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Chuck & Buck 1-12 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, it's time to get on the carousel and words of wisdom from our favorite Mike MacDonald. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Forty three seconds left, San Francisco leads to twenty three
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Speaker 1: to nineteen. Perks shuck up, Brown goes in motion to
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Speaker 1: the outside, takes the snat.
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Speaker 2: Perks steps up, hurts fires over the middle into a crowd.
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Speaker 2: It's broken up.
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Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers come up big incomplete. Kendricks gets a
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Speaker 1: piece and the Eagles turn it over on downs. San
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Speaker 1: Francisco takes over and they're forty seconds away from a victory.
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Speaker 1: The defending Super Bowl champions come up empty on fourth down.
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Speaker 2: All the Eagles are eliminated, so the throne has been vacated.
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Speaker 2: How about that the next champ will be a new
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Speaker 2: champ in the National Football League. The Eagles will not repeat.
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Speaker 2: They lost yesterday to the San Francisco forty nine ers,
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Speaker 2: and all the games were pretty thrilling, but the final
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Speaker 2: score there twenty three nineteen in favor of the forty
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Speaker 2: nine ers. Therefore, we now know who the Seahawks will
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Speaker 2: play in the divisional round of the playoffs. The Seahawks
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Speaker 2: on by this week, just sitting there and waiting for
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Speaker 2: everything to spill out. San Francisco wins. They are the
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Speaker 2: lowest seed to advance to the next round, which means
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Speaker 2: you reshuffle all of the matchups and that will leave
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Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers at the Seahawks this weekend, the
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Speaker 2: sixth seed versus the one seed, So we have to
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Speaker 2: face the same team in back to back games and
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Speaker 2: no problem, no sweat. The game will be played in Seattle.
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Speaker 2: Of course it'll be played on Saturday. We still don't
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Speaker 2: know the time for kickoff. That will be determined at
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Speaker 2: some point this evening, it sounds like, but that's where
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Speaker 2: our frost brewed cors Light Choose Chill Monday headlines begin,
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Speaker 2: and of course the audio provided by west Wood One.
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Speaker 2: It's Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you. In two minutes,
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Speaker 2: Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, will join us. Let's go
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Speaker 2: through the rest of your headlines. Though, you also saw
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Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers lose to the Chicago Bears thirty
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Speaker 2: one to twenty seven, and the Rams did survive their
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Speaker 2: game in Carolina against the Panthers thirty four to thirty one.
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Speaker 2: So the Bears and the Rams will play in the
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Speaker 2: other NFC matchup on Sunday. In the AFC, the New
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Speaker 2: England Patriots sixteen to three winners over the Chargers last night,
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Speaker 2: and so the Patriots sit there and wait for the
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Speaker 2: winner of tonight's final wild Card round game. The Houston
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Speaker 2: Texans will be in Pittsburgh taking on the Steelers. The
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Speaker 2: winner will be at New England next Sunday, and then
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, Denver will host the Buffalo Bills, who defeated
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Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars twenty seven to twenty four, and a
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Speaker 2: back and forth contest early on Sunday. So those are
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Speaker 2: that's your latest from the National Football League. The Green
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Speaker 2: Bay Packers, by the way, have said that they're trying
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Speaker 2: to work on Matt Lafleur coming back, which I think
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Speaker 2: flies in the fa of logic, but they're working on
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Speaker 2: bringing Lafleur back as their head coach going forward. George
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Speaker 2: Kittle suffered an achilles injury and sounds like a pretty
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Speaker 2: serious one. Certainly, he will not be available for them
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Speaker 2: the rest of the postseason, which will of course last
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Speaker 2: one game. So no George Kittle this Saturday against the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers. College football, our national championship game will
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Speaker 2: be played next Monday. It'll be the Indiana Hoosiers against
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Speaker 2: the Miami Hurricanes. College Hoops U Dubs, maybe their biggest
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Speaker 2: win since Danny Sprinkle took over as head coach. They
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Speaker 2: won eighty one seventy four over Ohio State yesterday and
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Speaker 2: now get ready for Michigan and Michigan State coming to
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Speaker 2: town this week. Michigan on Wednesday, Michigan State on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Kraken suddenly have lost two consecutive games. They'll be on
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Speaker 2: the road starting tonight in New York against the Rangers.
