February 10, 2026 • 17 mins
Seattle Seahawks Hall of Fame legend Walter Jones joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the team’s Super Bowl LX championship, being in Santa Clara for the game, Sam Darnold and Kenneth Walker’s performances, the offensive line, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here he is, man hoping to see this guy at
the parade tomorrow. He deserves it, pretty sure. He was
there twelve years ago. He deserves it because it was
the two thousand and five team Dick Fane, as you know,
that laid the foundation for all of this stuff, getting
us there, knocking that barn door down, kicking that door down,
and getting us there for the first time twenty years ago.
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And this guy is soaking it up like all of us.
Our friend Walter Jones joins us right now on the
radio program Big Walt.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you, man, good man? How you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, we got it done.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, first of all, tell me about your experience. I
assumed that you were there. How exhausted are you right now?
After that game on Sunday? Man, Hey, I'm going to side.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I think the whole thing about it is being a
part of the you know, I thought to see how
doing a great job of bringing all the legends there
from old to some of the newer guys. You know,
the guys that won it in twenty thirteen. Now they
got a chance to be on that side. You know,
I think as football players, I would get a chance
to experience tailgating it to say, are preparing yourself for
a game. So to be around all those guys, to
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be there to see how your family celebrate, how your
friends celebrate, that was pretty awesome. Then to see these
guys to finish it off, you know, to be in
the stand. You know, I hadn't been to multiple Super Bowls,
but this is my first time ever sitting in the
stand and being a fan where I didn't have to work.
I had to do this, I had to do that.
I was just being a fan. So to be able
to see that to you know, I've been through what
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the two Super Bowls, and this is my first time
when I really got a chance to see the crowd
and see what it's all about, and it was totally amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, there's about nineteen follow up questions, by the way,
to everything you just said there. First of all, you
mentioned the Seahawks bringing a bunch of dudes down Dick,
and I saw was it Thursday night or Wednesday night,
whatever night it was, We saw Sean Alexander, Ricky Waters,
Chad Brown, a bunch of dudes at Ditka's party who
Dicka wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
By the way, they just use their guy's name.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I saw a lawyer at the Paris junk lawyer Malloy
tell us, be our man on the street, be our reporter, Walter.
Who else was down there besides you? Besides you?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh man, Matt Halselback his family was there, Like you said,
Sean Lader down the Max Strong, Steve Lodgers. You know,
I think everybody saw Steve lock. I thought it was
pretty cool. They did the twelfth flag on the field there.
I thought that was pretty cool. Jacob Green, Kurt Warner,
and it was so many peoples them, So I tell you, man,
they did a great job of bringing everybody back. And
you know, like they always say, winning curs everything. When
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you're winning, you get everybody to come around and be
a part of it. Like I tell my kids all
the time, to enjoy the bad times because once they
flip it and win, that's where you get your excitement
at That's where you drop it to that because you
have seen the work put in. I think once you
see that, that would make you and enjoyed being a
fan of the Seattle seat off the seat the change
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and seeing them winning the game.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So what was it like for you to watch the
game from our vantage point up in the seats. I mean,
I'm used to watching Walter Jones from forty yard line
of the upper deck at Looming Field.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So what was it like to watch that game from
the seats?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Man? It was pretty amazing. You know, Like I said,
it was a different crowd. You know what I'm saying.
It's not like, you know, you're sitting at a record game.
You know, you understand everybody that's in the stand what
they paid to get in the stand. So to be
around all those people, you know, you had Patriot fan
I tell you one thing. But Patriot fans, they was
great fans. Or where I was sitting at, you know,
they was pretty impressed. They was pretty I pressed with
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the mount of Seahawks fans that showed up and the
chances and all that stuff. So it was pretty cool
just to sit there. Like I said, I never got
a chance to really sit back and watch it as
a fan, to just to see the pressure or all
the stuff that goes on. But I tell you, to
see how they've done a great job even since Pete
was here, where you prepared these guys for the chaotic
stuff that goes along on the sideline you saw so
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many celebrities, so these guys are totally prepared for the
moment when you knowing that everybody's going to show up
to see this championship game.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Was there a point in the game where either a
you got nervous or be kind of got a little
bit concerned. I mean, I've mentioned that run by Drake
may up the seam that scramble and then two plays
later he got picked off by Julian. But was there
any point in that game where you kind of felt like,
all right, if the Patriots are going to make this
a game, it's gonna happen now, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So that's kind of telling you. I think if they
had to score, and you know, they would have made
about two touches down. But I figured like at that time,
I think it was like nine minute left in the
fourth quarter there, and I was thinking, there's no way
this defen is gonna let this team come back. You
know what I'm saying. I think they got too much pride,
and you kind of figured that once we got up
like not like once we got to sixteen, I kind
of figure like, Okay, this is what I need. And
I think the cool thing about this whole team. I
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think it's a team effort, you know what I'm saying.
