September 18, 2024 • 35 mins
In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Kevin Harlan about Monday night’s game, Tua Tagovailoa, Seahawks-Dolphins, and more, then listen and react to Dan Wilson’s presser today before the M’s game before discussing Geno Smith’s 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They are NFL champions.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
The Seattlesyhawks have one Super Bowl forty eight.
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As part of our non stop coverage of the NFL,
this is Softy's weekly visit with Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Cousins in the gun, three receivers right, looks into the nickel,
the center block, the line, drive throw car side caught, touchdown,
hit the pylon, London caught it, chest high touchdown, Atlanta,
thirty four seconds to go and wait COO to break
the tie. All put down. The right footed kick is up, man,
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it is God. The extra point is good. It's twenty
two to twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
How about that for Monday night? Football Mania? Baby?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
And that voice right there, the voice of football in America.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The moral compass for millions of sports fans on this planet.
The voice of football on Westwood One in the NFL
on CBS, Our friend courtesy of the Emerald, Queen Kevin Harlan,
How are you, pal.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Who can come on your show after an introduction like that?
My goodness? What do you expect me to say? Now?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Well, that's what it says here that that's the way
you will, that the way you want to be introduced.
So I'm just doing what you're telling me.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Man.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Well, first of all, thanks, it's not true, but thanks
Clet you feel that way. Yeah, and it's great to
hear your voice and to be on for another week,
is to go to week three?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Is it a heavy burden for you to be the
moral compass for millions sports fans?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah? Yeah, I think as I rest my on my
pillow every night, I think, can I be a compass
at all? Let alone of moral compass?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do I know where I'm going? Who am I? Where
am I?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Where am I? Well? That compass you were?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You were at a place on Monday night that saw
a phenomenal finish? Uh in that in that Falcons Eagles game?
Man in in Philadelphia? Tell me about what you saw
the unsportsman like on London the forty eight yard extra
point to win it for Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Man, that was bananas.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, yeah, London said he was. I think they threw
it because he was imitating like shooting a gun with
his hand, right, he says, no, it was right. I
mean it's missing. I think he said that was misinterpreted.
But I need to be smarter, and the coach said that. Listen.
They won so uh and even then quite frankly, and
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they know, listen, if the best you can do in
regulation is a tie on the road at Philly and
their home opener, they would have taken that too. But
they got this young way Coup came up with a
huge kick a forty as the tape said, a forty
eight yard extra point to get the lead and then
eventually hold on with an interception by Jesse Bates later on.
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So a huge win. I gotta be honest, I don't
know that I recall many more exhilarating final minute. I mean,
you're down, you got to go the length of the
field basically, And that's what Kirk Cousins did after playing
okay during the game and okay to not that good
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in Week one against Pittsburgh and then to somehow pull
that out of his hat. My goodness, it was. It
was so compelling what he did. He's a terrific guy,
as we all know, right, and his career has been
good to very good, and he's playing with a new
team and a new offense and coming off of torn achilles.
So to do that for a team that many people
(04:01):
had picked actually to win that division, I thought was
just phenomenal. It was as good an ending as you
could possibly want in this league, regardless of who you
root for. That was something to watch.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, I'll be totally honest with you, man, there was
a part of me and maybe not even a small
part of me. And we discussed this before kickoff, Dick
and I did that, Hey, would we be okay with
like a little minor hammy poll for Kirk Cousins so
we can get to see our guy Pendix come off
the bench and play for Atlanta. I mean, how is
he dealing with all that? You talk to those guys
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before the game. They signed this big, huge contract and
then spend the eighth pick on a quarterback. How was
that whole thing resolved itself?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Down there?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's resolved itself. Cousins is a class guy. He gets it.
He's thirty six. You know, he knows he's on the clock.
I think he'd like to play for another five years.
I think it's his health holds up. He'd like to
play into his forties. And if the end of that
game as any indication, with a new team and a
new group and just all the things he's got on
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and in addition to coming back from the Achilles, I
would say, you know what, he's right on track, and
I hope that's the case, and there is no reason
to rush Michael Pennix. You know, some of the best
quarterbacks that have ever played in this game have sat
and watched for a year plus. Patrick Mahomes basically did
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that under Alex Smith in Kansas City. He started the
last game of the regular season. But he has come
back and said, and Smith has said too that for
Mahomes to sit and watch, and Patrick has echoed this, said,
this was the best thing that could have happened to me.
There was no pressure. I watched a pro prepare, I
watched an offense and a pro get ready every week.
I watched what he did for his body with how
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he ate how he handled himself as a veteran in
this league, and he said that was the best PhD
class I could have ever taken. So here is Pennix
with the world of talent. Can sit and watch one
of the great gentleman in this game and a terrific
quarterback and Kirk Cousins maneuver through a season, watch him prepare,
watch what he does. If you saw any of the
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inside look at quarterbacks a year ago, I think it
was a Netflix documentary and Cousins was one of them.
Maholmes was another one, and watch and I think then
there was it was the Oregon quarterback Heisman Trophy winner
Mariotta who he was one of them. And they showed
what Kirk Cousins does every day of his life at
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this stage of his life to get ready physically and mentally.
H It's phenomenal. So I think Pennix isn't right where
he wants to be. No pressure to play, sit and
watch home your skills. You're clearly a gifted quarterback, as
we saw in college at Washington before that in Indiana.
Your draft status tells us that that let's let you're
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in no rush here dude, you're in no rush. Get healthy,
Get healthy, error and learn learn how to play the
NFL game, which is a completely different game than the
college game.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us on the radio show, and
you're gonna be in town this weekend for the Dolphins
Seahawks game for CBS. A couple of days ago, the
report came out that the Dolphins were not going to
put to on the IR and now he's on the
IR right, So Skyler Thompson will start against the Hawks
on Sunday. But I mean, you and I have talked
before about Tua. He went through this a couple of
years ago, was painful to watch. And now he has
(07:27):
that brutal hit on Deamorrow Hamlin where his entire head
just completely twists the wrong way and people are all
concerned again about to a concussions.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What do you what do you think he's thinking?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Is he actually, potentially you think thinking about that it
might be better for me to call this quits.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I think he's thinking, I think everything is on the table.
I in a in a selfish world, his heart would
probably say, man, I'd like to play again. I've got
I've got financial security, He even has financial security by
the way, already, just what he's made on his rookie contract.
There was a lot of money guaranteed with the big
(08:06):
two hundred plus million dollar deal. Uh, he's got generational wealth.
But but I mean clearly that aside, it's all about health.
He's got two young children, he's a he's a married
man with two young children. I mean, he's got so
much of his life ahead of him. And I think
everything is on the table, as we all know, and
any logical person would think to think about. So I say,
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you know, you have to have the best minds in
the world, and the US has the best neurological brain
power on the planet in this country at various universities.
And he is making the rounds, he is talking to everyone,
and then he and his family will decide. And you know,
(08:50):
you said something before when they said do we put
him on the IR they said no, and then they did.
I think it was so early for them to make
any statement that just the action of them not doing
it immediately shouldn't be interpreted like they were pressuring him
to come back. There is none of that. All you
had to do was watch his coach, Mike McDaniel as
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the tour walking off the field as Mike was there
as head coach, stride for stride with two and going
to the locker room, and he kissed him on the
side of the head. And we all know now after
the comment about Flores that he made, the two have
made early in training camp and what Mike McDaniel has
meant to him as a player and he as a person.
