Furness Show 2-11: Rick Rizzs and Klint Kubiak is introduced

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tour in ACL Let's go to the show right now. Hi, Hello,
Mike Benton in for the mayor of Maple Valley. Ian
isant today off this week as well. I think buried
somewhere on a vacation staycation. I have no idea, but
he's out of here, miles away. Jessamin McIntyre making sure

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this week because we have the power of the staycation.
There's no way someone turns this wheel here between one
to three pm. So I've got friends on vacation this week.
I got colleagues on vacation this week. The hockey part
of the season died down for an nd season tournament,
and we'll get to that a little bit later on.
But the commands were, Mike, take the foot off the
gas pedal originally, but oh no, oh no, because when

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the bad signal calls and the sacred one that as
a mayor and Maple Valley goes on vacation duty calls,
so consider me you're Andre's munnos to Ian's logan Gilberts.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
It definitely looks like a crack and symbol in this guy,
and I think the team like skips a beat and goes,
oh my god, what is that in this sky?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
And it's like, oh no, that was for Mike.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Ben Is that what the powers that be do? They
put the bad signal out there? But it's like a
cracking s like in the sky somewhere.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
How yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Live way too far.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
I picture it.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I live way way way way, way too far away
up the freeway. I can't notice. So I'm kind of
being field man. This is this is called trade secrets.
Here going down. So I am your Andre's Munno to
Ian's logan, Gilbert your Kasasaki to Ian's Freddy Garcia. You know,
just tap the year. I'm right here. I'll be back
your Thursday as well. Hey, that's why I love this job.
I'm here anytime you.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Came here because you like hanging out with us.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I miss you, guys. We miss you too, been a while.
So yeah, we're doing this year for today Until three pm,
Softy and Dick are hanging out after a lot to
get to coming up. Mariner's radio voice, Rick Riz. I
can't wait for this at one twenty, and do we
have to expect the pitching staff to throw not a
gem but to quote the line from Austin Powers Laser

(03:55):
beams again, Mariner's radio voice, Rick, I can't wait for
the sound of his voice. You can tell that hope
springs eternal when you get him on back on once
again one twenty. We'll have Rick Riz on one for
five daily power Play. I've got stuff on Copocaco, Ian
Tush and the four Nations thing yesterday. We'll do a
bit of a refresher here, but I think it's not

(04:15):
what we're learning of. Should they Should they not extend
Copocaco because there'll be a pending free agent sort of
it's a it's a complicated RFA category. But is this
the kind of player the crack and need to look
at here in the off season when there could be
a lot of change coming potentially two o'clock, we're going
to break down the Quint Kubiak comments here from this

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morning's presser. And there is a ton to unpack. I
know Jess is already hammered away at this right now.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Uh huh. And it's gonna sound great. There's a lot
to get to.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I got something here also for you, by the way,
you're also your text and everything else that comes here
with this a little bit later on.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh yeah, and also you know, he teases me, I
love to talk back so much.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
If you want your voice on the show, please just
send us in.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Heart radio app, hit the red mic icon thirty seconds
or less. Boom, you're done. Get to your talkbacks right now.
By the way, we'll get to this later on. So
I did want to touch very quick on the Klinn
Kubiak thing. And we know the Ryan Grubb experiment was
just that an experiment, and it went so badly that
the Seahawks after just a year tell him you're done.

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And there's more to this here from the klin Kubiac
pressor today, and we're going to go over this a
little bit more at two pm. And we heard the
soft one in there with a few questions that you
may have missed, and I thought it shed some really
serious light on this last season and the operational crank
that was the Seahawks that didn't exactly function the way

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that they would certainly have hoped. And there are reasons
here to justify this, and how much of this really
exposed the extreme disconnect between Mike McDonald and Ryan Grub.
I mean, listen, we've beaten the genodrama ton This is
becoming more and more and more polarizing here by the day.
So this is not so much a hot take. This

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is just playing straight facts. Gino is the guy. He's
not gonna go anywhere. Mike McDonald said so about two
days ago. Oh yeah, I know. The opinion is widely
panned on whether he's going to be a winner and
take this team back here to the dance as a quarterback.
And again, you can blame the QB all you want.
And at a certain point, there are parts of the

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game that separate the good ones here from the elites.
We're gonna get to that also coming up at the
two o'clock hour.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, I mean, we have recent proof of it.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't know if you're interested in hearing from Mike
McDonald himself about Gino, but that is the biggest question.
I think it goes Gino one A and offensive line
one B. But credit to Aaron Levigne who actually just
straight up asked him the question.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Or our boy, do you expect him to be her
starting quarterback next year?

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Heck yeah, man, Gino's our quarterback. I don't know understand
the conversation. It's pretty obvious. This guy's a heck of
a quarterback. He's our quarterback. We love him, can't wait
to go to work with him. We've had a lot
of non football conversations to keep it legal over the
last month or so, and he I know, he's really
excited about Clint taking over and this guy, he's a
great player, man, and we can win a championship with
Gino Smith.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
We really believe that and can't wait to get back
to work with him. So what does this say that
Clinton Kubiak hit One of his biggest reasons he came
here was to work with Gino Smith. What does it say.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
A lot about Geno Smith? Yeah, longevity here, one hundred percent.
I mean, you can say all the right things, you know,
the times that you're supposed to be saying that, But
I do think that people were nitpicking over the fact
that McDonald said championship and not super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I just know and this and this is a separate
conversation that that separates good quarterback from elite quarterback. And
I mean, listen, this is where I would love to say, Hey,
Hugh Millen, can we get you out of the living
room here and out the golf worse and get you
on for about a few.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Minutes because a few minutes does not exist.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, I'm saying that tongue in cheek here, but I
say a tongue in cheap because Hugh knows ball and
he's forgotten more about this position in this game than
I will ever learn. So I trust him when he said,
and he said this a while back. You put Geno
Smith on that Eagles team, they still win the Super Bowl.
And he said this about a week or two weeks ago.
And the reasons are we and we're going to go

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through this as far as the why. But again it
goes right back. How good is your O line, how
good is your protection? How good is your running game?
How good is your defensive line as well? Guess who
just won the Super Bowl? I mean, listen, Jalen Hurts
has taken a truckload of punishment of opinion. Just be

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Patrick Mahomes. Repeat, Jalen Hurts just beat Patrick Mahomes and
it didn't happen by accident. So we're gonna get to
this little little bit here. I'm gonna, by the way,
before you get the break, I'm gonna issue your important message.
Part of this is clear, part of it is coded,
and I'll let you listen closely. And and Jess, if

(09:09):
you want to write this down for the words I accentiate,
just to accentuate, just.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Again, get this down, cracker box decodering.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
I'm just going to say, okay, go for it. So
when I grabbed the mic, I feel compelled to respect
the opinions. The schemes and the core values of anyone
from a home brend to a McDonald. Should the Seahawks
build this for the future around Gino with Clinn Kubiak

(09:38):
with more? Where would they be without an offensive line?
In that respect? Where are they without players that newcomer
oc Clint Kubiak knows. The Saints have some guys available
free agency could help. Do they look down the hall

(10:01):
for tight end Juwan Johnson? How about old lineman Curtis
or Lucas Patrick. You want something that's cheap of fair value,
how about another old lineman in Shane Lemieux. Because Kubiak
knows how to get the most out of his talents,

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that will be the ultimate path to fame in Seahawks lore.
What do you think? Four nine four five one.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
I agree with the message.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
This will be about, by the way, podcasted on the
e Internest Show later on today in case you just
missed it.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Oh well, I think we might have to take a
poll on who got that.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Mariners spring training also starts tomorrow. Pitchers and catchers report.
Then everyone's in about a few days from now in
games in ten days, and we've hood and hollered about
all this. The roster building and all that. This pitching staff,
how good do they have to be? A lot of
questions here to get to because, well, first off, do
you know how many things last for thirty eight years?
There are not many. Some careers do not last that long.