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Speaker 2: They'll drop the puck there at four o'clock. And those
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Speaker 2: are your frost brewed Cores, Light Choose Chill headlines. Let's
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Speaker 2: talk to Greg with the bell tolls.
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Speaker 3: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
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Speaker 3: Now with twelfth Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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Speaker 3: and Bud.
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Speaker 4: Morning, Greg, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Well, welcome to the NFC West Invitational. As it looks
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Speaker 2: like the Seahawks, if we're going to get to the
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl, will have to beat both the forty nine
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Speaker 2: ers and possibly the Rams for a second time this year.
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Speaker 2: How do you think how do you think Mike McDonald
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Speaker 2: feels about the draw.
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Speaker 4: Well, he likes to be home, he likes having the
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Speaker 4: week off, and from a planning game planning standpoint, this
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Speaker 4: is pretty idyllic that they just played this team. This
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Speaker 4: is the first time since the early nineties that the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks had played back to back games against the same opponent.
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Speaker 4: Same thing. Last time, thirty some years ago, they had
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Speaker 4: a bye week between two games against the Chargers in
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Speaker 4: the old AFC West. It's very unique, little funky, as
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Speaker 4: Mike McDonald told NBC last night at the halftime in
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Speaker 4: the night game. But that will be much different from
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Speaker 4: San Francisco, and it'll be much different from McDonald and
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Speaker 4: the Seahawks.
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Speaker 5: It is unique to.
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Speaker 4: Play the same team two times in a row. Honestly,
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Speaker 4: I as great as the Seahawks defense was that night,
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Speaker 4: you probably can't expect him to hold him to one
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Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five yards and three points again. But
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Speaker 4: San Francisco is decimated by the injuries you mentioned George
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Speaker 4: Kittle there off the top, yet another loss for them.
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Speaker 4: They did get Trent Williams back. That'll be one difference
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Speaker 4: from the Week eighteen game, Williams played despite warnings that
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Speaker 4: if he played on that hamstring he might injure it
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Speaker 4: and rip it completely worse and the injured even worse.
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Speaker 4: And it looks like he came out of the game
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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: For him to play at left tackle, that's a big
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Speaker 4: addition for San Francisco, but a big, big, big subjection
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Speaker 4: to not have George Kittle.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I understand one hundred percent, no matter
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Speaker 6: how dominant you were, it doesn't carry over. And yet
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Speaker 6: you almost feel like I would almost feel like if
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Speaker 6: I'm Mike McDonald, that I got to make sure my
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Speaker 6: guys get that. I mean, is there any any thought of,
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Speaker 6: you know, not overlooking an opponent that you know that
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Speaker 6: they understand how good the Niners could be, but at
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Speaker 6: the same time they're human, and that you know, any
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Speaker 6: chance that they're that he's having to make a concerted
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Speaker 6: effort like, hey, boys, yeah, we just absolutely dominated this team,
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Speaker 6: but we got to go do it again.
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Speaker 5: We can't just expect that it's going to happen.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so, Bucky. They are so wedded to
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Speaker 4: the processing and McDonald has gotten the guys to see
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Speaker 4: what happens when they focus inwardly on themselves and doing
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Speaker 4: the same thing every week, preparing the same way and
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Speaker 4: working the game plan. As the coaches have gotten in
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Speaker 4: the McDonald and the defensive they are really inwardly focused,
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Speaker 4: and it's almost like the opponent, not that it doesn't matter,
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Speaker 4: but because the process is the same every week, there's
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Speaker 4: a consistency in no matter who they're playing, that they
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Speaker 4: have the same approach. And I would think that's the
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Speaker 4: inward look that would be even more intense this week.
