March 18, 2025 • 13 mins
New Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Cooper Kupp sits down with Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about returning to his home state, his career progression with his age and injury history, being let go by the Rams, Doug Baldwin, and being from Yakima.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, we're back here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
Saftie Dick Jackson with you until five o'clock to night
Cracking hockey black Hawks pregame five face Off five thirty
tonight from Chicago. Dick, it's not very often that you
get talked to talk to somebody on the air that
you respected as an opponent when they played your favorite
football team back in the day. Yes, and I'm not
even talking about when this guy played the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Bro, We're talking ten plus years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I want to rewind to September sixth of twenty fourteen.
What our respect as Husky fans for this guy exploded.
If you forget why, let's remind you why right now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Play action from Adams Huffs Fires team looking for Cooper Cup.
Touchdown Eastern Washington, forty one yards. Adams to Cooper Cup.
Adam's a quarterback, empty back fail trows looking for Cooper
Cup touchdown Eastern Washington, Vernon Adams. This second time he
(01:14):
has found Cup for a score. Today toward the sideline,
Cooper Cup dance his way toward the goal line. He's
head Cup's third touchdown.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Eight catches, one hundred and forty five yards, three touchdowns
that day. And I remember thinking one thing, I really
hate this guy.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Thank god he's not in the patches.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, he played the pack twelve four times. You played Oregon,
you played Washington State, you played you Doug, you played
Oregon State in to torch them all when you were
at Eastern Washington. Did you like pull at Jordan and
take that personally? But all those schools passed on you
because you exploded on those schools.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, no, just I think that was just a coincidence
that working out.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, well, it's great to see you. Welcome back to
the two o six and the state of Washington. My
friend tell us about this about just being back here.
You got the Pearl jam shirt on. You're doing the
right thing. Everyone's all fired up for that. But tell
me about what this means to you to be back
in the state of Washington playing for the Seahawks as
a pro after eight years in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, just a full circle moment.
I think, you know, obviously growing up in yak and
Washington playing high school ball there, you know, want a
state championship here during in the Tacoma Dome, playing at
Eastern Washington and all the football that we played in
the state here, then it'll come back. It's a it's
a really cool thing. And excited about the community here
(02:37):
and the people that we get to you know, know
and pour into and it's just it's a cool moment.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
How much was that a factor in your decision to
come back. I mean people say I want to come home,
but there's other factors as well.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Big a factor was that, you know, it was a
piece of it. It definitely was a piece of it
because you obviously have the football side of things and
making sure that if it's just who I am as
a football player and what I wanted to accomplish, and
just being able to be head of and the things
that are this, you know, this organization's building towards is
really cool to be a part of, and I'm very
excited about that. But also it is the community and
(03:10):
it's the people. It's the way that the organization's treating players.
It's the way that this is all been set up.
You know, there's there's so many pieces to it, and
you know, I think all those things came together. It's
just a man, we feel good about so much of it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You you're not twenty two, but you're not forty two either.
Right at thirty two years old, did you ever think
about just saying enough is enough? I want to spend
my whole career with one team. I want to be
that guy that stays with one team my whole life
and just hang it up and walk away from the game.
How much did you have those conversations in your in
your brain and with your wife in the last maybe
(03:42):
week or so.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Never, that's never crossed my mind. I don't, I don't.
I don't know who started whatever that was. You know,
I'm I I am no way and ready to be
done playing football. I'm very excited about about the football
that I've ahead of me. You know, I still see
myself as an a sending player, and you know, mentally
the way that I see the game, I can still
(04:05):
I'm I see myself if I couldn't see if I've
enmissioned something I'm like, Hey, this is how I want
to run this route, this is how I want to
manipulate this dB. And I couldn't do it. I wouldn't
be playing anymore right right, you know, But you know,
I'm able to see the reps that I'm taking in practice,
able to see the off season reps and things that
I'm doing, and man, I feel really good about what
I can put on on field and I'm looking forward
to getting out there this year.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well, when you have been on the field, you've been dominant.
You just haven't always been on the field. So talk
about your health. How confident are you that you're gonna
be ready to play seventeen games.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm I go into every season with this, you know,
the confidence, and there's there's Okay, I shouldn't say that.
