April 17, 2025 • 35 mins
QB Nico Iamaleava has found a new home as he's heading to UCLA! The report from The Athletic came after FOX Sports host Colin Cowherd reported Iamaleava to UCLA was a “done deal” shortly after he hit the transfer portal with a “do not contact” tag. Cowherd added Iamaleava’s decision was not about money, but rather the scheme at Tennessee. We hit the textline and read back messages from listeners. We wrap the show with Ian Furness as he shares what he has planned on his show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Iamala Ava decides to hold his former school and it
wants to sort of to play the financial bluff game,
and said that you want me to come back next
year to Knoxville, the good old Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I want four million.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That deal that we had for two and a half
zero point four million, it's not good anymore. I want
four million dollars. And he didn't decide to not show
up to spring practice. So their head coach, Josh Hipel,
came out and said, Okay, we're gonna pass because you're
not worth four million dollars. Now, you didn't say you're
not worth four million dollars, but the actions speak loud
(00:39):
than words, and Joshhipel and Tennessee was right. Finally someone
had to put their foot down. Now Nico, as I
will call him, that's his first name.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's much easier to say that his last name.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Is one of these guys that he was a tremendous
player coming on out of Long beat Polly High School,
was five star. Could have gone anywhere in the country Alabama, Oklahoma, LSU, Miami, Florida,
you name it, Ohio State, any school and he would
have gotten paid big time. But he decides to say no,
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I'm going to come back next year and I want
four million dollars. So Tennessee said, thanks, but no thanks.
You can hit the bricks and you know, basically be
on your way out of town. Okay, that's pretty much
what it comes down to. So with that being said,
he is now a free agent. And he spent two
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years there in Knoxville. He backed up former New England
Patriots and current Dallas Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton for his
freshman year, his true freshman year, and then last year
twenty six hundred yards, nineteen touchdowns as a sophomore, five interceptions.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, he's not a free agent anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I know he was a free agent because now it's
reported that he's going to UCLA, a good, good, good, good, good,
good good good garbage football program, no fan base. You
couldn't pay fans to go to the Rose Bowl and
watch UCLA football. They'll come to watch the other teams
(02:19):
that come in there, Ohio State, Penn State, Washington, Oregon
there or of course the crosstown rival SC They're not
going to watch U S football and Deshaun Foster.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So now like I'm thinking that, well, if Nico must
have a deal.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Nico got two point four million dollars from Tennessee, so
he must have something big or brewing. Now prior to that,
Speaking of Oregon, Dan Lanning dost them pulled, Josh Hipel, Hey,
your quarterback's calling me asking me for more money than
you're paying him. And by the way, I know everybody
here hates Oregon, get it. Kudos to Dan Lanning for that.
That's a mens move. Okay, now they don't get credit
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for anything. Okay, screw Oregon, Okay, fair enough, but that's
a men's move though. That's a men's move because I've
been pro player for the longest time in every sport
and now I'm becoming pro team and especially in college sports,
where the NIL has become the wild wild West.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The nil's it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Meant for where it's supposed to be the highest bidder,
but that's what it's turned into. It's supposed to be
about marketing. It's supposed to be something to the extent
of Arch Manning endorson. Hey, come on out to Austin
BMW or Austin Mercedes Bands and get yourself a car
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at Austin Mercedes Bands. That's what NIL is supposed to
be for but it's turned into highest bidder. The Michigan
Wolverine paid a kid coming out of high school, Bryce Underwood,
ten million dollars. He hasn't thrown a freaking pass in
a real game. There's a chance that Bryce Underwood could
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become the next Tate Martel. And if you don't know
who Tate Martell is, you already forgot about him. There's
a reason why you don't know who Tate Martell is
because he peaked in high school. But he was this
guy prior to the nil blowing up that became a
really big deal coming out of that fabled Bishop Gorman
program in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So now Nico is going to go to UCLA.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And for a program that was five and seven, finished
fourteenth in the Big Ten out of eighteen teams. Zero
chance probably next year even having a winning record.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Zero. They need a new coach.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Deshaun Foster is a is DeShawn disaster. He's not the guy.
I mean, he's not that guy. He just isn't okay.
He's just like and you look at this and I'm like,
well he must, I thought, Nico. So now there's a
price out there seeing Nico is gonna get one point
seven five million dollars from UCLA. So you had a
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chance in Tennessee, where you're a resident, no state income taxes,
by the way, to get two point four two and
a half million dollars, and you're gonna go, by the way,
a program that has won a top ten perennial program
over the course of the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That kudos to Nico. He was part of that. He
led him to the playoff level. He didn't lead him.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I mean, he was piercing other guys, but he was
part of that team. He you know, apparently even in
defeat and they got blown up by Ohio State in
the playoff, he was valiant.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Even in defeat.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's a leader. I'm not knocking Nico as a player.
You had nineteen touchdowns and five picks and you thought
that you wanted You thought that was worth four million
dollars a year. Where did you think that was worth
a raise of one point six million dollars? What world
are you living in, Nico? Did you think that that
was worth that much of a absolutely ridiculous substantial pay raise.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Nico, you got to know your worth. Pro You're not him.
You're not Archmanning, You're not Carson Beck.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You're not And people can rag on Carson Beck, and
I've got to defend him because he goes to my school.
To you, But here's the thing about Carson Beck. Look
at his numbers in twenty twenty three when he had
Brock Bowers and he had.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The general. Oh lad McConkie, look at him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Then he had the worst receivers in college football last
year thirty eight drops. They led all of college football.
Last year Georgia did most drops in college football. Let's
see him now at Miami and what he'll do in
a Shannon Dawson offense. Hey, by the way, a year ago,
one year ago, right now, there was Cam Ward. He
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was a mid fourth to fifth round pick coming out
of Wazoo. What's Cam Wward right now? It's gonna be
the number one overall pick. He went to Miami for
a year. Shannon Dawson.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You don't know that name. Let me school you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He's the offensive coordinat at Miami and he's one of
the best in the business. Perennial Frank Broyle's assistant coach
Award candidate Nico, how stupid are you? How stupid, not
even him. Maybe it's his family. It sounds to me
it's gotta be his family, because the kids smart. You
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would take two and a half million free no state
income tax in Tennessee and turn that into one point
seventy five million. Reportedly, he's gonna get that with you
getting tax up the wazoo in California. To go from
Rocky Top and the SEC in a program that is
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gonna be in the playoffs, that is contending for the
playoffs in the the NFL on Saturday that I call
the SEC the NFL on Saturday. And you're gonna go
to a team that finished fourteenth out of eighteen teams
in the Big Ten, where they could care less about football.
At your own school, what are you doing? You talk
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about a fail, You talk about an l that's the
biggest fail in l of them all. You thought you
were worth so much, so you decided to play financial
chicken with the school who believed in you that it's
gonna pay you two and a half million, and you're
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going now to a trash football school where they don't
care about football. If you're going to SC, I'd say okay,
and you would have gotten paid I said, fine, I
didn't have a problem with that. You didn't go to
SC You went to UCLA. Now in basketball, okay, go
play for mccronin fine, get some money. This is UCLA football.
