November 14, 2025 • 30 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to some Fun with Audio clips from the week, discuss Sunday’s game between the Seahawks and Rams plus stakes of the game, then hear Dick’s conversation with new Storm Head Coach Sonia Raman.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's now time for Softy in Dig's one with audio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Jimmy Gaunt st Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now let's have some fun with audio. All right, here
we go.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Big Friday Night continues right here on ninety three three.
kJ arfm don't forget we got husky basketball against the Koogs.
Baby the Post and McCoy era has begun in Pullman,
was that what it was?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Era?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was an era? It was eighteen months, but it's
no longer an era because it's done and have.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
To be before it's an era. That's a good question.
What is the definition? Look it up. I think it's
more than eighteen months, do you think so?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't know, man, I don't think there really is
a time restriction on an era.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Definition of an era?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
How long does an era have to last before it
is officially an era? A long and distinct period is
eighteen months? Long and distinct?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
HEYI says hundreds of millions of years? So I mean
maybe Pete Carroll never had an era. E No, my
Congres never had an era. Bluke Panella never had an era,
and you know who else never had an era? You
and me we don't exist. We never did, We never
took place.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It also says subjective period defined by significant events lasting
anywhere from a few years to century.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So I don't think there were a lot of significant events.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That was This really sounds like the kind of conversation
that we should have with Hugh by the way on
the ear, this is right up his freaking.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hour would take an hour and a half. Take an era,
Diane by the way, fane, this type of conversation. God,
why do you do that to me?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
All right, here we go, headlines, I'm sorry, headlines, fun
will audio, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
What's that? Dick? All right, let's start with number one there.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Mugger Justin Fields had another bad game last night as
the Jets lost to the Patriots twenty seven to fourteen.
On Sportsnet New York's postgame show, former Jets guard Willie
Colon or is it Cologne ripping Fields and head coat
coach Aaron Glenn for playing him at all.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The Aaron Glenn is going to sit up here and
talk about how he needs to watch the tape. You
don't need to watch anything. Justin Field's not the NFL
quarterback Like let's just let's just be honest and you
sit You can't sit here and tell your team and
before games want them to rally and want them to
give you all they got when you're not giving your
team everything they need to be successful. I mean, he
she shouldn't have played in the second half. If I'm
sitting in that locker room and he's talking to us
and he's talking about what we should do, I'm like, no,
(02:25):
what should you have done?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Then? What I should have done? Because the tape don't lie.
I'm on the field.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
We watched miss throws bad mechanics, he doesn't trust his feet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's not the NFL.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You gotta see it and go, and it's just it's
it's redundant.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Justin Fields is thirtieth in the NFL among qualifying quarterbacks
in QBR with thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And who's right behind Justin Fields and.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
QBR by the way, Russell Wilson Geno Smith Smith beautiful.
I saw you know who's dead last in the NFL
and QBR who the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Cam Ward?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I saw a stat that I had to look up
because I didn't believe it when I saw it on television. Yeah,
Justin Fields has forty seven fumbles. Wow, what forty seven
career fumble career?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I thought you meant like this year. It's not like
he's been around. He's been around for four seasons. But still,
I mean forty seven and a half a year versus
forty seven and four years. I mean, that's a lot.
That's a lot of fumbles. Man, there is no I
just can't believe how bad that. What is the deal
with the Jets?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's just amazing. They just cannot get a freaking break. Well, listen,
I think he's right. I think it's time for the
Jets to do something else. But let's be honest with you.
The next Jets starting quarterback, whatever poor bastard wins that job,
is not on the roster right now. It ain't gonna
be Justin Fields, ain't gonna be Tyrod Taylor or whoever
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it is. And frankly, for the Jets, there's no help
in the draft.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Anyway this year. But the Jets are dumb enough to
reach for. I don't know what they should expect the
rest of the way.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They just got rid of maybe two of their top
five players, and Quinn Williams and Sauce Gardners. So they
are sucking for somebody. I don't know who it is,
but they're sucking for someone. All right, Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The Celtics Sixers game in Philly earlier this week was
called by Mike Turrico for NBC. During the game, a
fan seated behind Tarrico continued to berate the referees for
bad calls. So in the fourth quarter, Mike decided to
turn around and talk to the loud fan, Simon from.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Boston foul and transition, well, that it's not the Philly
bench bench, just a fan behind him who knows the rules.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You agree, he knows the gather what's your name? Michael
Michael went hometown Michael Michael's Motion City right behind.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He was like that in the business, you like to
have the natural sounds. I feel like that in Philly
it's it was a little dangerous. So it's just who said,
you know you were in trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I was gonna say, it's lucky it wasn't worse with
what leaked out over TV. That was the cleanest Philly
fan I think I've ever heard. What was the score
of that game? By the way, you remember the score
was very close?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Okay, very close, because that kind of seems like the
kind of thing a guy would do during a blowout,
by the way, right, not during a close game.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I felt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You know who did a great job over the weekend
was Harlean two reasons. Why did I tell you this?
By the way, he had a migraine during the game,
had a migraine during the game on Sunday, which nobody
figured that out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Nobody even knew that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And then number two was a blowout and he was
able to fill it with some pretty exciting stuff for
the second half.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good for him. It was a one nine one away game.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Do you have when you do a storm game and
there's an ass kicking? Do you have like a book
of stories you can read on the air? Poems, jokes, recipes,
the movie record.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't mind the blowouts nearly as much as I
mind the reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Just the incessant reviews.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
In the last three and four minutes of the game,
that each one of them take two and a half minutes,
and basically at least like going to radio show mode.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We literally do like a radio segment.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, while these rests are spending two and a half
minutes looking at a TV monitor, the.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Storm up on the sparks by eighty here in the
fourth quarter, Let's talk about my grandmother's eggs plant parmesan recipe.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
San Diego eliminating Portland from the MLS playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, a four to nothing beat down to the Timbers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, Jackson put this in here, by the way,
because he hates the Timbers. I'm all Pellegrino, I like
teens scoring for it, not the water scoring for San
Diego in the seventeenth minute, but then got leveled by.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
A Portland player.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
In an interview this week, Pellegrino was asked about getting.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Hit he scored for first all Portland defenders into Globo
his body into you Andy.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Do you feel like there's any.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Place that in Again, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We are onto the next one, and day are going
to contam to have a holidays. I couldn't hear a
word he said. We're heading on it. He doesn't care.
On the next one, and they're going to have their holidays. Okay,
and don't. I'll be honest with you, Dick. I have
no response to that whatsoever. That was a Jackson felt
edition right there if I have ever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Heard, well, first of all, the guy sounds like he's
five hundred feet away, you know, it's like he's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Over here in the core. What was the exact quote again, Dick?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He said, he said, we're on to the next one
one and they're having a holidayiday.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's what I heard, Jackson. What do you do it? Hey, Dick?
