Softy & Dick 9-4 Hour 3: Larry Stone, Arizona, Hawks Clips

In the third hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain chat with Larry Stone about at what point Jerry Dipoto should be fired and Mariners ownership, then the guys discuss the Cardinals and Seahawks seasons ahead plus DK Metcalf and Mike Macdonald audio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with legendary sports writer
Larry Stone, brought to you by the Ram Restaurant and Brewery, Bigger, better,
and fresher since nineteen seventy one, with eight Fugit Sound
locations from Marysville to Lacey and everywhere in between. There's
a Ram there you Now with Softy and Dick, here's
Larry Stone.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
God, does anybody actually not enjoy hearing from Larry Stone?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Are you serious with that question?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Every Wednesday at five o'clock at least through the baseball season,
which we kind of think officially ends next Wednesday when
Kevin Harlan goes back into his normal five o'clock spot
on Wednesday. So Larry will have to find a way
to get you on from time to time. But we've
really enjoyed having you on the air with us, and
we hope you enjoyed talking to us as much as
we enjoy talking to you.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh. I loved it, And I think the baseball season
officially ended this weekend when the Angels took care of
the earners.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Well, what ends first?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Jerry Depoto's tenure as the President Baseball option The Larry
Stone Show on kJ r.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, you got Scott Service fired with your tirade on Twitter,
and now now you're going after Jerry.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, I mean, let's just let's let's let's talk about
two things here. Let's let's talk about what they should
do in your opinion, and let's talk about what you
think in reality John Stanton will do with Jerry Depoto.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Go ahead, Yeah, Well, I'll answer the second question first.
I think there's a good chance that he keeps him.
I really do. But uh, and I don't think there's
any way that he gets fired before the end of
the season. Firing it's not like firing a manager where
you could have instant impacts from a new manager. The

(01:42):
GM's work essentially for the season is done. They have
their September call ups, they have their players, they can't
add any more players, so it'd be one hundred percent symbolic.
And I mean, I think there's a case to be
made for that, but I just don't think that they're
going to do that. If after the season, I mean,
I think you could make a strong case for firing,

(02:04):
I just don't think they're going to do it. That's
just I think they would have done it if they
were going to do it by now at the same
time that they did that, they did service, and the
fact that he seemed to have his fingerprints on the
hiring of Dan Wilson tells me that they're going to
stick with him.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Well, interject yourself into the discussion we had earlier last hour.
Jerry I basically said that John Stanton has developed such
a relationship with Jerry Depoto that he would give him
the courtesy to finish out the season and not fire
him during the season, because there are a lot of
things that Jerry to Poto did that were very good
for this franchise. I was laughed at by one of

(02:44):
these two. I was yelled at by the other one
of these. So you left laughing. So so Larry, interject
yourself and tell Mammy, Hey, if you want to laugh
at me, that is totally fine, or if you want
to defend me is totally fine as well.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
What do you think can I walk out of the studio? Yeah,
I'm walking out of my office as my policial estate
here in Bellevy, Washington. I think that if he was

(03:21):
going to fire him, I think there's something. I think
you're right. I think he would give him the courtesy
to him to the season. But I mean, I know
you don't want to hear it, but I don't think
he's going to get fired. I mean, I could be
dead wrong. Yeah, if ever there was a season that
called for the guy to be fired, this is it.

(03:42):
I mean, We've talked about it ad nauseum. The moves
have been a disaster almost all. I'm the only the
only one that you could say has been a success. Really,
it was Victor Robless of the waiver wire pickup, who's
become a key player in their lineup. But every other
move that the trade deadline moves has kind of been
a you know, Rose Arena is what he is. I

(04:02):
was looking at. You know, he's actually hitting higher than
he did in Tampa Bay as far as average on
base percentage OPS a little bit higher. But he's sure
is kind of a maddening player, isn't he some of
the things that he does on the field. So anyway,

(04:23):
I'm going to be fascinated to see if what happens here.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Well, I just think, first of all, Victor Roeblis has
a six forty eight OPS since the second of August,
all right, So that and look, I mean they're giving
him five million whatever, no harm, no foul.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
We said this when they signed him.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It doesn't work out, doesn't work out, Randy or Rose
Arena looks to me, by the way, guys like a
player who doesn't give a damn right now, with his
body language and the way he's going about his business.
So I'm actually super disappointed in what I've seen from
that guy since he became a Mariner.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
I was hoping for a lot more out of him.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
And then second of all, I mean, look, you you
might be right that he brings him back. I mean
I would get rid of him now, Dick would get
rid of him at the end of the year either way.
If we're talking about removing a guy, I just think
in general terms, when you're running a business, if you
have made a decision to remove somebody from their current position,

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either today or tomorrow, the minute you come to that conclusion, you.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Have to get that guy off the job.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's a horrible message to send to the entire franchise,
the employees, the people that work behind the scenes. And
you have a choice here. If you're John Stanton, you
want to be looked at. Is a guy that doesn't
give a damn and a guy that maybe wants to
win a championship or do you want to capture some
sense of credibility from your fan base that you live
and die with the idea that you want to win

(05:43):
a World Series one day? You think that this guy
would be the GM of the Yankees if this was happening,
Would he be the GM of the Dodgers or the
Red Sox or the Mets, or the Cardinals or the
Giants or a team like that, Larry, you know the answer.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Hell no.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
There is a perception in this town and across it's
the league of Mariner ownership.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
And now you're hearing a.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Lot of media people like Jeff Passing, Ken Rosenthal and
others talk about this ownership from a national perspective. And
we're sitting here talking about keeping Jerry because John appreciates
what he's done. If he's going to fire him, he's
got to get rid of him today. And you might
be right, you might be exactly the right, Larry, that
maybe he's not getting rid of him now because he
is bringing him back. So look, I just think it'd

(06:25):
be a I think he would look like a fool
if he brings Jerry back next year without any other
massive changes to that front office and change in philosophy
to the way they approach hitting.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, well, I'm with you, Softy, I'm with you, But
I'm just telling you what I think is going to happen. Yeah,
And I think there's got to be at this point,
people don't want to hear eyewash about about how they're
going to change. They want to see results, And that's
not going to happen until we see what happens next year.
But I mean, you've got to completely scrub ever offensive

