Furness Show 2-5: Brandon Huffman, Steve Palazzolo, Mike Holmgren.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome in on a Wednesday afternoon. I should
know it's a Wednesday. Why is that? Well, because here
on February fifth, twenty twenty five year of our Lord,
We've got our friend Mike Homberan coming in at two
o'clock today. I think this is the last visit I'm
gonna have with Mike this year because I'm gone next week.
Oh you, I'm not gone. I'm just not here staycation time.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
But I'm not here and you're not physically going to
be here.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
No, So this is it. This is it. So Mike's
coming at two o'clock today, we'll get Steve Palozolo, who's
going to join us from Radio Row in New Orleans, Louisiana,
coming up today one o'clock. We'll talk to him. Thirty
thirteen our week we visit brought to you by Cascade Icewater.
I we'll hook up with that with with Steve. Find
out what the vibe is down there on Radio Row,
New Orleans. Get his breakdown of the game. I listened

(00:48):
to the Check the Mike podcast last night. He and
Sam breaking things down. We'll touch in on all things
coming up with that as well. That's at one o'clock today,
I'm gonna ask a quick trivia question here. I don't
want you guys to answer necessarily right away.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
We'll do our own game.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
You can do that. I would like the listeners to
text me at four nine four five one time I'm sorry.
Four nine four five one is the Tullmore text line
when it's game time, Tell me time, it is time,
Thank you very much, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Time a clocklock.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I already got a text here, I've already got texts
pissed me off?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Okay, I think can we just declare a mood for
this show today.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's like a Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Everyone here is annoyed.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Weird weather, and that's not it.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's not it.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Okay, I'm giving everyone announce everyone's annoyed.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
There is a tinge of annoyance in the air. So
I would like to invite the listeners in with us
on that.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
What annoys you today?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
What is pissing you off today?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Or improve our shut up? Keith Miller? Check is c
H E c K not check as in the country dummy.
All right, wait, I think it's a wait for it joke.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
All right, okay, but I like both of your things
I would.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like to want annoyed.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
No, you don't, well you do with me?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
No, No, I thought I was your priority, but I
found out today I wasn't. But that's fine, that's fine. No,
it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's a bigger us.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
No. No, let me ask this question. Okay, let me
ask this question. Tell them to text on his game time.
Today is a very significant day in sports historically?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes it is?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Why four five one? Why is today a very historic
Is a historically significant day in sports? February fifth? Why
is it? Four nine four five. I'm trying to think
if I've got anything, do you have anything to give away?
I don't have anything to give away. I need to
get stuff to give away. It's a good thing, right
by the way. Two O six four nine four five

(03:09):
one telemor text line was the game time? Tell whyesday
a significant day in sports? Four nine four five one.
We used to do what bugs you Wednesday? Oh oh,
I brought that from I brought that from We stumbled
across it in Salt Lake. We were doing a show
once and I did. I did an hour crossover show
with our afternoon show. And let me guess you were

(03:30):
pissed off on a Wednesday. No, weird. I don't think
it was to me. I don't I don't even think
it was me, but it was. It was Craig Buller,
Jack Gordon Monson. Craig's the TV voice of the Utah
Jazz used to be on CBS Sports do an NFL
and college games. And then Gordon Montson was like the
lead calmness down there for the Tribune, and we're in
there doing something and we came up with a what
Bugged You Wednesday? And it turned into this hit. We

(03:52):
started doing it every every Wednesday. We gave gave away
prizes and then I went to Portland and I brought
out to Portland with me. We gave away beer cards
to lore Would Brewing, which was a great brewery down there.
They just shut down. I believe it was just shut
down their their brew house or their their pub. But
nevertheless we did that what bugs You Wednesday? And then
Puck and I did it for a while. It was

(04:12):
brought to you by we have we give a little trophies.
I think there's a trophy and you ought to go
grab it. It's in the old side, in the old
in the old building. Yeah, we did it for a
while they still have stuff over there. Oh god, have
you been there?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I went there.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's eerie before it's weird, not.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
The whole other building, but the other part of the building.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
You guys are big into social media today.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Right, Oh my god. Yeah, I'm gonna do I'll do
you guys.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I'll do your favor. I'm gonna go shoot the old building.
I'll do that after the show today, I'll do It's
walk through a walk through. You come with me, all right,
to walk through it. And you've got stuff to do.
You're apparently person to talk.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
You're busy, but I'm going to do it during the show.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You're busy, you're you know what. Don't worry you don't
worry about our little show here, jessvon McIntyre. Are you
you worry about bigger.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Picture stuff a big deal because of.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, you're not. That's not it. That's not it at all.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
No.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I would like to.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I want to and I need you to check see
the very last text that came in. Can you check
on that? Is that true? That's true? That's what I
thought you were referencing. That's crazy. Yeah, that's not it,
that's not it.

Speaker 6 (05:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Well, but I'll get to that later.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Okay, I thought, literally, that's exactly what I thought.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I probably I didn't. I think I'm still flying out
from that, so I don't even remember it. But but no,
that's not it. But I will tell you at twelve
forty five what it is. All right, I shall tell
you before. But all right, we got good tea, good teach.
That's good tea.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just keep listening.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, actually, i'll tell you right now because brand Huffins
coming up next. This this used to be the biggest
day of the year in college football. Oh, national Signing Day.
It's National Signing Day, but now it's the second one.
Now it's the second one, and it's and it's not
as big because everyone signs early and then you get
the portal and all that. Now there are a lot

(06:03):
of things going on. Teams are signing, teams are doing portals,
teams are doing all those things. So Huffman's going to
join us. Coming up a twelve twenty. We'll find out
what the Huskies have done in portal slash signing. Okay,
gotta put a bowl on that. Wazoo's been real busy
because they have a new coach. Teams have new coaches,
are really busy right now, Dickert's over. They're stealing all
the guys they've recruited for Wazoo, for example. But that's
how it works. It's like you this second signing period.

(06:26):
Guys that coaches laugh things like that, they take off.
This used to be a massive, massive day in college football.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean the fax machines were busy.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
It was yeah, back in the fax machine days. God,
that was awesome. I was down. We did a show
in Lumpies in Salt Lake one year and when it
was fax machine. Yeah, thanks, we were doing it. Oh,
we did a show in Salt Lake and it was
in two thousand and two. The signing day two thousand
and two. Well, there's a little thing called the Olympics
going on then what the Olympics, little thing, little thing

(06:58):
Winter Olympics. So the Utah football staff was out of
their offices and off campus because Rice Ecles was the headquarter,
like the their football stadum is where they did opening
closing ceremonies, was all locked down, and so they had
their they had there's a place called Lumpy's, a sports bar.
It had upstairs and downstairs, and the Utah coaching staff
was in the basement. That's where their fax machines were

(07:18):
set up. We did a show upstairs. The bathrooms though,
were downstairs, so I had to go down and the
restaurant was closed, but we were there and I go
down there every now and then use the restroom, right,
And it was wild a couple of times, like you
see literally the fax machine going this is and the
guys are like as or then they get word of
somebody else and they're swearing. They're losing their minds. Kyle
Whittingham was there. Gary Anderson ended up coaching Utah State

(07:40):
and Oregon State was the off defensive line coach. Gary
was are Ron McBride's head coach, Sataki was there. I mean,
who's out, Yeah, I mean all these guys were there.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Was crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So it was wild and all this stuff's going on,
You're like, the stress of waiting for a fax to
come in from an eighteen year old kid was insane. Nowadays,
they just commit online like I've already committed boom boom Twitter, Yeah,
please to announce my commitment and blessed to receive my
eight thousandth offer blah blah blah ah that stuff. So yeah,

(08:10):
but this used to be the biggest day of the
year in college football, not named like National Championship Day,
and even then wasn't that big because it was two
teams for the BCS.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
But I'm I'm glad that that's your memory of what
this day used to be.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I'm Keith Miller.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm gonna I'm telling you, I'm gonna find Keith Miller.
I'm gonna kick his ass. I am done with your sarcasm.
I feel I don't care if it was a year
that Dick Button won his first US Men's Gold figure
standing Metal dude.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Keith is like sitting in his I think I believe
Keith does some.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Sort of delivery. I believe he has time in his vehicle.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Hopefully is sitting safely and sending these in. But he
has time to be on Google right now finding out
what happened this day.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
And we got to take a break because you made
me late on the break, and I'm gonna get that
is your fault.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'll take all the blame toll that anders save.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
That for us. Brandon Huffman, what do Washington do? What
to Washington State do in terms of litter of intent portal?
We'll find out next.

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(09:57):
our good friend Huffman twenty four to seven Sports, Hello, sir,
how are you?

Speaker 8 (10:04):
I'm doing fantastic, Anne.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
It is a monumental day in the industry and yet
a boring one at the same time.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I did a little thing earlier in the first segment
with our with Anders and Jessment. We're justman to just
leave again? Is that what brand? Pardon me you just
for a second, I just just have ands am I
right there? Like, have you noticed how things have just
changed dramatically like it used to be? He's dealing with
a few things behind the scenes currently. Yeah. Well I'll

(10:33):
tell you right now. Not a lot of hosts would
put up with that, but I am. You know what, Brandon,
You've known me for a long time. I have nothing
if I'm not a patient man. Actually that's not even no.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
It don't sell yourself short.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I brought this up with Anders and Jets earlier. I said,
today is a monument. It used to be a very
monumental day blah blah sport and I end up for
getting people to text in. And you know it used
to be massive, right, It used to be massive ring
or winter whatever it was signing day here, the first
Wednesday in February. What have you? All those things? And

(11:07):
now here we are it's so different. Walk our listeners
through what I mean. We know there's an early signing period,
we know there's a portal. So what is today all about?

Speaker 6 (11:17):
I mean, today is dotting the few remaining eyes and
crossing the few remaining teeth. If you were a school
like a Washington state where you had a coaching change
after the early signing period.

Speaker 8 (11:28):
You are a little busyer today. We saw this last
year with the Nick Salon retirement kind of set.

Speaker 6 (11:34):
Up a massive chain of vans and it led the
coaching changes at Washington and in Arizona and at San
Jose State. But with the early signing period becoming so
prominent that the.

Speaker 8 (11:44):
Luster is off of the stated thing.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
About a decade ago, we still had January first being
the most sacred day in college football, and then the
first Wednesday of February being the second most sacred day
of college football. Now we have multiple signing periods. Now
we have you know, the National champions Game being played
in you.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
Know, dannear February.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean, it's to the point where the days that
were a celebration. We should have known when the facts
machine became irrelevant that signing day was next up on
the chopping block.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Okay, Andrews, do you want to ask him the question?
Do you want to ask him the same question ran
in the same question you ask me what the machine? Yeah,
I'm sure you're I'm sure your son Kate asked you
the same thing all the time.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
He's done.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
All the time.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
The only thing they know factored for the mean that
they make when they agree with something that we say.
But you know what I also find fascinating about this
is that even with signing Day, you know, even with
the early signing period in December, I mean, you still
have a little bit of activity at the FBS level,

(12:50):
But it's really a busy day for the SCS school's
Division two schools as well, because now they've kind of
been able to recalibrate their recruiting expectations in a portal
driven era. So there's still is I mean, for all
we know, there's some schools right now, some FCS schools
that are signing a guy that in two or three
years from now may end up being one of the
most coveted players out of the portal at an FBS program.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
So you I saw you quoted in the Sale Times
article that the Dannink Scott Hansen did it about you
know where we are now with the portal and high
school kids having a harder time. Before I get into
what Washington has done, the Huskies and and we'll just
include all of their recruiting and signing and Wazoo as
well before we get into that, because those teams that
are are our people up here care about. We'll touch

(13:32):
it on Oregon and the other you know, Big ten
teams that Husky fans are concerned about as well. We'll
get into that a second. But the crux of the
story at the Times was that basically it's harder and
harder for high school kids to find spots maybe with
Power five conferences, specifically teams. You didn't agree with a
lot of the other people, right, I didn't.

Speaker 8 (13:55):
I don't necessarily agree that it's impossible.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
I think it's just a matter of the timing of
it has changed dramatically. But schools still want the best players,
they still want the most talented players, and they're still
trying to find them, and they would prefer to get
them from the high school ranks. If you look at
the two teams that have you know, competed for national
championships each of the last two seasons, a couple.

Speaker 8 (14:16):
Of them had a portal guy here and there.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Obviously, Notre Dame had Right Leonard, Ohio State had Krishawn
Judkins and Will Howard, but the majority of those rosters
were high school driven rosters.

