October 25, 2024 • 37 mins
The guys are back! Gregg and Christopher kick the show off w/ headlines across the sports world! The guys react to Ernest Jones IV press conference as he was traded to the Seahawks for Jerome Baker, Gregg points out a big story regarding college sports via Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports and how the new landscape of NIL impact non revenue sports, plus much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At Indiana nine am. Kickoff here on ninety three point
three KJRFM. Just part of a lot of college football
and pro football on our nine to fifty stations, including
starting tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We'll get to that in a minute. The Seahawks had
their new middle linebacker.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Debut at practice yesterday, but they're still without their star
wide receiver at practice two days before the Seahawks and
Bills play at Womenfield. The Crack and rallied late but
lost their fourth game of their five game home stand.
In college not just football, college sports, athletic departments are
now kicking players out of college sports. We'll talk about
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the consequence of the recent House Court case settlement in
schools now having to pay players through athletic department revenues.
There are consequences to it that if you're not in
football and basketball, you're already feeling in a lot of schools.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
At ten thirty, we're going to hear for new linebacker
Ernest Jones fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He was very engaging.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yesterday, talked a lot more than just about football. At
twenty four, about to be twenty five year old with
a three month old son and a wife, has moved
twice in the last two months. You're gonna hear from him,
and I thought it was really interesting his appreciation for
Bobby Wagner's legacy. Here he knows he's stepping into the
same position Wagner played. Jones and Wagner were teammates with
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the Los Angeles Rams a couple of seasons ago. You'll
hear from Ernest Jones, the fourth, the new middle linebacker
for the Seahawks at ten thirty. At eleven o'clock, we're
we talk to Aaron Levine, a sports director for Fox
thirteen Television here in Seattle, about all things sports, but
chiefly about the Seahawks, probably the Huskies, probably the Sounders,
probably the NBA's returned to Seattle and again factor fiction
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is eleven thirty five. Your chance to win one thousand
dollars from the Emerald Queen Casino.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
At eleven thirty, we read back your text on the
Telemoredude text line four, nine, four or five one your
chance to be a part of the show. And Ian
Farness at eleven forty five talks to us leading into
his show from twelve until three. Your headline's brought to
you by Frostbury Corslai choose chill Ernest Jones before it
is now is Seahawk.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
He's wearing number thirteen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He's going to be the middle linebacker in the starting
lineup on Sunday against Buffalo. They moved Tyrrel Dotson, who
had been the middle linebacker over to the weak side
linebacker that had been Jerome Baker, but now Baker is
a Tennessee Titan in the trade for.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Ernest Jones this week.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Mike McDonald's is tired of run defense getting beat up,
and that's why Ernest Jones is here coaches players yesterday
talking about how Jones just squares his shoulders to the
hole and does his job as a middle linebacker taking
on blockers and ball carriers. It was an interesting discussion
with Jones, and you'll hear it at ten thirty. So
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the Seahawks thirty first in run defense last year, twenty
eighth this year, and that is why they gave up
a fourth round pick and a starter for Ernest Jones,
who is on a one year contract. He also talked
about that in what he wants his future to be
beyond that. He came back after not practice again yesterday.
He didn't practice Wednesday, either the offense corner of Ryan
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Greb said after practice that Metcalf's going to try to play,
and he's looking good, is what Greb said. He was
undefined on what he's looking good at doing, supposedly training
and in the training room, but.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He may give it a go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I would expect him to be listed as doubtful maybe
questionable at best today when the injury report comes out
at one pm. Trey Brown did not practice. He hasn't practiced.
The cornerback hasn't practiced out all this week. Riquollin has.
He's been a limited participant on each of the last
two days, but he didn't practice at all last week
when he missed the Atlanta game. He has been on
the field Wednesday and Thursday. It's trending toward Wreke Woland
playing and what that means is it's probably gonna be
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Josh job who has now four NFL starts in his
career in two years, opposite of Reke Wolan as the
outside corners with Devin Witherspoon inside against Josh Allen and
the Bills on Sunday. Of course, they started Neemia Pritchett
in his first NFL start the rookie fifth round pick
from Auburn. Pritchett and Job started in Atlanta. But now
Wolan is coming back, and I would assume that Job
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is going to stay opposite Wollan as the starter's outside again.
The injury report for the Seahawks comes out about one
one fifteen. I'll be out in renting to talk to
Mike McDonald about the injury situation later this afternoon. You
can read that at the Newstribune dot com. Last night,
the NFL season week began. Week eate began with the
Rams beating the Vikings thirty to twenty. Here come the
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Rams again, Matthew Stafford twenty five for thirty four with
four touchdown passes. Suddenly Los Angeles is three and four.
At the moment, they're tied with the Cardinals and the
forty nine Ers, all one game behind the Seahawks for
first place in the NFC West. The Rams have already
had there by. Arizona is playing at Miami and the
Dolphins announced today that tu Tungo Vola is going to start.
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Hasn't started since Week two with the concussion. He has
passed all the concussion protocols and Miami is going to
start him against Arizona at home on Sunday. In Washington,
Jayden Daniels practice today looked like he wasn't going to
play at all. He's got injured ribs. Now the commanders
are saying it could be a game time decision whether
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he plays against the Bears on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And Carol Line.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Another quarterback news, Andy Dalton doubtful to play Sunday at
Denver because of a thumb injury.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He got in a car accident this week.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So Bryce Young whether the Panthers won he or not,
it looks like he's going to start against the Broncos
on Sunday in Denver. And the NHL Cracking rallied from
down three to one against unbeaten Winnipeg at climbed Pledgerina
last night, tied at three to three late forced overtime,
but the Jets scored on a delayed penalty and ot
and won four to three. Seattle gets a point for
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that overtime loss and now four wins, three losses in
an overtime loss on the season. Maddy Beniers an encouraging
night for him, scored his first two goals of the season.
A great shot over the shoulder of Jets goaltender Connor
Halibek for the first goal for the cracking, and then
a deflection of Brenton Brandon Montor's close to the ice
shot with about three minutes left. The deflection tied the
game at three. Forced overtime. Lots of cracking turnovers last night,
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especially in the neutral zone trying to push the play
up the ice. Winnipeg took advantage of that for turnovers
and rushes the other way. Winnipeg's now seven to OH
in NHL's only seven OH team. As I mentioned the
crack in four to three and one, the five being
homestand ends tomorrow night against the Carolina Hurricane. Practice practice
pregame show with Mike Benton six point thirty puck drops
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at seven, Everett Fitchew and out Cominski on the call
tomorrow night here on ninety three point three kJ RFM.
The World Series begins tonight Game one in Dodgers Stadium,
Yankees and Dodgers in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Game two will be there as well. This weekend I
mentioned the Sounders.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They begin the MLS Playoffs best of three first round
Monday night against Houston at Lumenfield Seattle's the four seed,
the Dynamo is the five. It goes Seattle, then Houston,
and if necessary, the third game would be back at
Lumenfield in Seattle. That thing takes like three weeks for
the first round of the MLS playoffs. College Footba already
mentioned Washington returning from its by playing the surprise team
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in college football right now, the Big Ten leading, undefeated,
thirteenth rank Indiana Hoosiers, who do not have their starting quarterback.
We talked with the beat writer for The Indie Star yesterday,
Zach Austerman, about that. He thinks that Washington has an
advantage with their size at receiver in smaller defensive backs
for Indiana, I think they have an advantage if the
Huskies give the ball to Jonah Coleman More, especially in
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the red zone and on third down.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Nine am.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Kickoff tomorrow Washing at Indiana. Tony cast Cone cam Cleveland,
of course on the call in the pregame show with
Dave Softy More and the Husky comps five am.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I see they're at the duchess today, Dick is it
in Softy?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So I assume Softy's not gonna be in Bloomington tomorrow
for that one as he was Iowa City a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Washington State Cougars six and one.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
They're playing San Diego State seven thirty Saturday on CBS
Sports Network, Cable TV. Our Jessman McIntyre is already en
route the San Diego on the sideline of the Huskies
or the excuse me the Cougars radio broadcast tomorrow night
in San Diego. Tonight in college football, seventeenth rank Boise
State six and one is at UNLV.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The Rebels are six and one. Why does this matter, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The winner is going to get the inside track to
win the Mountain West. Of course, there's a Mount West
championship game, but the inside track to win that conference.
