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Best of Chuck & Buck 11-21 · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Checking back radio program. That's right, we give you a
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Speaker 1: key to a Seahawks victory against the Tennessee Titans this
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Speaker 1: week without using the old cliches. You know, all three phases,
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Speaker 1: winning the trenches, win the turnover battle, that all that garbage.
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Speaker 1: So we have to be unique and different and specific
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Speaker 1: with our keys to victory.
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Speaker 2: Bucket, show us how it's done.
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Speaker 3: I kind of feel like it would almost have to
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Speaker 3: be a cliche in order for them to not win
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Speaker 3: this ballgame, like they would have to turn it over
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Speaker 3: five times or something. But I'm just gonna say, just
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Speaker 3: the defense, just continue to play the way you are.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the defense has been good against good teams,
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Speaker 3: good offensive teams. Last week was another one of the
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Speaker 3: situations where you come out of that game you weren't
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Speaker 3: feeling bad about that side of the ball. I mean,
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Speaker 3: if there was anything, it was the Sam Darnold situation.
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Speaker 4: To me.
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Speaker 3: The defense went went toe to toe and basically outmatched
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Speaker 3: a Rams offense. This is like the exact opposite of
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Speaker 3: the Rams offense. This is if you just go out
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Speaker 3: there and you can impose your will on these guys,
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Speaker 3: I think you can just kind of make them cower
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Speaker 3: a little bit and maybe tuck their tail by halftime.
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Speaker 3: And so I'm just going to say, just in general,
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Speaker 3: just defense, just keep playing the way you have been.
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Speaker 3: It shouldn't be too terribly difficult. But you got to
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Speaker 3: go out there and do it right off the bat
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Speaker 3: and kind of just let them know that you're there
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Speaker 3: to play hardball. And if they do that, I think
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Speaker 3: that they run away with this thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Titans are last, and points scored last, and rushing
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Speaker 1: yards last and sacks allowed. Rookie quarterback's been running for
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Speaker 1: his life all season long in cam Ward and now
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Speaker 1: he has to go up against the Mike McDonald mind
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Speaker 1: on defense, not to mention a very talented defense as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I had two keys written down. Certainly. One of them
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Speaker 1: was just keeping cam Ward confused, and I think that
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Speaker 1: speaks to Bucky's point, Ashley, what's your key to victory?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I had two as well, in defense obviously being one,
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Speaker 5: especially if they're going to have the shutout like Greg
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Speaker 5: predicted yesterday.
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Speaker 6: So you got to have the defense there.
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Speaker 5: But I'm going to go with the offensive line and
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Speaker 5: just the uncertainties that we've got there, just to be
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Speaker 5: a little different, right, Sam, Darnold had a rough game
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Speaker 5: last week.
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Speaker 6: He was pressured quite a bit.
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Speaker 5: So I think if we can get these guys that
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Speaker 5: are going to be kind of pluck, you know, band
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Speaker 5: aids to our for our current offensive line situation, if
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Speaker 5: they can step up protect Sam, I'd like to see
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Speaker 5: him be able to have a very good game and
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Speaker 5: kind of leave last week's game in the past.
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Speaker 1: Well, if there's anybody on the Tennessee Titans team that's
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Speaker 1: that's good to great, it's Jeffrey Simmons.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, you're going to be
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Speaker 1: starting with three interior offensive linemen that are backups. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and so that creates quite the whole I mean, if
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Speaker 1: ever there was a week and this will be my
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Speaker 1: key where it's good that we're talking about ken Walker
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Speaker 1: so much this week. This is the week he needs
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Speaker 1: to go out.
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Speaker 6: Just Tom, Yes, please.
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Speaker 1: Take some heat off of Sam Darnald and just establish
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Speaker 1: yourf with the run outside zone it runaway from Jeffrey Simmons.
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Speaker 2: If you have to ola.
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Speaker 1: With Timmy's better in the run block game than he
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Speaker 1: is the pass block game. It would be nice to
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Speaker 1: keep the Titans from being able to put pressure on
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Speaker 1: Sam Donald up the middle because they can't do anything
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Speaker 1: to stop our run game. So a lot of talk
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Speaker 1: about let's just hand over the running game to ken
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Speaker 1: Walker this week. Well let's do it. Let's just hand
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Speaker 1: over the run game to ken Walker this week. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: he runs wild and Sam Donald only has to throw
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Speaker 1: like twelve times this week to kind of get him
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Speaker 1: back on track. So I'm just gonna say, ken Walker
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Speaker 1: being what we want in Walker to be is going
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Speaker 1: to be my no cliche key to victory. Craig Bell,
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Speaker 1: that's right. He predicted a shutout how many times? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we hera analy is predicting a shutout in an NFL game.
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Speaker 1: That's how dominant he expects the defense to be this Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg, Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Are you all right?
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Speaker 2: When do you head to Music City?
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Speaker 4: About this time tomorrow? Take most of the day to
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Speaker 4: get there, get there early Saturday evening.
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Speaker 1: I picture Reba McIntyre picking you up at the airport,
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Speaker 1: driving you to your hotel. I figure that kind of
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Speaker 1: service you get in Nashville. Am I wrong about that?
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Speaker 4: I think you are wrong. I hope she probably has
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Speaker 4: other things to do. I would guess, yeah, but what
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Speaker 4: have other things to do unless it's their job to
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Speaker 4: pick me up?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? She seems really kind, though, really giving like a
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Speaker 1: big heart on that Reba McIntyre might read her all wrong,
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Speaker 1: but got a good persona that.
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Speaker 3: I think that if it just boils down to whether
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Speaker 3: or not you have your ostrich skin boots and a
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Speaker 3: bolo tie on, maybe a cowboy hat, I'm you're not
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Speaker 3: going to pick you up if you dress normal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, don't be wearing any army sweaters.
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Speaker 4: It looks like we love it or something that work.
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Speaker 2: That would work.
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Speaker 1: That would great.
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Speaker 4: A gay friend I used to be roommates of mine
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Speaker 4: and Federal Away. We split a house when we were lieutenants.
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Speaker 4: Three lieutenants at Fort Lewis lived in this place out
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Speaker 4: of dash Point Road and cetera. Away and he lives
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Speaker 4: Titus Rodriguez. He lives outside Nashville, so I'm probably going
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Speaker 4: to see him.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Yeah, So more of a chance he'll
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Speaker 1: pick you up at the airport than Riba Mac.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I would say that sounds fair more likely.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's dive in Seahawks in Nashville with Greg.
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Speaker 1: They'll be taking on the Titans, and certainly there haven't
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Speaker 1: been a lot of flowers thrown at the feet of
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans this year. They seem like a rudderless ship,
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Speaker 1: and I have a feeling cam Ward's not exactly excited
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Speaker 1: about facing Mike McDonald's defense this week. He's looked confused
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Speaker 1: against lesser defenses throughout the course of the season. He's
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Speaker 1: down at Calvin Ridley. They can't run the football. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I heard one guy go as far as saying, the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks are going to shut them out. What do you
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Speaker 1: think of that?
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Speaker 4: Greg, who's that guy? Yeah? I do. I do think
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Speaker 4: this is a chance for a shutout for the defense.
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Speaker 4: No matter if the offense plays poorly and they don't
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Speaker 4: get the run game going and Donald turns it over
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Speaker 4: some more times, I think the defense is another one
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Speaker 4: of those games that defense can win. They're leading pass
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Speaker 4: receivers a tight end, and you mentioned Ridley's out. If
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Speaker 4: a couple other wide receivers banged up. They don't run
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Speaker 4: the ball very effectively. They don't do anything very effectively.
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Speaker 4: And we met Jim Ward. He's a good quarterback and
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Speaker 4: McDonald talked about how he's really good for his age
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Speaker 4: at making plays that aren't quite there. But he's running
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Speaker 4: around and often with his head cut off because of
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Speaker 4: his offensive lines issues, pass protection issues. It's worth mentioning
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Speaker 4: again he's been sacked. The Titans have allowed forty one
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Speaker 4: sacks in ten games, and for perspective, the Seahaks have
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Speaker 4: allowed ten. So four times a game more than four
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Speaker 4: times a game against anybody, he gets sacked, and you
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Speaker 4: would think that's where the Seahawks can make their hay
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Speaker 4: and would sack them at least four times. If you
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Speaker 4: get a sack on a drives, the numbers in the
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Speaker 4: NFL say it's about less than thirty percent that you're
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Speaker 4: going to get a first down on that drive, let
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Speaker 4: alone score. That's how much sacks meet in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: That's why cremium on pass rush and disguising blitzes and
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Speaker 4: things like that. So that's four drives a game on
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Speaker 4: average that cam Warden and the Titans are completely ruined
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Speaker 4: second and twenty or whatever because of sacks and four
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Speaker 4: drives a game. Sometimes you only get eight possessions in
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Speaker 4: a game. That's why their offenses last in the league.
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Speaker 4: And that's where the Seahawks, I think will win the game.
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Speaker 4: They put him in situations where they have to throw
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Speaker 4: and then Leonard Williams and the markets Lawrence and Byron
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Speaker 4: Murphy and those guys will do what they've been doing
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Speaker 4: all season.
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Speaker 1: Ah, I'm with you on that.
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Speaker 3: Not a lot of talent on that side of the ball,
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Speaker 3: which you would expect when you get the first overall
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Speaker 3: pick the year before. And yet on the other side
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Speaker 3: of it, it's kind of a similar situation where especially
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Speaker 3: if Gray's Abel's out, are we looking at three backup
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Speaker 3: into your guy? I guess two and your starter at
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Speaker 3: right tackle maybe should be a backup because that's where
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Speaker 3: the pressure is going to be coming from with Jeffrey Simmons,
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Speaker 3: and that's the only way I could see them creating
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Speaker 3: short fields or possibly being able to put up any
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Speaker 3: any amount of points.
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Speaker 4: Really, yeah, Bucky, Jeffrey Simmons can wreck the game by himself.
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Speaker 4: The most surprising I saw the week so far was
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Speaker 4: Grey Zabel on the practice field yesterday. He was looking
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Speaker 4: like he was fully participating in the part we were
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Speaker 4: allowed to watch. They listened to him as a limited participant.
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Speaker 4: He didn't practice Wednesday. He did practice yesterday, which is
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Speaker 4: only four days after. He was on his knees and
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Speaker 4: face down on the turf, looking like he was seriously
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Speaker 4: injured against the Rams, so that is a good sign that,
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Speaker 4: as Mike mcconubs said, it's not a serious injury. The
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Speaker 4: calculus now becomes, do we want to put him into
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Speaker 4: this game and give it or give him another weekend
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Speaker 4: to rest and be ready for the following well not
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Speaker 4: just next week, but the next six games to end
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Speaker 4: the regular season. Zabel, of course, is pushing to play.
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Speaker 4: That's his personality. I asked Kubiak, are all the trades
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Speaker 4: that we talk about with Zabel, where's his toughness rank?
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Speaker 4: And he said he's a little gangster. Little for six
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Speaker 4: six three fifteen, you can call him a little gangster,
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Speaker 4: but he said he is. The look Kubiak, the offensive
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Speaker 4: corner said, the look that Zabel gave him when he
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Speaker 4: asked him after the Rams game, are you all right?
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Speaker 4: The look he gave him saying I'm coming back, and
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Speaker 4: he made it seem to him like he was gonna
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Speaker 4: play this week. That'll be interesting whether they want to
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Speaker 4: run him out there or would they give him the
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Speaker 4: weekend off. We've mentioned Seahawks historically have been conservative medically
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Speaker 4: and having guys rest that maybe could play, but on
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Speaker 4: the erring on the side of getting him for the
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Speaker 4: longer term. Let's see if they do that was able.
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Speaker 4: If they don't, Christian Haynes is on the spot because
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Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons usually lines up on the right side of
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Speaker 4: the Titans defensive line. He moves around, but his primary
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Speaker 4: places interior right defensive tackle out to end. He plays
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Speaker 4: over the center out to end, and if he's the
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Speaker 4: right defensive tackle, that's right opposite of Christian Haynes or
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Speaker 4: whoever the left guard is. So that would be the
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Speaker 4: biggest matchup for Seattle to wreck their day. Haines is
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Speaker 4: getting would get his first start. Of course, we've talked
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Speaker 4: about he was on injured reserve for all season. He's
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Speaker 4: been preparing up to now if he's going to start
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Speaker 4: until he was able walked out on the practice field yesterday.
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Speaker 4: Johnsondell is uninjured reserve as we know, with Timmy starting
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Speaker 4: at center and Anthony Bravers had his problems at right guard.
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Speaker 4: If I'm the Titans defense, that's where my game plan
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Speaker 4: is going right through those three guys and that's the
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Speaker 4: key to the game.
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Speaker 1: Mm yeah, what other injuries risks could affect this game
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 4: Well, yesterday Ernest Jones. You remember he played in the
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Speaker 4: LA game with the big rap on his knee after
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Speaker 4: missing one game with the knee injury, the Washington knee injury.
