February 14, 2024 • 36 mins
In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and his wife Gina Mahler chat with Mike Florio about the fallout from Super Bowl 58 and Ryan Grubb joining the Seahawks, then discuss the feelings about the Huskies football year a month later before reacting to Fun with Audio.
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Where we go? Are you excited? Yeah, very excited. Let's go.
Let's do it. Do what?Yeah, I've been waiting for this,
talk about the sports. This isgoing to be a ton of fun.
Can I tell you, Jackson,she comes in here with a little
bit of a box. Coach gruboffensive coordinator, head coach Mike o'donald Gino
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Wagner, DK Bobo, DJ Dallas, DJ Dallas. Can Can we just
set some ground rule offense? I'minterested in these ground rules? What are
these? I think we just needto set the stage and set some ground
right. Why don't you guys talkto each other and I'll figure out what's
happening with the microphones sounding like that? Go ahead, O one, Okay,
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I just think that we need toset some context, right, Like
I am a sports fan. Iknow about sports. I've been a sports
fan my entire life. But let'sjust let's just say I'm not I'm not
the I don't know the stag,so I don't know right, Like A
look at it, Wow on cueas if he already knew you were gonna
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say that. I did not knowthat. It's amazing. It's like you
guys are in syncres but like,I feel like we just see this at
the stage, especially for the audience. Right, Like I follow you on
Twitter, I see what people aresaying. I feel like people are gonna
either really like this today or they'renot. Right, Like, did they
come here for something? They comehere to listen to you talk about sports
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and rate. They come here getsome information every now and again, and
we might have a little bit morefun today. Good right, Listen,
I said this to both you andDick last week. It's the fact that
we are entertainment. We are ashow. We are here to entertain.
We're on the stage. Let's havefun with this, and today we especially
can have a lot of funs.Well, we're off to a good start,
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I think because you haven't sworn yeton the radio. I'm gonna lock
it up today. I'm gonna lockit up. Yeah, the dump button.
I don't have a little button,right, there was a dump button
off? Where is it? Doesshe have a dumb Okay, I'll look
it up. I'll be good.I'll be good, even though I come
from a long line of potty mouthspeak. Yes, yes, she's got
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a worse mouth than I. Justmake sure and I swear like a sailor.
Yeah, you know that. Andshe's worse than me. Before I
was with you, I was kindof profane, and then when you and
I got together, now it's justdirty, nasty kid. Let's move let's
move on. Okay. Well,some of the stuff she says to me
off the air, dude, there'sno way you can repeat listen. The
station would be shut down. It'sthree oh five. We should probably outline
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the show coming up. Yeah,yeah, yeah, okay, So I
got this handy Tandy show sheet infront of me. At three ten we
have Mike Florio, which I'm reallyexcited about. Really, yes, I
really like Mike Florio. I thinkhe's really smartle spot holes unbelievable. Okay.
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At four oh one is a canyou stop doing that? You missed,
you missed the whole segment. Oh, I have to go over all
of the segments, not the onesthat say open, but the things that
we have. So okay, okay, okay. Three forty five we have
fun with audio. Yeah okay,and then at four one we have Petro's
popdocas Vegas Horse Crap Radio Show.I like Petros. He's funny. Do
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yeah yeah, do you now?I do. And then at four forty
five we have textimonials for you.Five on one Kevin Harlan, that's right,
yeah, and then five forty five. I don't really like the sound
of this, but sloppy second soI don't really know what that is,
but I don't like the sounds ofit. Of the text that we don't
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get to at four forty five,because there's gonna be a lot of text
today on the text line. Wouldyou like to see the text line?
You're horrified it can? I askone thing? Are you going to allow
folks to call in and ask questions? The problem with people calling in is
that we have no control over it. Yes, we have a button,
but if somebody calls up and startsgetting nasty and gnarly and blah blah blah.
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With the text of audiles, wecan at least filter out some of
the real unruly, disgusting, gnarlynasty stuff. It actually, you know
what you're doing, well, weget a lot of that on the show.
I mean, you want to sithere and look at the text.
It's ridiculous. Valentine's Day. Bythe way, does this strike you as
a gift from me to you?I don't know. Ask me at the
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end of the show. Okay,at the end, Well, I got
her a gift for Valentine's Dead.She got me nothing for Valentine's Day.
Wasn't that how it typically works?I said, I do? Okay,
I said, yes, that wasmy gift fifteen years ago. Did rise
I get you a gift? No, we don't get each other gifts.
We get one gift for together,for each of us. We say one
thing that each of us wants sothat we can benefit. So we bought
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ourselves a new chair. There yougo, a chair. That's all.
I got her some flowers and acouple of glassy babies. You now have
ninety of those in the house.They're beautiful. It's ridiculous how many you
have. Do you ever think maybewe should stop? Are we going to
talk about sports? You don't overto the house. She could open her
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own store. I mean, peoplereally want to hear you and I talk
sports? Or do they want tohear about everything happening like at home,
like the fact that you yelled atme today about doing yard work you shouldn't
be allowed to do. I wakeup, Jackson, I go out.
You just hang on a second,Hang on a second, because here's what
you do to me at home.All the time you do this to me.
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We'll get into an argument about somethingand she'll cut me off and she'll
say, this is not the DaveSofty Mother show. When I'm at home,
you are on the Dave. Okay, So I wake up. It's
Valentine's Day. The yard needs tobe cleaned up. I got some time
in the morning, and it's afairly nice day. I'm thinking to myself,
I'm gonna go outside and clean theyard at but I sent her a
text with the with the work thatI've done, and she instantly calls me,
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instantly, like within seconds, andcalls me, you stop doing yard
work. Now. You don't knowthat frames between a plant and a weed,
you're gonna pull something out that's notsupposed to be pulled out. So
here, I am thinking, I'mdoing this great gesture for you to talk,
and you're screaming at me for doingyardsition, So noe, go ahead.
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Okay, So here here's the thing. Okay, you know David.
You interact with David a lot.There's not a lot of attention to detail.
Okay, why I I'm sorry,No, I appreciate David's effort I
do, but he shouldn't do yardwork. Okay. I put a lot
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of time and effort and love intomy yard, which he takes credit for
repeatedly. And then I get apicture he's like, oh look what I
did, and literally he's just rippingFlora. I'm gonna let you two bringing
my wife to do some couples counseling. That's fine. His wife is a
counselor. Listen. I think itwas good. You'll come home and I'm
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certain you'll find something wrong with absolutely, but I felt pretty good about the
job I did. Okay, well, i'll bring you down that much.
All right? Are you are youfired up to talk some sports? Sure?
You're fired up to share your sportsknowledge with people? Are you fired
up to take some texts of fourforty five? Sure? Do you want
to talk to Mike Florio? Iwould like to ask Mike Florio just like
one question, one question, onequestion? Okay, Well, if he's
okay with you, you can haveas many as you want it. You
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can do the interview. I'll takeNo. I don't want to do that.
I mean, all you do issit around the house and just think
that we just goof off all dayhere on the on the air, which
we kind of do. I meanwe do eight nine minutes of radio and
then breaking chip golf balls. Let'sget to Mike Florio right now. It's
time for a weekly conversation with ProFootball Talks. Mike Florio brought to you
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Jackson Dick out my wife and forDick and Mike Florio joining us right now
in the radio program from the NFLat NBC Pro Football Talk dot com.
How are you pale, good good? I need to know who lost the
bet here? Did you lose thebet or did she lose the bet.
I have a ceiling. She lostthe bet and was forced to sit there
with you and experience firsthand your overallradio talents are lacked their own. Yeah.
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It was the boss's idea. Valentine'sDay. Here's a great idea,
right, honey, Yeah, bossRich Moore, the program director, not
this boss, the real boss.Yeah, the boss and the office.
And I was all for it.I said, let's do it. A
great idea. And she's got onequestion that she's been dying to ask your
pal, So is that is thatcool? Let me just say, let
me just say, I am farmore pleased to speak. And this is
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Softie than the safty today or anyday. Yeah, this is good for
me. Yeah. Well, youknow what it's all about, making you
hap. So that's why we're broughther in. So how do you go
ahead? You so, Mike,Mike, my one question is why don't
you like Softy? Oh? Idon't know that we have enough time in
the remainder of the show. What'syour next part? Out? I got
nine minutes. I mean we cango on and on. I've known him
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for way too long. I don'tknow why I keep doing this. Maybe
it's because he pays me so muchand it's always on time. Maybe that's
why. I don't know, butI find a way. I think I
like the torture myself. It's alittle bit of a masochistic streak every Wednesday
night, which is in the dinnerhour for me, which requires me to
expend political capital with my own wifebecause we have to delay dinner for this.
