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- 0:00Speaker 1: Jimmy's on first. We packed the joints. It's a stretch
- 0:04Speaker 1: and eye. I mean we're we're blushing. Thank you for
- 0:07Speaker 1: coming to see us.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, packed up.
- 0:09Speaker 3: It started at about eight ap seven thirty and I
- 0:12Speaker 3: mean there's a buzz.
- 0:13Speaker 2: I mean, this is fun. Three hours before kick you
- 0:16Speaker 2: feel it. I mean I'm not being a smart as
- 0:17Speaker 2: I mean, you feel this.
- 0:19Speaker 4: So this isn't for They didn't just come up to
- 0:20Speaker 4: hear our show.
- 0:21Speaker 2: No, most of them. I paid the front row here. Okay, yeah, okay,
- 0:25Speaker 2: I mean this is awesome. This is the streets are packed.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Yeah, our packed.
- 0:31Speaker 1: It's nine am, nine am on a Friday there European.
- 0:35Speaker 1: We've got an Old Day event here. So we are
- 0:38Speaker 1: excited to bring it to you. I from Jimmy so
- 0:41Speaker 1: on first, and of course so we'll have other shows.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Greg Bell will be broadcasting here as well. Dick Fane'll
- 0:47Speaker 1: be broadcasting here with Jackson Felts.
- 0:49Speaker 4: We've got some other things that we want to take care.
- 0:51Speaker 1: We got a US Open update coming for your way
- 0:54Speaker 1: at twenty after. But before I get off soccer, just quickly,
- 0:57Speaker 1: if I haven't reminded you over and over, we are
- 1:00Speaker 1: podcasting the match today at noon right here on KJR.
- 1:04Speaker 1: So we're going to bring that to you at noon
- 1:08Speaker 1: US VERSUS Australia right here at your favorite radio station
- 1:12Speaker 1: on Planet Earth Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 1:16Speaker 2: But also we.
- 1:19Speaker 1: Have done throughout the entire month of June for a
- 1:21Speaker 1: number of years now our Seahawks One series where we
- 1:24Speaker 1: invite one of our top analysts in town Seahawks analysts
- 1:28Speaker 1: in Town to join us for one entire interview about
- 1:31Speaker 1: one Seahawk player joining us now on the program. You
- 1:35Speaker 1: know him as our draft expert here in town, but
- 1:38Speaker 1: he also does the Lockdown Seahawks podcast with Corbyn Smith
- 1:43Speaker 1: as well, and believe me, he follows the Seahawks just
- 1:46Speaker 1: as closely as all of you do listening.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Rob rang now joins us here on Chuck and Buck
- 1:52Speaker 4: in the morning.
- 1:52Speaker 5: Good morning, Rob, Good morning, gentlemen. Thanks so much for
- 1:56Speaker 5: having me.
- 1:56Speaker 1: Hey, it's great to have you. Thanks for being with
- 1:59Speaker 1: us World Cup fever at all.
- 2:01Speaker 5: Be honest, I absolutely do, and I'm not.
- 2:05Speaker 6: I wouldn't call myself a big soccer fan, but you know,
- 2:08Speaker 6: I think it's impossible not to get excited about, uh,
- 2:12Speaker 6: just all all the buzz in the air, the fact
- 2:15Speaker 6: that America looked as good as it did and it's
- 2:17Speaker 6: opening round.
- 2:18Speaker 5: Uh, Australia's heck of a team.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Uh.
- 2:21Speaker 6: And so I think that it's gonna be a magical
- 2:23Speaker 6: environment for you guys to enjoy. And I can't wait
- 2:26Speaker 6: to listen to the broadcast of the game itself on
- 2:28Speaker 6: on kJ.
- 2:29Speaker 2: What what can't rob you? But he just what can't
- 2:33Speaker 2: rob you? That was?
- 2:34Speaker 3: That was ninety seconds of what we didn't think of
- 2:37Speaker 3: a soccer and you know of a soccer breakdown?
- 2:39Speaker 1: By the way, Rob, when when does the MLS draft
- 2:43Speaker 1: breakdown come from? You? What are your when's that podcast
- 2:46Speaker 1: come out? When you break down the MLS draft?
- 2:49Speaker 6: So I'm working on that as we speak, gentlemen, you know,
- 2:52Speaker 6: I mean that's a that's a whole different, whole different
- 2:55Speaker 6: offseason there for me.
- 2:57Speaker 1: So well, let's let's show off your seat knowledge. I
- 3:01Speaker 1: love having Rob on for our Seahawks one series. And
- 3:04Speaker 1: who has Rob rang chosen to break down for us today?
- 3:10Speaker 6: Well, I just wanted to go with, you know, the
- 3:12Speaker 6: low hanging fruit, so to speak, and that being Derek Hall.
- 3:16Speaker 5: And I say low hanging fruit because of course that.
- 3:18Speaker 6: That he just extended you or he was extended at
- 3:22Speaker 6: the contract, the three year, forty two million dollar deal.
- 3:25Speaker 6: So there's some people out there who are, you know,
- 3:27Speaker 6: kind of excited about what the Seahawks might be doing
- 3:29Speaker 6: with the cornerback Devin Witherspoon, he was a consideration as well.
- 3:33Speaker 6: But with Derek Hall, I just think that his story
- 3:36Speaker 6: is so fascinating that he almost demanded it to be
- 3:41Speaker 6: have a have a stronger spotlight placed on him. So
- 3:44Speaker 6: I'm kind of excited to talk about him and how
- 3:47Speaker 6: the impact I think he's going to have for the Seahawks.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about that. What makes you so fascinated?
- 3:52Speaker 1: You called it fast him fascinating. What what about Derek
- 3:55Speaker 1: Hall do you find fascinating?
- 3:57Speaker 5: Rob Well, I.
