April 22, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain sit down with Huskies receiver Denzel Boston to talk about his career and 2025 ahead, then chat with Mike Florio about the NFL Draft starting on Thursday with possible trades, then listen to some Fun with Audio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Before we get going, Look who just sat down with us?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Here at you dub snah' Rodgers looking to throw in
the pocket, fires over the middle, caught, Denzel.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Boston makes something and miss it, gets into the second
ear the thirty the left sideline twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
He's going in. Denzel Boston houses any.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Scores from fifty one yards, the sixth touchdown catch of
the year to lead the Big ten for Denzel Boston
in a career long fifty one yard or turns the tables.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm sorry, I should have told you we're gonna play that.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
By the way, we can't have Denzel Boston on without
playing a Denzel Boston a highlight and here he is,
number twelve in the score book, number one on his
mom and dad's hearts.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Denzel Boston joining us from U dub. How are you marriage?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How you doing God? It's good to see U.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
So you're two with Jedfish. You obviously had Kaylin for
a couple of years. You had Ryan Grubb, you had
Brendan Carroll, you had Jedfish. Now you got a brand
new offensive coordinator. There's a lot of change going on
man around this program. Have you you handled all these
different changes year in and year rount month by month.
It seems like there's change that you guys have to
(01:06):
get ready for.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, you know, there's always change, and especially with this
new college football world. And you know, with coach Fish,
he's made it easy, you know, just with the things
he's instilled in our program with be a pro and
all that. So you know, it's been easy. And all
of our changes, I say, have been good changes. And
you know, to see our coaches move and level up
in different areas and then have new coaches come in
with just as good expertise and be able to push
our team to where we want to be, you know,
(01:27):
that's just great to have on to be able to
have on our side.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, I gotta imagine the level of change right now
is a lot less than it was last year at
full time, There's no question about that. So what is
your understanding of the offense now compared to how it
was a year ago at this time?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
You know, a year ago this time, I say I'd
be like a two point zero understanding of the offense,
and now I say I'm about a five point zero
understanding of the offense. You know, I know what the
running backs doing, to what the line has to do
on certain plays on the run play and stuff like that,
and you know, I feel like my understanding of the
offense has increased immensely over the offseason.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Gale though at five out of ten, five out of five,
five out of.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Seven, I'll say five out of seven, Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
we'll take that.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Let's go for a six by September. That'd be nice.
But Denzel Boston's with us, and I'm looking at your numbers,
man from last year, and I think if people would
have told me before the season began that Denzel Boston
would be tied for six in receiving touchdowns in the
Big Ten and tied for where were you yardage wise?
I think you were top ten? Yeah, number ten yards
(02:27):
in the Big Ten. I think a lot of us
were said, that's pretty damn good, right for a guy's
first year in the Big Ten. The majority, though, of
those numbers came before Week seven of the college football season,
so you were tracking. I remember Mario Bailey. You know
the name Mario Bailey, by the way, So Mario Bailey
works for us, Okay, and he's getting pissed off and
pissed off every single week.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This guy's gonna break my record? Man is.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
He could not handle the idea of somebody else breaking
his record.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So we were talking about that.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I don't know if you heard that conversation or not,
or that chatter out there, but tell me about the
year that you had, because the number overall look pretty
damn good.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But I know there was more meat on that bone
to end the year.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh yeah, No, there was for sure a lot of
meat on the bone for sure. You know, I think.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You know, that's hard, that's a hard thing. But you know,
I'm always chasing, for sure for Mario Bailey. You know,
I know that was a big conversation last year, you
know what I mean, And you know I'm definitely chasing them.
But you know, yeah, coming to this year, I'm definitely
you know, I've been watching the film over the years.
I've seen what I need to improve on, what i
need to grow on, and you know, I'm ready for
a bigger season. You know, I left a lot of
meat on that bone and I'm ready to go take
what I left on the bone.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is that stuff that you got to work on?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean, like you you obviously have identified certain
things that you have to improve on. What are those
things that we can keep an eye on, then we
can tell you if you got.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Better at it.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You know, just you know, making sure my game speed
is always at my top speed. Not only that, you know,
just making sure I get out of my routes clean
every time. You know, there's some routes where I feel
I'm golden out of him. Some routes I feel like
I need to work on a little bit. Not only
that in the second level, I feel like if I
throw a little bit more meat on my top upper
half of my body, I'll be able to work with
that second level a lot more and not get thrown
off my route.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
To be able to attack the a lot better.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, other teams scout, they see your numbers in the
first six or seven games of the year. So did
you see more rolled coverages in the last four or
five games than you did in the first two months
of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
We've seen a lot of teams kind of playing a
bracket coverage, especially towards in the red zone area.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But we got we got things for that this year.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us on the radio show, and
you mentioned just a second ago that there's some golden
routes that you got. What are those golden routes? When
that when that play is called, when that route is called,
you got to just light up like a freaking Christmas tree.
So what are those routes that we can keep on
eye on that we can call the golden routes?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
I say, the golden round is definitely blink route. I
love the blink route just because I feel like the
way you get to play the dB.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What does that mean? What's a blink route?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
A blink route you kind of just widen your you
widen your leverage off the initials point, and you kind
of just break it down at eighteen twenty. You only
just widen about two yards. It's kind of like a
curl just deep inkay, got it? I say, I love
the cute route, just the way you get to come
off the angle and it's always a nice sideline catch,
you know, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And then skinny slant.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I say, those are my golden routes right now, and
the ones that I need to work on are still
in the mix.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You mentioned changing your body? Where was your weight last year?
Where is it now? And where do you want it
to be in September?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, my playing weight last year was about like a
two oh two playing weight. Right now, I'm aout two
oh five and I want to be playing at two
ten this year.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
How do you do that without sacrificing forty time and agility?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And I'm looking like me.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
You know, that's just putting trust into our strength coaches
in our system that we have implemented here with our
nutrition staff.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
We got coach t O.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
And they're always crafting up special things for each player
to make sure that if it's our individual needs.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
What is the forty time right now?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
My forty time?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I have been ran to forty in a while right now,
so I wouldn't even I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Interesting, what do you think my forty time would be
right now?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right now? I'll give you a five. I'll give you five.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do I blow a groin after twenty yards?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Denzel Boston's with us on the air, and Denzel, I'm
looking at last year and there was a lot made
about the transition of the Big ten, not just for
you guys, but for all of the West Coast teams
going east and even the East Coast teams that had
to go well. And John Wilner, who does a show
with us every week, is on the show this afternoon.
As a matter of fact, it was tracking this how
teams do when they have to go multiple time zones,
(06:09):
and it wasn't pretty not just for you guys, but
for all the teams in the Big Ten, like Penn
State game, Indiana game, the Iowa.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Game, the Rutgers game.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Did you ever feel like, man, this travel this is
a lot like we're not used to this doing that
here at UDB, and we've got to find a way to.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Get used to it.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, you know, it was definitely a lot different, and
you know, going from traveling two hours on the way
game max. To six hours possibly, it was definitely a
big difference. And I think, you know, just coming prepared,
you know, with moving schedules up and stuff like that,
with what the coaches do, really helps us get adjusted
to that new time zone.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
So you know, there's things to prepare for that, you know,
And I feel like the one thing that was different
is the different atmosphere and those different stadiums that we're
not used to, we haven't seen before, and I think
that was a big difference a big playmaker.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Another thing that changed for you beginning the season the
end of season last year was the quarterback and you
seem to have a really good rapport with Will Rogers
in the first couple months of the season. So talk
to me about your rapport with Demand and do your
routes have to change a little bit, because now you've
got a quarterback that will extend to play six, seven,
eight seconds, whereas before you had a guy that took
(07:15):
his five step drop and.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just let go.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah, you know what, Demon, It adds a lot of versatility,
a lot of more big play opportunities. I'd say, even
with him being able to scramble and be able to
see downfield and lost the ball downfield.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now you know what, Will was running with.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
The ones all year last year, you know, so that's
where our main chemistry line was. And when Damon came
in the game at the end of the day, he
was coming in and making plays and throwing the ball
where he needed to put the ball for that looked
the best for him in this position, you know. So
you know, Demon came in and made a lot of
plays last year, and you know, we're ready, me and him,
We're looking for a big season this year.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us here. I'm getting ready for
practice today. Spring game is next Friday, by the way,
So swing on by you Dubb for that bad boy.
But you mentioned Demon. We had Demon was on the air.
I was thing a couple weeks ago. We actually had
a little bit of a trivia contest. The question was
who caught Demon Williams first college football pass?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You did the game?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Game?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Boom see. Demon didn't even know that. Really, He's like,
I don't know. Let me think about that first. I mean,
you would be like, you know, even money obviously to
be the guy that would catch that. But what have
you seen?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Take us behind the curtain a little bit, because all
of us are real fired up for this kid, obviously, right,
it's hard not to get excited after watching that sun ball.
