Furness Show 3-7: Ron Francis, Danny O'Neil, Rob Rang.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
General Manager of the year. See crack and Ron Francis is
with us. Make sure can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
And am I too loud? You too loud? Hout you are?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I got you? He may be a bit loud, but
it works.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Oh you know what I am allowed? Sometimes that's what
it is. So wow, it's coming gone the trade deadline.
You've got a ton of these. We'll get to what
you guys have done specifically in a second before we
get to that. How you've seen so many of these
over the years. How did this year compare it to
other years? Is it the same? Are they differently normal?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I think every year is kind of different. You know,
some years it's a buyer's market if there's a lot
of people in the market. Sometimes it's a seller's market.
I think this one leaned more towards the seller market
and some of the prices that we're able to get
attained by the teams that we're selling. So, you know,
in a perfect world, you're not you're not moving players.
That's a tough part of the business. You're you're looking
to add at this time of the year is what

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you really want to be doing. But based on the situation,
we're in with a couple of contracts that we're expiring
UFAs you know, we felt this was the right thing
to do to help get some draft capital and create
some cap space, and that helps us so hopefully move
forward by acquiring some players with that draft capital.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
See where you are right now, as you mentioned, not
where you want to be, Not where Dan, anybody wants
to be. Why do you think you are here right now?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
What what hasn't gone right? That just maybe surprised you?
Because on paper, I think you feel good about we
all kind of thought this would be a pretty good team.
What do you think's gone wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, I mean, the one thing you can never account
for is injuries, and that's that's a part of it,
you know, I have I always feel when I'm doing that,
you're you're making excuses. But you know, we had we
had some significant injuries to some pretty special pieces for
our lineup. I mean started early with Vincetunn being out
for six weeks, and you know, and then you lose
your captain and a guy like Jordan Ever leaves for

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three months, forty games, he's out of your lineup and
you just don't miss, you know, three months and come
back and pick up where you left off. There's a
process to getting back to that level. And you know,
does that take another ten games, fifteen games, twenty games,
So that hurts. And I know we traded him, but
we lost Johnny Gordon in early January two, which is
was a good piece of our team. So a lot
of things that happen over the course of the season.

(02:02):
You know, we were prior to starting to do this stuff.
We're basically eleven points out of the playoffs. I thought,
you know, could have been tighter if we won the
game the other night against Many, which I thought we
deserve to win. And now you're talking it's a difference
of five wins over the port you know, sixty two
game season, and doesn't you know it seems like a
big number when you look at the big thing, but
when you talk about five wins over sixty two, it's

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not really as dramatic. So I do feel we're still
a lot closer than maybe some people think we are.
And you know, it's our job now and to make
sure that we get those things right over the course
of the summertime and ready to go next season.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
And I'm going to come back to that because I
think most if I think we can easily articulate the
core of this team and how there is a lot
of reason for optimism the talents there. Watching Shane Wright
just get better by the second. Maddy Vanier is what
Copple Cockle in that trade has done. All the things
that have happened, there's you've got a number one goaltender,
There's absolutely no question about that. And Joey and all
the different things you got going on. Let's talk about table.

(02:59):
We'll talk about yester Day first. Let's talk about today.
Brandon Tennant goes to Winnipeg, goes back to Winnipeg, goes
to a contending team, a team that he's familiar with.
You get a second round pick in return. I'm assuming
they were probably you were probably fielding a lot of
calls for Brandon Tennant.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, no, we were. We were getting calls on Brandon.
You know, we kind of had in our mind that
the price was a second round pick. You know, you
can retain salary on three contracts. We retained salary and
the Arnie Gordon trades, so we had two left, and
you know, we were thinking we might have to retain
in order to get the second, but we were able

(03:32):
to get the second without retaining salary, so you know,
that was good for us. And and you know, Brandon
was a you know, right from day one. He's a
big part of our team, and I know he's a
fan favorite. So people are going to be disappointed we
moved him, but going into his UF year. At UFA year,
he's unrestricted at the end of the year, where he
was cap wise and salary wise wasn't going to work

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for us moving forward. So that's a decision you had
to make. Had a conversation with him a few weeks
ago and said, hey, this is what we're going to do.
And you know, I think he's happy that we're able
to move him to a market that he's familiar with,
to a team that has been the best in the
league this year and gives them a serious canc at winning.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So Ron Francis with us gentle manager for the cracking,
I'm gonna have you kind of spell this out, because
it's we have some great hockey fans that understand what's
going on. We have some new fans, so there's a
lot of comparisons made to other teams in town. Baseball
doesn't have a salary cap. Hockey NHL does have a
salary cap. So when people say, oh, are they cutting costs,
are they getting cheap? Are they trying to cut coin

(04:31):
things like that, they're just cutting salary. That's not what
you're doing. Maybe you can explain better than I've tried
the last few days, because it doesn't seem to be
going through too well. So, but it is a different
deal than say baseball, were there is no salary cap.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, no, we have a salary cap. We started the
season with three eight hundred dollars worth of cap space,
so we were not saving money, not trying to put
the best team on the ice. We were spending up
to the cap and in cash we were actually over
the cap number, which is another trickier part. You can
and if your cap, your av your average annual value

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of a contract is that if the contract's four five,
six million, the average value is five, But if you're
in the year three of that contract, your cash is
six million. So if you're in the year one of
that contract, it could be fo So it depends on
where you are as where your cash is. But so
going into the season, like I said, we had thirtye
one hundred dollars of cap space. That's it, which means
we couldn't even call up another player at that point.

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But we were, you know, well over the cap as
far as cash being sent, So it's it's not like
we're trying to save money or cut corner. Where we
are right now in the season is you've got to
make decisions on guys unrestricted for agents are free to
go wherever they want it the end of the year.
If you can't get a deal done with them, then
then they walk and you lose that person for nothing.
So going into the trade downline, what we're looking at

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is how can we best manage that For us, we
picked up you know, two first round picks and the
second round pick, and now another second round pick in
the ten of So when you look at where we
are for the next three years, we have five first
round pick and five second round picks. We have a
first and two seconds this year, to first in the
second and then to two in the third year. So

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that's a lot of draft capitals, we like to say,
So we're not sitting here and doing that too. We
also created probably about twenty million dollars in cap space
moving into next season, so we're looking not to save
the twenty million. We're looking to spend that and we
want to make our team better, and we're not looking
to draft ten players with these ten picks. What we're
hoping to do is, hey, do we package it first

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in a second or two seconds or two first or
whatever we have to do in the summertime leading up
to the draft to go out and get somebody. And
sometimes what happens, like it happened in the case with
us and Oliver yorks Ran, where you get past July first,
a team signs a free agent and now they're like, oh,
I got to move somebody off my roster. We will
have the draft capital there to take advantage of that

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as well, like we did in Oliver's case. We end
up giving a third and fourth for him a couple
of years ago, and in theory we traded him for
a first in a second now. So that's the kind
of stuff we're looking for, is 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

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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 make your
team better, but this is a big part of that
as well.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
The salary cap gymnastics in the NHL are if it's fascinating,
and that's I think that's what fans are starting to
learn and most kind of do. But yeah, well they're
just you know, it's like people are trying to equate
it to in a sense all it's like, you know,
getting rid of a third base make because you don't
want to pay them. That's not the case. You didn't
mind paying these guys. Teams all in the NHL spend
up against the cap and then you have to kind
of work around that. Your bigger thing was this is

(07:42):
step one, if I'm not mistaken, because the next step
is what happens in the summer free agency draft weekend,
because this is not a situation you want to be
in next year.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
No, And you know, in theory, we've made it harder
for us to win here the next month six weeks
because we've taken some good players out of our lineup. Well,
we're gonna hope they do is get a look at
some of our young players, right, So, you know, does
Johnny Newman get a chance, does Winter didn't get a chance?
Did these guys get another look like Malanson did last night?
So that's all part of it. But as we get

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beyond the season, you know, Coachella right now is sitting
in a playoff spot. We want to watch those kids
play in the playoffs, how they perform. You know, I
pointed out, I think in the past we were one
of the oldest teams our first year in the American
Hockey League. Last year, our Ford group was the twentieth
oldest I think in the league. And this year, our
four group is the third youngest. And yet you know,
as of two days ago, they're still sitting in first

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place in their division. So that bodes well for all
the young talent we have coming. And that's what we're
trying to do. On one hand is develop those kids.
We get them here, but it's not like you know,
I guess you look at the NFL. You draft these
kids when if they're in college at twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four, we're drafting kids at eighteen. We don't really
get our hands on them because they have to go
back to junior or to Europe or back to college

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until they sort of age out of the process. We
don't really get to see them till the twenty twenty
one and then you start doing that development. So it's
a longer process, you know, when you're starting from nothing
to get these kids to that point. We're finally starting
to get to that point where these kids can play
meaningful games for us moving forward. So that's exciting. We have,
like I said, the space now to go spend money.

