April 28, 2025 • 39 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain are joined by new Seahawks and former Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe to talk about joining Seattle, react to it, then react to the Mariners winning another series before hearing some Fun with Audio clips.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He does throw the ball, like you said, down the
field extremely well, and he was extremely accurate two years ago,
and he did a pretty good job again for us
last year. So he's the guy that's up to the
challenge and he can handle the heat and he will
always put it on himself like you'd want any leader
a quarterback to do.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That is the voice of Caitlin de Boor, who was
on the show with us a couple hours ago. And
our next guest knows a thing or two about that
guy because he played for him last year in Tuscaloosa.
The number ninety two pick overall in the NFL Draft,
third round pick out of Houston, Texas via Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Let's welcome him to the show very first time. Jalen
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Milroe with us on the air in Seattle, Jalen at
Softy and Dick Faine.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How are you, man?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
How y'all doing good?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Tell me what is a kid that played high school
than Katie, Texas and a guy that played college football
in Tuscaloosa, Alibama know about Seattle, Washington and the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
My man, Well, initially I didn't know too much about
that area of the world. But the previous STAF I
had in twenty four all came from University of Washington,
so they gave me some intel when it came to Seattle.
Then also my coach that I had this past year
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was from ben Oregon, Midge Darling, so of course he
raised about it a lot. So as someone that's from
the South, I don't know anything about that area, but
I have a lot of great people that inform me
about the area.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Well, you heard coach Debor there about a minute ago
talk about how you can handle the heat. And I'm
not talking about the weather heat in Seattle, and you
know what I'm talking about the heat of being in Tuscaloose, Alabama.
What is the pressure like being the Alabama starting quarterback?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We so it comes with a lot being a out
of University of Alabama. Number One, you represent the state
of Alabama when you when you play each and every
game that you have, each and every price that you have,
you're playing for the state Alabama. You're playing for locally
in Tuscaloosa. And then of course you know the guys
in the locker room. But it's the branding that comes
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from the script A that's that's very unique. You know.
I remember going to uh Puerto Rico with my family
for vacation and I had the script A out there
with my family and so and say roll tied to me.
And I remember Coach Savan he going to Italy with Ms.
Terry and he wore script day and so and said
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roll tide to him. And so just the branding that
Alabama has everything as a whole. And so that was,
you know, one of the reasons why I went to Alabama.
So it's definitely a unique place. Coach the board definitely
knows how unique it is. But it made me stronger
as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, Jalen Milroe again is with us.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He was the ninety second pick overall on the third
round to the Seahawks on on Friday, And Jalen, look, man,
I'll be totally honest with you because I want our
relationship to be one of honesty, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I don't want to hide anything from you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
If I got something critical to say about you, I
want you to hear it from me, all right, and
not from somebody else or some idiot on the internet.
So what I have said on the air about you
is that I need to see more of you as
a passer before I believe that you can survive in
the National Football League. My partner over here, Dick, he
loves you. He would have taken you in the first
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round for crying out loud. But I need to see
more of you as a passer at this level. The
criticism that you get from people and that observation that
people make, does that land as a fair criticism or
is that unfair in your opinion?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Honestly, that goes for any quarterback. You always got to improve.
So I'm not necessarily, you know, motivated or worried about
outside noise. I know it makes me unique. I do
know that of the quarterbacks of this past draft, I
was a winning, winning his quarterback in the draft. So
and it comes from off every phase on the football fields.
(04:07):
I'm not really necessarily focus on your comment.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
How do you feel like you can help this team
in year number one? And have the Hawks talk to
you at all about what your role is on the
field this year?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, Ultimately, my my biggest thing is earning the trust
and respect that all the guys in the locker room
as a rookie that number one, especially learning as well
with the guys that I had in my room. You know,
there's a lot of knowledge is knowledge that I do
not have that those guys have. And also learning from
coach McDonald because McDonald because he has he's deep is
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of minded that's gonna only help me as a quarterback.
And so ultimately that's the biggest thing coming in early
on and of course you know, doing what the team
needs so that we go in and put that best
before when it comes to competing against other teams. So
that's why we have we have enough time from now
into September when we had our first game, so they
think for me, just under trust and then keep going
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to be another player.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, Jalen Melroe again is with us.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And Jalen, let me just go back to what we're
talking about this a second ago and you said you're
not really worried about the outside noise and I and
I totally get that, right, I mean, lock it in.
Whatever happens in the building is the most important thing.
But what what do you think honestly, Jalen, because you
said that you think you're unique? What what makes you unique?
What are your strengths in your opinion right now that
make you unique? And what are your weaknesses that you
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think you'd like to work on.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, there's nothing on the field I can't do. Other
things I can improve on absolutely, and so I'm not
one dimensional when it comes to the field. Attacking, the
running game and the passing game. It's something I utilize
the whole time I was in college, you know, improving
you know, of course, you know you're coming into the
league as a rookie, and so noledge they us in
a room. You know, you got to cut up the
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scale with the guys in the room, and so overall
is that and then the coming in just were finding
everything skill set, running game, passing game, everything as a whole,
so that I'm putting my best wad forward when it
comes to leading the guys. When I had reps in
practice and then otimately in the game.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
When you think about your throws, where are you where
do you feel most comfortable throwing and where do you
feel like, Okay, this is the area, These are the routes.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These are the throws.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
That I really have to get a lot better at
over the next year or two.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Honestly, you know, get better every throw. You know, as
a quarterback, you want to keep on or finding your
skill set, and no matter who you are as a quarterback,
you know that's that's important when it comes to development
at the position. But on the field, I've thrown every
type of touchdown. I throwing a post, I thrown an incut,
I thrown't out. Well you know, any any route concept
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that that is there, I've thrown it. So I'm confident.
My still staying confident what I can ring to the table.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, well, Jalen Milroe is again with us, and you
mentioned Nick Saban. You mentioned Miss Terry right, Hey, I mean,
I don't know how many college football head coaches, you know,
their their wife's names are recognizable just as much as
theirs are. But everyone knows who Miss Terry is. And
then you played with Kaylen de Boor last year, So
what what were the differences man for you as a
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player between playing for Nick Saban and then playing for
Kailn de Boor the following season.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Both pushed the fan of excellence for all of us
owning out the field. Who maximized the best player you
know in the past season. This was the higher GPA
overall for the whole team in school history that' had,
So you know, on and out the field. You know,
we're pushing excellence, you know Coach Saban as well, you know,
on it out the field, trying to push for us
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to all be the best version of ourselves. We had
multiple players on a team that had accolade when it
comes to off the field achievements. So no matter where
whereas that, of course you think excellent O of course,
but you know there's always the drawing in comparison of
what's different. But you know, similarly they all want to
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push excellent. But of course you know they see the
program differently comes from different phases of the college experience
h and coaching experience that they've had. But you know,
coach saving the defensive mind and coach to border offensive minded.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Spend some time with New seaaw quarterback Jalen Milroe here
on ninety three point three KJRFM. Jalen talk about your
relationship with your wide receiver group last year compared to
the year prior.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Coach to Bora was on with us.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Mentioned maybe at a comfort level that was a little
higher with the twenty twenty three group versus the twenty
twenty four group. Is that fair and did that contribute
maybe to your dropping numbers?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
This past season.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, so of course, you know, everything is about timing,
everything's about details, everything is about on the relationship when
it comes to quarterback, the quarterback, the receiver, no matter
where where it is. That's especially going coming now as
a rookie inainst the league, and so that's the emphasis,
you know, move forward. Of course, when it comes to comfortable,
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won't comfort with whoever I play with. So it was
it was nothing in a drop or anything like that
going into the season, but you got to look at
the task at hand and what it took place. You know,
coming into this season, we had a fresh group of
receivers and skill position that we didn't have in the
year before. You know, we were we had a different
crew of starting receiver than we did the year before.
And the guys that we had whin three had been
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in the system, had been into the out of my offense.
I knew the guys for a longer period of time.
But that don't change anything when it comes to her
preparation and playing. You know, we're not chasing stats, chasing wins,
and that's the objective move forward if you look at it.
The passing Bullshit Champion died last season is he the
best story in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Have you talked to Sam Darnold yet?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Have you had that discussion with the guy who for
now is QB one yep? Okay, can you tell me
about that? Tell us about those conversations and what he's
told you.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, we have a good relationship. I know, I know
him very well here we we both have the saying
quarterback coach with Jordan Palmer yep. And so I know him,
you know, por being a Seahawks, So I'm definitely excited
to cheam up with him again.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, you mentioned Jordan Palmer.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mentioned him jailing a couple of times on the show,
and uh, you know, people that I know in Tuscaloosa
say that you looked as comfortable that pro day uh
as you ever have and probably the best people have
ever seen you throw the ball. And some people kind
of attribute that to Jordan's So tell us about what
this guy means to you and and what he's done
for you off the field, man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, grind noose stuff and no matter what page the
form it is. And so I know that you know
a year from now and be even better than our
worse today. Is so, but also it comes with the
people that poured INCI and Jordan Palmer is one of
them for sure, and Mike White, I'm down in California.