(11:05):
There are musical trends that don't last about a third
of that long. There are ballparks that don't last that long.
So you need to be an institution to last that long.
And you know who's one. That's the one and only
Rick Riz He's next right here. Ninety three three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
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Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, you know the sound of that song means
baseball's right around the corner. Pitchers and catchers reporting tomorrow.
And we have been through this whole off season of
psychoanalyzing everything and what was done, what was not done,
what was said, what was not said. But the matter
of fact is we are now ten days away from

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the Cactus League opener with the Mariners taken on the
San Diego Padres. That doesn't matter, the good, that the ugly,
the fun, the gnashing of teeth. This man's voice across
a baseball game makes you feel good and as we
spring forward, just ask me back to the Ken Griffy
Junior days. This is Rick Riz, radio voice of the Mariners,

(12:18):
joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
It is phenomenal here to hear your voice and hear
you once again, my friend. How is your off season?

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (12:27):
It went by very quickly, Mike. It's great to be
with you and just a man. Sun is out, a
great day out for baseball. Not so much here maybe,
but down at Pure it's about seventy four degrees. But
as always, you know, this is my fifty first year
coming up in baseball, and the off season just fly
by faster and faster faster. It seems like just the

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other day where I left the booth at the end
of the regular season. The holidays come around and those
are wonderful, and then all of a sudden you start
thinking about baseball.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Football's done now with the Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 (12:58):
And now it's time to get the bats and balls
out and watch the guys get ready for another season.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I think I asked this question for many of us
around town right now, would you mind sending some sun
and warmer attempts back our way here from Arizona.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
I'll try my best, Like I don't know if I
could do that, but man alive.

Speaker 9 (13:15):
We'll get a big fan, get this big fan and
blow some of that warm air up north and to
warm things up.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
We're going to try to do that. But all you
gotta do is turn on your radio on February twenty first.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
And you'll feel that one coming out of here.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh you hit the nail on the head right there,
my friend. Well, it's great to have you once again.
And I mean, hey, I know when loss, extra innings, whatever,
you're a reason that we're dialed in here with this
team from the get go. It is the stuff of legends.
I want to first ask you about each he wrote,
he'll throw out the ceremonial first pitch for opening day.
We just covered the whole Hall of Fame thing, which
was a phenomenal event that we saw that nearly brought

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tears to his eyes a few weeks back. So, I mean,
I think I asked you if there's one game that
you could go back and rel with each row all
over again from upstairs. Which game would that be?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (14:05):
My gosh, that's so tough. You know, the big hits,
the throw that put him on the map. You know,
when he threw out Terrence Long trying to go from
first to third, Lasier being throw a perfect strike to
David Bell, and the world started to realize that he
was a special player.

Speaker 8 (14:23):
Breaking the single season.

Speaker 9 (14:25):
Hit record getting number two fifty eight late in the
season in two thousand and four, breaking a record that
stood for eighty four years, that was set by George
Sisler in nineteen twenty. But what really got me was
his final game in the Big leagues, which was played
in Japan at the Tokyo Dome. He played just two
games at the start of the year against the Open
A's and to feel the warmth and the love and

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the reception that he got. You know, he started his
career obviously in Japan with the Orc's BlueWave for nine years,
came here at the age of twenty seven and played
nineteen years and had three over three thousand hits here
in the Big Leagues in the great years with the Mariners.
But to see that reception that he got and how
much the fans over there appreciated him there in his
final game, of his professional career, major league career was

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just unbelievable. Everybody was in awe and a young yuse
Kakuchi started that second game against the Oakland as he
was emotional, you know, that day, the entire day he
started his career in Japan as a member of the Mariners,
after starting in Japan as well. But there's so many moments,
but that final game for him and then going into

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the Hall of Fame and being inducted in the Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
A few weeks ago was absolutely amazing too.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, it is certainly coming. That's going to be a
joyous day for all to really cap off this thing
this summer and I think for the times Rick that
I can get to the ballpark during the summer. It
never ceases to amaze me how even at the age
of fifty one, he is still in the outfield at
two pm shagging flyball during early This is a big

(16:01):
creature of habit. I mean, how many more years do
you think he takes us up until he says, you
know what, I'm done.

Speaker 9 (16:07):
I think he's gonna keep going until he's done. I
tell you what, if you go to the ballpark, Let's
see what time is it. It's almost one thirty. If
you go to the ballpark right now, guess where he
tro is at. He's in the batting cage with Alan Turner.
He goes there every day during the week and takes swings,
he stretches. I think if he was showing up in

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the Mariners lineup sometime during the season, he can get
a base hit. But his discipline, who's his routine is unmatched,
you know, doing the same thing every day at the
same time, stretching in front of his locker and then
running out, you know, through the dugout out to the
right field at a certain time, what was at four
o'clock or four seventeen in the afternoon, with a battery

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of cameras there, and you know, they were taking the
same video day in and day out. Then they watch
him throw long toss out there and ron and get ready.
And I asked one of the Japanese reporters, one of
the five with the television camera where I got to
know down through the years, and I just jokingly said, hey,
why don't you use the video from yesterday? Why don't
you use your video from a week ago, two months ago?

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Why don't you use your video from a year. What's
the same thing, he says, Rick, he said, let me
tell you. He said, if each roll comes running out
of this dugout slips and falls and I don't have
it and the other guys do, I get fired. So
that's the kind of you know, focus that was on
each ro from day one back in two thousand and one,

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when he showed up to spring training, there were about
a battery of fifty cameras lined up, you know, at
field one, from the left field corner all the way
down to third base. You know, he was the first
position player to come over from Japan, so he had
that weight on his shoulders. You know, he had the
weight to the shoulders of entire country watching his every move.
And not only did he get off to a good start,

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he was the rookie of the year, the MVP of
the league, you know, knowing any of the pitchers, any
of the ballparks, you know. And the funny story with
Luke Canel at spring training and I happened to be
down at field one when this when this happened. When
when Luke came down to the field and he was
yelling him there, he goes, hey, Wor's Ted Hyde. Where's
Ted hide? Ted Hyde was his interpreter at the time.
Where's Itchro? Where's e Tro?

Speaker 8 (18:17):
I go? I don't know where?

Speaker 9 (18:18):
Each is a loose brighting clubhouse or something. So they
found each troll and they got him down the field
one and they had a conversation and you and each troll.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
The first week or two of the spring.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Was you know, hitting the ball left field, in the
ball left.

Speaker 9 (18:31):
Field, and during the games he would hit some foul
balls right over loose Head sitting in the folding chair,
you know, third bay side outside the dugout, and he
wanted to have Eatro to pull the ball one time.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
He said, I just want to see it. Pull the
ball one tight.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
So that day, first time up against the Padres, he
it's a home run the right field. Each roll around
the basis comes to the dugout, gets the little goes.
Are we okay, You're okay, e troll, You do your thing.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
So he left them alone.

Speaker 10 (19:00):
Loan.

Speaker 9 (19:01):
You know, it was a tremendous discipline, the great hand
eye coordination of putting the bat on, the baseball balls,
the rice balls that he ate from his wife, Yamko.
I mean everything that he did. You know worked and
he was just an amazing player. And look at this,
He's going in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Rick ros is here with Mike Betton, Jessamin McIntyre, Ian
Furness taking some well deserved time off right now, Rick,
you probably have endless stories, and some you know, I'm
sure you can tell on the air, and some are
maybe for off the air. But at this time of year,
I always get excited about baseball season, no matter how
frustrated or excited I might be about a time or

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a team at any given time. So I just you know,
you were explaining eachi Ro and his consistency and his routine,
but you are not in your position without having the
same kind of passion.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
You know. You have to give yourself credit for that.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
So I'm wondering, looking upon this year, what excites you
most about what we're about to experience with this baseball team.

Speaker 9 (20:06):
Well, Jessman, thank you for that. Yeah, I'm sitting there
doing my notes right now. In the Arizona Diamondbacks, we
play them the fourth game of the spring.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
So I you know, in our business, we.