We talk about Sam or what Sam need to do,
and a lot of quarterbacks don't like game manager, but
I say all quarterbacks are game managers. A matter how
you've managed the game, you know that's at a high level.
Or do we need for you to on the yard?
We never needed Sam to throw for that many yard.
We need you to manage the game to put the
wall where it needs to be. And you saw that
in the playoff run that Sam did everything he's supposed
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to do as a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We'll put your handles hat on and talk about your
favorite position, the offensive line. How'd you think the Seahawks
offensive line handled that very very tough front of New England.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I thought it did a great job, even throughout off
the playoffs. I felt like I thought in the regular
season game against the forty nine ers, I felt like
something had got into the running back where I thought
that vim guys was hitting the hole pretty hard. It
wasn't all the trying to jump cut and try to
make the big play. They was hitting the ball. It
was four yards and I thought that was the recipe
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for winning. I thought they did that throughout the whole playoff,
but you saw that in the Super Bowl where they
stuck to the run even when the games you thought
the game was we wasn't seeing the numbers that we
want to see. But I felt like they stuck to
the running game, and they stuck behind K nine and
let him run the ball and stayed patient with that
throughout the whole game.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, we talked a few months ago Walter about the
running game, right, and all of us were kind of
concerned about it a little bit. I don't know, man,
this is like week thirteen. It probably kind of is
what it is at this point, and then bang, they
just took off. I mean, Kenny Walker in the last
six games was on a pace for over two thousand
yards in a seventeen game season. So what changed, man,
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is you watch this football team throughout the year. I
think people would have been pretty surprised if you would
have told them two months ago in the Super Bowl,
Kenny Walker is going to have one hundred and sixty
total yards of offense.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I'm not sure if a lot of people would have
bought that. So what changed?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You know? I think that the coaches kind of saw
it I tell people all the time, you know, you
look at the last couple of games there, especially when
we got in those last two games with the Rams
in the forty nineers, I kind of felt like we
was kind of playing banella, like we didn't want to
show our car. I felt like that, and that could
be something of a defensive mind tight coach thinking like, Okay,
we know what we have to do when those games
come around, you know, those two big games we had
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to play in the final season. Then throughout the playoff,
I feel like we were holding our cards and to
the playoff. And you kind of saw that in the playoff,
and you kind of, like I said earlier, you kind
of out of them running and say, hey, every play
a home run. And I think as young running backs
they start to learn that. I think you saw that,
you know, the way Kenny was running that ball, how
patient he was. You know, you know he's always looking
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for the home run, but I thought he was very
patient throughout the whole game. And I just felt like
they were just holding a shift to kind of see
what games did they need to show, And they did
that in that last game to get that number one seed.
And I feel like they felt like, Okay, if we
stay studied with the run game, we're going to have
a chance to make it for the super Bowl. And
that's what you saw.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Well, we know Ken made some money for himself over
the last six weeks or so, that is for sure,
But teams walt are very hesitant to give running backs
a lot of money. So how would you approach free
agent Ken Walker if you were the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think you take care of him, you know what
I'm saying. I think it would running back. Like you said,
you don't want to put a lot of money into
running backs for so long, so you just have to
make sure that you've given him something that he feels
good about. You know, understand what he's he's under contract.
But still again, you understand, you know, you kind of
saw the play. You kind of see when guy's knowing
that it's time to make the money and these are
the game that's gonna help you make the money. But
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you know, you lock these guys up for three more
four years and we could be good for a long time.
