July 30, 2024 • 36 mins
Softy in Seattle offers adversary intel on the Seahawks to kick off the hour, then you'll hear Vikes DC Brian Flores address the media, before we bring Brock Faber into the mix for a truncated(sorry for the phone issues) chat about his new contract!
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's going on, Softy? How you been?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How are you bod?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pretty good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
David Maller with a kJ R Juggernaut Cappuccino Capital Way
at Softy kg kJ R via Twitter, part of the
iHeart Radio family. So you can listen to Softie, send
some talkbacks or maybe some texts uh later in the afternoon.
As we go here in the cornfields and as the
Friends on Foes series continues and we're almost done, we
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hit c we hit Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You like that, don't you? Friends on that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Really really really creative, just just the the creativity is
just dripping out of this radio show.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Unbelievable. Where did you come up with that genius idea?
By the way, can I congratulate nor on another baby?
And he has promised me if he has a fourth,
he's gonna name it Softie.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I appreciate it. And girl or boy the nickname will
d be Softy.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's like that. It just kind of works either way. Man.
Gender neutral, that's the whole thing these days. You got
to be gender neutral baby about everything. And Softy is
like Chris or Pat. You never know, it could be
a boy or a girl.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Come on, man, let's do it all right, three two.
The Minnesota Vikings are at Seattle week sixteen, So once again,
listen to Softy in the afternoons if you're interested via
the free iHeartRadio app. The schedule just the way it
starts for you, guys, Holy cow. I mean at LA
Chargers winnable, yes, but still kind of tough than at Tennessee. Okay, winnable,
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but I think they're going to be physical, and I
think some people are sleeping on them a little bit
in case you're thinking about and like a season total
that is of the over welming variety. And then your
home openers against Cleveland, one of the most physicals.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hey go timeout, time out, a second happen? No, this
is how old Pa is getting. He's losing his mind
literally reading the preseason schedule.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I know, I know, I know, I understand that because
the two.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Against the Denver Broncos. Who gives a damn about private football?
You're going to introduce me and start talking preseason Football's
worthless thing that sports has to offer is preseason football.
We're talking about practice, not a game practice, We're talking
about practice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You stepped on season football.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, no, no, let's go to Denver in week one,
Come on, man, get with it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You stepped on my touchdown call because I was going
to dagger it with and then that's just the meaningless preseason.
And then you open with the anti Vike, Sean Payton
and the Denver Broncos. So I actually think the schedule.
You know, outside of San Francisco, a couple of times
mcveay is always tough to beat, a couple of times
Cardinals will be better with Marvin Harrison junior.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But they're ever beatable? Is I'm?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I mean, seriously, if the Seahawks improve with the new
coaching staff and everything, you might be able to rattle
up some wins early in that thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, first of all, this is why we have to
have pre show meetings so we can discuss all this stuff.
If you've got a fancy schmancy special cliff that you
want to play, I need to be in on that.
This is what happens when you leave people out of
the conversations and tuck behind their backs.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So no learn that that's actually what happens when people
listen to people and let them talk.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But that's okay, okay, what was that?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I didn't hear that? What was that all right?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Three?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Two?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
What do you think of the schedule?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, listen, dude, here's the story. The first two weeks
are against Bo Nixon likely Drake may Okay in the opener. Yeah,
there's a chance they seed to Kobe Brissette in the
second game at New England. But there's no reason why
this football team should not be two to zero after
playing Denver and the Patriots in the first couple of
games of the year, starting in week three when two
at Tongue Mailoa comes to town. I don't know from there,
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but if you can bet big, if you can bet
the house all right on on Nordo having another baby
and then parlay that when the Seahawks going two and
oh in their first two games of the year, I
would take that to the bank because Nordo is going
to have another baby and the Seahawks are going to
go too and oh. It's the easiest money of all time.
So I just think Week three is kind of where
things get a little weird for the Seahawks. And Paul,
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here's the deal. We don't know much about a lot
of players on this team right now. They got two
new starting linebackers, they got new starting safeties. As you know,
Jamal Adams and Quandary Diggs are out of here. Thank
god Jamal Adams never came back. I was so ready
to move on from that guy. I've never ever in
my life been in a situation where I could not
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root for every player on my football team, and when
Jamal Adams was here, I just could not root for
the guy. All Right, he's a total bum on and
off the field, and I'm glad he's gone. So thank
god that experiment's over. But we've talked about this on
ninety three point three FM and Seattle, which you can
get on your iHeart at. By the way, now we're
more fired up, I think for the coaching staff than
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we are the players themselves. I mean, they got a
brand new head coach, they got a brand new offensive coordinator.
They literally blew everybody out. They didn't bring one person
back from Pete Carrell staff except for the strength coach,
Ivan Lewis, who also worked for Steve Starkesian over at
you dub so he's got to becoming a local yokel
around here. But it's the totally brand new staff with
maybe the best defensive mind walking planet Earth right now.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
With Mike McDonald, right, Well, okay with McDonald, I and
a fair amount of people have heard the name and
and you know, maybe know something about him, but offensive
coordinator Ryan Grobb and defensive coordinator Aiden I believe it's Dirty.
I've never heard of him. So what do you like
about him?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, Aiden Dirty is a britt He's he came over
here as part of their like exchange program or whatever.
I mean. I guess, like you know, back when in
the day when we were in school and there is
exhange students coming from Norway or Japan or Germany, whatever,
they just picked up that thing and did it in
the NFL. So Aiden Dirty came over from Britain a
few years ago. He's the defensive coordinator and name, But
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Mike McDonald's gonna call the defense. So I don't know
if Ayden Dirty is really that big of a significant
character at this point. At some point McDonald's going to
step aside and probably let him call the plays. But
for now, Mike McDonald's gonna call plays because that's what
he does.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He is a defensive coordinator slash play caller of elite proportion.
You're an elite football mind. I'm an elite radio man.
Mike McDonald is an elite defensive play caller in the NFL.
So to give that up in year one as the
head coach, I think would have been a mistake. Ryan
Grubb comes over to US from Washington, where he took
Michael Pennix and the Huskies to the National Championship game.
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Beat Texas, beat the Oregon Ducks three times when you're here.
Obviously got shut down by Michigan. But Michigan shut everybody
down and they did the same thing that you do
in the title game. So a lot of people are
fired up for Ryan Grubb to stay in town. He's
real unique and that he's not a run or a
pass guy. He's elite at everything. Go back and watch
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some of the Washington games last year, whatever kind of
game they had to win, right in the rain against
Oregon State, drag it out against Wazoo in the Apple Cup,
high scoring game against USC, run the ball down the Trojans, throats,
throw for a buttload the yards against Michigan State. They
were able to do everything and anything it took to
win and they were clutched in the fourth quarter. That's
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the amazing thing about Ryan Grubb. You give him a
shot in the fourth quarter, you give him a bite
of the apple, He's gonna swallow the whole damn thing. So, Paul,
I'm more fired up for Ryan Grubb and Mike McDonald
and I have any free agent or draft picked. The
Seahawks took over the offseason.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Hardcore football dump.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What excites you more New Seattle offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb
or or a Rose Arena tearing it up for your
Ems and hitting home runs?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah? How about Randy Rose Arena with his first home
run yesterday when the MS were down ten to one. Yep,
great timing by the new I mean, if he's gonna
hit all his home runs but the EMS are down
ten to one, then all right, no thanks whatever, But dude,
they need so much more than Randy a Rose Arena.