Speaker 9 (20:15):
Have to prepare and you know, get ready for every
game because I don't want to let the listeners down.
I got to be ready to explain, you know, what's
happening and things like that.

Speaker 8 (20:24):
But what I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Forward to every for every spring, jess Ben is the
same thing.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
The roster.

Speaker 9 (20:31):
You know, Julio Rodriguez is going to have a great year.
He's gonna have a breakout year as great as he's been.
You know, he struggled last year and Edgar really got
him to turn things around. His numbers, we're unbelievable last
thirty four games of the year. But what excites me
the most, what I look forward to are the young
players that show up every spring. Look what's happened over
the last five six years with our pitching. You know,

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Logan Gilbert, the first round pick the Stets and George Kirby,
you know, a first round pick out of Elon University.
I mean, if you're good, baseball will find you. Bryce
Miller a high draft choice along with Brian Wood. To
see these kids come along, A young Julio Rodriguez I
saw four years ago down at field six and I

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looked at this kid.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
I go, Wow, this kid is going to be something.

Speaker 9 (21:16):
Then I talked to the managers in the minor leagues
down there and the coaches and the farm system right
now is still one of the best in baseball with
position players. So we're going to see a Cole Young,
a second baseman with an opportunity maybe to make the
ball club if he has a great spring. Colt Emerson
one of the top prospects in the game. But the
kid I'm excited about is this kid, Lasaro Montez and Alfielder.

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He looks like you're Don Alvarez of the Houston Astros,
and if he hits like him, we're gonna we're gonna
be in great shape for a long time. But he's
a super kid, smile in his face, laughing, so friendly,
but you know, just chocked full of talent. And other
players as well, Johnny Farmelo and other players. So that
that's what excites me the most is you know, the

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young players that have come through this organization. Just like
I saw a seventeen year old kid when we signed
him out of Cincinnati Moulor High School, Ken Grippy Junior.
Two years later, you know, in nineteen eighty nine, he
makes our ball club. He wasn't going to make the team,
but he made the ball club and became one of.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
The greatest players in the issue of the game in
Ken Grippy Junior.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
So that's what excites me. And having Edgar around too,
because man, he turned things around at the end of
the year as the hitting coach. I mean, the numbers
were absolutely drastic from what they were to what they
became late in the season. The last thirty four games
of the year. Now to have Kevin Sizer as the

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hitting coach to work alongside Edgar and Dan Wilson did
that with job.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
And the ball club went twenty three and eleven the.

Speaker 9 (22:46):
Last thirty four games of the year. You're going to
see Julio have a great year. Like I said, We're
gonna see Randy Rose arena for a full year. Victor
Roebliss was one of the most exciting players in the
game of baseball. The last few months of this season.
We're gonna have all year long cal rally, the maturation
process just continues. Thirty four home runs as which hitter
in one hundred RBIs is a catcher catching all those games.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
Beating up the foul tips.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
I don't know how he did it, but he did.

Speaker 9 (23:15):
A healthy JP Crawfords and that pitching staff, the starting
rotation is the best in baseball. You have Muonno's closing
out games. Matt Brash is going to be back sometime
earlier in the season. So I think it's going to
be a heck of a year.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
I really do. I think they're going to get back
to the playoffs this year.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, Rick, I love that you brought up here the
change as far as who's turn of the crank with
the hitting side of things with Edgar and Kevin Sitzer
here z Rick Rez radio voice and the Mariners joins
us right now here in the program and with respects
here to the lineup with Kevin Sitzer Edgar's brain trust
on this. I'm curious about the Donovan Solano thing at

(23:51):
age thirty seven, one year deal. The Donnie Barrels thing
is well well known right now after his breakout here
in San Francisco years back, So I use him here
as an example and to kind of bring up what
Kevin Sitzer can do, what Edgar Martinez can do. I
think to you what Marys the player, the resume, and

(24:12):
the kind of approach that Edgar and Kevin Sitzer wants
here to unlock whatever he's got left.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
I think they what they were able to do.

Speaker 9 (24:21):
What they're able to unlock is go back to the
old ways of hitting instead of you know, we got
to be at a point years ago where the players
got bigger and the ballparks got smaller, and we had
to hit the ball hard, hit the ball a long way,
hit home runs. We forgot how to hit, you know,
And take a look at the team batting averages. They've

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been ridiculously low over the last ten to fifteen years
because we didn't put the ball in play. One of
the three true outcomes has been a home run.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
A strikeout on the walk.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
Why does a strikeout have to be a true outcome?

Speaker 8 (24:55):
You know?

Speaker 9 (24:55):
Edgar told me last year. This is before it became
an e coach. He says, real, you like to strike out,
you know. Now guys strike out, they go back to
the dug out, get a bet on the butt. I
didn't want to strike out. And what he did he
turned around everything just by keeping it simple, you know,
and that's hit the ball up the middle, hit the
ball the other way, cut down on your swing with

(25:17):
two strikes. They had bat changes during the course. When
you're behind in the count, you know, put the ball
in play, use the power of the pitcher. If he's
throw one hundred miles an hour, just be quick, don't
swing out your backside.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
You're not going to hit it.

Speaker 9 (25:31):
And that's what this ball club did, and the results
showed with Edgar, you know.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
Keeping it simple.

Speaker 9 (25:37):
Before he got became the hitting coach, the Mariners were
scoring under four runs a game and after over five
runs a game with runners scoring position. Before Edgar got there,
we had two thirty three. After Edgar got there, hit
two fifty four. Strikeouts went way down. So I think
that's what we're going to see. You know, Edgar is

(25:58):
still going to be there every day during the whole
home games and at spring training. Kevin Seitzer will be
there all season long. So I think it's going to
be a simple approach. Put the ball and play, cut
down the strikeouts. And that's really been our mantra for years,
and they didn't do it, and now we saw the
results of that the last thirty four games of the year.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Hey, Eric, what about Julio and what gets him back
to where he was two to three years ago?

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Well, exactly what I was talking about.

Speaker 9 (26:26):
You know, I would see Julio take some wild swings
with two strikes and he end up falling across home plate,
and Edward got him to stay back, you know, stay
back on his backside, his right leg and drive into
the ball. You didn't see him falling across home plate.
You didn't see him taking wild swings. And then what
you did see was an incredible turnaround, you know from Julio.

(26:49):
I mean, in the last what was it, the last,
you know, thirty four games of the season.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
I just wrote it down here somewhere. It's unbelievably.

Speaker 9 (26:56):
He had over three hundred, you know, in his last
thirty four games of the Area, had seven home runs
and twenty two RBIs and he cut down on the strikeout.
So we're gonna see Julio be Julio again. And that's
that's what he was when he first got here, and
then things changed. His first five months of the season,
he had eleven home runs, thirty eight RBIs. In the

(27:17):
last thirty four games of the Area, nine home runs
with thirty runs batted in, and like I said, the
strikeouts were way down. So it was amazing turnaround by Julio.
He listened to Edgar and everybody else listened to Edgar
Martinez and why wouldn't you. He's the best atter I
ever seen in this organization, you know, over the last
almost fifty years. But I think that's what we're going

(27:39):
to see from Julio and all the guys. And because Julio,
if he makes contact, he's going to hit the ball
out of the ballpark in every direction, left field, center field,
out to his Jay Rod squad out there, and right
center field. But what Edgar taught everybody was you got
to take a look at the scoreboard.

Speaker 8 (27:56):
The score will tell you what to do. What kind
of bat you need to take.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
Early in the out, Yeah, go ahead, let it eat,
but you know, make it hit the ball hard. But
then with two strikes, it's you got to put the
ball in play. And that's what the Mariners did those
last thirty four games.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Well, certainly if they have him going in the right direction,
Randy Eroseorana going in the right direction, this pitching staff
as well, My goodness, that's some noise that is going
to be made here. Well, I mean, we've only scratched
the surface I think here. But we'll cut you loose
for now. Rick, I can't thank you enough for doing this,
But I mean, tell me after thirty seven years of
doing this, how much of this job of the Mariners

(28:31):
has changed for you? What remains the same and what
do you tell your younger self about what to expect
in this business.

