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- 0:00Speaker 1: See this is going to drive Softy crazy. But really,
- 0:03Speaker 1: as you well know, I don't care at all.
- 0:06Speaker 2: In fact, you probably care, in fact the sense that
- 0:09Speaker 2: you like it.
- 0:11Speaker 3: You like that it drives him crazy.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I don't because you know the sensitivity of the nature
- 0:16Speaker 1: of what I'm going to say. Nothing has been confirmed publicly,
- 0:23Speaker 1: but I do believe Anderson Hurst. We're seven days away
- 0:28Speaker 1: from the parade.
- 0:31Speaker 4: You see.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Did you hear him get all pissed at Jackson yesterday
- 0:34Speaker 2: first saying that Drake May was not on the same
- 0:36Speaker 2: level of the other quarterbacks the Seahawks have faced in
- 0:39Speaker 2: the Super Bowl in their history.
- 0:42Speaker 4: Is so right?
- 0:43Speaker 3: He's like, we can't you can't like not give him
- 0:46Speaker 3: his credit.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Let me think Peyton Manning, Yeah, Tom Brady and Berime
- 0:53Speaker 1: Yeah it was Yeah, it was prime Ben ma' Ben Roethlisberger.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Really yeah, it's not even a hot take. No, pretty
- 1:02Speaker 1: much right on the money. Drake maybe and May end
- 1:05Speaker 1: up being really good.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 1: They went three and out their first four drives in Denver,
- 1:09Speaker 1: I think, right.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Yeah, they scored like a total of twenty three points.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Well, I just want to know what your plans are
- 1:14Speaker 1: a week from today, Seattle. Are your planning on going
- 1:17Speaker 1: to the parade. Please bring this up with them and
- 1:19Speaker 1: across I will He'll lose his mind, he will. He
- 1:22Speaker 1: will just have fain standing by the fish cross. Talk
- 1:25Speaker 1: with you. All right, we're gonna get some sound from
- 1:28Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and just a couple of seconds, our guy
- 1:30Speaker 1: Greg Bell, our insider, is gonna join us at one
- 1:32Speaker 1: twenty the latest. He's over on the other side of
- 1:34Speaker 1: the Bay. I'm very bad with East, West, North, South
- 1:37Speaker 1: Bay stuff. I should have asked the lone district. I think,
- 1:41Speaker 1: is it Southeast Bay is where the UH and Santa Clara?
- 1:45Speaker 3: I believe, Yeah, they are south of San Francisco, yes.
- 1:48Speaker 1: And I think east as well. Yes, I do believe
- 1:50Speaker 1: because they're away from the water.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Correct. Okay, Uh.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Greg's over there holding down our coverage and keeping track
- 1:56Speaker 1: everything the Seahawks are doing. They had their news conferences today,
- 1:59Speaker 1: kind of back to a regular week for Seattle. This
- 2:02Speaker 1: is Wednesday. This is when you're really kind of getting
- 2:04Speaker 1: after it, although they did a lot of the heavy
- 2:05Speaker 1: lifting last week. So we'll hear from Greg coming up
- 2:08Speaker 1: at one twenty. In fact, I may even what is
- 2:11Speaker 1: it about a minute worth of sound right with Mike
- 2:12Speaker 1: McDonald at one minute. You know what, maybe there's a
- 2:14Speaker 1: great question in there, right, Yeah, how about we save
- 2:16Speaker 1: that for Greg.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Let's do it. Let's do that. Okay, we'll do that.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Coming up at one twenty here from the head coach,
- 2:20Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, just want to mention again our big cover
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- 2:48Speaker 1: that tells you the excitement there doesn't mean you can't
- 2:50Speaker 1: go up there. I would enjoy The sportsbook and others
- 2:53Speaker 1: will be up there Friday doing the show, getting you
- 2:55Speaker 1: all set to go. I had people asking me yesterday
- 2:58Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this later in the week, asking me
- 3:00Speaker 1: yesterday about where where to watch the game. Queen An
- 3:04Speaker 1: Beer Hall has already sold out. Some other places I
- 3:07Speaker 1: heard are already packed, So we'll get to that later
- 3:09Speaker 1: this week a little little If you want to get
- 3:10Speaker 1: out and about and watch it, we'll kind of let
- 3:12Speaker 1: you know where to go. This is off topic super
- 3:16Speaker 1: Bowl wise a little bit, but not really because it
- 3:18Speaker 1: has to do with the Seahawks, and I'll connect to
- 3:21Speaker 1: dot so bear with me for a second. And I
- 3:24Speaker 1: don't want to be media guy lamenting media losing jobs,
- 3:27Speaker 1: but I think there's a bigger picture here. To look
- 3:29Speaker 1: at the Washington Post. The Washington Post, people, you'd have
- 3:32Speaker 1: to really be living under a rock not to hear
- 3:33Speaker 1: what's going on. The Washington Post announced massive layoffs, basically
- 3:38Speaker 1: all but shutting down the newspaper. They say they're not,
- 3:40Speaker 1: but they are. For all intents and purposes. The Washington
- 3:44Speaker 1: Post is one of the historic newspapers in our country.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I would say, one of the most important newspapers in
- 3:51Speaker 1: our country, if not along with the New York Times,
- 3:53Speaker 1: which also has undergone some of the same issues. The
- 3:56Speaker 1: most important newspaper the fact that it's located in wait
- 3:59Speaker 1: for it, Washington, d C. The Washington Post is kind
- 4:02Speaker 1: of a beacon of journalism and has been forever. Jeff
- 4:05Speaker 1: Bezos bought it years ago, the owner, of course of Amazon,
- 4:09Speaker 1: or the founder of Amazon, i should say. And today
- 4:12Speaker 1: they announced these massive, massive cuts in the newsroom, sports department,
- 4:16Speaker 1: local and foreign sections as well, basically scaling back the
- 4:20Speaker 1: coverage of sports and foreign news in the Washington Posts.
- 4:23Speaker 1: They've all but eliminated their sports department, and a lot
- 4:26Speaker 1: of people across the country are lamenting that today that
- 4:29Speaker 1: are in media, if you're on social media, you're seeing
- 4:31Speaker 1: people do it because it feels like everyone worked for
- 4:33Speaker 1: the Washington Post at some point, if you're in print journalism,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and it's disturbing on a lot of levels. First of all,
- 4:38Speaker 1: I think we need I think we need that in
- 4:41Speaker 1: our world. I think we need good newspapers. I'm not
- 4:43Speaker 1: Sale Times. It's no secret that we have had not
- 4:47Speaker 1: the best relationship with the Sale Times, upper management shutting
- 4:51Speaker 1: out KJR for the last decade plus for some pettiness
- 4:56Speaker 1: and frankly that's what it was with Frank Blef and
- 4:57Speaker 1: it was pettiness. But this the Sale Times is an
- 5:00Speaker 1: important piece of what we have in our state, very
- 5:02Speaker 1: important on a lot of levels. I know there's a
- 5:06Speaker 1: distrust in the media these days, and I get that,
- 5:08Speaker 1: but Jeff Bezos involved with the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos
- 5:11Speaker 1: of course also you know, still mister Amazon, even if
- 5:15Speaker 1: it's others that are running it every day. I think
- 5:18Speaker 1: there has to I tweeted this out earlier, and I
- 5:20Speaker 1: just don't I really hate Twitter with a passion. I'm
- 5:23Speaker 1: going to cut back after Super Bowl Week again. But
- 5:26Speaker 1: I think you'd have to be a little concerned if
- 5:28Speaker 1: you're a Seahawks fan or even a Sonics fan, and
- 5:31Speaker 1: you're rooting in quotations for Jeff Bezos to buy one
- 5:36Speaker 1: of those entities.
- 5:37Speaker 3: Either buy the Seahawks.
- 5:38Speaker 1: From Jody Allen and the Allen Group or the Allen
- 5:41Speaker 1: Trust I guess it is, or let's bring back the Sonics.
- 5:45Speaker 1: We all want the Sonics back, absolutely, But boy, I
- 5:49Speaker 1: just think that the optics right now of Bezos run
- 5:53Speaker 1: businesses is awful. And the first thing I would worry about,
- 5:58Speaker 1: Let's go with the football team first. The first thing
- 6:00Speaker 1: I'd worry about with the football team is you've always
- 6:03Speaker 1: done everything first class on and off the field, spare
- 6:07Speaker 1: no expense. You got to fire a coach and pay
- 6:09Speaker 1: him out you don't care, you just do it. And
- 6:12Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm bringing it up since the Paul Allen
- 6:14Speaker 1: era began after Ken Barrins, they've always been first class.
- 6:18Speaker 3: The Seahawks have and.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Great people working in that building, in football operations, in
- 6:25Speaker 1: all the football side, and also on the business side.
- 6:28Speaker 1: I'd be terrified if you're gonna let the Washington Post
- 6:32Speaker 1: rot on a vine and you're gonna cut Amazon employees
- 6:36Speaker 1: in this particular city in the thousands again for the
- 6:39Speaker 1: second time in the last year, right thousands. Like there's
- 6:42Speaker 1: people listening right now that have lost their job to
- 6:45Speaker 1: AI or whatever. I think it's bad Optics, and I
- 6:49Speaker 1: would be worried about the Seahawks. The Sonics maybe not
- 6:51Speaker 1: as much startup group. Other people will be involved. I
- 6:54Speaker 1: don't think he's involved with the Sonics. I'm pretty sure
- 6:56Speaker 1: he's not, But I think it's a red flag. Man
- 7:00Speaker 1: gets a red flag, and I would.
- 7:01Speaker 3: I would.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I can root on a lot of other things people
- 7:04Speaker 1: to buy it than him right now, And I'm talking
- 7:06Speaker 1: about the Seahawks specifically. Soui and I talked about this yesterday.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Nobody thinks are going to come in and fire John
- 7:12Speaker 1: Schneider or anything like that. But they have done things
- 7:15Speaker 1: and done it the right way forever, and change is
- 7:19Speaker 1: always a little bit scary. I would, I just I
- 7:23Speaker 1: just would be uncomfortable with it.
- 7:25Speaker 3: That's all that.
- 7:26Speaker 5: Just.
- 7:26Speaker 1: I need to say that today because I know a
- 7:27Speaker 1: lot of people and there's a lot of people listening
- 7:29Speaker 1: right now that have been affected by the Amazon layoffs locally,
- 7:32Speaker 1: and I know they're not the only company. T Mobile
- 7:34Speaker 1: and Expedia and others have In the last few couple
- 7:36Speaker 1: of weeks. It's been a tough time in our market.
- 7:38Speaker 3: It has been. It's really hard.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Uh.
- 7:40Speaker 1: And and you know the good thing we have going on.
- 7:43Speaker 1: It doesn't get your job, doesn't get you paid, doesn't
- 7:45Speaker 1: get you anything other than the fact that, you know,
- 7:46Speaker 1: the super Bowl and the Seahawks give us a great
- 7:48Speaker 1: distraction and rally our community together. But I don't think
- 7:52Speaker 1: that his his and the other part of it too.
- 7:55Speaker 1: He may not even be interested in moving to Florida.
- 7:59Speaker 1: This is a totally different topic. I'm wondering what a
- 8:03Speaker 1: potential owner for the Seahawks, specifically the basketball team, might
- 8:09Speaker 1: be different. It might be in common already. If we
- 8:13Speaker 1: do impose this so called millionaire's tacks in this state.
- 8:17Speaker 1: A lot of the advantages we have in terms of
- 8:19Speaker 1: acquiring free agents, for example, with both the hockey team
- 8:22Speaker 1: and the football team that have salary caps. That goes away,
- 8:28Speaker 1: that goes away big time. Does that also chase away
- 8:32Speaker 1: a potential owner that could be phenomenal in that regard.
- 8:36Speaker 1: We had a lot of things to think about that
- 8:38Speaker 1: that I don't want to think about. I want to
- 8:41Speaker 1: think strictly about the football team. So we'll do that.
- 8:43Speaker 1: We come back, We'll check in with our buddy Greg
- 8:45Speaker 1: Bell here from Mike McDonald. Get the latest. He is
- 8:48Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Captain Bell will join us coming
- 8:52Speaker 1: up next.
- 8:55Speaker 6: We're keeping you connected to Seahawks football, the latest news
- 8:59Speaker 6: for the twelfth Man as it happens Super Bowl. He's
- 9:03Speaker 6: embedded till Sunday at Super Bowl sixty. Our own insider
- 9:08Speaker 6: Greg Bell on your home for the twelfth Man. Sports
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- 9:15Speaker 3: Now here's ian.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Indeed, our guy Greg Bell will check in with him
- 9:20Speaker 1: in just a couple of seconds down as the Big
- 9:23Speaker 1: Voice guy says. Our insider from the News Tribune is
- 9:25Speaker 1: embedded in San Jose with the Seahawks getting ready for
- 9:28Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty on Sunday. It frankly cannot get here
- 9:34Speaker 1: soon enough. I bet my friend Greg Bell would agree.
- 9:36Speaker 1: How right, sir. What's going on down there?
- 9:39Speaker 7: Oh?
- 9:39Speaker 8: You know, I'm not doing anything, just sleeping in, not.
