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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, it is Chuck Buck and Ashley with you.
- 0:02Speaker 1: We roll into the eight o'clock hour here on a Tuesday.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Ever it fits you later on this hour, but we're
- 0:09Speaker 1: still reacting to Jsn's contract. We now have the highest
- 0:13Speaker 1: paid receiver in the National Football League, at least on paper.
- 0:16Speaker 1: It's a nice little headline, but he's not going to
- 0:18Speaker 1: be paid that way for a couple of years. I'm
- 0:22Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised it doesn't kick in, maybe not
- 0:25Speaker 1: this year but the following year. But for two years
- 0:27Speaker 1: he's going to be making pretty much squad dooche and
- 0:31Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it balloons in that third year.
- 0:35Speaker 1: But that's twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine. So you know,
- 0:39Speaker 1: I got asked yesterday and I didn't do it. I
- 0:41Speaker 1: didn't have time but to go on Kansas City Radio
- 0:44Speaker 1: with my buddy Saryn Petro there, and I have a
- 0:47Speaker 1: feeling what he wanted to talk about, what he wanted
- 0:50Speaker 1: to do was we've been through this world champions. Now
- 0:54Speaker 1: get ready to get knocked down by financial restraint.
- 0:57Speaker 2: You know.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Now, get get ready to be a cap casualty, because
- 1:02Speaker 1: now you're gonna start losing your pieces and then if
- 1:04Speaker 1: you start paying your pieces, then that means you lose
- 1:06Speaker 1: other people. I have a feeling that's the conversation he
- 1:09Speaker 1: was gonna have with me after the JSN contract. And
- 1:12Speaker 1: now we've got Witherspoon possibly happening as well. But and
- 1:19Speaker 1: there's certainly truth to that. I mean, the National Football
- 1:22Speaker 1: League is set up. They want parody. They want every
- 1:26Speaker 1: team to go into every season thinking, man, if it
- 1:28Speaker 1: just breaks this way, we got a chance that doesn't
- 1:32Speaker 1: exist in the NBA. Doesn't exist worth all teams in
- 1:36Speaker 1: Major League Baseball every season, but it can't exist in
- 1:39Speaker 1: the National Football League. Seyorks a great example. What were
- 1:41Speaker 1: they seven and a half? Eight wins? What was the projection?
- 1:43Speaker 1: And they won? Yeah, they won the World Championship this
- 1:47Speaker 1: past year. So yes, the league is sort of set up,
- 1:50Speaker 1: and that's why you want guys that are on top
- 1:53Speaker 1: of their game, like John Schneider and Mike McDonald making
- 1:55Speaker 1: these decisions. And to me, this is just a no
- 1:58Speaker 1: brainer decision, and I will I'll live with the damage
- 2:02Speaker 1: that it could do a couple of years from now.
- 2:05Speaker 1: To me, I saw a lot of teams overpaying for
- 2:09Speaker 1: free agents that have flaws to their game. We just
- 2:13Speaker 1: went through the entire frenzy watching team after team do
- 2:16Speaker 1: that with player after player. You know, this is why
- 2:19Speaker 1: you do this. You draft, you develop, you try to
- 2:22Speaker 1: get guys that are peerless, and then you go ahead
- 2:26Speaker 1: and pay them what they're worth. To me, this is
- 2:28Speaker 1: I'm doing this every single time, and I'll worry about
- 2:31Speaker 1: the cap when I got to worry about the cap.
- 2:33Speaker 1: But I don't want to lose a JSN. I don't
- 2:37Speaker 1: want to lose a Devin Witherspoon. They cost money, price
- 2:41Speaker 1: of doing business, price of being a champion. To me,
- 2:43Speaker 1: these are no brainer decisions for the Seahawks, even if
- 2:46Speaker 1: I do have to say goodbye to a couple of guys, don't.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Yeah, But like you're saying, the way in which they
- 2:52Speaker 3: scheduled this thing out by doing it a year before
- 2:55Speaker 3: they had to. I mean, they did the picked up
- 2:57Speaker 3: the fifth year option, but that was basically just to
- 2:59Speaker 3: let them know, yeah, we're doing and something big. And
- 3:00Speaker 3: they were already in conversations. And yet you add this
- 3:04Speaker 3: money to the money, to the plus this four years
- 3:08Speaker 3: to the two years they already has, and the way
- 3:10Speaker 3: that they're doing it is like you said, the I mean,
- 3:13Speaker 3: he's made fourteen million bucks basically in his first in
- 3:16Speaker 3: his first four years or whatever. That's what his initial
- 3:18Speaker 3: rookie contract was, and so you're adding to it where
- 3:22Speaker 3: this next year he'll be like ten million bucks, which
- 3:24Speaker 3: is not crazy. I mean, it's really it's most of
- 3:27Speaker 3: it's a signing bonus and then a really small base salary.