Speaker 8 (14:27):
The year before with.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Washington and Michigan, Yeah, Washington and Michael Pennix, but the
majority of that roster was high school recruited players. So
I do think that while it may feel like it's difficult,
what it is is the timing of it has become
so much different. But schools that are recruiting at a
high level still want to sign twenty two to twenty
five guys from the high school ranks. Well, those guys

(14:50):
have got to come from the high school ranks, not
just the portal. So it's shown that it's not as
difficult as it's being led to believe.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
So there is the same number of spots, but how
many of those spots, especially at power five schools, are
now going to kids that we're playing at the FCS
level or a Group of five school or maybe even
a D two or D three school that are that
are like, all of a sudden, they've got this tape
as a nineteen twenty year old, they can put it
out there, and now all of a sudden, those schools

(15:18):
want maybe those guys more. I'm wondering if there is
it more of a trickle down high school kids are
having to find maybe a few less non power five
school opportunities or is that not the case?

Speaker 6 (15:29):
No one percent, And I say I've been saying it's
a lot. The last couple of years, a group of
five schools FCS schools are signing better and better players
than they've ever signed before. The caveat to that is,
instead of doing a great job of evaluating and holding
onto those guys for four or five years, they know
they're getting two years top to maybe three. And there's
a great article with Jason Ack back when he was

(15:51):
at Idaho, I want to say it was in the
Athletic and he was talking about how when they were
recruiting guys, they went in knowing if they got a
couple of good years from that player, that was good
for the player, that was good for the program. And
he was going to allow them to recruit better. And
you look when Jason Eck left to go take the
job at New Mexico, a number of his players went
into the portal. You know, one from Pialla High School

(16:12):
was that Jordan Dwire goes to Idaho, has a massive
game in their playoff, lost to Montana State, goes in
the portal in a week later, has a dozen Power
four offers before.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
He ultimately signs a TCU.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
His other receiver, Mark Hamper goes in the portal and
he ends up Wisconsin. That comes the year after he
lost this quarterback in the running back who went to Oregon.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
State and Utah respectively.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
So he was recruiting those players knowing, listen, if you
do what we think you're capable of doing, you're not
going to be here after year two.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
Maybe we can get a third year out of the here.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
But just come here, bet on yourself for these two years,
let us get it out of you, and then you
have the film to then get to move up to
another level. So these s coaches now know that the
days of finding them and hiding them.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
Those are few and far between.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
I think you look at one of the best players
of all of the FCS this year, heft and Chin
that Monroe High School has basically rewritten the record books
at Eastern Washington for the.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
Last two years.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Schools are trying to get him to go into the portal,
and he stayed loyal to Eastern and it's probably to
get drafted.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
Had a great week at the Shrine Bowl.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
But guys like him are going to become unicorns because
now guys are understanding, if I don't have great junior
film and I don't have a chance to go FBS
that early.

Speaker 8 (17:22):
I may have to go to FCS.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
But if I'm the player that I think I am,
those two years of SCS could end up putting me
in a cam Ward type of situation where I now
become the hottest name in college football.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
It is Brandon huffin twenty four to seven Sports. All right,
let's get to it. Washington, and I guess did they
do anything today? And if not, fine, but did they
do anything today? And can we put a ball on
what they've done? And what have they done since December?

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (17:46):
I think it's about putting on a bow on their
class anything that they lost a couple of players in
this class. Actually, one player in this class, Peter Longe,
who signed with them back in December, ultimately got out
of the NL.

Speaker 8 (17:58):
He ended up signing with air Zona, which makes sense.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
His brother is in the twenty twenty sixth class have
been committed to Arizona. Washington didn't pursue his brother, and
I think LONGI knew that the chances were better to
go play at Arizona, and with Brendan Carroll's departure, they
did lose a twenty twenty sixth commitment today, even though
he's still months away from signing in east On, Tapa.
But there weren't any real late additions to Washington. Most
of their heavylifting was done in December and then with

(18:23):
the portal.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
All right, what does Washington's incoming group look like for
spring and fall next year.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
It's a really good class.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
And I think if you look at Jed Fish's first
full class when he was at Arizona, the crux of
that team the last couple of years have been from
that first full class he had with the tea match
of the World Noah a Fida, and then players that
followed him to Washington, like Jonah Coleman in Ephesius Price Socks.
So in his first full year in a full recruiting
cycle at Washington, they had the number twenty three class

(18:52):
in the country, a top twenty five class with eight
four star players, and more importantly, they did a fantastic
job in the Washington which had been something that the
latter part of Chris Peterson's years had struggled with. Jimmy
Late certainly struggled with that and Camin de Borg just
never really prioritize in state recruiting.

Speaker 8 (19:09):
But Jeed Fish getting the number one player in the
state this year.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
In Zag just Randy Sale and Husky did a really
good job in the state of Washington this season.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
How many of those guys are are guys that are
going to make an impact next year or say next year?

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, I mean, I think with a guy like Randy Salle,
he would have been probably the player that had the
best chance the state player.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
They are the number one player in the state.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
But he tores acil towards the end of the year,
so depending on his recovery, I think he would have
been a guy that could you know, could have gotten
himself into the rotation pretty early on. But I also think,
you know, you look at their offensive line, there was
plenty of offensive linews for them this season. They got
a really intriguing player out of North Dakota and Jack
Schaeffer six pot six and fifteen count tackle. I could

(19:53):
see him finding a way into the rotation this year.
The receiver corps is relatively attacked state Giles Jackson, but
they signed a really strong receiver group with Chris Lawson
out of the Bay Area, Marcus Harris from Modern Day
and Rayden Vines, Brian from IMG Academy by way of Arizona.
I like what they did on the offensive line. I
like what they did at the receiving corps. And you know,

(20:14):
their new offensive line coach and the Scott promoted at
the departure of Brendan Carroll has some pretty good young
talent to work with early.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
What does the portal look like for Washington? Cummings and Goings,
you know.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
The ones that are going I think don't hurt nearly
as much as you know on the offensive side. It
was the defensive side of the ball where they really
probably felt that impact the most. You know, Kimoria House
had been considered, you know, kind of a rising star
for the Huskies, had started at the inside linebackers spot
actually had a huge play in their win over USC

(20:46):
on their goal line stand to win that game.

Speaker 8 (20:48):
He went to North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
So did Thaddeus Dixon, who was probably the most consistent
defensive back last year.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Both those guys went to North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Following Steve Belichick to Chapel Hill where they're gonna play
for his dad. And then Jordan Shot, who was also
pretty heavily in the rotation transfer from Washington to Texas.

Speaker 8 (21:06):
A and m I Elijah Jackson.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
People will remember him forever because he had the fourth
down breakup in the Sugar Bowl to put him in
the National Championship Game. Well, he's going to be reunited
with Juice Brown, who was the DV coach for the
Huskies at that time and who's now at TCU. But
then as far as what's coming in, they bring back
year In Hatchett, who started his career at Washington was
in the rotation on their Joe More Award team when

(21:28):
they made it to the National Championship Game, went to
Oklahoma last year. He's coming back. His brother Landing I
was a starter for the Huskies this last season. Tarik Aluta,
also known as Buddha, was one of the leading tactors
at Washington State.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
He's coming back over to the eastern or the western
side of the state.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
And then a name that if.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
You remember following Kennedy Catholic during Sheldon Cross his time,
x ray Al Alexander, who had been a real standout
running back and linebacker at Kennedy Catholics, was originally committed
to Arizona State, got dropped when the new staff came
went to Idaho with a freshman all American transferre to
UCF and now he's coming home to play at the
University of Washington and should plug right in at that

(22:07):
vacated spot for Kimora House. So I think the biggest
name though, is to Caario Davis, who many thought was
going to come to Washington last year when Fish came
to the University Washington. He'd been a starter for him
at corner at Arizona, finally went into the portal, and
now he's reunited back with John Richardson the cornerbacks coach.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
The huskis all right, let's get to wash it. Bretd.
Hufpen twenty four seven sports joining US Washington State, they
had a lot more work to do. They what were
their losses when Dickart left. We'll start there.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Well, you know, there were a lot they lost, and
they all star quarterback committed at the time, Steel Pizzella,
one of the fastest players in the country and especially
one of the fastest quarterbacks in this class. They also
had a wide receiver top five player from the state
of Oregon, and Jack Foley committed.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
So they had quite.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
A few players that you know, wanted to play for
Jake Dickard and that had signed a play for that
staff that ultimately ended up at Wake four or as
Jamar Searci is another player with an electric, if not
dimmunity of player out of the East Bay in California.

Speaker 8 (23:07):
He also announced for Wait for Us.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
But if you look at the way that they kind
of rally here with this plast you know, South Dakota
State was a brinial power in the FCS level and
one of those schools that, even though they were in
FCS school was competing. Again It's not unlike a lot
of the big Sky schools where they ended up getting
better players than the majority of you know, a lot

(23:32):
of every other FCS program and we're beating Mountain West schools.
Said hey, well, South Dakota State was doing a similar job,
and so they had quite a few players that followed
this staff to Washington State ended up flipping there.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
They actually, in my opinion.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
They upgraded at the quarterback position with the players that
they were able to get to sign with them.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
And one of the most significant ones was Dalton Anderson,
who to start at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, took
go to the three A semi followed this last year
he was committed to Utah State signed with Utah Stable
and Bronco Mendenhall left. He opened things up. Washington State
pursued in.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Boise State was expecting to host him for an official
visit over the weekend, and he decided to commit to
Washington State. I think he could be an impact guy,
you know. I like what Washington State was able to
do in a short amount of time. And really, if
you think about it, this was a staff that didn't
spend a lot of time on the western part of
the country and you know.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
Not necessarily recruiting in their own footprint.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
You know, I remember the same footprint that was so
difficult to recruit according to his predecessor, which I never
knew Washington border the state of Utah, but I learned
something new about in national geography every day, I guess.
But they did a really good job with getting some
West coast guys and then also kind of going to
places that weren't necessarily part of the you know, the
northwest of the western footprint. And so I think it's

(24:50):
to be very fascinating to see what Ginny Rogers and
his staff can do in a full cycle. I think
they get over one hundred high schools in the state
of Washington alone in the month of January, which is
absolutely impressive. And that's a stat that is not taking
this job lightly. And they know that they've got to
be a physical presidence on these campuses and they did that,

(25:11):
and I think they're really laying the groundwork for what
could be a good class in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
All right, before they go off, what's going on with
the rest of the I mean the Big Ten as
a whole. What is Washington up against? What did the
rest of the Big Ten do? Just in a nutshell,
that's a big questions. Sure, you can kind of sum
it up in a nutshell.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
You're going up against the two defending national champions of
Ohio State in Michigan, who are always going to recruit. Well,
Ohio State's going to end up with the best class
into Big Ten. Michigan signed the number one player in
the country.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
In Bryce Underwood.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
And now that all the talk about Larry Ellison and
the money that he's got to potentially support his wife
Salma Mater in the NIL game, I mean, there was
a lot of people saying that that was why they
got Rice.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
Under with the number one player in the country.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
Well, now you take a program like Michigan, which gives
players drafted, which wins the national championship, and now you
put one of the richest men in the world who's
you know, fun his wife, Solma maters Nil. Michigan has
a class that is what you would have expected for
defending national champion to have. Even with the coaching change,
they ended up flipping a long time Alabama offensive line

(26:13):
commit today and ty Haywood. So you've got an offensive
linemen blocking for the number one player in the country.
You've got Ohio State, and then of course you have Oregan,
which has been a top five, top seven recruiting program
for pretty much the last five to seven years.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
Another outstanding class.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
You have USC which is now realizing that it's twenty
twenty five, so they need to act like it, going
and paying over a million dollars for a general manager
and hiring three other assistants for this general manager to
show the importance of putting a personnel staff together and
maybe offset some of the offensive play car challenges that

(26:49):
Lincoln Riley showed this year. And a lot of the
people that are questioning whether Lincoln Riveley is the best
long term fit with.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
Recruiting not being as strong.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Now USC seems to be getting serious, so I think
you know, Washington's got their work cut out for them,
just not just in the Northwest, not just on the
West coast. But then you still had the Ohio state
Michigan won two punch as well.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
To deal with.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
That's fun, all right, the U. I'll wrap it up
with this July is it July eleventh? I should know
the top of my head right July eleventh? You're gonna
be ready for that, aren't you? Go to the mayor
of Maple Value.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
Not only am I gonna be ready for it this year,
I mean I will have so much optimism to get everybody.
If you ever wonder if your team's going to be
good that year, just let me drive to your whole
and I will have you.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Convinced that you're going seventeen to no.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I know, well last year. Last year, Markolensky had to
pick up the pieces since you were at a camp
somewhere and with the way I scheduled, it was too early.
So we've got you here this year. So Mark doesn't
have to go tell everybody the same thing that you
would because people are like well, how do hell do
you know Holninsky? What's going on? So, but yeah, it'll
be Yeah. We love having you guys out there. It's
just awesome.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Always the highlight of my summer, and especially when I
could be there rather than being in one hundred and
ten degrees humidity, which I was last year, would much
rather be in Maple Valley with you know, a Georgetown
refreshment in my hand, which hey Ian, because I haven't
been home for the last couple of signing days, I
get to enjoy some Georgetown my myself this evening.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's your It's a tradition like no other, having a
Georgetown pint after a letter of intente. Now you get
to do that a couple of times a year. So
and I.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Volunteered to drive both you and Mark around.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
You and Bees will be your chauffeur on the course
this coming July eleventh. I can't wait your tribute. Yes exactly,
Thanks buddy. Twenty four to seven Sports for all the
recruiting coverage, go check it out twenty four to seven
sports dot com. Huff's got all the stuff up there
for you as well. We'll talk to you, my friend.
Thank you, Thanks Bred and huff been joining us. Don't