- 9:44Speaker 6: Much wait, just waiting for the game to start.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Well, there is some hurry up and waiting in this world.
- 9:52Speaker 1: I do know that, but probably not a lot of that.
- 9:54Speaker 1: It's the nice thing with the NFL. It's kind of
- 9:56Speaker 1: button down right when they say, hey, here's the time
- 9:58Speaker 1: news conferences are, that's what time we do things, and
- 10:00Speaker 1: away we go.
- 10:03Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:03Speaker 8: I think I've written fifteen stories in the last two days.
- 10:06Speaker 8: I don't even know what day it is, but they
- 10:10Speaker 8: do in the Seahawks are getting back to football, and
- 10:12Speaker 8: that's the news of the day today. And the pre stuff,
- 10:17Speaker 8: the arrival, the opening night hu ha, the ridiculousness of
- 10:21Speaker 8: people asking Gray's Abel what his investment plan is. And
- 10:25Speaker 8: Sam Darnold is favorite colors. That's now starting to end.
- 10:30Speaker 8: And they went to practice. They're on the way to
- 10:31Speaker 8: practice right now at San Jose State University down the
- 10:34Speaker 8: road from where I'm talking to you right now, and
- 10:36Speaker 8: they're going to get back to a normal cadence from
- 10:39Speaker 8: like a Sunday game, a Wednesday practice, a Wednesday practice
- 10:43Speaker 8: report and injury report, Thursday practice, Tomorrow work on red
- 10:47Speaker 8: zone and third downs, Friday, another practice, the game injury
- 10:51Speaker 8: report will come out Friday. So up to now it's
- 10:54Speaker 8: been nothing what Mike McDonald and his team are used
- 10:57Speaker 8: to doing, and starting to today, it's like, Okay, we've
- 11:01Speaker 8: got a game on Sunday and here comes the normal
- 11:03Speaker 8: Canes and frankly, I'm getting the feeling that these guys
- 11:06Speaker 8: are looking forward to that.
- 11:07Speaker 1: I would have bet so yeah, I would. I would,
- 11:10Speaker 1: I would bet they would be Let me do this.
- 11:12Speaker 1: We got a little clip here, it's about a minute
- 11:14Speaker 1: long with Mike McDonald. You'll hear a familiar voice. His
- 11:16Speaker 1: name might be Greg Bell, answering or asking a follow
- 11:19Speaker 1: up question in that in regards what we're discussing. Here's
- 11:22Speaker 1: here's Mike McDonald starts by talking about Sam Donald's yes,
- 11:26Speaker 1: wait for it oblique.
- 11:28Speaker 9: Well, we'll see today.
- 11:29Speaker 3: We'll see today.
- 11:30Speaker 9: It's definitely gradually increasing by the day, so some days
- 11:36Speaker 9: more than others. But he's in a great spot and
- 11:38Speaker 9: he's really confident. We'll see how today plays out. Not
- 11:42Speaker 9: until you sure how many throws or what percentage of
- 11:45Speaker 9: throws I can't really give you right now standing on the.
- 11:47Speaker 3: Right mike over here on the wall. All right.
- 11:53Speaker 10: Now that you're finding back to the football on the Wednesday,
- 11:56Speaker 10: how much is this going to be a normal Wednesday,
- 11:57Speaker 10: normal Thursday? There quote, did you even adjust with than
- 12:00Speaker 10: that even have your third down is going to be
- 12:03Speaker 10: the same to all?
- 12:04Speaker 3: That is what's different? Right?
- 12:05Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's it'll be consistent like at this point,
- 12:07Speaker 9: we're in a normal cadence. A couple of different variables
- 12:11Speaker 9: in terms of you know, media time, travel on to
- 12:14Speaker 9: a different location, guys are gonna lift after practice. Outside
- 12:18Speaker 9: of that, it's it's it's about as same as as.
- 12:22Speaker 3: You as you'd like. So I think it's a it's
- 12:24Speaker 3: a pretty cool set up.
- 12:25Speaker 10: How much you looking forward to that?
- 12:26Speaker 3: While I'm just we're in it right now. This is great.
- 12:28Speaker 3: I'm loving this. This is awesome. And there you go.
- 12:32Speaker 1: That's great asking the follow up what you're just talking about. Okay,
- 12:36Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to Sam Darling a second. Let
- 12:38Speaker 1: me start back with the with the first thing that
- 12:39Speaker 1: your question to him, and we've asked guys this. You'll
- 12:43Speaker 1: ask guys this. You've been around it. I was there
- 12:45Speaker 1: the last two times. How normal is it? Because my
- 12:49Speaker 1: my sense is it's anything but normal. But how normal?
- 12:52Speaker 1: Can they truly make it?
- 12:55Speaker 6: Well?
- 12:55Speaker 3: Once they get on the field.
- 12:56Speaker 8: It's what these guys have done since they were five
- 12:58Speaker 8: years old, and once they practice, still practice, and now
- 13:01Speaker 8: the practices will be different. They will they're in pads today,
- 13:05Speaker 8: for instance, for the first time in two weeks, so
- 13:08Speaker 8: this is what they're used to doing. It'll just be
- 13:12Speaker 8: a condensed version of it. The heavy lifting of the
- 13:14Speaker 8: game plan was done back in renting last week, so
- 13:17Speaker 8: they're not putting in the game plan. They're just refining
- 13:20Speaker 8: and rehearsing it. But that's unusual in itself that you
- 13:24Speaker 8: have two weeks to prepare one game plan for one
- 13:27Speaker 8: game and now they're just I remember Mike Honggan telling
- 13:30Speaker 8: me back when they were two thousand and five Super
- 13:32Speaker 8: Bowl two thousand five season in Detroit against Pittsburgh how
- 13:37Speaker 8: they had never gone through And same with his Packers.
- 13:39Speaker 8: Team's never gone through a game plan. More often than
- 13:42Speaker 8: for the Super Bowl. You put it in before you leave,
- 13:44Speaker 8: you've gone through it two or three times there. You
- 13:47Speaker 8: come back to the Super Bowl site, you do it
- 13:49Speaker 8: on Wednesday, you do it on Thursday, you're doing on Friday.
- 13:52Speaker 8: Usually when you have Sunday to Sunday games, you're doing
- 13:54Speaker 8: the game plan as you go up to Friday. And
- 13:56Speaker 8: that Mike McDonald says he's guilty of changing the game
- 13:59Speaker 8: plan on Sunday morning. Not so much here, and that's different.
- 14:04Speaker 8: That's going to help Sam Donald in the offense, Donald
- 14:07Speaker 8: in particular the defense knowing the game plan. I mean
- 14:10Speaker 8: they've known it now for almost seven days, so that
- 14:13Speaker 8: is different. But these guys have been out of their
- 14:16Speaker 8: element Sunday, Monday, Tuesday here, and now they're going to
- 14:20Speaker 8: be back to being football players.
- 14:21Speaker 1: Let me Greg Bell joining us Tacoma News Tribune. The
- 14:24Speaker 1: News Tribune, make sure you subscribe, make sure you read,
- 14:26Speaker 1: make sure you follow. We'll get to all that before
- 14:28Speaker 1: we're done with Greg. We appreciate him jumping on.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Greg.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Let's go to the question that he answered right before
- 14:34Speaker 1: your question there about the normal week. I'm a little
- 14:38Speaker 1: surprised that we're talking about Donald's oblique. Still it's been
- 14:44Speaker 1: a few weeks now. He seems to look fine when
- 14:46Speaker 1: he has played the last couple of games. But what
- 14:49Speaker 1: are you thinking? Hearing reading into what he said.
- 14:53Speaker 8: That it still is lingering, and this oblique issue is
- 14:56Speaker 8: not going away, and it won't go away until he's
- 14:59Speaker 8: got to be on a be somewhere for three or
- 15:01Speaker 8: four weeks after the season ends. And he hasn't had
- 15:05Speaker 8: the opportunity to shut it down until now. He had
- 15:08Speaker 8: to play two days after the injury. He played the
- 15:10Speaker 8: divisional game against the forty nine ers. Then they barely
- 15:14Speaker 8: threw him at all. He barely threw it all before
- 15:16Speaker 8: the NFC Championship game, then had to play in the
- 15:18Speaker 8: championship game again. A guy with an oblique injury in football,
- 15:22Speaker 8: every time he gets touched, heck, every time it takes
- 15:25Speaker 8: a direct snap and it thuds into his arms.
- 15:27Speaker 3: You feel that.
- 15:28Speaker 8: And then when you get the rams front chasing after
- 15:31Speaker 8: you hitting you, I know they didn't sack him a bunch,
- 15:33Speaker 8: but they hit him and he hit the ground. That
- 15:36Speaker 8: didn't feel too pleasant. And that is shut down here.
- 15:41Speaker 8: Since January twenty fifth, whenever the NFC Championship game is
- 15:43Speaker 8: that has been the big benefit. Arnold said that getting
- 15:46Speaker 8: that week off is where he wasn't even throwing last
- 15:49Speaker 8: week much at all except flipping passes the Cooper Cup
- 15:52Speaker 8: in to start a practice, then coming down here and
- 15:54Speaker 8: doing nothing related to football since Sunday. Really they were
- 15:57Speaker 8: out a little bit on the field Monday, completely off
- 16:00Speaker 8: of football yesterday Tuesday. He said, it's really helped him.
- 16:04Speaker 8: He said, what also has helped him is that he
- 16:06Speaker 8: slept a lot. People forget this is not Sam Donald's
- 16:09Speaker 8: first super Bowl. It's his first super Bowl as the starter.
- 16:13Speaker 8: But he in the end of the twenty twenty three
- 16:15Speaker 8: season was the backup to Brock Party when they went
- 16:17Speaker 8: to the Super Bowl against Patrick Mahomes's Chiefs. The super
- 16:21Speaker 8: Bowl that the Chiefs won, the twenty five to twenty
- 16:23Speaker 8: two Party was the starter, and Donald was here at
- 16:26Speaker 8: the Super Bowl for that. And he said what he
- 16:28Speaker 8: took from that and learned from it was you got
- 16:30Speaker 8: to sleep on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, get a ton of sleep,
- 16:34Speaker 8: because then you're not.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Gonna be able to sleep.
- 16:36Speaker 8: You get too hyped up for the game, you stay
- 16:38Speaker 8: up late reviewing the game plan, you start waking up
- 16:41Speaker 8: early for meetings on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So Donald
- 16:46Speaker 8: said he's gotten a ton of sleep since the team
- 16:48Speaker 8: got here on Sunday to San Jose, and he in
- 16:51Speaker 8: that way feels as refreshed. I'm writing about that right
- 16:54Speaker 8: now for the story I'm about to put on the
- 16:55Speaker 8: news sugre in dot com.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Actually Greg Bell joining us.
- 17:00Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there's no way he would be one
- 17:02Speaker 1: hundred percent like he said, But there's probably I'm gonna guess,
- 17:05Speaker 1: out of fifty three players in the active roster on
- 17:08Speaker 1: both seats, so one hundred and six guys total, there's
- 17:11Speaker 1: probably maybe two that feel okay right now, right, Yeah.
- 17:14Speaker 8: Jason Jason Myers is the only healthy player on the
- 17:17Speaker 8: Seahawks roster.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Yeah, more so than Dixon. Dixon hasn't had as much work.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Dixon.
- 17:24Speaker 6: He does a few things.
- 17:25Speaker 8: He actually runs down the field a little bit after
- 17:26Speaker 8: he does. Yeah, I know, the punter and the kicker maybe,
- 17:33Speaker 8: But other than that, everybody is in some shade or
- 17:35Speaker 8: state of car crash.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Well. I think you know one thing that I find
- 17:39Speaker 1: interesting about this because it's two new teams in the
- 17:41Speaker 1: Super Bowl and we're hearing you know, I don't know
- 17:43Speaker 1: what you're hearing down there from you know, some of
- 17:44Speaker 1: the other media that are covering out at where the
- 17:47Speaker 1: Seahawks are. You know, the the lack of excitement or
- 17:51Speaker 1: juice nationally for this game, which is laughable because it'll
- 17:54Speaker 1: still have a zillion people watching it to be the
- 17:56Speaker 1: most watched broadcast or.
- 17:58Speaker 3: Show of the year on TV.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Buy a landslide, it's still huge and all those things,
- 18:03Speaker 1: but you know, the lack of you know, there's no
- 18:05Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes, right, there's no whatever.
- 18:08Speaker 3: If you want to I don't, I don't know.
- 18:10Speaker 1: To me, Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia isn't the sexiest team
- 18:12Speaker 1: in the world, but I guess maybe because on the
- 18:14Speaker 1: East Coasts they are. But I think it speaks something
- 18:16Speaker 1: greg about how hard it is to get here. We
- 18:19Speaker 1: discussed this yesterday, but also how hard it is to
- 18:21Speaker 1: get back, because when you're playing twenty games or so
- 18:27Speaker 1: in a course of a year of football, that's a
- 18:29Speaker 1: lot that I can so I guess I bring that
- 18:32Speaker 1: up for this reason. There has to be a sense
- 18:34Speaker 1: of urgency there, and especially if they've talked to the
- 18:36Speaker 1: guys that were part of the twenty twelve, twenty thirteen,
- 18:39Speaker 1: twenty fourteen teams, right, like, there's no guarantee you get
- 18:41Speaker 1: back next year, especially in the Division you play. And
- 18:44Speaker 1: part of it is because what you just said, we're
- 18:46Speaker 1: talking about health. We're talking about how these guys just
- 18:48Speaker 1: get beat up and playing a seventeen game schedule, even
- 18:50Speaker 1: if you don't play in the preseason. Seventeen games plus one,
- 18:54Speaker 1: two or three or plus two or three more, that's
- 18:56Speaker 1: a that's a lot on a person's body.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
- 19:00Speaker 8: And and I started covering Super Bowls in two thousand
- 19:03Speaker 8: and two of the Rams Patriots, the first Tom Brady Championship.
