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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, here we go live from the five twenty
Bar and Grill in Bellevue. What an honor to get
to sit down with this man for an hour every
single week. I wonder if he looks forward to visiting
with us as much as we look.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Forward to visiting with him.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's my honor, our friend, it's my honor. Yeah, yeahscet.
I came in today. I heard when I was parking
my car, I was listening to a little bit of
you on the radio, and I said I'd better get
in there before he does something ray stroke.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, yeah, well we know why you're here because Kathy
just wants you out of the house for an hour.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Forgot thirty said to.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Me, said, can you please do the radio with him
so I can have some quiet time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What's for dinner tonight? Because Thursday's your night to cook?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Right, And yes it is, but I am having it delivered?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Good good man.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, well you're at the five twenty bar and grill.
There's no need to have it delivered. Just take it
home with you know.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that sometime.
But god, I went with another restaurant tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, what do we have to do that force
feed you to take this stuff home? Quiet for you?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, let's go back.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
First of all, before we talk about the Seahawks last week.
It was funny we actually talked about baseball Mike last
week because the show Tony thing was going on last week.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now the next week that we get.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Together, the Mariners are officially done from playoff contention.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I mean, put yourself in the shoes of a fan, right,
you work for a lot of great owners over your career.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You work for some bad owners in your career.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Bottom line, Bearner fans are pretty pod at the owners
of this baseball team right now for taking a year
with maybe the best rotation in team history and not
getting them a chance to pitch in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, you know, Dick and I were talking about it
a little while ago, and then it was so close.
It's so close. I mean it's close. You're going down
to the last two or three games of the season
and they still had a shot to be in it.
And with their pitching this year, quite honestly, they should
have been in it. They should have been in it,
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and some of the guys they were counting on to
hit the ball didn't hit it. I mean, I don't
know the reasons for that. I'm not a baseball coach,
but as a fan, as a fan, I've said, what's
the equivalent thing in the NFL, and you guys mentioned
the Detroit Lions. Excuse me. It's a long time for
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a fan to really stay on board and really love
their football team, their baseball team.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
How different were the three organizations that you worked for.
You know, I know there's there's no salary cap in
the NFL, So it's a little bit different than baseball.
But then you know, there must have been some level
of frustrations, either higher or lower, that you had when
you're in San Francisco versus when you're in Green Bay versus.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Where you're in Seattle. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, Dick,
it was quite different San Francisco. When I got there,
they were the cream of the crop. Bill Walsh, you know,
Joe Montana, who has already had a couple of Super Bowls,
and I was privileged to be a part of a couple. More.
I go to Green Bay that had been there had
been a twenty year stretch there where they struggled. They
really did, and so we were able to swing that
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back up. And I realized that my DNA. You know,
people ask me, why didn't you just stay in Green
BAYH Well, you had a quarterback. Why'd you leave? Right? Well,
I found out about myself that I like to try
and fix something that's broken. And then so you know,
I got the chance to come to Seattle. Mister gave
me a great deal contract and we were able to
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do that here. And so I think when you I
believe that you should be able to reach you should
be able to reach the top of the game with
the proper coaching, with the proper support, it should happen.
And that's the hard part. That's the hard part about
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the Mariners.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I think, Yeah, well, I'm looking at a baseball team
that was purchased in nineteen ninety two for one hundred
and twenty five million. Nintendo then turned around, I think
in twenty sixteen and netted six hundred and sixty one million.
Now the team's worth over two billion dollars. The Mariners
are so Look, I always feel uncomfortable telling other people
how to spend their money, because I have no idea
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what people's bills are, what their situations are like with
their families. But I've always thought that if you're an
owner of a professional sports team, your number one goal
should be to try to win a championship for that city.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Not making money. Is that unfair of me to say
something like that.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
No. In fact, I said, when I went to Cleveland,
they had they had struggled for a while. Okay, and uh,
you know, I wasn't there very long. But a couple
of things we did right away right away, Okay, we
lowered ticket prices and in one part, excuse me, one
part of the stadium. We made it a family a
family section. So instead of paying I don't know what
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I don't even know what a ticket costs now, you know,
but we made it like twenty bucks a ticket in there.