And if Boise State, especially if Boise State wins, are
already seventeenth RANC the Boise State wins that game, Chris,
they're probably gonna be the highest seed of a non
Power five conference winner and that gets you an automatic
bid into the college football playoff. So it could be
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a chance for Boise State tonight to make a huge
step toward the college football Playoff. At UNLV. We were
going to talk more about this game in about an
hour and a half hint, hint, and you'll hear that
game tonight on ninety three point three KJRFM. Kickoff is
at seven thirty Boise State at UNLV Friday Night college football.
And the NBA has an open an investigation as to
why seventy six or star Joel Embiid is missing at
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least the first three games of Philadelphia's season because of
whether his team is calling quote left knee management. Can
you imagine the NFL that they had knee management issues
to say he's got an injury and don't even play.
But this load management stuff's one thing when it's in
December or January. He got load management in the first
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three games of the season in the NBA. Now four nine,
four five. That's just another reason why you w on
the text line may not like the NBA or even
watch it anymore. All right, let's talk about Ernest Jones
fourth and what his role is gonna be. He's gonna
be the middle linebacker. That doesn't mean he's gonna be
the green dot calling the signals because they've already had
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the Seahawks have had Tyrell Dotson do that since spring.
So they are going to give keep the dot with
Dots at weakside inside linebacker playing next to Ernest Jones,
a new middle linebacker. So he's gonna be more coverage responsibility,
more outside, more tight ends, more in the flat for Dots,
and more open field play for Dots. And he talked
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about this yesterday. He did that in Buffalo. He was
about a fifty to fifty split guy between weak side
linebacker and middle linebacker for the Bills, and even then
he wasn't a full time player. He played about fifty
percent of the snaps last year for Buffalo. There are
a lot of people in Western New York with a
surprise about the contract the Seahawks gave him and the
fact they gave him the job at middle linebacker full time,
which he had never done before. This is the first
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time in his career Tyrrell Dotson has been in every
down middle linebacker calling a defensive signals and it's still
new to him. And it showed the Seahawks again. Twenty
eighth in the league against the rush, two hundred and
twenty eight yards allowed by the forty nine ers two
games ago, one fifty five by Atlanta who just stopped
running in the third quarter for some reason or that
game would have been closer. So that's why Ernest Jones
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is here to give them a new, more stout middle
linebacker and move Dotson back to his weeksidelnebacker position. Where
As Mike McDonald said, he has quote good tape, but
he'll keep the green dive. I mean, the green Doc
can be anywhere in the field. Julian Love when he
was a captain for the Giants a few years ago
before the Seahawks signed him before the twenty twenty three season,
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Julian Love was the green dot for the Giants at times.
You can move that around. It doesn't have to stay
with you. Only one player can have it at any
given time in a game. But the green Doc guy
who has the speaker helmet from the defense's play callers
on the sidelines or the press box, that can move
around within a game. But it's going to stay with
Dotson just a formiliarity's sake. And Ernest Jones has been
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a middle linebacker since he came in to the NFL
from South Carolina. For three seasons he was the Rams
middle linebacker. We talked about how Mike McDonald, the Seahawks coach,
said that he learned about Jones watching on television the
Super Bowl in February twenty twenty two Rams and Bengals
and said, who is this guy in the middle of
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the Rams defense making all the plays? This Ernest Jones
guy looks like Mike kind of middle linebacker. And McDonald said,
ever since that Super Bowl he has thought a lot
about Jones and how he might fit potentially in a
Mike McDonald's scheme. Then they had the chance to get
him for a fourth round pick. We also talked yesterday
worth mentioning again the compensation for this trade.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Some people and some of you out there at.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Text line and messages me at the News Tribune, why
did the Seahawks give up a fourth round pick plus
a veteran starter for a middle linebacker?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Went on the same day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
From the same team, the Chiefs traded with the Titans
and got a three time All Pro wide receiver for
a fifth round pick that conditional that could become a
fourth if DeAndre Hopkins goes nuts with Patrick Mahomes and
Kansas City, And we.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The Seahawks have comp picks coming more than Kansas City does.
The Chiefs have only right now scheduled have one compensation pick.
Compensatory pick would be at the end of the draft,
at the end of round seven. The Seahawks currently have
them scheduled in rounds four, five, and six. Four for
losing Damian Lewis, five for losing Jordan Brooks in free
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agency to Miami, and six for losing Bobby Wagner in
free agency to Washington. They net lost six free agents
qualifying free agents by the NFL's comp pick system, and
they gained in signing including Dotson and Jerome Baker, But
the net loss of three of qualifying free agents for
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the Comppic formula means the Seahawks are owed three, and
depending on how a player has played and how much
money he receives in his contract determines how high that
compick is. And Damian Lewis, of all people, is netting
a fourth round compick right now for the Seahawks. That's
it's expected to be announced by the league in the spring.
So John Schneider's thinking is, we've already got a fourth
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round pick. It's gonna be the end of the round, yes,
but if we can tend for the playoffs, we're going
to have a twenty something pick on our own fourth
round pick for ten more picks.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We still got a fourth round pick. Ten picks or
so later, we'll give that up.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And a linebacker in Jerome Baker who is not fitting
in Mike McDonald's scheme. He's not stout enough. And by
the way, he's been off the field for most of
his time in Seattle because it was a hamstring issue
in a post risk surgery in the offseason. So to them,
it wasn't a steep price. The trick will be to
re sign Ernest Jones after his contract ends. His rookie
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deal that the Titans inherited and trade from the Rams
August twenty seventh ends after this season.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's got three million left on it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The Seahawks are picking up the eleven game pro ration
of that three million dollar salary, and then after that
he's due for a new deal. And you can bet
that John Schneider talked to Jones and his representatives and
his wife probably for that matter, before they made this
trader during it, to talk about signing him beyond this year.
You don't make this deal for a rental for eleven games.
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This is who Mike McDonald wants in the middle of
his defense for years to come. We'll see if that
actually happens. But Chris, the compensation for this, to me
is not nearly as high as it looks on paper.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'm with you, and I think when we play some
of the audio from Ernest, you're gonna hear some of
his answers, and I think one of the one that
stood out is he wants to make this a home
place for him. He wants to show that he's worth
the while, and he could be the linebacker for the future.
So that's something that I think is huge. And Mi
Donald has a vision of what his defense is going
to look like. I think Ernest might be in that
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discussion for the future.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You're gonna hear that next. Ernest Jones, the fourth your
new middle linebacker, you're new, not that he's this good yet,
your new Bobby Wagner. He's already talked to Wagner about it.
You're gonna talk about that. You're going to hear about
that next. On ninety three point three kJ RFM.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:38):
Welcome back The Greg Bellt Show with Christopher gidd rolls
on on a Washington Beef Commission football Friday. Part of
that football is Ernest Jones the fourth. He's your new
middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks. He's wearing number thirteen.
He comes from the Tennessee Titans. He was only there
for six games. He was with the Los Angeles Rams,
their middle linebacker. The Seahawks knew him well for three
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before the trade to Tennessee in August. He arrived in
Seattle yesterday, well actually yeah yesterday, about twelve thirty at
night early Thursday morning, and went straight onto the practice field.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
A few hours later.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He brought his wife, Tyra and their three month old
son in tow from Nashville.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I've been a father of three month olds.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I can only imagine packing up and saying, honey, we
got to go.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Just got traded. I'm going to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Our whole life's move and we got four hours to
catch a flight, go packing, packing plays, cribs, diaper bags.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So yeah, Ernest Jones had some stuff going on yesterday,
but he was out on the practice field when he
first stepped out, he took a knee in a long prayer,
silent thinking and prayer, and then came out onto the
field and began practice. Here's Ernest Jones the fourth and
he's well aware of the position he's stepping in Bobby
Wagner's legacy in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
How'd you find out about the trade and what was
your reaction?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yes, after meetings, they brought me into the room. GM
told me, you know that I was getting traded at Seattle.
For me being traded twice, you know, that was a
little shocker at first, But honestly, I'm thankful for the
opportunity that God has given me. I'm getting to come
to an organization that wants to win, loves to win.
They got the pieces right now to wins, so I'm
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excited to just add my talents to that.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Whate This lost like three bunch been like for you
from you know, starting the camp with the Rams and
getting traded Tennessee and now you're here.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
This has been a world wind just typical what it's like.