Did you happen to hear that that day? What's that?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Last week, Cowboy defensive end Markshawn Neeland was found dead
from a self inflicted gunshot. The suicide shocked the football world,
including Dallas head coach Brian Schottenheimer, who reflected on Neland's
life at a press conference on Wednesday and talked about
setting up a fund for his unborn child and girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Off for my condolences to you know, Marshawn's family, Catalina,
his girlfriend. We had an opportunity last night to celebrate
Marshawn's life, tell some stories, share, laugh, cry. My heart
is heavy, Our team's heart is heavy. We don't move
(08:25):
on but we do move forward. We're going to honor
Marshawan his family a number of different ways. The organization
that's been amazing, you know, just we've you know, started
the Marshawn Neeland Memorial Fund where we can all give
and support Catalina, and uh, she's pregnant and so we
(08:48):
want to make sure she's taken care of and the
baby's taken care of for the rest of their lives.
Our guys are very it's very important to them and
to us.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's Bertle story.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But I mean, good for them, man, I mean, they
just want to make sure that, you know, she never
has to worry ever again, you know. And I think
it's fantastic. I think it's a terrible, terrible tragedy that
hopefully will have I mean, it's hard to even use
the word silver lining right when something like that happens.
But for them to step up the way, guys, imagine
if this happened to one of our guys in Seattle, right,
(09:22):
I mean, pick whatever name you want, but just imagine
if you read about a cracking player or a Mariner player,
or a Seahawk player something like this, Like remember the
Mike Fryar story back in the day right the car accident.
I think Brian Blade was involved in that somehow, some way,
if I'm not mistaken, but you know, he was paralyzed
and then eventually passed away. Curtis Williams, all of us
(09:43):
were there at Stanford in that rainstorm the night Curtis
broke his neck and you know, eight nine months later
he was gone. But this is during the season one
of your players commits suicide, and it's I don't even
know how to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Man horrible.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, I mean I I could just respond at the
end of that with the fund they're setting up, that is,
that's fantastic, and that his teammates, all of them are millionaires,
are going to make sure that his girlfriend and baby
are taking care of all.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Right, let's get one more. Uh hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
If?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Paul fine Baum ESPN talking about South Florida and how
they don't belong in his mind whatsoever in the latest
college football playoff rankings.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I am okay with that, doggie. What I'm not okay
with is your ridiculous statement from a minute ago. I mean,
what is wrong with this country when let's let's put
a couple of people over here in Let's put a
couple of people. What about putting the best in? I
don't see major League Baseball. I don't see the NFL
going Ah, the Chiefs, they've been there too many times.
Let's let's let's put the Patriots in. I mean, doggie,
(10:53):
this is about to be This is supposed to be
about excellent, not about being fair. This is not the
little leagues where we have a second, third, fourth, and
fifth place trophy. This should be the best.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's already a convoluted.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
System because we let the Group of whatever in the
Group of five with South Florida, and they have no
business that that conference, that division really has no business playing.
That's like letting the TRIAA best team in to the
Major league playoffs. It doesn't happen in any other sport.
But for you to say, oh, the SEC has too
many teams in and this and that is just patently ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I one hundred percent agreed with Paul Feinbaum. It used
to be college football used to be separate from professional sports,
and so it was okay to be regionalized and okay
to let a conference champion in from all these conference
champions from all these conferences.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It is no longer an amateur sport.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
This is a professional sport, and only the best twelve
teams in college football should be allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, I think, I think in my world, I think
what you do is you take the Big Ten, the
Big Twelve, the ACC, in the SEC, and you say, okay,
let's have a is it twelve team tournament, eight team tournament,
whatever it is that you decide to do. Right, Uh,
maybe just take the top three teams from each conference period,
(12:17):
end of story.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, then that hurts the The SEC and the Big
Ten were clearly better than.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I don't care. I don't care, but don't you want
the best team? If you want to have, then get
rid of the Big twelve in the ACC. And because
if you want structure, thank you. You have to have structure,
because you could have teams in the AFC that are
better than some teams in the NFC. But the bad
teams make the playoffs and the good teams don't. I mean,
somebody's got to be the eighth seed in each conference.
(12:46):
Somebody's gonna get left out, somebody's not going to be
able to go. Maybe there's a number eight seed that
is better than a division champion, but that division stinks
and that team won up by going seven to ten.
I mean, if we're gonna have structure, than have structure.
You don't want to have all these conferences involved, and
don't have the conferences all involved. But this is just
(13:07):
it's it's time to move on at some point, either
it's the four big conferences or it's the Big two
and they do their own thing. And you got thirty
teams in one division and you call it the BECK,
the Big ten in the SEC, whatever the hell you.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Want to call it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I don't give a crap, but this has got to
be figured out because it's just it's tiresome, man, and tiresome.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
A two loss team from the ACC is not the
equivalent to a two loss team from the S and SO.
And it's just getting it's they're just getting more and
more SEC and Big ten teams in the top twenty. Anyway,
it's just going to continue to go that way as
all the best players are going to funnel to those conferences.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, college football has to ask themselves what do they
want to be? Do they want to be about four conferences.
Do they want to be about one hundred teams or
do they want to be about thirty teams? They just
simply put have to ask themselves that question. And you
think college football is more like the NFL. Now wait
until it's thirty teams. That's right in college football, just
at the top of the mountain, and then it's the
National Football League.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Light.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We gotta break. Rick new Heizel coming up Sonia Ramen.
Can I call her top Ramen? She's the new coach
of the Storm. She's an instant winner. Baby, if you
could call instant's success with Sonia top Ramen. Just give
her sixty seconds and she'll turn everything around with the Storm.
Dick got a chance to catch up with Here we go.
Hear that at six forty five on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
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Speaker 3 (14:40):
All right, we got a big one Sunday, a big
one tomorrow you doub perdue coming up noon at four o'clock.