And so those types of things really relate to the
people that support you. Now it's pretty it's pretty expensive
to go to a game, absolutely in any sport, you know.
So I felt good about that. I felt we I
felt we reached out and we're thinking of the fans
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when we were doing some stuff. I was the president,
wasn't the coach, so I could dive into those types
of things more. If you're the coach, you know, you're
just you're you're coaching the team.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I heard yesterday talking about with im that you went
to practice, So tell us a little bit about Mike
McDonald and what you observed and maybe was there a
vibe difference between the practice you went to versus the
ones you've been going to the last few years of Pete.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, you know what I was, went and did ian
show out there, and so I had met with my
guys for a while and then so and then the
show was coming up, so I said, but I want
to say hi to Mike McDonald. So I went out.
They were practicing indoors. So I went out and found
him and just shook his hand, talked to him, teased
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him a little bit, saying, you really don't need my help.
You're doing pretty well, you know, and then he smiled.
I got him to smile. But I did get him
to smile.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
How about that photographic evidence, because he's there, he's well.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
You know, he's he's enough. But uh so that was
good and I meant what I said, I I really
like him and wish him well. I met the young
man who was there outside pass Rusher himself, and he
was there. He had a brace, you know, he's he
might he's coming back fast. And so some of the
players DK Metcalf came in and made a b line
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over and said hi, you know, and I didn't think
he even knew who I was. But it was fun
for me. I don't go over there very much, as
you guys know, they don't want to see the old
coach around. They really don't want to see them. But
it was really fun to see some of the players
and talking to those guys.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, first of all, he absolutely knew who you were,
no question, unless you thought you were Martin Bolt, which
is possible, but I'm pretty sure he knew who you were.
And then, second of all, Brady Henderson did a story
on Mike on ESPN dot com a couple days ago,
really really well done. If you haven't read it, I'd
recommend checking it out. And he started off by talking
about this Laviscus Chanal said they had a test when they.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Came to training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
In order to practice, they had to pass a complete
six one hundred and fifty yard shuttle run with a
time limit on each leg that differed depending on the
position group, so wide receivers, offensive line were obviously different.
Not finishing any of them in the time a lot
had meant you failed. It had to start all over again.
Did you ever do things like that at to start
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a training camp? No, Okay, well this guy's doing it now.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
No, I know, I know. It's it's a you know.
It was like I'll tell you that. It was like
when I was in Cleveland again, Eric Manngeni was the
coach and I'd watched practice. I'd go out and watch
practice and if some guy jumped off side, you know,
in a in a drill, they had to run laps
and the huge grass, they'd run laps and then they'd
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keep practicing. And I always thought, she wiz, if you know,
maybe you should just say I'm sorry, don't do that
and get him to run some more plays, right, because
the guys should take their time, and they'd miss about
ten or fifteen plays of practice then finally come back in.
Everyone does it differently, Everyone does it differently. And I
tell you what he's emphasizing. When you do something like that,
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you are putting strong, strong emphasis on your offseason workout program,
right right.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
The coach you mentioned talking to DK, you know, I
went and looked back. I want to see how his
three games so far under Grubb compared to his first
three games of all of his other seasons, and really
not a lot of different. They're slightly higher this year,
but not much. How are they using DK differently in
your mind than what you've seen in the past or
is it much different?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't. I don't think it's much different. I think
the formations they're putting him in different spots and formations,
and now teams have to recognize Lockett, they have to,
and he's the balls being spread around. So if they're
gonna double if they now teams say, if okay, we're
gonna really emphasize stopping Metcalf, these other guys could kill us.