- 3:59Speaker 6: Think certainly is the beginning, uh, you know, and and
- 4:01Speaker 6: a lot of Seahawks fans have heard this story, but
- 4:04Speaker 6: it's such an inspirational story. And today is such a
- 4:07Speaker 6: day of celebrations we're talking about just with America hosting
- 4:11Speaker 6: Australia in the World Cup. With Derek Call, of course,
- 4:14Speaker 6: you know, he was born four months premature, and again
- 4:17Speaker 6: a lot of people know this story, but four months premature,
- 4:21Speaker 6: he was literally given a one percent chance of survival
- 4:25Speaker 6: by the doctors, and he spent five months in a
- 4:30Speaker 6: NIQ unit, and then when it was obvious that he
- 4:34Speaker 6: was going to survive, he still was a very sickly
- 4:36Speaker 6: young boy. As his mother opted to put him in
- 4:40Speaker 6: in flag football and elementary school literally to try to
- 4:43Speaker 6: expand his lung capacity. And for him to become, you know,
- 4:48Speaker 6: a college level athlete, an NFL athlete, it is just
- 4:51Speaker 6: a remarkable story of perseverance and.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Grit in itself.
- 4:55Speaker 6: For him to become a young superstar for the Sea
- 4:58Speaker 6: Seahawks obviously just makes the story that much more inspirational.
- 5:02Speaker 5: He's six foot three, he's two hundred and fifty four pounds.
- 5:04Speaker 6: I mean, he has absolutely chiseled and one of the
- 5:08Speaker 6: numbers that I always yeah, exactly one of the numbers
- 5:11Speaker 6: I always look at when evaluating edge rushers is a
- 5:14Speaker 6: lot of people focus on the forty yard dash time,
- 5:16Speaker 6: and that's important, and he had four point five to
- 5:18Speaker 6: five seconds at two hundred fifty four pounds.
- 5:20Speaker 5: I mean, that's absolutely fly him.
- 5:22Speaker 6: But it's a thirty four and a half inch arms
- 5:24Speaker 6: and so he is he has the arm length to
- 5:27Speaker 6: really be able to set a firm edge and then
- 5:29Speaker 6: also be able to knock away off of the tackles
- 5:32Speaker 6: trying to, you know, keep him corraled. As a pass rusher.
- 5:36Speaker 6: He doesn't have a gaudy sacked numbers. You only had
- 5:39Speaker 6: two sacks during the regular season a year ago, but
- 5:42Speaker 6: he had two sacks in the.
- 5:43Speaker 5: Super Bowl as well, And so when he has.
- 5:46Speaker 6: Advantageous opportunities in front of him that I really do
- 5:49Speaker 6: think that he is a better player than his statistics
- 5:52Speaker 6: to suggest. And with tender Nuosu and DeMarcus Lawrence, as
- 5:56Speaker 6: great a players as they are, they are aging players.
- 6:00Speaker 5: I think that it was very wise in the Seahawks to.
- 6:03Speaker 6: Look at just extending this young man's contract because of
- 6:07Speaker 6: who he is on and off the field. And again,
- 6:09Speaker 6: I just believe that he is just going to be
- 6:11Speaker 6: a better player a couple of years from now than
- 6:13Speaker 6: what the Seahawks have already seen.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Rob Rangus with us for our Seahawks One series, one
- 6:17Speaker 1: of our local analysts breaking down one key Sehawk player
- 6:19Speaker 1: for one entire interview. He has chosen Derek Hall the
- 6:22Speaker 1: edge rusher. Why is Derek Hall worth the money?
- 6:25Speaker 2: One?
- 6:26Speaker 4: And then two?
- 6:28Speaker 1: A lot of people believe if he would hit the
- 6:29Speaker 1: free agent market, he would have been worth a lot more.
- 6:32Speaker 1: So why do you think Derek Hale signed for that
- 6:35Speaker 1: amount of money?
- 6:37Speaker 6: Well, and Derek Call himself has kind of answered the
- 6:40Speaker 6: latter part of your question, Chuck, and that he just
- 6:43Speaker 6: really appreciates the environment, the desire to compete for a
- 6:50Speaker 6: Super Bowl championship year and.
- 6:51Speaker 5: A year out.
- 6:52Speaker 6: Of course every team says that, but how many teams
- 6:54Speaker 6: are do you actually see the one hundred percent participation
- 6:59Speaker 6: of the veteran and just the you know, twelve is
- 7:02Speaker 6: one type of mentality that the Seahawks have have adopted
- 7:06Speaker 6: throughout his time here in Seattle. So I think that
- 7:08Speaker 6: that's a huge part of it. It's it's difficult to
- 7:11Speaker 6: leave a super Bowl champion, and I think that the
- 7:16Speaker 6: the perspective that he gained with his early life struggles.
- 7:21Speaker 6: I think that might be why he's a little bit
- 7:23Speaker 6: more willing to.
- 7:25Speaker 5: To to sign perhaps for a little.
- 7:27Speaker 6: Bit less money, for a real home that he feels
- 7:30Speaker 6: comfortable with. And certainly the Seahawks have embraced him and
- 7:33Speaker 6: his family and his hobby of you know, building the
- 7:38Speaker 6: massive trucks and things like that that again make him
- 7:40Speaker 6: as a fascining person off the field as well as
- 7:43Speaker 6: on it. And then to your point, Chuck about the
- 7:46Speaker 6: possibility that he might be able to get paid more.
- 7:49Speaker 6: You know what we just saw boy Mafe, who also
- 7:53Speaker 6: didn't have great sack production. You know, sign that deal
- 7:56Speaker 6: three years, sixty million dollars. Again, Derek call three there's
- 8:00Speaker 6: forty two million dollars. I mean, eighteen million dollars is
- 8:03Speaker 6: a lot more money, obviously, and I do believe that
- 8:07Speaker 6: Derek Call. If he builds upon his sack numbers this year,
- 8:10Speaker 6: which I expect him to do, I think that he
- 8:12Speaker 6: could have commanded more money on the open market. But
- 8:15Speaker 6: I just think that it was a wonderful a wonderful
- 8:18Speaker 6: move by the Seahawks to extend a young player who's
- 8:22Speaker 6: who's violence, who's the who's the way the violent, the
- 8:26Speaker 6: way in which he plays the game, the consistency with
- 8:30Speaker 6: how he approaches the game. I think that that is
- 8:33Speaker 6: just sends a message to the to the rest of
- 8:35Speaker 6: the locker room as well as to the fan base,
- 8:38Speaker 6: that the Seahawks are not going to be one and
- 8:40Speaker 6: done compete for Super Bowls. This is this could be
- 8:42Speaker 6: a uh, you know, quite the dynasty run here that
- 8:44Speaker 6: they're setting up.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Point blank, would you rather have had Mafe going forward
- 8:49Speaker 1: or Haul going forward?
