February 5, 2025 • 34 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Kevin Harlan about Super Bowl 59 on Sunday, Andy Reid, Saquon Barkley, plus Mike Holmgren, then they give away two EQC prize packages and share big NBA news before having Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
busy Wednesday afternoon. Right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Five o'clock means one thing and one thing only, And
what a week to have that one thing on our show.
A chance to talk to the voice of the NFL
on CBS, the NFL on Westwood One, the NBA on TNT,
and on Sunday, the voice to millions of people, undreds
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of millions of people around the globe on Westwood One
for Super Bowl fifty nine. You hear the call here
at three point thirty on Sunday, pregame starts at eleven.
We are honored. We are hashtag blessed baby, as the
kids like to say to welcome in the voice of
the Super Bowl Kevin Harlan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Pal Well, that was a nice indro. It's always good
being on with you, Dave, and it's an honor to
broadcast this super Bowl again, looking very forward to Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, there's there's so much that goes into the TV
broadcast right, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, months and months.
Does the TV excuse me, does the radio broadcast feel
really any different for you on Sunday preparing for it
once the game kicks off to any other game you
do during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, it's a little different than TV. With radio, it's
all about the call, the moment, and and there's really
no time for stories. All the statistics, all the anecdotes
have been you know, spewed all week long. We all
will know them in our sleep. So the most important
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thing for me I've learned is to treat it like
any other game. I don't mean to downplay it, but
that keeps my emotions and my nerves and check yep.
And I would just say that that I I am
ready to call. I know the players. I've watched the
tape continue that from began yesterday. We'll continue that all
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week long. But the only thing that's really going to
matter is the call. And I can have little notes
to throw in there, but I think people are pretty
familiar with the major storylines of the game. So it's
the call that's going to really be number one on
my list. And I've always kind of found that's the
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best way to do it, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, you do it better than anybody. How many
how many Super Bowls?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Is this fifteen in a row?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Luckily blessed fifteen straight?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, and you've seen every one of Kansas City's obviously,
I mean, look, if they win it. You know the
three peat I saw where the NFL had to strike
a deal with pat Riley because he had the three
peat label obviously to himself had that trademarked Eagles. No
doubt we'll use that as motivation for this game on Sunday.
But I mean, everybody's expecting a tight game Vegas has
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the Chiefs given a point and a half, they think
it'll be a tight game. Is there any reason at
all for you to feel like, Hey, if you're going
to tune in for five minutes of this game, make
it the final five minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I would say last two Super bowls for the Chiefs
have been close, one of which was against the Eagles.
Only thing that could change any of this, of course,
is quarterback injury and that aside. I see a close
game and I see a final possession game.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, I'm totally with you on that. By the way,
I think it's going to come down to the i'll
play of the game, and I can't think of anybody
better to call that than you. But Kevin Harlan's with
us again on the radio show. And I mean Andy
Reid said the other day that he's going to coach
in twenty twenty five, and then he doesn't know. I mean,
you know Andy Reid as well as anybody. Do you
actually envision a scenario where he coaches one more year,
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Kevin and then calls it quits.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't know. You know, if you'd win this year,
it'd be a pretty you know, smooth transition to saying
I'm going to retire. This is this can't be beat
and he's going to be right. It's happened only two
other times in the history of pro football, three consecutive
NFL champions and that would not surprise me. Even though
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he has say he's coming back. I do think a
lot of this is tied to Mahomes and how special
their relationship is and how well they work together. Everything
is running smoothly. They've got good young players on both
sides of the ball, a lot of reasons to come back.
I mean, I mean, and you'd be trying to go
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for four in a row. YEA. So no, I'm in.
I definitely think he'll come back even if he wins,
although I wouldn't be surprised if he retired on that podium.
But it doesn't surprise me that he says he wants
to come back for another year.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And clearly it's tied it to Patrick Mahomes. Boy.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You said you've watched all the tape, You've broken down
all the stats, Kevin, and will rely on your expert
analysis to give us an idea of how this game
may go on Sunday. But it's funny because nobody's asking
how the Chiefs can win the game. We know how
the Chiefs can win the game with Mahomes magic, which
is what you've seen now for seventeen consecutive wins by
Kansas City. But paint a picture on how Philadelphia, if
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Jalen Hurts and if Nick Sirianni is going to slay
the Beast and Andy Reid and take him down on Sunday,
how does Philadelphia get this done? If they do get
it done.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Church has got to play like he did in the
last Super Bowl against the Chiefs. Really he was the
MVP until Kansas City pulled it out at the end
and then Mahomes got it. But at Philadelphia one the
clearcut MVP was Jalen Hurts, So he's got to play
that kind of game. Barkley has got to be what
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he's been all postseason, which has been unstoppable. And their
defense on paper, player for player, pound for pound is
probably better than the Chiefs. Better playmakers they just seem
to have. They're really playing well. Vic Fangio. One of
the great matchups is going to be Fangio and his
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defense for the Eagles and Steve Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator
for the Chiefs. These are two of the best coordinators
in the league, and they've spent now two weeks trying
to go at the other quarterback, planning, plotting, and trying
to diagnose what to do. I'm I'm confident that the
defenses are going to play well. Yeah, that that leads
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me to it to a one score game. But all
that being said, if Hurts plays the kind of game
he did in the Super Bowl two years ago, and
Barkley is Barkley, I think the Eagles will be tough
to be.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, Look, Barkley has averaged one hundred
and twenty nine yards a game this year. If I
have my numbers right, I'm sure you'll correct me if
I'm wrong. By the way, because you are the.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Official, I'm not going to correct you that debt. We're teammates.
We don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No, that's that's fine. I just want to be right,
you know, as always want to be factual. But he's
averaging one hundred and thirty yards a game. I think
Vegas has put the over under in the game at
like one hundred and twelve and a half rushing yards.
I mean, you mentioned Spagnola. How surprised would you be
if Saquon Barkley just went bananas on Steve Spagnola's defense
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, he's gonna get his yard. It's like playing against
Lebron or Jordan or Kobe or whoever you're You're going
to see them score twenty five thirty points. It's making
sure that no one else goes off. So so Barkley
could have the game. But Hurts has got to have
a game stride for stride with him. They both have
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got to play incredible games for the Eagles. But the
Chiefs are good stoff in the run. Now listen, they
take you know, the Houston Oil Houston the Texans early
in the Divisional round at Arrowhead and Mixon had a
good day. Yep, they took on. James took the running
back for Buffalo two weeks ago in the AFC Championship game.
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He had a good day. Surprising, these teams have slowed
their running attack as the game has gone on. My
guess is Philadelphia will not do that, and they will
stick right with that running attack, and so Barkley will
be a forced the entire game.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, no, I got you. Well, look, I mean the
goat talk is already starting. You and I have discussed
it for the last maybe a couple of weeks or whatever,
a couple of months and seven straight ference championships, three
straight Super Bowl appearances. He's already got three MVPs to
his name in the Super Bowl. They win this, it's
three in a row for the first time ever. I mean,
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even if you're not ready yet to call this guy
the goat and you want to see if he can
get to seven rings like Brady this run. If Mahomes
finishes this off on Sunday, is this maybe the greatest
seven year run that any player has ever had ever
in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh, yeah, no, I would agree with that statement. Greatest
seven year run. Yes, I would definitely agree with that statement.
Whether he's the greatest of all time. You know, Brady's
individual numbers are shocking. He did all that over twenty years.