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Speaker 4: He full go practice Wednesday looked like oh okay. I
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Speaker 4: think he came out of it well from the game,
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Speaker 4: and then yesterday he was a limited participant that could
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Speaker 4: have been rest. We're in that point where we didn't
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Speaker 4: talk to McDonald since before Wednesday's practice and won't again
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Speaker 4: until after Fridays. But Jones took a step back at
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Speaker 4: least to decelerate a little bit yesterday. We'll see what
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Speaker 4: that means today. On the injured list, Robbie Utz has
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Speaker 4: been gone all week for what the team is calling
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Speaker 4: a personal matter. He hasn't made to practice Wednesday or Thursday.
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Speaker 4: And Tory Horton has been on the field and this
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Speaker 4: is a lucky he's going to play again this week.
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Speaker 4: The wide receiver Jay Is.
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Speaker 3: This a week where you figure Kubiak might really put
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Speaker 3: the pedal to the medal with ken Walker or is
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Speaker 3: this another one where, considering it's an opponent you feel
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Speaker 3: like you should win, that you're going to We might
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Speaker 3: see even more of Zach Charbonnay or George Halawney.
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Speaker 4: Well lucky they don't game plan into a week saying well, well,
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Speaker 4: we should both raise this team by three touchdowns, so
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Speaker 4: when we get up to two touchdowns, let's do this.
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Speaker 4: So they'll come in with a game plan of winning
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Speaker 4: the game. And if you believe McDonald to face value
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Speaker 4: of his words, that will mean a much fuller Kenneth
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Speaker 4: Walker as the running back one. So I'm expecting that
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Speaker 4: I'm expecting him to get the ball more in short yardage.
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Speaker 4: I'm expecting him to get the ball and stay in
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Speaker 4: the lineup more when they're inside the ten and twenty
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Speaker 4: yard lines. Those two and now the third down. I
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Speaker 4: think Sharvony's going to remain the third down back by
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Speaker 4: and large and then two minute drills. But if he would,
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Speaker 4: if Walker would just get all of the short yardage
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Speaker 4: in red zone carries, he'd probably end up with more
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Speaker 4: snaps than Charboney for a game. And that hasn't happened
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Speaker 4: yet this season, So let's see if that changes. When
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Speaker 4: they're at the goal line, We've mentioned it, they need
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Speaker 4: to put Walker as their guy. So if there is
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Speaker 4: a play that's unblocked and there's defenders in the backfield.
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Speaker 4: At least you have a chance to have the running
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Speaker 4: back make a guy miss. You don't have that chance
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Speaker 4: nearly as much with Charbonay. That's where I put Walker.
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Speaker 4: Let's see Sunday. If Walker gets the short yardedge goal
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Speaker 4: line reps that a lot of have gone to Charbonay.
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Speaker 1: And yet you might have a week since you're down
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Speaker 1: a couple of linemen potentially that you might need the
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Speaker 1: extra help and pass protection. So you're damned if you do,
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Speaker 1: and you're damned if you don't. In terms of trying
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Speaker 1: to get Walker more playing time, it could come at
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Speaker 1: the risk of something else in your offense.
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Speaker 4: Right, and if you do that, I mean it's not
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Speaker 4: the Walker can't do it, But you're right. The reason
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Speaker 4: that sharbon Asia third down too minutes back is the blocking.
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Speaker 4: If you do that, I would expect a lot more
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Speaker 4: to tight ends, with chipping and helping with the tight ends.
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Speaker 4: They don't want to devote Barnard to tight end blocking
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Speaker 4: on pass routes because he's become such a pass places
18:15
Speaker 4: because it's such becomes such a good pass receiver. I mean,
18:19
Speaker 4: he had twelve targets in LA. Many of those were
18:22
Speaker 4: secondary reads after he's been looked as Donald was looking elsewhere.
18:26
Speaker 4: By the way, Donald yesterday said, it's a couple of
18:29
Speaker 4: things interesting about the Rams game. He said, he's got
18:31
Speaker 4: to come off sticking to just one or two guys
18:34
Speaker 4: and go through his progressions, trust his feet, all the
18:36
Speaker 4: things that Koby X says. But I asked him, what
18:39
Speaker 4: do you mean sticking to one or two guys, and
18:41
Speaker 4: he said, he's got a There were times in La
18:45
Speaker 4: he just stayed the one side of the field to
18:47
Speaker 4: one or two guys primary receivers without going through his
18:50
Speaker 4: entire progressions. I'm thinking of the interception outside to the
18:54
Speaker 4: cornerback to Jackson, Smith and Jiggruary through it laid outside
18:57
Speaker 4: as he was getting head But you can understand, I mean,
19:02
Speaker 4: for the up until the Rams game, we were praising
19:05
Speaker 4: and talking about how much he was focused on Smith
19:08
Speaker 4: and Jigba, Right.
19:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
19:11
Speaker 4: You can understand why Smith and Jigba is on pace
19:14
Speaker 4: to break Calvin Johnson's single season receiving record. If he
19:19
Speaker 4: averages what he's been averaging up to this point, he
19:21
Speaker 4: will go past nineteen hundred and forty six yards for
19:23
Speaker 4: the season. He's got eleven forty seven or whatever. It
19:26
Speaker 4: is now. It's one of the highest totals ever for
19:29
Speaker 4: through ten games of an NFL season. So of course
19:32
Speaker 4: Darnold's trying to stick on him because no one's been
19:34
Speaker 4: able to cover him the Rams. The difference in the
19:37
Speaker 4: Rams game was one, he didn't recognize the two shell
19:40
Speaker 4: coverages that the Rams kept changing and switching in and
19:43
Speaker 4: out of. And two the pass rush got to him
19:46
Speaker 4: more than in most games. And when the passers got
19:48
Speaker 4: to him, then he had to get rid of the ball,
19:50
Speaker 4: sometimes often when they were covered, instead of waiting for
19:53
Speaker 4: Smith and Jigger to break open. So, for whatever that's worth,
19:57
Speaker 4: we'll see if he changed that against the Titans. The
20:00
Speaker 4: Titans pass rush is the one formidable thing they have
20:02
Speaker 4: to go against Seattle.
20:04
Speaker 1: How important would you think it is?
20:06
Speaker 3: I mean, I know Tory Horton is probably still out,
20:08
Speaker 3: he didn't practice right, and yet I mean to me,
20:11
Speaker 3: I still feel like there's as well as well as Jackson,
20:14
Speaker 3: Smith and Jig but is playing. And yes, continue to
20:16
Speaker 3: give him his targets and let him do his thing.
20:19
Speaker 3: But I still feel like, even aside from aj Barner,
20:22
Speaker 3: I think you've got to get Cooper Cup or Rashid Shaheed,
20:26
Speaker 3: somebody else involved in the game plan a little bit
20:28
Speaker 3: for when you go into big games against teams that
20:31
Speaker 3: you've played once in the season, like your division fos
20:33
Speaker 3: and possibly the big games in the playoffs.
20:36
Speaker 4: My sense that you're right, Bucky, they need to do that,
20:38
Speaker 4: and Shaheed in particular, can diversify this offense and really
20:42
Speaker 4: change how defenses cover Smith and Jigba. We've talked about
20:46
Speaker 4: his speed, deep speed Shaheed, especially if you send them
20:50
Speaker 4: down the middle on post routes and seam routes, or
20:52
Speaker 4: they put a safety in a bind whether they want
20:54
Speaker 4: to continue to shell cover over the top against Smith
20:56
Speaker 4: and Jiggba or have to devote that extra safety, that
21:00
Speaker 4: extra cover top guy to Shahed. They haven't really unleased
21:04
Speaker 4: Shaheed that way yet. And there were a couple of
21:07
Speaker 4: times the Rams game that you and I talked about
21:08
Speaker 4: on the roundtable yesterday that would have been a touchdown
21:11
Speaker 4: had Donald just laid it out a little bit more,
21:13
Speaker 4: was an example, but that even that was like a
21:15
Speaker 4: fifteen yard route. They haven't really done home run balls
21:19
Speaker 4: down the middle of the field enough to deter teams
21:21
Speaker 4: from having bracket coverage over Smith and Jigua. I'm not.
21:25
Speaker 4: I don't think it has not been in the game plan.
21:28
Speaker 4: I think that Donald has just so trusted Smith and
21:31
Speaker 4: Jegua that he hasn't gone that way. I've they he
21:35
Speaker 4: has run some deep routes, now not habitually deep. Posted
21:39
Speaker 4: puts the center in the safety in the box. But
21:42
Speaker 4: there are times that Shaheed has been open that he
21:44
Speaker 4: hasn't thrown to him. And that's true of any quarterback
21:46
Speaker 4: in every game, of course. But it's going to take
21:49
Speaker 4: a couple deep throws to Shahed, probably a couple of
21:52
Speaker 4: deep completions to get on film for the rest of
21:54
Speaker 4: the league before teams start thinking about what they're going
21:57
Speaker 4: to devote to Shahikau is right now, if I'm watching
22:00
Speaker 4: film of the Seahawks and developing a defensive game plan,
22:04
Speaker 4: I don't think he's thrown to twenty two. I think
22:06
Speaker 4: he's throwing to eleven, and I'm tilting my coverage that.
22:08
Speaker 2: Way less than a minute.
22:10
Speaker 1: They're going to wear helmet stickers with forty five do
22:13
Speaker 1: or Ken Easiley on Sunday. Are they going to do
22:15
Speaker 1: anything else once they return home?
22:18
Speaker 4: I haven't heard that this is typical for players that
22:22
Speaker 4: have been legends that have been around for or haven't
22:26
Speaker 4: played for decades, that they honor him in some way.
22:31
Speaker 4: Suffice to say that he is a absolute Seattle legend
22:34
Speaker 4: and redefined the position before cam Chancellor. Did we know
22:37
Speaker 4: most listeners know the story of how he got a
22:40
Speaker 4: strange from football and the ibuprofen and his kidney and
22:43
Speaker 4: the kidney trans transplant, and now how Paul Allen if
22:47
Speaker 4: you don't know, Paul Allen was the man who reconciled
22:50
Speaker 4: that whole situation and reached out to Kenny Easley and
22:53
Speaker 4: brought up back into the fold. Soon after he bought
22:55
Speaker 4: the Seahawks what some thirty plus years ago to get
22:59
Speaker 4: Kenny lead back as the Seahawks legend and have him
23:01
Speaker 4: in the Ring of honor, and then, fortunately for him,
23:05
Speaker 4: fortunately for the team, it was a much more amicable
23:08
Speaker 4: relationship through the time up to the time of his death.
23:11
Speaker 4: So a lot of the Seahawks don't know of him,
23:15
Speaker 4: of course, because they're now twenty some years old and
23:17
Speaker 4: they don't remember Kenny easy with that guy do and
23:19
Speaker 4: watching him play. He was a stud before UCLA in
23:24
Speaker 4: the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. He was the first
23:27
Speaker 4: quarterback in Virginia High School history to rush for a
23:30
Speaker 4: thousand yards and throw for a thousand yards, and he
23:33
Speaker 4: had a pick of wherever he wanted to go to school.
23:35
Speaker 4: Every college in the country recruited him. He went to
23:39
Speaker 4: USC four year starter, UCLA Hall of Famer, All American,
23:43
Speaker 4: and then the Seahawks pick him fifth. Over All, the
23:44
Speaker 4: rest is history. But I just throw that out there
23:48
Speaker 4: because there are a lot of listeners who may not
23:49
Speaker 4: know Kenny Easley's background. But he was an absolute legend.
23:53
Speaker 4: And again, he was pretty much the enforcer cam Chancellor
23:56
Speaker 4: before Chancellor was almost even born.
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Speaker 1: Safe travels, Greg, and we will talk to you on Monday.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Happy weekend, all right?
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25:02
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it's a Friday, and at eight o'clock on Fridays,
25:07
Speaker 1: we do this thing where we recap the week and
25:10
Speaker 1: we set.
25:10
Speaker 2: Up the weekend.
25:11
Speaker 1: We map out the eight top stories of the day.
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Speaker 1: Some people stop at like one or two.
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Speaker 2: We go like four hundred percent more than that.
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Speaker 6: Wow, A pretty big deal.
25:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope people appreciate the effort.
25:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I do.
25:28
Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate it. I don't know if everybody.
25:30
Speaker 6: Does give rats aid they appreciate it.
25:34
Speaker 2: Yeah good.
25:35
Speaker 1: I think we all could use a pat on the
25:36
Speaker 1: back today for it would be nice stepping up and
25:39
Speaker 1: giving people eight stories. I mean we could have stopped
25:41
Speaker 1: at six or seven. Yeah. All right, let's get it
25:45
Speaker 1: started here on a football Friday, and we will start
25:48
Speaker 1: with the Seahawks Gin ready to take on the Tennessee Titans.