They went out and they got Justin Turner, who's forty
years old. In November, they got the reliever from Toronto, Garcia,
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the Os whatever his name is. I'm getting him confused already.
I haven't had my coffee yet, by the way, but
they made some moves. But by one o'clock or three
o'clock specific time today five o'clock, your time, they need
to go out and get another back. So if you
guys can spare some offense, nor do you have any
kids that can hit, call us, because the Mariner offense
is in the absolute gutter right now and they're gonna
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piss away, and I mean piss away one of the
elite pitching stabs in baseball and maybe the best rotation
of all time in Mariner history. And I was in
a good mood until thirty seconds ago talking football with you,
until you brought up the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So thanks love, all right, at Softy Kjar, let's reinvigorate
the mood.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What what do you think of your beloved Huskies this year?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know what, dude, I'm heading in the car right now.
Jetfish and company have a three hour media day. Good god,
we really need three hours of media day. We just
got back from Big ten Media Day, or the Hoskey's
got back from Big ten Media Day where they did everything,
and now we're doing a three hour media day with
press conferences and one on ones. And I'm getting too
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old for this stuff. Man. I just don't care as
much as I used to about that aspect of the job.
I want to drink play golf, go on the air,
and then drinking, play golf some more when I'm done.
Maybe that's what happens when he turns fifty years old.
But I'm loving it right now. But I'm on the
way to you, dub right now. The visit with Jetfish
and Brendan Carroll and Steve Belichick. We got Pete Carroll's
son as the offensive line coach and offensive coordinator. We
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got Bill Belichick's son as the defensive coordinator. Came over
from the Patriots, where he was calling the plays for
them a year ago. And I don't think the guy
is really going to be here very long. If you
saw Steve Belichick in person, you think you'd rather have
a root canal than be the defensive coordinator for the hosckey.
And who can blame him? The guy was calling plays
in the NFL for the Patriots last year and now
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he's going three thousand miles across the country the call
plays for Washington. So I think these guys are all
on short term status in Seattle. Jeff Fish, if you
look at his resume, Paul, he bounces around big time.
He's been to like twelve stops in the last sixteen years.
His domo is the NFL. He wants to be back
in the NFL, either as a coordinator or a head coach.
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And I think all these guys are just biding their time.
Hopefully they can do for us what Kalin de Board
did in the two years he was here, because he
was marvelous. But the biggest question for Washington is their
offensive line. And now that we're in the same conference
with you guys, I'm bummed out. We don't blame Minnesota
this year. Maybe next year, but this is the year
to get Washington because I have no idea. They got
five brand new offensive lineman Paul five of them, including
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a guy that went to a JUCO school twice by
the way, potentially at left tackle. They got backups that
shouldn't even be starting all over the offensive line. They
got FCS guys that answered from the Big Sky that
might be starting on the offensive line. So reason why
I bring that up. They have the best offensive line
in college football last year, and I have no idea
what this offensive line is gonna look like this year. None.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Softy kjar at Softy Kjar God, that was great analysis.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, unbelievable detailed stuff. This is why you have me on.
There's nobody you put on the air, not one guest
across the country talking to college talking hockey, talking NFL,
talking baseball, basketball, men's gymnastics. Want a performance by our
boys last night in Paris, by the way, Nobody can
bring this depth of insight to your show.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Nobody, there are no doubt I'm gonna give you. I'm
going to give you a sneaky little nugget here.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, don't ask me any hockey questions.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, there Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
There's a player on the Huskies who transferred from Colorado
named Cameron Warcheck. Just like, yeah, just just keep your
eyes on old Cameron Warcheck.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, do you ever Warcheck? So wait at it?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
George Love the name George Fance back in the mix.
Does that mean the extra offensive lineman thing? The nobody
he can stop?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So here's the thing about George fan He's not an
extra offensive lineman. He's probably going to be a starter.
They're paying him seven million dollars. Paul Abe Lucas isn't
healthy yet the right tackle for the Seahawks. He's in
year three out of Washington State University, now at the
PAC two and not the PAC twelve. Along with Oregon State.
He's hurt, he's not playing right now. We have no
idea when Abe Lucas is going to be ready, So
I think that George Fan acquisition was a precursor to
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them thinking that Abe Lucas might be a few weeks
away or even months away from being able to come back. So,
as of right now, George Fan is your starting right tackle.
And you remember that story where Tom Cable and Pete
Carroll drafted him out of Western Kentucky. He was a
basketball player at Western Kentucky and they drafted him thinking
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he's got the skills, he's got the measurables, all the
numbers to play tackle in the NFL. And Mike got
What a call by those guys because he's made a
bunch of money now playing football for teams like the
Jets and the Seahawks. And I'm glad he's back because
the Seahawks may need him as a.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Starter any any chance.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Sam Howe pushes Geno Smith like I mean no, no, no, in.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The words a humilling. After the first couple of weeks
of practice, Sam Howe is not even number two, He's
number three behind PJ. Walker. Wow, I mean he has
not looked great. And I don't know if you've seen
him play in person. We saw him here a year
ago with a commander thought he was Okay, he's little.
I mean, my god, standing that even people like you
know Smith, he looks small. He is the clear cut
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number two right now and may even be number two
and it's all said and done. Do I think he'll
be the number three on game day against Denver? No,
I don't, and Sam Howe will be number one and
number two. But two years ago, when Russell left and
we had Drew Lock and Gino, there was a there
was a thought that maybe Drew Lock could beat out
Gino Smith, and Drew Lock was never even really given
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a shot. He didn't. He wasn't set to start until
a game three of the preseason and he got COVID,
so he never had a chance to even show anybody
what he could do in preseason ball. But yeah, Geno
Smith is the clear cut number one starter at quarterback
and the gap has not been this big since Russell.
Wilson is here.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Elite energy as usual, Go Seattle Storm, go Skyler Diggins
and and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, Hey, let me ask you, this is it Sam
Darnold or is it gonna be my guy JJ McCarthy
who I saw playing against the Huskies in the National Championship.
Who starts that game against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
S Jaren Hall second year by you will start to
week number one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Listen to you just playing mind games all righty, This
just goes to show you how nervous you are about
that Seahawk game. You're playing mind games already.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
No, I'm not nervous.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You give me anxiety and you step on all my
touchdown calls. So I love you. You're you are the
elite of all elite radio minds ever to be elite.
And we'll talk soon, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Keep me in the loop next time, and I want
step on your calls.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
That's a Softy David Maller from a k JR. In
the iHeart Family again. Via the free iHeart Radio app,
you can listen to Softy each and every weekday after
after noon if you are so in Clyde, we are
set to listen to Brian Flores, who conducted a press
commerce yesterday talking about the Vikings defense. So let's get
some insight from b Flow. When nine to Noon continues.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Nine to noon returns and as you heard it from
Pa into break, Brian Flores, defensive coordinator Minnesota Vikings, you
had the chance to chat with the media after yesterday's
first padded practice of camp.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Here is mister Flores.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I want to let you know how excited we are
to get started with the first day of pads.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I know for me this is always a high energy
day for myself or the coaches, for the players.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
When you get into kind of some of the real
real action of football that we all love and enjoy.