Longevity plays a role. Then he did it with another
team and won another Super Bowl. So there's a lot,
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there's a lot there to digest with Brady. But clearly
it would be one in one A. But I still
put Brady number one, even if Patrick wins this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah. Well, Brady, when he was like what forty three,
forty four, forty five years old. I think he threw
the numbers are like twelve thousand yards, one hundred touchdowns, whatever,
dropped back two thousand times and won a championship. So
I think we're gonna be waiting until later in Mahomes's
career to see if he can almost do what Lebron's
doing right now? Don't you think that the longevity and
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how he performs when he's in his early forties, if
he does play that long, we got to kind of
wait to see if he can do what Brady did
in that regard.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, no other quarterback has been to as many Super
Bowls at this age under thirty than him. He's twenty nine.
He'll be in for the fifth time in six years.
No quarterback has ever done that, which goes to your point. Yeah,
one of the greatest seven year runs in the history
by an individual player in pro football history. But again,
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I guess I look with a white lens and say
it was incredible. It was a Gail Sayers type seven.
And it's not going to end. I mean, he's twenty nine,
he'll play. He'll play another five years for sure, which
is going to give him multiple opportunities. If the head
coach days, who knows what they're going to put together,
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So I would put nothing. He's got this nat for
winning that is so rare, and even when he's not
at his best, he still wins. Yeah, and that that
I think is kind of incomparable.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, fourteen thousand yards and one hundred and eight touchdowns
between the ages of forty three and forty five, So
that that is saying something, man, no doubt. Well, Kevin
Harlan's with us the voice of Super Bowl fifty nine again.
Pregame show starts at eleven, kickoff at three point thirty.
I was surprised, Kevin, how much attention the league is
giving this conspiracy theory that people have regarding the referees.
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Goadell talked about it, the officials union, somebody came out
and had some statement the other day about it on
social media. Were you surprised that they gave it that
much attention.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, it's become almost larger than life, and it truly
is the elephant in the room that you know. This
has been brought up multiple times as the season is
wound down and has intensified over the last couple of
weeks with the two playoff wins the Chiefs had over
the Texans and over the Bills. So you know, I listen,
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when you're always at the top, everybody wants to poke
a hole in your success. And there is some Chiefs fatigue.
I think everybody is well aware of that. We had
Patriot and Brady fatigue too, So I guess it's part
and parcel with the team that seems to get a
lot of calls. I don't know what the statistical breakdown is.
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I don't bother with that, but it's gotten deep into
those trenches with the numbers and all the things going
on with those numbers and how it favors the Chiefs,
I don't see it. There may have been a couple
of questionable calls in that Bills game, that fourth and
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one run, Yep, I thought he may have had it.
You know, Just a variety of things over the last
half of the season have come up as the Chiefs
have been on this road, and I think it's kind
of kind of comes with the territory, and I think
they're used to it, and I think they they hear it.
I think the league definitely hears it, because, like you said,
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they've trusted Yep. And but but I don't. I don't
think there's anything to it, and I certainly want to
believe that more than anything else.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us, Kevin No, Miles Garrett thing
that broke the air day where he wants out of Cleveland.
And you know, it's only been like six or seven
defenders I think in the history of the NFL that
have been traded for a first round draft pick, let
alone multiple first round picks, and the Seahawks were involved
in two of them with Jamal Adams and Frank Clark.
But Miles Garrett, it's gonna be thirty years alwa, He's
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got sixty sacks in four years, under contract for two
more years. If the Browns are asking two first rounders
from Miles Garrett, I mean obviously depends on the team
we're talking about what they already have. But does that
seem like a deal that you'd consider doing for him?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Well, he's a Hall of Famer. I think he's twenty nine.
I don't think he's thirty yet, is he?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No? Not yet?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, he's got good years left in him. That position
has some has some longevity to it. You're getting a
Hall of Famer, might be the missing piece on the line.
I see why he wants to leave, and I can
see why teams would be interested. I just don't know
if that asking price is too steep. We're gonna find
out soon. But he clearly is one of those players
that is unique. Yeah, and one of one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, well, the other story. I gotta get your thoughts on.
There's two of them before you go, all right, And
I can just feel you itching to get behind that
microphone on Sunday. We're itching to hear you call the
game on Sunday, by the way, so you're right there
with you. Mike Holmgrinn is up for the Hall of Fame.
He's a finalist, and apparently we're gonna find out tomorrow
night on the NFL Honor Show with everybody else. How surprised, disappointed?
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Whatever would you be if Mike Homgrin does not hear
his name called tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I won't be surprised, they'll be disappointed. I think he
has earned it. I think his success speaks for itself.
He's got a resume that is terrific. He's worked with
the best quarterbacks in the game. He's at success wherever
he went. I just think he belongs. I can't really
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even go. I think it's fairly obvious for me. You
and I are close to him, we revere him, and
I'm just hoping it falls in his direction tomorrow and
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, no, totally with you. I would love to hear
you and Kurt get a chance to maybe talk about that.
If you know what, if it's a blowout, all right,
don't worry about it if it's a close game. But
if it's a blowout one way or the other ten
points or more, feel free to give our guy Michael
little shout out and add me too, your buddy for
crying out loud. Hey, Kevin, before you go, you're doing
NBA stuff as well. I got to get a thought
from you on the Luca trade that came down over
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the weekend. Man, what was your reaction when you saw
that news on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well, pretty stunned. I wasn't sure if it was correct
or not, but right I do know there are issues
with his conditioning and the way he takes care of himself.
The Mavericks are facing a gigantic contract decision with him
at the end of the year or two years for
the Supermax. We all know his talent. He's had a
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hard time staying healthy. Lakers need star power in Los Angeles, Lakers.
I think that's the best part of this deal. I
do think Anthony Davis. So I'm going to see tomorrow
night in Boston against the Celtics. If he plays, I
think there's a chance he could for the Mavericks. He
helps him defensively. I think Dallas is believing they've got
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a store shore if their defense that has been an issue,
and he could definitely do that. The he's thirty one
and the clock is kicking on him is maybe too strong. Yeah,
but he's clearly in the second half of his career.
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Doncic is in the first half and it's playing great.
He took the team to the finals last year. For goodness.
Say so, we haven't had many first team All NBA
guys traded for each other, but sure enough we did
over the weekend and it was stunning.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
No doubt. All right, man, listen, have fun on Sunday.
Can't wait to hear you call the game three point
thirty on CAGR and across the country, across the globe
on the Armed Forces Radio Network. And congratulations to you.
I mean, this is just proof positive that if a
young man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin can grow up to call
fifteen straight Super Bowls, anybody can accomplish whatever they set
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their mind to.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Anybody can do it. If I can do it, anybody
can do it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We'll lave me go get them on Sunday and we'll
talk in a week and wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Man all I appreciate it, Palk, thank you, Thank you, Pale,
have a good week, day week.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Kevin Harlan with us. He's got the call for Westwood
one Sunday of the Super Bowl. We'll get a break.