That's all you need to know. There's no pressure on
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this kid, but to make a decision that all parties
think is in the best interest of tongovi Iloa. And
they will and it's going to take time, and it
may take the entire season. But listen, you don't in
football terms, you don't know what your team is until
a moment of crisis. And that's what this Dolphins team
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is faced with right now, a moment of crisis. The
starting quarterback is out for the foreseeable future. You're going
to a backup who beat another kind of a starting
type player in Mike White in training camp, is in
his third year, has got a handful of starts under
his belt. I just think right now, they just say
let's let him to it, do what he needs to do,
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and let us do what we need to do, and
let's see if we intersect it all during the remainder
of the season. It may not and that may be it,
or they could say, you know what, the safeguards are
in place. He was taking the karate lessons, the jiu
jitsu lessons to protect his body. He has a specially
made helmet with extra cushion in the back. This, as
(10:39):
you correctly mentioned, was an awkward head turning type tackle
that was legal, but it was he just he just
hit him at a bad angle. So it was what
it was. And this is the NFL, and there's nothing
guaranteed in this league. So let's see where the next
handful of weeks or months take us with both of
these stories.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us, and everyone knows that you're
famous for the amount of research that you put into
these broadcasts. You're up late nights, burning the midnight oil,
flipping over every rock, every stone to give the fans
the insight they deserve on game day, have you had
a chance yet to start breaking down this dolphin seahawk game?
And how do you see this thing going? Even with
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Skyler Thompson on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Well, I've just broken into the tape for both teams
today and have made my boards. I am just digging in.
I try to get myself Tuesday off. The NBA season
starts for us in a couple of weeks, so I'm
trying to adjust on the fly and get ready for
the NBA season in addition to do in all the
NFL work that's required. But Wednesdays the day when I
tag up my boards and get some of the vitals
(11:44):
in there, the statistical look all those kinds of things,
but start watching tape as well. And from a Miami perspective,
I think in a best case scenario, they're hoping that
it's a run game in a very loud stadium him
against the defense that has not been that great against
the run. Seahawks defense has not been that great running
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or stopping the run, and I know that's at the
top of the priority list for them, And I think
from a Miami perspective, they feel like, you know, we
can run the ball. We've got the guys to do it.
My guess is the limit the passing. They're going to
tweak the game plan. They got to restructure some things
for Thompson who can throw. But on the road like
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this and in a pretty important Week three game for
book teams. I'm thinking from a Miami perspective, in particular,
running the ball might be at the top of their list,
just to you know, settle the quarterback down, control the game,
try to take the crowd out of it, and see
if maybe what has been not the strongest part of
the defense can be exploited. If you're a Miami team
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going on the road, and for the Seahawks, you've got
a quarterback who has just been terrific so far. Walker
No word on him yet, I'm assuming for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Right yet they Mike McDonald one thing, and I'm curious
after you talk to him for the broadcast on Sunday.
Uh he he has not been that open about injuries.
He is giving you the bare minimum, if nothing at
all when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This for him, A good why, I mean good for him.
We deserve to know.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No, no, no, one deserves to know. One gets to
do what the league what? No? I mean, Hey, this
is not a league that that that's working with with
gamblers and fantasy people. I'm just I hate to you know,
we all know that and and John Harbaugh the system
that might came from in Baltimore is the same way.
They just don't They reveal the bare minimum, and good
(13:40):
for them. Come on, I mean like this is, you know,
as you get closer, you say, you know, doubtful, questionable, probable,
you know it's all right there, and uh, they don't
make their decisions. But you know what Dan Duel and
and MGM Bets and all these other things saying, you know,
you try to plan fantasy. I get it, it's important
(14:02):
to you, but at the end of the day, it's
about health and putting the best team out there he
can with a consideration for health. But clearly Walker makes
them a little different on offense, yep. And the sooner
he can come back, the better it's going to be.
It'll benefit Smith. But luckily you've got receivers that are
answering the call and that is helping that offense for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well do you talk to the coordinators too before these broadcasts?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I believe we are talking with both Okay, I think
we are okay our list yet we start a lot
of that tomorrow and I have not seen the list
that they've come up with. I'm assuming we're going to
but I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Well, let me know because i'd be curious to know
your thoughts on Ryan Grubb, who's the new O seed
for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
He was the OC at Washington. He was there, they.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Were twenty five and three, they went to the National
Championship Game. He had a runner up in the Heisman,
a first round draft pick wide receiver, a bunch of
guys that went in the you know, first three four
rounds of the draft. So he was incredible at you, Dob,
And I'm curious to get your thoughts on this guy
because I think is a future head coach in the NFL.
To be totally honest with you, so after you talk
to we can visit with you. We can discuss it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Later, but you cannot wait to visit with Kevin.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Is with us. Courtesy of The Emerald Queen Casino.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh, what do you make of what's going on with
Bryce young Man in Carolina?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I just think he's been dealt quite frankly, a turbulent
UH coaching staff that changes, you know, a new oc
an owner that that really wants to get involved in it,
clearly because you can look at the turnover to that
head coaching position with that organization. Sometimes businessmen need to
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be businessmen and coaches need to coach, and they never
should intersect. And it's just it's it's feeling like you've
got an owner who feels like he has a big
say in some of this stuff and maybe not letting
the football. But I don't know. I'm just reading what
I read, like everybody else, so I have no inside
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knowledge whatsoever. I think the kid has been dealt a
poor offensive line, not many weapons, a volatile coaching staff,
and he's been built a bad hand. I'd love to
see him get traded to a stable organization with a
game plan and some stability and the staff and the
message and a chance to kind of reclaim himself. It's
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not too late. Clearly he was worthy of a number
one overall pick. I don't know how that's going to
happen with Carolina in that current situation. Nothing against Dave Canalis,
nothing against him. It's just that it's just another head
coach and coordinator and scheme that this young kid has
got to absorb in addition to working, you know, a
questionable offensive line, although they've tried to make it better,
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and and and just you know, a changing behind the scenes. Look,
it's just it's it's unsettling, and no young quarterback needs that.
Mahomes didn't get it when he went to Kansas City.
You can go right on down the line. You know,
you need stability. If you're going to spend that kind
of time and money and draft capital and the quarterback,
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you've got to give him the best situation. And that
kid has not been dealt that situation.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Are you buying what you're seeing from Derek Carr in
the Saints? Fifteen drives for Derek Carr, They've scored fifteen times.
They had another big game forty four to nineteen win
over Dallas. They've scored what ninety one points in the
first two games of the year. What is going on
in New Orleans, Man.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, they got Clint Kobiak is a new offensive coordinator,
which I think they needed to refresh with their offense.
Nothing against the guys they had on there, but there
was some carryover from Sean Payton and they got car
and he may not have fit what they were trying
to do on offense, and I think Kobak comes in
there with new ideas, a fresh approach, a great history,
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a lineage in terms of his background and you know,
kind of system that he has been in. I think
he brings that there but a fresh law and he
can kind of craft it as they go along the car.
They've got weapons, and Kamara is one of the best,
you know, Swiss army knife players in the league. He
can do it all. He can block, he can run,
he can catch. Uh, he's knowledgeable, he's got a fire,
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He's a quick twitch guy. I love him. He's always
been one of my favorite players in the league. And
he appears to be healthy. So I I think it's
just a kind of a combination of all those things.