So I really am into self punishment. And we've been doing it for
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so many years now, I can'tremember how long it's been. I mean,
I enjoy it. You guys aregreat together, but sometimes I just
get the feeling that maybe maybe youjust don't like him that much. And
trust me, trust me, Iget it because I feel like you either
love him or you hate him,and there's not really a middle ground.
So trust me, I totally understand. There the chance it's all a bit,
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but I can't comment on whether ornot that chance to see it could
be a bit. It could belike double secret probation, high level psychology.
I act like it's all on actionthat the truth is I really don't
like him. I'm acting like Idon't like him as part of the bit
that the truth is I really don'tlike him. I got it. We'll
tell you what, man, TheNiners don't like Steve Wilkes. How shocked
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were you, Mike that they whacktheir defensive coordinator just three days, two
days after the Super Bowl and numberthree scoring defense in the NFL. There's
surely some stuff behind the scenes thatwould help this make sense, because on
the surface it doesn't. Now,they had some rough moments this year.
They had a clear lack of pursuitand effort in the NFC Championship Game when
they fell behind twenty four to seven. They had that issue in the Monday
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night loss to the Vikings where Wilkescall to cover zero all out blitz before
halftime and set the stage for along touchdown. But but they helped the
Chiefs and patri Mahomes in nineteen pointsin sixty minutes of Super Bowl regulation.
Top That's a time for some Andin the first half the defense was doing
its job, the offense was failingto do its job. The offense should
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have been scored more points. Itshould have been twenty one six at the
half, like it was in SuperBowl fifty five when the Buccaneers were all
over the Chiefs. If the Chiefsare going to give you opportunity to score
in the first half. You haveto do it because they're eventually going to
go on that Golden State Warriors runwhere they know they stay outscore you eighteen
to two and it's over. Soyou got to score the points. Why
you can, because if you lethim hang around, they're going to get
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shipped. But to hold them tonineteen points, I think is remarkable.
But I think it's indicative of thepressure that Kyle Shanahan is feeling to win
the big one. He feels likehe's got upgrade. And let's see who
he hires. Would it be somethingif he convinces Mike Brabil or Pete Carroll
or Bill Belichick to become the nextdefensive coordinator. That'll put it all in
perspective because Wilfs is going to getpaid next year in the year after,
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so it's not like he walks awaywith nothing. But let's see who they
get. My guess is they don'tdo this. They don't have a good
idea who they're going to get next. Did the forty nine er coaches were
they aware of the overtime rules?You think the coaches were the players weren't.
The coaches kept it all to themselves. The problem I have with this
is the forty nine Ers pre bakedtheir approach to overtime. They had decided
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even before the playoffs began. Theanalytics people decided that if they went to
overtime in one of these games,they were going to choose to receive because
they wanted that third possession, whichwould be the first possession of sudden deaths
if both teams score an equal amountof points, and obviously if it flops
out of one way, they're afterthe first possession, the game's over.
So if it's tied after two possessions, forty nine Ers get the third possession
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and it's sudden death at that point. That's what they wanted, and I
feel like they didn't consider the mostimportant factor, which is never put the
ball in Patrick Mahoons's hands with achampionship on the line. He knew exactly
what he needed. You basically daredhim to score more than three points,
and we knew he was going todo it. And the thing that makes
it even more fascinating, the Chiefshad made it clear if the forty nine
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Ers had scored a touchdown and gottenone extra point to make it seven.
They were going to go for two, and I bet they would. He
used to play they used to scorethe touchdown to win the game as their
two point play, and it wouldhave worked and they would have won the
Super Bowl on a two point conversion. So I think it was a mistake
because it didn't take into account thespecific practicalities of that game, which is,
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you don't want to stay to PatrickMahomes, here's the ball, you
got one drive to win a championship, because I take him in that setting
before anyone else. Well, MikeFlorio's with us on the show courtesy of
our friends at simply Seattle dot com. Use code kJ R fifteen for fifteen
percent off anything, and you werethe first one to report the connection.
I think it was over. Itwas almost two weeks ago now that the
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Hawks were looking at Ryan Grubb WashingtonOC as their offensive coordinator, and that
just became official the other day pressconference tomorrow by the way, eleven o'clock.
But what do you make of RyanGrubb? But not not many guys
make the jump straight from Cawvirich tothe NFL. I think Scott Lenahan did
it back in the day as aformer Husky guy as well. But Ryan
Grubb is Mike McDonald's new OC.How about that well? And the way
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it was told to me initially washe's the guy, And I didn't report
it that way because I was toldthat there was a chance it wasn't going
to happen, that it wasn't adone deal. But he was clearly a
candidate. But ultimately he is theguy. And I didn't love the headline
on ESPN dot com that he reniggedon Alabama. He didn't renig He took
the job, he showed up,and a better opportunity came along. How
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can you blame him to go fromoffensive coordinator to Alabama offensive coordinator Seattle Seahawks
and put himself in a position whereif he does a good job, he
becomes an NFL head coach. Whowouldn't want to position himself to be an
NFL head coach, especially with collegefootball being the mess that it now is,
ruined by the nil in balance,which is frankly the chaos that college
football deserves after decades of refusing tolet the payers players make a dime.
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But still, how can you blameRyan Grubb for saying no or saying yes
frankly to the opportunity to come coachor the offense of the Seattle Seahawks.
So I love it, and Ithink it's kind of one of those unique
outside the box, not the sameold cookie cutter approach, and let's see
what he can do. What doyou think happens Friday? If Geno Smith
is on the roster, his twelvepoint seven million base salary becomes guaranteed for
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next year. What are you kindof hearing about the Geno Smith future in
Seattle. I need to look atthe contract and see if it's third day
of the waiver period or third dayof the league year. I thought it
was league year. It's possibly waiverperiod. I thought it was lead year,
which would give them a little moretime. Either way, that's the
first decision they have to make.Are they going to keep him for another
year? Are they going to moveon? The salary? Isn't ridiculous grand
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scheme of things for veteran quarterback thatthey need to have a planet quarterback Drew
Locke's going to be a free agent. Gino Smith is a guy they have
to decide whether or not to reup. And if they don't do one
of those two, they better haveanother plan. They better have somebody else
that they're ready to go out andsign Intrey Agency or trade four or hope
they can get in the draft.So we'll learn a lot about what they're
thinking for twenty twenty four. Butthe reality is, when you consider the
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contract that was signed last year byGeno Smith to kick the can for another
year and keep him around a hugefinancial investment, it all comes down to
what the new coaching staff thinks ofhim. But we know what John Schneider
thinks of him, and he's thecommon thread between the last regime and this
regime. Hey, Mike, beforeyou go, one of the stories coming
out of the Super Bowl is thejob that Steve Spagnola did as the DC
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for the Chiefs. And we don'toften talk about kind of where coordinators rank
on the list of great coordinators inthe history of the NFL, But you
think about all the great dcs,right, Romeo Cronell, Richie Pettibone,
Vic Fann, Where does Steve Spagnolarank for you in the list of the
all time great dcs in the NFL. I mean, he's got to be
up there, dating back to twothousand and seven when they held the Patriots
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who were rocketing toward nineteen and oherand they were unstoppable all year long to
fourteen points in the super Bowl.That's incredible what he did, and it's
unfortunate that he took the job atthe RAMS. And this is always a
challenge when you get an opportunity tobe an NFL head coach. Do you
take it or do you not takeit? Is the team dysfunctional? Do
you take your chances? I meanit was a dysfunctional mess for Spagnola with
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the Rams, and I thought itwas funny to Kevin Demos, the RAMS
COO, came out and said thatyesterday on Twitter. I wish somebody would
have said something when the jobs wereopen. I wish somebody would have said
something from the Rams on behalf ofSteve Spagnolo when people were putting their list
together of potential coaching candidates, becausethis guy can't even get a sniff.
And here's the other reality too,something Pete Carroll has learned and maybe Bill
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Belichick got a taste of it aswell. We focus so much on the
racial issues in the NFL, andthey are very real when it comes to
the long standing bias in hiring coaches. There's also an age issue in the
NFL, and I think that worksagainst Steve Spagnolo as well. All right,
Mike, you're the man, greatstuff. We're talking a week copl
gat Mike Florio with us. We'vegot to break more with my wife.
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Wife, and I've been getting multipletexts from people. By the way,
I'm not letting Gina talk enough,So maybe I'll just leave the studio and
she can take over the entire segment. Next on ninety three to three KJRFM,
go back to Sophie and Dick.What's ready? Ninety three point three
kJ R F Oh, Washington Huskies. See I don't you're home for the
Huskies and he needs to learn theway I learn from my father. I
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don't even know what that is,the way he learns. Why what does
that add? It's not funny.People don't even know what it is.