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Emerald quinc Casino. In the man Cave. We have some
break news from the NBA. First of all, though, let's
go back to yesterday. Brian Winhorst of ESPN was on
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TV talking about what he thought was the issue and
where the preferred destination was for Jimmy Butler of the
Miami Heat. Let's get back to Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
He's been atop the trade talks for weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now, what should we expect on his future at this point?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I just the thing that's to understanding about Butler is
there is nothing that he wants to hear right now
that doesn't include getting him to the Suns. That is
the only thing he's focused on. I honestly, I don't
think you could offer him any amount of money or
any role on any team and hear that, He's like, yep,
I'll get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And because he's got a kN opt out in his contract,
he has some measure of control, so.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
He only wants to go to the Suns and doesn't
want to hear about the money. We'll breaking news. Jam's
Charadia the first reports that the Miami Heats are finalizing
a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State
Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, demonstrator Kyle Anderson, and a protected
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first round pick. And he's getting an eight million dollars
per year raise from Golden State, so they keep Draymond Green.
They talk Jimmy Butler at I wanted to go to
Phoenix to play with Kevin Durant. Instead he goes to
Golden State to join Steph Curry and Draymond Green in
the Bay Area. How about that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's a deal of the Warriors had to make or
they were going to spile aspir roll into irrelevance. Because
right now they are the ten seed in the West.
Dallas just got better, I believe for the short term.
I'm not saying they're got better for five years from now,
but they got better for the short term. They are
going to push for a playoff spot. Minnesota's underachieving, they're
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in the seven. Sacramento just got got rid of the
Aaron Fox, So Golden State had an opportunity and they
took it. This make clearly makes them better. They should
be a top eight team. The question is there's going
to be a pretty darn good team that doesn't even
make the play in game in the Western Conference. Because
right now Dallas is eleven in the Western Conference. There
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is going to be a playoff caliber team that not
only doesn't make the playoffs, but doesn't even make the
play in game in the Western coast.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, here's the thing, so, and I think it's worth
I don't know if you think this is necessary or not.
I do because I think there's a lot of people
out there that still don't understand how the NBA has
changed over the years. Maybe there's not as many basketball fans.
They jumped off when you're looking at the standings. Now
in the NBA, only the top six teams are guaranteed
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correct to make the playoffs. The seven, eight, nine, ten
seeds have to go into the play in tournaments, right.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So the seven in the play in tournament, the seven
plays the eight correct to get the sevens. That's right,
that's right, and then the loser of the seven eight
game prays the winner of.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
The nine to ten game.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
The nine ten game is a knockout game, right, and
then the loser of the eight plays the winner of
the nine for that eight set.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But here's the point. Though, Golden State just got Jimmy Butler,
they're only two and a half games out behind the
Clippers for the six spots, right, they could absolutely easily
make a run and maybe climb into the top five.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
There are one, two, three, four, five, six teams separated
by two and a half games for the six seed.
I mean, this is good, this is perfect, and it's
perfect timing. It's why the NBA is the best soap
opera in sports. I'm not gonna say it's the best
sport in sports, because the NFL is the best sport
in sports, but is the best soap opera in sports.
The timing of the trade deadline is per It's right
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at the end of the Super Bowl, right at the
end of the NFL season, and the NBA will dominate
the headlines for much of the next four months other
than obviously Draft Week and free agency week in the NFL,
the NBA knows what they're doing, man, and it is
going to be so fun to watch over the next
four or five Well.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The only thing I would just say is that I
get a little bit frustrated with all the player movement,
all these stars moving teams. I mean, it's not something
that I'm used to. You know, I'm a little bit
older obviously than guys like Jackson and Andrews and Chris
Kid who were out there bitching at each other in
the sports pit arguing about who knows the NBA least.
By the way, it was the last few minutes. I
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just think that this day and age of all these
guys moving around from team to team, That's why I
appreciate Steph Curry, because Steph Curry's probably gonna play his
right career, his entire career with the Golden State Warriors.
And you don't see that anymore. I mean, you know,
all these guys are moving around. Man, it's it kind
of it's a little bit ridiculous. Autre so well, at
least for me. Why doesn't bother you in the college football?
(24:04):
Then they move more than the does bother me in COG. Yeah,
there needs to be some structure.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
How many times have I said that maybe this is
the kid in me who grew up playing Madden and
I would run like fantasy drafts as part of franchises
and you make big swings and you do crazy deals.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I love this. I can't get enough of this.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
And I'm like, I remember just in the break yelling
on this Sham's bomb, Sham's bomb.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Like freaking out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I feed off of this crazy like, oh my god,
and it really does come back. I think to the
video game nature in me of I want to see
these big deals. I want to make these big deals.
I love these big dix right.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That there's more drama in the NBA than there is
any other sport. I mean, just think about like the
NFL trade deadline, the MLB trade deadline, the NHL. I mean,
the NBA is just it's just crazy. And again, I mean,
I don't like all the player movement, but one of
the advantages to it is the chaos that you're having
right now in the NBA and the unbelievable movement that
you got and all the fan bases arguing and going crazy.
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I mean, teams are making themselves immediately better. I just
think the NBA, especially the Western Conference, man is wide
freaking open.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, it is.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
And the reason it's so wide open is because all
the veteran teams and the veteran players that have been
to the mountaintop before, they're all on the six, seven, eight, nine,
ten slots, and all the new blood other than Denver
is in the one, two, three, four and five slots.
So like, who do you trust more come playoff time?
Do you trust Lebron and Luca? Do you trust eighty
(25:33):
and Kyrie? You're not trust Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry.
Trust the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timborough.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Like it's the current one seed. Well, they're probably the
best team. If I was not a Sonic fan, which
I am, and if I had no bias, which I do,
and I just simply put was to pick the team
that's going to come out of the West, I would
say it's going to be them. I mean, they are
clearly the best team right now in the Western Conference,
and they are animas together. I mean, it's unbelievable how
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freaking good they are. So but it makes me sick.
But here's the thing. We are going to be Grizzly fans,
Rocket fans, Nugget fans, Laker fans, Tea Wolf, Sacramento fans, whatever.
We can team all these teams whoever's play in Oklahoma City.
And then we get to that day obviously, which is
becoming a tradition here on the radio show. Obviously that
day whenever that day comes, where we can sing together
(26:26):
you all right. I mean it's the one thing we
got going right now.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, and it's it's very similar to what we just
went through in the college football playoffs, right, It's like, hey,
only one team has to knockoff Oregon.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Right, they don't all have to.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Knock off Oregon.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oregon just has to lose one game in the playoffs.
And God bless Ohio State, they took care of that.
So it's not like Oklahoma State's Oklahoma City's got to
lose to the Lakers and Minnesota and Houston and Denver.
He just gotta lose one. And so we'll see it's
gonna be really tough for Oklahoma City. And kid raise
a great point in the other room. Who's Oklahoma City
going to put on Anthony Davis? I mean, Klahoma City
(27:00):
is a bunch of sticks. I mean there are a
bunch of run and guns sticks and Anthony Davis is
going to provide some problems.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You're right, you all right, we're gonna break a little
fun with audio and it's now time for somefty in
Dig's fun with audio.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Jimmy g paorn Star Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Now let's have some fun with audio. Jetfish coming up
six to twenty tonight on the program. And right now
they're a little fun with audio slash. Hey did you
hear that? This segment everybody's been waiting for, at least
talk two of you out there. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Dave?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Dick ken Rosenthal joined the Foul Territory podcast yesterday and
shared his reaction to Jerry Depoto's comments on Monday about
the state of the Mariners offense.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, the fans are not happy, first of all, and
Jerry Depoto knows that their fans are frustrated by this
team's unwillingness to spend what they should be spending to
support a rotation that is arguably the best in the game,
and in rotation you will have together for only so long.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
So yes, they've added Donovan Solano and Jorge Polanco. There
are decent players, there's no question about that, accomplished veterans,
but they're not stars. And what this team really needs
is one more huge bat, and the place to do
it would have been first base. But they weren't involved
in Christian Walker, they don't seem to be involved in
Pete Alonzo, and it seems that the problem with this
(28:24):
organization is that ownership is unwilling to go an extra
mile with payroll. Now, Jerry Depoto is not going to
sit here and tell us that and rip his owners
by kind of saying, hey, guys, I'm just kind of
hamstrung right now.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He's never going to say that.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
He's always going to put his best foot forward and
best face on the situation.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Every GM would do that. We have a good offensive team,
you know. It's just it's amazing how much coverage this
is getting around the country. I'm not saying it's getting
a ton, but it's getting way more than it has before.