- 3:30Speaker 3: So I mean his cap hit is only three and
- 3:32Speaker 3: a half percent, three point four to four percent of
- 3:34Speaker 3: the cap. So you still are getting to be able
- 3:36Speaker 3: to do Devin Witherspoon. You're still getting to pay d Law,
- 3:39Speaker 3: You're still getting to pay all the guys that you
- 3:41Speaker 3: want to that you feel you can fit under the
- 3:44Speaker 3: cap because even though you gave him a giant boost,
- 3:47Speaker 3: you're not gonna have You're kind of getting to kick
- 3:48Speaker 3: that can down the road at least for a couple
- 3:50Speaker 3: of years. Next year, then the big six million dollar
- 3:53Speaker 3: bonus kicks in, plus the signing bonus, and so it
- 3:56Speaker 3: goes up a little bit, but still you're under five
- 3:59Speaker 3: percent of the cap. Then the next year is when
- 4:01Speaker 3: the base sillary the first one kicks in, and that
- 4:03Speaker 3: one still is only eighteen million, but a seven million
- 4:06Speaker 3: dollars signing bonus and a six million dollar option in there,
- 4:09Speaker 3: to where now you're starting to get into paying him
- 4:11Speaker 3: still thirty two million dollars a year, which is less
- 4:13Speaker 3: than the forty two million annual that it looked like
- 4:16Speaker 3: it was when you just cut down the four year. Yeah,
- 4:20Speaker 3: the four year. But well then you just think, well
- 4:23Speaker 3: when okay, so so far, I've just talked about three
- 4:25Speaker 3: of the six years, and yet so far the most
- 4:28Speaker 3: he's making is thirty two million dollars. Wait a second,
- 4:30Speaker 3: he's just signed a contract that's worth forty two million
- 4:32Speaker 3: a year. Yeah, well yeah, because then it starts getting
- 4:35Speaker 3: into thirty two million plus a seven million dollars signing bonus,
- 4:38Speaker 3: plus an eight and a half million dollar option in there. Now,
- 4:42Speaker 3: all of a sudden, your cap hits getting up to
- 4:44Speaker 3: fifty forty eight million and the final year fifty million. Well,
- 4:47Speaker 3: now we don't know what the cap situation is going
- 4:49Speaker 3: to be, what the salary cap numbers don't look like,
- 4:51Speaker 3: and you can possibly if he has four k kick
- 4:54Speaker 3: butt years, I could have said it the other way,
- 4:57Speaker 3: but anyway, if he has four a good year, you
- 4:59Speaker 3: can sign him to another extension and basically pro rate
- 5:02Speaker 3: some of this fifty million dollars cap hit out or
- 5:05Speaker 3: maybe at that point in time fifty million dollars. There
- 5:07Speaker 3: is nothing if the salary cap continues to go up.
- 5:09Speaker 3: So it's just really good GM And it looks like
- 5:12Speaker 3: because your lockdown piece, and it's for sure party of
- 5:14Speaker 3: your future. But you've done it in a way where
- 5:16Speaker 3: it doesn't affect you right now, and ultimately it still
- 5:20Speaker 3: could end up looking like a bargain, you know, four
- 5:22Speaker 3: six years from now.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Kick butt analysis right there.
- 5:24Speaker 4: It is basically you're saying that John Schneider took a
- 5:26Speaker 4: page out of the Dodgers book.
- 5:27Speaker 3: It's just.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Baseball usually does have math that adds up. They're the
- 5:34Speaker 1: ones that have broken that. The NFL math has really
- 5:37Speaker 1: never added up.
- 5:38Speaker 5: But somehow it works.
- 5:40Speaker 1: But yeah, somehow, I mean there are there are rules. Yeah,
- 5:44Speaker 1: I mean your ability to manage your cap. You know,
- 5:48Speaker 1: you have a capologist, that's why you do this really
- 5:51Speaker 1: does go a long way towards helping you keep guys.
- 5:55Speaker 1: But you get two years down the road with all
- 5:57Speaker 1: of that that Bucky said, and you're also, I mean,
- 5:59Speaker 1: you're gonna lose a Cooper Cup eighteen million dollars. He's
- 6:03Speaker 1: thirty five years old by then, He's he's not gonna
- 6:05Speaker 1: be he won't even make it till next season. It
- 6:07Speaker 1: would be my guess. Jared Reid's going to be long
- 6:10Speaker 1: gone by then. That's nine millions off the book. DeMarcus
- 6:13Speaker 1: Lawrence going to be long gone by the and he's
- 6:15Speaker 1: already talking about retiring.
- 6:16Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't even know if for sure he's staying
- 6:17Speaker 5: this year.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Yeah, So when Jsen's and Witherspoon's money really kicks in,
- 6:21Speaker 1: that's thirteen million off the book. I would imagine Julian
- 6:24Speaker 1: Love would not survive. That's fifteen million dollars off the book.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Over the course of the next couple of years, Leonard
- 6:30Speaker 1: Williams will be thirty four at that point. Is he
- 6:32Speaker 1: still a sea Aukin twenty twenty eight? I don't know,
- 6:35Speaker 1: and I don't know what that's out. Of course, you
- 6:37Speaker 1: also have other guys that are going to be maturing
- 6:39Speaker 1: in their contract situation. You're gonna have Byron Murphy is
- 6:42Speaker 1: going to be time to re sign him, and you're
- 6:44Speaker 1: gonna have Emon Warri and Zabel arriving at about the
- 6:48Speaker 1: same time. So there will be difficult decisions. And yes,
- 6:53Speaker 1: there might come a time where You're like, man, I
- 6:55Speaker 1: really like Aj Barner, really do. Man. He's what a
- 7:00Speaker 1: great pick, and he's been a terrific seahawk and we've
- 7:02Speaker 1: won three world championships with him, and you know, and
- 7:05Speaker 1: what you know, he's turned out to be a borderline
- 7:09Speaker 1: Pro Bowl caliber tied end. But I can't live without
- 7:15Speaker 1: Byron Murphy and Nick emun worry and grays Abel. I
- 7:18Speaker 1: think I can live without Aj Barner. I mean, decisions
- 7:22Speaker 1: like that will happen when you start paying these guys.