Carr was taking some heat signed the big contract. I
think he has a big ship on his shoulder, and
and I think they're playing in a division that may
not be the most difficult, so I I yeah, I
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am kind of buying the Saints quite frankly. And and
and you can see all these things come about that
they've got some nice players, some nice parts on that
team and on defense too, So I'm yeah, I am
buying them. I don't know if it's quite what the
numbers would say, but if you had said, hey, the
two and zero and and uh and and their their
their offense is showing life and some ingenuity and kind
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of a different look, and the defense is holding up
there into the bargain. I'd say, yeah, I'd buy that
going into the year. And you're there two and oh
so yeah, no, I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, all right, man, great stuff, and we will see
you on Sunday, if not Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Man, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Pal, Oh yeah, you and I are getting together Saturday.
But we're not giving any details. We're giving no details.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Go Anny Stalkers showing.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Up till neck um til next Wednesday. Then we're giving
all the details.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Oh god, all right, man, good stuff, travel safe.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We'll see you out here in a few days.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Pal, you got a Dave take caare But all right.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Man, Kevin Harlan's got the call for CBS Seahawks Dolphins
on Sunday. He's coming out here on Saturday night calling
the game on Sunday, and then he's got Monday night
football for Westwood One. All right, we're gonna break you know,
a lot more to get to, including how about a
little bit from the head coach Mike McDonald coming up
between now and seven right here on ninety three to
three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
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Speaker 6 (20:04):
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Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, anybody want a Major League Baseball scoreboard updates?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I can tell you're lying. I don't believe you, Jackson.
How about you?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You excited for a major league scoreboard? Zero percent zero
for not even fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
We're not even five point four.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Give it to us and our names justin Genu.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
My Mariner, Mariner portion of my soundbar. We got them on.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
How about lee Elia? You're some Lee Elia.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I hope we get stumping up them.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Three thousand people to show up every day.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Day. Wilson should say that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That would be awesome, right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
I hope we get hot and shove it up to
twenty five hundreds ass that shows up to support us.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Nothing fifty thousand for the.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yankees, Danzelle leap protegee.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's right, perfs fregolutely. Uh So, yesterday Victor Roblest tried
to steal home.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was two to one. Is that right, Jacksonville to
score two nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Justin Turner's got three balls on him, he's one ball
away from a free run, and Victor Roblest decides to
steal home. This was the reaction of Michael Kay and
Jeff Nelson on the Yes Network last night.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And then Stanley home the throw got him. That made
zero sense. You have a three to zero count and
you're gonna try to steal home. Zero sense right there
from the Mariners. Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Three zero and Justin Turner staring at to the dug
out as if to say, really, you see heals back
was turned and then Robless took off.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Makes so no sense, zero sense.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
So he did that on his own, right ro Blust, Yes,
he had to have done this on his own. Well,
he saw he saw Gil kind of fumbling around the mound.
He wasn't really paying that much attention right now. Doesn't
excuse him. I would say, if it's a different situation
and you've got a guy maybe on third with two outs,
that's it. Maybe it counts oh and two something like that,
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and you see a pitcher not paying attention to you,
then maybe, especially since he was twenty five for twenty
five still in stolen bases.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
But in that situation, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
He isn't stolen home yet, right, No. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Mariner's got nationwide attention for the first time in months.
Yeah for bonehead of the Bonehead of the night on
every single sports show. I saw like four times this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Bonehead of the Week.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I mean, it's just there's no manager in baseball that
would tell a guy to do that now with a
three to zero count.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I mean, there's no way Dan Wilson told him to
do that. And you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I mean, I guess there's a small part of me
that appreciates the aggression, like you're desperate, right, but it's
three to oh, dude, just let the damn thing go.
And when the opposing team is ripping you for doing
it and saying thank you very much. I don't know, man,
I mean, is he in the lineup tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do we have the line?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh he can't.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
He's hurt, yeah, hurt right right, squeeze. But I look,
he's been raking too. He's been as good a hitter
this month as anybody on the team.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Dan Wilson with the media. The skipper of the Mariner
is still a little odd for us. Long time Mariner
faithful Danny Wilson, Oh Number six, the manager of your Mariners,
with the media before tonight's game.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Well'll see sunshine today.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It's a new day.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Chance to come out here, bounce back from last night.
This team has continued to do that time and time again.
You know, I expect the same tonight. Bryce Miller on
the hill for us has been outstanding, and.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You know Cortez, who.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
We know from the past, you know on their side.
So looking forward to tonight and our guys bouncing back
from from a tough one last night.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
We talked to Victor for just a little bit.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
He said his hands still hurts, his fingers are bothering him.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What's the latest on his status?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Yeah, sounds like, uh, still a little bit tricky to
grab a bat at this point. So I think we'll
give him today and you know, see how things are
tomorrow and and go from there. So it's it's really
kind of a day to day situation for him.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Just how challenging is that two or three right now?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Is the way soda when charge are going, Yeah, I
mean those are a couple of the best hitters in
the game. When you look at it, and you know
they they are tough outs and and uh but we
got some great pitching in this in this clubhouse, and
and you know they've they've done it all season long
and and they're going to continue to do it. So
we feel good about, you know, where we're headed.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Guys.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Have been a lot of close games and some games
that were lotside of your way since you took over
as manager. You know, last night was kind of the
kind of the first one where it kind of with
the opposite end of the way for you guys, just
from your experience, just how was it to navigate you know,
that kind of environment in the in the in the
dugout based on previous games you've had.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So far, Yeah, good question.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
You know, each day, as as you know a manager,
you kind of presented with new different things and and
it's been the case pretty much every day, and you know,
yesterday was something new, you know, being in that kind
of a game. But again that all the people that
we have, the support staff, coaches, everyone already around you know,
helps out and and uh, you know we get to
a point where, uh, you know, we manage our way
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through it. And so it's it's Uh, it's been good,
and yeah it was. It was definitely something different. Hopefully
that's the last time.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
From the manager's standpoint, how do you balance the urgency
of this race coming down to the wire, but also
you can only control what happened to How do you
kind of balance that dynamic?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Yeah, I mean we got eleven left and you know,
to to to get our way into the postseason. So
you know, I you know, to say we're in a
must win is is pretty close to to be an
accurate and you know, so we just have to, you know,
continue to be aggressive, get get as many wins as
we can down the stretch here, and and that's what
our goal is each and every night when we go
out there.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
You mentioned knowing, I guess Nester from the past, what
makes him kind of a different and maybe unique picture.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
For your hitters.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's got a little bit
of a you know, crossfire to him, and I think
that makes him a little bit more challenging as a lefty.
But again, you know, we'll put together a good game
plan and as as has done, and we'll be ready.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I don't put any of this on him, obviously, none
of it on him it's all about the roster.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mean, yeah, good for them.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
They're getting more out of this rotten turn up than
other people could get out of it. But should have
made the move a month ago or two months ago, whatever,
I mean, probably missed it by a week.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You know, that would have been significant. They would have
made it a week earlier.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
One and five in the six games before the firing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, I think Dan is doing fine. I think again.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I mean, like I said earlier, I got no problem
with him being the manager of this baseball team.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
None.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I mean the Astros or the Diamondbacks hired Bob Brenley
out of the freaking TV booth and went to the
World Series for got six right.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The Astros did the same thing about ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
So baseball is a little bit different than other sports,
where you can make a move like that and bring
in somebody who's affiliated with the team but may not
necessarily be on the coaching staff or coaching somebody else.
That's not unique to baseball. But what they should have
done is they should have said, hey, Dan's our guy.