- 19:08Speaker 8: And every time I come to a Super Bowl, both
- 19:10Speaker 8: teams get asked questions about what or thinking is Wow,
- 19:15Speaker 8: they're going to be here forever. This is the beginning
- 19:17Speaker 8: of a dynasty. This is the beginning of a run
- 19:19Speaker 8: of multiple Super Bowls. Someone asked Mike McDonald about an
- 19:23Speaker 8: hour ago, what are you learning right now that you'll
- 19:25Speaker 8: take when you get back here? And I thought to myself,
- 19:28Speaker 8: what is he talking about when you get back here?
- 19:30Speaker 8: This is the exception, not the rule. That it is
- 19:34Speaker 8: very The NFL legislates against this coming back here. They
- 19:39Speaker 8: have the draft, they have a salary cap, they have
- 19:41Speaker 8: the scheduling or the first place teams play first place
- 19:44Speaker 8: teams in the last place teams played last place teams. Hell,
- 19:48Speaker 8: the Jacksonville Jaguars host the playoff game this year. Cleveland
- 19:52Speaker 8: Browns might be here next year, for all we know.
- 19:54Speaker 8: That's the way the league wants it, and they actually
- 19:56Speaker 8: legislated that way.
- 19:57Speaker 3: So it is against the Norman. In fact, dam impossible
- 20:00Speaker 3: to get back to the Super.
- 20:01Speaker 8: Bowl multiple years, which has been so impressive that the
- 20:03Speaker 8: teams are dead it, including those Seahawks teams back to back.
- 20:06Speaker 8: But yeah, the Seahawks are the third youngest team in
- 20:09Speaker 8: the league. Yeah, they have sixty nine million or whatever
- 20:12Speaker 8: it is in cap space, third most in the league
- 20:13Speaker 8: for twenty twenty six. Yeah, they have a solid nucleus
- 20:17Speaker 8: of an offensive line and a twenty eight year old
- 20:19Speaker 8: quarterback and all of that Jackson Smith and jigb was
- 20:22Speaker 8: like sixteen years old, and as the eight Enendred yards
- 20:25Speaker 8: and all of that, the defense and Ernest Jones is
- 20:28Speaker 8: still only twenty six and all of it is in
- 20:30Speaker 8: place for them to be here time and the time again,
- 20:33Speaker 8: and it just doesn't happen.
- 20:35Speaker 5: And this is and I.
- 20:38Speaker 8: Think Mike McDonald appreciates that enough because he had some
- 20:41Speaker 8: really stud Baltimore Ravens teams Yeah, that only made sporadic
- 20:45Speaker 8: Super bowls as good as they were, especially on defense,
- 20:48Speaker 8: as good as Lamar Jackson was as an MVP. How
- 20:51Speaker 8: many Super Bowls did they go to? So it's hard,
- 20:55Speaker 8: as you know, it's hard to get here, but damn
- 20:57Speaker 8: it's even harder to come back. And Seahawks fans, the
- 21:02Speaker 8: Seahawks themselves, I think they get that. I know the
- 21:04Speaker 8: Seahawks themselves get it how difficult it is to get here.
- 21:07Speaker 8: And they are not at all taken for granted what
- 21:10Speaker 8: they're doing, that they are here and that they certainly
- 21:12Speaker 8: aren't expecting to be back next year.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Well, I think, and I'm glad you brought that up,
- 21:16Speaker 1: because I think that is that's a big part of it.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And you know, somebody asked me that works in sports
- 21:22Speaker 1: in this market, for elsewhere, not with the Seahawks, is
- 21:25Speaker 1: there The question was this was it might have been
- 21:29Speaker 1: right as they were, well, they already clinched the playoff spot.
- 21:31Speaker 3: I think it might even before they were the number
- 21:33Speaker 3: one seed.
- 21:34Speaker 1: But they brought up, hey, is it the same juice
- 21:38Speaker 1: now that there was in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen,
- 21:41Speaker 1: like amongst the fan base, And I remember thinking to myself.
- 21:45Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Hard for me to answer. I think when you work,
- 21:48Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we talked to listeners here, from
- 21:49Speaker 1: people every day. You hear from readers every day and
- 21:51Speaker 1: things like that. But I didn't really know the answer,
- 21:56Speaker 1: and I brought that up. I don't know what the
- 21:58Speaker 1: answer is, but there should be because it's been a
- 22:01Speaker 1: long time and it's hard to get there, and fifty
- 22:03Speaker 1: years of a franchise, this is only the fourth time
- 22:05Speaker 1: that they've been to this level, by the way. I'm
- 22:08Speaker 1: just I mean, you talked about the Baltimore Ravens like
- 22:11Speaker 1: they haven't been there with Lamar, right, Like they yeah,
- 22:14Speaker 1: they haven't even been there.
- 22:16Speaker 3: Like that's that's crazy.
- 22:17Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, I mean, I'm looking through
- 22:19Speaker 1: because I know they haven't won it. Kansas City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
- 22:23Speaker 1: Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New England. Those are
- 22:26Speaker 1: the teams that have been there recently, since since Lamar
- 22:28Speaker 1: came into the league, you know. I mean, it's it's hard, hard,
- 22:32Speaker 1: hard to get there along the way, and I and
- 22:35Speaker 1: then you've got to stay healthy and you got to
- 22:36Speaker 1: hope for everything's working out. Let me ask you, Greg
- 22:39Speaker 1: Bell joining US News Tribune Health Aside, what would be
- 22:44Speaker 1: when you talk to the Seahawks players, when you're out
- 22:47Speaker 1: there with these guys, what's the biggest concern that they have.
- 22:52Speaker 1: Because most of us believe roster to roster Seattle is
- 22:54Speaker 1: a better football team, but we also know this is
- 22:57Speaker 1: one of those sports where that doesn't always matter. What
- 23:00Speaker 1: is the biggest concern Seattle has going into this game?
- 23:04Speaker 8: One turning the ball over the Seahawks. Don't think the
- 23:08Speaker 8: Patriots can drive the field on him. I'm talking seventy
- 23:11Speaker 8: five yards after a kickoff or a punt. Don't give
- 23:15Speaker 8: the Patriots a short field where the defense has no
- 23:17Speaker 8: choice but to give up points because they're getting the
- 23:19Speaker 8: ball first intend. The Patriots are getting first intend at
- 23:22Speaker 8: the plus twenty. The second thing that concerns them if
- 23:26Speaker 8: there's an even playing field without turnovers. The other big
- 23:29Speaker 8: thing is Drake may running the ball. They haven't played
- 23:32Speaker 8: a quarterback that runs like this this year. Yeah, they
- 23:35Speaker 8: played Baker Mayfield, who got outside and extended plays and
- 23:38Speaker 8: heard him for thirty eight points with playground passes. Drake
- 23:41Speaker 8: Mayo put the ball under his arm and go. Heisman
- 23:43Speaker 8: Trophy guys. He hurt his shoulder in the AFC Title game,
- 23:47Speaker 8: stiff arming a defensive guy in the fourth quarter in
- 23:50Speaker 8: the snow. So he will tuck the ball and just
- 23:52Speaker 8: truck dudes. And as an athlete. John Schneider last week
- 23:56Speaker 8: said the GMS when he was talking to us, said,
- 24:00Speaker 8: Drake May is a running backer, can also throw. He
- 24:02Speaker 8: wasn't trying to install his passing. He was complimenting what
- 24:06Speaker 8: a great runner he is. The Seahawks haven't faced that
- 24:09Speaker 8: this year. They've had trouble with containing quarterbacks and getting
- 24:12Speaker 8: outside like the Baker Mayfield game. They've gonna have big
- 24:15Speaker 8: problems if they let Drake Make get outside because the
- 24:17Speaker 8: Patriots will just see that and start calling design runs
- 24:20Speaker 8: for the quarterback even if his shoulder is a little bang.
- 24:23Speaker 8: This is the Super Bowl and I think the Patriots'
- 24:25Speaker 8: best chance to win is Drake May around right end,
- 24:28Speaker 8: Drake May around left end, Drake make quarterback draw. They're
- 24:32Speaker 8: spending a ton of time on their game plan down
- 24:34Speaker 8: here this week about that.
- 24:36Speaker 1: I trust though, in Mike McDonald and trust in that defense,
- 24:40Speaker 1: Adam Derdey and what they have on the up in
- 24:43Speaker 1: that front seven. But yeah, that's that's the intangible. If
- 24:46Speaker 1: you haven't seen that, it's interesting the challenges every week
- 24:49Speaker 1: because you know, for the last few weeks they've been
- 24:52Speaker 1: guys like Puka Nikua and DeVante Adams, Like there's no
- 24:56Speaker 1: I mean, all due respect to Stefan Diggs, like they
- 24:59Speaker 1: don't have that on this team, Like they don't have
- 25:02Speaker 1: those dudes on the outside. Hunter Henry's okay, good player,
- 25:06Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's probably he would be in the
- 25:09Speaker 1: mix if he was playing with the Rams.
- 25:10Speaker 3: They've got those kinds of guys.
- 25:12Speaker 1: They've got two powerful running backs, but they don't have
- 25:15Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, if you get my point. But Stafford and
- 25:19Speaker 1: purty Perty could run a little bit, but that's just
- 25:21Speaker 1: pure scramble. Stafford no, So yeah, that's a totally different beast.
- 25:26Speaker 1: And they've seen the last couple and really not the
- 25:28Speaker 1: last it's the last three weeks. I keep forgetting. We
- 25:30Speaker 1: had the two game series with the San Francisco forty
- 25:32Speaker 1: nine ers along.
- 25:33Speaker 11: The way exactly exactly the mini series, And to me,
- 25:39Speaker 11: the Steahawks have a decisive advantage with their offense, with
- 25:43Speaker 11: their defense against the Patriots offense, and they have an
- 25:46Speaker 11: absolutely decisive.
- 25:47Speaker 8: Advantage in special teams, Rashid Shaheed has a chance to
- 25:51Speaker 8: maybe be the Super Bowl MVP, changing the field and
- 25:54Speaker 8: flipping the field in the field position and perhaps scoring
- 25:57Speaker 8: in this game like he has in some of the
- 25:59Speaker 8: bigger elements of his half season with the team. But
- 26:03Speaker 8: if you're a dominant I mean, they're clearly superior to
- 26:05Speaker 8: their defense against the New England offense and in special teams,
- 26:10Speaker 8: if you're better than two of the three phases, you're
- 26:13Speaker 8: going to win that game.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:14Speaker 8: If they don't, if they don't turn the ball over,
- 26:16Speaker 8: I think they win by three touchdowns.
- 26:19Speaker 3: All right?
- 26:20Speaker 1: Uh quickly checking Mike smallclomby Casino Sports out for Rashid,
- 26:24Speaker 1: you heat MVP odds. I agree with you, though, I
- 26:30Speaker 1: think I mean you saw the respect. We saw the
- 26:33Speaker 1: respect the Rams had for him last week. Yep, Like
- 26:35Speaker 1: they didn't want any They had the old thicker kicker
- 26:38Speaker 1: kicking it into the end zone every single time. They
- 26:40Speaker 1: wanted no part of that action, Like zero part of
- 26:42Speaker 1: that action.
- 26:43Speaker 8: A lot of teams have done that this year against
- 26:45Speaker 8: the Seahawks. They don't care about drive starts to thirty
- 26:48Speaker 8: five because they don't want to kick it to she heat.
- 26:50Speaker 1: You know, weird in a subpar draft, you're trading mid
- 26:52Speaker 1: mid round draft picks. Didn't seem to hurt them too much?
- 26:55Speaker 3: Will it? All of them?
- 26:57Speaker 8: They they're not missing, they're not missing two third day
- 27:00Speaker 8: picks and having Rashii.
- 27:02Speaker 1: That guy Rashichi, he's not sitting there on day three.
- 27:05Speaker 3: I'm just.
- 27:08Speaker 1: He's not hanging out on day three, house and one.
- 27:10Speaker 3: In in an important game.
- 27:11Speaker 1: All right, you know you interesting?
- 27:13Speaker 8: He told me a half hour ago. I was talking
- 27:15Speaker 8: about Weaver State. Weaver State was the only school that
- 27:18Speaker 8: offered him.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Can you believe that?
- 27:19Speaker 3: Wow?
- 27:20Speaker 8: Only school, I said, I said, any D twos even
- 27:22Speaker 8: D three?
- 27:22Speaker 6: Nope?