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forget Top of the houral checking with Steve Palozola and
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Speaker 7 (28:50):
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Speaker 1 (29:21):
R and R Foundation Specialist studios. Our Sualow brought to
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is there. We're busting jess as Chops today. But that's
all right. She's actually doing something related to our show.
She actually is weird, so weird, so strange. I don't

(29:42):
get annoyed at her. Often.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
I got down a little bit. That's all right. I'm sorry.
It goes.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, you annoyed me every day, so I do not.
That's not right. When was the last time I really
got an I can't annoyed you. I'm not saying that
you're at fault. I'm just I annoyed. When was the
last time I got annoyed with you? Like really annoyed?
With you. I don't know, I'm oblivious to it, like
where I said something like because if I'm annoyed at you,
I'm gonna I'm gonna say something after the show. Okay,
I'm not gonna blast you on the air. If I
blast somebody on the air, it's all in fun. It's

(30:08):
like it's you know, like I'm saying, like with Jess,
like she just her priorities are maybe not then I
I guess I just took every little poke fun as like,
oh he's at well, I like to make fun of
the name of your pod cast. Yeah, it's very Canadian.
It still gets I mean, being around it my whole life.
I still have to get used to people saying, oh, yeah,

(30:29):
what happened? All I cut my finger? What happened? And
I went to hospital hospital, Like did you go to
a hospital or the hospital? I went to host hospital.
And so when you tell me that you and Chuck
Powell are doing st podcast and I go, oh, it's
the stove and you go, no, it's stove, not the stove,
it's just well and stove. The background behind that is
because there's so many podcasts that you know, the stove

(30:52):
a hot stove, hot Stove and all that we wanted
to Well, why don't you guys come up with a
new name then, besides Stove, because I felt like the content,
by the way, is right, thank you, and I just
saw the new one got posted. I'm going to listen
to that. I promise a lot of response because Chuck
has seemingly changed his tone on the Jerry kind of
going after his guy. Yes, that makes great content to

(31:16):
be honest with. People should be checking that damn thing.
Adam on the iheartrate do it after Softy and Fanner.
When did they finish every day? I think it's seven.
I think it's seven. I think it's seven. That's an
inside joke, insider trading here for us this afternoon. That's

(31:36):
massively in satur trading after they're done, whenever they're done.
If you hear a second version of Mike Florio at
six twenty, then you can go ahead and listen to Stove.
All right, you can go ahead and do that, all right.
That's good stuff from Brent Huffman there talking about Letter
of Intente, National Signing Day whatever. It's notigned to the
Letter of ten day anymore, signing for a I even

(31:57):
get into it with them. We'll we'll spend a couple
to do a couple of specialty shows this summer and
we'll find out what. You know, just I'm gonna do
something with collectives. I'm gonna do something with huff. Just
the landscape of college sports. There's a thing going around
with WAZO right now. For example, it's like where do
you donate? Like, and the guys are they're doing some
matching funds, and it's one of the guys is doing

(32:19):
the matching funds is saying he's like, I would go
fifty percent for the CAF, which is a coupro athletic fund, right,
and fifty percent for the NIL. I think that would
be the equivalent of fifty percent for mo like futures
and fifty percent for the tai ekl okay, which, okay,
I guess in theory that sounds fine. But I think

(32:40):
people are just confused.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yes, I know mine as they go.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
I'm big into college sports. I'm confused exactly how it's working.
Not the NIL, I understand that, but I'm confused at
how like this whole when the house settlement happens, we're
paying guys now. It's very confusing for people, So we're
gonna do that this summer. But good stuff. So Washington
crushed it, which is the it's the good news bad
news for the Huskies. Good news is they had a

(33:03):
really good offseason, really good portal, really good high school
signings and all that. According to a half. The bad
news is they're in a conference where they're like middle
of the pack in that regard. They kind of have
to crush it and then they have to hope some
guys are better than they expect, right because Ohio State, Michigan,
Penn State, Oregon, we're gone, are getting better. And it

(33:27):
sounds like USC might have taken a step forward along
the way as well by hiring a GM and paying
them a million dollars to be your general manager, which
is now that's a thing now in college football. But
that's a thing in college football.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
We saw it coming on last year. We saw it.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
It's a thing. The GM is a thing in college football.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Well, it's because head coaches felt like they had to
be both and then they're like, no, we'll just pay
you one.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Well, I take back to what Kyle Smith said. Last year.
We had Kyle Smith, the Zoos basketball coach in the
midst of when they were on the verge of going
to the tournament, and he said, and we're talking about coaching.
He goes, I don't even coach anym because I'm more
of a general manager than I am a coach. I
have to leave this coaching practice. All that goes to
my own my staff, because I've got to sit there
and worry about is this guy going to leave? Of
this guy going to the portal? And this Now the funny

(34:11):
thing is he left. But you get the point. The
job is not just coaching anymore. So if you can
hire that GM to oversee a big time basketball program
or a big time football program, that's what you do.
So we're now we're seeing kind of more little slight
shifts towards the pro model. At what point do we
see contracts for players? Well, there's okay, so there's a thing.
There's a there's a story now making it rounds. I

(34:33):
saw today there's a It's funny because a lot of
these people were pushing for that to be the case,
and employees and things like that. And again I use
this broad term national media, but there's some of the
national media were pumping that, pumping the tires up on
that and you know, I'll give the kids more and
like never ever thinking in terms of a budget and

(34:53):
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Like not having any proactivity.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, well we've but we've talked about here like every
business has a budget, every business has how have you spend?
But the push today and then the latest push I
should say, is this, there's a concern if they are
made employees that that will screw over even more so
the non revenue sports and especially the female sports not
named college Basketbaomen's college basketball all weird. So be careful

(35:19):
for what you wish for. That's like so often in
college sports. This is what just is stunning to me
that it happens. There's no forward thinking. It's like, oh,
let's pay everybody, let's do this, let's do that, Well,
what cost to everybody else? Now, you could say it's
not the way of the world. We live in a
capitalist society and you should just get what you get,

(35:41):
and you know, you earn what you earn and screw
everybody else below you. It's very it's a lot more
like socialism when we sit there and say, okay, everyone's
going and you got to subsidize everybody else to make
the same blah blah blah and all that communism. But
you know what I'm saying, it's like, okay, that's we're
gonna let the road going down. Like the football players
make the same as the as the women's cross country

(36:02):
runner that doesn't run in front of any fans. It
doesn't generate revenue. I mean, I don't know. You tell
me all right, Uh, Steve Pelosolo Radio Row, We'll find
out what's going on down there. It is Super Bowl week,
ladies and gentlemen. We'll talk about the Eagles the Chiefs
with Palosolo.

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six thirty pre game seven o'clock drop of the pick,
I say he lost.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yes, they got.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
They got the loser point, they got the shootout lost point,
dropped by two in the thirds, they got a point.
Did you see what the tech I know this is
not really headlines, but did you see the text that
Mariners sent out to their season ticket holders? I just
I just deleted it. Actually, really, I didn't look at it.
You didn't look at it? No? Was I supposed to
h they asking us by playoff tickets already? No, okay,

(37:30):
it's funny. We'll we'll kind of go over that maybe
at one thirty. Don't have to dig that out of
my junk girl, or okay, it's funny. Oh god, let's
see what else I'm not gonna read about trans athletes
and Trump. No, that's not that's I don't think I'm
gonna read that one today. Don't think I'm gonna read
that headline. So you're not Ron Bergeny today live, unveiled

(37:52):
scoring changes, don't care about live. What's with this new
PGA golf that's th TGL It's pretty pretty popular. Yeah,
NFLPA says nobody wants to play eighteen games. Nobody. That's
a pretty big statement, and say nobody. If I learned
one thing from Humillan, it's that it's never zero, but
it's never a hundred. Thanks you always something you have

(38:14):
learned something. We'll talk about cloud coverage later and some slugos,
but he's right, He's right. It's never when you say
nobody wants to play your entire NFLPA says, no, you
know what changed for a lot of things. The NHL
had this a couple of years ago. They've talked about, like,
you know, doing this and doing that, and when it

(38:35):
increased league wide revenue which increases a salary cap. Guess
what everyone wanted it? Most would want it, Okay, not everyone,
not one. Steve Palozzolo, thirty, third Team Standing By. We
caught up with him earlier on Radio Row. I taped
this this morning with Steve as he's out there checking

(38:56):
out all the nut jobs and goofballs. On Radio Row,
Steve to break down Super Bowl is this fifty six,
fifty nine, fifty fifty nine, ten years after U Yeah,
Super Bowl fifty nine, which you can hear right here
on ninety three point three KJRFM. Steve Palazolo standingbyer.

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Speaker 1 (39:55):
All right, Welcome back in. Steve Palozzolo joined us right now,
and I'm gonna tell you where's that In just a second,
we get ready for Super Bowl. This is a final
scheduled visit of the regular season. But then We're gonna
take a break for a few weeks, a couple three weeks,
and then restart this thing if Steve will have us
again and talk about draft, free agency and all the
fun stuff, the team building that he loves so much.

(40:16):
Happy super Bowl Week, Steve. How are you.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 9 (40:19):
Yeah, it's here.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
Super Bowl Week. I'm excited.

Speaker 10 (40:23):
Okay, So a couple of things, some housekeeping I got
to get to.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
First of all, you're on Radio Row right now, so
and I'm listening to the podcast.

Speaker 10 (40:33):
This is your first super Bowl you're gonna attend.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:37):
I've been on Radio Row about five times now, but
every time I tried to get an actual credential for
the game, I either got turned down or someone else
at PFF stole it from me. I'm looking at him
right now, a couple of tables away, and this is
my first year as of now have a credential to
actually get into the game.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
So I'm pretty excited about that.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
I'll be curious when we talk again, probably in early March.
I've covered two both the ones the Seahawks were in.

Speaker 10 (41:03):
It was awesome to be there.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Uh. From a media standpoint, it's a pain in the butt.
Because you're probably not going to be in the press box.
You'll be in the auxiliary area like all of us
that actually cover the teams are, and uh yeah, it's
but it's it's awesome. The spectacle, the pregame, the lights,
that the halftime, it's you're gonna have a great time.
And oh yeah, there's a football game as well.

Speaker 5 (41:24):
Yeah that too.

Speaker 9 (41:25):
I just hope I say it in this auxiliary press box.
I'm a little worried about that because you're, what.

Speaker 10 (41:30):
Six seven six ten, six ten, six ten.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I'm six I'm six four ish six close to six five,
and I think I'm trying to think met Stadium tight.
And I was in the middle seats, like right in
the middle of the aisle, and then, uh where was it.
I was a little better in Arizona for this for
Super Bowl forty nine, but at least there it didn't
snow on us like it didn't at MetLife.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
So oh wow, yeah, yeah, you're.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
You're indoors, which is good. All right, that is we
hit the picture of Radio Row. It's changed over the
years a little bit. You said, you've been to a
few of those. What's the vibe around New Orleans and
Radio role like for this matchup.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
Yeah, there's there's hundreds of tables of you know, media
members and everything. Then there's the big you know, outer
outer stretches of the of this big warehouse basically the
convention center of all like the big media people, and
it's just a whole bunch of people doing uh, you know,
doing each other shows. You've got NFL players running around,
Hall of famers running around, celebrities, mid tier celebrities, low

(42:32):
level celebrities. You know, it's just everybody talking about the game.
And then I think what we found is people still
want to talk about the draft and free agency and
everything else besides the game too. So it's just a
wild week and it ramps up as we go. We're
just sitting here on Wednesday. I think tomorrow is probably
the biggest craziest day. We are seeing like you know,
UFC fighters and WWE champions and stuff like that running around.

(42:55):
So it's all sorts of hectic and chaotic here.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know, how you sport you spot the traditional sports
radio host, It's it's a very easy way to do it.
He's got a izod style polo on and it's got
a really bad logo on it. That's stitched down the
left side, left chest. It'll say something like sports animal,
sports ticket, the fan, something like that. It's that's how

(43:21):
you sport. I of course was always too cool for that,
never wore one of those. But but that's how you sport.
You spot the traditional sports radio guy, and then the podcasters.
They probably have a backdrop behind where they're set up
so they can YouTube.

