Furness Show 3-10: Seahawks sign Sam Darnold, Corbin Smith, Rob Rang.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, of course, is free agency. I'm not gonna screw
around here. We're gonna get right to it. The free
agency is underway, free agency, frenzy, legal tampering, whatever you
want to call it. I'm with Hugh. I love what
he says. It's like, it's just it's an oxymoron. It's
legal tampering. But that's listen. There is no league that
knows how to do it, and I say do it.

(00:22):
Bring attention upon yourself and get people revved up one way.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Or the other.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
In the off season, we don't see a football that
matters until September, and yet they are front and center
making way stuff's going on. You can't actually start a
sign a contract until one pm our time on Wednesday,
but deals are being consummated, things are being done. That's
when the league year begins. It started on Friday. Wow, Wow,

(00:50):
and wow. Let me give you some things to to
chew on here, because.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
This is a day.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
You know, we don't always do this, but we want
to hear from you today. Text line obviously is there
four nine four to five to one. We'll get to
that as well. Four nine, four or five one. Send
your text in to us, your thoughts, comments, questions, and concerns.
Really want to hear your voices today. Old school taking
phone calls on radio just we don't do that, and
we do it for fantasy football, but we're not doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
We want it.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
We want you to give us your best thirty seconds,
and that's what it is. That's why we do the talkbacks,
the voice text, whatever you want to call them. Go
to the iHeartRadio app, the brand new iHeart Radio apps with.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Go to kJ Did you know you could reset your press?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I do know that you can and click on the
red microphone. I knew that too. Click on the red
microphone and speak for thirty seconds. Your reaction to Sam Darnold,
your reaction to DK Metcalf, your reaction to Digino Smith, Wow, wow,
and wow. It just feels like a wild crazy And
it has been what seventy two hours or so. Here's
what we got coming up on the show. Corvin Smith's

(01:49):
going to join us at one thirty usually on with
Us Thursday's special visit today at one thirty from Emerald
City Spectrum Our Seahawk Guy and then Rob rang was
a you dumb pro day today. But I called Rob
last night and I said, listen, we do Fridays with you.
That's our thing, brought to you by Ferrelli's Pizza. I
need you Monday to talk about the wide receiver class

(02:10):
in general terms. We won't get too specific, and the
quarterback class because DK had just been traded and Gino
Smith had been traded. Now, obviously with Sam Darnold, it's
day two stuff with quarterbacks. But we'll check in with
Rob just for a few minutes coming up at two
o'clock today. The rest of the time is for you.
We want to hear your talkbacks. Let's get right to
it Friday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Get off the year.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
We're done talking to Ron Francis. NHL trade deadline comes
and goes. I'm in the car driving home and lo
and behold, all hell breaks loose. Yes, DK, I'm Gino
Smith had been traded to the Las Vegas Raiders for
a third round pick. Whereas the DK Metcalf trade yesterday happens.
And again it has not officially happened because you got

(02:52):
to wait till Wednesday. But DK Metcalf comes out. Yeah,
DK Metcalf's story comes out yesterday. We expected that because
of what happened last Wednesday. I want to just go
back in time and go chronological. Let's go back in time.
On Wednesday, we find out twenty minutes after Tyler Lockett's
announcement that DK Metcalf says he wants out. So DK
Metcalf wants out, he wants to be traded. The Seahawks

(03:16):
would have been content to let him play out the
contract and even franchise him next year unless they got
what they wanted for him. But that was on Wednesday,
So yesterday what happened with DK wasn't a huge surprise.
There was a little bit of a thought that maybe
with Gino Smith leaving, money freed up, what have you,
maybe they keep DK. Who knows, but that obviously didn't happen.
The Gino Smith thing on Friday took us all by surprise. Now,

(03:38):
I'm not going to be the smart ass sports radio guy.
Everyone never believe what these guys say. Never believe them.
They're all lying through their teeth. Blah blah blah, All right, whatever,
I listen. They believed he was going to be their quarterback.
They believe that he's going to be their quarterback. That's
why they said that I'm not gonna I'm I'm allow.
I'm not gonna call somebody a liar. I think that's

(03:58):
a really dangerous thing to do, is to call somebody
a flat out liar. They thought he was going to
be their quarterback. They offered him a contract, That's why
they thought. And they figured they could work out whatever
deal it would take to get Gino Smith here, to
get that cap number down a couple three years, whatever
it would be, and Gino would be here and they

(04:19):
would move on. Big priority for Seattle. Honestly, outside DK
wasn't even a priority. It's like, we'll trade them if
we can, We trade them if we need to, if
we get what we want for him. Their priority was
Ernest Jones. Yes, for Mike McDonald, Yes, Mike McDonald his defense.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That was his priority.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
But the way things unfolded, obviously Gino stuff fell apart.
They couldn't get it done. They had to make a move,
and they moved on it quickly and away he went,
probably knowing that even though today is when legal tampering starts,
I don't know every agent in the NFL because they
have to go to the combine because they have a

(04:59):
certification meet and all that stuff. They're all there yeah,
they probably already knew, if nothing else as a backup
plan that hey, get ourselves from Sam Donald. That's fine,
younger a little bit cheaper and say, well, if you
want to, I would. I would urge people to listen
to Hugh Millan's segment with Mark Today. I think it

(05:24):
was my mom. I want to make sure I'm right
eleven thirty I believe, Yeah, the eleven thirty to noon hours,
and Hugh broke it down like perfectly against pressure. I
mean every throwing the ball down field. There are so
many numbers that tell you that Sam Donald, at least
last season, was a better quarterback.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Than Gino Smith.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Just listen to that, don't you can yell and scream
at me and pound your fist on the table and
say everything. Just you listen to that segment on the
podcast on the iHeartRadio app and you want to argue
with you Millan, then you feel free to all right, you.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Go ahead and do that. Did you have four hours
to kill? Well?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
But he's he doesn't bring stuff to the table. That's
just an opinion. He comes with the ability to back
it up.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
So just listen to that.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Very strong arguments in Sam Darnold at least last season
was a better quarterback than Geno Smith. Long term this year,
who knows, but that's what they're looking at. Let me
get to one thing. I want to just I want
to hammer this home right now. If you want to
disagree with this, then the talkbacks and texts fire away.
But I want to get to this because I was

(06:31):
having lunch with somebody this weekend that's in the business
of sports in our town, not hockey related, but matters,
and we're having this conversation about sports fans and even
media to a certain extent, And there's this word that
people love throwing around and sometimes it's accurate, but really

(06:56):
most of the time it's not. And it's called rebuild.
We went through it last week with the Kraken went.
We've got kind of going through it. I got a
couple group chains, text chains with friends and stuff and
former classmate, all that stuff, and they love to throw
the word rebuild around, like rebuild, Oh, the rebuilding, the rebuilding, rebuilding. Well,
that's a very subjective term, Like how do you define

(07:19):
what a rebuild is? Like what's a rebuild? Well, probably
tearing it down to the studs, whatever the team is,
whatever the organization is, whether it be football, basketball, hockey, ball,
doesn't even matter. Tearing it down to the studs and
building it back up. That's what a rebuild is. Taking
your lumps for a couple of years, being really bad.
Maybe who knows, sometimes you're not, but taking a massive

(07:42):
step backwards to take five steps forward. That's what a rebuild,
in my mind is. You can disagree with me, doesn't
matter just in the opinion, because I think again, there's no definition.
If I look up rebuild for a sports franchise, I
won't be able to find that anywhere with a definition,
with Websters or anyplace else.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think it's fair like sacrificing maybe the present tense,
shiar team to make your team better than the long run,
that for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
But there's a step back. You know, we make fun
of Jerry all the time.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I get it. He's an easy target.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
That's fine, retool, restep back, whatever they wanted to call it,
because you know, you still have to sell tickets. And
we got this on Friday with the cracking. A lot
of people say, oh, it's just he's rebuilding, he's rebuilding.
You're an idiot if you think that, Like you're nothing
short of an idiot. He's got three. He's got three
top line centers, he's got four two. You got four

(08:32):
defensemen their top four. And the way hockey works, if
you've got four really good defensemen, you're in really good shape.
You've got a true number one goalie.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Like you've got a left.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Winger who's a restricted free agent you're gonna sign, who
would have had a seventy point season if he was
here all year in Coppococko. They're not rebuilding, dummy, So
don't tell me they're rebuilding. They got rid of an
expiring contract, two expiring contracts, and I'm remember bringing back
to the Seahawks two expiring contracts and a salary cap
dump in Oliver bu Yorick's fan who's easy replaceable, got

(09:01):
a ton of assets. Ron Francis said it to us
on Friday. He said it to Betton yesterday, and I
heard he was on the morning show again today for
some reason. So he said it a million times. We're
not rebuilding. We have a core.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yes, it's not going to use all the draft picks
that he got, right, because.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know what, you know what, you be real building,
you're trading Mattie you're trading Shane, you're trading Joe, you're
trading trading Montour, You're trading Channel that's rebuilt. If the
Seahawks are rebuilding, they're not spending money on Ernest Jones
and especially not on Jaron Reid. So don't go they're rebuilding. Okay,
So again you can disagree. Love you hearing the talk