And so as I'm going this, this uh puss is
of being the best quarterback that candy, It's going to
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come from the people that pour into and so that's
one of the people that.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Point ninety two is probably a little lower than most
people thought you would go.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Are you the type of guy that kind of uses
that as motivation or not?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
My lifetime goal was being NFL quarterback. You know, no
matter where I would select, I still have to prove myself,
no matter how the first overall pick in the draft
and or I was the mister irrelevant, it doesn't matter.
I started to come in the league and prove myself.
And so my goal wasn't too this this certain pick
or this timeframe was more of being I'm gonna hear
my name called. That was the that was the beautiful
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moment that I have my family will hear my name called.
And also hearing that it was gonna be a speA hole.
So it didn't really matter when when.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It was and got your name called by a former
Crimson side running back and Sean Alexander to boot on
top of that, but Jalen Milroe with us and Jalen
one more from me before you go. So look, we
hear that you have a military background with your family,
that you like to bust your ass. And you know,
Kaylen talked about you being one of the first ones
in the building. How important is that to you to
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set that example of leadership and be one of the
first guys in the building.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Even at this level and college.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Level, it's all about being authentic, being the same person
eation every day, the guy that everyone can trust. And
so I'm all about working hard as well, the working
a darks all was going to come come to shine
when it's necessary, and so so alid part of about
this process. You know our process is different, but I
understand that you have to work for all that you
want to achieve.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Final thing from me and we appreciate you joining us. Uh,
what did the Seahawks get in tight end Robbie oots, Jalen.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Someone that loves his teammates, someone who is selfless, someone
that never complains, someone who loves the process of getting
to all that he deserves as a team and the
team goals in and personal goals. And so there's someone
that works with works his tail off onely can be
utilized all over the football field, and he cares, he
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cares about everyone that he plays around. He's and he's
also so a guy that works hard.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
In silence, Yeah, what do you do when you're not
playing football?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I mean some guys are football twenty four seven, three
sixty five and maybe you are too. But you got
any hobbies that you like to take part in when
you're not focused on football?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
This football really, you know, football and being around my
family is everything. That's everything I like to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Awesome, all right, Hey go get him. Best of luck
to you. Welcome to the two oh six and we'll
talk very soon.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man, appreciate this, Appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Jalen Milroe with us on the radio show. And I
mean I love that last answer that he's just all football.
I mean maybe that'll change over the years for him,
right as he grows up, he'll have some hobbies and
interest that he'll fall in love with. But I kind
of go back to that now almost infamous interview with
cam Ward and Schadeur Sanders where SuDS asking him what
do you like to do? Besides football, he says nothing. Man,
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I'm football and should do is talking about all the
stuff he does off the right.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Right is lying and blah blah blah. And the fact
that he's that dedicated to this.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I was talking to our buddy Ryan Fowler, who says
his parents of a military background. He's there every day,
four or five o'clock in the morning, first one in,
last one out.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And I love that work ethic. So hey, good for him.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I mean again, I'll tell him to his face and
I'll tell you, and we have audio here we can play.
I just need to see people as a passer before
I believe he can survive in the NFL long term
as a start.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I think I just liked how how buttoned up
he was.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean, and that probably comes from the military background.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
It's interesting both he and Kaitlin.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
De Boor bragged about the GPA and the academics at Alabama.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I don't think you hear a court, a coach, and
a quarterback bring that up that often in two separate interviews.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, let's go back to last Monday, right in the
way back machine.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
This is April fifteenth, April fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Two weeks ago, almost the topic of Jalen Milroe came
up on the radio show Are you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
On this clip?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
To jacksonh Yeah, okay, So here's what all three of
us had to say rolling. I just have no confidence
whatsoever in Jalen Milroe being able to survive in the
NFL as a thrower. I just think it's one of
those things where you look at this and you remember
the games of his that you watched.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And I watched a lot of Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I watched a lot of Alabama football this year, more
so than probably ever because of Kaylen de Moore, Right,
I mean, they come on, I'm more curious now to
watch them play and whatever. And I thought he looked terrible.
My eyes told me that he was awful to you
as a junior.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't remember him much as a junior.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
To be honest with you, are we excited about the
idea of Jalen Milroe getting drafted by the Seahawks.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
No, not at all, because, again, because you have to
take him in the top couple rounds. And if we're
talking about a team that, yes, maybe wants to run
the ball, run the bro run ball sure, but you're
eventually going to have a third and fifteen. And if
we're going to do a third and fifteen with zero
confidence that we're gonna get it, yeah, that's not a
guy I'm taking in the first two rounds.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm not intrigued by this at all. I don't want
the Hawks to have anything to do with the guy
zero unless he's like a Day three dude.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Right, yeah, if you get him in like the get
in the second round, in the second round, no, no,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
If you get him in the fourth.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Okay, but like even top three rounds, a quarterback that
gives you very little confidence throwing the ball like that's
just not worth a top three I am.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Not ready to say that Jaln Milroe is not going
to be a really good quarterback in the NFL because
he has athleticis that we have never seen.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Do you want to take him in the second round,
I'd be I'd be intrigued. Where do you guys think
he's gonna I got no idea. I'm just saying I
don't want the Hawks taking him in the second.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
God, we were eleven picks away.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Jackson oops eleven more picks and he would have been
a Day three I said.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Way more about Melrow than Jackson. Cut out.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Man, I've everly got five words.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
It's what you did, and it's it's more fun to
poke fun in the fact that I was dead wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So well, I mean, hasn't taken a snap yet with
a change your mind, Jackson, because you said you don't
want him any any closer to the top three rounds,
and then I see a tweet right after he gets drafted.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You think it's good.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Valuis because eleven picks away from the fourth raft, he
was almost a fourth round come on.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Very nearly, which we all said. Safti and I both
said day three.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm totally fine with him going at ninety two. I mean,
you want to get technical and say it was officially
a late third rounder and we missed the fourth round
by eleven picks, I think is what it was, right, Yeah,
one hundred and three is the first pick of the
fourth round. I mean, I'm I'm fine with the timing
of it. I I wanted nothing to do with him
as a second rounder, nothing to do with him as
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a first rounder. You said into your credit, Well, I
guess we have to wait and see. Maybe you want,
you would have you would have made him a second
round draft pick. But the conversation was would you take
him in the first three rounds? And I said no, Yeah,
I thought they did take him in ninety two, which
technically is a third rounder.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But we're getting kind of close to the end. Yeah,
I thought, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Best case scenario where you would still end up with
Jalen Milroe is that the Seahawks trade down in round
number two to the back of round number two, pick
up extra picks right, and then still get Jayleen.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I thought that was the best case scenario.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
And here we are.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
They get a stud in the firm, even more stud
in the second, more sudden the third according to you,
and then you get jail and Milrod.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Back where I really blew the draft. My my, my
prediction that went. You know what up is Shador Sanders.
I thought he was gonna be sitting there at number eighteen.
Uh and the Hawks could trade back, someone could trade
in and grab number eight whatever. Yeah, I mean the Steelers.
I mean I I never saw him fall into the
fifth round. No ever, nobody did. Never saw that happening. Well,
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I mean, I don't think so. I mean, mel Kiper,
we're gonna have some fun with audio at five forty five,
and or hear from him just lost his fricking mind.
The guy almost had a stroke on the ear talking
about Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
But I thought, what what what?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What Hugh said about Shador and Dion was was really
kind of eye opening that people may not go down
this road anymore, right, I mean they really kind of
sabotaged themselves. They said no to Pro Day or excuse me,
the Senior ball. It was horrible at Pro Day, which
is really.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hard to do. Toyo.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I always kind of laugh when people say, oh, we
look good at prodae he a better? Damn well, look
good at Proda. Everything's scripted. He's thrown against air to
his buddies.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, obviously there's a chance that there's some nerves
with the scouts and the coaches and all that stuff.
I get that part of it, right, Like Milroll looked
amazing at Pro Day and Sudor Sanders look terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So I mean you said it yourself two weeks ago.
There's always some.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Guy that crops up the draft board because people fall
in love with a guy at Pro Day. Zach Wilson
is an example of that, who's become a complete bust
in the NFL and probably was way overdrafted to begin with. Right,
So I just think, again, nothing has changed for me
on Jalen at all. I stand by everything I said there.
I mean, we're not curing polio here, We're talking football.
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I stand by everything I said. I said it to
his face and he was on, you know, I gotta
see him more as a pastor. I gotta see him
develop way more as a passer for me to even
remotely think the guy can survive in the NFL as
a starting quarterback. The good news is for us as
fans is that we're not counting him as a starting
quarterback right now and may not ever count on him
as a starting.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
We are we have been blessed by time. Yes, we
have been blessed by the fact we have a ten twenty,
the fact that he can run. We have a twenty
seven year old starting quarterback. That it hopefully Jaln Milroe
will never be the starting quarterback because that means Sam
Darnold is a Pro Bowl caliber quarterback every year for
the next five years, and Jayn can just be used
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as a trinket, or he could be used as a
trade chip two years down the road, because we convince
every other team in the NFL that we got something
special here as a passer.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Und By the way, you know why uh you know
what the difference is between the eleven picks and the
and the third round, Jackson are where a Milroe went.