- 7:26Speaker 1: But man, I am paying these guys, and I'll worry
- 7:29Speaker 1: about that down the road. So I think that it
- 7:33Speaker 1: is the right move to make. I don't think there's
- 7:35Speaker 1: any doubt about it. I think the only thing that
- 7:38Speaker 1: I question is the Sam Donald aspect of it. You know,
- 7:42Speaker 1: because Sam Donald, right now, through John Schneider's his own words,
- 7:48Speaker 1: has said we will worry Greg Bell about Sam Donald's
- 7:52Speaker 1: contract when he has one year left on it. Well,
- 7:54Speaker 1: that'll be next year. So now you're paying our wide
- 7:58Speaker 1: receiver top of the market money, paying a cornerback top
- 8:01Speaker 1: of the market money. What will quarterback salaries be by
- 8:06Speaker 1: next year? And do you have to pay Sam Darnold
- 8:10Speaker 1: top of the market quarterback money, is he going to
- 8:13Speaker 1: want that payday having a Super Bowl already in his
- 8:16Speaker 1: back pocket? Two? Yeah? Or two? Uh? And now yeah,
- 8:23Speaker 1: Now you know that is something that's I mean, think
- 8:26Speaker 1: about I just said, I went on Kansas City, think
- 8:29Speaker 1: about whatever all that talk about. Well, wait till my
- 8:31Speaker 1: home starts making money and let's see if the Chiefs
- 8:33Speaker 1: can keep this going. Well, maybe it caught up to them.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Maybe it was other factors that caught up to him.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't because of the cap. Maybe it was
- 8:41Speaker 1: because Travis Kelcey got older and Chris Jones got older.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Maybe didn't have anything to do with her money. But certainly,
- 8:47Speaker 1: once that quarterback starts making the money and you've already
- 8:50Speaker 1: topped out the best highest paed corner in the league
- 8:53Speaker 1: and the highest paid wide receiver, I mean there's going
- 8:55Speaker 1: to be a number crunch at some point. But it
- 8:57Speaker 1: feels like it's a problem one to two years down
- 9:00Speaker 1: the road.
- 9:00Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean when it comes to you know,
- 9:03Speaker 3: the Chiefs, you just they started people started figuring it
- 9:07Speaker 3: out and making it more difficult for them to just
- 9:09Speaker 3: do what they did for majority of a decade as
- 9:12Speaker 3: far as their offense, goes and so then they were
- 9:14Speaker 3: kind of playing with fire. They were playing a bunch
- 9:16Speaker 3: of one run games, and not this past season, but
- 9:19Speaker 3: the season before. They still found a way to win
- 9:22Speaker 3: those and then boom, go to another Super Bowl. Last year,
- 9:26Speaker 3: it was all of a sudden they played with fire
- 9:27Speaker 3: and they got burnt, and all of a sudden they
- 9:28Speaker 3: found themselves on the losing side of it. I think,
- 9:30Speaker 3: I don't think it has anything. Oh, I think it has.
- 9:33Speaker 3: I wouldn't blame it all on salary cap and the
- 9:35Speaker 3: fact that you couldn't keep all the good players that
- 9:37Speaker 3: you wanted to keep, or enough of the good players.
- 9:41Speaker 3: I think it just happened to be that that's the
- 9:43Speaker 3: way that the cookie crumbled for them. I'm with you,
- 9:45Speaker 3: I think. I mean, when it comes to Sam Darnold,
- 9:48Speaker 3: last year was a pretty inexpensive year for him, So
- 9:50Speaker 3: they had the money to go do the d law thing.
- 9:53Speaker 3: They had money to do that they're already having to
- 9:55Speaker 3: make the tough decisions, ken Walker, I'm sure that they're
- 9:58Speaker 3: not happier with where they're at run back wise right
- 10:00Speaker 3: now than if they had been able to But they
- 10:03Speaker 3: kind of knew, Okay, we'll see how this works out,
- 10:06Speaker 3: see if he's healthy, and then all of a sudden, boom,
- 10:07Speaker 3: he's healthy, he runs great down the stretch, gets a
- 10:11Speaker 3: Super Bowl. You're like, oh man, we're gonna have to
- 10:13Speaker 3: see him go. We're gonna have to figure something out there.
- 10:15Speaker 3: But that's because you're gonna have to. You're doing the
- 10:17Speaker 3: things like with Jackson Smith and with with Spoon. With
- 10:21Speaker 3: when it comes to Sam Donald, his number jumps up
- 10:23Speaker 3: like three times from what it was last year this year,
- 10:27Speaker 3: and then it's right around there again the following year. Now,
- 10:29Speaker 3: if he comes back and has another good year, maybe
- 10:33Speaker 3: they're already thinking about kicking this thing down and extending
- 10:36Speaker 3: him out a couple two, three, more, four more years
- 10:38Speaker 3: and trying to lower that number or make it to
- 10:40Speaker 3: where you're not on the verge of having to pay
- 10:43Speaker 3: sixty million dollars a year. So there's one thing that's
- 10:47Speaker 3: for sure. John Schneider and his group are thinking about
- 10:49Speaker 3: all these different players. I mean, they have some big
- 10:51Speaker 3: board I'm sure somewhere about when are we gonna have
- 10:54Speaker 3: to pay Brivan Murphy and what's that gonna look like?
- 10:55Speaker 3: When are we gonna have to pay Nick even Worry,
- 10:57Speaker 3: And what's that gonna look like, and they're formulating that
- 11:00Speaker 3: into all the decisions that they're having to make at
- 11:02Speaker 3: the present time.
- 11:02Speaker 1: And those are no brainers, and I'm not getting rid
- 11:04Speaker 1: of those no brainers. I'm going to try to keep
- 11:06Speaker 1: as many as I can, and usually that's going to
- 11:08Speaker 1: come at the cost of the guys that you're not.
- 11:11Speaker 1: There aren't no brainers. It's a DK Metcalf. Yes, he's
- 11:14Speaker 1: very productive, Yes he's very good. Yes he has an
- 11:18Speaker 1: unbelievable ceiling, but he's not without question, he's not There
- 11:22Speaker 1: are some doubts that we have about whether or not
- 11:24Speaker 1: he's worth what he'll make on the free agent market.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Do we really want to pay top wide receiver money
- 11:30Speaker 1: for dk Metcalf? Now we're going to punt on that one.
- 11:33Speaker 1: Do we really want to cave to Gino Smith's demands
- 11:36Speaker 1: for his salary? We think he's worth this, he thinks
- 11:38Speaker 1: he's worth that. Are we without questions about Geno Smith?
- 11:43Speaker 1: Dude's terrible in the red zone? Right, pretty big? That's
- 11:46Speaker 1: pretty big element playing quarterball. That's important in the national
- 11:49Speaker 1: football They punt on that Ken Walker.