- 8:52Speaker 6: Derek Hall hands down, Uh, you know, boy Mafe's pass
- 8:55Speaker 6: rush ability.
- 8:57Speaker 5: I guess I would. I would use a you know,
- 8:59Speaker 5: mixed mind analogy see here. I don't.
- 9:01Speaker 6: Unfortunately, I don't know soccer well enough to use a
- 9:04Speaker 6: soccer announces. So I'm gonna swing to baseball here, and
- 9:07Speaker 6: to me, boy Mafe is.
- 9:08Speaker 5: That one dimensional player.
- 9:10Speaker 6: Well, maybe he's a base stealer, maybe he's a home
- 9:11Speaker 6: run hitter, but he is not a well rounded player.
- 9:15Speaker 5: Whereas Derek calm, to.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Me, that is the best aspect about him is I
- 9:19Speaker 6: don't know that there's a better player on Sele's defense.
- 9:23Speaker 6: And when it comes to just stopping the run, those
- 9:25Speaker 6: thirty four and a half inch arms we.
- 9:26Speaker 5: Talked about, he's very, very strong at.
- 9:29Speaker 6: The point of attack, not just with his again bench
- 9:32Speaker 6: press members but his core strength. He just plants his
- 9:37Speaker 6: feet into the ground and he's like a tree stump.
- 9:40Speaker 6: I mean, he is just difficult to move. And so
- 9:43Speaker 6: that is the basis of why Sele's linebackers and safeties
- 9:48Speaker 6: are able to make as many plays as they are,
- 9:50Speaker 6: just because they don't have to worry about blockers getting
- 9:52Speaker 6: to him because big number fifty eight is among the
- 9:55Speaker 6: big defensive linemen up there at the point of attack
- 9:57Speaker 6: who're kind of holding down the four and so I
- 9:59Speaker 6: think that that unselfish style of play again just carries over.
- 10:03Speaker 6: And I do believe that you're going to see it
- 10:05Speaker 6: up ticket sacks. I don't believe you're ever going to
- 10:07Speaker 6: see him be a ten sack kind of a player.
- 10:10Speaker 6: I want to have realistic expectations. He had eight sacks
- 10:13Speaker 6: two years ago, and when I watched all eight of
- 10:15Speaker 6: those sacks in preparation for this video, I saw a
- 10:17Speaker 6: lot of frankly coverage sacks where he just his motor
- 10:21Speaker 6: and a relentless effort kind of got him those sacks.
- 10:24Speaker 6: He's not a quick win type of a guy. But
- 10:27Speaker 6: what he does do is he's very rarely out of position,
- 10:30Speaker 6: and that was something that Boy Mafe sometimes would take
- 10:32Speaker 6: a really wide loop to get to the quarterback and
- 10:35Speaker 6: then leave easy running opportunities for alert scrambling quarterbacks to
- 10:40Speaker 6: take advantage of. So Boy and Mafy again the one
- 10:42Speaker 6: dimensional very good in that one dimension. I think he's
- 10:45Speaker 6: going to be a heck of a player for the
- 10:46Speaker 6: Cincinnati Bengals. But for my money, I would absolutely take
- 10:49Speaker 6: Derek calls all around game rather than the one the
- 10:52Speaker 6: single edge approach that boy Mafy.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Offered and Rob in this whole breakdown, you haven't said
- 10:59Speaker 3: that name Mike McDonald. Is this a perfect chess piece
- 11:03Speaker 3: for Mike McDonald and his defense.
- 11:06Speaker 6: I believe that he is stretched. And it's good to
- 11:08Speaker 6: hear your voice there. It's been a long time.
- 11:11Speaker 5: I think, yeah, let me do about it.
- 11:13Speaker 6: I mean, it's you know, it's it's funny because Mike mcgonaald,
- 11:18Speaker 6: I mean, he he is this kind of a stoic person.
- 11:21Speaker 6: He's all about, uh, just kind of doing your job,
- 11:24Speaker 6: and you know, and I think that he appreciates the
- 11:28Speaker 6: physicality and the violence and the consistency which Derek called,
- 11:34Speaker 6: uh you know there called the pitomizes all of those things.
- 11:37Speaker 6: And so I just think that that that Derek Hall
- 11:40Speaker 6: almost could be like, you know, we're we're again.
- 11:43Speaker 5: We're at the World Cup.
- 11:44Speaker 6: There's so many different mascots and and images and chants
- 11:48Speaker 6: and things that people use. I think in a way,
- 11:50Speaker 6: we could almost make a Derek Hall bobblehead, so to speak.
- 11:53Speaker 6: That would almost epitomize the toughness and grit that the
- 11:57Speaker 6: Seahawks like to believe of themselves.
- 12:00Speaker 4: With US First Yawks one series.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So one of our top analysts in town breaking out
- 12:04Speaker 1: one key Shawk player for one entire interview. His subject
- 12:07Speaker 1: matter is Derek Hall here on the radio program, and
- 12:13Speaker 1: of course you know a special violent hitter. You've mentioned
- 12:18Speaker 1: that a couple of times. Is he the most violent?
- 12:22Speaker 1: Is he the most physical player on this roster?
- 12:26Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be either he.
- 12:28Speaker 6: DeMarcus Lawrence definitely is another one that comes to mind.
- 12:31Speaker 6: And then for pound for pound, I think you got
- 12:33Speaker 6: to include Nicki Minwori and Devil Witherspoon. But again, I
- 12:37Speaker 6: think we're talking about four of Seattle's absolute best players.