(07:01):
philosophy and system and evaluations and everything that's in place
now because they've been an abject disaster and and for
for a couple of years. You've got to you've got
to completely revamp that. You've got to bring in new
hitting people, new coaches, new new analysts everything, because uh,
and you've got to take a hard look at the

(07:22):
at the stadium and the batter's eye too. Uh. You know,
I think that there's a good chance that they're going
to redo that that batteries. I don't think they're going
to move the defenses in because you also you kind
of have to you have to weigh what it would
do to your pitching as well, which is the strength
of your team. But I think you can and you can, uh,

(07:43):
I think you can at least address the batter's eye,
which seems to be a problem for you know, at
least some hitters here, So why not why not do that?
And I think you're gonna have to look hard. I mean,
Divish talked about this about no hitter is gonna No
hitter in his right mind is going to come to
Seattle as a free agent. It's just it's just got

(08:06):
too bad a reputation as a hitter's place. And I
think that the team has a bad reputation as well.
So any addition to hitting is to the to the
offense is going to have to come from the system.
And there's really nobody, uh, nobody really ready to step in.
You know, Cole Young maybe by mid season. Uh the
first baseman, Lockleier, perhaps, but he didn't show to me

(08:29):
that he was ready to be an impact guy. So
you're gonna have to think about dipping into that pitching
staff and trading one of those guys, as you know,
as Ryan was speculated. And that's going to hurt, but
you know, and it's and it's it's an indictment of
the organization and everything. But they've shown that with those

(08:49):
five starters, they're not winning. So I think, you know,
I think you got to take a I think that
might be the route that they end up going to,
trading one of their starters to get an impact back.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Do you think that would be a payroll move or
do you think that would simply be a baseball move
because of what you just said, there's no other way
to get bats.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yes, acredible. I think that I think it would be
a payroll moving to a certain extent, because you know,
these guys are gonna get really expensive. I mean, we've
talked about that too. Logan Logan is going to go
from four to eight to nine million. Kirby's gonna get
four or five million, col Is gonna get eight nine million,

(09:33):
I think, right.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
But that's not extensive in the grand scheme of things, Larry,
those numbers you're spitting out is not a grant.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Is not very much money for them. It is, no I.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Know, you know, but they're going to keep accelerating too
beyond this year, and I think that's going to be
a factor. But I think the real motivating factor is
you've got to do something drastic to to improve the offense,
and you know, you can't keep doing it by half measures,
by bringing in the the aj Pollocks and the Jorge

(10:05):
Polanco's and the Mitch Garver's of the world. You need
somebody real, And I think you know, if you traded
a Logan Gilbert, as painful as it would be, you
could get somebody real for that, for that deal and
just hope that you have the depth in your system.
Either you sign somebody to make up for that, or
you know, maybe you think Emerson Hancock could step in

(10:26):
or or one of the younger guys, but Logan Evans
or somebody like that will be ready by midseason. So anyway,
that's that's getting ahead of ourselves. But it's going to
be it's going to be front and center that this
whole off season, that question of whether they're going to
do that.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, it'd be a shame to bust up this rotation
for sure. I mean, honestly, the one guy that I'd
look to move first is Castile. If I can get
rid of anybody, it'd be him because of his contract.
I want to keep all four of those young guns
for as long as I can. But I want to
keep all five man but I don't know, guys, I
just want to start dropping f bombs all over the
year right now. I just can't believe that we're in

(11:03):
this situation right now. I mean, they are. This ownership
group is ill equipped motivationally and financially to continue to
own this baseball team. And there's nothing the fans can
do about it, right I mean, look, Rob Manfred's not
gonna make John Stanton sell the ball club. Helly, let
John Fisher move the A's to Vegas, for God's sake.
He's not gonna make John Stanton give up his shares
and sell to somebody else. But Dick and I were

(11:24):
talking the other day, Larry and Larry stones with us
courtesy of the RAM. What recourse do the fans in
this city have, Because, as I told Dick on Monday,
I always feel queasy about telling people not to go
to games because when people start not showing up and
owners get, you know, all these ideas in their head,
we're not getting supported, blah blah blah, that's when teams move.

(11:44):
And maybe I got some PTSD from the Sonics back
in the day. However, there is about fifteen years left
on that team mobile park lease.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
They're going nowhere.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
If there's ever a year for the fans to say,
take a hike, We're going to take a week off.
We're gonna stay home. You could enjoy your ballpark by yourself.
Because the fans have no other way to fight back.
What else can the fans do besides yelling stream.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
Like we do.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah. No, it's a tricky situation because if you do boycott,
you know, you're cutting the revenue, and it seems almost
counterproductive if you're trying to entice them to sell by
cutting their revenue drastically, I mean, not to sell to
invest in players and the like by cutting the revenue.

(12:33):
It doesn't seem like that's the best way to do it.
You think they'd say, well, now we don't have the
money to do it because you're not coming to the ballpark.
But coming to the ballpark hasn't done it either, so
I mean it's going to take in a way. It
is kind of a hopeless situation. They do seem content
with their stated goal of being a contender, and there's

(12:55):
just not the fire, the burning desire, like the Phillies
owner Middleton, right, And you know, Steinbrenner in his heyday,
and and and others. The Mets guy to do what
it takes to win, and that's what everyone is dying
to see, you know. And every once in a while
the Mariners, you know, like signing Robbie Cano to a

(13:17):
two hundred and fifty million dollar deal. Every once in
a while they dive in like that. But then but
it's never full. Even when they do that, they don't
get guys around them to make it worthwhile. You know,
they never go all in. And that's what people are
waiting for. And I don't know, I don't know what
you do. People were upset this offseason, and yet they're

(13:38):
they're out drawing what they did last year. And people
love the baseball experience. It's hard to tell people not
to go out to a beautiful ballpark to watch baseball.
And they tease you just enough to think that this
is the year every year, and then you know, most years,

(13:59):
almost every year, it's.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Not what type of Candida do you think they could
attract for president to replace Jerry Depoto?