Where all the big names know. They're starting to pick
up on it, man, no question starting to pick up
on it. The Mariners are kind of becoming, i think,
on a little bit of a way, and maybe the
fan base more than the franchise, a bit of a
sympathetic figure because they know that they've got this phenomenal
(29:07):
pitching staff that they're wasting. They know that the only
team in baseball too have never played in the World Series. Ever.
I think they know they have pretty good fans out here,
and it's almost like the rest of the country is like,
come on, guys, I mean, what are you doing, Like
we'd love to be in your situation. You're pissing it away.
I love it. I love how many people are jumping
on the Wagon.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Well, and if the Mariners make a run.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I think back in ninety five, I feel like I
felt like we were America's team going up against the Yankees.
It was three years ago this year, and I think
that will would be the same this year, especially if
they went up against the team like the Yankees the
Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
I think I think America would rally around the America.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
The thirtieth anniversary of Edgar's double is this October, So
just wrap your head around that little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, how many different bottle lines are they going to
go through for that one thirtieth?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
We have a good offensive team. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At the introductory press conference for Luka danceec Yester with
the Lakers, he shared his reaction where he got the
call last weekend that he was being traded.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
So you can imagine how surprised I was. I was
almost aslip so when I got a call, I had
to check it was it was April first. I didn't
really believe it at first, and it was. It was
a big shock. It was hard moments for me. It
was it was home, so it was really hard moments
for me, especially the first day. As I said, you know,
(30:26):
I get to play in the greatest club in the world,
and I'm excited for this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I tell GM you trade backer, I breakneck. Okay, that's
that's brothers, that's who that is. Well, this guy's from Slovenia.
I don't know about the Sloveni and mafia, but I'm
sure he's got a couple of big six foot ten,
two hundred and eighty pound dudes with sledgehammers. By the way,
they can take somebody out. I don't know. You just
bought a fifteen million dollar house. I guess in Dallas,
(30:50):
like a month ago or whatever. So I mean, yeah, whatever,
this is part of the NBA. You see that there
was a guy. Never mind, i'll bring that up.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Player.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I'm not gonna talk about that right now. Hey, did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 7 (31:02):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Saint John's b Marquette? Yesterday, speaking of Jimmy Butler, by
the way, the Red Storm head coach Rick Patino, remember him,
was asked by announcer Bill Raftery about the team's poor
free throw shooting. I know, the free throws you just
ignore and keep plugging.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
Yeah, inside, I want to kill myself outside and just
say that's okay, we're going to make the next one.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You've been around the country.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
He's so competitive on a great effort by their club.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know, understand foul problems, but you rose to the occasion.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
Shock is a terrific coach. Mack catch a great program.
You look at the Gotton Billy, you know it Beck
in the old days, this is what Saint John's was
all about with Louis. So we got in back. Now
we can't lose it for the rest of our lifetime.
You and I are going to live about another thirty
forty years, so we got to stay in there.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh well, if he lives forty years, it'll be one
hundred and twenty one years old. Go will I mean,
growing up as a kid, like in middle school, it
was Chris Mall and it was Mark Jackson, it was
the Saint John's Redman in a sweater. They changed their
name Luke carnaseca the whole thing. They were a big
damn deal. They were, and then they fell apart and
now they're back and it's great to see. I mean,
you know, you can say what you want about Rick Patino.
(32:10):
I mean he is like waitress in the game.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
He does, he does. I'm rooting for him. They're twenty
and three. He does like waitress.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Waitress over here for what you hungry? No, I just
want to talk to one restaurant, is that tiger Rick Patino?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Perkins?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Rick Patino testifies uh was an Italian restaurant. Louisville basketball
coach Rick Patino told a Jerry that a woman was
extorting him after they had sex and an empty Italian restaurant. Sorry,
it was not a Perkins. It was an Italian restaurant.
I mean he is Italian, so that does make sense.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
I just don't see him in a Perkins.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't either see Perkins acake. What's wrong with the Perkins?
By the way, I just don't see It's like beneath him. Yes,
you're saying, you know what a per Perkins is? Think uh?
I think uh no, better than Daddy's think uh Sherry's. Yes,
Cherry's Coco's back in the day. For those that remember Cocos,
Coco is probably way before your time, right, Coco guy,
(33:14):
There used to be a Coco's on four All five
in Bellevue by the red line down there. Remember they
caught the janitor who was putting hidden cameras on the
women's bathroom. Remember that big story. Yeah, I used to
love going to cocos that wasn't By the way, Cherry's,
they close the Sherryes in Federal Way. Sherry's pies the best,
the best. Uh No, that's gone now. I think the
(33:35):
one that's down the road from little down the road,
I think I think it's gone. All right. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
During the Canucks Red Wings game earlier this week, Vancouver
play by play voice John Shorthouse made a joke connecting
their power play to the recent tariffs.
Speaker 12 (33:51):
Frettsgate, This will actually be a two and a half
minute power play for the Detroit Red Wings Judy the
tw tariff that is being imposed stove pedalie to Canadian
based teams.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow, seems successive. God, they hate our guts up there?
Are they still booing us? Because then he pulled it back.
Then he pulled the thing back with Mexico and you
we got to stay of execution. She pulled it back,
But they're booing us man the National Land. Have you
seen that at hockey games they're booing the Have you
ever seen the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy and
Stephen Wright and those guys. You never saw Canadian Bacon.
(34:24):
We invade Canada, the President convinces us that Canada is
the enemy, and we go after it. So it's a
documentary exactly about the future, by the way, and the
future might be here.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
We made them.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Should we just kind of keep an eyeing Bacon and
see how many things actually happened.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I was like, well, where are we all going?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Canadian We're going to Canada, We're going to Greenland, We're
going to the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yes, we're going everywhere, taking back the Gulf of Mexico,
taking back America. Not that it's not the it's not
the Gaza Strip. It's the riviera of the Middle East.
That's right, that's right.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
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Five o'clock means one thing and one thing only, And
what a week to have that one thing on our show.
A chance to talk to the voice of the NFL
on CBS, the NFL on Westwood One, the NBA on TNT,
and on Sunday, the voice to millions of people, undreds
(01:00):
of millions of people around the globe on Westwood One
for Super Bowl fifty nine. You hear the call here
at three point thirty on Sunday, pregame starts at eleven.
We are honored. We are hashtag blessed baby, as the
kids like to say to welcome in the voice of
the Super Bowl Kevin Harlan, how are you.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Pal Well, that was a nice indro. It's always good
being on with you, Dave, and it's an honor to
broadcast this super Bowl again, looking very forward to Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, there's there's so much that goes into the TV
broadcast right, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, months and months.