What are you seeing from Demon Williams that that fans
and people like us don't see. That would get us
maybe even more fired up about him than we are
right now.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
You know, which all don't see is his drive and
how he's taking over the team right now, The way
that he's instilling confidence and motivation into us at practice
when we're not feeling our best and when the way
that he's leading the team at such a young age
and the way the maturity that the maturity role he's
taking on in that leadership role has been immense and
it's been amazing to see. Yeah, and you know, not
only that, you know, the explosiveness that the explosiveness you've
(08:56):
seen in practice these last couple of weeks wasn't there
last year? In this freshman season, I'm saying, not saying
it wasn't there, I'm saying, it's times to what he
had last He's faster, He's faster, he's stronger, he's smarter,
more detailed.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
So everything Demon's doing is a step the right direction.
He's looking to have a huge season this season. Yeah,
and you know, you know I wouldn't expect anything short
of greatness from Demon.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is he is he vocal?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Because the guy that I saw here ago was only
eighteen years old. It's hard to be outspoken. I mean,
you remember first showing up here, You're gonna keep your
mouth shut and do your job for crying out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is he vocal?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now? With the guys, He's extremely vocal.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Now, you know he's he's now in that role where
he can step in and be that leader and be
that guy we can lean on. And he's definitely stepped
into that role and he's expanded his vocal leadership a
lot this season.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
What type offseason work do you get done with Demon?
I mean, does he call you up and say, let's
go out and throw? How has that been working the
last few months?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, all the time, man, you know, not doing with me.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
We know, we got group chats with the other receivers
too that we make sure we're throwing, you know, going
to his house to watch some film.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He got a little.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Projector over there, watching film over there, and we'll bring
some of the other receivers over the to and watching film.
You know, just on the field, having good conversations about
you know, because we got the replay board, so after
a play, you know, look at it, scan it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
How do we feel where do we want to hit this?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
You know, so you know, all those little things that
we do, even from practice and off the field, that's
all gonna combine.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
How much do you still Denzel Boston with us? I
remember you and I talked. I think it was at
the start of last year and you talked about what
you learned from Rome and the two Jalens obviously a
year later. Now those guys all spend a year in
the NFL. How much do you guys all communicate? How
much do you personally still hear from those three guys?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, I listen. I mean I learned from all of
them still just from watching their game, you know. But
Jalen McMillan, I was just on the phone with him yesterday,
you know, just just some mentor stuff, just talking to
him about life, how it's been, and you know, how
it's been at the next level, and you know what
notes I can take, especially with him running the same
style offense that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We run over here. You know.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
For JP and Rome, I haven't heard much from them,
but everyone every time to time, you know, we'll swipe
up on each other's Instagram stories or something like that
and say what's up. But it's definitely cool to see
those guys doing their thing up there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Tell us about this wide receiver room because I'm I'm
maybe a little bit unhealthy excited about this. People, you know,
you guys like him are like kind of calm me
down a little bit. I think this wide receiver room
could be really really good. It's just there's a lot
of names that haven't yet done it on the field
for Washington, but they've done it elsewhere, or they've they've had,
you know, four stars out of high school that they're
(11:23):
ready to go. So tell us about this receiver room
And do I have a right to be as excited
as I am about this?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, our receiver rooms looking real explosive this season, you know,
with Amar coming in and then also Rashid's stepping up
big this past offseason, especially in spring. You know, it's
gonna add a big dimension to the offense, especially with
the chemistry that we all had together. Not only that,
you got KG sitting there too. That's just a speedster,
you know, straight quickness. And we got our freshman Chris Rayden,
(11:49):
Marcus Odrick, you know that guys that are really here
to learn, Guys that are here that want to play
and understand that. Look that we can learn now and
we're going to benefit later. Yeah, we're going to really
be some stars out here. But yeah, that's an exciting
class to be ready for for us.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, I would just say prove it right. I mean,
you got to, like you want to be a great corps.
You got to earn that label exactly. And that's what
this year is going to be all about. I mean,
outside of really you and Omari, nobody's really played a
lot at this level. I mean, you got a lot
of great high school players, and Rashid we know what
he's all about. Kevin Green came from Arizona, obviously. But
do you kind of have that little chip on your
(12:25):
shoulder that we're replacing maybe the greatest position group ever
at the history of Washington, I mean, the ninety one
offensive line, you know, groups like that. You know, the defense,
the secondary on that team, whatever. But do you kind
of have that little chip on your shoulder that we
want to be mentioned in that same breath?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh yeah, and we have that chip for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
And we've all raised our standards when it comes to
you know, the wide receiver room standards, our team standards,
and not only that, you know, we've raised the bar
as of what we want to be as a receiving
corps and as a room.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Right, let me ask you one more before you go. Denzel,
we talked about you catching Demon's first pass.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Do you have that football anywhere?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I do not have sause when he makes the Hall
of Fame and you go into the Hall of Fame together.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That ball can be worth like a jillion dollars, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You just got rid of it.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I mean it could be in a bag somewhere. For
God's sake, you gotta find out where that ball is.
By the way, all right, Denzel, great stuff, Appreciate this.
Best of luck, man, and we'll talk very soon.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You bet Denzel Boston with us on the radio show,
and look obviously turning into a leader, no question for
this football team. You can tell with the way he talks,
the way he projects himself. I mean, he's an absolute stud.
And can't wait to see this guy healthy again. He's
been kind of in and out of practices, kind of
you know, nursing some injuries. But that that that's one
of the cool things that I would just say this
and I appreciate what Jed is doing, is that we've
(13:38):
had a couple of guys on this show, Price Sock
and now him that have been hurt for spring ball.
Like he's not doing everything and in previous years, those
guys are off the radar. There's no way we're even
talking to those guys. But Jedfish knows how important these
guys are to help sell.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
What he's doing here, so he puts him on the
air smart.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Market, total marketing, and Jedfish has always gotten that ever since.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He came here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And also, you know what really impresses me about these guys,
and Denzel is a perfect example.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
He's a thinking man's wide receipts.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, you're like, we go and we break down
film on our own, Like I can't even imagine. You know,
kids fifteen twenty years ago would would go and sit
down and break down film together when they're you know,
twenty years twenty years of age. They wait, they'll practice,
they do what their coaches tell him to do, and
then they go out on the field. And these guys,
did you know, take it upon themselves to do it
on their own.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, we got to play for Huey when he eventually
comes on and we have time, uh, getting him to
talk about the routes he likes to run, the blink route,
the skinny route. Did he call it a cute route?
Is that what he said that he's saying a cute
or cute?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I think he said cute.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I think cute cute. We said cut cut route, Yeah,
a cuge like it was a cute or.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
A cute I mean a ce know. Yeah, Well that's
my only point. What did he say? I said, you
you got a route called cute? Is that what you're
talking to me about?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
So great stuff from Denzel Boston or here's what we
got going on. We're at U dub obviously for spring
football practice, the final week of springball before they kind
of start shutt things down for the media.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The spring game is next Friday. We'll be out here
as well.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
We're gonna be in the same room and that we're
in now for the spring game. There's gonna be a
buttload of X Huskies walking around. Michael Pennock's gonna be
here as well for that day. So a lot of
guys coming by here fired up for that next Friday.
The mock draft is tomorrow from queen An Beer Hall.
And by the way, Jackson and Dick I did stop
by the beer hold today to talk to our buddy
Juice about tomorrow, and they're saying that all general managers
(15:27):
are gonna be given smash burgers, pretzels frisen beer tomorrow
at the Bears.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So let's go. You might want to get a little
bit early for that and part take.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
They're gonna have an NFL special menu just for us
tomorrow that goes back to what they offer during the
NFL season. Six dollars, smash burgers, fight our hot dog,
six dollars beers, the whole thing at the Queen Ann
Beer Hall. That's tomorrow. So lanzer Line's gonna join us
at four twenty eight today for one final visit before
the draft. We're gonna get to the Patriots, We're gonna
get to the Jaguars. Mike Florio will join us. Next segment.
(15:58):
John Wilner coming up, Ban Schmeitzer coming up? What more
do you want for crying out loud? All next from
you dub right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2 (16:29):
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Speaker 5 (16:32):
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Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Plus, I finally got a check today.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Came on.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It was really up in the air this morning. I
don't know, man, he checked the mail in West Virginia.
Boom check. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Go on. We're glad we got taken back.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
At the hour, Like, is that right out of a
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to listen to you too till like three minutes before
you play the music and bring me on. I like
to starting segment.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
This is good.