Speaker 10 (43:34):
That's that's how it works, Steve.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
What you know what's hilarious here is you have to
pay extra money to be on the outer side.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
You know.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
That's like Fox, CBS, NBC, and we all pay for
like a table, right, we just have a table where
you set up. Some people who paid for the table, though,
brought a living room set, so they bring like a
full set to this thing. It's ridiculous. It feels like
they should be paying extra. I'm sitting like two over
here from a from a living room set that people
are like a podcast they just made.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
Bring their own set here.

Speaker 10 (44:03):
Where's the check the mic set at for the thirty thirteen?

Speaker 5 (44:06):
Yet we're not we're not there yet.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Okay, all right, well you guys just so far, you
guys just ambled around, all right, Steve, Pelozola joining us.

Speaker 10 (44:13):
Let's get to the matchup.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
It's Philadelphia, it's Kansas City, a rematch from a couple
of years ago. That was an interesting note you guys
were talking about on the pod on Sunday. We got
dropped on Monday. But I thought it was an interesting
note that the last time they played slick surface in
Arizona played a factory.

Speaker 10 (44:30):
Explain, yeah it did.

Speaker 9 (44:32):
I mean Philadelphia always has an excellent pass rush, and
not just a great pass rush, but you know, seven
and eight deep on that defensive line, and that was
supposed to be a big factor against the Chiefs that year.
The Chiefs had not given up a ton of pressure,
the old line had played great, and it was supposed
to be the best pass rush that they had gone
up against in that season. And the Eagles had no footing.
They were sliding all over the place. Whatever happened because

(44:54):
you remember, Arizona's got the grass, but it's you know, indoors,
and whatever happened with the maintenance of the grass, it
was a slick and I think it was to the
Chiefs advantage.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
And you know, shocking right to where the where the Eagles.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
The Eagles pass rush that back then was was outstanding,
just like it is now. Different different players, but you know,
same idea they were. They were a great four man
rudge type of team that entire season and they could
not get any pressure on Patrick Mahomes. So I'm assuming
the turf will not be that now this year. So
guys like Josh Sweat and Jalen Carter, you know, those
guys coming off the edge and you know, trying to

(45:30):
rush from the interior should have better footing. I mean,
it was affecting pass rush, It was affecting your ability
to hold the point against the run. It was really
a weird uh factor in the game a couple.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Of years ago in Arizona and it was I mean,
you're you're preaching to the choir here in Seattle. That
place has been a house of horrors for the Seahawks
over the years. Earl Thomas broken leg, Richard Sherman, torn Achilles,
will Disley, torn Ptel attend in cam got hurt, but
that ended his career there in Arizona.

Speaker 10 (45:58):
That had nothing to do with the turf though.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
As a hit and we won't even go into Super
Bowl forty nine man second a goal from the two, Okay,
let's Steve Bellasolla joining his thirty third team, so that
pass rush is a little different. Now, what's the Jalen
Carter factor, especially against kind of a bang up Kansas
City offensive line.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
I mean, Carter's just outstanding.

Speaker 9 (46:18):
He drafted him a couple of years ago, and he's
a three down disruptor.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
He's been really durable.

Speaker 9 (46:23):
I think he's that type of guy that does command
the double team on the interior. And it's been interesting
the way Kansas City has played because they've had, you know,
left guard Joe Tooney filling in at left tackle during
this playoff run and you know, toward the end of
the regular season, so back up left guard is Mike Kellendo.
They've played fine and the offense has been better with
those guys out there, but Tooney has been getting extra

(46:45):
help because he's a guard playing tackle, and so now,
you know, I think Kansas City has to figure out
what they want to do from a protection standpoint. Are
we helping Tony a tackle or we're going to help
Kelli Endo and Jalen Carter's over him, And I think
that's where the Eagles have a chance to take advantage.
Right Nolan Smith off the edge, Josh swed off the
edge a couple of their young guys. So they're going

(47:06):
to need to win against the tackles because I think
Jalen Carter, you know, he's good enough, much like a
Chris Jones on the other side, good enough to command
those double teams every single time the Chiefs dropped back
the past.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Steve when teams have given and he maybe even was
a Tampa Cup a few years ago, when teams have
given Mahomes a hard time in the time of the
year that he really cares about, which would be the playoffs,
when you know he actually the Chiefs kind of wake
up and decide just you know, they're going to be interested,
even though they you know, they it's not like they
didn't have a good record this season, but it just
feels like, especially offensively, they's like, Okay, we're gonna get
through this regular season and then hit the switch. But

(47:37):
when teams have had success, I think you guys mentioned
is that the too high safety you look, the too
deep What is it that's that's kind of hurt Mahomes.

Speaker 9 (47:44):
Well, there was a stretch where it was the too
high look, certainly that Super Bowl against Tampa Bay where
he had a depleted offensive line. It was the pass rush.
Tampa Bay had a lot of pressure. Mahomes was not
playing a patient style of football then, and he was
trying to hit home runs left.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
And right, and it just wasn't working against Tampa Bay.

Speaker 9 (48:01):
But there was a point where that was the strategy
against Mahomes, which would sit back, make him essentially play
like Tom Brady right, dink and dunk, throw the ball underneath.
Not that Brady didn't throw the ball down the field,
but he always took what the defense gave, and Mahomes
hit a stretch where he didn't right, he would get
a little impatient.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
In twenty twenty two, I think it switched.

Speaker 9 (48:20):
A little bit where Mahomes and Andy Reid they went
back and said, Okay, if they're going to give us
all the underneath stuff, we're going to take it.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
And even though this year I think they.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
Wanted to throw the ball down the field war with
Marki's Brown, with Xavier Worthy and some of the speed
that they added, they had injuries early on and they said, okay,
we got to get back to this, throw the ball underneath,
And honestly, I think that fits for the Kansas City
style of executing that well meshes well against this Eagles
defense that wants to sit, you know, sit over the

(48:49):
top of things, make you, you know, put together ten
twelve to fifteen play drives, and Kansas City's really good
at that. So I really think it's kind of playing
into what Kansas City likes to do, because they do
play a much better dink and dunk underneath type of
passing game now than they did three or four years ago.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Steve Palozzolo from a radio row down in New Orleans
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All right, let me flip to the other side of
the ball. Jalen Hurts and that Philadelphia offense against the
Kansas City defense. Steve Spagnola. But I didn't even mention

(49:27):
the headliner. It's, i mean, the most obvious thing. I'm
sure the topic this week. Can they stop Saquon Barkley, Well,
no one has yet, Steve, that hasn't happened yet. Can
they slow him down at least.

Speaker 8 (49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:38):
I mean, Kansas City's that type of defense that they
like to crowd the box, right, I mean, so a
lot of what they do with spags is not only
create indecision for the quarterback, but also they get that
extra man in the box. They put their cornerbacks on
an island a little bit more, so they'll kind of
sell out against the run. And I think it's one
of those games where Saquon, for all the big plays

(49:58):
that he creates, he also has a a lot of
those one in two yard runs and that's kind of
his game, right. It's like and for other teams, I
would say, don't bang your head against the wall against
this Kansas City front, don't run it too much. But Philly,
I think does actually have to stick with it. And
we might be sitting there at a point where Saquon's
got ten carries for twenty yards, but then he breaks
the sixty yarder. You know, as soon as you lose

(50:19):
a gap, as soon as one guy gets pancaked at
the second level, whatever it might be, he could take
it to the house.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
And we've seen that all year, so.

Speaker 9 (50:27):
I feel like it could be that type of game
where Kansas City is really good up front, but you
probably have to stick with Saquon and give him the
twenty twenty five carries and hope that he breaks one
or two of them, as he consistently has done this year,
which is unbelievable that he's actually been that good at
creating those big plays. I keep citing the stat he
is twenty two percent of all of the fifty yard

(50:49):
runs in the NFL this year, which doesn't sound like
a big number, but it's one player, man, It's one
player with all of those runs. And so I think
I think the Eagles need one of the one or
two of those big plays from Saquon, and I think
they're capable of doing it. But I also think Kansas
City is going to give him a big challenge up
front with how stout they are.

Speaker 10 (51:05):
How much of what Saquon's success comes from.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
That is an amazing stat though when you think about it,
I mean, like one guy has twenty two percent of
the home run hits this year. As far as a
running backs concerned, how much of what he does Barkley
that is is him and how much of it is
just a great offensive line.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
I think it's always both right. I mean the analytical
way of looking at it as well.

Speaker 9 (51:26):
It's the line, and it's the QB taking an extra
defender out of the box and or away from the
running back because of the QB run threat. All of
that stuff is true, but then you pair that with
Saquon being special with his ability to take it to
the house, you know, like Bjhn Robinson I think is
outstanding for the Atlanta Falcons, but you watch him run.
He'll have these awesome creative runs that top out at

(51:49):
fourteen or fifteen yards, which are great. I mean, they're
nice runs where Saquon specialists. He's taking a run that
other TV's are, you know, fifteen yards twenty yards, He's
making that fifty or sixty and he's doing that consistently.
So that's where he's been special, and that's what the Eagles,
even though they've always had a really good running attack
with Jalen Hurts quarterback, because they've had a good line,

(52:09):
they've had Jalen Hurts as a run threat, but Taquon
is taking those to the house over and over and
over again and making sure that if you mess up
just a little bit, or if I get the right
run block set up, I'm gonna take advantage. So that's
where it's it's both right. It's the Eagles create a
really high floor for the running attack, but Taquon creates

(52:30):
a super high ceiling. And that's where I think that
that marriage has been outstanding this year.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Steavepel Is out thirty thirteen. I'm gonna throw this at
you because I'm curious because the talk will be about Barkley,
the offensive line. Can Jalen Hurts do anything in the
passing game? And can he you know what about his legs?
All those things, But let me throw up an X
factor maybe at you, and maybe it's not even an
X factor, but let me throw this at you for
a second.

Speaker 10 (52:56):
Dallas Goddard.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Is that a guy because of the focus seeing on
what they're gonna do with Barkley, the focusing on those
two great receivers. Is Dallas Goddard a little bit of
an X factor for Philadelphia in this game?

Speaker 5 (53:08):
I absolutely think so.

Speaker 9 (53:09):
I Mean, we talk a lot about team building and
how much I think a good offense puts a ton
of difficult to cover playmakers out there, and that's what
Philly has, right. They have aj Brown, they have Davante
Smith and the way the Chiefs like to play, as
I mentioned, they'll keep their corners on an islands. They'll
play tight, sticky man coverage. It might be tough getting
the ball to aj Brown or DeVante Smith. You're gonna

(53:31):
have to take those chances, but they're going to be
lower percentage shots. But I think Dallas Goddard against the
linebackers and safeties of the Chiefs absolutely to be an end.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
And there we lost the end of the interview. Our apologies,
we had a couple of technical issues on our end.
The computers shut down. M Interesting. What were you making
of what he was saying there about Dallas Goddard. Well,
I think that's the key. Honestly. I think in every
Super Bowl there's a that kind of it comes out

(54:02):
of nowhere. He's a good player, right, but but when
you know Zach Kertz, like he's talking about, like Zach Kertz,
big game, right, So is that a place you can
kind of can you exploit that you're so focused in
on the receivers and the deep threats that they are,
you're so focused on Saquon Barkley, Can Dallas Goddard become
a factor for you? Yeah? I think so. I don't
know about you, Anders. Honestly, I have no feel for

(54:24):
this game. I don't either, which is probably good because
usually when I go to the window at the Arsenal
coum me casino, I got a really good feeling. Yeah,
and that feeling usually ends on Sunday at one time exactly,
well at four o'clock, depending on what time the game starts.
Give me three hours afterwards, maybe even an hour and
a half, but case in point Washington. So the other

(54:44):
thing he was talking about was Jalen Carter. Do you
think the Seahawks missed out by not drafting him? I
think it. I think that's a hard one to say
they did. I think it's hard to second guess that
because Devin Weatherspoon's been really good. Okay, now, is you
have the same impact though, Well, I mean asks the
question right. Devin Witherspoon plays every play, plays every snap,
Joe and Carter plays.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
What seventy percent snaps? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Yeah, okay, so Devin plays every snap and he's a factor.
So I would I'm I'm a couple of years, two
or three years away down the road of saying they
missed out on him, and like if they would have
drafted L. J. Collier instead in front of him, or like,
got you know one of their other first round picks
that hasn't worked out right? Sure, Devin Witherspoon's a two

(55:31):
time pro bowler. Yeah, pretty damn good player. That's where
we kind of have been a little iffy on John
Shire's drafting lately. But his first round picks the last
couple years have been JSN. No problem there, Bien Witherspoon,
no problem. Yeah. Biron Murphy I would say Biron Murphy
was a little bit of a disappointment this year. Yeah,
I would say too. But I think that had to
do with health as much as anything. And but then

(55:51):
you ask yourself, okay, why were you not one hundred
percent healthy? Were you working as hard as you should
be in the off season? I mean those I think
next year we have a lot better idea about about
Biern Murf, especially when you see Jared Vers and what
he did. That's the one that's gonna hurta. I mean,
if you want to look at if you want to
if we want a second guess, I don't. I don't
think that you can really, in all good conscience say

(56:11):
with a one hundred percent certainty. Oh, they messed on Jail
and Carr because they drafted Devin Witherspoon. No, den Wisbond's
a really good football player, impactful football player. In a
year or two, we'll have this conversation Murphy and verse. Yes,
that could be a mess that that that could be
and maybe buyer Murphy comes in, you know, rocks the world.
Next year we'll see. I was I just was surprised
he didn't make a bigger impact. Now I know he

(56:32):
took on a lot of double teams, and then when
people tell us to do that. You just heard Steve
talking about Jaylen Cart. It's not like he didn't see
double teams like Jared Versus, wasn't a focal point of
the other team's offense. Yeah, so I don't ever buy
that nonsense, like other teams have good players that are focused,
focal points of the opposition. Well, the other thing is
what team you played for? Right, Maybe if we had
drafted Jim Carr, he wouldn't have had the same impact.
That's because of the defensive line. Good point, very good point. Yeah, Okay,

(56:57):
let's take a break. We'll come back. We're gonna hear
a little bit. Walter Jones was on our Crack and
Hockey Network pregame show yesterday. Big Walt seventy one, thirteen
years in Seattle, one hundred and eighty stars, started every
game he played in with the Seahawks Hall of Famer
Ring of Honor member, all those things. I asked him
last night in our Hockey pregame show, as he's a
special guest on Black Hockey History Night. I asked him

(57:18):
about his coach, Mike Hongrin and his thoughts on Mike
joining him in the Hall of Fame. We'll hear that
coming up next.