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So their formations are allowing them and allowing him to
get some of the coverage they like to see, right,
you know, and so and then I really, I really think,
and I said this, what I wanted to see him
do is mature just a little bit. He is a
gifted athlete, you know, great off all, big, fast, but
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don't get the crazy penalties. The ball doesn't get thrown
to you. Don't make you know, visual things on the
you know, don't tell that man.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
After my own heart coach, I complained about that offense.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
And you know what, this year so far I think better. Yeah,
I think yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, Mike Congrins were with us. That's really what I
want for you. You stop doing all this weird visual stuff.
Will you for crying outline when you're not happy with
the amount of time you're getting on the air.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
See there he goes, right, he's getting all pissed off.
I told you we call that pulling a DK Metcalf.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
He cut, he says, pulling a home grin were you
a little bit surprised though, like I was, And I
don't know if I've ever seen back to back two
games in a row in Seattle Husky Stadium and then
Loomenfield worst quarterback play from the opponent.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, the guy from Northwestern awful, skyther Thompson awful.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I was kind of hoping to get a little bit
of a better challenge for the Seahawk defense.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean that Dolphins offense, My god, they're a mess.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
They were a mess. It was awful. I was watching
the game and I'm going, this is Kathy goes, what's
the score? I said, I don't know. All I know
is it's bad. No, because it was. It was. It
was like, I don't know, maybe because they lost their quarterback.
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They come in and a lot of times you'll see
teams if you're going with a backup, and we've seen
it Colt McCoy a couple of years. You know, we've
seen it happen. You kind of put extra stuff into it.
We're gonna we're gonna win this game anyway. We're gonna
go after him, and you're gonna do it. It seemed
like to me that they had kind of given up
before they started right right, I don't know, and then
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and then he kept the poor kid got hit. Oh man,
it was bad.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Well, my game got over quickly, so it gave us
time to watch the San Francisco collapse against the La
Rams down the stretch.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
So I'm wondering. I mean, we didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Really think this division was winnable three weeks ago when
the season started. But the way the Seahawks have started,
in the way the Niners have started with their injuries,
how winnable do you think this division Isn't.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
This I think it's going to be tighter than we thought.
I was, you know, I was. I'm getting I have
to go down to California next week to get a
little something, a little award, and so I had to
do a couple of radio things for San Francisco people,
and that's all they wanted to talk about. What do
you think of the forty nine ers? Yeah, I mean,
and the simple fact is they're hurt. And I've been
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there too, where you get guys hurt and you want
to try and do the same things and you just
don't have the weapons that you're used to.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
You were picking up plumbers off the street to play
wide receiver one time.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I remember hired a guy at a gain station. Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Who was the guy? You remember that?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
No, I tried, now, I blocked I tried to block
that part of my life out. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
By the way, when he says he's going to California
to pick up an award, that's code for something else
going on. Man, he's got to go meet with some
people about a guy down there. But Dick mentioned the Niners.
I want to go back to the Hawk's Neck segment.
Mike colgrins, well us from the five Fronty Bar and grill.
When you hear Christian McCaffrey going to Germany to see
a specialist about his achilles, How concerning is that for you?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It's concerning. It's to me. It's to me. It's a
little weird. No, really, I would go, I would go.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I would go.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You're you're making a lot of comments in on my face.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
You know, well you just made a weird look.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, it's weird as funny. What do you want me
to do? Weird?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Making funny faces and you're right in front of me,
it's weird. Stop making funny faces.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I would if I could see him, have someone come
to my office and go listen. I think I have
to go to Germany to get my achilles looked at
me and I first of all, I start going, Okay,
sit down. Why he going to Germany? Why you know
a doctor there? You have a girlfriend there?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know we have good doctors in the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh God, Mike col Grins were We got a lot
more to get to. From the five twenty Bar and
Grill in Bellevue. Next ninety three three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
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Speaker 3 (14:20):
All right, we are back here at the five twenty
Bar and Grill.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I just found out, by the way, from Joey Brazen,
who runs this place. Honestly, you have no idea how
big a deal she is in Bellevue. Nothing happens without her,
says all right, nothing at all. You can't even breathe,
you can't even walk or chew gum without Joey Brazen
say sto, you like garlic Bronz, Yes, you like pulled pork, sandwiches.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Yes, two new.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Menu items right here at the five forty bar and grill.