The only reason why it's eleven it is because seven
of those are compicks.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Oh well, okay, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The end of the third round. What are we doing
here the next The next seven picks.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Are all compicks.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Before the fourth round begins. So I don't know, I mean,
I don't credit for that, or I'm not trying to
defend myself. I'm not gonna deny anything I said on
the air because I said it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
We just played the.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Damn thing, right, But ninety second. I am much more
comfortable with ninety two than I would have been with
sixty two.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right, no question.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, We're gonna break a lot more to get to,
including some fun will audio, We'll get to a little
You make the call live.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
From the Emerald Queen Casino Sports Board. Hey, let's talk
some ms.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I've been begging Dick to let us talk Mariners all
day long. Next on ninety three three KJRFM.
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Speaker 3 (21:43):
All right up, they from Miami. The Heats have quit.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yes, they're around forty points sixty three, twenty three, three
point fifty five to go in the second quarter.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
For this was five.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
This wasn't a game. Two minutes in it was like
twente a six.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It was twenty to five, and I looked up, but
I said, look at that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Miami is shooting ten percent from downtown and they're shooting
twenty six percent from the floor. And they are down
now by forty three points to the Cleveland Cavaliers. And
they're done. They're down three games to none. So the
question is would you take the heat and the live action,
which is plus thirty six and a half. Yes, the
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rest of the way they can lose, but just not
by more than thirty six.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I think, you know, the scrubs for both teams are
gonna come in. I think the Heat lose somewhere twenty
five thirty points there covered by six or seven sign
me up.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Shams is reporting that Shaq has a new job.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He's agreed to become the new men's basketball GM of
Sacramento State University, a volunteer role for Shaq, whose son
you'll love this, Shakir O'Neil, also plays for sax State
under our old friend Mike Bibby. Shaq and Bibby form
a star duo as college GM and coach. According to
Shams Charania, speaking of stars, the Mariners have some players
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playing like stars and others still waiting. Hora Polanco is
one of them. Who is the American League Player of
the week. Dylan Moore and Hora Polanco. If I would
have told you in I don't know when did they
sign Polanco the Mariners?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Remember, I think it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Was in December because you and I were still at
the five twenty bar and grill, because that's when it happened,
all right, all night they signed. It may have been January,
but we were still there.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It was late. It was late in the whole free
agent process.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
What kind of odds could you have gotten on Dylan
Moore and Jorge Polanco being the duo that gives the
Mariners their first back to back AO Player of the
Week award since Griffy and a Rod in ninety eight minuscule.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I mean, well, the thing is, even if you'd have said, Okay,
the Mariners are going to have offensive Players of the
Week and back to back weeks this year, and it's
not going to be either Julio or cal rawl and
you have to guess the players it would be. I mean,
you'd go Roeblaze, you'd go a Rosos Arena, You'd go
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those two, well before Polanko and certainly JP Crawford, I mean,
Dylan Moore and Polanco would be like eighth ninth on
your list if you were to guess.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So the Mariners are not getting anything from George Kirby
because he hasn't played yet. They're getting nothing from Matt
Brass because he hasn't played yet, and we'll get nothing
from Logan Gilbert for a month. Santos hopefully it's only
a month. Santos is on the il Robless is probably
gonna be out for the year.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
What else am I missing?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Julio's kind of scuffling really hasn't hit his stride yet whatsoever.
And they're still in first place, and they're kicking ass offensively.
I mean, they're nineteenth and batting average, but they're fifth
and ops, they're third in bombs, they're fourth and on
base percentage, they're sixth and slugging. They're sixth in strikeouts,
But so what if you're seventh and runs. That's the
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thing about the strikeouts guy from a year ago, when
the Mariners struck out the most times in baseball. It's
only a problem when you don't, you know, compliment it
with home runs and doubles. But when you're going zero
for four with two flyouts and two k's instead of
one for four with two strikeouts, it's an issue. I mean,
notice that nobody gives a damn that the M's are
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striking out in the top six or seven in Major
League Baseball for two reasons. It's an upgrade from where
it was a year ago. Number one and number two.
They're actually hitting home runs and they're scoring runs. So look, man,
I mean, if this is the way these guys have
to do this, winning game seven to six, well, the
bullpen literally stinks, which right now it does stink, by
the way, and hopefully we'll get better when guys come
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back healthy again. This has actually been kind of fun
watching these guys play. It kind of reminds me of
that ninety seven Mariners baseball team that flamed out a
little bit in the playoffs. Obviously, they don't have the
star power that that team had. I'm not saying literally
am I comparing it to that group. But the starting
pitching I think can be even better. The bullpen can
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be even better. I don't know without Julio catching fire,
how much better this offense could be.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
To be honest, no, this.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Is probably as good as it gets unless Julio turns
it on. And you've got to figure that once Julio
does turn on, which I think we all agree he
will at some point. He always does, I think you
will be right then, you know, then you're probably going
to get Polanco's gonna cool off, Dylan Moore is gonna
cool off. So this, overall, this is probably as good
as it gonna get. But as much as we rip
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on Team Mobile, and I rip on it as much
as anybody, they are twenty one games over five hundred
at Team Mobile parks since the beginning of last season,
right They were forty nine and thirty two last year.
They're ten and six this year. They are finding a way.
Even though it's frustrating for us to watch a lot
at Team Mobile Park, they are finding ways to win
there well.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And the other thing is that without Kirby and without
Logan Gilbert, it's been six games, the majority of those
belonging to George Kirby not being available. You know what
their record is with Hancock and Luis f Castillo and
Logan Evans on the mount over five hundred. They're four
and two. How about that in those games and it's
only been six games.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I get it. We'll see if that keeps up the
entire year.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But they're four and two in a spot that was
supposed to be occupied by two of the best pitchers
in baseball, and George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. So I mean,
it's just been fantastic so far to see from these guys.
I was looking up I thought when you were gonna
mention that T Mobile Park, that you're gonna mention the
offensive numbers at T Mobile Park.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, that's really where they've been struggling obviously.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Let me let me look that up here in a
second for you, because I just see, I see a
team that hasn't even come close to reaching their potential
yet Dick at all. And Julio is the biggest reason why.
I mean Polanco, yeah, I mean, at some point, he's
got a cool off, He's a he's a freaking MVP
right now.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's an MVP candidate right now with the way he's playing, and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He's been unbelievable for these guys, and he's an All
Star and probably a starter. I just wonder where he
plays the rest of the year because Williams sends your
third baseman obviously missed yesterday's game with a back injury,
which is a concern effect continues, but for now it's
just a small, little one off. He's never playing third
base again, right.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Because even if Williamson goes back to a being a
triple A hitter, right, he's still a big time major
league defense.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, and that's the thing about Polanco is that he
just can't play third I mean, he's a massive liability
at third base. And you know, Boone was on the
air with us a few weeks ago and we said,
this guy's just done.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
He's gonna be your DH.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But Okay, what happens on nights when Kyle Rowley needs
the day off from catching? What do you do with him?
Will you put him at d H. Well, then Polanco's
got to stay in the game. He's too hot a
back to keep out. Play him at first, let him
play first base. I mean again, it's the easiest defensive
position to play. If he can't play third because of
his or second because of his knee.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But they've got to find a way to get Horiy
Polanco on the corner the other corner because they can't
afford to get his back.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
To Do you really think this is gonna continue for
horror Polonco?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
No, not level.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I mean no, I don't think in June or July
we're worried about getting horrorepe Polanco out there every single day.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well you are now, I mean when you when you
missed it playoffs playing a game. By the way, the
Marins are third in the major leagues and home runs
at home only behind the Yankees and Docs. Their home
ops their home ops is I'll tell you where they rank.
They are a little bit lower in home ops. They
are where the hell is twenty twenty, They're twenty two,
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which is better than last year. Last year, I mean
they are they are basically their home runs strikeout in
some ways at Team Mobile because they're twenty ninth and
batting average, but.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
They're third homers.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Okay, that's amazing. We've talked this copy Jackson. Remember we
talked about this before. I went through the the the
hitters where you get hits at Team Mobile and what
do we say.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
They've always been middle.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Of the pack getting home runs at Team Mobile last
and singles last, and doubles last and triples over the
last three years, and we're seeing that like continued, but
even more with even more home runs hit at Team
Mobile than usual.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
No, yeah, they are.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Sorry, they're nineteenth and doubles at home triples is such
a weird stack. Yeah, I don't think they're not even well,
they're just the their home run strikeout, which is fine.