- 27:23Speaker 8: Is it was Weaver State? Or I was going to
- 27:25Speaker 8: a junior college. Now he's in the Super Bowl as
- 27:27Speaker 8: an All Pro Pro Bowl kick returner.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Well, we talked to coach Samberg, govern Spotkane. How'd you
- 27:32Speaker 1: miss Rashichi? He man, that guy would have been okay
- 27:34Speaker 1: at the Fine Bowl. I don't know if that was
- 27:35Speaker 1: going on. It's going out in central Washington, all right.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Uh.
- 27:38Speaker 1: We was a good soul. That's a that's a hidden
- 27:40Speaker 1: gem in the big sky, like Weaver State. I'm the
- 27:42Speaker 1: former voice of them on occasion. So I'm a big
- 27:44Speaker 1: big Weavers. Even though I had to wear purple. Didn't
- 27:46Speaker 1: like that, but it was okay, okay, what's that? Yeah
- 27:50Speaker 1: it's great, little good, little stadium. Yeah, not bad. All right, Greg,
- 27:54Speaker 1: what are you working on for the New Stribune.
- 27:57Speaker 8: I'm finishing the story right now about Sam Donald getting
- 28:00Speaker 8: more sleep, feeling healthier. His first question he got was vindication.
- 28:03Speaker 8: Then you feel vindicated from the Jets and everybody giving
- 28:06Speaker 8: up on you. And he's like, man, I'm just happy
- 28:08Speaker 8: my week feels better and I'm sleeping a lot. And
- 28:12Speaker 8: he has been consistent this whole season of not taking
- 28:15Speaker 8: victory laps on the teams like the Jets and the
- 28:17Speaker 8: Panthers that dumped them. He said he's taken things of
- 28:21Speaker 8: learned from it. He said he matured he was too
- 28:23Speaker 8: hard on himself when he was with the Jets, with
- 28:25Speaker 8: all the failures he's had, he was blaming himself. He
- 28:28Speaker 8: said he took some Jerry Rice knowledge about not every
- 28:31Speaker 8: practice has to be perfect, not every game is going
- 28:33Speaker 8: to be perfect. He said he took him till he
- 28:35Speaker 8: was in his mid twenty three years old to figure
- 28:38Speaker 8: that out.
- 28:38Speaker 3: After a couple of field season with the Jets. I'm
- 28:40Speaker 3: right about that.
- 28:41Speaker 8: We're gonna write about Grey's Abel and Jalen Sondell. They
- 28:44Speaker 8: thought it was cool to be walking out on the
- 28:46Speaker 8: field in the preseason in August and Bloomenfield together is
- 28:49Speaker 8: North Dakota State teammates. They think it's primarily damn cool
- 28:53Speaker 8: that they're at the super Bowl together.
- 28:55Speaker 4: They were used to be roommates watching.
- 28:57Speaker 8: And he's told me that they watched super Bowls together.
- 29:00Speaker 8: They had catered foo because they didn't want to cook,
- 29:03Speaker 8: and they used to watch conference title games and two
- 29:05Speaker 8: different floors of their apartment because they were for two
- 29:08Speaker 8: different teams, banging on the walls and things like that.
- 29:10Speaker 3: And here they are playing in the super Bowl. Pretty
- 29:12Speaker 3: cool story. I stoked about that.
- 29:13Speaker 1: Pretty damn cool story. All right, we'll look for that
- 29:16Speaker 1: news tribute. Thank you, sir, Well, check in with you
- 29:18Speaker 1: tomorrow and to hear you in the morning now with
- 29:19Speaker 1: the morning guys as well.
- 29:20Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate.
- 29:21Speaker 8: Thanks Ian.
- 29:22Speaker 3: There you go. That is Greg Bell.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Love having him be part of the team and helping
- 29:26Speaker 1: us out down there in the Super Bowl with great
- 29:28Speaker 1: insight on what's going on down there with the Seahawks
- 29:31Speaker 1: inside embedded our guy Greg Bell. All right, let me
- 29:34Speaker 1: break do a quick daily power please we come back
- 29:36Speaker 1: and then looking for I've been looking forward to this
- 29:38Speaker 1: since the Seahawks clinched. We get tech to talk to
- 29:40Speaker 1: Mike Hombren, super Bowl winning coach, super Bowl Week two
- 29:44Speaker 1: o'clock coming up.
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- 30:35Speaker 1: All right, is the daily power play in your home
- 30:37Speaker 1: for the Crack at ninety three point three kJ r
- 30:40Speaker 1: f M. We trade in the National Hockey League.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Today involving one of the teams that are playing tonight.
- 30:49Speaker 3: Unfortunately not the Cracker. Correct.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Seattle is in l A and I have to take
- 30:53Speaker 1: on the Los Angeles Kings seven ish face off. Some
- 31:01Speaker 1: sort of ceremony going on there.
- 31:03Speaker 3: Whatever Olympics send off. Okay, every team's done it too.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Anaheim did it last night.
- 31:11Speaker 2: We did it like in our last game, last home
- 31:14Speaker 2: game before the break against the Vegas.
- 31:19Speaker 1: No, I don't remember that. Was it Islanders or not Islander?
- 31:22Speaker 1: Who was a game?
- 31:24Speaker 2: Oh?
- 31:24Speaker 3: Okay, maybe we Maybe I just missed it. Maybe maybe
- 31:26Speaker 3: it was a game that we didn't brought you. Yeah,
- 31:28Speaker 3: maybe as a national team.
- 31:29Speaker 1: That might have been hanging out the queen An Beer
- 31:31Speaker 1: Hall a little long before the game.
- 31:33Speaker 3: Nevertheless.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Yeah, well about seven to fifteen face off tonight, So
- 31:37Speaker 1: extended pregame coverage with your friend Anderson Hurst.
- 31:39Speaker 3: Oh yes, right here on nine three point three away
- 31:41Speaker 3: right now?
- 31:43Speaker 1: Are Timmy Paneren traded by the New York Rangers to
- 31:45Speaker 1: the LA Kings today. That's a significant move helps the
- 31:49Speaker 1: Kings who are in a battle for a playoff spot
- 31:51Speaker 1: with your Seattle Kraken. Paneren comes in thirty three years old,
- 31:53Speaker 1: nineteen goals, thirty eight assists, fifty seven points. That would
- 31:57Speaker 1: put him in the scoring race twenty fourth in the
- 31:59Speaker 1: scoring in the National Hockey League. I mean he's twentieth
- 32:03Speaker 1: in the cysts. I mean he's had a really good year.
- 32:06Speaker 1: He helps them, for sure. I think there's some frustration
- 32:11Speaker 1: amongst kracking fans here and I get it.
- 32:14Speaker 3: I'm on text thread with some of them that are frustrated.
- 32:18Speaker 1: I don't know. I think with Seattle, Thomas Drants from
- 32:22Speaker 1: the Athletic had a great point today.
- 32:24Speaker 3: He's so right.
- 32:25Speaker 1: With the NHL, more than any other league, puts power
- 32:28Speaker 1: in the player's hands in terms of trades. The no
- 32:31Speaker 1: trade clause or no movement clause or the restriction of
- 32:34Speaker 1: where you can get traded to. I think it exists
- 32:37Speaker 1: a little bit in baseball, right, a little bit.
- 32:39Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no there's no trade clauses, but it's not
- 32:42Speaker 2: to the extent of that.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Like every Tom Dick and Harry in the NHL seems
- 32:45Speaker 1: to have one of these, and you can really dictate
- 32:47Speaker 1: where you go. And I guess good for them. But
- 32:50Speaker 1: people are like, oh wow, you know Seattle, they even try.
- 32:53Speaker 1: I'm sure Seattle was in on those conversations. In fact,
- 32:55Speaker 1: I know they were because it's been reported Elliott Freeven
- 32:58Speaker 1: and others. Yes, is is the player has to want
- 33:02Speaker 1: to go to wherever he gets traded if you're on
- 33:03Speaker 1: that list, and there's probably like twenty five teams that
- 33:06Speaker 1: he didn't want to go to, or maybe more.
- 33:09Speaker 3: Supposedly, he only wanted to go La.
- 33:11Speaker 1: And I think that's because his wife is big in
- 33:13Speaker 1: the fashion world or industry some sort. And that kind
- 33:17Speaker 1: of narrows it down to probably the New York metro area.
- 33:19Speaker 1: And there's three teams there and the Devils aren't adding
- 33:23Speaker 1: and the Rangers are demolishing Islanders who wants to play there?
- 33:28Speaker 1: And then La Right, yeah, well, so that's not a
- 33:32Speaker 1: slight on Seattle. I just I know sometimes people get all,
- 33:36Speaker 1: you know, upset, Oh they want to come here. What's
- 33:38Speaker 1: wrong with the cruckt or what's wrong with us? Or
- 33:39Speaker 1: what's wrong on this? The same thing in baseball we
- 33:41Speaker 1: go through this every year with Nick fill in the
- 33:43Speaker 1: blank of the Japanese player that we think we're going
- 33:45Speaker 1: to get Every year at the Marigers they don't get
- 33:47Speaker 1: right and then and then we blame the team like
- 33:51Speaker 1: Jerry and John and Justin they didn't get the guy
- 33:53Speaker 1: to come here. If you have a choice, Seattle may
- 33:57Speaker 1: not be wait for it, your first choice to come.
- 34:00Speaker 1: So we should have inherent advantages, which I mentioned earlier
- 34:03Speaker 1: in the first seg of the show, could go away,
- 34:05Speaker 1: and that would be no state income tax. You want
- 34:08Speaker 1: to start taxing millionaires in this state? That's going to
- 34:12Speaker 1: take an advantage of a way you have in baseball, football,
- 34:14Speaker 1: and hockey in our state. That's just that's the reality
- 34:18Speaker 1: of it. But we also don't have, in the perception
- 34:21Speaker 1: of many, the best weather in the world. We have
- 34:24Speaker 1: other issues going on in the city. Yeah, there's a
- 34:27Speaker 1: lot of things going on. But I love it here.
- 34:29Speaker 1: I moved back here for a reason, and I think
- 34:32Speaker 1: as word gets around, I think we'll get to the
- 34:34Speaker 1: point where, say, like the football team, this will become
- 34:38Speaker 1: a destination. It'll take a little bit of time.
- 34:41Speaker 2: So my question to you is is how do they
- 34:44Speaker 2: get better?
- 34:45Speaker 10: Then?
- 34:45Speaker 3: How do they add to this team and get more talent?
- 34:48Speaker 1: Well, I think I think we need to come up.
- 34:50Speaker 1: I think we need to have that discussion. If they
- 34:51Speaker 1: get through the trade deadline on what is it, March sixth, Yeah,
- 34:54Speaker 1: and nothing really happens, then I think we have a
- 34:56Speaker 1: serious discussion of what's wrong Until we get to that point.
- 35:01Speaker 1: I mean, listen, they went out. If someone say they overpaid,
- 35:05Speaker 1: I don't know. You look at the salary capways going up.
- 35:07Speaker 1: I don't think they did. For Montour and Stevenson, sure,
- 35:10Speaker 1: and you know Brendon mont Tour is the best example,
- 35:13Speaker 1: like probably the best defenseman on the free agent market
- 35:15Speaker 1: that year. They got him to come here, right, you know, Cebee,
- 35:19Speaker 1: they probably overpaid for. But the guy plays like twenty
- 35:22Speaker 1: five minutes a night, takes every important face off him
- 35:24Speaker 1: or Freddy Gidrou he's your third leading scorer, does a
- 35:28Speaker 1: lot of things defensively that don't go notice. But that
- 35:31Speaker 1: was a good signing and they got you convinced him
- 35:33Speaker 1: to come here too, so you can get guys to
- 35:35Speaker 1: come here. Groovy signed sight unseen, you know. And yeah,
- 35:40Speaker 1: the last couple of years have been great. This year
- 35:41Speaker 1: he's been phenomenal. By the way, did you see his
- 35:44Speaker 1: body language last night?
- 35:45Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 35:45Speaker 4: He was not.
- 35:46Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, I'll be honest with you, I
- 35:48Speaker 1: loved it. I think Grooby has carried the teams on
- 35:51Speaker 1: his backside for a while this year, and he got
- 35:53Speaker 1: no help last night. Those guys took the first two
- 35:55Speaker 1: and a half periods off and he was pissed. Yeah,
- 35:58Speaker 1: and I loved it, and a couple of you want
- 36:00Speaker 1: back for sure.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 36:01Speaker 2: I think the third goal is that the Trouba goal, No,
- 36:06Speaker 2: the one at the beginning of third period. I believe
- 36:08Speaker 2: it was Colorn short side five hole.
- 36:11Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's a tough one.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Yeah, the one that the one he played kind of Yeah,
- 36:15Speaker 1: that puck just bounced over his stick. That was a
- 36:18Speaker 1: bad bounce. Not mu Chicken, that was just a bad bounce.
- 36:21Speaker 3: No.
- 36:21Speaker 1: I want to see Grooby with little red ass. Yeah,
- 36:24Speaker 1: because in that room he is massively respect yes, like
- 36:28Speaker 1: really respected, Stanley Cup winner and so and they very
- 36:31Speaker 1: popular guy. So if he's snapping on guys, that's.
- 36:34Speaker 3: A good thing.