But still in again, I understand that you know, once
running back the legs go, everything goes. So I think
it's one of those things where you celebrate this and
you try your best to take care of them, hope
they can.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, well, what about this offensive line?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do they need to bring everybody back, including.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Bradford to right guard?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, I think he's the guy that Look, you know,
I don't know Anthony very well. You might know him
better than me, Walter. He seems like a good dude
and a genuine good guy. But I think most people
have talked about potentially trying to upgrade at that spot.
So would you feel comfortable bringing all five linemen back
next season or do you try and get better at
maybe a spot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think you can always try to get better, you know,
anytime you can bring another body in that's going to
help this offensive line. But the crews think about this
offensive line, they was able to stay pretty well healthy,
all little stuff that's all across had and stuff like that.
But from a standpoint, you know, you get an offensive
line together for a long time and you could pisicitly
bring those guys back. I think Bradford, I think, you
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know what you know. I think everybody sees the stuff
that somebody posts on Twitter by his player and stuff
like that. But I feel like if they felt like
he was a detriment to this team. I think they
would make those changes. You can't you can't take away
that this guy was there in the super Bowl and
was there to open up post of Kenny Walker. And
still again, you always can put another body to help
this team and make this team even better.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Walt, I'm gonna make you the offensive coordinator of the
New England Patriots for a second. What type of conversation
would you be having with Will Campbell after that game
fourteen pressures?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think it's one of those things where you have
to understand what you're going against in the game too.
I thought, like, you know, not to help this guy
out with chips or give him a tight end coming down.
You know, even though you know you had that pressure
coming into the game. You know he was already talking
about his player coming into this game. So you know
that defense is like a blood in the water. You know,
once you fire someone weakness or someone is not as
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focus as you think you all you start seeing these
guys start eating and you saw that throughout the whole game.
You know what I'm saying. A lot of that that's refocused,
especially for offensive lineman. You know you have to get
somebody to sit there and counter see the things that
he was doing wrong and try to fix them off seats.
I think that's the only thing I could tell a
tackle like that, because you know it's not going to
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stop until you put that fire out, because that's going
to be the talk of the whole off seasons. So
you got to go into this off season knowing that, hey,
I got to play better, I got to be better
next year. So hopefully that he see the game and
be hond with himself.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Well, how much talk would you have if you were
in that locker room Walt Walter Jones with us of
course on the radio station. One of the reasons why,
well a lot of reasons why I wanted this is
because I wanted to go back to back and get back.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What was robbed from us twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean, that's the crappy part about losing that first
game New England is it wasn't just the game, it
was back to back and I want I want back
to back. I want those demons want right, you know,
I want what was taken from us twelve years ago.
So how much talk would you be having with the
guys over the offseason OTAs, you know, texting during vacations whatever.
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How much chatter do you think there's going to be
behind the scenes with these guys about doing back to
back titles.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I think everybody understand how tough that is to go
back to back because now you're not hunting. Now you're
the hunted, so everybody's hunting you now, and now everybody
got all your stuff on tape. You know what I'm saying.
And you know you go back to those games. We're
quarterbacks assessive. I take the two games that we can
go to at the RAM game where you saw a
quarterback that went out there and play the best against
that defense out of all the quarterbacks you saw a season.
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Those two games are the two games where you saw quarterbacks.
So you're knowing that those guys on fan But these
guys are all together. I think we all know that
when we talk to these guys in the media. These
guys love to be together. They want to be great,
and they don't care who get the prize. You know
what I'm saying, It's a team game. So I know
that these guys are chilling. I tell them all. I
tell the guys like this, I said the Super Bowl
is cool, but it takes away you know, you're not
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if you haven't been doing it consistently, you don't understand
the time that it takes off from you having vacation
and then getting back into it. It's just about about
how these guys approach the off season. Are they going
to be okay with all the paths on the backs
or do they want to set from Stamfords and say
we're gonna be like this for a couple more years.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Walt, how do you grade the loss of Clint Kubiak?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You know what, it's going to be tough. Man. I
think that the way that he was able to do
the things with Sam Donald's in one year, and now
you're going to another team, another organization where you the
head man. Sometimes you're kind of like, man, I wish
you would have kind of put a couple of more
season here with the Seattle and kind of make this
great and then you go off. But I understand how
the NFL works. You know, you win, and then I
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own to show of seeing those guys and wanted to
graft those guys, and now you're seeing where everybody want
young guys. Now you know this is the new age
now there's a copycat league. But still again, I think
that you know, coach McDonald, uh, Josh Schwight. I think
they're gonna go out and they're gonna find their guy
that's that that compliment uh Sam Donald and things that
he want to do on the field. So I think
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it should be exciting all see for him to find
the right guy.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All right, hey, are you and are you in the
parade tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I will be around there somewhere. I hear it's going
to be crazy, man, So I'm looking forward to it.