Speaker 9 (28:39):
I found out over the last fifty years and thirty
nine with the Mariners and three with the Detroit Tigers
that more things that you know change or stay the same.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
It's nothing. Nothing really stays the same.

Speaker 9 (28:54):
Things change, the ballplayers change, and you just got to
go out there and enjoy the game. That's what I
learned about it. You know, my preparation hasn't changed. I
try to be prepared, like I talked about earlier, is
as much as I possibly can. But I would love
to see us to go back to the old school offensively,

(29:14):
hitting the ball up the middle, hit the ball the
other way, and hit o bruns. I'm not against Olbert.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
I love home runs.

Speaker 8 (29:18):
I love three run home runs better than so home runs.

Speaker 9 (29:21):
But I want to tell the fans that it's going
to be a fun season with this pitching staff. You
can't top to this staff in Major League Baseball. You
got Luis Castill, Kirby and Gilbert. Gilbert an All Star
two years last year, Kirby and All Star two years ago,
and then who knows what Bryce Miller and Brian who
are going to do this year. They're so talented, so

(29:43):
I don't know. I look for a fun season. That's
what I look forward to every year.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
No, nearly four decades of doing this. You're as fresh
as ever. A great call to you, sir. We can't
thank you enough. I'll look forward to seeing you at
the ballpark as well. But we'll get you back on
soon very much. Once again, thank you.

Speaker 9 (29:58):
Rick all right, Mike, what are you going to do
now for the next couple of weeks? Little time off
with the crack, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Work with me, little bits. Vacation. I come into the
booth here, adjustment. It's like a vacation.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
I would say that is my nickname actually according to
everyone here, because I took a vacation, like my first
month here.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
I was like, I have a vacation.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
You're you're more than welcome here to to join in
and drop the word vaka by the way, Rick, that'd
be awesome. That'd be awesome. Thank you, Thank you, Rick
all right, all right, appreciate you. RICKZ Radio Voice, one
of a kind, the one and only here of the
Seattle Mariners. We got to get to break here very soon.
But I loved what he said at the very end

(30:43):
here where we're not against the home runs and baseball
isn't a different day and age here launch angle, eggs
of velocity everything, But the fundamentals are still the saying
you were there a ton last year. I was there
a ton there last year. And listen, we can go
on for hours and hours and if you want to
go ahead and drop in what you want here out

(31:03):
of this offense four nine four or five one, because
we have just psychoanalyzed this thing to death, oh yeah,
for about weeks. But I mean we saw the change though.
We saw the change when it came to a more
of a simplistic approach.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I think that's exactly what Rick and I were talking
about off the air, too. Was I think that he
believes that Edgar could be the perfect conduit between analytics
which are valuable, yeah, and actually communicating it to an
athlete who has to go out there and perform in
a blink.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Of an eye.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
But yeah, my favorite thing that he said during that
whole conversation was Julio gets to be Julio again.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
And I think that's going to be huge.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
What do you think. I mean, if you're a baseball player,
if you're a hockey player, if you're a football player,
if you're a lawyer, if you're a dentist, if you're
going into work overthinking and overanalyzing what you have to
do to do your job, are you going to be
as good at it? Are you going to be as effective?
It's all instinct.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
I know it so much. And the yeah, I overthink.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I'm not as comfortable when I'm overthinking too. And listen,
I mean it happens everywhere you go. When you first
start out and you're you're trying to impress people. You're
trying to be the cool guy. You're trying to be
the guy who's you know, fitting in. You're trying to
be the person who doesn't mess up. I mean, stories
upon stories are out there everywhere. I can testify to
that you're trying your best to to to do the

(32:26):
best that you can in a new place. Now, I
think in this case, right here, it goes back here
to the information. You put a bunch in there, you
begin to overthink, and then mine begins to mess with matter,
and the more and more and the more and more
that you can see Julio get back to feeling like
Julio and being Julio, the better off this Mariner's offense

(32:49):
is going to be because you know, I know, we
all know. Without Julio, without a peak Randi eros Arena,
this ship ain't going anywhere. And the pitching staff has
got to do the same thing as they did last year.
And we all light a candle that they can stay
as healthy as the.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Year health abides. Do I need to get saged like,
don't say that out loud.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I think they were the healthiest pitching staff in baseball
if I remember that correctly reading.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
It and by the numbers and best at the time.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
See again, you put this pitching staff in the postseason
with an offense, I can get you there. This team
is going to mess around and win a lot of stuff,
maybe mess around and get to a World Series. I
go back and look at what they did when they
played the Dodgers for three games and Brian Wu was
nearly unhittable. I saw what they did. I was there

(33:43):
for a game against the Yankees when the Yankees won
their postseason birth, but it required extra innings and Logan
Gilbert was lights out. That's the kind of pitching staff
you need to go into the postseason mess around and.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Win a bunch.

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(36:03):
going to the Four Nations face off. He and shared
more on this yesterday and what it's all about. A
chorus it's a big, big thing, a precursor here to
the Olympics. It's gonna be the US, Canada, Sweden and Germany. Yeah,
I'm with the end. I mean, I think having no
Russia kind of sucks. I mean, check you is almost strong.
You got Leon Dreichs title with Team Germany. He's gotta
sit this one out though. So it's a huge bummer,

(36:25):
but still a lot of talent and we'll get We'll
get to see cop Ocaco right before our very eyes.
And when we get a chance to watch him, the
angel sing. It's not a heavenly chorus. It's a hard, aggressive,
heavy metal type of one. How's that for a word picture.
I'm gonna ask Jessman here to queue this up because
Copocacko joined me in the crack and dressing room last

(36:48):
week in the morning of the final home game before
the Four Nations break against Toronto. He's done this thing before.
And if you don't know what the World Junior Championships are,
I'll give it to you in one sentence. It's basically
the picks for the best players in the world ages
sixteen to twenty. On the hockey side, it's nationally televised.
It's a big deal anyway. Coppocaco scored the championship winning

(37:10):
goal for Finland six years ago at that tournament, and
I asked him what's the best piece of advice he
ever got with handling big moments.

Speaker 10 (37:20):
I don't know. I think it's like you just gotta
gotta play the game, and then I think it's it's
it's kind of hard, but it's like pretty nice at
the same time. You know, I think you're dreaming, you know,
you're gonna play maybe we're Junior's final or Olympic final
or something, Stanley Cup final. I think those other things

(37:41):
you especially when you're young, you work out and you
you know, play outdoor hockey or something, and you're dreaming,
You're you're gonna be there at some point, so you
just gotta enjoy at the same time. I think that's
how you should think on the ice bat. I mean,
it's kind of hard at the same thing, you know,

(38:02):
you know it's tied. Yeah, That's how I'm trying to
think about.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
That's Copocaco on handling big moments, cracking for going to
play for Finland here at the Four Nations face off,
and to me, those are words of a leader. You
have two choices when it comes to facing pressure, fight
or flight. And Copocaco said, you dream of those moments
when you're a kid playing on the pond. And you
may think, okay, Mike, all players say that, whatever what,

(38:30):
YadA YadA. But I challenge you with this, how many
players want that moment? Do they want to be the
hero or are they just afraid of being the guy
who screws it up?