Kickoff right here. Pregame show starts at twelve o'clock. We
got the postgame show afterwards from Husky Stadium, and then
as soon as we are done, we'll flipping over to
Cracking Baby against the San Jose Sharks, who Dick and
I actually got a little bit of a sneak preview
(15:01):
hotel today.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I mean I don't think it's a big deal. I
mean they practiced there.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Did you know, Travis, that the visiting team will use
Case I as a practice facility? We were up there
today talking to Lane Lambert got of just you know,
a little intro, a little high how are you? I'm Softye,
he's Dick, to which his response was your name is
softy and Dick.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah. We got that a lot, by the way.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And we walked off and on the ice was the
sent Sharks practicing up there, right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I mean I had no idea the teams did you
know that much? They do that in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean whatever happened to when we were we were
a civilized society and teams hated each other's juts and
they said, you can take a hike, you're not using
our rink at.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The hell out.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
And as you know, Travis, I'm a hockey expert, and
I was breaking down everything I said it to Lane
Lambert and we're all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Lane.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Lane says, well, this guy knows nothing, so I'll have
a great time with those knuckleheads.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But man, the game on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Can't wait for one o'clock at SO five Stadium in
La Rams Seahawks. Lindsey Theory was on with us earlier
today and says it's going to be very loud when
the Rams are on offense because of all the Hawk
fans that will be invading So ifi Stadium. And look,
I mean if you put a gun to my head
and said who wins the game? I think I'd take
the Rams to win this game on Sunday, right. I mean,
you're on the road. You're three and six in your
(16:26):
last nine games away from Seattle against the Rams. But man, dude,
it's just the obligatory three, right, that's what the Rams
are getting. Vegas is telling you, Dick, that this is
a toss up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I just stumbled onto maybe the key to this game
I did. I did not realize that the Seattle Seahawks
are the second worst team in giving the.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Football away this season. They are second only to Miami
with sixteen turnovers. How are they seven to two. Then
you think back.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
To those you think back to those two, well almost
it almost means that they're even more dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And that's right, then a normal team would be. But
you look back at those two losses.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
San Francisco, they fumble the ball at the end of
the game going in or they could have won that
football Tampa Bay, they lose by three. They had two
turnovers in that game. Tampa Bay turned the first turnover
into a touchdown, the second turnover to a field goal.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You're you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
A team that if they just aren't sloppy, right, they
might be nine to zero right now.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I mean I get that.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, there's probably something we could throw out there
that says, if they did not do this, then they'd be,
you know, six and three, right whatever. Five course wins though, well,
the Jaguar game was a little tight. The Texan game
at times was a little tight. You know, those are
the tightest I guess is those two Cardinal game.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The one down there in Arizona was yeah, bit tight
in the endgame was seven twenty to six. Yeah, I
just I just think this.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I think there's a lot of teams that can probably
say that I didn't know that they were that terrible
in relation to the rest of the NFL when it
came to turning over the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If I would have told you when the season started,
whereto turnovers just sixteen number two, second worst, second most
turnof And where are they at running the football? Like
second to last in the NFL in yards per carre
A're gonna be sitting here in July. I'm gonna say, hey, Dick,
on November the fourteenth, the Hawks will be the second
worst team in protecting the football, and they're gonna suck
(18:18):
on run offense.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
What's their record? Three and six? Okay, they're seven to two.
That's amazing, absolutely amazing. And let's throw this one in.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Their second best wide receiver is gonna be would you say,
like ninetieth in targets targets in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yes, And they're gonna be a one trick pony. And
they're gonna have a bunch of guys hurt on defense
that have missed a significant amount of times. Okay, oh god,
so even more even more amazing what Mike McDonald's been
able to do. Right, all right, when we come back,
Dick had a chance to catch up with the brand
new coach of the Storm. We're gonna hear from her
and then Rick new Heisel coming up in the seven
(18:56):
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Speaker 3 (19:16):
All right, we are rolling right along, baby, on a
busy Friday night. Don't forget we got college hoops, the
Apple Cup of Basketball Wazoo you dub coming up eight
o'clock Tony and Jason, Jason and Tony pregame starting at
seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Rick new Heisel, we'll.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Join us next segment courtesy a tack on Time, but
we're gonna take a little bit of a detour.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It is in the basketball realm.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But you meaning Dick Faane had a chance to catch
up with a brand new Storm coach.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Shorty heard this week, right, Yeah, Sonia Rahman.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
It was great to meet her, and she just has
a vast breadth of coaching experience.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
She played at Toughs, She coached.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Women at MIT and then coached in the NBA with
the Memphis Grizzly. Our old friend member rich Joe, our
old friend, it's Joe. I hired her on at Memphis
and then she went back to the New York Liberty
in the w NBA. So her first opportunity to be
the w NBA head coach of the Seattle to Stormer,
first time as a head coach in the w NBA,
and I had a chance to chat with her, Sony,
(20:14):
how are you.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
I'm doing great. How are you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm great? I know you've been. You've been doing the
the interview, the circuit this week. What has the last
three or four days been like since you got into town.
Speaker 12 (20:27):
It's been a whirlwind, but really exciting. I've gotten to
meet a lot of great folks here in Seattle and
spent some time in their practice facility, which is, you know,
the best practice facility I've ever seen. So it's it's
been really great.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Well, you mentioned that practice facility.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
What does the Storm Center for Basketball Performance say about
this franchise's commitment to not only success, but to the
future of this league.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
I think, you know, you can just see the investment
in these women by being so forward thinking and and
putting that facility up, you know, one of the first
to go up in the league, and you know the
details in there, and they've thought of everything the players
really want for nothing, and it's so it's so intentional
in terms of their commitment and how they show it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And I understand that you were there earlier in the
year or maybe in the preseason, that you actually got
a chance to see some practices at one point.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Is that right.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
I've been going to practices for a while. I was
at training camp back in twenty twenty four. The organization
welcome me in and I got to observe and it
was it was really high level.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Tell us about your ties you have to Northwest.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I know you got some big family ties here, so
this isn't a totally strange new corner of the world
for you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Seattle is like a second home to me. My wife
is from here, we got married out here, so you know,
I love coming out this way and spending time in Seattle,
and I'm so excited to be able to really officially
call this home now.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It's so great to have you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
What's the reputation nationally of this organization and of Seattle basketball.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
I mean when you think of the Storm brand, what
comes to mind to you.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
I mean it's high level. The World Championship comes to
mind right out of the gate, four of them across
different eras and really as well like leaders in promoting
women in sports and professional women and it's just it's
a summer league and being in Seattle in the summer,
it's incredible, so high reputation. You know, players love coming
Seattle to play here. It's a great it's a great
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place to be and it's really again exciting to be
part of it now.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
New head coach of the Seattle Storm, Sonya Rahman, joining
us here on ninety three point three kJ RFM. The
one question I was kind of asking other members of
the media when I went to your press conference when
you were introduced, was is this an in the box
hire or an out of the box hire. I mean,
you could say it's an in the box hire because
you were Sandy Brondello's assistant in the WNBA last year,
so that's a that's a natural step to make from
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assistant to head coach in the same league.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
But then you were in the NBA for four years
in Memphis.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You've coached college, You've done You've been you've been the
in the in the business world outside of basketball. So
what do you think is this an in the box
hire by the stormer and out of the box hire.