(09:16):
We've got the draft capital to go and acquire of
players if they're sitting out there. So there's a lot
of pieces that a lot of things that we're factoring
as and moving to the summer. But it's not you know,
I'm going to emphasize this was not to save money.
This is try and give us a chance to be
a much better team, quicker next season.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
And you said it well there too. Ron Fancis joining
us general manager of the Cracking with the thirty two
bar and grill. The key here is, as you said,
ten first and second round draft picks, combine them to
the next three drafts. The way the rosters are, you
can't have that many guys even in your system at
some point in terms of being signed and so forth,
so that turns into great assets to move and to

(09:53):
add to your roster. Free agency has never been an
issue with this team. And I think you and I
sat here last year at the end of the season,
you talked about it. Let's just this is an organization
that gives you a green light, does it not to
say I want to go out and spend on brandam
montour channels, teams or whoever those guys are this year.
I would assume you have full confidence and you go
out there and if you see a guy, you have
the ability to go out and sign this that free agent.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
This year, Yeah, no, we spent ninety four million dollars
on two players, and I didn't have any pushback from
my ownership. Our ownership from day one is is when
it's the facilities, whether it's how we treat our players
and our families, what we do for our fans, they
want to make sure they're doing everything right and not
once if they say, hey, you can't spend the money

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to make this team better, it's it's honestly been quite
the opposite. You know, go ahead and spend if you
think you can do it, and you know, I walked
in last year and said, hey, we got this guy,
and this guy costs US ninety four million dollars and
they were excited. You know a lot of people when
you tell me you spend ninety four million of their money,
they're not too excited. But they were excited. So they've
been great and their plan is to you know, they're

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like us, we want this to start getting into the
playoffs and do it on it consistent basis here after
hear and that's what our goal is.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Ron. What would you say about Yanni Gord and Oliver
New York Strand and their time here in Seattle. I
know you kind of mentioned a statement yesterday, but I'll
let you say that to the fans, because there's a
guy and Yanni that was a true fan favorite from
day one. And obviously Oliver was one of the better
coupes you've had as a.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
GM bringing him here.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
He was a great player at both ends of the ice,
had the connection to Portland, which I know for our
TV say, hey, it was great having I mean, they
love watching him play. But what would you say about
those two guys?

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, I mean, and they're not only real good players,
they're just terrific human beings and great family men. I
mean their families, you know, they're whites, and the kids,
they're all really good. You know, Yannie is a guy
that you knew what you're gonna get every night. You know.
There was one one day I saw him walk into
the locker room. He's on crutches and his knees all swollen,
and I'm asking what's going on. He's not sure and

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end up draining a bunch of ccs out of his knee.
And the next day walks in with no crutches and
he's unplaying the night and I'm like, what I mean,
that's the kind of guy he was old well, and
you know, I don't think you have to look any
further than our first year that we made the playoffs.
The first ten minutes that game against Colorado, he made
sure that every one of our teammates knew that we
were in the playoffs and weren't there just to play,

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We're there to win, and so just a serious competitor.
And it's AWA's tough when you lose somebody like that.
But based on where we were in our roster and him,
you know, sliding further down and the amount of money
he was making cap space. We just figured we had
to do something. And it's point all over the same
thing he's going into. He only had one more year
left on his contract, so we thought the return that

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we could get now was was really good, and that's
why we did it. We weren't really lucky to move
and going into the deadline, but the return was too
good to say, you know, hey, we can't do this.
But again, a terrific player, very little maintenance, easy going,
smart plays in all situations and stuff. And you know,
those two guys along with Brandon will certainly be missed,
but it's an opportunity for us to now get some

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new players and turn this thing over a little bit
and hopefully move it forward.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
How hard is a human element these this time of
the year, Like just you've like Yanni and his family
are well established here. You know, we'll just start with him,
but just overall, like, how hard is it? And you've
got guys in that locker room to be looking over
their shoulder and yeah, and it's hard. You've been there,
you were a player, Hall Fame player, you know what
it's like? How hard of the is the human element
of this?

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean lying if I didn't say it wasn't tough.
So I mean, that's part of the job. It's it's
it's a tough part of the job, no question. I
dreaded making those phone calls to Tyanni and all over
that morning, you know, had the conversation with I always
want my players to hear that they've been traded from
me and not from somebody else. But you can't really
tell them where they're traded because it hasn't been official

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until the trade call goes through. So I had to
call him and tell them they were traded. I'll call
them back when you know, when I know where it is.
Yanni came in to pick up his equipment later that day,
made a point to coming up to my office and
we sat there and I had a conversation, which was great.
Really appreciated that. But those two guys are I mean,
all three of the guys we trade are special people,
and we thank them forether they did for our organization,

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the city of Seattle, and our fans, and we wish
them well. And now our job is to find replacements.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well, and you did them good. I mean it's not
like they're going to teams. I mean Janni's going back
home in a sense, and and all of our scores
a goal last night for a Stanley Cup contender, that's
pretty good.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah. No, I mean, I think if you only could
have picked one place, if you had to go, that
was that was the place. And Brandon similar. I mean,
you know, we played in Winnipeg before and they're sitting
right now as the best team in the National Hockey League.
So you know, hopefully they're playing each other for the
Stanley Cup Final down the road. It'd be great to
see them accomplished that.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
You mentioned the next few weeks would be tough, and
that's fine. I think people understand that it's a bigger
picture here. You're out of the playoffs for the most part,
not technically, but we don't know where we're at. But
looking ahead, so what do you want to see from
this team of the next four weeks? And at the
same time, I know a lot of people are like,
are we going to see Yanni Newman coming up or
guys like that? I know Coachella, you want those guys
to play, whether it's Coco or those guys. Do we

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have a chance to see some young guys coming up?
And what do you want to see from the team overall.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
So.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
The way the NHL rules work is once the trade
badline passes, you have four regular recalls that you can
call guys up from the miners unless you're in an
emergency situation. And by that I mean if we're less
than twelve healthy fourwards or less than six healthy d
or our goaltender, then we can call somebody up on emergency.
It doesn't count as one of those four. What we
did today was we in theory what they call papered

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John Hayden who we called up, and kel Flor who
we called up. So in theory we sent them down
and burned two recalls to call them back up. So
now we have two left other than the emergency situation.
So yes, our plan is to see some of those
young kids, you know, certainly Onnie Newman would be one
of them, and give them that opportunity to come up
and just get a taste for the NHL what it's like,

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and it gives us a read on kind of where
they're at and how close we think they are as
we move into next season and training camp right what
they have to work on in the summer to get
themselves best prepared for next season. So that's all part
of what we'll be doing is trying to get a
look at that. But for the same token, we've been
a lot of from guys in that locker room and
this is not an easy part of the season. But

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you know, we certainly expect them to continue to play hard,
and you know, we're constantly evaluate even the pieces we
have here, We're constantly evaluating him and if we have
to do something in the offseason to make us better,
then we'll do that. So this is not a time
just to relax. It's the time to keep pushing.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Tell people about Yanni Newman, and I haven't seen him play.
I mean, if you're a cracking fan, you should be
excited about this young guy.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
So he's a big six foot four winger. He last
year as a twenty year old, set of record in
the LEGA that had stood. League is the top league
in Finland. This record had stood for over forty years
and he broke it last year for the most goals
scored by a player twenty or younger in that league.
This year, all he's done is comintic Coachelli. He's got

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twenty six goals, right now, and he's leading the American
League in rookie goal scoring. I think he's fourth in
point scoring, and I think he's like fourth in the
entire league in goal scoring. So he's a big boy,
and he shoots it hard, he's got he's heck of
a release.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't want to put it in other things, but
you you look at a Miko Ranton in type shot
or a line of those are two finished players that
I think he in theory resembles. There was one the
other night he scored on a five on three. Oh
my god, he just he got everything into it and
it was a bomb and I think the goaltender was
hoping it didn't hit him. So you know, there's things
in his game we'll continue to work on. But just

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a terrific kid, big boy and uh and he can
shoot it, and he's he scores in different ways. He
can score from a distance, he's not afraid to get
to the frontal net. And the fleck Bucks all get
rebounds too, So that's exciting for us moving forward.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I enjoyed watching last night Mikey a Symont play with
Jacob Malons, So let's take those guys separately. Acy Mine
you got in that trade for Tampa. We'd be remiss
if we didn't talk about him. I think you saw
last night. I think we all saw last night what
you probably liked him. That's a that's a fourth line
flour that's going to go hit everything insight and he's
not afraid to shoot. The buck is shot. Liume's really
high too.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah. No, we were actually excited to see the two
of them play on the same line last day. It
was kind of kind of going back to training camp.
We have another one of our second round picks from
last year, Villeneuve. We had Malanson and Villain on the
same line in the rookie tournament and we were just
shaking our heads watching them go because they were just
hitting everything and it was exciting and fun for us
to see and something that we feel, you know, could
benefit us moving forward here as those two kids still progress.