Does the TV excuse me, does the radio broadcast feel
really any different for you on Sunday preparing for it
once the game kicks off to any other game you
do during the regular season.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, it's a little different than TV. With radio, it's
all about the call, the moment, and and there's really
no time for stories. All the statistics, all the anecdotes
have been you know, spewed all week long. We all
will know them in our sleep. So the most important
(02:09):
thing for me I've learned is to treat it like
any other game. I don't mean to downplay it, but
that keeps my emotions and my nerves and check yep.
And I would just say that that I I am
ready to call. I know the players. I've watched the
tape continue that from began yesterday. We'll continue that all
(02:33):
week long. But the only thing that's really going to
matter is the call. And I can have little notes
to throw in there, but I think people are pretty
familiar with the major storylines of the game. So it's
the call that's going to really be number one on
my list. And I've always kind of found that's the
(02:55):
best way to do it, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, you do it better than anybody. How many
how many Super Bowls?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Is this fifteen in a row?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Luckily blessed fifteen straight?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, and you've seen every one of Kansas City's obviously,
I mean, look, if they win it. You know the
three peat I saw where the NFL had to strike
a deal with pat Riley because he had the three
peat label obviously to himself had that trademarked Eagles. No
doubt we'll use that as motivation for this game on Sunday.
But I mean, everybody's expecting a tight game Vegas has
(03:28):
the Chiefs given a point and a half, they think
it'll be a tight game. Is there any reason at
all for you to feel like, Hey, if you're going
to tune in for five minutes of this game, make
it the final five minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I would say last two Super bowls for the Chiefs
have been close, one of which was against the Eagles.
Only thing that could change any of this, of course,
is quarterback injury and that aside. I see a close
game and I see a final possession game.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, I'm totally with you on that. By the way,
I think it's going to come down to the i'll
play of the game, and I can't think of anybody
better to call that than you. But Kevin Harlan's with
us again on the radio show. And I mean Andy
Reid said the other day that he's going to coach
in twenty twenty five, and then he doesn't know. I mean,
you know Andy Reid as well as anybody. Do you
actually envision a scenario where he coaches one more year,
(04:19):
Kevin and then calls it quits.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I don't know. You know, if you'd win this year,
it'd be a pretty you know, smooth transition to saying
I'm going to retire. This is this can't be beat
and he's going to be right. It's happened only two
other times in the history of pro football, three consecutive
NFL champions and that would not surprise me. Even though
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he has say he's coming back. I do think a
lot of this is tied to Mahomes and how special
their relationship is and how well they work together. Everything
is running smoothly. They've got good young players on both
sides of the ball, a lot of reasons to come back.
I mean, I mean, and you'd be trying to go
(05:07):
for four in a row. YEA. So no, I'm in.
I definitely think he'll come back even if he wins,
although I wouldn't be surprised if he retired on that podium.
But it doesn't surprise me that he says he wants
to come back for another year.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
And clearly it's tied it to Patrick Mahomes. Boy.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You said you've watched all the tape, You've broken down
all the stats, Kevin, and will rely on your expert
analysis to give us an idea of how this game
may go on Sunday. But it's funny because nobody's asking
how the Chiefs can win the game. We know how
the Chiefs can win the game with Mahomes magic, which
is what you've seen now for seventeen consecutive wins by
Kansas City. But paint a picture on how Philadelphia, if
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Jalen Hurts and if Nick Sirianni is going to slay
the Beast and Andy Reid and take him down on Sunday,
how does Philadelphia get this done? If they do get
it done.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Church has got to play like he did in the
last Super Bowl against the Chiefs. Really he was the
MVP until Kansas City pulled it out at the end
and then Mahomes got it. But at Philadelphia one the
clearcut MVP was Jalen Hurts, So he's got to play
that kind of game. Barkley has got to be what
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he's been all postseason, which has been unstoppable. And their
defense on paper, player for player, pound for pound is
probably better than the Chiefs. Better playmakers they just seem
to have. They're really playing well. Vic Fangio. One of
the great matchups is going to be Fangio and his
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defense for the Eagles and Steve Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator
for the Chiefs. These are two of the best coordinators
in the league, and they've spent now two weeks trying
to go at the other quarterback, planning, plotting, and trying
to diagnose what to do. I'm I'm confident that the
defenses are going to play well. Yeah, that that leads
(07:05):
me to it to a one score game. But all
that being said, if Hurts plays the kind of game
he did in the Super Bowl two years ago, and
Barkley is Barkley, I think the Eagles will be tough
to be.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, Look, Barkley has averaged one hundred
and twenty nine yards a game this year. If I
have my numbers right, I'm sure you'll correct me if
I'm wrong. By the way, because you are the.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Official, I'm not going to correct you that debt. We're teammates.
We don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
No, that's that's fine. I just want to be right,
you know, as always want to be factual. But he's
averaging one hundred and thirty yards a game. I think
Vegas has put the over under in the game at
like one hundred and twelve and a half rushing yards.
I mean, you mentioned Spagnola. How surprised would you be
if Saquon Barkley just went bananas on Steve Spagnola's defense
on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Well, he's gonna get his yard. It's like playing against
Lebron or Jordan or Kobe or whoever you're You're going
to see them score twenty five thirty points. It's making
sure that no one else goes off. So so Barkley
could have the game. But Hurts has got to have
a game stride for stride with him. They both have
(08:13):
got to play incredible games for the Eagles. But the
Chiefs are good stoff in the run. Now listen, they
take you know, the Houston Oil Houston the Texans early
in the Divisional round at Arrowhead and Mixon had a
good day. Yep, they took on. James took the running
back for Buffalo two weeks ago in the AFC Championship game.
(08:35):
He had a good day. Surprising, these teams have slowed
their running attack as the game has gone on. My
guess is Philadelphia will not do that, and they will
stick right with that running attack, and so Barkley will
be a forced the entire game.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, no, I got you. Well, look, I mean the
goat talk is already starting. You and I have discussed
it for the last maybe a couple of weeks or whatever,
a couple of months and seven straight ference championships, three
straight Super Bowl appearances. He's already got three MVPs to
his name in the Super Bowl. They win this, it's
three in a row for the first time ever. I mean,
(09:11):
even if you're not ready yet to call this guy
the goat and you want to see if he can
get to seven rings like Brady this run. If Mahomes
finishes this off on Sunday, is this maybe the greatest
seven year run that any player has ever had ever
in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh, yeah, no, I would agree with that statement. Greatest
seven year run. Yes, I would definitely agree with that statement.
Whether he's the greatest of all time. You know, Brady's
individual numbers are shocking. He did all that over twenty years.
Longevity plays a role. Then he did it with another
team and won another Super Bowl. So there's a lot,
(09:51):
there's a lot there to digest with Brady. But clearly
it would be one in one A. But I still
put Brady number one, even if Patrick wins this weekend.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah. Well, Brady, when he was like what forty three,
forty four, forty five years old. I think he threw
the numbers are like twelve thousand yards, one hundred touchdowns, whatever,
dropped back two thousand times and won a championship. So
I think we're gonna be waiting until later in Mahomes's
career to see if he can almost do what Lebron's
doing right now? Don't you think that the longevity and
(10:23):
how he performs when he's in his early forties, if
he does play that long, we got to kind of
wait to see if he can do what Brady did
in that regard.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, no other quarterback has been to as many Super
Bowls at this age under thirty than him. He's twenty nine.