Speaker 4 (14:05):
I mean, is this an attractive job or not?

Speaker 5 (14:07):
You've put so many reasons out why it is, and
you put so many reasons out why it isn't.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I think it is. I think it is an attractive job, Dick.
You've you've got the core of what wins championships. You're
going to inherit a pitching rotation that's unparalleled almost and
that's a great place to start with, a with a
GM who who believes in his ability to fill around
it a pitching staff like that, and and I think

(14:35):
I think you'll almost have your pick. The only deterrence
will be the I think the reputation of this ownership
as difficult to work with as far as uh payroll
and resources, and that will deter some people. But I think, uh,
you know, it didn't deter Pat Gillick, who was as
celebrated a GM as there as there was in baseball,

(14:56):
who came here and you know, want and did quite well.
You know, maybe he got a little frustrated at the
end too. But if I were the Marriers and I
were to look for a guy, I'd have Pat be
my yeah, be the guy lead my search. You know,
he's eighty seven. Now, he's not going to come back himself,
but right and I'm not I think he might be

(15:18):
still an advisor for the Phillies, which wouldn't be a
conflict of interest. But if he's not, let him, let
him be the liaison that helps bring people here well.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
And one of there are reasons I'd let Jerry go
tonight because if I'm John Stanton and Chris Larson, I
want the vibes to change around my franchise right away.
Not that they would go from negative depositive, but they
might go to neutral. Like these conversations that Dick and
I are having on the ear. The screaming and the
yelling and the pounding of the fists and the table,
those things stop if Jerry's fired tonight because there's nothing
left to talk about. It's done, it's over, forget about it,

(15:48):
and I want that to end. I want to talk
about my baseball team. The negativity surrounding my business to
go away, and I owe the hundreds of people that
worked for me are owed that. And if John Stanton
is choosing his relationship with Jerry Depota who Danny O'Neil
wrote that he's kind of not a great guy if

(16:08):
he's choosing that over the health of the franchise and
the business, and he'd rather have the dark cloud hang
around for at.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Least three or more weeks.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I just don't think that makes any sense from a
leadership perspective. So I don't know, Larry, Maybe I'm just
nuts here, But this whole thing is this has been
the most disappointing season of my lifetime, without question. You know, look,
teams make the playoffs, good teams and they lose.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
It's a crapshoot. We all know that.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Look at the Dodgers, but to be the first team
maybe we talk about the Angels in the wildcard Era
to blow a ten game lead. And then I was
asking you last night how many teams have been ten
up and then finished the year under five hundred. I
would not be surprised if you come back and tell
me that's never happened.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, yeah, I did a little research after you. You
texted me that I couldn't find any There's been lots
of teams a blue ten game leads. I mean not lots,
but maybe a dozen. Uh, and I couldn't find any
of them that finished the finished at some five hundred.
I mean, it's just as far as you were saying
about the negativity around the team. I just wonder if

(17:14):
Larsen and Stanton are just so buried away from that
they don't even realize the extent of the vitriol. You know,
I'm sure, I'm not sure, but I just wonder if
they're on Twitter, if they're listening to talk radio, and
or if they're in their own bubble and don't don't
realize it. I mean, I wrote a column last year.

(17:35):
Last year, I wrote a column saying that this was
the most hated Mariner team I can ever remember. This
was before they kind of took off. It was at
mid season when they were struggling and it was coming off,
you know, coming off the playoff year, and it was
bitterly disappointed. People were mad because they hand on into
the free agency and all that, and they were very

(17:57):
the organization was kind of very surprised by that column.
I don't think they understood.

Speaker 6 (18:02):
The the.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
How people were feeling. And maybe maybe I'm overreacting because
I was overreacting at the time because Twitter isn't the
real world and emails don't represent everybody. But I was
sure feeling it. And I can only imagine now, you know,
I'm out of the out of the game, but I
can only imagine it's tenfold over what it was last year,
the backlash and the anger, so they should be feeling it.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
If they're not, I think you know that, because why
would they know If they don't listen to sports radio,
and they don't read the papers, and they don't look
at social media, and they just look at thirty five
thousand fans screaming every single night, why would they.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Know that there's vitrio. Yeah, I just don't see why
they work. Are you that disconnected though? Really?

Speaker 7 (18:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
I don't think. I think you've got a sense that.
I'm sure I can only imagine what the I'm sure
the phone call to the people finding the number and
calling the general number of the team to VENT probably,
but that probably never reaches them either. So I don't

(19:12):
know if they if they understand the full extent of
the anger right now, but they should.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Is there really a VENT line that you can call?
Imagine the poor bastard that shows up to T Mobile Park.
You have ten thousand, five and sixty eight un read messages.
All right, Larry, listen, love having you on. Let's do
it again from time to time. Okay, Pal, appreciate this,
regu Larry, All right, my pleasure. Thanks, you got a Larry,
Stone with us his thoughts on everything happening with the Mariners.

(19:41):
Has better be prepared for the idea that Jerry Depoter
returns next year as the president of Baseball Ops with
the Mariners.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Husky Saturday Seahawks Sunday.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
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Speaker 1 (19:55):
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Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh right, everybody, We're doing Mike McDonald's six pm tonight,
DK metcalf as well.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
We'll do both of them at six pm? Is that?