I think, Uh, the last one was crazy, So I
think the fans gonna definitely make it, make it to
the point where you know it's going to be crazy
because I think they're gonna want the whole world to
see how how do these fans, how do these twelve
get together and celebrate their team? So I'm looking forward
to it. I think as a as a fan and
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as a former player, I think you can't miss this
because now you're going to see everybody come together and
celebrate the championship.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I love it. Fired up that you were there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Fired up to see you tomorrow, man. Uh, good stuff,
and we'll talk down the road. Man, Thanks, Walt, Yes, sir,
goalks all right, Walter Jones with us. I don't know
if there is an ex player of any team that
we have in this city, cracking Sounders or Huskies whatever,
who is a bigger fan of that team.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Than Walter Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Okay, honestly, like Jordan Reffitt on Twitter, gigantic Husky and
there's a lot of dogs in a big Husky fans.
But that guy, I mean you talk about like his
his status as a Hall of Fame left tackle X seahawk,
who's as vocal and cheers in public as hard as
he does and wears his heart on his sleeve the
way he does. I don't know if there's anybody like
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him in Seattle. And it's kind of a little bit
of a surprise because how quiet he was when he
played that. He's that guy. But honestly, is there an
ex Mariner, an ex Seahawk, an ex Sonic, an ex
anybody who's as vocal and chea and it's genuine, right,
p Yeah, but yeah, I mean yeah, probably right. But
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he is so freaking genuine, like you could tell that
he was sitting in the stands rooting his ass off
where in a Seahawks hat holding up a foam finger
just like us.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Here's he's become us. Here's the barometer for that. Is
there any other athlete who an hour before every single
Seahawks game he goes see on Twitter and then not.
He even just likes, he reposts every single person who
responds yes Hawks.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No other former athlete does that. He's a diehard fan.
He's an absolute diehard fan.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And you get the feeling that whatever team he played for,
he would have been a diehard fan of that team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
We're just lucky he played here. But what did you
think I was here?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I thought you were going to say, and you and
you alluded to it with how quiet he was. Can
you I can't think of one Seattle athlete that has
gone from so quiet to so awesome on the air
over the course.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Of his career.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well you know he's been doing that now for a while.
But I just, I mean, God bless him. He is
a gentle giant. He's a sweetheart of a guy. I mean,
you gotta you say a bad thing about Walter Jone
and you better zip your freaking lip, honestly, because he is.
He is as protected as anybody in this town with
what he's accomplished, and.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
There's nothing on him either. There's no dirt on this guy.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I mean, Gary Payton has had his own you know,
ups and downs, and you know it was it him
or was it him throwing a weight at Maxwell or
vice versus vat Maxwell? Maxwell threw a weight at him.
Imagine throwing a dumbell at somebody. All right, I mean
that's what he did at the old facility where the
Gates Foundation is now. There's nothing on this guy. And
then Chuck person blanded on us the meeting of Jackson.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, the rifleman. There is nothing.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
There's no fault for printing all that mean stuff about
our team.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's pissing us off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well here's what we got. We got John Rohner joining
us at five. Uh, we're gonna do a little recap
of the last parade from twelve years ago right around
six thirty tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Textimonials.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
We got some open time as well for you guys
to jump on the phone if you want to share
even more memories of about what you were going through
on Sunday. I feel like we can hammer the phones
even more after what we did yesterday on the radio
show that this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is a this is a special thing.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You talk about your favorite moment, your favorite memory, why
it was so special, Jump on the horn, give us
a buzz and share your thoughts on Sunday with us
next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
Here he is, man hoping to see this guy at
the parade tomorrow. He deserves it, pretty sure. He was
there twelve years ago. He deserves it because it was
the two thousand and five team Dick Fane, as you know,
that laid the foundation for all of this stuff, getting
us there, knocking that barn door down, kicking that door down,
and getting us there for the first time twenty years ago.