He'll be in for the fifth time in six years.
No quarterback has ever done that, which goes to your point. Yeah,
one of the greatest seven year runs in the history
by an individual player in pro football history. But again,
(10:53):
I guess I look with a white lens and say
it was incredible. It was a Gail Sayers type seven.
And it's not going to end. I mean, he's twenty nine,
he'll play. He'll play another five years for sure, which
is going to give him multiple opportunities. If the head
coach days, who knows what they're going to put together,
(11:14):
So I would put nothing. He's got this nat for
winning that is so rare, and even when he's not
at his best, he still wins. Yeah, and that that
I think is kind of incomparable.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, fourteen thousand yards and one hundred and eight touchdowns
between the ages of forty three and forty five, So
that that is saying something, man, no doubt. Well, Kevin
Harlan's with us the voice of Super Bowl fifty nine again.
Pregame show starts at eleven, kickoff at three point thirty.
I was surprised, Kevin, how much attention the league is
giving this conspiracy theory that people have regarding the referees.
(11:49):
Goadell talked about it, the officials union, somebody came out
and had some statement the other day about it on
social media. Were you surprised that they gave it that
much attention.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well, it's become almost larger than life, and it truly
is the elephant in the room that you know. This
has been brought up multiple times as the season is
wound down and has intensified over the last couple of
weeks with the two playoff wins the Chiefs had over
the Texans and over the Bills. So you know, I listen,
(12:26):
when you're always at the top, everybody wants to poke
a hole in your success. And there is some Chiefs fatigue.
I think everybody is well aware of that. We had
Patriot and Brady fatigue too, So I guess it's part
and parcel with the team that seems to get a
lot of calls. I don't know what the statistical breakdown is.
(12:48):
I don't bother with that, but it's gotten deep into
those trenches with the numbers and all the things going
on with those numbers and how it favors the Chiefs,
I don't see it. There may have been a couple
of questionable calls in that Bills game, that fourth and
(13:10):
one run, Yep, I thought he may have had it.
You know, Just a variety of things over the last
half of the season have come up as the Chiefs
have been on this road, and I think it's kind
of kind of comes with the territory, and I think
they're used to it, and I think they they hear it.
I think the league definitely hears it, because, like you said,
(13:31):
they've trusted Yep. And but but I don't. I don't
think there's anything to it, and I certainly want to
believe that more than anything else.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us, Kevin No, Miles Garrett thing
that broke the air day where he wants out of Cleveland.
And you know, it's only been like six or seven
defenders I think in the history of the NFL that
have been traded for a first round draft pick, let
alone multiple first round picks, and the Seahawks were involved
in two of them with Jamal Adams and Frank Clark.
But Miles Garrett, it's gonna be thirty years alwa, He's
(14:00):
got sixty sacks in four years, under contract for two
more years. If the Browns are asking two first rounders
from Miles Garrett, I mean obviously depends on the team
we're talking about what they already have. But does that
seem like a deal that you'd consider doing for him?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Well, he's a Hall of Famer. I think he's twenty nine.
I don't think he's thirty yet, is he?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
No? Not yet?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, he's got good years left in him. That position
has some has some longevity to it. You're getting a
Hall of Famer, might be the missing piece on the line.
I see why he wants to leave, and I can
see why teams would be interested. I just don't know
if that asking price is too steep. We're gonna find
out soon. But he clearly is one of those players
that is unique. Yeah, and one of one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, well, the other story. I gotta get your thoughts on.
There's two of them before you go, all right, And
I can just feel you itching to get behind that
microphone on Sunday. We're itching to hear you call the
game on Sunday, by the way, so you're right there
with you. Mike Holmgrinn is up for the Hall of Fame.
He's a finalist, and apparently we're gonna find out tomorrow
night on the NFL Honor Show with everybody else. How surprised, disappointed?
(15:02):
Whatever would you be if Mike Homgrin does not hear
his name called tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I won't be surprised, they'll be disappointed. I think he
has earned it. I think his success speaks for itself.
He's got a resume that is terrific. He's worked with
the best quarterbacks in the game. He's at success wherever
he went. I just think he belongs. I can't really
(15:28):
even go. I think it's fairly obvious for me. You
and I are close to him, we revere him, and
I'm just hoping it falls in his direction tomorrow and
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, no, totally with you. I would love to hear
you and Kurt get a chance to maybe talk about that.
If you know what, if it's a blowout, all right,
don't worry about it if it's a close game. But
if it's a blowout one way or the other ten
points or more, feel free to give our guy Michael
little shout out and add me too, your buddy for
crying out loud. Hey, Kevin, before you go, you're doing
NBA stuff as well. I got to get a thought
from you on the Luca trade that came down over
(16:04):
the weekend. Man, what was your reaction when you saw
that news on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well, pretty stunned. I wasn't sure if it was correct
or not, but right I do know there are issues
with his conditioning and the way he takes care of himself.
The Mavericks are facing a gigantic contract decision with him
at the end of the year or two years for
the Supermax. We all know his talent. He's had a
(16:32):
hard time staying healthy. Lakers need star power in Los Angeles, Lakers.
I think that's the best part of this deal. I
do think Anthony Davis. So I'm going to see tomorrow
night in Boston against the Celtics. If he plays, I
think there's a chance he could for the Mavericks. He
helps him defensively. I think Dallas is believing they've got
(16:54):
a store shore if their defense that has been an issue,
and he could definitely do that. The he's thirty one
and the clock is kicking on him is maybe too strong. Yeah,
but he's clearly in the second half of his career.
(17:15):
Doncic is in the first half and it's playing great.
He took the team to the finals last year. For goodness.
Say so, we haven't had many first team All NBA
guys traded for each other, but sure enough we did
over the weekend and it was stunning.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
No doubt. All right, man, listen, have fun on Sunday.
Can't wait to hear you call the game three point
thirty on CAGR and across the country, across the globe
on the Armed Forces Radio Network. And congratulations to you.
I mean, this is just proof positive that if a
young man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin can grow up to call
fifteen straight Super Bowls, anybody can accomplish whatever they set
(17:51):
their mind to.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Anybody can do it. If I can do it, anybody
can do it.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We'll lave me go get them on Sunday and we'll
talk in a week and wrap it up.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Man all I appreciate it, Palk, thank you, Thank you, Pale,
have a good week, day week.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Kevin Harlan with us. He's got the call for Westwood
one Sunday of the Super Bowl. We'll get a break.
If you missed Jetfish yesterday. I thought he was phenomenal.
I thought the guy's asking the questions were great. Uh
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Point super Bowl kJ R FM. All right, before we
get to some breaking news in the National Basketball Association
with fun with audio coming up five forty five Jetfish
Here from him again, six twenty tonight on the show,
We're gonna be at the Emerald Queen Casino Events Center
by the way, on Sunday for the Super Bowl. We
(18:56):
have a spot for two winners and four of their pals.
By the way, you'll be given man cave treatment. They're
actually building a man cave for you with the chairs,
the food, the booze, nice, the swag bags, the whole spiel.