- 36:35Speaker 1: You'll take that tough loss last night, trying to get
- 36:37Speaker 1: me back to the Kings. This is the final game
- 36:38Speaker 1: before the Olympic break. After this, the crack And are
- 36:40Speaker 1: off until February twenty fourth or fifth or.
- 36:44Speaker 3: Something like that. Yeah.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Yeah, next home game Sebruary twenty eighth. We gave tickets
- 36:47Speaker 1: away for that yesterday, A cracking tickets. You say, Okay,
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- 38:32Speaker 1: Michael ran a huge part of our radio station and honestly,
- 38:35Speaker 1: this is the week that really really great to have
- 38:38Speaker 1: Mike on to get his inside. He knows a little
- 38:40Speaker 1: something about this game they call the Super Bowl on Sunday.
- 38:43Speaker 1: He joined us right now to be complaying hotline. Hello, Mike,
- 38:45Speaker 1: how are you good?
- 38:47Speaker 4: How's it going good?
- 38:48Speaker 3: Well?
- 38:48Speaker 5: You got the you picked the short straw.
- 38:51Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't want me there. They were worried about
- 38:54Speaker 1: me and all the trouble I had caused in the
- 38:56Speaker 1: house down there, and you know so so here. No,
- 39:01Speaker 1: we have a little krack in hockey this week. So
- 39:03Speaker 1: we heard our last, our last game tonight before the
- 39:07Speaker 1: Olympic break, So I guess in theory I could have
- 39:10Speaker 1: flown down for a day tomorrow.
- 39:11Speaker 3: But no, all good.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Those guys are holding down the fort. Theyre doing a
- 39:13Speaker 1: great job. And we've got you on right now, which
- 39:16Speaker 1: is even better, which we were loving it, and it's
- 39:18Speaker 1: awesome to have you here. There's a lot I want
- 39:21Speaker 1: to get to game wise and otherwise, but this is why.
- 39:23Speaker 1: And you know, when you and I talk, I think
- 39:25Speaker 1: our listeners, my people listen to this show. They love
- 39:27Speaker 1: getting the insight behind the scenes from Mike Holmgren. Let
- 39:31Speaker 1: me ask you this from your first ever Super Bowl
- 39:36Speaker 1: with the forty nine Ers as an assistant coach, and
- 39:39Speaker 1: I'm just kind of looking back, God, when would that
- 39:41Speaker 1: have been, Mike the ninety.
- 39:43Speaker 5: Ish it was eighty eight.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Eighty eight, nineteen eighty eight, because we.
- 39:48Speaker 5: Went forty nine Ers. We went eighty eight and eighty nine.
- 39:51Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, back to back when yeah, back to.
- 39:54Speaker 5: Ninety film Championship game. We fumbled, but yeah, eighty eight
- 39:58Speaker 5: and eighty nine.
- 39:59Speaker 1: So nineteen eighty eight, you go, forty nine Ers beat
- 40:03Speaker 1: the Bengals in Joe Robbie Stadium, The next year, you
- 40:07Speaker 1: guys beat the Broncos in the super Dome. Guys named
- 40:11Speaker 1: Rice in Montana, by the way, where the MVPs in
- 40:13Speaker 1: those two games. I think they were pretty good at football,
- 40:15Speaker 1: were they?
- 40:15Speaker 6: Not?
- 40:15Speaker 3: Mike there? They're not bad, not bad, not bad.
- 40:18Speaker 5: They listened to coaches.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Then you go in ninety seven and ninety eight is
- 40:23Speaker 1: the head coach of the Packers winning in ninety seven.
- 40:25Speaker 1: We won't worry about ninety eight. And then of course
- 40:27Speaker 1: you took the Seahawks of their first sever Super Bowl
- 40:29Speaker 1: appearance in the two thousand and five season, and now
- 40:32Speaker 1: you've been to a few since then. I know it's
- 40:33Speaker 1: been a few years, but how has it changed since
- 40:36Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eighty eight, Well.
- 40:40Speaker 5: Since nineteen eighty eight, it seems to me that there
- 40:43Speaker 5: is and every year I think they added some things on.
- 40:46Speaker 5: The NFL have made it. The Super Bowl in and
- 40:49Speaker 5: of itself is a big deal. The game, it's just unbelievable.
- 40:55Speaker 5: But the lead up to the game, the days in
- 40:58Speaker 5: the week of the Super Bowl, well, the NFL has
- 41:01Speaker 5: added and added and added, so it's a week long
- 41:04Speaker 5: party for everybody that goes. And I think I've told
- 41:09Speaker 5: you before I have a ticket that they gave us
- 41:14Speaker 5: from the nineteen eighty eight Super Bowl, the nineteen eighty
- 41:17Speaker 5: nine Super so on, and it's in a little thing
- 41:19Speaker 5: you can put on your shelf. And we're looking at
- 41:22Speaker 5: the other day Katin and I and the ticket for
- 41:24Speaker 5: the nineteen eighty eight was like a one hundred and
- 41:26Speaker 5: fifty bucks.
- 41:28Speaker 4: Good.
- 41:29Speaker 5: So do you think that's changed a little bit?
- 41:32Speaker 1: Well, hearing Softy complain and Dick complaining because they're trying
- 41:35Speaker 1: to get tickets down, I think Dick won the lottery
- 41:37Speaker 1: and soft is trying to find tickets. Yeah, I think
- 41:39Speaker 1: it's changed.
- 41:41Speaker 3: A lot.
- 41:43Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing, the football part of it. The
- 41:46Speaker 5: football part of it. I always thought for me it
- 41:49Speaker 5: was the same. Yeah, that you're down there and you
- 41:53Speaker 5: got a lot on your mind and you want to
- 41:55Speaker 5: be the best team you can be on that day,
- 41:58Speaker 5: and that till you go about business.
- 42:02Speaker 3: Mike McDonald talked about it today.
- 42:03Speaker 1: Today's kind of the first day of the you know,
- 42:05Speaker 1: a sense of normalcy. They you know, they got anything
- 42:08Speaker 1: done last week in Seattle, flew down on Sunday.
- 42:10Speaker 3: You've talked about that.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Before you do the heavy lifting the week before when
- 42:13Speaker 1: you're in your own facility, right, you fly down on Sunday,
- 42:16Speaker 1: they live at the airport. Cameras here we are blah
- 42:18Speaker 1: blah blah. Monday, they do the you know, they did
- 42:21Speaker 1: a small walk through Monday at San Jose State and
- 42:24Speaker 1: then they did the nighttime. You know, opening night used
- 42:27Speaker 1: to be media day Tuesdays and off day, although there's
- 42:29Speaker 1: some media availability today. They're back on the field for
- 42:32Speaker 1: a normal Wednesday practice and McDonald talked about that. He goes, yeah,
- 42:36Speaker 1: I'm kind of just excited to get to this point.
- 42:38Speaker 1: I'm assuming you were the same way. Just get me
- 42:39Speaker 1: to the Wednesday where I can just kind of sink
- 42:42Speaker 1: my teeth back into football practice and game planning and
- 42:44Speaker 1: whatever you need to do.
- 42:46Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of the way. That's kind of the
- 42:48Speaker 5: way I looked at it as well, because you're doing
- 42:52Speaker 5: all sorts of things and then but you add the
- 42:54Speaker 5: caveat is then the families come down on Thursday, and
- 42:58Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, a whole new set of
- 43:01Speaker 5: stuff starts to happen and you're doing but you're but
- 43:05Speaker 5: your practice schedules are the same as it would be
- 43:08Speaker 5: at home Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, red Zone. You know, Saturday,
- 43:11Speaker 5: back off, play the game Sunday.
- 43:15Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, he's never been there. Vrabel was there obviously
- 43:19Speaker 1: as a as a player. Uh, it's it's kind of stunning.
- 43:23Speaker 1: I was, I was looking back at this, and you know,
- 43:25Speaker 1: I was talking to Great Bell earlier, Mike, I I
- 43:28Speaker 1: had a double take, and I'm triple taking again, Like
- 43:30Speaker 1: it's weird to think that those those Baltimore teams with
- 43:33Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, they've never been to the super Bowl, but
- 43:34Speaker 1: they could basically, they just couldn't get by Kansas City
- 43:37Speaker 1: for the most part. Yeah, but he's never been there.
- 43:40Speaker 1: As a coach, you went there, and I'm saying even
- 43:42Speaker 1: as a coordinator. You went there as a coordinator. How
- 43:45Speaker 1: much did that prepare you to be a head coach there?
- 43:47Speaker 5: Oh? I think it did. I think it did. And
- 43:49Speaker 5: then also being fortunate to be an assistant coach with
- 43:53Speaker 5: Bill Watshs as the head coach. Yeah, and that the
- 43:55Speaker 5: preparation and how I learned and if nothing else, and
- 44:01Speaker 5: I was a good student, and you know, I kept
- 44:04Speaker 5: notes and I didn't do everything the way he wanted to,
- 44:08Speaker 5: that's clear, but I really learned a lot from him.
- 44:13Speaker 5: So the preparation was good. It was kind of normal. Actually,
- 44:19Speaker 5: now the game itself, the actual game, the first time
- 44:22Speaker 5: you're in it, you're just going wow. I remember walking
- 44:26Speaker 5: out on the field before the game, just going, this
- 44:30Speaker 5: is unbelievable that I'm at the Super Bowl.
- 44:33Speaker 1: I thought the same thing just covering the first one
- 44:36Speaker 1: when I was in New York and I walked in
- 44:38Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, Like this is a little different
- 44:42Speaker 1: than when we were in I'm trying to think what
- 44:45Speaker 1: road games we had that year, whatever road game we
- 44:47Speaker 1: had that year, like you know, Detroit in October. It's
- 44:50Speaker 1: a little different feel, like just a little different feel.
- 44:54Speaker 3: I'm wondering.
- 44:55Speaker 1: You talked about the preparation a lot, and I wondered,
- 44:58Speaker 1: I'm kind of curious about this because football coaches, notoriously,
- 45:03Speaker 1: you guys are so detail orientated. You're so I mean everything,
- 45:09Speaker 1: Like you're preparing for every scenario, right, like everything you
- 45:13Speaker 1: can prepare for every possible situation, whatever plays you have
- 45:18Speaker 1: in maybe you're tweaking them and adding them, and I'll
- 45:20Speaker 1: just I can't relate to being a coach. But I
- 45:22Speaker 1: know maybe I wasn't the best student, but like now,
- 45:25Speaker 1: if I'm doing the play by play, for a cracking game.
- 45:27Speaker 1: And I've found this a couple of times, and I've
- 45:29Speaker 1: got every name and number memorized for the other team,
- 45:32Speaker 1: and I've got two days before the game, and then
- 45:35Speaker 1: I'll end up doing like more game notes and more
- 45:38Speaker 1: notes on play than I never ever use. Almost I
- 45:40Speaker 1: don't know how to say over preparing, But you get
- 45:43Speaker 1: to that point where you're just like, I'm so ready
- 45:45Speaker 1: that I'm now going overboard a little bit.
- 45:48Speaker 3: Is there a.
- 45:48Speaker 1: Tendency for a coach with two weeks to say, okay,
- 45:52Speaker 1: like everything was done last week, but now you start
- 45:54Speaker 1: tweaking stuff and started going a little bit further, and
- 45:57Speaker 1: how do you get away from next? I just looking
- 45:59Speaker 1: at how McDonald is a mad scientist on defense, you
- 46:01Speaker 1: were the mad scientist on offense.
- 46:03Speaker 3: I wonder if that happens.
- 46:05Speaker 5: It absolutely happens. It absolutely happens. And I may have
- 46:09Speaker 5: told you the story on the air before. But Mike
- 46:13Speaker 5: Sherman was was a really good offensive coordinator for me,
- 46:16Speaker 5: and we were putting in plays for the go on
- 46:21Speaker 5: and so we had five plays typically down there and
- 46:24Speaker 5: he came in and goes, Okay, this is a run.
- 46:26Speaker 5: We're going to run. This run and I said, okay, good,
- 46:29Speaker 5: and then he goes, Then he came back the next
- 46:31Speaker 5: day and he said, you know, I want to add
- 46:33Speaker 5: emotion to this. I said okay. They came back the
- 46:38Speaker 5: next day and he goes, we should shift and motion
- 46:41Speaker 5: and then do this. I said, okay, but we're getting
- 46:45Speaker 5: close to the game. And then he came back the
- 46:48Speaker 5: set Saturday before the game goes, you know what, I
- 46:50Speaker 5: had another idea. I said, stop, stop. You know the
- 46:54Speaker 5: one you told me the first day, that's the one
- 46:57Speaker 5: we're going to do the first day. So no, no,
- 47:02Speaker 5: but listen, I was the same way, and I had
- 47:04Speaker 5: to really be careful about not getting too crazy.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Well I'm sure Seaford or Walsh would just say, hey,
- 47:11Speaker 1: coach Homer, just relax, take a deep breath, and then
- 47:14Speaker 1: you're on the other side at some point. That's that's
- 47:16Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about it.