(09:38):
back you guys fire away. I just think you have
to understand, you know, want to rebuild this. Let me
find what a rebuild is before we get back to
what they've done now, because I think it's a really
important context to understand what they're doing. This is a
team that's won nine and nine and ten games the
last two years. I want to call it nine and
a half because the Rams mailed and then't. I don't care.
They still won nine games at a winning record each

(09:59):
of the last two years. They're not the Jets. Okay,
they're not the Jets.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Just feels personally attacked by that they're not the Jets.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
What a rebuild is is what happened here in twenty ten.
In twenty eleven, when they had an eighty seven percent
roster turnover by the time they got to the playoffs.
Here's who was on the roster from before, Max Hunger,
Red Bryant, Brandon Mee, Bain Leroy Hill, Marcus Trufant, and
John Ryan.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That is a rebuild. That is punting, kicking, firing guys
out the door. They had almost four hundred transactions over
twenty four months. That is a rebuild. What you're seeing
here is not a rebuild. There isn't one person in
that building that thinks that they're going to be worse
than they were last year. They may be, they could be,

(10:51):
but that's not what they're thinking. No, that's not what
they're thinking.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
They're not purposely taking a step back in order to
be good in the future.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
They got themselves stuck in a situation. I think DK.
They've known about DK for a while, Like they didn't
appreciate him announcing it on Wednesday to the world, but
they've they really didn't appreciate that happening on Wednesday, but
they've Yeah, but they've known for a while. For whatever reason,
he wanted out. Okay, good, you want out. If we

(11:22):
find something, we're gonna trade you. If not, we and
they found something. Yeah, the Geno thing contract came into play,
and there isn't one person that would think that if
if the Raiders think he's worth that money, God bless you.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
There's a reason you're the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, like, there is a reason you're the raidersbild and
I love Pete. I love Pete, but there's a reason
you are who you are. And in that division, you're
still four out of four. Okay, you're you're four out
of four. Chargers are better, Broncos are better. And I

(11:56):
think the other team won in Missouri.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
It's the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I think their name is than On Kansas since they're
Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Be found to watch this year.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
So that's a that like, like you want to pay
him that you can, But I just I really believe
what they've done is they think they believe they're taking
steps forward. They're not in a position where the pressure
that came from two years ago from upstairs and and

(12:27):
Blazer fans would bristle with this because they think that
Jody doesn't care and blah blah blah. Why did Pete
Carroll get fired, Like, let's let's take a step back.
Why did he get fired? Well, it's because whatever they
were doing wasn't working. Anymore, the tandem of him and John,
if Pete had the final say Okay, we're cutting the

(12:48):
head off of the snake, like I think that's what
we have to remember now, John and his personnel guys
are certainly not without blame. They've had some really bad
transactions over the years.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
They just have.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
But every GM has that. But why was there such
an urgency at the end of the season two years ago.
Well because of the same thing we saw this year,
which is the aftershock, and that's too many fans coming
here from out of town. Tickets are being hard to sell.
Softy you'll tell you this, he's a season ticket holder,
and Dick will probably tell you the same thing. Like
the secondary market where guys can if you can make

(13:21):
a ton of money selling tickets to out of town fans,
Like you're not going to make money on the Cardinals,
but you'll make money on the Steelers, Packers, and the Packers,
you'll make money on that. Why because those tickets that
you never, as a Seahawks fan, would have ever dreamt
of selling a couple of years ago, they're not as
enticing anymore because you're just not as good and you're

(13:41):
not a team that is getting you excited. So we
had to make a change. We being the Seahawks, right,
we had to make a change. They did, and they
brought in Mike McDonald. They brought in and they retained
John Schneider. So there was a sense of urgency there.
Do you think that Jody Allen two years later is
still thinking, well, okay, good, you guys can now start
your rebuild. Not a flip and chance in the world,

(14:04):
not a not. There isn't a chance in the world
that she's thinking that she's the inoch would have been.
And she meets with John at the end of every
season and meets during the season. She's way more involved
with this team than people understand. Yes, she wants to win.
She's a fan and like her hater, hope she sells
a team doesn't matter. She is like you listening right now,

(14:28):
and it pisses her off on a Monday when her
team is lost. So there's pressure on John Schneider. There
is a ton of pressure on John Shundter. And John
Snyder doesn't have a five year window to rebuild this thing,
don't think for he does not this is this might
be the year for John Schneider. Yeah, So don't think
for a second he's making any moves thinking, Man, I'm
so safe, I can do whatever the hell I want.

(14:50):
I could pull a Jerry Depoto in twenty nineteen, because
that's the year that this Mariners took the real step
back with twenty nineteen. That's really the only horrible year
they've had. Yeah, in his tenure.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
If they were going to rebuild, John would be gone too,
Yeah with Pete.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, you're right, well, or he would have be gone
after this year, right, he would have been gone after
this past season. But they hired McDonald. They hired John.
They said, let's see what you can do. You're year
two of Mike McDonald. As Greg has said a bunch
of times, Mike McDonald's heavily involved. So the other thing
I want to just bring back a little for a second. Oh,
John Schneider doesn't know what the hell he's doing. He's

(15:26):
like all these this is not a one man band.
This is not Jerry Jones and the Cowboys with maybe
Stephen chipping.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
In along the way.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is Schneider McDonald coaches that he's brought in now
that they trust to evaluate offensivelement that they want, not
just a guy that's a you know that's from college.
All due respect to Scott Huff and Ryan Grubb, No,
these are legitimate NFL coaches that know what they want
to do, know what works in the league. They're all
here John Side, he's got his personnel guys. Handful of

(15:56):
those dudes, Nolan and others have been there for a
lot of years. It is it's you don't think for
a second. They're sitting in John's office right now and
it's just John sitting there going I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna sign this. That's not how it works. This
naivete that people have. No, it's a group effort. And
in their group they said, Okay, Gino's worth this, DK

(16:17):
is worth this. They want out, Okay, what are we
gonna do? We got a plan. They always have a plan.
We talked about that when coaches get fired in college.
Do you think an ad doesn't have a list of people?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Of course he does or always have a list, and
they admit it.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, And that's the same thing in sports. They've got
a list. They got my home will tell you about it.
They've got boards up there all over the place. Now
it's Mike had a dry erase board. Now they have
computers and they've got a list.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
I would just say this as a Seahawk fan, I
think you should be pretty excited about what's to come.
A ton of draft picks, a lot of capital, a
lot of things you can do. A year ago, Aaron
Donald retired from the LA Rams. There they let Ernest Jones,
their starting linebacker go. We all thought I was one
of them. And if we're all being honest, we all thought, man,

(17:01):
that's probably the worst roster in the in the NFC West. Yeah,
they got Stafford cup Puka.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's fine. Hyan Williams, huh whatever, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
One Jared Verse later, great draft later, Yeah, a great
draft later.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
And look where they are.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
They're the second best team in the division, borderline first,
and they might well they might be the best.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
The NFL is not about to rebuild. Most of the
time it can be, but most of the time is
the Patriots rebuilding? Yeah, like they got nothing.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
When you have to rebuild, say like they got themselves
in that situation.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Nobody puts them there but themselves there on purpose by
no means.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Am I saying the Seahawks are are a finished product
or a perfect team. They need help on the edge rushing,
they need they need some depth in the middle of
the defensive line, but they've got They've got defensive linemen
that are still young. They've committed to Leonard Williams. They've
committed to Chenna. They've got two guys wait for two
starting linebackers in Knighton Jones, one of them who's a

(18:04):
second year guy. They could always draft a guy maybe
the beats out Night who knows. They've got two starting
safeties they feel real good about enough where they cut
their starting safety from a year ago, and Rashawn Jenkins,
Julian Love and Kobe Bryant are fine. They've got a
superstar in the making in Devin Witherspoon. Maybe, just maybe
they can find a way to get Rek Wolling back
to being Rekwoling. So they have some pieces to work

(18:25):
with on the defense, you're not rebuilding there. And then
the offense, obviously, they got two starting tackles, a good
place to start. Two starting tackles, one of whom hasn't
been healthy in two years finally might be healthy. And
Abe Lucas and Charles Cross good I mean, PFF loves them.
I think the eye test tells you something else sometimes,
but they've got two starting tackles.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
He's an average or above average tackle at worst.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, it just wasn't a good year for the line
in check. I got argument with Sign like an hour ago.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Does he like him?