There's certain seasons where you're coming in, you're banged up
and you've got stuff that you're man, you didn't have
the off season that you wanted to, or there's you know,
there's risks involved in this game. And I've unfortunately, you know,
the last three years had things that you know, they've
been unfortunately, there's you know, they're outside of your control.
(04:57):
A lot of ways. You know you can't handle the
way that you're gonna get tackled sometimes, and that happens,
but you know this is a It's one of those
games where you know, I'm it hasn't created any hesitancy
in me to go out there and just play the
best that I can possibly play and give it everything
I've got. You get hurt in this league when you
start slowing down and feeling like you're looking to try
(05:17):
to stay healthy. You know, the way that you play
this game is to be violent, to be the attacker,
be the aggressor. And you know I'm gonna continue to
play this game that way and believe that's when I'm
at my best. And you can't control the things that
are going to happen outside of your control. So I
obviously can't promise anything and knowing in this league in right,
but I'm really excited about being to get out there
and play some really good football.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, Cooper Cup is our guest here at the Virginia
Mason Athletics Center, and look, I got to tell you,
first of all, all of us are jacked up to
have your backpicktime. I wanted you in the twenty seventeen
draft to be totally honest with you. So I'm glad
that we finally, you know, nine years later, were able
to pull this off and get this thing done. But
you mentioned there that you're a sending player. You don't
often hear that word about thirty two year olds in
the NFL is sending. You hear the decline, but you
(05:59):
don't hear a sending. Why do you think that?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
What does that look like to you? Yeah? I think
it is kind of what I was saying here. You
know what, I get to see myself play this game.
I get to see every rep. You know, anyone else
gets to see what happens on Sundays. And you know
that's contingent on a lot of other things. But in
terms of me as a football player and what I
can do, I'm really excited about the football that I'm playing,
really excited about the football that I'm seeing on tape
(06:21):
and the way that I'm preparing and the things that
I can still still do when I'm giving the opportunity
to do it. And I just I just I'm really
excited about that. I honestly am, and looking forward to
how cooves to set guys up and what his vision
is for things and making those things come to life,
and working with Sam and these guys, it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I was talking to Dick before you showed up,
and just hear and you talk right there kind of
cemented it for me. You seem pretty damn motivated right now.
Right for the first time in your life, you've been
let go by a football team.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know, maybe there's a Michael Jordan story. You're
cut from your high school basketball team back in the
day as a freshman. I got no idea, but is
this the first time in your life that you've been
let go by a team period?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yeah, I think that. I think I think that would
be it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
How much does that, for lack of a better word,
how much does that kind of piss you off a
little bit?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah? I mean there there's obviously frustrations around that, and
you know, no one wants to be in that no
one would choose to be in that position. But at
the end of the day, this is the path that
God's taken us on, and I'm excited for this next chapter.
Wherever He's taking us. I believe there's an answer for us.
You know, there's things that don't make sense with what
has gone on. But I'm really excited about what's ahead.
And all the times when there's not an answer for something,
(07:29):
it's because he's going to show it to you down
the line, and I'm really excited about what that's going
to look like. You circle those two dates. I have
not circled the dates now.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
When you were when you were talking earlier in the
press conference, you mentioned eighty nine Doug baldwhen you grow
up watching dog ball, which make us feel old because
Doug was like sitting here seemingly last Tuesday talking to us,
just like you're talking to us now. But what did
you appreciate most about Doug and what did you take
from his game and incorporate it in your game?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean the tenacity, the aggression. I mean, I
think he was always the aggressor, and we talked that
from a Mentelly's standpoint, I've always appreciated that about Doug's
game from a technique standpoint. One of the best come
to balance releases in the history of the NFL. I mean,
it was, it was. It was very daring because sometimes
he was off his feet were off the ground for
(08:19):
a long time. But I mean he I mean he
also just absolutely turned people around the way that he
would come up the ball in the quickness that he'd
play that with, and how he'd counter it. You know,
he'd be able to run, he'd run drive routes off
of that, but he'd also be able to counter that
with you know, bring a fader out down in the
red zone. So you know the way he pieced that
stuff together. He's just he's a very very good football player.