Speaker 7 (57:26):
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Speaker 1 (57:29):
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Speaker 1 (57:41):
Three Super Bowl kJ R fam All Show brought to
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I say be there Friday, not we will be there Friday,
not using a plural pronow no because you're not going
to be there and Jess will not be there. A

(58:01):
little pronoun nice. A lot of people are off that day.
Why you're not, I'm not saying you are. And and
Vak's not off either, stunning soft he's off, Jackson's off,
Dick or no, take's not off, but qu'es off. Everyone's off.
Weird I have for super Bowl. Huh huh, weird. Time

(58:24):
to take off a lot of there's there's listen, we've
got some commitment issues here at kJ R. People not me.
We've got some massive commitment issues here. Anyone gives any
smack talk to me about commitment. I will you never
I've never. No one's ever done that. It's good, no
one's ever done that. I worked two ships yesterday. I
have to ask. I have to ask Homerid about VAK

(58:44):
and what what punishment she should have for putting our
show in the back burner today? Is it a fine?
Is it lunch?

Speaker 8 (58:51):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (58:52):
I don't know. I think I'm gonna have a good one.
He probably has stuff like that. No, you know, here's
what's gonna happen. He's gonna he's gonna side on side
with her. Yuh, how it goes, I'll talk to him though.
You know, those are the kind of things Mike likes.
He does like, I'm sure he had stuff like that
for his team, like for a meeting, like this is
what you have to do. I won't say it's her, Okay, Yeah,
good cook. There was an employee today, someone that works

(59:13):
on our show, and he's gonna be like, oh, it
was an Andrews. I can't give you the name, put
a priority on a different show, and and we had
a couple of little issues. What should the punishment be
if any? Yeah, because if I did, if I pose
it that way to him and he knew it was her,
he wouldn't. He'll turn it around on me, like you

(59:36):
know how I was turned stuff around him with like
you just pushed back the meeting because you know how
much she does for you exactly. It would be because
like like just how like because he kind of owes
me a little bit. I know he knows that in
the factors about oh, because I'll like he's gonna be thinking,
you know, you always bring up ruscoll and stuff like that,
just to just to you know, you know, you bring

(59:57):
things up and you get it, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
We got some sound from Mike. By the way, Matt
housebxually be on our show tomorrow at nude. I can't
wait for that. I haven't talked to Matten forever. I'm
excited about. Yeah. Yeah, ESPN just screwed up. Oh dumb God,
they screwed up both him and his brother Alex Smith
on the on the Sunday Countdown Show is just as

(01:00:23):
boring as the.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Day is Long.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
God, Like, holy cow, Matt was so good, so good
on TV. He's like the exact type of former player
that I think works really well on media, kind of
somewhere to Tony Romo. Were like, you were good, but
you weren't like great the elite. Yeah you were a
pro bowler, but you were not a Hall of Fame, right,
but you can break down stuff and talk about stuff

(01:00:45):
really really that was one of the best I will
say in terms of athletes who were great to work
with and deal with. And I think and people say,
what does that matter if we don't care about the media,
because it translates to you, guys. You heard from him,
you to know him, he met his family, the whole
nine yards. Matt was just he's he's one of the
good ones. So yeah, he's gonna joinus storrow talking about

(01:01:06):
Mike Hongrin, speaking of Mike Ongren Hall of Fame finalist
uh Walter Jones was on our pregame show yesterday on
the Crack and Hockey Network. It's Black Hockey History Night.
We were celebrating that, and among the things we talked
about Walt. This is I love Walt Man, big, Walt
whirls in there, great one to talk to and just
the media and everything, which not as much when he

(01:01:27):
was a player, which is weird. Really, Yes, he didn't talk.
I didn't I didn't know him, but he didn't talk. Really,
he didn't talk. He talks a ton now well, And
it wasn't like he didn't talk because he was a jerk.
He wasn't like Stirling Sharp or one of those. No,
he just just was quiet, kept to himself, down head
down to They had Robbie. Robbie could talk for everybody,
so it didn't matter. But while he's doing a great

(01:01:48):
job on TV, he's all over the place. He's at
every event, he's shooting video or still photos at Sounders
games and really into that kind of stuff. But he
was on our Krack and Hockey Network yesterday wearing his
Hall of Fame hat and his Hall of Fame ring,
So who better to ask about the Hall of Fame
than Walter Jones. On Thursday, We're going to find out
whether or not your coach in Seattle, Mike Hombren, is in.

(01:02:11):
It feels like it's long overdue. If the Hall of
Fame comes to you and says, big Walt, you've got
a gold jacket, tell us why Mike's in the Hall
of Fame, what would you say?

Speaker 11 (01:02:18):
Because he did it the right way For me personally,
he's my Hall of Fame coach because he came in
here and changed the standing here in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
You know, when I came here, he was like, hey,
listen to me. We'll get y'all to us.

Speaker 7 (01:02:28):
So bow.

Speaker 11 (01:02:28):
We didn't win it, but still again, I think he
changed the culture here in Seattle. Everybody got used to
see him winning, and now you can see that now
because everybody want to be part of something great, and
that's what he was able to do here when he
came to Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Yeah, well said by Walt. I mean, just what Mike
Holmgren did in Seattle and Green Bay is exactly what
we've talked about over and over again. Is exactly what
Walt just said as well. He raised the bar he
raised the standard. He got to the point point where

(01:03:01):
and we talked about that. We did the whole thing yesterday,
like who's closer to a title? Well, every one of
the responses we got, and the texts and the tweets,
the follow ups and all those things. Almost to a person,
the comments were the same. The Seahawks want to win.
I think Nathan Bishop said it yesterday right at the

(01:03:23):
end of mollywap right. He says, the Seahawks wake up
every single day and they say, how can we win
a championship? How can we win a title? What do
we need to do to get to that next level?
And that's what the Seahawks do every single day, everyday work.
It doesn't always work, but they You can't question there.

(01:03:43):
I mean, listen, the Jimmy Graham trade was atrocious. Percy
Harvin was a crazy man. You know, we go through
the long list draft picks like LJ call you were awful.
But not once has that team ever said, yeah, we're good,
We'll just know, we'll we'll stand pat We're not even
gonna spend the salary cap blah blah, But no, no,

(01:04:05):
we are. What does it take to win today? And
It started with Mike. Mike changed the entire tenor now.
It is interesting because franchises can go through their ebbs
and flows and ups and downs. When Chuck Knox and
was here as a head coach and Mike McCormick was
a GM years and years ago, decades ago, they changed
the whole concept of being Seahawk football. It went from

(01:04:26):
being kind of a fun little team. They played in
this dome, it's really loud. Fans are crazy, they're nuts,
they wear wear Raiderbuster shirts. Blah blah blah. Chuck Knox
made him legitimate. Micha McCormick made him a legitimate team.
But then Ken Bearing bottom and when Ken Bearing bought
them and hired Tom Flores, and it just went south.
I mean, the greatest story of all time. It's not
great because of the outcome, but this is where the

(01:04:49):
Seahawks were. Chuck Knox borderline Hall of Fame coach, Mike
McCormick is in the Hall of fame. They're running your team.
Ken Bearing buys them. Those guys are gone. Lawries comes in.
Was a product of the Raiders system. Couldn't coach a
lick joke where he's how he thought of in the league.
But that's fine. He comes in. Drafting was awful. The

(01:05:10):
first GM that they hired. You want to have fun,
google the name Mike Blatt Murder. He was a player
agent they hired as a GM and he got accused
of murdering two guys. Well, he hired two football players
at a small college to murder, uh guy, not two people,
one person that was Ken berings Hire. And then it

(01:05:31):
just started a spiral downhill of where this franchise was
moving to Long Beach blah blah blah. Entered Paul Allen
and her Todd Lai Wiki, but most importantly entered Mike Holmgren.
And Mike Holmgren changed how this franchise went about its business.
Built the vMac. That was him and ly Wiki and
Paul Allen. They built the vMac, made this got out

(01:05:55):
of little college, made a legitimate training facility, best one
in the league at the time. It's a litt dated
now it's still great facility though it's great. Yeah, yeah,
but that's it's Mike home Gran. There's interesting thing on
social media and you know me anders oh love my
social media. Both both the Green Bay Packers and the
Seattle Seahawks in the last twenty four hours have been

(01:06:17):
tweeting out Mike Holmgren needs to be in the Hall
of Fame. It's time for Mike homg going to be
in the Hall of Fame. I don't remember being done
in the past when he's been a candidate. Now he's
a finalist, so it's that he's nearing the finish line,
so I get the final push. But I do find
it interesting that both Green Bay and Seattle are pushing
that out right now. I'm glad they are. It's very
Edgar esque and they need to. It's too late for

(01:06:40):
the voting. Maybe they know something I don't know, but
but yeah, good stuff. We'll hear from Mike. He's going
to join us coming up at two o'clock today his
weekly visit here in KJR. We'll get a daily power
play in next and then maybe a quick question to
ask you next as well.

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F M all right, quick daily power playing your home
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f M. Crack can lose yesterday in overtime, actually in
a shootout in over shootout Nelsons shoot out yesterday that
Patrick kanele was sick. Yeah, one goal scoring the shootout

(01:07:41):
and it was Patrick Kane and it was just not
It was just nasty. It was so nasty. It didn't
Did you see that he actually with that goal has
the most shootof goals in NHL history. Now, I believe
mentioned on the post game show last time, the Crack
and Hockey Networks. Well, I wouldn't have known that, you know,
because you were busy here doing Mike Mikeinton. Mike Bent
was still on the air when I got in the

(01:08:01):
car and we did a forty five minute post game
last night, and he was still on the air, and
that means I was still here.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
That guys, that guy's a maniac.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Is a nut job telling to wrap it up, little clicker. No, No,
I like getting the car and hearing him selfish, selfishly.
I like to do that. You are the reason sometimes
even set him texts. Keep going, Mike, keep going, you
got this? Okay, what do we got here?

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Listen? Shootout loss fifty points or nine behind Calgary. Calgary
loss last night, but it doesn't matter there. It's they
can't win their own games. So more on, more on
the crack and lane. Let me wrap it up with
this man, and you tell me if you can, if
you agree. I think last night is another great example
of this team is not a playoff team this year. Obviously,

(01:08:49):
thanks captain, obvious, well done tips. But they're also not
a bad team. I agree they're they're they're so stuck
in Like last night was a great like you lose
to a good team. They had won six in a row,
they've unbeaten in seven. Now they're seven and eight seven
and they have the best record in the NHL since December.
They played with them for the most part. Shot attempts

(01:09:10):
were little bit skewed, but that was the power play
situation more than anything. They play hard, come back from
two goals. They just don't have. They need a dude
or two. They need one or two dudes like the
Coppo Coco Matty Beniers, James Schwartz line. I have been
really impressed by Maddi le It's that's a good if
that line was one a or a second line. That's

(01:09:32):
where they are. They need a couple of dudes and
they're not getting the play of They're not getting dude play,
so to speak, due out of ninety five, who's paid
like a dude? Nine nine, No, I'll give nine Nine's fine.
You look at his numbers since you look as ever
since Thanksgiving? Slow start. He's fine. He needs guys around him.