If the home runs are there, that's great. I don't
care how it happens. All right, listen, we're gonna break
a little fun with audio. A lot of stuff to
get to. Oh my god, from the weekend. Next on
ninety three three kJ A RFM.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
It's now time for Sufday and Dick's fun with audio
Jimmy gawn Star Jimmy mister daroppolo.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All right, here we go the segment everybody's been waiting for.
I think, hell people, maybe a little fun with audio
slash hat did you hear that? And a ton to
go over by the way from the weekend. So let's
stop puttsing around and get right to it. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear though?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
All right, let's start in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
After Shador Sanders was drafted by the Browns with the
one hundred and forty fourth picking the draft on Saturday,
Mel Kiper and his ESPN colleagues got into an argument
about teams passing on Sanders for more than four rounds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Mel, Mel, Mel, Mel, This isn't about about Yeah, this
isn't about quarterback trait, seeing quarterback characteristics, personal football care,
this is That's not about this.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
This is about this is personal.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
We know that off the field issue, yet.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Mel, you're not.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You don't have to sell it to me, know what
we're talking about here?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
You're right, you're right, Yes, you're right, But you know what,
But the draft has spoken.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's right, that that's the key mail. It's not.
Speaker 11 (31:23):
It's not putting a value judgment of whether those people
play right or wrong.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
They did yelling at the NFL about it.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
It's not not a quarterback here, but Bloombert Boomer Sizon
was not happy when he was the second round there
they dropped. How'd they turn out?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Argument by that? By that can happen? Race?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The NFL has been.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Clueless for fifty years when.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
It comes to evaluating quarterback, clueless all that no idea
what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
There's an evaluating quarterback.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's proof.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
There's proof of that.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
How many day we know exactly what we're talking about
with quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
They don't. Nobody's fat at the house and there though
that's right, I.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Was far more impressed this weekend of how Schador Sanders
handled this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Kiper handled Yeah, I thought I thought milk Kuiper came
across as a goon over the weekend, just adult, I
mean his you know, I was kind of with them. Look,
if you really believe that Shador's getting screwed, then fine,
stick to your guns.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
That's great. I got a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know, people saying that he's only doing it because
he's tight with a Sanders family. I have any idea
if that's true, I can see why somebody would believe that.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Sure, but if he believes.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That Shador Sanders is really getting hosed here, then stick
with that.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Where he lost me is when he went after the NFL.
They get this wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, what do you think you do, you stupid idiot,
every single year for twenty five thirty years in a row.
I mean you fell in love with h I mean,
just go to the internet, Jimmy Claus and JaMarcus Russell,
Andre Wadsworth.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I mean there's a laundry list of guys.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And you know what, that's okay because, as you said earlier,
you're batting fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
You're doing a hell of a job.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
But he was the one guy that just holding on
to do at number three right, All the rest of
them had backed off, All the rest of them had
gone down to at least middle the first if not late,
if not second round.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, he might be right in the end, he might
be he might be proven right. And again, I mean
this is just an opinion for now. But the idea
that he's then going after the NFL for screwing this
up all the time. I mean, what the this guy
has made a living Jackson, I'm being wrong.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
And the thing is again, hey, let me just quickly.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
I think I'll just play the very end of this
again because there's words that we really need to dig
into here and just emphasize the words he used.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Softy, stupid, idiot. All that has no idea what they're doing.
There's evaluating quarterback.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
That's proof. There's proof of that.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
How many day we know exactly what we're talking about
with quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
They don't.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
We know exactly what we're talking about with quarterbacks, They don't. Now,
you Doufis, you said that Jimmy Klausen would be a
successful quarterback or you'd retire.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Well you better freaking retire now, you idiot.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Well, I just again, everybody reaches the end of the line. God, Yes,
cognitively I think it was. I think I make that
there one day soon. I think I'm right. This weekend,
I think you might be right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, this is the weekend where mel Kiper just lost
his marbles and went over the deep end. He ventured
into an area of the pool and his feet can
no longer touch the ground. It's time to back off.
Mel All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You mentioned Shador Sanders and how he handled the weekend.
Well before the draft, Schador got a private NFL only
phone number that was given to general managers to contact
him during the draft. The number somehow got into the
hands of Jax Olbrick, who was the twenty one year
old son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former Jets interim
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head coach last year. By the way, Jeff Olbrick so
as twenty one year old's due.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Jack's prank called Shadeur during the draft.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Is this is making limus here the gam of the
New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
How you doing? How you doing? Yeah? We have.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
It's been a long wait.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Man.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Uh, we're gonna take you with our next speaker. Are here, man,
but you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Man. Sorry that man, what.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Does that mean?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
What are you saying? I don't know. Are you gonna?
And he was on phone.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You heard that. He said You're gonna have to wait
a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Nobody got this numbered though.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
It ain't triggering now, man, all right, So before we
react to that, let's play this next clip, okay, because
there's a lot of there's a lot here, all right.
So that ship door getting pranked this morning on first take,
steven A reacting to the print call and suggesting how
jeff Ulbricks should repriment his son.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
It's not criminal, but it's unethical.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
It's classless to say moral to some degree. And I'd
like to see the face that kid, because sometimes you
need to be embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
That's what needs to happen to you.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Now.
Speaker 12 (36:05):
In my opinion, this kid, I sind sily hope to
Jeff Oldbrick, I sincerely hope he whipped his kid's ass.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
That's an ass whipping. That that is a required ass whipping.
Speaker 12 (36:17):
So your dad is a defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Your dad could have lost his job.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And because you.
Speaker 12 (36:25):
Want to you you want to prank somebody, okay, and
be cruel and insensitive knowing what should do or must
have been going through.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
You would be some privileged little bract.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
That would do something like that and take joy out
of somebody's misery like that.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
You should be ashamed of yourself. You should have your
ass whipped.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I agree with stephen A.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
The problem is that a lot of people have talked
about Jeff Ulbrick paying the price, and I'm certain that
a million assistant coaches have had their computer on or
their iPad hope in the kitchen, they go to take
a leak, they get something to eat, and there's a
chance for a relative to go look online.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
So I don't think that Jeff Olbricks should necessarily be
reprimanded by Atlanta. The problem with Jacks Olbrick is he's
too young to spank ever spank your kids by the way, No,
he's too young to spank or ground But he's also
or see be too old. But he's also too young
to have his life room by having his face plastered
all over the internet.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Right, So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I mean, look, I thought it was a brutal thing
for him to do. It's happened before, where people have
been punked on draft day.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
This is nothing new. This has happened before. I felt
terrible for Shoudoor.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
As much as I'm not a fan of his, I
felt terrible for him in the moment that he did
that but the guy's twenty one.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I mean, what should the punishment be and who should
punish him?
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Well, his face is plaster. We saw that villain too,
We've seen saw the prank call.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
But you know that's almost punishment enough. Then everybody knows
his face.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Yeah, he had to issue an apology. The Falcons had
to do an issue apology. If I was the dad,
I would just be absolutely mortified. I don't even how
I would handle it.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
He's twenty one, though, what do you do? He's twenty one.
He's a man, right, what here's supposed to do? Bring
him home and pull his pants?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Maybe?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
And the thing is, I mean again, I'm I'm very
I'm very impressed with how Shador Sanders handled it.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
I'm surprised. I'm impressed with how he handled the fall.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
Remember how bitter Aaron Rodgers was on Draft night and
he only fell from the top five.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
To like twenty five. I agree with you on the
Chador thing.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I'm again, I'm not a gigantic fan of how he's
handled everything is I think you guys already know. But
I thought that had to be a brutal weekend as
his big party is embarrassed, he addresses the crowd. He
doesn't go on Friday, He's gotta wait until Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Gimately excited when he got passed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
I thought he handled a pretty good man. I mean again,
he might be a punk, he might be an egomaniac.
All those things might be true, blah blah blah. But
what a brutal weekend for that guy. And maybe this
is what he needs, right to change his ways a
little bit. And we'll see, we'll find out. I mean,
there's a lot more on this Shador Sanders thing that
we can talk about coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Because it's it's it's it's not gonna go away.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
People are gonna keep an eye on this, right, I mean,
when's last time you were this interested in the Cleveland
Browns quarterback room?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
I mean, who's to say he doesn't beat Joe Flacco
out in training game?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Not impossible at all.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
If he gets cut, it's him, Dylan Gabriel and and
and Joe Flacco that are up for the starting job.
And as Jackson said, what if he doesn't make the team,
But if he comes in, it just looks terrible. And
they say that with it they cut his ass and man,
how the I mean? He was the story over the draft.
What's the last time a fifth round pick? And somebody
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said this on the show. Maybe it was you that Hey,
if Deon's looking for attention and to own the news cycle,
mission accomplished.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Mission accomplished.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Man
He does throw the ball, like you said, down the
field extremely well, and he was extremely accurate two years ago,
and he did a pretty good job again for us
last year. So he's the guy that's up to the
challenge and he can handle the heat and he will
always put it on himself like you'd want any leader
a quarterback to do.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That is the voice of Caitlin de Boor, who was
on the show with us a couple hours ago. And
our next guest knows a thing or two about that
guy because he played for him last year in Tuscaloosa.