(08:39):
And you see him with the pictures on the walls
of him, you know, like flying through the air making
all kinds of different catches, and it's just he's a
very impressed FOOTBA player.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm just thinking Cooper Cup is with us. I'm thinking
Dick about it. The all time greated athletes to come
out of Yakama, right, I mean the Mayor's obviously are
on that list. Dan Dornick is on that list. I mean,
Todd Stottlemeyer is on that list. How often do you
go back there? And honestly, this is just between the
three of us. You're a humble guy, I know that,
but how big of a deal are you?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And m right?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Just between the three of USO nobody's listening.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's just a big a dealer. I'm not I don't know.
I'm not answering that question.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How often do you get to go back there and
what does that TELLN mean to you?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, no, I don't get to go back there a ton.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We obviously have three boys, we got family, and we've
we've got our our off season downs down southern California.
When we used to do our off season in Oregon,
we'd get over there a little bit more, just harder.
It's not super fun traveling with six four and one
kind of plane, you know. So it's like it's we
were like, you guys can come like, my family's still there,
I still have I love our families still there. You
(09:42):
guys can come down whenever you want to, you know
what I mean, But just don't get up there as much.
But uh, it is, I mean, I grew up there.
You know, there's where the parks there are where I
grew up playing football with my dad there at Franklin
Park all the time. You walk down the street and
it was just U it's a it's a special place
because there's it goes back to what I was session on
(10:04):
the memories, the experiences that you have, and you know
there'll never be anything like your child at home. You
know when you when you grow up there and all
the things that you did with your family, with my
with my brothers, and then with a high school team,
all my friends that were there, you know that you'll
always have those You always have those memories, You always
have that time. So there's a there's there's definitely a
law of value in the time that I spent there.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What did you come to learn about the Seahawks organization?
Playing for the rival of the Seahawks organization? And and
you know what is the thought around the league about
what this organization.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Is all about?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, you know, two things come to mind. One, you
knew you're gonna deal with the twelves a right, like,
there's always that you you know, you come to you
come to Seattle, you're gonna be dealing with an unbelievable
environment that you had to you had to prepare for,
and that was a that's a big piece. I'm excited
to be on the other side of that now. You know,
that's gonna be a really cool thing for me just
(10:55):
from just having that experienceerience from a having such a
renowned fan base going behind you and being able to
experience that on the offensive side, when you have the
quiet and being able to be on the deepen, be
on the sideline, and off the defense, go out there
and see this stadium erupt. That's gonna be really cool.
So said about that, And I think the other piece
was just a a little bit in the in the
(11:18):
press conference, but just the belief there's there's always been
a positive energy and belief in this organization. And when
you've got the positive energy, you've got this belief that
you can win any game at any moment, that you're
gonna find a way to win the game. That's always
been felt. It's always been like, man, if you're playing Seattle,
play the whole game. You gotta play the whole game
because they're gonna keep fighting, They're gonna find a way
to stay in the game and give themselves a chance
(11:40):
to win. And it just it's felt as continued with
the guys here, with the belief in this locker room
and passed down from a lot of the guys that
are off from these walls, right from guys have pat come,
come and gone. But then that belief has continued.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, well, we're completely jacked up to have you here.
Man fired up that you're wearing number ten again? Do
we know what number ten is wearing by the way.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I don't want to. I do know, but I don't
want to say it. If he's I think he's, I
want to let him announce it. Okay, Okay, we'll do Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't want to get you in trouble your first
day out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's what I'm saying. Forgot a couple of times. Question but.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hear hearing you talk about jam what just leave you
with this? First of all, I love the way you
talk about your hometown. I mean, I've been here fifty
two years, Dick's been here fifty years, and neither one
of us have ever left Seattle. By flip on the
NFL network, Cooper Cup going back that he's from Seattle.
When somebody says that, what's your reaction?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, you know, that's it's a tough thing. It's it's
not it isn't. This isn't where I'm from, right, But
but you say it's that's that's a that's a national thing, Like, hey,
where you're from from Washington? Oh, you're from Seattle. No, no, Seattle, Seattle,
but yeah, no, it's it isn't. That's why, that's why
we're figuring out. We got we got we figure this
(12:52):
area out. I'm really excited about it. It's like, you know,
this isn't this isn't home, but it's going to be,
you know, in the community here and I'm just so
looking forward to what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, if you need Dick and ized help finding a house,
he's a Normandy park. I'm in Des Moines.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You let us know.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, probably got you covered, all right, man, good to
meet you, of course, welcome back, buddy, appreciate this. Cooper
cup with us on the radio show. We're gonna break
a lot more to get to on a busy Tuesday
from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center right here on ninety
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
All right, we're back here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
Saftie Dick Jackson with you until five o'clock to night
Cracking hockey black Hawks pregame five face Off five thirty
tonight from Chicago. Dick, it's not very often that you
get talked to talk to somebody on the air that
you respected as an opponent when they played your favorite
football team back in the day. Yes, and I'm not
even talking about when this guy played the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Bro, We're talking ten plus years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I want to rewind to September sixth of twenty fourteen.