So we've had people entering on the website for now
a couple of weeks, and the time has come to
announce the winners on the air. They are Damian Keys
(19:18):
and Lake Stevens and Andy Woodward in Tacoma. So Andy's
got a short commute, Damien's got to come down obviously
a little bit north. But all right, congrats to Andy
and Damien. We'll see you guys on Sunday at the
Emerald quinc Casino. In the man Cave. We have some
break news from the NBA. First of all, though, let's
go back to yesterday. Brian Winhorst of ESPN was on
(19:38):
TV talking about what he thought was the issue and
where the preferred destination was for Jimmy Butler of the
Miami Heat. Let's get back to Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
He's been atop the trade talks for weeks.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now, what should we expect on his future at this point?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I just the thing that's to understanding about Butler is
there is nothing that he wants to hear right now
that doesn't include getting him to the Suns. That is
the only thing he's focused on. I honestly, I don't
think you could offer him any amount of money or
any role on any team and hear that, He's like, yep,
I'll get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And because he's got a kN opt out in his contract,
he has some measure of control, so.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
He only wants to go to the Suns and doesn't
want to hear about the money. We'll breaking news. Jam's
Charadia the first reports that the Miami Heats are finalizing
a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State
Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, demonstrator Kyle Anderson, and a protected
(20:37):
first round pick. And he's getting an eight million dollars
per year raise from Golden State, so they keep Draymond Green.
They talk Jimmy Butler at I wanted to go to
Phoenix to play with Kevin Durant. Instead he goes to
Golden State to join Steph Curry and Draymond Green in
the Bay Area. How about that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
It's a deal of the Warriors had to make or
they were going to spile aspir roll into irrelevance. Because
right now they are the ten seed in the West.
Dallas just got better, I believe for the short term.
I'm not saying they're got better for five years from now,
but they got better for the short term. They are
going to push for a playoff spot. Minnesota's underachieving, they're
(21:16):
in the seven. Sacramento just got got rid of the
Aaron Fox, So Golden State had an opportunity and they
took it. This make clearly makes them better. They should
be a top eight team. The question is there's going
to be a pretty darn good team that doesn't even
make the play in game in the Western Conference. Because
right now Dallas is eleven in the Western Conference. There
(21:39):
is going to be a playoff caliber team that not
only doesn't make the playoffs, but doesn't even make the
play in game in the Western coast.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Well, here's the thing, so, and I think it's worth
I don't know if you think this is necessary or not.
I do because I think there's a lot of people
out there that still don't understand how the NBA has
changed over the years. Maybe there's not as many basketball fans.
They jumped off when you're looking at the standings. Now
in the NBA, only the top six teams are guaranteed
(22:08):
correct to make the playoffs. The seven, eight, nine, ten
seeds have to go into the play in tournaments, right.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So the seven in the play in tournament, the seven
plays the eight correct to get the sevens. That's right,
that's right, and then the loser of the seven eight
game prays the winner of.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
The nine to ten game.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
The nine ten game is a knockout game, right, and
then the loser of the eight plays the winner of
the nine for that eight set.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But here's the point. Though, Golden State just got Jimmy Butler,
they're only two and a half games out behind the
Clippers for the six spots, right, they could absolutely easily
make a run and maybe climb into the top five.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
There are one, two, three, four, five, six teams separated
by two and a half games for the six seed.
I mean, this is good, this is perfect, and it's
perfect timing. It's why the NBA is the best soap
opera in sports. I'm not gonna say it's the best
sport in sports, because the NFL is the best sport
in sports, but is the best soap opera in sports.
The timing of the trade deadline is per It's right
(23:00):
at the end of the Super Bowl, right at the
end of the NFL season, and the NBA will dominate
the headlines for much of the next four months other
than obviously Draft Week and free agency week in the NFL,
the NBA knows what they're doing, man, and it is
going to be so fun to watch over the next
four or five Well.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The only thing I would just say is that I
get a little bit frustrated with all the player movement,
all these stars moving teams. I mean, it's not something
that I'm used to. You know, I'm a little bit
older obviously than guys like Jackson and Andrews and Chris
Kid who were out there bitching at each other in
the sports pit arguing about who knows the NBA least.
By the way, it was the last few minutes. I
(23:42):
just think that this day and age of all these
guys moving around from team to team, That's why I
appreciate Steph Curry, because Steph Curry's probably gonna play his
right career, his entire career with the Golden State Warriors.
And you don't see that anymore. I mean, you know,
all these guys are moving around. Man, it's it kind
of it's a little bit ridiculous. Autre so well, at
least for me. Why doesn't bother you in the college football?
(24:04):
Then they move more than the does bother me in COG. Yeah,
there needs to be some structure.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
How many times have I said that maybe this is
the kid in me who grew up playing Madden and
I would run like fantasy drafts as part of franchises
and you make big swings and you do crazy deals.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I love this. I can't get enough of this.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
And I'm like, I remember just in the break yelling
on this Sham's bomb, Sham's bomb.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Like freaking out.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I love this.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I feed off of this crazy like, oh my god,
and it really does come back. I think to the
video game nature in me of I want to see
these big deals. I want to make these big deals.
I love these big dix right.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That there's more drama in the NBA than there is
any other sport. I mean, just think about like the
NFL trade deadline, the MLB trade deadline, the NHL. I mean,
the NBA is just it's just crazy. And again, I mean,
I don't like all the player movement, but one of
the advantages to it is the chaos that you're having
right now in the NBA and the unbelievable movement that
you got and all the fan bases arguing and going crazy.
(25:02):
I mean, teams are making themselves immediately better. I just
think the NBA, especially the Western Conference, man is wide
freaking open.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Well, it is.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
And the reason it's so wide open is because all
the veteran teams and the veteran players that have been
to the mountaintop before, they're all on the six, seven, eight, nine,
ten slots, and all the new blood other than Denver
is in the one, two, three, four and five slots.
So like, who do you trust more come playoff time?
Do you trust Lebron and Luca? Do you trust eighty
(25:33):
and Kyrie? You're not trust Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry.
Trust the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Minnesota Timborough.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Like it's the current one seed. Well, they're probably the
best team. If I was not a Sonic fan, which
I am, and if I had no bias, which I do,
and I just simply put was to pick the team
that's going to come out of the West, I would
say it's going to be them. I mean, they are
clearly the best team right now in the Western Conference,
and they are animas together. I mean, it's unbelievable how
(26:04):
freaking good they are. So but it makes me sick.
But here's the thing. We are going to be Grizzly fans,
Rocket fans, Nugget fans, Laker fans, Tea Wolf, Sacramento fans, whatever.
We can team all these teams whoever's play in Oklahoma City.
And then we get to that day obviously, which is
becoming a tradition here on the radio show. Obviously that
day whenever that day comes, where we can sing together
(26:26):
you all right. I mean it's the one thing we
got going right now.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, and it's it's very similar to what we just
went through in the college football playoffs, right, It's like, hey,
only one team has to knockoff Oregon.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Right, they don't all have to.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Knock off Oregon.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Oregon just has to lose one game in the playoffs.
And God bless Ohio State, they took care of that.
So it's not like Oklahoma State's Oklahoma City's got to
lose to the Lakers and Minnesota and Houston and Denver.
He just gotta lose one. And so we'll see it's
gonna be really tough for Oklahoma City. And kid raise
a great point in the other room. Who's Oklahoma City
going to put on Anthony Davis? I mean, Klahoma City
(27:00):
is a bunch of sticks. I mean there are a
bunch of run and guns sticks and Anthony Davis is
going to provide some problems.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You're right, you all right, we're gonna break a little
fun with audio and it's now time for somefty in
Dig's fun with audio.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Jimmy g paorn Star Jimmy mister Garoppolo.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Now let's have some fun with audio. Jetfish coming up
six to twenty tonight on the program. And right now
they're a little fun with audio slash. Hey did you
hear that? This segment everybody's been waiting for, at least
talk two of you out there. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Dave?