Speaker 2 (18:50):
He likes them? Okay, I don't know what I'm like.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I think he gets bullied a little bit, agains bull rush,
but that's fine. My question to you about the rebuilding
in is when's the last needs ends.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
And they need more receivers.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
I get that they need all of those things, but
they're not in the mode of they were in twenty
eleven when they turned over eighty seven percent of their roster.
That's not who and what they are. And the other
thing is you don't go out and spend the money.
You just spend on Sam Darnold either. If you're rebuilding,
you don't.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
You just you know what you do. Sam Howe's a bridge.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
You draft a guy and if you're god awful, then
you draft a guy high next year because you have
three or four wins. That's what you do if you're rebuilding,
right that there's a common sense here, So that's what
you're doing. So that's that's where we are right now.
And it's like I think, from a Seahawks fans perspective,
you should be thrilled.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
This is cool, this is fun.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You have pieces to work with, a foundation you're building on,
and now you're going to add it. The draft this
year is the most important draft, the most important draft
since twenty ten, eleven, and twelve. Absolutely it's the most
important draft since those three years. And if they hit it,
and you're not going to be one hundred percent, but
if they hit this draft and they do what they

(19:59):
can do, and they to do what they've done in
the past, then you can see a team go from
nine wins to ten, eleven, twelve pretty easy next year.
That's what the plan is. I mean, I Draft weekend,
If your Seahawk fans canna be awesome, the next twenty
four hours could be awesome. Who knows what else happens.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh yeah, it's just the tampering period, all right.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Corben Smith's gonna join us. I want to hear from you.
Get to the talkbacks. Go to the iHeartRadio app red microphone.
Speak into it. You have thirty seconds. It'll cut you
off at thirty seconds, just like that, Boom done. Yes,
we're not patient here thirty seconds. Your thoughts on what
the Seahawks have done? Love it, hate it? Not sure yet?
Thoughts on dk leaving, thoughts on Geno, leaving thoughts on

(20:39):
Sam darn Id want to hear from you today. Play
We'll save time in the two o'clock hour, not just
for a few minutes. We'll save more time than the
two o'clock hour. If you guys want to participate, fire away,
Corben Smith.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
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Speaker 2 (21:18):
I'm ringing Corbin up right now. Busy day. All hell's
breaking loose. It's the NFL.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
It's tampering day, tampering day, legal tampering. Here we go,
we're tampering. We're tampering away. You're just joining us. Uh,
here's what's happened again. It's so wild. This might be
the greatest. Well, I say great, it's one of the
most impactful Friday news dumps ever. Gino Smith four o'clock

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or so in the afternoon, right in the middle of
Softy and Fame Boom traded to the Las Vegas Raiders.
On a Friday afternoon. People were done. Then Sunday night,
DK Metcalf traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. What the hell's happening?
What's going on? All hell's bring can loose in the world.
We've had a wild weekend. And by the way, so
Gino to the Vegas Raiders, DK to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

(22:10):
And then of course you had Ernest Jones Junior signing
for the Seahawks. That was in the loss in the
shuffle category. And Jaren Reid also re signed as well
to provide some depth for this team on the defensive
side of the football. But more important, that's Jared Reeves's
death guy. Ernest Jones, your starting linebacker. He's Mike McDonald's dude,
he's his guy. That's who we wanted. It's so wild

(22:32):
that that the biggest move of their own guys that
was expected to happen flew under the radar because everything
happened with DK and Gino. But Jones a significant signing,
and it feels like they got him in a pretty
good deal too, in terms of money compared to some
of the linebackers in the league. I mean, so they
did well in that regard. You know, I'm looking around
all kinds of stuff going on around the league. Whu

(22:55):
Funga going to the Broncos. I think that hurts the
forty nine ers. I kind of like that a lot.
The safety will talk to John Londonmorrow Corby's with us
right now. Animal City Spectrum, Hello, sir, how are you?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'm good? How are you good? Serve busy busy Monday.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yeah, it's it seems it's wild with the Seahawks. See,
you know, for so many years, this was never really
a crazy busy time for them, right they k Draymont
Jones or whatever here there. But starting on Friday, Gino,
then tomorrow, then yesterday, DK, which we knew was probably
gonna be inevitable because of him asking for a trade,

(23:30):
and even though they could have held him to the fire.
They end up finding what they wanted, I guess in
the end, and then Sam Darnold today. Oh, by the way,
I just mentioned this, Ernest Jones resigned. That was their
number one priority of their own free agents right in
the offseason, as did Jaron Reid. So sum it all
up for me in the last four days.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Absolute madness, That's how I would sum it up, because honestly,
you know, the Metcalf thing, you guys, we talked about this.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I was mentioning coming out of the combine that that
was a possibility.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
So that did not surprise me that that trade happened.
I am still stunned that they moved Geno Smith, like
that was the last thing I was expecting to happen,
with the comments that Mike McDonald and John Schneider had
made and just the way that everything was trending, and
this fact they were discussing a contract. But at the end,

(24:19):
it just the two sides just didn't reach an agreement,
and Gino Smith wanted more money than the Seahawks were
willing to pay, and they decided, you know what, we
don't have time to mess around here and wait for
counteroffers or try to talk this through. We need to
know who our quarterback is going to be moving forward,
and if you're not gonsign an extension, we're gonna move you.
And they had a partner with Pete Carroll over in

(24:41):
Vegas and they made it work. But you know, the
one good thing for Seahawk fans is you didn't have
the Leonard Williams situation last year where you were negotiating
with your top free agent on the first day of tampering,
and that was part of the reason Jordan Brooks ended
up slipping away. You were able to get both your
top priority free agents signed before the start of the
tampering period, so that gave the Seahawks the flexibility to

(25:03):
go get that Sam Darnold deal done today.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Jones and Reed you're talking about, yes, exactly, and that's
it's and you know the Jones thing is again you
said it earlier, is kind of the flying of the
radar move. It's like that's a significant move for what
Mike McDonald wants to do on his defense, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, it absolutely is.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
And I'm listen, this is the other thing I can't
believe John Schneider's gotten plenty of criticism this week, and
it's understandable with the Geno Smith situation than trading a
player of DK Metcalf's talent, but to be able to
lock up Ernest Jones just hours after Nick Bolton, who
I think is a very comparable player. In fact, they

(25:40):
have almost identical stat lines for the last four years.
Bolton got fifteen million per year on a three year
contract from the Chiefs. The Seahawks were able to re
sign Jones for eleven million per year. That is a
I mean, we're talking almost a one third pay cut
compared to Nick Bolton per year and a lot less
guaranteed money for John Schneider to be able to do that.

(26:02):
After Nick Bolton signed that contract, we've seen a couple
other young linebackers signed bigger deals that would to me
was an absolute steal with what we saw him do
the second half and how much he made this defense
as a.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Whole better with his arrival.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
The Sam Donald thing, and you were back at the combine,
you know, every agent's back there, everyone's back there. There's
all stuff going on today is legal tampering a loud day,
But I don't think any of us believe there was
there isn't. There aren't conversations before today taking place. Things
happened too quick at nine am Pacific time. So I'm

(26:37):
assuming that Donald was always the fallback plan if Gino
wouldn't get re signed. And I'm sure that again I'll
just go back. There's a little common sense thread here
in Corbyn. You've been coming this league for a long
time too. Things don't happen over a fifteen minutes time span.
It's not like on Friday morning they woke up and
Gino and the Seahawks were at an impass. That's probably

(26:58):
been the case for a little while now. So Sam
Donald is your backup. Sam Donald is your fallback plan
if need be, and they go get Sam Donald seven
years younger, cheaper contract than you would have paid Geno.
Thoughts on Sam Donald and the Clint Kubiak offense, I.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
Think at the price point that they were able to
get him, I mean we're talking Baker Mayfield range in
terms of average money per year, coming off the numbers
that he had last season, that would have been about
the most that I probably would have paid to sign him.
Just because of the previous track record. You always have
that reservation with a player like Sam Donald well, the

(27:37):
circumstances that he had, the environment, Kevin O'Connell was his
coach and one of the best offensive minds in the sport,
and an offensive line that was generally a much better group.
Some metrics don't say that, but you watch the film.
They were a better group than what the Seahawks had
protecting him. He had justin Jefferson to be the best
receiver in the entire NFL to throw to, had other

(27:58):
weapons at his disposals, and I are wondering is he
going to be able to come close to doing that,
especially without DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett now being on
the roster.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
But there are a.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Few things that and I will admit this was a
misconception for me. And you watched the last two games
for the Vikings, he really struggled with pressure. But if
you look at the numbers for Pro Football Focus and
some of the games that he played earlier in the year,
he threw thirteen touchdowns last year while under pressure, was
one of the league leaders in that regard. He also

(28:29):
had a really high yards per attempt against pressure and
did a really good job of mitigating that and you
may remember this at the end of the game against
the Seahawks, that game winning touchdown to Justin Jefferson. He
evaded multiple pass rushers on that play, scrambled out and
threw across his body and made that throw. It was
a fantastic effort by him, and so I think that

(28:52):
that has been overblown a little bit. Listen, he made
the comment about seeing ghosts when he was with the Jets.
That is never going to leave him, I don't think,
just because it was just one of those those statements
that just lives with you. But he has made improvements there,
and Kubiak is going to run a very similar offense.
They're gonna see a lot more under center. You're gonna

(29:12):
see a lot more play action, a lot more bootlegs, rollouts.
Those are all gonna play into Sam Donald's strengths. And
so I think from that perspective it makes a lot
of sense. The question is now going to be can
you rebuild the supporting cast around him enough that he
can be successful. Where we saw Geno Smith with a
bad offensive line, they won nine games every year the

(29:35):
last at least nine games every season in the last
three years. Are you gonna be able to get that
out of Sam Donald when he is not as good
at mitigating some of those issues.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
You're gonna have to build.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
An offensive line that can open up the run game,
and you're gonna have to get some new weapons for
him to throw to because Jake Bobo, I like Jake Bobo,
but him being your number two receiver, yeah he won't
be Yeah, they're gonna go out and get some other pieces.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah they are, and it is You're right covered.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is one thing I would say is that you know,
they're a little ahead of where they were a year
ago from this standpoint. They've got a right tackle and
and Abe Lucas we believe will be healthy going into
a season for the first time in two years, and
that that so that that does that's a little bit
of help the rest of the interior line. We all
know two guards in the center. They got to figure
that out along the way, I would add, I would

(30:23):
have a lot more I have more confidence now because
of what they've added to the coaching staff in regards
to that offensive line and that offensive that offensive staff
that they're going to be able to basically find pick
and navigate their way into upgrading that just because you've
got guys that are NFL dudes in those positions. Now
you know you've got it. You've got established NFL offensive line.