Our guys have been working extremely hard. I think they've
done a good job really across the board, but really
focused on us improving and that's Ko says every day,
just getting a little bit better every day. And I think,
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you know, we've got young guys doing that. We've got
our vets leading away as far as building routines, and
you know what, this is what I'm doing pretty practice.
This is what I'm doing post practice is how I'm
watching film. So we're getting good leadership from our our
veterans and our young guys.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
They're coming along. But today's a big day.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Are you actually in the anthy to go for the pads?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Going up?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
For the first time.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For the defensive backs, how much of a teaching tool
or an evaluation tool does that become when the pads
go on? How do you use that as you're going
through with the dbs.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Well, I mean, the game is all about tackling, so
obviously won't be tackling out here today, but you know,
to see if they're.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
In position.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
To tackle someone, which what goes with that is being
able to control blocks, shed blocks, and be in position
to tackle good receivers, good backs, good tight end So
certainly and not opportunity to evaluate that from a controlling block,
shedding block standpoint, but also an opportunity to see guys UH,
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you know, hopefully put hands on some of the receivers
in some of our UH coverages where we're looking to
reroute and disrupt the timing. It's a timing offense. It's
a rhythm passing league. So anyone who's using physicality UH
to disrupt that timing is doing something that we're that's
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being taught.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You guys have talked a little bit about playing more
man coverage, just this become kind of an area to
to teach that in terms of techniques you want with
press and and reroute.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, I mean you can certainly get some of that
taught without pads or in the in the shells, but
definitely with pads a little bit more, you can be
a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Physical. And that's that's real football.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
So that's that's you know, what we have way today
is as close as you can get to what we'll
do on Sundays in the fall. So and that's what
we tell him, And we're trying to fuse communication and
you know, playing high i Q football, we're also playing
a physical brand of football. And that's that was the
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message this morning. And I think our guys have done
a really good job up to this point. But you know,
we're trying to improve every day and today's a big day.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What's your familiar toy with Bobby McCain.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, I was with Bobby in Miami. Love Bobby. Bobby
loves playing football. He's smart, he's physical, He's played multiple
positions over the course of his career in a lot
of familiarity. He's got leadership for sure, communicates well. And
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I was excited that we had an opportunity to get him,
and I'm glad that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He is here do you move just safety for you?
Do you see him as a safety or a corner
or just whever he fits.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I mean, I love the versatility that he's the fact
that he's played several positions. He'll start at safety, but
you may see him in there at Nicol you may
see him, you know, matched up on you know, certain guys.
You know even day one, you know there's with a
vet guy like that. There's just a conceptual understanding of
things that that you know, any defense you know does
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what can do. And he's already got a pretty good
feel and we'll see some of that today.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
But excited to have him. I thought of THEO Jackson
going back to the spring.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think the Theo's gonna I mean really going back
to when we when I first met him last year. Uh,
there's been an incredible amount of growth, an incredible amount
of uh just improvement that is probably the best the
best term to use for him. Improvement and really all
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facets of you know, his game, but.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Really off the field as well.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Anyone who watches steel works watches steel work excuse me,
you know, from a meeting standpoint, from a training standpoint,
from a just an understanding of concepts and knowledge of
the game. I think he's starting to put a lot
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of things together. He's growing in confidence, which that comes
with preparation and he prepares the right way and it's
shown up on the field.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Ran, what are your thoughts on the safety group in
terms of their depth and a performance in camp so far.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
You know that that's you know, we lean on that group.
You know, those are those are the leaders of the team.
That's our hub of communication. You know, we strive to
be a defense that can be multiple and change, you know, coverage,
front structures, and that starts with that group. So you
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know between really you know all of them. Uh, you've
got a lot of versatility, but there's a toughness as
a tenacity out of that group. That and a play
style that we we we we that I love. And
you know those guys that they've they've done a nice
job so far, but they're also they're hungry to do more.
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And you know, whether it's would tell us whether it's
Harry be Z, Theo Lewis, you know Jay Ward, he's
gone in there and done some good things already, and
now Bobby, you know, it's a very good group, right
what you learn.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
About where Dallas Turner who stands in this evolution when
that's come out and starting to.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Go down there.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I mean, I know, I know quite a bit already.
I know he loves the game. I know he studies
the game. I know it's important to him. I know
he asked the right questions which lead me to believe
that he's gonna, you know, get himself in good position
or find a way to get himself in a good position.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
And then he's he's very talented, you know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I think the pads, feeling, the the length, the strength,
the instincts of you know, NFL offensive lineman. I think
there's a getting used to that factor for every every
rookie and.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
You know that's no different for him.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
But I think he'll answer the bell because that's what
that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
How did you finish the season last year thinking about
a Caleb Evans and how has that changed at all?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Of course the spring and into the.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Summer, I think I thought of Caleb did a lot
of good things last year. I think there was a
lot of growth and improvement from him from you know,
when when I got here through the spring, through the season.
You know, there's always ups and downs for every player.
I know he got banged up there. I forget what
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game it was, but you know that's that's that's life
in the NFL. And I think he's bounced back and
he's put he's strunk some good days together and you
know we're gonna need him and you know he'll be
there for us. So I'm excited about a kailer. You know,
you can't teach you know, that height, that length and
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his speed and you know, like all of us, he's
he's working to be as consistent as he can possibly be.
But that's across the board, and that's what training camps
for is to continue to work those techniques to fundamentals
communication and you know, I think he plays best when
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he's having a good time. And so let's go out
here and have fun. You've been doing this since your
little kid.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Yeah, I see there's a leak.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Still have the rule where you can't press like in
OTAs and early in camp?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Do they still have that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I know the exact cause you know you gotta I
read these these memos.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I read these memos like you.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Know, I go over them with a fine tooth toothcomb,
so you can uh, put hands on. You can't impede
is the or impede a lot essentially in otash in
the early part. So look, I think you know, for us,
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we just try to work the technique and we talk about, hey,
you know when we put the pads on, we can
do a little bit more here, we can get a
little bit more.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Of a jam or a chuck here. But try to
stay within.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
The parameters of those rules for sure.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Is it open now? I mean you had you had
last week, Is today in the first day that you
can do it like you were doing a game.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yes, yes, so quick jams and you know, really trying
to be physical at the.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
But I don't know if you you know, with Jets
and Jordan Addison, I don't know if you want to
you up there and try to quick jam those guys.