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Mentally?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
I think there's a combination of everyone on a team
in those situations.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
That stuff is for real. I mean, if you go
back and read Tim Grover's book he's the former personal
trainer for Michael Jordan, called Relentless, that stuff's real, and
he categorizes it in three different types of players. There's
a cooler, a closer, and a cleaner. And the cleaners
men for the guy who just doesn't want the ball

(39:10):
or the game winning shot or the crucial shift in overtime,
but he's gonna stop at nothing to get that win,
to get a victory, and do it over and over
and over again. And it's reserved for only an elite
group of players, and those players are, for instance, Michael Jordan,
he mentioned Dwayne Wade. He said, back when he wrote

(39:32):
this book, Lebron was close but not there yet. Sidney
Crosby's in there. I ran this by players in the
Cracking dressing room. Crosby is a cleaner, Mark messier cleaner.
So you've got a player who can play in those
type of games. But Coppo Coco is a big body.
And I'm gonna wrap this up quick here as far

(39:53):
as where the Kraken go with their roster, do you
want more small and skilled or do you want more
of a big body like him who can play with
the puck and produce offense? Four nine four five one.
Because here are the facts. The Crack in this year
second smallest team in the NHL by height, within the
bottom ten for lightis and weight. Coppocaco six foot one,
two fifteen. He plays ground and pound hockey. He gets

(40:16):
a puck, you're not getting it back, and they seem
to unlock something within where coaches and scoutl mentioned for
a guy like him. He plays like a moose physically
and mentally like this. And I look at this year
for this offseason, where do you add do you look
for Samiko Rantanen, who literally is nicknamed the Moose. He's

(40:39):
going to be expensive. May command fourteen million dollars a
year with the crack and right now have only about
sixteen million, but yet can wipe off more cap space.
They need an aircraft carrier and a top line guy
like him. Do you look elsewhere, maybe say Mitch Marner
a bit smaller but can produce Nikolai Eelers. But beyond that,

(41:00):
it's it can be a bit of a reach.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
March seventh is going to be interesting. Oh as we
get close to that.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Trade, that's going to be the precursor right there, top
line score. Three words that will make the most impact
for this roster and to improve it in the offseason.
You know who can make an impact. That's Clint Kubiak.
I don't know if you can skate Jess, but you
sure have sected a lot here with the new Orleans
Orleans offense before things went a bit south end of

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Speaker 4 (41:30):
There's a lot of them.

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Uh, we just had earlier Rick Riz joining us as well.
I can't thank him enough here for the words of insight.
We do the cliche thing, help springs eternal, But a
lot to unpack with this offseason. The facts are facts,
though at least the Mariners from Rick's accord are sensing
a change and changes need to hear with their approach

(44:14):
simple as better, less is more. Do we see this
play and playing out here by April and beyond. But
we're gonna get back to this right now with the
Seahawks just introducing Clint Kubiak as a new offensive coordinator.
And there was a chance that you were maybe in
the cars. This all went down to the eleven o'clock hour.
Maybe you were gone to lunch. You just got in
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(44:37):
but we're gonna roll with this as much with as
much raw context here as possible and a few y
openers in here, because this morning Clint Kubiak was welcomed
this new offensive coordinator for the Seahawks. Head coach Mark
McDonald's by his side, and a lot for us here
to think about with where this offense goes, where Gino
Smith goes, DK Metcalf goes, the red zone, everything yours

(45:00):
Koobi act. First off, regarding his offensive philosophy.

Speaker 11 (45:07):
Uh, well, I think the number one thing is that
you better have more than one way to win. You know,
we're gonna have an identity. You know, we want to
be smart, we want to be tough, we want to
be physical. Those are three critical attributes. But it's it's
important that that we we can run the football, that
that we're you know, successful throwing team. We got to
have all of our guys contributed on special teams and

(45:29):
we have to communicate that to the offense. How how
important it is to win as a team, and there's
just there's not one way to do it. So here,
going from April to June, we better get rocking on
the fundamentals so that we can win multiple ways to
come the fall.

Speaker 12 (45:43):
But welcome to Seattle. Uh you your offense last year,
your ounds finished second in the NFL, and yard games
on third and fourth and short short yards is a
bit of a challenge for the Seahawks last year.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
What did you like about your short yardage offense?

Speaker 8 (45:57):
Anywhere. Uh, Well, what did I like about it?

Speaker 11 (46:01):
Well, we had we had a guy that comes to
mind in Taysom Hill that was a weapon that was
able to get creative with. And that's the number one
thing is you got to get to those short yarded situations.
You got to be really good on base downs to
put yourself into a lot of those short yarde opportunities,
and then then you have then you have options to
take shots and also to.

Speaker 8 (46:22):
Move the chain.

Speaker 11 (46:23):
So uh, I think it all comes down to the
players you have and putting them in position to be successful.
So no matter what the down of distance.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
Is, scheme makes bertiques a few times.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
What about the scheme that do you like and how
it aligns with how do you want to play the ball?

Speaker 6 (46:40):
Well, I mean Clint's been around this scheme since it
probably took his first breath, so uh, he knows it.

Speaker 8 (46:47):
He knows it cold.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
It's been fun to to learn it, you know, over
the last last few days. But I think it's the
repetition and time on task. I think the reads are
consistent for the quarterback, the on line are the same,
the running back tracks the same. We're gonna much like
we're doing on defense we call coverage. We're gonna be
repping this thing, you know, hundreds of times between now

(47:09):
and January and February. Same thing goes for offensively. Our
guys are gonna get really good at what we do.
Got no other option to do, so, so we're gonna
hang around on those things.

Speaker 13 (47:18):
Could you tell us about the evolution of your scheme
over the years and what have you made uniquely years
versus what you've sort of adopted from, you know, the
people you've spent time with, your dad, the Shanahans.

Speaker 11 (47:29):
Yeah, I can just say that just you know, learning
it from from my dad and get to be a
part of that, of that offensive staff and twenty sixteen
and then you know, being around guys like Kyle Shanahan,
you know, being being in Denver with with Justin out
and running a similar scheme, similar verbiage every year. You

(47:50):
got to you got to keep evolving and you know,
studying the league and changing your concepts up a little bit.
But the fundamentals they're not going to change. So uh,
you know, I think that's the things that we have
to harp on the players is being fundamentally sound and
all the bells and whistles will come, but the most
important thing is that we get good at at the
the fundamental stuff throwing and catching, blocking, and uh no,

(48:14):
no matter what we do schematically, it always comes down
to that and being good at that.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Plaint congratulations and also welcome to Seattle.

Speaker 9 (48:22):
During the off season, Mike have said that this is
the best job out there.

Speaker 6 (48:25):
What made this a feeling planning spot for you?

Speaker 11 (48:30):
Number one was I have a chance to work with
with coach with Mike, to be on a team that's
coached with a dang good defense, because you know how
powerful that is, and we want to be able to
contribute to that and play complimentary football with them. Geno Smith,
DK Metcalf, Jackson, Charles Cross. The list goes on. There's
a lot of really dangd football players on this roster

(48:53):
that that I'd love to coach and want to be
a part of helping their careers and helping them so
we can win as a team. So I think the personnel,
the coaching staff here, John Snyder, the reputation the Seattle
Seahawks have as a as a first class organization. So
that's just common doledge around the NFL.

Speaker 14 (49:14):
What did you and John Benton's view of the offensive
line and what's your plan to change or what do
you think needs to change there?

Speaker 11 (49:23):
Well, I'd say that we're we're learning that right now.
You know, we haven't been here very long. We're watching
a lot of tape. We're getting a feel for the
guys that we have, and we're getting to feel for
their strikes and weaknesses, and we're looking at free agents,
we're looking at college players, and that's that's what the
off season is all about. But we're we need to
we need to gel together a little bit here and

(49:43):
and get to know our guys better before we can
start getting them better and putting a plan of action
for him.

Speaker 13 (49:49):
As you were looking at candidates, how important was it
to find somebody who you felt could maximize your offensive
line and really develop the offensive line.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
Yeah, that was a that was massive part of it.
But I think it's I think you got to look
at it through the lens of how they're planned for development,
just in their track record, and then obviously offtive line
is a critical part of our football team, and we're
on record centers, but we believe in our guys.

Speaker 8 (50:15):
We've got an opportunity to become.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
A great offensive unit, and in order to do that,
we have to have a great offensive line working together.
So I think there's track records speak for itself. But
we're excited that these are the guys that leading the way.