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's why we can't fire Jackson Felts because he does
the dirty work, and make sure that we follow the
clock here. He is underpaid and he is underappreciated, buddy.
But Mike Florio's with us from Pro Football Talk are
here we go. Man, draft is two days away. Jerry
Jones says, the Cowboys are working on a substantial trade.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Two of them?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
He's working on two substantive trades. And I don't know
what substantive means. I'm not sure he knows what it means.
It means whatever he wants it to mean, just like
all in means whatever he wants.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It to mean.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
But he's a master of generating interest in his team,
and this is a great way to do it. Step
right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of
all ages, and see what the the great Carnival Barker
has in store. Will he make a trade? Will he
not make a trade? Will it be before the draft?
Will it be after the draft?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Who knows?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
And I guess in theory he's technically accurate. If he
makes a trade at any time in the future, it
will be before or after the draft. So far one
per Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Jones, I'm in lockstep with your partner Chris Simms, he
thinks the San Francisco forty nine ers should trade brock Purdy,
who not signed brock Purty to a big contract. I
was a little surprised to see him at the offseason workout.
Were you, and what do you think of your partner
Chris's idea?
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Well, I wasn't surprised that he was at the off
season workout because the reality for brock Purty is, in
order to maintain his leverage, he needs to be ready
for each and every season this season order to do
to make five point three million next year if he
would be franchise tag the year after, he would be
tagged a second time. And when you do the math
on what he would make over the next three years,
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let's assume the franchise tag goes up to forty three
million next year. Year, you're looking at forty eight the
next two seasons, and then it would be a twenty
percent increase over forty three million, which would be what
would that be I'm not good at math. It would
be another eight night. Let's say it's fifty million. You're
looking at a total of like ninety.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Eight million over three years for brock Purty.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Well, if you're gonna payhim fifty million year, you're gonna
pay him ninety eight million in two years. So I
just think that there's the fundamental question of whether or
not you're going to blow out the market for a
guy that isn't a top five quarterback and might never
be a top five quarterback. He's not Burrow Mahomes, Jackson Allen,
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but you could argue he's as good as Trevor Lawrence,
who's up at the top of the market. And I
think the key to remember is this, with only five
point three million due this year, there is a way
to do a long term deal with a new money
average that sounds really impressive, but the real contract won't
be that impressive. And there may be some safeguards in there,
some protections for the forty nine or so.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
If he does.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Regrets or doesn't hit whatever ceiling he thinks he's going
to hit, they can get out of it after a
couple of years. That's really the key one. The final
deal's done, how much is fully guaranteed? How many years
are they tied to him? Is it two years like
some are, is it three years like a tuatoga Iloa
is Or is it one year like Sam Donald in Seattle.
That's going to be the key. What's the extent of
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the commitments the forty nine ers are making.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Mike Florio with us, who is committed baby to this
radio show as long as the paychecks show up. So Titans,
I guess took some calls, but they say no, we'll
stick with cam Ward and number one. Do the Browns
and Giants both make their selections at two and three
on Thursday?
Speaker 10 (20:39):
I think, well, nobody knows at this point. They're taking calls,
and look, it's only news when a team isn't taking calls.
There's always calls may all the time. That's what general
managers do. They justify their existence in part by constantly
getting an idea of what the market is, what is available,
what are they looking for. If you're talking to a
different team about a trade, you want to know what
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the parameters are for another team. You just want to know.
The more you know about what's going on and what
the various teams are hoping to get and what may
cause them to move, the better you understand the overall
draft process. So the Browns I believe should be willing
to trade down because I think that each draft pick
is a lot of reticket and the Browns need multiple
lot of retickets that are going to pan out to
try to turn this team around, especially as they continue
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to deal with the big cap numbers from the Deshaun
Watson contract, and the big cap numbers are gonna have
to be dealing with with the Miles Garrett Deeale into
the future. I think it would makes sense unless they're
damn sure they're getting a generational talent, a transformational figure
at number two in either Travis Hunter or Abdul Carter. And
for the Giants, like, I don't know what the Giants
are gonna do, I'm not sure. And both teams, both
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teams got their spot in the draft because they're not good,
and one of the reasons they're not good is because
both teams have been dysfunctional. The Browns have been more
more spectacularly dysfunctional in recent years with the Watson trade.
But the Giants, I mean, somehow they've managed to win
two Super Bowls this century when it's like it's really
up with this team. It's a revolving door.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Every few years.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The owner can't make a full long term commitment to anyone,
so I don't know what the Giants are thinking, but
they have to at least consider what they could get
if they would move out of that spot, because they,
like the Browns, have multiple needs that one guy isn't
going to fill.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Mike I saw a report where they said the Falcons
want a new team to pay twenty million dollars of
Kirk cousins contract if they were to send him away.
Did you get confirmation on that and you think they'll
ever get somebody to pay twenty million dollars of his contract.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, Schefter reported, I don't have any reason to doubt it.
The thing that's stunning to me is that if a
new team is going to pay twenty that means the
Falcons are paying seventeen point five. That's really the headline here.
I thought the Falcons, if they would find a trade
partner for Kirk Cousins, then he would wave his no
trade clause. I thought they would be able to trade
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his contract because for a starting quarterback, if that's what
he's going to be somewhere else, twenty seventy five is
that bad of a deal right? Well, now that the
musical chairs have played out, and now that Aaron Rodgers
come out and said I'll take ten millions. Right, I
think Roger's saying I'll take ten million. That becomes, as
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reported by Schefter, a desire by the Vikings and the
Steelers to pay ten million for Kirk Cousins. So I
am baffled by all of this because Cousins has to
be willing to wave his no trade clause. And if
he's not going to be paid like a starter by
a new team, does that mean he's a starter. And
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why would you wave your no trade clause if you're
not going to be a starter. Just stay close to
your wife's family in Atlanta and wait. And I think
that's all the mother the best approach here for everyone.
Let's just wait, because right now the Falcons and Cousins
don't have leverage. So the starting quarterback with another team
suffers a season ending injury, all of a sudden, here
comes the leverage, and then through at all you've got
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a pretty good insurance policy and Kirk Cousins in the
event that Michael Pennick Junior suffers an injury. So I'm
just surprised by all this because I think the vibe
in March as free agency approached was that if Kirk
Cousins was available, ah, somebody would at least pay in
twenty seven and a half million, And now they're trying
to pay only ten million of the thirty seven and
a half million to do over the next two years.
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I just think it's all very surprising and unexpected, and
I think the Falcons are gonna get stuck right in
a big check to this guy on top of the
sixty two to five they've already paid it.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Well, I just can't imagine Mike Florio again. Pro Football
Talk dot com courtesy is simply seatdulet dot com is
with us on the air, And I said this yesterday
that I just can't imagine the Steelers trading for DK
Metcalfe and letting Mason.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Rudolph throw the guy to the football.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And they got George Pickens, and that's a pretty lethal
combo with a twenty four year old j Pickens and
DK Metcalfin they're gonna let Mason Rudolph toss those guys
the ball. What kind of odds would you put on
Mason r Rudolph starting Week one for Pittsburgh this year.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Well, I feel like the Steelers have miscalculated everything here. They,
I believe, thought they were going to get Justin Fields
on the cheap. He ends up going to the Jets
for twenty million a year, which once upon a time
was top of the market, but now he until Russell
Wilson signed with the Giants, Fields was the lowest paid
non rookie contract quarterback in the NFL. So I think
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they blew that when this Aaron Rodgers thing. He's been
just a weird experience for the Steelers, who typically aren't
a team that will, you know, bend to knee and
stay and wait. They proposed, and they're waiting and waiting
and waiting to find out whether or not he's going
to accept their proposal. It's just odd for the Steelers
and it could cause them to overdraft a quarterback. But
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they're three years removed from the Kenny Picket to bacle
where pickets fell to them at around twenty one to
twenty two, they took him and that didn't work out.
So I don't know what they're going to do and
would they really truly go forward.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
With Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
I find that hard to believe, especially in an offseason
where they aid this bold move to get DK Metcalf
and pay him all that money. You need somebody that
you feel good about getting the ball to him. And
they can say all they want about Mason Rudolph, but
I don't know that that really is the answer at
a time when you got plenty of Steelers fans that
want nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers. This is a
weird situation in Pittsburgh, and it feels like, you know,
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if they don't draft a quarterback on Thursday night, it
may not end anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Mike, you're the man.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Really appreciate your flexibility and your commitment to this station.
And we'll talk in a week. Enjoy the draft. Are
you going to Green Bay? By the way, will you
be out there?
Speaker 10 (26:32):
I haven't been the draft since the last year it
was in New York. It's an inefficient way.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
To try to do this job.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's better to be at home base. I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
The less work the better. Let's travel the better. Mike,
you're the man. We love you. Thanks, So we're talking
a week, Buddy Cea Petter, all right, Mike Florial with us.