25:52
Speaker 1: This Sunday at ten am in Nashville, Tennessee. Now, Ray
25:57
Speaker 1: Zabel actually showed up at practice yesterday and kind of
26:02
Speaker 1: look like he was going to be good to go
26:04
Speaker 1: for Sunday. We still don't know that, but there is
26:08
Speaker 1: a chance that Zabel, coming off of an injury Sunday
26:11
Speaker 1: might not be able to go. We already know we're
26:14
Speaker 1: down a Sundal and we already know Anthony Bradford is
26:18
Speaker 1: our starting right guard and he continues to struggle in
26:21
Speaker 1: that role. So Greg Bell talked about his key to
26:26
Speaker 1: victory for this game, and it might have to do
26:29
Speaker 1: with what's happened in the middle of the field.
26:32
Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons can wreck the game by himself. The most
26:35
Speaker 4: surprising thing I saw the week so far was great
26:37
Speaker 4: Zabel on the practice field yesterday. He was looking like
26:40
Speaker 4: he was fully participating in the part we were allowed
26:42
Speaker 4: to watch. Zabel, of course, is pushing to play. That'll
26:45
Speaker 4: be interesting whether they want to run him out there
26:48
Speaker 4: or would they give him the weekend off. Christian Haynes
26:51
Speaker 4: is on the spot because Jeffrey Simmons usually lines up
26:55
Speaker 4: on the right side of the Titans defensive line, so
26:59
Speaker 4: that would be the biggest matchup for Seattle to wreck
27:02
Speaker 4: their day. Haynes is getting would get his first start
27:06
Speaker 4: he's been preparing up to now. Is if he's going
27:08
Speaker 4: to start until he's able. Walked out on the practice
27:10
Speaker 4: field yesterday. Jilehn Sindell is uninjured reserve as we know,
27:14
Speaker 4: with Timmy starting at center and Anthony Bravers had his
27:17
Speaker 4: problems at right guard. If I'm the Titans defense, that's
27:21
Speaker 4: where my game plan is going right through those three guys.
27:25
Speaker 1: Greg Bell with his key to the game, making sure
27:29
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons doesn't do what Jeffrey Simmons can do.
27:32
Speaker 6: Don't let him wreck your crap.
27:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Thank you, crab Tree. The Hawks are a
27:37
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half point favorite. They are supposed to
27:39
Speaker 1: blow this team out. As a matter of fact, most analysts,
27:43
Speaker 1: Bucky Hugh, Greg they think that it's laughable that they
27:47
Speaker 1: are only thirteen and a half point favorites. That's how
27:49
Speaker 1: bad Tennessee is last in the National Football League in
27:52
Speaker 1: points scored last and rushing yards third to last in
27:56
Speaker 1: passing yards. It's hard to be that bad Offensively. We're
27:59
Speaker 1: in the bottom three in both categories, first in the
28:01
Speaker 1: league in sacks allowed, and now cam Ward, who's been
28:05
Speaker 1: sacked forty one times playing without Calvin Ridley, has no
28:08
Speaker 1: running game at his back, has to go against Mike
28:11
Speaker 1: McDonald's defense, and that side of the ball's healthy right now.
28:14
Speaker 1: So it does look like a bit of a mismatch.
28:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean that's a huge spread, right, I
28:19
Speaker 3: mean two touchdowns. You're figuring you gotta win by two
28:21
Speaker 3: touchdowns to cover, and yet there's people betting it. I mean,
28:25
Speaker 3: but they just give up a lot of points and
28:27
Speaker 3: then they don't do a lot of points scoring on
28:29
Speaker 3: their end. It seems so lopsided. Now anything can happen.
28:34
Speaker 3: I don't think you know, I'm the last one that's like,
28:37
Speaker 3: just show up in Tennessee and you win this ball game. No,
28:40
Speaker 3: you try to throw your jock on the field and
28:42
Speaker 3: think that's going to be enough, you will find yourself
28:45
Speaker 3: in a dogfight against another professional team. That's not where
28:48
Speaker 3: you want to be. I just think you gotta go
28:49
Speaker 3: out there and just the pep pregame pep talk is,
28:53
Speaker 3: let's let these guys know Quicken in a hurry how
28:55
Speaker 3: much better we are, and then they will crumble. You
28:58
Speaker 3: will impose your will and you will end up pulling away.
29:01
Speaker 3: But if you go out there and just think you're
29:02
Speaker 3: gonna just show up and it's going to happen, No,
29:05
Speaker 3: there's still professional football players on that other side.
29:08
Speaker 1: The variables don't really work in the Seahawks' favor. And
29:13
Speaker 1: I don't mean for winning the game. I'm talking about
29:16
Speaker 1: blowing a team out. I mean usually when you come
29:18
Speaker 1: off a tough loss like that and you got to
29:20
Speaker 1: go back on the road again, and your quarterbacks coming
29:24
Speaker 1: off the worst his worst game of the year, and
29:26
Speaker 1: you've got bigger games in the future. I mean, some
29:29
Speaker 1: people might call that a letdown game after either a
29:32
Speaker 1: big win or a big loss like they suffered on Sunday.
29:35
Speaker 1: I think the Rams would be facing a letdown game
29:39
Speaker 1: potentially this Sunday. If they weren't playing on Sunday night
29:42
Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home. I think they
29:46
Speaker 1: would be running at risk of a letdown performance. So
29:50
Speaker 1: I do think that this game sort of trends variably
29:54
Speaker 1: toward that, And yet the talent mismatch is such that yes,
29:59
Speaker 1: they should win by fourteen points or more, but you
30:03
Speaker 1: gotta do it. You got to execute on Sunday and
30:06
Speaker 1: we'll find out with a ten am kickoff there from Nashville.
30:09
Speaker 1: By way, Kenny Easley will be honored. A number forty
30:12
Speaker 1: five sticker will be on every Seahawks helmet on Sunday.
30:17
Speaker 1: And so I'll tell you this much, I want to
30:19
Speaker 1: be here Monday for the breakdown. We better be talking
30:22
Speaker 1: about a win.
30:23
Speaker 2: We'll say that much. Yeah. Now, all of a sudden,
30:25
Speaker 2: you do start like, what the f is going on?
30:28
Speaker 7: Yeah?
30:28
Speaker 6: Then I'd be angry.
30:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
30:31
Speaker 1: Last night the Buffalo Bills fans might be wondering what
30:34
Speaker 1: the heck is going on. They can't seem to figure
30:37
Speaker 1: out whether they're good or not. They took on a
30:39
Speaker 1: terrific defense that the Houston Texans can put forth week
30:44
Speaker 1: in and week out, and manned. The Texans blow up
30:47
Speaker 1: Josh Allen on Thursday Night Football.
30:49
Speaker 2: So it's twenty four seconds to go.
30:51
Speaker 1: But now fourth and six out the twenty two from
30:55
Speaker 1: the shotgu all It will creep up to the line.
30:58
Speaker 2: Pointing out the defender. He point the deal.
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Speaker 8: Shire now becksa left hash here in motion behind the line,
31:06
Speaker 8: Allen drops the throw, pressure comes off his back, put
31:09
Speaker 8: throws heads.
31:09
Speaker 1: Intercepting diving pick by Kaylen Pullock. The Texans take it
31:15
Speaker 1: over with the interception for Pullock on fourth down and
31:20
Speaker 1: the best defense in the league and delivers in the
31:24
Speaker 1: biggest moment. I guess we should draw some conclusions there.
31:27
Speaker 2: Huh, Wes would win.
31:28
Speaker 5: Guess.
31:28
Speaker 1: So Texans do win over the Buffalo Bills Thursday Night
31:32
Speaker 1: Football to improve to six and five on the year
31:34
Speaker 1: twenty three to nineteen over the now seven and four
31:37
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. The Texans, with Davis Mills a quarterback, only
31:41
Speaker 1: a mass two hundred and sixty one yards of total offense,
31:43
Speaker 1: but Bucky the defense collected seventy yards worth of sacks
31:48
Speaker 1: and forced three turnovers during the course.
31:50
Speaker 4: Of the game.
31:51
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen was just getting battered around. Big or not,
31:55
Speaker 1: athletic or not. I mean, even a moose doesn't want
31:58
Speaker 1: to get bounced around that much. Yeah.
32:00
Speaker 3: Well, the Houston Texans defense is legit, especially that front fours,
32:05
Speaker 3: front seven, the guys that they bring, and so if
32:08
Speaker 3: they get to you, you're not going to be feeling
32:10
Speaker 3: all that great the next day. And yet they still
32:12
Speaker 3: ended up somehow finding a way to It was kind
32:16
Speaker 3: of they ended up finding a way to almost win
32:19
Speaker 3: that ballgame. That fourth and twenty seven or whatever, that
32:22
Speaker 3: lateral play. What you're like, Oh, they're for sure going
32:24
Speaker 3: to get it done now. Then they get to fourth
32:26
Speaker 3: and one and have a penalty. They just kind of
32:28
Speaker 3: shot themselves in the foot. They did not play up
32:30
Speaker 3: to their capabilities, and the Houston Texans made him pay
32:33
Speaker 3: for it.
32:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, Houston's defense is certainly the real deal. And I
32:37
Speaker 1: should point out that Josh Allen injury again because it
32:41
Speaker 1: turns out that it's not an injury. But I don't
32:43
Speaker 1: know if I've ever been more convinced that a superstar
32:46
Speaker 1: player was seriously injured as I was last night, to
32:50
Speaker 1: the point where I did not want to see the
32:52
Speaker 1: replay of the injury because I thought I was going
32:55
Speaker 1: to see something Jade and Daniels like. And he's kicking.
32:59
Speaker 2: I mean, your own six.
33:01
Speaker 1: Foot six inch man is kicking on the field, somebody
33:04
Speaker 1: that takes hit after hit after a hit, and as
33:07
Speaker 1: obviously tough as a coffin nail, hard as a coffin nail. Uh,
33:11
Speaker 1: and yet he was kicking his feet on the field.
33:14
Speaker 2: I thought for sure.
33:15
Speaker 1: We were looking at one of the best most entertaining
33:18
Speaker 1: athletes in all of sports, missing some considerable time with
33:22
Speaker 1: a gruesome injury, and it ended up being nothing.
33:24
Speaker 5: That's when when he went down, I thought, oh, there
33:27
Speaker 5: goes the Bill season. They're done because he's out. And
33:30
Speaker 5: then yeah, I did the same thing I watched. I
33:32
Speaker 5: put my hands up in front of my face when
33:34
Speaker 5: they were going to show the replay, like to watch
33:36
Speaker 5: through my fingers, like it was a scary movie.
33:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I was like, oh, I mean.
33:41
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, he separated his shoulder. That but it's
33:45
Speaker 1: his right shoulder. Oh no, he's still gonna miss most
33:49
Speaker 1: of them didn't miss a play.
33:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing must hit that many times.
33:54
Speaker 1: I mean, he thought he was seriously hurt. You don't
33:56
Speaker 1: kick your legs because of pain. You kick your legs
33:59
Speaker 1: in the situation because you think something's terribly wrong. Oh well,
34:04
Speaker 1: I thought it would be because it hurts so bad
34:06
Speaker 1: that you're like, oh my gosh.
34:07
Speaker 3: And then when he's all of a sudden, oh wait,
34:09
Speaker 3: I can move it. Oh, I guess it's not. Maybe
34:12
Speaker 3: he thought it was going to be Jaden Daniels, like
34:14
Speaker 3: he was gonna look down and his hand was gonna
34:16
Speaker 3: be pointing the wrong direction or something.
34:17
Speaker 1: But yeah, good, I'm good for the NFL that.
34:19
Speaker 5: It there's been too many injuries too.
34:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:25
Speaker 1: Well, Patrick Mahomes in the indian Apple and the Chiefs
34:28
Speaker 1: will take on the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday. That's going
34:32
Speaker 1: to be the early game to watch. Philadelphia Dallas is
34:35
Speaker 1: the afternoon game, and then the Sunday night game will
34:38
Speaker 1: be the Buccaneers at the Rams. By the way, Joe
34:40
Speaker 1: Burrow is probably going to start this week.
34:44
Speaker 2: He is crazy full.
34:45
Speaker 1: Participant in practice two days in a row, and all
34:49
Speaker 1: signs are indicating that Joe Burrow, who we thought at
34:52
Speaker 1: the time was going to miss the entire season, is
34:55
Speaker 1: going to be ready to go with that toe injury
34:57
Speaker 1: this week against the New England Patriots. Also of note,
35:00
Speaker 1: Shadoor Sanders makes his first NFL start for the Cleveland
35:04
Speaker 1: Browns against the Las Vegas Raiders this Sunday as well,
35:07
Speaker 1: So lots of intrigue heading into week number twelve of
35:10
Speaker 1: the National Football League season. College football, the Huskies will
35:14
Speaker 1: be in Los Angeles taking on the Bruins. The fighting
35:17
Speaker 1: Jerry new Heiseel's Jerry's dad, Rick new Isle turns up
35:22
Speaker 1: joins us every Tuesday here on the radio program and
35:28
Speaker 1: we asked coach new Isel, what about UCLA could give
35:31
Speaker 1: the Huskies problem Saturday.
35:33
Speaker 4: I think.