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And this guy is soaking it up like all of us.
Our friend Walter Jones joins us right now on the
radio program Big Walt.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
How are you, man, good man? How you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah, we got it done.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, first of all, tell me about your experience. I
assumed that you were there. How exhausted are you right now?
After that game on Sunday? Man, Hey, I'm going to side.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I think the whole thing about it is being a
part of the you know, I thought to see how
doing a great job of bringing all the legends there
from old to some of the newer guys. You know,
the guys that won it in twenty thirteen. Now they
got a chance to be on that side. You know,
I think as football players, I would get a chance
to experience tailgating it to say, are preparing yourself for
a game. So to be around all those guys, to
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be there to see how your family celebrate, how your
friends celebrate, that was pretty awesome. Then to see these
guys to finish it off, you know, to be in
the stand. You know, I hadn't been to multiple Super Bowls,
but this is my first time ever sitting in the
stand and being a fan where I didn't have to work.
I had to do this, I had to do that.
I was just being a fan. So to be able
to see that to you know, I've been through what
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the two Super Bowls, and this is my first time
when I really got a chance to see the crowd
and see what it's all about, and it was totally amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, there's about nineteen follow up questions, by the way,
to everything you just said there. First of all, you
mentioned the Seahawks bringing a bunch of dudes down Dick,
and I saw was it Thursday night or Wednesday night,
whatever night it was, We saw Sean Alexander, Ricky Waters,
Chad Brown, a bunch of dudes at Ditka's party who
Dicka wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
By the way, they just use their guy's name.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I saw a lawyer at the Paris junk lawyer Malloy
tell us, be our man on the street, be our reporter, Walter.
Who else was down there besides you? Besides you?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh man, Matt Halselback his family was there, Like you said,
Sean Lader down the Max Strong, Steve Lodgers. You know,
I think everybody saw Steve lock. I thought it was
pretty cool. They did the twelfth flag on the field there.
I thought that was pretty cool. Jacob Green, Kurt Warner,
and it was so many peoples them, So I tell you, man,
they did a great job of bringing everybody back. And
you know, like they always say, winning curs everything. When
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you're winning, you get everybody to come around and be
a part of it. Like I tell my kids all
the time, to enjoy the bad times because once they
flip it and win, that's where you get your excitement
at That's where you drop it to that because you
have seen the work put in. I think once you
see that, that would make you and enjoyed being a
fan of the Seattle seat off the seat the change
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and seeing them winning the game.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So what was it like for you to watch the
game from our vantage point up in the seats. I mean,
I'm used to watching Walter Jones from forty yard line
of the upper deck at Looming Field.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So what was it like to watch that game from
the seats?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Man? It was pretty amazing. You know, Like I said,
it was a different crowd. You know what I'm saying.
It's not like, you know, you're sitting at a record game.
You know, you understand everybody that's in the stand what
they paid to get in the stand. So to be
around all those people, you know, you had Patriot fan
I tell you one thing. But Patriot fans, they was
great fans. Or where I was sitting at, you know,
they was pretty impressed. They was pretty I pressed with
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the mount of Seahawks fans that showed up and the
chances and all that stuff. So it was pretty cool
just to sit there. Like I said, I never got
a chance to really sit back and watch it as
a fan, to just to see the pressure or all
the stuff that goes on. But I tell you, to
see how they've done a great job even since Pete
was here, where you prepared these guys for the chaotic
stuff that goes along on the sideline you saw so
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many celebrities, so these guys are totally prepared for the
moment when you knowing that everybody's going to show up
to see this championship game.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Was there a point in the game where either a
you got nervous or be kind of got a little
bit concerned. I mean, I've mentioned that run by Drake
may up the seam that scramble and then two plays
later he got picked off by Julian. But was there
any point in that game where you kind of felt like,
all right, if the Patriots are going to make this
a game, it's gonna happen now, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So that's kind of telling you. I think if they
had to score, and you know, they would have made
about two touches down. But I figured like at that time,
I think it was like nine minute left in the
fourth quarter there, and I was thinking, there's no way
this defen is gonna let this team come back. You
know what I'm saying. I think they got too much pride,
and you kind of figured that once we got up
like not like once we got to sixteen, I kind
of figure like, Okay, this is what I need. And
I think the cool thing about this whole team. I
(04:36):
think it's a team effort, you know what I'm saying.