- 11:51Speaker 5: Super Bowl MVP, But what did he do before that?
- 11:55Speaker 1: Last four years? Have we not consistently had problems and
- 11:59Speaker 1: one if we had the right guy. Yeah, never doubted
- 12:02Speaker 1: his talent, but there were numerous times and Ken Walker's
- 12:06Speaker 1: four years here where there were questions about how he
- 12:09Speaker 1: ran the football, you know, so you walk on that guy.
- 12:13Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty obvious pattern that they're creating.
- 12:17Speaker 1: And I think that there are three obvious guys to
- 12:20Speaker 1: sign in the future on the roster, and they're Murphy
- 12:22Speaker 1: and Emon, Warri and Zabel and everybody else probably is
- 12:26Speaker 1: going to have a long term future with Seattle. The
- 12:29Speaker 1: glue guys like Jake Bobo and our long snapper, and
- 12:35Speaker 1: you know, those guys seem it's you know, it's the
- 12:38Speaker 1: rich and the poor right by NFL standards, those guys
- 12:42Speaker 1: in the middle trying to keep a Super Bowl championship
- 12:44Speaker 1: team together. Yeah, you're probably at risk of not being
- 12:49Speaker 1: a Seahawk for the rest of your life, probably, just
- 12:52Speaker 1: like you know what I mean.
- 12:53Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, wow, there's talent there, obviously you can
- 12:55Speaker 3: and he was part he helped you win his championship.
- 12:58Speaker 3: But it's not a no brain like a JSNS a
- 13:01Speaker 3: no brainer. And like you said, I think Gray's able
- 13:04Speaker 3: and Biron Murphy and even worry, those are no brainers.
- 13:06Speaker 3: And then you have to you can still keep some
- 13:08Speaker 3: of the bargain guys that Jake bobos. You can keep
- 13:11Speaker 3: some of those guys, the glue guys, the things that
- 13:13Speaker 3: do the ugly stuff bricks and mortar. And you got
- 13:16Speaker 3: to lose some of those. You got to lose some
- 13:17Speaker 3: of those middle tier guys that somebody would be willing
- 13:20Speaker 3: to pay him more. And he knows it, and yet
- 13:23Speaker 3: he's you know, a cap casualty on a team that
- 13:26Speaker 3: has super Bowl intentions and Super Bowl nucleus.
- 13:29Speaker 4: Well, and that's the thing, yes, especially if you win
- 13:31Speaker 4: another super Bowl. Now, those guys that are the fringe
- 13:33Speaker 4: guys are the question marks that they're going to do
- 13:35Speaker 4: the same thing that happened this year where they're going
- 13:37Speaker 4: to be overpaid. I mean, Ken Walker getting what fourteen
- 13:40Speaker 4: and a half million from Kansas City. Okay, good for them,
- 13:44Speaker 4: but they're probably not going split carries like we were
- 13:47Speaker 4: going to so to pay you know, a guy that's
- 13:49Speaker 4: doing half the job fourteen and a half million dollars
- 13:52Speaker 4: would have seemed really stupid.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Some good players aren't going to remain lifelong Seahawks and
- 13:56Speaker 1: they might go on to become better players than they
- 13:59Speaker 1: even were here in Seattle. And that's the price of
- 14:02Speaker 1: doing business in the National Football League, and that's the
- 14:04Speaker 1: price of being a Super Bowl champion. But if this
- 14:07Speaker 1: is an indication of how John Schneider is going to
- 14:09Speaker 1: try to keep this team together, I'm all about it.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Get the guys that are no brainers to meet. JSN
- 14:15Speaker 1: is a no brainer. Player Witherspoon's a no brainer. We
- 14:18Speaker 1: got a few others that are on the come, and
- 14:20Speaker 1: then we'll have to make a decision on Sam Darnald
- 14:22Speaker 1: and just how much we're going to pay him. All
- 14:24Speaker 1: of these trains are moving down the track. How is
- 14:28Speaker 1: this financial thing going to work out? With Sam Darnold
- 14:31Speaker 1: possibly having to get a new deal here in the
- 14:33Speaker 1: next year or so. Bucky asked our own Hugh Millin
- 14:36Speaker 1: that just one hour ago. This is what our QB
- 14:38Speaker 1: one had to say. Yeah, you know, I think that's
- 14:41Speaker 1: part of it.
- 14:41Speaker 6: I mean, now, with this shihe contract at seventeen million, now,
- 14:47Speaker 6: the Seahawks are the number one team in the NFL
- 14:50Speaker 6: in terms of allotment to wide receivers. So you know,
- 14:53Speaker 6: I'm not saying that as a negative of just anytime
- 14:56Speaker 6: your first or last in any stat you know, you
- 14:59Speaker 6: kind of take a little you know, scratch your head
- 15:01Speaker 6: a little bit.
- 15:02Speaker 1: And say, okay, what does this mean?
- 15:03Speaker 6: So they're number one, but they're only playing paying their
- 15:07Speaker 6: quarterback thirty three million, right, So I think he was
- 15:10Speaker 6: eighteenth last year. I don't know what he'll be next year,
- 15:13Speaker 6: but he's it's gonna be lower. You know, he could
- 15:15Speaker 6: be in the twenties darnold in terms of the contract.
- 15:19Speaker 6: So if you kind of think of the passing game
- 15:23Speaker 6: as a set, you know, like, Okay, our wide receivers
- 15:27Speaker 6: are relatively high, but our quarterback is relatively low. And
- 15:31Speaker 6: you know, in the case of Injigmit two, don't forget
- 15:33Speaker 6: he just turned twenty four in February. It's hard to
- 15:37Speaker 6: imagine because he's spent on the scene so much. You know,
- 15:40Speaker 6: remember it was his sophomore year. He had three hundred
- 15:43Speaker 6: and forty seven yards and three touchdowns in the Rose Bolts,
- 15:46Speaker 6: which is still an FBS record. It's a Rose Bowl
- 15:49Speaker 6: record and an FBS record, you know, I mean, you know,
- 15:52Speaker 6: which kind of dovetails to what I said about the
- 15:54Speaker 6: NFC Championship Game. The dude's just a big, big game player.
