March 12, 2025 • 32 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to what the Seahawks have done in free agency so far after two more moves today plus get the scoop on new edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence with R.J. Choppy in Dallas before getting Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know why I'm pissed off because Jackson and I
have one team and one team only, and our team's done.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You got two chances. It's not fair.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You get two chances every year to make the NCAA tournament.
And by god, who is Joe Lenardi fooling with that
two peg? No, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.
I just looked on TV. His fat face came up
and he's got him. That's awful. That's like even Marv
Albert's like, man, that thing's terrible. That is ridiculous. Dude,
just give it up already, man, shave the head man.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You gotta go. You get two chances every year to
make the tournament. It's not fair.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think you and I Jackson, if he's gonna do
this Gonzaga thing, we should we should get to adopt
a second team.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, who should we adopt? Whoever is playing Gonzaga in
the first round? You know?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
But really though, I mean, like you're like.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oklahoma City, a right, f few bull dogs.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
If Kenzaga is gonna be a seven.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Probably a probably a seven would be I think what
we get to do whoever they're playing? No, well, not
even that, but I think that we get to pick
somebody of the same seat and then like, because whoever
they're playing, fine, that's one game though, because that's that's
gonna be done on Thursday or Friday. Let's pick it
all their seven seed and let's see how far our
seventh seed guys compared to his seventh seed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I mean, but you know it is like we do
have a favorite NBA team, and our favorite NBA team
is whoever's playing in Oklahoma City, right, I mean, I typically
in the Huskies are not doing well as of late.
Whoever Gonzaga is playing is the team I'm rooting for.
And sometimes I'll even go on Amazon in order a
god darned T shirt. I mean, Louisville, Louisville could be
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a seventh seed. According to the guy, Missouri could be
a seventh seed. Who else is up there for a
seven eight seed? Memphis, Penny Hardaway, Ole Miss? Is that
Chris Beard? By the way, Ole Miss?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Is he there? Chris Beard thinks? So him? Creighton right
at of Nebraska? Yeah, okay, well, I just think.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Again, as long as we're going to do this thing
where you're getting multiple shots as a fan of a
team in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We get to pick it, all right, I have no problem.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's fair if we picked the team of the same sit.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
We're deciding what's fair. Well, once the bracket comes out,
why don't you pick the team? You tell us an
four nine four five one what we should do.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In response to Dick having two chances and Jackson and
I only having one chance. So the Seahawks again the
signings today?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And again have we confirmed?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Have they? Have they announced this yet? Have they made
it official?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There was this big old graphic that got put out,
but I don't know if that was prof the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Marcus Lawrence, Marcus Valdez Scandling. It's we know are both
going to be Seahawks. And look, here's the thing about
Marcus m vs. I don't mind it as a depth guy.
You need bodies. Same thing with DeMarcus Lawrence. You need bodies.
And by the way, speaking of my buddy Jackson Bevans,
and I think he he wrote this perfectly on social media.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
As much as we give him grief about his love
affair for Gino Smith, I'm trying to find out, you know,
who's more in love with Gino Smith him or Corbyn Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I mean the three of them should just get a
room for trying out.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Corb.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So Jackson wrote in regards to DeMarcus Lawrence, and this
is exactly the way I is what to come back
to In the end, he said, it's really a two year,
eighteen million dollar deal. And Sacks don't tell the story
of what has made him so good. He's been an excellent,
excellent run defender, which I agree with, totally fine with
it at this price. But yeah, the old line thing
is still the old line thing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And that's what I come back to every single freaking time, right, Like,
I'm in this car crash and I have this unbelievable
sound system, but I'm in a car crash and my
neck is in a brace, and I have no insurance whatsoever,
and I'm in the hospital with no friends to come
see me. You're so fix the freaking line before you
wake me up, will yeh?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Johnny? You use the car analogy.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I mean, the the offensive line, that's the guts of
your car, man, that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Offensive defensive line, that is the engine of your car.
You can put cool rims on it, you can raise
it up. You can put hydraulics on. He's a great
sound system on it. But if it doesn't run, it
doesn't run.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I told you what my dogs are doing now, especially
Dudley in the middle one. So Dudley will not eat
his food unless I put cheese on top of it. Really,
it's become a thing like it's my fault. It's totally
my face. You just happened to some one day and
I'll literally I'll give him a bowl of food and
he'll look at me like, where's my cheese. It's unbelievable,
and it's got to be shred and cheese. Like he
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loves cheese, and if he doesn't get his shreaded.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Cheese, he won't eat. Don't dogs get the too la.
I don't know. I I get him.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean, you know it's a problem for me, but
I love cheese, make dogs and dairy tremendously well. He
won't eat his freaking food unless I put the shreded
cheese on top of the bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So that's what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Give me my shreaded cheese, give me my damn shredded cheese,
or I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Not eating this. I'm not eating this food.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Are you going to push ups if they take a
guard in the first rest, you put some.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Man, you like, I just you know, I just it's
it's it's everything. It's everything for this football team, right.
You want to get the best out of Sam Darnold,
get a line. You want to get the best out
of your guy, Kenny Walker a line?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You know who is it?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think it was Millan on Monday who was doing
all the second round draft picks, and he included Zach
Sharbonney on that list, which I was like, that's I
thought Sharbonne was actually pretty good for the most part.
He's not canny.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Walker called him a bus I would I would have
put him in the middle, correct, Yeah, I would not
go that far. But you want to get the best
out of these guys. Imagine Sam Donald with a line
versus what Gino.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Smith had a year ago. I mean Sam Darnold with
time exactly. Imagine Sam Donald with time right what he
would look like. The red zone numbers were phenomenal Sam Donald.
Gino Smith's numbers were not phenomenal in the red zone.
One of the reasons why because the guy had you know,
decent blocking, not great, but decent blocking, and he had
great targets obviously too right. So to me, it's just
I don't care about any of this other stuff. It
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doesn't do anything for me, right until you fix the line,
until you get serious about the offensive line. All this
other stuff it's just noise, man.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's right.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like I told you about my dog and the shredded cheese.
My wife, when I first met her, always went to
bed with a fan on. She likes the ambient, white
noise to fall asleep to. And now I need the
same thing. If I'm on the road, like at a
hotel room, I'll go to YouTube and just put the
box fan on for eight hours. I can't get it done.
Get me the damn fan, dude. Nothing's gonna work until
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you fix that freaking line. And I'm so tired of
bitching about it. I'm tired of waiting for it. The
fans are tired of waiting for it. So all this
other stuff, man, is just noise.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, it's very similar to the Mariners when they pick
up like a reliever in the offseason, which could turn
out to be a really good reliever, but the fan
base is just like, okay, cool, tell me when you
get an offensive player, right, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You got a reliever, cool, fine, get me a hitter.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, absolutely, And I just look, I mean, I don't
know what's going on with the Kevin Zeitler thing. You
got a one year contract from the Titans for nine
million bucks. Maybe you didn't want to come here, you know.
Greg Bell mentioned that the other day that maybe people
just don't want to play here right now, I mean,
de Martinus Lawrence got a big deal, so he decided
to come here. But Ryan or Josh Meyer, sorry, the
center for Green Bay had to settle for a one year,
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three and a half million dollar deal from the Jets.
I don't know why he got such a piss poor contract.
He's a starting caliber center in the NFL, so that's
kind of intriguing to me. Went to a crappy team?