Speaker 12 (23:15):
You know what, Deck, I'll let you decide on what
you want to call it. Whether it's in the box,
you're out of the box. I'm so glad, Like I
didn't plan all of that, you know, those experiences to
get to where I am now, But I'm so glad
that you know, I had those experiences and everything unfolded
the way it did. I think those varied places that
I've been have really helped to shape me and help
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me to bring best practices from you know, different leagues,
different industries as you mentioned, and bring all of that
and synthesize that into how we can bring that to
the Seattle and you know, continue this this excellence and
continue to sustain this level of competitives that we have
in this organization.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well, tell us about your time in Memphis, because you've
got mutual friend in Rich Show, who I know helped
you a lot, and he was a good friend back
here in Seattle when he was with the Sonics a
long time ago, and we had an NBA team here.
You know what did that time in Memphis with the
NBA teach you more about the game and make you
more prepared for this job?
Speaker 12 (24:19):
Well, first of all, just a quick note on Rich.
I mean Rich really has changed the trajectory of my career.
I mean his phone call to me when I was
at MIT. I wasn't thinking about, you know, a move
in that way, and I wasn't pursuing a job in
the NBA. He gave me that call and it really
changed everything. So my time in Memphis was really impactful
for me, you know, leaving the Boston area, experiencing a
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different part of the country, experience a different league. It
was four seasons. It felt like a crash course and
the highest level of basketball and the men's side possible.
You know, I loved every second of it. I really
soaked everything up like a sponge and made some really
really great friendships along the way down there as well.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
And when you hired on in the NBA, you became
the first woman of Indian descent ever to coach in
the NBA. You're now the first person of Indian descent
to be the head coach in either league. So what
does that mean to you?
Speaker 12 (25:13):
It's an honor to be able to be in that position.
I want to make sure that I do what I
can to further those opportunities for the next generation. But
you know, it's certainly a responsibility that they don't take lightly.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
This is a fascinating situation that you come into, and
Seattle is not alone. I mean, almost every team only
has a small handful of players due to the expiring
collective bargaining agreement. So a lot of the players decided, hey,
at the end of the twenty twenty five season, I
want to be a free agent because I got no
idea what's coming next. So you only have four players
on the roster right now. So how hard is that
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to kind of, you know, build a team and kind
of foresee what you want twenty twenty six to look
like When you only have you know, basically forty percent
of your roster, less than forty percent of your roster
right now, you know.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
We'll get there. I think that one of the things
about this organization is they've positioned us really well in
our front office, and tulus Aria has positioned this team really,
really well for this coming season. Obviously, all the teams
are in the same boat in terms of not having
a lot of people under contract, but there's so much flexibility.
You know, we have great draft pick positions as well,
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so we're really really positioned to be able to compete
for the best and continue to compete for championships.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, you do have a couple of special players on
that roster, including the second overall pick last year, who
just absolutely bursted onto the scene in the second half
of the season. Give us your thoughts on don Along
as a player, because it just seems like she's got
super starred and written all over.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
The sky's a limit for dom. I'm really excited to
start working with her, learn more about her, and you know,
see what all the different possibilities are for her. I
think my responsibility is to help her to reach her fullotential,
and I'm excited to do that and I'm excited to see,
you know, where we can go. I think it's going
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to be really unique and something that we haven't seen
in basketball before. And you know, she she is a
generational talent and just it's it's such an exciting thing
for this fan base to be able to, you know,
go watch her every single night.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
New Storm coach Sonya Raman joining us here at ninety
three point three KJRFM just a couple more minutes. So,
and to wrap things up with finding out who you
are as a coach, let's talk about the style of
basketball that the Seattle Storm will play that we'll get
to watch a climate pledge starting in May.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
The Storm we're going to compete, We're going to try
to get better every day. We're going to do it together.
There's going to be a selflessness and a celebration of
each other, and we're going to do it with joy.
So that those are going to be the things that
you're going to see hopefully every day. You know I
practice at games that will be our identity and you know,
as far as me, I think like building those relationships
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with the players, know, being really driven to try to
find find ways to unlock how good we can possibly be,
and you know, be be really competitive and really prepared
every day.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, you played it tough, so you coached at MI
T So I mean I think the word the word
genius comes to mind.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I think of somebody with that with that resume.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I know you're not going to call yourself a genius,
but talk about your strengths as a coach.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
No, I'm definitely not going to call myself that I
coached some geniuses along the way. You know, I wasn't
the person who was actually at MIT as a student.
My strength as a coach, I think I can find
different ways to connect with people, you know, and find
ways to put groups together. I mean, I think t
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you know, every year we sort of had the roster turnover,
We sort of had to wait for admissions to let
us know who is going to be on the team,
so you couldn't plan a system too far in advance.
And being able to be adaptable and resilient and get
the most out of any combination of players that we have.
And I think also just utilizing the resources and some
of my background as well, you know, being able to
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lean into film, into data, into analytics. But also that
feel when you're watching a game, when you're sitting down
with a player and listening to them and you know
what they're looking to do, what their pain points are,
what their challenges are, I think is really important as well.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And finally filling out your staff. You mentioned in your
press conference you wanted to hire assistance that fill your gaps.
So you know what are your gaps and what type
of assistance are you looking for?
Speaker 12 (29:37):
I mean, I mean one thing is I've only been
in the w for a year now, right, so you know,
people with with that type of experience are going to
be really important to me. You know, someone who's maybe
played in the league before. You know, that's going to
be really valuable for me to lean on a former
player in that way. So yeah, I mean I have
a lot of gaps, I think, you know, that's that's
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the fun part about coaching is you always you always
have areas where you can get better. And I think
most of all, just like good people that you want
to work with every day that are going to bring
energy into the building that are going to be really
positive and pour into our players. I really want to
see people like that, you know, as part of our organization.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Well, it is great to have you here in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You know, is when you came with the Liberty last year,
you know what it's like to be a climate plag
arena as the other team.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
It's not very fun.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
So you get to be on the home team now
and see the storm crazy after you.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
So it's great to have you and thanks for joining.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
There you go, Sonya Raman with Dick. You missed that,
check out the podcast. Man, the brand new head coach
of the Seattle Storm. Boy, does she have no idea
what she's in for dealing with you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
In a lease? It's going to be hell on earth Man,
It's now time for Softy in Dig's one with audio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Jimmy Gaunt st Jimmy mister garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now let's have some fun with audio. All right, here
we go.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Big Friday Night continues right here on ninety three three.
kJ arfm don't forget we got husky basketball against the Koogs.