(18:16):
But yeah, that's what you want. You want FORDI flying
guys to bring you energy, and they certainly can do that.
So we're excited to see what Easimont can do in
the last six weeks. I mean, he's on a restricted
free agent, so we'll get a chance to sort of
evaluate him and look at him and then getting Valve
the opportunity to come up and get a game with
so good. He's hearing that and we'll see where things go.
If we have some injuries, maybe there's a chance to

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call him back up on an emergency recall and get.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Him some more. So Mons was back down then, yeah, okay,
we sent him down. Okay to begin and then Berkeley Caton.
Everyone's excited in the Northwest. Easy to seecause he's playing
a Spokane one hundred plus points and he missed two
and a half three weeks with the World Juniors. This
guy he's only eighteen hockey age wise, and I think
he just turned nineteen overall. What's his what's his trajectory

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right now?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, he's he's on the he's on the steep incline
right now. I mean he tuk ole those hundred plus points.
He had an eighteen game point scoring streak. He had
at one point he had thirty two points I think
in a ten game stretch. So I loved this game
with the when he came in here in training camp
last year. I loved this game when he's playing the
World Juniors. I know it didn't result in a lot
of points for him, but I thought he did a

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lot of good things and thinks, well, he could have
had a lot of points there. Good good skater, elite
elite hockey sense for me, and that's that separates him.
He's got good hands and playing making vision ability to
do that, which is something that we think will benefit
him when he gets here. But based on what he's doing,
he's put himself on the radar that unless something definitely

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goes wrong in training camp, we see him being a
guy that can come in here and push, and with
a junior kid, you at least get nine games to
look at him before you have to make a decision.
So I fully would expect him pushing to be forcing
us to take a closer look at him when we
start to see the next year.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'd be remiss by to ask about Shane Wright. Like
I mentioned him at the start, I think if you're
a crack and fan watching Maddie and what he's done
at that line. But watching Shane Wright is just Canadian
media sometimes weird can be a little bit harsh on people,
and I remember, you start reading things, Oh, Shane Wright,
He's not doing this. If people watch Shaneright on a
nightly basis. Now is he getting better every night? He's
impacting the game. I think he's number one in the

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league since January first in terms of points for guys
less than fifty minutes a game, twenty one and under
things like that, all those things. That trajectory is really
high too.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, I know it's you know, and that one's it's
part of the process, right, you got a young kid,
it takes time to get him there. And that's you know,
when we look at our centers and Maddy ven here's
at twenty two and Shane Wright just turning twenty one,
these are two very young centers, and it's hard to
be a really good team in the league with very
young centers. You go back a couple of years, I
think Colorado was in that mix, of Edmonton was in
that mix. Some of these teams are now those centers

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have kind of matured a little bit and growing up
understanding the league, gotten stronger, and then that helps on
that projection. But you know, Shane from day one has
never complained even we put him back in junior, even
when we you know, had him in CV last year.
You know, there's been a plan with him on how
to bring him along. I think Jeff Tamalini and our
player development staff has done a real good job. Our

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coaches and the coachell have done a real good job
and our coaches here. So he's continued to get better
and we see him getting better and better if we
move forward.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Last thing for a couple of Cocos restricted free agents. Yep,
you would expect. I would assume to get that done
with him at some point. And what's the timeline there, Yeah,
use when the season's done, we jump into those things.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
So yeah, we we We've been happy with what he's done.
I think he likes it here. He's restricted, so we'll
get a deal done with him after the season.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Love it, Thank you so much, pleasure. You probably haven't
had a lot of sleep the last couple days.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's tough doing it from the West coast because you know,
everybody starts in the East coast like six in the morning,
so you're gonna start three in the morning out here. Yeah,
there's a nap in my future for sure.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Get a napping because we're gonna put you to work
on Sunday and to come to TV with us on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Morning, so I look forward to that.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
All right, there you go. That's wrong, Francis, gentlemanager the
Crackle Tay break, come back. Danny O'Neil coming up next.

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Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, Dang Apostrophe on Fridays here usually the one
o'clock hour. We had to bump them around little bit
because we had the general manager of the Seattle Tracking
and Ron France is sitting down on this right after
trade deadline. So Danny kind enough to move to a
one point thirty today. Hello, sir, how are you?

Speaker 4 (22:47):
I'm good, how are you ian?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
We've had another eventful week here in Seattle. Danny, I
know you wrote about it. One of the things some
guy named DK Metcalf, he's wants out.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
How are he wants to trade it?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
We've got a we've got a president of baseball opera
who doesn't want to shut his yaffer.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
We've got a hockey team making moves for the future.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Is a lot going on, A lot going on. Yeah,
and by the way, one forty five, what we'll we'll
kind of explain and kind of wrap up what Ron
Francis had to say. It's, yeah, the next if you're
a cracking fan, yeah, the next few weeks aren't going
to be, Oh, you're kind of playing out the string.
We've seen that Seattle Sports for a lot of teams
over the years. The real excitement will come, by the way,
in free agency, draft week and all that at the
end of Junior rely July. We'll get to that. That

(23:25):
one forty five, the DK Metcalf thing, there's so much
to it, Danny. The first thing was just the timing
of him, and you know, I don't even know how
this works anymore. I hate using the term his team
or his people, But like someone in the DK Metcalf
quotations here Camp leaks out twenty minutes after Tyler Lockett's release,

(23:45):
which was well orchestrated, well planned kind of a Hey,
let's celebrate Tyler Lockett. That leaks out. The DK wants
to get out of here, so the timing was crappy
and maybe it is time for him to go. What
was your read on DK, metcalf Well.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
The first thing I want to say is that it
is just proof that there's no good way to let
someone go, like you can have all the plans you want.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
About doing it in this Barris and I do believe
that the Seahawks really tried to do that with Tyler
Lockett deservedly so the guy had a great run as
a Shootthawk.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
All of those.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Plans can get wiped away with one group text or
however the hell the NFL insider conglomerate is informed of
things these days, Like I don't know if it's similar to.

Speaker 7 (24:29):
A transfer portal where all of a sudden, everybody's like, oh,
DK's name is in the trade request.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
But yeah, that came through.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
I think we all know and recognized that there has
been some uncertainty brewing really since DK's deal was redone last,
which was a year ago in which there was going
to be a huge salary cap.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Footprint that the term they used this final season.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
It made it unlikely or less likely that he would
lay out that final year of the contract. And now
we know that either the Seahawks have not offered him
an extension or the extension that they've offered him DK
considers to be a non starter, and now he wants
to go elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
And I honestly, I'm not gonna try and tell some
people that I know.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
What's gonna happen, because I'm not sure if anybody definitively knows.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
How this is going to play out, because there are
a lot of variables.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
I'm just fascinated by the thought of the the NFL
insider group chat Danny, be honest with you, Is Jordan
Schultz part of that group chatter? Has he been excluded?

Speaker 7 (25:41):
No, it appears he is now because I went and looked,
because I was like, I'm a big enough sick of that.
I'm like, Okay, he's got the big enough in with
DK that they get this first, and honest to God,
all of them, yes, Jordan Schult, Adam Schefter, Ian Rappaport,
Tom Pellisero, And I'm not throwing any shade on those guys,
because look, it's it's a desirable job and there.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
But it's all within a minute of them.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Because this on Twitter, You're like, how.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Exactly what is the logistics of this?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Is it a group chat?

Speaker 6 (26:12):
And if it is a group chat, is there anybody
in there trying to needle each other about it?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
You?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Rap Sheet and Jordan are they on the same group chat?

Speaker 6 (26:19):
Because it seems like what after what happened in Indianapolis,
they wouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, I'm equally I'm equally intrigued.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, it's a little world, man, what an absolute world
we live in. It's just nuts daddy O'Neil dang apostrophe
joining us here? All right? So what happens next? What's
your what's your crystal ball prediction? I think you had
a sixty six probability rate that he might get moved.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
Yeah, I think it's six sixty six point two percent,
And I determined that by pulling it out of my
hind parts.

Speaker 8 (26:50):
You're just duck down deep and decided.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
I think it's more likely than not.

Speaker 9 (26:56):
But the next step is really too.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's two fold.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
You have to find a team that will give DK
what he wants in terms of a contract, and then
you have to find a team that will also give
the Seahawks what they want in compensation.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
And I think it's the latter. It's the Seahawks end
of it that.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
Is going to be the trickier part. I think that's
going to end up being the harder part. And is
it going to take a first round pick to get
the deal done. I'm fairly certain that that's at least
what John Schmager is going to start with, but I'm
not sure if you'll get that for two cares.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, I think that's we had. Mike holmran on the
show on Wednesday when it all came down, and you know, Mike,
as we all know, went through a deal with a
diva wide receiver by the name of Joey Galloway back
in the day. And you know, Mike said, hey, listen,
at the end of the day, they may not get
rid of him this year. Like they Seattle kind of
holds all the cards. And the biggest thing is, unlike

(27:52):
Russell Wilson who had a no trade clause and could
dictate where he went, that's not the case with DK Metcalf.
He doesn't have that. They could send him to the
CFL if they want to I don't know. I mean,
it's it's it's so Mike thinks that they're still He
probably airs right around where you're at about thirty three
and a half percent chance, and maybe he stays.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, there there is a very reasonable shot that that
is how it comes out.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
And either everybody pretends that hey, we're just going to
go and we're all on the same page for this
one year and we're going to make the most of it,
and Seattle relies on the fact that DK is going
to have a huge incentive to put up a big
contract year, or DK ends up finding out by by
going this route that actually what Seattle was talking to

(28:38):
him is the best I think an extension with Seattle,
I don't see that as a possibility.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I think it's either a trade or he plays out
this final year. But yeah, there's there's a there's a
good chance that that's how this works out.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I had two things to wrap up with you. One
I'll at and Anders, can you pass along the news
from p Area today to Danny and Casey has a
scene and this, Yes, this goes under the category Danny
of we can't have nice things go ahead?