What our respect as Husky fans for this guy exploded.
If you forget why, let's remind you why right now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Play action from Adams Huffs Fires team looking for Cooper Cup.
Touchdown Eastern Washington, forty one yards. Adams to Cooper Cup.
Adam's a quarterback, empty back fail trows looking for Cooper
Cup touchdown Eastern Washington, Vernon Adams. This second time he
(01:14):
has found Cup for a score. Today toward the sideline,
Cooper Cup dance his way toward the goal line. He's
head Cup's third touchdown.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Eight catches, one hundred and forty five yards, three touchdowns
that day. And I remember thinking one thing, I really
hate this guy.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Thank god he's not in the patches.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, he played the pack twelve four times. You played Oregon,
you played Washington State, you played you Doug, you played
Oregon State in to torch them all when you were
at Eastern Washington. Did you like pull at Jordan and
take that personally? But all those schools passed on you
because you exploded on those schools.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, no, just I think that was just a coincidence
that working out.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, well, it's great to see you. Welcome back to
the two o six and the state of Washington. My
friend tell us about this about just being back here.
You got the Pearl jam shirt on. You're doing the
right thing. Everyone's all fired up for that. But tell
me about what this means to you to be back
in the state of Washington playing for the Seahawks as
a pro after eight years in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Yeah, it's really cool. I mean, just a full circle moment.
I think, you know, obviously growing up in yak and
Washington playing high school ball there, you know, want a
state championship here during in the Tacoma Dome, playing at
Eastern Washington and all the football that we played in
the state here, then it'll come back. It's a it's
a really cool thing. And excited about the community here
(02:37):
and the people that we get to you know, know
and pour into and it's just it's a cool moment.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
How much was that a factor in your decision to
come back. I mean people say I want to come home,
but there's other factors as well.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Big a factor was that, you know, it was a
piece of it. It definitely was a piece of it
because you obviously have the football side of things and
making sure that if it's just who I am as
a football player and what I wanted to accomplish, and
just being able to be head of and the things
that are this, you know, this organization's building towards is
really cool to be a part of, and I'm very
excited about that. But also it is the community and
(03:10):
it's the people. It's the way that the organization's treating players.
It's the way that this is all been set up.
You know, there's there's so many pieces to it, and
you know, I think all those things came together. It's
just a man, we feel good about so much of it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
You you're not twenty two, but you're not forty two either.
Right at thirty two years old, did you ever think
about just saying enough is enough? I want to spend
my whole career with one team. I want to be
that guy that stays with one team my whole life
and just hang it up and walk away from the game.
How much did you have those conversations in your in
your brain and with your wife in the last maybe
(03:42):
week or so.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Never, that's never crossed my mind. I don't, I don't.
I don't know who started whatever that was. You know,
I'm I I am no way and ready to be
done playing football. I'm very excited about about the football
that I've ahead of me. You know, I still see
myself as an a sending player, and you know, mentally
the way that I see the game, I can still
(04:05):
I'm I see myself if I couldn't see if I've
enmissioned something I'm like, Hey, this is how I want
to run this route, this is how I want to
manipulate this dB. And I couldn't do it. I wouldn't
be playing anymore right right, you know, But you know,
I'm able to see the reps that I'm taking in practice,
able to see the off season reps and things that
I'm doing, and man, I feel really good about what
I can put on on field and I'm looking forward
to getting out there this year.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well, when you have been on the field, you've been dominant.
You just haven't always been on the field. So talk
about your health. How confident are you that you're gonna
be ready to play seventeen games.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm I go into every season with this, you know,
the confidence, and there's there's Okay, I shouldn't say that.
There's certain seasons where you're coming in, you're banged up
and you've got stuff that you're man, you didn't have
the off season that you wanted to, or there's you know,
there's risks involved in this game. And I've unfortunately, you know,
the last three years had things that you know, they've
been unfortunately, there's you know, they're outside of your control.