Makes me laugh. You're busting myballs already? Oh my god, that's
what you need? Geez? DoI really do I need that? One
hundred percent? Why do I needthat? Are you kidding? Do I
need that? Why do I needmy balls busted? Here when I'm gonna
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go home and get my balls bustedthere. Oh, life is hard for
you, right, life is superhard for you. I'm not saying it's
hard for me, honey. I'msaying you do bust my balls a lot
when I get home, because youneed it, because you're not focused,
because you're like you're like a flythat's stuck in blinds, beating up against
the window over and over and overand over and over again. And it's
just like sometimes it's exhausting. Allright, Well, I'm having fun staying
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out of this. I'm really enjoyingthis. You with me. She was
with me for the entire Husky run, came to New York for the Heisman
ceremony, went to New Orleans forthe Sugar Bowl, went to Houston for
the National Championship. Did you enjoyall that? Yeah? Absolutely fun for
you. Yeah. One of myone of my favorite things is traveling with
your sports team. I just there'sthis sense of camaraderie when you see fans
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walking in the airport or walking aroundin New Orleans. I absolutely love it.
And this Husky season was unbelievably special. It was. It was one
of those moments in time that maynot ever happen again, and you had
to take full advantage of it.That's right, right, it was a
once in a lifetime opportunity. Andthe energy and the team, I mean,
it was just it was, itwas. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
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First of all, just for you, I like, there you go.
Second of all, does it doesit change the way and I actually
Jackson have been wanting to talk toDick and you about this as well?
Does it change the way that youremember the season because the way things ended,
of course with Kaylin taken off,Because really, in the end,
it should not change anything. Westill enjoyed all that stuff. We had
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Elijah Jackson knocking the ball away,Tony's great call, he knocks the ball
away, and Washington, it's gottaplay for the first That's how choppy chap
Since nineteen ninety one, that stillhappened, right halftime of the Natty still
happened, dreaming about beating Michigan.The Heisman Trophy ceremony, everybody on the
edge of their seat still happened.But now all of a sudden, because
Kaylen took off four days after theseason ended, we look at the year
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differently, because here's I think,how I look at big sporting events like
this is also the fallout of suchevent. You know. One of the
cool things about the super Bowl back, you know, ten years ago,
was the fact that in the daysafter that, we got the parade,
we got the six in the trophyof six inches from my face, right,
we got all of these moments thatcame right afterwards that built in the
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same moment the year later, ofcourse, the week afterwards on this station,
and all the that, you knowis part of the moment, right.
So part of the moment of thislast Husky season is what the fallout
of that, which was just adisastrous week. Right. So if Pete
care, I'm sorry, Yeah,thanks to talk, I have an opinion,
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I have a voice. You broughtme in. Okay, wow,
good god, come on, it'sall you be. I also think that
the one of the things that madethis the season so exciting is you were
so excited for the future. Youwere so looking forward to what this was
going to mean for Husky football movingforward. There was talk about that coach
de Bor was next Don James,and we were going to keep doing this
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over and over and over again.And then it just ended, and it
was just it was heartbreaking. Andso my excitement for this Hussy season isn't
nearly as exciting as it was becauseit's all different. Yeah, and it
breaks my heart. Yeah, absolutelybreaks my heart. So part of the
reason why you loved what happened intwenty twenty three is because of what you
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thought it meant for the future,right, And that's being able to celebrate
it over the entire offseason. AndI gotta tell you, and we've done
a poor job of this, bythe way, And we talked last week
about trying to rectify this, andI got messages out to people, but
a lot of the kids are alltraining, they got agents, they're in
California, Arizona, doing their thing, getting ready for the NFL Draft.
We got to do a better jobof celebrating that year and getting these guys
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on the air. And there's someguys that will get some guys that we
won't get, like you know,Pennix's do and he's he's off in mister
celebrity Land now obviously, so gettinga hold of him might be tough,
but we'll try. We're gonna focuson the team, obviously, but getting
those guys on the air, becauseI don't think those guys got their proper
due because of the way things ended, you know, yeah, absolutely yeahless
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they said, you wanted to talk, let's have the mic. Let's take
a guy like Elijah Jackson. Right, Yes, Elijah Jackson got just knocked
over and over and over throughout theseason, right. I mean we were
talking about, you know, theweakest link on the Husky defense a number
of times, and then he comesup with maybe the most monstrous play of
the entire year, right, Imean we had that debate of you know,
if we were to try to figureout the top five plays of the
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year about a century because there wasjust so many. And Eliza Jackson comes
up with that play, and wehaven't really celebrated him from that play as
we should be online. And Iactually texted Scott Ekland, not like Scott
Eckland from dog Man, but youknow Scott photographer his daughter in New York,
and I said, dude, doyou do you have like a photo
of that play? Do you haveanything from that game? Like I want
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to see the sideline exploding when Elijahknocked the ball away. I want to
get something in my man cave,which I hate saying that. I'm sorry.
Nothing legendary, man, It's ridiculous. Did you see the look I
just got from her? By theway, I hate it. Okay,
I would like to just have somethingin it. It's my house, too,
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right, how about the entire house. I'm gonna I'm gonna step out
of this you're talking about. Youhaven't met. You got the front yard,
you got the backyard. You gotthe guest room. She ruined,
you got them, I ruined it. You got the master bedroom, you
got both bathrooms, the whole freakingplaces. You have an entire room dedicated
to all of your things, andI have nothing. Okay, that is
not true whatsoever. We can discussthis off the air, all right.
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I don't want it to me ed. I want to get something to,
you know, kind of commemorate thatgame. I feel like I got nothing,
and I don't want to feel badputting something up in my man cave
from that game at all. Youknow. The cool thing will be,
though, I mean maybe it comeslater on because it is still I mean,
well, we're still just a monthremoved from that whole week, right
right right. The cool thing willbe watching the NFL Draft, and I
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know Michael Penix may not be eventhe third or fourth quarterback taken, but
in all the conversations, I don'tknow, Sophie. For me, I
think that ninety percent of the highlightsthat we see from Michael Pennock's come draft
time are going to be from theTexas game, right, and just that
will help with continuing to celebrate whatthat day was, yes, because very
few things right now can well I'mgetting a look, by the way from
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her because of this whole man cavecount. Let's just move forward, right,
which has been brought up before.I don't think it's fair. What's
not fair about it? Because youcan have whatever you want in that room.
It's all okay, I'm gonna gohome tonight. I'm gonna take down
all your crap. What crap,what's crap? I'm sorry. You have
an entire Star Wars collection. You'refifty years old. You play with toys?
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Well, I play with toys,so no better. It's not an
uncommon thing. They're not toys,they're collected, they're collect don't play with
them ever, I don't ever playwith them. I'm sorry. When you
turn on the lightsabers and I godown there and you're making this noise.
Hey, wait a minute, that'sbetween us. Don't tell anybody about that,
for God's sakes. But I getit, you know, I totally
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get the fact that people are downabout the way things ended. But I'll
tell you what I almost said,Honey, Can I call her honey on
the air? Is that allowed?Babe? Honey? Whatever? Okay with
it? Thanks for asking me.Well, I'm just is that like appropriate
radio? Is someone gonna text meand say you shouldn't talk to women like
that? Blah blah blah. Everyone'sgot their pet names for their their significant
others, Like what do you callrise of babe? Babe? Okay,
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you gotta be fired up, though, babe. About the job that Jetfish
has done getting this thing turned around. I saw a tweet like yesterday where
about a month ago, we hadforty five guys on the rocks. Now
it's over seventy five or maybe eveneighty players on the roster. I think
he's doing a hell of a job. I gotta I gotta tell you.
And this is pretty consistent for me. I am very judgy when new hires
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are made for head coach skeptical.I was very skeptical with coach Peterson,
very skeptical. Really the man dida great job, but I was skeptical.
I like the big showy name.Okay, I like he didn't I
didn't get excited. I was kepticalbecause he came from a smaller school,
that's what you and I was skepticalabout Debor. I had no idea what
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bor was going to do. Whatdo you think of Pete Carroll and the
Hawks hired Pete Carroll. I feellike I wasn't excited. I wasn't,
but I learned. I learned tolove Pete Carroll over time. I I
like, this might come as ashock. I like a mean coach.
I like a Bill Cower. Ilike a mean, angry coach. And
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Pete was just he's a cheerleader onthe sideline. But it worked right being
coach. It makes me think,when was the last week? Had time
we had a mean coach in town? Coach in any sport? Really?
Maybe Panella Panela, Yeah, jumpon his guys, But I mean Carl
was kind of like that as aBACHEB coach Clarin John McCloy, well,
but the problem with McLaren It wassuch an act that nobody bought any of
(27:22):
it. You know, John McLarenis no okay, he's a former mayor,
uh manager for the Mariners. Thatwas an act exactly. Oh dude,
well the whole thing that he readthat one day when he went nuts.
