this show. Five hundred dollars bounty.
By the way, you get Cooper Cup on the show
by seven o'clock tonight, five hundred dollars bounty paid by
Dick Vane.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
How about this free agent class by John Schneier, the
guy that hates free agents, right, the guy that never
wants to spend in free agency, and he is spending
a lot of money this offen.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Well, the question is are they getting the right guys?

Speaker 5 (09:26):
I mean, if you're going to be the skeptic and
just kind of take that side for a second, you
are signing two guys that were banged up a year ago,
and DeMarcus Lawrence and Cooper Cup. You're signing two guys
in their thirties and DeMarcus Lawrence and Cooper Cup. And
you're signing a quarterback to a thirty three million dollar
a year deal, replacing Geno Smith with him who's had
one really good year in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right, I mean again, I like everything they've done.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm way more excited about the Cooper Cup signing that
I am the Marcus Valdez, Scandling and DeMarcus Lawrence signings.
To be totally honest with you, I realized to see
how need depth and rotational depth on their defensive line,
and all that stuff is important, But you're gonna get
rid of these guys. You're gonna get rid of players
like Gino and like DK Metcalf and let Tyler Lockett
walk you better, Dan Weill replace them, and they're replacing them.

(10:13):
They're working on replacing them. Now, fix the line, and
let's really start going nuts. Okay, let's see these guys
really dive into getting this offensive line back, and let's
really start believing, Dick, that these guys could be a
real factor in the NFC West next season and maybe
even do bigger things than just that we're gonna break.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
JB.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Long is the voice of the Rams. He'll join us
coming up. Hugh Millen gonna hop on as well, give
us his thoughts on this at four point thirty on
ninety three three KJARFM
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