35:35
Speaker 10: The player is Miko i Amaliaba, and when his legs
35:38
Speaker 10: get involved, then they become dangerous. But getting to that
35:43
Speaker 10: portion of their offenses, it's been difficult.
35:46
Speaker 4: Early in the season.
35:47
Speaker 10: The defense was doing really, really well. The last couple
35:50
Speaker 10: of times out they they've struggled. They couldn't stop Nebraska,
35:54
Speaker 10: who had kind of a fleet of foot quarterback a
35:58
Speaker 10: freshman that was playing in that particular day, TJ Latif,
36:03
Speaker 10: And I don't know that they'll be able to corral
36:07
Speaker 10: Demon Williams given what we've seen of him and his
36:10
Speaker 10: ability to make plays with his legs.
36:13
Speaker 1: UCLA has had about as strange a season as a
36:16
Speaker 1: team can have. One and four start fired, their head coach,
36:20
Speaker 1: looked like the worst team in big boy college football,
36:26
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden upset Penn State further
36:29
Speaker 1: ruined their season. Jerry Neweisill becomes this overnight sensation as
36:34
Speaker 1: a play caller. They win three games in a row,
36:37
Speaker 1: and just when all seemed good for the Bruins, which
36:40
Speaker 1: Ashley never roots for, They've lost.
36:42
Speaker 2: Another three games in a row.
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Speaker 6: Oh you hate to see it.
36:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they'll host the Uskies a Saturday night. With
36:47
Speaker 1: a three and seven record, the Dogs go in seven
36:50
Speaker 1: and three. They've had their road woes too, but at
36:52
Speaker 1: least they're not having to travel across the country for
36:54
Speaker 1: this one, and they face a familiar conference rival in UCLA.
36:59
Speaker 1: Kickoff is seven thirty, Hanks pregame starts at three thirty,
37:04
Speaker 1: and so Ucla versus Washington here in college football Week
37:09
Speaker 1: number thirteen of the college football season, though, is just
37:12
Speaker 1: packed with all sorts of intrigue. Maybe not a great
37:15
Speaker 1: game this weekend, but so many things could happen.
37:19
Speaker 7: Well, what is it?
37:20
Speaker 1: I don't know what's in it.
37:24
Speaker 2: There could be anything in there.
37:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to be anything that comes out of
37:27
Speaker 1: this week.
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Speaker 2: The gift, Yeah, who knows?
37:30
Speaker 1: You got number twenty two Missouri at number eight Oklahoma
37:34
Speaker 1: that starts at nine am at twelve thirty, probably the
37:37
Speaker 1: game of the week. Number fifteen USC at number seven Oregon.
37:41
Speaker 1: I hope nobody's been foolish enough to make a.
37:43
Speaker 2: Bet with you about this.
37:45
Speaker 3: I don't usually do that, but our big boss just
37:49
Speaker 3: decided to put his money where his mouth is.
37:52
Speaker 1: It's out of nowhere.
37:54
Speaker 3: If I was doing fact to fiction, I'd take I'd
37:57
Speaker 3: take the Trojans straight up over the Ducks. I'm like, well,
38:01
Speaker 3: then put your money where your mouth is. And he's like, well, maybe,
38:03
Speaker 3: let me look at the spread. I said, no, you
38:05
Speaker 3: said it, Now put your money there. He's like, all right,
38:09
Speaker 3: let's do it. So we got a hundred beans straight up.
38:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
38:14
Speaker 2: I like that.
38:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should have fought for vacation days. They should have.
38:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, that would have been genie.
38:20
Speaker 5: You should have said, you know what, if the Ducks win,
38:23
Speaker 5: the whole morning show gets the whole Christmas week off.
38:26
Speaker 6: Should have thought of us about that.
38:27
Speaker 1: He'll just be like, here's your hundred bucks. Well yeah,
38:31
Speaker 1: well anyway, Well it's a heck of a college weekend.
38:35
Speaker 1: And James Madison and the Coug's also a very interesting
38:39
Speaker 1: game that starts at ten am. So the Cougs suddenly
38:42
Speaker 1: thrust themselves into the tournament picture because they can play
38:46
Speaker 1: spoiler for James Madison. James Madison might not get there
38:49
Speaker 1: no matter what they do, but there's no chance they
38:53
Speaker 1: get there with two losses, So the Cougs could spoil
38:56
Speaker 1: James Madison's season with an upset victory this week and good.
39:00
Speaker 3: For the coops and goog fans. I'm sure that they're
39:03
Speaker 3: going to pack the house basically to make sure they
39:06
Speaker 3: can do everything they can. I mean, there's the last
39:09
Speaker 3: couple of years has been unfortunate where they got thrust
39:11
Speaker 3: into as far as their spot in the college football world.
39:13
Speaker 3: But yeah, you get to have something but play spoiler
39:16
Speaker 3: to somebody else.
39:17
Speaker 1: That's fun. Yeah, fun full Big ten preview by the way,
39:20
Speaker 1: coming your way this morning at eight forty five the Kraken.
39:24
Speaker 1: We're in Chicago last night, trying to avoid consecutive losses
39:28
Speaker 1: against Midwest clubs. The Blackhawks had been red hot. Connor Badard,
39:33
Speaker 1: the pre pubescent superstar of the Chicago Blackhawks, has been
39:38
Speaker 1: lighting it up as of late, and it wasn't looking good.
39:41
Speaker 1: The team was down two to nothing after two periods
39:44
Speaker 1: of play, and they decided, Hey, it's now time to
39:47
Speaker 1: go to work.
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Speaker 8: Mason Marshmitt, far point Evans walk into the middle, back
39:52
Speaker 8: hands it off to Marshmitt. Now Montor takes his turn.
39:55
Speaker 8: Montour left circle, Montor packed do Jayden slots on the
40:03
Speaker 8: power play kids the cracking a three two lead to
40:08
Speaker 8: eighteen to play.
40:09
Speaker 1: In the third, Everett fits you on the call right
40:12
Speaker 1: here at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM, your
40:16
Speaker 1: home for Cracking hockey. So Brandon Montor shoots a slapper
40:22
Speaker 1: off of rookie and you gotta love this kid's name,
40:25
Speaker 1: Oscar Fisker Moleguard.
40:27
Speaker 6: I almost played that highlight just because it's so fun.
40:29
Speaker 1: It caroms off his hip and then off of ty
40:32
Speaker 1: Cart Jay's knee and then goes past the goalie for
40:36
Speaker 1: the team's first goal. And at that point the Cracking
40:39
Speaker 1: are like, oh, we're living a charmed life right now,
40:41
Speaker 1: we might as well enjoy this. Two minutes later, Shane
40:43
Speaker 1: Wright ties the game, and then with two minutes left
40:46
Speaker 1: in regulation, the highlight from Everett there if Jayden Schwartz
40:49
Speaker 1: power play goal Crack and win three two.
40:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
40:52
Speaker 3: I was out doing some pool, playing some pool with
40:55
Speaker 3: my buddies and going into third period like two zip boy,
40:58
Speaker 3: like that's tough. That's gonna be a to a overcoming
41:00
Speaker 3: then bing bing bing next thing. You know, that's a
41:02
Speaker 3: good win. I mean that is that's a good win
41:05
Speaker 3: there for the Kracking.
41:06
Speaker 1: Very nice come back ten five and five. Now on
41:09
Speaker 1: the season, they'll be at Pittsburgh tomorrow and they will
41:12
Speaker 1: drop the puck on that one at four o'clock again
41:15
Speaker 1: right here on kJ R. Washington soccer had a great
41:19
Speaker 1: night last night.
41:21
Speaker 2: I'm not a.
41:22
Speaker 1: Big soccer fan, really don't know a lot about the sport,
41:26
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I know a great night when
41:28
Speaker 1: I see one.
41:30
Speaker 2: Hey, that's well, three points, no points, no points? Why
41:34
Speaker 2: not gotta go win tomorrow, Rob, You gotta get it
41:36
Speaker 2: in there to get three points one point. Yeah, that's
41:40
Speaker 2: that's a little bit like me.
41:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was I would.
41:43
Speaker 5: Think if as a really good goal, you should get
41:44
Speaker 5: more points.
41:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that was a really good goal. Last night.
41:49
Speaker 1: The Husky's women's soccer team got a breakaway one on
41:52
Speaker 1: one and where's her name go? Why is it in
41:56
Speaker 1: my notes? Alex Buck? It was her name, Alex Buck.
41:59
Speaker 1: She's flying down the field, she's got one on one.
42:02
Speaker 2: Oh, there it is, It's right there in the note.
42:04
Speaker 1: And she ends up getting a little bit of a
42:09
Speaker 1: space and just let it rip from deep and scores
42:13
Speaker 1: the only goal.
42:14
Speaker 2: I mean, she bent it like Beckham.
42:16
Speaker 1: It was the only goal in an NCAA tournament match
42:19
Speaker 1: that sends you dub to the Sweet sixteen one nothing
42:22
Speaker 1: over Arkansas. So now five seed Washington will be at
42:26
Speaker 1: one seed Virginia Sunday morning at eleven am. And not
42:31
Speaker 1: to be outdone, the men's soccer team also won last
42:34
Speaker 1: night in the NCAA tournament. They're still just in the
42:36
Speaker 1: first round, but a three to two win over Oregon
42:39
Speaker 1: State advances them to round number two. And it turns
42:41
Speaker 1: out that both the ladies all the ladies and the
42:45
Speaker 1: fellas all the fellas, we'll both play soccer on Sunday.
42:49
Speaker 1: The men are going to face SMU, So some good
42:52
Speaker 1: stuff for U dub Huskies soccer. Finally, let's talk a
42:57
Speaker 1: little hot stove before the weekend.
42:59
Speaker 2: Earlier this this week, Jerry Depoto joined US.
43:02
Speaker 1: We celebrated with him the signing of Josh Naylor and
43:05
Speaker 1: then asked him whether or not he'll have to trade
43:09
Speaker 1: a player to create payroll flexibility to add some new
43:13
Speaker 1: stuff to this roster this offseason.
43:15
Speaker 11: I mean, I guess it depends what we're adding. You know,
43:17
Speaker 11: we're always open to any type of thought, but you know,
43:20
Speaker 11: the idea of bringing the team back in some form
43:25
Speaker 11: to what the twenty five team look like moving players
43:27
Speaker 11: off kind of defeats that purpose. So we're very comfortable
43:31
Speaker 11: with the level of talent that exists on our team.
43:34
Speaker 11: I think as we sit here in the middle of November,
43:37
Speaker 11: I do believe we're one of the most complete or
43:39
Speaker 11: most talented teams in the American League. So pulling away
43:43
Speaker 11: from that team would kind of defeat the purpose, which
43:46
Speaker 11: is why I answered the question as I did, which
43:49
Speaker 11: you know, market forces will have to get a little
43:51
Speaker 11: lucky for all of that.
43:53
Speaker 2: To work for us.
43:53
Speaker 11: But you know, we were very comfortable with the depth
43:57
Speaker 11: that we've created in our starting rotation. We like the
43:59
Speaker 11: way you know, our lineup looks. We do want to
44:03
Speaker 11: continue to provide opportunity for young players. That's a foundational
44:07
Speaker 11: part of what we do, and we have good young players,
44:10
Speaker 11: so finding that balance. Striking that balance is important, you know,
44:15
Speaker 11: which is why a guy like Jorge is such a pivotal.
44:18
Speaker 4: Guy in our lineup.
44:19
Speaker 11: Last year, he could do a little third, he could
44:22
Speaker 11: do some second, and he could d eight. He's even
44:24
Speaker 11: now played some first base and the switch hitter. That
44:27
Speaker 11: versatility allows us to continue to develop a team, and
44:31
Speaker 11: you know, going out and finding players that can do
44:34
Speaker 11: that is paramount for us. And we'll continue to look
44:37
Speaker 11: whether it's Jorge or somebody else.
44:39
Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto talking about the possibilities of keeping Ari Polanco
44:43
Speaker 1: Gino Suarez, but it won't come at risk, probably at
44:49
Speaker 1: having to move a player of high salary to create
44:52
Speaker 1: hey role flexibility, and I'm fine with that.
44:54
Speaker 2: I really like.
44:55
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo on our team. I really like Randy or
44:58
Speaker 1: Rose Arena on our team. But I will say this,
45:02
Speaker 1: I'll warn everybody. If you're not gonna move one of
45:04
Speaker 1: those guys, then it probably is Bucky just running it
45:07
Speaker 1: back with the same team that closed the.
45:08
Speaker 2: Season, which I'm fine with too.
45:10
Speaker 1: It just doesn't make for everybody likes new shiny toys
45:14
Speaker 1: during the offseason. I don't think you're gonna.
45:16
Speaker 3: Get any of this year. No, No, it's gonna get
45:18
Speaker 3: your old favorite toys. Well, yeah, you rewrap, Well you're
45:21
Speaker 3: if you're running back. Josh Naylor just got a bonus.