Yeah, we got it good afterand that was like scripted. Are
you kidding me? You've heard thatthing? It was terrible. I guess
he always came off to me likea little bit of you know, like
a mean coach. It wasn't likethat at all. That's why people laughed
(27:42):
at it when it happened, likewhat come on, dude, shut the
ten years old when he was thecoach. All right, three thirty nine,
a little fun with audio slash hatdid you hear that? You're good
with that? Next segment? That'sright? And then Petros joins at four
o'clock right here on ninety three threekg IR FM, Softy Dick and Jackson
Dick out Gina my wife in righthere on ninety three three KJRFM. It's
(28:03):
now time for Safty in Dick's onewith Audio. Jimmy g Poor star,
Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's havesome fun with audio. All right,
Safty, Dick and Jackson dick out. My wife is in Hi wife hanging
out until seven o'clock tonight, PetrosPapadacus four o'clock, Kevin Harlan five PM
on the radio program. All Right, so, honey, here's the way
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we do this, real easy.I look at you and I say,
hey, honey, did you hearthat? And you say, what's that?
David? Okay, you want torehearse that? Oneman. I'm good,
I'm good. Thanks, okay,all right, here we go three
two one, Hey honey, didyou happen to hear that? What's that?
David? What's that? Dick?This morning on First Take, Stephen
A. Smith sharing his feelings onValentine's Day. Well, here's the deal,
(28:47):
y'all to all the late Happy Valentine'sDay, number one, number two
man everywhere. No, this holidayis not about us, exactly. It's
about y'all you und we have nothingto do with it. As bad enough
that the other three hundred and sixtyfour days out of the year we have
no rights what toever. I mean, y'all run the world. We all
know what tom it is. Imean, smart men know women are the
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ones with the real power. Well, we just live in y'all world.
You know, we want out bigpiece of chicken. As they say,
we just want out big piece ofchicken every now and then. Okay,
it's your world. We're just squirrelsyou instead of saying this is who we
are, we accept it. Buton this day, more so than any
other day, it is definitely allabout y'all. Yeah. I do find
it interesting that there really isn't oneday dedicated to the guys because Valentine's Day
(29:33):
is about the women. Yeah,that's how it should be. And I
just have to say, like StephenA. Smith, that might be the
smartest thing I've ever heard of say, because he's usually screaming and foaming at
the mouth and is being dramatic.But that was very contained and very very
smart. You could take a pageout of his book. You see.
If I waited go until I could, if I wait, I'm just gonna
let that pass. If I waiteduntil tomorrow to buy you those roses,
(29:56):
I bought you this morning. Yeah, great looking arrangement. Sure what else
was in there? Lilies? Yeah, this is amazing. Yeah, So
she comes downstairs, Jackson sees thiswonderful display and says I wanted an orchid.
That's true. I did ask forthat specifically. Serious makes me sound
ungrateful. That's not nice. That'sa low blow. I asked you specifically
for the orchid. That was theonly thing that I wanted. I appreciated
(30:18):
the bouquet. I don't think it. Don't be rude. I'm not being
rude. I'm just telling the world. Hey, listen, if you can't
say it to the world, youshouldn't say it to me. That's a
new rule in the house. Let'smove on. Hey, Gina, did
you happen to hear that? What'sthat? David? What's that? Dick?
Later on First Take that day,Chris mad Dog Russo spending more time
complaining about how much Taylor Swift appearedduring the Super Bowl than the amount of
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time she was actually on TV.We talked about the Tata Swift coverage.
In the AFC Championship game. Shewas on for thirty eight seconds. All
right, that sounds like not thatbig a deal. This past week she
was on the quote unpartment was anovertime game for fifty five seconds? All
right? Does it on that bed? Yea? They went to that box
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twelve times. Twelve times he onlycaught one ball on the first half.
I'm not interesting. They couldn't pickout letting Dawson out of a lineup for
five how loud? Twelve times hehad one catch in the first half.
And I said, I understand.She's a huge star by the top football
(31:25):
game. And you know why.Now you know why fans get annoyed in
Buffalo and Border when they think it'sa conspiracy. Well, they want the
Chiefs to win, so he getsall the calls because they want to capitalize
on Tanna Swift. Now that's anonsensical thought for fans. Stick that way
twelve times, that's way four timesa quarter for fine out loud, and
(31:45):
they twelve straight fence to the game. React. I love it. I
love I told you this. Iwas on pins and needles waiting to see
if she was gonna make it tothe super Bowl. I love the drama.
I love how excited and angry peopleare, spitting and mad the they
show her too much. Who cares? She was tracking to see it for
a flight from for the game.Yeah, I'm here for the drama.
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I love in the drama there onher iPad the entire night on Friday night,
I love it. In the Saturdaymorning, waiting to see a Taylor's
plane showed up? Yes, Whywhy does this bother people so much?
It's so upset? Why so upset? Like Paul Rudd got more TV time
than Taylor Swift on Sunday? Imean, let's face it, there were
a lot of stars at that SuperBowl. Yes, Ton, can we
(32:29):
say I was more excited to seeBlake lively every time than Taylor Swift.
Blake liveline is stunning. Of course, so is Taylor Swift. Yeah,
that's fair. I mean Petros thinksthat she looks like a stork. I
don't get that. I heard himsay that. I don't understand. He'll
say it again coming up next,Sega. Okay, hey Gina, did
you happen to hear that? What'sthat? David? What's that? Dick?
Before Super Bowl fifty eight, MarshawnLynch walking around various hotels in Las
(32:52):
Vegas asking people if they were indeedSan Francisco forty nine er fans. Yeah
you look you? Yes, sir? You are you a forty nine fan?
Yes? I am you? Areyou a forty nine fan? Absolutely?
(33:14):
You are Are you a forty nineE fan? You? Are you
a forty nine A fan? Hell? Yeah, you excuse me? Forty
nine? A man forty nine?A man forty nine? A man forty
nine? A man? Are youforty nine? Yes? Sir you?
So what did you tell me afteryou saw that video? I was surprised
(33:37):
you didn't get punched? Right,Like, I get that, it's Marshawn
Lynch. I get it. Butthat is aggressive. So was he doing
like was he getting paid by someone? Like? Was there a sponsor attached
to that? Yeah? I hadlike I didn't get the motivation. Yeah,
well, first of all I didn't. It's marsh On Lynch. I
don't use this word very often becauseI am indeed sophomoric, but that was
very sophomoric. And there's only oneguy in the planet, agree who can
(34:00):
get away with it. Shit.It's him walking up to a random fan
who are known to be fairly violentpeople, by the way, and telling
them to f off in their faceto it is shocking? Is it not
that nobody smashing them? But it'smarsh Lynch. But is it possible that
one of those Niner fans doesn't knowwho he is no, Okay, how
do you not know who Marshawn Lynchis? You know who Marshaon Lynches.
(34:22):
You know who Marshall Lynches? Youknow who Marshall Lynches. Is it possible
that somebody out there was wearing aNiner jersey just because they were in the
Super Bowl and did not know whoMarshall? If you're if you are a
football fan, you know who MarshawLynch is. Let's go one more and
babe, did you happen to hearthat? What's that? What's that?
Dick? After losing the Super Bowl, Niners full back Kyle used Chick,
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admitting he did not know the league'snew overtime rules for playoff games and said
the team did not talk about it. You know what, I didn't even
realize that the playoff rules were differentin overtime, so I assumed you just
want the ball because you score atouchdown and win. But I guess that's
not the case. So I don'treally I don't totally know the strategy there.
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No, no, we haven't talkedabout it all right, so you
hate my drops? In the wordsof Dick Baird, I mean, how
do you know the rules? Itis it is your job. Do you
be prepared before you go out onthe field. That is your job?
And it is embarrassing that he hadno idea, but then he admits it.
(35:28):
That's right, He's like, whatare you doing? Who is the
guy? Uh? Some guy onsome network somewhere came out and said,
dude, just lie. Yeah,don't admit that. It's a shot in
his coaches, Kyle Shanahan massive shotat him, their special teams coordinator,
a massive shot at them Millan.Millan brought this point at the other day
that let's say the Niners had scoreda touchdown and there's guys on the sideline
(35:50):
like ust check that thought the gamewas over, and they start rushing the
field, going up and down,going, and then the Chiefs get the
ball back, they get touchdown,the Niners get stopped, and the Chiefs
win the game. And then there'sa video of all these idiot Niner players
running the storming the field thinking they'dwon the game when they indeed lost,
(36:13):
and we get to mock them foreverwith that video. Are you kidding me?
How close did we come to havingthat happen? Can you feel it
down? I got all right you'reready for Petros. Yeah, Petros Papadaki's
going to join the show next onninety three three KJRFM.
Where we go? Are you excited? Yeah, very excited. Let's go.
Let's do it. Do what?Yeah, I've been waiting for this,
talk about the sports. This isgoing to be a ton of fun.