- 12:41Speaker 6: You know, I think of a big man like a
- 12:44Speaker 6: Leonard Williams that he can win with violence, but he's
- 12:47Speaker 6: just so incredibly athletic at his size that you also
- 12:50Speaker 6: have to acknowledge that. To me, with Derek Hall, if
- 12:53Speaker 6: he wasn't a you know, I think a maybe not
- 12:57Speaker 6: a Pro Bowl caliber edge rusher, I think that he
- 13:00Speaker 6: is maybe that to take it below that, it's certainly
- 13:03Speaker 6: a quality starter for a championship caliber team. To me,
- 13:08Speaker 6: the thing I again I think to see how fans
- 13:11Speaker 6: are going to appreciate about him. It is just the
- 13:14Speaker 6: consistency with which he plays the game, and I do
- 13:17Speaker 6: think that that is something that again it is why
- 13:21Speaker 6: that he was extended in the first place and why
- 13:23Speaker 6: that he should be a fan favorite for off a
- 13:25Speaker 6: long time to come.
- 13:26Speaker 1: I think back to our draft coverage and before the
- 13:29Speaker 1: draft talking about the need for an edge rusher, and
- 13:31Speaker 1: then during the draft we were waiting and waiting for
- 13:35Speaker 1: an edge rusher. They never did draft one. Now, they
- 13:37Speaker 1: did sign a veteran in Dante Fowlers Junior. But as
- 13:41Speaker 1: we sit here on June nineteenth, still five weeks away
- 13:45Speaker 1: from training camp, in Rob Rang's expert opinion, are the
- 13:48Speaker 1: Seahawks one edge rusher short right now?
- 13:53Speaker 5: I don't believe.
- 13:53Speaker 7: So.
- 13:54Speaker 6: I do think that Dante Folow was going to be
- 13:55Speaker 6: able to play that speed rusher role that that boy
- 13:59Speaker 6: Mafe did year ago. And I also think that if
- 14:02Speaker 6: the recently concluded OTAs and mini camps are are any indication,
- 14:08Speaker 6: then the Seahawks are going to be using Nick emun
- 14:11Speaker 6: Worri a little bit more as an edge rusher, and
- 14:13Speaker 6: I just think that that is going to create more
- 14:16Speaker 6: of those quick wins, so to speak, that the Seahawks
- 14:19Speaker 6: are looking for.
- 14:20Speaker 5: And again, I think that those quick wins are going
- 14:23Speaker 5: to be helpful.
- 14:23Speaker 6: And you get guys like Matthew Stafford to get the
- 14:25Speaker 6: ball on their hands just so quickly, but you have
- 14:28Speaker 6: to earn your opportunity to rush the passer.
- 14:30Speaker 5: And I think that what's more important is.
- 14:32Speaker 6: To be able to continue being as dominant.
- 14:34Speaker 5: Against the run as a Seahawks word as past. He's
- 14:36Speaker 5: the way in the Super Bowl.
- 14:38Speaker 1: If you when you watch a soccer match, does it
- 14:41Speaker 1: cross your mind, like, what would one of these guys
- 14:44Speaker 1: do if like Nick Emon Worri just kind of ran
- 14:47Speaker 1: across the field and just took.
- 14:49Speaker 4: One of them.
- 14:49Speaker 2: I was going another way when you said that, give give.
- 14:52Speaker 3: Rob rang three months and I'd love to have him
- 14:55Speaker 3: break down a soccer match. I thought that's where you
- 14:57Speaker 3: were headed. But yeah, there would be some punishment. I mean,
- 15:01Speaker 3: Nick nicking Menmory, we're watching, were watching these guys and
- 15:05Speaker 3: they lost them and it's so exciting and and Rob,
- 15:08Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna say the obvious, but these are
- 15:11Speaker 3: just John Snyder guys that are good people have come
- 15:15Speaker 3: from adversity and they're getting given opportunities, and it's so
- 15:19Speaker 3: fun human nature. It's so fun to have some of
- 15:21Speaker 3: these guys take advantage of that opportunity.
- 15:26Speaker 6: And that's again when you're talking about the defending.
- 15:30Speaker 8: Super Bowl champions, then you know they're kind of bullying
- 15:32Speaker 8: on the block, and I think that that is is
- 15:36Speaker 8: true in some ways, but they're also in so many
- 15:39Speaker 8: of the players came from such under uh, you know, underprivileged,
- 15:45Speaker 8: you know.
- 15:45Speaker 5: Kind of situations.
- 15:46Speaker 6: I mean, Derek Hall is the perfect example of that,
- 15:48Speaker 6: of course as the premium baby, as we discussed, but
- 15:51Speaker 6: there's just so many of these underdogs all this team.
- 15:54Speaker 6: I mean, whether it be Sam Darnold, whether it be
- 15:57Speaker 6: you know, the reigning offensive player of the year, that's
- 15:59Speaker 6: the zig I mean, you know, drafted twentieth overall, you know,
- 16:04Speaker 6: it's that kind of stuff. I think is Jenerahim Price.
- 16:09Speaker 6: You know, it never started a single game at the
- 16:11Speaker 6: college level, and that's our first round pick. There's just
- 16:14Speaker 6: that is something that John Schneider I think has very
- 16:17Speaker 6: much prioritized, especially in this second Super Bowl winning run,
- 16:23Speaker 6: is just the personality of the players and if they
- 16:26Speaker 6: don't have the underdog role, then frankly, they're not going
- 16:28Speaker 6: to be a fit. And Derek Hall, I think personifies
- 16:31Speaker 6: that as well as any player.
- 16:33Speaker 5: On the team.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Awesome stuff. Thank you, Rob, We appreciate it, and we'll
- 16:37Speaker 4: bug you again soon.
- 16:38Speaker 5: All right, looking forward to being Bud. Thanks guys.