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He's a distributor. He's the best passer on the team
and it's not even close. He needs guys to finish.
They need a dude. Who do you want to get
again with the guy's name mean Tannin, Yeah, I call
him Secretariat, flipping thoroughbread, just massive. Yeah, dude, I think

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that'd be such a perfect edition this team can't can't
see it happening. Dream the Dream. I think that's like
the exact type of player of the crack and Need.
He's he's a hard ass, he'll go into the dirty
areas so plays well on both ends. It's got a
lot of Finns on this team too, like him. Like
they're gonna pay, He's gonna play Eli Pat Paul. Let's

(01:10:34):
let's go do some recruiting. Yeah, especially the four nations
right here, Let's go let's go, let's go. I mean,
I guess Kapa is not even guaranteed to be here
next year either, so restricted to be here? Okay, all right?
They they played themorrow to seven o'clock Toronto in Town
six thirty pre game, Mike ben might have news during
that pregame show on Mike Homer. And by the way, well,
because it's a six o'clock show right for the awards,

(01:10:58):
NFL Wars and Hall of Fame and all that stuff,
nobody knows what the I only the producers know what
the itinerary is like when are they announcing in the
Hall of Fame. But hopefully Mikey's on standby in case
it's in that six thirty to seven window. We can
get that on KJR for that. Holmgrun's in, so network
affiliates be damn what if he tosses to the cracking
game Mike Holmgan does, It's like coming up next, I

(01:11:19):
think Mike. If Mike's in, Michael be on an airplane, probably
on his way to New Orleans. Yeah, freaking some hurricanes.
Let's go's have some fun, all right, Jess is still
not here. We'll ask Mike, but we'll have to do
it in a different way. What you're telling me, Vak
is not here. She's really pissed today, by the way,
like she's in a bad mood, Like she is in

(01:11:40):
a sour, sour mood. Well, and even when Jess is
in a bad mood, because she's so bright and like, yeah,
it's like it's still like better than most when most
people are in a bad mood. Yes, but it's you
can still tell like slight moments it. What's funny is
I find the humorous that she's in a bad mood
because it doesn't happen that all. It doesn't. You're just
she's just walking around And normally it's not easy to

(01:12:03):
poke fun at her, No, but now today it is. Yes,
it's like way too easy. And wait until I tell Softy,
Oh God, wait till I tell Softy she's in a
bad mood. How's that gonna go at two forty? I
don't know. Softie's the type of guy that he'll he'll
give you a bunch of crap and then when he
knows that now's out the time, he'll he'll back off.
She'll loosen up, you think so, But she we're gonna

(01:12:24):
ask Holgrian in a slight way like how the punishment
for her? Oh yeah, good call. All right, we'll do
that next.

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Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Every Wednesday, Mike Holmgren joins us, Hello, sir, how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
I'm good. I I'm sorry. I'm not there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
My bad.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
I've got some stuff came up and I couldn't make
it in there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Weather and all that. I get it, I get it. Okay,
I got to ask you a non football question. I
need Coach Holmgren's advice here. Okay, you're ready for all?

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
What if okay, if you had someone on your staff,
like say you had a staff of a couple three
people right that work with you every day closely and
and and all of a sudden, though one or one
of those people is is like putting their priorities elsewhere,
Like maybe all of a sudden they're helping Dave Pearson
in PR or they're they're out with Chuck Arnold selling

(01:14:24):
tickets as opposed to breaking down film for Mike home Grin.
What's the punishment? Is it a fine? Is it lunch?
How would you. How would coach Holmgren handle that? Well,
first of all, I'd be unhappy.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Secondly, I'd call that person into the office and said,
why are you doing this? If I didn't like the answer,
then we might have to be looking for another job,
you know. Okay, good, all right, Jeff, if I if
I really liked the person, I would If I really
liked the person, though, right, I try and correct it
and in the strongest terms, Okay, this is good advice

(01:14:59):
for me. Okay, perfect?

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
What about like a fun little punishment? Yeah, Like, is
there a fine we can put like if it was
a radio station and where like lunch maybe brought in
for the other people that are looking at the show
as a priority.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
Maybe that's yeah, that's we'll see what you see. Here's
the thing. You're a lot nicer than I am. Let's
just call it. Let's just say it like it is. Yeah,
buy him lunch, Yeah, bring lunch for everybody and some
donuts perhaps, Yeah, And then everything's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
And we'll forget, forgive and forget.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay for until the next time. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
See, that's perfect.

Speaker 10 (01:15:31):
You have that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
When I'm in a bad I'm in a little bit
of a bad mood because of our house. They're in
our building. They're they're doing construction in the building. They're scaffolding.
I can't see outside the windows anymore. There, guy, I
couldn't do it from the house. That's why I'm in
the parking lot on my cell phone because they're they're no.
They got a jackhammer right outside my window. I could
have gone on with you, but you you would go,

(01:15:53):
what's that? What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Listen? It's it's I've done worse. You know that. You've
listened to the show. You know how it works here?
I mean, and hell SOFTI show every week Mike Holmbrin's
with us on this Wednesday afternoon. It's super Bowl week.
We'll get to that in a second. I won't dwell
on this because I know we're all kind of waiting
on pins and needles, nobody more so than you and
your family. But Walter Jones was on the TV with
me last night for our crack and pregame. It was
Black Hockey History Night, and what we had Walt there

(01:16:16):
our Hall of Famer and and uh and by the way,
I had to tell Alison my coast. I said, you
wouldn't believe this this guy used to not talk like
he used to just come right like like he just
you could. Did he just sit in the corner like
you didn't You didn't hear nothing from Walts right, No,
he'd nod, he'd nod. He never never said anything. I mean,

(01:16:38):
you had a lot of talkers in your day at
Green Bay and Seattle, but Walt was not one.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
Maybe maybe Tobeck spoke for the whole line. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I know, I think I think he probably did. All right,
let me get to this. This is Walter Jones last
night on our pregame show. On Thursday, We're going to
find out whether or not your coach in Seattle, Mike Hombren,
is in. It feels like it's long overdue. If a
Hall of Fame comes to you and says, big Walt,
you've got a gold jacket. Tell us why Mike's in

(01:17:06):
the Hall of Fame, what would you say?

Speaker 11 (01:17:07):
Because he did it the right way for me personally,
he's my Hall of Fame coach because he came here
and changed the standing here in Seattle. You know, when
I came here, he was like, hey, listen to me.
We'll get y'all to him. Super Bowl. We didn't win it,
but still again, I think he changed the coacher here
in Seattle. Everybody got used to see him winning, and
now you can see that now because everybody want to
be part of something great, and that's what he was
able to do here when he came to Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Mike, what does that mean when you hear from a
guy like Walter Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Well, it means everything, you know. I it's funny when
I get a chance to be with a player now
that I had coached years and years ago, and I
was hard on everybody. I loved him, but I was
hard on him. And then then to see him and
joke with him and give him a hug, and you know,

(01:17:52):
all that kind of stuff. That's what I got into
coaching for in the first place. That's why I love teaching,
you know. And for a guy who was as he's
one of the greatest players ever in the offensive line,
that I really appreciate that and I'm honored to have
him say that those things.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
I've just saw. The Seahawks put a bunch of tweets
out today from different players. Steve Young, you can be
a great offensive coordinator, you can be a great head coach.
Not many people can do both. He belongs in the
Hall of Fame. That's from Steve Young Brett Farv. I know,
without a doubt I would not be here where I
am today without him. The three m vps I was
fortunate to win are a direct result of his coaching
and his leadership. Just a small taste of what some

(01:18:33):
of the guys are saying. I'll wrap up the Hall
of Fame stuff. I don't want to dwell on it
with you today. Mike's were all kind of waiting tomorrow.
But what's going through your mind? I mean, are you
at peace? Are you nervous? What's my homborn thinking right now?

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Well, you know what, in all honesty, I'm more at
peace than my wife, or my kids or my grandkids.
They're chomping at the bit, and no, I you know
it's gonna I guess they're gonna let everyone know tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
I'm taking Kathy to see Hamilton for a birthday present
Saturday night, So if they invite me, I'm not I'm
not going to. I'm not going to New Orleans. So
I'm gonna be home. Yeah, well you're.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Going to You're going to the play. You're going to
the theater with your wife. It's as simple as that. Man,
that's a priority right on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Yeah, if they wanted me there, they should have told
me sooner so I didn't have to make the plans.
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
You know what, that's the best part about it. You're
still coach Hongren like you're gonna dig your heels in
and tell it's like you're sitting in a competition committee. No,
that's not what we're gonna do. I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Oh No, I think I told you. I think I
told you a story about wrong Wolf uh get going
into the Hall of Fame. And they used to come,
and they used to come. They'd invite people. They invite
all the nominees. This is in this is in uh
in August. They invite. They do it deffinitely now, but
they used to invite the nominees and they put you
in a in a motel, hotel room or something, and

(01:19:56):
then you'd wait for the knock on the door and
you'd be in there. And then sometimes Tony Boselli, who's
now a big exec with Jacksonville. I worked with him
in Super Bowls and stuff as a broadcaster. He was
nominated five or six downs. Did that? Never got to
knock on the door. He'd come down. No, he come
down and do the game with us. So, but Ron's

(01:20:17):
in there with his wife. Knock on the door. Oh,
they go, oh, hell each other. Ron goes to the door.
It's the maid doing turndown service. Oh no, yeah, yeah,
and he goes, oh, so they closed the door. She
leaves and he goes. I guess they didn't get in. Well,

(01:20:37):
then fifteen minutes later he got another knock on the
door and he got in. But you know, it's uh,
they do it differently now, I think.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I asked Walt last night off the air.
I didn't want to say anything to him on that.
We're just talking off the air, and I said, how
does it work? Like I was Mike and he's and
he says, I don't know because it's changed. He was
telling me the story when wal see Walter got into
twenty fourteen, you know, the Seahawks were playing in it
met Life in the super Bowl, and he said, back
then there was like thirty finalists or something like it was.

(01:21:06):
It was not as as you know, it's like a
ton of finalists and they brought them all into into
New York or New New Jersey wherever, put them up
in whatever hotel it was, and they when they Walter said,
when they checked in, they gave him two itineraries. One was,
if you're in, then you stay for the weekend. Here's
what you got to do. Here's where you're gonna be.
We're taking it here, halftime, all the stuff they do. Right,
if you're not in, here's your itinerary to get home.

(01:21:29):
Like it's it's like cruel and unusual punishment and wals
that'd be hard and and Walt said he looked at
it and he would have been flying during the middle
of the Super Bowl that his Seahawks team was playing in,
and he's like, this isn't working for me, Like I'm
gonna I'm I'm staying And they're like, well, no, you're
gonna fly back through Miami and then to Seattle. It
was this crazy flight for Big Walt and he's like, no,

(01:21:51):
that's that's not happening. Like Big Wall's like, no, I'm
stay in for the game one way or the other.
I guess he took me, probably talked to the Seahawks
and and so forth, and ended up staying obviously, But
I don't know if Wald had much to worry about.
He was a no brainer, wasn't he. I mean that
wasn't even Yeah, he was a no brainer.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
You know, you look at the the guys that are nominated,
the fifteen guys. Now, I looked at the list. I
had a couple of riders flowing me off the record
and say, who are the five six guys that you
would pick? And so you look at the list. It's hard.
It was hard for me. I mean, there is really close,

(01:22:27):
I think. So, you know, it's it's a little it's
a little bit rolling the dice, you know. And so
I was trying to tell Cathy and the girls, my girls,
if it doesn't work, if I don't get in, life
still goes on.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
Okay, yeah, I and your attitude is awesome, it's fantastic,
I don't I think most of us are kind of
in the point of like, hey man, this is it's
it's time. You know, you know how we think, Mike,
you know how you know I got softy run around
bouncing off the off the walls here. I mean, I
think he's I think he's calling the big guy Baker
to find out what's going on. But you know, you're

(01:23:02):
the coaching finalist this season, which is huge in its
own right. And then the players. It is interesting with
the players. You've got a couple of guys in there
that are you know, Sterling Sharp right is on that list,
and you know, I mean it's Ricky Waters he played
for you as well, Eli Manning. Fred Taylor is an
interesting one. Like he's among the all time leaders in

(01:23:23):
rushing yards as Fred Taylor, but was never like the
best running back in the NFL. Where would you fall
with him? Like what was That's that's an interesting one
to me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Yeah, And and running backs, you know that's the thing though,
you quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are a little easier to classify I think,
and rate and rank the running back position. There are
so many good ones, Ricky Sewn, Alexander for us. Yeah,

(01:23:51):
you know, you plug those guys in. I mean they're
they had yards, they got numbers, they they won games.
You know, it's but Fred Taylor would be in that category.
He was really a good, good player. But they only
take in I think they only take in five or six.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
Yeah, I think it's eight total every year. Tributors and
coaches and stuff and yeah, yeah, you coached against Tory Holt.
He's one of the finalists. What was it like coaching
against that guy? The Greatest Show on Turf?