By the way, simply Seattle is going to have Joanah
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Speaker 2 (26:55):
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Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, we're gonna break a little fun with audio.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Baby next right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's now time for Sunday and Digg's fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
All right, we're back here at you dub for Husky
football spring practice. Don't forget the spring game coming up
next Friday. That's May the second, by the way. You
know the cool thing about the May second, Jackson and
being on a Friday, by the way, Yeah, see if
you know what I'm thinking here, May seconds on a Friday,
which means.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
May fourth is on a Sunday.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Boom Star Wars Day, Sunday. The fourth is on a
Sunday and or tonight, Jackson and right.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
At six pm.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I don't get to be home until about eight forty,
so I don't know if I can fit all three
episodes in the night.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
I'm kind of mad.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Is it six?
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Isn't it usually midnight?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Eastern?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Nine o'clock Eastern time? Yeah, nine o'clock Eastern time. Got
the draft prep done? Are you doing all three tonight?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Softy? Hell?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah? You kidding me? Zero chance. I won't be able
to go to bed.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Should have had a viewing party, man Town shut up.
All right, let's get to a little fun with audio slash.
Hey did you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
So the backstory on this Shaquill O'Neill or was it
Barkley that claimed that Billy ray Bates had passed away
a former NBA player.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Shack said he's dead. Barkley was the one that brought
it up here dead.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Okay, so pretty much what Jackson told you in the
the idea of well.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
But that's why I was confused by what Jackson said. Okay,
so because the idea of somebody asking, is that guy
alive or dead? I got no problem with that. We
do that constantly. That's what Chuck did. But Shack actually
said he was dead. Correct under his breath, he was like, okay,
Well Sunday night. On inside the NBA, Charles Barkley was
ripped by his T n T colleagues for asking if
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former NBA guard Billy ray Bates is still alive.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Would like, he's still alive?
Speaker 11 (29:36):
This was a fair question.
Speaker 12 (29:38):
Yeah, not unless not unless you know the answer.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I don't know to ask. You do not to ask
a question.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
I'm sorry, thank you, Shack. I'll just ask a question.
I wasn't trying to be whatever.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
You ever heard of asking a question in a commercial break?
Possibly we had his name on that. You ever had
a coup the word you don't have any.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I can't even ask questions.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
No, you can't have that one, okays.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
All right, So I don't have any problem with Barkley
asking if a guy is alive or dead?
Speaker 7 (30:15):
But yeah, I thought the reaction was a little strong.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Shaquille O'Neil saying he's dead when he's not dead. That's
the problem. And I tell you the other problem, where's
the damn producer? You got producers in these guys?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ears? Charles Barkley's on the air asking is this guy
alive or dead? He is very much alive, I mean.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
And then Ernie Johnson, we just continued this. Ernie Johnson right,
had to go on TV yesterday yesterday and apologized for
Shaq saying that he had passed away.
Speaker 12 (30:41):
Then we welcome you back. We would like to issue
a correction and an apology for something that happened last
night on Inside the NBA. We were talking about Billy
ray Bates, who back in nineteen eighty had one of
the NBA's best playoff debuts, coming off the bench with
twenty nine points. In the course of our discussion, we
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passed on some bad information that Billy ray Bates had
passed away while it was inadvertent. It was also inaccurate
and insensitive and inexcusable. In short, we screwed up, and
we apologize to Billy ray Bates and his family.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You think Billyray Bates is pissed. I don't know the
guy at all.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
So if I was Billy ray Bates, I would be thrilled,
would be laughing your ass that for the first time
in thirty five years, I'm a national name again.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah. I think everyone needs to calm down a little bit,
you know.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
I mean, unless Billy ray Bates was like publicly like
fighting something right, cancer or whatever, and they proclaimed he died, right,
I mean, that's that's a different story.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Did Sexy was dead.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't know. Like you look it up. You gotta
go right front of you.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
It takes you ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Wikipedia says he's very much alive. He's going to be
sixty nine haha on May thirty four. So yeah, I
don't see the big deal. They screwed up. And Ernie Johnson,
by the way, he started totally annoyed that he had
to do that little apology.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We screwed up on the show.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
We'd like to apologize to anybody tuning in, including his family.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, all right, hey Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
During the Mavericks season inning press conference yesterday, general manager
Nico Harrison was asked to defend why he should not
be fired.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Remember he was the one that traded Luca to the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Well later, on last night's Inside the NBA, Charles Barkley
sent a direct message to the Dallas general manager.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
Listen, man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison.
I consider you a friend of mine. I wish you
nothing but the best. I thought you did a good
job last year with the MAVs, and obviously whatever happened
this year didn't work out. Man, don't do no more
press conferences. I don't even know what you're doing. I
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really don't like. I got sympathy and love for you,
but I have zero idea what you're trying to do.
This war is over, brother, you you you got to
take you take in the al. I hope you keep
your job. I hope that team get healthy. But man,
don't do animal interviews. Please don't.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Well, he's got to do interviews. He's the GM and
the Mavericks. I mean, well, there's the Ownergy shuts him down.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
There are some gms out there that rarely ever talk
to anybody.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Well, I think I think a lot of those guys
are like proven dudes, right, But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I mean, I think you know, I mean, what's he
supposed to say? Right?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I thought his response was fine that he said we
played the clipp yesterday on the radio show. I think, right,
I'm fun with audio and it said, Look, he's not stupid.
He knows he's gonna get that question. The whole arena
has been chanting fire Nico since they made the deal.
If he's not expecting a question like that, then he's
a dipstick.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, I think the problem is he was fully honest, right,
And that's the same problem that Jerry Depoto has on
a frequent basis when he is too honest in these
press conferences and he says things that the fans are
just like serious.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Don't be honest, Jerry, don't be honest about the fans
being stupid.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Keep that to yourself. That's right. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Four or five?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Jackson All right golfer our friend, former udub husky. Yeah,
Clarkston native Joel Damon lost the Corrals Championship.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I believe that was in the d R. Is that correct, Americana?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah, on Sunday by one stroke after hitting bogie bogie
bogie on the final three holes.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Brutal.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Here's what Damon, our pal said in a press conference
after the final round.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
I think I'm a little bit of shocked. Honestly, That's
not how you want a golf turn. And I tell
you that I don't deserve to win it. I don't
know what happened on the short one on seventeen. I mean,
I'm obviously nervous, but unfortunately I'm prone to that at times,
and eighteen it's just.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
A really hard hole.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Man.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
We had two to twenty pen and win surfed on
it and hit a very average chip.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I had a good pot.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
I actually thought it was a stray button broke a
little left on me, and all of a sudden, I
wake up and I.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Lost my alf tournament.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
This one could take a while to get over.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
It's one of those things, dude, you learn more in defeat. Unfortunately, Uh,
I don't know what I'm gonna learn from this. Yet,
I'm like I said, I still think I'm a little
bit of shock. I felt like I was in a
good headspace. I wasn't a good headspace, but sometimes your
body doesn't cooperate.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I think it's good for the game of golf to
have honesty like that and raw emotion.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
More cow has been complaining about having to meet with
the media after events, and this is why you do it,
because nobody's talking about that event and that finish unless
Joe Damon talks about.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Joe and he always and he's always raw.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You know, we've seen him on first on full Swing,
be robed boy that put on seventeen.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
You see the width of my laptop right here. Yeah, yeah,
that was about the link.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I've been there, man, We've all been there. We've all
been there. Good for him for being up, up in,
up upfront and honest about it.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
He's a great dude, and root and for him for sure.
All Right, we're gonna break.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
We got Chris Price in Boston, we got fact Tony
Smith and Jacksonville. What are the Patriots and the Jaguars
thinking at number four number five in the draft, and
then lan Zerline going to join us around four twenty
eight in this afternoon for one final pre draft visit
coming up on ninety three three KJRFM
There we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Before we get going, Look who just sat down with us?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Here at you dub snah' Rodgers looking to throw in
the pocket, fires over the middle, caught, Denzel.
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Boston makes something and miss it, gets into the second
ear the thirty the left sideline twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
He's going in. Denzel Boston houses any.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Scores from fifty one yards, the sixth touchdown catch of
the year to lead the Big ten for Denzel Boston
in a career long fifty one yard or turns the tables.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm sorry, I should have told you we're gonna play that.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
By the way, we can't have Denzel Boston on without
playing a Denzel Boston a highlight and here he is,
number twelve in the score book, number one on his
mom and dad's hearts.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Denzel Boston joining us from U dub. How are you marriage?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How you doing God? It's good to see U.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
So you're two with Jedfish. You obviously had Kaylin for
a couple of years. You had Ryan Grubb, you had
Brendan Carroll, you had Jedfish. Now you got a brand
new offensive coordinator. There's a lot of change going on
man around this program. Have you you handled all these
different changes year in and year rount month by month.