- 16:42Speaker 1: All right, Rob Rang pro talent evaluator. You can follow
- 16:46Speaker 1: Matt rob Rang there on Twitter of course, our draft
- 16:49Speaker 1: expert that we use during draft season and draft miss
- 16:52Speaker 1: as well, but he follows the Seahawks just as closely
- 16:55Speaker 1: as any of us. Breaking down Derek call for us
- 16:58Speaker 1: here this morning as part of our Box one series
- 17:01Speaker 1: more with Stretch on the World Cup, which is oh boy,
- 17:04Speaker 1: it is building to a frenzy down here at the
- 17:07Speaker 1: Jimmy's on first uh and so coming up next we're
- 17:10Speaker 1: gonna do the ABC's of the USA. But right now
- 17:15Speaker 1: we're gonna get an update from Shinnecock the latest from
- 17:18Speaker 1: the US Open Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
- 17:22Speaker 1: I mean, right now, Stretch, you tell me it's like
- 17:25Speaker 1: fifty to fifty right now here and Jimmy's between SOCCERUS.
- 17:28Speaker 3: And Americans plenty pretty close fifty to fifty and you
- 17:32Speaker 3: can't walk. I mean there's no space, and they're all done,
- 17:35Speaker 3: and they're all getting everybody's getting along perfectly.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Well. I mean it's just such a feel good environment.
- 17:41Speaker 1: And yet I want to put a new variable in it.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Should I do it?
- 17:45Speaker 2: Oh? Whatever you're thinking. I think it's a great idea.
- 17:47Speaker 4: I think it's a good idea. Let's see what happens. Yeah,
- 17:50Speaker 4: let's see what spills forth? Say you say?
- 17:55Speaker 2: You say, say, yeah, oh here comes the booze.
- 18:07Speaker 4: Now here, now go the booze. Now go yeah here,
- 18:09Speaker 4: go ahead, go ahead, do it. There we go.
- 18:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, that's what I wanted to say.
- 18:25Speaker 4: What would happen?
- 18:25Speaker 2: That was perfect?
- 18:26Speaker 3: With that good That was not only brilliant, but the
- 18:29Speaker 3: guy next to you was like, yeah, I'd rather just
- 18:31Speaker 3: drink my beer.
- 18:32Speaker 2: You looked at him and he was like, I'll pass.
- 18:34Speaker 3: I don't know what you're doing, but uh, I'm getting
- 18:37Speaker 3: another pacific o.
- 18:38Speaker 2: His face was awesome. That was great.
- 18:42Speaker 4: I'm read somebody.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I was trying to see if it would go back
- 18:44Speaker 1: and forth, if it would bounce back.
- 18:46Speaker 4: By then, No, everybody just did it once.
- 18:48Speaker 1: They took care of it. I think there was an
- 18:50Speaker 1: element of the Americans like should we do this? Yeah,
- 18:54Speaker 1: we want to be good hosts, but still we don't
- 18:57Speaker 1: want to think that we're rude.
- 18:58Speaker 3: Just a friendly, friendly group between the two of them.
- 19:03Speaker 3: And I think what will help post game is if
- 19:05Speaker 3: the US win. If the US lose, it might be
- 19:08Speaker 3: a little dicey er compared to it. If the US win,
- 19:11Speaker 3: everybody will get along Australia. If they win today, in
- 19:14Speaker 3: all seriousness, they are going to downtown will be ripped up.
- 19:18Speaker 2: It'll be such a party. They shouldn't be one to oh.
- 19:21Speaker 3: And if they become two and oh with the hands
- 19:25Speaker 3: firmly on the steering wheel of this group, it could
- 19:28Speaker 3: be a mess. But it could be a mess in
- 19:30Speaker 3: Piners Square seriously with them up on top of the
- 19:33Speaker 3: group with six points.
- 19:34Speaker 4: All right, well, you've already experienced this. We do ABC's
- 19:37Speaker 4: of the MS every day.
- 19:38Speaker 1: I want to do just a quick version of ABC's
- 19:40Speaker 1: of the USA with you right now, getting ready for
- 19:43Speaker 1: the match?
- 19:44Speaker 4: Are you ready? I'm ready at ams for America. Is
- 19:48Speaker 4: America going to win today?
- 19:49Speaker 2: They are? They are? It will be two nil, two
- 19:52Speaker 2: to one. I don't see. I don't see.
- 19:55Speaker 3: If if the US played collectively as they did last
- 19:58Speaker 3: week versus Paraguay. I don't see Australia scoring more than
- 20:01Speaker 3: one goal. I think they'll be burst. I think they
- 20:04Speaker 3: came across a Turkey team that was sleepwalking up in
- 20:07Speaker 3: Vancouver for the first twenty thirty minutes. They didn't realize
- 20:10Speaker 3: they were in a match until they were down one nil.
- 20:12Speaker 3: I think the US gets the first goal, then what
- 20:15Speaker 3: Jackson was talking about last hour, they will get opened
- 20:18Speaker 3: up a bit and that'll fall right into the hands
- 20:20Speaker 3: of the US.
- 20:21Speaker 4: All right. The b is for barbie.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Are they going to put us as a shrimp on
- 20:31Speaker 1: their barbie?
- 20:31Speaker 2: I don't think so.
- 20:33Speaker 4: How would that happen if they did.
- 20:35Speaker 3: If they get a first goal, if they're two. Their
- 20:37Speaker 3: two strikers are very talented. They chewed up Turkey's back line.
- 20:42Speaker 3: They made they made dangerous movements. They collectively six of
- 20:47Speaker 3: them moving forward, five of them moving forward, were dangerous
- 20:50Speaker 3: in the attack. I just think again, with Tyler Adams
- 20:54Speaker 3: anchoring that back four, back five, back six, I think
- 20:58Speaker 3: the US are gonna be in better shape. And they
- 21:00Speaker 3: saw the tape right. You got to you gotta a
- 21:02Speaker 3: game under your belt. You can do a little scouting.
- 21:05Speaker 3: They saw that Australia one versus Turkey, who is very
- 21:08Speaker 3: favored in that match, and they're not gonna take him lightly.