(09:02):
Who's the last great player that came out of UCLA
and football that's in the NFL right now? I'll wait,
I can't think of anyone who is one. Give me
one right now, current, the one and only.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Zach Sharbonnay, the backup running back for your Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And that's about the backup running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
Put some respect on his name, Mark James, and I
like Zach Sharbon so but like.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're not, You're not. This is in Alabama. This isn't
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When you're talking, you got you know, even though he's
a bus so far Bryce young to uh Mac Jones,
you know this isn't that Jalen Milroe is gonna be
a Nico man. You're getting bad advice somewhere somehow, and
maybe he wanted to go back home and being at UCLA.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You're in LA.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You grew up Long Beach Polly High School. I okay, fine,
I can't understand that, but man to ask for four.
I could understand you saying I'd like two point seven million,
seven to five. Hell asked for three? And then you
comp somewhere in the middle. You meet middle of the road.
(10:16):
I mean this and and I've got to tell you,
Josh Hipel, God bless you because you did what needs
to be done.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Until this thing is going to be regulated, it's out
of control. It's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I had Danny Sprinkle on at the final four who,
by the way, did you know that you DUBB is
the only program in America that has a top ten
high school recruiting class and a top ten portal class.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That the only program in the country. I did know
that because Dick Faine has told me multiple times.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, well, hey, Dick is right. Yeah, and listen, I'm
I want to see them do well. I mean they're
where we're a partner with you, DUB. I want to
see Jetfish. I'm pulling for them too. And demand Williams.
I got to tell you right now if I was
Jetfish and Nico called me and said, I want to
come to you, Dub, but I know you got demand
(11:15):
Williams there, I'm going to give you discount.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I'm going to give you a what was that state
farm discount? Double check?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm going to give you a discount double check. And
I'm only going to ask for half of what tennessee
one point two million. I'd stick with Demand Williams. I
just stick with them because what Nico is doing, you're becoming, basically,
(11:45):
for lack of a better turn, like a lot of
these guys, especially on the high school level, they get
pimped and prostituted like sex workers.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They do, they do. They got these street agents out there,
and now these street agents they're legal because you can
have street agents.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You can have these guys and you can and they're legal.
But here's what's.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Gonna happen in Nico. He's gonna go to UCLA. It's
not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I'll give you one name, Jaden Rashada originally was gonna
go to.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Georgia. Then he was gonna go to Miami. Then he
decommits from Miami and he's gonna go to Florida. Then
he dec commits from Florida and he goes to Arizona State.
He's at Arizona State. I told my friend, one of
my best friends, who is an asu Alum I said, Craig,
he's not gonna be there long and Low and be Hill.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh, but his dad said that was his dream school.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
By the way, the same Jade and Rashada that's suing
the University of Florida right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And guess what Jaden Rashada is in the portal again.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Shocker and the schools he's talking to Yukon, Western Kentucky
and Tulane. Nico, that's where you're going pretty soon. Your
next stop is gonna be on the level of Yukon football,
not basketball for Dan Hurley, Western Kentucky, Tulane. And I'll
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throw Bowling Green in there, Bowling ef and Green, just
because that name is the worst name for any school
in the country. Bowling Green. That's where you're headed, Nico.
You will be going to Bowling because it's gonna bust
for him. I can see it right now. It's just
a UCLA. They don't have the talent that they do
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that right now that Lincoln Riley does at SC and
it's gonna be bad. And he's gonna and mark my
words as you did today about me about Tedor Road McMillan,
I will say the same thing a year or less
from now, Nico will be back in the portal, going
to his next school, his third school in three years.
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It's gotta this thing has got to be regulated. And
I'll say this too. You got to hold these kids. Eventually.
If if a kid comes to a school and he
agrees to an amount, if he wants to get out
of that school and go in the portal, they've got
to have a buyout. There needs to be a buyout
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of every contract, just like coaches have buyouts. There needs
to be a buyout so kids aren't just going you know, portal, portal, portal.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It can't. This thing is a mess.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But Nico, I wish you luck, man, I really do,
just really bad. I just I can see this happening
and it's hmm wow, really bad. So we'll see what happens.
Coming up next inner sears, we'll join us. We will
get through the what do you say text of the
day on the text line four nine, four five one.
(14:51):
A lot of great ones today, a lot of trolling ones.
I'll get to those two. And you want to hear
your text red in real time. We'll do that next
on MJ in the midday. By the way, Owner's up
five to three, bottom eighth, uh one out in Cincinnati,
trying to hold on. Don't go anywhere, m J in
the midday ninety three three KJRM, all right, what do
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you say? Text of the day? I coulda give you update, sheesus.
I went to break and America's up five to three.
Bizardo gives up a grand slam. They're down seven to five?
What's wrong with the bullpen?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Anders?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Ah, they're not good? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Except for Munomos is the best closing. We just complete
each other sentence as well.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But you gotta get some phenomenal You gotta get to
them though.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh god, Bizaro, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Miss Matt Brash. Gregory Santos is not what they expected
to be.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's horrible. Yeah, yeah, it's tough, it's it's yeah, it's
it's bad.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
For a team that relies on run prevention.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You need your bull You gotta be good. What's lead
us off? Just pick anything whatever you want and then
we'll go one in the other.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's how we do.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Let's see two six. Time to give Mark some dcalf
love the passion.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Let's go all right for the two o six, Mark
with the scene needs to take his ady d meds
this morning. Slow down a bit. Bro finished the sentence.
I know, I said, you're right, I said, I say,
he goes uh. I said, yeah, you're right. I probably do.
I don't know, you know, I get in there. This
this is this job is uh, it's a privilege. It's
the toy store of life. And I'm just excited, you know,
(16:28):
even even where all the uh and we'll get to
the male.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The male.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Karen's out there the chads two six MJ love the show.
You cracked me up.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I do love rooting against your bets, though. Okay, if
it helps someone, even if it's the opposite way.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I'm here to win money. Either you better fade me
or you take it. So I uh from the two
five three, I love the show. Ignore the snowflakes. There
are a lot of them out here. Yeah, I haven't
noticed too many, but I'm noticing sums now.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I think I think it's just one of those vocal
minority sort of situation. I right, exactly, Yeah, yeah, I honestly,
I haven't met anyone who's and I've showed it to
a lot of people. I don't think anyone that I
know at least has an issue with it or the
we're talking about the h the Braves situation.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh yeah, no it was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It was harmless fun, harmless fun, yeah, and more interesting
than the game at that that game.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I mean, it's just a Braves have been horrible this year. Yeah, yeah,
they have two five three m J. Why are you
not a general manager in the NFL? I'm confused. I
think this is in response to you that you know
more than Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm a better draft talent evaluator of skilled position players
in the first round in Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I stand by that a.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Lot of Team MAC is a stud. I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I'm not an NFL draft guy, so I can't really
say my full opinion. But it seems like a lot
of people think that that's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You might be. I mean, I don't see it. I
don't see it. I just don't.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And I think the people who know and watch college football,
here's the thing about it, and thank god the guys
we've have on their but a lot of these people
with their mock drafts, I always find this interesting. I
saw this in Boston a lot too. How can you
sit here and evaluate prospects. If you don't watch college football.