I guess to get traded but once, but you get
traded twice. Just trying to you know, piece everything together.
Whatever team of my own, making sure I'm ahead of
the playbook and doing my job. So yeah, that's what
it's been like for me, just working constantly.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's unusual you would be playing the same team back
to that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Is that also with.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The transition or is it boring to watch film again?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I think it definitely helps with the transition.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, you got a good idea, a great idea
of what they're gonna come out there and do. You
You just played them a couple of days ago, so
you're you're familiar with them. They're also familiar with you,
so you know, correct some wrongs that I you know,
had in that game.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
And then go out there and you know, help this
team win.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The time you put the same team two weeks tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Never never played Christian McCaffrey two weeks in the row though,
when he was with Carolina and then he got traded
to Sant France. So I've seen it, just didn't know
it was gonna be me.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
You played with Bobby Wagner a year now in Lay.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
You talked to him at all about him and Coandre Man.
They love this place, this is their forever home. Talking
with Bobby, he's He's excited, you know, he says, you know,
I'm gonna love it here and I and I feel
just that way. And Coandre was super excited for me.
Hated to, you know, see us go because we started
building a great relationship, but he was excited to know
this is a great place.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Because of Bobby just coming in here playing middle linebacker
for this team, I feel like a pretty special.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Spot, definitely Bobby's Bobby's one of the greatest of my books,
walking gold jacket right now.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
So you know, I want to come in. I want
to live up to the hats, to that high insurpass
it ernest.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What is it like when this year gets uprooted and
you got to go from one place to another.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Mentally, it's just mental battle. Just for me, we have
a three month old sign so the whole time, I'm
just thinking about my son and my wife sitting on
that plane. I don't want to put them through this again.
Even though you know, getting traded, you know it wasn't
always on me. I'm ready to go play football, so
I can go out here and show not only the Seahawks,
but show that I am what I say I am.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
What are you a dog?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's what you're getting getting somebody that's the leader. I'm
gonna go out there each and every week, put my
body on the line for my teammates, for this organization
and my family.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
That's a look ahead. And then you get the Rams
the week after. Yes, but I don't know if you
notice that already here.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
That's first thing I noticed. I noticed that y'all didn't
play them. So I get them twice too, So I'm excited.
No bad feelings, no hard feelings there. I just want
to go out there and play, play really good though, And.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's it using you similarly to the Rams. In the middle.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
It was different a lot of those sets, you know,
in the Rams, they do a lot of stuff where
they load one side. I'd get the running back one
on ones. It wasn't too much of that there. But yeah,
it was used to litz, used to you know, take
up you know, spaces, take up guards or whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Paron Donald's said that the Rams are your your defense
now and he retired and your two teams later.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Now, like you want this to be your team.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I do. I'd love to be in Seattle.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
My wife's happy, she's back into where there's a little
city vibe.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
So she's happy.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I'm good, and you know, I'm gonna do whatever I
can to you know, be on this team for the
long haul. If that's what you know, they see me
and fitting in from there, we you know, we work
out everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That last point is the most interesting one, because that's
what makes this trade makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Ten game rental.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Now that's not the trade doesn't quite make sense. But
Mike McDonald sees this as his fix for his run defense.
He talks about how Ernest Jones squares his shoulders to
the line of scrimmage in the hole, sheds blockers and
gets the ball carriers. That's what a middle linebackers job
is take on blockers and get the ball carriers before
they get seven eight yards in the secondary, get him
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when they're two or three. And there have been a
lot of seven and eight's against the Seattle defense already
in the run this season. Well we're getting I'm a dog.
Ernest Jones said, I want to show him who I am.
He said, he wants to do whatever. He's going to
do whatever I can to stay here.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
For the long haul.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So he's already got his mind made up that he
wants to be a Seahawk beyond this contract ending, and
the Seahawks wouldn't have made this trade if they didn't
think they could work that out and then he would
perform to a level that Mike McDonald would want him
in his centerpiece of his defense. So Ernest Jones is
now the new Bobby Wagner. It was Tyrrell Dotson, but
I think we can now look back and say he
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was miscast. He wasn't stout enough. He wasn't a full
time middle linebacker anyway in Buffalo. He wasn't a full
time player in Buffalo. He was a part time, fifty
percent snap guy who also did about half his snaps
at outside linebacker. Yesterday, Dotson talked about he thought he
had his best season.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of his four in the NFL now four and a
half as.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
An weak side inside linebacker with Buffalo last year, not
middle linebacker, and when they traded for him, Mike McDonald
and his coaching staff discussed whether to put him at
middle or to put him at weekside inside linebacker, and
then once they got jeroonn Baker, they decided to move
Dotson into middle linebacker. But that's not his natural position,
and we saw that in the first seven games of
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this season. Middle linebacker is Ernest Jones the fourth natural position,
as it was Bobby Wagner's. So he's the new Wagner.
He wants to take on that legacy. He's already talked
to Wagner's former Rams teammate about that.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wagner.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Tonyman's gonna love Seattle. But Chris get used to thirteen.
If it goes the way the trade, the way John
Schneider and Mike McDonald plan it to, Ernest Jones gonna
be in middle of that defense for a.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Lot longer than the last ten games of this season.
That's the hope.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's everything is new, and I think they got their
first new toy that they are really looking to build
this defense out of. He's put some good stuff on tape,
and I think the physical nature of him being able
to get into the run fits.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think that's what drew.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Mike McDonald's even more just a guy that's he can
bring some thump, he can bring some wood. So this
is going to be a there, I say, an audition
for the next few weeks to see, Okay, is this
the type of guy we want to roll with for
the next three to four years to be our middle
linebacker on the defense, and they're just going to move
Dotson over to the weak side and work from there.
But this is a huge opportunity and what better challenge
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than and going up against the Buffalo Bills as your
first matchup. Granted he played them last week, but you
get an opportunity to right your wrongs. As he kind
of alluded to in the interview with you guys yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He played all but one snap on the defense four
of the Titans in that thirty four to ten loss
for Tennessee. Tennessee's a bad team right now. They lost
in Orchard Park last week thirty four to ten. He
had five tackles, he had a quarterback hit, he had
a pass defense. We I don't think will know how
big of a difference Ernest Jones makes in this defense
until November seventeenth, when the Seahawks play in Santa Clair
against the forty nine Ers. The same forty nine Ers
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just went for two twenty eight with their third and
fourth string running backs here at Lumenfield on October tenth,
The same forty nine that have beaten Seattle six times
in a row because of dominating the line of screamings,
especially rushing offense against the Seahawks front. The value of
Ernest Jones We'll see if it shows up on November seventeen.
Now they have two games in a bye before they
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get there. But yeah, Chris's point, Buffalo's going to test
that too. They've got two running backs James Cook Ray Davis,
who are both going to be coming at them on Sunday,
and Josh Allen on quarterback lead and quarterback power.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You need middle linebackers.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
With what Hugh Millan noted, Jones has, it's quotes sand
in his pants, and he's got more sand than Terrell Dotson.
We'll see where difference makes they eat. You still need
defensive linemen that can keep blockers off your second level linebackers. Yes,
but when those blockers get there, they think they have
a guy now in Ernest Jones who can take them off.
They keep those blockers off of him, and he can
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shed those and take those blockers on as the ballcarrier arrives.
Here's the other thing about Ernest Jones. Right before he
got traded, the Titans had their BIB A couple of
weeks ago now, and it was about the time that
Hurricane Helene rolled through the southeast and devastated a lot
of his home area. He and his wife, Tyra are
high school sweethearts Waycross, Georgia, Ware County High School in
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wait Across, Georgia. During the bye week, he and his
wife went back to their hometown in Waitcross, Georgia, and
they found devastation everywhere. They found houses leveled, people without
running water, people without means to cook or eat. And
when they showed up, they bought four hundred plus meals
for four hundred plus people. Just whoever they saw started
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buying food for him and he won an NFL Players
Association Community Award for Week six of the NFL season
for that two weeks ago for going down and helping
people in his hometown of Waitcross, Georgia, devastrated by Hurricane Helene.
He will be a part of this community. If he
signs that multi year extension beyond this season, he will.