We talk about Sam or what Sam need to do,
and a lot of quarterbacks don't like game manager, but
I say all quarterbacks are game managers. A matter how
you've managed the game, you know that's at a high level.
Or do we need for you to on the yard?
We never needed Sam to throw for that many yard.
We need you to manage the game to put the
wall where it needs to be. And you saw that
in the playoff run that Sam did everything he's supposed
(04:59):
to do as a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
We'll put your handles hat on and talk about your
favorite position, the offensive line. How'd you think the Seahawks
offensive line handled that very very tough front of New England.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I thought it did a great job, even throughout off
the playoffs. I felt like I thought in the regular
season game against the forty nine ers, I felt like
something had got into the running back where I thought
that vim guys was hitting the hole pretty hard. It
wasn't all the trying to jump cut and try to
make the big play. They was hitting the ball. It
was four yards and I thought that was the recipe
(05:32):
for winning. I thought they did that throughout the whole playoff,
but you saw that in the Super Bowl where they
stuck to the run even when the games you thought
the game was we wasn't seeing the numbers that we
want to see. But I felt like they stuck to
the running game, and they stuck behind K nine and
let him run the ball and stayed patient with that
throughout the whole game.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Well, we talked a few months ago Walter about the
running game, right, and all of us were kind of
concerned about it a little bit. I don't know, man,
this is like week thirteen. It probably kind of is
what it is at this point, and then bang, they
just took off. I mean, Kenny Walker in the last
six games was on a pace for over two thousand
yards in a seventeen game season. So what changed, man,
(06:12):
is you watch this football team throughout the year. I
think people would have been pretty surprised if you would
have told them two months ago in the Super Bowl,
Kenny Walker is going to have one hundred and sixty
total yards of offense.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I'm not sure if a lot of people would have
bought that. So what changed?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You know? I think that the coaches kind of saw
it I tell people all the time, you know, you
look at the last couple of games there, especially when
we got in those last two games with the Rams
in the forty nineers, I kind of felt like we
was kind of playing banella, like we didn't want to
show our car. I felt like that, and that could
be something of a defensive mind tight coach thinking like, Okay,
we know what we have to do when those games
come around, you know, those two big games we had
(06:50):
to play in the final season. Then throughout the playoff,
I feel like we were holding our cards and to
the playoff. And you kind of saw that in the playoff,
and you kind of, like I said earlier, you kind
of out of them running and say, hey, every play
a home run. And I think as young running backs
they start to learn that. I think you saw that,
you know, the way Kenny was running that ball, how
patient he was. You know, you know he's always looking
(07:10):
for the home run, but I thought he was very
patient throughout the whole game. And I just felt like
they were just holding a shift to kind of see
what games did they need to show, And they did
that in that last game to get that number one seed.
And I feel like they felt like, Okay, if we
stay studied with the run game, we're going to have
a chance to make it for the super Bowl. And
that's what you saw.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Well, we know Ken made some money for himself over
the last six weeks or so, that is for sure,
But teams walt are very hesitant to give running backs
a lot of money. So how would you approach free
agent Ken Walker if you were the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think you take care of him, you know what
I'm saying. I think it would running back. Like you said,
you don't want to put a lot of money into
running backs for so long, so you just have to
make sure that you've given him something that he feels
good about. You know, understand what he's he's under contract.
But still again, you understand, you know, you kind of
saw the play. You kind of see when guy's knowing
that it's time to make the money and these are
the game that's gonna help you make the money. But
(08:04):
you know, you lock these guys up for three more
four years and we could be good for a long time.