- 15:58Speaker 6: But but but yeah, I think that the finances are
- 16:02Speaker 6: such it's manageable because of what you're paying Darnold for
- 16:05Speaker 6: the time being.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Manageable for the time being. But yeah, part of the game.
- 16:11Speaker 1: That's what makes it so interesting. Tough decisions wait every
- 16:14Speaker 1: off season, But to me, these weren't tough decisions. JS
- 16:18Speaker 1: and making him the highest paid receiver in the National
- 16:21Speaker 1: Football League was a no brainer for me, and the
- 16:24Speaker 1: same thing I think will happen with Witherspoon before the
- 16:26Speaker 1: off season comes to a close. All right, Coming up
- 16:28Speaker 1: next on our radio program, Everett Fitzh's gonna join us
- 16:32Speaker 1: the voice of your Seattle Cracking right here on Sports
- 16:34Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. Oh wow, Little
- 16:58Speaker 1: Paul's before the blue, Blue, Blue.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Bloot, blue bloom, you'd like it.
- 17:02Speaker 5: I was like, Oh, the pause before the blue bloop.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Ploope does have a little bloop bloop.
- 17:06Speaker 5: I might need to remain it so I can remember.
- 17:08Speaker 1: We went off the air there for a second, but
- 17:10Speaker 1: they were just building up the bloop bloop.
- 17:13Speaker 3: I don't know for sure if I like it now that
- 17:15Speaker 3: we've now named it bloop Bloop.
- 17:17Speaker 1: It's a boot bloop song. By the way, before we
- 17:20Speaker 1: have ever done before we bring every on. I just
- 17:22Speaker 1: gotta say, uh every time I walk out, and especially
- 17:25Speaker 1: like before six o'clock starts and I round the corner
- 17:28Speaker 1: to head to the restroom. The cracking cut out poster
- 17:33Speaker 1: that Arden, our sales boss has in her office with
- 17:37Speaker 1: Bucky's face as a child, yeah, yeah, you know, taped
- 17:43Speaker 1: to it scares me every single morning. Really yeah. I
- 17:45Speaker 1: think somebody is standing there like.
- 17:49Speaker 5: What's he doing here?
- 17:50Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, I repired and getting ready for the show.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Can go go to the restroom room.
- 17:58Speaker 3: It's a baby Bucky.
- 18:00Speaker 1: That's a seven foot baby bucket. Alexiak, you're exactly right.
- 18:04Speaker 3: Well that you know she makes those fate fat head
- 18:07Speaker 3: looking things for people's birthday.
- 18:08Speaker 5: Not everybody's birthdays.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Not everybody. No, well somehow she got my baby, yeah,
- 18:15Speaker 3: and then people she likes. Yeah. Well, and it was
- 18:19Speaker 3: hanging inside of her office. I'm the one that ended
- 18:22Speaker 3: up taking it off of the window because I just
- 18:24Speaker 3: see it all the time, and I'm like, I'll put
- 18:26Speaker 3: it right there on Aleik Yak's face.
- 18:29Speaker 5: I see the big cat one that's right like Adam Larson.
- 18:32Speaker 5: That's right there.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Oh is that big cat? That's not alexiak No, well
- 18:35Speaker 3: now it's me.
- 18:36Speaker 5: Oh okay, I haven't seen it with your face on it.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's scary, every very scary. I guess you
- 18:42Speaker 1: know I'm seeing. I got a song in my heart,
- 18:44Speaker 1: getting ready to start the show with you. Two wonderful
- 18:46Speaker 1: people every day, all right, joining us now is the
- 18:51Speaker 1: voice of your Seattle crack and Everett fits here. He
- 18:54Speaker 1: puts up with a lot of our nonsense, and we
- 18:56Speaker 1: appreciate him doing it again today.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Hi, Evert, it's like you're more than a cup of coffee.
- 19:00Speaker 2: You come around the corner. Oh Jesus, Bucky, how do yeah?
- 19:03Speaker 2: And then you're ready to start today.
- 19:05Speaker 1: It's but it's baby Bucky on a poster of a
- 19:10Speaker 1: crack and player taller than me.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Probably a big baby.
- 19:15Speaker 3: I mean, that's a big baby.
- 19:17Speaker 2: I feel like Bucky was not a small style and
- 19:21Speaker 2: I mean, with all due respect, I don't know what
- 19:23Speaker 2: to do due respect.
- 19:24Speaker 3: I don't think you do. It was a normal sized baby.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Yeah, he's actually a tiny, tiny lad.
- 19:32Speaker 3: I was a little kid, but I was a tiny,
- 19:34Speaker 3: normal baby.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like not buying it, not buying it. I
- 19:40Speaker 1: don't know who you're trying to sell this to, but
- 19:42Speaker 1: I ain't buying it. All right, Well, good to have
- 19:45Speaker 1: you on and yeah, we got some winning we need
- 19:48Speaker 1: to get done. But first things first. They announced yesterday
- 19:52Speaker 1: this trip to Finland for this year. It's for November
- 19:55Speaker 1: this year. So uh, anyway, if you could put in
- 19:58Speaker 1: a good word or three, Ashley, Bucky and I would
- 20:01Speaker 1: like to take the trip of Finland with you, to
- 20:03Speaker 1: Finland with you, Al and Cacao.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Well listen, if you can't get to Calgary, I feel
- 20:10Speaker 2: like Finland should be a pretty close second, right that
- 20:14Speaker 2: that that should be your your your consolation prize. But no,
- 20:18Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be a very fun trip, I think
- 20:22Speaker 2: now obviously for the team and for the players going
- 20:25Speaker 2: over there, but I mean to be a part of
- 20:26Speaker 2: the Global Series, to be one of a handful of
- 20:28Speaker 2: teams that gets to go internationally represent the sport and
- 20:33Speaker 2: your city internationally to to play these games. It's gonna
- 20:37Speaker 2: be awesome. And I know the Kraken, you know, we've
- 20:40Speaker 2: been looking forward as an organization, we've been looking forward
- 20:43Speaker 2: to the day that we finally get invited to play
- 20:46Speaker 2: over there. So obviously Coppocco's excited. Even though Ellie Tolbenen
- 20:50Speaker 2: is a UFA, you're hoping that he's resigned sooner rather
- 20:54Speaker 2: than later. He's very excited about that potential. Talk to
- 20:57Speaker 2: Yannie Newman a little bit about it. Uh, he's excited.