Why he got nothing from New York? But you know what,
the overpaying thing, and I get why the Seahawks don't
want to do it, But sometimes overpaying when you're so
terrible at developing a certain position is not a big
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price to pay.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's like, my god, we don't care how bad we are,
we are not going to overpay at least we can
hold our heads high, we can go to bed and
we can say that we never overpaid for a player. Well,
the alternative is you can't develop them right, And maybe
John Benton's going to be the rain man, right, the
new offensive line coach. But I don't mind overpaying for
a little bit if I'm just terrible at something and
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I'm desperate for something, right, and that tree fell on
your house the other day.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, if they.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Said, hey, man, typically this would cost you x y z,
but we need x y z and a little more,
you'd say, where do I sign?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I got to get off my house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm freaking desperate, So I don't mind overpaying if it's
something that absolutely gets me closer to solving a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But I can't solve myself.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I mean, the Annealogy ouse thing is like if you
if you bought a house that was just too much
for you to afford, that's gonna hurt you for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And you don't want to.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Do that in the NFL, But you know, for a
weekend you want to spend you want to go to
a hotel that's all inclusive, and it's really really expensive
and it's out of your budget.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But you're like, you know what, I need some fun
family time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I can.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I can suck it.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Up for the short run and pay this bill that
I can't afford a lot easier than I can pay
something for thirty years that I can.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would it have been okay to give Kevin Zidler ten
million dollars? Would it have been okay to give Josh
Meyers four and a half million dollars and give Hi
an extra million bucks versus what he's getting from the Jets.
Does Tennessee have an income tax in their state?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't know. Does New York have an income tax?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't know, right, But that's one of the sale
jobs for John Schneider here in Seattle is that, Hey,
you're gonna come here, there's no state income tax. You're
gonna keep more money here than you would if you
went to play somewhere else. So again, if I feel
like there's a weakness in my game as a talent
evaluator and I need to overpay just a little bit
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to maybe give myself a better shot to make up
for a weakness that I know, after fifteen years i've got,
that is exactly the right time to overpay for somebody.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I got some good news and I got some other news.
The good news, per Brady Henderson, is that the Seahawks
are fringing in for bringing in former Titan Julius Chestnut
for a free agent visit. Okay, bad news is that
Julius Chestnut is a running back kick returner, not an offensive.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I was like, Julius, you're gonna say Nathan's hot dog
eating champion whatever that Maybe it's his brother New York.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
By the way, does Tennessee does not get in oft?
There you go? But I mean, guys, does that makes sense? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That if you're like Jackson, what you're good at, what
you're bad at, handyman, you know whatever, blah blah blah.
There's certain things that we can all do around the house, right,
There's certain things I can't do. There's certain things I
can do. If I know I'm terrible at something and
I need to get something done asap, like when the
lightning bolt hit the house and knocked off the lights,
I don't have any idea what the hell I'm doing.
And if I got to overpay to get Jessmon McIntyre's
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husband to drag his harry ass because it's an emergency
to get those lights back on.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Can't exactly, it's do it myself. This is def con
one with this offensive line. Yeah my god, look, you
you just committed and you got rid of Gino Smith
for Sam Darnold. Why would you not do everything in
your power to protect him and make that investment payoff.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Not to mention the DK Metcalf money is off the books,
that's right, I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Mean, and you took away DK from him too.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And that's why I have ultimately, like why I have
such a problem with the Lawrence move is because at
the end of the day, it's three years forty two million,
and whether you want to say that it's you know,
actually two years eighteen million, like Bevans is saying it
is eighteen million guaranteed and it is whatever it ends
up being fourteen whatever it is million in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That first year.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And that money for a rotational pass rusher and what
is also a deep deep edge rusher and defensive end class.
So you're automatically looking at that position saying we have
a lot of draft picks we can load up there.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But then they go spend all this money. When you
look at the deal where these guys are getting today,
and it's you just wonder John, if you have to say, okay,
get it. You don't want to be here and you're
gonna go take a nine million dollar deal or a
three point five million deal with.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Somewhere else, But can we get you to come for
an extra two.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Maybe he get off for that for all I know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Here's what I don't get that they're they're they're willing
to give Luke jokel a seven million dollar deal, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Like eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Not even that, it was like four years ago when
they signed Jokal.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah he was like twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Way, I'm telling you that wasn't I I eight years ago?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Was twenty seventeen?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Was seventeen?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You sure?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm losing my mind. So they were wanting to give
him seven million dollars, which is like the equivalent like
BR eleven or twelve. Now, so did that scar them?
Maybe he's like, dude, this is why we do it
overpay man, this is why we can't.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Do it some fun challenge. Now we love that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Don't give failed players like he was a failed first
round pick.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Don't bring in failed players.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
John Another twenty thirteen, John Gordon.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Luke, jocol Barkavius Mingo Ezekiel, and d J. Flucker, Sheldon
Richardson all came from that. Dres and then Eddie Lacy
and then they went out and got Philip dors Set.
Here's the list of the wide receivers you want to
feel good about them signing Marcus Valdez Scandling. Here's the
list of all the wide receivers that the Seahawks have
went out and signed, uh in free agency. Uh, this
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is going back to like twenty eighteen. Leaviskas Shanal. You
tell me when you see a guy that you like,
Leviskus Shanal Mark, he's Goodwin, Philip dor Set, Josh Gordon
p Rich. They even brought him back remember that in
the second time, and then cut his ass. Jaron Brown
and Brandon Marshall. Yeah, but they had locket in DK.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
So it's like they didn't need a big time other name, right,
they just needed a space.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They needed a third guy because everybody needs everybody uses
three players. Now, So look, I mean, is Marcus Valdez
Scanling going to be our number three wide receiver? I
mean maybe I think they can do better than that.
And they probably can do better in the draft. Like
if they signed Cooper Cup and then draft's kid from
Iowa State, that's a pretty good room. Cooper Cup is
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totally different production wise than Marquez Valdez Scanling.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It is Marquez brother, not Marcus. Is that Marquez right?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Totally different because and it's not just because Cooper Cup's
from Yakama. What do I care if he's from Yakama, Yakama, Maze,
well be Montana for God's sake, that does nothing for me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
He played for Eastern Washington.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Cooper Cupp has missed twenty seventeen games in three years,
so the health is a concern for sure for him.
And by the way, if you take out the one
gigantic fat year that he had when he had nineteen
hundred yards receiving for the Rams, the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Is good, but it's not elite.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
He's really living off I think that one awesome year
that he had the difference though, with this kid versus MVS.
He had sixty seven catches in twelve games a year ago,
seventy five and nine games in twenty twenty two. Totally
different production wise, Totally different. One hundred and forty catches
in twenty one games. Totally different production wise versus Marquez, Valdez, Scanling.
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So you're getting mad at me for being negative. They
signed Cooper Cup. I'll be happy. I'll be happy. Well,
it'd be like the Joker and tattoos smile on my
face just for you.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
We talked about the state of emergency. Our old boy
MJ in the midday put out a pole and he
asked what the worst? What is worst the Mariners batting
lineup or the Seahawks offensive line.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I was actually gonna ask the same question. It was
very very close.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, I would extend it to do the offense overall, Like,
who do you have more faith in right now? The
Mariner offense of the Sea the Seahawks overall.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yes, they got quarterback, they got a receiver, they got
a running back.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, definitely. We got Julio, we got Randy E.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Rose Arena, we got Cal Raley, we got JP Crawford,
I got Hory Plunda. Who's our first basement again, what's
his name? What's the guy's name?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Luke Cray, Luke Raley's still Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
We got Dylan Moore Mariner's one fifty three, forty seven.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
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Speaker 2 (15:42):
All Right, big day for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Debarcus Lawrence defensive end, Dallas Marquez Valdez Scanling wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Spent last year with the Bills and Saints.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Still waiting on the official official for Sam Darnold with
time from the Seahawks. There was a press conference tomorrow,
by the way, at one pm our time. But joining
us right now in the raid from one o five
through the fan in Dallas. Two reasons why we have
the guy on the air. Nobody else in Dallas will
answer our phone call and say yes. This guy always
says yes, baby, He's easy, always says yes when everybody
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else says no. And I think I either a had
like a dream or I imagine this that. I think
he's like a two handicap r J choppy. Do I
have that right by the way, or am I dreaming something?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
H was a too handicap. Then I had children, okay,
and I.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Couldn't. I'm a two handicap by the end of the
eighth hole at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Ah got you.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Well, teach him how to play golf and that handicap
will come back down again.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
That's right. At least one day, one day you knew
what the feeling was all about.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Man, Well, okay, so you know where the Seahawks are
at right now. You know where DeMarcus Lawrence is at
right now. If you were me, which God bless you,
by the way, if that ever happens, how fired up?