(18:13):
I watch college football when I was in the East
Coast in the South from noon until that Pac twelve
after dark night game. So now it'll be nine until
after nine to thirty at night here on the West coast.
If you don't watch college football, how can you be
an NFL draft expert? I don't get it from the
(18:34):
two PHO six This is a nice one. Well. I
like the new host, and I enjoy the show for
the most part. That doesn't mean that I don't disagree
with a lot of MJ's opinions. As I have said before,
I do think that there is a concerted effort to
try to fence with people, to try to drum up
with a little bit of drama, and I could personally
(18:55):
do without it, but I'm still gonna listen.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Thank you. That is very nice, very nice.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Forty five rusty MS. Now we'll wait until the game's over, right,
we will from our boy Keith, Keith, what's up?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Man? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Cow Riley does it again?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The big dumper goes deep again. Seven to six. Here
come the MS, trying for the comeback. Four one hundred
and twenty two feet.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, I think that was a I think that got
out of there. Is that a home run in all
thirty parks?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Mark James?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, twenty two feet?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh what about Yankee Stadium? You think all Aaron Judges
home runs are legit?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah? That short porched there at Yankee Stadium's a joke.
Cal is just wow.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I usually it's not exactly the great as a guy
who's hosting the show to be talking about something that's
going on that is not it's not the great. I
just listen, man, I'm all in on the MS. Told
you I'm here. I want I want this team that
win in ninety six one hundred and six games.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hey, Mark, have you heard of shaken baby syndrome? May
want to go a little easier on the chads. All
that commotion could cause some drain damage on the male
Karens and drain bamage.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think I was on purpose, Yes he did. If
you always come with the best Keith one.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Two, five three, Belichick draft and wide receivers like Schneider drafts,
o Limeman not sing go.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Back to back a Rose Ray tie game. Hello, Tony,
Randy's playing Well? I know I try to tell you guys, Hey, listen,
you don't have to convince me.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I watched this guy in in Uha Tampa Bay lead
the Rays to the World Series in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
My favorite status.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
You know who has the highest uh ops of all
time in the playoffs? Number one is Randy Rosarin. He
is the highest ops of all time in the MLB playoffs.
No kidding, it's a funny sat Yeah, he plays best
from the lights of the brightest.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, man, how about this one for twelve? And all
we need is is sackfly Latino. My Cameron pops out
to second.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, I was not here. It was funny because I
have a group of shout with a couple my buddies.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
And uh, if you're listening to the broadcast, you can
hear the audible leap that Julio lets out after that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was not happy with himself. Yeah, in that moment,
what else you got?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Let's see, uh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Mj miss in and out yet, don't feel forced to
eat that crap food That is dis Oh I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hey, I disagree with that you. Dix is not crap.
Dix is good. It's not better than in and out? Ye,
it is no it's not even close, not even close.
It's way better, all right? From the two please stop it.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's bro If I took a national poll outside of
Seattle in the PNW, everybody would say, first of all people,
most people would even know what Dix was in Seattle. Okay,
But it's not better than in and out. That's it,
it's not it's uh uh MJ is unlistenable from the
two oh six. I find this ironic. At twelve thirty three,
(22:07):
you just texted in three minutes ago, but you're listening,
so they're in there in lies the that's the rub.
I'm un listenable, but yet you're texting in that you're listening.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I know, Hey, you never know. You could just be
texting in because he knows this is your time. Sure
not listening, but probably is.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah yeah uh From yes MJ, the New York Jets
are a bigger joke. So oh, by the way, this guy,
let me tell you something about this guy. Since day
one anders this guy from the three six to oh
whose last two numbers and in one to five. So
I'm not giving his number away because there's you have
(22:45):
to deduce this dude every day while my show.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He's like, oh, I listened until before ten am, then
switched to streaming until one.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That like every day.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh yeah, dude, dude, listen. I live rent free in
your head. Bro, I live free in your head. If
only I could live rent free in Seattle, that would
be great.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That would be better. Pretty high, yeah, very high.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah I would know that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Uh yeah, it's funny because forty five, right before the
the you know, back to back homers, he's like roast
d MS. Now, well we're a little late on that. Now,
that's why we said, but you wait until after the game, right,
I know?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I know, four two five written contracts with payments spread
throughout the year and buyout mounts are needed to protect
both the school and the player, not calling them students anymore.
Amen of that, and I can tell you r QB one,
Hugh Millan has been on that drum, beating that drum
for a long time. By the way, Uh, Hugh Millan,
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He's gonna be in studio next Wednesday with me.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he's gonna be in town next week town for
the draft. I can't wait to meet him. I love
this guy.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I freaking love h Millon, man Mark James and he
Millin in one studio.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh my lord, that's a could you imagine Softy came in.
You'd have to you have to get like you know
those level well, not only that, the air. You have
to put air in here, like like those things that
you know one of the players do when they get
the yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
The compressed air. How about this? Let me see, come on,
why you trash in a college kid? Very classy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
If you need to fill some time talking about the
draft next week or the MS, let me just no
needs a trash in a college kid. First and foremost,
he's a professional playing on the college level. When you
get paid money, you are no longer an amateur. You
are a professional. Don't stick o.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He's a kid.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, he might be young. He's a professional playing on
the college level. And by the way, don't tell me
on what I need to do. On my show, I
talked about the Mariners and I talked about the draft
in like three segments. This isn't on demand radio where
if you were not talking about what you want to
be talking about, then oh man, talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh my god, I got it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I go.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This's a school. A lot of the folks here. I'm
gonna have to school, A lot of the folks out here.
In and Out is the north Strom rack of burgers.
That one hurts, that one hurts. True, it's true. It's
incredibly overrated. Worst prize in the nation.
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Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, thanks to Nick Bombgardner from the Athletic NFL
Draft Analysts for coming on. And we we had a
moment uh Ian Furness, the mayor Maple Valley in the house.
We had a moment where we're talking about tight ends
in the draft. Ian, Yes, and you know we're we're
going through We went through Tyler Warren, Lovelan, Arroyo, got Holm.
(27:41):
He goes, you know, guy really likes a late first
early second round projected pick. Is Mason Taylor on LSU.
I go, yeah, No, I watched him. He's really good.
He goes, you know, he's the nephew of I'm assuming
the son of Jason Taylor.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I said, yup. And then then he goes on.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He goes, he's the nephew of Zach Thomas and I said, Nick,
he's also the nephew of Joy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And if we just had a moment and we just laughed,
Oh my gosh, she's still on the air. She came
back this week. She came back this last suit and everything, huh,
law suit and everything.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, wow, Okay she came back and yeah she did,
she certainly did.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
But anyway, uh, we just started laughing to the point
where we didn't need to say anything.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He just kinda do you.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Think he's a first round pick? Everyone I've talked to?