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His track record suggests that he will be very much
a part of the Seattle community. In addition to being
in the middle of the Seahawks defense. There's a lot
to like in the very first day, first impression of
Ernest Jones the fourth. We'll see Sunday how much we
can like him on the field. If you're a Seahawks
fan and tired to see him the Seahawks getting run
over on defense four nine, four to five one, and
tell him we do text on your first impressions of
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Ernest Jones the fourth. My coverage of him from yesterday
is on the News Tribune, the Newstrebating dot com, on
Twitter x at Gbell Seattle. You'll see videos of him
taking the field, of him kneeling in prayer before he
walked on jogged onto the field. He's got hair.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
He didn't have him braid.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It braided yesterday and it was everywhere that was noticeable.
And he's wearing number thirteen. He was wearing fifty four,
I believe for the Titans in fifty three. You're not
going to wear fifty four here in Seattle. But he's
wearing fifty three if I remember for the Rams, number thirteen,
now for the Seahawks four nine, foury five one, and
telling them we'll do text line. We'll read back your
text eleven thirty of your first impressions of Ernest Jones
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the fourth. Houp next College sports has changed, as you know,
and all the attention is on football, some on basketball,
and all the money the college football, especially at the
top level, is the cash that is coming in and
out of college football. But there are residual effects that
affect the sports that aren't football and basketball. And there
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are players getting cut from teams, losing scholarships mid semester.
That's happening right now. We'll talk about that next on
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are going to ask about where he thinks the direction
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capital of the Northwest. Ross Dellinger, a Yahoo Sports and
College Sports wrote a story today outlining what the changing
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landscape of college sports is beyond football and basketball. You've
probably if you know anything about college sports, you know
about the House Court case settlement that the NCAA reached
with its plaintiffs to avoid the try. They have agreed
to pay two point eight billion with a B and
backpay to athletes for representation and likeness and name image
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likeness type of things from ten years ago. They also
agreed to pay what will probably amount to about twenty
three twenty two to twenty three million dollars per school
Division I school per athletic department to pay with Atholic
department revenues players. But an unknown third tentacle to this
settlement is it is establishing roster caps on all sports.
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The trickle down effect of the agreement calls for to
increase revenues and to get max participation in their max
revenue sports. Scholarship limits for Division one FBS football are
going from eighty five to one hundred and five. These
changes are expected to take place in July.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, they got to pay.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
For that somewhere, and they're paying twenty two to twenty
three million to their players through the athletic department coffers.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now that they've never done before. So what are they doing.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
They're cutting sports and they're cappin rosters of other sports.
Ross Dellinger is already talking about I talked about that.
I teach in the Interclage Athletic department in the Master's
program of the College of Education at the University of Washington,
and I talked about how we have graduates who are
leaving the industry of college sports because their jobs are
getting eliminated in anticipation of athletic departments needing to cut costs.
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And that's the staff part. The student athlete part is
also being affected.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Already.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Players that have been recruited and promised scholarships or financial
aid partial or full are being told they're no longer there.
There are schools that used to carry thirty, say cross
country athletes who now are going to only be capped
at seventeen. Ross Dollinger talks about this in his story
It's on Yahoo dot Com, about these roster limits and
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the effect of it that are coming out of this settlement.
He talked to a beach volleyball recruit who committed to
a big Big twelve program for months was recently told
the sport no longer exists at that school. Imagine being
a high school player. This happened during the pandemic to
my son. Imagine being a high school player and told
you got a spot. Oh sorry, your spot doesn't exist anymore.
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Ik'd can't go get re recruited in high school? Is
high school or her in the beach volleyball case her
her high school career is over. She can't go re
recruited for a career. That's already happened at one SEC school.
Ross Ellinger reports h track and field athletes were cut
or pushed out over the summer. One Power Conference program
released all of their twenty twenty five men's swimming commitments,
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and in football, it's estimated that more than fifteen hundred
walk on players roughly twenty to thirty per team, will see.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Their spots cut. See you goodbye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Walk ons don't get paid scholarship money, but they still
eat the food, they still wear the gear.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They still cost money to have on the team.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Well, now that the football scholarships are going from eighty
five to one hundred and five, the walkout those are
walk on spots right now the roster limit is one
hundred and five. You have eighty five scholarships. Who are
those twenty guys? Those are walk guns no more.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
If you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
One hundred and five scholarships at the University of Washington
u dub's walkuns, there will.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Be no walk guns. They're gonna be scholarship players.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Dellinger reports quote in all the sixty eight Power Conference
schools are expected to eliminate at least three thousand roster
positions as athletic department administrators work to adhere to new
roster limitations, reallocate resources from lower tier to revenue generating sports.
And here's the segment that they hasn't even been talked
about approach yet Men and women's opportunities need to be
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balanced to comply with Title nine law. Nobody's even figured
that piece out yet. How is this all gonna matter
and comply with federal Title nine guidelines?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Number? Title nine is the legislation that, among.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Other things, it's really to give women voices and other
opportunities against discrimination on the campuses. But part of it
is that you have an equal number of sports opportunities,
mean an equal number of funded athletic opportunities for men
as you do women on a campus. So all of this,
No one thinks about this when they think House Settlement
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and twenty three million dollars and Michigan's and Ohio States
and Washington's and USC's.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Are going to pay their football players.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
No one's thinking about the divers, or the swimmers, or
the soccer players or the softball players, or the track players,
or the crew rowers. Until you're a parent or you're
one of those rowers and swimmers, then you're thinking about it.
When I worked at the University of Washington, what is
it now, eight years ago, ten years ago, the crew team.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Had like a hundred guys and gals on each women
and men's crew team. They didn't all row in the
varsity competition, but they were on the team. The track
team had one hundred and twenty five men and women
on each team. They only had fourteen scholars I remember
talking to Greg Metcalf, the head coach of Washington track
and field at the time. He had one hundred and
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twenty five athletes, he had only fourteen scholarships. Some got
five percent, some got two percent. Those are the spots
that are going away. Track teams aren't going to carry
one hundred people anymore, So.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Those people are just going to become regular students, or
they'll go to Division two or Division three that will
have the immediate effects of having to pay twenty three
million dollars that they don't have as part of this
House settlement for athletic department funds.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Here's the other trickle down to all this Chris, guess
who's still footing the bill to cover the delta for
all of this money the boosters and the donors and
the supporters of the athletic department. Jetfish comes out.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Dannie O'Neil read about this in the News Tribune yesterday
and his guest calling his weekly guest calling Jetfish, the
coach of Washington came out and said, we got to
raise more money. And piroit wait a minute, I thought
you went to the Big Ten because you're going to
get more revenue. And we've talked about this for six years.
Washington's going to have half the revenue of Indiana and
Ohio State and Michigan and the teams they're playing, because
that's the deal they in Oregon struck to get into
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the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
They're gonna get thirty million dollars the revenue year instead
of sixty million that everybody else is getting. So Jeff
Fishes is.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Banging the kettle. He wants to the coffers. He wants
mod like futures to pick up some of this slack.
It's a mess. And if you're in a high school
athlete or a recruited athlete, even if you have it
and right used to used to tell you get it
in writing sign a national letter intent. Well, guess what,
there are no nils anymore. The national letter intent is gone.
(35:30):
They have financial aid agreements that you can sign, and
you still have a signing day for those. The next
one is November thirteenth in the signing period for college sports.
But nil and signing days when you used to put
the hat on those are gone. Nils went away with
this agreement. So it was terrible for my son and
daughter getting recruited and then renigged on during COVID, and
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that was a factor beyond their control and even beyond
the coaches and athletic departments control. But to be one now,
holy cow, I can't even imagine that. Imagine being a
rower that was told, yeah, we got a spot for you. Oh,
your spot didn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Sorry. That's what college sports.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Is right now, all for chasing the top dollar for
football into a lesser extent basketball. All of that is
for that, the conferenory alignment, all of it is to
chase the television dollars and the revenues to max out revenue.
There's going to be a tipping point, Chris, where schools
are going to say enough, we're not doing this anymore.
Washington's on the wrong side of that. They've joined with
the Big ten, so they're in the haves, but the
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have nots and people like Stanford and cow and Washington
State until lesser extents that if you're not in the
big ten in the SEC, there's going to come a
point soon that the schools and administrators and presidents and
boosters are going to say enough, we're not doing this anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Four nine, four p.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Five one.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I'd be interested to hear of any of you who
might have family members, siblings, or even sons or daughters
who are caught up in this in high school sports
that are being recruited right no, because it's a mess.