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Speaker 4: And for however, Seahawks are playing playoff games. McDonald's way
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Speaker 4: is obviously working, and the Seahawks, the players half absolute
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Speaker 4: buy in for two seasons now. This guy has won
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Speaker 4: twenty five games and he's must be doing something right.
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Speaker 4: So I don't think so. I do think it's somewhat
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Speaker 4: advantageous for the defense, especially to be playing the forty
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Speaker 4: nine ers first and then the ram And I do
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Speaker 4: think the Rams will beat Chicago. Something's happened to the Rams.
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Speaker 4: Something's happened to Matthew Stafford in the last four or
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Speaker 4: five weeks. His accuracy has gone way down. I mean
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Speaker 4: he was under I think he finished under fifty percent
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Speaker 4: against Carolina, who did not have a great pass defense,
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Speaker 4: and it was alarming to watch some of the throws
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Speaker 4: he made against the Panthers. The Panthers crowded the receivers
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Speaker 4: and just challenged those guys, and Nickua got hiss across
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Speaker 4: the middle a few times like he did against Seattle,
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Speaker 4: but there were many open receivers that he flat missed.
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Speaker 4: He came up big in the last drive and Kobe
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Speaker 4: Parkinson with a great catch there. But in the Rams
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Speaker 4: defense as well, has really changed from where they were
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Speaker 4: to give up all the points they did at Carolina
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Speaker 4: thirty plus. Again, this is a different Rams team than
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Speaker 4: even the one they the Seahawks played even a month,
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Speaker 4: three or four weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nikua doesn't break up that short fire interception, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: right in the end zone and nakooag has knocked it
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Speaker 2: right out of his arms. I mean, we might we
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Speaker 2: might not we be we might be preparing for you know,
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Speaker 2: Panthers bears. On On Sunday, Greg Bell is with US
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Speaker 2: our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune. You can follow
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Speaker 2: him at g bel Seattle on X and of course
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Speaker 2: around the clock coverage of the Seahawks. There at the
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Speaker 2: News Tribune. I think this probably needs to be explained.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why Kyle Shanahan was sort of trying
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Speaker 2: to position his team to be playing on Sunday. I
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Speaker 2: do think it, you know, it does logically make more
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Speaker 2: sense that the Bears Rams play on Saturday, and the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers in the playoffs get a full week's
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Speaker 2: rest and they play on Sunday like the Rams and
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Speaker 2: the Bears are going to get especially going up against
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Speaker 2: the team that's on by But I do think gregg
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Speaker 2: ittt needs to be explained for those that don't understand
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Speaker 2: that this was put in place by the National Football
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Speaker 2: League long before the results this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I wrote this last this week. We talked about
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Speaker 4: this last week. The NFL when it can, and when
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Speaker 4: it can is when the one seeds don't have to
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Speaker 4: play the team that played on Monday night. The NFL
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Speaker 4: puts the one seeds on Saturday. Why do they do that?
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Speaker 4: One It doesn't really matter Saturday or Sunday for the
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Speaker 4: team that's the one seed because they have coming off
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Speaker 4: the buy, But it's for the backside of that they
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Speaker 4: want to give the one seed every advantage into a
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Speaker 4: conference championship game, and if the one seed wins that
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Speaker 4: home game in the divisional round, they want to reward
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Speaker 4: the one seed of having an extra day eight days
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Speaker 4: between the divisional round and the conference championship. Shanahan knew
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Speaker 4: that the last forty years, twenty five plus times that
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Speaker 4: one seeds have played on Saturday. There's been a one
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Speaker 4: seed play on Saturday every year of the last nine years.
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Speaker 4: Most times it's two. But when they've expanded the Wildcard
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Speaker 4: round to the Monday night, then they had to make
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Speaker 4: some concessions because you can't put the Monday team on
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Speaker 4: Saturday games. So the team's one seeds have played some
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Speaker 4: Sunday games. But by and large, this is what the
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Speaker 4: NFL does. This is the reward for being a one seed.