How excited would you be if you were Dave, the
Seahawks fan for the arrival of soon to be thirty
three year old DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
He still can play?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
I don't know how ex mean, because it depends, like
are you if you're a team in transition, It doesn't
make a lot of sense, right, Like, he's not gonna
be a player that you contribute by the time you're
ready to compete. But if you think you can for
a division, I think that he is. He still could play.
I think he's absolutely worth the money.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
You know, he he played limited games last year. They'll
play four games.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
I think he had like three sacks of those four games.
Like he wasn't playing bad football. You know his PFF grade,
if you want to get down that road, it's okay
last year.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
He's still a quality player. He's very good to stop
in the run.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
And you know, look, look he was opposite Micah this year,
so that always helps. He's been opposite Mike in the
last couple of years. That will help give you more
one on ones. But I mean, he's still a quality
football player. You're not gonna you You could find worse
ways to spend eighteen million guaranteed than Tank Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What kind of do is he?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Uh, he's a good guy.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Like he's he's a he's been around he look, he's
obviously he's a veteran now. When he first came in
the league, it was kind of like, you know, the
Cowboys had gone this Boise State route for years and
he was just another in the line of succession of
Boise players. But no, he's a good dude man. Like
everybody seems to like him. He've been a leader in
the in the locker room. I mean he's not like
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he's not a big talker. He'll talk he'll say stuff,
you know, but he's not like one of these go
out of his way to communicate to the media, but
I mean he will, he will drop a good quote
on you.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So the the the foot injury he had a year ago,
was that just a fluke thing. Is there anything there
that Seahawk fans should be concerned about because the last
thing they need to be doing is spending money on
a guy that's just gonna get banged up again.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well you know, well you should.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Part of what you should know about that is that
the Cowboys have one have, according to the NFLPA.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Surveys, a terrible training staff.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
And I shouldn't say terrible, it's just that they got
like a C minus, right, which you know, if you're
in the NFL, you should be getting a's on that.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You should you should have a crack train stat right, yep.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
And it's it's taken a little bit of some shots
from some of the players. Brandon Cooks the other day said,
you know, the Cowboys got to keep these players healthy.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Like that was a direct shot to train staff.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
So whatever injuries that you may have and the you know,
the foot, I mean, you don't want to have a
foot injury. You don't have a back injury, foot injury.
You know, those things can linger. But I would be
I would kind of hold off on the panic. I
don't know how much of that was. This team just
doesn't do things. They don't operate the way a normal
team does.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right now, all right, Well just looking, you know NFL Live.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They just posted a tweet Ryan Clark is going off
on Dallas for basically letting DeMarcus Lawrence get to Seattle.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He says that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
They don't care. His quote was, they don't care anymore?
So do the Do the Cowboys care anymore? Or is
it just because they've got salary cap issues and they
can't afford a guy like DeMarcus Lawrence? Uh?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
You know, we had this discussion all the time. Are
they serious about football? Are they serious about wanting to compete?
I look, if I was the Cowboys, I brought Tank back.
He's a good player. The locker room loves him. There
was no reason to get rid of him. If you
want to be a team that competes for a division,
competes for Super Bowl, you need to have guys on
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your defensive line. You need to have a strong defensive line.
He helps with that this team can't stop the run.
He helps stopping the run. They just put twenty million
dollars into OsO Digizu, a good player defensive line. Why
would you not have brought back somebody who has been
a career cowboy that you know that that's in the building.
I don't understand why they wouldn't have other unless he
just wasn't a fit schematically with Ibraflus.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, well look and to me, everything I'm reading and
you kind of hit it there. RJRJ choppy from the
fan in Dallas, is that at this stage of his career,
you know, the multiple sack games, you know, the QB
hits probably aren't going to come much better against the
run than he would be chasing down quarterbacks at this point.
Is that a fair assessment of where DeMarcus Lauren his
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game is that right now?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Yeah, he's not gonna he's not gonna lead the league
in pressures, right if you know, if he pressures you,
he's probably gonna get home.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
He's probably gonna get this out.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
He's not gonna be He's not one of these guys
that at thirty three, you know, you know, you're just
not gonna have the same motor you had at twenty four.
But he can stop the run. He is a good
run defender. And you know if he has matched up
one on one, you know he can he can find
his way to the quarterback.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
You got a good player. You got a really good player.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I'd love to get your take on what the Seahawks
did at quarterback. I mean they got Donald at thirty
three million instead of paying Gino somewhere in the forty
five range.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So was that an upgrade?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Man?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
I don't know what the hell y'all were doing there.
Here's my here, here's my thought on that. Like if
you're gonna, if you're gonna get off the hamster wheel,
just get off the hamster wheel and just go to
the draft right, find find the you know, find somebody
with upside.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think we know what Sam Donald is.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
I mean, Donald had he had a really good year
last year and then it all fell apart and became
Sam Donald again. Two games games, two games, two games
against two against quality teams too, right, Detroit and Detroit,
uh and then UH and then the Rams. So two games.
I could I could eat these words. I could eat
these words. But I, like Gino, I thought I actually
liked Gino a lot. I felt bad that he was
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getting shipped off to the Raiders. Uh, because you know, Seattle,
you guys are a good team last year. What do
you want ten games?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I just thought.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
I just thought, if you're gonna get off that hamster
will just completely get off it and they go go
the young route.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Well, but to your point earlier though about why the
DeMarcus Lawrence acquisition in your opinion makes sense, is because
the Seahawks think they can win the West. They were
ten and seven, they they tied for the West League.
They just lost the tiebreaker to the ram which is
why you don't go to because they lost to the
freaking Giants. So if, if, if, if we think they
can win the division and the DeMarcus Lawrence signing makes
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sense under those contexts, then not going to a rookie
and going to Darnold also would make sense.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Well, listen, this is why I don't do radio in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You know what, You don't know what the hell you're
talking about. Totally stay in your lege. No, I'm just kidding.
I mean, but you know what, before you go, let's
let's ask you are j RJ. Choppy from fan in Dallas.
Do you think the Seahawks has present? I mean, look,
there's obviously a long way to go. If they got
ten draft picks, they got money in free agency. Are
they a playoff team on paper? In your opinion from
Dallas from two thousand miles.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Away, I think they are. Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Now, you know, from a receiver standpoint, you know, you
walked away from two really good ones, Like now, I
know they're I know they're older, and you know, at
least Locke was older. Uh, but I mean that's that's
that's a that's that's something that you know, if you're
gonna bring Donald in, you would think you would want
to have, you know, the same caliber receiver that you
had before. But you get addressed that in the draft,
No doubt. I think right now you're better than the Cowboys.