Speaker 14 (50:27):
But you might and looked for a new OC What
was the one thing that you were not getting with
the previous staff that you had to get with this playground?

Speaker 6 (50:36):
You know, I'm not really going to answer from last year.
This is today is about the excitement that we have
for Clint, the alignment that we have, the coaches that
we're bringing on, our new offensive staff, respect the heck
out of the guys that have worked with us last year,
and we're in the trenches with us. But this is
the new unit that we're going to be going a
battle with moving forward.

Speaker 14 (50:57):
You mentioned the words shared division right a couple of times.
What what is exactly that share vision?

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Well, it's our football team. It's we want to be
a physical football team that plays together as a unit.
You know, we don't throw around the we don't throw
around the words twelve is one lightly. That's how we
want to play and that's how we want to operate.
And Clint says it the same way he's been doing
his whole career, his whole life, and it's a it's
a great connection.

Speaker 8 (51:20):
Clent.

Speaker 12 (51:20):
You've primarily had a lot of zone blocking in your
background and John Betton as well. The Seahawks, Uh kind
of popped with gap blocking last year. How much do
you adapt to your scheme to your personnel versus teaching
up your personnel.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
On your steam?

Speaker 11 (51:37):
Yeah, I think, Uh, it's important to you know, establish
a way of doing business here. You know, we're going
to start with that being an outside zone, but obviously
we're going to incorporate gap schemes inside zones, uh, penn
and pools. You know, we gotta we got to do
what our players do best. So you know, we have
a we have a philosophy that we believe in, a
style that we believe in. But you got to be

(51:59):
able to win more than one way, like we said,
So we'll start with the fundamentals running off the ball,
and then we'll get to know our guys and we
better do what they do best or else we're not
gonna like the results.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
All right, that's new O. C Clint Kubiak introduced this
morning to the Seahawks. The Seattle Media as well head
coach Mike McDonald by his side again, Mike Benton filling
in for Ian Fornest today. Lots of unpack here where
this offense is going and Gino Smith, those two words
are going to be a lightning rod as far as
how all this is gonna shake out. So I got

(52:33):
a few questions here, and Jess, I'm not sure if
he had this from earlier, but I'll bring it up anyway,
from the red zone scheme of things and how they
perform inceide the red zone. I know Mark brought this
up back into ten to one hour, what it had
to do with Gino Smith and how much an elite
play caller can be a big part of this. But

(52:54):
again I'm curious as far as how much this can
unlock the right kind of Gino because they're gonna mix
a lot of play action, they're going to mix a
lot of run. They're gonna limit his throws apparently inside
the red zone. And Clint Kubiak earlier seemed to unlock
a special kind of Kirk Cousins from one of his
stops here in his career. So now this again I

(53:16):
go back to it. It's got to depend upon the
offensive line. It has got to depend upon the offensive line,
because we know Gino's limits. He's not top tier. We've
seen worse. He's not top tier. He's got limitations, a
low ceiling, but there are ways to work with that.
We saw that again with the Philadelphia Eagles. How many

(53:38):
times over and over and over did Jalen Hurts just
take a pounding of public opinion for what he can
do as a quarterback And they found a way to
win with him, with Sakwan Barkley, with that aircraft carrier
size offensive line, that defense, and they just frustrated the
Kansas City Chiefs all nine long.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
I mean yeah, they pounded them.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
So I thought this was good and this was part
of the and this happened earlier, I believe earlier in
the news conference, but a question was brought up about
how efficient they can be in the red zone, and
Mike McDonald brought up, your base sets are your first
and second down. That's where the money and the magic
has got to happen. I'm just paraphrasing him, but when

(54:25):
I guess the third down, the odds become a little
bit more stacked against you, and you have to have
an elite decision maker as a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
You know what I have a question about too, if
it weren't for Gino's contract situation right now, because the
Morning Show had a really chucking buck and Ashley just
had a really good conversation about.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Paying a good quarterback great money.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
And I think that's where the Nordstrom versus Nordstrom rack
analogy came from. But if it weren't for Gino's contract
right now, right and that hamstrings other areas where they
need to invest, would we be having this conversation at all?
If you could get a good quarterback for good money
instead of great money.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
See, I just don't think there would be a debate
to resign him.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
I've got this thing coming in right now on the
Tulmar Dude text line, and the thing is great, qbs
don't grow on trees. They don't. You've got to go
out and draft one so.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
We can develop. You can't just pick one anymore. You
have to draft and develop.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
So again I said it back at the opener, this
is not a hot take. This is just a fact.
Gina was the guy, and I would I would not
bet against him being extended. Also because of where the
cap is going to be where DK Metcalf is going
to be. We can talk trade and all this, and
I think it kind of leads into my second question,

(55:46):
what kind of a bump do we see here out
of DK Metcalf Because it's an offense designed to accentuate
strains and the injury thing didn't help him out last year.
But are we going to see a deep ball threat
that Dka can provide that will unlock his full potential?

Speaker 7 (56:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (56:05):
I mean it depends on how football verse people are
when they're watching Seahawks games too, because I mean DK
is a threat. Just because he's not catching the ball
because they're not targeting, doesn't mean he's not a threat
out there, which does open other avenues. We just haven't
seen as prominent of an offense as we'd like to.

(56:26):
And I think that by now the front office has
proven that trying to go to allocate their funds in
areas that aren't necessarily in the offensive line have come
at a cost, and now they have to rectify that.
And now it's like, which, Paul, are you gonna rob
to pay Peter?

Speaker 2 (56:45):
And it's a robbing period of pay pall type of
thing exactly.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Yeah, whichever order those goes in. I don't know it's
the same thing.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
But you know what I mean, it's just okay, well,
where are you gonna cut ties in? The quarterback is
the most prominent position on any team when it comes
to position players, So.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
Is that where you're going to rob?

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Or is Gino, who got paid here the most out
of anywhere in his career, is he going to seek
to get what he can get. Let's be honest, whether
you believe he's worth the money or not, he's going
to get it.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
And see, the first thing I heard out of Kubiak's mouth,
or at least one of the first things, was how
much Gino was going to be involved? How much TK
is going to be involved in here? What does that
tell you about how much they bought into them here
for this thing long term? Yeah, and there's no way
they would be on the radar here if they were
going to be a part of the long term plan.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
I completely agree. I completely agree.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
And then I mean, even when we played that Aaron
Levine clip with Mike McDonald, he even said, yeah, we
have a non football conversations because he legally can't talk
to him specifically until whatever the tampering period is over,
so who or whatever that free agency rule is. There
are so many rules and I just don't care. Just
tell me if he's going to be here or not.

(58:00):
But by all means from what we've heard from those
we've heard from that DK is not going anywhere and
Gino Smith, they're going to do their best to keep him.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Can you pull up Softy's question one more time here
to Clint Cooby or to a Mike McDonald. And this
was great because I think to me it shows just
how much of a disconnect there was from this last season.
And we all hinted at this, but earlier this morning,
Softy had a chance to really get to some heart

(58:31):
of the matter here with this, and I think really
also shows just the kind of runway that Clint Kobiac
has just because he and Mike McDonald potentially could be
on the same page right here.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
So I think, yeah, I'm looking to find the exact
thing that I think.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
It was about the last two or three questions in
what we just heard here, And again I mean, you
bring in Ryan Grubb, you can try it out for
one year. Things aren't working out, and things were going
so bad that they basically told him, right, you're done
and what you're looking for as a guy in Klint Kubiak,
that just sent this whole place on fire emotionally because

(59:07):
they they got their guy. But anyway, I think a
difference here as far as what they have with the
grub last year where he was working from and how
much of not just a different page, but a different
planet that he and Mike McDonald barron right here here.

Speaker 14 (59:19):
Softy, you mentioned the words shared vision right a couple
of times.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
What is exactly that shared vision?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Well, it's our football team.

Speaker 6 (59:26):
It's we want to be a physical football team that
plays together.