Speaker 10 (29:07):
And yeah, so apparently George Kirby has been shut down
indefinitely quote unquote for a short period of time, but
he hasn't been bouncing back from his starts in spring training.
It's all due to shoulder inflammation and they've done an MRI.
There's no structural damage yet, but still not a good
sign what you want from one of your aces in
spring training.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Danny, I would put two things out there as Andrews
said that that those are the most baseball terms I've
ever Those are just at shut down baseball term, and
hasn't bounced back like they wanted baseball term like those.
But we can't have nice things here, Danny.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
We just can't.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
No, we cannot, and it makes me more and more
angry about Okay, well, we wanted everything to go right.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
We needed things to go line up.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Maybe not perfectly, but close to perfect for it, and
things never go perfectly. But now man shoulders are ominous
and that what I like is that they say shut down,
which is a super extreme thing, and.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Then it's like for a short period of time, what does.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Can't speak for five days? Shut down.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
It's and then it's the waiting, and yeah, it sucks,
like there's just no other way because you immediately go.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
To worst case scenarios and yeah, shoulders are ominous, man.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I want to think it's just a very very much
signing on the on the errings on the side of precaution.
I just remember when Robbie Ray was shut down for
a couple of days out for the season, Like I
just and my mind goes there, because honestly, with baseball pitching,
it's not just a merror thing. Let's let's get past
that for a second. It's just when you hear that
about any big pitcher in baseball, the worst scenario always

(30:55):
comes to your mind one hundred percent. Doesn't matter who
it is, what team they're pitching for, or hell. I
think the Dodgers had everyone shut down last year at
one point, their pitching staff. They just happened to have
a pretty good offense and they could get through it
along the way off final thing for you, the Big
Ten basketball season with the new Big Ten, wraps up
this weekend. Oregon, or as they would say back where

(31:15):
you live in the East Coast, Oregon will come to
town tomorrow the take on Washington final game of the
Danny Sprinkle year number one. Washington's going to finish in
the last place in the Big Ten, eighteen out of eighteen.
Is there any way to paint a bright picture for
the future. I mean, things can flip in a hurry.
We know that. But how would you summarize year one
of Big Ten basketball for Washington.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Well, you certainly got an idea of it's a more
physical game and the adjustment that no matter how you
talk about the quick transfers and the ability to do it,
that there's going to be a running curve. I do
believe in Danny Sprinkles, and some of that goes back
to Montana State based, so I'm not I will also

(31:58):
say that grateful the boards agents gave him zero favors
by publicizing his his NILO. They gave him zero favors
by making him the marked man that he was. I
compare this to Bob benders first season, and I was

(32:19):
I was a freshman at the University of Washington.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
When that happened.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
I watched a young man who was a junior college
transfer named Sam Allen get his mouth caught in the
net while he was dunking a basketball around. We slowed
it down and replay and you could watch his upper
lips stretch to.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
The top of his head.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Had to have stitches after it came back from They
came back from that to quickly be relevant.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
So I'm actually overall encouraged by the direction under Danny Sprinkle,
even though this year.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
We could hit the short.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Do they extend his contracts like wise he did with
David Riley for some unknown reason.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
That's the.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
You know, like I'm saying, there's a cougar fang, go,
why do we extend him? Like they fell apart this season.
We just that's a very Bill Moose like move you
know what Ordie can't. We're just gonna extend you every year.
You don't want to extend you. I like Sprinkle. I
think Sprinkle. I mean what he did the Utah State
last year, same thing. I think you guys will be fine.
But the Osi War thing, there's a part of me,
except for the fact the kids got two million dollars
in his pocket, there's a part of me that felt
bad for him, Like there is a part of me

(33:22):
that felt bad for him, Like it's just it's it's
kind of cam Ward's first year at Wazoo. He was
one of the first nil guys in the country, and
you can't live up to some of those things sometimes
and makes it hard, all right, Danny tell people that
Dan apostrophe.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Well, you can log on at Danny O'Neil dot com
and next week you will see a copy of a
letter that I am writing to Jerry Depoto, Okay, trying
to clear things up.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
I saw I saw in an article in The Athletic
where he was quoted extensively, and he seems to think
that I and other.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Mariner fans want an apology for them not winning the
World Series in.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Nineteen seventy nine or eighty nine or ninety nine. I'm
gonna explain to him.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
That that's not what I actually want and what I
do actually want from him going forward.

Speaker 6 (34:01):
So you can walk on to Danny onneil dot com,
enter you're address, and you get a copy of my web.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Next week, when will that pop into my inboxes? I'm
now very much looking forward to this should should be
Monday morning. I've got a good start on.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
I might even do a video accompaniment that shows me
putting pen to paper and sticking my tongue out as
I thoughtfully write down all my my feelings and.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Emotion hear of beauty all right? Twelve done. Air of Beauty.
Thanks buddy, I'll talk to you next week. Lovey Dan.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's Danny O'Neil. We'll come back Daily power Play to
kind of wrap up the Ron Francis conversation. How about
some NFL draft convo? Rob rang Top of the hour
right here in nine three point three KDFM shoot twenty on.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
GOLDI Plus and I start, Please Crosby, this is.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
The Daily power Play Deep one now it's Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
J R FM. How do we make our team better?
The moves we made now give us more tools to
try and accomplish that. We're not not doing these moves
to save money or cut corners. We're trying to free up.
So we have the plans that the space to spend
next year and the draft capital will go do that.
There's other ways you can make your team better, but
this is a big part of that as well.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
ANDWS make sure we save that, oh yeah, to use
again and again. NHL trade deadline is coming, gone, cracking
end up making a couple moves along the way. Basically
as we kind of go through it. Yesterday we know
what or two days ago, we know what happened. Oliverd
Yorkstrand along with Jani Gorg traded to the Tampa Bay
Lightning Yorkstrand by the way, scoring last night for Tampa

(35:48):
primary assist Joanny Gordon. But good for them. We root
for those guys. And then and then that they were
traded yesterday two first round picks come. I mean, just
an absolute haul by Ron fran to send you clear
some cap space with the York trans contract. And then
today Brandon Tanne has expected was traded in. He sent
to Winnipeg for a second round pick. When it's all
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interview with us at the top of the show today.

(36:31):
We'll have that up on the podcast page later if
you want to go listen to that via the iHeartRadio app.
The new iHeartRadio app did a great job explaining in
depth what this does for Seattle. Basically, what it does
gives them a ton of opportunities to improve this team
snap of a finger. In this offseason, upcoming draft weekend,
which is a last weekend in June. Free agency starts

(36:51):
July first, they will be extremely active. They now have
ten picks in the first and second rounds of the
NHL Draft over the next three seasons. And Ron Francis
said to us a minute ago they will not use
all of those picks, but they will use him as
draft or as a trade capital, trade assets, free agent assets,

(37:12):
et cetera, a A the way, He's gonna be a fun,
exciting offseason. Jacob Malonson was great last night for Seattle,
hit everything in sight, but they had to send him
back down because the paperwork involved with the Calder Cup
playoffs and get back to the AHL. He'll be here
next year. I'd be stunned if he's not. I don't think. Oh,
he plays hard, plays hard. Mikey Asimont made his debut

(37:35):
at night. He's he's gonna be fine, and he's not
gonna be a twenty five thirty goal score, but he's
gonna hit everything in sight. He's gonna give what you want,
a little juicele jam out there, like kind of what
we expect. He exactly and Andrews, we heard it. Ron
Francis said it. I know you're looking at the text line.
I'm avoiding it right now. Please don't. Yeah, I don't

(37:56):
know how often we can say this over and over
and over again. This is not a cost cut. Ron
Francis just said, We're not just we're not cutting costs. No,
they are basically putting themselves in a position to be
very active in the offseason.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
Yeah, and like he's giving them more assets so they
can trade more to get those types of players that
people want to bring it and they want to bring
in aircraft carriers.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Now is not the time to do that.