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You know that they don't be saying much, but yeah,
I think that you know, Seattle probably if Donald does
the same thing he did in Minnesota, there's no reason
they can't win ten games again.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
So would you have paid d K Sam Donald money
because that's what he got. He got basically exactly what
Sam Darnald got.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I LIKEK. I LIKEDK A lot that has his h his.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I've I swore I saw a clip to him a
couple of years ago talking about his diet where he
just doesn't eat to like.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No he eats, he eats candy. Right, yeah, oh that'll age.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm trying the same diet. I look nothing like DK
Metcalf by the way at all. All Right, hey, listen man,
thanks for doing this. Go back to your kids game,
and good luck getting that handicapped down.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Powell appreciated, buddy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Have a good one guy there. All right?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
R J Choppy with some thoughts on DeMarcus Lawrence and
I just I just put two and two together. You
know how long DeMarcus Lawrence has been in the NFL
for he played He played for Chris Peterson at Boise State.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow, that's how long he's been around.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So maybe we'll try to get Pete on and get
some thoughts on DeMarcus Lawrence. And it was like a
lifetime ago that he played for Chris Peterson at Boise State.
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Speaker 2 (25:03):
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hear that? What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We do have a little you make the call coming
up at six pm? So I get him in right
now of four nine four or five one. But as
always it's time for a little you. What's that?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh my god, I'm a mess. I got a headache.
I got a raging headache, man raging, And.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Normally the caffeine I'll just pound cokes and it goes away.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, Kevin helps you.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, usually I don't know, man, or I bake my
head against the wall.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Honestly, come on, do that. He's actually doing it.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
It does feel a little better, all right. It's because
you're focused on the bruises. Just put on the forehead exactly.
My wife does that to me. God, my lega is
hurting pow right in the chops.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Does that feel better? I can totally see you doing
all right? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What's that? Dick? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So you know that back on January twenty eighth, stephen
A Smith went on ESPN and pleaded for the Lakers
and Lebron to stop playing bronni right, yes, said it
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You gotta knock this charade off.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
At a Laker game in La last week, Lebron confronted
stephen A courtside about those comments about his son back
in January.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Okay, they got into a big shouting match whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Then on Friday's First Take, stephen A went on the
air and explained what happened when Lebron got in his
face during that encounter.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
That was Lebron James coming up to me unexpectedly, I
might add, to confront me about making sure that I
mind what I say about his son. Can't repeat the
words because they ain't suited for FCC airwaves. That's what
he was doing. I had no intentions, Wiley, of talking
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about this at all. Yeah, And the reason why is
because it was a one on one I wouldn't say
a conversation, but it was a one on one confrontation.
But then I wake up and everybody from ESPN and
my agent and everybody else were sending me that this
thing had gone viral and so ultimately it was unavoidable,
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and that is why I have to discuss it now.
That wasn't a basketball player confronting me. That was a parent,
that was a father. And I can't sit here and
be angry or feel slighted by Lebron James in any
way in that regard. And based on some of the
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comments that he had heard, or shall I say I
think he thought he heard, he clearly took exception to
some of the things that he heard me say, and
he confronted me about it.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I first heard that response by stephen A. Smith,
and my original reaction is, well, that's a just a
chicken crap response by you. I mean, the guys in
the NBA. He's subject to the same criticisms that every
other NBA played or a subject to. Just because he's
Lebron's kid doesn't mean he should be shielded from those
same criticisms.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
So I'm gonna let you just.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Hold off on your reaction, Dick, because I want to
get your thoughts on this next clip. So he's on
the air basically saying, hey, look I get it, he's
a dad, right, That's what stephen A said there. Then
he goes on Gilbert Arena's podcast on the weekend and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Took a little bit of a different approach.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Rather than come up to me a cool side, all
you had to do was say, yo, I need you
to stay, don't lead his game.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I need you to see you after the game. So all
he had to say to me, you didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
You said you.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Said what my son.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Thought was it? I was talking about you. I was
talking about you one about your son. I know he's
number fifty five, and by the way, a root for him.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I ain't rooting against nobody, but I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Talk about joys you. You did this.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
You don't want to had us as reporters almost gotta
sit back and be quiet and capitul.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You did that, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So just a totally different reaction from what we heard
in the first clip. And I wonder how much of
it was not me or guys like me, but people
saying things that he listens to.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Like that, like dude, what are you doing? What are
you doing? Bend it over for this guy. I think
it pissed him off.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I think people thought he was looking like you know
what to Lebron, and I think it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Made him mad. It made him angry.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He rethought it and said, yeah, dude, I wasn't going
after your son. I was going after you for putting
him in a crappy situation. But that's a totally different
reaction than what he had the first doc.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I mean, I get a lot of thoughts on this,
but I mean, first and foremost you would by the way,
I have no problem with Lebron confronting steven A. But
I do have a problem with how Lebron confronted stephen A.
I don't think it should have been in person.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Do a behind closed doors?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Do it behind closed doors you can find if Lebron
James picks up a phone and wants to talk to
stephen A. Smith, he can talk to steven A. Smith
anytime he wants to. If they want to meet in person,
steven A Smith will meet Lebron James in person. That
is so Lebron didn't handle that right. But when it
comes to Bronny, I'm just gonna put this real simple.
If there's a kid for the G League team of
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the Lakers named Jackson Felts, and he was averaging twenty
one points a game, and he was shooting nearly forty
percent from three point range, and he was averaging five
assists per game and five rebounds a game, and his
name was Jackson Felts, and he got called up by
the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Nobody would say, Boo, there's one thing you're missing, one
huge part of the equation. You're missing.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That guy never would have been in the G League
in the first place. He never would have been a
five star recruit in the first place, and he never
would have gotten a scholarship in the first place if
his last name wasn't Jackson Feltz.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
He is, he is performing. He is performing. I just
gave you the numbers. He is performing sick and.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
How many guys are doing that in the G League
and not getting a I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't watch the G League. I'm not checking the stats.
I mean, I don't think. I doubt there's a lot
of twenty one five and five guys. I have no idea.
There's got to be some twenty one five and five's
probably when needed getting call up. I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
If you're telling me that Bronnie James is not getting
extra special treatment because his last name is James, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Saying I'm going to dance on that at all. I'm
not saying that, But what I'm saying is Steven A
should leave. He should leave Bronnie James name out of
his mouth.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
He totally should, I don't think, because he wouldn't be
talking about it if it was anybody else.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Because he wouldn't be in the NBA, and he wouldn't
be in the G League, and he wouldn't have gone
to USC and he wouldn't have been a five star recruit.
I mean, Petros talked about his other son, which I
had no idea. You know that he's got a second
kid who's a five star recruit for no reason. This
is still going on that they're getting all this preferential treatment.
So look, I agree with you on Lebron should have
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handled it differently.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I get why he's mad.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He's his dad, right, Like remember when people when when
Mama Lynch would just come unhinged on social media.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You know what, don't get worked up.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's the guy's mom, right, Like, emotions and logic are
tossed out the windows. So I get why Lebron got pissed.
But I also think that steven A. Smith, as a
credible reporter, has a job to do, and he was
doing his job. Everything he said about Bronny and the
Lakers force feeding him at the time was totally fair
because even if I would go with you on the
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G League numbers, this Bronny stuff was going on before the.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
G League numbers. They just tossed him out there and
said play the guy. Put him in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, now it even makes a little bit of
sense because he's again, like we said, maybe performing, But
back then it made no sense whatsoever. So it's become
a major drama point for the NBA. By the way,
we know that with lebron and Steven A. Smith and
it's got all these tentac goals and it's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I love it. This is why we need the NBA back.
You know why I'm pissed off because Jackson and I
have one team and one team only, and our team's done.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
You got two chances. It's not fair.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You get two chances every year to make the NCAA tournament.
And by god, who is Joe Lenardi fooling with that
two peg? No, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.
