What would a successful season for the Seahawks look like? Would it just be making it back to the playoffs? Winning the division? What would a disappointing season look like? // What is happening around the sports world over the weekend? We have Juan Soto’s return to Yankee Stadium, and he is expecting it to be thousands of boos. Even after just one year in a Yankees uniform, is it justified for the fans to boo him? The Nuggets and Thunder will face off in a game 7 competition to get to the Western Conference Finals of the NBA playoffs. // What I Need To Know!

The Seattle Times’ Adam Jude joins the show to preview the Mariners series against the Padres down in San Diego. With the Mariners starting rotation beat up, are they in survival mode from a pitching standpoint? // Headline Rewrites: The Nuggets have forced a game 7 with their 119-107 win over Oklahoma City on Thursday, Bill Belichick was again asked about his controversial relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson on Good Morning America this morning, calling Hudson “his muse”, The Mariners face the Padres on Apple TV+’s Friday Night Baseball tonight. // NFL Headlines: The NFL owners will be voting on two big rule changes at the owners meeting in Minneapolis. The first being a playoff reseeing, the second being a ban on the tush push. There are reports that the Steelers are interested in Saints WR Chris Olave. // The Cal Raleigh Show had some interesting points in their most recent episode, Cal gave his assessment of the team after a quarter of the season has gone by. He also talks about how the team was able to lower their strikeout rate after being in the top 5 over the last few years. What does Edgar Martinez do to help out the players that have started to struggle?

Ben Williamson has been a great addition to this Mariners team after they saw some injuries come their way, has the league figured him out and are pitching him differently? Can he adjust to how the league is approaching him and get back to where he was when he was called up? // Apple TV Friday Night Baseball’s Heidi Watney joins the show to preview the Vedder cup between the Mariners and Padres. What does she think about the two teams and where each of them are excelling? Who are some Mariners players that get talked about from a national standpoint? // Four Down Territory: 1st Down: You were getting a ton of flak for your early win-loss prediction for Seattle. Care to explain yourself? 2nd Down: Outside of special teams, only one position group on the Seahawks has a cap hit in the top 10 of the NFL… which is it and what does it tell you? 3rd Down: What repeating theme reared its head again during Brock and Salk’s interview with Pete Carroll? 4th Down: What do you like most about the schedule. // The Timeline: Bears head coach Ben Johnson has responded to the Caleb Williams story with Colin Cowherd on Thursday which said that Williams did not want to go to the Bears. Johnson has not felt that Williams isn’t all in on this Bears team.