Eleven o'clock Coming up next, We're gonna talk to Aaron
Levie Fox thirteen Sports about all things Seattle sports, Seahawks.
I'll talk about the Mariners, talked about the Huskies as well.
(37:12):
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starting tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We'll get to that in a minute. The Seahawks had
their new middle linebacker.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Debut at practice yesterday, but they're still without their star
wide receiver at practice two days before the Seahawks and
Bills play at Womenfield. The Crack and rallied late but
lost their fourth game of their five game home stand.
In college not just football, college sports, athletic departments are
now kicking players out of college sports. We'll talk about
(00:35):
the consequence of the recent House Court case settlement in
schools now having to pay players through athletic department revenues.
There are consequences to it that if you're not in
football and basketball, you're already feeling in a lot of schools.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
At ten thirty, we're going to hear for new linebacker
Ernest Jones fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He was very engaging.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yesterday, talked a lot more than just about football. At
twenty four, about to be twenty five year old with
a three month old son and a wife, has moved
twice in the last two months. You're gonna hear from him,
and I thought it was really interesting his appreciation for
Bobby Wagner's legacy. Here he knows he's stepping into the
same position Wagner played. Jones and Wagner were teammates with
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the Los Angeles Rams a couple of seasons ago. You'll
hear from Ernest Jones, the fourth, the new middle linebacker
for the Seahawks at ten thirty. At eleven o'clock, we're
we talk to Aaron Levine, a sports director for Fox
thirteen Television here in Seattle, about all things sports, but
chiefly about the Seahawks, probably the Huskies, probably the Sounders,
probably the NBA's returned to Seattle and again factor fiction
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Every day.
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At eleven thirty, we read back your text on the
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Farness at eleven forty five talks to us leading into
his show from twelve until three. Your headline's brought to
you by Frostbury Corslai choose chill Ernest Jones before it
is now is Seahawk.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
He's wearing number thirteen.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He's going to be the middle linebacker in the starting
lineup on Sunday against Buffalo. They moved Tyrrel Dotson, who
had been the middle linebacker over to the weak side
linebacker that had been Jerome Baker, but now Baker is
a Tennessee Titan in the trade for.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Ernest Jones this week.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Mike McDonald's is tired of run defense getting beat up,
and that's why Ernest Jones is here coaches players yesterday
talking about how Jones just squares his shoulders to the
hole and does his job as a middle linebacker taking
on blockers and ball carriers. It was an interesting discussion
with Jones, and you'll hear it at ten thirty. So
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the Seahawks thirty first in run defense last year, twenty
eighth this year, and that is why they gave up
a fourth round pick and a starter for Ernest Jones,
who is on a one year contract. He also talked
about that in what he wants his future to be
beyond that. He came back after not practice again yesterday.
He didn't practice Wednesday, either the offense corner of Ryan
(02:56):
Greb said after practice that Metcalf's going to try to play,
and he's looking good, is what Greb said. He was
undefined on what he's looking good at doing, supposedly training
and in the training room, but.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
He may give it a go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I would expect him to be listed as doubtful maybe
questionable at best today when the injury report comes out
at one pm. Trey Brown did not practice. He hasn't practiced.
The cornerback hasn't practiced out all this week. Riquollin has.
He's been a limited participant on each of the last
two days, but he didn't practice at all last week
when he missed the Atlanta game. He has been on
the field Wednesday and Thursday. It's trending toward Wreke Woland
playing and what that means is it's probably gonna be
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Josh job who has now four NFL starts in his
career in two years, opposite of Reke Wolan as the
outside corners with Devin Witherspoon inside against Josh Allen and
the Bills on Sunday. Of course, they started Neemia Pritchett
in his first NFL start the rookie fifth round pick
from Auburn. Pritchett and Job started in Atlanta. But now
Wolan is coming back, and I would assume that Job
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is going to stay opposite Wollan as the starter's outside again.
The injury report for the Seahawks comes out about one
one fifteen. I'll be out in renting to talk to
Mike McDonald about the injury situation later this afternoon. You
can read that at the Newstribune dot com. Last night,
the NFL season week began. Week eate began with the
Rams beating the Vikings thirty to twenty. Here come the
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Rams again, Matthew Stafford twenty five for thirty four with
four touchdown passes. Suddenly Los Angeles is three and four.
At the moment, they're tied with the Cardinals and the
forty nine Ers, all one game behind the Seahawks for
first place in the NFC West. The Rams have already
had there by. Arizona is playing at Miami and the
Dolphins announced today that tu Tungo Vola is going to start.
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Hasn't started since Week two with the concussion. He has
passed all the concussion protocols and Miami is going to
start him against Arizona at home on Sunday. In Washington,
Jayden Daniels practice today looked like he wasn't going to
play at all. He's got injured ribs. Now the commanders
are saying it could be a game time decision whether
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he plays against the Bears on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And Carol Line.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Another quarterback news, Andy Dalton doubtful to play Sunday at
Denver because of a thumb injury.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He got in a car accident this week.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So Bryce Young whether the Panthers won he or not,
it looks like he's going to start against the Broncos
on Sunday in Denver. And the NHL Cracking rallied from
down three to one against unbeaten Winnipeg at climbed Pledgerina
last night, tied at three to three late forced overtime,
but the Jets scored on a delayed penalty and ot
and won four to three. Seattle gets a point for
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that overtime loss and now four wins, three losses in
an overtime loss on the season. Maddy Beniers an encouraging
night for him, scored his first two goals of the season.
A great shot over the shoulder of Jets goaltender Connor
Halibek for the first goal for the cracking, and then
a deflection of Brenton Brandon Montor's close to the ice
shot with about three minutes left. The deflection tied the
game at three. Forced overtime. Lots of cracking turnovers last night,
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especially in the neutral zone trying to push the play
up the ice. Winnipeg took advantage of that for turnovers
and rushes the other way. Winnipeg's now seven to OH
in NHL's only seven OH team. As I mentioned the
crack in four to three and one, the five being
homestand ends tomorrow night against the Carolina Hurricane. Practice practice
pregame show with Mike Benton six point thirty puck drops
(06:13):
at seven, Everett Fitchew and out Cominski on the call
tomorrow night here on ninety three point three kJ RFM.
The World Series begins tonight Game one in Dodgers Stadium,
Yankees and Dodgers in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Game two will be there as well. This weekend I
mentioned the Sounders.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They begin the MLS Playoffs best of three first round
Monday night against Houston at Lumenfield Seattle's the four seed,
the Dynamo is the five. It goes Seattle, then Houston,
and if necessary, the third game would be back at
Lumenfield in Seattle. That thing takes like three weeks for
the first round of the MLS playoffs. College Footba already
mentioned Washington returning from its by playing the surprise team
(06:48):
in college football right now, the Big Ten leading, undefeated,
thirteenth rank Indiana Hoosiers, who do not have their starting quarterback.
We talked with the beat writer for The Indie Star yesterday,
Zach Austerman, about that. He thinks that Washington has an
advantage with their size at receiver in smaller defensive backs
for Indiana, I think they have an advantage if the
Huskies give the ball to Jonah Coleman More, especially in
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the red zone and on third down.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Nine am.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Kickoff tomorrow Washing at Indiana. Tony cast Cone cam Cleveland,
of course on the call in the pregame show with
Dave Softy More and the Husky comps five am.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I see they're at the duchess today, Dick is it
in Softy?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So I assume Softy's not gonna be in Bloomington tomorrow
for that one as he was Iowa City a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Washington State Cougars six and one.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
They're playing San Diego State seven thirty Saturday on CBS
Sports Network, Cable TV. Our Jessman McIntyre is already en
route the San Diego on the sideline of the Huskies
or the excuse me the Cougars radio broadcast tomorrow night
in San Diego. Tonight in college football, seventeenth rank Boise
State six and one is at UNLV.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The Rebels are six and one. Why does this matter, Well.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
The winner is going to get the inside track to
win the Mountain West. Of course, there's a Mount West
championship game, but the inside track to win that conference.
And if Boise State, especially if Boise State wins, are
already seventeenth RANC the Boise State wins that game, Chris,
they're probably gonna be the highest seed of a non
Power five conference winner and that gets you an automatic
bid into the college football playoff. So it could be
(08:20):
a chance for Boise State tonight to make a huge
step toward the college football Playoff. At UNLV. We were
going to talk more about this game in about an
hour and a half hint, hint, and you'll hear that
game tonight on ninety three point three KJRFM. Kickoff is
at seven thirty Boise State at UNLV Friday Night college football.