I just looked on TV. His fat face came up
and he's got him. That's awful. That's like even Marv
Albert's like, man, that thing's terrible. That is ridiculous. Dude,
just give it up already, man, shave the head man.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You gotta go. You get two chances every year to
make the tournament. It's not fair.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think you and I Jackson, if he's gonna do
this Gonzaga thing, we should we should get to adopt
a second team.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, who should we adopt? Whoever is playing Gonzaga in
the first round? You know?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
But really though, I mean, like you're like.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oklahoma City, a right, f few bull dogs.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
If Kenzaga is gonna be a seven.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Probably a probably a seven would be I think what
we get to do whoever they're playing? No, well, not
even that, but I think that we get to pick
somebody of the same seat and then like, because whoever
they're playing, fine, that's one game though, because that's that's
gonna be done on Thursday or Friday. Let's pick it
all their seven seed and let's see how far our
seventh seed guys compared to his seventh seed.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I mean, but you know it is like we do
have a favorite NBA team, and our favorite NBA team
is whoever's playing in Oklahoma City, right, I mean, I typically
in the Huskies are not doing well as of late.
Whoever Gonzaga is playing is the team I'm rooting for.
And sometimes I'll even go on Amazon in order a
god darned T shirt. I mean, Louisville, Louisville could be
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a seventh seed. According to the guy, Missouri could be
a seventh seed. Who else is up there for a
seven eight seed? Memphis, Penny Hardaway, Ole Miss? Is that
Chris Beard? By the way, Ole Miss?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Is he there? Chris Beard thinks? So him? Creighton right
at of Nebraska? Yeah, okay, well, I just think.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Again, as long as we're going to do this thing
where you're getting multiple shots as a fan of a
team in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We get to pick it, all right, I have no problem.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's fair if we picked the team of the same sit.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
We're deciding what's fair. Well, once the bracket comes out,
why don't you pick the team? You tell us an
four nine four five one what we should do.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In response to Dick having two chances and Jackson and
I only having one chance. So the Seahawks again the
signings today?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And again have we confirmed?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Have they? Have they announced this yet? Have they made
it official?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There was this big old graphic that got put out,
but I don't know if that was prof the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Marcus Lawrence, Marcus Valdez Scandling. It's we know are both
going to be Seahawks. And look, here's the thing about
Marcus m vs. I don't mind it as a depth guy.
You need bodies. Same thing with DeMarcus Lawrence. You need bodies.
And by the way, speaking of my buddy Jackson Bevans,
and I think he he wrote this perfectly on social media.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
As much as we give him grief about his love
affair for Gino Smith, I'm trying to find out, you know,
who's more in love with Gino Smith him or Corbyn Smith.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I mean the three of them should just get a
room for trying out.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Corb.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So Jackson wrote in regards to DeMarcus Lawrence, and this
is exactly the way I is what to come back
to In the end, he said, it's really a two year,
eighteen million dollar deal. And Sacks don't tell the story
of what has made him so good. He's been an excellent,
excellent run defender, which I agree with, totally fine with
it at this price. But yeah, the old line thing
is still the old line thing.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And that's what I come back to every single freaking time, right, Like,
I'm in this car crash and I have this unbelievable
sound system, but I'm in a car crash and my
neck is in a brace, and I have no insurance whatsoever,
and I'm in the hospital with no friends to come
see me. You're so fix the freaking line before you
wake me up, will yeh?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Johnny? You use the car analogy.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I mean, the the offensive line, that's the guts of
your car, man, that's the.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Offensive defensive line, that is the engine of your car.
You can put cool rims on it, you can raise
it up. You can put hydraulics on. He's a great
sound system on it. But if it doesn't run, it
doesn't run.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I told you what my dogs are doing now, especially
Dudley in the middle one. So Dudley will not eat
his food unless I put cheese on top of it. Really,
it's become a thing like it's my fault. It's totally
my face. You just happened to some one day and
I'll literally I'll give him a bowl of food and
he'll look at me like, where's my cheese. It's unbelievable,
and it's got to be shred and cheese. Like he
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loves cheese, and if he doesn't get his shreaded.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Cheese, he won't eat. Don't dogs get the too la.
I don't know. I I get him.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean, you know it's a problem for me, but
I love cheese, make dogs and dairy tremendously well. He
won't eat his freaking food unless I put the shreded
cheese on top of the bowl.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So that's what I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Give me my shreaded cheese, give me my damn shredded cheese,
or I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Not eating this. I'm not eating this food.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Are you going to push ups if they take a
guard in the first rest, you put some.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Cheese on it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Man, you like, I just you know, I just it's
it's it's everything. It's everything for this football team, right.
You want to get the best out of Sam Darnold,
get a line. You want to get the best out
of your guy, Kenny Walker a line?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
You know who is it?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think it was Millan on Monday who was doing
all the second round draft picks, and he included Zach
Sharbonney on that list, which I was like, that's I
thought Sharbonne was actually pretty good for the most part.
He's not canny.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Walker called him a bus I would I would have
put him in the middle, correct, Yeah, I would not
go that far. But you want to get the best
out of these guys. Imagine Sam Donald with a line
versus what Gino.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Smith had a year ago. I mean Sam Darnold with
time exactly. Imagine Sam Donald with time right what he
would look like. The red zone numbers were phenomenal Sam Donald.
Gino Smith's numbers were not phenomenal in the red zone.
One of the reasons why because the guy had you know,
decent blocking, not great, but decent blocking, and he had
great targets obviously too right. So to me, it's just
I don't care about any of this other stuff. It
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doesn't do anything for me, right until you fix the line,
until you get serious about the offensive line. All this
other stuff it's just noise, man.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's right.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Like I told you about my dog and the shredded cheese.
My wife, when I first met her, always went to
bed with a fan on. She likes the ambient, white
noise to fall asleep to. And now I need the
same thing. If I'm on the road, like at a
hotel room, I'll go to YouTube and just put the
box fan on for eight hours. I can't get it done.
Get me the damn fan, dude. Nothing's gonna work until
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you fix that freaking line. And I'm so tired of
bitching about it. I'm tired of waiting for it. The
fans are tired of waiting for it. So all this
other stuff, man, is just noise.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Well, it's very similar to the Mariners when they pick
up like a reliever in the offseason, which could turn
out to be a really good reliever, but the fan
base is just like, okay, cool, tell me when you
get an offensive player, right, that's great.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You got a reliever, cool, fine, get me a hitter.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
No, absolutely, And I just look, I mean, I don't
know what's going on with the Kevin Zeitler thing. You
got a one year contract from the Titans for nine
million bucks. Maybe you didn't want to come here, you know.
Greg Bell mentioned that the other day that maybe people
just don't want to play here right now, I mean,
de Martinus Lawrence got a big deal, so he decided
to come here. But Ryan or Josh Meyer, sorry, the
center for Green Bay had to settle for a one year,
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three and a half million dollar deal from the Jets.
I don't know why he got such a piss poor contract.
He's a starting caliber center in the NFL, so that's
kind of intriguing to me. Went to a crappy team?