Baby the Post and McCoy era has begun in Pullman,
was that what it was?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Era?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was an era? It was eighteen months, but it's
no longer an era because it's done and have.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
To be before it's an era. That's a good question.
What is the definition? Look it up. I think it's
more than eighteen months, do you think so?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't know, man, I don't think there really is
a time restriction on an era.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Definition of an era?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
How long does an era have to last before it
is officially an era? A long and distinct period is
eighteen months? Long and distinct?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
HEYI says hundreds of millions of years? So I mean
maybe Pete Carroll never had an era. E No, my
Congres never had an era. Bluke Panella never had an era,
and you know who else never had an era? You
and me we don't exist. We never did, We never
took place.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It also says subjective period defined by significant events lasting
anywhere from a few years to century.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So I don't think there were a lot of significant events.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
That was This really sounds like the kind of conversation
that we should have with Hugh by the way on
the ear, this is right up his freaking.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hour would take an hour and a half. Take an era,
Diane by the way, fane, this type of conversation. God,
why do you do that to me?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
All right, here we go, headlines, I'm sorry, headlines, fun
will audio, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
What's that? Dick? All right, let's start with number one there.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Mugger Justin Fields had another bad game last night as
the Jets lost to the Patriots twenty seven to fourteen.
On Sportsnet New York's postgame show, former Jets guard Willie
Colon or is it Cologne ripping Fields and head coat
coach Aaron Glenn for playing him at all.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
The Aaron Glenn is going to sit up here and
talk about how he needs to watch the tape. You
don't need to watch anything. Justin Field's not the NFL
quarterback Like let's just let's just be honest and you
sit You can't sit here and tell your team and
before games want them to rally and want them to
give you all they got when you're not giving your
team everything they need to be successful. I mean, he
she shouldn't have played in the second half. If I'm
sitting in that locker room and he's talking to us
and he's talking about what we should do, I'm like, no,
(02:25):
what should you have done?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Then? What I should have done? Because the tape don't lie.
I'm on the field.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
We watched miss throws bad mechanics, he doesn't trust his feet.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That's not the NFL.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You gotta see it and go, and it's just it's
it's redundant.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Justin Fields is thirtieth in the NFL among qualifying quarterbacks
in QBR with thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And who's right behind Justin Fields and.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
QBR by the way, Russell Wilson Geno Smith Smith beautiful.
I saw you know who's dead last in the NFL
and QBR who the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Cam Ward?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I saw a stat that I had to look up
because I didn't believe it when I saw it on television. Yeah,
Justin Fields has forty seven fumbles. Wow, what forty seven
career fumble career?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I thought you meant like this year. It's not like
he's been around. He's been around for four seasons. But still,
I mean forty seven and a half a year versus
forty seven and four years. I mean, that's a lot.
That's a lot of fumbles. Man, there is no I
just can't believe how bad that. What is the deal
with the Jets?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's just amazing. They just cannot get a freaking break. Well, listen,
I think he's right. I think it's time for the
Jets to do something else. But let's be honest with you.
The next Jets starting quarterback, whatever poor bastard wins that job,
is not on the roster right now. It ain't gonna
be Justin Fields, ain't gonna be Tyrod Taylor or whoever
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it is. And frankly, for the Jets, there's no help
in the draft.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Anyway this year. But the Jets are dumb enough to
reach for. I don't know what they should expect the
rest of the way.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They just got rid of maybe two of their top
five players, and Quinn Williams and Sauce Gardners. So they
are sucking for somebody. I don't know who it is,
but they're sucking for someone. All right, Hey, Dick, did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
The Celtics Sixers game in Philly earlier this week was
called by Mike Turrico for NBC. During the game, a
fan seated behind Tarrico continued to berate the referees for
bad calls. So in the fourth quarter, Mike decided to
turn around and talk to the loud fan, Simon from.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Boston foul and transition, well, that it's not the Philly
bench bench, just a fan behind him who knows the rules.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You agree, he knows the gather what's your name? Michael
Michael went hometown Michael Michael's Motion City right behind.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He was like that in the business, you like to
have the natural sounds. I feel like that in Philly
it's it was a little dangerous. So it's just who said,
you know you were in trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I was gonna say, it's lucky it wasn't worse with
what leaked out over TV. That was the cleanest Philly
fan I think I've ever heard. What was the score
of that game? By the way, you remember the score
was very close?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Okay, very close, because that kind of seems like the
kind of thing a guy would do during a blowout,
by the way, right, not during a close game.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I felt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You know who did a great job over the weekend
was Harlean two reasons. Why did I tell you this?
By the way, he had a migraine during the game,
had a migraine during the game on Sunday, which nobody
figured that out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Nobody even knew that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And then number two was a blowout and he was
able to fill it with some pretty exciting stuff for
the second half.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good for him. It was a one nine one away game.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Do you have when you do a storm game and
there's an ass kicking? Do you have like a book
of stories you can read on the air? Poems, jokes, recipes,
the movie record.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I don't mind the blowouts nearly as much as I
mind the reviews.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Just the incessant reviews.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
In the last three and four minutes of the game,
that each one of them take two and a half minutes,
and basically at least like going to radio show mode.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We literally do like a radio segment.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, while these rests are spending two and a half
minutes looking at a TV monitor, the.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Storm up on the sparks by eighty here in the
fourth quarter, Let's talk about my grandmother's eggs plant parmesan recipe.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
All right, hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
San Diego eliminating Portland from the MLS playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, a four to nothing beat down to the Timbers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, Jackson put this in here, by the way,
because he hates the Timbers. I'm all Pellegrino, I like
teens scoring for it, not the water scoring for San
Diego in the seventeenth minute, but then got leveled by.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
A Portland player.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
In an interview this week, Pellegrino was asked about getting.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Hit he scored for first all Portland defenders into Globo
his body into you Andy.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
To the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Do you feel like there's any.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Place that in Again, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We are onto the next one, and day are going
to contam to have a holidays. I couldn't hear a
word he said. We're heading on it. He doesn't care.
On the next one, and they're going to have their holidays. Okay,
and don't. I'll be honest with you, Dick. I have
no response to that whatsoever. That was a Jackson felt
edition right there if I have ever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Heard, well, first of all, the guy sounds like he's
five hundred feet away, you know, it's like he's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Over here in the core. What was the exact quote again, Dick?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He said, he said, we're on to the next one
one and they're having a holidayiday.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
That's what I heard, Jackson. What do you do it? Hey, Dick?
Did you happen to hear that that day? What's that?