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
He was one of the guys I said. He gets
my vote, maybe because I saw him so many times
and he played against me so many times. But he
was really good. I mean, all those guys, the whole list, really,
the whole list, if you make that list, because they
start out I think they start out with one hundred
and sixty or some great number of Oh I mean yeah,

(01:24:38):
they mark it down to fifteen. Yeah, you know, all
of them probably deserved to go in. Yeah, you know. Yeah,
So then it becomes how do you get in?

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
It's a hard I think the two hardest Hall of
Fames are baseball and football to get in. I think
Andrews you agree, you're on your head, Yeah, totally, I
think they are. It's just the two hardest. Along the way,
Adam Vinatieri is the one. I think he's a no brainer.
But he's a kicker. I know how much you love kickers, Mike,
but he kind of transcended things like I'm not sure
if Belichick's wearing as many rings, uh, you know, as
he is without him, and I don't. I don't think

(01:25:08):
Peyton Manning has his from New England or from Indianapolis either.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Yeah. No, I mean he was a great kicker. He
was a great kicker, and they should have a kicker category.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
It is its thing.

Speaker 10 (01:25:22):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
You're right, he meant that in a positive way.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
No, he didn't, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
I don't think so. But we'll dance with you on
that when Mike Lombrian's joining us. All right, let's get
to super Bowl week. You guys played one in New
in New Orleans? Right, was it when you were a
coordinator or no, you guys won? Is that where you won?
I always forget. I'm sorry we.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
Played, we played, I played San Francisco, we played one
in New Orleans and then Green Bay we did I
played twice there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
Yeah, that feels to me, that feels like where the
super Bowl should be. I'm being honest with you, Like
it feels like that's where it should be. Like I
love the Superdome, it's wowed, it's great, you got New Orleans.
I feels like that that's where.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
It should be. That you know, we said that. I've
said that any number of times. I used to say
it in league meetings and in competition. It should be
there every year. That's where the super Bowl should be,
you know. And then because I was in in San Diego,
I was one in Miami, I was one in Detroit,
I was in you know, but New Orleans the stadium,

(01:26:24):
the place, the restaurants, the atmosphere. But then you know,
when I was with with the forty nine ers, we
played New Orleans was in the same division, so we
were there every year, you know, and so you get
used to places. But it's a great city for that game.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
And so I you know what I wish if I
do get in, I wish they would have told me
earlier and I would sold the Hamilton tickets to somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
And going down michael O m grid joining us. What's
the biggest challenge for the teams at this point in
the league. In the week, it's Wednesday, and they had
all last week, and we've always heard that everyone's got
their game plans, everything's all the preparation is done. Before
you get to the super Bowl city. You're just kind
of tweaking things and fine tuning and kind of getting

(01:27:11):
ready to go. So what's the biggest challenge Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday. The rest of the week leading into that
game on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
I think a couple of things. I think one, because
of the two week schedule and the importance of the
game and the hype, and how you as you approach
the game, how everyone down there, players, everybody, you start
feeling a little ready, that you don't peak too early,
that you're not ready to play the game on Thursday

(01:27:40):
because you got a couple more dates. So how you
pace that. I had a long conversation with Tony Dungee.
We were someplace as the Combine, I think, and he was,
you know, he was asking me about how we prepared
and stuff for Super Bowls, and you know, it's that's
really important. The second thing is the atmosphere you give

(01:28:02):
your players. We did give them some time to go
out to dinner and do things like that, and you
just trust that they're not going to go haywire. You
just trust them that they're they're going to keep things
tied up, you know. And it worked almost all the time.
And I say almost all the time. So you know,

(01:28:23):
instead of having a strict curfew, I want them to
enjoy it. The experience as well, and you just trusted
them to do the right things. Those two things are
really really important. And then thirdly, you have to let
and I've told you guys this before when we played
not Pittsburgh, but when we lost to Denver when I

(01:28:44):
was in Green Bay, you know, I had a heck
of a time getting Mike, getting the team to realize
how good Denver was. You know, they had gotten in,
they'd upset some people to get into the super Bowl.
We were the favorites in the game, we'd won it
the year before. We had a great season, and I
tried everything. I tried to be hard with them, I

(01:29:06):
tried to be nice to them. I tried everything, and
I just didn't. I didn't do a good enough job
coaching and getting them ready that way and mentally, and
we played kind of a a We didn't play up
to our potential in that game.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Is it the film? They always say film doesn't lie,
and you know players are smart, they're watching film. See
I would I mean you said that before to me,
that you know, like you didn't get do a good
enough job of getting the ready. I tend to believe
that's not the case. I think it, but and here's
why when guys are watching games, right, when guys are
watching or watching you know, the film and the tape,

(01:29:42):
and they're and there, and I go back to what
I remember this with the Seahawks, And they didn't say
it during the media day or the week, but they
all told us that afterwards, and they tell us the
story of the day of the twenty thirteen c XIT
won Super Bowl forty eight, and they said that we
knew when we were watching film that we that we
had them, like we knew we had them. It almost

(01:30:04):
sounds like your players were kind of thinking the same
thing in Green Bay that second go round. So I mean,
that's the hard thing is that you're convincing players are
So what did they see on tape that didn't concern them?
Because Elway was playing right, that would have been the
one thing that would have just said, I don't care
what you see. Number sevens out there. Yeah, you know what,
you're right. But I think that's what happened. They looked

(01:30:25):
at it and they thought we got this because it
wasn't hard to feel that way. It wasn't hard to
look at the film and go, okay, well boy, you know,
we should be able to do this and that. And
John Elway, as great as he was, he was a
quarterback against me a number of times in the Super Bowls.
John Ellwie wasn't the best player. Terrell Davis was in

(01:30:47):
that Super Bowl. And when we played with the forty
nine ers, we beat them fifty five to ten. And
that game I remember because I was I was coordinating,
coordinating it for the first time that my first year
of CORDNY. I remember I was in a film room
with the players behind me, like on a Thursday, and
I and I started looking at the film and I

(01:31:09):
said this, this, this, this. All of a sudden, the
lights go on and Joe Montana flips the lights on
because Mike, we've seen this film three times.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
We got this. We're okay, let's let us get out
of this meeting. So I said, okay, okay, well you're
okay good and he was right. Though he was right,
I mean, they really had it knocked down.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
It's I just yeah, like players don't lie, right, they
know they know along the way, and you got to
get him focused. And that's I mean, that's the key.
The last thing about the just the aura surrounding it.
And we'll talk a little bit about the game. In the
next segment, I was I was talking to you guys.
Our buddy Steve pelo is Alo from the thirty thirteen.
We him on every Wednesday and he's been around the
NFL cover forever, but he's never actually been to the game.

(01:31:52):
He's one of those it's hard to get credentials and
and so on and so forth. Usually just heads home.
He's going to the game for the first time. We
were talking about it today and I said, you know,
I was lucky to cover two of them. I wasn't
here when you guys went with the Seahawks and for
the old five season, but I was here to cover
the other two. And I'm glad I did. Don't really
have a desire to do it again. I'm glad I did.
But you know what, Mike, what got me is just

(01:32:13):
someone who had covered a lot of sporting events and
a lot of football and have since the magnitude of it.
There is something about when the anthem plays, the lights
going off, just it feels different. How hard is it
to get guys to just and a lot of these
guys have been there before, obviously Kansas City, but there's

(01:32:33):
new players same thing with Philadelphia. There years two years ago,
new players. How hard is it, Mike, what's the challenge
to get guys to say, all right, there's all this
going on, but it's a football game.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
Yeah. I mean that's a good point. And that's that's
one of the challenges that you could add that to
the list of necessary challenges because there is so much.
It's so different. It's so different. You have more time
at halftime you're stuck in there, you have more time
before the game, you're out on the field longer. There's celebrities,
there's things all over the place, you know, and it's you.

(01:33:09):
You got to stay focused. I used to tell the
guys go out early when no one's there, I mean
before all the hooplus starts, and look around, see where you're,
where your family is going to be, and kind of
soak in. Then just soak in the thing because then
when you come back in the locker room, it's all business.
We got to get we gotta get, you know, put
on our shoes and pants and get going here. So

(01:33:31):
uh but it is it is a challenge. It is
a challenge, you know, and uh yeah, it's it's exciting though, Boy,
there's nothing like it. I remember Don Shula was standing
next to me in my first one because he was
going to flip the coin, and I go because I
knew him. He was on the Competition of Committee with

(01:33:51):
me before he retired. And he goes, congratulations, Mike. I said, oh, thanks, coach.
He could tell I was nervous. And he goes, you
get back to a few more of these. You got
back to two more, that's for sure. Yeah, but it's
hard like he's got.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
There's a quarterback that played for the Miami Dolphins, nam
Dan Marino, that went to one and never again. So
it's a great it's the greatest spectacle in sports. It
really is. Super Bowl Sunday. It is. It is our
country in a nutshell. It's great, it's awesome everything about it.
But there is a football game to be played on Sunday.
We'll have that here on kJ RT. We'll come back
with Mike in a second. Want to get his thoughts

(01:34:30):
on both sides, uh, Pat Mahomes, Jalen Hurts. We'll talk
about that next with Mike Holmgren.

Speaker 7 (01:34:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
All right, we're back Mike Holmbrin's with us getting ready
for Super Bowl fifty nine coming up on Sunday right
here on KJR and I three point three KJRFM. Mike,
let's let's just go. Let's get your thoughts on the game,
and we'll start first with the Philadelphia Eagles. And I
want to start with the quarterback Jalen Hurts. And I

(01:35:20):
kind of think he's he's their life. I mean, everyone's
gonna be looking at Saquon Barkley. You gotta stop Barkley.
What do you see when you watch Jalen Hurts play?

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Well? He you know, he he looked really good in
the last game that he played. And I I haven't
watched him too much, but he is a good passer.
He's a great runner. He makes good decisions for the
most part, you know, And so he's really good. He's
really good. Now they have a good team and that

(01:35:50):
allows him to be both a runner an a passer.
I think, But no, I he really impressed me against
the Commanders. You know, now their defense isn't very top notch,
but he really looked good.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
He's a good player, they I wonder, Yeah, I mean
the Commanders. It's funny. The Commander's defense was defensive end
coach and dan Quinn and that was probably the weakness
on their team in that game. All right, sa Kuon Barkley,
You've watched a lot of great running backs. You mentioned
Sean earlier. I mean, Sean was an interesting guy because
I kind of felt like this was him a lot
of times, like you know, one or two yards, go

(01:36:27):
down easy, step out of bounds, and then boom, fifty yards,
boom thirty yards, right like, just hit the home runs
and hit the holy explosive. Barkley is probably a little
more physical than Sean was. And I love Sean, by
the way, I'm never going to disparage him, and a
lot of people like to. I mean, you're an MVP
for a reason. As good as that offensive line was,
he still had to get to the holes and make
the place. I love Sean, but Sakuon Barkley's kind of

(01:36:48):
cut from a different cloth. When you watch him, what
jumps out at.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
You, well, just at how explosive he is. You know,
now he's built, he is very physical, but he's got
great speed. I think that's underestimated at times. But then
you see the long runs he makes. People aren't catching him.
I mean he's he's making people miss, he's breaking tackles.
He is really good. But it begs the question what

(01:37:16):
in the world was going on in New York when
he was there, because all of a sudden, this is
his first year in Philadelphia and it's a totally totally
different situation. And he was good in New York. I mean,
he's always been good, but now now he's spectacular and
I think there you know a lot of talk will

(01:37:36):
be about the two quarterbacks, and it should be that way,
but I think I think he's going to be the
deciding factor of Berkeley.

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
Steve Spagnola is a long time defensive coordinator for Kansas
City for top ten defenses he's had. He's got all
the Super Bowl titles as well. One of the better
defensive minds in the NFL. You're close, people know this
year close with Andy, there's there's probably a and Steve
still there with him. What do you think? What is
Andy c and Steve And what what makes Steve such

(01:38:04):
a great defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
Well, it's like it's like any head coach. All of
a sudden, you work with somebody and then you develop
more than just a coaching relationship. You know, they become
good friends, you trust each other. And then to keep
him there, you got to pay him. That's the number
one thing, because he has other he has other places

(01:38:28):
he could go, so but he's staying and that, and
then give him the players. They've done a nice job
I think of solidifying the defensive players on that team.
And he's bags is really good. He's really really good.
And you have to understand if you're calling plays against
him or anybody any defensive coordinator, you kind of have to.

(01:38:50):
You're studying the players, but you're also studying the coach.
And he blitzes a lot. He does. He brings a
lot more pressure than a lot of teams do, so
Philadelphia has to be aware of that and be prepared
for that. But but having a defensive coordinator like that,
and I had one Fritz Shermer, it was like that, Yeah,

(01:39:11):
you just trust him. I mean, off you go. George Steffert,
who became the head coach of the forty nine ers
after Bill Watsh he was the defensive coordinator. Prior to that,
he was excellent too. I mean, you get one of those,
you want to keep him.