- 21:11Speaker 3: They're gonna have sixty six thousand fans here, sixty thousand,
- 21:16Speaker 3: as you see, there's gonna be a plenty of but
- 21:18Speaker 3: it's going to be very very loud in the stadium
- 21:21Speaker 3: and that'll feed right into the momentum for the US.
- 21:25Speaker 3: So no, I think a point is the worst thing
- 21:27Speaker 3: we're gonna do. But soccer's nuts, Soccer is crazy. But
- 21:31Speaker 3: I think a point is gonna be the worst that
- 21:33Speaker 3: the US get today.
- 21:34Speaker 1: All right, See is for Christian how big of a
- 21:37Speaker 1: deal is this announcement that we're still haven't gotten.
- 21:41Speaker 4: But whether he plays or not.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Well, I hope if there's a question, they save him.
- 21:45Speaker 3: So it is a big deal. He's the best. He
- 21:48Speaker 3: is the face of soccer US soccer right now. He
- 21:51Speaker 3: is He's Landon Donovan was twenty years ago, twenty two
- 21:54Speaker 3: years ago. So he is the guy. If it isn't,
- 21:57Speaker 3: then they are being overly cautious. What's fine with even
- 22:01Speaker 3: without him? I say we get three points. Jackson didn't
- 22:06Speaker 3: like my Brendan Aronson. He does have other options. In Reinia,
- 22:10Speaker 3: there are talent options for Mauricio to throw out there.
- 22:15Speaker 3: It'd be a bummer, but that would mean he's probably
- 22:17Speaker 3: one hundred percent healthy for next week.
- 22:19Speaker 2: In La versus Turkey.
- 22:21Speaker 4: D is for drunk.
- 22:22Speaker 1: They're three best drinkers that they brought to America versus
- 22:26Speaker 1: the three best drinkers from Seattle.
- 22:29Speaker 2: I'll take Australia. Yeah, I mean, that's not even close,
- 22:32Speaker 2: and I wouldn't.
- 22:33Speaker 3: It's if you know what three to five means in Vegas.
- 22:36Speaker 3: I would take Australia and I would put my house
- 22:38Speaker 3: on it. And they are still standing. It's like I
- 22:44Speaker 3: can't remember crocodile dundee. Oh you want a drinking you're
- 22:48Speaker 3: standing and the other guy can't even spell his name.
- 22:52Speaker 3: I'll take Australia and I'll give you a seven pint lead.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not even close.
- 22:58Speaker 4: But fun trunk, yeah.
- 23:00Speaker 2: No one aggressive drunk I've met.
- 23:03Speaker 3: I met a couple Saturday and some yesterday, not only
- 23:07Speaker 3: at T Mobile but down in Piner Square. It is
- 23:10Speaker 3: a fun group and if you're sitting by one, you'll
- 23:13Speaker 3: you'll love it.
- 23:13Speaker 2: It's just it's hard to get frustrated with them, so
- 23:16Speaker 2: much fun.
- 23:16Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I couldn't even get everybody to chant
- 23:18Speaker 1: USA in here, because.
- 23:20Speaker 2: Well what if we think, yeah, that's right.
- 23:24Speaker 3: Finally is for if you screamed C and everyone you know,
- 23:28Speaker 3: that's a whole nother thing. They'll start fighting, you know,
- 23:30Speaker 3: Seahawks and I don't know who Australia's favorite rugby team is, true,
- 23:36Speaker 3: but go ahead.
- 23:36Speaker 4: Finally, E is for energy. You've got a great energy
- 23:41Speaker 4: about you today.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Have you ever been more fired up for a sporting event?
- 23:46Speaker 2: Jackson mentioned a couple.
- 23:48Speaker 3: I went to my first Super Bowl as a fan
- 23:51Speaker 3: in February down in Santa Clara and the Seahawks on
- 23:54Speaker 3: my team the twenty nineteen MLS Cup when I did
- 23:58Speaker 3: the Cup here. Yeah, there are times where you literally
- 24:01Speaker 3: have to take a deep breath and and this is
- 24:04Speaker 3: one of them, like literally to catch your wind.
- 24:07Speaker 2: I'm a soccer fan.
- 24:08Speaker 3: That's why I was explaining to my brother, like, we're
- 24:11Speaker 3: we live in a host city. The US are playing
- 24:14Speaker 3: in our city. We have to go, yes, yeah, sell
- 24:18Speaker 3: another house, do whatever you have to do.
- 24:20Speaker 2: We have to go.
- 24:21Speaker 3: And so it is kind of like you know, here
- 24:25Speaker 3: it is and it's just two and a half hours
- 24:27Speaker 3: away and it's like I've got some serious nervous energy.
- 24:31Speaker 3: I think I hide it a little better than Jackson.
- 24:34Speaker 3: But it's a big moment for I've waved to a
- 24:37Speaker 3: couple of friends that I've played soccer with for thirty years,
- 24:40Speaker 3: like all my soccer group is here, right, and we
- 24:43Speaker 3: will spill out and see each other after the match.
- 24:46Speaker 2: What could only make it better is if we win
- 24:49Speaker 2: and then it's like we were here for it. This,
- 24:51Speaker 2: this is it. This is it for us soccer nerds.
- 24:53Speaker 3: Your country comes to your city, you have tickets for it,
- 24:57Speaker 3: and it's uh, there.
- 24:58Speaker 1: They go, there goes goosebumps.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it is significant. And you know,
- 25:04Speaker 3: if you want to get to the full cheese, you know,
- 25:07Speaker 3: the full cheesy, Like it's a moment of a lifetime.
- 25:10Speaker 3: It's a moment of a lifetime. And and chock him
- 25:13Speaker 3: up right. Super Bowl was awesome, MLS Cup was awesome.
- 25:16Speaker 3: Conker Cap Champions League was awesome. Seattle is a soccer
- 25:20Speaker 3: a soccer town, and now we get to show the
- 25:23Speaker 3: world again and it'll be fun to be a part of.
- 25:25Speaker 4: It's fine. I'm here for the full cheese. So F's
- 25:28Speaker 4: for full cheese and G is for goosebumps.