Can I tell you, Jackson,she comes in here with a little
bit of a box. Coach gruboffensive coordinator, head coach Mike o'donald Gino
(00:23):
Wagner, DK Bobo, DJ Dallas, DJ Dallas. Can Can we just
set some ground rule offense? I'minterested in these ground rules? What are
these? I think we just needto set the stage and set some ground
right. Why don't you guys talkto each other and I'll figure out what's
happening with the microphones sounding like that? Go ahead, O one, Okay,
(00:44):
I just think that we need toset some context, right, Like
I am a sports fan. Iknow about sports. I've been a sports
fan my entire life. But let'sjust let's just say I'm not I'm not
the I don't know the stag,so I don't know right, Like A
look at it, Wow on cueas if he already knew you were gonna
(01:07):
say that. I did not knowthat. It's amazing. It's like you
guys are in syncres but like,I feel like we just see this at
the stage, especially for the audience. Right, Like I follow you on
Twitter, I see what people aresaying. I feel like people are gonna
either really like this today or they'renot. Right, Like, did they
come here for something? They comehere to listen to you talk about sports
(01:27):
and rate. They come here getsome information every now and again, and
we might have a little bit morefun today. Good right, Listen,
I said this to both you andDick last week. It's the fact that
we are entertainment. We are ashow. We are here to entertain.
We're on the stage. Let's havefun with this, and today we especially
can have a lot of funs.Well, we're off to a good start,
(01:49):
I think because you haven't sworn yeton the radio. I'm gonna lock
it up today. I'm gonna lockit up. Yeah, the dump button.
I don't have a little button,right, there was a dump button
off? Where is it? Doesshe have a dumb Okay, I'll look
it up. I'll be good.I'll be good, even though I come
from a long line of potty mouthspeak. Yes, yes, she's got
(02:12):
a worse mouth than I. Justmake sure and I swear like a sailor.
Yeah, you know that. Andshe's worse than me. Before I
was with you, I was kindof profane, and then when you and
I got together, now it's justdirty, nasty kid. Let's move let's
move on. Okay. Well,some of the stuff she says to me
off the air, dude, there'sno way you can repeat listen. The
station would be shut down. It'sthree oh five. We should probably outline
(02:37):
the show coming up. Yeah,yeah, yeah, okay, So I
got this handy Tandy show sheet infront of me. At three ten we
have Mike Florio, which I'm reallyexcited about. Really, yes, I
really like Mike Florio. I thinkhe's really smartle spot holes unbelievable. Okay.
(03:00):
At four oh one is a canyou stop doing that? You missed,
you missed the whole segment. Oh, I have to go over all
of the segments, not the onesthat say open, but the things that
we have. So okay, okay, okay. Three forty five we have
fun with audio. Yeah okay,and then at four one we have Petro's
popdocas Vegas Horse Crap Radio Show.I like Petros. He's funny. Do
(03:23):
yeah yeah, do you now?I do. And then at four forty
five we have textimonials for you.Five on one Kevin Harlan, that's right,
yeah, and then five forty five. I don't really like the sound
of this, but sloppy second soI don't really know what that is,
but I don't like the sounds ofit. Of the text that we don't
(03:45):
get to at four forty five,because there's gonna be a lot of text
today on the text line. Wouldyou like to see the text line?
You're horrified it can? I askone thing? Are you going to allow
folks to call in and ask questions? The problem with people calling in is
that we have no control over it. Yes, we have a button,
but if somebody calls up and startsgetting nasty and gnarly and blah blah blah.
(04:05):
With the text of audiles, wecan at least filter out some of
the real unruly, disgusting, gnarlynasty stuff. It actually, you know
what you're doing, well, weget a lot of that on the show.
I mean, you want to sithere and look at the text.
It's ridiculous. Valentine's Day. Bythe way, does this strike you as
a gift from me to you?I don't know. Ask me at the
(04:27):
end of the show. Okay,at the end, Well, I got
her a gift for Valentine's Dead.She got me nothing for Valentine's Day.
Wasn't that how it typically works?I said, I do? Okay,
I said, yes, that wasmy gift fifteen years ago. Did rise
I get you a gift? No, we don't get each other gifts.
We get one gift for together,for each of us. We say one
thing that each of us wants sothat we can benefit. So we bought
(04:47):
ourselves a new chair. There yougo, a chair. That's all.
I got her some flowers and acouple of glassy babies. You now have
ninety of those in the house.They're beautiful. It's ridiculous how many you
have. Do you ever think maybewe should stop? Are we going to
talk about sports? You don't overto the house. She could open her
(05:09):
own store. I mean, peoplereally want to hear you and I talk
sports? Or do they want tohear about everything happening like at home,
like the fact that you yelled atme today about doing yard work you shouldn't
be allowed to do. I wakeup, Jackson, I go out.
You just hang on a second,Hang on a second, because here's what
you do to me at home.All the time you do this to me.
(05:30):
We'll get into an argument about somethingand she'll cut me off and she'll
say, this is not the DaveSofty Mother show. When I'm at home,
you are on the Dave. Okay, So I wake up. It's
Valentine's Day. The yard needs tobe cleaned up. I got some time
in the morning, and it's afairly nice day. I'm thinking to myself,
I'm gonna go outside and clean theyard at but I sent her a
text with the with the work thatI've done, and she instantly calls me,
(05:51):
instantly, like within seconds, andcalls me, you stop doing yard
work. Now. You don't knowthat frames between a plant and a weed,
you're gonna pull something out that's notsupposed to be pulled out. So
here, I am thinking, I'mdoing this great gesture for you to talk,
and you're screaming at me for doingyardsition, So noe, go ahead.
(06:14):
Okay, So here here's the thing. Okay, you know David.
You interact with David a lot.There's not a lot of attention to detail.
Okay, why I I'm sorry,No, I appreciate David's effort I
do, but he shouldn't do yardwork. Okay. I put a lot
(06:34):
of time and effort and love intomy yard, which he takes credit for
repeatedly. And then I get apicture he's like, oh look what I
did, and literally he's just rippingFlora. I'm gonna let you two bringing
my wife to do some couples counseling. That's fine. His wife is a
counselor. Listen. I think itwas good. You'll come home and I'm
(06:57):
certain you'll find something wrong with absolutely, but I felt pretty good about the
job I did. Okay, well, i'll bring you down that much.
All right? Are you are youfired up to talk some sports? Sure?
You're fired up to share your sportsknowledge with people? Are you fired
up to take some texts of fourforty five? Sure? Do you want
to talk to Mike Florio? Iwould like to ask Mike Florio just like
one question, one question, onequestion? Okay, Well, if he's
okay with you, you can haveas many as you want it. You
(07:18):
can do the interview. I'll takeNo. I don't want to do that.
I mean, all you do issit around the house and just think
that we just goof off all dayhere on the on the air, which
we kind of do. I meanwe do eight nine minutes of radio and
then breaking chip golf balls. Let'sget to Mike Florio right now. It's
time for a weekly conversation with ProFootball Talks. Mike Florio brought to you
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(08:07):
Jackson Dick out my wife and forDick and Mike Florio joining us right now
in the radio program from the NFLat NBC Pro Football Talk dot com.
How are you pale, good good? I need to know who lost the
bet here? Did you lose thebet or did she lose the bet.
I have a ceiling. She lostthe bet and was forced to sit there
with you and experience firsthand your overallradio talents are lacked their own. Yeah.
(08:33):
It was the boss's idea. Valentine'sDay. Here's a great idea,
right, honey, Yeah, bossRich Moore, the program director, not
this boss, the real boss.Yeah, the boss and the office.
And I was all for it.I said, let's do it. A
great idea. And she's got onequestion that she's been dying to ask your
pal, So is that is thatcool? Let me just say, let
me just say, I am farmore pleased to speak. And this is
(08:54):
Softie than the safty today or anyday. Yeah, this is good for
me. Yeah. Well, youknow what it's all about, making you
hap. So that's why we're broughther in. So how do you go
ahead? You so, Mike,Mike, my one question is why don't
you like Softy? Oh? Idon't know that we have enough time in
the remainder of the show. What'syour next part? Out? I got
nine minutes. I mean we cango on and on. I've known him
(09:16):
for way too long. I don'tknow why I keep doing this. Maybe
it's because he pays me so muchand it's always on time. Maybe that's
why. I don't know, butI find a way. I think I
like the torture myself. It's alittle bit of a masochistic streak every Wednesday
night, which is in the dinnerhour for me, which requires me to
expend political capital with my own wifebecause we have to delay dinner for this.
So I really am into self punishment. And we've been doing it for
(09:39):
so many years now, I can'tremember how long it's been. I mean,
I enjoy it. You guys aregreat together, but sometimes I just
get the feeling that maybe maybe youjust don't like him that much. And
trust me, trust me, Iget it because I feel like you either
love him or you hate him,and there's not really a middle ground.
So trust me, I totally understand. There the chance it's all a bit,
(10:01):
but I can't comment on whether ornot that chance to see it could
be a bit. It could belike double secret probation, high level psychology.