The number ninety two pick overall in the NFL Draft,
third round pick out of Houston, Texas via Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Let's welcome him to the show very first time. Jalen
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Milroe with us on the air in Seattle, Jalen at
Softy and Dick Faine.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
How are you, man?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
How y'all doing good?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Tell me what is a kid that played high school
than Katie, Texas and a guy that played college football
in Tuscaloosa, Alibama know about Seattle, Washington and the Pacific Northwest?
Speaker 6 (01:04):
My man, Well, initially I didn't know too much about
that area of the world. But the previous STAF I
had in twenty four all came from University of Washington,
so they gave me some intel when it came to Seattle.
Then also my coach that I had this past year
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was from ben Oregon, Midge Darling, so of course he
raised about it a lot. So as someone that's from
the South, I don't know anything about that area, but
I have a lot of great people that inform me
about the area.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Well, you heard coach Debor there about a minute ago
talk about how you can handle the heat. And I'm
not talking about the weather heat in Seattle, and you
know what I'm talking about the heat of being in Tuscaloose, Alabama.
What is the pressure like being the Alabama starting quarterback?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
We so it comes with a lot being a out
of University of Alabama. Number One, you represent the state
of Alabama when you when you play each and every
game that you have, each and every price that you have,
you're playing for the state Alabama. You're playing for locally
in Tuscaloosa. And then of course you know the guys
in the locker room. But it's the branding that comes
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from the script A that's that's very unique. You know.
I remember going to uh Puerto Rico with my family
for vacation and I had the script A out there
with my family and so and say roll tied to me.
And I remember Coach Savan he going to Italy with Ms.
Terry and he wore script day and so and said
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roll tide to him. And so just the branding that
Alabama has everything as a whole. And so that was,
you know, one of the reasons why I went to Alabama.
So it's definitely a unique place. Coach the board definitely
knows how unique it is. But it made me stronger
as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, Jalen Milroe again is with us.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He was the ninety second pick overall on the third
round to the Seahawks on on Friday, And Jalen, look, man,
I'll be totally honest with you because I want our
relationship to be one of honesty, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I don't want to hide anything from you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
If I got something critical to say about you, I
want you to hear it from me, all right, and
not from somebody else or some idiot on the internet.
So what I have said on the air about you
is that I need to see more of you as
a passer before I believe that you can survive in
the National Football League. My partner over here, Dick, he
loves you. He would have taken you in the first
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round for crying out loud. But I need to see
more of you as a passer at this level. The
criticism that you get from people and that observation that
people make, does that land as a fair criticism or
is that unfair in your opinion?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Honestly, that goes for any quarterback. You always got to improve.
So I'm not necessarily, you know, motivated or worried about
outside noise. I know it makes me unique. I do
know that of the quarterbacks of this past draft, I
was a winning, winning his quarterback in the draft. So
and it comes from off every phase on the football fields.
(04:07):
I'm not really necessarily focus on your comment.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
How do you feel like you can help this team
in year number one? And have the Hawks talk to
you at all about what your role is on the
field this year?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, Ultimately, my my biggest thing is earning the trust
and respect that all the guys in the locker room
as a rookie that number one, especially learning as well
with the guys that I had in my room. You know,
there's a lot of knowledge is knowledge that I do
not have that those guys have. And also learning from
coach McDonald because McDonald because he has he's deep is
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of minded that's gonna only help me as a quarterback.
And so ultimately that's the biggest thing coming in early
on and of course you know, doing what the team
needs so that we go in and put that best
before when it comes to competing against other teams. So
that's why we have we have enough time from now
into September when we had our first game, so they
think for me, just under trust and then keep going
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to be another player.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, Jalen Melroe again is with us.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
And Jalen, let me just go back to what we're
talking about this a second ago and you said you're
not really worried about the outside noise and I and
I totally get that, right, I mean, lock it in.
Whatever happens in the building is the most important thing.
But what what do you think honestly, Jalen, because you
said that you think you're unique? What what makes you unique?
What are your strengths in your opinion right now that
make you unique? And what are your weaknesses that you
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think you'd like to work on.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, there's nothing on the field I can't do. Other
things I can improve on absolutely, and so I'm not
one dimensional when it comes to the field. Attacking, the
running game and the passing game. It's something I utilize
the whole time I was in college, you know, improving
you know, of course, you know you're coming into the
league as a rookie, and so noledge they us in
a room. You know, you got to cut up the
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scale with the guys in the room, and so overall
is that and then the coming in just were finding
everything skill set, running game, passing game, everything as a whole,
so that I'm putting my best wad forward when it
comes to leading the guys. When I had reps in
practice and then otimately in the game.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
When you think about your throws, where are you where
do you feel most comfortable throwing and where do you
feel like, Okay, this is the area, These are the routes.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These are the throws.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
That I really have to get a lot better at
over the next year or two.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Honestly, you know, get better every throw. You know, as
a quarterback, you want to keep on or finding your
skill set, and no matter who you are as a quarterback,
you know that's that's important when it comes to development
at the position. But on the field, I've thrown every
type of touchdown. I throwing a post, I thrown an incut,
I thrown't out. Well you know, any any route concept
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that that is there, I've thrown it. So I'm confident.
My still staying confident what I can ring to the table.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, well, Jalen Milroe is again with us, and you
mentioned Nick Saban. You mentioned Miss Terry right, Hey, I mean,
I don't know how many college football head coaches, you know,
their their wife's names are recognizable just as much as
theirs are. But everyone knows who Miss Terry is. And
then you played with Kaylen de Boor last year, So
what what were the differences man for you as a
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player between playing for Nick Saban and then playing for
Kailn de Boor the following season.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Both pushed the fan of excellence for all of us
owning out the field. Who maximized the best player you
know in the past season. This was the higher GPA
overall for the whole team in school history that' had,
So you know, on and out the field. You know,
we're pushing excellence, you know Coach Saban as well, you know,
on it out the field, trying to push for us
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to all be the best version of ourselves. We had
multiple players on a team that had accolade when it
comes to off the field achievements. So no matter where
whereas that, of course you think excellent O of course,
but you know there's always the drawing in comparison of
what's different. But you know, similarly they all want to
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push excellent. But of course you know they see the
program differently comes from different phases of the college experience
h and coaching experience that they've had. But you know,
coach saving the defensive mind and coach to border offensive minded.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Spend some time with New seaaw quarterback Jalen Milroe here
on ninety three point three KJRFM. Jalen talk about your
relationship with your wide receiver group last year compared to
the year prior.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Coach to Bora was on with us.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Mentioned maybe at a comfort level that was a little
higher with the twenty twenty three group versus the twenty
twenty four group. Is that fair and did that contribute
maybe to your dropping numbers?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
This past season.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, so of course, you know, everything is about timing,
everything's about details, everything is about on the relationship when
it comes to quarterback, the quarterback, the receiver, no matter
where where it is. That's especially going coming now as
a rookie inainst the league, and so that's the emphasis,
you know, move forward. Of course, when it comes to comfortable,
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won't comfort with whoever I play with. So it was
it was nothing in a drop or anything like that
going into the season, but you got to look at
the task at hand and what it took place. You know,
coming into this season, we had a fresh group of
receivers and skill position that we didn't have in the
year before. You know, we were we had a different
crew of starting receiver than we did the year before.
And the guys that we had whin three had been
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in the system, had been into the out of my offense.
I knew the guys for a longer period of time.
But that don't change anything when it comes to her
preparation and playing. You know, we're not chasing stats, chasing wins,
and that's the objective move forward if you look at it.
The passing Bullshit Champion died last season is he the
best story in the NFL?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Have you talked to Sam Darnold yet?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Have you had that discussion with the guy who for
now is QB one yep? Okay, can you tell me
about that? Tell us about those conversations and what he's
told you.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, we have a good relationship. I know, I know
him very well here we we both have the saying
quarterback coach with Jordan Palmer yep. And so I know him,
you know, por being a Seahawks, So I'm definitely excited
to cheam up with him again.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, you mentioned Jordan Palmer.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I mentioned him jailing a couple of times on the show,
and uh, you know, people that I know in Tuscaloosa
say that you looked as comfortable that pro day uh
as you ever have and probably the best people have
ever seen you throw the ball. And some people kind
of attribute that to Jordan's So tell us about what
this guy means to you and and what he's done
for you off the field, man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, grind noose stuff and no matter what page the
form it is. And so I know that you know
a year from now and be even better than our
worse today. Is so, but also it comes with the
people that poured INCI and Jordan Palmer is one of
them for sure, and Mike White, I'm down in California.