- 47:18Speaker 5: Well, let's tell you the beauty. And you've heard the
- 47:20Speaker 5: story before, the Joe Montana and that in nineteen eighty
- 47:23Speaker 5: eight Super Bowl, we're on the ten yard line, our
- 47:25Speaker 5: own ten. We got to go ninety yards to win
- 47:28Speaker 5: the game, and they're in the huddle and Joe says
- 47:31Speaker 5: to the guys in the huddle. Hey, look over there,
- 47:32Speaker 5: that's John Candy. And he was standing he was standing
- 47:35Speaker 5: behind the huddle on the you know, in the in
- 47:38Speaker 5: the I don't know, in the tunnel, and the guys
- 47:42Speaker 5: are looking at him, Randy crawl. These veteran guys go,
- 47:46Speaker 5: we don't want to know where John Candy is. Let's
- 47:48Speaker 5: get he goes. That's pretty cool. It's John Candy.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Montana was a little bit a little bit too cool then,
- 47:54Speaker 1: is what you're telling me.
- 47:55Speaker 3: He's just gotta he could he.
- 47:57Speaker 5: In the in the toughest situations, and he was at
- 48:01Speaker 5: his very best in the Super Bowls. Yeah, you know,
- 48:04Speaker 5: he just yeah, he shined.
- 48:07Speaker 1: I listen, Sam, Donald's no Joe Montana. But one of
- 48:11Speaker 1: the things, you know, when I've talked to people across
- 48:12Speaker 1: the country and we're doing you know, we do radio
- 48:14Speaker 1: hits for everybody else, like kind of like we have done,
- 48:17Speaker 1: and guys always ask about Donald and said, I think
- 48:19Speaker 1: the one thing that impresses me about Donald is that
- 48:22Speaker 1: and this, maybe Mike you could speak on this as
- 48:24Speaker 1: kind of the quarterback whisper, is that I look a
- 48:27Speaker 1: look at Donald and he doesn't seem to be phased
- 48:31Speaker 1: or bothered by things, if that makes sense, Like if
- 48:33Speaker 1: things go haywire and they do, right, he doesn't go sideways.
- 48:38Speaker 1: He still looks kind of has that same demeanor. Now,
- 48:41Speaker 1: maybe you want a guy that's raw ra and all
- 48:42Speaker 1: fired up or you know what have you. But I
- 48:45Speaker 1: think in a game like this, well, that benefit of
- 48:48Speaker 1: guy like Sam Donald like Okay, you know, I threw
- 48:50Speaker 1: a pick, but I'll come back. That's fine, whatever, we
- 48:51Speaker 1: keep moving on.
- 48:53Speaker 5: You know what, I've seen the same thing from him
- 48:55Speaker 5: in the UF I mean he and that will absolutely
- 48:58Speaker 5: benefit him because a game like this, you're not going
- 49:02Speaker 5: to be perfect. The team's not going to be perfect
- 49:04Speaker 5: the off somebody off line's going to miss a block.
- 49:07Speaker 5: You're gonna get pressured there, there's gonna be a play
- 49:09Speaker 5: where oh boy, that didn't work and if you but
- 49:13Speaker 5: he has shown this season the ability to deal with that.
- 49:18Speaker 5: You know, so many people were talking about that early
- 49:20Speaker 5: ram gaming through the interceptions. Okay, okay, it was done.
- 49:24Speaker 5: That was done. Now look at the games from men on,
- 49:28Speaker 5: you know, and here we are. So it absolutely is
- 49:32Speaker 5: a benefit, and he handles it beautifully.
- 49:34Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 49:35Speaker 1: I just it's kind of remarkable because it's you got
- 49:38Speaker 1: and I'll say, you know, early Russ, like early Russ, Yeah,
- 49:44Speaker 1: vintage Russ. Not Russ that we saw later on, but
- 49:46Speaker 1: earlier Russ guys would talk about that with him too.
- 49:49Speaker 1: He might be the fault at faull of things or whatever.
- 49:52Speaker 1: Things go sideways. He wasn't like you know, even Keel,
- 49:56Speaker 1: but he would be coming in all you know, things
- 49:58Speaker 1: are great, no problem, We're good and just you know,
- 50:00Speaker 1: and you know for a while that can work, but
- 50:03Speaker 1: you've got to have that. I would think as a quarterback,
- 50:04Speaker 1: because it's a super Bowl, stuff's gonna go haywire, right
- 50:07Speaker 1: like stuff will go haywire. How much bigger does it
- 50:10Speaker 1: feel in that game when stuff goes haywire? Do you
- 50:12Speaker 1: just or when you walk on the field they kick
- 50:14Speaker 1: it off, all the light foot bulbs flashed and then
- 50:16Speaker 1: it's first intent of the twenty five yard line. Does
- 50:19Speaker 1: that all go away?
- 50:21Speaker 5: Yeah? At that point or in the first kickoff. Then
- 50:25Speaker 5: as you're progressing the game and things are happening, you know,
- 50:28Speaker 5: I look back and I shame on me, but I
- 50:32Speaker 5: still think about our Pittsburgh super Bowl and there are times, okay,
- 50:38Speaker 5: we're calls going against this room Ball's coming back, we
- 50:42Speaker 5: have a good play comes back, you know, and then
- 50:44Speaker 5: all of a sudden, as the game was progressing, I
- 50:47Speaker 5: didn't feel anything, and he added pressure in the beginning.
- 50:50Speaker 5: But as the game is progressing and you're seeing, okay
- 50:53Speaker 5: that the clock and we're running out of time here
- 50:55Speaker 5: where good things have to happen, then all of a sudden,
- 50:58Speaker 5: you get squeezed a little bit. And and if someone
- 51:02Speaker 5: says they don't, then there I'm telling you the truth,
- 51:04Speaker 5: because that's just human nature.
- 51:08Speaker 3: I'm gonna read ah.
- 51:09Speaker 1: By the way, this is from the four two five
- 51:11Speaker 1: on the text line love coach Hongren. Yeah, we do too,
- 51:13Speaker 1: We love having them on. I saw this though, and
- 51:17Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this. This is when Greg Bell was
- 51:20Speaker 1: on earlier. But I'll ask it to you, coach. It's
- 51:22Speaker 1: kind of tongue in cheek. But maybe not ask Greg Bet.
- 51:26Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Coach Hongron how secure of the Hawks
- 51:28Speaker 1: practices a San Jose State rabel as a cheating coordinator.
- 51:31Speaker 1: We're in the art from Belichick. Wouldn't surprise me if
- 51:33Speaker 1: they paid off the San Jose State staff or for video. Okay,
- 51:37Speaker 1: now listen you and I'm gonna tell people Mike Congrin
- 51:41Speaker 1: was not as paranoid at least here in Seattle, as
- 51:44Speaker 1: a lot of coaches have been past and present. You
- 51:47Speaker 1: were pretty open with practices with all of us. You
- 51:49Speaker 1: would just you also had a trust factor. You'd say, Hey,
- 51:52Speaker 1: if I'm doing something, Seneca, whatever, I'm gonna trust you.
- 51:55Speaker 3: Guys.
- 51:56Speaker 1: Don't don't write that in the newspaper or talk about
- 51:58Speaker 1: on the radio, right like, don't say so you had,
- 52:00Speaker 1: but coaches, by nature, you guys are a little paranoid.
- 52:05Speaker 4: Were you?
- 52:06Speaker 3: Were you at all?
- 52:07Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 52:07Speaker 3: Are at all? Like?
- 52:09Speaker 1: This isn't your facility. You don't control things what you
- 52:11Speaker 1: like if you're putting stuff in. Are you worried?
- 52:14Speaker 5: No, I'm not worried. Then you know when I was worried.
- 52:17Speaker 5: When you go and visit, you going away game and
- 52:21Speaker 5: you practice on Saturday, and there you look up. I
- 52:24Speaker 5: always would look up in the stands and there be
- 52:28Speaker 5: in the some of the press box there'll be a
- 52:30Speaker 5: guy supposedly quote unquote a janitor cleaning it up. Okay,
- 52:36Speaker 5: I didn't believe that for a second. I know he's
- 52:37Speaker 5: watching practice. So during that practice I had four plays
- 52:42Speaker 5: that were just nutty, just motions and reverses and that
- 52:46Speaker 5: we weren't in the game plan, but I wanted that
- 52:49Speaker 5: janitor to write everything down.
- 52:53Speaker 1: Did you ever tell that story to Kathy? What did
- 52:55Speaker 1: she say, Mike, sob it?
- 52:56Speaker 5: No, She goes, well, you were too serious about the stuff.
- 53:00Speaker 5: I said, yeah, I am what.
- 53:06Speaker 1: I think You've talked about this before. But I think
- 53:08Speaker 1: it's interesting because you know, we're all as fans were waiting, like,
- 53:11Speaker 1: just get us to the damn game. It's Wednesday. The
- 53:14Speaker 1: problem is when you get to the game on Sunday.
- 53:17Speaker 1: The normal routine for an NFL team is very specific,
- 53:20Speaker 1: like it's really every player has their own routine, right,
- 53:23Speaker 1: I mean I used to know Russ's like the back
- 53:25Speaker 1: of my hand, like I just in fact, when he
- 53:27Speaker 1: was hurt, a couple of times we knew he was
- 53:28Speaker 1: hurt because at this particular time he wasn't out there
- 53:31Speaker 1: doing stuff and what he normally does. And so everyone
- 53:34Speaker 1: has their routine. The difference is is when the warm
- 53:37Speaker 1: ups and now for the NF for the Super Bowl,
- 53:39Speaker 1: you've got more time to kill in the locker room
- 53:41Speaker 1: before you come back out, and then you have a
- 53:43Speaker 1: longer halftime. How challenging is that that's challenging.
- 53:47Speaker 5: That is one of the things in the game that
- 53:49Speaker 5: you have to talk about with the team. Think about
- 53:51Speaker 5: how you want to do that, think about when you're
- 53:54Speaker 5: going to talk, because it seems like you're in it. Honestly,
- 53:58Speaker 5: I don't know how many minutes they're in there. It
- 54:00Speaker 5: seems like you're in the locker room at halftime a
- 54:02Speaker 5: long time, a long time. Even when you come out
- 54:06Speaker 5: and you come out of the locker room and you're
- 54:08Speaker 5: used to you come out of the locker room, you
- 54:10Speaker 5: do your thing, national anthem or whatever, and then you play.
- 54:14Speaker 5: Not at the super Bowl, they got guys out there
- 54:17Speaker 5: flipping coins. They got it just as longer. So you've
- 54:21Speaker 5: got to keep stretching on the sideline, and at halftime
- 54:26Speaker 5: you have to pace it and pace it and pace it.
- 54:28Speaker 5: And it's hard. That's a real thing.
- 54:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think that's the problem, right, that's just
- 54:34Speaker 1: especially if you have momentum going in at halftime, like
- 54:36Speaker 1: that'd be the hard part, right, Like, if you've got momentum,
- 54:38Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to get that back sometimes. Mike
- 54:41Speaker 1: Homeroom with us, all right, football wise, it feels as
- 54:45Speaker 1: if on paper, whatever position you go by position group.
- 54:48Speaker 1: What have you up and down the lineup that Seattle
- 54:51Speaker 1: is better. You've said it for a long time now,
- 54:53Speaker 1: you thought Seattle would win. You think Seal's going to
- 54:55Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. You said this when they were
- 54:56Speaker 1: in third place in the NFC West and here they
- 54:59Speaker 1: are winning the NFCU West and now in the Super Bowl.
- 55:03Speaker 1: What makes you feel so confident or do you still
- 55:06Speaker 1: feel that confident for Seattle against New England?
- 55:08Speaker 3: And why?
- 55:09Speaker 5: No, I feel as confident. I don't think. I think
- 55:13Speaker 5: it'll be a much closer game than maybe some people think.
- 55:17Speaker 5: I think New England I don't. It's amazing what they've
- 55:21Speaker 5: done to go from three to fourteen to fourteen and three.
- 55:25Speaker 5: It's amazing the turnover there. But they aren't as good
- 55:29Speaker 5: a football team right now as the Seahawks are, I
- 55:32Speaker 5: don't think. And so the young quarterback we asked the
- 55:35Speaker 5: Sea how he handles the best defense in football A
- 55:39Speaker 5: strike against him. But they will play hard, and Rabel's
- 55:42Speaker 5: a good coach and he's done it and they'll play
- 55:44Speaker 5: hard for him, and so I suspect that. I suspect
- 55:48Speaker 5: it'll be a little more low scoring. But I think
- 55:51Speaker 5: the Seahawks are going to win. I really I believe that.
- 55:54Speaker 1: And you've touched on this before. I'll wrap it up
- 55:56Speaker 1: with this. How cool is it for Mike cl Omber
- 55:58Speaker 1: going to see over the years, you know, like you saw,
- 56:01Speaker 1: you've seen Andy have the great success he's had with
- 56:04Speaker 1: his super Bowl championships, with his three titles. But to
- 56:07Speaker 1: see a guy that worked for you and Ron in
- 56:10Speaker 1: Green Bay, to see John Schneider build it up once,
- 56:14Speaker 1: have it come down and then rebuild it again, and
- 56:16Speaker 1: see John in that situation.
- 56:18Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I texted him and I said congratulations.
- 56:21Speaker 5: And when he got that award, and he deserved it,
- 56:25Speaker 5: and he's done a remarkable job he has, and that job,
- 56:29Speaker 5: you know, you know this, that's not easy all the time,
- 56:33Speaker 5: and you have to accept some of the responsibilities, certainly.