(30:44):
Those guys will all be involved in those personnel decisions.
But yeah, they still have they got a ton. I mean,
they have a ton of work to do, but I
think they're off to a decent start.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I the Geno things.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Interesting because you know, we kind of know and who
what Gino is. Would I would say with with Sam Donald,
there's probably a couple things. There's still probably a high
enough ceiling, but there's also a basement and a floor.
But we saw that with Gino Smith before he came
to Seattle. There wasn't one person in this league that
wanted to give that guy a shot.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
He came here as a backup to Russ. My guest
to wrap it up, Corbyn would be the ory say
to use this. Sam Donald's probably the epitome of extremes. Nobody.
He goes to the Jets, that's where every good quarterback
ever has gone to die, and then he came and
then and then you know that's where Sam Donald was.
Then he goes to Kevin O'Connell and looked a lot better,

(31:35):
so you get something in between.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
You're probably okay, Yeah, I don't think you need him
to throw thirty five touchdown passes again.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
If he does, that's fantastic, But I don't think.

Speaker 7 (31:46):
You need him to be an all world quarterback for
this team to be able to get to the.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Playoffs and make some noise.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Because the defense, they're gonna have pretty much everybody back
from that defense it was a top five score defense
in the second half last year. They're going to have
that entire nucleus back, and they've got draft amo to
add pieces to that group as.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Well, with more young talent.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
It just boils down to can you get the offensive
line right enough that you can actually run the football,
because that is going to be the key if they
can get their run game going. And they don't need
this to be a top five rushing attack, although I
know Mike McDonald would love that. They just need it
to be competent, which it was not last year twenty
ninth in attempts, twenty eighth in rushing yards.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
That cannot happen again.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
If they end up in that situation, Sam donald is
set to fail. There's no question about it. If you
can run the ball and you can set up the
play action that he is so good at. He led
the league with sixteen play action touchdown passes last year.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
If you can run the football well.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
And you can put him in those positions in Kubiak's offense,
then he could be highly successful.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
But it does feel like there's some.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
Boom or bust here depending on what they do with
the offensive wide At the end of the day, that
is the thing that has to be fixed.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I think having a healthy ken Walker would help to
you know, like.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
Oh, absolutely, but you keep him healthy if you can
have better blocks, absolutely absolutely, And you make an argue
mule with ken Walker's and he's at a thousand yard season,
a nine hundred yard season in his first two years
before being heard, a good chunk of last season, and
those offensive lines weren't very good either.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
You give ken Walker a little bit and he's healthy.
You got an elite running back, good backup in Charbonay.
Maybe a little bit with Macintosh he saw at the
end of the season, So we'll see. All right, you're busy,
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Speaker 9 (34:45):
Where we are right now in the season is you've
got to make decisions on guys. Unrestricted free agents are
free to go wherever they want. At the end of
the year, if you can't get a deal done with them,
then then they walk and you.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Lose that person for nothing.

Speaker 9 (34:57):
So going into the trade downline, what we're looking at
that is how can we best manage that, how do
we make our team better. The moves we may now
give us more tools to try and accomplish that. We're
not doing these moves to save money or cut corners.
We're trying to free up so we have the plans,
the space to spend next year, and the draft capital
will go do that. There's other ways you can and

(35:17):
make your team better, but this is a big part
of that as well.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Ron Francis general manager of the Seattle Crack, and on
Friday with me out of the thirty two bar and grill.
Day before we had pucks and pancakes.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
So you're saying they're not rebuilding.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Not rebuilding with the Krack and no, that was the
day before pucks and pancakes on Saturday morning and two
days before Mike Benton showed up there yesterday and ate
a bunch of breakfast burritos.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Well the noon game.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Anyway, Francis with me Friday, we did TV with us
yesterday as well and reiterated the same thing, bringing it
back to the Seahawks in a second as well. Those
salary cap leagues are just the challenge is manipulating that
salary cap, creating assets, finding ways to make your team
better while knowing that every team in both sports bumps
up against the cap. Right, it's it's it's not baseball,

(36:03):
it's not NBA. NBA has you can go over to
the cat soft cap, go over to the town. You
don't pay the luxury tax, what have you.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
They don't. They don't let you do that.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
As Ron explained, they would have the season won three
thousand dollars to spend in the crack of this year. Yeah,
that's why they only have one healthy scratch a night,
because those guys all count every game they play up.
So it's just it's a different world anyway.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
That's Ron France.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
They bet they're back in action Wednesday, seven thirty, a
little later start time seven thirty with Montreal in town.
All right, let me wrap up the first hour of
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A couple of things with some orders of business.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
One.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Uh, no mollywop today.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
We were gonna do that, but no Mollywop obviously with
free agency freendzy going on with the NFL. So we'll
resume the molliwap probably next well, barring something that the
baseball team does this week, we'll probably resume malliwap next Monday.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Two.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Rob Rang's going to join us top of the hour
coming up and just come innutes three. We're getting a
lot of good talkbacks in so go ahead, go to
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Speaker 2 (37:20):
We want to hear.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Your opinions on what the Seahawks have done. My gosh,
you only have thirty seconds to tell us about Geno
dk Ernest Jones, Sam Darnold, whatever it is, fire Away
do you like it, hate it? What are you feeling
right now today? I know people have an opinion because
I look down at my phone and look at this Jess.
Keep getting these texts from these group chats. I'm in
like everyone's got an opinion.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
iPhone died last night.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
We want to las, we want to hear from you,
So fire off those walls to check the text four
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Rob rang was at UDUB Pro Day today. I check
with Rob last night before before this, I have Darnald's
signing and said, hey, I want you to have a real
quick conversation. We'll do his normal thing coming up on Friday,

(38:05):
but we'll get a quick thought from Rob on receivers
as a class, draft picks for quarterbacks as a class,
and what happened at you Dub today. Chelse Jackson's kind
of an intriguing guy.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Andy, I like him, I'd say, so yeah, we'll talk
about all that next.

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Speaker 2 (38:33):
Seahawks have.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Agreed to terms with Sam Darnold as their new quarterback,
replacing Geno Smith trade to the Raiders on Friday, as
you heard right here on a three point three KTERFM
with Soft and Fame when that broke three years about
one hundred million dollars fifty five guarantees what we're hearing
as well. Of course, if you missed over the weekend.
Gino traded on Friday, DK traded yesterday to Pittsburgh. Ernest

(38:57):
Jones Junior signed a three year deal. Thirty three million
dollars fifteen is guaranteed. Jaron Reid signed a new contract
as well to return to Seattle. As far as we know,
I believe that's it right now for the Seahawks, So
that those are that's what's going on. Yeah, and there's
like a zillion moves. Twenty five of thirty two teams
in the National Football League have made a move so far,

(39:18):
twenty five at thirty two, including Seattle. I remember those
days in Seattle wouldn't make a move until like phase
three of the eight or of the free agency. That's
not the case this year. Sam Darnold is your new quarterback.
What are your thoughts? Talkbacks Welcome iHeartRadio app. We got
a ton of them. We'll get as many as we
can four nine, four or five one. Tell them a
new text line as well. We'll get to all of
that coming up at two o'clock hour. Husky's and Coogs

(39:41):
both saw their seasons come to an end on the
basketball floor yesterday. We knew it was gonna happen for Washington,
but they lost an overtime to Oregon. Coup's getting knocked
out of the WCC Tournament yesterday by San Francisco because
why they can't play defense and they're very undisciplined and
they couldn't hit a shot outside that. It was all
good yesterday in the WCC Tournament. Cracking back in action Wednesday,
they take on Montreal's seven thirty face off seven o'clock

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is the pregame show, Let's get to Rob.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
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Speaker 1 (40:22):
It's a weekly visit on Fridays, but I called Rob
yesterday and said, hey, I kind of need you on
Monday because the Seahawks is training a DK Metcalf. And
then since that time, Rob, you've been to a pro
day locally and the Seahawks signed Sam Darnold. So we're
just gonna hit a few things and then get do
a deep dive on Friday. I think with wide receivers
if I'm not mistaken. But first of all, how are you.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
My friend?

Speaker 8 (40:43):
I am doing very well. How are you?

Speaker 2 (40:45):
I'm good?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
How was up Pro Day at Washington?

Speaker 8 (40:49):
Good?