Speaker 10 (38:22):
You've got to get as much as you can for
your impending free agents so that you can use that
once again to go get one in the summer.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
When I was down in the media scrum, even though
he said it to you also, Ian, but he reiterated
so many times that they do not plan to use
these draft picks all ten.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yes, you have a fifty man or a fifty person
roster limit that for the NHL, And when you have
all these picks, you can't use them all. They're already full.
The salary cap is coming to play again one last time.
Understand this. They are not saving money well, and it's

(39:00):
not just the money. It's like they're saving cap space. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (39:03):
And this isn't a plan like, oh, we're gonna be
good for ten years, like Jerry Depoto consistently says, and
like they want to win next year.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
They want to win next year. This is all we
differ it to win next year.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
We just ran into a guy by the name of
Eli Wiki a minute ago that runs the show and
I'm telling you right now a nope Fiber and that
guy's being that wants to see this team not in
the playoffs again next year. Yeah, it's just that's it's
gonna change. It will change, will be fine. I love
what they did. There's maybe one or two other guys
that winn to mind seeing them if they were able
to move and move. But now's all the time to

(39:33):
get into that. I thought Ron Francis and his staff
did a nice job to set that. They did a
nice job in a really bad season to set themselves
up to flip the switch and be significantly better next year.
Cracking by the way play tomorrow morning, nine to thirty
on ABC, not America's most not watch network that CBS

(39:54):
Gary Parrish. We are and there's Pucks and Pancakes here
at the thirty two Bar and Grill tomorrow. So if
you you are coming to Pucks and Pancakes, which is
turned into a huge, huge success, God place packs out.
They'll open up at eight thirty. You will want to
be here at eight thirty to get a seat for
that early game. And then on Sunday we have another
early game, high noon pregame show. They're doing all kinds

(40:17):
of brunch specials on Sunday here at thirty two Bar
and Grill, including Crab Benedict. Yeah, I will be stuck
in a studio because otherwise I would be loving to
be here. You know who, You know who's gonna beating
the Crab Benedict, Mike Beon. Mike Benton will beat that.
I really like the holiday sauce. All right, we're good,

(40:38):
we'll get out. We'll check in with Rob Brand coming
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Speaker 8 (40:53):
Gone.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
From the Kraken, they move Brandon Tanna today to the
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(41:14):
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the thirty two bar and grill and enjoy yourself some
pucks and pancakes tomorrow morning or a brunch on Sunday
for the watch parties. The Captain will be here on Sunday.
George Kirby shutdown shoulder sores.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Just let's up panic, except I'm kind of panicking.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Husky's Oregon here tomorrow, getting ready to wrap up the
Big ten basketball season. NFL Draft is around the corner.
We are getting so close. What does that mean? Time
to talk to our buddy Rob rang.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
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It's time for Ian's weekly visit with Rob Rang from
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Speaker 1 (41:57):
All right, welcome back in sports Radia nine three point
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You promised him we would give a couple of weeks off.
By the way, I'm at the thirty two Bar and
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you here on your home for the Kraken. Of course, busy,
busy trade deadline for Seattle. But we're gonna talk a
little football and he's back, Rob Rang. This is when

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we really start getting into it, Rob Rang from Fox
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He is our draft guru. This is this is when
we use and abuse Rob Rang for the next what
seventy five days or so until the draft. Here we go, sir,
how are you?

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I'm doing very well and it's good to be talking
with you a little bit more about the football here.
I'm excited to break down this twenty twenty five draft class.

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now when we preview the NFL Draft, Rob big news

(43:48):
this week for the Seahawks, a team that you know well,
you cover well with our friend corbyt on the podcast
and so forth. Just before I get into the draft,
and we're gonna just kind of do a basic overview
today and then we'll get into a specific position groups
and names over the next few weeks. But just as
it relates today, what was your reaction when you heard
the news that dk Metcalf wants to be traded and
he may no longer be here as it relates to

(44:10):
the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Yeah, disappointing news, I think just because of the fact
that I think that Wednesday was going to be Tyler
Locke's day, and so I thought that that again disappointing
was is a word I think that you can use
to describe it, but also at the same time not surprising.
We knew that he had one more year left on
his contract. We knew that that he was a player that,

(44:34):
you know, for his own fault or anybody else's fault,
has not lived up to so all the hype, all
the talent in which he possesses. I do think that
if Seattle does decide to trade him, and of course
the news is that that they have allowed him, you know,
and his representatives to explore some trade options. I know

(44:56):
the Josh Schider is gonna be working the phones.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
He is.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
You can say what you will, John Shier. He certainly
has not been afraid of making the bold move. I'll
say this, DK Metcalf is the most gifted wide receiver
potentially available, whether it be in free agency, whether it
being traded, whether it be in the twenty twenty five
draft class. So if the reports are correct, Sial is
seeking a first and third round selection for DK Metcalf.

(45:23):
I understand why people think that that's shooting for the moon.
I also think that, you know, Seal is going to
be very much expecting at minimum a first round section
or a second and a extra pick, or a second
round pick and a veteran player. So I disappointed the
news because I think the DK Metcalf is an unbelievable
talent and a young one still at that. But at

(45:45):
the same time, I also think that at Sial is
in a position of authority here because there is an
awful lot of compensation that could get if they were
to trade number fourteen.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
It is our friend Rob rank foxsports dot Com appreciate
him jumping on with us. Okay, like I said, this
is a way we do it with the draft as
it relates to Rob. Well, we'll spend the next few
weeks on these fridays going through and starting going position
group by position group and we kind of break down.
And here's why I love having Rob on because if
you're new, and a lot of you guys have been

(46:16):
listening for fifteen years and sixteen years, seventeen years since
Rob and I first started doing this together, but for
folks that a little bit new, the great thing about
having Rob on is this is what he does for
a living, but he also really goes Seahawks specific and
Seahawks centric, both in the fall and in the spring
as well when we can. Like you, Rob knows the
Seahawks scouting staff, he knows the personnel folks, he knows

(46:39):
what they're looking for. So when we talk about players,
they're usually guys that fit what Rob knows that the
Seahawks want. And we'll do that give you some names
over the next few weeks. But let me go general,
just general stuff. First, Combine has come and gone. What
were the big takeaways I don't want to do the
cliche of winners and losers, but what were the big

(46:59):
takeaways lines, things that you kind of that caught your
attention coming out of the combine.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Well, I think, for one, and that there there are
a number of very exciting athletic talents in this draft class. Unfortunately,
some of the guys who worked out the best play
much less consistently than you would hope. And of course
one of the things that we see a year in
and yet route is the top quarterbacks opt not to

(47:25):
work out. That of course was the case here with
Shador Sanders and and Kim Ward of course deciding not
to throw. So that's kind of same old, same old.
I think there's an awful lot of speculation and conjecture
as to who is going to go where, and there's
all these folks out there who are just convinced that,

(47:45):
you know, the one guy's going to go here, and
one guy's going to go there, another guy's going to fall.
I would just ask people to kind of look back
a year's past when we had, you know, right around
this time of the year, we heard that Will Levis
was going to be the number one overall selection over
Bryce Young, and CJ. Stroud and things like that. So
just you know, take the combine and the athletic testing

(48:06):
with a grain of salt. Ultimately it is only five
or ten percent of the actual evaluation that teams do
is based on the athletic testing at the combine. Really,
this is kind of leuis I like to describe as
a neat and potatoes type of a draftee. And there
there is some quality talented quarterback and wide receiver. But
after six quarterbacks went in the top twelve a year ago,

(48:30):
seven wide receivers the most popular position in the first
round a year ago, then the cupboard's pretty bare at
those two positions.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
This year.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
The talent really is along the offensive and defensive lines.
And as you mentioned before, and the fact that I've
just been a local Seattle area resident my entire life,
and do you feel like I have a decent feel
of the pulse of the Seahawks. I think that this
is a draft that sets up very nicely for them, because,
of course we all know the lion scrimmage has been
an issue for the Seahawks for the last several years.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Okay, I'm gonna get back the offensive lines. Second, I said,
we're gonna talk about specific players over the next few weeks.
Two players that won't be there. I don't think when
Seattle picks at eighteen, and John Schneider's never traded up
in the draft, so it's pretty pretty safe to say
that that's not going to be part of who they're
going to look at. The two top quarterbacks should Doer,
Sanders and Cammore didn't throw at the combine. They'll throw

(49:18):
out their pro days. Let me just those two guys.
I'm gonna ask you. You mentioned the draft class of
quarterbacks from two years ago with Levis and c. J.
Stroud and Bryce Young and that group. Then last year
we had this historic that six guys go and what
was the top ten, twelve whatever it was by the
time Penis got picked. Those six guys. I've like with Penis,

(49:40):
no Knicks is the last guy, right. But I heard
a lot of people say this, but I want to
get it from you. Is it safe to say that
neither one of Ward or should Do or Sanders would
have been above any of the guys picked in the
first round last year? In other words, they would have
been quarterbacks seven and eight in whatever order.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
So yes, you know.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
And that's the thing is that, look, Bonnicks is a
player that I know. I talked to some NFL teams
out there, the fact that Bonnicks was solidly a second
round pick, but he was a beautiful fit for Sean
Payton's offense in Denver, and you know the proof to
h he proved how well that he played this past season.
So I do believe that Schdear Sanders and cam Ward
also can come into the NFL and be successful. But

(50:21):
there are some limitations there. With Chear Sanders, you don't
see the elite arm talent, and he's not the athletes
that his father, of course, Dion Sanders was. He is
more of a pocket passer and frankly, I think fits
in very nicely in Clint Kubak's version of the West
Coast offense if he were available to the Seahawks at
number eighteen. Overall, I don't know that he has the

(50:41):
leadership traits that John Schneider is always prioritized, but still
from a schematic standpoint and just his style of play,
I think there's an awful lot of matches there with
the Seahawks, and then with cam Ward of course, a
lot of Wazu fans out there, and you know, University
of Miami incarnate wood back in the day of course
as well, just to see cam Ward's ascent as a

(51:03):
prospect has been one of the real storylines of this
draft class. Ian He's got a much quicker release, he's
got a stronger arm, he's a bigger player, he's a
faster player. He's great. I thought should have worked out
the combine, just you know, just to reiterate that he
is a better physical talent than Shudor Sanders already other
quarterback in this draft class. But at the same time,
there also is an awful lot of kind of improvisational

(51:26):
play both good and bad with him that isn't going
to be a fit for every single offense. And of
course the fact that he has bounced around from program
to program, there are some out there who have some
questions about his leadership ability as well. So yes, I
do believe that had those two quarterbacks have been available
in last year's draft, and we would be talking about
him as the seventh and eighth quarterbacks off the board

(51:48):
at the absolute.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
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do you go to that you go to two different
one now?