I act like it's all on actionthat the truth is I really don't
like him. I'm acting like Idon't like him as part of the bit
that the truth is I really don'tlike him. I got it. We'll
tell you what, man, TheNiners don't like Steve Wilkes. How shocked
(10:22):
were you, Mike that they whacktheir defensive coordinator just three days, two
days after the Super Bowl and numberthree scoring defense in the NFL. There's
surely some stuff behind the scenes thatwould help this make sense, because on
the surface it doesn't. Now,they had some rough moments this year.
They had a clear lack of pursuitand effort in the NFC Championship Game when
they fell behind twenty four to seven. They had that issue in the Monday
(10:45):
night loss to the Vikings where Wilkescall to cover zero all out blitz before
halftime and set the stage for along touchdown. But but they helped the
Chiefs and patri Mahomes in nineteen pointsin sixty minutes of Super Bowl regulation.
Top That's a time for some Andin the first half the defense was doing
its job, the offense was failingto do its job. The offense should
(11:05):
have been scored more points. Itshould have been twenty one six at the
half, like it was in SuperBowl fifty five when the Buccaneers were all
over the Chiefs. If the Chiefsare going to give you opportunity to score
in the first half. You haveto do it because they're eventually going to
go on that Golden State Warriors runwhere they know they stay outscore you eighteen
to two and it's over. Soyou got to score the points. Why
you can, because if you lethim hang around, they're going to get
(11:26):
shipped. But to hold them tonineteen points, I think is remarkable.
But I think it's indicative of thepressure that Kyle Shanahan is feeling to win
the big one. He feels likehe's got upgrade. And let's see who
he hires. Would it be somethingif he convinces Mike Brabil or Pete Carroll
or Bill Belichick to become the nextdefensive coordinator. That'll put it all in
perspective because Wilfs is going to getpaid next year in the year after,
(11:48):
so it's not like he walks awaywith nothing. But let's see who they
get. My guess is they don'tdo this. They don't have a good
idea who they're going to get next. Did the forty nine er coaches were
they aware of the overtime rules?You think the coaches were the players weren't.
The coaches kept it all to themselves. The problem I have with this
is the forty nine Ers pre bakedtheir approach to overtime. They had decided
(12:09):
even before the playoffs began. Theanalytics people decided that if they went to
overtime in one of these games,they were going to choose to receive because
they wanted that third possession, whichwould be the first possession of sudden deaths
if both teams score an equal amountof points, and obviously if it flops
out of one way, they're afterthe first possession, the game's over.
So if it's tied after two possessions, forty nine Ers get the third possession
(12:31):
and it's sudden death at that point. That's what they wanted, and I
feel like they didn't consider the mostimportant factor, which is never put the
ball in Patrick Mahoons's hands with achampionship on the line. He knew exactly
what he needed. You basically daredhim to score more than three points,
and we knew he was going todo it. And the thing that makes
it even more fascinating, the Chiefshad made it clear if the forty nine
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Ers had scored a touchdown and gottenone extra point to make it seven.
They were going to go for two, and I bet they would. He
used to play they used to scorethe touchdown to win the game as their
two point play, and it wouldhave worked and they would have won the
Super Bowl on a two point conversion. So I think it was a mistake
because it didn't take into account thespecific practicalities of that game, which is,
(13:16):
you don't want to stay to PatrickMahomes, here's the ball, you
got one drive to win a championship, because I take him in that setting
before anyone else. Well, MikeFlorio's with us on the show courtesy of
our friends at simply Seattle dot com. Use code kJ R fifteen for fifteen
percent off anything, and you werethe first one to report the connection.
I think it was over. Itwas almost two weeks ago now that the
(13:37):
Hawks were looking at Ryan Grubb WashingtonOC as their offensive coordinator, and that
just became official the other day pressconference tomorrow by the way, eleven o'clock.
But what do you make of RyanGrubb? But not not many guys
make the jump straight from Cawvirich tothe NFL. I think Scott Lenahan did
it back in the day as aformer Husky guy as well. But Ryan
Grubb is Mike McDonald's new OC.How about that well? And the way
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it was told to me initially washe's the guy, And I didn't report
it that way because I was toldthat there was a chance it wasn't going
to happen, that it wasn't adone deal. But he was clearly a
candidate. But ultimately he is theguy. And I didn't love the headline
on ESPN dot com that he reniggedon Alabama. He didn't renig He took
the job, he showed up,and a better opportunity came along. How
(14:20):
can you blame him to go fromoffensive coordinator to Alabama offensive coordinator Seattle Seahawks
and put himself in a position whereif he does a good job, he
becomes an NFL head coach. Whowouldn't want to position himself to be an
NFL head coach, especially with collegefootball being the mess that it now is,
ruined by the nil in balance,which is frankly the chaos that college
football deserves after decades of refusing tolet the payers players make a dime.
(14:43):
But still, how can you blameRyan Grubb for saying no or saying yes
frankly to the opportunity to come coachor the offense of the Seattle Seahawks.
So I love it, and Ithink it's kind of one of those unique
outside the box, not the sameold cookie cutter approach, and let's see
what he can do. What doyou think happens Friday? If Geno Smith
is on the roster, his twelvepoint seven million base salary becomes guaranteed for
(15:07):
next year. What are you kindof hearing about the Geno Smith future in
Seattle. I need to look atthe contract and see if it's third day
of the waiver period or third dayof the league year. I thought it
was league year. It's possibly waiverperiod. I thought it was lead year,
which would give them a little moretime. Either way, that's the
first decision they have to make.Are they going to keep him for another
year? Are they going to moveon? The salary? Isn't ridiculous grand
(15:30):
scheme of things for veteran quarterback thatthey need to have a planet quarterback Drew
Locke's going to be a free agent. Gino Smith is a guy they have
to decide whether or not to reup. And if they don't do one
of those two, they better haveanother plan. They better have somebody else
that they're ready to go out andsign Intrey Agency or trade four or hope
they can get in the draft.So we'll learn a lot about what they're
thinking for twenty twenty four. Butthe reality is, when you consider the
(15:54):
contract that was signed last year byGeno Smith to kick the can for another
year and keep him around a hugefinancial investment, it all comes down to
what the new coaching staff thinks ofhim. But we know what John Schneider
thinks of him, and he's thecommon thread between the last regime and this
regime. Hey, Mike, beforeyou go, one of the stories coming
out of the Super Bowl is thejob that Steve Spagnola did as the DC
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for the Chiefs. And we don'toften talk about kind of where coordinators rank
on the list of great coordinators inthe history of the NFL, But you
think about all the great dcs,right, Romeo Cronell, Richie Pettibone,
Vic Fann, Where does Steve Spagnolarank for you in the list of the
all time great dcs in the NFL. I mean, he's got to be
up there, dating back to twothousand and seven when they held the Patriots
(16:37):
who were rocketing toward nineteen and oherand they were unstoppable all year long to
fourteen points in the super Bowl.That's incredible what he did, and it's
unfortunate that he took the job atthe RAMS. And this is always a
challenge when you get an opportunity tobe an NFL head coach. Do you
take it or do you not takeit? Is the team dysfunctional? Do
you take your chances? I meanit was a dysfunctional mess for Spagnola with
(17:00):
the Rams, and I thought itwas funny to Kevin Demos, the RAMS
COO, came out and said thatyesterday on Twitter. I wish somebody would
have said something when the jobs wereopen. I wish somebody would have said
something from the Rams on behalf ofSteve Spagnolo when people were putting their list
together of potential coaching candidates, becausethis guy can't even get a sniff.
And here's the other reality too,something Pete Carroll has learned and maybe Bill
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Belichick got a taste of it aswell. We focus so much on the
racial issues in the NFL, andthey are very real when it comes to
the long standing bias in hiring coaches. There's also an age issue in the
NFL, and I think that worksagainst Steve Spagnolo as well. All right,
Mike, you're the man, greatstuff. We're talking a week copl
gat Mike Florio with us. We'vegot to break more with my wife.
(17:45):
Wife, and I've been getting multipletexts from people. By the way,
I'm not letting Gina talk enough,So maybe I'll just leave the studio and
she can take over the entire segment. Next on ninety three to three KJRFM,
go back to Sophie and Dick.What's ready? Ninety three point three
kJ R F Oh, Washington Huskies. See I don't you're home for the
Huskies and he needs to learn theway I learn from my father. I
(18:11):
don't even know what that is,the way he learns. Why what does
that add? It's not funny.People don't even know what it is.