(04:57):
A lot of ways. You know you can't handle the
way that you're gonna get tackled sometimes, and that happens,
but you know this is a It's one of those
games where you know, I'm it hasn't created any hesitancy
in me to go out there and just play the
best that I can possibly play and give it everything
I've got. You get hurt in this league when you
start slowing down and feeling like you're looking to try
(05:17):
to stay healthy. You know, the way that you play
this game is to be violent, to be the attacker,
be the aggressor. And you know I'm gonna continue to
play this game that way and believe that's when I'm
at my best. And you can't control the things that
are going to happen outside of your control. So I
obviously can't promise anything and knowing in this league in right,
but I'm really excited about being to get out there
and play some really good football.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, Cooper Cup is our guest here at the Virginia
Mason Athletics Center, and look, I got to tell you,
first of all, all of us are jacked up to
have your backpicktime. I wanted you in the twenty seventeen
draft to be totally honest with you. So I'm glad
that we finally, you know, nine years later, were able
to pull this off and get this thing done. But
you mentioned there that you're a sending player. You don't
often hear that word about thirty two year olds in
the NFL is sending. You hear the decline, but you
(05:59):
don't hear a sending. Why do you think that?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
What does that look like to you? Yeah? I think
it is kind of what I was saying here. You
know what, I get to see myself play this game.
I get to see every rep. You know, anyone else
gets to see what happens on Sundays. And you know
that's contingent on a lot of other things. But in
terms of me as a football player and what I
can do, I'm really excited about the football that I'm playing,
really excited about the football that I'm seeing on tape
(06:21):
and the way that I'm preparing and the things that
I can still still do when I'm giving the opportunity
to do it. And I just I just I'm really
excited about that. I honestly am, and looking forward to
how cooves to set guys up and what his vision
is for things and making those things come to life,
and working with Sam and these guys, it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well, I was talking to Dick before you showed up,
and just hear and you talk right there kind of
cemented it for me. You seem pretty damn motivated right now.
Right for the first time in your life, you've been
let go by a football team.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't know, maybe there's a Michael Jordan story. You're
cut from your high school basketball team back in the
day as a freshman. I got no idea, but is
this the first time in your life that you've been
let go by a team period?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yeah, I think that. I think I think that would
be it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
How much does that, for lack of a better word,
how much does that kind of piss you off a
little bit?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah? I mean there there's obviously frustrations around that, and
you know, no one wants to be in that no
one would choose to be in that position. But at
the end of the day, this is the path that
God's taken us on, and I'm excited for this next chapter.
Wherever He's taking us. I believe there's an answer for us.
You know, there's things that don't make sense with what
has gone on. But I'm really excited about what's ahead.
And all the times when there's not an answer for something,
(07:29):
it's because he's going to show it to you down
the line, and I'm really excited about what that's going
to look like. You circle those two dates. I have
not circled the dates now.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
When you were when you were talking earlier in the
press conference, you mentioned eighty nine Doug baldwhen you grow
up watching dog ball, which make us feel old because
Doug was like sitting here seemingly last Tuesday talking to us,
just like you're talking to us now. But what did
you appreciate most about Doug and what did you take
from his game and incorporate it in your game?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, I mean the tenacity, the aggression. I mean, I
think he was always the aggressor, and we talked that
from a Mentelly's standpoint, I've always appreciated that about Doug's
game from a technique standpoint. One of the best come
to balance releases in the history of the NFL. I mean,
it was, it was. It was very daring because sometimes
he was off his feet were off the ground for
(08:19):
a long time. But I mean he I mean he
also just absolutely turned people around the way that he
would come up the ball in the quickness that he'd
play that with, and how he'd counter it. You know,
he'd be able to run, he'd run drive routes off
of that, but he'd also be able to counter that
with you know, bring a fader out down in the
red zone. So you know the way he pieced that
stuff together. He's just he's a very very good football player.
(08:39):
And you see him with the pictures on the walls
of him, you know, like flying through the air making
all kinds of different catches, and it's just he's a
very impressed FOOTBA player.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I'm just thinking Cooper Cup is with us. I'm thinking
Dick about it. The all time greated athletes to come
out of Yakama, right, I mean the Mayor's obviously are
on that list. Dan Dornick is on that list. I mean,
Todd Stottlemeyer is on that list. How often do you
go back there? And honestly, this is just between the
three of us. You're a humble guy, I know that,
but how big of a deal are you?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And m right?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Just between the three of USO nobody's listening.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's just a big a dealer. I'm not I don't know.