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Last week, Cowboy defensive end Markshawn Neeland was found dead
from a self inflicted gunshot. The suicide shocked the football world,
including Dallas head coach Brian Schottenheimer, who reflected on Neland's
life at a press conference on Wednesday and talked about
setting up a fund for his unborn child and girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Off for my condolences to you know, Marshawn's family, Catalina,
his girlfriend. We had an opportunity last night to celebrate
Marshawn's life, tell some stories, share, laugh, cry. My heart
is heavy, Our team's heart is heavy. We don't move
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on but we do move forward. We're going to honor
Marshawan his family a number of different ways. The organization
that's been amazing, you know, just we've you know, started
the Marshawn Neeland Memorial Fund where we can all give
and support Catalina, and uh, she's pregnant and so we
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want to make sure she's taken care of and the
baby's taken care of for the rest of their lives.
Our guys are very it's very important to them and
to us.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That's Bertle story.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But I mean, good for them, man, I mean, they
just want to make sure that, you know, she never
has to worry ever again, you know. And I think
it's fantastic. I think it's a terrible, terrible tragedy that
hopefully will have I mean, it's hard to even use
the word silver lining right when something like that happens.
But for them to step up the way, guys, imagine
if this happened to one of our guys in Seattle, right,
(09:22):
I mean, pick whatever name you want, but just imagine
if you read about a cracking player or a Mariner player,
or a Seahawk player something like this, Like remember the
Mike Fryar story back in the day right the car accident.
I think Brian Blade was involved in that somehow, some way,
if I'm not mistaken, but you know, he was paralyzed
and then eventually passed away. Curtis Williams, all of us
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were there at Stanford in that rainstorm the night Curtis
broke his neck and you know, eight nine months later
he was gone. But this is during the season one
of your players commits suicide, and it's I don't even
know how to respond to that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Man horrible.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, I mean I I could just respond at the
end of that with the fund they're setting up, that is,
that's fantastic, and that his teammates, all of them are millionaires,
are going to make sure that his girlfriend and baby
are taking care of all.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Right, let's get one more. Uh hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
If?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Paul fine Baum ESPN talking about South Florida and how
they don't belong in his mind whatsoever in the latest
college football playoff rankings.
Speaker 10 (10:31):
I am okay with that, doggie. What I'm not okay
with is your ridiculous statement from a minute ago. I mean,
what is wrong with this country when let's let's put
a couple of people over here in Let's put a
couple of people. What about putting the best in? I
don't see major League Baseball. I don't see the NFL
going Ah, the Chiefs, they've been there too many times.
Let's let's let's put the Patriots in. I mean, doggie,
(10:53):
this is about to be This is supposed to be
about excellent, not about being fair. This is not the
little leagues where we have a second, third, fourth, and
fifth place trophy. This should be the best.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's already a convoluted.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
System because we let the Group of whatever in the
Group of five with South Florida, and they have no
business that that conference, that division really has no business playing.
That's like letting the TRIAA best team in to the
Major league playoffs. It doesn't happen in any other sport.
But for you to say, oh, the SEC has too
many teams in and this and that is just patently ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I one hundred percent agreed with Paul Feinbaum. It used
to be college football used to be separate from professional sports,
and so it was okay to be regionalized and okay
to let a conference champion in from all these conference
champions from all these conferences.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It is no longer an amateur sport.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
This is a professional sport, and only the best twelve
teams in college football should be allowed to play.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, I think, I think in my world, I think
what you do is you take the Big Ten, the
Big Twelve, the ACC, in the SEC, and you say, okay,
let's have a is it twelve team tournament, eight team tournament,
whatever it is that you decide to do. Right, Uh,
maybe just take the top three teams from each conference period,
(12:17):
end of story.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, then that hurts the The SEC and the Big
Ten were clearly better than.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I don't care. I don't care, but don't you want
the best team? If you want to have, then get
rid of the Big twelve in the ACC. And because
if you want structure, thank you. You have to have structure,
because you could have teams in the AFC that are
better than some teams in the NFC. But the bad
teams make the playoffs and the good teams don't. I mean,
somebody's got to be the eighth seed in each conference.
(12:46):
Somebody's gonna get left out, somebody's not going to be
able to go. Maybe there's a number eight seed that
is better than a division champion, but that division stinks
and that team won up by going seven to ten.
I mean, if we're gonna have structure, than have structure.
You don't want to have all these conferences involved, and
don't have the conferences all involved. But this is just
(13:07):
it's it's time to move on at some point, either
it's the four big conferences or it's the Big two
and they do their own thing. And you got thirty
teams in one division and you call it the BECK,
the Big ten in the SEC, whatever the hell you.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Want to call it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I don't give a crap, but this has got to
be figured out because it's just it's tiresome, man, and tiresome.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
A two loss team from the ACC is not the
equivalent to a two loss team from the S and SO.
And it's just getting it's they're just getting more and
more SEC and Big ten teams in the top twenty. Anyway,
it's just going to continue to go that way as
all the best players are going to funnel to those conferences.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, college football has to ask themselves what do they
want to be? Do they want to be about four conferences.
Do they want to be about one hundred teams or
do they want to be about thirty teams? They just
simply put have to ask themselves that question. And you
think college football is more like the NFL. Now wait
until it's thirty teams. That's right in college football, just
at the top of the mountain, and then it's the
National Football League.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Light.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We gotta break. Rick new Heizel coming up Sonia Ramen.
Can I call her top Ramen? She's the new coach
of the Storm. She's an instant winner. Baby, if you
could call instant's success with Sonia top Ramen. Just give
her sixty seconds and she'll turn everything around with the Storm.
Dick got a chance to catch up with Here we go.
Hear that at six forty five on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
Now back to Football Friday, sponsored by Tito's Handmatee Vodka
on your home for the NFL Sports Radio ninety three
point three kjr FL.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
All right, we got a big one Sunday, a big
one tomorrow you doub perdue coming up noon at four o'clock.