It seems like there's change that you guys have to
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get ready for.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
Yeah, you know, there's always change, and especially with this
new college football world. And you know, with coach Fish,
he's made it easy, you know, just with the things
he's instilled in our program with be a pro and
all that. So you know, it's been easy. And all
of our changes, I say, have been good changes. And
you know, to see our coaches move and level up
in different areas and then have new coaches come in
with just as good expertise and be able to push
our team to where we want to be, you know,
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that's just great to have on to be able to
have on our side.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, I gotta imagine the level of change right now
is a lot less than it was last year at
full time, There's no question about that. So what is
your understanding of the offense now compared to how it
was a year ago at this time?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
You know, a year ago this time, I say I'd
be like a two point zero understanding of the offense,
and now I say I'm about a five point zero
understanding of the offense. You know, I know what the
running backs doing, to what the line has to do
on certain plays on the run play and stuff like that,
and you know, I feel like my understanding of the
offense has increased immensely over the offseason.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Gale though at five out of ten, five out of five,
five out of.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Seven, I'll say five out of seven, Yeah, okay, good, Yeah,
we'll take that.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Let's go for a six by September. That'd be nice.
But Denzel Boston's with us, and I'm looking at your numbers,
man from last year, and I think if people would
have told me before the season began that Denzel Boston
would be tied for six in receiving touchdowns in the
Big Ten and tied for where were you yardage wise?
I think you were top ten? Yeah, number ten yards
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in the Big Ten. I think a lot of us
were said, that's pretty damn good, right for a guy's
first year in the Big Ten. The majority, though, of
those numbers came before Week seven of the college football season,
so you were tracking. I remember Mario Bailey. You know
the name Mario Bailey, by the way, So Mario Bailey
works for us, Okay, and he's getting pissed off and
pissed off every single week.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
This guy's gonna break my record? Man is.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
He could not handle the idea of somebody else breaking
his record.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So we were talking about that.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
I don't know if you heard that conversation or not,
or that chatter out there, but tell me about the
year that you had, because the number overall look pretty
damn good.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But I know there was more meat on that bone
to end the year.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh yeah, No, there was for sure a lot of
meat on the bone for sure. You know, I think.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You know, that's hard, that's a hard thing. But you know,
I'm always chasing, for sure for Mario Bailey. You know,
I know that was a big conversation last year, you
know what I mean, And you know I'm definitely chasing them.
But you know, yeah, coming to this year, I'm definitely
you know, I've been watching the film over the years.
I've seen what I need to improve on, what i
need to grow on, and you know, I'm ready for
a bigger season. You know, I left a lot of
meat on that bone and I'm ready to go take
what I left on the bone.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What is that stuff that you got to work on?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, I mean, like you you obviously have identified certain
things that you have to improve on. What are those
things that we can keep an eye on, then we
can tell you if you got.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Better at it.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You know, just you know, making sure my game speed
is always at my top speed. Not only that, you know,
just making sure I get out of my routes clean
every time. You know, there's some routes where I feel
I'm golden out of him. Some routes I feel like
I need to work on a little bit. Not only
that in the second level, I feel like if I
throw a little bit more meat on my top upper
half of my body, I'll be able to work with
that second level a lot more and not get thrown
off my route.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
To be able to attack the a lot better.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, other teams scout, they see your numbers in the
first six or seven games of the year. So did
you see more rolled coverages in the last four or
five games than you did in the first two months
of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
For sure.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
We've seen a lot of teams kind of playing a
bracket coverage, especially towards in the red zone area.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But we got we got things for that this year.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us on the radio show, and
you mentioned just a second ago that there's some golden
routes that you got. What are those golden routes? When
that when that play is called, when that route is called,
you got to just light up like a freaking Christmas tree.
So what are those routes that we can keep on
eye on that we can call the golden routes?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
I say, the golden round is definitely blink route. I
love the blink route just because I feel like the
way you get to play the dB.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What does that mean? What's a blink route?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
A blink route you kind of just widen your you
widen your leverage off the initials point, and you kind
of just break it down at eighteen twenty. You only
just widen about two yards. It's kind of like a
curl just deep inkay, got it? I say, I love
the cute route, just the way you get to come
off the angle and it's always a nice sideline catch,
you know, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And then skinny slant.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
I say, those are my golden routes right now, and
the ones that I need to work on are still
in the mix.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You mentioned changing your body? Where was your weight last year?
Where is it now? And where do you want it
to be in September?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah, my playing weight last year was about like a
two oh two playing weight. Right now, I'm aout two
oh five and I want to be playing at two
ten this year.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
How do you do that without sacrificing forty time and agility?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And I'm looking like me.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
You know, that's just putting trust into our strength coaches
in our system that we have implemented here with our
nutrition staff.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
We got coach t O.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
And they're always crafting up special things for each player
to make sure that if it's our individual needs.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
What is the forty time right now?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
My forty time?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I have been ran to forty in a while right now,
so I wouldn't even I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Interesting, what do you think my forty time would be
right now?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right now? I'll give you a five. I'll give you five.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do I blow a groin after twenty yards?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Denzel Boston's with us on the air, and Denzel, I'm
looking at last year and there was a lot made
about the transition of the Big ten, not just for
you guys, but for all of the West Coast teams
going east and even the East Coast teams that had
to go well. And John Wilner, who does a show
with us every week, is on the show this afternoon.
As a matter of fact, it was tracking this how
teams do when they have to go multiple time zones,
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and it wasn't pretty not just for you guys, but
for all the teams in the Big Ten, like Penn
State game, Indiana game, the Iowa.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Game, the Rutgers game.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Did you ever feel like, man, this travel this is
a lot like we're not used to this doing that
here at UDB, and we've got to find a way to.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Get used to it.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, you know, it was definitely a lot different, and
you know, going from traveling two hours on the way
game max. To six hours possibly, it was definitely a
big difference. And I think, you know, just coming prepared,
you know, with moving schedules up and stuff like that,
with what the coaches do, really helps us get adjusted
to that new time zone.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
So you know, there's things to prepare for that, you know,
And I feel like the one thing that was different
is the different atmosphere and those different stadiums that we're
not used to, we haven't seen before, and I think
that was a big difference a big playmaker.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Another thing that changed for you beginning the season the
end of season last year was the quarterback and you
seem to have a really good rapport with Will Rogers
in the first couple months of the season. So talk
to me about your rapport with Demand and do your
routes have to change a little bit, because now you've
got a quarterback that will extend to play six, seven,
eight seconds, whereas before you had a guy that took
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his five step drop and.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Just let go.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yeah, you know what, Demon, It adds a lot of versatility,
a lot of more big play opportunities. I'd say, even
with him being able to scramble and be able to
see downfield and lost the ball downfield.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Now you know what, Will was running with.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
The ones all year last year, you know, so that's
where our main chemistry line was. And when Damon came
in the game at the end of the day, he
was coming in and making plays and throwing the ball
where he needed to put the ball for that looked
the best for him in this position, you know. So
you know, Demon came in and made a lot of
plays last year, and you know, we're ready, me and him,
We're looking for a big season this year.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, Denzel Boston's with us here. I'm getting ready for
practice today. Spring game is next Friday, by the way,
So swing on by you Dubb for that bad boy.
But you mentioned Demon. We had Demon was on the air.
I was thing a couple weeks ago. We actually had
a little bit of a trivia contest. The question was
who caught Demon Williams first college football pass?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You did the game?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Game?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Boom see. Demon didn't even know that. Really, He's like,
I don't know. Let me think about that first. I mean,
you would be like, you know, even money obviously to
be the guy that would catch that. But what have
you seen?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Take us behind the curtain a little bit, because all
of us are real fired up for this kid, obviously, right,
it's hard not to get excited after watching that sun ball.
What are you seeing from Demon Williams that that fans
and people like us don't see. That would get us
maybe even more fired up about him than we are
right now.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
You know, which all don't see is his drive and
how he's taking over the team right now, The way
that he's instilling confidence and motivation into us at practice
when we're not feeling our best and when the way
that he's leading the team at such a young age
and the way the maturity that the maturity role he's
taking on in that leadership role has been immense and
it's been amazing to see. Yeah, and you know, not
only that, you know, the explosiveness that the explosiveness you've
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seen in practice these last couple of weeks wasn't there
last year? In this freshman season, I'm saying, not saying
it wasn't there, I'm saying, it's times to what he
had last He's faster, He's faster, he's stronger, he's smarter,
more detailed.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
So everything Demon's doing is a step the right direction.