She's gonna bring them over. And you know what, I
don't care what you say.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You're gonna eat him. No, I can't. Yes, you can
any other night, any other night, next time.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I don't know if there's a guy in the world
who is more scared about ruining dinner with his wife
than you are.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's right, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Back in my super fat days, I would stop off
at X on the way home, maybe Mickey Die's Burger King.
I'd come home and throw the evidence of my neighbor's
garbage can, and then Gina would know that I was
stuff in my face because I wasn't hungry for dinner.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, you were?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You afraid of?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
You both met my wife. She's a cute, little five
four blonde former missionary, tough. I see there's the I'm
not afraid of her, but she's tough.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Now you're afraid of her. It's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think all of us are. Yeah, I'm secretly kind
of afraid of our wife. I'm afraid of your wife
and my wife, by the way, and maybe even his wife. Hey,
some good news Kenny Walker limited participation in practice today
after missing last week.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He's a difference maker.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
No disrespect to Zach Sharboney, who I think is a
quality backup in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But this team, this offense is different with Kenny Walker
out there.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
No question about it. And I think we've seen it
and it's it's pretty obvious. Now. I had a chance
to talk to him. Yeah, yes, so you know who
you were. Yeah, he's good. I've talked to him before.
I've talked him before. I mean, he's a great kid.
And and uh so I said, how's it going. You're
gonna be able to go? And he goes he thought, so,
now good, good. You know, Mike, Mike, it's he's really
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careful in answering questions about injuries.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
If you know that we have noticed that, Why do
you think that? Is that just the rookie head coaching him.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I think that's just some guys are And I always thought, Okay,
they're gonna find out Friday, right. Everyone knows Friday, right,
So for two days I'm gonna keep it hidden.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
You know, I'm glad you're saying that. Hopefully he hears that.
That would be nice for him to loosen up a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But speaking of loose.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Mike McDaniel is a lot looser than Mike McDonald old,
maybe a little too loose. What did you think of
his sideline antics and just the way.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
He is, Well, let's start with his pants, And I asked,
what what what's what is that? And they're sweatpants, but
they're they're tight on the bottom. But he pulled them
up joggers.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, And so you you know Bucky and on Monday,
his Bucky's his Bucky. His calves are his calves are calves? Yeah,
And so he was making fun of Mike McDonald's, not McDonald's,
Mike McDaniel, McDaniel's calves. And he should because he should.
You gotta cut. If you're gonna wear those pants, gotta
have govern cover them up.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Ruddy shouldn't as as your fingers, by the way, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
But you have sideline, you know, you talk to your
players about how they're gonna dress on the plane and
how you're gonna do stuff. Yeah, set the example.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well, and if I were his owner, I'd say, hey, Mike,
ever heard of a shower?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
For God's sakes, have you ever heard a haircut?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Kind of he looked so out of sorts. I felt
that when Tua got hurt that his his life came apart,
you know, and and he lost his stark quarterback.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I get that doesn't look why he slept since.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And then his his like you said, Dick watching him
on how he did stuff on the sideline, and then
he'd look on his sheet and it was not a
good look.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Did you ever have to go to an assistant coach
or a player who showed up to work just looking
dishovel wasn't looking the part, wasn't looking like a pro,
and say, hey man, we got to get you cleaned up.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Here because you're embarrassing yourself. Yeah did you? Yeah? And
I and I'd say, well, you know the Andre Rising story. Yeah,
well he comes on, he's new to the team. When
we go to the super Bowl. He was helped us
win the Super Bowl his first road trip. And I
said to all the flight attends, if there's any problems
back there with any the players, don't go to anybody else.
You come right to me and I'll deal with it. Okay.
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So young lady came up and goes coach home. When
there's a young man in the back and you know
he's I go, which one is it? And she'd described
a rising. Okay, don't tell you, don't have to tell
me anymore. I go back there. He's eating his dinner.