And so as I'm going this, this uh puss is
of being the best quarterback that candy, It's going to
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come from the people that pour into and so that's
one of the people that.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Point ninety two is probably a little lower than most
people thought you would go.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Are you the type of guy that kind of uses
that as motivation or not?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
My lifetime goal was being NFL quarterback. You know, no
matter where I would select, I still have to prove myself,
no matter how the first overall pick in the draft
and or I was the mister irrelevant, it doesn't matter.
I started to come in the league and prove myself.
And so my goal wasn't too this this certain pick
or this timeframe was more of being I'm gonna hear
my name called. That was the that was the beautiful
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moment that I have my family will hear my name called.
And also hearing that it was gonna be a speA hole.
So it didn't really matter when when.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It was and got your name called by a former
Crimson side running back and Sean Alexander to boot on
top of that, but Jalen Milroe with us and Jalen
one more from me before you go. So look, we
hear that you have a military background with your family,
that you like to bust your ass. And you know,
Kaylen talked about you being one of the first ones
in the building. How important is that to you to
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set that example of leadership and be one of the
first guys in the building.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Even at this level and college.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Level, it's all about being authentic, being the same person
eation every day, the guy that everyone can trust. And
so I'm all about working hard as well, the working
a darks all was going to come come to shine
when it's necessary, and so so alid part of about
this process. You know our process is different, but I
understand that you have to work for all that you
want to achieve.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Final thing from me and we appreciate you joining us. Uh,
what did the Seahawks get in tight end Robbie oots, Jalen.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Someone that loves his teammates, someone who is selfless, someone
that never complains, someone who loves the process of getting
to all that he deserves as a team and the
team goals in and personal goals. And so there's someone
that works with works his tail off onely can be
utilized all over the football field, and he cares, he
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cares about everyone that he plays around. He's and he's
also so a guy that works hard.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
In silence, Yeah, what do you do when you're not
playing football?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
I mean some guys are football twenty four seven, three
sixty five and maybe you are too. But you got
any hobbies that you like to take part in when
you're not focused on football?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Man?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
This football really, you know, football and being around my
family is everything. That's everything I like to do.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Awesome, all right, Hey go get him. Best of luck
to you. Welcome to the two oh six and we'll
talk very soon.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man, appreciate this, Appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Jalen Milroe with us on the radio show. And I
mean I love that last answer that he's just all football.
I mean maybe that'll change over the years for him,
right as he grows up, he'll have some hobbies and
interest that he'll fall in love with. But I kind
of go back to that now almost infamous interview with
cam Ward and Schadeur Sanders where SuDS asking him what
do you like to do? Besides football, he says nothing. Man,
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I'm football and should do is talking about all the
stuff he does off the right.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Right is lying and blah blah blah. And the fact
that he's that dedicated to this.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I was talking to our buddy Ryan Fowler, who says
his parents of a military background. He's there every day,
four or five o'clock in the morning, first one in,
last one out.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And I love that work ethic. So hey, good for him.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I mean again, I'll tell him to his face and
I'll tell you, and we have audio here we can play.
I just need to see people as a passer before
I believe he can survive in the NFL long term
as a start.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And I think I just liked how how buttoned up
he was.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Yeah, I mean, and that probably comes from the military background.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
It's interesting both he and Kaitlin.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
De Boor bragged about the GPA and the academics at Alabama.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I don't think you hear a court, a coach, and
a quarterback bring that up that often in two separate interviews.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, let's go back to last Monday, right in the
way back machine.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
This is April fifteenth, April fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Two weeks ago, almost the topic of Jalen Milroe came
up on the radio show Are you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
On this clip?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
To jacksonh Yeah, okay, So here's what all three of
us had to say rolling. I just have no confidence
whatsoever in Jalen Milroe being able to survive in the
NFL as a thrower. I just think it's one of
those things where you look at this and you remember
the games of his that you watched.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And I watched a lot of Jalen Milroe.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I watched a lot of Alabama football this year, more
so than probably ever because of Kaylen de Moore, Right,
I mean, they come on, I'm more curious now to
watch them play and whatever. And I thought he looked terrible.
My eyes told me that he was awful to you
as a junior.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I don't remember him much as a junior.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
To be honest with you, are we excited about the
idea of Jalen Milroe getting drafted by the Seahawks.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
No, not at all, because, again, because you have to
take him in the top couple rounds. And if we're
talking about a team that, yes, maybe wants to run
the ball, run the bro run ball sure, but you're
eventually going to have a third and fifteen. And if
we're going to do a third and fifteen with zero
confidence that we're gonna get it, yeah, that's not a
guy I'm taking in the first two rounds.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm not intrigued by this at all. I don't want
the Hawks to have anything to do with the guy
zero unless he's like a Day three dude.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Right, yeah, if you get him in like the get
in the second round, in the second round, no, no,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
If you get him in the fourth.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Okay, but like even top three rounds, a quarterback that
gives you very little confidence throwing the ball like that's
just not worth a top three I am.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Not ready to say that Jaln Milroe is not going
to be a really good quarterback in the NFL because
he has athleticis that we have never seen.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Do you want to take him in the second round,
I'd be I'd be intrigued. Where do you guys think
he's gonna I got no idea. I'm just saying I
don't want the Hawks taking him in the second.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
God, we were eleven picks away.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Jackson oops eleven more picks and he would have been
a Day three I said.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Way more about Melrow than Jackson. Cut out.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Man, I've everly got five words.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
It's what you did, and it's it's more fun to
poke fun in the fact that I was dead wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So well, I mean, hasn't taken a snap yet with
a change your mind, Jackson, because you said you don't
want him any any closer to the top three rounds,
and then I see a tweet right after he gets drafted.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You think it's good.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Valuis because eleven picks away from the fourth raft, he
was almost a fourth round come on.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Very nearly, which we all said. Safti and I both
said day three.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm totally fine with him going at ninety two. I mean,
you want to get technical and say it was officially
a late third rounder and we missed the fourth round
by eleven picks, I think is what it was, right, Yeah,
one hundred and three is the first pick of the
fourth round. I mean, I'm I'm fine with the timing
of it. I I wanted nothing to do with him
as a second rounder, nothing to do with him as
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a first rounder. You said into your credit, Well, I
guess we have to wait and see. Maybe you want,
you would have you would have made him a second
round draft pick. But the conversation was would you take
him in the first three rounds? And I said no, Yeah,
I thought they did take him in ninety two, which
technically is a third rounder.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But we're getting kind of close to the end. Yeah,
I thought, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Best case scenario where you would still end up with
Jalen Milroe is that the Seahawks trade down in round
number two to the back of round number two, pick
up extra picks right, and then still get Jayleen.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I thought that was the best case scenario.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
And here we are.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
They get a stud in the firm, even more stud
in the second, more sudden the third according to you,
and then you get jail and Milrod.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Back where I really blew the draft. My my, my
prediction that went. You know what up is Shador Sanders.
I thought he was gonna be sitting there at number eighteen.
Uh and the Hawks could trade back, someone could trade
in and grab number eight whatever. Yeah, I mean the Steelers.
I mean I I never saw him fall into the
fifth round. No ever, nobody did. Never saw that happening. Well,
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I mean, I don't think so. I mean, mel Kiper,
we're gonna have some fun with audio at five forty five,
and or hear from him just lost his fricking mind.
The guy almost had a stroke on the ear talking
about Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
But I thought, what what what?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
What Hugh said about Shador and Dion was was really
kind of eye opening that people may not go down
this road anymore, right, I mean they really kind of
sabotaged themselves. They said no to Pro Day or excuse me,
the Senior ball. It was horrible at Pro Day, which
is really.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Hard to do. Toyo.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I always kind of laugh when people say, oh, we
look good at prodae he a better? Damn well, look
good at Proda. Everything's scripted. He's thrown against air to
his buddies.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I mean, obviously there's a chance that there's some nerves
with the scouts and the coaches and all that stuff.
I get that part of it, right, Like Milroll looked
amazing at Pro Day and Sudor Sanders look terrible.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So I mean you said it yourself two weeks ago.
There's always some.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Guy that crops up the draft board because people fall
in love with a guy at Pro Day. Zach Wilson
is an example of that, who's become a complete bust
in the NFL and probably was way overdrafted to begin with. Right,
So I just think, again, nothing has changed for me
on Jalen at all. I stand by everything I said there.
I mean, we're not curing polio here, We're talking football.
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I stand by everything I said. I said it to
his face and he was on, you know, I gotta
see him more as a pastor. I gotta see him
develop way more as a passer for me to even
remotely think the guy can survive in the NFL as
a starting quarterback. The good news is for us as
fans is that we're not counting him as a starting
quarterback right now and may not ever count on him
as a starting.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
We are we have been blessed by time. Yes, we
have been blessed by the fact we have a ten twenty,
the fact that he can run. We have a twenty
seven year old starting quarterback. That it hopefully Jaln Milroe
will never be the starting quarterback because that means Sam
Darnold is a Pro Bowl caliber quarterback every year for
the next five years, and Jayn can just be used
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as a trinket, or he could be used as a
trade chip two years down the road, because we convince
every other team in the NFL that we got something
special here as a passer.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Und By the way, you know why uh you know
what the difference is between the eleven picks and the
and the third round, Jackson are where a Milroe went.