Speaker 12 (40:50):
You know?

Speaker 13 (40:51):
I bet you'll probably you guys, Yes, maybe twenty five there.

Speaker 8 (40:58):
It was class for the Huskies.

Speaker 13 (41:02):
Last year's group had the school time record for the
number of drafted only went there.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yeah, we're gonna get robbed back on a better cell phone.
A second.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
That was kind of breaking up a wee bit, so
we'll get him in a little better spot because I
want to find out about that, uh, but mostly get
his thoughts on in general terms. We're gonna try to
get his thoughts on the wide receiver class and UH
and maybe late quarterbacks as well, But I want to
get his quick thoughts on that because I think the
most the two most glaring needs obviously on this on
this roster right now would be a wide receiver not

(41:32):
named Jake Bobo to go with Jackson Smith and Jigba
and then as well getting uh some offensive alignment as well.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
So I think Rob's back is he robbed back with us? Okay?
Rob's back with us okay?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Uh Rob, let me let me get to First of all,
Sam Darnold, Gino Smith and the Seahawks couldn't come to terms,
so they had to go a different route. They trade
Gino Smith and they and they sign. Reportedly it's agreed
upon him becomes official Wednesday. Sam Darnold thoughts on that.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
I love to move.

Speaker 13 (42:00):
I think it's an upgrade at the quarterback position, obviously
most important position in sports. I think you got a
quarterback who is a Frank. I think he's a better
fit in Klint Kuback's offense, so that there is a
familiarity between Klint Kuback and Sam Donald just because of
the fact that this past year, of course Sam Donald
was starring for the Minnesota Vikings, but the year before

(42:23):
that he was at the San Francisco forty nine is
where he was coached by again Clint Kubiak, so there's
going to be a connection there. I think that the
Sam Donald's accuracy, his anticipation from the pocket is at least.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
As good at Gino Smith. I mean that he is
a similar.

Speaker 13 (42:38):
Act as Geno Smith. He's obviously a younger player. He's
going to wind up signing for less money if all
reports are to be believed. And frankly, why certainly do
not want to question Gino Smith's leadership. I want to
very much extole Sam Donald's leadership. What I have heard
from him and his various NFL stops, certainly going back

(43:00):
to his days at USC, that he is absolutely the
type of leader that not only Krink Kubiak, but more
like McDonald John Schneider have been looking for at the
quarterback position. I think that this is the day for
Seahawk fans to be celebrating. Frankly, I was kind of
towering the table for an upgrade at the quarterback position.
I think that Gino Smith is a quality starting quarterback

(43:22):
in the NFL. I do not believe, however, that he
was ever going to take you to the promised land.
I think the albumist can step towards that with the
sign today at least reportedly of Sam Dunn.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
The next step would be, and I'm gonna get to
wide receivers a second, just and we'll go through all
these position groups as everyone knows with Rob week to week,
Let's do wide receivers ROB and we have a regular
meeting on a regular segment long segment on Friday. We'll
talk about some specific names at wide receiver general terms,
wide receiver position. How would you describe it this year?

Speaker 8 (43:53):
Well, I don't think that.

Speaker 13 (43:54):
Has the top end talent in that you know that
maybe a year ago. But at the same time, I
think if their two candidates likely to go in the
first round ride around number eighteen overall, that would be
perfect fits in Klink Kubiak's offense, that being the combined
forty yard dash winner Matthew Gold has straight line speed

(44:15):
for days four to two.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Nine says all that you need to know about that.

Speaker 13 (44:19):
But my favorite fits, the one that I've been projecting
for the Seahawks now for a while is Luther Burden,
the third from Missouri, and to me, he is very
similar to Deebo Samuel and if this is a guy
who has built a little bit more like a running
back than a traditional wide receiver. He has the entity,
he has the straight line speed, and he has the
contact balance to be able to be a monster after

(44:42):
the catch, and that to me was one of the
things that was always so frustrated by with dk mech
if he could run away from people, but you didn't
see him use the size and physicality enough to just
blow through would be tackles often enough. And certainly Tyler Lockett,
while I certainly want to pay my respect to the
you know, to the great Tyler Lockett, at the same time,

(45:03):
this past year in uh you know, Tilett Lockett record
a grand total of thirty yards after the catch all
season long.

Speaker 8 (45:14):
I think that Lutheran's going to get that in.

Speaker 13 (45:15):
Game one of the NFL, and that, to me is
one of the reasons why I think that he would
be a slam dunk selection for the Seahawks at that point.
I think you pair him with Jackson Smith and Jigba
certainly Jake Bobo, I think is a quality wide.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
Receiver as well that you still need more speed.

Speaker 13 (45:29):
That to me is the way that Clint Kubak's version
the West Coast offense is because some of the receivers
that he had and in New Orleans, especially, like I said,
Chris Olave to me, is all about some speed. And
again that's something that that Sam Donald certainly is expecting
coming from the supporting cast, a wide receiver that he
just left in Minnesota to come to Seattle. If the

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Seahawks are serious about making sure that Sam Donald is
going to be effective, and I know that John Scheider is,
then they're going to have.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
To address wide receiver.

Speaker 13 (45:57):
In my opinion, the wide receiver talent in this draft
is much better than what is likely to be available
in terms the veteran route, just because I see a
lot of aging wide receivers that don't have the speed
and the ability to make plays after the catch that
this wide receiver class in a half should be able to provide.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
It is our friend Rob rang of course Fox sports
dot com. He is our draft analyst. You'll hear him
on our show, The Morning Show, and of course Draft
Weekend as well. Because things just got serious, Rob text
to me last night. In fact, I was thinking, I said,
I reached out to Rob. Actually Rob, Rob reached out
to me Ian. Things just got serious. We're changing plans.

(46:37):
We got a lot going on. And I told Seahawk fans,
and I agree. I think this is the case. I
think this draft weekend, it is. It is the most
important draft weekend they've had probably since twenty eleven, twenty ten,
twenty eleven, twenty twelve, that little stretch there. They've got
a ton of draft assets, They've got a lot of picks,
They've got some key holes to fill, but they have

(46:57):
the ability to do so. Rob And I think I
think that's what you were kind of saying to me
last night. This is a massive weekend for the Seahawks.

Speaker 8 (47:04):
Oh, no question about.

Speaker 13 (47:06):
I mean, I am thrilled to well basically announced to
you as well as our listeners that yeah, I'll be
joining KGr for the basically the duration of the draft. Again,
I wasn't so sure that was going to be the case.
But once Seattle made these moves, you know, the trade
Geno Smith to trade DK Metcalf, now have five selections

(47:28):
among the first ninety two picks, this has just become
an absolutely massive draft for the Seahawks. And so yes,
I'm very excited to be joining you. I can't wait
to break it all down. I think that this is
going to be a draft that is going to you know,
potentially put Seattle right back into that Super Bowl trajectory.
I do think that this that this draft is we
talked about last week's show, that it really does kind

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of match up with some of Seattle's biggest areas of need.
And so I'm excited about that, you know. And that said,
I also think that there's some some out there who
can be critical of me and certainly have the Seahawks,
and they think that, you.

Speaker 8 (48:05):
Know, I'm wearing those kind of Mama.

Speaker 13 (48:07):
Blue colored shades or something, and I just am always
going to uh, you know, just glamorize the Seahawks moves.

Speaker 8 (48:14):
I'll tell you this.

Speaker 13 (48:15):
I mean, Josh Schneider has just put an awful lot
of pressure on his scouts and the Seahawks coaches. There's
only been three other times where the Seahawks had as
many as eleven draft picks, which they currently are slayd
to have this year.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Now.

Speaker 13 (48:29):
Those three times, if you look at the very first
selection of those three previous years, and when Josh Scheider
had at least eleven draft picks, their selections were Christin,
Michael Malik McDowell, and that it's based on the other one.

Speaker 8 (48:43):
But it's another one of their own and an L. J.

Speaker 13 (48:45):
Collier, I mean, not exactly, you know, an impressive list here.
So again, I think that's it's all. It's very exciting
for anybody who loves the draft as much as I
do to see Seattle armed with this many draft picks.
But now the pressure resolved to absolutely nail those selections.
They have got to be better this year than they

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have been in the past when they had such a
huge assortment of selections.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Yeah, I think Mike McDonald and his new staff being
involved going to help that as well, especially on the
offensive line and the offensive staff as a whole. I
think that's I think the upgrades there, the NFL caliber
upgrades they've got in that staff, I think that'll help
immensely there. And Rob, Yeah, like Rob and I have
a standing date, so to speak, nine am on Saturday
morning for the start of day three. We've been doing

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that for how long, Rob? Sixteen years? Fifteen years, it
feels like. And that's that's when Rob really makes his Hey,
when my favorite thing, they'll they'll pick a guy who
Rob's like right off the get go. Yeah, six four
two forty five? Did this is this? And that's that's
a ton of fun for us and as for me
as a host and for our listeners, real fast, we
kind of you're breaking up earlier, you dubb prode what

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jumped out at you.