Why he got nothing from New York? But you know what,
the overpaying thing, and I get why the Seahawks don't
want to do it, But sometimes overpaying when you're so
terrible at developing a certain position is not a big
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price to pay.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
It's like, my god, we don't care how bad we are,
we are not going to overpay at least we can
hold our heads high, we can go to bed and
we can say that we never overpaid for a player. Well,
the alternative is you can't develop them right, And maybe
John Benton's going to be the rain man, right, the
new offensive line coach. But I don't mind overpaying for
a little bit if I'm just terrible at something and
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I'm desperate for something, right, and that tree fell on
your house the other day.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, if they.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Said, hey, man, typically this would cost you x y z,
but we need x y z and a little more,
you'd say, where do I sign?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I got to get off my house.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I'm freaking desperate, So I don't mind overpaying if it's
something that absolutely gets me closer to solving a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
But I can't solve myself.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I mean, the Annealogy ouse thing is like if you
if you bought a house that was just too much
for you to afford, that's gonna hurt you for thirty years.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And you don't want to.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Do that in the NFL, But you know, for a
weekend you want to spend you want to go to
a hotel that's all inclusive, and it's really really expensive
and it's out of your budget.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
But you're like, you know what, I need some fun
family time.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I can.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I can suck it.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Up for the short run and pay this bill that
I can't afford a lot easier than I can pay
something for thirty years that I can.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Would it have been okay to give Kevin Zidler ten
million dollars? Would it have been okay to give Josh
Meyers four and a half million dollars and give Hi
an extra million bucks versus what he's getting from the Jets.
Does Tennessee have an income tax in their state?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I don't know. Does New York have an income tax?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I don't know, right, But that's one of the sale
jobs for John Schneider here in Seattle is that, Hey,
you're gonna come here, there's no state income tax. You're
gonna keep more money here than you would if you
went to play somewhere else. So again, if I feel
like there's a weakness in my game as a talent
evaluator and I need to overpay just a little bit
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to maybe give myself a better shot to make up
for a weakness that I know, after fifteen years i've got,
that is exactly the right time to overpay for somebody.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I got some good news and I got some other news.
The good news, per Brady Henderson, is that the Seahawks
are fringing in for bringing in former Titan Julius Chestnut
for a free agent visit. Okay, bad news is that
Julius Chestnut is a running back kick returner, not an offensive.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I was like, Julius, you're gonna say Nathan's hot dog
eating champion whatever that Maybe it's his brother New York.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
By the way, does Tennessee does not get in oft?
There you go? But I mean, guys, does that makes sense? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
That if you're like Jackson, what you're good at, what
you're bad at, handyman, you know whatever, blah blah blah.
There's certain things that we can all do around the house, right,
There's certain things I can't do. There's certain things I
can do. If I know I'm terrible at something and
I need to get something done asap, like when the
lightning bolt hit the house and knocked off the lights,
I don't have any idea what the hell I'm doing.
And if I got to overpay to get Jessmon McIntyre's
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husband to drag his harry ass because it's an emergency
to get those lights back on.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Can't exactly, it's do it myself. This is def con
one with this offensive line. Yeah my god, look, you
you just committed and you got rid of Gino Smith
for Sam Darnold. Why would you not do everything in
your power to protect him and make that investment payoff.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Not to mention the DK Metcalf money is off the books,
that's right, I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Mean, and you took away DK from him too.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And that's why I have ultimately, like why I have
such a problem with the Lawrence move is because at
the end of the day, it's three years forty two million,
and whether you want to say that it's you know,
actually two years eighteen million, like Bevans is saying it
is eighteen million guaranteed and it is whatever it ends
up being fourteen whatever it is million in.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That first year.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And that money for a rotational pass rusher and what
is also a deep deep edge rusher and defensive end class.
So you're automatically looking at that position saying we have
a lot of draft picks we can load up there.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But then they go spend all this money. When you
look at the deal where these guys are getting today,
and it's you just wonder John, if you have to say, okay,
get it. You don't want to be here and you're
gonna go take a nine million dollar deal or a
three point five million deal with.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Somewhere else, But can we get you to come for
an extra two.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Maybe he get off for that for all I know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Here's what I don't get that they're they're they're willing
to give Luke jokel a seven million dollar deal, oh.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Like eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Not even that, it was like four years ago when
they signed Jokal.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah he was like twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Way, I'm telling you that wasn't I I eight years ago?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Was twenty seventeen?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Was seventeen?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You sure?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I'm losing my mind. So they were wanting to give
him seven million dollars, which is like the equivalent like
BR eleven or twelve. Now, so did that scar them?
Maybe he's like, dude, this is why we do it
overpay man, this is why we can't.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Do it some fun challenge. Now we love that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Don't give failed players like he was a failed first
round pick.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Don't bring in failed players.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
John Another twenty thirteen, John Gordon.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Luke, jocol Barkavius Mingo Ezekiel, and d J. Flucker, Sheldon
Richardson all came from that. Dres and then Eddie Lacy
and then they went out and got Philip dors Set.
Here's the list of the wide receivers you want to
feel good about them signing Marcus Valdez Scandling. Here's the
list of all the wide receivers that the Seahawks have
went out and signed, uh in free agency. Uh, this
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is going back to like twenty eighteen. Leaviskas Shanal. You
tell me when you see a guy that you like,
Leviskus Shanal Mark, he's Goodwin, Philip dor Set, Josh Gordon
p Rich. They even brought him back remember that in
the second time, and then cut his ass. Jaron Brown
and Brandon Marshall. Yeah, but they had locket in DK.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
So it's like they didn't need a big time other name, right,
they just needed a space.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They needed a third guy because everybody needs everybody uses
three players. Now, So look, I mean, is Marcus Valdez
Scanling going to be our number three wide receiver? I
mean maybe I think they can do better than that.
And they probably can do better in the draft. Like
if they signed Cooper Cup and then draft's kid from
Iowa State, that's a pretty good room. Cooper Cup is
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totally different production wise than Marquez Valdez Scanling.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It is Marquez brother, not Marcus. Is that Marquez right?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Totally different because and it's not just because Cooper Cup's
from Yakama. What do I care if he's from Yakama, Yakama, Maze,
well be Montana for God's sake, that does nothing for me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
He played for Eastern Washington.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Cooper Cupp has missed twenty seventeen games in three years,
so the health is a concern for sure for him.
And by the way, if you take out the one
gigantic fat year that he had when he had nineteen
hundred yards receiving for the Rams, the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Is good, but it's not elite.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
He's really living off I think that one awesome year
that he had the difference though, with this kid versus MVS.
He had sixty seven catches in twelve games a year ago,
seventy five and nine games in twenty twenty two. Totally
different production wise, Totally different. One hundred and forty catches
in twenty one games. Totally different production wise versus Marquez, Valdez, Scanling.
(14:32):
So you're getting mad at me for being negative. They
signed Cooper Cup. I'll be happy. I'll be happy. Well,
it'd be like the Joker and tattoos smile on my
face just for you.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
We talked about the state of emergency. Our old boy
MJ in the midday put out a pole and he
asked what the worst? What is worst the Mariners batting
lineup or the Seahawks offensive line.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I was actually gonna ask the same question. It was
very very close.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, I would extend it to do the offense overall, Like,
who do you have more faith in right now? The
Mariner offense of the Sea the Seahawks overall.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yes, they got quarterback, they got a receiver, they got
a running back.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah, definitely. We got Julio, we got Randy E.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Rose Arena, we got Cal Raley, we got JP Crawford,
I got Hory Plunda. Who's our first basement again, what's
his name? What's the guy's name?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Luke Cray, Luke Raley's still Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
We got Dylan Moore Mariner's one fifty three, forty seven.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Alright, let's get a break, go fun with audio coming
up five to forty five on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies and the Kreking Sports Radio ninety three point
three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
All Right, big day for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Debarcus Lawrence defensive end, Dallas Marquez Valdez Scanling wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Spent last year with the Bills and Saints.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Still waiting on the official official for Sam Darnold with
time from the Seahawks. There was a press conference tomorrow,
by the way, at one pm our time. But joining
us right now in the raid from one o five
through the fan in Dallas. Two reasons why we have
the guy on the air. Nobody else in Dallas will
answer our phone call and say yes. This guy always
says yes, baby, He's easy, always says yes when everybody
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else says no. And I think I either a had
like a dream or I imagine this that. I think
he's like a two handicap r J choppy. Do I
have that right by the way, or am I dreaming something?