- 25:30Speaker 1: There you go, all right, one last thing to close
- 25:33Speaker 1: out our show, and Greg Bell is here.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Look at he was shocked up to cover a soccer.
- 25:40Speaker 4: Professional.
- 25:41Speaker 2: He is he is?
- 25:42Speaker 3: He lent he lent Jackson a dress shirt. I don't
- 25:44Speaker 3: know if you noticed that, but Jackson was in a jersey.
- 25:47Speaker 3: Can't wear a jersey to the pitch, so so Greg
- 25:50Speaker 3: Bell lent him a button down shirt. That's the pro.
- 25:54Speaker 3: Greg Bell is, kid yourself.
- 25:55Speaker 1: He's got he's got army underwear on right now. Yeah,
- 25:59Speaker 1: and he's got he's probably got Team USA.
- 26:03Speaker 4: Pasties on underneath that shure? Does that professional exterior? All right?
- 26:08Speaker 1: One last thing next Sports Radio ninety three point three
- 26:11Speaker 1: kJ R.
- 26:12Speaker 4: F M.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Quot should the world expect from these Seattle funds because
- 26:20Speaker 1: it hit stiffer?
- 26:21Speaker 9: Well, I mean, look of this, DEMI see if they
- 26:23Speaker 9: don't call the they don't call the earthquake already. We
- 26:27Speaker 9: just want to make sure that the buildings they put together,
- 26:30Speaker 9: because I think if they get loud enough, I think
- 26:32Speaker 9: they can bring that much down.
- 26:35Speaker 5: That should do it down.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Let's feel a bring that very down. It wasn't they
- 26:43Speaker 2: only yeah, say no more.
- 26:46Speaker 7: So.
- 26:46Speaker 4: That was him on the Men and Blazers podcast.
- 26:51Speaker 3: Which is a big boy podcast that's not just some
- 26:53Speaker 3: run of the mill leading soccer podcast. Very clever dudes. Okay,
- 26:59Speaker 3: and that he he's on there, that's a pretty good get.
- 27:01Speaker 3: But he's a smart marketing man himself. But Marshawn is
- 27:06Speaker 3: he just tell me when you can get enough, Marshaw.
- 27:10Speaker 3: I mean that's awesome.
- 27:13Speaker 4: All right.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Well, we are getting ready to close up our show
- 27:16Speaker 1: and hand thanks over to Greg Bell.
- 27:18Speaker 4: But this is what we do.
- 27:20Speaker 1: One last thing and we go around the room and
- 27:23Speaker 1: everybody has one last thing they want to mention before
- 27:25Speaker 1: we sign.
- 27:26Speaker 4: Off for the day. So Ashley show stretch, how it's done.
- 27:30Speaker 4: What's your one last thing today?
- 27:32Speaker 10: Okay, I did not know I was going first. This
- 27:33Speaker 10: is an honor.
- 27:35Speaker 11: I just want to say the Texters have been loving
- 27:37Speaker 11: the two of you today. Well, we've done a lot
- 27:39Speaker 11: a lot of things to the text line four nine
- 27:43Speaker 11: four five one to come a dodge text line. But
- 27:46Speaker 11: there was one question, Chuck, that you did not ask
- 27:49Speaker 11: during the Dumbest Questions segment.
- 27:52Speaker 10: Okay, and one of our listeners wanted to know.
- 27:54Speaker 11: Why do we call soccer soccer here in the US,
- 27:58Speaker 11: and not obviously we have our own football. But how
- 28:02Speaker 11: did does anyone know how soccer came about?
- 28:05Speaker 1: Well, my guess is I mean when we came over here,
- 28:09Speaker 1: there was a completely different like, if you're gonna drive
- 28:12Speaker 1: on the left side of the road, we're gonna drive
- 28:13Speaker 1: on the right side of the road.
- 28:14Speaker 4: If you're gonna drink tea, we're gonna drink coffee.
- 28:16Speaker 1: I mean, there was an absolute decision when we founded
- 28:19Speaker 1: this country that if you're gonna do it this way
- 28:22Speaker 1: back home, now we have our own country, we're gonna
- 28:26Speaker 1: do it the other way. So I don't know what
- 28:28Speaker 1: the story is, Jackson. We always I just always assume
- 28:31Speaker 1: we're gonna come up with our own football and then
- 28:34Speaker 1: we'll call whatever that is something different. So I don't
- 28:37Speaker 1: know where the actual word comes from, but certainly we
- 28:40Speaker 1: had this feeling of we're not gonna do it that
- 28:43Speaker 1: way anymore. We're gonna do things the other way around.
- 28:46Speaker 2: I really like that answer, because I think that's something
- 28:49Speaker 2: I should know. Shouldn't I know that?
- 28:51Speaker 4: Maybe? Yep?
- 28:52Speaker 10: I mean only if you actually like soccer.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Yeah, so Corner really cared about the answer. I really
- 29:00Speaker 2: don't care.
- 29:02Speaker 3: And it's funny because as soon as you touch down
- 29:05Speaker 3: on the other side of Atlantic, you say football and
- 29:07Speaker 3: that's just that's just what you say. When I run
- 29:11Speaker 3: into people who have other you know, in England and
- 29:13Speaker 3: Jersey on, I always ask him who do you support,
- 29:15Speaker 3: which means who's your club?
- 29:17Speaker 2: But why it's called soccer? Man?
- 29:19Speaker 3: I don't mean to sound like a total smart alect.
- 29:21Speaker 3: I don't care. Oh I don't.
- 29:23Speaker 1: I don't really care. So did you play soccer or
- 29:26Speaker 1: did you play football?
- 29:27Speaker 3: Oh?
- 29:28Speaker 2: We played soccer and played soccer.
- 29:30Speaker 3: We're in the States and that's what it's called in
- 29:32Speaker 3: the States and that's what I grew up with. And
- 29:34Speaker 3: there was no thought process or second guessing of anything else.