Speaker 8 (20:19):
And I think it's a by the way, perfect timing
for DK Metcaluse comments. If you have a fantasy football
draft tomes.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Okay, okay?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Is that not though cutting into our you make the call.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's over until okay just a second? He really did
we make decisions like this? We do it as a team.
That's exactly right. And what are you talking about? Kind
of dick? We did, Dick, were you you make the call,
conversation the death of you make the call, I would
have remembered.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
You make the call.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
So it was me when we kind of went over
our fall schedule, we looked at the exact segments and
we don't have that many six o'clock segments.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
We made the call on you make the call. You
make the Jack, you make the call.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Okay, let's only pull up the schedule here. Let's see
what we can do.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Here, all right, So here's the deal. I just think this.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I think when we can, when we can sneak it
in on like a Tuesday night or a Wednesday night
or a Friday night. We have other stuff going on,
that's fine, but man, just to make the call.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
And there's three nights a week we're going until seven,
two of us and one of you.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
And you're so voted.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
I'm gonna move that six o'clock on Wednesdays. Now I
can free up to make six o'clock on wednesdays. Are
you make the call? Night, love that you can free
it up. Thanks Jack, If you guys, if you guys,
if listen, we were going to be.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Joining my business schedule.

Speaker 8 (21:40):
We were going to be joined by Mike Florio some
nights at six ' ten.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
But if you want to do you.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Make the call now we can still do it. You
make the call.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
The hell stop making calls without us helping you make
the call, and you.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Make the call, You make the call.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Seahawks on Sunday against the Dever Broncos. Friday on the
radio show, we're doing one to four thirty. By the way,
we will disclose and released our top eighty seven things
we're looking forward to in the Seahawk Denver game on
Sunday afternoon. I will take forty seven. Dick will take
forty one. That's eighty eight, actually forty one. We will
do all of them on Frint. No, I'm kidding. I'm

(22:14):
just looking forward to getting getting in there because as
much as you guys know, I cannot stay in preseason football.
I mean hate it, like with a passion. I would
rather literally have you come over and spit in my
eye than make me watch a preseason football game. I
think they are the worst things the professional sports has
to offer, honestly right now, because when you watch a

(22:36):
preseason NBA game, or a preseason NHL game, or a
spring training game, nobody's calling a radio show after that
going oh.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
My god, did you see this guy? Holy cow?

Speaker 2 (22:47):
They do that in the NFL, and it drives me back.
Did they this year?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Don't have anybody this year that everybody's freaked out about it.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I mean you had the linebacker what was his name
that got let go and sheriff yeah, signed of the practice.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
That's about it.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
But you know why, because there's less games, there's less
of a chance for some dope to just lose his
mind or her mind to go bananas over a guy
that next week is going to be working at Q doba.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Okay, that's number one. Number two.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
As much as I hate the preseason, the exact opposite
feeling is going to happen this Sunday.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
We go to Jimmy's.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
We get all gassed up at Jimmy's on First, across
the street, head into Lumanfield and let him hear it.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
So I cannot wait just to be back in that
stadium and amongst friends on Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Well, and also because I think the vibe of the
team and the vibe of the fan base is going
in the right direction, and that's what excites me. I mean,
I saw a couple of different poles out there today,
one pulling the fans of every fan base one to
thirty two and it got a positive or negative percentage
based on the fan and the Seahawks were in the

(23:59):
top third that I think it was like eighty six
percent of Hawks fans are more optimistic this year than
pessimistic this year. And then what was really interesting was
the league execs that got surveyed by the Athletic and
the Seahawks got the second most votes to the Cardinals.

(24:19):
For the execs that thought that the Seahawks would be
a surprise team, so they asked all the execs, give
me three surprise positive teams and three surprise negative teams. Right,
and the Seahawks were on no executives negative team list.
They were on three executives positive lists and only the
Cardinals were on more executives lists for a surprise seas.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
The Cardinals kind of feel like the chic pit they do.
Why is that well their offense? I mean, if if
if you get.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Real Kyler Murray, there's a lot of fs here, But
if you get real Kyler Murray, and if Marvin Harrison
Junior is who you think Marvin Harrison Junior should be,
and if Trey McBride, the second round tight end is
a legitimate second round tight end, which is like an
eighty catch, one thousand yard, eight touchdown type tight end.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
And James Connor has been go look at his numbers.
I mean, James Connor has.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Been as solid and durable as any running back the
last couple of years. When he's in there, he has
been consistent. So they've got a good offense.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
But Kyler Murray stinks. You've said it yourself, A lot
of us have said it. I mean, what like what
the Cardinals are going to be good? First of all,
have you seen their schedule?

Speaker 5 (25:36):
No, I haven't seen you look at it right ball,
I'll look at it right now.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
I'm not a big Kyler.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
Murray fan, but I also understand that he only played
eight games last year in eleven games a year before that.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's part of the problem, right, stay healthy, Okay, I
mean that's.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Why I'm saying there's I'm just trying to give you
the the explanation for why there's optimism about the card
But I don't think they're going to be great, and
I don't think it's gonna be off awful either.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
But I think it's nonsense optimism over what like did
they go out and get a bunch of massive, big
time free agents. What am I missing here? Okay, so
we're gonna go from four wins to like nine because
of a couple of draft picks. That's what we're doing here.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
I've got him winning eight games. I don't understand they
got him winning eight games. Well, they're not making the
playoffs about they're not?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I mean, my god, I mean eight wins is like, dude,
half the conference makes the playoffs. If you're not in
the playoff on in December, you suck. So yeah, you're
right at the beginning of their schedules ridiculous, horrible.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
It's at Buffalo, keep going rams Detroit, keep going to
get home against Washington.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
You better, you better get that one because you got
at San Francisco. Green may thank you. But their last
six they get win five of their last Bay Kicks. Dude,
Kyler Murray might be dead by Halloween. Honestly, I mean, look,
maybe maybe I'm just this is you know, you're throwing
off darts on the wall.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
The guy, you know, Kyler Murray's he's gonna figure it out.
Certainly possible, blah blah blah. I'm not seeing it. I mean,
I'm not saying the Cardinals won't have a better year
and they had a year ago. I mean, God, we're
talking about improving on a four win season, for crying
out loud, But this idea that airs like okay based
on what because of what they did in the draft.
That's stupid. That's a dumb reason to think a team

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is going to be better. That's significantly better because of
tell me, they went out and got a bunch of
guys in free agency. They now have the league's best
offensive line. Man, look at the moves they made in
free agency. They added seventy sacks over the offseason. They
didn't do any of that. Like, what the hell are
we talking about here?