He's looking to have a huge season this season. Yeah,
and you know, you know I wouldn't expect anything short
of greatness from Demon.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Is he is he vocal?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Because the guy that I saw here ago was only
eighteen years old. It's hard to be outspoken. I mean,
you remember first showing up here, You're gonna keep your
mouth shut and do your job for crying out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is he vocal?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now? With the guys, He's extremely vocal.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Now, you know he's he's now in that role where
he can step in and be that leader and be
that guy we can lean on. And he's definitely stepped
into that role and he's expanded his vocal leadership a
lot this season.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
What type offseason work do you get done with Demon?
I mean, does he call you up and say, let's
go out and throw? How has that been working the
last few months?
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, all the time, man, you know, not doing with me.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
We know, we got group chats with the other receivers
too that we make sure we're throwing, you know, going
to his house to watch some film.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
He got a little.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Projector over there, watching film over there, and we'll bring
some of the other receivers over the to and watching film.
You know, just on the field, having good conversations about
you know, because we got the replay board, so after
a play, you know, look at it, scan it.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
How do we feel where do we want to hit this?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
You know, so you know, all those little things that
we do, even from practice and off the field, that's
all gonna combine.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
How much do you still Denzel Boston with us? I
remember you and I talked. I think it was at
the start of last year and you talked about what
you learned from Rome and the two Jalens obviously a
year later. Now those guys all spend a year in
the NFL. How much do you guys all communicate? How
much do you personally still hear from those three guys?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, I listen. I mean I learned from all of
them still just from watching their game, you know. But
Jalen McMillan, I was just on the phone with him yesterday,
you know, just just some mentor stuff, just talking to
him about life, how it's been, and you know, how
it's been at the next level, and you know what
notes I can take, especially with him running the same
style offense that.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
We run over here. You know.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
For JP and Rome, I haven't heard much from them,
but everyone every time to time, you know, we'll swipe
up on each other's Instagram stories or something like that
and say what's up. But it's definitely cool to see
those guys doing their thing up there.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Tell us about this wide receiver room because I'm I'm
maybe a little bit unhealthy excited about this. People, you know,
you guys like him are like kind of calm me
down a little bit. I think this wide receiver room
could be really really good. It's just there's a lot
of names that haven't yet done it on the field
for Washington, but they've done it elsewhere, or they've they've had,
you know, four stars out of high school that they're
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ready to go. So tell us about this receiver room
And do I have a right to be as excited
as I am about this?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah, our receiver rooms looking real explosive this season, you know,
with Amar coming in and then also Rashid's stepping up
big this past offseason, especially in spring. You know, it's
gonna add a big dimension to the offense, especially with
the chemistry that we all had together. Not only that,
you got KG sitting there too. That's just a speedster,
you know, straight quickness. And we got our freshman Chris Rayden,
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Marcus Odrick, you know that guys that are really here
to learn, Guys that are here that want to play
and understand that. Look that we can learn now and
we're going to benefit later. Yeah, we're going to really
be some stars out here. But yeah, that's an exciting
class to be ready for for us.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yeah, I would just say prove it right. I mean,
you got to, like you want to be a great corps.
You got to earn that label exactly. And that's what
this year is going to be all about. I mean,
outside of really you and Omari, nobody's really played a
lot at this level. I mean, you got a lot
of great high school players, and Rashid we know what
he's all about. Kevin Green came from Arizona, obviously. But
do you kind of have that little chip on your
(12:25):
shoulder that we're replacing maybe the greatest position group ever
at the history of Washington, I mean, the ninety one
offensive line, you know, groups like that. You know, the defense,
the secondary on that team, whatever. But do you kind
of have that little chip on your shoulder that we
want to be mentioned in that same breath?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Oh yeah, and we have that chip for sure.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
And we've all raised our standards when it comes to
you know, the wide receiver room standards, our team standards,
and not only that, you know, we've raised the bar
as of what we want to be as a receiving
corps and as a room.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Right, let me ask you one more before you go. Denzel,
we talked about you catching Demon's first pass.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Do you have that football anywhere?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I do not have sause when he makes the Hall
of Fame and you go into the Hall of Fame together.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
That ball can be worth like a jillion dollars, That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
You just got rid of it.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I mean it could be in a bag somewhere. For
God's sake, you gotta find out where that ball is.
By the way, all right, Denzel, great stuff, Appreciate this.
Best of luck, man, and we'll talk very soon.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You bet Denzel Boston with us on the radio show,
and look obviously turning into a leader, no question for
this football team. You can tell with the way he talks,
the way he projects himself. I mean, he's an absolute stud.
And can't wait to see this guy healthy again. He's
been kind of in and out of practices, kind of
you know, nursing some injuries. But that that that's one
of the cool things that I would just say this
and I appreciate what Jed is doing, is that we've
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had a couple of guys on this show, Price Sock
and now him that have been hurt for spring ball.
Like he's not doing everything and in previous years, those
guys are off the radar. There's no way we're even
talking to those guys. But Jedfish knows how important these
guys are to help sell.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
What he's doing here, so he puts him on the
air smart.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Market, total marketing, and Jedfish has always gotten that ever since.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He came here.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
And also, you know what really impresses me about these guys,
and Denzel is a perfect example.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
He's a thinking man's wide receipts.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, you're like, we go and we break down
film on our own, Like I can't even imagine. You know,
kids fifteen twenty years ago would would go and sit
down and break down film together when they're you know,
twenty years twenty years of age. They wait, they'll practice,
they do what their coaches tell him to do, and
then they go out on the field. And these guys,
did you know, take it upon themselves to do it
on their own.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, we got to play for Huey when he eventually
comes on and we have time, uh, getting him to
talk about the routes he likes to run, the blink route,
the skinny route. Did he call it a cute route?
Is that what he said that he's saying a cute
or cute?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I think he said cute.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I think cute cute. We said cut cut route, Yeah,
a cuge like it was a cute or.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
A cute I mean a ce know. Yeah, Well that's
my only point. What did he say? I said, you
you got a route called cute? Is that what you're
talking to me about?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
So great stuff from Denzel Boston or here's what we
got going on. We're at U dub obviously for spring
football practice, the final week of springball before they kind
of start shutt things down for the media.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The spring game is next Friday. We'll be out here
as well.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
We're gonna be in the same room and that we're
in now for the spring game. There's gonna be a
buttload of X Huskies walking around. Michael Pennock's gonna be
here as well for that day. So a lot of
guys coming by here fired up for that next Friday.
The mock draft is tomorrow from queen An Beer Hall.
And by the way, Jackson and Dick I did stop
by the beer hold today to talk to our buddy
Juice about tomorrow, and they're saying that all general managers
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are gonna be given smash burgers, pretzels frisen beer tomorrow
at the Bears.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So let's go. You might want to get a little
bit early for that and part take.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
They're gonna have an NFL special menu just for us
tomorrow that goes back to what they offer during the
NFL season. Six dollars, smash burgers, fight our hot dog,
six dollars beers, the whole thing at the Queen Ann
Beer Hall. That's tomorrow. So lanzer Line's gonna join us
at four twenty eight today for one final visit before
the draft. We're gonna get to the Patriots, We're gonna
get to the Jaguars. Mike Florio will join us. Next segment.
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John Wilner coming up, Ban Schmeitzer coming up? What more
do you want for crying out loud? All next from
you dub right here on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
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Speaker 2 (16:29):
All right, boys and girls back here at Husky Stadia.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
How lucky are we to have this guy joining us
on the Tuesday before the NFL Draft. Lesser reporters, lesser
med would say, take a hikes, scumbag, I'll see you
when the draft is over. But no, Mike Florio just
shows his dedication is loyalty to this industry and this
radio program in this station by sticking with his commitments
and joining us here on the Tuesday before the NFL draft.
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Currency of simply Sattle dot com. Michael, how are you pelt?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Plus, I finally got a check today.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, good for you.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Came on.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It was really up in the air this morning. I
don't know, man, he checked the mail in West Virginia.
Boom check. I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Go on. We're glad we got taken back.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
At the hour, Like, is that right out of a
heartbreak or something. I like punctuality. I like not having
to listen to you too till like three minutes before
you play the music and bring me on. I like
to starting segment.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
This is good.
Speaker 11 (17:20):
See.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
That's why we can't fire Jackson Felts because he does
the dirty work, and make sure that we follow the
clock here. He is underpaid and he is underappreciated, buddy.
But Mike Florio's with us from Pro Football Talk are
here we go. Man, draft is two days away. Jerry
Jones says, the Cowboys are working on a substantial trade.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Two of them?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
He's working on two substantive trades. And I don't know
what substantive means. I'm not sure he knows what it means.