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Yeah, I definitely used to go to the one Hawks
Prairie now and hitting up that one next to the
Tumblewater Airport.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
It is fantastic, beautiful, all right. I remember hearing this
when I first got to town and Mike Hongren and
and and then especially when we have Mike, when we
started having Mike on the radio, and he'd always tell
he tell us this, and it's become a more popular
thing that you hear during draft season. You probably told
me this way back in the day too as well.
There's thirty two first round draft picks. Thirty two players

(52:37):
will get drafted in the first round, but most of
the time most teams don't have guys that all have
there's they don't have thirty two guys that have first
round grades on them. In fact, that's why we saw
Schneider trade out of the first round and trade down
so often for so many years as the Seahawks GM
and running that draft aid board. I've heard this year

(52:58):
it's ten welves give or take in terms of actual
guys that have a first round grade. What do you think?
What do you think the number is closer to?

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Yeah, I think it's fifteen to seventeen right around there.
You know. I for me, I always look at who
are the blue chip guys, and to me, it's basically
four players that are true blue chip.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Rob How many were there last year?

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah? Last year, you guy include most of those quarterbacks
and then of course some of the other elite players
that went off the top of the of the board
as well as far as those wide receivers, the Marvin
Harrison juniors, the Elik neighbor types. I could you know,
rattle off ten or twelve guys that that I thought
were true blue chip caliber players that could turn around
a franchise. You know, this year again the you know,

(53:43):
I think that there's four. I think that you have
you start off the conversation with the uh, the dual
threat guy that we talked about all year long in
Travis Hunter at Colorado, whether he's a cornerback, whether he's
a wide receivers, I told you, you know, way back
in September, and he'd be my number one wide receiver
in this class, my number one cornerback in this class.
I do believe that he can play both positions. He

(54:04):
should go in the top two. The only reason you
shouldn't go number one is because Abdual car the edge
rusher for Penn State, is just that explosive and he
plays them more premium position. So certainly got to start
off the conversation with those two. The Boys State running
back Ashton gent who of course we talked about all
year long as well, and then Tyler Warren, a tight

(54:25):
end from ten State. To me, those four players would
deservedly go in the top ten of just about any
draft class. The only reason why maybe a player like
a Tyler Warre in might drop is because this is
a pretty solid tight end group and player like an
Abdual Carter could slip a little bit because he's got
a foot injury. The teams want to kick out. Some
teams are a little bit concerned about, you know, with

(54:46):
Travis Hunter, about where exactly do you play? He's only
one hundred and eighty pounds, you know, so there you
can knock holes in them, but when you watch them
on tape, they are the best players in this draft class.
And so again, to me, this is a class that
I characterize this weak. And maybe that's being a little
bit unfair, but I just mean that it is not
the caliber of front line talent that we've grown accustomed

(55:10):
to in the NFL draft.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Rob ran Jonis, Cursia Feli's pizza. Okay, not the hot
the top front line. But this is why we love
having you on because Dave Tube and Day three picks,
those are ones that can really make or bake or
break a franchise. Which position groups have the greatest depth
this year?

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Oh, no question about defensive tackle and running back. Those
two positions are really really strong. I mean, I've been
as you alluded too early, and you had been doing
this together for I don't know fifteen sixteen, twenty years
and a ways back to the old Northwest College, you
know in Kerklind and you know, and this these classes
at running back and defensive line really you know, not

(55:50):
necessarily the edge rushers, the stand up guys are then
sit more in Mike mcdog's scheme, but like true defensive
end defensive tackle kind of guys, you can move up
and down. Those two classes are spied. Wide receiver is
actually pretty deep. There's a lot of Day two, Day three,
early middle round kind of Day three guys that I
think can come in and be very good contributors to

(56:11):
the NFL. I just don't know if any of them
are true number one. So for all of those people
out there for examples about the DK Metcalf, for a moment,
I just want to trade him off. Then again, you
got to be careful because I don't know if you're
going to be able to get a guy that is
going to strike fear in the hearts of defensive coordinators
the way that DK Metcalf can. However, I do think
that there are a number of guys who are going

(56:32):
to be a fix in Kink Kubiak's offense. That if
CIL obviously you're going to have to be replacing Tyler
Lockett and perhaps be replacing DK metcalfs that the Seahawk
fans should feel confident if there is enough talent the
wide receiver position to be able to fill those concerns.
There are also with some quality Day two, Day three
early early quarterback talents that are available. And then the

(56:55):
offensive lines not an elite class of tackles. There's a
lot of very good call of tackles that have shorter
arms that are gonna slide inside to guard in the NFL.
So again, this is the class that really does match
up pretty well with needs.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you about the offensive line,
so like, and you know, tackles always go very early,
and that's that's just kind of way the NFL works.
Seahawks should be knock on wood set at the tackle position. Finally,
a healthy able Lucas and Charles Cross are expecting to
probably see something with his contract with the fifth year
option get rolled over. So those guys are they're good there.

(57:29):
We all know they need massive help on the inside.
So there should be enough guys that they can pick
and choose from in the interior of the offensive line,
center and the guards on Day two and Day three.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
I believe so. And I'm not so convinced that it's
a slam dunk that Seale is going to be investing
either in free agency or early in the draft on
a guard. I know that's what Seahawks fans want, you know,
but at the same time, considering the fact that Seattle
has invested seven draft picks the last three years along
the offensive line that ties for the most in all

(58:03):
of the NFL. I mean, I think John Schneider has
you know, kind of you know, uh, kind of mentioned
this in the past, and without knocking the previous head
or previous coaching staff, I think that he believes the
coaching staff that is now coming in has the experience
to kind of unlock the potential of you know, whether

(58:24):
it be a Christian Haynes or a Stella Lallamea, a
Jayden Sundel or Ola Timmy in the interior, I think
if there is a belief inside that building that these
are starting calendar players, and you know, you look at
some of the players that Seatles drafted the pass along
on the offensive line that maybe weren't successful here, but
they wound up going elsewhere and becoming starters and being

(58:46):
solid football players. That Ethan Posk being start for Cleveland
Browns at center, or James Carpenter or Jermaina Fetti.

Speaker 8 (58:52):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
You know, there's a number of players the Seahawks drafted
weren't very successful here blocking for r Wilson who have
been you know, horrible to try to block for him,
just knowing how he ran around out there.

Speaker 8 (59:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
And then some guys that were drafted here in the
last year or two that struggled. But I think that
Seattle feels that they could be better now. All that said,
if a Tyler Booker from Alabama, for example, is a
day about number eighteen. Overall, to me, he is as
much of a plug and play type of a guard
as you're ever going to see. And not only in
terms of his physical size six five twenty pounds and

(59:28):
just the long alarms, the strong hands and the level
of competition, the sec and all of that kind of stuff.
It's also who he is as a as a player
in the locker room and as a leader. So he
is the type of guy. This is a Seattle offensive line. Frankly,
I think that needs a guy who can be that
kind of alpha dog. And so there are some count

(59:48):
there are some players in this draft class as well
as a free agency. I think the guard class and
free agency is one of the strengths of free agency
this year. So again I do feel stronger that Seatle
is going to have an proved offensive line next year.
It just may be some more familiar names for Seahawk champs.
It might be expecting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Well, over the next few weeks, we're gonna break them
all down. We'll start with the I don't know. Next
week we'll start with either receiver or offensive line. I
haven't decided. You and I can talk next week and
figure out which route we want to go down, because
that's those are the ones, and it is interesting. I
tend to agree with you. I think if nothing else
over the years, expect the unexpected. With John Schneider, right,
I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon. It just

(01:00:28):
and it feels like this could be a year they
trade down. It sounds like Rob as well. It feels
like very much like a year that they could trade
down in that first round if need be then and
acquire more Day two picks, maybe even more Day two
and Day three picks. Rob. It feels like that might
be where the depth of this is what you're telling me,
The depth of this of this draft class is Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Again, I don't think if there's the top end talent,
but I really do like the players basically from about
twenty eighteen were worked. But I mean from eighteen to
step five or so. That to me is really the
power of this draft, and I would like to have
as mini draft picks there as you possibly can have.
I think that there's several quality stars you know, that

(01:01:11):
are going to be selected. There aren't necessarily a future
all pros. But you look at the teams that wind
up winning the Super Bowls, you know consistently they are
teams that have maybe a superstar here or there, but
ultimately are just a very you know, quality team all around.
That to me is a draft bess. You can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Great stuff, sir, Rob Rang, Fox sports dot com. And
you may see him down at that tumwater Ferrelli's location
wearing some British Columbia Lions gear. If you see a
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chance that's our guy, Rob Rang down there enjoying the
fine fair at Ferrelli's Pizza Ferrelli's Pizza dot Com. Next

(01:01:49):
week we get down in dirty, so we start talking names.
We'll do that next.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Friday, all right, looking forward to it as always in that.