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Matt bet them over six and a half. Yeah, but
that's nothing. They could be four wins at the end
of November and still win eight seven days.

Speaker 8 (27:37):
God, guys, hold on, you mentioned offensive line. Really they
added a big piece to their offensive line in Evan.
Don't call them ethan, bro.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Now, I was waiting for a reason. Why now I'm buying.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
I mean, you said that the Rams and the Cardinals
wouldn't win ten games either?

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Are you down on the No?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I think the Rams will be pretty good. Yeah, I
think they'll be I think they'll be a factor. I
think the Rams, Seahawks, Niners, all three of those will
be a factor in the West. And look, it won't
surprise me if the Cardinals are kind of in the
playoff conversation. But I think you're right that you know,
they're probably have a seven to ten, eight to nineteen and.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's probably where that should be.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
That's a huge upgrade from last year, which is maybe
why people are trying to find a team that's gonna
win a lot more games.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Than last But didn't their head coach get fired because
of that? I mean, they were massively underperforming to begin with.
They got the former number one picking the stupid draft. Yeah,
DK Metcalf, you're gonna hear from him and Mike McDonald
coming up on ninety three to three KJRFMM from.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
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Speaker 4 (28:52):
Excuse me say again? Yeah, so you need discuss that?
Did I hear that correctly in the break? What?

Speaker 9 (28:58):
So?

Speaker 8 (28:59):
I'm gonna be here tonight late here at KJR because
We're gonna do the KJR Fantasy football draft this evening.
And uh, it's also my anniversary night. Happy anniversary rise?
How many years I've eight years? And I've decided that
instead of celebrating the anniversary at home, I'm going to
stay here and draft some funny fantasy football good luck
say in a ninth.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Good luck and lay the rest of your life. Well,
hell are we talking to be celebrated last Sunday? Celebrating
this Sunday. So I've given her. I've given her.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Hey, I'm gonna I mean, and I'm not giving you
the Wednesday, the day of, this Sunday before and the
Sunday after.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
You're all mine. But that Wednesday nights is fantasy?

Speaker 4 (29:35):
How that would go over in my house?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
If I'd told Gina, Honey, I can't make our anniversary
night dinner because I have a fantasy football draft.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
This isn't even a money league, is it?

Speaker 3 (29:47):
It is?

Speaker 4 (29:48):
It? Has it become one?

Speaker 9 (29:49):
Yea?

Speaker 4 (29:50):
It wasn't one when I was in it. It was
like twenty five bucks. Also, I did give her a
gift this morning. Maybe the funeral should have been for
Jackson and.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Not for the He's going right down that, oh your
lies the corpse of Jackson Felts.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
She's actually totally cool with it, skipped. Yeah, that's what
you think. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (30:08):
All right?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Text four nine four five one when Rise of Felts
tells Jackson, Yes, I'm okay with you missing our anniversary
evening dinner. Wasn't even that for you to go have
your fantasy draft. Women say a lot of stuff, dude.

Speaker 8 (30:22):
So here's okay. So here's what I mean. She's been
ultra supportive because here's the other thing too. She knows
that I more often than not win money in fantasy football.
So for her it's sort of is like this is
also like a you know your your side hustle, so
go get your money and your side how much that
you make and playing fantasy Over the last twelve years
in my and the other fantasy football league, I've made

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over twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Wow, jeez, and that for me. That's guys, I only
think one dollar. Now, that's a lot of.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Man, and your wife's getting every penny of that money.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
By the way, you know who, this is a big
year for for the Seahawks, by the way, Gene, Gene,
it is a big year for Gene Gene. Now it's
a big year for Dk Metcalf as well, as we
know he's got two years left. It's a big year
for Tarik. Don't call me Tarik Riek Wolan because Arek
Wollan after this year, only has one more year left.

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He's a four year guy. Patrick certain just got a
gajillion dollars, not that he would get that kind of money,
but the whole rising tide raises all boats thing. Soarek
Wollan plays the way he played his rookie year, Well,
the Seahawks want to re up him when this year's.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Over, absolutely, and they should if he plays the way
they did, because you're not gonna you're not going to
have to. He's the perfect type guy you'd want to
resign because he's not the type of guy that you
would have to give that ridiculous twenty five million dollars
a year or two. He's that next level corner that
has the top end ability of a number one corner

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on a team. And I think you could probably get
him for a reasonable price if you if you sign
him at the end of this year.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Well you know the look, I'm not saying you sign
him now because you want to see what happens this year.
He did not have a year last year. That'd be
crazy for the Hawks to sign right now. But if
Tarik Woland, damn it. If Greek Woolan, that will not
be the last time I do.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Ifreek Woolan, his name is still Treek though, right it's
like they didn't take the T and the A away
from the name.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah you did.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
They did, though he was so terrible last year. They
took it away.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
It is it is gone.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
His name is reed the birth certificate. Are you change
it legally? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
I mean maybe he gets it back he has a
good year, he's Treek now he's Reak. It's like Jared
Kellenic and Jared Keller Nick.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
I think Sauce Gardner's actual name is Sauce.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
No, it's not. It's catching.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
I just wonder if halfway through the year, if he's
killing it, if the Hawks will approach him and say, hey,
let's let's do something. Because John Schneider, remember he signed
kJ Wright and Cliff Averyl and like November. Yeah, you
know he's he's He's doled out deals during the year
before and I don't think it's crazy if Trek wolland
damn it if Freek Wolan.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Ends up, it's like having the hiccups.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Man, if he has a good year and he's just
crushing it by like the trade deadline, if John Schneider
will say here's a here's a three year deal for
thirty million bucks or whatever.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
I mean. I think there's I think there's seven or
eight guys that you're looking at to build the next
iteration the Seahawks around, and he is.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
On defense, it's certainly Murphy, it's Spoon.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
And he's probably the third one, right, So there's three
on defense that you're looking to build your defense around
for the next five years.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
And on offense it's Ken Walker, right, and.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Well Charles Cross for sure, Charles Cross, yes, no doubt, and.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Then probably Jackson Smith and Jig Yes.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
So there's probably three on defense and three on offense
they're looking to build your team around.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
And then.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
God, I love that.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Man?