Speaker 8 (16:25):
H was a too handicap. Then I had children, okay,
and I.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Couldn't. I'm a two handicap by the end of the
eighth hole at this point.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Ah got you.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Well, teach him how to play golf and that handicap
will come back down again.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
That's right. At least one day, one day you knew
what the feeling was all about.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Man, Well, okay, so you know where the Seahawks are
at right now. You know where DeMarcus Lawrence is at
right now. If you were me, which God bless you,
by the way, if that ever happens, how fired up?
How excited would you be if you were Dave, the
Seahawks fan for the arrival of soon to be thirty
three year old DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
He still can play?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
I don't know how ex mean, because it depends, like
are you if you're a team in transition, It doesn't
make a lot of sense, right, Like, he's not gonna
be a player that you contribute by the time you're
ready to compete. But if you think you can for
a division, I think that he is. He still could play.
I think he's absolutely worth the money.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
You know, he he played limited games last year. They'll
play four games.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
I think he had like three sacks of those four games.
Like he wasn't playing bad football. You know his PFF grade,
if you want to get down that road, it's okay
last year.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
He's still a quality player. He's very good to stop
in the run.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
And you know, look, look he was opposite Micah this year,
so that always helps. He's been opposite Mike in the
last couple of years. That will help give you more
one on ones. But I mean, he's still a quality
football player. You're not gonna you You could find worse
ways to spend eighteen million guaranteed than Tank Lawrence.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What kind of do is he?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Uh, he's a good guy.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Like he's he's a he's been around he look, he's
obviously he's a veteran now. When he first came in
the league, it was kind of like, you know, the
Cowboys had gone this Boise State route for years and
he was just another in the line of succession of
Boise players. But no, he's a good dude man. Like
everybody seems to like him. He've been a leader in
the in the locker room. I mean he's not like
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he's not a big talker. He'll talk he'll say stuff,
you know, but he's not like one of these go
out of his way to communicate to the media, but
I mean he will, he will drop a good quote
on you.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
So the the the foot injury he had a year ago,
was that just a fluke thing. Is there anything there
that Seahawk fans should be concerned about because the last
thing they need to be doing is spending money on
a guy that's just gonna get banged up again.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well you know, well you should.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Part of what you should know about that is that
the Cowboys have one have, according to the NFLPA.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Surveys, a terrible training staff.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
And I shouldn't say terrible, it's just that they got
like a C minus, right, which you know, if you're
in the NFL, you should be getting a's on that.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
You should you should have a crack train stat right, yep.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
And it's it's taken a little bit of some shots
from some of the players. Brandon Cooks the other day said,
you know, the Cowboys got to keep these players healthy.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Like that was a direct shot to train staff.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
So whatever injuries that you may have and the you know,
the foot, I mean, you don't want to have a
foot injury. You don't have a back injury, foot injury.
You know, those things can linger. But I would be
I would kind of hold off on the panic. I
don't know how much of that was. This team just
doesn't do things. They don't operate the way a normal
team does.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right now, all right, Well just looking, you know NFL Live.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They just posted a tweet Ryan Clark is going off
on Dallas for basically letting DeMarcus Lawrence get to Seattle.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
He says that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
They don't care. His quote was, they don't care anymore?
So do the Do the Cowboys care anymore? Or is
it just because they've got salary cap issues and they
can't afford a guy like DeMarcus Lawrence? Uh?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
You know, we had this discussion all the time. Are
they serious about football? Are they serious about wanting to compete?
I look, if I was the Cowboys, I brought Tank back.
He's a good player. The locker room loves him. There
was no reason to get rid of him. If you
want to be a team that competes for a division,
competes for Super Bowl, you need to have guys on
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your defensive line. You need to have a strong defensive line.
He helps with that this team can't stop the run.
He helps stopping the run. They just put twenty million
dollars into OsO Digizu, a good player defensive line. Why
would you not have brought back somebody who has been
a career cowboy that you know that that's in the building.
I don't understand why they wouldn't have other unless he
just wasn't a fit schematically with Ibraflus.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, well look and to me, everything I'm reading and
you kind of hit it there. RJRJ choppy from the
fan in Dallas, is that at this stage of his career,
you know, the multiple sack games, you know, the QB
hits probably aren't going to come much better against the
run than he would be chasing down quarterbacks at this point.
Is that a fair assessment of where DeMarcus Lauren his
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game is that right now?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Yeah, he's not gonna he's not gonna lead the league
in pressures, right if you know, if he pressures you,
he's probably gonna get home.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
He's probably gonna get this out.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
He's not gonna be He's not one of these guys
that at thirty three, you know, you know, you're just
not gonna have the same motor you had at twenty four.
But he can stop the run. He is a good
run defender. And you know if he has matched up
one on one, you know he can he can find
his way to the quarterback.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
You got a good player. You got a really good player.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I'd love to get your take on what the Seahawks
did at quarterback. I mean they got Donald at thirty
three million instead of paying Gino somewhere in the forty
five range.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So was that an upgrade?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Man?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
I don't know what the hell y'all were doing there.
Here's my here, here's my thought on that. Like if
you're gonna, if you're gonna get off the hamster wheel,
just get off the hamster wheel and just go to
the draft right, find find the you know, find somebody
with upside.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
I think we know what Sam Donald is.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
I mean, Donald had he had a really good year
last year and then it all fell apart and became
Sam Donald again. Two games games, two games, two games
against two against quality teams too, right, Detroit and Detroit,
uh and then UH and then the Rams. So two games.
I could I could eat these words. I could eat
these words. But I, like Gino, I thought I actually
liked Gino a lot. I felt bad that he was
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getting shipped off to the Raiders. Uh, because you know, Seattle,
you guys are a good team last year. What do
you want ten games?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I just thought.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
I just thought, if you're gonna get off that hamster
will just completely get off it and they go go
the young route.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Well, but to your point earlier though about why the
DeMarcus Lawrence acquisition in your opinion makes sense, is because
the Seahawks think they can win the West. They were
ten and seven, they they tied for the West League.
They just lost the tiebreaker to the ram which is
why you don't go to because they lost to the
freaking Giants. So if, if, if, if we think they
can win the division and the DeMarcus Lawrence signing makes
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sense under those contexts, then not going to a rookie
and going to Darnold also would make sense.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Well, listen, this is why I don't do radio in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
You know what, You don't know what the hell you're
talking about. Totally stay in your lege. No, I'm just kidding.
I mean, but you know what, before you go, let's
let's ask you are j RJ. Choppy from fan in Dallas.
Do you think the Seahawks has present? I mean, look,
there's obviously a long way to go. If they got
ten draft picks, they got money in free agency. Are
they a playoff team on paper? In your opinion from
Dallas from two thousand miles.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Away, I think they are. Uh.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
Now, you know, from a receiver standpoint, you know, you
walked away from two really good ones, Like now, I
know they're I know they're older, and you know, at
least Locke was older. Uh, but I mean that's that's
that's a that's that's something that you know, if you're
gonna bring Donald in, you would think you would want
to have, you know, the same caliber receiver that you
had before. But you get addressed that in the draft,
No doubt. I think right now you're better than the Cowboys.