45:24
Speaker 3: He's gonna run it back with him for the next
45:26
Speaker 3: five years. There's a bunch of young dudes that are
45:28
Speaker 3: arbitration eligible, so if they're going if you run it
45:31
Speaker 3: back with the same guys, you're going to have the
45:34
Speaker 3: same payroll. Are you gonna still have an increase in payroll?
45:37
Speaker 3: So yeah, they'd have to change their stripes and basically
45:40
Speaker 3: go way big if you're gonna get some shiny new toy.
45:43
Speaker 2: All right.
45:44
Speaker 1: Coming up next are on the radio program U Dubs
45:47
Speaker 1: in Action against UCLA. I want to talk about what
45:50
Speaker 1: might be a new predicament facing Jedfish and college coaches everywhere.
45:54
Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. I've been
45:58
Speaker 1: asking all week long. I don't I know if you
46:00
Speaker 1: guys saw this, Jordan Washington.
46:02
Speaker 2: I'm sure you did.
46:03
Speaker 1: Just Uh.
46:03
Speaker 2: He basically runs like a two to one.
46:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't.
46:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
46:08
Speaker 1: And he has this like strange like gait about him too.
46:11
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like if you just saw him isolated,
46:14
Speaker 1: he wouldn't think that guy's that fast. And then you
46:16
Speaker 1: put him on the field with other normal human beings,
46:19
Speaker 1: even fast human beings, and he's just racing by everybody.
46:22
Speaker 7: Uh.
46:23
Speaker 1: And so freshman freshman, he had five carries one hundred
46:27
Speaker 1: and eight yards twenty one point six yards per carry.
46:30
Speaker 6: Pretty good, that's pretty good.
46:31
Speaker 1: Had a touchdown on a day that Jonah Coleman wasn't
46:35
Speaker 1: available because of injury.
46:37
Speaker 2: And of course, no.
46:39
Speaker 1: You can't if you're in college, you can't tell anyone
46:42
Speaker 1: if anybody's injured.
46:43
Speaker 6: No, thanks, thanks for that.
46:44
Speaker 1: Nope. Yeah, So we don't know if Jonah Coleman's healthy
46:47
Speaker 1: enough to play tomorrow against UCLA or not. And so
46:53
Speaker 1: I spent the week kind of asking all of our
46:55
Speaker 1: experts from Softy to Cam Cleveland about, you know, what
47:00
Speaker 1: they saw at of Jordan Washington and whether or not
47:02
Speaker 1: he might get some carries this Saturday, whether Jonah Coleman's
47:06
Speaker 1: back or not. And so we just kind of handled
47:08
Speaker 1: that question on its face, like, is Jordan Washington worth
47:12
Speaker 1: getting some carries too? Even if Joanna Coleman's in the
47:15
Speaker 1: lineup And Adam Mohammad's got three touchdowns last week, so
47:19
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna get a little bit of carries too.
47:21
Speaker 1: But now, because of where college football's at and because
47:25
Speaker 1: of the way you have to manage everything, I wonder
47:28
Speaker 1: if there is more to this question. I wonder how
47:33
Speaker 1: much Jedfish has to think about stuff like this. Jonah
47:37
Speaker 1: Coleman's not going to be here next year. Jonah Coleman's
47:41
Speaker 1: not gonna leave me in the next couple of weeks.
47:45
Speaker 1: If I don't highlight Jordan Washington and make him feel
47:48
Speaker 1: really happy about being a Washington Husky, I could lose him.
47:53
Speaker 1: What have I lost Jordan Washington because he just felt
47:57
Speaker 1: like after one hundred and eight yard rushing performance and
48:00
Speaker 1: then he got relegated back to third string the very
48:03
Speaker 1: next week. Do I have to cater towards the guy
48:08
Speaker 1: that I need to keep next year over the senior
48:13
Speaker 1: who's been loyal to me and I to him for
48:16
Speaker 1: what five years now?
48:18
Speaker 2: From Arizona to here?
48:19
Speaker 1: And do I put Jonah Coleman back into the lineup
48:23
Speaker 1: even though he really can't help me after next Saturday
48:27
Speaker 1: with anything. I mean, he's already made his money here
48:31
Speaker 1: with us, He's already gained his yards. I think you
48:35
Speaker 1: have to consider this stuff. It's not just as simple
48:39
Speaker 1: as the senior's back and he's healthy, you've got to
48:42
Speaker 1: give him his starting lineup back. I think you might
48:45
Speaker 1: have to protect the ego of the eighteen year old
48:51
Speaker 1: who just rushed for one hundred and eight yards last week.
48:54
Speaker 1: Am I wrong about this?
48:56
Speaker 3: I don't think you're I think you gotta think about it.
48:59
Speaker 3: Maybe even a conversation back in the day, to have
49:01
Speaker 3: a conversation. You're a freshman. Good job, you ripped off
49:04
Speaker 3: a good run. You look good, you look fast. You're
49:06
Speaker 3: gonna have your moment in time.
49:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you preserve him.
49:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to preserve the freat Well, okay, we
49:11
Speaker 1: saw exactly what we want to see out of you.
49:13
Speaker 1: Let's just let's just keep all the tread on those tires.
49:17
Speaker 1: We've got our senior coming back, and next year we're
49:19
Speaker 1: gonna unleash the beast with Jordan Washington. But now I,
49:24
Speaker 1: out of fear of possibly losing him to more n
49:27
Speaker 1: IL monies or other offers or whatever the case may be,
49:31
Speaker 1: do you have to stroke his ego more so than
49:34
Speaker 1: you do Coleman. I think you got to stroke his ego.
49:36
Speaker 3: At the same time, you also have to let him
49:39
Speaker 3: know when you are in Joonah Coleman situation, then I'm
49:42
Speaker 3: gonna take care of you and trying to get you
49:44
Speaker 3: to the next level because he and Joanah Coleman are boys.
49:48
Speaker 3: You know, they talk and if all of a sudden,
49:50
Speaker 3: let's just say that Jonah Coleman's like, I'm healthy, I'm
49:52
Speaker 3: ready to go. I'm trying to literally run to the
49:54
Speaker 3: NFL right now, and you put me on the bet.
49:58
Speaker 3: You don't give me my carries, You don't let me
50:00
Speaker 3: show out the last couple of games. Uh, that's going
50:04
Speaker 3: He's his ego is not going to be getting strogging.
50:06
Speaker 3: He'll get you here well, but you care if he
50:09
Speaker 3: ends up painting a bad light for you. Like, dude,
50:12
Speaker 3: if I was you odd, take off and leave. This
50:14
Speaker 3: dude got me to come from Arizona to hear Tony.
50:17
Speaker 3: He was gonna give me every opportunity to run, put
50:19
Speaker 3: up big numbers so that I can get to the NFL.
50:22
Speaker 3: And sure enough, you go have a couple, you have
50:24
Speaker 3: a good game, and he's turning his back on me,
50:26
Speaker 3: or you say.
50:27
Speaker 1: The NFL already has the book on you and you
50:30
Speaker 1: if anything, they're gonna ding you Jonah for the number
50:34
Speaker 1: of carries that you had in college compared to other
50:37
Speaker 1: running backs. And so I'm taking care of you by
50:41
Speaker 1: not exposing you anymore to any more hits. So why
50:46
Speaker 1: don't we just quietly retire behind the scenes. I'll hand
50:50
Speaker 1: things over to Jordan so that Jordan makes sure that
50:53
Speaker 1: he's loved here at Washington. Because you and I have
50:57
Speaker 1: already done our work together. It's time for me to
51:01
Speaker 1: make sure that this kid doesn't go anywhere after this
51:05
Speaker 1: season's over.
51:06
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I totally understand what you're saying. And it's
51:08
Speaker 5: a crazy thing to even have to think about. Yeah,
51:10
Speaker 5: that's like, as you were saying it, I was like, Oh,
51:13
Speaker 5: I hadn't thought about that at all. But you do
51:15
Speaker 5: have to think about that now these days with college football,
51:18
Speaker 5: because it does seem, as coaches have said, every single
51:21
Speaker 5: moment is a recruiting moment because you have to still
51:24
Speaker 5: recruit the guys you've got there.
51:27
Speaker 1: I think fact to Christian mccaffre. Remember how controversial it
51:30
Speaker 1: was when Christian McCaffrey decided not to play in some
51:33
Speaker 1: silly bowl game.
51:34
Speaker 6: For saying it's one of the first people to do it.
51:35
Speaker 4: He was.
51:36
Speaker 1: I think he was the first that was just like, no,
51:38
Speaker 1: I'm going to preserve myself for the draft. And people
51:40
Speaker 1: were killing Christian McCaffrey for that, and then the next
51:43
Speaker 1: year there were like three of them that did it.
51:45
Speaker 2: And now hardly anybody.
51:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, exposes themselves in a bowl game.
51:49
Speaker 6: Just a bowl game, right, not a playoff game.
51:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, And yet we've also seen some guys leave before
51:56
Speaker 1: the playoff games to get to their next destiny. We're
52:01
Speaker 1: even hearing about coaches who are thinking about leaving before
52:06
Speaker 1: they make the tournament. Yeah, to take the job that
52:10
Speaker 1: pays them a little extra money going forward, they get
52:14
Speaker 1: them to a little bit better of a program than
52:17
Speaker 1: where they're at right now.
52:19
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know what.
52:21
Speaker 1: The code of conduct is anymore. To me, it just
52:24
Speaker 1: feels like everybody's looking out for themselves. So why would
52:28
Speaker 1: Jed Fish do any additional favors to Jonah Coleman. I'd
52:33
Speaker 1: probably spend it to Jonah saying the NFL's got the
52:36
Speaker 1: book on you. Let's not risk your NFL future by
52:40
Speaker 1: playing you against UCLA. Let's go with the kid Washington
52:45
Speaker 1: here for the next couple of weeks. I think you
52:47
Speaker 1: have to start thinking about stuff that way.
52:49
Speaker 5: And I would like an answer too, because obviously I
52:51
Speaker 5: need to know if very very personal I need to
52:54
Speaker 5: keep Jonah Coleman or not.
52:57
Speaker 2: You gotta.
52:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a conversation.
52:59
Speaker 3: I think it just now the game is far more
53:02
Speaker 3: there's a lot more stroking of the ego, if you will,
53:05
Speaker 3: to everyone that's on your roster, and then those that
53:08
Speaker 3: are not getting the opportunity you let them. Hey, your
53:11
Speaker 3: time's gonna come, don't you worry. You heard that every
53:13
Speaker 3: one while Back in the day growing up, if you
53:15
Speaker 3: were guys sitting behind a stud hey, watch him, learn
53:19
Speaker 3: from him.
53:20
Speaker 1: I want you to be him next year. And that
53:23
Speaker 1: was enough.
53:23
Speaker 3: But I didn't also didn't have an opportunity to be like, well,
53:26
Speaker 3: I don't like that. I it's not now and I'm leaving.
53:29
Speaker 3: That isn't the way that work now. It does, So
53:31
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot more that's stroking and trying
53:33
Speaker 3: to keep the calm waters. That said, I don't know
53:37
Speaker 3: if you can really do enough. I mean, he's not
53:40
Speaker 3: even in front of the Muhammed and the depth chart
53:42
Speaker 3: at this point. So it's if you're letting him know, like, hey,
53:45
Speaker 3: you keep doing that, you might be the starter next year.
53:48
Speaker 3: Well then you got to get me an opportunity to
53:49
Speaker 3: try to take that job. That's what happened in the spring.
53:51
Speaker 1: I didn't even clue to Mohammed. I mean, he's in
53:54
Speaker 1: this too, Sophomore. You got to figure that out as well,
53:58
Speaker 1: because they're different, two different types of running back.
54:00
Speaker 5: Washington's name does really yeah, Washington Washington.
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Speaker 1: I mean I think that unfortunately, this is where we're at.
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Speaker 1: Mike Holmgren later on in the hour, as we do
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Speaker 1: every Friday, and Hugh Milan to get us started here
55:47
Speaker 1: in our nine o'clock hour, we hand the baton to
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Speaker 1: our fastest runner uh in the race, E miling, and
55:55
Speaker 1: we let him to get to the distance. See how
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Speaker 1: fast he is.
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Speaker 3: I think between these too, we can let them think
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Speaker 3: their way around the track.
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what I mean. If they're cerebral about it,
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Speaker 1: don't overalize it. You just get there as fast as
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Speaker 1: you can.
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Speaker 2: Well, if you guys are on my track team and
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Speaker 2: you and I'm the fastest, oh man, Uh yeah, I
56:16
Speaker 2: got lousy teammates might be by I think he might
56:23
Speaker 2: be all right.