But still in again, I understand that you know, once
running back the legs go, everything goes. So I think
it's one of those things where you celebrate this and
you try your best to take care of them, hope
they can.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, well, what about this offensive line?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do they need to bring everybody back, including.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Bradford to right guard?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I mean, I think he's the guy that Look, you know,
I don't know Anthony very well. You might know him
better than me, Walter. He seems like a good dude
and a genuine good guy. But I think most people
have talked about potentially trying to upgrade at that spot.
So would you feel comfortable bringing all five linemen back
next season or do you try and get better at
maybe a spot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I think you can always try to get better, you know,
anytime you can bring another body in that's going to
help this offensive line. But the crews think about this
offensive line, they was able to stay pretty well healthy,
all little stuff that's all across had and stuff like that.
But from a standpoint, you know, you get an offensive
line together for a long time and you could pisicitly
bring those guys back. I think Bradford, I think, you
(09:11):
know what you know. I think everybody sees the stuff
that somebody posts on Twitter by his player and stuff
like that. But I feel like if they felt like
he was a detriment to this team. I think they
would make those changes. You can't you can't take away
that this guy was there in the super Bowl and
was there to open up post of Kenny Walker. And
still again, you always can put another body to help
this team and make this team even better.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Walt, I'm gonna make you the offensive coordinator of the
New England Patriots for a second. What type of conversation
would you be having with Will Campbell after that game
fourteen pressures?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think it's one of those things where you have
to understand what you're going against in the game too.
I thought, like, you know, not to help this guy
out with chips or give him a tight end coming down.
You know, even though you know you had that pressure
coming into the game. You know he was already talking
about his player coming into this game. So you know
that defense is like a blood in the water. You know,
once you fire someone weakness or someone is not as
(10:08):
focus as you think you all you start seeing these
guys start eating and you saw that throughout the whole game.
You know what I'm saying. A lot of that that's refocused,
especially for offensive lineman. You know you have to get
somebody to sit there and counter see the things that
he was doing wrong and try to fix them off seats.
I think that's the only thing I could tell a
tackle like that, because you know it's not going to
(10:29):
stop until you put that fire out, because that's going
to be the talk of the whole off seasons. So
you got to go into this off season knowing that, hey,
I got to play better, I got to be better
next year. So hopefully that he see the game and
be hond with himself.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Well, how much talk would you have if you were
in that locker room Walt Walter Jones with us of
course on the radio station. One of the reasons why,
well a lot of reasons why I wanted this is
because I wanted to go back to back and get back.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What was robbed from us twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I mean, that's the crappy part about losing that first
game New England is it wasn't just the game, it
was back to back and I want I want back
to back. I want those demons want right, you know,
I want what was taken from us twelve years ago.
So how much talk would you be having with the
guys over the offseason OTAs, you know, texting during vacations whatever.
(11:17):
How much chatter do you think there's going to be
behind the scenes with these guys about doing back to
back titles.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I think everybody understand how tough that is to go
back to back because now you're not hunting. Now you're
the hunted, so everybody's hunting you now, and now everybody
got all your stuff on tape. You know what I'm saying.
And you know you go back to those games. We're
quarterbacks assessive. I take the two games that we can
go to at the RAM game where you saw a
quarterback that went out there and play the best against
that defense out of all the quarterbacks you saw a season.
(11:46):
Those two games are the two games where you saw quarterbacks.
So you're knowing that those guys on fan But these
guys are all together. I think we all know that
when we talk to these guys in the media. These
guys love to be together. They want to be great,
and they don't care who get the prize. You know
what I'm saying, It's a team game. So I know
that these guys are chilling. I tell them all. I
tell the guys like this, I said the Super Bowl
is cool, but it takes away you know, you're not
(12:08):
if you haven't been doing it consistently, you don't understand
the time that it takes off from you having vacation
and then getting back into it. It's just about about
how these guys approach the off season. Are they going
to be okay with all the paths on the backs
or do they want to set from Stamfords and say
we're gonna be like this for a couple more years.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Walt, how do you grade the loss of Clint Kubiak?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You know what, it's going to be tough. Man. I
think that the way that he was able to do
the things with Sam Donald's in one year, and now
you're going to another team, another organization where you the
head man. Sometimes you're kind of like, man, I wish
you would have kind of put a couple of more
season here with the Seattle and kind of make this
great and then you go off. But I understand how
the NFL works. You know, you win, and then I
(12:54):
own to show of seeing those guys and wanted to
graft those guys, and now you're seeing where everybody want
young guys. Now you know this is the new age
now there's a copycat league. But still again, I think
that you know, coach McDonald, uh, Josh Schwight. I think
they're gonna go out and they're gonna find their guy
that's that that compliment uh Sam Donald and things that
he want to do on the field. So I think
(13:15):
it should be exciting all see for him to find
the right guy.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All right, hey, are you and are you in the
parade tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I will be around there somewhere. I hear it's going
to be crazy, man, So I'm looking forward to it.