- 21:01Speaker 2: So it's going to be a fun opportunity to go
- 21:03Speaker 2: over there and help go the game and show NHL hockey.
- 21:07Speaker 2: A lot of folks don't get to watch a lot
- 21:09Speaker 2: of NHL games overseas between the time difference and whatnot,
- 21:13Speaker 2: so it'll be a fun opportunity.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you, being the pro that you are,
- 21:17Speaker 3: I'm sure you've just asked about how excited are you
- 21:19Speaker 3: to go play over there, and how excited are you
- 21:21Speaker 3: to go back for Ellie and and Copo Kako to
- 21:25Speaker 3: go back and play in their home countries. But have
- 21:27Speaker 3: you gotten selfish at all? An interview asked Coppo if
- 21:30Speaker 3: he's going to introduce you to the folks and you know,
- 21:32Speaker 3: maybe show you around his old stomping grounds.
- 21:35Speaker 2: So you know what, I actually I'm very excited personally
- 21:39Speaker 2: because a couple of summers ago I got to go
- 21:41Speaker 2: over to Finland and Sweden, and we did some hometown
- 21:45Speaker 2: visits for the Kraken. We were with Ellie's Tolvinen, Andre Berakowski,
- 21:50Speaker 2: and Alexander Wenberg, who are no longer with the organization,
- 21:53Speaker 2: but we got to go over there. We got to
- 21:56Speaker 2: see their hometowns, we met their families, we went to
- 21:59Speaker 2: there favorite restaurants. My favorite part of that whole trip
- 22:03Speaker 2: was Andre Berakowski, from all from Malmo, Sweden, calls himself
- 22:07Speaker 2: the mayor of Malmo and he invites us to dinner.
- 22:11Speaker 2: So we get to the dinner spot and his family
- 22:13Speaker 2: is there and here comes this lovely luxury sports car
- 22:17Speaker 2: that pulls up and parks on the sidewalk and he
- 22:20Speaker 2: gets out of the car and I was like, what's up, Andre,
- 22:22Speaker 2: can you park there? And he looks at me, looks
- 22:25Speaker 2: up at the parking sign, looks around and says, well
- 22:28Speaker 2: I can, I'm the mayor of Malmo, and then walks
- 22:30Speaker 2: right on into the restaurant. So that was probably that
- 22:34Speaker 2: was the best fleck I'd ever seen. But any anytime
- 22:38Speaker 2: you get to spend time with players and you get
- 22:40Speaker 2: to humanize these guys, I think so far, so often
- 22:44Speaker 2: we look at players as commodities. They are their contract,
- 22:48Speaker 2: they are their stat line. But then you also have
- 22:50Speaker 2: to remember they have stories as well. They have families,
- 22:54Speaker 2: they have parents, they have kids, they have significant others,
- 22:57Speaker 2: and when you're able to go to these guys hometowns
- 23:01Speaker 2: and see them play in front of their family, I
- 23:03Speaker 2: think one of the coolest things I got to see
- 23:05Speaker 2: was going into Elie tolbn In's childhood bedroom and he
- 23:09Speaker 2: had all of his Olympic medals and World Junior medals
- 23:13Speaker 2: and things just hanging up on the walls. I got
- 23:15Speaker 2: to see his old jerseys and all of that. Those
- 23:18Speaker 2: are the kind of stuff that regular fans, regular people,
- 23:21Speaker 2: they don't get to see. So I know that personally,
- 23:25Speaker 2: I'm very fortunate to have been in that opportunity, in
- 23:27Speaker 2: that position to have that opportunity. But I think it's
- 23:31Speaker 2: going to be very, very exciting to see the places
- 23:35Speaker 2: that made some of our favorite players that our fans love.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Oh that's great, and I'm glad that we need to
- 23:41Speaker 1: point out that side, that human side of it more often.
- 23:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:45Speaker 1: That said, though, these jerks better start playing better hockey.
- 23:50Speaker 1: We're running out of time.
- 23:52Speaker 2: I will say I just had my one on one
- 23:56Speaker 2: with laying Lambert, and the frustration goes both ways, and
- 24:02Speaker 2: then there is a lot of you know, the sentiment
- 24:06Speaker 2: of these are mistakes, these are areas between the ears,
- 24:11Speaker 2: These are things that you should not be needing to
- 24:15Speaker 2: correct at game sixty five of the season, going into
- 24:19Speaker 2: game seventy after the deadline, So you know, the Lanes
- 24:24Speaker 2: used the words baffling. He's used the words dumbfounded multiple times.
- 24:29Speaker 2: And when you watch this team the last thirteen games,
- 24:32Speaker 2: you're four and nine out of the Olympic break, and
- 24:35Speaker 2: you've heard players, you know, personally for me, far too
- 24:38Speaker 2: many times for this time of year. You've heard too
- 24:41Speaker 2: many guys say, well, the other team wanted it more.
- 24:44Speaker 2: They just outworked us, They just outwilled us. You can't
- 24:47Speaker 2: have that happen. And you now gone from three points
- 24:51Speaker 2: out of first to four points out of a playoff
- 24:54Speaker 2: spot in the span of three and a half weeks.