Speaker 1 (01:39:24):
Well, that's the thing, Like Andy's an offensive coach. Walsh
was an offensive coach. You were an offensive coach. That's
such an important position, right, you just turn the keys
over to him. I'm sure Andy probably just turns the
keys over to this guy and says, go do it, right,
just go do it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
I think for the most part, yes, you know, he's experienced,
he's been a head coach. You get coaches like that
on your staff. You're not grooming some young guy and
getting him ready. He's already there. He's been there, he
knows what's going on. And then you check his work ethic.
You do all those things and if you can hit,

(01:39:57):
if you can hit the right combination with that person, uh,
then you've got something going. And Andy clearly has.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
All right, is our friend Mike Homgan other side of
the football. The I mean, you know Andy as well
as anybody. You know that it's funny. It's an offense
that kind of just ham and egged it way through
the season. Almost people kind of joked almost looked bored
during the season offensively that Pat Mahomes and and that
and that, that Kansas City team. You know Andy, really well,

(01:40:26):
what's he gonna do in this game? How's he gonna
open it up? Is he gonna open it up? I
mean it's they they haven't had the big plays like
they have in the past. What do you think is
gonna happen?

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Yeah, no, he I think honestly, I think they'll be
They'll you'll see the same team you've seen during the season,
but and you will have ten plays on his sheet
that they haven't run yet this year that that he'll
he'll call in certain situations when he needs it. You know,
he's very very bright that way. He used to You know,
I used to I used to get plays drawn up

(01:40:57):
by Andy Mariucci Gruden, those guys, and they compete. They
have me call their plays, and so they're creative and
they can think outside the box. But you know, you know,
I love the guy and he's he his his how
he you But you will see the same team. Now
it'll come down to his malmes. Is he going to

(01:41:18):
be on fire and do play the way he plays?
Not get hurt because he runs. You know, all those
things factor in. But you'll I think you'll see the
same Kansas City Chiefs team that's been very, very good.
But they've won a lot of games by one score
this year, and so in Philadelphia's really good. I expect

(01:41:39):
a very very close game. It's gonna be a great one.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
I had a question for you on the text line
four nine four five one our buddy Keith Millon. That's
a good question, ask coach, excluding family, who would you
want to watch a Super Bowl with U? And you know,
like you've watched. You've watched because you did some stuff
for Westwood one for a while, so you're watching, Like
do you like a game like that? Especially a super
Bowl where you have no skin in the game. You're
just you're just there, you know because a few years

(01:42:04):
you go there, like I think Belichick. You're the only
guy that Belichick would talk to you, right, That's why
you had to go there and do interviews for him.

Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
That was it. That was interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
Yeah, it's like Mike's gonna come to super bowls's doing
He's interviewing Belichick. What else that's about it? He's gonna
interview Belichick is that's the only guy he'll talk to
is Mike. He'll talk to coach Holme. It's like about it,
you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
I will tell you one quick thing though, with a
Belichick interview was twenty minutes and there's all sorts of
people in the room and we leave and how he uh,
head of Westwood when came up to me and goes,
you know, we've interviewed him. He's been in five six
Super Bowls. You got more out of him in twenty
minutes and we did the previous six years.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
That's why you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
Were stops dealing our jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
That's why, Well, that's Mike's the only guy can do
that stuff. So some of those games you probably did
sit around where you're watching with another coach or our
ex players and stuff. Who is Mike Clumbrian? Who have
you watched a Super Bowl with? Or who would you
want to watch a Super Bowl with? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
You know those well Westwood they were great, you know,
boomers sizing and yeah and uh you know uh uh
Kurt Warner and I did one together and of course
he jabbed me during the game because I cut him.
But you know it was it was those guys. It's
really fun to be with with football guys who are
really involved. Otherwise you said, don't use family. But my grandson's,

(01:43:22):
my grandsons and my son in laws the guys yea,
and quite honestly my daughters. But they're always criticizing the
rest and doing then get the things during to give me.
It's kind. I try and stay I try and stay focused.
I never get the coach's daughter.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
I have an inkling.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
That's an interesting you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
I will tell you this. Here's one quick story though,
from the Super Bowls with Westwood. Okay, we do the
first half and that you know, it was fun and
I'm doing this stuff and I'm involved. Okay, but then
I had to go to the restroom. So I go
to the restroom, go back to try and get in
to the to the booth, to the and you can't
get in. There's there's one hundred people in the booth

(01:44:06):
looking at Lady Gaga fall from the ceiling or something.
You know, I said, my notes are in there. I
got to get excuse me. No, wait, I never stays
the halftime show. You know, and you talked about it earlier.
The halftime shows are off the charts crazy, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
The whole thing is yeah, it's it's yeah, it's an event.
It is an event. It is event. I thought Katy
Perry is really good when I saw her in Arizona.
I thought she's good. I would have thought that I
did too, the whole Sharks or whatever the hell things
she had going on and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:40):
The who's doing it? Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Kendrick Lamar? Kendrick Lamar just want a bunch of Grammys.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I know where that is.

Speaker 1 (01:44:51):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
They'll be joined by other artists. I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Don't worry, Mike. I don't either. That's you know what.
That's when you go finish off stuff on the grill,
you kind of you know, get your bet. Bridge's refreshing.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
This is this is a football game, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
It is an event?

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Get to my chair.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
Who fired up? Mike? Did that?

Speaker 10 (01:45:10):
I think you did?

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
I did not. I've never been accused of getting my
clungrann upset. That's never been. It's never happened.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Oh wait, wait, we have another segment coming up or
that is guaranteed by someone else.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
Yeah, uh stand by, sir, stand by. He's uh, he's
gonna blow in here like a like like who knows what?
So that's next, Softy joins us. Next, All right, Uh,
Softy's here, Mike, Clembran's still on the phone, Still on

(01:45:44):
the phone, still on the phone, still on the phone.
Held Mike say how to your friend Softy?

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Hey, David, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
And the phone sounds really good?

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
That's like you're right next to me. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
It's different than in my house with the jackhammer right
out side the window.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
I got you, I got you. He's in his car.
Are you in a car outside? Just sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
I'm parked outside of the Metropolitan Market and this guy's
looking at me kind of funny. Excuse me? Get lost?

Speaker 1 (01:46:13):
Hey, dude.

Speaker 12 (01:46:14):
People accost you at the market like they do with
the five twenty bar and grill for autographs.

Speaker 3 (01:46:18):
On on occasion, but they're yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
The by the way, we're talking about the like he
hates that. By the way, But do you know who's
performing at halftime Dave? The Super Bowl? Yeah? No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Who is it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
It's Kendrick Lamar. Okay, there you go, Mike, Mike, we
had our friend Keith Miller Texan and says Kendrick Lamar
is no big bop in the Choppers. There you go,
and I would tend to very huh.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
No, that's absolutely sure. Hey, I Keny, what tell me
a little bit about Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
I have no.

Speaker 4 (01:46:48):
Idea he has a beef going on with Drake and
it's quite hilarious.

Speaker 1 (01:46:53):
You're a big Drake fan, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
Drake is that our last name or a first name?

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
It's the whole name is Hey, this will be an
interesting test for Softy, Softy, have you ever been to
the Drake.

Speaker 12 (01:47:07):
The hotel you're talking about in Oh, God, remind me Vancouver.

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
No, No, the Strip Joint is then near the Blue
Ice ter. It was a famous strip joint. So you
know what you passed the task job job. Okay, that
is hilarious.

Speaker 12 (01:47:22):
That's an old police academy it is, by the way,
for those that don't know what the hell we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
So yeah, no, it's a famous place in Vancouver, BC.

Speaker 12 (01:47:30):
So closed now. But I've been to Vancouver in a
long time. Hey, are you ready? Are you fired up
for the weekend? By the way, Mike is going to Hamilton,
That's what I'm saying. You got Hamilton on Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
Hamilton's Saturday Night. I think the kids are coming out
watch the game on Sunday at thing. Okay, your house,
all right, yeah, it's good.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
All right. What are you doing tomorrow night at six pm?

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
By the way, Cathy doesn't want the TV's are off.
I got the word. We're not watching anything really, and
we're going out to dinner, going out to dinner somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
Are you going to answer your phone if Dave, Softy
Mall or you to any point after six pm tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
Yeah, he is the only one. I'll answer the phone.
He is the only one.

Speaker 1 (01:48:05):
Wait, not me, wait, not even Jess.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
Okay, the only kid.

Speaker 12 (01:48:11):
He can't answer a call from another woman when he's
around Kathy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
So I Kathy Flowers, Okay.

Speaker 12 (01:48:18):
Yeah, I love her a nursery Okay, So I'm I'm
better than you in that regard. But yeah, dude, I mean,
first of all, good luck tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Man, Uh, no doubt you.

Speaker 1 (01:48:26):
I know we'd like to.

Speaker 12 (01:48:27):
Joke around with his stuff a lot and all that,
But I mean, my god, I'm on edge, just like
your daughters are, just like you are, your wife is
all of us here at the radio station so hoping
for some good news tomorrow night man, for sure, because
you deserve it, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Well, I appreciate that, Dave, I really do. We'll see. Yeah,
you look at it. It's it's it's it's really something.
So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:48:47):
Well, let me ask you this. If you do make
the Hall of Fame, will you still talk to me?

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
Absolutely? I'm thinking you got to help me put my
list of who do I invite to ken?

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
All right, well I'll do that. Have we signed him
to a contract extension? No, he's year to Year's a
one year deal this purple sheet. No, because he threatens
every year. You know, I think this might be my
last year. And he's been saying that for ten years.
By the way, See all right, we're gonna find out
the true character of this man. When he gets in,
he's out. And then all of a sudden, it's like, hey,
people like people tuning in Wednesdays for us Thursdays of

(01:49:20):
the five twenty, where's Mike. Oh, he's a Hall of Famer.
Now he's gonna leave us. He's a Hall of Famer.
He's too good for us. You're gonna drop us like
a bad habit. We're gonna have to hire Jim Moore
to take your spot on it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
The thing is on a year to year contract. I
mean you know the negotiations might take place. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:39):
I totally agree like that.

Speaker 12 (01:49:41):
Get get Lamont man, get your own agent to call
Rich and say, you know that deal we had agreed
to last year, that deal is no longer on the team,
but you're now dealing with the Hall of Fame. He'd
be like Kevin Costner and Draft Day, that deal is
no longer.

Speaker 3 (01:49:54):
When I interviewed, when I introduced Lamont to Andy, Lamont
lost my number. It's it's yeah, yeah, shocking.

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
Hey, coach, I was born in Ohio, so I'm just
saying it's my birthright state.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
If you're making a list.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
You're at the top of the list. Jesse. I don't
know about your friends there at Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:50:16):
I'll get them in order.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
Everything I said about you deserve in the Hall of Fame.
You're a good guy. Take it back, Mike, I never
I'll never bring up that certain GM again. I'll promise
until until next time we talk. All right, Uh, Mike,
best of luck. We're all we're all crossing our figures.
We'll talk to you soon, all right, sir, Thanks Mike Clngrian.

(01:50:40):
All right, Mike c Ombrean's gone. What do you think?
What do I think? Well, I'm hoping he's in. He's
awful giddy, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:50:48):
I mean, I think he's happy to have the weight
off his shoulders.

Speaker 1 (01:50:52):
Soon. Yeah, tomorrow night.

Speaker 12 (01:50:53):
He'll know obviously, if he doesn't know already, I mean,
it's certainly possible he does know, but he's got his
poker face on, right, No idea.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Joey is not allowed to say he's going to Hamilton.

Speaker 1 (01:51:02):
He is going to Hamilton. He's going to He's actually
what are the odds he's at Hamilton?

Speaker 12 (01:51:06):
He's seeing Hamilton in New Orleans on Saturday night somewhere. Hey,
you want to go see the show. How about fly
here to the super Bowl? You watch the show. First
segment he came on and what are you saying? His
first segment he came on and he goes, yeah, I'm
not going down there. I'm going to Hamilton with Caffy.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:19):
They should have told me earlier. They should have told
me earlier. You know what, That's fair. That's who he is.

Speaker 12 (01:51:24):
He might do that, all right. He tells the hall
of fame in the NFL. Take a hike, Mike. It's
Roger Goodell. I'm sorry, Roger, I kid talk. You call
me later watching them? Can I call you after the
first act?

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
All right? What do you got to think? Let's see
Kevin Harlan's calling the game Sunday.

Speaker 12 (01:51:36):
Obviously he'll be with us at five o'clock, Petros at four,
Dan Bosma coming off that shootout loss to the Red
Wings yesterday for his weekly show at three forty five.
And then if you missed Jed Fish yesterday on the
program six twenty tonight with the fish Man, tune in
for that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:52):
Can't we Oh? I know you're fired up for it?

Speaker 12 (01:51:54):
See you for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable in forness.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
This is Little Day saying so long everyone,

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