He says there's only two Lovelin and Warren are the
only two real deserving tight ends his first round picks.
And when I talked to Greg Coselle last week, okay,
I think it was last week, And I trust him
more than almost anybody, maybe rang right up there with him.
He thinks there's maybe only three ish tight end ones
(28:53):
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Who was his third? Bason Taylor? It was He's so
so on Taye. It might have been a royal.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think it wasn't a royal. Yeah, he didn't like Taylor.
He liked Taylor, so he liked the royal better than
Mason Tail. I didn't like Taylor. All Oh yeah, all right,
By the way, I kind of see where he's coming from.
I Mean, the hard thing is is that the top
two guys are complete tight ends. Yeah right, everyone else
is everyone else is either a you know, a big receiver,
uh that you have to have questions about Kenny. You know,
(29:23):
Kenny block, what have you? And and in the Seattle offense,
they you've got a block this type, you can't. You
can't bring a tight end in this offense. That's not
a blocker.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So so no, Travis Kelcey, right, you can't have a
Travis Now. You can't have a guy who doesn't block
because he doesn't block.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I mean he did an early in his career,
he really Early's business is business decisions now, yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
it's a different he plays differently now. But no, I
mean it's it's you've got to have the you know,
Mark Andrews, Travis or George Kittle type guy. And Bower's
a good blocker, Like I think people don't don't understand
how good a blocker Bowers because a little great receiver
(29:58):
he was. But yeah, that's that's what you got to have.
I mean, with that offense, with some of their tighter format,
you got to have guys at a block.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
The funny thing is they've got a receiver in Cooper
Cup that can block. And they've got you know, and
I think you could say River can River can block
probably too, he probably won't play as much. We'll see,
But I mean that's they've got a bunch of those
types of guys. If if Drake Young is there, I
mean he can block. I mean they've got guys that
can block, but as receivers.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I I know we're supposed to do like a mock
draft and stuff and all this nonsense. I hate mock
drafts with a passion.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I just do. I think the waste.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But I'll just finish this because a like John Snyder
is not the only GM.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's hard to predict.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Like some some teams are easy to predict, but b
John Snyder's really hard to predict, like really really hard.
And you know what they're thinking in the room. We
have this conversation with Hulgrin all the time, you know,
like they used to kind of laugh. It's like, you know,
they hear what people are saying and stuff like okay,
And I've talked to people in the Seahawks over the
years and they're like, yeah, you guys were talking about this,
(31:01):
this and this, and we're gonna go. You know, you're
zigg and we're zagging that type of thing. But I mean,
I look, they need offensive lineman. You can probably get
those guys on day two. You know they're not gonna No,
I don't think so. The hard thing with the offensive
line is like, can you now here's the thing. They
invested a third round pick in Christian Haynes and this
(31:23):
was a complete bust. West, Jim Moore and Junior. I
think we think in this offense, he is he better
because of the what they what they ask offensive lineman
to do, right, Like Anthony Bradford is the only offensive
lineman they have that we know is not a fit
for this offense. Of the guys, of the interior guys returning, Sundell, Maya, Ola,
(31:43):
Timmy is probably less of a fit than they probably
want him to be in this offense. But Haynes might
be more of a fit than he was in the
other offense. So all right, so you don't you're not
gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater. Let's just
see what he could do right in this office. This
It was such a disaster with what they were doing
last year with that off with that offense and the
offensive line and the disconnect they had and you know,
(32:04):
whether it was they didn't have the right personnel or
whatever it was. It was just it was just that,
I mean, they went out and got a real offense
NFL offensive line coach, like Scott Huff was a great
college offensive line coach, but they went out and got
a guy that actually has a track record as an
offensive line coach in the National Football League as opposed
to college which is just I mean, I think we'd
all agree kind of a different game.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
A little bit, a little bit. Yeah, my thing what
I hit about mock drafts. Yeah, see, you and I
are diehard college football heads. These mock draft guys don't
watch college football. No, a lot of them don't know,
and then all of a sudden they're evaluating players. Well,
tell me, like people like well, I've watched Ttorola McMillan.
I've seen him play multiple times when Jed Fish was
(32:47):
his coach and when Jed Fish left, like and so
many of these guys and not just in big markets,
like you don't.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Watch college football. That's like tell them. Even reviewing a movie,
they you don't watch the movie.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, And I always say, like in
the defense of the NFL guys like you can't do
it all right, right.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Like you no, no, not talking about the NFL. I'm
talking about the mock draft.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah. I live in my mother's basement and I have
thirty eight followers on Twitter. Yeah those guys. Yeah right,
yeah right, So there's that.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We'll see. We're a week away. What do we got
coming up with the mayor.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'll talk to Eno Seras from the Athletic our week
we visit with him coming up at one twenty today,
stuff plus stuff plus.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Got rock the other day?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah no, Bryce Miller, Oh no, he did get rock,
but he was out with the five innings man. Yeah,
I know, grow a set, especially with especially this bullpen man.
Roll a set, Dude, you gotta go at six. You
can't tell me you got stuff. Plus if you can
only go five innings, you know, we'll talk about that.
Corbyn Smith, speaking of NFL draft, I'm gonna kind of
(33:49):
jump into him more. What what we really think the Seahawks,
not who they're gonna pick, but what they may do,
like how it may evolve, Like is it gonna be
like is there a chance to take an offensive line
in the men the first round?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Or do you think it's going to be received? Like
what does he think they're going to have it's been
like since a decade, or since the last time he
took an offensive line in.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The first round.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Oh, James Carpenter, how long was that? Two? Thy even
eleven decade? Fourteen years?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm just trying to think of the first round. Kuon
was twenty ten, he was the first rounder. He's only
one that was ever a pro bowler. It's been a
minute only I can think of, Wow, britt was the
second rounder? Oh no, what's his face? The guy Charles Cross,
Charles Cross, first runner? Yeah, what are we thinking? All right?
And and Charles Cross four years ago? And then who
was the guy that got smoked by Frank Clark in practice?
(34:37):
A fetti Jermane? He was a first rounder. So they've
taken a bunch of first rounders. He was the first rounder. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure, check me on that. And oh but
that's what I'm saying. I'm just like, no, I believe
if you say he was, I know he was, but
like I, oh my god, I mean their second best
lineman they took was probably britt Yep thirty first pick,
thirty first pick for yeah, wow, sixteen alrighty like what
(35:00):
him for getting smoked by Frank Clark with a sucker
punch and practice. That's what you remembered for.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Y yike.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Wow, there's there's even Steve Smith's in other places, alright
the mayor maybe now interseurse.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Thank you very much, great job by you today.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Appreciate it.