So you got to pick your poison on some of
those techniques and pull you up against and what you know,
your your your skill set is. But yeah, we always
want to be physical. We always want to put hands
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on on receivers. Again, like I said, it's a it's
a rhythm passing league, and if you can get the
offense off rhythm you know.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
You put yourself in a little bit better position.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you can you teach that art or that you
know what you want to teach you with that with
that restriction, I mean is how does that affect your
your ability to teach them?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You're trying to go down a rabbit hole. I mean,
and look, the rules are the rules, and I think.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
We've got to, you know, do the best we can
given what those parameters are. You know, I think every
coach always wants to do more. You know, that's why
we're out here. I mean, I could sit out here
all day and do press coverage or you know, block
protection or block destruction or you know, we could I
(26:22):
could do I could do that all day, but there's
you know, rules in place for every team. That's it's
you know, it's fair.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And we got to do the best.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
That's why you know, I talk to our guys about
being affishing with our time, efficient with your individuals, efficient
with your meetings, because we don't have a lot of
time to get a lot done. And you know that's
a technique for a corner or an outside backer or
a defensive lineman. The time constraints are what they are,
and do the best we can with them, and you know,
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still try to disrupt the time of receivers, tight ends
and backs.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
That's defensive coordinator Brian Flores addressing the media yesterday and
all these press conferences as they arise outside of practice
windows and such. If we can, we're gonna try and
play those back for you when pressing to the conversation
nine to noon.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
When we return, we're.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Gonna skate on over to the NHL. We're heading to
Saint Paul, Minnesota. Wild and brock Faber reached an agreement
on a massive contract extension, and Brock was nice enough
to carve out some time for us. Brock Faber joins
PA next final segment, nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I can't wait. I can't wait until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Curs tomorrow, Mine that you will be, Julie.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I can't wait. I can't wait until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Cus tomorrow, conelicom right.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Right? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Brock favorites Paul Allen, How are you?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
I'm good?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Are you right?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I'm good chatting with you man. Hopefully summer's rolling around,
rolling along nicely. Brock just got a well deserved eight
and sixty eight as one of the game's very best
blue liners. We here with nine to noon and on
behalf of the state of hockey. Congratulate you on that?
How roughly? How many texts when the news popped? I mean,
(28:27):
have they stopped?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
We just we just went through.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
I got one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Unred right now, oh, unred.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
I got an UNRAD, So I got.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
To do today. But ye keep complaining about that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, I'm I'm fifty eight. You're going to be twenty
two in like a month or something, so let me
attempt to join your age group. You know there are
a fair amount there you can leave on red and
they probably won't right back to minimize your texting, you
know what I mean. Rock, I'm glad my man got
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that eight and sixty eight so he can get a
new phone. Brock favor with an eight year, sixty eight
million dollar deal, highest paid defenseman in the history of
the team and and worth every penny uh with the
runner up in the calder that that was Bally Hood
and that was noteworthy. And in reading Michael Russo's story
(29:28):
about about this deal, I like him. You know, maybe
he said up before and I just missed it, but
he considers brock Faber a linebacker on skates and and
you know, just in the past chatting with Brock about
Jonas Brodein and Jared Spurgeon and what goes in to
Brock Faber and and and improvement because you come from
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the University of Minnesota, and you come from a wonderful program,
and you know Motsko and his staff do do do excellent,
excellent work. But or less, these are the big boys,
and it's going to be markedly different than obviously what
you see in the Big Ten or what you see
in college hockey. And I mean, shoot, my man was
ready for it. I mean my man was ready for
(30:11):
it right out of the gate. So it it was
just a wonderful having that ninety second conversation with with
Brock Favor, one of the game's very best blue liners.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
But you know what, whether it's whether it's.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Peppering him about uh, the the teams involved in the
no trade, or some things about his off season or
John Hines heading into his first full season as coach
of the Minnesota Wild. The if we don't talk to
Rock up until the regular season, then at least nine
(30:45):
to noon can say we got to offer him congratulations
and do so for the entire state of hockey.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So the uh uh, the a topic would be.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Uh, the wholehearted and genuine and authentic happiness we would
display for rock and and and a deal like this,
uh which uh, which is obviously of the gargantuan variety.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
What's going on about everything?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So so there's there's a fifteen team no trade, all right,
and I'm gonna ask you the teams, But like, how
does one determine where one does not want to play?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:27):
It's you know, hopefully it never comes to that, right,
hopefully you know you're here for here for the full contract.
But I guess if if if that time comes, I
think it's you know, it's you pick your To be honest,
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I don't know much.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
About it either.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
I never I never learned more.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Right, Yeah, that that's agent stuff, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Don't Yeah, I hope it never comes.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right right now now with you, you know, in the
early stages of what hopefully is a super long career
with a bunch of hoistings of the cup, You're you're
you're you're so good at blocking shots, man, I mean
it's just natural. You just take it for the team
because you're a team first guy and in a team
oriented sport. But how does one train the mind to
(32:17):
block shots?
Speaker 10 (32:22):
I mean, it's it's you know, I don't think it's
really a skill. It's as well it's don't I think, uh,
you know, there's definitely a little bit of skill that
goes into but uh, you know, it's just kind of
fighting up across from you not to take a one
(32:42):
time y, you know, whether you're gonna whether you're gonna
do it, or whether you're gonna, you know, pretend like
I don't know, it's I think it's more just of
a mindset thing, whether whether you want to or don't
want to?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
What what? What?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
What's it like having Jake Middleton on the team and
in the room.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Obviously I played with him of the majority of the
year last year.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
You know, when you see each other all the time,
he's in better person, he's always live, s'm on the stash.
Speaker 10 (33:16):
You know, he's he's a he's an all around in.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
Cool human being for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you do do you or how much do you
know or do you know much about du defenseman and
first round pig z boyam.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I mean, you guys one day will be playing together.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Well, you know, I I've seen a lot. I've seen
a lot about him, and you know, I have guys
that have played with or with her against them and he's, Uh,
from what I hear, he's he's an incredible player, incredible
person and you know what I've heard the steal of
the drafts and you know, from what I've seen, it
(33:53):
absolutely looks like that.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
How lastly, here and congratulations again Jonas Brodne. How how
has he made you a better pro?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Well, I mean he's just that smart. I mean, there's
absolutely no doubt. And you know, not necessarily being a
two way player. You know, favors a two way player.
Having Jonas Brodean and the likes of Jared Spurgeon and
Jake Middleton around that only will bolster the opportunity for
somebody into or out of an eight and a sixty
(34:36):
eight as one of the game's very best defenseman to
execute his toil. He's only twenty one years of age,
he's like a month from being twenty two. So congratulations
to brock Favor and congratulations to the Minnesota Wild for
securing in long term fashion one of the very best
in the game. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm Paul Allen. Here's Norda with a rap on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
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Speaker 1 (35:08):
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Speaker 4 (35:13):
Pa at Vike's practice tote in his knapsack, the back
of his pants looking like a roar shack, guzzlin' my relax,
The situation's tenu wis already the life of the bathroom.
You and a brow getting sweaty. Tomorrow, go time, flip
on the go pro. Please be gentle, sir, be sure
to go slow. Speaking of the abyss exploring be low.
Turns out the guy wasn't a doctor though. Waking up
(35:35):
in an alley feeling sour, walking like you were on
a horse for six hours. Need Horatio Caine to get
to the bottom of this back door left open?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Something's amiss.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Anyway, We're obsessed with Vike's camp contract with brock Faber
flighting the lamp tomorrow at nine Man Where to begin?
I suppose we'll stick with Football Always Wins.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Podcast.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Today's Paul Allen Show, or listen back to previous show
and interview site going to the iHeartRadio app or kfan
dot com
What's going on, Softy? How you been?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How are you bod?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Pretty good?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
David Maller with a kJ R Juggernaut Cappuccino Capital Way
at Softy kg kJ R via Twitter, part of the
iHeart Radio family. So you can listen to Softie, send
some talkbacks or maybe some texts uh later in the afternoon.