- 56:37Speaker 5: But the beauty of the Seahawks right now, one of
- 56:40Speaker 5: the great things is that you have the coach and
- 56:43Speaker 5: the general manager or president you know, on the same page.
- 56:48Speaker 5: And when you have that and no one's pointing that
- 56:52Speaker 5: I get the credit for this, or no one cares
- 56:56Speaker 5: about that. You just care about winning and doing the
- 56:58Speaker 5: best for the city and the player, then you got
- 57:01Speaker 5: something and they have something and John. John's responsible for
- 57:04Speaker 5: a lot of that.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Well, Mike.
- 57:05Speaker 1: That's also what makes me nervous about a new ownership
- 57:08Speaker 1: group coming in as opposed to Jody and everything, because like,
- 57:12Speaker 1: right now they have what you just said, they have
- 57:15Speaker 1: this synergy and she, you know, yeah, she and Mike
- 57:18Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's talked about it. He's in communication every Monday
- 57:20Speaker 1: with Jody and and uh and Schneider is as well.
- 57:23Speaker 1: But then that's a Monday thing and then they move on.
- 57:26Speaker 1: You kind of had that with Paul a little bit.
- 57:27Speaker 1: I think, if I'm not mistaken, Paul would talk to
- 57:29Speaker 1: you, you would explain to it, and then you would move
- 57:31Speaker 1: on and he'd let you do your job. Not every
- 57:33Speaker 1: owner does that. That that that's the one thing that
- 57:34Speaker 1: worries me about this whole ownership situation right now, you
- 57:38Speaker 1: know what.
- 57:38Speaker 5: And that's that's fair because you look around the league
- 57:42Speaker 5: and there are teams that might never get where they're
- 57:47Speaker 5: supposed to be in my opinion, because of the how
- 57:52Speaker 5: the owner decides to handle things, and you know, it's
- 57:57Speaker 5: it's I was fortunate with with Paul. He he go
- 58:00Speaker 5: how much how much money is going to cost me? Now?
- 58:03Speaker 5: But at the end of the day. He give it
- 58:04Speaker 5: to me, you know. And then in San Francisco Eddie
- 58:07Speaker 5: de Barblow with the forty nine ers. He loved his team,
- 58:10Speaker 5: loved his players, but he let Bill, he let the
- 58:12Speaker 5: coaches coach, and he was just the owner. And then
- 58:15Speaker 5: you get now, you get that there are some franchises
- 58:18Speaker 5: that the owner wants to be really involved, really involved.
- 58:21Speaker 5: And he's a brilliant guy. He made a zillion dollars
- 58:24Speaker 5: doing something, but maybe not necessarily coaching football, and so
- 58:28Speaker 5: you know that that is hugely important. And I think
- 58:32Speaker 5: they'll find some I hope they find the right person.
- 58:37Speaker 5: But you're you're being a little wary of that. I
- 58:41Speaker 5: think that's fair.
- 58:42Speaker 1: Sean Smith is a referee for the game two and
- 58:45Speaker 1: oer this year for New England. Is when he was
- 58:46Speaker 1: roughing games.
- 58:48Speaker 5: Oh it's just too bad. Is that ed Alcoli still live?
- 58:51Speaker 5: Maybe they can bring him out and let him. I
- 58:54Speaker 5: was ten against him.
- 58:56Speaker 1: Just want to bring that up. That's all that you
- 58:59Speaker 1: you can talk about. That was softy tomorrow. I don't
- 59:01Speaker 1: even know why I brought that up. I'm not sure why, but.
- 59:03Speaker 5: I know why you brought it up. I was gonna
- 59:05Speaker 5: go take a nap after this. Now I can't. I
- 59:08Speaker 5: want to go.
- 59:08Speaker 1: Coach, Mike, love you having having you on every week, Buddy,
- 59:13Speaker 1: we'll t I think we'll put a rap on the
- 59:14Speaker 1: season next week out and maybe hopefully, hopefully it's a
- 59:17Speaker 1: parade day and we're talking to you.
- 59:19Speaker 6: Then.
- 59:19Speaker 1: All right, my friend, that is Mike Clombrian joining us
- 59:22Speaker 1: here on the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Great having coach on
- 59:26Speaker 1: every Wednesday. Get the text in. So cool to see
- 59:29Speaker 1: people love having I love having him on. I think
- 59:32Speaker 1: people love listening to him as well. I don't know
- 59:36Speaker 1: the officiating it. I don't know why I have to
- 59:37Speaker 1: bring that up, but it just I felt like the
- 59:39Speaker 1: right thing to do, seeing that they're two and oh.
- 59:41Speaker 1: With Sean Smith as a referee this year.
- 59:43Speaker 3: You're doing the John Lund here.
- 59:46Speaker 1: Doing doing God's work as well, doing four nine four
- 59:49Speaker 1: five one. That is a Tacoma Dodge text line. We'll
- 59:51Speaker 1: get your thoughts, your comments, your questions and concerns next.
- 59:58Speaker 3: Now back to you in for next your home for
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: the Twelfth Man, the twelve in the World, and the.
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- 1:00:17Speaker 3: Oh ready then.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: Waste management open week by the way down, Uh Phoenix.
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: Is it always the weak floss? Yeah, it's week of
- 1:00:28Speaker 3: the Super Bowl?
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: God yeah, they always finished.
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: They try to time it up where they finishes right
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: around two o'clock on Super Sunday. We we were down
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: there for the bunch of guys from the station. I
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: think went to it on the Saturday.
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: Oh when when the Super bowls in Arizona? When?
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: Yeah, Super bowls in Arizona. I did not I remember
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: those guys. It was wet and kind of rainy that day.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: I remember, guys, Sam's kind of a nightmare, kind of
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: looks like a Gong show. I'd have to be in
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: a suite. I'm at that point in my life. I'd
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: have to be in a suite. I couldn't just be
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: walking around and dealing with the.
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: High class up to be in the suite, you know,
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: I know, and I hate.
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: I don't like being that guy, But I don't know
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: if I could do I don't know if I could
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: do that anymore, walking around and hang out, Yeah, follow
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: slip on a slip on the grass and come back
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: I I know somebody in my former coast, and I
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: came back all muddy and dirties.
- 1:01:19Speaker 3: I felt that I've actually never been to a PGA.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: Have you been? Have you been to that Bowling Classic?
- 1:01:25Speaker 8: No?
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: Okay, it's fun.
- 1:01:28Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: I think the best part is just even the Bowling Classic.
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: Just go and watch the guys in the range. Yeah,
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: and you just go. God, I suck. She's got him
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: the worst. I can't play at all?
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: Uh?
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: Is that Travis Kelsey playing? Oh my god? I think
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: I just watched Travis kill wow and like stick one.
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: On the green, like, you know, he really must be retiring.
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: Then I hate you really really that he's that good?
- 1:01:54Speaker 4: Is he good?
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Like it was a beautiful ball he struck, like I
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: mean just beautiful trajectory is awesome, Like screw you.
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: It's like Steph Curry just like walking in.
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, here could be on the tour all pro
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: tight ends you're gonna marry Taylor Swift. Yeah yeah, some guys, man, Yeah,
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: some guys have it all right, okay. Text Line four
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- 1:02:30Speaker 1: text line. So he look so forward to coach on
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Wednesday with you best conversation on radio.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I usually don't read those types of ones.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: Want to read that one just because it's not me,
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: it's coach. Coach is phenomenal. He's absolutely phenomenal. Yeah, Marcus Andrews,
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: are we meeting for a beer at the Cracking Canets game?
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: That's the important stuff people want to know.
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: I would love that, Marcus. Does that mean we're going
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: to the queen A beer hop beforehand?
- 1:02:52Speaker 3: February twenty eighth. Yeah, what day of the week is that? Well? See, uh,
- 1:02:56Speaker 3: you know how old my son is at that point.
- 1:03:00Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're gonna be yeah, I might be able
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: to sneak out.
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: That's a Saturday. You might have two weeks in on that. Yeah,
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: she's doing the fourteenth. Yeah you might be okay. Yeah,
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: I think you're okay.
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it should be good you have a
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: sneak out, you know.
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: Let's see, let's see what else we got going on here?
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: Ian's from Jeremy Ian Weo. You were talking about Blue
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: Friday going away. I think that the pandemic killed it,
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: but it certainly is coming back to my nude, to
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: my job now, So Gohawks, I would hope this is
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: a blue Friday this week, right, Like, shouldn't everybody be
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: just everyone jacked up Blue Friday everywhere?
- 1:03:31Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 1:03:33Speaker 6: I think so.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean. Yeah, I think the
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: pandemic kind of killed it. I think the post I
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: think they're kind of the lull after the Seahawks Super
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: Bowl run, you know, I think that kind of killed
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: it as Well's.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: Near this stat by the way, what's that I'm sure
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: you have, but that since two thousand and five, only
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: the Patriots and the Chiefs have been to war super
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: Bowls than the Seahawks.
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: Yeah no, I've ever heard that.
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: So, and name those two teams.
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: Again, Patriots, Chiefs, Patriots and Chiefs both in the AFC.
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: So where that most of the NFC, more than you know,
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: the Packers, Niners, Saints, all those guys.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: Two five three, we're talking about the uh, just the
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: kind of the new ownership coming in.
- 1:04:20Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: I'm a cameraman for the Seahawks and Sounders in the stadium.
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: The Allens are first class. During COVID, they paid every
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: stadium worker for all the Sounders and other games that
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: got canceled.
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: They paid us each several thousand dollars. They didn't have to.
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the kind of stuff that I
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: like to hear, you know, T six. I don't want
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Bezos anywhere near sales sports franchise. The guy has lost
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: the plot. What he's doing is Washington Post is despicable.
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: I know you can't say this word on air, but blank,
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, I can say blank, I can't say the word.
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: That you type. Do we even think he's interested in this?
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:04:52Speaker 8: Team.
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of those things. Anytime there's something
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: like that comes up, it's.
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: Like Berazos Bezos.
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: And remember what Greg told us on was it Monday,
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: that the NFL has already like has a full on
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: screening process for like their owners in perspective, was.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: Telling us that yes, yeah, that's right, that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: So I mean, I don't know, I don't know if
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: that would disqualify him, but they make sure that you're
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: pretty clean, well somewhat.
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: Let's see trying to try and there's a lot. I
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: made the mistake today of talking about I didn't want to.
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: I wasn't really politics I talked about.
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: But that's me.
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: That's a me problem, that's a current me problem. And
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: I screwed that one up. And I can't read about
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: ninety percent of the text we got into. Let's see, dude,
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: I heard the rich isand so the state rich eysand
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: show the state of California has hosted thirteen super Bowls.
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: New England has been at twelve. Wow, really is that true?
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: That is pretty wild And I don't want to say coincidental.
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: Well, you know we're talking. I think with Greg yesterday, no,
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: with Lund yesterday about it, like said, every super Bowl
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: should be in New Orleans, in the super Dome. I
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: don't disagree. Really, it's a perfect place for it. I
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: think so well. I think it's just everything centralized. Yeah,
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: easy to get in and out, stuff like that. Can
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: host a big event like that.
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: Yeah, it's New Orleans.
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: There's plenty to do, right, it's almost affordable because they're
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: getting there hard.
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: I would always I would think at and T Jerry world.
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: Yeah, Jerry's world is awesome.
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: That would be my vote for this. The problem is it.
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: When you do the whole Super Bowl experience and where
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: that is compared to where you are to cover teams
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: and all that, But really the only people care about
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: that of the media, like the fans going down there.
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: I think the Super Bowl experience in New York was
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: kind of times squarish.
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: We were there, it just was.
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: A little too much almost going on. I thought it
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: was cool just because it's New York. Yeah, yeah, but
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: I remember what everyone is worried. Yeah, I was gonna say,
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: remember when everyone was worried about it being like snowing
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: and like really cold, and actually the night of the game,
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: I ended up being like pretty good weather.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: They beat the They beat the weather by four hours. Yeah,
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: when we were leaving the stadium at one or two
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: in the morning, the snow was falling. We got up
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: five hours later and it was a foot and a half.
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: So they dodged it. They dodged it a little bit.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: But you know, I mean we talked for a while
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: about why there hasn't been a Super Bowl here in Seattle,
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: and you know, the weather obviously comes up, but I
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: think the weather's good on Sunday, right, isn't here? No no, no,
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: no, no no, Santa Clara, I would assume. So let me
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: get my box thirteen weather app here, Ready to go,
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara.
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: Sunday's high sixty three, low forty six.
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's probably good weather, right, yeah, yeah, because
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: it I mean it can rain there. We've been there
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: for a playoff game when it rained.
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't look like it's in a rain. Yeah.
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: Sixty seven to fifty one, five percent chance. Right, so
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: we're all good.
- 1:07:59Speaker 3: Yeah, perfect weather, perfect weather. Yeah.
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: If not, we would have blamed one for it. Well,
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: all right, are we good?
- 1:08:06Speaker 3: We're good, We're good.