He's going to be considered for the full time job
when the season's over. But Dan knows and the fan
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base deserves a full time search for the right man.
And if Dan's the guy, great, but we're gonna do
an exhaustive search to find that next year.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
That's exactly right. That was mistake number one. Mistake number
two was to fire him. When they fired him, and
you and I were in absolute cahoots. We're not, you know,
Monday Morning quarterbacking this. We said it at the time.
Why did you wait this long? Why did you wait
until the season was just about over? And Dan has
a very very small percentage to put turn this thing
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around and pull these guys out of the fire, and
they just waited too long. He mentioned Bryce Miller pitching well,
and boy, looking at the numbers, I mean, and this
is frustrating too. I mean you, I guess you can
say this about three or four of the Mariner starters.
But Bryce Miller since the fourth of July has a
two point oh six ERA and the Mariners are seven
and five in those games.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, seven and five with a two oh six ERA,
you should be.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Ten and two with a two oh six other they're
they're under five hundred and Logan Gilbert's games this year,
which is even more pathetic.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Because he doesn't have a two ERA.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
He might be the best pitcher you've got over all,
by the way, Logan Gilbert in the entire season. But
I mean Bryce Miller has made how many starts this
year so far for the Mariners. He's made twenty nine
starts and one two, three, four, five six twenty two
of the twenty nine he's allowed three runs or less.
I mean, he's he's doing exactly what he did last year,
where he's got a couple of games and then for
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the most part he's pretty near three out of every
four starts.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He's really good.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
So again, I mean, you are this close to blowing
the best rotation in team history. They still have the
number one ERA in baseball. By the way, the Mariners
are they still number one in the e RA in
the league. I thought they were number in the league.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
For a while.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
They were, they are, Let's see they are. They are
number one in the e R three point five to four.
Not the gap between them and Atlanta that they're still
there's number one. And so congratulations, you're about to do
something that nobody's done for like twenty years.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, and you that's through the playoffs for the number
one ERA and you went through.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It not only missing the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Dave, you went through this before.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I think you wrote down like the last twenty five
years of baseball teams that finished number one in e
RA and their average wins per season was like ninety five.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That Toronto Blue Jays in like two thousand and four
something was the last team to not make the playoffs.
But it's like ninety eight hundred hundred and four hundred
and two hundred and ten, ninety nine hundred and four
hundred and five. Not only do you win and make
the playoffs, but you're like the best team in baseball
when you have that kind of pitching staff. So now
you know, we're about a week away or a week
and a half away from revisiting the whole Jerry thing,
And I just wonder how the Mariners are gonna approach this.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We're gonna break a lot.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
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Speaker 5 (29:53):
Al right back here at Jimmy's on first Softy Dick
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hear from DK Metcalf coming up in the six o'clock hour. Uh,
you know who is number six in the NFL right
now and passer rating and number four in QBR. Let
me take any idea? Yes, an idea?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Failed quarterback of the New York.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Jets one long time. Yeah, i'd say you're on the
right path. Yeah, you want to keep guessing? Sure, somebody else?
Did you go to West Virginia?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
What's the heisman Jovie Canada.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
At the end of the year. No, No, any of
the year? Yes, you will g g No. All right,
what do we think I asked you the other day.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
We're seeing enough to kind of think that he took
a step towards earning a brand new contract. If he
plays like this, the answer is gonna be yes, will
he play like this the rest of the year? How
much confidence do we have that the Gino Smith that
we're seeing now in the first two games of the
year is the Gino Smith that we're going to see
all your.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
High level, high level, like level.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
I think we are seeing how disastrous the SWE was.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You know what the SWE is, the S the Shane
Waldron effect or experience. Yes, gotcha.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
The Shane Waldron experience that Cayleb Williams is seeing right
now in Chicago is an absolute horror show.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And a lot of people pay a lot of money
for the SWE and the Gino Smith what's behind that door?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
The Ryan Grubb experience is much much better than that.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
And yeah, I mean I think I think Geno Smith
is going to be pretty close to, if not a
little bit better than what he was the first half
of his first season when he was impressing all of us.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
That they're going to sign him over the offseason. If
that is what happens, that he's going to get a
contract in about six months from now, and.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Then as long as he gets a contract that is
that is fitting a thirty four year old quarterback, that
is a short term, get out of easy type contract,
and you can use it as another year or two
as you finally draft a long term replacement.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Sean Schneider, for God's sake.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
The only GM in football that refuses to draft quarterbacks
I mean, I love John Schneider, but at some point
you got to draft a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
How much you're comfortable playing him? Well, red of the
question is what percentage of the salary cap?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah? In Gino Smith, he.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Was He's at twenty five million year now right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That goes to like it next year.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Salary cap right now is at two hundred and fifty
five million dollars. Okay, So what percentage of the cap
is he? Right, I'm gonna look it up for you
right now. I'm gonna tell you what he's making right now.
But it's what I say.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Two fifty five is that right? Yeah? That's the that's
the cap today.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So Geno Smith's salary cap is for this twenty twenty
four blah blah blah, yackadyact. Anybody have any good jokes, riddles, whatever,
recommend restaurant recommendations, whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Here it is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
His salary cap hit this year is twenty six point
four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Twenty six points.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
He's fasally making a run ten percent of your cap?
Ten point ten percent of your cap? Are you cool
with that? Going forward? Makes ten percent, then he's gonna
be making well over probably thirty five million dollars, I
mean not thirty five million, but over thirty million. But
he's gonna want more than that, dude, Gino Smith is
gonna want more than thirty million dollars because thirty million dollars.
There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
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fifteen sixteen quarterbacks right now that are making forty or
more sixteen And if he's gonna resign with you, he's
gonna want forty million plus. He'll want to be among
the top half paid quarterbacks. Is he probably deserves it
to be.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
It is not John Schneider's fault that a vast majority
of those general managers are morons. And how many of
those fifteen sixteen quarterbacks are worth the money that they're getting,
I mean five That's not the point, though you think
it is. You think it is the point he cares
about that, and here it is the point, because here's
the point. John Schneider is gonna say, Hey, I'm not
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going to do what these other general managers do, and
that's over be desperate and overpay for a quarterback just
because that's the only answer I have.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
You can't do that that is a franchise killing move.
Ask the New York Giants, Ask the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I get, I mean asked. But you're not putting yourself
team sick.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
You're not putting yourself in the shoes of Gino Smith
You're putting yourself in the shoes of John Schneider. That's
fine for not going to show up to camp without
a new deal for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
He just won't.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
He's not gonna show up and make whatever he's making
next year. He's gonna want a brand new contract. He
wants a brand new contract. Now we know that because
he admitted it. And if he doesn't get a brand
new contract for next year, then there's gonna be a holdout.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Okay, well, Gino Smith A has to understand what his
pedigree is an NFL quarterback, y B has to understand.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
How old he is is he's thirty four, right, and
CS and C Percussins is thirty six and just got
one hundred and eighty million bucks.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
And see has to understand how many playoff games he's won. Okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
If he understands all three of those things, then he
realizes he's worth about ten to twelve percent.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Of the cop I don't know, man, I mean, I just,
I'm just really all of this is based on the
kind of year that he has this coming season. If
he has like a top five year in the NFL,
which a lot of folks think he might be able
to have, I think he's gonna ask for the moon,
and again, he's gonna ask for the moon and settle
for the star or whatever vice versa. I guess I
get it. I just I'm very curious to see. Let's
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let let's continue this conversation next time, because I'm very
curious to see how far the Seahawks would go and
what Gino would think is fair. Because unless they're on
the same page, there ain't gonna be no extension. We're
gonna break
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Cousins in the gun, three receivers right, looks into the nickel,
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thirty four seconds to go and wait COO to break
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Speaker 6 (01:27):
Who can come on your show after an introduction like that?