He's got no shirt on. He's just he's just got
he's got no shirt on. And I go, Andre, how
you doing? He goes, oh, good, coach, this food's good,
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this coach really good. I said, let me ask you
a question. I said, look around the plane and I said,
just is do you notice? Is there anything different? And
he looks around. He goes, oh, you mean my shirt?
And I said yeah. He goes, you want me to
wear a shirt? I said yes, yes, so he put
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it on right there. But he was he wasn't being
he wasn't being argumentative or anything. He just was oblivious,
you know. So, but yeah, you just want, you know,
I said, on road trips and stuff, I said, you
don't have to wear suit, suit and tie. You don't
have to do that. But you look like you're going
out on a date. You know what I mean? You
know where? You know? So that's those are my rules.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Did you happen to watch your buddy Andy Reid on
Sunday Night football did you watch that game?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Not much?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Okay, well they they got a past interference call at
the end of the game that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
They really did.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
And what did did you see that?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You saw?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
That play was past interference. They were very, very fortunate.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
They were very fortunate. People are you know, people are
thinking about that.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Kansas City get you know, gets a little of the
the the edges on those calls over some other teams.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
You know, I told you, I told you my daughters
are football faces, and they've they'll phone right after something
like that. They've gotten all the calls this year and
they've got another one. No, no, and then that. But that,
you know, it was like the you know, officials, I
tell you what, it just seems like I can understand.
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I can understand a tough call, you know, right, but
it's but when it's the whole world season, come on,
that's whether you're getting paid you do this.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm sorry, I haven't heard a word you've said, boys garlic,
prim old Port sandwiches. Michael, Come on, you did a
Sports Illustrated photo shoots with wieners in your hand with
Brett Fahr. You don't want to try some of this
over here. You're gonna try this stir in the get.
We got to get your take on that. How about
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the game coming up tonight, h Alas and the Giants
will carry it for you right here on the radio
station with the kickoff around five to fifteen. I have
asked if Mike McCarthy loses this game or they got
they got Pittsburgh Detroit, San Francisco, I think yeah, coming
up in their next three games, they lose tonight's game,
they might be done. Like this season could just unravel.
I know Jerry really kind of hung in there with
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Jason Garrett, but that was Jason Garrett, right, he was
this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
He doesn't have that relationship with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
If they lose this game or even maybe next week
or start like one on five, would they consider, you
think firing McCarthy during the year and just tell them
Mike Zimmer, hey, you're already here. You're the DC takeover
interim basis until we find somebody else over the offseason.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I would be shocked. I really would be shocked. Knowing
Jerry and actually talking to him about not his own team,
but this sort of thing. When we were on the
competition committee together. That's not how he does stuff. He know,
he he kept Mike after life, and they had to
be disappointed after last year's after the last couple playoff seasons,
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you know, and so you know he's he would stick
with him and then make a decision at the because
he sticks. I'll tell you what he does, stick with
his coaches. He does coach.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Never more, now that I've seen all these veteran quarterback
like and Andy Dalton come in replacing the Bryce.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Young and see what he's see what he's doing.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Versus what Bryce Young was doing. Never more have I
thought it was quarterback being a learned position versus a
inherent talent position. Can you just kind of talk about
why it seems like it's so much easier for these
guys that have been in the league, Andy Dalton, Sam Darnald.
Look what Sam Darnold's doing right now, he's been in
the league for a long time, versus what these guys
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are thrust upon when they are forced to start when
they're twenty two years of age.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah, that's really a tough decision or a big decision
for any team when you draft a guy in the
first round, right in the first five picks say yeah,
you are saying, okay, he's our quarterback, he's going to
be our quarterback for the future. How soon is he
ready to play? And then you have to look at
your team, you know, and if you do, you have
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somebody on your team already they can win some games
for you while this guy learns. So those those all
factor in and and quite not. And then then all
of a sudden, is it the right coach for a
young quarterback? You know you heard Toott, the Miami quarterback,
talk about Ryan Forries, you know, who just yelled at
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him all the time. When I was in Cleveland, Ryan Daball,
the coach of the Giants. I'd be at practice and
a rookie quarterback, Colt McCoy, who's a great kid, who's
a rookie. You know, he may made me make a
boar read or something. He just jump all over him
bad land, you know, just kind of I had to
call him both, said, hey, what are you doing. He's
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a young guy, you know, just no, that's that's how
they coach. And so if you have a young guy
who's not not ready but has to play, and then
you treat him that way, that's my own coaching philosophy.