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Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Over the back Sports Rade night, I almost heard the
voice of Tim Booth over these airways. That would have
been big trouble. That would that would have that would
have bled over into the radio. That would have been
that I don't want to see you lose your job.
He now, he know, Hey, now might end up working
here with with Baker who knows.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Yeah, someday, someday we'll have a some sort of you
know what what comes first? Peace with Russian Ukraine or
kJ Aaron the times, I don't know. That's a tough one.
When do we When I'll have to ask just that
she'll have some positive say you know.

Speaker 10 (01:03:00):
It's also really funny is hearing Jess's commercial about the
uh circa Las Vegas.

Speaker 9 (01:03:06):
For yes will be there, Yeah, and then hearing you
say tournament like eight times.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
We have people texted in about that too, and I
thought they were gonna correct me, and I'm like, I
will not say it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Think happens first a peace treaty between the Seattle Times
and kJ R or Ukraine and Russia.

Speaker 8 (01:03:24):
I think a peace treaty between the Seattle Times and
kJ R, if I have anything to do with it.
I've read nothing to do with Russia and Ukraine, and
I have something that can be done.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
There see no progress on that front.

Speaker 8 (01:03:36):
Well, I haven't made I haven't I haven't tried.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
In fact, I've seen nothing on either side. It gives
me hopefully.

Speaker 9 (01:03:41):
Now you just challenged me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
There you go? I did there you go? Because Tim
Booth we almost heard Tim's boost voice in the background,
did not.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
I think that it's far beyond time. That severance happened
before my time here. And I like to be a
mover and a shakers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
The weird thing is is, well they were most mad
at I don't even hear anymore exactly. So what do
you go on back there? Anders? I hear all kinds
of stuff in the background. What are you doing? It's
a Friday, All hell's broken loose on this.

Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
I just made a declarative statement about a beast treaty
that I would like to enact.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
What do you think it would happen if Booth just
jumped on with this right now, just put a headset on.
He just got the job.

Speaker 8 (01:04:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Oh I let me just say this. One of the
reasons I subscribe to the Seattle Times, in case anybody's listening,
is because Tim Booth is now there. That's why the
great sports writing I get from my guy that does hockey, baseball,
all things sports, big soccer guy too. Let's go Tim, Yeah,
sig soccer guy. I'm hurt Sounders tomorrow yes, shaking his

(01:04:55):
head now. Oh no, but you know where I can
read about the Sounders Emerald City Spectrum. Oh hey, that's
with my guy Anderson Hurst.

Speaker 9 (01:05:05):
Yes, yes, yes, voyage hasn't heard.

Speaker 10 (01:05:09):
It's been a week of news here in Seattle sports.
So I kind of figured I would bury the lead
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
I'm happy for you boffers doing stuff for those guys
to ye.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
Yeah, got a good team so far. Corbyn's building something
pretty special.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
It seems like I would agree. I would agree, all right.
Should we get the uh? Should we get the the.

Speaker 9 (01:05:29):
I don't know if you want to look at the
text music, but we can, all right, look at the
text live.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
People are dumb. People are ask about Jackson Dart. I
will down the road we today was more with RANG,
was just more what we're just going general, fake picture,
bigger picture stuff. We're gonna do that, I think. Yeah,
we'll start doing with both RANG and co Cell starting
next week. We'll go position group by position group and
specific names as it relates to Seattle. So all that

(01:05:54):
stuff we'll get to. I know I'll be lasking about
specific guys, but we'll get to that next week. All right,
So we'll do They should have tried to move Andre
and Maddie. Andrea hasn't done a damn thing. Maddie won't
do a damn thing in the future. Let me address
half of that, Okay, Maddie Benier is ain't going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
Hey, that and contracts come into play in the NHL YEP,
great interview with Ron Frances I love to hear in
his voice how much he wants to win. I don't
think I can emphasize that not everyone is done on
the text line, Yeah, I don't think I can emphasize
that enough. That this this group, this ownership group, all

(01:06:36):
the way down through everybody. They they winning is paramount.
It's what they need and have to do. They are
not like a long term plan they want to win now. Yeah,
I if they're not in either in the playoff position
a year from now or in the playoff race firmly

(01:06:56):
in the race to the point that when I say firmly,
like in the race to the point of being there
like one or two points out in a good situation,
it's because it will be because something catastrophic has happened.
And I think Ron did a good job of explaining,
you know, and I forget about it, like Vin's done
this a ton of times. That's a huge piece of
the puzzle. Your team's built on your defense. Jordan Everly

(01:07:19):
missing forty games, crushing glow those Yanni Gord, Yeah he's
traded now, but Yanni, like you start adding up the
man games lost between those three guys who are integral parts.
When we think about when this team went to the
playoffs two years ago, those three guys were huge, huge contributors.
If they're not in next year's because a lot of
stuff's have they will be aggressive in the offseason on

(01:07:41):
the way. Let's see, there's people mad about how it's
gonna be the last few weeks, because I think Ron
did a good job of addressing that. He listen, Nolan's
selling you a bill of goods here. He said it himself.
It's gonna be a tough few weeks. Just this, Yeah,
it's gonna be a tough few weeks. If you're a
crack and fan, you're sent level should amp up with

(01:08:02):
draft free agency weekend because that's when you're gonna see
a roster overhaul and a team take that next step.
And yeah, completely agree. That's where my excitement comes.

Speaker 10 (01:08:11):
And I think that can be lost in everything because
you're losing these players that are good players, that have
been contributors for your team, and your team will be
probably worse for the rest of this season, but that
is in order to go and make your team that
much better in the summer, and I think they're giving
themselves the tools to do that.

Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
I completely agree as soon as you emphasize the what
they're going to use those draft picks for so much
and it's not what you would call it an overhaul, yes,
but not a rebuild. It's not down to the studs.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
Quinn says are shoulder inflammation. Yeah, that's why you don't
blank on your fan base with pushing ifs, butts, candies
and nuts under counting on another full one sixty two
of a healthy rotation. Blanking invests in your infrastructure not
that hard, it'll payoff in spades.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:09:03):
Yeah, imagine if they had traded Luis Castillo for a middling.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Bat now yeah, uh, he's taking a hold of here. No, Ian,
it isn't all right to have the next two weeks
to be bad. I listen, I'm not the one paying
the money. You are, so I can't tell nobody can
tell anybody how to fan. The reality is are out
of the playoffs. So yeah, they they they took a

(01:09:28):
bunch of guys off the roster that would have given
them a better chance to win.

Speaker 10 (01:09:33):
And if they had kept those guys, it's not like
they're magically making a run. This is the team that
brought you to this point.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
That's good, points, that's great, exactly. You know, they just
just wasn't there. Listen, if you want to look at
reasons why, and you want to point fingers, I mean
the Grubauer part is a huge you mean, he's he's
has at ten games, he's ten games below five hundred
eight sixty six save percentage. I mean they haven't won
a big game in back to back. Yet there's a

(01:09:58):
lot of reasons why those things weren't all gonna change overnight.
And Joey's wearing down, like Joey looks like he's tired.
So it's it's it's rough, it's rough. Okay, I'm done
with the negativity today.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
I just.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
I'm done. I'm gonna lose this. I'm hitting little red
X in the top corner. I did that earlier in
Cricket Interaction Planner Planner text messages sent to four nine
four or five to one. Boom gone for the weekend,
Just like that. There we go, out of office, just
like that, out of office. I don't need that, that negativity.

(01:10:36):
I don't need shoulder inflammation, inflammation or being shut down.

Speaker 9 (01:10:40):
You know who will have to deal with that for
the next three hours, four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
I'll tell you right now, someone should shut him down. Uh,
don't say that. We'll have to stay on the air.
I'm out of here. Soft He's gonna join us next
already up and things after the week Uh Dave Softy
mall or joins us right now. Hello, sir, how are

(01:11:05):
you yo?

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Yoh?

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Are we live? Are we live? And I can't hear him?
You can and and all right, don't play with him,
don't worry. Can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (01:11:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
I know I can't. I wish I could. Who is that?
I can't hear you?

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:11:27):
He's walking out of him he's playing the bit?

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Has he been shut down to? Yeah? Just like George Kirby,
he's got shut down for five days general soreness, general,
he's generally all the time? He back? Is he back?

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Hello? Can you hear us?

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
We thought maybe like George Kirby, you got shut down
for general? Walked out of the room again?