My goodness? What do you expect me to say? Now?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
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Speaker 1 (01:39):
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Speaker 6 (01:41):
Well, first of all, thanks, it's not true, but thanks
Clet you feel that way. Yeah, and it's great to
hear your voice and to be on for another week,
is to go to week three?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Is it a heavy burden for you to be the
moral compass for millions sports fans?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah? Yeah, I think as I rest my on my
pillow every night, I think, can I be a compass
at all? Let alone of moral compass?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Do I know where I'm going? Who am I? Where
am I?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Where am I? Well? That compass you were?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You were at a place on Monday night that saw
a phenomenal finish? Uh in that in that Falcons Eagles game?
Man in in Philadelphia? Tell me about what you saw
the unsportsman like on London the forty eight yard extra
point to win it for Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Man, that was bananas.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Well, yeah, London said he was. I think they threw
it because he was imitating like shooting a gun with
his hand, right, he says, no, it was right. I
mean it's missing. I think he said that was misinterpreted.
But I need to be smarter, and the coach said that. Listen.
They won so uh and even then quite frankly, and
(02:54):
they know, listen, if the best you can do in
regulation is a tie on the road at Philly and
their home opener, they would have taken that too. But
they got this young way Coup came up with a
huge kick a forty as the tape said, a forty
eight yard extra point to get the lead and then
eventually hold on with an interception by Jesse Bates later on.
(03:18):
So a huge win. I gotta be honest, I don't
know that I recall many more exhilarating final minute. I mean,
you're down, you got to go the length of the
field basically, And that's what Kirk Cousins did after playing
okay during the game and okay to not that good
(03:39):
in Week one against Pittsburgh and then to somehow pull
that out of his hat. My goodness, it was. It
was so compelling what he did. He's a terrific guy,
as we all know, right, and his career has been
good to very good, and he's playing with a new
team and a new offense and coming off of torn achilles.
So to do that for a team that many people
(04:01):
had picked actually to win that division, I thought was
just phenomenal. It was as good an ending as you
could possibly want in this league, regardless of who you
root for. That was something to watch.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Well, I'll be totally honest with you, man, there was
a part of me and maybe not even a small
part of me. And we discussed this before kickoff, Dick
and I did that, Hey, would we be okay with
like a little minor hammy poll for Kirk Cousins so
we can get to see our guy Pendix come off
the bench and play for Atlanta. I mean, how is
he dealing with all that? You talk to those guys
(04:33):
before the game. They signed this big, huge contract and
then spend the eighth pick on a quarterback. How was
that whole thing resolved itself?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Down there?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
It's resolved itself. Cousins is a class guy. He gets it.
He's thirty six. You know, he knows he's on the clock.
I think he'd like to play for another five years.
I think it's his health holds up. He'd like to
play into his forties. And if the end of that
game as any indication, with a new team and a
new group and just all the things he's got on
(05:04):
and in addition to coming back from the Achilles, I
would say, you know what, he's right on track, and
I hope that's the case, and there is no reason
to rush Michael Pennix. You know, some of the best
quarterbacks that have ever played in this game have sat
and watched for a year plus. Patrick Mahomes basically did
(05:26):
that under Alex Smith in Kansas City. He started the
last game of the regular season. But he has come
back and said, and Smith has said too that for
Mahomes to sit and watch, and Patrick has echoed this, said,
this was the best thing that could have happened to me.
There was no pressure. I watched a pro prepare, I
watched an offense and a pro get ready every week.
I watched what he did for his body with how
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he ate how he handled himself as a veteran in
this league, and he said that was the best PhD
class I could have ever taken. So here is Pennix
with the world of talent. Can sit and watch one
of the great gentleman in this game and a terrific
quarterback and Kirk Cousins maneuver through a season, watch him prepare,
watch what he does. If you saw any of the
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inside look at quarterbacks a year ago, I think it
was a Netflix documentary and Cousins was one of them.
Maholmes was another one, and watch and I think then
there was it was the Oregon quarterback Heisman Trophy winner
Mariotta who he was one of them. And they showed
what Kirk Cousins does every day of his life at
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this stage of his life to get ready physically and mentally.
H It's phenomenal. So I think Pennix isn't right where
he wants to be. No pressure to play, sit and
watch home your skills. You're clearly a gifted quarterback, as
we saw in college at Washington before that in Indiana.
Your draft status tells us that that let's let you're
(06:54):
in no rush here dude, you're in no rush. Get healthy,
Get healthy, error and learn learn how to play the
NFL game, which is a completely different game than the
college game.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us on the radio show, and
you're gonna be in town this weekend for the Dolphins
Seahawks game for CBS. A couple of days ago, the
report came out that the Dolphins were not going to
put to on the IR and now he's on the
IR right, So Skyler Thompson will start against the Hawks
on Sunday. But I mean, you and I have talked
before about Tua. He went through this a couple of
years ago, was painful to watch. And now he has
(07:27):
that brutal hit on Deamorrow Hamlin where his entire head
just completely twists the wrong way and people are all
concerned again about to a concussions.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
What do you what do you think he's thinking?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Is he actually, potentially you think thinking about that it
might be better for me to call this quits.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I think he's thinking, I think everything is on the table.
I in a in a selfish world, his heart would
probably say, man, I'd like to play again. I've got
I've got financial security, He even has financial security by
the way, already, just what he's made on his rookie contract.
There was a lot of money guaranteed with the big
(08:06):
two hundred plus million dollar deal. Uh, he's got generational wealth.
But but I mean clearly that aside, it's all about health.
He's got two young children, he's a he's a married
man with two young children. I mean, he's got so
much of his life ahead of him. And I think
everything is on the table, as we all know, and
any logical person would think to think about. So I say,
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you know, you have to have the best minds in
the world, and the US has the best neurological brain
power on the planet in this country at various universities.
And he is making the rounds, he is talking to everyone,
and then he and his family will decide. And you know,
(08:50):
you said something before when they said do we put
him on the IR they said no, and then they did.
I think it was so early for them to make
any statement that just the action of them not doing
it immediately shouldn't be interpreted like they were pressuring him
to come back. There is none of that. All you
had to do was watch his coach, Mike McDaniel as
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the tour walking off the field as Mike was there
as head coach, stride for stride with two and going
to the locker room, and he kissed him on the
side of the head. And we all know now after
the comment about Flores that he made, the two have
made early in training camp and what Mike McDaniel has
meant to him as a player and he as a person.