Now I'm throwing my.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
End there's an alternate universe.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I mean, it's amazing to me that you had Kurt
Warner tied Detmer, Brett Farrv, and Mark Burnell.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
At the same time.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, and all four of them really got a chance
at some point to shine in the NFL. There's a
chance there's an author at universe where Trent Green never
gets hurt and Kurt Warner never gets to play right
and nobody ever knows what he is. But I got
to ask him before we get to the break. Your guy,
Brett Farrv was at a congressional hearing the other day
and revealed he's got Parkinson's This news coming out today.
You know Tommy Kramer, the old Vikings quarterbacks. He apparently
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has dementia and a lot of people are wondering if
this is connected to playing football in the NFL. When
you heard the news about Farv, what was your reaction
to that.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, first of all, I was saddened by it because
we keep in contact over our birthdays. Well that's it
once a year. It's kind of funny though it's nice guy.
I love the guy now, so I felt bad for
him that way. Now, do concussions factor into that? My
doctor daughter says, absolutely it can, right, But it doesn't happen,
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not all the time, you know. But he said, I've
had a thousand concussions, you know, I've had five five
good ones that you know of that I know of, right, right,
And but he so he had he played twenty years
and he didn't miss any games. Tua got one. He's
out for four games. Most of the guys are out
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for a week, right. But yeah, I think if you
play a long time in the league and get banged around,
I don't think it helps.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, no, no doubt. Well, let's do this. We've gotta break.
We'll come back and wrap it up with Mic. We
gotta talk about Monday's game, Seahawks Lions Big One on
Monday Night Football Live.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
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Speaker 2 (25:59):
All right, Mike hundred with us for one more segment
from the five twenty Bar and Grill in Bellevue, my
favorite spot on the East.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Side for sure. Stop on buy they got live music.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I think every Thursday on the patio at least as
long as the weather cooperates. Brand new garlic prawns and
pulled pork sandwiches. Man awesome neighborhood bar, the five twenty
Bar and Grill here off Main Street in Bellevue. Mike
Comrian with us for one more segment on the air
Lion Seahawks on Monday Night. Frank Ragnow the Pro Bowl
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center right for the Lions. If I believe Alabama. I
think it's Alabama knocking up that up.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
He's an All Pro.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, not gonna play Monday night for Detroit. How big
a deal is that for Jared Goff and the offensive
line to lose the captain of the offensive line.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Not only the captain, but the center. You know what
the people ever talk about the left tackle? Yeah, you know,
and this they always talk about the tackles. The center
is as important as anybody on that front, right, because
a lot of times he makes calls in any directs traffic.
That's that's a hit. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
By the way, I said to Alabama because literally this
is so weird. Last night I was watching a video
of Nick Saban when he was the head coach of
Alabama chasing down freak Rag Now after the Arkansas game
after his dad died. Remember that that's to find him
and give him condolences on his father's passing. And yeah,
it was a great video anyway, whatever random thought, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Well, coach, As Softie likes to tease me, I watch
way too much of the national talk shows in the
morning getting ready for the show.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, so watch way too much National team.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I kind of have an idea of what the talking
points are going to be Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
After that Monday night game.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Whoever wins that game, there's going to be a scroll
across the bottom that says, are the blank either Lions
or Seahawks the favorite to win the NFC.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
So you've gone now if you're the Seahawks from.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
A nobody's talking about the Hawks right now, everybody's talking
about Minnesota and the NFC.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Nobody's talking about the Hawks. They're one went away from
everybody talking about them.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Talk about how you handle that with your team when
you're a team that nobody's talking about versus a team
that everybody's pointing at you as you're the favorite to win.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
The champions Yeah, it does change the dynamic in the building,
because right now, I think in the Seahawks, they've won
the first three games, and look at it they've played.