Makes me laugh. You're busting myballs already? Oh my god, that's
what you need? Geez? DoI really do I need that? One
hundred percent? Why do I needthat? Are you kidding? Do I
need that? Why do I needmy balls busted? Here when I'm gonna
(18:33):
go home and get my balls bustedthere. Oh, life is hard for
you, right, life is superhard for you. I'm not saying it's
hard for me, honey. I'msaying you do bust my balls a lot
when I get home, because youneed it, because you're not focused,
because you're like you're like a flythat's stuck in blinds, beating up against
the window over and over and overand over and over again. And it's
just like sometimes it's exhausting. Allright, Well, I'm having fun staying
(18:56):
out of this. I'm really enjoyingthis. You with me. She was
with me for the entire Husky run, came to New York for the Heisman
ceremony, went to New Orleans forthe Sugar Bowl, went to Houston for
the National Championship. Did you enjoyall that? Yeah? Absolutely fun for
you. Yeah. One of myone of my favorite things is traveling with
your sports team. I just there'sthis sense of camaraderie when you see fans
(19:18):
walking in the airport or walking aroundin New Orleans. I absolutely love it.
And this Husky season was unbelievably special. It was. It was one
of those moments in time that maynot ever happen again, and you had
to take full advantage of it.That's right, right, it was a
once in a lifetime opportunity. Andthe energy and the team, I mean,
it was just it was, itwas. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
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First of all, just for you, I like, there you go.
Second of all, does it doesit change the way and I actually
Jackson have been wanting to talk toDick and you about this as well?
Does it change the way that youremember the season because the way things ended,
of course with Kaylin taken off,Because really, in the end,
it should not change anything. Westill enjoyed all that stuff. We had
(20:03):
Elijah Jackson knocking the ball away,Tony's great call, he knocks the ball
away, and Washington, it's gottaplay for the first That's how choppy chap
Since nineteen ninety one, that stillhappened, right halftime of the Natty still
happened, dreaming about beating Michigan.The Heisman Trophy ceremony, everybody on the
edge of their seat still happened.But now all of a sudden, because
Kaylen took off four days after theseason ended, we look at the year
(20:26):
differently, because here's I think,how I look at big sporting events like
this is also the fallout of suchevent. You know. One of the
cool things about the super Bowl back, you know, ten years ago,
was the fact that in the daysafter that, we got the parade,
we got the six in the trophyof six inches from my face, right,
we got all of these moments thatcame right afterwards that built in the
(20:47):
same moment the year later, ofcourse, the week afterwards on this station,
and all the that, you knowis part of the moment, right.
So part of the moment of thislast Husky season is what the fallout
of that, which was just adisastrous week. Right. So if Pete
care, I'm sorry, Yeah,thanks to talk, I have an opinion,
(21:07):
I have a voice. You broughtme in. Okay, wow,
good god, come on, it'sall you be. I also think that
the one of the things that madethis the season so exciting is you were
so excited for the future. Youwere so looking forward to what this was
going to mean for Husky football movingforward. There was talk about that coach
de Bor was next Don James,and we were going to keep doing this
(21:29):
over and over and over again.And then it just ended, and it
was just it was heartbreaking. Andso my excitement for this Hussy season isn't
nearly as exciting as it was becauseit's all different. Yeah, and it
breaks my heart. Yeah, absolutelybreaks my heart. So part of the
reason why you loved what happened intwenty twenty three is because of what you
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thought it meant for the future,right, And that's being able to celebrate
it over the entire offseason. AndI gotta tell you, and we've done
a poor job of this, bythe way, And we talked last week
about trying to rectify this, andI got messages out to people, but
a lot of the kids are alltraining, they got agents, they're in
California, Arizona, doing their thing, getting ready for the NFL Draft.
We got to do a better jobof celebrating that year and getting these guys
(22:14):
on the air. And there's someguys that will get some guys that we
won't get, like you know,Pennix's do and he's he's off in mister
celebrity Land now obviously, so gettinga hold of him might be tough,
but we'll try. We're gonna focuson the team, obviously, but getting
those guys on the air, becauseI don't think those guys got their proper
due because of the way things ended, you know, yeah, absolutely yeahless
(22:37):
they said, you wanted to talk, let's have the mic. Let's take
a guy like Elijah Jackson. Right, Yes, Elijah Jackson got just knocked
over and over and over throughout theseason, right. I mean we were
talking about, you know, theweakest link on the Husky defense a number
of times, and then he comesup with maybe the most monstrous play of
the entire year, right, Imean we had that debate of you know,
if we were to try to figureout the top five plays of the
(22:59):
year about a century because there wasjust so many. And Eliza Jackson comes
up with that play, and wehaven't really celebrated him from that play as
we should be online. And Iactually texted Scott Ekland, not like Scott
Eckland from dog Man, but youknow Scott photographer his daughter in New York,
and I said, dude, doyou do you have like a photo
of that play? Do you haveanything from that game? Like I want
(23:22):
to see the sideline exploding when Elijahknocked the ball away. I want to
get something in my man cave,which I hate saying that. I'm sorry.
Nothing legendary, man, It's ridiculous. Did you see the look I
just got from her? By theway, I hate it. Okay,
I would like to just have somethingin it. It's my house, too,
(23:42):
right, how about the entire house. I'm gonna I'm gonna step out
of this you're talking about. Youhaven't met. You got the front yard,
you got the backyard. You gotthe guest room. She ruined,
you got them, I ruined it. You got the master bedroom, you
got both bathrooms, the whole freakingplaces. You have an entire room dedicated
to all of your things, andI have nothing. Okay, that is
not true whatsoever. We can discussthis off the air, all right.
(24:03):
I don't want it to me ed. I want to get something to,
you know, kind of commemorate thatgame. I feel like I got nothing,
and I don't want to feel badputting something up in my man cave
from that game at all. Youknow. The cool thing will be,
though, I mean maybe it comeslater on because it is still I mean,
well, we're still just a monthremoved from that whole week, right
right right. The cool thing willbe watching the NFL Draft, and I
(24:26):
know Michael Penix may not be eventhe third or fourth quarterback taken, but
in all the conversations, I don'tknow, Sophie. For me, I
think that ninety percent of the highlightsthat we see from Michael Pennock's come draft
time are going to be from theTexas game, right, and just that
will help with continuing to celebrate whatthat day was, yes, because very
few things right now can well I'mgetting a look, by the way from
(24:48):
her because of this whole man cavecount. Let's just move forward, right,
which has been brought up before.I don't think it's fair. What's
not fair about it? Because youcan have whatever you want in that room.
It's all okay, I'm gonna gohome tonight. I'm gonna take down
all your crap. What crap,what's crap? I'm sorry. You have
an entire Star Wars collection. You'refifty years old. You play with toys?
(25:12):
Well, I play with toys,so no better. It's not an
uncommon thing. They're not toys,they're collected, they're collect don't play with
them ever, I don't ever playwith them. I'm sorry. When you
turn on the lightsabers and I godown there and you're making this noise.
Hey, wait a minute, that'sbetween us. Don't tell anybody about that,
for God's sakes. But I getit, you know, I totally
(25:33):
get the fact that people are downabout the way things ended. But I'll
tell you what I almost said,Honey, Can I call her honey on
the air? Is that allowed?Babe? Honey? Whatever? Okay with
it? Thanks for asking me.Well, I'm just is that like appropriate
radio? Is someone gonna text meand say you shouldn't talk to women like
that? Blah blah blah. Everyone'sgot their pet names for their their significant
others, Like what do you callrise of babe? Babe? Okay,
(25:55):
you gotta be fired up, though, babe. About the job that Jetfish
has done getting this thing turned around. I saw a tweet like yesterday where
about a month ago, we hadforty five guys on the rocks. Now
it's over seventy five or maybe eveneighty players on the roster. I think
he's doing a hell of a job. I gotta I gotta tell you.
And this is pretty consistent for me. I am very judgy when new hires
(26:15):
are made for head coach skeptical.I was very skeptical with coach Peterson,
very skeptical. Really the man dida great job, but I was skeptical.
I like the big showy name.Okay, I like he didn't I
didn't get excited. I was kepticalbecause he came from a smaller school,
that's what you and I was skepticalabout Debor. I had no idea what
(26:38):
bor was going to do. Whatdo you think of Pete Carroll and the
Hawks hired Pete Carroll. I feellike I wasn't excited. I wasn't,
but I learned. I learned tolove Pete Carroll over time. I I
like, this might come as ashock. I like a mean coach.
I like a Bill Cower. Ilike a mean, angry coach. And
(27:00):
Pete was just he's a cheerleader onthe sideline. But it worked right being
coach. It makes me think,when was the last week? Had time
we had a mean coach in town? Coach in any sport? Really?
Maybe Panella Panela, Yeah, jumpon his guys, But I mean Carl
was kind of like that as aBACHEB coach Clarin John McCloy, well,
but the problem with McLaren It wassuch an act that nobody bought any of
(27:22):
it. You know, John McLarenis no okay, he's a former mayor,
uh manager for the Mariners. Thatwas an act exactly. Oh dude,
well the whole thing that he readthat one day when he went nuts.