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Speaker 1: Well let's uh, let's do our x's and o's that
56:27
Speaker 1: we do this every Friday with our QB one. And
56:30
Speaker 1: we had a conversation earlier about Sam Darnold, and look,
56:33
Speaker 1: we all acknowledge he played a bad game. And I'll
56:36
Speaker 1: go as far as saying he cost the Seahawks chance
56:38
Speaker 1: to win that game. Well, they had a chance to
56:41
Speaker 1: win the game, but they cost the He cost the
56:43
Speaker 1: team the game. His play is the reason why we
56:46
Speaker 1: lost the game against the Los Angeles Rams. But I
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Speaker 1: in no way want him to change the way he's
56:52
Speaker 1: played this year. Let it rip, as Mike McDonald said
56:56
Speaker 1: after the game was over, And I'm just curious as
56:59
Speaker 1: to what kind of mindset you think Sam might enter
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Speaker 1: this game with on Sunday, considering how great a year
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Speaker 1: he's had, about how bad a game he played in
57:07
Speaker 1: terms of mistakes on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's one of the most difficult parts
57:12
Speaker 2: about playing the position is is that to play your best,
57:16
Speaker 2: you can't second the guess, you know, you know, imagine.
57:20
Speaker 2: I don't think it's terribly unlike you know, when you're
57:22
Speaker 2: you're you're driving down a pretty fast road, maybe the
57:25
Speaker 2: speed limits forty five or fifty and the light turns yellow.
57:28
Speaker 2: You know those times where you go, oh my god,
57:30
Speaker 2: it's right at that split second where do I go
57:33
Speaker 2: or do I stop? You know, Well, imagine you know
57:36
Speaker 2: every intersection is like that. Well that that's kind of
57:39
Speaker 2: you know, so you can't overthink it. Uh you know,
57:43
Speaker 2: Dan Marino, Uh I got to the Dolphins. He used
57:47
Speaker 2: to say, ltff baby, LTFF and you know, I go, well,
57:53
Speaker 2: what does that mean? And is let the effort fly?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 2: And you know, and and so I think that there
58:00
Speaker 2: has to be uh you know that idea. Okay, yes,
58:04
Speaker 2: you gotta be cautious. You gotta. You can't just play,
58:09
Speaker 2: you know, carry on the analogy. You can't. You're looking
58:11
Speaker 2: for green lights, like defense, tell me clearly where to
58:15
Speaker 2: go with the ball, like right now, the fastest possible.
58:19
Speaker 2: It doesn't always happen that way. There's disguises, you have pressure,
58:22
Speaker 2: and then sometimes you have to live in the yellow
58:25
Speaker 2: you know it's a yellow light, but you gotta you
58:27
Speaker 2: gotta throw early. You gotta put the ball to a
58:30
Speaker 2: spot where yeah, I eh, you know it's gonna be tough,
58:35
Speaker 2: but you got to get completions on yellow lights you can't.
58:38
Speaker 2: And then of course when there's red lights, that's when
58:41
Speaker 2: red light is no, don't throw it here. And I
58:43
Speaker 2: think what Sam Darnold, he he was running too many
58:47
Speaker 2: yellows and he ran a couple of reds. But but
58:49
Speaker 2: the first thing I would say is is the team
58:51
Speaker 2: has got to be But if you're looking at those
58:53
Speaker 2: four interceptions, the team has got to be better around
58:56
Speaker 2: him on a few of them. Olo Timmy got trucked.
58:59
Speaker 2: I don't like the scheme where you put him on
59:01
Speaker 2: an island. You had Cooper Cup went nearly nineteen yards
59:09
Speaker 2: a full eighteen and a half for sure on a
59:11
Speaker 2: deep hook. Well I went filtered the NFL the coaches
59:14
Speaker 2: tape on all the completions this year filtered seventeen to
59:19
Speaker 2: twenty two yards on deep hook, and all of those
59:24
Speaker 2: sixteen completions in that range, because that's a relatively deep
59:28
Speaker 2: hook that there was not one that was a press coverage.
59:34
Speaker 2: You got a whole If you're pressed at the line,
59:37
Speaker 2: you've got to shorten up that route so that that
59:40
Speaker 2: could have helped him. On the third and nine, the
59:44
Speaker 2: second interception we talked about JSN, his inside leg was four.
59:49
Speaker 2: That means it's a seventh step speed out instead of
59:52
Speaker 2: a six. I'd rather have it at six. Almost every
59:56
Speaker 2: team does six. But let's assume they're going to go
59:58
Speaker 2: to seven. Let's get to Sam Bradford's part. He Sam Bradford.
1:00:03
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm Sam Donald. Yeah, I'm thinking of Anthony
1:00:07
Speaker 2: Bradford because that guy just you know, haunts my my
1:00:10
Speaker 2: every waking moment. We'll get him uh, you know, and
1:00:15
Speaker 2: he he cost us, you know, he he was a
1:00:17
Speaker 2: blind to the uh, the the stunt on the second interception,
1:00:22
Speaker 2: and and so the line has simply got to be better.
1:00:26
Speaker 2: And and even that last uh, that last interception, A
1:00:30
Speaker 2: Lucas didn't pick up a stunt and so there was
1:00:32
Speaker 2: no chance to get back late. But so if I'm
1:00:35
Speaker 2: quarterback coaching Sam Donald, I would say, on the first one,
1:00:40
Speaker 2: look Olo gets trucked. We can't control that. We we
1:00:44
Speaker 2: got an opportunity. You're sliding to your left now instead
1:00:47
Speaker 2: of throwing that. Actually you're you're doing a good job
1:00:50
Speaker 2: of staying in the passing position. There hip hips perpendicular
1:00:54
Speaker 2: to the line scrimmage more or less. Now it's time
1:00:57
Speaker 2: to actually get out of the passing position and flush left.
1:01:01
Speaker 2: Look for something that was first and ten. Look for something.
1:01:04
Speaker 2: Maybe it was man coverage. Maybe somebody uncovers K nine.
1:01:07
Speaker 2: Possibly maybe Cooper Cup. You distort the defense a little,
1:01:10
Speaker 2: maybe he finds a way to uh to break off
1:01:13
Speaker 2: his route and give you an opportunity. Otherwise, just airmail it, ic,
1:01:17
Speaker 2: go go give the ball to Sean. Throw it to
1:01:19
Speaker 2: Sean McVay. How about that he's right there on that
1:01:23
Speaker 2: sideline the second one, third and nine, two point one seconds.
1:01:27
Speaker 2: There is no chance. Anthony Bradford absolutely screwed him. And
1:01:31
Speaker 2: so but it's third and nine and you and the
1:01:33
Speaker 2: score is fourteen to nine. Your defense is playing great.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: It's the third quarter, you're only down five points, you're
1:01:39
Speaker 2: close to midfield. You know, just skymail that we're punting.
1:01:43
Speaker 2: It's okay. How many times do you come back at
1:01:47
Speaker 2: the end of the game and you say, you know what,
1:01:50
Speaker 2: that incompletion cost us the game? It doesn't happen right.
1:01:54
Speaker 2: It's it's the it's the interceptions, it's the it's the sacks,
1:01:57
Speaker 2: it's the it's the the scoop, you know, the the
1:02:00
Speaker 2: scoop and score sacks. What have you? So so with
1:02:03
Speaker 2: this defense and incompletion is okay. I think that Brett
1:02:07
Speaker 2: I don't know in Sam Darnolds had, but I think
1:02:10
Speaker 2: that the playoff game against the Rams had been in
1:02:13
Speaker 2: his mind where he took nine sacks, which with the
1:02:17
Speaker 2: whole Viking line had been overrun. You could say a
1:02:21
Speaker 2: couple of them more on Donald's fault, But I think
1:02:24
Speaker 2: that he was so determined to avoid sacks that that
1:02:29
Speaker 2: he didn't take any sacks, but you know he put
1:02:32
Speaker 2: the ball obviously in harm's way. On the third one,
1:02:36
Speaker 2: that's a coverage read. That's a problem. He's got to see, Hey,
1:02:40
Speaker 2: we're rolled coverage, don't That was the one Elijah Royo
1:02:44
Speaker 2: on the bender and and Greg Olsen, a tight end himself,
1:02:47
Speaker 2: said hey, Royo should have gone on a flatter angle.
1:02:50
Speaker 2: And I agree that that could have helped, but I
1:02:52
Speaker 2: think that it was such a murky. That was a
1:02:55
Speaker 2: red light. Getting back to that, that was a red light.
1:02:57
Speaker 2: And he, mister read the coverage it was. It was
1:03:00
Speaker 2: what's called cover six. He rolled to the boundary, you
1:03:03
Speaker 2: had off coverage to the field, and you had heat
1:03:07
Speaker 2: on his speed out. You gotta you gotta, you know,
1:03:10
Speaker 2: go back and smoke the ball to the left sideline. Yes,
1:03:13
Speaker 2: it's a far side throw, but if you throw with
1:03:16
Speaker 2: the right timing then you've got a chance for completion.
1:03:19
Speaker 2: So I think his eyes were in the wrong place there.
1:03:23
Speaker 2: And then uh, and then the last one, he does
1:03:27
Speaker 2: the jump pass to try and avert the sack so
1:03:30
Speaker 2: that he doesn't knock the Seahawks out of field goal range.
1:03:34
Speaker 2: But on that one, again, that was he misread the coverage.
1:03:38
Speaker 2: It was what's called a two invert, the disguised coverage.
1:03:41
Speaker 2: It looks like a single high. Then the corner to
1:03:44
Speaker 2: the left over JSN. He's gonna go kind of to
1:03:47
Speaker 2: the half field, and so there's an opportunity to hit
1:03:50
Speaker 2: that out route. So and on that one there was time.
1:03:53
Speaker 2: Of the four interceptions, there was clear time to throw
1:03:57
Speaker 2: to the uh, the open guy.
1:03:59
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:04:00
Speaker 2: And so if you misread the coverage, every quarterback does that.
1:04:03
Speaker 2: You misread the coverage. Now you come back, and this
1:04:06
Speaker 2: is where a point Rashid Shahed was running. Then in route,
1:04:10
Speaker 2: if there's a defender there, you can either this is
1:04:13
Speaker 2: the terminal do you can either slip slip underneath him.
1:04:17
Speaker 2: That's not called slip, or you can rap. Let me
1:04:20
Speaker 2: say it again, slip underneath, rap over the top. So
1:04:23
Speaker 2: he's looking for Rashid Shaheed and and Shed is wrapping
1:04:26
Speaker 2: over the top of that underneath defender. But the angle
1:04:30
Speaker 2: is a little it's a little bit nebulous. And this
1:04:33
Speaker 2: get back gets back to you're one with the quarterback,
1:04:36
Speaker 2: You're one with the offensive coordinator, and like you're month
1:04:39
Speaker 2: one with a receiver that you're looking on a very uh.
1:04:43
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: You know precise route where JSN has had a ton
1:04:46
Speaker 2: of rap routes this season on completions, but more than
1:04:49
Speaker 2: I can count. Uh and and and he declares himself,
1:04:53
Speaker 2: like you it's easier to pick up JSN. Well, now
1:04:56
Speaker 2: you're learning resid shihed. It was a little ambiguous just
1:04:59
Speaker 2: looking at the tape, so that's got to be get
1:05:01
Speaker 2: cleaned up. But then you know the the the interception,
1:05:06
Speaker 2: it's just again it's dirt the ball, And that would
1:05:10
Speaker 2: be the takeaway incompletions are okay, even sacks are okay.
1:05:14
Speaker 2: And I think he was trying so hard to avoid
1:05:16
Speaker 2: the sacks, So I think that's the takeaway for him
1:05:19
Speaker 2: is remember, dude, you've got a great defense. All these plays.
1:05:24
Speaker 2: You know, we're the first three of the four you
1:05:27
Speaker 2: were you know, no more than five points down. Just
1:05:31
Speaker 2: just dirt the ball, live for another down and if
1:05:34
Speaker 2: it's third down, it's okay to punt with this defense.
1:05:38
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I mean, is there a chance that he's
1:05:41
Speaker 3: going to have to use exactly what you're talking about,
1:05:43
Speaker 3: that discretion and and maybe at times live you know,
1:05:46
Speaker 3: punt and live to fight another day. Because of the
1:05:50
Speaker 3: interior offensive line of the seas. I mean, that's maybe
1:05:53
Speaker 3: the one strength that it might be coming at you
1:05:56
Speaker 3: is a guy on the you know, coming up the
1:05:57
Speaker 3: middle against our guys, and we don't even know if
1:05:59
Speaker 3: we're going to all three of us starters out.
1:06:01
Speaker 2: There, Wilson Dell's on I are you know, this is
1:06:04
Speaker 2: like the ghost of of offensive line pass that we're
1:06:09
Speaker 2: gonna be watching Sunday where we're gonna be see Haynes
1:06:12
Speaker 2: and Olo Timmy and Bradford.
1:06:13
Speaker 1: And Jacob Marley.
1:06:16
Speaker 2: Yes, right, there's gonna Sam Darnold is gonna be hearing
1:06:20
Speaker 2: Chains Crackley, you know, you know on his backside. But
1:06:25
Speaker 2: but you know Anthony Bradford, you know, he's he's out
1:06:29
Speaker 2: of eighty six offensive guards. PFF has him eight, ranked
1:06:33
Speaker 2: eighty third, you know, and and Olo Timmy.
1:06:38
Speaker 4: You know.