That's all you need to know. There's no pressure on
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this kid, but to make a decision that all parties
think is in the best interest of tongovi Iloa. And
they will and it's going to take time, and it
may take the entire season. But listen, you don't in
football terms, you don't know what your team is until
a moment of crisis. And that's what this Dolphins team
(09:56):
is faced with right now, a moment of crisis. The
starting quarterback is out for the foreseeable future. You're going
to a backup who beat another kind of a starting
type player in Mike White in training camp, is in
his third year, has got a handful of starts under
his belt. I just think right now, they just say
let's let him to it, do what he needs to do,
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and let us do what we need to do, and
let's see if we intersect it all during the remainder
of the season. It may not and that may be it,
or they could say, you know what, the safeguards are
in place. He was taking the karate lessons, the jiu
jitsu lessons to protect his body. He has a specially
made helmet with extra cushion in the back. This, as
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you correctly mentioned, was an awkward head turning type tackle
that was legal, but it was he just he just
hit him at a bad angle. So it was what
it was. And this is the NFL, and there's nothing
guaranteed in this league. So let's see where the next
handful of weeks or months take us with both of
these stories.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Well, Kevin Harlan's with us, and everyone knows that you're
famous for the amount of research that you put into
these broadcasts. You're up late nights, burning the midnight oil,
flipping over every rock, every stone to give the fans
the insight they deserve on game day, have you had
a chance yet to start breaking down this dolphin seahawk game?
And how do you see this thing going? Even with
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Skyler Thompson on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Well, I've just broken into the tape for both teams
today and have made my boards. I am just digging in.
I try to get myself Tuesday off. The NBA season
starts for us in a couple of weeks, so I'm
trying to adjust on the fly and get ready for
the NBA season in addition to do in all the
NFL work that's required. But Wednesdays the day when I
tag up my boards and get some of the vitals
(11:44):
in there, the statistical look all those kinds of things,
but start watching tape as well. And from a Miami perspective,
I think in a best case scenario, they're hoping that
it's a run game in a very loud stadium him
against the defense that has not been that great against
the run. Seahawks defense has not been that great running
(12:06):
or stopping the run, and I know that's at the
top of the priority list for them, And I think
from a Miami perspective, they feel like, you know, we
can run the ball. We've got the guys to do it.
My guess is the limit the passing. They're going to
tweak the game plan. They got to restructure some things
for Thompson who can throw. But on the road like
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this and in a pretty important Week three game for
book teams. I'm thinking from a Miami perspective, in particular,
running the ball might be at the top of their list,
just to you know, settle the quarterback down, control the game,
try to take the crowd out of it, and see
if maybe what has been not the strongest part of
the defense can be exploited. If you're a Miami team
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going on the road, and for the Seahawks, you've got
a quarterback who has just been terrific so far. Walker
No word on him yet, I'm assuming for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Right yet they Mike McDonald one thing, and I'm curious
after you talk to him for the broadcast on Sunday.
Uh he he has not been that open about injuries.
He is giving you the bare minimum, if nothing at
all when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
This for him, A good why, I mean good for him.
We deserve to know.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
No, no, no, one deserves to know. One gets to
do what the league what? No? I mean, Hey, this
is not a league that that that's working with with
gamblers and fantasy people. I'm just I hate to you know,
we all know that and and John Harbaugh the system
that might came from in Baltimore is the same way.
They just don't They reveal the bare minimum, and good
(13:40):
for them. Come on, I mean like this is, you know,
as you get closer, you say, you know, doubtful, questionable, probable,
you know it's all right there, and uh, they don't
make their decisions. But you know what Dan Duel and
and MGM Bets and all these other things saying, you know,
you try to plan fantasy. I get it, it's important
(14:02):
to you, but at the end of the day, it's
about health and putting the best team out there he
can with a consideration for health. But clearly Walker makes
them a little different on offense, yep. And the sooner
he can come back, the better it's going to be.
It'll benefit Smith. But luckily you've got receivers that are
answering the call and that is helping that offense for sure.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well do you talk to the coordinators too before these broadcasts?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
I believe we are talking with both Okay, I think
we are okay our list yet we start a lot
of that tomorrow and I have not seen the list
that they've come up with. I'm assuming we're going to
but I don't know yet.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Well, let me know because i'd be curious to know
your thoughts on Ryan Grubb, who's the new O seed
for the Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
He was the OC at Washington. He was there, they.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Were twenty five and three, they went to the National
Championship Game. He had a runner up in the Heisman,
a first round draft pick wide receiver, a bunch of
guys that went in the you know, first three four
rounds of the draft. So he was incredible at you, Dob,
And I'm curious to get your thoughts on this guy
because I think is a future head coach in the NFL.
To be totally honest with you, so after you talk
to we can visit with you. We can discuss it.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Later, but you cannot wait to visit with Kevin.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Is with us. Courtesy of The Emerald Queen Casino.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh, what do you make of what's going on with
Bryce young Man in Carolina?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I just think he's been dealt quite frankly, a turbulent
UH coaching staff that changes, you know, a new oc
an owner that that really wants to get involved in it,
clearly because you can look at the turnover to that
head coaching position with that organization. Sometimes businessmen need to
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be businessmen and coaches need to coach, and they never
should intersect. And it's just it's it's feeling like you've
got an owner who feels like he has a big
say in some of this stuff and maybe not letting
the football. But I don't know. I'm just reading what
I read, like everybody else, so I have no inside
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knowledge whatsoever. I think the kid has been dealt a
poor offensive line, not many weapons, a volatile coaching staff,
and he's been built a bad hand. I'd love to
see him get traded to a stable organization with a
game plan and some stability and the staff and the
message and a chance to kind of reclaim himself. It's
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not too late. Clearly he was worthy of a number
one overall pick. I don't know how that's going to
happen with Carolina in that current situation. Nothing against Dave Canalis,
nothing against him. It's just that it's just another head
coach and coordinator and scheme that this young kid has
got to absorb in addition to working, you know, a
questionable offensive line, although they've tried to make it better,
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and and and just you know, a changing behind the scenes. Look,
it's just it's it's unsettling, and no young quarterback needs that.
Mahomes didn't get it when he went to Kansas City.
You can go right on down the line. You know,
you need stability. If you're going to spend that kind
of time and money and draft capital and the quarterback,
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you've got to give him the best situation. And that
kid has not been dealt that situation.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Are you buying what you're seeing from Derek Carr in
the Saints? Fifteen drives for Derek Carr, They've scored fifteen times.
They had another big game forty four to nineteen win
over Dallas. They've scored what ninety one points in the
first two games of the year. What is going on
in New Orleans, Man.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Well, they got Clint Kobiak is a new offensive coordinator,
which I think they needed to refresh with their offense.
Nothing against the guys they had on there, but there
was some carryover from Sean Payton and they got car
and he may not have fit what they were trying
to do on offense, and I think Kobak comes in
there with new ideas, a fresh approach, a great history,
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a lineage in terms of his background and you know,
kind of system that he has been in. I think
he brings that there but a fresh law and he
can kind of craft it as they go along the car.
They've got weapons, and Kamara is one of the best,
you know, Swiss army knife players in the league. He
can do it all. He can block, he can run,
he can catch. Uh, he's knowledgeable, he's got a fire,
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He's a quick twitch guy. I love him. He's always
been one of my favorite players in the league. And
he appears to be healthy. So I I think it's
just a kind of a combination of all those things.
Carr was taking some heat signed the big contract. I
think he has a big ship on his shoulder, and
and I think they're playing in a division that may
not be the most difficult, so I I yeah, I
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am kind of buying the Saints quite frankly. And and
and you can see all these things come about that
they've got some nice players, some nice parts on that
team and on defense too, So I'm yeah, I am
buying them. I don't know if it's quite what the
numbers would say, but if you had said, hey, the
two and zero and and uh and and their their
their offense is showing life and some ingenuity and kind
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of a different look, and the defense is holding up
there into the bargain. I'd say, yeah, I'd buy that
going into the year. And you're there two and oh
so yeah, no, I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, all right, man, great stuff, and we will see
you on Sunday, if not Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Man, appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Pal, Oh yeah, you and I are getting together Saturday.