It means whatever he wants it to mean, just like
all in means whatever he wants.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It to mean.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
But he's a master of generating interest in his team,
and this is a great way to do it. Step
right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of
all ages, and see what the the great Carnival Barker
has in store. Will he make a trade? Will he
not make a trade? Will it be before the draft?
Will it be after the draft?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Who knows?
Speaker 10 (18:07):
And I guess in theory he's technically accurate. If he
makes a trade at any time in the future, it
will be before or after the draft. So far one
per Jerry.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Jones, I'm in lockstep with your partner Chris Simms, he
thinks the San Francisco forty nine ers should trade brock Purdy,
who not signed brock Purty to a big contract. I
was a little surprised to see him at the offseason workout.
Were you, and what do you think of your partner
Chris's idea?
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Well, I wasn't surprised that he was at the off
season workout because the reality for brock Purty is, in
order to maintain his leverage, he needs to be ready
for each and every season this season order to do
to make five point three million next year if he
would be franchise tag the year after, he would be
tagged a second time. And when you do the math
on what he would make over the next three years,
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let's assume the franchise tag goes up to forty three
million next year. Year, you're looking at forty eight the
next two seasons, and then it would be a twenty
percent increase over forty three million, which would be what
would that be I'm not good at math. It would
be another eight night. Let's say it's fifty million. You're
looking at a total of like ninety.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Eight million over three years for brock Purty.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Well, if you're gonna payhim fifty million year, you're gonna
pay him ninety eight million in two years. So I
just think that there's the fundamental question of whether or
not you're going to blow out the market for a
guy that isn't a top five quarterback and might never
be a top five quarterback. He's not Burrow Mahomes, Jackson Allen,
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but you could argue he's as good as Trevor Lawrence,
who's up at the top of the market. And I
think the key to remember is this, with only five
point three million due this year, there is a way
to do a long term deal with a new money
average that sounds really impressive, but the real contract won't
be that impressive. And there may be some safeguards in there,
some protections for the forty nine or so.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
If he does.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Regrets or doesn't hit whatever ceiling he thinks he's going
to hit, they can get out of it after a
couple of years. That's really the key one. The final
deal's done, how much is fully guaranteed? How many years
are they tied to him? Is it two years like
some are, is it three years like a tuatoga Iloa
is Or is it one year like Sam Donald in Seattle.
That's going to be the key. What's the extent of
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the commitments the forty nine ers are making.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Mike Florio with us, who is committed baby to this
radio show as long as the paychecks show up. So Titans,
I guess took some calls, but they say no, we'll
stick with cam Ward and number one. Do the Browns
and Giants both make their selections at two and three
on Thursday?
Speaker 10 (20:39):
I think, well, nobody knows at this point. They're taking calls,
and look, it's only news when a team isn't taking calls.
There's always calls may all the time. That's what general
managers do. They justify their existence in part by constantly
getting an idea of what the market is, what is available,
what are they looking for. If you're talking to a
different team about a trade, you want to know what
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the parameters are for another team. You just want to know.
The more you know about what's going on and what
the various teams are hoping to get and what may
cause them to move, the better you understand the overall
draft process. So the Browns I believe should be willing
to trade down because I think that each draft pick
is a lot of reticket and the Browns need multiple
lot of retickets that are going to pan out to
try to turn this team around, especially as they continue
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to deal with the big cap numbers from the Deshaun
Watson contract, and the big cap numbers are gonna have
to be dealing with with the Miles Garrett Deeale into
the future. I think it would makes sense unless they're
damn sure they're getting a generational talent, a transformational figure
at number two in either Travis Hunter or Abdul Carter. And
for the Giants, like, I don't know what the Giants
are gonna do, I'm not sure. And both teams, both
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teams got their spot in the draft because they're not good,
and one of the reasons they're not good is because
both teams have been dysfunctional. The Browns have been more
more spectacularly dysfunctional in recent years with the Watson trade.
But the Giants, I mean, somehow they've managed to win
two Super Bowls this century when it's like it's really
up with this team. It's a revolving door.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Every few years.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
The owner can't make a full long term commitment to anyone,
so I don't know what the Giants are thinking, but
they have to at least consider what they could get
if they would move out of that spot, because they,
like the Browns, have multiple needs that one guy isn't
going to fill.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Mike I saw a report where they said the Falcons
want a new team to pay twenty million dollars of
Kirk cousins contract if they were to send him away.
Did you get confirmation on that and you think they'll
ever get somebody to pay twenty million dollars of his contract.
Speaker 10 (22:34):
Well, Schefter reported, I don't have any reason to doubt it.
The thing that's stunning to me is that if a
new team is going to pay twenty that means the
Falcons are paying seventeen point five. That's really the headline here.
I thought the Falcons, if they would find a trade
partner for Kirk Cousins, then he would wave his no
trade clause. I thought they would be able to trade
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his contract because for a starting quarterback, if that's what
he's going to be somewhere else, twenty seventy five is
that bad of a deal right? Well, now that the
musical chairs have played out, and now that Aaron Rodgers
come out and said I'll take ten millions. Right, I
think Roger's saying I'll take ten million. That becomes, as
(23:18):
reported by Schefter, a desire by the Vikings and the
Steelers to pay ten million for Kirk Cousins. So I
am baffled by all of this because Cousins has to
be willing to wave his no trade clause. And if
he's not going to be paid like a starter by
a new team, does that mean he's a starter. And
(23:40):
why would you wave your no trade clause if you're
not going to be a starter. Just stay close to
your wife's family in Atlanta and wait. And I think
that's all the mother the best approach here for everyone.
Let's just wait, because right now the Falcons and Cousins
don't have leverage. So the starting quarterback with another team
suffers a season ending injury, all of a sudden, here
comes the leverage, and then through at all you've got
(24:02):
a pretty good insurance policy and Kirk Cousins in the
event that Michael Pennick Junior suffers an injury. So I'm
just surprised by all this because I think the vibe
in March as free agency approached was that if Kirk
Cousins was available, ah, somebody would at least pay in
twenty seven and a half million, And now they're trying
to pay only ten million of the thirty seven and
a half million to do over the next two years.
(24:22):
I just think it's all very surprising and unexpected, and
I think the Falcons are gonna get stuck right in
a big check to this guy on top of the
sixty two to five they've already paid it.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Well, I just can't imagine Mike Florio again. Pro Football
Talk dot com courtesy is simply seatdulet dot com is
with us on the air, And I said this yesterday
that I just can't imagine the Steelers trading for DK
Metcalfe and letting Mason.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Rudolph throw the guy to the football.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
And they got George Pickens, and that's a pretty lethal
combo with a twenty four year old j Pickens and
DK Metcalfin they're gonna let Mason Rudolph toss those guys
the ball. What kind of odds would you put on
Mason r Rudolph starting Week one for Pittsburgh this year.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Well, I feel like the Steelers have miscalculated everything here. They,
I believe, thought they were going to get Justin Fields
on the cheap. He ends up going to the Jets
for twenty million a year, which once upon a time
was top of the market, but now he until Russell
Wilson signed with the Giants, Fields was the lowest paid
non rookie contract quarterback in the NFL. So I think
(25:21):
they blew that when this Aaron Rodgers thing. He's been
just a weird experience for the Steelers, who typically aren't
a team that will, you know, bend to knee and
stay and wait. They proposed, and they're waiting and waiting
and waiting to find out whether or not he's going
to accept their proposal. It's just odd for the Steelers
and it could cause them to overdraft a quarterback. But
(25:42):
they're three years removed from the Kenny Picket to bacle
where pickets fell to them at around twenty one to
twenty two, they took him and that didn't work out.
So I don't know what they're going to do and
would they really truly go forward.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
With Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
I find that hard to believe, especially in an offseason
where they aid this bold move to get DK Metcalf
and pay him all that money. You need somebody that
you feel good about getting the ball to him. And
they can say all they want about Mason Rudolph, but
I don't know that that really is the answer at
a time when you got plenty of Steelers fans that
want nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers. This is a
weird situation in Pittsburgh, and it feels like, you know,
(26:19):
if they don't draft a quarterback on Thursday night, it
may not end anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Mike, you're the man.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Really appreciate your flexibility and your commitment to this station.
And we'll talk in a week. Enjoy the draft. Are
you going to Green Bay? By the way, will you
be out there?
Speaker 10 (26:32):
I haven't been the draft since the last year it
was in New York. It's an inefficient way.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
To try to do this job.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's better to be at home base. I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
The less work the better. Let's travel the better. Mike,
you're the man. We love you. Thanks, So we're talking
a week, Buddy Cea Petter, all right, Mike Florial with us.
