Mike Salk

It's Friday so Salk takes your calls on everything Seattle sports and Brock Huard joins the show to discuss some of the Nick Saban & Jimbo Fisher drama in addition to his thoughts on last night's M's game. Plus, a ranking that allows Salk to incorporate his love for Top gun yet again.

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Salk is watching the PGA Championship very closely and we spend an entire segment discussing the absolute chaos that is John Daly's diet of cigarettes, Diet Coke, Peanut M&M's and precisely 0.0 ounces of water over 18 holes.

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Narrative or reality? Salk says the Narrative is easy: M’s went cheap or blew it and it’s been hurting them all year and finally was made obvious. Reality is that it’s one game. Win two of three and it’s meaningless, but it's hard to see. Maura asks Salk a question - if the Seahawks end up with a winning record: who is most responsible? Running game, passing game, the defense, or coaching? Justin picks coaching, Maura says defense. Brock Huard joins to discuss some of the Nick Saban & Jimbo Fisher drama in addition to his thoughts on last night's M's game.

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Salk opens the show with trying to understand what evil genius concocted last night's game specifically designed to hurt Mariners fans. It felt like a torture session to see Trevor Story - a player Mariners fans thought might be on their team - hit 3 homeruns against one of our star young pitchers. We revisit The Jerry Dipoto Show from yesterday to make ourselves feel better about what we're seeing from the M's, especially when it comes to how they're performing with RISP and how it will change.

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Salk reacts to Jerry Dipoto saying the M's hitting .180 with RISP is unsustainably low and will take a positive turn soon. Then, we dig into the war of words between Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban. Plus, Brock Huard plays teacher and breaks down some of the more technical explanations Seahawks DC Clint Hurtt gave us of the new defense yesterday.

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Our second weekly conversation with Michael Bumpus addresses more of the comments made by new Seahawks DC Clint Hurtt and Salk asks Bump to describe what defensive schemes look like from a wide receiver's perspective and how effective they can be. The Jerry Dipoto Show is the first time Salk has been able to talk to Jerry about the roster moves with Kelenic and when we could see Kyle Lewis again. Jerry thinks the "unsustainably low" RISP batting average will change.

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The Mariners are just a hair below even in their run differential but Salk says they have been pitching better than last year but are just not coming up big in the big moments. In theory, that is just luck and it should turn around. Salk liked this question from Jake and Stacy's question: when will the Seahawks be "complete?" Salk says 3 years: One to build it. Another to find the quarterback. A third to get him situated. Super Bowl expectation in 2024. Brock Huard explains the X's & O's from Clint Hurtt's conversation.

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The Mariners seem to win the games that (on paper) look harder by facing better pitching, but Marco Gonzalez gets the job done in Toronto and the Mariners take down Kevin Gausman. We revisit the conversation with Clint Hurtt to hear more about his plans for the new Seahawks defense as a first-time play caller and Salk gets fired about about what Hurtt has in store.

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Seahawks defensive coordinator Clint Hurtt joins Salk to discuss his vision for the defense this year, the move to more 3-4 looks, how the secondary will be different, wanting his squad to play more aggressively, and what the next step is for Jamal Adams. Then, Brock Huard gives his thoughts on the differences we will see in Clint Hurtt's defense and today's edition of Ranked is inspired by Clint's last name.

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Justin identified with a story about a young Yankees fans losing his collection of autographs and talks about the nostalgia of having sports memorabilia. Salk doesn't get it at all and even says he threw away a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar autograph he got as a child. We ask Mariners fans to call the show and tell Salk what Jerry Dipoto should do next and the answers range from firing coaches to staying the course, Salk thinks it's somewhere in between.

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