Speaker 9 (01:11:52):
Wait save for that Joe from when he pops into
the studio again.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
You know, while I'm here, steps.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Have you been?

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Did you get shut down to? If it's like George?
Look at me getting you guys? There? Is I fooled you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Where are you guys at? For God's sakes, we are
at the thirty two Bar and Grill? Were you there
on Wednesday? I was there Monday?

Speaker 6 (01:12:18):
God?

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Yeah? What is with you?

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
And bars? Man? You got something to tell us about? Well?
I like to have lunch, okay, really good lunch here,
your friend.

Speaker 11 (01:12:27):
That's why you're there because you like to have a
cobb salad.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
You know what your your friend, your friend, Mick McCue
said Ian anytime. He didn't say that to me.

Speaker 11 (01:12:36):
No, it's not fair, not guye.

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
I told Mick this once before. I said, Mick, if
you say that, guess what I'm gonna take you up
on it. Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (01:12:44):
Like there's certain guys that they say stuff and they
just kind of say it in passing and they never
really think he'll take it up on it. But if
Mick McCue says, come for lunch and come for a beer,
and come for a cocktail and do the show, You're like, Okay,
what is he reopening FX Forcrory's.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
That's what I want to know that's gonna happen. I
don't know, man, I've heard rumors. Is he still here?
Ask him, Kenny?

Speaker 8 (01:13:10):
I mean he is around all the time.

Speaker 12 (01:13:12):
This is what this is what you call melanin radio
on a Friday afternoon. Yeah, that's exactly what this is.
This is Ian Ferns counting down the clock until two fifty.
You know, you know my buddy Kenny Moore Yard out
here too. He's been like him and joint at the hip.
It's the calf mafia.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
There you go. It's it's just it's a calf. I'm
gonna put you on there for a second.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
No, you can't hear you. Yeah, just relaxed. Well, I
am very relaxed. No, you're not. Okay, you're right? Can
you can you hear Softy? Kenny testing one too?

Speaker 11 (01:13:40):
There you go, Kenny?

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
How are you man?

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Softy? How are you good?

Speaker 8 (01:13:43):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (01:13:43):
I'm hearing rumors that the return of f X McCrory's
is imminent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Oh my god, accurate mixic on for the day. I
knew there was something going on. I knew you're passing
the buck. There's something going on. Hey. This is what
you people do in this industry.

Speaker 12 (01:14:02):
You shut him down, you piss everybody off, you break
our hearts, and.

Speaker 11 (01:14:05):
Then you bring it all back and get paper off
fired up again.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
It's a great business. Hey, listen, Softy, don't upset my
fellow odell alum Kenny.

Speaker 12 (01:14:17):
While you're at it, can you bring back Farrells and
Flaky Jake's and jeffco while you're at it?

Speaker 11 (01:14:21):
Place and chuck there you get done. There's a Chuck
Chese and Tacoma.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Yes, how about how.

Speaker 12 (01:14:27):
About hearing for more Godfather's Pizza joints and uh what else?

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
What else do we need?

Speaker 11 (01:14:34):
There's a Shaky's and renting that just shut down.

Speaker 13 (01:14:36):
Got to bring that back yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I'm old.

Speaker 11 (01:14:41):
Hey Kenny, you want to see what old looks like.
Look at the guy next to you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Man, Come on, Terry, Ryan just left.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
He went.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
You know, we have a new nickname for Ian Kenny.
We call him the Mummy.

Speaker 11 (01:14:51):
To be honest with you, Yeah, that just went down
the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Hey, No, he's just old.

Speaker 4 (01:14:56):
His dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Softy is just sad because you know what, what do
you guys always say, come out here any time I'm
pissed off that I haven't gotten the same invitation.

Speaker 13 (01:15:02):
If you miss has gotten, Softy, You're always welcome. You
see that he always welcome, always welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
There you go, You come out here any time, Softy say.

Speaker 12 (01:15:09):
What I think you guys should do is just start
a chain of these hockey bars like he got the
thirty two bar and grill right like next up after
the thirty two bar and grill, thirty three bar and grill.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
You just say that, you don't laugh, you laugh. It
is a marketing genius encourage them after that the thirty
four see there you go, and then the thirty s
all the.

Speaker 12 (01:15:33):
Way, all the way, keep going until you get to
the forty one bar and grill.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Yeah, that's what you get. That's what you get.

Speaker 12 (01:15:43):
Or you could have some real fun if you really
wanted to and you were really kind of you know,
I don't know. We're going to push the envelope and
stop at the sixty nine bar and grill.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
See he you know what you know why Kenny can't
do that. He's a professional. That's why he's got to
deal with like wiki every day.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Yeah, yes, mister Todd rolls in here every day. He's
still in the office. I got Chenny, what's that like?
By the way, honestly tell us about.

Speaker 11 (01:16:07):
That best guy in the world to work tell us
the real story.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Softy's like got him on the text now to guess
guess what I'm hearing right now. Kenny's like, cut me
off the air. Hey, hey, get for one second, Softy,
let's give since since you were out we're having fun
busting Katy's balls and having fun here. What's coming to
tell people? What they got coming up? This weekend?

Speaker 13 (01:16:27):
Here So tomorrow Pucks and Pancakes eight thirty am. We're
open the doors. Yeah, we fill quickly, yep, so get
here early. And then Sunday, Sunday we're going to do
a little brunch for the game. Okay, have some specials,
little crab, Benedict, little toast.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Do you let Betton in for that?

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
We do?

Speaker 12 (01:16:46):
He will be here on Sunday, Kenny, Honestly, I know
you don't want to criticize Tod because he's your boss,
But how big of a pain.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Of the asses being with us? Be? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
I love Mike too.

Speaker 11 (01:17:00):
Mike is great the pucks and pancakes. Is that like
puck sized pancakes that you guys are making?

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
They're twice the size of pucks?

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Okay, all right, I heard, yeah, got you. It just
sounded good. I'm a big fan of a big good pancake. Man,
it's just a literation, Softy, you'll explain what that means.
How big is your grill?

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
By the way, is your is your is your grill
pretty damn big?

Speaker 8 (01:17:19):
Like?

Speaker 11 (01:17:19):
Could I get Can I get like an Uncle Buck
sized pancake for you?

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
Anything?

Speaker 8 (01:17:24):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
When's when are you coming out here?

Speaker 11 (01:17:25):
To do a show, softly, whenever I get invited.

Speaker 13 (01:17:28):
Open invitation, let me know when days Now, this is
all I got.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
There you go all right, kitty, thanks you all right, thanks?
Thanks off there go about here, you go anywhere? Yeah,
So get out here early tomorrow for pucks and pancakes
nine to thirty. Face off. So he's got a call.
He's gonna call us buddies here. Do you hear me
in the radio? Now you know what he's doing. He's
going on. He's walking the light Wiki's office right now.
I apologize. I'm sorry. He need to air you out.
World's best boss. He's walking into light Wiki's office. Hey,

(01:17:54):
softy with busting my chops. I I really, I really
like on walks through here.

Speaker 12 (01:18:01):
Hey, everybody, that's exactly he mister saft.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Yet he's never ever, ever, never ever.

Speaker 11 (01:18:10):
By the way, when I first met him was a
twenty years ago, whenever he got hired.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
At least that long. I mean, he looks exactly the same.
I know, he is an age to day. He looked
like he was sixty when he was forty.

Speaker 12 (01:18:21):
Correct, He's looked like he was one hundred years old
for the last twenty years. Oh god, we kid because
we love we love him. Yeah, he's the best. He
is on the Mount Rushmore. I would say he's in
the Mount Rushmore A sports figures in Seattle, coaches, players, executives, whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Man.

Speaker 11 (01:18:38):
I mean who's oh yeah, who's had a bigger impact
on this city sports.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Scene than that guy? I mean Paul Allen? Yeah, when
they coming, I guess yeah, he hired him so and
he hired and he hired Todd So yeah, uh are
you doing show today what he does?

Speaker 8 (01:18:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
I'm taking off, Okay, see you later. We're going to
Fox Sports Radio stick around and.

Speaker 12 (01:18:57):
Anders from Emerald City. Ama, what's the name with a
website you're working for? In tivin Spectrum? Gotcha, he'll be
taken over. He's going to go three to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
You know what. Dick and I are out of here.
That's that's fine. I'm done. I got nothing more to offer, nothing,
be something to listen to when I'm driving home.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
I love it all right, that's it. Jeed Fish is
on a four o'clock today. Never heard of him? Yeah,
hemling five o'clock today, definitely never heard. Stephen A. Smith
has pissed off on Lebron Lebron's mad at him? Really, yeah,
did you hear about that? Yeah? No, I listened. I
listened to the show from ten to one today.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Yes, oh yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:19:30):
This is the biggest black eye for the NBA since
The Malice and the Palace Take the Rockets minus the
four tonight. He's a bigger degenerate than anybody else on
the station. Which, when you're on the station, are you
saying something? Man, Holy God, I don't know what it
is about the guy that does that ten to one show.
He's got to be a degenerate gambler, apparently apparently relate.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
To get a great for the mild mannered and marginally
objectionably in forness. This is paddle Day saying so long everyone,

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