Speaker 7 (27:34):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Dick ken Rosenthal joined the Foul Territory podcast yesterday and
shared his reaction to Jerry Depoto's comments on Monday about
the state of the Mariners offense.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, the fans are not happy, first of all, and
Jerry Depoto knows that their fans are frustrated by this
team's unwillingness to spend what they should be spending to
support a rotation that is arguably the best in the game,
and in rotation you will have together for only so long.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
So yes, they've added Donovan Solano and Jorge Polanco. There
are decent players, there's no question about that, accomplished veterans,
but they're not stars. And what this team really needs
is one more huge bat, and the place to do
it would have been first base. But they weren't involved
in Christian Walker, they don't seem to be involved in
Pete Alonzo, and it seems that the problem with this
(28:24):
organization is that ownership is unwilling to go an extra
mile with payroll. Now, Jerry Depoto is not going to
sit here and tell us that and rip his owners
by kind of saying, hey, guys, I'm just kind of
hamstrung right now.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He's never going to say that.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
He's always going to put his best foot forward and
best face on the situation.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Every GM would do that. We have a good offensive team,
you know. It's just it's amazing how much coverage this
is getting around the country. I'm not saying it's getting
a ton, but it's getting way more than it has before.
Where all the big names know. They're starting to pick
up on it, man, no question starting to pick up
on it. The Mariners are kind of becoming, i think,
on a little bit of a way, and maybe the
fan base more than the franchise, a bit of a
sympathetic figure because they know that they've got this phenomenal
(29:07):
pitching staff that they're wasting. They know that the only
team in baseball too have never played in the World Series. Ever.
I think they know they have pretty good fans out here,
and it's almost like the rest of the country is like,
come on, guys, I mean, what are you doing, Like
we'd love to be in your situation. You're pissing it away.
I love it. I love how many people are jumping
on the Wagon.
Speaker 7 (29:24):
Well, and if the Mariners make a run.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I think back in ninety five, I feel like I
felt like we were America's team going up against the Yankees.
It was three years ago this year, and I think
that will would be the same this year, especially if
they went up against the team like the Yankees the
Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
I think I think America would rally around the America.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
The thirtieth anniversary of Edgar's double is this October, So
just wrap your head around that little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, how many different bottle lines are they going to
go through for that one thirtieth?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
We have a good offensive team. All right, Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At the introductory press conference for Luka danceec Yester with
the Lakers, he shared his reaction where he got the
call last weekend that he was being traded.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
So you can imagine how surprised I was. I was
almost aslip so when I got a call, I had
to check it was it was April first. I didn't
really believe it at first, and it was. It was
a big shock. It was hard moments for me. It
was it was home, so it was really hard moments
for me, especially the first day. As I said, you know,
(30:26):
I get to play in the greatest club in the world,
and I'm excited for this.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I tell GM you trade backer, I breakneck. Okay, that's
that's brothers, that's who that is. Well, this guy's from Slovenia.
I don't know about the Sloveni and mafia, but I'm
sure he's got a couple of big six foot ten,
two hundred and eighty pound dudes with sledgehammers. By the way,
they can take somebody out. I don't know. You just
bought a fifteen million dollar house. I guess in Dallas,
(30:50):
like a month ago or whatever. So I mean, yeah, whatever,
this is part of the NBA. You see that there
was a guy. Never mind, i'll bring that up.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Player.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I'm not gonna talk about that right now. Hey, did
you happen to hear that?
Speaker 7 (31:02):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Saint John's b Marquette? Yesterday, speaking of Jimmy Butler, by
the way, the Red Storm head coach Rick Patino, remember him,
was asked by announcer Bill Raftery about the team's poor
free throw shooting. I know, the free throws you just
ignore and keep plugging.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
Yeah, inside, I want to kill myself outside and just
say that's okay, we're going to make the next one.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You've been around the country.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
He's so competitive on a great effort by their club.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
You know, understand foul problems, but you rose to the occasion.
Speaker 11 (31:32):
Shock is a terrific coach. Mack catch a great program.
You look at the Gotton Billy, you know it Beck
in the old days, this is what Saint John's was
all about with Louis. So we got in back. Now
we can't lose it for the rest of our lifetime.
You and I are going to live about another thirty
forty years, so we got to stay in there.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh well, if he lives forty years, it'll be one
hundred and twenty one years old. Go will I mean,
growing up as a kid, like in middle school, it
was Chris Mall and it was Mark Jackson, it was
the Saint John's Redman in a sweater. They changed their
name Luke carnaseca the whole thing. They were a big
damn deal. They were, and then they fell apart and
now they're back and it's great to see. I mean,
you know, you can say what you want about Rick Patino.
(32:10):
I mean he is like waitress in the game.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
He does, he does. I'm rooting for him. They're twenty
and three. He does like waitress.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Waitress over here for what you hungry? No, I just
want to talk to one restaurant, is that tiger Rick Patino?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Perkins?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Rick Patino testifies uh was an Italian restaurant. Louisville basketball
coach Rick Patino told a Jerry that a woman was
extorting him after they had sex and an empty Italian restaurant. Sorry,
it was not a Perkins. It was an Italian restaurant.
I mean he is Italian, so that does make sense.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
I just don't see him in a Perkins.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't either see Perkins acake. What's wrong with the Perkins?
By the way, I just don't see It's like beneath him. Yes,
you're saying, you know what a per Perkins is? Think uh?
I think uh no, better than Daddy's think uh Sherry's. Yes,
Cherry's Coco's back in the day. For those that remember Cocos,
Coco is probably way before your time, right, Coco guy,
(33:14):
There used to be a Coco's on four All five
in Bellevue by the red line down there. Remember they
caught the janitor who was putting hidden cameras on the
women's bathroom. Remember that big story. Yeah, I used to
love going to cocos that wasn't By the way, Cherry's,
they close the Sherryes in Federal Way. Sherry's pies the best,
the best. Uh No, that's gone now. I think the
(33:35):
one that's down the road from little down the road,
I think I think it's gone. All right. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
During the Canucks Red Wings game earlier this week, Vancouver
play by play voice John Shorthouse made a joke connecting
their power play to the recent tariffs.
Speaker 12 (33:51):
Frettsgate, This will actually be a two and a half
minute power play for the Detroit Red Wings Judy the
tw tariff that is being imposed stove pedalie to Canadian
based teams.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow, seems successive. God, they hate our guts up there?
Are they still booing us? Because then he pulled it back.
Then he pulled the thing back with Mexico and you
we got to stay of execution. She pulled it back,
But they're booing us man the National Land. Have you
seen that at hockey games they're booing the Have you
ever seen the movie Canadian Bacon with John Candy and
Stephen Wright and those guys. You never saw Canadian Bacon.
(34:24):
We invade Canada, the President convinces us that Canada is
the enemy, and we go after it. So it's a
documentary exactly about the future, by the way, and the
future might be here.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
We made them.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Should we just kind of keep an eyeing Bacon and
see how many things actually happened.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I was like, well, where are we all going?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Canadian We're going to Canada, We're going to Greenland, We're
going to the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yes, we're going everywhere, taking back the Gulf of Mexico,
taking back America. Not that it's not the it's not
the Gaza Strip. It's the riviera of the Middle East.
That's right, that's right.
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