The only reason why it's eleven it is because seven
of those are compicks.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Oh well, okay, this is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
The end of the third round. What are we doing
here the next The next seven picks.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Are all compicks.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Before the fourth round begins. So I don't know, I mean,
I don't credit for that, or I'm not trying to
defend myself. I'm not gonna deny anything I said on
the air because I said it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
We just played the.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Damn thing, right, But ninety second. I am much more
comfortable with ninety two than I would have been with
sixty two.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
All right, no question.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
All right, We're gonna break a lot more to get to,
including some fun will audio, We'll get to a little
You make the call live.
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Speaker 2 (21:23):
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Speaker 3 (21:43):
All right up, they from Miami. The Heats have quit.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yes, they're around forty points sixty three, twenty three, three
point fifty five to go in the second quarter.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
For this was five.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
This wasn't a game. Two minutes in it was like
twente a six.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
It was twenty to five, and I looked up, but
I said, look at that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Miami is shooting ten percent from downtown and they're shooting
twenty six percent from the floor. And they are down
now by forty three points to the Cleveland Cavaliers. And
they're done. They're down three games to none. So the
question is would you take the heat and the live action,
which is plus thirty six and a half. Yes, the
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rest of the way they can lose, but just not
by more than thirty six.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
I think, you know, the scrubs for both teams are
gonna come in. I think the Heat lose somewhere twenty
five thirty points there covered by six or seven sign
me up.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Shams is reporting that Shaq has a new job.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He's agreed to become the new men's basketball GM of
Sacramento State University, a volunteer role for Shaq, whose son
you'll love this, Shakir O'Neil, also plays for sax State
under our old friend Mike Bibby. Shaq and Bibby form
a star duo as college GM and coach. According to
Shams Charania, speaking of stars, the Mariners have some players
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playing like stars and others still waiting. Hora Polanco is
one of them. Who is the American League Player of
the week. Dylan Moore and Hora Polanco. If I would
have told you in I don't know when did they
sign Polanco the Mariners?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Remember, I think it.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Was in December because you and I were still at
the five twenty bar and grill, because that's when it happened,
all right, all night they signed. It may have been January,
but we were still there.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
It was late. It was late in the whole free
agent process.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
What kind of odds could you have gotten on Dylan
Moore and Jorge Polanco being the duo that gives the
Mariners their first back to back AO Player of the
Week award since Griffy and a Rod in ninety eight minuscule.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I mean, well, the thing is, even if you'd have said, Okay,
the Mariners are going to have offensive Players of the
Week and back to back weeks this year, and it's
not going to be either Julio or cal rawl and
you have to guess the players it would be. I mean,
you'd go Roeblaze, you'd go a Rosos Arena, You'd go
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those two, well before Polanko and certainly JP Crawford, I mean,
Dylan Moore and Polanco would be like eighth ninth on
your list if you were to guess.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So the Mariners are not getting anything from George Kirby
because he hasn't played yet. They're getting nothing from Matt
Brass because he hasn't played yet, and we'll get nothing
from Logan Gilbert for a month. Santos hopefully it's only
a month. Santos is on the il Robless is probably
gonna be out for the year.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
What else am I missing?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Julio's kind of scuffling really hasn't hit his stride yet whatsoever.
And they're still in first place, and they're kicking ass offensively.
I mean, they're nineteenth and batting average, but they're fifth
and ops, they're third in bombs, they're fourth and on
base percentage, they're sixth and slugging. They're sixth in strikeouts,
But so what if you're seventh and runs. That's the
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thing about the strikeouts guy from a year ago, when
the Mariners struck out the most times in baseball. It's
only a problem when you don't, you know, compliment it
with home runs and doubles. But when you're going zero
for four with two flyouts and two k's instead of
one for four with two strikeouts, it's an issue. I mean,
notice that nobody gives a damn that the M's are
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striking out in the top six or seven in Major
League Baseball for two reasons. It's an upgrade from where
it was a year ago. Number one and number two.
They're actually hitting home runs and they're scoring runs. So look, man,
I mean, if this is the way these guys have
to do this, winning game seven to six, well, the
bullpen literally stinks, which right now it does stink, by
the way, and hopefully we'll get better when guys come
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back healthy again. This has actually been kind of fun
watching these guys play. It kind of reminds me of
that ninety seven Mariners baseball team that flamed out a
little bit in the playoffs. Obviously, they don't have the
star power that that team had. I'm not saying literally
am I comparing it to that group. But the starting
pitching I think can be even better. The bullpen can
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be even better. I don't know without Julio catching fire,
how much better this offense could be.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
To be honest, no, this.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
Is probably as good as it gets unless Julio turns
it on. And you've got to figure that once Julio
does turn on, which I think we all agree he
will at some point. He always does, I think you
will be right then, you know, then you're probably going
to get Polanco's gonna cool off, Dylan Moore is gonna
cool off. So this, overall, this is probably as good
as it gonna get. But as much as we rip
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on Team Mobile, and I rip on it as much
as anybody, they are twenty one games over five hundred
at Team Mobile parks since the beginning of last season,
right They were forty nine and thirty two last year.
They're ten and six this year. They are finding a way.
Even though it's frustrating for us to watch a lot
at Team Mobile Park, they are finding ways to win
there well.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And the other thing is that without Kirby and without
Logan Gilbert, it's been six games, the majority of those
belonging to George Kirby not being available. You know what
their record is with Hancock and Luis f Castillo and
Logan Evans on the mount over five hundred. They're four
and two. How about that in those games and it's
only been six games.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I get it. We'll see if that keeps up the
entire year.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
But they're four and two in a spot that was
supposed to be occupied by two of the best pitchers
in baseball, and George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. So I mean,
it's just been fantastic so far to see from these guys.
I was looking up I thought when you were gonna
mention that T Mobile Park, that you're gonna mention the
offensive numbers at T Mobile Park.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, that's really where they've been struggling obviously.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Let me let me look that up here in a
second for you, because I just see, I see a
team that hasn't even come close to reaching their potential
yet Dick at all. And Julio is the biggest reason why.
I mean Polanco, yeah, I mean, at some point, he's
got a cool off, He's a he's a freaking MVP
right now.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
He's an MVP candidate right now with the way he's playing, and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He's been unbelievable for these guys, and he's an All
Star and probably a starter. I just wonder where he
plays the rest of the year because Williams sends your
third baseman obviously missed yesterday's game with a back injury,
which is a concern effect continues, but for now it's
just a small, little one off. He's never playing third
base again, right.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Because even if Williamson goes back to a being a
triple A hitter, right, he's still a big time major
league defense.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, and that's the thing about Polanco is that he
just can't play third I mean, he's a massive liability
at third base. And you know, Boone was on the
air with us a few weeks ago and we said,
this guy's just done.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
He's gonna be your DH.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But Okay, what happens on nights when Kyle Rowley needs
the day off from catching? What do you do with him?
Will you put him at d H. Well, then Polanco's
got to stay in the game. He's too hot a
back to keep out. Play him at first, let him
play first base. I mean again, it's the easiest defensive
position to play. If he can't play third because of
his or second because of his knee.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
But they've got to find a way to get Horiy
Polanco on the corner the other corner because they can't
afford to get his back.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
To Do you really think this is gonna continue for
horror Polonco?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
No, not level.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
I mean no, I don't think in June or July
we're worried about getting horrorepe Polanco out there every single day.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well you are now, I mean when you when you
missed it playoffs playing a game. By the way, the
Marins are third in the major leagues and home runs
at home only behind the Yankees and Docs. Their home
ops their home ops is I'll tell you where they rank.
They are a little bit lower in home ops. They
are where the hell is twenty twenty, They're twenty two,
(29:17):
which is better than last year. Last year, I mean
they are they are basically their home runs strikeout in
some ways at Team Mobile because they're twenty ninth and
batting average, but.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
They're third homers.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Okay, that's amazing. We've talked this copy Jackson. Remember we
talked about this before. I went through the the the
hitters where you get hits at Team Mobile and what
do we say.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
They've always been middle.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Of the pack getting home runs at Team Mobile last
and singles last, and doubles last and triples over the
last three years, and we're seeing that like continued, but
even more with even more home runs hit at Team
Mobile than usual.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
No, yeah, they are.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Sorry, they're nineteenth and doubles at home triples is such
a weird stack. Yeah, I don't think they're not even well,
they're just the their home run strikeout, which is fine.
If the home runs are there, that's great. I don't
care how it happens. All right, listen, we're gonna break
a little fun with audio. A lot of stuff to
get to. Oh my god, from the weekend. Next on
ninety three three kJ A RFM.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
It's now time for Sufday and Dick's fun with audio
Jimmy gawn Star Jimmy mister daroppolo.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Now let's have some fun with audio.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All right, here we go the segment everybody's been waiting for.