Iamala Ava decides to hold his former school and it
wants to sort of to play the financial bluff game,
and said that you want me to come back next
year to Knoxville, the good old Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I want four million.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That deal that we had for two and a half
zero point four million, it's not good anymore. I want
four million dollars. And he didn't decide to not show
up to spring practice. So their head coach, Josh Hipel,
came out and said, Okay, we're gonna pass because you're
not worth four million dollars. Now, you didn't say you're
not worth four million dollars, but the actions speak loud
(00:39):
than words, and Joshhipel and Tennessee was right. Finally someone
had to put their foot down. Now Nico, as I
will call him, that's his first name.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's much easier to say that his last name.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Is one of these guys that he was a tremendous
player coming on out of Long beat Polly High School,
was five star. Could have gone anywhere in the country Alabama, Oklahoma, LSU, Miami, Florida,
you name it, Ohio State, any school and he would
have gotten paid big time. But he decides to say no,
(01:18):
I'm going to come back next year and I want
four million dollars. So Tennessee said, thanks, but no thanks.
You can hit the bricks and you know, basically be
on your way out of town. Okay, that's pretty much
what it comes down to. So with that being said,
he is now a free agent. And he spent two
(01:39):
years there in Knoxville. He backed up former New England
Patriots and current Dallas Cowboys quarterback Joe Milton for his
freshman year, his true freshman year, and then last year
twenty six hundred yards, nineteen touchdowns as a sophomore, five interceptions.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, he's not a free agent anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I know he was a free agent because now it's
reported that he's going to UCLA, a good, good, good, good, good,
good good good garbage football program, no fan base. You
couldn't pay fans to go to the Rose Bowl and
watch UCLA football. They'll come to watch the other teams
(02:19):
that come in there, Ohio State, Penn State, Washington, Oregon
there or of course the crosstown rival SC They're not
going to watch U S football and Deshaun Foster.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So now like I'm thinking that, well, if Nico must
have a deal.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Nico got two point four million dollars from Tennessee, so
he must have something big or brewing. Now prior to that,
Speaking of Oregon, Dan Lanning dost them pulled, Josh Hipel, Hey,
your quarterback's calling me asking me for more money than
you're paying him. And by the way, I know everybody
here hates Oregon, get it. Kudos to Dan Lanning for that.
That's a mens move. Okay, now they don't get credit
(03:06):
for anything. Okay, screw Oregon, Okay, fair enough, but that's
a men's move though. That's a men's move because I've
been pro player for the longest time in every sport
and now I'm becoming pro team and especially in college sports,
where the NIL has become the wild wild West.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The nil's it's not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Meant for where it's supposed to be the highest bidder,
but that's what it's turned into. It's supposed to be
about marketing. It's supposed to be something to the extent
of Arch Manning endorson. Hey, come on out to Austin
BMW or Austin Mercedes Bands and get yourself a car
(03:50):
at Austin Mercedes Bands. That's what NIL is supposed to
be for but it's turned into highest bidder. The Michigan
Wolverine paid a kid coming out of high school, Bryce Underwood,
ten million dollars. He hasn't thrown a freaking pass in
a real game. There's a chance that Bryce Underwood could
(04:10):
become the next Tate Martel. And if you don't know
who Tate Martell is, you already forgot about him. There's
a reason why you don't know who Tate Martell is
because he peaked in high school. But he was this
guy prior to the nil blowing up that became a
really big deal coming out of that fabled Bishop Gorman
program in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So now Nico is going to go to UCLA.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And for a program that was five and seven, finished
fourteenth in the Big Ten out of eighteen teams. Zero
chance probably next year even having a winning record.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Zero. They need a new coach.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Deshaun Foster is a is DeShawn disaster. He's not the guy.
I mean, he's not that guy. He just isn't okay.
He's just like and you look at this and I'm like,
well he must, I thought, Nico. So now there's a
price out there seeing Nico is gonna get one point
seven five million dollars from UCLA. So you had a
(05:15):
chance in Tennessee, where you're a resident, no state income taxes,
by the way, to get two point four two and
a half million dollars, and you're gonna go, by the way,
a program that has won a top ten perennial program
over the course of the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That kudos to Nico. He was part of that. He
led him to the playoff level. He didn't lead him.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I mean, he was piercing other guys, but he was
part of that team. He you know, apparently even in
defeat and they got blown up by Ohio State in
the playoff, he was valiant.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Even in defeat.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's a leader. I'm not knocking Nico as a player.
You had nineteen touchdowns and five picks and you thought
that you wanted You thought that was worth four million
dollars a year. Where did you think that was worth
a raise of one point six million dollars? What world
are you living in, Nico? Did you think that that
was worth that much of a absolutely ridiculous substantial pay raise.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Nico, you got to know your worth. Pro You're not him.
You're not Archmanning, You're not Carson Beck.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You're not And people can rag on Carson Beck, and
I've got to defend him because he goes to my school.
To you, But here's the thing about Carson Beck. Look
at his numbers in twenty twenty three when he had
Brock Bowers and he had.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The general. Oh lad McConkie, look at him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Then he had the worst receivers in college football last
year thirty eight drops. They led all of college football.
Last year Georgia did most drops in college football. Let's
see him now at Miami and what he'll do in
a Shannon Dawson offense. Hey, by the way, a year ago,
one year ago, right now, there was Cam Ward. He
(07:01):
was a mid fourth to fifth round pick coming out
of Wazoo. What's Cam Wward right now? It's gonna be
the number one overall pick. He went to Miami for
a year. Shannon Dawson.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
You don't know that name. Let me school you.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
He's the offensive coordinat at Miami and he's one of
the best in the business. Perennial Frank Broyle's assistant coach
Award candidate Nico, how stupid are you? How stupid, not
even him. Maybe it's his family. It sounds to me
it's gotta be his family, because the kids smart. You
(07:33):
would take two and a half million free no state
income tax in Tennessee and turn that into one point
seventy five million. Reportedly, he's gonna get that with you
getting tax up the wazoo in California. To go from
Rocky Top and the SEC in a program that is
(07:56):
gonna be in the playoffs, that is contending for the
playoffs in the the NFL on Saturday that I call
the SEC the NFL on Saturday. And you're gonna go
to a team that finished fourteenth out of eighteen teams
in the Big Ten, where they could care less about football.
At your own school, what are you doing? You talk
(08:17):
about a fail, You talk about an l that's the
biggest fail in l of them all. You thought you
were worth so much, so you decided to play financial
chicken with the school who believed in you that it's
gonna pay you two and a half million, and you're
(08:39):
going now to a trash football school where they don't
care about football. If you're going to SC, I'd say okay,
and you would have gotten paid I said, fine, I
didn't have a problem with that. You didn't go to
SC You went to UCLA. Now in basketball, okay, go
play for mccronin fine, get some money. This is UCLA football.
(09:02):
Who's the last great player that came out of UCLA
and football that's in the NFL right now? I'll wait,
I can't think of anyone who is one. Give me
one right now, current, the one and only.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Zach Sharbonnay, the backup running back for your Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And that's about the backup running back for the Seattle Seahawks.
Put some respect on his name, Mark James, and I
like Zach Sharbon so but like.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're not, You're not. This is in Alabama. This isn't
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
When you're talking, you got you know, even though he's
a bus so far Bryce young to uh Mac Jones,
you know this isn't that Jalen Milroe is gonna be
a Nico man. You're getting bad advice somewhere somehow, and
maybe he wanted to go back home and being at UCLA.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You're in LA.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
You grew up Long Beach Polly High School. I okay, fine,
I can't understand that, but man to ask for four.