- 29:37Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Yeah, it is strange that we wouldn't have gone with
- 29:40Speaker 1: something else to call our football.
- 29:43Speaker 4: Yeah, but now it's too late. I'm not calling anything else.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Our football started in what the thirties, pro football started at. Well,
- 29:49Speaker 3: we have a person on coming up. You can tell
- 29:51Speaker 3: us the history of when our football doesn't know it?
- 29:53Speaker 2: Yes he does, but yeah, yeah, I don't know.
- 29:58Speaker 4: I've never Well, what is your one last thing for
- 30:01Speaker 4: us today?
- 30:02Speaker 3: Well, my one last thing is to ask you where
- 30:06Speaker 3: are you watching the match.
- 30:08Speaker 4: I'm going to try to take your advice.
- 30:10Speaker 5: Now.
- 30:10Speaker 1: If it causes me stress, I probably will bail because
- 30:14Speaker 1: I'm not in distress very well. So but I'm gonna
- 30:18Speaker 1: try to take your advice and watch it in Pioneer Square.
- 30:21Speaker 1: But I've always got my home here at Jimmy's that
- 30:23Speaker 1: I could come back to.
- 30:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I got you.
- 30:25Speaker 3: This would be nothing against the packed house, but this
- 30:28Speaker 3: is gonna empty out and then the people without tickets
- 30:32Speaker 3: you can do better, and that's not a shot at this.
- 30:34Speaker 3: But I mean to feel the texture, yes, yes, right,
- 30:37Speaker 3: to feel the texture and the passion. I'd really like
- 30:40Speaker 3: it if you would do me a favor. Until you
- 30:43Speaker 3: feel either a little less secure, not insecurity, but less
- 30:48Speaker 3: secure in your surroundings, then come on back here.
- 30:51Speaker 2: But until that happens, I'd really okay begging you to
- 30:55Speaker 2: go down pipe explore.
- 30:56Speaker 4: I will explore. We got two hours to explore and
- 30:59Speaker 4: figure out exactly where I want to stand to watch
- 31:01Speaker 4: the mask.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Thank you?
- 31:02Speaker 4: All right?
- 31:02Speaker 1: My one last thing is this because it feels to
- 31:06Speaker 1: me like almost all soccer play by play guys are
- 31:11Speaker 1: almost pinned into their goal call being the same thing.
- 31:15Speaker 1: It's just goal just some of them do it longer,
- 31:18Speaker 1: and some of them do it shorter, and some of
- 31:19Speaker 1: them do it louder, and some do it with a
- 31:22Speaker 1: you know, a light in their voice, and some do
- 31:24Speaker 1: it deep. How much time did you put into coming
- 31:28Speaker 1: up with your own goal call and what did you
- 31:30Speaker 1: do to separate it from others?
- 31:32Speaker 3: Well, what I always say is I was always thankful
- 31:35Speaker 3: that the Sounders gave a play by play guy an
- 31:38Speaker 3: opportunity who had never done play by play. So my
- 31:41Speaker 3: first year, I will not listen. I have never listened
- 31:43Speaker 3: to those tapes. I just took repetition right. And I'm
- 31:46Speaker 3: being serious. So it was like forty to fifty games.
- 31:49Speaker 3: I was finding myself, still finding myself for some reason,
- 31:52Speaker 3: and you don't know why. But I would accentuate something
- 31:55Speaker 3: and then it's in the back of the neck and
- 31:57Speaker 3: I would always just do awe. I didn't know that
- 32:00Speaker 3: until someone told me. And then I listened back, and
- 32:03Speaker 3: I was saying it every time, and I didn't even
- 32:05Speaker 3: I was doing it subconscious and and that.
- 32:09Speaker 2: Was the end of it. And it was so and so,
- 32:11Speaker 2: so and so in the back of the net.
- 32:13Speaker 3: Stop spencing with this fourth goal of the you know, right,
- 32:16Speaker 3: and and that's what How where that came? How that come?
- 32:20Speaker 3: I don't know it. I thought it got better and
- 32:23Speaker 3: we just moved along. But I it had to have
- 32:26Speaker 3: been my second year. I felt like more confident and
- 32:29Speaker 3: I think it came along consistently in that second year.
- 32:33Speaker 4: Did you get good compliments on it from other play
- 32:36Speaker 4: by players?
- 32:36Speaker 2: Well?
- 32:37Speaker 3: The crazy thing is is you listened to one person.
- 32:41Speaker 3: I would listen to my boss Slash, you know, I
- 32:44Speaker 3: would call him mentor like he We would critique every
- 32:47Speaker 3: game because I needed critiquing.
- 32:49Speaker 2: I mean, there's you can't hide from it.
- 32:51Speaker 3: Right When when when Jordan Morris scores a goal and
- 32:56Speaker 3: you say that Ozzie Alonzo scores the goal, you screwed
- 32:59Speaker 3: up the gold call, right, there's only you're graded only
- 33:03Speaker 3: on a couple different things in a soccer match. Gold
- 33:06Speaker 3: calls are number one, two, and three, And when you
- 33:08Speaker 3: screw that up in Houston in twenty sixteen, that sticks
- 33:12Speaker 3: with you, and so you you just take I wouldn't
- 33:16Speaker 3: listen to too many people outside of people who are
- 33:19Speaker 3: going to have great constructive criticism, be respectful, and then
- 33:22Speaker 3: try to improve from that because it's a rough gig.
- 33:25Speaker 4: Thank you for doing this. My pleasure was great. I
- 33:28Speaker 4: had a blast with you here.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Please sincerely have an awesome time, have the time of
- 33:33Speaker 1: your life.
- 33:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I shall, all right, I shall.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Thanks Thereius, Matt Johnson stretch with us here all show long.
- 33:39Speaker 1: We're gonna add things off to Greg Bell and Christopher Kidd.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Brian Schmetzer is coming on the show ten fifteen.
- 33:48Speaker 4: You might want to stick around.
- 33:49Speaker 1: Don't leave just yet, all right, have a great day, everybody,
- 33:53Speaker 1: have a great weekend.
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