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: It feel like I'm missing something. Maybe do all right,
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: Stoft deal join us next. It's a quick little bit
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: of news college football. Interesting because this guy is always
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: rumored to be maybe taking a job. It's Oregon State
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: law zoo taking that next Boise State doesn't matter. Bobby
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: Halk is going to retire Montana coach Wow, winning his
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: coach in the history of the Big Sky, sixty one
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: years old.
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: He's retiring.
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: Part of the reason, he says, a changing landscape of
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: college football and where it.
- 1:08:46Speaker 3: Is right now. So there you go, Bobby, Help, You're done.
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: Dave Softiemller joins us right now. He is at By
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: the way, I love the Instagram story a tour of
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: Radio Row.
- 1:08:56Speaker 7: Like at the end, there's one guy that just would
- 1:08:59Speaker 7: not move, so I kind of gave him a little
- 1:09:01Speaker 7: bit of a stiff arm.
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: Was it the guy wearing a Miami Hurricane?
- 1:09:05Speaker 4: No, not him, not that clown. Not that guy. By
- 1:09:08Speaker 4: the way, Bobby Hawk is a good dude.
- 1:09:10Speaker 7: He was our special teams coach at Washington the year
- 1:09:13Speaker 7: that Rick new hisl went to the Rose Bowl in
- 1:09:15Speaker 7: two thousand.
- 1:09:16Speaker 3: Fun there.
- 1:09:17Speaker 7: Last time I saw him was when you played Boise
- 1:09:19Speaker 7: State in the Vegas Ball and he was at UNLV
- 1:09:23Speaker 7: and he jumped on the air with us from down there.
- 1:09:25Speaker 7: But yeah, his brother Tim Hawk, you know, Tim obviously
- 1:09:29Speaker 7: played in the NFL.
- 1:09:30Speaker 4: I think for a.
- 1:09:31Speaker 7: While Tim Hawk played in the NFL. Right you Tim
- 1:09:33Speaker 7: Howck played in the NFL. Yeah, he was teammates with
- 1:09:35Speaker 7: you about that. Bobby Howk just retired. That shows you
- 1:09:39Speaker 7: how old we are. By the way, I started covering
- 1:09:41Speaker 7: Bobby when he was like in his mid thirties, dude,
- 1:09:44Speaker 7: and now he's done.
- 1:09:45Speaker 4: Coaching football.
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: He's only a little older than me. Can I retire?
- 1:09:50Speaker 7: No, not yet. We need you, man, No, you don't.
- 1:09:52Speaker 7: We need the captain. You know what, I got a
- 1:09:56Speaker 7: I gotta tell you. We went down to San Jose
- 1:10:01Speaker 7: this morning. I saw that and we talked to a
- 1:10:03Speaker 7: bunch of players. They had a media session where they
- 1:10:06Speaker 7: take him. You know how this works. We take eight
- 1:10:07Speaker 7: or nine guys, they put him at the podium, yep,
- 1:10:09Speaker 7: and then they have McDonald Darnold do a big press conference,
- 1:10:12Speaker 7: and then everybody else, all the other fifty other guys
- 1:10:14Speaker 7: on the roster, plus coaches are all available, right, and
- 1:10:18Speaker 7: this is happening for three days in a row. Okay,
- 1:10:21Speaker 7: Monday was opening night, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday until they cut
- 1:10:26Speaker 7: everybody off on Friday. And I was looking at Abe
- 1:10:28Speaker 7: Lucas's face as I was talking to him today, and
- 1:10:31Speaker 7: my god, is he getting sick of talking about this game?
- 1:10:33Speaker 4: Right?
- 1:10:34Speaker 7: I mean, the kug is ready to play and punch
- 1:10:37Speaker 7: somebody in the mouth on Sunday afternoon. They're getting tired
- 1:10:41Speaker 7: of answering the same questions over and over again.
- 1:10:44Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
- 1:10:45Speaker 7: But I think my favorite interview, Chenn and owosu man,
- 1:10:49Speaker 7: and we're gonna get the audio today on the radio show.
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: Did you hear about what he said?
- 1:10:54Speaker 4: Well, I asked.
- 1:10:54Speaker 7: Chenna about the sixth offensive lineman. I know Jackson's getting
- 1:10:58Speaker 7: the audio ready for our show. I asked chen about
- 1:11:01Speaker 7: the sixth offensive lineman the Patriots like to use and
- 1:11:03Speaker 7: how much that kind of changes what the Seahawks will
- 1:11:05Speaker 7: do on defense.
- 1:11:06Speaker 4: He said, quote, it doesn't change.
- 1:11:08Speaker 5: Blank.
- 1:11:09Speaker 4: We're gonna hit the mother effort in the mouth on Sunday,
- 1:11:12Speaker 4: says chen and a wo suit.
- 1:11:14Speaker 7: Oh god, he said that to me, And so we
- 1:11:17Speaker 7: just got done by the way yesterday.
- 1:11:19Speaker 3: Same smoke effort.
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: He said that, Like, no, but I think I may
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: have beeed a little bit when he told me that.
- 1:11:24Speaker 4: I was like, whoa.
- 1:11:26Speaker 7: I remember he was the same guy that was kind
- 1:11:27Speaker 7: of going back and forth with Fred Warner on social
- 1:11:30Speaker 7: media before the Niner game, and we thought, well, maybe
- 1:11:32Speaker 7: him and Fred or his boys. Yeah, and they're just
- 1:11:33Speaker 7: kind of talking a little mess. I don't know, man,
- 1:11:35Speaker 7: I mean, maybe that's just him. But we just got
- 1:11:37Speaker 7: done yesterday, Dick and I. Right, we're talking about how
- 1:11:40Speaker 7: there's no smack talk, nobody's running their mouth there's nothing
- 1:11:43Speaker 7: really coming out of the vMac or coming out of
- 1:11:45Speaker 7: Super Bowl week that really would be construed as bulletin
- 1:11:48Speaker 7: board material.
- 1:11:49Speaker 4: I mean, this is the closest thing I've seen to
- 1:11:51Speaker 4: it so far.
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: Well remember even New York though, Remember how remember the media,
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: there's a headline.
- 1:11:56Speaker 7: I got mad at Sherman. I got the picture right
- 1:11:58Speaker 7: in front of me, the mouth of board.
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: The mouth board.
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: They were still pissed because he would They wouldn't play ball,
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: they wouldn't.
- 1:12:03Speaker 4: Make Yeah, pissed at him.
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: Yeah, the wouldn't say that.
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: And that was the team, that was the group that
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: would say stuff, right, But they didn't because by the
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: time they all tell the story. Now we had cliff
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: On last week, and we all we've all heard the stories.
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: They by the time they got there.
- 1:12:16Speaker 4: They knew they're gonna win, they knew they're.
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: Gonna win, and so they just you know what, we're
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: gonna say anything, Why just start running your mouth?
- 1:12:21Speaker 4: I don't know, you know what, I would bet on us.
- 1:12:23Speaker 7: I would bet the house on the Seahawks, right whatever,
- 1:12:26Speaker 7: blah blah blah.
- 1:12:27Speaker 4: Yeah, if they knew they're gonna win, they could have
- 1:12:28Speaker 4: told me.
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: Yeah, why didn't they help us out.
- 1:12:32Speaker 7: So anyway, we're gonna get to some of that today. Uh,
- 1:12:35Speaker 7: Florio is gonna stop over here today. We gotta go.
- 1:12:38Speaker 7: We gotta go get him. We gotta go fetch him
- 1:12:40Speaker 7: because if he walks around this place, he's gonna get mobbed.
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: Does he not have handlers?
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: Yeah? Her name is Jessin and mcintyree.
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: Okay, all right, okay, okay, okay, okay, good.
- 1:12:50Speaker 7: He's gonna go get him, so he'll join us. Brian
- 1:12:53Speaker 7: Walters is gonna stop by. He was gonna be here
- 1:12:56Speaker 7: at the five o'clock hour, and we'll give you a
- 1:12:58Speaker 7: couple of a couple of interviews from uh from media.
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: I think Fain talk to Rashid shi Heat. Is that
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: what I saw?
- 1:13:03Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 1:13:04Speaker 4: I think he got Rashid shi Heat. He got a
- 1:13:06Speaker 4: j Barner.
- 1:13:07Speaker 7: I talked to Ernest Jones as well, Right, Dicky got
- 1:13:09Speaker 7: Ernest Jones, Devin Witherspoon, I think as well.
- 1:13:12Speaker 4: I talked to Julian Love.
- 1:13:13Speaker 7: I talked to Jackson Smith and Jigba, Jalen Sundale, Abe Lucas,
- 1:13:18Speaker 7: Byron Murphy, Kenny Walker. But Jenna obviously with the famous quote. Now,
- 1:13:24Speaker 7: so all those guys.
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: What's the what's the I mean, you've been to a
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: bunch of these now, this is the fourth that you've
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: been to outside of the no real outside of Chinna,
- 1:13:34Speaker 1: no real smack talking, and guys just want to play.
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: Do you get any vibe from these guys that's similar
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: to to any of the teams in the past.
- 1:13:40Speaker 4: No, not really.
- 1:13:41Speaker 7: I think there's a confidence, you know, for sure, there's
- 1:13:44Speaker 7: absolutely a confidence. But that's kind of how those guys
- 1:13:47Speaker 7: portray themselves anyway like that, you know, I think, and
- 1:13:51Speaker 7: it's twenty years ago, so I'm having a hard time
- 1:13:53Speaker 7: remembering what I had for breakfast this morning. But I
- 1:13:55Speaker 7: think twenty years ago there was kind of like, hey,
- 1:13:57Speaker 7: this is great, We're all fired up to be here.
- 1:14:00Speaker 7: You got a little bit of a you know, a
- 1:14:01Speaker 7: cocky Matt hassel back with the hall, we want the ball,
- 1:14:04Speaker 7: we're gonna score. From a couple of years earlier thing,
- 1:14:06Speaker 7: I think there was kind of like, hey, this is
- 1:14:08Speaker 7: this is fun, right, Let's go enjoy this and let's
- 1:14:10Speaker 7: have this team's all business. They are all business. I
- 1:14:13Speaker 7: mean everybody I talked to today they are getting tired
- 1:14:16Speaker 7: of talking to idiots like me, tired of it it's.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: Just uh, it's a reflection of the coach though, isn't it, yes,
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: which which is.
- 1:14:26Speaker 7: Why it was kind of surprising to hear what Chenna
- 1:14:27Speaker 7: said to never hear. Mike McDonald has been there long enough.
- 1:14:31Speaker 7: He does his own thing. Man, And tell.
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: Tell it's softy what you told me at the top
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: of the show today.
- 1:14:35Speaker 4: You're getting a raised.
- 1:14:36Speaker 3: No, I wish about next week's plans that fans should make.
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean we're Wednesday. We're a week away
- 1:14:43Speaker 1: from the parade, buddy.
- 1:14:44Speaker 4: Why do you do that? Why?
- 1:14:49Speaker 7: I mean, if you want to just say, hey, if
- 1:14:51Speaker 7: there's a parade, it's gonna be Wednesday, because you have
- 1:14:54Speaker 7: to make plans.
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: I feel very confident.
- 1:14:57Speaker 4: I feel so we're the same guy that said it
- 1:14:58Speaker 4: was over up to nothing.
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: Again, Well I didn't. I didn't bank on things happening
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: in that series.
- 1:15:03Speaker 7: All right, you you have you have, you have waived
- 1:15:05Speaker 7: the right talk about it.
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: Brought that I brought that up. I brought that up
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: the start of the show. And Andrews looked at me
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: and goes, oh, don't god, if.
- 1:15:13Speaker 4: There's no parade Wednesday, I'm gonna kick your Canadians.
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: Hey, what if the parade is Thursday.
- 1:15:18Speaker 4: No, I'm still gonna kick your eyes. You're going down.
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: You're confident, buddy, you gotta feel confident about this.
- 1:15:26Speaker 4: Let's gotta be nervous too, right, there's a lot of
- 1:15:29Speaker 4: the line here.
- 1:15:29Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean your four and a half point favorites,
- 1:15:31Speaker 7: You're not ten and a half point favorite. It's like,
- 1:15:33Speaker 7: I don't think anybody be stunned if the Seahawks lost
- 1:15:36Speaker 7: game on. I think they're gonna win.
- 1:15:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.
- 1:15:38Speaker 7: But I'm gonna start sitting here telling people, Hey, there's
- 1:15:41Speaker 7: gonna be a parade on Wednesday.
- 1:15:42Speaker 4: Hey, will you stop it?
- 1:15:43Speaker 3: Is it four and a half?
- 1:15:44Speaker 5: Now?
- 1:15:45Speaker 4: It was always four and a half.
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: It was six earlier this week?
- 1:15:47Speaker 4: Oh it wasn't.
- 1:15:48Speaker 3: I think it opened at six and and a half.
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: Shut up, Okay, listen, I'm gonna go find four and
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: a half right now, because when that parade happens, I want.
- 1:15:57Speaker 4: To find some duct tape and shot. I want it.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: I want it on, I want it on four and
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: a half. All right, let's go, all right, are you going?
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: Are you going to the prey or not?
- 1:16:09Speaker 4: I'm gonna finish my salad now.
- 1:16:13Speaker 3: For the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
- 1:16:17Speaker 4: This is Paddled Day saying so long everyone,