As we go here in the cornfields and as the
Friends on Foes series continues and we're almost done, we
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hit c we hit Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You like that, don't you? Friends on that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Really really really creative, just just the the creativity is
just dripping out of this radio show.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Unbelievable. Where did you come up with that genius idea?
By the way, can I congratulate nor on another baby?
And he has promised me if he has a fourth,
he's gonna name it Softie.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I appreciate it. And girl or boy the nickname will
d be Softy.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's like that. It just kind of works either way. Man.
Gender neutral, that's the whole thing these days. You got
to be gender neutral baby about everything. And Softy is
like Chris or Pat. You never know, it could be
a boy or a girl.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Come on, man, let's do it all right, three two.
The Minnesota Vikings are at Seattle week sixteen, So once again,
listen to Softy in the afternoons if you're interested via
the free iHeartRadio app. The schedule just the way it
starts for you, guys, Holy cow. I mean at LA
Chargers winnable, yes, but still kind of tough than at Tennessee. Okay, winnable,
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but I think they're going to be physical, and I
think some people are sleeping on them a little bit
in case you're thinking about and like a season total
that is of the over welming variety. And then your
home openers against Cleveland, one of the most physicals.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Hey go timeout, time out, a second happen? No, this
is how old Pa is getting. He's losing his mind
literally reading the preseason schedule.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I know, I know, I know, I understand that because
the two.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Against the Denver Broncos. Who gives a damn about private football?
You're going to introduce me and start talking preseason Football's
worthless thing that sports has to offer is preseason football.
We're talking about practice, not a game practice, We're talking
about practice.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You stepped on season football.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, no, no, let's go to Denver in week one,
Come on, man, get with it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You stepped on my touchdown call because I was going
to dagger it with and then that's just the meaningless preseason.
And then you open with the anti Vike, Sean Payton
and the Denver Broncos. So I actually think the schedule.
You know, outside of San Francisco, a couple of times
mcveay is always tough to beat, a couple of times
Cardinals will be better with Marvin Harrison junior.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But they're ever beatable? Is I'm?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I mean, seriously, if the Seahawks improve with the new
coaching staff and everything, you might be able to rattle
up some wins early in that thing.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well, first of all, this is why we have to
have pre show meetings so we can discuss all this stuff.
If you've got a fancy schmancy special cliff that you
want to play, I need to be in on that.
This is what happens when you leave people out of
the conversations and tuck behind their backs.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
So no learn that that's actually what happens when people
listen to people and let them talk.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But that's okay, okay, what was that?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I didn't hear that? What was that all right?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Three?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Two?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
What do you think of the schedule?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, listen, dude, here's the story. The first two weeks
are against Bo Nixon likely Drake may Okay in the opener. Yeah,
there's a chance they seed to Kobe Brissette in the
second game at New England. But there's no reason why
this football team should not be two to zero after
playing Denver and the Patriots in the first couple of
games of the year, starting in week three when two
at Tongue Mailoa comes to town. I don't know from there,
(03:53):
but if you can bet big, if you can bet
the house all right on on Nordo having another baby
and then parlay that when the Seahawks going two and
oh in their first two games of the year, I
would take that to the bank because Nordo is going
to have another baby and the Seahawks are going to
go too and oh. It's the easiest money of all time.
So I just think Week three is kind of where
things get a little weird for the Seahawks. And Paul,
(04:17):
here's the deal. We don't know much about a lot
of players on this team right now. They got two
new starting linebackers, they got new starting safeties. As you know,
Jamal Adams and Quandary Diggs are out of here. Thank
god Jamal Adams never came back. I was so ready
to move on from that guy. I've never ever in
my life been in a situation where I could not
(04:38):
root for every player on my football team, and when
Jamal Adams was here, I just could not root for
the guy. All Right, he's a total bum on and
off the field, and I'm glad he's gone. So thank
god that experiment's over. But we've talked about this on
ninety three point three FM and Seattle, which you can
get on your iHeart at. By the way, now we're
more fired up, I think for the coaching staff than
(04:59):
we are the players themselves. I mean, they got a
brand new head coach, they got a brand new offensive coordinator.
They literally blew everybody out. They didn't bring one person
back from Pete Carrell staff except for the strength coach,
Ivan Lewis, who also worked for Steve Starkesian over at
you dub so he's got to becoming a local yokel
around here. But it's the totally brand new staff with
maybe the best defensive mind walking planet Earth right now.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
With Mike McDonald, right, Well, okay with McDonald, I and
a fair amount of people have heard the name and
and you know, maybe know something about him, but offensive
coordinator Ryan Grobb and defensive coordinator Aiden I believe it's Dirty.
I've never heard of him. So what do you like
about him?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, Aiden Dirty is a britt He's he came over
here as part of their like exchange program or whatever.
I mean. I guess, like you know, back when in
the day when we were in school and there is
exhange students coming from Norway or Japan or Germany, whatever,
they just picked up that thing and did it in
the NFL. So Aiden Dirty came over from Britain a
few years ago. He's the defensive coordinator and name, But
(06:02):
Mike McDonald's gonna call the defense. So I don't know
if Ayden Dirty is really that big of a significant
character at this point. At some point McDonald's going to
step aside and probably let him call the plays. But
for now, Mike McDonald's gonna call plays because that's what
he does.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He is a defensive coordinator slash play caller of elite proportion.
You're an elite football mind. I'm an elite radio man.
Mike McDonald is an elite defensive play caller in the NFL.
So to give that up in year one as the
head coach, I think would have been a mistake. Ryan
Grubb comes over to US from Washington, where he took
Michael Pennix and the Huskies to the National Championship game.
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Beat Texas, beat the Oregon Ducks three times when you're here.
Obviously got shut down by Michigan. But Michigan shut everybody
down and they did the same thing that you do
in the title game. So a lot of people are
fired up for Ryan Grubb to stay in town. He's
real unique and that he's not a run or a
pass guy. He's elite at everything. Go back and watch
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some of the Washington games last year, whatever kind of
game they had to win, right in the rain against
Oregon State, drag it out against Wazoo in the Apple Cup,
high scoring game against USC, run the ball down the Trojans, throats,
throw for a buttload the yards against Michigan State. They
were able to do everything and anything it took to
win and they were clutched in the fourth quarter. That's
(07:21):
the amazing thing about Ryan Grubb. You give him a
shot in the fourth quarter, you give him a bite
of the apple, He's gonna swallow the whole damn thing. So, Paul,
I'm more fired up for Ryan Grubb and Mike McDonald
and I have any free agent or draft picked. The
Seahawks took over the offseason.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Hardcore football dump.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What excites you more New Seattle offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb
or or a Rose Arena tearing it up for your
Ems and hitting home runs?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah? How about Randy Rose Arena with his first home
run yesterday when the MS were down ten to one. Yep,
great timing by the new I mean, if he's gonna
hit all his home runs but the EMS are down
ten to one, then all right, no thanks whatever, But dude,
they need so much more than Randy a Rose Arena.