Speaker 13 (49:53):
Well, the biggest thing is this is not nearly as
exciting of a draft class for the Huskies as it
was a year ago. Of course, so they tied the
school record for the most players ever selected. They only
had one player that was invited to Combine, that being
the linebacker Carson Bruner. He did not do everything today
because he has to sectacular showing at the Combine. Ran

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the four fives and and looked terrific in drills. He
did look terrific in positional workouts today. There was a
defensive tackle Sebastion Valdez to me, he and the short uh,
you know, slot receiver Jarles Jackson to me kind of
stole the show. That Jarles Jackson is probably gonna be
a you know, a sixth seventh round pick, but I

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think he can be very successful in the NFL as
a slot receiver as a return man.

Speaker 8 (50:40):
He made some spectacular catches.

Speaker 13 (50:42):
Today in his short area quickness and then the high
four fours, low four five that he ran the four
yard dash, I think just kind of cemented his stock.

Speaker 11 (50:51):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (50:51):
And then the same thing with Valdez. I mean you're
talking about a guy who is just absolutely massive.

Speaker 13 (50:56):
It looks like that that was kind of the comparison
to some of us where you before you're a paint
this young man green, then.

Speaker 8 (51:03):
He would look like the incredible, the incredible hulk.

Speaker 13 (51:06):
I mean, he is just as physically as impressively built
as you're going to get. Have thirty plus repetitions on
the bench press. So again, a powerful run plugger. And
I because somebody is gonna get themselves a steal, but
not many people know much about It's a Montana State transfer.
But still he is a guy that is definitely helped himself.
At today's pro day workout at Motley.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
We're talking wide receivers Friday, Rob, We're gonna do that
at two o'clock on Friday, and I'll ask you it
was who had his pro day Friday. So we'll get
to your thoughts on Kyle Williams on Friday as well.
But we'll do that when we break down the wide
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Speaker 2 (51:54):
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Speaker 1 (51:58):
Can't wait for draft covery on this station throughout the
NFL Draft with Ranger. We'll take a break. We're gonna
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Speaker 6 (52:12):
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Speaker 12 (52:26):
Hey, this is Will and Mount Vernon. I think everyone
hopes that Sam Darnold is an upgrade from Gino Smith,
but no one knows right now. The thing I'm most
excited about is this is now Mike McDonald's team. Through
and through. You can put the leaders in place that
he wants. We've got the defense built.

Speaker 10 (52:45):
To a point.

Speaker 12 (52:46):
We could still add some more pieces but it's time
to really focus on rebuilding the offense like we did
with the defense last year.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Great start to our talkbacks we've got. I'll just be
honest with you, We're not gonna get to all of
them today. We had a ton which I love, appreciate
and gets. You know, Jess gets to work. She got
she likes editing that stuff, and you know she can
go in there and she's doing it. She's still doing
it because she says more coming in. But we'll get
to them. I want to stop there with that one.
We'll get to a bunch more here. This whole segment's
going to be you. We'll get the text as well.
I want to stop it there because he said something.

(53:15):
It's a great way to start. For this reason. He
mentioned his people, his leaders in his locker room. That's
why Jared Reid got resigned. Yep, that's why Jared Reid
got resigned. That's why Ernest Jones got resigned. They those
are his kind of guys. I always thought DK would be.
I thought so, I thought DK would be.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Do you think if he didn't demand the trade but
you still got the offer that they did, they would
have done it. No, you don't think so.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Nope, Hey, yeah, I think it's their hands forced. He
want out.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Yeah, when it became public, their hand was kind of forced.
I mean they could have done what we were talking
about with Mike last week home grin, make him play,
franchise him, what have you. But but no, I think
when he made it public, it was it made it
really hard on them and I But I don't know.
There's somebody speaking in his ear. I think it's the

(54:11):
X quarterback myself, not Geno the other guy. I think
I just I'm just educated. Guess if there's a poisoned
well and it might have a number three attached to it,
but that's I'm just guessing.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Is he consulting now? Is that his new unlimited business? Unlimited?
Your best? That might be your best one ever?

Speaker 3 (54:37):
That was really good?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
That might be your best. That might be your best.
He's a consultant.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
I'm excited by what Rob said about Luther Burden though.
That sounded like there's.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Dudes out there listen, whether it's just great great scouting
and research, or whether it's blank house luck. There's a
Puka Nakula or somebody like that. Every year in the
draft that's outside of what's that cups available?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Yeah, he has it. I'd be hesitant on that. I
wonder how much he'd garner.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Well, and I think i'd be hesitant on it because
of the injury is the last couple of years?

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Is there a price tag you'd be willing to pay
like it?

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Let's just say, well, if DK was what a DK was?
A thirty million second?

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Was the second second Super.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Cup, fourth round pick.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Him?

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Yet they haven't cut him yet, have they?

Speaker 3 (55:28):
I think they did? Let me double can you double.

Speaker 8 (55:31):
Check on that?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I'm sorry, I should be a better radio host. I
shouldn't know all the suggest you look that up and
let's get some more talk back. Hey, we haven't made
it to the playoffs in what two three years? It's
time to make this offense go right?

Speaker 14 (55:47):
Did Darnald's the answer?

Speaker 10 (55:48):
I really don't know, but I like the fact that
we're shaking things up and head hopefully heading into.

Speaker 11 (55:55):
The right direction.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Well, the he's right. They have made the player actually,
and they've missed the last two years. Gino's never didn't
win a playoff game when he was here. When they
did go to the playoffs, last time they won a
playoff game was on the road in Philadelphia in twenty
nineteen with Russ and then they lost in the next
week in the snow and Green Bay.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
I do have questions whether Donald is an upgrade. Rob
was pretty adamant in that Donald was an upgrade over
Gino Smith, which surprised me because you're paying him less money.
He's younger. Gino is probably a little bit more of
a track record of doing it at the top level.
On top level, but being at starting quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
She has been around forever.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I still kind of think it might be a push.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
I think so too, but that's how I look.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
But with more ceiling well, and seven years younger and
eight million a year less, Yes, that's the big reason.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
Well, I look at the seven years younger. Not that
I'm being ageist about it, but anymore, that is I'm
an agist.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Okay, I'm old. I'm allowed to be.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Yeah, Gino is not a spring chicken man. There's a
lot of ceiling though.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Actually, you know what'll we even get to this? Thank
God it's not Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
Oh my goodness, ever, God you a pray to be
happy about.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Talking to him over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
You have to pick up those phone calls, though you.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Did. Everybody not just go oh god, ye, can I
give you something? I mean, the thing would have been
fun for us.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
I don't know. I mean I say that we'd have
constant content.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
I just wanted to give you some insight on Sam
Darnold because I talked to an executive who worked with
him very closely for a long time this morning, whose
name I can't put on the radio for certain reasons.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
However, Sam is really my source. Yeah, how about I
just go with that.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
That Sam is an unbelievably great locker room guy that
people don't know because he is a lead by example.
He's not allowed, not a raw ra guy, except that
he's He's more than just that kind of leader. He's
a good person, and it's just not in this extremely
public way. And that's how I want my quarterback to meet,
like an Andrew Luck kind of guy, where he's like, yeah,

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I still got a flip phone.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
And I drive a nineteen five Dodge d or whatever.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
But no, it was just really good to hear that
because this person absolutely loved having him in the building,
regardless of talent on the field.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
And I just don't think people.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
Know about Sam Donald in that way because he's not
overtly public with the way he is.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
And I'll echo those with Humillon's conversation with Softing Dick
on Friday when they brought up the possibility of Sam
Donald come and the first thing he said is he
had a story when his son was visiting USC and
how every single person was raving about Sam Donald at
that time, about his leadership and who he was as
a person. So this guy's liked everywhere he's gone.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah, this executive New York didn't kill him, didn't break him,
I guess not.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
If you survived that, then you are okay.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
But yeah, he's still in a group chat with his
son and asked him about his high school basketball games
and stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
You know, I love to hear that stuff. All right,
let's uh just tells me we got more top top.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I think so, But we got man.

Speaker 11 (59:06):
A couple hours ago, I was pounding my fists and
I was screaming and pulling my hair out. I need
you guys to give Hugh Millan a big thank you
for me for talking me off the ledge. I was
not happy first reaction to the Sam Donald deal, but thanks.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
To Hugh, I can live with it. I he will be.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
I'm assuming on with Softy and Faint at four o'clock
as he continues his twelve hours of radio here on
KJR Today for him.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Is that like not the Hugh Millan pinnacle of life
is to have all today to talk and so.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
He's gonna be. I would assume more at four coming up.
I will find out. When we talked to Softy at
twelve forty five, Yeah, I mean he painted a great picture.
Especially I heard him with Mark and you know, he
went through the numbers in terms of you know, basically
made Gino was checked down Charlie and and Sam. Donald's
a guy that's gonna do a little bit more for
you at least based on last year.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
And he was good. It was saying this is based
on last last year.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Yes, based on last year, and there's a lot of
factors coming into play, but it was based on last year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
All right, what do you got?

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
Ah?

Speaker 15 (01:00:08):
Yes, the Seahawks off season going on right now and
everybody freaking out.

Speaker 10 (01:00:16):
It's a plan.