- 24:57Speaker 2: So if you're Seattle, you're right, there's a lot of
- 25:00Speaker 2: searching that has to be done. You had some success
- 25:03Speaker 2: against the Panthers last week at home. You need to
- 25:05Speaker 2: win this game. It's another packed night in the NHL,
- 25:09Speaker 2: so the Kraken could win this game. You know at
- 25:12Speaker 2: seven o'clock Eastern time, and then by the time they
- 25:15Speaker 2: land in Tampa, you know they're going to be scoreboard
- 25:18Speaker 2: washing the King's game and the Sharks game. So there
- 25:21Speaker 2: just needs to be a lot of internal soul searching
- 25:25Speaker 2: for this team coming up here the rest of this
- 25:27Speaker 2: road trip.
- 25:27Speaker 3: All right, So the soul searching, what's it turned into
- 25:29Speaker 3: as far as on the ice, I mean, what is
- 25:32Speaker 3: it that they need to do that they got to
- 25:34Speaker 3: search their soul for.
- 25:36Speaker 2: Well, a lot of it, A lot of it is
- 25:38Speaker 2: you know. Lane. Lane had a very good comment the
- 25:40Speaker 2: other day. He said, I need this team to do
- 25:44Speaker 2: the things that don't take talent. I need them to
- 25:47Speaker 2: be better at the things that requires zero talent, which
- 25:51Speaker 2: means working hard, which means going to the front of
- 25:54Speaker 2: the net, which means, you know, not being outworked, not
- 25:57Speaker 2: being outwilled by the other team. This system has been
- 26:01Speaker 2: proven to work that Lanes put in place, and a
- 26:04Speaker 2: lot of it is just that extra stuff that doesn't
- 26:08Speaker 2: need talent. You know, you don't need to be talented
- 26:11Speaker 2: to work hard. You don't need to be talented to
- 26:13Speaker 2: skate hard and to be physical and to win puck
- 26:17Speaker 2: battles that doesn't require talent. So those are the areas
- 26:21Speaker 2: that I think the kra Can really need to focus on.
- 26:24Speaker 2: And then also their starts. I mean they've been outscored
- 26:27Speaker 2: in the first period. I don't have the numbers in
- 26:29Speaker 2: front of me, but I think the last four or
- 26:30Speaker 2: five games the kra Can have given up multiple goal
- 26:34Speaker 2: leads or have had multiple goal deficits against them in
- 26:38Speaker 2: the first period over these last four to last six games.
- 26:42Speaker 2: So you have to start on time. You can't be
- 26:45Speaker 2: down two nothing, three nothing with five minutes left in
- 26:48Speaker 2: the first period and then have to dig yourself out
- 26:50Speaker 2: of a hole. And once again, that comes from that
- 26:53Speaker 2: attention to detail from the drop of the puck, that
- 26:55Speaker 2: that that this team has not seemed to have enough
- 26:59Speaker 2: of in the last weeks.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Well, they've had a couple of days off here and
- 27:04Speaker 1: you've had I guess a little bit of time there
- 27:06Speaker 1: in Florida. Have you taken your talents to South Beach?
- 27:10Speaker 2: I have not gone to South Beach. I'm more Fort
- 27:12Speaker 2: Lauderdale guy myself. But you know what, this time of year,
- 27:15Speaker 2: it's a lot of hard work to keep this hand.
- 27:17Speaker 2: So you know, I've been spending time outside on the patio,
- 27:21Speaker 2: taking my computer outside, done some work and soaked up
- 27:24Speaker 2: some rays. Got some lovely seafood dinner last night with
- 27:29Speaker 2: the traveling party. So it's it's been nice. It's been nice.
- 27:32Speaker 2: And if my wife is listening, I've not been outside
- 27:35Speaker 2: at all. The weather's been terrible. It has been raining here,
- 27:39Speaker 2: so I've really gotten no time to myself. It's just
- 27:42Speaker 2: been a working slog for the last couple of days.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Grind ye, real grind, you know, real grind.
- 27:49Speaker 1: It doesn't even come up for air.
- 27:50Speaker 3: He work so hard.
- 27:51Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, I actually had to just close the
- 27:55Speaker 2: blackout curtains in my in my room because it was
- 27:58Speaker 2: just so depressingly dark and area in South Florida.
- 28:03Speaker 1: All right, well deliver us. I'll win tonight.
- 28:06Speaker 3: What do you say?
- 28:08Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we need that. That is I think that
- 28:11Speaker 2: is number one. Again. Lane was very very pointed this
- 28:15Speaker 2: morning in his comments, and then he expects a lot
- 28:18Speaker 2: out of the group. And I've talked to a few
- 28:19Speaker 2: of the guys as well, and they they are ready
- 28:22Speaker 2: to put this last stretch of games behind them and
- 28:25Speaker 2: turn it on this evening, so we'll see.
- 28:27Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, We'll be listening. Thank you. Sir,
- 28:29Speaker 1: appreciate you.
- 28:30Speaker 2: All right, Fellas Ashley, we'll talk to you next week.
- 28:32Speaker 2: Thanks for time.
- 28:32Speaker 1: All right, the great Everett fits you joining us right
- 28:35Speaker 1: here on Chucking Buck in the mornings three point thirty
- 28:37Speaker 1: pre game with Mike, and then you'll have the Alan
- 28:40Speaker 1: Everett Show going on at four o'clock right here at
- 28:43Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ a R FM,
- 28:46Speaker 1: So Florida and then Tampa, then Buffalo, then Edmonton. Four
- 28:49Speaker 1: more games left on this road trip. They've yet to
- 28:52Speaker 1: win a game on the sixth game road at this point.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Whoa and so Yes, they've got some work to do
- 29:01Speaker 1: to get into the Stanley Cup playoffs. All right, coming
- 29:03Speaker 1: up next on the radio program. It's an annual tradition,
- 29:06Speaker 1: and have they gotten even better this year? They're making
- 29:10Speaker 1: a lot of headlines. We'll talk about it next. Sports
- 29:13Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM did Bucket Jacobs
- 29:29Speaker 1: the highlights making their rounds on social media today.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that yesterday. All was yesterday, Yeah or
- 29:36Speaker 3: somebody I shared it with me yesterday and then I
- 29:39Speaker 3: actually shared it again because I wanted it on my
- 29:42Speaker 3: timeline to be able to show my son.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Oh yeah, bomb mom, walk off bomb.