Kickoff right here. Pregame show starts at twelve o'clock. We
got the postgame show afterwards from Husky Stadium, and then
as soon as we are done, we'll flipping over to
Cracking Baby against the San Jose Sharks, who Dick and
I actually got a little bit of a sneak preview
(15:01):
hotel today.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I mean I don't think it's a big deal. I
mean they practiced there.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Did you know, Travis, that the visiting team will use
Case I as a practice facility? We were up there
today talking to Lane Lambert got of just you know,
a little intro, a little high how are you? I'm Softye,
he's Dick, to which his response was your name is
softy and Dick.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah. We got that a lot, by the way.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And we walked off and on the ice was the
sent Sharks practicing up there, right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I mean I had no idea the teams did you
know that much? They do that in the NHL.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean whatever happened to when we were we were
a civilized society and teams hated each other's juts and
they said, you can take a hike, you're not using
our rink at.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The hell out.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
And as you know, Travis, I'm a hockey expert, and
I was breaking down everything I said it to Lane
Lambert and we're all, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Lane.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Lane says, well, this guy knows nothing, so I'll have
a great time with those knuckleheads.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
But man, the game on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Can't wait for one o'clock at SO five Stadium in
La Rams Seahawks. Lindsey Theory was on with us earlier
today and says it's going to be very loud when
the Rams are on offense because of all the Hawk
fans that will be invading So ifi Stadium. And look,
I mean if you put a gun to my head
and said who wins the game? I think I'd take
the Rams to win this game on Sunday, right. I mean,
you're on the road. You're three and six in your
(16:26):
last nine games away from Seattle against the Rams. But man, dude,
it's just the obligatory three, right, that's what the Rams
are getting. Vegas is telling you, Dick, that this is
a toss up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I just stumbled onto maybe the key to this game
I did. I did not realize that the Seattle Seahawks
are the second worst team in giving the.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Football away this season. They are second only to Miami
with sixteen turnovers. How are they seven to two. Then
you think back.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
To those you think back to those two, well almost
it almost means that they're even more dumb.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And that's right, then a normal team would be. But
you look back at those two losses.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
San Francisco, they fumble the ball at the end of
the game going in or they could have won that
football Tampa Bay, they lose by three. They had two
turnovers in that game. Tampa Bay turned the first turnover
into a touchdown, the second turnover to a field goal.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You're you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
A team that if they just aren't sloppy, right, they
might be nine to zero right now.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I mean I get that.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, there's probably something we could throw out there
that says, if they did not do this, then they'd be,
you know, six and three, right whatever. Five course wins though, well,
the Jaguar game was a little tight. The Texan game
at times was a little tight. You know, those are
the tightest I guess is those two Cardinal game.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
The one down there in Arizona was yeah, bit tight
in the endgame was seven twenty to six. Yeah, I
just I just think this.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I think there's a lot of teams that can probably
say that I didn't know that they were that terrible
in relation to the rest of the NFL when it
came to turning over the ball.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If I would have told you when the season started,
whereto turnovers just sixteen number two, second worst, second most
turnof And where are they at running the football? Like
second to last in the NFL in yards per carre
A're gonna be sitting here in July. I'm gonna say, hey, Dick,
on November the fourteenth, the Hawks will be the second
worst team in protecting the football, and they're gonna suck
(18:18):
on run offense.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
What's their record? Three and six? Okay, they're seven to two.
That's amazing, absolutely amazing. And let's throw this one in.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Their second best wide receiver is gonna be would you say,
like ninetieth in targets targets in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yes, And they're gonna be a one trick pony. And
they're gonna have a bunch of guys hurt on defense
that have missed a significant amount of times. Okay, oh god,
so even more even more amazing what Mike McDonald's been
able to do. Right, all right, when we come back,
Dick had a chance to catch up with the brand
new coach of the Storm. We're gonna hear from her
and then Rick new Heisel coming up in the seven
(18:56):
o'clock hour, All courtesy of Taco Time. Huskies and Kougs
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Speaker 11 (19:05):
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Speaker 12 (19:13):
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Speaker 3 (19:16):
All right, we are rolling right along, baby, on a
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Speaker 1 (19:29):
Rick new Heisel, we'll.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Join us next segment courtesy a tack on Time, but
we're gonna take a little bit of a detour.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
It is in the basketball realm.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But you meaning Dick Faane had a chance to catch
up with a brand new Storm coach.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Shorty heard this week, right, Yeah, Sonia Rahman.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
It was great to meet her, and she just has
a vast breadth of coaching experience.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
She played at Toughs, She coached.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Women at MIT and then coached in the NBA with
the Memphis Grizzly. Our old friend member rich Joe, our
old friend, it's Joe. I hired her on at Memphis
and then she went back to the New York Liberty
in the w NBA. So her first opportunity to be
the w NBA head coach of the Seattle to Stormer,
first time as a head coach in the w NBA,
and I had a chance to chat with her, Sony,
(20:14):
how are you.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
I'm doing great. How are you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm great? I know you've been. You've been doing the
the interview, the circuit this week. What has the last
three or four days been like since you got into town.
Speaker 12 (20:27):
It's been a whirlwind, but really exciting. I've gotten to
meet a lot of great folks here in Seattle and
spent some time in their practice facility, which is, you know,
the best practice facility I've ever seen. So it's it's
been really great.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Well, you mentioned that practice facility.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
What does the Storm Center for Basketball Performance say about
this franchise's commitment to not only success, but to the
future of this league.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
I think, you know, you can just see the investment
in these women by being so forward thinking and and
putting that facility up, you know, one of the first
to go up in the league, and you know the
details in there, and they've thought of everything the players
really want for nothing, and it's so it's so intentional
in terms of their commitment and how they show it.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
And I understand that you were there earlier in the
year or maybe in the preseason, that you actually got
a chance to see some practices at one point.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Is that right.
Speaker 12 (21:22):
I've been going to practices for a while. I was
at training camp back in twenty twenty four. The organization
welcome me in and I got to observe and it
was it was really high level.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Tell us about your ties you have to Northwest.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I know you got some big family ties here, so
this isn't a totally strange new corner of the world
for you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
That's right.
Speaker 12 (21:41):
Seattle is like a second home to me. My wife
is from here, we got married out here, so you know,
I love coming out this way and spending time in Seattle,
and I'm so excited to be able to really officially
call this home now.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
It's so great to have you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
What's the reputation nationally of this organization and of Seattle basketball.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
I mean when you think of the Storm brand, what
comes to mind to you.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
I mean it's high level. The World Championship comes to
mind right out of the gate, four of them across
different eras and really as well like leaders in promoting
women in sports and professional women and it's just it's
a summer league and being in Seattle in the summer,
it's incredible, so high reputation. You know, players love coming
Seattle to play here. It's a great it's a great
(22:29):
place to be and it's really again exciting to be
part of it now.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
New head coach of the Seattle Storm, Sonya Rahman, joining
us here on ninety three point three kJ RFM. The
one question I was kind of asking other members of
the media when I went to your press conference when
you were introduced, was is this an in the box
hire or an out of the box hire. I mean,
you could say it's an in the box hire because
you were Sandy Brondello's assistant in the WNBA last year,
so that's a that's a natural step to make from
(22:57):
assistant to head coach in the same league.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
But then you were in the NBA for four years
in Memphis.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
You've coached college, You've done You've been you've been the
in the in the business world outside of basketball. So
what do you think is this an in the box
hire by the stormer and out of the box hire.