Speaker 15 (01:00:17):
Be patient. We're also Mariner and supersonic fans. Lots have
been patients, has been tested over time, the Seahawks are
making moves to better themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
The world is not falling apart.

Speaker 15 (01:00:33):
It's gonna be okay, Mike McDonald, I'm loving it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Look, remember you only have thirty seconds on this this talkback.
Finish your thought before the thirty seconds.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Yeah, I like leaving those ones braw.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
I'm like, oh, you had so much reminder, we have
more right keeping. Seahawks fans call him down. Yes, Ian
is one hundred percent right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
This is coming from a Husky so I hate to
say it, but he's right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
This is not rebuild. What the Houston Astros did back
in the day, that was a rebuilt.

Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
They sucked for a long time, completely broke it down.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
But I will say losing quarterback one and a wide
receiver one, maybe this is just a remodel.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
What did my friend Danny O'Neill call it? He called
it a Is it a renovation.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Or a rebuild?

Speaker 10 (01:01:20):
Is what he is?

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
He is at least semantic values. Yeah, I just I think,
like I said, everyone's going to define it differently. I
think of a rebuild as tearing it down to the studs,
which means you don't resign Ernest Jones, you don't resign,
Jaron Reid. You start getting rid of your and it's
hard to do in the NFL because of contracts and
eating salary and all the money that you got to
retain on the cap.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
I mean, you've got it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Seattle turned over eighty seven percent of its roster from
it in twenty twelve from what they started with. That's
a rebuild. They're not in the midst of that right now.
All right, continue, Bean and Jess. Regarding the trade on Friday,
I love it. Regarding the trade on Sunday, I love it.
The real question is is who's going to throw the
first tantrum for the Steelers in twenty twenty five dk

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or Pickens hashtag Tanham Brothers.

Speaker 10 (01:02:10):
Regarding Sam, I hate this signing. Basically, it is Matt
Flynn two point zero. He had fourteen good games in
a career that's lasted what five years, and only had.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Fourteen good games.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Matt Flin had won and it was the end of
the season, the last game of the year. Yeah, so
it's a little bit different, a little larger, Stu.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
I think that's a fair comparison.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
I have a I think I have a different comparison.
I think it's Geno Smith from two years ago. I
highly drafted guy, wasn't ever what he expected to be
ruined by the Jets in New York. Jessen became a
backup after that, then got kind of a new opportunity,
had a good year with that new opportunity, and gets
kind of a bridge prove it deal. And it's very

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similar money in terms of cap percentage as well. So
I think this is the literally Gina Smith from te
years Let me read a text real quick and we'll
get back to the talkbacks Ian.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Two things. First, I'll watch a few Missouri games last year.
Luther Burden is really good. Second, this is the part
that jumped out of me. Why can't Donald be Mayfield?
Not their fault. They went to Carolina, New York and Cleveland. Yeah,
between them, could be Baker Mayfield. I mean, the quarterback
position's crazy, man. It's just like the reclamation projects that
you can find along the way, you know. Listen, Jared

(01:03:27):
Goff wasn't good enough for the Rams, they traded him,
goes to Detroit, leads a team to the best record
in the NFC this season. He's not better than Stafford,
but he looks a hell of a lot more competent
there than he did maybe with the rams along the way.
But Baker Mayfield might be the comparison. Baker's done like
he does.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Get rid of Baker.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
He's he's a bust. You know, it's a term that's
thrown out a lot, but yeah, maybe he could be.
All right, keep going and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Nick Allen, what's up?

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Nick?

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
It's up a man today? Sorry. Alonco has an RBI
single and Garver has the two run home run. But
little bears in here today.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
That was right there, Nick, filling in for Chris and
Nathan today with a little his own little mollywop.

Speaker 10 (01:04:13):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Yeah, yeah, there's I see they sent down Luis Castile today.
Not remember how they signed another louise A Castle. Yes,
in the middle initial I saw that was like they
wanted to make sure so good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
All right, keep going for Donald.

Speaker 16 (01:04:38):
I think he's a younger, better version of Gino. Gino
wasn't getting it done. We were never going to go
anywhere with Gina. At least with Donald.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
There's hope.

Speaker 16 (01:04:48):
There's there's the guy that's got all the skills, he's
got the size, he's got the arm. He just needs
some coaching and an offensive line, but way too many
mistakes from Gino.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Terrible red zone.

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
Check down.

Speaker 16 (01:05:01):
Charlie, you know we gotta we had to go somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
We're getting younger, keep going and Patrick from Spokane here.

Speaker 15 (01:05:12):
I believe we upgraded at quarterback going from Gino to
Sam Darnold. Even saved some money, got rid of DK,
didn't have to pay him.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Got a draft pick.

Speaker 15 (01:05:22):
We have plenty of draft picks and money will be fine.
These other fans just need to chill out and stop
blowing up my phone.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Man, your phone's not blowing up like mine is. I
got I see, I got three text changes. They're all
blowing up right now. Buddy's cut.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I do have updown Cooper cups. He has not been cut, yeah,
but it seems like they have decided to move on
from him. And I'm seeing a lot of things like
he may have to get cut if the trade market
doesn't emerge, so you might be able to get him
for like a late round.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
They won't emerge out the free agency started exactly. They
won't emerge out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
So yeah, they maybe draft week, maybe Draft weekend. But
if you round steel, if you gotta eat the money.
Then I think you to wait for him to get
cut and eat the money. Then he can kind of
pick and choose. All right, let me read it's quick
text and they'll get right back to those uh two
five three looks like me Kay got his wish, warm climate,
stable quarterback. Oops, never mind?

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
Remember when he made those demands and everyone's just like,
he means nothing. It's who's gonna give him the most money?

Speaker 10 (01:06:18):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
This isn't college, it's not the NIO.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
It's so funny. It's like, yeah, I want to win.
I want to go to a warm climate. Dude, you
want to get cash.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
That's what you want. Stop and that's what coach morning too. Damn,
let's just stop doing stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:34):
I did.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I think Tim Benz from Pittsburgh might be on with
Softy and Fame later. I was on his show this
today and we were We had a good time talking
because I went on last year when they brought Russ
in and I just torpedoed Russ and told him exactly
what you expect from Russ. And you know what's funny,
is it all came true?

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Does it feel so good to be right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Because I'm usually wrong. I've been long at wa.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
I was wrong with dec.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
It was wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
I mean, I thought you don't trade DK. I was
wrong there. I was wrong with Gino. I'm wrong there.
But yeah, so that felt good when Tim told me
I was right with everything that they experienced with the Russell.
The Russell Wilson experience was everything they had hoped for
him about Justin Fields. The Jets, by the way, Yeah,
that's uh, we have hope.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Yeah, a little hands up emoji.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
I kind of there's something there.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
I kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
I was talking to my kid about that. He was like,
we were my whole house. We're all wanting that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
We're all wanting Justin Fields, and.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
That's what everyone out in the sales pit wanted to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Yeah, because I think Justin Fields has that like crazy
athletic upside you kind of get excited about. You Seejad
and Daniels play last year, stuff like that, You're like, Okay,
I want a guy. You know, that's not what they're
looking for this quarterback here with the system.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
All right, keep going, let's go ahead and leave the
cracking out.

Speaker 7 (01:07:42):
But man to be a.

Speaker 17 (01:07:43):
Seattle Sports GM Seahawks. I'm getting Sam Darnold with no
line and no playmakers. Who's going to catch the ball?
Ian Probably he's probably better than what we have. That's
play getting an all world pitching staffy mobile.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
This is a joke.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
That was not the edited version that I saved.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Should we play the next one?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 18 (01:08:08):
Well, hell man, there's at least one team in town
that is trying to be aggressive and get back to
the old playoffs. It's more than I can say for
our fine friends over there in Marinerville, old Jerry Dipstick
to Poto and his.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Group of phonies.

Speaker 18 (01:08:30):
Anyway, I'm just hoping John Snyder has a solid land.

Speaker 19 (01:08:35):
I'll trust him. Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
About that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
By the way, I'm not going to catch any passes.
I'm fighting through some New York critis right now. I'm
on the I'm on the lt i R long Term
injury reserve right now, so we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Are we are we done? And we have three more?
Let's keep hitting them. I'm all in.

Speaker 19 (01:08:53):
And what the Seahawks are doing because what they had
wasn't working well enough for them or for us, So yeah,
try something new can be much worse. Hopefully they improved
the offensive line with the cap space they've cleared up

(01:09:14):
and if Donald has a year like you had last year,
we'll be in the playoffs. That'll be an improvement.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
We point out again they won Gohawks, thank you they
We point out again they won nine or ten games
last year. However, we want to look at it. Yeah,
he said it couldn't get much worse, like it can Offen. Yeah, okay,
but record wise, it can.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
Get a lot worse.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Oh, it totally can. It might like, honestly, it might.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
It could. That's a possibility. Every team's looking at that possibility.
Not named about four or five teams. I think Buffalo
feels pretty good about themselves. There's a lot of teams
that feel okay about themselves. But yeah, it could get
a lot worse. All right, we I'm gonna get through
the rest of these us go.

Speaker 14 (01:09:58):
So the Vikings get rid of a quarterback that took
them to a fourteen and three record last year and
supposedly had the best year of his career, and now
going for an unproven quarterback and a third string quarterback.
What does that say about Sam?