Speaker 8 (59:30):
As a unit.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
You know, we don't throw around the we don't throw
around the words twelve is one lightly. That's how we
want to play and that's how we want to operate.
And Clint says it the same way he's been doing
his whole career, his whole life, and it's a it's
a great connection.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
So again he won't say the quiet part out loud,
but when we hear shared vision over and over and over,
and then we hear before that when he told Softy
that I'm not going to get into it here with
what happened in the past paraphrasing this, I mean, what
does that mean when the OC's gone after one year
and just the extreme disconnect Ryan Grubb and for all

(01:00:06):
the great things he did here for the Huskies, what
happened there between him and Mike McDonald. Sometimes it's not
what's said, but what isn't said and what is implied.
That called us a lot in that press conference.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Yeah, exactly shared Vision. I liked that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
I specifically pulled up Sofie's follow up to clarify exactly
what he meant. You mentioned shared Vision, But I think
Corbyn Smith, I think had the best reporting to come
out of Ryan Grubb's firing, and it was way after
the fact, but he very much told us that you
know this, They like Ryan Grubb was doing what Mike

(01:00:45):
McDonald told him not to do, and so I mean
he fired him. I don't think that there's any super
secrets going on here, but Shared Vision is very important.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
To him and we learned a lot as far as
what happened last year and what he's looking out at
Clint Kubiak here for this year. Yeah, they're on the
same page. There's going to be a lot more run,
a lot more play action, maybe even a lot more
changing up the schemes, because in pro sports, you can
show your cards the first time, but what happens again
when teams adjust, You've got to adjust right on back.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
And I like Mike McDonald taking the reins as a
head coach too. I mean Pete Carroll also a defensive
mind and head coach, right. He went through a lot
of offensive coordinators too, and you know, some moved on
to get jobs, and most didn't, you know, like moved
on from here by their own choice.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
I mean, but you know, there's there's something to be
said for that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
What I really respect about Mike McDonald is that he
had the cojones to go out and say, I'm not
going to worry about the public backlash to making a
one and done at that position.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
I think it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Where yet with this four nine, four or five, when
we're going to get to your texts coming up next year.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
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Speaker 15 (01:02:13):
Mike Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike Mike, Mike, Welcome, Welcome to
the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
You're doing a great job, man, doing a great job. Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:02:22):
So, you know, Gino, I really would like to see
Geno traded for the best haul possible over to coach
Pete in Las Vegas. And let's if we're going to
be mediocre, let's be mediocre with a young QB and grow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
I kind of had to go back and think, there's
a colleague of mine with the Kraken and they're at
their coaching staff, and every time I see him in
the press box, he goes Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike,
and I did a double tape thaking is he calling
it here?

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
I mean he could?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
I mean, what was that a Geico commercial? It was
like the camel that did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
That pomp day. Yeah, yeah, was it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
I think it was an insurance commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
But anyway, I yeah, every mic that I know, which
is several, wanted to rip that off of the television
every time. But I mean it does have a little
something to Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
You have opened a can of worms here. Also because
Softy and Richard L. Phane are coming up next and
in the building, I think, you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Know, I think that they're at the Virginia Mason Athletics.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Than they will be joined in a separate interview than
what we played, which was a press conference by Clint Kubiak,
so they will actually have him on their show.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
So they're down there for that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Reason for you to stick around. But chances are there
hearing this right now and they're getting ideas, and anytime
that they can rip me, they will do it to Kingdom.
Come that you know. I love them for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
You know what a great thing I learned when I
started at this company is that they will only give
you crap if they like.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
We are the fun station, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
And the fans station. Uh yeah. Okay, let's get to
some of these fans by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
First, some I gotta give credit here the iHeart Talk
Back brought to you by Frostburg Corps Light Shoes. She'll
please keep them coming. That was awesome. More please.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
You know what I forgot to remind you of that
it is a crack and Ticket Tuesday. So we're giving
away a pair of tickets every hour and I have
not yet played it this hour, so you've got about
twenty six minutes until you yeah, left in this hour,
but Softy and Dick will also be giving away a

(01:04:38):
pair of tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Reason for you to stay here four nine four five
one on the TALLMERDW text line, shall we show we
take a dog?

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
I'm sorry, I thought you were already on there, but
I got it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Uh here coming from the two five to three, we'll
start with games are one in the trenches. I hope
the Seahawks have learned their lesson by putting too much
emphasis on skilled players.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
How much of us are still or from John Schneider's comment,
which offensive linemen are overpaid and overdrafted, is that still
a sore spot right now?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Well, to be honest, when he has drafted high, he
really only had one hit, which was Russell o'cun.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
You know, do you remember James Carpenter? That was you know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
So I don't blame him for looking elsewhere besides the
draft to gain or lower in the draft to gain
offensive lineman. And I don't think he's wrong, but it
hurts when he hasn't had a hit in a long time.

Speaker 10 (01:05:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Me Again. It just goes back to the fact that
it's not a flawed strategy to look elsewhere and try
to moneyball. This thing with great.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
When you don't hit any either for a long time,
it's tough to swallow.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Yeah, that's a scouting problem. That's a management problem. I
think to me, he got Yeah, you have the right
guy in place in a line coach and John Benton
no relation. You're going to have to open this as
far as the highway once again. I mean, he's a
top ten rushing guy over and over and over last
ten years. If you can't load up on big o

(01:06:09):
line guys in the offseason, I mean, you've got no
chance but to try to scheme your way out of this.
Here to smithereens and now the load gets heavier on
Quint Kobiac to play action to run, you smoke mirrors everything,
and you got to do that. An offensive line goes
a long, long, long way.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Well, look at successful teams right with quarterbacks that didn't
put their whole team on their back, like I mean,
Patrick Mahomes did that for the Chiefs several several times.
And people knocked on Jalen Hurds for basically not being
Patrick Mahomes you know, or modern day Patrick Mahomes you know,
or you're Tom Brady's but if the team is built

(01:06:48):
around you to be successful. It's like, you know, that's
a recipe too. You don't need one guy to do everything.
And also the one guy shouldn't be criticized for having
a good team around him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Keith in the two five to three question, if you
had to be honest, do you think an NFL GM
but prefer a superstar quarterback or a winning offensive system
that isn't dependent upon a quarterback?

Speaker 4 (01:07:12):
I would go with the ladder.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
You go with the system.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
A winning offensive system will take any single day instead
of putting.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
The entire team on one player.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Yeah, this is why I just get tired of the
whole system. QB. Knock. I mean everyone's a system. QB.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Aren't they a finger system that they're put in?

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
One finger cannot lift pebble? Hello, ancient proverb. This is why, again,
you draft the right players for your right system. Now,
of course you would love a superstar quarterback, wouldn't you.
We saw one here in ten years ago, and.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Run now they complaining about having one d a system.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
He had a system.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Hello, But the best quarterback that could even be out
there is still a gamble.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Yes, it's still a gamble, and we all know that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
But again it goes back to me. You know, we
always draft on I mean we sometimes draft on talent
and upside and where does that get you? Where does
it get you?

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
And you could have I mean, okay, look at me,
my little AFC East team. Where did Aaron Rodgers get them?
I'm just wondering. And I'm not even talking about his
injury year. See, but where did that get him?

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Then put one of the greatest of all time, and
where did that get you? Nowhere?

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Right, So you do the best with what you have,
whether it be a superstar or not, and then you
draft the best you can.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
But that doesn't mean that it's always going to work out.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Jeff in the three six. So Saint Rick Riz we
had him on earlier, is dead on. The Mariners have
to play old school baseball. The analytics approach doesn't work
in this ballpark.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
I think the analytics approach is too much in player's brains.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Again, it depends upon how much analytics that that you're
using it does. This is why, and this is why
baseball I'm starting to cut you off. Baseball is so
beautiful with you know, there are so many variables with
every ballpark and we all know by now the limitations
that this ballpark has for how gorgeous it is, but
the backs are facts. It's like ten feet above sea level.