But we're not giving any details. We're giving no details.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Go Anny Stalkers showing.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Up till neck um til next Wednesday. Then we're giving
all the details.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Oh god, all right, man, good stuff, travel safe.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
We'll see you out here in a few days.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Pal, you got a Dave take caare But all right.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Man, Kevin Harlan's got the call for CBS Seahawks Dolphins
on Sunday. He's coming out here on Saturday night calling
the game on Sunday, and then he's got Monday night
football for Westwood One. All right, we're gonna break you know,
a lot more to get to, including how about a
little bit from the head coach Mike McDonald coming up
between now and seven right here on ninety three to
three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialists Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your Home for
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three k.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
J r F M.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
All right, anybody want a Major League Baseball scoreboard updates?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I'm very excited.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, I can tell you're lying. I don't believe you, Jackson.
How about you?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You excited for a major league scoreboard? Zero percent zero
for not even fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
We're not even five point four.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Give it to us and our names justin Genu.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
My Mariner, Mariner portion of my soundbar. We got them on.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
How about lee Elia? You're some Lee Elia.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I hope we get stumping up them.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Three thousand people to show up every day.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Day. Wilson should say that.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
That would be awesome, right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
I hope we get hot and shove it up to
twenty five hundreds ass that shows up to support us.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Nothing fifty thousand for the.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yankees, Danzelle leap protegee.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's right, perfs fregolutely. Uh So, yesterday Victor Roblest tried
to steal home.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was two to one. Is that right, Jacksonville to
score two nothing.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Justin Turner's got three balls on him, he's one ball
away from a free run, and Victor Roblest decides to
steal home. This was the reaction of Michael Kay and
Jeff Nelson on the Yes Network last night.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And then Stanley home the throw got him. That made
zero sense. You have a three to zero count and
you're gonna try to steal home. Zero sense right there
from the Mariners. Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Three zero and Justin Turner staring at to the dug
out as if to say, really, you see heals back
was turned and then Robless took off.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Makes so no sense, zero sense.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Incredible.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
So he did that on his own, right ro Blust, Yes,
he had to have done this on his own. Well,
he saw he saw Gil kind of fumbling around the mound.
He wasn't really paying that much attention right now. Doesn't
excuse him. I would say, if it's a different situation
and you've got a guy maybe on third with two outs,
that's it. Maybe it counts oh and two something like that,
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and you see a pitcher not paying attention to you,
then maybe, especially since he was twenty five for twenty
five still in stolen bases.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
But in that situation, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
He isn't stolen home yet, right, No. Yeah, and the.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Mariner's got nationwide attention for the first time in months.
Yeah for bonehead of the Bonehead of the night on
every single sports show. I saw like four times this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Bonehead of the Week.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I mean, it's just there's no manager in baseball that
would tell a guy to do that now with a
three to zero count.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I mean, there's no way Dan Wilson told him to
do that. And you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
I mean, I guess there's a small part of me
that appreciates the aggression, like you're desperate, right, but it's
three to oh, dude, just let the damn thing go.
And when the opposing team is ripping you for doing
it and saying thank you very much. I don't know, man,
I mean, is he in the lineup tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Do we have the line?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh he can't.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
He's hurt, yeah, hurt right right, squeeze. But I look,
he's been raking too. He's been as good a hitter
this month as anybody on the team.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Dan Wilson with the media. The skipper of the Mariner
is still a little odd for us. Long time Mariner
faithful Danny Wilson, Oh Number six, the manager of your Mariners,
with the media before tonight's game.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Well'll see sunshine today.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
It's a new day.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Chance to come out here, bounce back from last night.
This team has continued to do that time and time again.
You know, I expect the same tonight. Bryce Miller on
the hill for us has been outstanding, and.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You know Cortez, who.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
We know from the past, you know on their side.
So looking forward to tonight and our guys bouncing back
from from a tough one last night.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
We talked to Victor for just a little bit.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
He said his hands still hurts, his fingers are bothering him.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
What's the latest on his status?
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Yeah, sounds like, uh, still a little bit tricky to
grab a bat at this point. So I think we'll
give him today and you know, see how things are
tomorrow and and go from there. So it's it's really
kind of a day to day situation for him.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
Just how challenging is that two or three right now?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Is the way soda when charge are going, Yeah, I
mean those are a couple of the best hitters in
the game. When you look at it, and you know
they they are tough outs and and uh but we
got some great pitching in this in this clubhouse, and
and you know they've they've done it all season long
and and they're going to continue to do it. So
we feel good about, you know, where we're headed.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Guys.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Have been a lot of close games and some games
that were lotside of your way since you took over
as manager. You know, last night was kind of the
kind of the first one where it kind of with
the opposite end of the way for you guys, just
from your experience, just how was it to navigate you know,
that kind of environment in the in the in the
dugout based on previous games you've had.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
So far, Yeah, good question.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
You know, each day, as as you know a manager,
you kind of presented with new different things and and
it's been the case pretty much every day, and you know,
yesterday was something new, you know, being in that kind
of a game. But again that all the people that
we have, the support staff, coaches, everyone already around you know,
helps out and and uh, you know we get to
a point where, uh, you know, we manage our way
(25:06):
through it. And so it's it's Uh, it's been good,
and yeah it was. It was definitely something different. Hopefully
that's the last time.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
From the manager's standpoint, how do you balance the urgency
of this race coming down to the wire, but also
you can only control what happened to How do you
kind of balance that dynamic?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Yeah, I mean we got eleven left and you know,
to to to get our way into the postseason. So
you know, I you know, to say we're in a
must win is is pretty close to to be an
accurate and you know, so we just have to, you know,
continue to be aggressive, get get as many wins as
we can down the stretch here, and and that's what
our goal is each and every night when we go
out there.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
You mentioned knowing, I guess Nester from the past, what
makes him kind of a different and maybe unique picture.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
For your hitters.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Yeah, I mean, you know, he's got a little bit
of a you know, crossfire to him, and I think
that makes him a little bit more challenging as a lefty.
But again, you know, we'll put together a good game
plan and as as has done, and we'll be ready.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
I don't put any of this on him, obviously, none
of it on him it's all about the roster.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mean, yeah, good for them.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
They're getting more out of this rotten turn up than
other people could get out of it. But should have
made the move a month ago or two months ago, whatever,
I mean, probably missed it by a week.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You know, that would have been significant. They would have
made it a week earlier.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
One and five in the six games before the firing.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, I think Dan is doing fine. I think again.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I mean, like I said earlier, I got no problem
with him being the manager of this baseball team.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
None.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I mean the Astros or the Diamondbacks hired Bob Brenley
out of the freaking TV booth and went to the
World Series for got six right.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
The Astros did the same thing about ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
So baseball is a little bit different than other sports,
where you can make a move like that and bring
in somebody who's affiliated with the team but may not
necessarily be on the coaching staff or coaching somebody else.
That's not unique to baseball. But what they should have
done is they should have said, hey, Dan's our guy.
He's going to be considered for the full time job
when the season's over. But Dan knows and the fan
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base deserves a full time search for the right man.
And if Dan's the guy, great, but we're gonna do
an exhaustive search to find that next year.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
That's exactly right. That was mistake number one. Mistake number
two was to fire him. When they fired him, and
you and I were in absolute cahoots. We're not, you know,
Monday Morning quarterbacking this. We said it at the time.