I could understand you saying I'd like two point seven million,
seven to five. Hell asked for three? And then you
comp somewhere in the middle. You meet middle of the road.
(10:16):
I mean this and and I've got to tell you,
Josh Hipel, God bless you because you did what needs
to be done.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Until this thing is going to be regulated, it's out
of control. It's a disaster.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I had Danny Sprinkle on at the final four who,
by the way, did you know that you DUBB is
the only program in America that has a top ten
high school recruiting class and a top ten portal class.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
That the only program in the country. I did know
that because Dick Faine has told me multiple times.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, well, hey, Dick is right. Yeah, and listen, I'm
I want to see them do well. I mean they're
where we're a partner with you, DUB. I want to
see Jetfish. I'm pulling for them too. And demand Williams.
I got to tell you right now if I was
Jetfish and Nico called me and said, I want to
come to you, Dub, but I know you got demand
(11:15):
Williams there, I'm going to give you discount.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I'm going to give you a what was that state
farm discount? Double check?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm going to give you a discount double check. And
I'm only going to ask for half of what tennessee
one point two million. I'd stick with Demand Williams. I
just stick with them because what Nico is doing, you're becoming, basically,
(11:45):
for lack of a better turn, like a lot of
these guys, especially on the high school level, they get
pimped and prostituted like sex workers.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They do, they do. They got these street agents out there,
and now these street agents they're legal because you can
have street agents.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You can have these guys and you can and they're legal.
But here's what's.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Gonna happen in Nico. He's gonna go to UCLA. It's
not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I'll give you one name, Jaden Rashada originally was gonna
go to.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Georgia. Then he was gonna go to Miami. Then he
decommits from Miami and he's gonna go to Florida. Then
he dec commits from Florida and he goes to Arizona State.
He's at Arizona State. I told my friend, one of
my best friends, who is an asu Alum I said, Craig,
he's not gonna be there long and Low and be Hill.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh, but his dad said that was his dream school.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
By the way, the same Jade and Rashada that's suing
the University of Florida right now.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And guess what Jaden Rashada is in the portal again.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Shocker and the schools he's talking to Yukon, Western Kentucky
and Tulane. Nico, that's where you're going pretty soon. Your
next stop is gonna be on the level of Yukon football,
not basketball for Dan Hurley, Western Kentucky, Tulane. And I'll
(13:16):
throw Bowling Green in there, Bowling ef and Green, just
because that name is the worst name for any school
in the country. Bowling Green. That's where you're headed, Nico.
You will be going to Bowling because it's gonna bust
for him. I can see it right now. It's just
a UCLA. They don't have the talent that they do
(13:37):
that right now that Lincoln Riley does at SC and
it's gonna be bad. And he's gonna and mark my
words as you did today about me about Tedor Road McMillan,
I will say the same thing a year or less
from now, Nico will be back in the portal, going
to his next school, his third school in three years.
(13:58):
It's gotta this thing has got to be regulated. And
I'll say this too. You got to hold these kids. Eventually.
If if a kid comes to a school and he
agrees to an amount, if he wants to get out
of that school and go in the portal, they've got
to have a buyout. There needs to be a buyout
(14:18):
of every contract, just like coaches have buyouts. There needs
to be a buyout so kids aren't just going you know, portal, portal, portal.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
It can't. This thing is a mess.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But Nico, I wish you luck, man, I really do,
just really bad. I just I can see this happening
and it's hmm wow, really bad. So we'll see what happens.
Coming up next inner sears, we'll join us. We will
get through the what do you say text of the
day on the text line four nine, four five one.
(14:51):
A lot of great ones today, a lot of trolling ones.
I'll get to those two. And you want to hear
your text red in real time. We'll do that next
on MJ in the midday. By the way, Owner's up
five to three, bottom eighth, uh one out in Cincinnati,
trying to hold on. Don't go anywhere, m J in
the midday ninety three three KJRM, all right, what do
(15:13):
you say? Text of the day? I coulda give you update, sheesus.
I went to break and America's up five to three.
Bizardo gives up a grand slam. They're down seven to five?
What's wrong with the bullpen?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Anders?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Ah, they're not good? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Except for Munomos is the best closing. We just complete
each other sentence as well.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But you gotta get some phenomenal You gotta get to
them though.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh god, Bizaro, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Miss Matt Brash. Gregory Santos is not what they expected
to be.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's horrible. Yeah, yeah, it's tough, it's it's yeah, it's
it's bad.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
For a team that relies on run prevention.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
You need your bull You gotta be good. What's lead
us off? Just pick anything whatever you want and then
we'll go one in the other.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's how we do.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Let's see two six. Time to give Mark some dcalf
love the passion.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Let's go all right for the two o six, Mark
with the scene needs to take his ady d meds
this morning. Slow down a bit. Bro finished the sentence.
I know, I said, you're right, I said, I say,
he goes uh. I said, yeah, you're right. I probably do.
I don't know, you know, I get in there. This
this is this job is uh, it's a privilege. It's
the toy store of life. And I'm just excited, you know,
(16:28):
even even where all the uh and we'll get to
the male.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
The male.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Karen's out there the chads two six MJ love the show.
You cracked me up.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I do love rooting against your bets, though. Okay, if
it helps someone, even if it's the opposite way.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I'm here to win money. Either you better fade me
or you take it. So I uh from the two
five three, I love the show. Ignore the snowflakes. There
are a lot of them out here. Yeah, I haven't
noticed too many, but I'm noticing sums now.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I think I think it's just one of those vocal
minority sort of situation. I right, exactly, Yeah, yeah, I honestly,
I haven't met anyone who's and I've showed it to
a lot of people. I don't think anyone that I
know at least has an issue with it or the
we're talking about the h the Braves situation.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Oh yeah, no it was.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
It was harmless fun, harmless fun, yeah, and more interesting
than the game at that that game.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I mean, it's just a Braves have been horrible this year. Yeah, yeah,
they have two five three m J. Why are you
not a general manager in the NFL? I'm confused. I
think this is in response to you that you know
more than Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm a better draft talent evaluator of skilled position players
in the first round in Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I stand by that a.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Lot of Team MAC is a stud. I I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I'm not an NFL draft guy, so I can't really
say my full opinion. But it seems like a lot
of people think that that's fine.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You might be. I mean, I don't see it. I
don't see it. I just don't.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And I think the people who know and watch college football,
here's the thing about it, and thank god the guys
we've have on their but a lot of these people
with their mock drafts, I always find this interesting. I
saw this in Boston a lot too. How can you
sit here and evaluate prospects. If you don't watch college football.
(18:13):
I watch college football when I was in the East
Coast in the South from noon until that Pac twelve
after dark night game. So now it'll be nine until
after nine to thirty at night here on the West coast.