They went out and they got Justin Turner, who's forty
years old. In November, they got the reliever from Toronto, Garcia,
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the Os whatever his name is. I'm getting him confused already.
I haven't had my coffee yet, by the way, but
they made some moves. But by one o'clock or three
o'clock specific time today five o'clock, your time, they need
to go out and get another back. So if you
guys can spare some offense, nor do you have any
kids that can hit, call us, because the Mariner offense
is in the absolute gutter right now and they're gonna
(08:38):
piss away, and I mean piss away one of the
elite pitching stabs in baseball and maybe the best rotation
of all time in Mariner history. And I was in
a good mood until thirty seconds ago talking football with you,
until you brought up the Mariners.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So thanks love, all right, at Softy Kjar, let's reinvigorate
the mood.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What what do you think of your beloved Huskies this year?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
You know what, dude, I'm heading in the car right now.
Jetfish and company have a three hour media day. Good god,
we really need three hours of media day. We just
got back from Big ten Media Day, or the Hoskey's
got back from Big ten Media Day where they did everything,
and now we're doing a three hour media day with
press conferences and one on ones. And I'm getting too
(09:21):
old for this stuff. Man. I just don't care as
much as I used to about that aspect of the job.
I want to drink play golf, go on the air,
and then drinking, play golf some more when I'm done.
Maybe that's what happens when he turns fifty years old.
But I'm loving it right now. But I'm on the
way to you, dub right now. The visit with Jetfish
and Brendan Carroll and Steve Belichick. We got Pete Carroll's
son as the offensive line coach and offensive coordinator. We
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got Bill Belichick's son as the defensive coordinator. Came over
from the Patriots, where he was calling the plays for
them a year ago. And I don't think the guy
is really going to be here very long. If you
saw Steve Belichick in person, you think you'd rather have
a root canal than be the defensive coordinator for the hosckey.
And who can blame him? The guy was calling plays
in the NFL for the Patriots last year and now
(10:04):
he's going three thousand miles across the country the call
plays for Washington. So I think these guys are all
on short term status in Seattle. Jeff Fish, if you
look at his resume, Paul, he bounces around big time.
He's been to like twelve stops in the last sixteen years.
His domo is the NFL. He wants to be back
in the NFL, either as a coordinator or a head coach.
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And I think all these guys are just biding their time.
Hopefully they can do for us what Kalin de Board
did in the two years he was here, because he
was marvelous. But the biggest question for Washington is their
offensive line. And now that we're in the same conference
with you guys, I'm bummed out. We don't blame Minnesota
this year. Maybe next year, but this is the year
to get Washington because I have no idea. They got
five brand new offensive lineman Paul five of them, including
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a guy that went to a JUCO school twice by
the way, potentially at left tackle. They got backups that
shouldn't even be starting all over the offensive line. They
got FCS guys that answered from the Big Sky that
might be starting on the offensive line. So reason why
I bring that up. They have the best offensive line
in college football last year, and I have no idea
what this offensive line is gonna look like this year. None.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Softy kjar at Softy Kjar God, that was great analysis.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, unbelievable detailed stuff. This is why you have me on.
There's nobody you put on the air, not one guest
across the country talking to college talking hockey, talking NFL,
talking baseball, basketball, men's gymnastics. Want a performance by our
boys last night in Paris, by the way, Nobody can
bring this depth of insight to your show.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Nobody, there are no doubt I'm gonna give you. I'm
going to give you a sneaky little nugget here.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Okay, don't ask me any hockey questions.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, there Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
There's a player on the Huskies who transferred from Colorado
named Cameron Warcheck. Just like, yeah, just just keep your
eyes on old Cameron Warcheck.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, do you ever Warcheck? So wait at it?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
George Love the name George Fance back in the mix.
Does that mean the extra offensive lineman thing? The nobody
he can stop?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So here's the thing about George fan He's not an
extra offensive lineman. He's probably going to be a starter.
They're paying him seven million dollars. Paul Abe Lucas isn't
healthy yet the right tackle for the Seahawks. He's in
year three out of Washington State University, now at the
PAC two and not the PAC twelve. Along with Oregon State.
He's hurt, he's not playing right now. We have no
idea when Abe Lucas is going to be ready, So
I think that George Fan acquisition was a precursor to
(12:26):
them thinking that Abe Lucas might be a few weeks
away or even months away from being able to come back. So,
as of right now, George Fan is your starting right tackle.
And you remember that story where Tom Cable and Pete
Carroll drafted him out of Western Kentucky. He was a
basketball player at Western Kentucky and they drafted him thinking
(12:46):
he's got the skills, he's got the measurables, all the
numbers to play tackle in the NFL. And Mike got
What a call by those guys because he's made a
bunch of money now playing football for teams like the
Jets and the Seahawks. And I'm glad he's back because
the Seahawks may need him as a.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Starter any any chance.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Sam Howe pushes Geno Smith like I mean no, no, no, in.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The words a humilling. After the first couple of weeks
of practice, Sam Howe is not even number two, He's
number three behind PJ. Walker. Wow, I mean he has
not looked great. And I don't know if you've seen
him play in person. We saw him here a year
ago with a commander thought he was Okay, he's little.
I mean, my god, standing that even people like you
know Smith, he looks small. He is the clear cut
(13:27):
number two right now and may even be number two
and it's all said and done. Do I think he'll
be the number three on game day against Denver? No,
I don't, and Sam Howe will be number one and
number two. But two years ago, when Russell left and
we had Drew Lock and Gino, there was a there
was a thought that maybe Drew Lock could beat out
Gino Smith, and Drew Lock was never even really given
(13:50):
a shot. He didn't. He wasn't set to start until
a game three of the preseason and he got COVID,
so he never had a chance to even show anybody
what he could do in preseason ball. But yeah, Geno
Smith is the clear cut number one starter at quarterback
and the gap has not been this big since Russell.
Wilson is here.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Elite energy as usual, Go Seattle Storm, go Skyler Diggins
and and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Okay, Hey, let me ask you, this is it Sam
Darnold or is it gonna be my guy JJ McCarthy
who I saw playing against the Huskies in the National Championship.
Who starts that game against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
S Jaren Hall second year by you will start to
week number one.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Listen to you just playing mind games all righty, This
just goes to show you how nervous you are about
that Seahawk game. You're playing mind games already.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
No, I'm not nervous.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You give me anxiety and you step on all my
touchdown calls. So I love you. You're you are the
elite of all elite radio minds ever to be elite.
And we'll talk soon, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Keep me in the loop next time, and I want
step on your calls.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
That's a Softy David Maller from a k JR. In
the iHeart Family again. Via the free iHeart Radio app,
you can listen to Softy each and every weekday after
after noon if you are so in Clyde, we are
set to listen to Brian Flores, who conducted a press
commerce yesterday talking about the Vikings defense. So let's get
some insight from b Flow. When nine to Noon continues.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Nine to noon returns and as you heard it from
Pa into break, Brian Flores, defensive coordinator Minnesota Vikings, you
had the chance to chat with the media after yesterday's
first padded practice of camp.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Here is mister Flores.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I want to let you know how excited we are
to get started with the first day of pads.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I know for me this is always a high energy
day for myself or the coaches, for the players.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
When you get into kind of some of the real
real action of football that we all love and enjoy.