I don't think they've played great teams in the first
three games, but they're in a position now they're three
and oh and they've they've learned new coach, new staff,
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new players. They've had three games now to put some
things together and getting better. And that's how Mike has
done it. I think he's excellent at that. Okay, but
now they're going against a team that is there. They
established themselves last year, they're really good, and you're going
in an away game and all those things. Now, how
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do you set it up? We're the underdog, Yeah, we're
three Well wait a minute, we're three and oh yeah,
but we're the underdog. That's right. No one's respecting us.
Let's go if we get this thing.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Done, you can play that card this week.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
If we get this thing done, it'll change everything, but
it won't change how we approach each week. We got
to do it the same way. And I'm sure he's
talking to him.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Uch, did you ever make anything up just to fire
your team up, create something that didn't exist? That's called
it a Michael, George. That's what I'm saying. There's that
famous story that George Carl did. George teller or Michael
tell it. And George Carl tells a story about in
the ninety six finals, apparently Michael Jordan said he was
blown off by George Carl in a restaurant, and George says,
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it never happened, and Michael just made it up to
fire himself up, and.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
The Bulls won the series. Yeah, you ever just make
anything up? Oh, but I got it used against me.
We were playing the New England Patriots back in New
England and they had a secondary that was a veteran secondary,
really good ty Law, you know, Rodney here, all these guys. Yeah,
and so I made in the press conference. They asked me, well,
what do you think of the Patriots? They go, I go,
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they are really good and they're very experienced in the secondary. Okay,
Well I found out later Belichick posts it says he
thinks you're too old, you guys can't play.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
So he used that against me. I wasn't even trying
and I messed that thing up.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Wow, George, we.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Started the hour talking about baseball. I want to end
the hour talking about baseball.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
You were in your twenties coaching high school football in
the Bay Area when the Oakland A's moved there and
they had Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter and they won
three championships. Yeah, and today was their last day ever,
I know, playing in Oakland.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
What are your memories of those days?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, it was first of all, the stadium was relatively
new too, you know, and having played in that stadium,
that's where you had to play football too, you know,
it's a krummy football stadium. But for baseball, I said,
this is perfect for baseball. But they were really good.
The owner was a guy named Charles Finley, and it
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was just they took the Bay Area. It was they
were they were, and the Giants they had this great
San Francis Giant Oaklay's. They had this great rivalry, you know,
like the Raiders and the forty nine ers and so
everything was going. It was really going, and it's hard
to meet. You know. Then, like we've seen in certain cities,
it comes. We got to build a new stadium San Diego,
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we gotta build a new stadium. Then you can't you
can't get the politicians, you can't get the people behind you.
Then they move, they move, and so it's sad for
the fan base, the people that follow that team that
are baseball people. It's hard. That's hard. How about the
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Sonics here, Well they're coming. You love that. Yeah, but
it's it's but it's been. It was long time hard.
It's like pulling the rug out from underneath.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Of course. Well, Oakland's lost everything.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
They've lost their football team in Vegas, they lost a
hockey team, as you know about in the day, They've
lost their baseball team, and technically the NBA team plays
across the bay.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
In San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
People of Oakland. Is a different deal when they're playing
in San Francisco. It just feels different. But they're now
zero for four, man, Yeah, can they get anything back?
Will they recover sports wise? Or is Oakland just off
the map?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Now you think I think they're off the map? Wow,
I think they're off the map.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Enjoy your thirty second drive home, Enjoy dinner time, appreciate it. Yeah,
Oh I'm sorry. I don't want to exaggerate. Man, what
a horrible commute for you. Hey, good to see you.
We're talking a week all right?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Good sounds good, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Mike Homaner with us every Thursday from the five twenty
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