1:06:38
Speaker 2: It's it's like if you went back and you had
1:06:40
Speaker 2: a chance. I always play this game from a personnel standpoint.
1:06:44
Speaker 2: I say, if you could go back on draft day
1:06:46
Speaker 2: and John Schneider had a crystal ball only of the
1:06:50
Speaker 2: of that player's career, he doesn't get the crystal ball
1:06:54
Speaker 2: of all the other players. He only gets the crystal
1:06:56
Speaker 2: ball of that player. He's about to pick and you
1:06:59
Speaker 2: could see what's gonna happen in this career. Would you,
1:07:03
Speaker 2: knowing what you see, would you draft him? And of
1:07:06
Speaker 2: course that slides based on the round. Right, there's gonna
1:07:09
Speaker 2: have a different standard in the fifth round than the
1:07:11
Speaker 2: first round. But just as a general rule, we say, no,
1:07:14
Speaker 2: I'll throw that fish back in the water and I'll
1:07:17
Speaker 2: take somebody else. Well, you know you're not gonna take
1:07:21
Speaker 2: Anthony Bradford. You're not gonna take Olua Timm, You're not
1:07:23
Speaker 2: gonna take Christian Haynes. All of them have been a disappointment,
1:07:26
Speaker 2: and they're all gonna be on the interior of the
1:07:28
Speaker 2: offensive line here this Sunday. So so yeah, that's that's
1:07:32
Speaker 2: that's a part here. Donald has talked about, hey, I've
1:07:35
Speaker 2: got to get to my checkdown more. Well, out of
1:07:37
Speaker 2: thirty eight qualifying quarterbacks, Donald has got to his checkdown
1:07:42
Speaker 2: eight point seven percent of the time. That's that's ranked
1:07:45
Speaker 2: thirty three out of third. He out of thirty eight
1:07:48
Speaker 2: he doesn't get to his checkdown. Well, we generally think, well,
1:07:50
Speaker 2: that's good, that's admirable. What's the problem with that? His
1:07:53
Speaker 2: first read he's second out of thirty eight. Only Davis
1:07:56
Speaker 2: Mills has more and he's essentially a backup, so out
1:07:59
Speaker 2: of the real starter, he Darnold gets to his first
1:08:02
Speaker 2: read at sixty two percent, exactly sixty two percent. He's
1:08:05
Speaker 2: number one in the NFL. That's partly because he makes
1:08:09
Speaker 2: good reads about, hey, let me go to my first
1:08:12
Speaker 2: read based on the coverage. He didn't do that against
1:08:15
Speaker 2: the Rams, and this offensive line is unlikely to give
1:08:19
Speaker 2: him that that opportunity. And you know, while we're on
1:08:23
Speaker 2: the subject, number ninety eight, Jeffrey Simmons is really the
1:08:25
Speaker 2: only problem that the Titans present to you. A phenomenal
1:08:30
Speaker 2: defensive tackle. He is lined up over what would be
1:08:35
Speaker 2: bad for one hundred and forty six times what will
1:08:38
Speaker 2: be Christian Hanes one hundred and fifteen. But he's also
1:08:40
Speaker 2: been out to the edges, you know, on the left
1:08:44
Speaker 2: edge against Abe Lucas, he's had seventy six snaps, the
1:08:49
Speaker 2: right edge against Cross he's had fifty one snaps. So
1:08:56
Speaker 2: he's gonna try his hand on everybody. But in interior,
1:09:00
Speaker 2: that offensive line's going to affect Sam Darnold because he
1:09:03
Speaker 2: may not have a chance to get to his check
1:09:06
Speaker 2: second third reads, as he's been talking about this week.
1:09:09
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Speaker 1: You know the mountains turn blue at forty two degrees. Well,
1:09:19
Speaker 1: we've turned up the heat on this ken Walker conversation
1:09:22
Speaker 1: this week. I think this show firmly endorses ken Walker
1:09:27
Speaker 1: getting more carries, being the number one running back. And Yet,
1:09:31
Speaker 1: and yet, Bucky pointed out earlier this week that Zach
1:09:34
Speaker 1: Charbonay is so much better of a pass blocker than
1:09:38
Speaker 1: Walker according to PFF. And I'm wondering, considering your offensive
1:09:44
Speaker 1: line questions that you're bringing to the table on Sunday,
1:09:48
Speaker 1: does that take away at all from your zest to
1:09:52
Speaker 1: get ken Walker more carries this week? Does that even
1:09:55
Speaker 1: ripple the waters for you when it comes to your
1:09:58
Speaker 1: desire to see a nine be used more frequently?
1:10:01
Speaker 2: Well, I think that. I think what you're referring to
1:10:04
Speaker 2: is last week PFF's great. I don't think on balance,
1:10:09
Speaker 2: there's any real discernible difference. I mean, I I can't
1:10:12
Speaker 2: even count the number of times where I've been disappointed
1:10:15
Speaker 2: about Sharbonna. He either he either doesn't recognize where he's
1:10:18
Speaker 2: supposed to be. Uh, in one of those one of
1:10:22
Speaker 2: those sacks. He uh, he was, you know, he's trying
1:10:26
Speaker 2: to chip. He just got in the way. He takes
1:10:28
Speaker 2: on a block with the wrong shoulder on a pass block,
1:10:31
Speaker 2: you know, because there's a point where you're coach and
1:10:34
Speaker 2: you say, look, we don't want you to lose the block.
1:10:36
Speaker 2: We know you can't block forever if you're gonna lose.
1:10:39
Speaker 2: If and when you lose the block, it's got to
1:10:41
Speaker 2: be to you know, to the outside based on where
1:10:44
Speaker 2: the quarterback is. Don't so, which means keep your head
1:10:46
Speaker 2: in the hole you and and use your left shoulder.
1:10:49
Speaker 2: If you use your right shoulder, you're gonna you're far
1:10:51
Speaker 2: more likely to lose the battle. And he's and he's
1:10:54
Speaker 2: got the inside pathway to the quarterback. Like I'm I'm
1:10:57
Speaker 2: I don't subscribe to the idea that that you get
1:11:01
Speaker 2: a big lift by having Sharbonne in there as a
1:11:05
Speaker 2: pass blocker. That's just me grading on the team. So
1:11:10
Speaker 2: but but if you want to say, look, I don't
1:11:13
Speaker 2: think it's uncommon to say, hey, we want Canine to
1:11:15
Speaker 2: be our first and second down guy and then on
1:11:18
Speaker 2: third and obvious situations if Sharbonne, if you think he's
1:11:21
Speaker 2: your pass block specialist. Okay, go go put him in there.
1:11:24
Speaker 2: I think Canine can be a three down back because
1:11:26
Speaker 2: I love the checkdown to him. You know, I love
1:11:28
Speaker 2: the draw to him. So I'm I'm going to push
1:11:32
Speaker 2: back on that. I think certainly Pro Football Focus gets
1:11:36
Speaker 2: more right than they get wrong. But if we're just
1:11:38
Speaker 2: going off of one game and not you know, the
1:11:41
Speaker 2: body of work, Yeah it was.
1:11:46
Speaker 1: You see it with your eyeballs.
1:11:47
Speaker 3: I'll trust your eyeballs over what PFF because I don't
1:11:50
Speaker 3: trust all of PFF. When I was bringing up though
1:11:52
Speaker 3: it was the entirety of this season, I mean it's
1:11:55
Speaker 3: it's ken Walker is great at a twenty nine and
1:11:57
Speaker 3: Zach Sharbony is great.
1:11:58
Speaker 1: At a forty five point eight.
1:12:00
Speaker 3: It's it was a big enough difference that I thought,
1:12:02
Speaker 3: maybe that's why they have him in there on those situations.
1:12:05
Speaker 2: No, No, I appreciate it, and you're right to push
1:12:08
Speaker 2: back on me. I just look, I think sometimes the
1:12:11
Speaker 2: winning where I don't like PFF and pass blocking sometimes
1:12:16
Speaker 2: is where they say, Okay, you didn't allow a pressure
1:12:21
Speaker 2: from your guy, but you got trucked back in. You know,
1:12:24
Speaker 2: you stayed between the defender and the quarterback. But you
1:12:28
Speaker 2: just got manhandled and you're in the quarterback's lap. You
1:12:31
Speaker 2: totally disrupted the play, and then all of a sudden,
1:12:34
Speaker 2: PFF will say, well, yeah, but you didn't give up
1:12:36
Speaker 2: the sack, so we'll give you an okay grade. So
1:12:38
Speaker 2: I don't know. I look, it's a fair it's certainly
1:12:44
Speaker 2: a salient point. Like if you are if you are
1:12:48
Speaker 2: that inferior as a pass blocker, that's a problem because
1:12:53
Speaker 2: this is the NFL. It's twenty twenty five, not nineteen
1:12:57
Speaker 2: twenty five. You have to pass block I just as
1:13:01
Speaker 2: you know, a guy who studies this tape at all,
1:13:03
Speaker 2: I just wouldn't say there's a big difference, uh, you know,
1:13:07
Speaker 2: for one over the other in pass back.
1:13:09
Speaker 12: Gosh buck, he pushing back on you, Well not really, No,
1:13:12
Speaker 12: I like it right, and you know what he's and
1:13:15
Speaker 12: you know what, you know, he's bringing facts though, I
1:13:20
Speaker 12: mean the fact that what Bucky says on the facts
1:13:24
Speaker 12: the PFF.
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Speaker 2: So the only way that I can retort that is
1:13:28
Speaker 2: either to say that those those facts are insignificant or
1:13:33
Speaker 2: there's other facts that supersede those facts. But no, he's
1:13:37
Speaker 2: he's bringing he's bringing it up against my chin at
1:13:40
Speaker 2: ninety eight, and he's.
1:13:41
Speaker 3: Said it was more like a probably eighty one mile
1:13:44
Speaker 3: an hour sinker that got away from me a little bit.
1:13:47
Speaker 3: And then I just immediately went sorry about that. No, sorry,
1:13:50
Speaker 3: it was just that it wasn't. My only thing is
1:13:52
Speaker 3: when it comes to the the PFF, I don't typically
1:13:55
Speaker 3: use much on game the game because I don't understand
1:13:59
Speaker 3: how they go from sixty to eighty to forty or twenty.
1:14:03
Speaker 3: I just watch it with my eyes and then ask
1:14:05
Speaker 3: you to decipher it. Is Bradford look as bad as
1:14:07
Speaker 3: because BFF has like him and Gray's abel similar like
1:14:12
Speaker 3: number wise, so we don't we don't have time to
1:14:14
Speaker 3: get into all that, but it's I don't know how
1:14:16
Speaker 3: to judge PFF. I just look at it and go,
1:14:18
Speaker 3: maybe that's something to ask you about.
1:14:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and again that's that. That would be the
1:14:24
Speaker 2: one part that I say, you know, because Charles Cross
1:14:28
Speaker 2: has been you know, has graded relatively high, and I
1:14:32
Speaker 2: think he's much better this year, but there was was
1:14:35
Speaker 2: it last year or the year before? I don't know.
1:14:37
Speaker 2: I just I remember just going, Charles Cross, you are
1:14:40
Speaker 2: on freaking ice skates every damn play like you're in
1:14:45
Speaker 2: Gino's lap and every if he has any progression to
1:14:48
Speaker 2: his left side, like you, you are just absolutely right
1:14:52
Speaker 2: in Gino's face, and and and so. But yet I'm
1:14:57
Speaker 2: seeing that he's getting pretty good pass blocking grades because
1:15:01
Speaker 2: because there's no pressures, and I'm like, okay, I don't
1:15:04
Speaker 2: I don't agree with that. So yeah, and as you said,
1:15:07
Speaker 2: great grades able, he's uh uh you know, he's grated
1:15:12
Speaker 2: relatively poor himself. Uh you know, he's forty seventh and
1:15:17
Speaker 2: in past blocking, you know, which is a good bit
1:15:19
Speaker 2: better than Anthony Bradford at eighty third. Yeah, you know, but.
1:15:23
Speaker 1: Hey, there's really no way to slice that Anthony Bradford story.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the earlier she was like, I don't really care
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Speaker 3: I think that's what I heard her say, Yeah, something
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Speaker 1: Buck goome morning, sir.
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Speaker 4: Friday.
1:17:14
Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you as well.
1:17:15
Speaker 1: Are you glad Ashley's not here to mess up the conversation?
1:17:19
Speaker 2: Coach?
1:17:19
Speaker 7: Well, I said, boy, I don't want to if you
1:17:22
Speaker 7: go on not coming on? And then I didn't know
1:17:24
Speaker 7: Chris is in the room. You heard me say that.
1:17:27
Speaker 1: Oh that might have been while your mic was potted
1:17:29
Speaker 1: down right there at the beginning.
1:17:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, try would you patch it up for me? Please?
1:17:33
Speaker 4: Yeah?
1:17:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do it weekend. He doesn't mean it, kid, OK,
1:17:39
Speaker 1: it'll take it personally.
1:17:39
Speaker 2: He'll cry a little bit, all right.