Our guys have been working extremely hard. I think they've
done a good job really across the board, but really
focused on us improving and that's Ko says every day,
just getting a little bit better every day. And I think,
(16:05):
you know, we've got young guys doing that. We've got
our vets leading away as far as building routines, and
you know what, this is what I'm doing pretty practice.
This is what I'm doing post practice is how I'm
watching film. So we're getting good leadership from our our
veterans and our young guys.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
They're coming along. But today's a big day.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Are you actually in the anthy to go for the pads?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Going up?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
For the first time.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
For the defensive backs, how much of a teaching tool
or an evaluation tool does that become when the pads
go on? How do you use that as you're going
through with the dbs.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Well, I mean, the game is all about tackling, so
obviously won't be tackling out here today, but you know,
to see if they're.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
In position.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
To tackle someone, which what goes with that is being
able to control blocks, shed blocks, and be in position
to tackle good receivers, good backs, good tight end So
certainly and not opportunity to evaluate that from a controlling block,
shedding block standpoint, but also an opportunity to see guys UH,
(17:09):
you know, hopefully put hands on some of the receivers
in some of our UH coverages where we're looking to
reroute and disrupt the timing. It's a timing offense. It's
a rhythm passing league. So anyone who's using physicality UH
to disrupt that timing is doing something that we're that's
(17:29):
being taught.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You guys have talked a little bit about playing more
man coverage, just this become kind of an area to
to teach that in terms of techniques you want with
press and and reroute.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah, I mean you can certainly get some of that
taught without pads or in the in the shells, but
definitely with pads a little bit more, you can be
a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Physical. And that's that's real football.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
So that's that's you know, what we have way today
is as close as you can get to what we'll
do on Sundays in the fall. So and that's what
we tell him, And we're trying to fuse communication and
you know, playing high i Q football, we're also playing
a physical brand of football. And that's that was the
(18:21):
message this morning. And I think our guys have done
a really good job up to this point. But you know,
we're trying to improve every day and today's a big day.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What's your familiar toy with Bobby McCain.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, I was with Bobby in Miami. Love Bobby. Bobby
loves playing football. He's smart, he's physical, He's played multiple
positions over the course of his career in a lot
of familiarity. He's got leadership for sure, communicates well. And
(18:56):
I was excited that we had an opportunity to get him,
and I'm glad that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
He is here do you move just safety for you?
Do you see him as a safety or a corner
or just whever he fits.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I mean, I love the versatility that he's the fact
that he's played several positions. He'll start at safety, but
you may see him in there at Nicol you may
see him, you know, matched up on you know, certain guys.
You know even day one, you know there's with a
vet guy like that. There's just a conceptual understanding of
things that that you know, any defense you know does
(19:31):
what can do. And he's already got a pretty good
feel and we'll see some of that today.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
But excited to have him. I thought of THEO Jackson
going back to the spring.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think the Theo's gonna I mean really going back
to when we when I first met him last year. Uh,
there's been an incredible amount of growth, an incredible amount
of uh just improvement that is probably the best the
best term to use for him. Improvement and really all
(20:03):
facets of you know, his game, but.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Really off the field as well.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Anyone who watches steel works watches steel work excuse me,
you know, from a meeting standpoint, from a training standpoint,
from a just an understanding of concepts and knowledge of
the game. I think he's starting to put a lot
(20:30):
of things together. He's growing in confidence, which that comes
with preparation and he prepares the right way and it's
shown up on the field.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Ran, what are your thoughts on the safety group in
terms of their depth and a performance in camp so far.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
You know that that's you know, we lean on that group.
You know, those are those are the leaders of the team.
That's our hub of communication. You know, we strive to
be a defense that can be multiple and change, you know, coverage,
front structures, and that starts with that group. So you
(21:10):
know between really you know all of them. Uh, you've
got a lot of versatility, but there's a toughness as
a tenacity out of that group. That and a play
style that we we we we that I love. And
you know those guys that they've they've done a nice
job so far, but they're also they're hungry to do more.
(21:34):
And you know, whether it's would tell us whether it's
Harry be Z, Theo Lewis, you know Jay Ward, he's
gone in there and done some good things already, and
now Bobby, you know, it's a very good group, right
what you learn.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
About where Dallas Turner who stands in this evolution when
that's come out and starting to.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Go down there.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I mean, I know, I know quite a bit already.
I know he loves the game. I know he studies
the game. I know it's important to him. I know
he asked the right questions which lead me to believe
that he's gonna, you know, get himself in good position
or find a way to get himself in a good position.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
And then he's he's very talented, you know.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I think the pads, feeling, the the length, the strength,
the instincts of you know, NFL offensive lineman. I think
there's a getting used to that factor for every every
rookie and.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
You know that's no different for him.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
But I think he'll answer the bell because that's what
that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
How did you finish the season last year thinking about
a Caleb Evans and how has that changed at all?
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Of course the spring and into the.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Summer, I think I thought of Caleb did a lot
of good things last year. I think there was a
lot of growth and improvement from him from you know,
when when I got here through the spring, through the season.
You know, there's always ups and downs for every player.
I know he got banged up there. I forget what
(23:10):
game it was, but you know that's that's that's life
in the NFL. And I think he's bounced back and
he's put he's strunk some good days together and you
know we're gonna need him and you know he'll be
there for us. So I'm excited about a kailer. You know,
you can't teach you know, that height, that length and
(23:31):
his speed and you know, like all of us, he's
he's working to be as consistent as he can possibly be.
But that's across the board, and that's what training camps
for is to continue to work those techniques to fundamentals
communication and you know, I think he plays best when
(23:52):
he's having a good time. And so let's go out
here and have fun. You've been doing this since your
little kid.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Yeah, I see there's a leak.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Still have the rule where you can't press like in
OTAs and early in camp?
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Do they still have that? Uh?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I know the exact cause you know you gotta I
read these these memos.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I read these memos like you.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Know, I go over them with a fine tooth toothcomb,
so you can uh, put hands on. You can't impede
is the or impede a lot essentially in otash in
the early part. So look, I think you know, for us,
(24:38):
we just try to work the technique and we talk about, hey,
you know when we put the pads on, we can
do a little bit more here, we can get a
little bit more.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Of a jam or a chuck here. But try to
stay within.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
The parameters of those rules for sure.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
Is it open now? I mean you had you had
last week, Is today in the first day that you
can do it like you were doing a game.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Yes, yes, so quick jams and you know, really trying
to be physical at the.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
But I don't know if you you know, with Jets
and Jordan Addison, I don't know if you want to
you up there and try to quick jam those guys.