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
It says that they draft.

Speaker 14 (01:10:24):
And it must be him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
I'm not happy I got it. I understand that's longer
than thirty seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
To be honest, I understand, well, apparently they're not all edited.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
I spend all that time.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
First of all, First of all, JJ McCarthy's a reason
they let Sam Donald. Drafted guy, drafted guy in the
first round, in the top ten. Okay, so like that's
why they let him go. They invested a first round
draft pick in a quarterback, a high first round draft pick.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
We got two more more last one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
All right, Hey, guys, let's.

Speaker 17 (01:10:55):
Give us some sports grades for the GMS of Seattle Sports.
Craig Wibell the Sounders A plus.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
He tries, he goes for it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Sounders are provenreed.

Speaker 17 (01:11:05):
Ron Francis a plus. New tries, he makes moves, He's smart,
He's proven. John Snyder H for hot seat, self explanatory.
Jerry Depoto DN and E D is for dipp. He
is for ego because that's all he has.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Have a good day, guys, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Again, it could get worse. The Giants were three and fourteen.
Tennessee was uh octually, I'm sorry the Giants were. Yeah,
the Giants were three and fourteen. Tennessee was three and fourteen,
Cleveland was three and fourteen. Vegas Pete four and thirteen,
New England four and thirteen, Jacksonville four and thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
What was the number for that?

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
New England? Yeah, what were they? Four and thirteen?

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
A great Jess five and twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
We are the king of Trash Mountain. All right. We
had a ton of texts who were not going to
get to him because it's just it's crazy as well.
We have way more talk backs than I could even play.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
Somebody just pointed out we've gone one and fifteen before.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Sure, yeah, oh yeah yeah. Seahawks won the first place,
one of the first place.

Speaker 10 (01:12:13):
Wo.

Speaker 18 (01:12:13):
I can't read that one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
I think the Marriors could have picked up Gina bit
a better team.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
That's not fair.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
See what else I would love to do, like an
April first, like fools Day where the Mariners play football
and the Seahawks played baseball, something like that, just to
like watch the true athleticism these guys have in a
sport that's not theirs.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Johnder, they probably all played John Schneider must hate old
Skeeter from Shelton.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Yeah, that s from Shelton.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
That text, that's Keith Miller and nobody likes Skeeter. All right,
we'll check in with that's offty next.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Alrighty, we're back.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
But they're throwing some crazy, stupid money around to some
people today. Josh Palmer the wide receiver from the Chargers.
Eighteen guarantee, eighteen million guaranteed for that guy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
How about Justin Field's getting thirty million guaranteed to go
and have his career come to an end with John
what well we're doing?

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
What will again also go into a place that is
going to kill your career? Because that's what happens.

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
You better get good money then, got thirty million?

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Though, what does you give a damn you know? What
would you go to the.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Jets for thirty million money?

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
I go there for thirty dollars?

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
What would be the Jets? What's the Jets equivalent in
sports talk radio terms?

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
We can't say it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Well, it'd be it's located on East Lake. Okay, that's funny,
And if you really want to get specific, you'd work
on an early show on that show, on that Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
Hey, by the way, with the with the darnold news,
there's one thing about him that all of us know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Oh here we go, we all know, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:13:57):
He caught his first touchdown pass and how long will
forty one yards?

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Good time looking deep downfield.

Speaker 15 (01:14:05):
Into the end zone.

Speaker 17 (01:14:07):
Touchdown Jacks Robbie Anderson, and the first td T of
Sam Donald's career goes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Forty one yards.

Speaker 17 (01:14:16):
Forty one yards?

Speaker 5 (01:14:18):
Can you please, for the love of God, can I
see a forty one yard pass on his first throw
as a Seahawks And can Beth bowens beyond the canet?
Sam Donald's first tosses a Seahawk is forty one yards?

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Can we make it?

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Can we make it a request? Can I make a
request over there? Hey, Dave or whoever makes those Brian O'Connell,
whoever was making those decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Yeah, can we bring bestne.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Well, it's a broadcast, it's a broadcasting decision.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
It's brocast.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Can we bring can we play the game?
Can we bring this in for the preseason?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Bring this thirty one yards?

Speaker 5 (01:14:53):
Bring it in for the pre I mean, who did
didn't didn't Kate Scott do?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
The Preseason's got no connection here.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
She's with her area gal from the area, from the area,
working for Philadelphia, Like, I'm right, yeah, but you know
what for the freaking Sixers, man, what do you want
her hanging around?

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
Bring in Sam Donald's favorite, this one right here, Dad, Yes, God,
if she throws good time, if he like that first
game or even a preseason game, they're going to be
sitting at the forty one yard line.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Well, the problem you're going to be coming on glued
at that point.

Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
The problem with this is that how often will we
hear somebody say Sam Donald has time, no time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
I'm telling you the fact that he had time with
the Jets. That's you found the unicorn there, sir, with
a sound bite. That's the unicorn sound bite.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
Long time ago. That's a time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
I'm just listen to mine of my own business Friday.
I'm driving home.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
May or may not have been listening to you at
the time, you know, may or may not have maybe
listening to some music I don't know. And all of
a sudden, my phone blows up, like just blowing up.
And I think Andrews might have been the first. I
got a group chat with Andrews and the two knucklehead Mollywhoppers,
and like next thing, I think Bett might be on
that too. Oh yeah, and I see Anders betting Chris Nathan.
I'm thinking to myself, nothing goods coming of that text, right,

(01:16:14):
Like softy. If you saw that text, what would you think?

Speaker 5 (01:16:16):
Like, I'm not gonna I would a thousand per ignore
it and elite and reporter is junk, and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
So I see that, I've better listen.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
And then I I think Andre's just used like a
four letter word and or something like that, And I'm like,
what's going on? So I flip on ninety three point
three KJRFM, and I'm like, what, Geno Smith, Gino, how
shocked were you when that crossed on Fred?

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
Well, it was like three forty five and we were
getting ready to have Jetfish on the air to talk
some Huskies because they had a big weekend coming up,
obviously with the football team, the recruits, and I mean
Andrews knows Jackson well enough to know how Jackson handles
these moments.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
I was about to ask the real question is how
much was he hyperventilation?

Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
All of a sudden, the door to the producers both
flies open. Jackson right just down the hall turns just stretching,
sweating like a pig. I think he's slipping in his
own sweat, going down the hall looking like he just
ran a marathon. Yeah, it was like, dude, literally, how

(01:17:20):
does a man.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Sweat that much that fast, well, and he was probably
he just.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Made the trade. And he looked like the spigot was
on for a week.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
I've got a sounder, dam to Momore. I gott worry
about that. Jordanore's gonna say the record. I can't worry
about this right now. I really really felt bad texting.
How can I help?

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
So I had to call. I called Jed and said,
hey man, they just traded Gino Smith. Can we push
you back a segment sture? No problem, Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
He had an extra more at four with Hugh. I'm
assuming more at fort.

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
Yeah, we got a big one. So Tim Ben's from Pittsburgh.
You know, our old buddy Timmy Ben.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Was just on his show today. I told him he
DK is so over.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
We have to know him a little bit and five
at the super Bowl. That's all we've known that guy for.
So he will join us at three twenty eight. Hugh's
gonna join us at four. Paul Allen from the Vikings
will come on. Come on, by the way. You can't
just you can't just five o'clock never win a game.
Washington join us at five, and then Mike the course,

(01:18:22):
you know I'm flabbergasted. Will join us at six pm
and talk a little college basketball. But I don't know
you might. You might be hearing this a lot over
the next few months. Sam Donald, good time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Can you do me one favor?

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
By the way, I can tell you one thing that
the odds for the Seahawks to win the NFC have
gone from plus three thousand to plus twenty two hundred.
That's what Vegas thinks of Gino Smith and DK Metcalf
versus Sam Darnold.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Sam Donald, I need you to do me one favor.
You got the Paul Allen one you didn't play on
the on the edge there bottom left?

Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
This one right here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
This is not Detroit, man, this is the super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Well we got a better one. Are our buddy? Nordo
sent us a bunch of highlights from the Sam Darnold
year he spent in Minneapolis. Come on, man, throw the
damn This is this is my favorite PA drop of
all time.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
Woreo is a human dingle bear? Have you ever played
that for Florio?

Speaker 10 (01:19:17):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Of course you have?

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
That's by why it calls you guys, the names he
calls you all the time. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Exactly, David. You don at the Animal Queen Casino. I
assume the.

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
EQUC sports book. You can place some bets on Conference
Championship Week. You can't bet on Gonzaga though, because they're
in the state. No, but you can bet on everybody else.

Speaker 15 (01:19:35):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
So we're here at the EQUC and obviously gonna follow
this thing all day long with the Free agent Tracker,
single tampering period, DK reaction, GENO reaction, Paul Allen, Tim
Ben's and Humil.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
And men and a very stressed out Jackson felt.

Speaker 5 (01:19:52):
Here's a towel, wipe your face.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
For the mild mannered and marginally objectionably Inverness, this is
paddle day, saying so long, every one,

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