And the NBA has an open an investigation as to
why seventy six or star Joel Embiid is missing at
(08:44):
least the first three games of Philadelphia's season because of
whether his team is calling quote left knee management. Can
you imagine the NFL that they had knee management issues
to say he's got an injury and don't even play.
But this load management stuff's one thing when it's in
December or January. He got load management in the first
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three games of the season in the NBA. Now four nine,
four five. That's just another reason why you w on
the text line may not like the NBA or even
watch it anymore. All right, let's talk about Ernest Jones
fourth and what his role is gonna be. He's gonna
be the middle linebacker. That doesn't mean he's gonna be
the green dot calling the signals because they've already had
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the Seahawks have had Tyrell Dotson do that since spring.
So they are going to give keep the dot with
Dots at weakside inside linebacker playing next to Ernest Jones,
a new middle linebacker. So he's gonna be more coverage responsibility,
more outside, more tight ends, more in the flat for Dots,
and more open field play for Dots. And he talked
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about this yesterday. He did that in Buffalo. He was
about a fifty to fifty split guy between weak side
linebacker and middle linebacker for the Bills, and even then
he wasn't a full time player. He played about fifty
percent of the snaps last year for Buffalo. There are
a lot of people in Western New York with a
surprise about the contract the Seahawks gave him and the
fact they gave him the job at middle linebacker full time,
which he had never done before. This is the first
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time in his career Tyrrell Dotson has been in every
down middle linebacker calling a defensive signals and it's still
new to him. And it showed the Seahawks again. Twenty
eighth in the league against the rush, two hundred and
twenty eight yards allowed by the forty nine ers two
games ago, one fifty five by Atlanta who just stopped
running in the third quarter for some reason or that
game would have been closer. So that's why Ernest Jones
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is here to give them a new, more stout middle
linebacker and move Dotson back to his weeksidelnebacker position. Where
As Mike McDonald said, he has quote good tape, but
he'll keep the green dive. I mean, the green Doc
can be anywhere in the field. Julian Love when he
was a captain for the Giants a few years ago
before the Seahawks signed him before the twenty twenty three season,
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Julian Love was the green dot for the Giants at times.
You can move that around. It doesn't have to stay
with you. Only one player can have it at any
given time in a game. But the green Doc guy
who has the speaker helmet from the defense's play callers
on the sidelines or the press box, that can move
around within a game. But it's going to stay with
Dotson just a formiliarity's sake. And Ernest Jones has been
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a middle linebacker since he came in to the NFL
from South Carolina. For three seasons he was the Rams
middle linebacker. We talked about how Mike McDonald, the Seahawks coach,
said that he learned about Jones watching on television the
Super Bowl in February twenty twenty two Rams and Bengals
and said, who is this guy in the middle of
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the Rams defense making all the plays? This Ernest Jones
guy looks like Mike kind of middle linebacker. And McDonald said,
ever since that Super Bowl he has thought a lot
about Jones and how he might fit potentially in a
Mike McDonald's scheme. Then they had the chance to get
him for a fourth round pick. We also talked yesterday
worth mentioning again the compensation for this trade.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Some people and some of you out there at.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Text line and messages me at the News Tribune, why
did the Seahawks give up a fourth round pick plus
a veteran starter for a middle linebacker?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Went on the same day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
From the same team, the Chiefs traded with the Titans
and got a three time All Pro wide receiver for
a fifth round pick that conditional that could become a
fourth if DeAndre Hopkins goes nuts with Patrick Mahomes and
Kansas City, And we.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The Seahawks have comp picks coming more than Kansas City does.
The Chiefs have only right now scheduled have one compensation pick.
Compensatory pick would be at the end of the draft,
at the end of round seven. The Seahawks currently have
them scheduled in rounds four, five, and six. Four for
losing Damian Lewis, five for losing Jordan Brooks in free
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agency to Miami, and six for losing Bobby Wagner in
free agency to Washington. They net lost six free agents
qualifying free agents by the NFL's comp pick system, and
they gained in signing including Dotson and Jerome Baker, But
the net loss of three of qualifying free agents for
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the Comppic formula means the Seahawks are owed three, and
depending on how a player has played and how much
money he receives in his contract determines how high that
compick is. And Damian Lewis, of all people, is netting
a fourth round compick right now for the Seahawks. That's
it's expected to be announced by the league in the spring.
So John Schneider's thinking is, we've already got a fourth
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round pick. It's gonna be the end of the round, yes,
but if we can tend for the playoffs, we're going
to have a twenty something pick on our own fourth
round pick for ten more picks.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
We still got a fourth round pick. Ten picks or
so later, we'll give that up.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And a linebacker in Jerome Baker who is not fitting
in Mike McDonald's scheme. He's not stout enough. And by
the way, he's been off the field for most of
his time in Seattle because it was a hamstring issue
in a post risk surgery in the offseason. So to them,
it wasn't a steep price. The trick will be to
re sign Ernest Jones after his contract ends. His rookie
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deal that the Titans inherited and trade from the Rams
August twenty seventh ends after this season.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's got three million left on it.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The Seahawks are picking up the eleven game pro ration
of that three million dollar salary, and then after that
he's due for a new deal. And you can bet
that John Schneider talked to Jones and his representatives and
his wife probably for that matter, before they made this
trader during it, to talk about signing him beyond this year.
You don't make this deal for a rental for eleven games.
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This is who Mike McDonald wants in the middle of
his defense for years to come. We'll see if that
actually happens. But Chris, the compensation for this, to me
is not nearly as high as it looks on paper.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'm with you, and I think when we play some
of the audio from Ernest, you're gonna hear some of
his answers, and I think one of the one that
stood out is he wants to make this a home
place for him. He wants to show that he's worth
the while, and he could be the linebacker for the future.
So that's something that I think is huge. And Mi
Donald has a vision of what his defense is going
to look like. I think Ernest might be in that
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discussion for the future.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You're gonna hear that next. Ernest Jones, the fourth your
new middle linebacker, you're new, not that he's this good yet,
your new Bobby Wagner. He's already talked to Wagner about it.
You're gonna talk about that. You're going to hear about
that next. On ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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Speaker 1 (15:38):
Welcome back The Greg Bellt Show with Christopher gidd rolls
on on a Washington Beef Commission football Friday. Part of
that football is Ernest Jones the fourth. He's your new
middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks. He's wearing number thirteen.
He comes from the Tennessee Titans. He was only there
for six games. He was with the Los Angeles Rams,
their middle linebacker. The Seahawks knew him well for three
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before the trade to Tennessee in August. He arrived in
Seattle yesterday, well actually yeah yesterday, about twelve thirty at
night early Thursday morning, and went straight onto the practice field.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
A few hours later.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He brought his wife, Tyra and their three month old
son in tow from Nashville.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I've been a father of three month olds.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I can only imagine packing up and saying, honey, we
got to go.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Just got traded. I'm going to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Our whole life's move and we got four hours to
catch a flight, go packing, packing plays, cribs, diaper bags.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
So yeah, Ernest Jones had some stuff going on yesterday,
but he was out on the practice field when he
first stepped out, he took a knee in a long prayer,
silent thinking and prayer, and then came out onto the
field and began practice. Here's Ernest Jones the fourth and
he's well aware of the position he's stepping in Bobby
Wagner's legacy in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
How'd you find out about the trade and what was
your reaction?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yes, after meetings, they brought me into the room. GM
told me, you know that I was getting traded at Seattle.
For me being traded twice, you know, that was a
little shocker at first, But honestly, I'm thankful for the
opportunity that God has given me. I'm getting to come
to an organization that wants to win, loves to win.
They got the pieces right now to wins, so I'm
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excited to just add my talents to that.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Whate This lost like three bunch been like for you
from you know, starting the camp with the Rams and
getting traded Tennessee and now you're here.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
This has been a world wind just typical what it's like.
I guess to get traded but once, but you get
traded twice. Just trying to you know, piece everything together.