If you don't watch college football, how can you be
an NFL draft expert? I don't get it from the
(18:34):
two PHO six This is a nice one. Well. I
like the new host, and I enjoy the show for
the most part. That doesn't mean that I don't disagree
with a lot of MJ's opinions. As I have said before,
I do think that there is a concerted effort to
try to fence with people, to try to drum up
with a little bit of drama, and I could personally
(18:55):
do without it, but I'm still gonna listen.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Thank you. That is very nice, very nice.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Forty five rusty MS. Now we'll wait until the game's over, right,
we will from our boy Keith, Keith, what's up?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Man? Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Cow Riley does it again?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
The big dumper goes deep again. Seven to six. Here
come the MS, trying for the comeback. Four one hundred
and twenty two feet.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, I think that was a I think that got
out of there. Is that a home run in all
thirty parks?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Mark James?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yes, twenty two feet?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Oh what about Yankee Stadium? You think all Aaron Judges
home runs are legit?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah? That short porched there at Yankee Stadium's a joke.
Cal is just wow.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I usually it's not exactly the great as a guy
who's hosting the show to be talking about something that's
going on that is not it's not the great. I
just listen, man, I'm all in on the MS. Told
you I'm here. I want I want this team that
win in ninety six one hundred and six games.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hey, Mark, have you heard of shaken baby syndrome? May
want to go a little easier on the chads. All
that commotion could cause some drain damage on the male
Karens and drain bamage.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I think I was on purpose, Yes he did. If
you always come with the best Keith one.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Two, five three, Belichick draft and wide receivers like Schneider drafts,
o Limeman not sing go.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Back to back a Rose Ray tie game. Hello, Tony,
Randy's playing Well? I know I try to tell you guys, Hey, listen,
you don't have to convince me.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I watched this guy in in Uha Tampa Bay lead
the Rays to the World Series in two thousand.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
My favorite status.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
You know who has the highest uh ops of all
time in the playoffs? Number one is Randy Rosarin. He
is the highest ops of all time in the MLB playoffs.
No kidding, it's a funny sat Yeah, he plays best
from the lights of the brightest.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, man, how about this one for twelve? And all
we need is is sackfly Latino. My Cameron pops out
to second.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, I was not here. It was funny because I
have a group of shout with a couple my buddies.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
And uh, if you're listening to the broadcast, you can
hear the audible leap that Julio lets out after that.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was not happy with himself. Yeah, in that moment,
what else you got?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Let's see, uh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Mj miss in and out yet, don't feel forced to
eat that crap food That is dis Oh I.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Hey, I disagree with that you. Dix is not crap.
Dix is good. It's not better than in and out? Ye,
it is no it's not even close, not even close.
It's way better, all right? From the two please stop it.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's bro If I took a national poll outside of
Seattle in the PNW, everybody would say, first of all people,
most people would even know what Dix was in Seattle. Okay,
But it's not better than in and out. That's it,
it's not it's uh uh MJ is unlistenable from the
two oh six. I find this ironic. At twelve thirty three,
(22:07):
you just texted in three minutes ago, but you're listening,
so they're in there in lies the that's the rub.
I'm un listenable, but yet you're texting in that you're listening.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I know, Hey, you never know. You could just be
texting in because he knows this is your time. Sure
not listening, but probably is.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah yeah uh From yes MJ, the New York Jets
are a bigger joke. So oh, by the way, this guy,
let me tell you something about this guy. Since day
one anders this guy from the three six to oh
whose last two numbers and in one to five. So
I'm not giving his number away because there's you have
(22:45):
to deduce this dude every day while my show.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
He's like, oh, I listened until before ten am, then
switched to streaming until one.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That like every day.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Oh yeah, dude, dude, listen. I live rent free in
your head. Bro, I live free in your head. If
only I could live rent free in Seattle, that would
be great.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
That would be better. Pretty high, yeah, very high.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah I would know that.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Uh yeah, it's funny because forty five, right before the
the you know, back to back homers, he's like roast
d MS. Now, well we're a little late on that. Now,
that's why we said, but you wait until after the game, right,
I know?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I know, four two five written contracts with payments spread
throughout the year and buyout mounts are needed to protect
both the school and the player, not calling them students anymore.
Amen of that, and I can tell you r QB one,
Hugh Millan has been on that drum, beating that drum
for a long time. By the way, Uh, Hugh Millan,
(23:41):
He's gonna be in studio next Wednesday with me.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he's gonna be in town next week town for
the draft. I can't wait to meet him. I love
this guy.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I freaking love h Millon, man Mark James and he
Millin in one studio.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Oh my lord, that's a could you imagine Softy came in.
You'd have to you have to get like you know
those level well, not only that, the air. You have
to put air in here, like like those things that
you know one of the players do when they get
the yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
The compressed air. How about this? Let me see, come on,
why you trash in a college kid? Very classy.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
If you need to fill some time talking about the
draft next week or the MS, let me just no
needs a trash in a college kid. First and foremost,
he's a professional playing on the college level. When you
get paid money, you are no longer an amateur. You
are a professional. Don't stick o.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He's a kid.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Okay, he might be young. He's a professional playing on
the college level. And by the way, don't tell me
on what I need to do. On my show, I
talked about the Mariners and I talked about the draft
in like three segments. This isn't on demand radio where
if you were not talking about what you want to
be talking about, then oh man, talk about this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Oh my god, I got it.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I go.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This's a school. A lot of the folks here. I'm
gonna have to school, A lot of the folks out here.
In and Out is the north Strom rack of burgers.
That one hurts, that one hurts. True, it's true. It's
incredibly overrated. Worst prize in the nation.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well not the burgers, though not the burgers.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
That's only like.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
It's a big part, but it's only a part of
the full menu. You gotta have a good full menu
to be a good burger joint, all right. From the
two five to three.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
In and Out is the single MJ take that I've
agreed with in two months, clown show only station I
get in my work unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, okay, uh all right, boy, I uh man.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I gotta tell you something right now, you really on
on the you give me a double double grilled onions,
extra spread animal style.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I am in Heaven. I am in Heaven. And by
the way, all in Dicks Burgers this week or next?
All in it. I like Dicks too. It's fine, you.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Know, but In and Out is just better at seven
to seven right now, Mariner's Reds bottom of the ninth.
We will talk to the Mayor of Maple Valley Crosstalk
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Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, thanks to Nick Bombgardner from the Athletic NFL
Draft Analysts for coming on. And we we had a
moment uh Ian Furness, the mayor Maple Valley in the house.
We had a moment where we're talking about tight ends
in the draft. Ian, Yes, and you know we're we're
going through We went through Tyler Warren, Lovelan, Arroyo, got Holm.
(27:41):
He goes, you know, guy really likes a late first
early second round projected pick. Is Mason Taylor on LSU.
I go, yeah, No, I watched him. He's really good.