Speaker 12 (23:15):
You know what, Deck, I'll let you decide on what
you want to call it. Whether it's in the box,
you're out of the box. I'm so glad, Like I
didn't plan all of that, you know, those experiences to
get to where I am now, But I'm so glad
that you know, I had those experiences and everything unfolded
the way it did. I think those varied places that
I've been have really helped to shape me and help
(23:37):
me to bring best practices from you know, different leagues,
different industries as you mentioned, and bring all of that
and synthesize that into how we can bring that to
the Seattle and you know, continue this this excellence and
continue to sustain this level of competitives that we have
in this organization.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well, tell us about your time in Memphis, because you've
got mutual friend in Rich Show, who I know helped
you a lot, and he was a good friend back
here in Seattle when he was with the Sonics a
long time ago, and we had an NBA team here.
You know what did that time in Memphis with the
NBA teach you more about the game and make you
more prepared for this job?
Speaker 12 (24:19):
Well, first of all, just a quick note on Rich.
I mean Rich really has changed the trajectory of my career.
I mean his phone call to me when I was
at MIT. I wasn't thinking about, you know, a move
in that way, and I wasn't pursuing a job in
the NBA. He gave me that call and it really
changed everything. So my time in Memphis was really impactful
for me, you know, leaving the Boston area, experiencing a
(24:40):
different part of the country, experience a different league. It
was four seasons. It felt like a crash course and
the highest level of basketball and the men's side possible.
You know, I loved every second of it. I really
soaked everything up like a sponge and made some really
really great friendships along the way down there as well.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
And when you hired on in the NBA, you became
the first woman of Indian descent ever to coach in
the NBA. You're now the first person of Indian descent
to be the head coach in either league. So what
does that mean to you?
Speaker 12 (25:13):
It's an honor to be able to be in that position.
I want to make sure that I do what I
can to further those opportunities for the next generation. But
you know, it's certainly a responsibility that they don't take lightly.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
This is a fascinating situation that you come into, and
Seattle is not alone. I mean, almost every team only
has a small handful of players due to the expiring
collective bargaining agreement. So a lot of the players decided, hey,
at the end of the twenty twenty five season, I
want to be a free agent because I got no
idea what's coming next. So you only have four players
on the roster right now. So how hard is that
(25:48):
to kind of, you know, build a team and kind
of foresee what you want twenty twenty six to look
like When you only have you know, basically forty percent
of your roster, less than forty percent of your roster
right now, you know.
Speaker 12 (26:01):
We'll get there. I think that one of the things
about this organization is they've positioned us really well in
our front office, and tulus Aria has positioned this team really,
really well for this coming season. Obviously, all the teams
are in the same boat in terms of not having
a lot of people under contract, but there's so much flexibility.
You know, we have great draft pick positions as well,
(26:22):
so we're really really positioned to be able to compete
for the best and continue to compete for championships.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Well, you do have a couple of special players on
that roster, including the second overall pick last year, who
just absolutely bursted onto the scene in the second half
of the season. Give us your thoughts on don Along
as a player, because it just seems like she's got
super starred and written all over.
Speaker 12 (26:46):
The sky's a limit for dom. I'm really excited to
start working with her, learn more about her, and you know,
see what all the different possibilities are for her. I
think my responsibility is to help her to reach her fullotential,
and I'm excited to do that and I'm excited to see,
you know, where we can go. I think it's going
(27:06):
to be really unique and something that we haven't seen
in basketball before. And you know, she she is a
generational talent and just it's it's such an exciting thing
for this fan base to be able to, you know,
go watch her every single night.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
New Storm coach Sonya Raman joining us here at ninety
three point three KJRFM just a couple more minutes. So,
and to wrap things up with finding out who you
are as a coach, let's talk about the style of
basketball that the Seattle Storm will play that we'll get
to watch a climate pledge starting in May.
Speaker 12 (27:37):
The Storm we're going to compete, We're going to try
to get better every day. We're going to do it together.
There's going to be a selflessness and a celebration of
each other, and we're going to do it with joy.
So that those are going to be the things that
you're going to see hopefully every day. You know I
practice at games that will be our identity and you know,
as far as me, I think like building those relationships
(27:58):
with the players, know, being really driven to try to
find find ways to unlock how good we can possibly be,
and you know, be be really competitive and really prepared
every day.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, you played it tough, so you coached at MI
T So I mean I think the word the word
genius comes to mind.
Speaker 9 (28:17):
I think of somebody with that with that resume.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
I know you're not going to call yourself a genius,
but talk about your strengths as a coach.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
No, I'm definitely not going to call myself that I
coached some geniuses along the way. You know, I wasn't
the person who was actually at MIT as a student.
My strength as a coach, I think I can find
different ways to connect with people, you know, and find
ways to put groups together. I mean, I think t
(28:48):
you know, every year we sort of had the roster turnover,
We sort of had to wait for admissions to let
us know who is going to be on the team,
so you couldn't plan a system too far in advance.
And being able to be adaptable and resilient and get
the most out of any combination of players that we have.
And I think also just utilizing the resources and some
of my background as well, you know, being able to
(29:10):
lean into film, into data, into analytics. But also that
feel when you're watching a game, when you're sitting down
with a player and listening to them and you know
what they're looking to do, what their pain points are,
what their challenges are, I think is really important as well.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And finally filling out your staff. You mentioned in your
press conference you wanted to hire assistance that fill your gaps.
So you know what are your gaps and what type
of assistance are you looking for?
Speaker 12 (29:37):
I mean, I mean one thing is I've only been
in the w for a year now, right, so you know,
people with with that type of experience are going to
be really important to me. You know, someone who's maybe
played in the league before. You know, that's going to
be really valuable for me to lean on a former
player in that way. So yeah, I mean I have
a lot of gaps, I think, you know, that's that's
(29:58):
the fun part about coaching is you always you always
have areas where you can get better. And I think
most of all, just like good people that you want
to work with every day that are going to bring
energy into the building that are going to be really
positive and pour into our players. I really want to
see people like that, you know, as part of our organization.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Well, it is great to have you here in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
You know, is when you came with the Liberty last year,
you know what it's like to be a climate plag
arena as the other team.
Speaker 9 (30:25):
It's not very fun.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
So you get to be on the home team now
and see the storm crazy after you.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
So it's great to have you and thanks for joining.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
There you go, Sonya Raman with Dick. You missed that,
check out the podcast. Man, the brand new head coach
of the Seattle Storm. Boy, does she have no idea
what she's in for dealing with you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
In a lease? It's going to be hell on earth Man,
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