Why did you wait this long? Why did you wait
until the season was just about over? And Dan has
a very very small percentage to put turn this thing
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around and pull these guys out of the fire, and
they just waited too long. He mentioned Bryce Miller pitching well,
and boy, looking at the numbers, I mean, and this
is frustrating too. I mean you, I guess you can
say this about three or four of the Mariner starters.
But Bryce Miller since the fourth of July has a
two point oh six ERA and the Mariners are seven
and five in those games.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, seven and five with a two oh six ERA,
you should be.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Ten and two with a two oh six other they're
they're under five hundred and Logan Gilbert's games this year,
which is even more pathetic.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Because he doesn't have a two ERA.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
He might be the best pitcher you've got over all,
by the way, Logan Gilbert in the entire season. But
I mean Bryce Miller has made how many starts this
year so far for the Mariners. He's made twenty nine
starts and one two, three, four, five six twenty two
of the twenty nine he's allowed three runs or less.
I mean, he's he's doing exactly what he did last year,
where he's got a couple of games and then for
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the most part he's pretty near three out of every
four starts.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He's really good.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
So again, I mean, you are this close to blowing
the best rotation in team history. They still have the
number one ERA in baseball. By the way, the Mariners
are they still number one in the e RA in
the league. I thought they were number in the league.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
For a while.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
They were, they are, Let's see they are. They are
number one in the e R three point five to four.
Not the gap between them and Atlanta that they're still
there's number one. And so congratulations, you're about to do
something that nobody's done for like twenty years.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, and you that's through the playoffs for the number
one ERA and you went through.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It not only missing the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Dave, you went through this before.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
I think you wrote down like the last twenty five
years of baseball teams that finished number one in e
RA and their average wins per season was like ninety five.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
That Toronto Blue Jays in like two thousand and four
something was the last team to not make the playoffs.
But it's like ninety eight hundred hundred and four hundred
and two hundred and ten, ninety nine hundred and four
hundred and five. Not only do you win and make
the playoffs, but you're like the best team in baseball
when you have that kind of pitching staff. So now
you know, we're about a week away or a week
and a half away from revisiting the whole Jerry thing,
And I just wonder how the Mariners are gonna approach this.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We're gonna break a lot.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
More to come from Jimmy's tonight right here on ninety
three three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
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Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
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Speaker 5 (29:53):
Al right back here at Jimmy's on first Softy Dick
with Jackson with you until seven o'clock tonight. Right here
on ninety three three a kJ R FM, we're gonna
hear from DK Metcalf coming up in the six o'clock hour. Uh,
you know who is number six in the NFL right
now and passer rating and number four in QBR. Let
me take any idea? Yes, an idea?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Failed quarterback of the New York.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Jets one long time. Yeah, i'd say you're on the
right path. Yeah, you want to keep guessing? Sure, somebody else?
Did you go to West Virginia?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:26):
What's the heisman Jovie Canada.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
At the end of the year. No, No, any of
the year? Yes, you will g g No. All right,
what do we think I asked you the other day.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
We're seeing enough to kind of think that he took
a step towards earning a brand new contract. If he
plays like this, the answer is gonna be yes, will
he play like this the rest of the year? How
much confidence do we have that the Gino Smith that
we're seeing now in the first two games of the
year is the Gino Smith that we're going to see
all your.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
High level, high level, like level.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
I think we are seeing how disastrous the SWE was.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
You know what the SWE is, the S the Shane
Waldron effect or experience. Yes, gotcha.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
The Shane Waldron experience that Cayleb Williams is seeing right
now in Chicago is an absolute horror show.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
And a lot of people pay a lot of money
for the SWE and the Gino Smith what's behind that door?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
The Ryan Grubb experience is much much better than that.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
And yeah, I mean I think I think Geno Smith
is going to be pretty close to, if not a
little bit better than what he was the first half
of his first season when he was impressing all of us.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
That they're going to sign him over the offseason. If
that is what happens, that he's going to get a
contract in about six months from now, and.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Then as long as he gets a contract that is
that is fitting a thirty four year old quarterback, that
is a short term, get out of easy type contract,
and you can use it as another year or two
as you finally draft a long term replacement.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Sean Schneider, for God's sake.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
The only GM in football that refuses to draft quarterbacks
I mean, I love John Schneider, but at some point
you got to draft a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
How much you're comfortable playing him? Well, red of the
question is what percentage of the salary cap?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah? In Gino Smith, he.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Was He's at twenty five million year now right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That goes to like it next year.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Salary cap right now is at two hundred and fifty
five million dollars. Okay, So what percentage of the cap
is he? Right, I'm gonna look it up for you
right now. I'm gonna tell you what he's making right now.
But it's what I say.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Two fifty five is that right? Yeah? That's the that's
the cap today.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
So Geno Smith's salary cap is for this twenty twenty
four blah blah blah, yackadyact. Anybody have any good jokes, riddles, whatever,
recommend restaurant recommendations, whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Here it is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
His salary cap hit this year is twenty six point
four million dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Twenty six points.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
He's fasally making a run ten percent of your cap?
Ten point ten percent of your cap? Are you cool
with that? Going forward? Makes ten percent, then he's gonna
be making well over probably thirty five million dollars, I
mean not thirty five million, but over thirty million. But
he's gonna want more than that, dude, Gino Smith is
gonna want more than thirty million dollars because thirty million dollars.
There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
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fifteen sixteen quarterbacks right now that are making forty or
more sixteen And if he's gonna resign with you, he's
gonna want forty million plus. He'll want to be among
the top half paid quarterbacks. Is he probably deserves it
to be.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
It is not John Schneider's fault that a vast majority
of those general managers are morons. And how many of
those fifteen sixteen quarterbacks are worth the money that they're getting,
I mean five That's not the point, though you think
it is. You think it is the point he cares
about that, and here it is the point, because here's
the point. John Schneider is gonna say, Hey, I'm not
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going to do what these other general managers do, and
that's over be desperate and overpay for a quarterback just
because that's the only answer I have.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
You can't do that that is a franchise killing move.
Ask the New York Giants, Ask the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I get, I mean asked. But you're not putting yourself
team sick.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
You're not putting yourself in the shoes of Gino Smith
You're putting yourself in the shoes of John Schneider. That's
fine for not going to show up to camp without
a new deal for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
He just won't.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
He's not gonna show up and make whatever he's making
next year. He's gonna want a brand new contract. He
wants a brand new contract. Now we know that because
he admitted it. And if he doesn't get a brand
new contract for next year, then there's gonna be a holdout.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Okay, well, Gino Smith A has to understand what his
pedigree is an NFL quarterback, y B has to understand.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
How old he is is he's thirty four, right, and
CS and C Percussins is thirty six and just got
one hundred and eighty million bucks.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
And see has to understand how many playoff games he's won. Okay, okay.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
If he understands all three of those things, then he
realizes he's worth about ten to twelve percent.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Of the cop I don't know, man, I mean, I just,
I'm just really all of this is based on the
kind of year that he has this coming season. If
he has like a top five year in the NFL,
which a lot of folks think he might be able
to have, I think he's gonna ask for the moon,
and again, he's gonna ask for the moon and settle
for the star or whatever vice versa. I guess I
get it. I just I'm very curious to see. Let's
(35:36):
let let's continue this conversation next time, because I'm very
curious to see how far the Seahawks would go and
what Gino would think is fair. Because unless they're on
the same page, there ain't gonna be no extension. We're
gonna break
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