By the way, simply Seattle is going to have Joanah
Coleman at their U village store coming up this Sunday
at eleven thirty.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
The demand Williams signing.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Was a smashing success to Kyle Riley's signing was a
mashing success. So Jonah is gonna be there on Sunday, signing, autographs,
taking pictures, kissing babies, the whole thing. Find out more
on the website at simply Seattle dot com. Bring the kids,
bring the family to meet Jonah Coleman on Sunday, Jackson,
we have two tickets to give away for this event
to two different people. So just text in your first
(27:19):
and last name, your email to four nine four to
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me the information and we'll get you set up to
meet Jonah Coleman on Sunday at the Simply Seattle U
Village store.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, we're gonna break a little fun with audio.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Baby next right here on ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
It's now time for Sunday and Digg's fun with Audio.
Jimmy g pawn Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. Now let's have
some fun with audio.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
All right, we're back here at you dub for Husky
football spring practice. Don't forget the spring game coming up
next Friday. That's May the second, by the way. You
know the cool thing about the May second, Jackson and
being on a Friday, by the way, Yeah, see if
you know what I'm thinking here, May seconds on a Friday,
which means.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
May fourth is on a Sunday.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Boom Star Wars Day, Sunday. The fourth is on a
Sunday and or tonight, Jackson and right.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
At six pm.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I don't get to be home until about eight forty,
so I don't know if I can fit all three
episodes in the night.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
I'm kind of mad.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Is it six?
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Isn't it usually midnight?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Eastern?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Nine o'clock Eastern time? Yeah, nine o'clock Eastern time. Got
the draft prep done? Are you doing all three tonight?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Softy? Hell?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah? You kidding me? Zero chance. I won't be able
to go to bed.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Should have had a viewing party, man Town shut up.
All right, let's get to a little fun with audio slash.
Hey did you hear that? Hey, Dick, did you happen
to hear that?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
All right?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
So the backstory on this Shaquill O'Neill or was it
Barkley that claimed that Billy ray Bates had passed away
a former NBA player.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Shack said he's dead. Barkley was the one that brought
it up here dead.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Okay, so pretty much what Jackson told you in the
the idea of well.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
But that's why I was confused by what Jackson said. Okay,
so because the idea of somebody asking, is that guy
alive or dead? I got no problem with that. We
do that constantly. That's what Chuck did. But Shack actually
said he was dead. Correct under his breath, he was like, okay,
Well Sunday night. On inside the NBA, Charles Barkley was
ripped by his T n T colleagues for asking if
(29:26):
former NBA guard Billy ray Bates is still alive.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Would like, he's still alive?
Speaker 11 (29:36):
This was a fair question.
Speaker 12 (29:38):
Yeah, not unless not unless you know the answer.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I don't know to ask. You do not to ask
a question.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
I'm sorry, thank you, Shack. I'll just ask a question.
I wasn't trying to be whatever.
Speaker 12 (29:56):
You ever heard of asking a question in a commercial break?
Possibly we had his name on that. You ever had
a coup the word you don't have any.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I can't even ask questions.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
No, you can't have that one, okays.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
All right, So I don't have any problem with Barkley
asking if a guy is alive or dead?
Speaker 7 (30:15):
But yeah, I thought the reaction was a little strong.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Shaquille O'Neil saying he's dead when he's not dead. That's
the problem. And I tell you the other problem, where's
the damn producer? You got producers in these guys?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ears? Charles Barkley's on the air asking is this guy
alive or dead? He is very much alive, I mean.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
And then Ernie Johnson, we just continued this. Ernie Johnson right,
had to go on TV yesterday yesterday and apologized for
Shaq saying that he had passed away.
Speaker 12 (30:41):
Then we welcome you back. We would like to issue
a correction and an apology for something that happened last
night on Inside the NBA. We were talking about Billy
ray Bates, who back in nineteen eighty had one of
the NBA's best playoff debuts, coming off the bench with
twenty nine points. In the course of our discussion, we
(31:03):
passed on some bad information that Billy ray Bates had
passed away while it was inadvertent. It was also inaccurate
and insensitive and inexcusable. In short, we screwed up, and
we apologize to Billy ray Bates and his family.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You think Billyray Bates is pissed. I don't know the
guy at all.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
So if I was Billy ray Bates, I would be thrilled,
would be laughing your ass that for the first time
in thirty five years, I'm a national name again.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah. I think everyone needs to calm down a little bit,
you know.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
I mean, unless Billy ray Bates was like publicly like
fighting something right, cancer or whatever, and they proclaimed he died, right,
I mean, that's that's a different story.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Did Sexy was dead.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't know. Like you look it up. You gotta
go right front of you.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
It takes you ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Wikipedia says he's very much alive. He's going to be
sixty nine haha on May thirty four. So yeah, I
don't see the big deal. They screwed up. And Ernie Johnson,
by the way, he started totally annoyed that he had
to do that little apology.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We screwed up on the show.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
We'd like to apologize to anybody tuning in, including his family.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes, all right, hey Dick, did you happen to hear that?
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
During the Mavericks season inning press conference yesterday, general manager
Nico Harrison was asked to defend why he should not
be fired.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Remember he was the one that traded Luca to the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Well later, on last night's Inside the NBA, Charles Barkley
sent a direct message to the Dallas general manager.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
Listen, man, I consider you a friend of mine, Nico Harrison.
I consider you a friend of mine. I wish you
nothing but the best. I thought you did a good
job last year with the MAVs, and obviously whatever happened
this year didn't work out. Man, don't do no more
press conferences. I don't even know what you're doing. I
(32:55):
really don't like. I got sympathy and love for you,
but I have zero idea what you're trying to do.
This war is over, brother, you you you got to
take you take in the al. I hope you keep
your job. I hope that team get healthy. But man,
don't do animal interviews. Please don't.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Well, he's got to do interviews. He's the GM and
the Mavericks. I mean, well, there's the Ownergy shuts him down.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
There are some gms out there that rarely ever talk
to anybody.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Well, I think I think a lot of those guys
are like proven dudes, right, But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I mean, I think you know, I mean, what's he
supposed to say? Right?
Speaker 5 (33:30):
I thought his response was fine that he said we
played the clipp yesterday on the radio show. I think, right,
I'm fun with audio and it said, Look, he's not stupid.
He knows he's gonna get that question. The whole arena
has been chanting fire Nico since they made the deal.
If he's not expecting a question like that, then he's
a dipstick.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, I think the problem is he was fully honest, right,
And that's the same problem that Jerry Depoto has on
a frequent basis when he is too honest in these
press conferences and he says things that the fans are
just like serious.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Don't be honest, Jerry, don't be honest about the fans
being stupid.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Keep that to yourself. That's right. Hey, Dick, did you
happen to hear that? What's that?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Four or five?
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Jackson All right golfer our friend, former udub husky. Yeah,
Clarkston native Joel Damon lost the Corrals Championship.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I believe that was in the d R. Is that correct, Americana?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah, on Sunday by one stroke after hitting bogie bogie
bogie on the final three holes.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Brutal.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Here's what Damon, our pal said in a press conference
after the final round.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
I think I'm a little bit of shocked. Honestly, That's
not how you want a golf turn. And I tell
you that I don't deserve to win it. I don't
know what happened on the short one on seventeen. I mean,
I'm obviously nervous, but unfortunately I'm prone to that at times,
and eighteen it's just.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
A really hard hole.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Man.
Speaker 8 (34:45):
We had two to twenty pen and win surfed on
it and hit a very average chip.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I had a good pot.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
I actually thought it was a stray button broke a
little left on me, and all of a sudden, I
wake up and I.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Lost my alf tournament.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
This one could take a while to get over.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
It's one of those things, dude, you learn more in defeat. Unfortunately, Uh,
I don't know what I'm gonna learn from this. Yet,
I'm like I said, I still think I'm a little
bit of shock. I felt like I was in a
good headspace. I wasn't a good headspace, but sometimes your
body doesn't cooperate.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I love it. I think it's great.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I think it's good for the game of golf to
have honesty like that and raw emotion.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
More cow has been complaining about having to meet with
the media after events, and this is why you do it,
because nobody's talking about that event and that finish unless
Joe Damon talks about.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Joe and he always and he's always raw.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You know, we've seen him on first on full Swing,
be robed boy that put on seventeen.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
You see the width of my laptop right here. Yeah, yeah,
that was about the link.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I've been there, man, We've all been there. We've all
been there. Good for him for being up, up in,
up upfront and honest about it.
Speaker 10 (35:50):
Man.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
He's a great dude, and root and for him for sure.
All Right, we're gonna break.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
We got Chris Price in Boston, we got fact Tony
Smith and Jacksonville. What are the Patriots and the Jaguars
thinking at number four number five in the draft, and
then lan Zerline going to join us around four twenty
eight in this afternoon for one final pre draft visit
coming up on ninety three three KJRFM
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