Yeah, we got it good afterand that was like scripted. Are
you kidding me? You've heard thatthing? It was terrible. I guess
he always came off to me likea little bit of you know, like
a mean coach. It wasn't likethat at all. That's why people laughed
(27:42):
at it when it happened, likewhat come on, dude, shut the
ten years old when he was thecoach. All right, three thirty nine,
a little fun with audio slash hatdid you hear that? You're good
with that? Next segment? That'sright? And then Petros joins at four
o'clock right here on ninety three threekg IR FM, Softy Dick and Jackson
Dick out Gina my wife in righthere on ninety three three KJRFM. It's
(28:03):
now time for Safty in Dick's onewith Audio. Jimmy g Poor star,
Jimmy mister garoppolo. Now let's havesome fun with audio. All right,
Safty, Dick and Jackson dick out. My wife is in Hi wife hanging
out until seven o'clock tonight, PetrosPapadacus four o'clock, Kevin Harlan five PM
on the radio program. All Right, so, honey, here's the way
(28:25):
we do this, real easy.I look at you and I say,
hey, honey, did you hearthat? And you say, what's that?
David? Okay, you want torehearse that? Oneman. I'm good,
I'm good. Thanks, okay,all right, here we go three
two one, Hey honey, didyou happen to hear that? What's that?
David? What's that? Dick?This morning on First Take, Stephen
A. Smith sharing his feelings onValentine's Day. Well, here's the deal,
(28:47):
y'all to all the late Happy Valentine'sDay, number one, number two
man everywhere. No, this holidayis not about us, exactly. It's
about y'all you und we have nothingto do with it. As bad enough
that the other three hundred and sixtyfour days out of the year we have
no rights what toever. I mean, y'all run the world. We all
know what tom it is. Imean, smart men know women are the
(29:08):
ones with the real power. Well, we just live in y'all world.
You know, we want out bigpiece of chicken. As they say,
we just want out big piece ofchicken every now and then. Okay,
it's your world. We're just squirrelsyou instead of saying this is who we
are, we accept it. Buton this day, more so than any
other day, it is definitely allabout y'all. Yeah. I do find
it interesting that there really isn't oneday dedicated to the guys because Valentine's Day
(29:33):
is about the women. Yeah,that's how it should be. And I
just have to say, like StephenA. Smith, that might be the
smartest thing I've ever heard of say, because he's usually screaming and foaming at
the mouth and is being dramatic.But that was very contained and very very
smart. You could take a pageout of his book. You see.
If I waited go until I could, if I wait, I'm just gonna
let that pass. If I waiteduntil tomorrow to buy you those roses,
(29:56):
I bought you this morning. Yeah, great looking arrangement. Sure what else
was in there? Lilies? Yeah, this is amazing. Yeah, So
she comes downstairs, Jackson sees thiswonderful display and says I wanted an orchid.
That's true. I did ask forthat specifically. Serious makes me sound
ungrateful. That's not nice. That'sa low blow. I asked you specifically
for the orchid. That was theonly thing that I wanted. I appreciated
(30:18):
the bouquet. I don't think it. Don't be rude. I'm not being
rude. I'm just telling the world. Hey, listen, if you can't
say it to the world, youshouldn't say it to me. That's a
new rule in the house. Let'smove on. Hey, Gina, did
you happen to hear that? What'sthat? David? What's that? Dick?
Later on First Take that day,Chris mad Dog Russo spending more time
complaining about how much Taylor Swift appearedduring the Super Bowl than the amount of
(30:41):
time she was actually on TV.We talked about the Tata Swift coverage.
In the AFC Championship game. Shewas on for thirty eight seconds. All
right, that sounds like not thatbig a deal. This past week she
was on the quote unpartment was anovertime game for fifty five seconds? All
right? Does it on that bed? Yea? They went to that box
(31:02):
twelve times. Twelve times he onlycaught one ball on the first half.
I'm not interesting. They couldn't pickout letting Dawson out of a lineup for
five how loud? Twelve times hehad one catch in the first half.
And I said, I understand.She's a huge star by the top football
(31:25):
game. And you know why.Now you know why fans get annoyed in
Buffalo and Border when they think it'sa conspiracy. Well, they want the
Chiefs to win, so he getsall the calls because they want to capitalize
on Tanna Swift. Now that's anonsensical thought for fans. Stick that way
twelve times, that's way four timesa quarter for fine out loud, and
(31:45):
they twelve straight fence to the game. React. I love it. I
love I told you this. Iwas on pins and needles waiting to see
if she was gonna make it tothe super Bowl. I love the drama.
I love how excited and angry peopleare, spitting and mad the they
show her too much. Who cares? She was tracking to see it for
a flight from for the game.Yeah, I'm here for the drama.
(32:07):
I love in the drama there onher iPad the entire night on Friday night,
I love it. In the Saturdaymorning, waiting to see a Taylor's
plane showed up? Yes, Whywhy does this bother people so much?
It's so upset? Why so upset? Like Paul Rudd got more TV time
than Taylor Swift on Sunday? Imean, let's face it, there were
a lot of stars at that SuperBowl. Yes, Ton, can we
(32:29):
say I was more excited to seeBlake lively every time than Taylor Swift.
Blake liveline is stunning. Of course, so is Taylor Swift. Yeah,
that's fair. I mean Petros thinksthat she looks like a stork. I
don't get that. I heard himsay that. I don't understand. He'll
say it again coming up next,Sega. Okay, hey Gina, did
you happen to hear that? What'sthat? David? What's that? Dick?
Before Super Bowl fifty eight, MarshawnLynch walking around various hotels in Las
(32:52):
Vegas asking people if they were indeedSan Francisco forty nine er fans. Yeah
you look you? Yes, sir? You are you a forty nine fan?
Yes? I am you? Areyou a forty nine fan? Absolutely?
(33:14):
You are Are you a forty nineE fan? You? Are you
a forty nine A fan? Hell? Yeah, you excuse me? Forty
nine? A man forty nine?A man forty nine? A man forty
nine? A man? Are youforty nine? Yes? Sir you?
So what did you tell me afteryou saw that video? I was surprised
(33:37):
you didn't get punched? Right,Like, I get that, it's Marshawn
Lynch. I get it. Butthat is aggressive. So was he doing
like was he getting paid by someone? Like? Was there a sponsor attached
to that? Yeah? I hadlike I didn't get the motivation. Yeah,
well, first of all I didn't. It's marsh On Lynch. I
don't use this word very often becauseI am indeed sophomoric, but that was
very sophomoric. And there's only oneguy in the planet, agree who can
(34:00):
get away with it. Shit.It's him walking up to a random fan
who are known to be fairly violentpeople, by the way, and telling
them to f off in their faceto it is shocking? Is it not
that nobody smashing them? But it'smarsh Lynch. But is it possible that
one of those Niner fans doesn't knowwho he is no, Okay, how
do you not know who Marshawn Lynchis? You know who Marshaon Lynches.
(34:22):
You know who Marshall Lynches? Youknow who Marshall Lynches. Is it possible
that somebody out there was wearing aNiner jersey just because they were in the
Super Bowl and did not know whoMarshall? If you're if you are a
football fan, you know who MarshawLynch is. Let's go one more and
babe, did you happen to hearthat? What's that? What's that?
Dick? After losing the Super Bowl, Niners full back Kyle used Chick,
(34:45):
admitting he did not know the league'snew overtime rules for playoff games and said
the team did not talk about it. You know what, I didn't even
realize that the playoff rules were differentin overtime, so I assumed you just
want the ball because you score atouchdown and win. But I guess that's
not the case. So I don'treally I don't totally know the strategy there.
(35:07):
No, no, we haven't talkedabout it all right, so you
hate my drops? In the wordsof Dick Baird, I mean, how
do you know the rules? Itis it is your job. Do you
be prepared before you go out onthe field. That is your job?
And it is embarrassing that he hadno idea, but then he admits it.
(35:28):
That's right, He's like, whatare you doing? Who is the
guy? Uh? Some guy onsome network somewhere came out and said,
dude, just lie. Yeah,don't admit that. It's a shot in
his coaches, Kyle Shanahan massive shotat him, their special teams coordinator,
a massive shot at them Millan.Millan brought this point at the other day
that let's say the Niners had scoreda touchdown and there's guys on the sideline
(35:50):
like ust check that thought the gamewas over, and they start rushing the
field, going up and down,going, and then the Chiefs get the
ball back, they get touchdown,the Niners get stopped, and the Chiefs
win the game. And then there'sa video of all these idiot Niner players
running the storming the field thinking they'dwon the game when they indeed lost,
(36:13):
and we get to mock them foreverwith that video. Are you kidding me?
How close did we come to havingthat happen? Can you feel it
down? I got all right you'reready for Petros. Yeah, Petros Papadaki's
going to join the show next onninety three three KJRFM.
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