Whatever team of my own, making sure I'm ahead of
the playbook and doing my job. So yeah, that's what
it's been like for me, just working constantly.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's unusual you would be playing the same team back
to that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Is that also with.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The transition or is it boring to watch film again?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I think it definitely helps with the transition.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
You know, you got a good idea, a great idea
of what they're gonna come out there and do. You
You just played them a couple of days ago, so
you're you're familiar with them. They're also familiar with you,
so you know, correct some wrongs that I you know,
had in that game.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
And then go out there and you know, help this
team win.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The time you put the same team two weeks tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Never never played Christian McCaffrey two weeks in the row though,
when he was with Carolina and then he got traded
to Sant France. So I've seen it, just didn't know
it was gonna be me.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
You played with Bobby Wagner a year now in Lay.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
You talked to him at all about him and Coandre Man.
They love this place, this is their forever home. Talking
with Bobby, he's He's excited, you know, he says, you know,
I'm gonna love it here and I and I feel
just that way. And Coandre was super excited for me.
Hated to, you know, see us go because we started
building a great relationship, but he was excited to know
this is a great place.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Because of Bobby just coming in here playing middle linebacker
for this team, I feel like a pretty special.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Spot, definitely Bobby's Bobby's one of the greatest of my books,
walking gold jacket right now.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
So you know, I want to come in. I want
to live up to the hats, to that high insurpass
it ernest.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What is it like when this year gets uprooted and
you got to go from one place to another.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Mentally, it's just mental battle. Just for me, we have
a three month old sign so the whole time, I'm
just thinking about my son and my wife sitting on
that plane. I don't want to put them through this again.
Even though you know, getting traded, you know it wasn't
always on me. I'm ready to go play football, so
I can go out here and show not only the Seahawks,
but show that I am what I say I am.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
What are you a dog?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
That's what you're getting getting somebody that's the leader. I'm
gonna go out there each and every week, put my
body on the line for my teammates, for this organization
and my family.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
That's a look ahead. And then you get the Rams
the week after. Yes, but I don't know if you
notice that already here.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I did. I did.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
That's first thing I noticed. I noticed that y'all didn't
play them. So I get them twice too, So I'm excited.
No bad feelings, no hard feelings there. I just want
to go out there and play, play really good though, And.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's it using you similarly to the Rams. In the middle.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
It was different a lot of those sets, you know,
in the Rams, they do a lot of stuff where
they load one side. I'd get the running back one
on ones. It wasn't too much of that there. But yeah,
it was used to litz, used to you know, take
up you know, spaces, take up guards or whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Paron Donald's said that the Rams are your your defense
now and he retired and your two teams later.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Now, like you want this to be your team.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I do. I'd love to be in Seattle.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
My wife's happy, she's back into where there's a little
city vibe.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
So she's happy.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
I'm good, and you know, I'm gonna do whatever I
can to you know, be on this team for the
long haul. If that's what you know, they see me
and fitting in from there, we you know, we work
out everything else.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That last point is the most interesting one, because that's
what makes this trade makes sense.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Ten game rental.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Now that's not the trade doesn't quite make sense. But
Mike McDonald sees this as his fix for his run defense.
He talks about how Ernest Jones squares his shoulders to
the line of scrimmage in the hole, sheds blockers and
gets the ball carriers. That's what a middle linebackers job
is take on blockers and get the ball carriers before
they get seven eight yards in the secondary, get him
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when they're two or three. And there have been a
lot of seven and eight's against the Seattle defense already
in the run this season. Well we're getting I'm a dog.
Ernest Jones said, I want to show him who I am.
He said, he wants to do whatever. He's going to
do whatever I can to stay here.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
For the long haul.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So he's already got his mind made up that he
wants to be a Seahawk beyond this contract ending, and
the Seahawks wouldn't have made this trade if they didn't
think they could work that out and then he would
perform to a level that Mike McDonald would want him
in his centerpiece of his defense. So Ernest Jones is
now the new Bobby Wagner. It was Tyrrell Dotson, but
I think we can now look back and say he
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was miscast. He wasn't stout enough. He wasn't a full
time middle linebacker anyway in Buffalo. He wasn't a full
time player in Buffalo. He was a part time, fifty
percent snap guy who also did about half his snaps
at outside linebacker. Yesterday, Dotson talked about he thought he
had his best season.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of his four in the NFL now four and a
half as.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
An weak side inside linebacker with Buffalo last year, not
middle linebacker, and when they traded for him, Mike McDonald
and his coaching staff discussed whether to put him at
middle or to put him at weekside inside linebacker, and
then once they got jeroonn Baker, they decided to move
Dotson into middle linebacker. But that's not his natural position,
and we saw that in the first seven games of
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this season. Middle linebacker is Ernest Jones the fourth natural position,
as it was Bobby Wagner's. So he's the new Wagner.
He wants to take on that legacy. He's already talked
to Wagner's former Rams teammate about that.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wagner.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Tonyman's gonna love Seattle. But Chris get used to thirteen.
If it goes the way the trade, the way John
Schneider and Mike McDonald plan it to, Ernest Jones gonna
be in middle of that defense for a.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Lot longer than the last ten games of this season.
That's the hope.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's everything is new, and I think they got their
first new toy that they are really looking to build
this defense out of. He's put some good stuff on tape,
and I think the physical nature of him being able
to get into the run fits.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think that's what drew.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Mike McDonald's even more just a guy that's he can
bring some thump, he can bring some wood. So this
is going to be a there, I say, an audition
for the next few weeks to see, Okay, is this
the type of guy we want to roll with for
the next three to four years to be our middle
linebacker on the defense, and they're just going to move
Dotson over to the weak side and work from there.
But this is a huge opportunity and what better challenge
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than and going up against the Buffalo Bills as your
first matchup. Granted he played them last week, but you
get an opportunity to right your wrongs. As he kind
of alluded to in the interview with you guys yesterday.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
He played all but one snap on the defense four
of the Titans in that thirty four to ten loss
for Tennessee. Tennessee's a bad team right now. They lost
in Orchard Park last week thirty four to ten. He
had five tackles, he had a quarterback hit, he had
a pass defense. We I don't think will know how
big of a difference Ernest Jones makes in this defense
until November seventeenth, when the Seahawks play in Santa Clair
against the forty nine Ers. The same forty nine Ers
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just went for two twenty eight with their third and
fourth string running backs here at Lumenfield on October tenth,
The same forty nine that have beaten Seattle six times
in a row because of dominating the line of screamings,
especially rushing offense against the Seahawks front. The value of
Ernest Jones We'll see if it shows up on November seventeen.
Now they have two games in a bye before they
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get there. But yeah, Chris's point, Buffalo's going to test
that too. They've got two running backs James Cook Ray Davis,
who are both going to be coming at them on Sunday,
and Josh Allen on quarterback lead and quarterback power.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You need middle linebackers.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
With what Hugh Millan noted, Jones has, it's quotes sand
in his pants, and he's got more sand than Terrell Dotson.
We'll see where difference makes they eat. You still need
defensive linemen that can keep blockers off your second level linebackers. Yes,
but when those blockers get there, they think they have
a guy now in Ernest Jones who can take them off.
They keep those blockers off of him, and he can
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shed those and take those blockers on as the ballcarrier arrives.
Here's the other thing about Ernest Jones. Right before he
got traded, the Titans had their BIB A couple of
weeks ago now, and it was about the time that
Hurricane Helene rolled through the southeast and devastated a lot
of his home area. He and his wife, Tyra are
high school sweethearts Waycross, Georgia, Ware County High School in
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wait Across, Georgia. During the bye week, he and his
wife went back to their hometown in Waitcross, Georgia, and
they found devastation everywhere. They found houses leveled, people without
running water, people without means to cook or eat. And
when they showed up, they bought four hundred plus meals
for four hundred plus people. Just whoever they saw started
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buying food for him and he won an NFL Players
Association Community Award for Week six of the NFL season
for that two weeks ago for going down and helping
people in his hometown of Waitcross, Georgia, devastrated by Hurricane Helene.
He will be a part of this community. If he
signs that multi year extension beyond this season, he will.
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His track record suggests that he will be very much
a part of the Seattle community. In addition to being
in the middle of the Seahawks defense. There's a lot
to like in the very first day, first impression of
Ernest Jones the fourth. We'll see Sunday how much we
can like him on the field. If you're a Seahawks
fan and tired to see him the Seahawks getting run
over on defense four nine, four to five one, and
tell him we do text on your first impressions of
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Ernest Jones the fourth. My coverage of him from yesterday
is on the News Tribune, the Newstrebating dot com, on
Twitter x at Gbell Seattle. You'll see videos of him
taking the field, of him kneeling in prayer before he
walked on jogged onto the field. He's got hair.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
He didn't have him braid.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It braided yesterday and it was everywhere that was noticeable.