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Does that come across over the air? Can you hear that?
I always wish it was edited better? Well, what does
that mean?

Speaker 5 (33:53):
First that the first geno actually started with I G
instead of I can start with that?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And then it goes Gene. That is section two thirty
my seats. I'm in the corner right above the Seahawk
Tunnel where they run out. I'm in the second You know,
I'm covered. I got to have a Wi Fi router,
and that was during the Denver game two years ago.
Just close your eyes, dude, turn up your car radio
and listen to this. All right, we're here from Mike

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Florio coming up by the way six thirty on the show,
we'll ask him if he thinks the Chiefs will repeat
as Super Bowl champions?

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Will they repeat? Will they threepeat this year? Will Kansas
City win it all yet again? Yes?

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Yes, I agree, I'm kind of rooting for him.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Yes, I think they're better for him.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yes, I think they're a better team they were last year.
I mean, remember where we were in September. We were
desperately trying to find the AFC team that was going
to win the Super Bowl, because we were pretty sure
it wasn't going to be the Chiefs because they were
playing like crap. They had no offense whatsoever to speak of.
They were winning because of their defense. And then all

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of a sudden, right snap of the fingers, when January came,
all of this we all of a sudden found an
offense and our defense was still just as good as
it was in November.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, I think Patrick Mahomes is what is he twenty
seven years old?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
Is that right? That correct? Twenty seven to twenty eight?

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Is won?

Speaker 4 (35:19):
How many titles has he won so far? He's got four,
four championships. He's twenty years years old. Help me out
on that one.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
He'll be twenty nine three, he'll be twenty nine in
eleven days, and he has won.

Speaker 6 (35:32):
I thought it was three titles that he won. It
is three and five three.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
So he wins this one.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
He's got four before his twenty ninth birthday, including something
nobody's ever done, which is winning three in a row.
So yeah, I think it'd be kind of cool if
the Seahawks can't do it. I think just living through history,
you know, acknowledging, being in part at seeing something like
that would be awesome. And look, nobody, I mean, I'm
not saying that that we don't deserve it, but remember
what the Chiefs were before Patrick Mahomes showed up, and

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they were a kind of a nothing franchise. I mean, yeah,
they won back in the day with the you know
sixty four or sixty five toss power trap right, Hanks
trams right. But then for decades they were awful, so
they deserve it. Good for them. Mike McDonald, let's start there,
head coach of the Seahawks, is game week presser. First
game week presser was today. Here is Big Mac, hired

(36:20):
by Little John, talking about what to come, what's to
come on Sunday against Denver as the Mike McDonald train
leaves the station this weekend, it's.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Here, it's time. Guys are excited. We're excited, excited to
be at home, excited to be in front of the twelve.
It's gonna be loud. I hope that my ears are ringing.
I hope that we have trouble communicating. That's a big
point of sins this week. But got a really good
opponent coming into town.

Speaker 10 (36:45):
But we got a full week's of work, with full
week's worth of work ahead of us, got a lot
of work to do, though, you know it's the prep's
not done until you kick off, and so but the
guys know that we has had a great walk through
and I'll be having a great Wednesday practice here, man coach.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
It took a few games for the Baltimore defense to
adapt to your scheme.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
How do you compare this defense's readiness compared to that.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
You know, I wouldn't say it's a fair assessment to
say it took time for them to adapt. I think
we're all learning. There's definitely things that I took from
that experience of our slow start that we've we've been,
We've changed and evolved, you know, the end of through
the end of twenty twenty two, through the offseason. I
mean I've been a long time, through the off season
of twenty three and then into this offseason. So I

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would I would consider it a constant, you know, evolution
of how we approach it, how we teach it, expectations,
what we call a lot of a lot of great
lessons learned in that situation. Hopefully we've learned from them,
you know, And and the guys go out and play great,
but things are going to happen that we're going to
need to fix, whether or not that's you know, reared
in their heads again from you know, past mistakes, but

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don't expect that. I think they're the guys in a
great spots.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
On both sides of this matchup. What do you even
go back to when you're scheming.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
And when you're when you're working specifically for the Broncoss.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
Yeah, for the beginning of the seasons is tough because
you know, everyone has an idea about who they are
and what they want to be and what type of
you know, the plays, that kind of what they want
to hang their hat on schematically, the personnel, how they
want to utilize their personnel. So you don't have that
sample size, you know, at this time of year, so
you really just have to focus on executing your stuff

(38:23):
the best you possibly can and make them, you know,
beat you throw in your fastball. So that's been the
message the guys, you know what, we're gonna running o stuff.
We're gonna be running our stuff from now until whenever.
But yeah, it's just it's hard to kind of pick
and choose and tailor it to how they've operated because
the samples is not there.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
When you have a quarterback like Bob, you go back
and look at how much of his college tape and
then and then what stands out about him when.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
You when you have with games.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
Yeah, I think it's a sliding scale, you know, so
to speak, but on how much you you know, factor
all the things. You know, this this system is is
you know, Sean s some it seems like that they've
been really successful with for such a long time, and
both seems like he's a great fit for what they're
asking him to do, which is a little bit different
than some of the stuff. Now that you know, some

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of those things might carry over how he operates things
like that. His strengths probably will definitely you know, transfer
from from college to the pros. But I wouldn't put
too much stock into it. But we had a lot
of respect from as a player. And but we're also
defending like the plays that you know, Sean's been running
for for years.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
With Nick's Christy quarterback on the road for the NFL
game that you expect more run maybe than you would
have Sean daytonas a.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Game like this.

Speaker 7 (39:37):
I don't know, I don't have like all the run
percentages and like past percentage. It's more like types of
plays you have to defend. They're smart coaches, they got
they got a great scheme. He's a really good player.
They're gonna we expect them to do the things that
Bo does well, you know, to keep the ball moving,
trying to try to create some explosive plays, be successful
in the red zone. But that you know, I probably
say that every week, you know, but I think these

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guys do a really good job of that.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
What about Bows the quarterback makes him a good fit
for sean system?