He goes, you know, he's the nephew of I'm assuming
the son of Jason Taylor.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I said, yup. And then then he goes on.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He goes, he's the nephew of Zach Thomas and I said, Nick,
he's also the nephew of Joy Taylor.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And if we just had a moment and we just laughed,
Oh my gosh, she's still on the air. She came
back this week. She came back this last suit and everything, huh,
law suit and everything.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Yeah, wow, Okay she came back and yeah she did,
she certainly did.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
But anyway, uh, we just started laughing to the point
where we didn't need to say anything.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He just kinda do you.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Think he's a first round pick? Everyone I've talked to?
He says there's only two Lovelin and Warren are the
only two real deserving tight ends his first round picks.
And when I talked to Greg Coselle last week, okay,
I think it was last week, And I trust him
more than almost anybody, maybe rang right up there with him.
He thinks there's maybe only three ish tight end ones
(28:53):
in the draft.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Who was his third? Bason Taylor? It was He's so
so on Taye. It might have been a royal.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think it wasn't a royal. Yeah, he didn't like Taylor.
He liked Taylor, so he liked the royal better than
Mason Tail. I didn't like Taylor. All Oh yeah, all right,
By the way, I kind of see where he's coming from.
I Mean, the hard thing is is that the top
two guys are complete tight ends. Yeah right, everyone else
is everyone else is either a you know, a big receiver,
uh that you have to have questions about Kenny. You know,
(29:23):
Kenny block, what have you? And and in the Seattle offense,
they you've got a block this type, you can't. You
can't bring a tight end in this offense. That's not
a blocker.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So so no, Travis Kelcey, right, you can't have a
Travis Now. You can't have a guy who doesn't block
because he doesn't block.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, I mean he did an early in his career,
he really Early's business is business decisions now, yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
it's a different he plays differently now. But no, I
mean it's it's you've got to have the you know,
Mark Andrews, Travis or George Kittle type guy. And Bower's
a good blocker, Like I think people don't don't understand
how good a blocker Bowers because a little great receiver
(29:58):
he was. But yeah, that's that's what you got to have.
I mean, with that offense, with some of their tighter format,
you got to have guys at a block.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
The funny thing is they've got a receiver in Cooper
Cup that can block. And they've got you know, and
I think you could say River can River can block
probably too, he probably won't play as much. We'll see,
But I mean that's they've got a bunch of those
types of guys. If if Drake Young is there, I
mean he can block. I mean they've got guys that
can block, but as receivers.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I I know we're supposed to do like a mock
draft and stuff and all this nonsense. I hate mock
drafts with a passion.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I just do. I think the waste.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But I'll just finish this because a like John Snyder
is not the only GM.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That's hard to predict.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Like some some teams are easy to predict, but b
John Snyder's really hard to predict, like really really hard.
And you know what they're thinking in the room. We
have this conversation with Hulgrin all the time, you know,
like they used to kind of laugh. It's like, you know,
they hear what people are saying and stuff like okay,
And I've talked to people in the Seahawks over the
years and they're like, yeah, you guys were talking about this,
(31:01):
this and this, and we're gonna go. You know, you're
zigg and we're zagging that type of thing. But I mean,
I look, they need offensive lineman. You can probably get
those guys on day two. You know they're not gonna No,
I don't think so. The hard thing with the offensive
line is like, can you now here's the thing. They
invested a third round pick in Christian Haynes and this
(31:23):
was a complete bust. West, Jim Moore and Junior. I
think we think in this offense, he is he better
because of the what they what they ask offensive lineman
to do, right, Like Anthony Bradford is the only offensive
lineman they have that we know is not a fit
for this offense. Of the guys, of the interior guys returning, Sundell, Maya, Ola,
(31:43):
Timmy is probably less of a fit than they probably
want him to be in this offense. But Haynes might
be more of a fit than he was in the
other offense. So all right, so you don't you're not
gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater. Let's just
see what he could do right in this office. This
It was such a disaster with what they were doing
last year with that off with that offense and the
offensive line and the disconnect they had and you know,
(32:04):
whether it was they didn't have the right personnel or
whatever it was. It was just it was just that,
I mean, they went out and got a real offense
NFL offensive line coach, like Scott Huff was a great
college offensive line coach, but they went out and got
a guy that actually has a track record as an
offensive line coach in the National Football League as opposed
to college which is just I mean, I think we'd
all agree kind of a different game.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
A little bit, a little bit. Yeah, my thing what
I hit about mock drafts. Yeah, see, you and I
are diehard college football heads. These mock draft guys don't
watch college football. No, a lot of them don't know,
and then all of a sudden they're evaluating players. Well,
tell me, like people like well, I've watched Ttorola McMillan.
I've seen him play multiple times when Jed Fish was
(32:47):
his coach and when Jed Fish left, like and so
many of these guys and not just in big markets,
like you don't.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Watch college football. That's like tell them. Even reviewing a movie,
they you don't watch the movie.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, well yeah, yeah, And I always say, like in
the defense of the NFL guys like you can't do
it all right, right.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Like you no, no, not talking about the NFL. I'm
talking about the mock draft.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah. I live in my mother's basement and I have
thirty eight followers on Twitter. Yeah those guys. Yeah right,
yeah right, So there's that.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We'll see. We're a week away. What do we got
coming up with the mayor.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'll talk to Eno Seras from the Athletic our week
we visit with him coming up at one twenty today,
stuff plus stuff plus.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Got rock the other day?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah no, Bryce Miller, Oh no, he did get rock,
but he was out with the five innings man. Yeah,
I know, grow a set, especially with especially this bullpen man.
Roll a set, Dude, you gotta go at six. You
can't tell me you got stuff. Plus if you can
only go five innings, you know, we'll talk about that.
Corbyn Smith, speaking of NFL draft, I'm gonna kind of
(33:49):
jump into him more. What what we really think the Seahawks,
not who they're gonna pick, but what they may do,
like how it may evolve, Like is it gonna be
like is there a chance to take an offensive line
in the men the first round?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Or do you think it's going to be received? Like
what does he think they're going to have it's been
like since a decade, or since the last time he
took an offensive line in.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
The first round.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Oh, James Carpenter, how long was that? Two? Thy even
eleven decade? Fourteen years?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm just trying to think of the first round. Kuon
was twenty ten, he was the first rounder. He's only
one that was ever a pro bowler. It's been a
minute only I can think of, Wow, britt was the
second rounder? Oh no, what's his face? The guy Charles Cross,
Charles Cross, first runner? Yeah, what are we thinking? All right?
And and Charles Cross four years ago? And then who
was the guy that got smoked by Frank Clark in practice?
(34:37):
A fetti Jermane? He was a first rounder. So they've
taken a bunch of first rounders. He was the first rounder. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure, check me on that. And oh but
that's what I'm saying. I'm just like, no, I believe
if you say he was, I know he was, but
like I, oh my god, I mean their second best
lineman they took was probably britt Yep thirty first pick,
thirty first pick for yeah, wow, sixteen alrighty like what
(35:00):
him for getting smoked by Frank Clark with a sucker
punch and practice. That's what you remembered for.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Y yike.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Wow, there's there's even Steve Smith's in other places, alright
the mayor maybe now interseurse.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Thank you very much, great job by you today.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Appreciate it.
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