(01:09:16):
It's dead air. It's where offense goes to die. And again,
I think they began to really figure it out where
it took so long, so long, but better late than ever.
You've got to tailor your team to your ballpark pitching,
and that's what that's what we have. And I think

(01:09:39):
again the complaint as well, it's not so much of okay,
or we're just gonna go ahead and roll a pitching,
because where did that get us here here? This last
year eighty five wins, fifty four We've been mashing the
teeth and all that, but are you spending the money
on the right players? And that's where I think again
the gripe is very very very convince and very valid.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Well, I think if they were shooting and failing, we'd
have less annoyance and irritation with.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
It because that you're trying to make upgrades and trying
to win well.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
And also, I mean there's so many little things that
play into it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
You know, we know that there's a bottom line regardless
of any franchise that's out there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
You have to make money.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
But when prices keep going up and the fan experience
becomes more expensive, but they don't open their pocket book
to make the fan experience worth as worth it as
they want it to be, it's frustrating and I get it.
And then there's those super passionate fans who don't see
what they deem as worthy as the right moves, So

(01:10:41):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Are you reading the room perfect analysis?

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Because again, I mean what would would mean again? Juan Soto, Yes, great,
but again he's a power hitter. He can hit to
all areas. Of course, listen, you weren't getting one, so
you weren't getting them, but.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
No, but my other yes, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
A different conversation. But again, Alex Bregman was out there,
He's still out there, technically, what are you doing here with?
I mean, the the pee de Lonzo was out there,
Kyle Tucker at one point was out there. You can't
tell me that that those weren't going to be decent
upgrades here for a team that had to approach hitting
differently because they made the right kind of fit, and

(01:11:23):
they could have made the right kind of fit anyway.
Soph One's next. I believe we'll get back to him
here and he'll jump into this chair in a little bit,
so to speak, as he's over at the vMac right
here in ninety three to three k JRFM. But because

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he is not sitting by me here, I'm going to
do this as best I can in my National Geographic voice.
He is seen lurking in the wild, known to man
as a smith of words, bombastic with a capital B
capital H in your husky, working around in the weeds
somewhere by a slew of football field. It's over at

(01:12:09):
the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. We have a spot of
him out of his element. That's a soft one, Dave,
softy Maler. How was that? It's all down here from
hill here in Kendos. You have that on the button,
didn't you?

Speaker 16 (01:12:25):
You know I used to read National Geographic a lot
when I was younger, and I wasn't reading it for
the antelopes.

Speaker 7 (01:12:32):
By the way, I'll tell you that at all.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
You know you were you know, God.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
Safty, what can you can you like? Be less softy?
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
It's all down here from hill or here in Kennos. Hey,
what's your selfie count out there with a listening.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
Faith that stuff and you don't fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
I'm trying. I'm trying to throw you for.

Speaker 16 (01:12:53):
A selfie count. Now that's more people here wanting to
take photos with Dick. Fine, it's amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:12:58):
Actually came over and said, hey, is Dick here? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
He did, Yes, he did?

Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
He a selfie. If you were here, they'd be lining
up outside the door for crying out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Oh please, just asking me, Where's where's softy? Where's Dick?
I get the way time over and in section twenty.

Speaker 7 (01:13:13):
Did Jesssemon really just asked me to be less softy?
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
You heard that correctly?

Speaker 7 (01:13:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
I thought that was just for real. It was I
was her calmness for the p I harge. Oh my goodness, Hey,
I loved your question. By the way, on shared vision
at this press conference.

Speaker 16 (01:13:31):
By the way, never mind, all that is uh is
Jessamin just rolling her eyes right now back there but
falling her hand. This is what happens when you take
over and Furnessa's and he this is ridiculous. When Furnessa's here,
we have fun. Jessmin's not uptight. Whatever you can do,
whatever you want. You can hang around and make jokes
and fart noises and things like that, and then you

(01:13:53):
show up the professional the NHL Studio Broadcaster of the
Week for the fifteenth time in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 7 (01:14:00):
I mean, you got to be professional. I hate it you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
You stole my line. You stole my line. I was
gonna bring you on and say the world's greatest host
from three to seven on.

Speaker 16 (01:14:09):
This day any more, palmre Those days are over. You
realize you're replacing a one time Washington State sportscaster of
the year.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
By the way, I gotta, I gott I got a
high bar to live up.

Speaker 16 (01:14:18):
Shoes or big jump on this radio show. So anyway,
how are you What the hell are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
I was taking a lovely listeners listeners information down, okay,
because we just gave away our second pair of tickets
for Cracking ticket Tuesday. And you know what, I was
rolling my eyes anyway, because I knew, without being able
to hear you, exactly what you were saying.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Art.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
That's why she multitasks have to listen less.

Speaker 7 (01:14:44):
I love making her uncomfortable. I'll tell you that right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
It is like one of your defining characters.

Speaker 7 (01:14:49):
No question. Hey, are you at thirty two? Right now?
Where are you at?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
I'm going to be there Thursday, actually I will. I'm
back in your chair trying to keep this warm up.

Speaker 16 (01:14:55):
So what the hell are you going to do with
yourself for eleven days when you're show hockey?

Speaker 5 (01:14:59):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
Idea?

Speaker 16 (01:15:00):
Because you're up in the north end, right, you're an
evert direct If you see a random white guy just
you know, kind of walking down the street, lurking around,
going into people's backyards, banging on doors, opening up car doors. Uh,
just completely lost and without direction and and uh you know, pointless.
Uh exists to the nearest says he's got nothing to

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do with himself between February.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Nothing to see, I.

Speaker 16 (01:15:27):
Mean, don't don't most brock like I saw where what's
his name? What's the what's the radio guy's name? Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:15:35):
Edmund?

Speaker 16 (01:15:36):
Whatever I heard, Legoland is that you're you're you're here.

Speaker 7 (01:15:43):
He's land Arnessa's on vacation. Like, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (01:15:49):
There's the time of the year when.

Speaker 16 (01:15:50):
You should be taking your kids to like, you know,
a Knotsbury farm or something like.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
My kids are in school though, I just can't do that.

Speaker 7 (01:15:55):
Got them out of school.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Amy's teaching fourth grade. I I'm married a teachers. Oh yeah,
we we kind of have a difference rule, Mike.

Speaker 16 (01:16:02):
I think you and I are both proof positive that
education's overrated.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Okay, fuck, don't let my kids hear this.

Speaker 7 (01:16:07):
Hell don't. If you're tuning in, you just ditch man.
Come on.

Speaker 16 (01:16:12):
My parents used to drop me and my brother off
at Sunday school on Sunday morning at nine o'clock and
by nine fifteen we're playing pac Man. At seven eleven,
a different generator. We walk back to Sunday school at
twelve o'clock, they'd pick.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Us up the different generation back then you can just
send them out and just say just come back home
when the lands are on.

Speaker 7 (01:16:31):
We feel like kids are whimps today. Man, don't used
to do.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
I now have my my ten year old though, trying
to walk down the street and to go to his
buddy's house. And I did double check with Amians say
it's it's totally okay. I used to hear your old
time there you go, what are you coming up here?

Speaker 8 (01:16:44):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:16:45):
Well, what's today Tuesday?

Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
I think so.

Speaker 16 (01:16:47):
John Wilner will join us a normal visit at five
o'clock today, and then Clip Koopiak, the brand new offensive
coordinator for your Seattle Seahawks, will join us at four
pm this afternoon here from the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.

Speaker 7 (01:17:00):
Greg Bell, that's Greg Giga.

Speaker 16 (01:17:02):
Bell with two g's with join us as well and
give us some thoughts on the hiring today, the new coaches,
Gino's future, all that little fun with Audio and Dick
and I will make everybody uncomfortable between three and seven
o'clock today.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
He did for me already here. I was trying to
throw you a klin Koby that question, and you just
took this totally off the rails, just on brand new
for this segment. All down here, big thanks Rick Riz
for Jessmin. I'm Mike Softy Dicker up next to you