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Well, he plays on time. He seems like he makes
a lot of fast decisions. And then you know, kind
of like Drew was, he like he's an underrated like athlete,
you know, just being able to move in the pocket
extend plays. Seems like he's really accurate. I think he
has probably an underrated arm. He can he can deliver
the ball just about anywhere. So I think the decision making,
how fast he plays is probably one of the things

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they like about him.

Speaker 9 (40:26):
You had Tyas Bauser obviously on Baltimore for a well,
I guess what can he maybe.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Do with you guys here or no, we will be
a similar role that he did in Baltimore. Tyas is
a guy that has a lot of pass rush value,
can play on the edge on early downs, he can
play outside back or for us, has a lot of
drop ability. And then you know he's used to a
lot of the special team schemes that were running so
he'll be effective in the in those areas well. And

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then the way the kickoff game is going now too,
like you might be an asset for us in that
phase as well.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
With the Channeloo, how much more of a since you
know where he's going to be at for you and
how if he might need an I R stands or
how it how it's.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
Gonna play for you. Well, we didn't put him on ir,
so you probably put two and two together on when
we hope him have him back. So there's no definite
timetable right now.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Though, Conor Williams you see already want.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
To stip was so fun.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
He's gonna he's gonna play for us eventually. Uh No,
he looks great and well we'll see how it plays
out throughout the rest of the week.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Who's the last on the dargon? I have no idea, Williams.
I know it was.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
It was worse than that Connor could have been. Anybody
was that hawk blogger getting torched by Mike?

Speaker 4 (41:35):
It was. I wouldn't say.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
It took a long time to get used to our
scheme and frankly, you're an idiot. Go sit in the back.
That's awesome. Little initiation from a pal Brian Nemhauser. By
the way, you realize the Hawks have not won a
playoff game at home in eight years Lions? Right, yeah,
Thomas Rawls.

Speaker 8 (41:50):
Twenty sixteen, who made that Paul Richardson catch for the touchdown?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Thomas who went bananas against the Lions that day?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Uh, Thomas Rawls, remember him?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Thomas Rowls one hundred and sixty.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
Can you guys help me out with something?

Speaker 5 (42:06):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (42:07):
All that well thing you had now that's youda. You're
on your own for yeh, yeah, that's what doctor.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Our friend Mike Florio. We've got his power rankings, yes,
which I referred to last week.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
We'll bring it up when he's on next second.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
But then we also have his predictions for the playoffs.
He has the Seahawks twenty second in the NFL overall right,
tenth in the NFC.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Yet he just released his playoff predictions and he has
the Seahawks as the seventh seed in the NFC right, So.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
It's not confusing at all. Why because power rankings are
where you're at right now. Clearly he thinks the Hawks
will improve as the year goes by.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Power rankings aren't just like how they're where.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
You team is.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
No, they're where you are right now, where you are
right now, and where where they are right now in
his mind is the twenty second best team in the NFL.
And he's telling you, he's painting a story for you
that says the Hawks start off as one of the
you know, poorer teams in the NFL, but find a
way to get better as the year goes by. They
get coached up, a young defense gets better once they

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learned Mike McDonald's scheme, and they make the postseason.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Well, I can understand, like I can understand like how
a good team that maybe is zero to two to
start the season will be lower in the power rankings
because they're not playing well.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Right now, we haven't.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Played a game, So I would think that the power
rankings might align better with the playoffs, because all.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
We can do is ranked teams on what they look
like on paper and what we saw a year ago.
And what we saw year ago was a nine to
eight football team that missed the playoffs, right, that went
out over the offseason and let's be honest, didn't do
a lot free agency wise, and we talked about this,
how much money they had to spend and there really
wasn't any flashy signing. It was more quantity over quality.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Right.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
They didn't go out and get a big name free agent.
He just got a bunch of dudes. Their offensive line
looks better, I mean Lake and Tomlinson. To me and George,
I think you're massively underrated signings by this football tack.
They're gonna be huge liable for these guys. I love
them both. Especially with the Abe Lucas injury. Who knows
how long that guy's going to be out for. So yeah,
power rankings are just where teams are today and look

(44:15):
like Jackson and I said yesterday, if you're not in
the playoff hunt in December.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
You stink.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Stink in the NFL half the league makes the damn playoffs. Mate,
If you can't even be in the conversation come November,
you're terrible. But the reason why I brought up the
playoff thing, We've talked about this before, but Aaron Levine
just tweeted about it. In the last four years where
fans have been in the stands, So take out the
twenty twenty year when they lost to the Rams at
home in the playoffs. The Hawks are seventeen and sixteen

(44:41):
at home in the last four years with fans. It's
got to change, and it's got to change starting this Sunday. Look,
I'm not gonna throw a fit if the Hawks lose.
I mean, Mike McDonald gets a little bit of slack
for sure. But if they lose to a rookie walking
in here to loomin field, then you and I wake
up and they're seventeen and seventeen their last thirty four
games with fans in the stands.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
That's they got to recapture that.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Dick No, and I think they I think the juice
seems real for this team. I think they're gonna get
off to a nice start. That's gonna help because the
schedule just lines up about as beautiful as you possibly
could with Bo Nicks and Jacoby Brissett in the first
two weeks of the season, that's beautiful. I was with
you're talking there. I was thinking, is Pete Carroll still
the coach of this team? If Green Bay loses their
last game of the season last year and the Hawks

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make the Playhawks make the playoffs, because that's all we needed.
We needed a win, which we got. We needed a
Green Bay loss which we didn't get. Is Pete Carroll
fired after two consecutive playoff berths.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I just don't think making the playoffs is as big
a deal as it used to be. I think it's
still a big deal, but it's not like it's It's
not like making the playoffs and baseball is a big deal,
right Making the playoffs in the NBA not a big deal.
Playoffs in the NHL not a big deal. Playoffs in
the NFL almost not a big deal. It's like, right
in the middle of baseball and basketball and hockey, right fourteen,

(45:58):
If thirty two teams are making the playoffs, almost half
the damn league, it just doesn't seem to be a
reason if you see a team going in the wrong direction,
why you would bring a guy back. So I would
hope they still would have made the move.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Is I think I think they probably would have, right,
unless they make a run obviously.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
DK Metcalf with the media starts with a question from
John Boyle after.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Just the you know brief cameo of the preseason.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
You're great excite to see if this offense can.