- 29:47Speaker 3: Yeah, probably don't want to bring that one in there.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Justina eat it, buddy, is game ov mayah?
- 29:57Speaker 3: Nice got him?
- 29:58Speaker 1: Coach really jumped off the bed.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Yeah everyone, Yeah, I locked up on that one a
- 30:05Speaker 3: little bit, man, all two seventy five into it.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Yeah, nice, nice looking stroke right there.
- 30:11Speaker 3: Thanks.
- 30:12Speaker 1: Probably should have beat out that infield single though.
- 30:14Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've I've gotten that from a lot
- 30:16Speaker 3: of my friends. What happened on that ground ball in
- 30:20Speaker 3: the middle. Bobby Crosby dove and then like took a
- 30:25Speaker 3: nap and ate a sandwich before he threw it the
- 30:27Speaker 3: first I was still out by two steps.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Wiener cousins with that guy. Oh really yeah, oh wow,
- 30:33Speaker 1: Bobby Crosby, I did not know. Yeah, okay, cool you
- 30:36Speaker 1: grounded out to him and yeah yeah, and I did
- 30:39Speaker 1: very very similar, very yeah wow, small world. Yeah, I know,
- 30:44Speaker 1: isn't it?
- 30:45Speaker 3: Yeah, now that works.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the old Judge's gonna stop by a little later.
- 30:50Speaker 1: He would have beat out that enfield single.
- 30:51Speaker 3: Oh yeah, old judge, that'd speed. Yeah, he still does,
- 30:55Speaker 3: still does. He's quick.
- 30:56Speaker 1: Yeah uh. But it's an annual tradition and they had
- 31:00Speaker 1: a lot of attention for this and it's nice to
- 31:02Speaker 1: see them get attention for it when the team's actually
- 31:05Speaker 1: getting attention too. But the new Mariners commercials are starting
- 31:10Speaker 1: to roll out, and I think we're just their think tank.
- 31:15Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure of that. But they did one with
- 31:18Speaker 1: the with the kids, with the players, with the newborn
- 31:21Speaker 1: fathers and their babies, and it's great. It is outstanding.
- 31:26Speaker 1: I don't know if people have seen it just yet.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Bryce Miller's outstanding in it, and he's not even one
- 31:31Speaker 1: of the newborn daddies. But that was a huge part
- 31:34Speaker 1: of I mean, you couldn't miss it, couldn't avoid it.
- 31:37Speaker 1: I mean, it was a big change in our spring
- 31:38Speaker 1: training coverage because we pretty much shared our entire space
- 31:42Speaker 1: with all the babies and the.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Minds, right yeah, yeah, well, I mean it's not just
- 31:46Speaker 3: like one or two, it's like six of them or something, right,
- 31:49Speaker 3: that had new babies between last spring and this spring,
- 31:53Speaker 3: and and so yeah, they've created a whole new outdoor
- 31:56Speaker 3: area with those Adirondack chairs and carpets and so, I
- 32:00Speaker 3: mean the babies are still so small they can't even
- 32:02Speaker 3: get down and crawl around on the ground yet, but
- 32:04Speaker 3: they're just everybody walks by, oh, Hey, oh it was
- 32:08Speaker 3: so Yeah, they had the baby, they're gonna have to
- 32:10Speaker 3: baby proof the clubhouse. And the commercials pretty fine, it's
- 32:12Speaker 3: pretty good. And Reich Miller does kill it at the
- 32:15Speaker 3: end with the electric outlet.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Those I was gonna say, also, baby proofing is such
- 32:19Speaker 5: a pain in the ass. Such a pain in the ass.
- 32:22Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't really do a whole lot of it.
- 32:24Speaker 5: I don't think we tried not to. And then we're like,
- 32:25Speaker 5: oh wait, if you don't, she will get into everything.
- 32:28Speaker 3: Yeah okay, yeah, yeah.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Really well done. They usually do a great job with those.
- 32:32Speaker 1: They're kind of famous for them.
- 32:34Speaker 5: Yeah, they are.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Frankly, I don't know if any other teams uh commercials
- 32:38Speaker 1: team commercials are as famous as what the Mariners are
- 32:41Speaker 1: going all the way back to It's a light beat
- 32:43Speaker 1: and Larry Bernandez and all of the great ones that
- 32:46Speaker 1: they've had, But the one with the babies, it's the
- 32:49Speaker 1: only one I've seen so far. I haven't seen any
- 32:50Speaker 1: other ones.
- 32:51Speaker 4: Another one with they're all in the cafeteria eating and
- 32:54Speaker 4: then all the lights go out and the fire starts
- 32:56Speaker 4: up and the music and then Andre's Munjos walks in.
- 33:00Speaker 1: All thes come.
- 33:01Speaker 5: In so he just walks in and goes over to
- 33:04Speaker 5: the line. George D then the line lights, I'll come
- 33:07Speaker 5: back up.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Yeah, And George says to Castillo, He's like, why don't
- 33:10Speaker 3: we get fired?
- 33:11Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 33:12Speaker 4: I don't know, man, but they're all just sitting there
- 33:14Speaker 4: in the dark while the fires going, and Andres's slow
- 33:16Speaker 4: motion walking in.
- 33:18Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Good stuff, all right? Coming up next? Uh, well, look,
- 33:23Speaker 1: spring training is over, and you know what they tell you.
- 33:26Speaker 1: They warn you, not just advise you. They warn you
- 33:29Speaker 1: don't read too much into spring training numbers. So what
- 33:34Speaker 1: I want to do in our next segment is read
- 33:36Speaker 1: into spring training numbers. With Bucky Jacobson on Sports Radio
- 33:41Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ R f M