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You know that they don't be saying much, but yeah,
I think that you know, Seattle probably if Donald does
the same thing he did in Minnesota, there's no reason
they can't win ten games again.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
So would you have paid d K Sam Donald money
because that's what he got. He got basically exactly what
Sam Darnald got.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I LIKEK. I LIKEDK A lot that has his h his.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
I've I swore I saw a clip to him a
couple of years ago talking about his diet where he
just doesn't eat to like.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No he eats, he eats candy. Right, yeah, oh that'll age.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm trying the same diet. I look nothing like DK
Metcalf by the way at all. All Right, hey, listen man,
thanks for doing this. Go back to your kids game,
and good luck getting that handicapped down.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Powell appreciated, buddy.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Have a good one guy there. All right?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
R J Choppy with some thoughts on DeMarcus Lawrence and
I just I just put two and two together. You
know how long DeMarcus Lawrence has been in the NFL
for he played He played for Chris Peterson at Boise State.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Wow, that's how long he's been around.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So maybe we'll try to get Pete on and get
some thoughts on DeMarcus Lawrence. And it was like a
lifetime ago that he played for Chris Peterson at Boise State.
We're gonna break a little fun with audios slash hat.
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Speaker 2 (25:03):
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let's have some fun with audio. All right, here we
go a little fun with audio slash. Hey did you
hear that? What's that?
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Dick?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We do have a little you make the call coming
up at six pm? So I get him in right
now of four nine four or five one. But as
always it's time for a little you. What's that?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh my god, I'm a mess. I got a headache.
I got a raging headache, man raging, And.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Normally the caffeine I'll just pound cokes and it goes away.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Well, Kevin helps you.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, usually I don't know, man, or I bake my
head against the wall.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Honestly, come on, do that. He's actually doing it.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
It does feel a little better, all right. It's because
you're focused on the bruises. Just put on the forehead exactly.
My wife does that to me. God, my lega is
hurting pow right in the chops.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Does that feel better? I can totally see you doing
all right? Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What's that? Dick? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
So you know that back on January twenty eighth, stephen
A Smith went on ESPN and pleaded for the Lakers
and Lebron to stop playing bronni right, yes, said it
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You gotta knock this charade off.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
At a Laker game in La last week, Lebron confronted
stephen A courtside about those comments about his son back
in January.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Okay, they got into a big shouting match whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Then on Friday's First Take, stephen A went on the
air and explained what happened when Lebron got in his
face during that encounter.
Speaker 10 (26:33):
That was Lebron James coming up to me unexpectedly, I
might add, to confront me about making sure that I
mind what I say about his son. Can't repeat the
words because they ain't suited for FCC airwaves. That's what
he was doing. I had no intentions, Wiley, of talking
(26:53):
about this at all. Yeah, And the reason why is
because it was a one on one I wouldn't say
a conversation, but it was a one on one confrontation.
But then I wake up and everybody from ESPN and
my agent and everybody else were sending me that this
thing had gone viral and so ultimately it was unavoidable,
(27:14):
and that is why I have to discuss it now.
That wasn't a basketball player confronting me. That was a parent,
that was a father. And I can't sit here and
be angry or feel slighted by Lebron James in any
way in that regard. And based on some of the
(27:34):
comments that he had heard, or shall I say I
think he thought he heard, he clearly took exception to
some of the things that he heard me say, and
he confronted me about it.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I first heard that response by stephen A. Smith,
and my original reaction is, well, that's a just a
chicken crap response by you. I mean, the guys in
the NBA. He's subject to the same criticisms that every
other NBA played or a subject to. Just because he's
Lebron's kid doesn't mean he should be shielded from those
same criticisms.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
So I'm gonna let you just.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Hold off on your reaction, Dick, because I want to
get your thoughts on this next clip. So he's on
the air basically saying, hey, look I get it, he's
a dad, right, That's what stephen A said there. Then
he goes on Gilbert Arena's podcast on the weekend and.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Took a little bit of a different approach.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Rather than come up to me a cool side, all
you had to do was say, yo, I need you
to stay, don't lead his game.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I need you to see you after the game. So all
he had to say to me, you didn't do that.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
You said you.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Said what my son.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Thought was it? I was talking about you. I was
talking about you one about your son. I know he's
number fifty five, and by the way, a root for him.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
I ain't rooting against nobody, but I.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Talk about joys you. You did this.
Speaker 10 (28:54):
You don't want to had us as reporters almost gotta
sit back and be quiet and capitul.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You did that, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So just a totally different reaction from what we heard
in the first clip. And I wonder how much of
it was not me or guys like me, but people
saying things that he listens to.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Like that, like dude, what are you doing? What are
you doing? Bend it over for this guy. I think
it pissed him off.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I think people thought he was looking like you know
what to Lebron, and I think it.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Made him mad. It made him angry.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He rethought it and said, yeah, dude, I wasn't going
after your son. I was going after you for putting
him in a crappy situation. But that's a totally different
reaction than what he had the first doc.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
I mean, I get a lot of thoughts on this,
but I mean, first and foremost you would by the way,
I have no problem with Lebron confronting steven A. But
I do have a problem with how Lebron confronted stephen A.
I don't think it should have been in person.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Do a behind closed doors?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Do it behind closed doors you can find if Lebron
James picks up a phone and wants to talk to
stephen A. Smith, he can talk to steven A. Smith
anytime he wants to. If they want to meet in person,
steven A Smith will meet Lebron James in person. That
is so Lebron didn't handle that right. But when it
comes to Bronny, I'm just gonna put this real simple.
If there's a kid for the G League team of
(30:15):
the Lakers named Jackson Felts, and he was averaging twenty
one points a game, and he was shooting nearly forty
percent from three point range, and he was averaging five
assists per game and five rebounds a game, and his
name was Jackson Felts, and he got called up by
the Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Nobody would say, Boo, there's one thing you're missing, one
huge part of the equation. You're missing.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That guy never would have been in the G League
in the first place. He never would have been a
five star recruit in the first place, and he never
would have gotten a scholarship in the first place if
his last name wasn't Jackson Feltz.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
He is, he is performing. He is performing. I just
gave you the numbers. He is performing sick and.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
How many guys are doing that in the G League
and not getting a I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't watch the G League. I'm not checking the stats.
I mean, I don't think. I doubt there's a lot
of twenty one five and five guys. I have no idea.
There's got to be some twenty one five and five's
probably when needed getting call up. I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
If you're telling me that Bronnie James is not getting
extra special treatment because his last name is James, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Saying I'm going to dance on that at all. I'm
not saying that, But what I'm saying is Steven A
should leave. He should leave Bronnie James name out of
his mouth.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
He totally should, I don't think, because he wouldn't be
talking about it if it was anybody else.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Because he wouldn't be in the NBA, and he wouldn't
be in the G League, and he wouldn't have gone
to USC and he wouldn't have been a five star recruit.
I mean, Petros talked about his other son, which I
had no idea. You know that he's got a second
kid who's a five star recruit for no reason. This
is still going on that they're getting all this preferential treatment.
So look, I agree with you on Lebron should have
(31:53):
handled it differently.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I get why he's mad.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He's his dad, right, Like remember when people when when
Mama Lynch would just come unhinged on social media.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You know what, don't get worked up.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's the guy's mom, right, Like, emotions and logic are
tossed out the windows. So I get why Lebron got pissed.
But I also think that steven A. Smith, as a
credible reporter, has a job to do, and he was
doing his job. Everything he said about Bronny and the
Lakers force feeding him at the time was totally fair
because even if I would go with you on the
(32:26):
G League numbers, this Bronny stuff was going on before the.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
G League numbers. They just tossed him out there and
said play the guy. Put him in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, now it even makes a little bit of
sense because he's again, like we said, maybe performing, But
back then it made no sense whatsoever. So it's become
a major drama point for the NBA. By the way,
we know that with lebron and Steven A. Smith and
it's got all these tentac goals and it's freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I love it. This is why we need the NBA back.
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