I think, Uh, the last one was crazy, So I
think the fans gonna definitely make it, make it to
the point where you know it's going to be crazy
because I think they're gonna want the whole world to
see how how do these fans, how do these twelve
get together and celebrate their team? So I'm looking forward
to it. I think as a as a fan and
(13:44):
as a former player, I think you can't miss this
because now you're going to see everybody come together and
celebrate the championship.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I love it. Fired up that you were there.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Fired up to see you tomorrow, man. Uh, good stuff,
and we'll talk down the road. Man, Thanks, Walt, Yes, sir,
goalks all right, Walter Jones with us. I don't know
if there is an ex player of any team that
we have in this city, cracking Sounders or Huskies whatever,
who is a bigger fan of that team.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Than Walter Jones.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Okay, honestly, like Jordan Reffitt on Twitter, gigantic Husky and
there's a lot of dogs in a big Husky fans.
But that guy, I mean you talk about like his
his status as a Hall of Fame left tackle X seahawk,
who's as vocal and cheers in public as hard as
he does and wears his heart on his sleeve the
way he does. I don't know if there's anybody like
(14:35):
him in Seattle. And it's kind of a little bit
of a surprise because how quiet he was when he
played that. He's that guy. But honestly, is there an
ex Mariner, an ex Seahawk, an ex Sonic, an ex
anybody who's as vocal and chea and it's genuine, right,
p Yeah, but yeah, I mean yeah, probably right. But
(15:00):
he is so freaking genuine, like you could tell that
he was sitting in the stands rooting his ass off
where in a Seahawks hat holding up a foam finger
just like us.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Here's he's become us. Here's the barometer for that. Is
there any other athlete who an hour before every single
Seahawks game he goes see on Twitter and then not.
He even just likes, he reposts every single person who
responds yes Hawks.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No other former athlete does that. He's a diehard fan.
He's an absolute diehard fan.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And you get the feeling that whatever team he played for,
he would have been a diehard fan of that team.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
We're just lucky he played here. But what did you
think I was here?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
I thought you were going to say, and you and
you alluded to it with how quiet he was. Can
you I can't think of one Seattle athlete that has
gone from so quiet to so awesome on the air
over the course.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Of his career.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well you know he's been doing that now for a while.
But I just, I mean, God bless him. He is
a gentle giant. He's a sweetheart of a guy. I mean,
you gotta you say a bad thing about Walter Jone
and you better zip your freaking lip, honestly, because he is.
He is as protected as anybody in this town with
what he's accomplished, and.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
There's nothing on him either. There's no dirt on this guy.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I mean, Gary Payton has had his own you know,
ups and downs, and you know it was it him
or was it him throwing a weight at Maxwell or
vice versus vat Maxwell? Maxwell threw a weight at him.
Imagine throwing a dumbell at somebody. All right, I mean
that's what he did at the old facility where the
Gates Foundation is now. There's nothing on this guy. And
then Chuck person blanded on us the meeting of Jackson.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, the rifleman. There is nothing.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
There's no fault for printing all that mean stuff about
our team.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's pissing us off. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Well here's what we got. We got John Rohner joining
us at five. Uh, we're gonna do a little recap
of the last parade from twelve years ago right around
six thirty tonight.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Textimonials.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
We got some open time as well for you guys
to jump on the phone if you want to share
even more memories of about what you were going through
on Sunday. I feel like we can hammer the phones
even more after what we did yesterday on the radio
show that this.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is a this is a special thing.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
You talk about your favorite moment, your favorite memory, why
it was so special, Jump on the horn, give us
a buzz and share your thoughts on Sunday with us
next on ninety three to three KJRFM.
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