Former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh appeared on KJR this morning with Dave “Softy” Mahler. He talked about signing with Baltimore, the reasons for Seattle cutting him loose and his thoughts on all of the roster turnover this past weekend.

Houshmandzadeh was asked if the Seahawks’ brass explained why they released him, and this is what he had to say:

“I didn’t need to hear it,” he said. “It’s a business, it’s going to happen to everybody. It just happened a lot sooner than I expected it would in my career. But it was just what I said. They want to see what the younger guys could do, and that’s fine.

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I covered the news conference today in Seattle announcing that KIRO, which has partnerships with both the Seahawks and the Mariners, is going to an all-sports format on April 1, competing directly with KJR. Their launch is meant to coincide directly with the start of baseball season.

The above photo includes Chuck Armstrong at the far left, KIRO GM and VP Dave Pridemore, KIRO VP/market manager Carl Gardner and Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke.

KIRO is becoming an ESPN station, which for all intents and purposes means that KJR no longer is

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Mike Holmgren is speaking with Dave Mahler and Hugh Millen on KJR in a few minutes. If you miss the interview, I’ll post the podcast later.

Thanks to KJR-AM producer Josh Sabrowsky for passing along an MP3 file from my conversation with John Clayton on his Sports Saturday show this morning. Listen here. Josh went the extra mile in getting this to me, driving back to the studio to re-send after my email server initially failed to pass it through. Big thanks! I reduced the file size a little, but the quality should still be good.

I’ll be visiting with John Clayton on Seattle’s KJR-AM radio at about 10 Pacific time this morning. To listen live, click here. We’re taking the kids to see Santa at the mall this morning, but I’ll put the audio up when we return home. Ho, ho, ho.

Thanks to KJR for having me on this afternoon. Dave Grosby and I talked about the Seahawks-49ers game. Our eight-minute conversation will serve as my audio preview this week. Listen here.

KJR-AM carries John Clayton’s radio show every Saturday in the Seattle area. You can listen to KJR live any time. They had me on John’s show this morning and that audio is here. He thinks Seattle’s schedule sets up nicely for the Hawks down the stretch.

We have some bonus audio today thanks to my friends at the ESPN radio affiliate in Spokane. Dennis Patchin and Julie Scott have me on there when they can’t find anyone better, and they were nice enough to pass along the audio. This one runs about eight minutes. We talked about the impact of losing Sean Locklear to suspension, and what to expect with Jordan Babineaux in the lineup.