I think, hell people, maybe a little fun with audio
slash hat did you hear that? And a ton to
go over by the way from the weekend. So let's
stop puttsing around and get right to it. Hey, Dick,
did you happen to hear though?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Dick?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
All right, let's start in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
After Shador Sanders was drafted by the Browns with the
one hundred and forty fourth picking the draft on Saturday,
Mel Kiper and his ESPN colleagues got into an argument
about teams passing on Sanders for more than four rounds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Mel, Mel, Mel, Mel, This isn't about about Yeah, this
isn't about quarterback trait, seeing quarterback characteristics, personal football care,
this is That's not about this.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
This is about this is personal.
Speaker 11 (31:09):
We know that off the field issue, yet.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Mel, you're not.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You don't have to sell it to me, know what
we're talking about here?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
You're right, you're right, Yes, you're right, But you know what,
But the draft has spoken.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's right, that that's the key mail. It's not.
Speaker 11 (31:23):
It's not putting a value judgment of whether those people
play right or wrong.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
They did yelling at the NFL about it.
Speaker 11 (31:30):
It's not not a quarterback here, but Bloombert Boomer Sizon
was not happy when he was the second round there
they dropped. How'd they turn out?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Argument by that? By that can happen? Race?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The NFL has been.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Clueless for fifty years when.
Speaker 11 (31:46):
It comes to evaluating quarterback, clueless all that no idea
what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
There's an evaluating quarterback.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
That's proof.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
There's proof of that.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
How many day we know exactly what we're talking about
with quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
They don't. Nobody's fat at the house and there though
that's right, I.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Was far more impressed this weekend of how Schador Sanders
handled this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Kiper handled Yeah, I thought I thought milk Kuiper came
across as a goon over the weekend, just adult, I
mean his you know, I was kind of with them. Look,
if you really believe that Shador's getting screwed, then fine,
stick to your guns.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
That's great. I got a problem with that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know, people saying that he's only doing it because
he's tight with a Sanders family. I have any idea
if that's true, I can see why somebody would believe that.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Sure, but if he believes.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That Shador Sanders is really getting hosed here, then stick
with that.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Where he lost me is when he went after the NFL.
They get this wrong.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, what do you think you do, you stupid idiot,
every single year for twenty five thirty years in a row.
I mean you fell in love with h I mean,
just go to the internet, Jimmy Claus and JaMarcus Russell,
Andre Wadsworth.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I mean there's a laundry list of guys.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
And you know what, that's okay because, as you said earlier,
you're batting fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
You're doing a hell of a job.
Speaker 7 (32:57):
But he was the one guy that just holding on
to do at number three right, All the rest of
them had backed off, All the rest of them had
gone down to at least middle the first if not late,
if not second round.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well, he might be right in the end, he might
be he might be proven right. And again, I mean
this is just an opinion for now. But the idea
that he's then going after the NFL for screwing this
up all the time. I mean, what the this guy
has made a living Jackson, I'm being wrong.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
And the thing is again, hey, let me just quickly.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
I think I'll just play the very end of this
again because there's words that we really need to dig
into here and just emphasize the words he used.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Softy, stupid, idiot. All that has no idea what they're doing.
There's evaluating quarterback.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
That's proof. There's proof of that.
Speaker 11 (33:41):
How many day we know exactly what we're talking about
with quarterbacks?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
They don't.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
We know exactly what we're talking about with quarterbacks, They don't. Now,
you Doufis, you said that Jimmy Klausen would be a
successful quarterback or you'd retire.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Well you better freaking retire now, you idiot.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Well, I just again, everybody reaches the end of the line. God, Yes,
cognitively I think it was. I think I make that
there one day soon. I think I'm right. This weekend,
I think you might be right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, this is the weekend where mel Kiper just lost
his marbles and went over the deep end. He ventured
into an area of the pool and his feet can
no longer touch the ground. It's time to back off.
Mel All right, Hey, Dick, did you happen to hear that?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
What's that? Dick?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You mentioned Shador Sanders and how he handled the weekend.
Well before the draft, Schador got a private NFL only
phone number that was given to general managers to contact
him during the draft. The number somehow got into the
hands of Jax Olbrick, who was the twenty one year
old son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former Jets interim
(34:42):
head coach last year. By the way, Jeff Olbrick so
as twenty one year old's due.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Jack's prank called Shadeur during the draft.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Is this is making limus here the gam of the
New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
How you doing? How you doing? Yeah? We have.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
It's been a long wait.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Man.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Uh, we're gonna take you with our next speaker. Are here, man,
but you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Man. Sorry that man, what.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Does that mean?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
What are you saying? I don't know. Are you gonna?
And he was on phone.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You heard that. He said You're gonna have to wait
a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Nobody got this numbered though.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
It ain't triggering now, man, all right, So before we
react to that, let's play this next clip, okay, because
there's a lot of there's a lot here, all right.
So that ship door getting pranked this morning on first take,
steven A reacting to the print call and suggesting how
jeff Ulbricks should repriment his son.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
It's not criminal, but it's unethical.
Speaker 12 (35:53):
It's classless to say moral to some degree. And I'd
like to see the face that kid, because sometimes you
need to be embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
That's what needs to happen to you.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Now.
Speaker 12 (36:05):
In my opinion, this kid, I sind sily hope to
Jeff Oldbrick, I sincerely hope he whipped his kid's ass.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
That's an ass whipping. That that is a required ass whipping.
Speaker 12 (36:17):
So your dad is a defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Your dad could have lost his job.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And because you.
Speaker 12 (36:25):
Want to you you want to prank somebody, okay, and
be cruel and insensitive knowing what should do or must
have been going through.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
You would be some privileged little bract.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
That would do something like that and take joy out
of somebody's misery like that.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
You should be ashamed of yourself. You should have your
ass whipped.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Well.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I agree with stephen A.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
The problem is that a lot of people have talked
about Jeff Ulbrick paying the price, and I'm certain that
a million assistant coaches have had their computer on or
their iPad hope in the kitchen, they go to take
a leak, they get something to eat, and there's a
chance for a relative to go look online.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
So I don't think that Jeff Olbricks should necessarily be
reprimanded by Atlanta. The problem with Jacks Olbrick is he's
too young to spank ever spank your kids by the way, No,
he's too young to spank or ground But he's also
or see be too old. But he's also too young
to have his life room by having his face plastered
all over the internet.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Right, So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I mean, look, I thought it was a brutal thing
for him to do. It's happened before, where people have
been punked on draft day.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
This is nothing new. This has happened before. I felt
terrible for Shoudoor.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
As much as I'm not a fan of his, I
felt terrible for him in the moment that he did
that but the guy's twenty one.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I mean, what should the punishment be and who should
punish him?
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Well, his face is plaster. We saw that villain too,
We've seen saw the prank call.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
But you know that's almost punishment enough. Then everybody knows
his face.
Speaker 7 (38:01):
Yeah, he had to issue an apology. The Falcons had
to do an issue apology. If I was the dad,
I would just be absolutely mortified. I don't even how
I would handle it.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
He's twenty one, though, what do you do? He's twenty one.
He's a man, right, what here's supposed to do? Bring
him home and pull his pants?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
That's right?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Maybe?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
And the thing is, I mean again, I'm I'm very
I'm very impressed with how Shador Sanders handled it.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
I'm surprised. I'm impressed with how he handled the fall.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
Remember how bitter Aaron Rodgers was on Draft night and
he only fell from the top five.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
To like twenty five. I agree with you on the
Chador thing.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I'm again, I'm not a gigantic fan of how he's
handled everything is I think you guys already know. But
I thought that had to be a brutal weekend as
his big party is embarrassed, he addresses the crowd. He
doesn't go on Friday, He's gotta wait until Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Gimately excited when he got passed.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
I thought he handled a pretty good man. I mean again,
he might be a punk, he might be an egomaniac.
All those things might be true, blah blah blah. But
what a brutal weekend for that guy. And maybe this
is what he needs, right to change his ways a
little bit. And we'll see, we'll find out. I mean,
there's a lot more on this Shador Sanders thing that
we can talk about coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Because it's it's it's it's not gonna go away.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
People are gonna keep an eye on this, right, I mean,
when's last time you were this interested in the Cleveland
Browns quarterback room?
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
I mean, who's to say he doesn't beat Joe Flacco
out in training game?
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Not impossible at all.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
If he gets cut, it's him, Dylan Gabriel and and
and Joe Flacco that are up for the starting job.
And as Jackson said, what if he doesn't make the team,
But if he comes in, it just looks terrible. And
they say that with it they cut his ass and man,
how the I mean? He was the story over the draft.
What's the last time a fifth round pick? And somebody
(39:44):
said this on the show. Maybe it was you that Hey,
if Deon's looking for attention and to own the news cycle,
mission accomplished.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Mission accomplished.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
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