And he's wearing number thirteen. He was wearing fifty four,
I believe for the Titans in fifty three. You're not
going to wear fifty four here in Seattle. But he's
wearing fifty three if I remember for the Rams, number thirteen,
now for the Seahawks four nine, foury five one, and
telling them we'll do text line. We'll read back your
text eleven thirty of your first impressions of Ernest Jones
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the fourth. Houp next College sports has changed, as you know,
and all the attention is on football, some on basketball,
and all the money the college football, especially at the
top level, is the cash that is coming in and
out of college football. But there are residual effects that
affect the sports that aren't football and basketball. And there
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are players getting cut from teams, losing scholarships mid semester.
That's happening right now. We'll talk about that next on
ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
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Speaker 1 (27:37):
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capital of the Northwest. Ross Dellinger, a Yahoo Sports and
College Sports wrote a story today outlining what the changing
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landscape of college sports is beyond football and basketball. You've
probably if you know anything about college sports, you know
about the House Court case settlement that the NCAA reached
with its plaintiffs to avoid the try. They have agreed
to pay two point eight billion with a B and
backpay to athletes for representation and likeness and name image
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likeness type of things from ten years ago. They also
agreed to pay what will probably amount to about twenty
three twenty two to twenty three million dollars per school
Division I school per athletic department to pay with Atholic
department revenues players. But an unknown third tentacle to this
settlement is it is establishing roster caps on all sports.
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The trickle down effect of the agreement calls for to
increase revenues and to get max participation in their max
revenue sports. Scholarship limits for Division one FBS football are
going from eighty five to one hundred and five. These
changes are expected to take place in July.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well, they got to pay.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
For that somewhere, and they're paying twenty two to twenty
three million to their players through the athletic department coffers.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now that they've never done before. So what are they doing.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
They're cutting sports and they're cappin rosters of other sports.
Ross Dellinger is already talking about I talked about that.
I teach in the Interclage Athletic department in the Master's
program of the College of Education at the University of Washington,
and I talked about how we have graduates who are
leaving the industry of college sports because their jobs are
getting eliminated in anticipation of athletic departments needing to cut costs.
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And that's the staff part. The student athlete part is
also being affected.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Already.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Players that have been recruited and promised scholarships or financial
aid partial or full are being told they're no longer there.
There are schools that used to carry thirty, say cross
country athletes who now are going to only be capped
at seventeen. Ross Dollinger talks about this in his story
It's on Yahoo dot Com, about these roster limits and
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the effect of it that are coming out of this settlement.
He talked to a beach volleyball recruit who committed to
a big Big twelve program for months was recently told
the sport no longer exists at that school. Imagine being
a high school player. This happened during the pandemic to
my son. Imagine being a high school player and told
you got a spot. Oh sorry, your spot doesn't exist anymore.
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Ik'd can't go get re recruited in high school? Is
high school or her in the beach volleyball case her
her high school career is over. She can't go re
recruited for a career. That's already happened at one SEC school.
Ross Ellinger reports h track and field athletes were cut
or pushed out over the summer. One Power Conference program
released all of their twenty twenty five men's swimming commitments,
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and in football, it's estimated that more than fifteen hundred
walk on players roughly twenty to thirty per team, will see.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Their spots cut. See you goodbye. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Walk ons don't get paid scholarship money, but they still
eat the food, they still wear the gear.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They still cost money to have on the team.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Well, now that the football scholarships are going from eighty
five to one hundred and five, the walkout those are
walk on spots right now the roster limit is one
hundred and five. You have eighty five scholarships. Who are
those twenty guys? Those are walk guns no more.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
If you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
One hundred and five scholarships at the University of Washington
u dub's walkuns, there will.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Be no walk guns. They're gonna be scholarship players.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Dellinger reports quote in all the sixty eight Power Conference
schools are expected to eliminate at least three thousand roster
positions as athletic department administrators work to adhere to new
roster limitations, reallocate resources from lower tier to revenue generating sports.
And here's the segment that they hasn't even been talked
about approach yet Men and women's opportunities need to be
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balanced to comply with Title nine law. Nobody's even figured
that piece out yet. How is this all gonna matter
and comply with federal Title nine guidelines?
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Number? Title nine is the legislation that, among.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Other things, it's really to give women voices and other
opportunities against discrimination on the campuses. But part of it
is that you have an equal number of sports opportunities,
mean an equal number of funded athletic opportunities for men
as you do women on a campus. So all of this,
No one thinks about this when they think House Settlement
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and twenty three million dollars and Michigan's and Ohio States
and Washington's and USC's.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Are going to pay their football players.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
No one's thinking about the divers, or the swimmers, or
the soccer players or the softball players, or the track players,
or the crew rowers. Until you're a parent or you're
one of those rowers and swimmers, then you're thinking about it.
When I worked at the University of Washington, what is
it now, eight years ago, ten years ago, the crew team.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Had like a hundred guys and gals on each women
and men's crew team. They didn't all row in the
varsity competition, but they were on the team. The track
team had one hundred and twenty five men and women
on each team. They only had fourteen scholars I remember
talking to Greg Metcalf, the head coach of Washington track
and field at the time. He had one hundred and
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twenty five athletes, he had only fourteen scholarships. Some got
five percent, some got two percent. Those are the spots
that are going away. Track teams aren't going to carry
one hundred people anymore, So.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Those people are just going to become regular students, or
they'll go to Division two or Division three that will
have the immediate effects of having to pay twenty three
million dollars that they don't have as part of this
House settlement for athletic department funds.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Here's the other trickle down to all this Chris, guess
who's still footing the bill to cover the delta for
all of this money the boosters and the donors and
the supporters of the athletic department. Jetfish comes out.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Dannie O'Neil read about this in the News Tribune yesterday
and his guest calling his weekly guest calling Jetfish, the
coach of Washington came out and said, we got to
raise more money. And piroit wait a minute, I thought
you went to the Big Ten because you're going to
get more revenue. And we've talked about this for six years.
Washington's going to have half the revenue of Indiana and
Ohio State and Michigan and the teams they're playing, because
that's the deal they in Oregon struck to get into
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the Big Ten.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
They're gonna get thirty million dollars the revenue year instead
of sixty million that everybody else is getting. So Jeff
Fishes is.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Banging the kettle. He wants to the coffers. He wants
mod like futures to pick up some of this slack.
It's a mess. And if you're in a high school
athlete or a recruited athlete, even if you have it
and right used to used to tell you get it
in writing sign a national letter intent. Well, guess what,
there are no nils anymore. The national letter intent is gone.
(35:30):
They have financial aid agreements that you can sign, and
you still have a signing day for those. The next
one is November thirteenth in the signing period for college sports.
But nil and signing days when you used to put
the hat on those are gone. Nils went away with
this agreement. So it was terrible for my son and
daughter getting recruited and then renigged on during COVID, and
(35:53):
that was a factor beyond their control and even beyond
the coaches and athletic departments control. But to be one now,
holy cow, I can't even imagine that. Imagine being a
rower that was told, yeah, we got a spot for you. Oh,
your spot didn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Sorry. That's what college sports.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Is right now, all for chasing the top dollar for
football into a lesser extent basketball. All of that is
for that, the conferenory alignment, all of it is to
chase the television dollars and the revenues to max out revenue.
There's going to be a tipping point, Chris, where schools
are going to say enough, we're not doing this anymore.
Washington's on the wrong side of that. They've joined with
the Big ten, so they're in the haves, but the
(36:34):
have nots and people like Stanford and cow and Washington
State until lesser extents that if you're not in the
big ten in the SEC, there's going to come a
point soon that the schools and administrators and presidents and
boosters are going to say enough, we're not doing this anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Four nine, four p.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Five one.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I'd be interested to hear of any of you who
might have family members, siblings, or even sons or daughters
who are caught up in this in high school sports
that are being recruited right no, because it's a mess.
Eleven o'clock Coming up next, We're gonna talk to Aaron
Levie Fox thirteen Sports about all things Seattle sports, Seahawks.
I'll talk about the Mariners, talked about the Huskies as well.
(37:12):
We'll talk to Aaron Levine Stanford Grad next. Eleven thirty
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