So you got to pick your poison on some of
those techniques and pull you up against and what you know,
your your your skill set is. But yeah, we always
want to be physical. We always want to put hands
(25:32):
on on receivers. Again, like I said, it's a it's
a rhythm passing league, and if you can get the
offense off rhythm you know.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
You put yourself in a little bit better position.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you can you teach that art or that you
know what you want to teach you with that with
that restriction, I mean is how does that affect your
your ability to teach them?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
You're trying to go down a rabbit hole. I mean,
and look, the rules are the rules, and I think.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
We've got to, you know, do the best we can
given what those parameters are. You know, I think every
coach always wants to do more. You know, that's why
we're out here. I mean, I could sit out here
all day and do press coverage or you know, block
protection or block destruction or you know, we could I
(26:22):
could do I could do that all day, but there's
you know, rules in place for every team. That's it's
you know, it's fair.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And we got to do the best.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
That's why you know, I talk to our guys about
being affishing with our time, efficient with your individuals, efficient
with your meetings, because we don't have a lot of
time to get a lot done. And you know that's
a technique for a corner or an outside backer or
a defensive lineman. The time constraints are what they are,
and do the best we can with them, and you know,
(26:55):
still try to disrupt the time of receivers, tight ends
and backs.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
That's defensive coordinator Brian Flores addressing the media yesterday and
all these press conferences as they arise outside of practice
windows and such. If we can, we're gonna try and
play those back for you when pressing to the conversation
nine to noon.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
When we return, we're.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Gonna skate on over to the NHL. We're heading to
Saint Paul, Minnesota. Wild and brock Faber reached an agreement
on a massive contract extension, and Brock was nice enough
to carve out some time for us. Brock Faber joins
PA next final segment, nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I can't wait. I can't wait until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Curs tomorrow, Mine that you will be, Julie.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I can't wait. I can't wait until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Cus tomorrow, conelicom right.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Right? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Brock favorites Paul Allen, How are you?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
I'm good?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Are you right?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I'm good chatting with you man. Hopefully summer's rolling around,
rolling along nicely. Brock just got a well deserved eight
and sixty eight as one of the game's very best
blue liners. We here with nine to noon and on
behalf of the state of hockey. Congratulate you on that?
How roughly? How many texts when the news popped? I mean,
(28:27):
have they stopped?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
We just we just went through.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
I got one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Unred right now, oh, unred.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
I got an UNRAD, So I got.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
To do today. But ye keep complaining about that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, I'm I'm fifty eight. You're going to be twenty
two in like a month or something, so let me
attempt to join your age group. You know there are
a fair amount there you can leave on red and
they probably won't right back to minimize your texting, you
know what I mean. Rock, I'm glad my man got
(29:06):
that eight and sixty eight so he can get a
new phone. Brock favor with an eight year, sixty eight
million dollar deal, highest paid defenseman in the history of
the team and and worth every penny uh with the
runner up in the calder that that was Bally Hood
and that was noteworthy. And in reading Michael Russo's story
(29:28):
about about this deal, I like him. You know, maybe
he said up before and I just missed it, but
he considers brock Faber a linebacker on skates and and
you know, just in the past chatting with Brock about
Jonas Brodein and Jared Spurgeon and what goes in to
Brock Faber and and and improvement because you come from
(29:51):
the University of Minnesota, and you come from a wonderful program,
and you know Motsko and his staff do do do excellent,
excellent work. But or less, these are the big boys,
and it's going to be markedly different than obviously what
you see in the Big Ten or what you see
in college hockey. And I mean, shoot, my man was
ready for it. I mean my man was ready for
(30:11):
it right out of the gate. So it it was
just a wonderful having that ninety second conversation with with
Brock Favor, one of the game's very best blue liners.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
But you know what, whether it's whether it's.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Peppering him about uh, the the teams involved in the
no trade, or some things about his off season or
John Hines heading into his first full season as coach
of the Minnesota Wild. The if we don't talk to
Rock up until the regular season, then at least nine
(30:45):
to noon can say we got to offer him congratulations
and do so for the entire state of hockey.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So the uh uh, the a topic would be.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Uh, the wholehearted and genuine and authentic happiness we would
display for rock and and and a deal like this,
uh which uh, which is obviously of the gargantuan variety.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
What's going on about everything?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So so there's there's a fifteen team no trade, all right,
and I'm gonna ask you the teams, But like, how
does one determine where one does not want to play?
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:27):
It's you know, hopefully it never comes to that, right,
hopefully you know you're here for here for the full contract.
But I guess if if if that time comes, I
think it's you know, it's you pick your To be honest,
I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I don't know much.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
About it either.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
I never I never learned more.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Right, Yeah, that that's agent stuff, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Don't Yeah, I hope it never comes.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right right now now with you, you know, in the
early stages of what hopefully is a super long career
with a bunch of hoistings of the cup, You're you're
you're you're so good at blocking shots, man, I mean
it's just natural. You just take it for the team
because you're a team first guy and in a team
oriented sport. But how does one train the mind to
(32:17):
block shots?
Speaker 10 (32:22):
I mean, it's it's you know, I don't think it's
really a skill. It's as well it's don't I think, uh,
you know, there's definitely a little bit of skill that
goes into but uh, you know, it's just kind of
fighting up across from you not to take a one
(32:42):
time y, you know, whether you're gonna whether you're gonna
do it, or whether you're gonna, you know, pretend like
I don't know, it's I think it's more just of
a mindset thing, whether whether you want to or don't
want to?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
What what? What?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
What's it like having Jake Middleton on the team and
in the room.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Obviously I played with him of the majority of the
year last year.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
You know, when you see each other all the time,
he's in better person, he's always live, s'm on the stash.
Speaker 10 (33:16):
You know, he's he's a he's an all around in.
Speaker 8 (33:20):
Cool human being for sure.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you do do you or how much do you
know or do you know much about du defenseman and
first round pig z boyam.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I mean, you guys one day will be playing together.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Well, you know, I I've seen a lot. I've seen
a lot about him, and you know, I have guys
that have played with or with her against them and he's, Uh,
from what I hear, he's he's an incredible player, incredible
person and you know what I've heard the steal of
the drafts and you know, from what I've seen, it
(33:53):
absolutely looks like that.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
How lastly, here and congratulations again Jonas Brodne. How how
has he made you a better pro?
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Well, I mean he's just that smart. I mean, there's
absolutely no doubt. And you know, not necessarily being a
two way player. You know, favors a two way player.
Having Jonas Brodean and the likes of Jared Spurgeon and
Jake Middleton around that only will bolster the opportunity for
somebody into or out of an eight and a sixty
(34:36):
eight as one of the game's very best defenseman to
execute his toil. He's only twenty one years of age,
he's like a month from being twenty two. So congratulations
to brock Favor and congratulations to the Minnesota Wild for
securing in long term fashion one of the very best
in the game. Thank you very much for listening.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'm Paul Allen. Here's Norda with a rap on the show.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
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Speaker 1 (35:08):
Course the elite pizza. It's Casey stopping the one today.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Pa at Vike's practice tote in his knapsack, the back
of his pants looking like a roar shack, guzzlin' my relax,
The situation's tenu wis already the life of the bathroom.
You and a brow getting sweaty. Tomorrow, go time, flip
on the go pro. Please be gentle, sir, be sure
to go slow. Speaking of the abyss exploring be low.
Turns out the guy wasn't a doctor though. Waking up
(35:35):
in an alley feeling sour, walking like you were on
a horse for six hours. Need Horatio Caine to get
to the bottom of this back door left open?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Something's amiss.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Anyway, We're obsessed with Vike's camp contract with brock Faber
flighting the lamp tomorrow at nine Man Where to begin?
I suppose we'll stick with Football Always Wins.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
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Speaker 10 (36:01):
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