1:17:42
Speaker 1: Coach, Uh, if you have Sam Darnold, you're you're the
1:17:47
Speaker 1: head coach and he's had a terrific season for you.
1:17:50
Speaker 1: But it's coming off a rough performance for interception performance
1:17:54
Speaker 1: on Sunday. How are you coaching him all week long
1:17:59
Speaker 1: so that that doesn't affect him going forward?
1:18:02
Speaker 7: Well, I think you kind of reference what he's done
1:18:06
Speaker 7: so far, but you don't ignore the fact that you
1:18:09
Speaker 7: know that was a bad game last week and you
1:18:12
Speaker 7: correct it. You go over what happened, and then you say, okay,
1:18:15
Speaker 7: that's done. Now we're moving on. So every once in
1:18:19
Speaker 7: a while the guy has a bad game, and he
1:18:22
Speaker 7: had he had one last week, but now you move on.
1:18:24
Speaker 7: He's done enough good things that he should you know,
1:18:28
Speaker 7: it should be fine. I still believe in him a lot.
1:18:31
Speaker 3: How how long does it take before you start reigning
1:18:34
Speaker 3: somebody in because the idea of wanting them to try
1:18:38
Speaker 3: to slip it in that, you know, Hugh was kind
1:18:40
Speaker 3: of breaking down the idea of you know, there's obvious
1:18:42
Speaker 3: throws that are green lights, and then there's yellow lights,
1:18:44
Speaker 3: and then there's red lights. Obviously a red light stop,
1:18:47
Speaker 3: but you have to complete some yellow light throws. And
1:18:50
Speaker 3: yet if those start turning into you know, turnover into turnovers,
1:18:54
Speaker 3: then you have to be like, okay, well maybe your
1:18:56
Speaker 3: yellow light needs to be a little bit less or
1:18:59
Speaker 3: you need to not press the quite as much. So
1:19:00
Speaker 3: how how how much of a leash do you give
1:19:03
Speaker 3: a guy because I agree, I think he's done far
1:19:04
Speaker 3: too good to then you know, clip his wings at
1:19:07
Speaker 3: this point. And yet when does that time come?
1:19:10
Speaker 7: Well, you have you have to see a correction. I
1:19:13
Speaker 7: think if if he's if any quarterback makes the same
1:19:16
Speaker 7: mistake time and time again, then all of a sudden,
1:19:20
Speaker 7: then then you have to either take change your offense,
1:19:24
Speaker 7: change how you think it a certain part of the field,
1:19:25
Speaker 7: say the red zoner where the things are happening. But
1:19:30
Speaker 7: you know, the good quarterbacks usually can make the correction.
1:19:33
Speaker 7: You know, I think last night, you know Josh Allen,
1:19:35
Speaker 7: he got kind of crazy, and he did early in
1:19:37
Speaker 7: his career and now look at him. So it's but
1:19:42
Speaker 7: you can't ignore it. You have to. Sometimes it's tough love.
1:19:45
Speaker 7: As I said with Brett Farv. You know, it's you
1:19:47
Speaker 7: just have to bang it around and then hope he
1:19:51
Speaker 7: changes it. And most of the time it's been my
1:19:54
Speaker 7: experience that the good ones change.
1:19:56
Speaker 1: Uh, there is a chance he could miss be missing
1:19:59
Speaker 1: a couple of his Is the starting offensive lineman on Sunday?
1:20:03
Speaker 2: Are you going to.
1:20:04
Speaker 1: Hack that head on, maybe keep an extra guy in
1:20:07
Speaker 1: for protection, or will you just wait till game day
1:20:10
Speaker 1: and see if the backups hold up?
1:20:13
Speaker 2: Well?
1:20:13
Speaker 7: Then you know, that's a very good point. I think
1:20:15
Speaker 7: pressure has been when interceptions have been throwing. Pressure has
1:20:19
Speaker 7: been the problem. And so I don't know much about Tennessee,
1:20:24
Speaker 7: to be honest, with you very I think one of
1:20:25
Speaker 7: their guys, one of their guys is really good, you know,
1:20:29
Speaker 7: And so no, I think you have to look, I
1:20:32
Speaker 7: wouldn't I wouldn't alter the pass protection scheme all that
1:20:36
Speaker 7: much in the beginning of the game. See how it's going,
1:20:39
Speaker 7: but be prepared to do that if you had to.
1:20:42
Speaker 7: And but you know, this is one of those games,
1:20:46
Speaker 7: guys that I the Sea Owks should take care of
1:20:49
Speaker 7: business against this team. And so I'm hopeful that any
1:20:55
Speaker 7: problems we saw last week, you know, are now behind us.
1:20:59
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I agree, I think they're going to
1:21:01
Speaker 3: beat them. I think they're going to beat them handedly.
1:21:02
Speaker 3: And yet that the key to that is that you've
1:21:05
Speaker 3: got to show up and not think you just throw
1:21:07
Speaker 3: your jock on the field and it's gonna work out
1:21:09
Speaker 3: in your favor. You got to go take it from them.
1:21:11
Speaker 3: I mean, there's still NFL players for crydd out. So
1:21:14
Speaker 3: how do you make sure that your team is properly motivated,
1:21:18
Speaker 3: especially coming off of probably what is the most painful loss,
1:21:21
Speaker 3: the way in which they lost against who they lost
1:21:23
Speaker 3: to last week.
1:21:25
Speaker 7: Well, I think during the week of practice I would
1:21:29
Speaker 7: have maybe put my foot on the pedal just a
1:21:33
Speaker 7: little bit more, maybe than even getting ready for the Rams,
1:21:37
Speaker 7: just to let them know how I feel about this
1:21:40
Speaker 7: game coming up, and not only do that, but verbally
1:21:44
Speaker 7: talk to them about this, you know, because it was
1:21:47
Speaker 7: my experience that if you're not ready to play, and
1:21:49
Speaker 7: you're not playing with emotion and fired up, like you said, Buck,
1:21:52
Speaker 7: you're gonna you could loose to anybody. Anybody could be.
1:21:55
Speaker 7: It happened to me, and then anyone can be if
1:21:58
Speaker 7: your team isn't ready emotional, and that's on the coach.
1:22:01
Speaker 7: That's on the head coach. So get them ready, talk
1:22:04
Speaker 7: about it, because they've got a bright future ahead of
1:22:07
Speaker 7: them if they take care of business against teams. Certainly
1:22:10
Speaker 7: they should take care of business against and then maybe
1:22:13
Speaker 7: pop a couple of the other games too down the road.
1:22:16
Speaker 7: And the team has to know that.
1:22:18
Speaker 1: Here's something that never happened to you. I'm betting in
1:22:22
Speaker 1: your career that you woke up midway through a season
1:22:25
Speaker 1: and your team was thirty second in points scored, thirty
1:22:29
Speaker 1: second and rushing yards, thirty second in sacks allowed, and
1:22:34
Speaker 1: thirtieth in passing yards. I mean, if you would have
1:22:37
Speaker 1: just had a nightmare that your statistics were that bad
1:22:42
Speaker 1: much less it be the reality of your life.
1:22:45
Speaker 2: Halfway through the year, because that's.
1:22:46
Speaker 1: Where all the Tennessee Titans offensive numbers are. I mean,
1:22:50
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that you would have changed your
1:22:53
Speaker 1: diet the next morning.
1:22:55
Speaker 2: Jesse, you never have to have that nightmare again.
1:22:58
Speaker 7: Oh you know what, I didn't know the stats, but
1:23:01
Speaker 7: that's remarkable. I mean that what you're right, I would
1:23:05
Speaker 7: have had nightmares. I wouldn't be able to sleep. And
1:23:08
Speaker 7: you know cam Ward, uh, you know, they got a
1:23:11
Speaker 7: chance to get hopefully their franchise quarterback for a long time,
1:23:15
Speaker 7: first kid drafted and all that. But think what he's
1:23:19
Speaker 7: going through. And you've seen you've seen listen, You've seen
1:23:23
Speaker 7: quarterbacks throughout history get drafted very very high and just
1:23:28
Speaker 7: get the heck beat out of them that rookie year
1:23:31
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, it takes them a while
1:23:33
Speaker 7: to recover from that. But those those numbers are staggering.
1:23:38
Speaker 7: I gosh, you know they have some work to do.
1:23:42
Speaker 3: Mm hm, coach you were mentioning, you know they do
1:23:46
Speaker 3: have a guy. Jeffrey Simmons is kind of the guy
1:23:48
Speaker 3: that could kind of wreck your situation as far as
1:23:51
Speaker 3: past rush goes.
1:23:52
Speaker 1: He's coming right up the middle.
1:23:53
Speaker 3: That's obviously not what any quarterback wants, is some pressure
1:23:56
Speaker 3: coming right up the middle.
1:23:57
Speaker 1: Is it easy?
1:23:58
Speaker 3: I mean, is this this absolutely naive bucky former baseball player,
1:24:03
Speaker 3: doesn't know anything about football talking when I just think, well,
1:24:05
Speaker 3: then run that outside zone bucket. Just run away from
1:24:08
Speaker 3: that guy and then establish the run and hopefully that
1:24:11
Speaker 3: slows you get him going side to side as a
1:24:12
Speaker 3: defensive tackle. Hopefully that slows him down to open up
1:24:15
Speaker 3: some of the passing game.
1:24:17
Speaker 7: You know, That's that's one way to do it. I
1:24:19
Speaker 7: think in the outside zone, for an inside man like
1:24:24
Speaker 7: he is, Simmons, he can because someone on his outside
1:24:29
Speaker 7: is going to have to cut him off because that's
1:24:31
Speaker 7: how the scheme works. That'll be a tough duty for
1:24:34
Speaker 7: one guy, and particularly if you have new people in there.
1:24:38
Speaker 7: So to your earlier point, I think there's going to
1:24:42
Speaker 7: have to be I'll retract some of the stuff I
1:24:45
Speaker 7: said earlier. I think there's gonna have to be early
1:24:47
Speaker 7: on a plan to double him to take care of
1:24:51
Speaker 7: business depending on I don't know how the other guys are,
1:24:54
Speaker 7: but don't let him wreck you by himself, you know,
1:24:57
Speaker 7: And I'm not comparing it with Reggie Whider though, guys
1:25:00
Speaker 7: that I had to do that with. But if you
1:25:03
Speaker 7: play a team that has somebody like that that can
1:25:06
Speaker 7: cause problems for you by himself, then you've got to
1:25:08
Speaker 7: take care of it with a double team or slide
1:25:11
Speaker 7: the line to him to make sure he doesn't do it,
1:25:14
Speaker 7: he doesn't wreck you by himself.
1:25:16
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna open myself up to criticism here, but
1:25:19
Speaker 1: I just want to know just how disappointed you are
1:25:22
Speaker 1: in me.
1:25:23
Speaker 2: I want you to rate this.
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Speaker 1: Are you more disappointed that I had my tree up,
1:25:26
Speaker 1: that I've already had eggnog, or that I actually have
1:25:30
Speaker 1: already wrapped a Christmas present?
1:25:32
Speaker 7: You know, I don't know. I listen. See is how
1:25:35
Speaker 7: we're being honest with one another. My family. I talked
1:25:39
Speaker 7: about you to my family and to the person, the girls,
1:25:43
Speaker 7: even the grandkids. They don't understand it. They said, that's
1:25:47
Speaker 7: not the rule.
1:25:48
Speaker 1: I can't do that.
1:25:50
Speaker 7: And I said, no, you know, I said, he's really
1:25:51
Speaker 7: a smart guy. He's a talented man, but this is
1:25:55
Speaker 7: what he does. They go, how how did he grow up?
1:25:59
Speaker 7: You know what happened? Yeah, So I'm trying to I'm
1:26:03
Speaker 7: trying to, you know, pull for you with the family.
1:26:06
Speaker 7: But I think I got to bring them down to
1:26:08
Speaker 7: the station. You got to meet them.
1:26:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to. I'd love to meet them, and
1:26:11
Speaker 1: they can take me to task. Right here on the show.
1:26:13
Speaker 1: We'll give them all the microphone. I thought for sure
1:26:16
Speaker 1: you were heading down the road of the kids, and
1:26:18
Speaker 1: your daughters all liked it. Now and they're smart.
1:26:22
Speaker 7: No, no, no, But I would say, if you're gonna do,
1:26:26
Speaker 7: did you do the tree first?
1:26:27
Speaker 2: Tree first?
1:26:28
Speaker 7: The tree?
1:26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah?
1:26:29
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I didn't just have a present line in
1:26:31
Speaker 1: the middle of the floor.
1:26:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just.
1:26:35
Speaker 7: You know what, if we have any chance for a
1:26:38
Speaker 7: rehab here, start with the tree. Don't put the tree up.
1:26:41
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I hear your advice. I just won't listen.
1:26:45
Speaker 2: I will try to heat it.
1:26:47
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend and we'll talk to you soon.
1:26:50
Speaker 7: All right, right, guys, have a good one.
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Speaker 2: All right?
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