Speaker 9 (46:27):
Be with all the guys out there overhead. Yes, sir,
I know they we kept it pretty vanilla during the
preseason on both sides of the ball. But you know,
Grev is known for his explosive plays down the field.
So just looking forward to you know, him opening up
the playbook just so we can you know, exploit defenses
and you know, push the ball down the field. Based
on what you know about this offense and what you

(46:47):
guys have done well so far, what do you feel
like it's going to be the bread and daughter of
your offense and what do you do best our run game?
We're gonna run the ball downhill and you know, make
the defense stop our run first, and then you know
after that, you know, it's pretty much dealer's choice with uh,
you know how we wanna take the game from there.
We can continue to run the ball or push the
ball down the field, or you know, get get singled

(47:07):
up on the outside and you know, exploit the corner.
So I think it all just starts with the run
game and uh, you know, build enough foundation from there.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Did you always expect to say that about the style
of offense.

Speaker 9 (47:16):
I mean, you saw Grub when he was at U Dub,
you know, his explosive plays.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
Did you always expect to say it would start.

Speaker 9 (47:21):
With the run game, NA, but he kind of you know,
nipped that in the bud the first UH offensive meeting
that we had with UH. Alright, guys, I know we've
had explosive plays, but you know we're gonna run the ball.
So I kind of got mad, yeah, real quick. But
you know I think the foundation of UH running the
ball first is UH gonna open up everything else for me.

(47:41):
Jack's Locke, Noah, everybody else in the UH, in the
receiver room, in the tight end room.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Was that the first thing you said here?

Speaker 9 (47:48):
Yeah? Yeah, well he was happy to be here. Then
he said, we'll go run the ball.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Y you talk about you guys are excited to play
a new team, play someone else down now the matters
like what is about gender Stevens and say it's out
tous receiving, you know, their secondary dancertain?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
What about Denver Stivens do.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
You guys look at like, Wow, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
How do you prepare for that?

Speaker 9 (48:06):
I think just with the the personnel that they have, UH.
They they mainly run out of base nickel or Penny
and they're mainly a one hot team, but they played
the one high very well. Whether they're matching or playing zone. Uh.
Like you said, they got a great corner and pass
certain Uh got two new safeties. Uh Justin Simmons was
uh back there last year. Uh they still got the

(48:27):
same uh middle linebacker, but added uh you know, a
few D line and a couple of pieces on the
D line. So I think their personnel uh just fits
their scheme. They will all run to the ball, rally
to the ball, and you know they play hard, so
uh we just got to uh out physical them, outplay them,
and uh out hustle them on the offensive side of
the ball. And I think everything's gonna speak for itself.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Do you know the NFL.

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Network in or do you maybe lost a little way
people saying if you're the best shit p's he's ever
seen them. I'm listening.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
To say he said that you'd thinned out a little
sit that faces.

Speaker 6 (49:02):
With curious if that's true or that was sort of
a focused for you that.

Speaker 9 (49:08):
I got a loss of weight. N No, I'm still
the same size. My faith probably got a little skinny.
I mean I'm growing a little you know beard, you
know what that's about it? Okay, Yeah, I ain't slimmed
down there I'm probably still the same.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Still eating Skittles and Reese's pieces, shoving his face with
cotton candy and Snickers bar propperty milk. It's unbelievable, man.
I mean well, first of all, you run.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
You're a runner.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yes, like Dick Vane. There's one thing you know about him.
He's a pig. He eats his ass off, he runs
fifty miles a day.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
He's a machine.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
He's like Drogo. Whatever he hits, he this thru. It's unbelievable.
So when you work out the way he does, you
just need fuel, right, just throw it in there.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
I should put better fuel my body. I should.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, well you don't look like DK, but you could
look like DK if you already set your.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Mind to it. I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
It's interesting Jackson said before that little sick clip there
that we should think about this from a fantasy draft perspective.
So you think the DK Metcalf is telling us, hey,
Ryan Grubb loads up on the run, Go get Kenny Walker,
go get Zach Sharberney. And if that's the truth, then
does that mean that maybe DK Metcalf doesn't get the
attention that we thought maybe he would get yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I think it does mean then, and it means that
maybe DK gets the same amount of attention that he's
gotten in prior years, which is going to tick a
lot of people off, including Hubreed Love Millan.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Oh, I want to see Hugh go off on Ran.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
You imagine, Hey, I want I want Hugh on grub Crime. Yeah,
because Hugh loves Ryan Grubb. So I want to see
Ryan Grubb do something to Tea only target DK four times.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I thought I knew you, man, I thought I knew you,
not at all. I even know who you are anymore?
What the hell I told you? What happened to the
guy that just threw ball after ball after ball to Roma?

Speaker 4 (50:46):
Doonsay?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Well, look, I'll tell you what man, Roma dunsay. Jalen
Polk McMillan. Comparatively speaking, those guys were the best, maybe
the best or second best group of receivers in college football.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
We don't have that here. We have a good group
of receivers. Yes, maybe top ten, but not like that. Yeah,
it's not only with the Trio.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
You might be able to say the top six or
seven and you know what they should be, but you
also Ryan Grebb also.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Had the number one quarterback in college football. That's right,
that's right. He does not best lie.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
He does not have the number one quarterback in the NFL,
but you know what he does. Ryan Grebb has never
had a ken Walker. I mean we like, hey, Dylan
Johnson's a Husky legend. He chew up USC for us,
He ran and put his knee down against Oregon for her.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
We will never forget Dylan Johnson. But he ain't no
ken Walker. That is true.