I'm not answering that question.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
How often do you get to go back there and
what does that TELLN mean to you?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, no, I don't get to go back there a ton.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
We obviously have three boys, we got family, and we've
we've got our our off season downs down southern California.
When we used to do our off season in Oregon,
we'd get over there a little bit more, just harder.
It's not super fun traveling with six four and one
kind of plane, you know. So it's like it's we
were like, you guys can come like, my family's still there,
I still have I love our families still there. You
(09:42):
guys can come down whenever you want to, you know
what I mean, But just don't get up there as much.
But uh, it is, I mean, I grew up there.
You know, there's where the parks there are where I
grew up playing football with my dad there at Franklin
Park all the time. You walk down the street and
it was just U it's a it's a special place
because there's it goes back to what I was session on
(10:04):
the memories, the experiences that you have, and you know
there'll never be anything like your child at home. You
know when you when you grow up there and all
the things that you did with your family, with my
with my brothers, and then with a high school team,
all my friends that were there, you know that you'll
always have those You always have those memories, You always
have that time. So there's a there's there's definitely a
law of value in the time that I spent there.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What did you come to learn about the Seahawks organization?
Playing for the rival of the Seahawks organization? And and
you know what is the thought around the league about
what this organization.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Is all about?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, you know, two things come to mind. One, you
knew you're gonna deal with the twelves a right, like,
there's always that you you know, you come to you
come to Seattle, you're gonna be dealing with an unbelievable
environment that you had to you had to prepare for,
and that was a that's a big piece. I'm excited
to be on the other side of that now. You know,
that's gonna be a really cool thing for me just
(10:55):
from just having that experienceerience from a having such a
renowned fan base going behind you and being able to
experience that on the offensive side, when you have the
quiet and being able to be on the deepen, be
on the sideline, and off the defense, go out there
and see this stadium erupt. That's gonna be really cool.
So said about that, And I think the other piece
was just a a little bit in the in the
(11:18):
press conference, but just the belief there's there's always been
a positive energy and belief in this organization. And when
you've got the positive energy, you've got this belief that
you can win any game at any moment, that you're
gonna find a way to win the game. That's always
been felt. It's always been like, man, if you're playing Seattle,
play the whole game. You gotta play the whole game
because they're gonna keep fighting, They're gonna find a way
to stay in the game and give themselves a chance
(11:40):
to win. And it just it's felt as continued with
the guys here, with the belief in this locker room
and passed down from a lot of the guys that
are off from these walls, right from guys have pat come,
come and gone. But then that belief has continued.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, well, we're completely jacked up to have you here.
Man fired up that you're wearing number ten again? Do
we know what number ten is wearing by the way.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I don't want to. I do know, but I don't
want to say it. If he's I think he's, I
want to let him announce it. Okay, Okay, we'll do Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't want to get you in trouble your first
day out.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's what I'm saying. Forgot a couple of times. Question but.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Hear hearing you talk about jam what just leave you
with this? First of all, I love the way you
talk about your hometown. I mean, I've been here fifty
two years, Dick's been here fifty years, and neither one
of us have ever left Seattle. By flip on the
NFL network, Cooper Cup going back that he's from Seattle.
When somebody says that, what's your reaction?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, you know, that's it's a tough thing. It's it's
not it isn't. This isn't where I'm from, right, But
but you say it's that's that's a that's a national thing, Like, hey,
where you're from from Washington? Oh, you're from Seattle. No, no, Seattle, Seattle,
but yeah, no, it's it isn't. That's why, that's why
we're figuring out. We got we got we figure this
(12:52):
area out. I'm really excited about it. It's like, you know,
this isn't this isn't home, but it's going to be,
you know, in the community here and I'm just so
looking forward to what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, if you need Dick and ized help finding a house,
he's a Normandy park. I'm in Des Moines.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You let us know.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, probably got you covered, all right, man, good to
meet you, of course, welcome back, buddy, appreciate this. Cooper
cup with us on the radio show. We're gonna break
a lot more to get to on a busy Tuesday
from the Virginia Mason Athletic Center right here on ninety
three three KJRFM.
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