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Speaker 4: And frankly, the forty nine ers have nothing to complain
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Speaker 4: about because they had a chance to win the one
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Speaker 4: seed and they didn't get it done. But they had
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Speaker 4: a chance to be in the same situation the Seahorks
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Speaker 4: now are. By the way, the Seahawks did the same
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Speaker 4: thing playing San Francisco in Week eighteen. They had a Saturday.
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Speaker 4: The NFL put them on a Saturday for coming off
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Speaker 4: this road game. At Carolina. Right, it's the same situation.
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Speaker 4: Seahawks had a road game on Sunday, then they had
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Speaker 4: to go back across the country and play a Saturday
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Speaker 4: game against San Francisco. So yeah, if you don't like it,
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Speaker 4: win the game, be the one seed, and then you don't,
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Speaker 4: you get the spoils. They're not gonna make it. They're
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Speaker 4: not gonna put this way. The NFL is not going
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Speaker 4: to give the advantage to a six seed over a
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Speaker 4: one seed. Just darn. That's how you earn the perks
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Speaker 4: of being a one.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean, with George Kittle going down, that's got to
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Speaker 6: be a big, huge blow to them. I mean, his
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Speaker 6: production's one thing. Kind of the attitude of the heart
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Speaker 6: and soul that he brings to the squad is another.
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Speaker 6: I mean, is this just panning out, not that anybody's
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Speaker 6: wishing injury upon anybody. Is this panning out exactly the
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Speaker 6: way that you would think the Seahawks would like.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if it's if he's.
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Speaker 6: Gone, it feels like you just continue to figure out
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Speaker 6: a way to shut down Christian McCaffrey and limit his
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Speaker 6: damage that he can do to you. And maybe they
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Speaker 6: don't have a ton else to do offensively.
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Speaker 4: Not necessarily. I mean, party won that game yesterday. I
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Speaker 4: was I looked it up in the middle of the
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Speaker 4: fourth quarter. I said, why are they not giving McCaffrey
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Speaker 4: the ball? At one point, the first forty seven plays
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Speaker 4: that the forty nine ers ran yesterday, only thirteen were
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Speaker 4: runs by McCaffrey. That's my practice. To me, I would
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Speaker 4: give the ball twenty plus times to McCaffrey, no matter
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Speaker 4: what the time.
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Speaker 5: And score was.
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Speaker 4: But then they started after I looked that up, then
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Speaker 4: they started giving him the ball in the pass game,
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Speaker 4: and you saw the touchdown. The outroute to the end
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Speaker 4: route for the score became the winning touchdown. McCaffrey Purty
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Speaker 4: can still beat you. But Perdy can still make some
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Speaker 4: really puzzling throws in the coverage, like he did yesterday
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Speaker 4: a couple times. And he had done that every single
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Speaker 4: game I've watched him, including against the Seahawks, foremost against
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Speaker 4: the Seahuks. So but he also has a very high
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Speaker 4: ceiling and makes some really contested throws that gets the
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Speaker 4: forty nine ers out of problems. San Francisco has been
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Speaker 4: very good this year on third down, both offensively and defensively.
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Speaker 4: That has the Seahawks attention like it did in Week eighteen.
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Speaker 4: Kittle's been injured for much of this season. That has
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Speaker 4: not kept the Sea the forty nine Ers from winning
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Speaker 4: thirteen games. Perty's almost a wild card to me. He
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Speaker 4: can be very good and carry this team. He can
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Speaker 4: also be bad and throw really puzzling interceptions. If I
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Speaker 4: was San Francisco watching them like I have for years,
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Speaker 4: I'd give it to McCaffrey almost every time. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he is a dynamic player, especially in the open field.
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Speaker 4: Of course, we've talked about this. The Seahawks think they
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Speaker 4: have an anecdote to him that nobody else does. And
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Speaker 4: his name is Nicky mcworry.
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Speaker 2: Greg bellis with US Seahawks Insider, joining us right here
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Speaker 2: on this Monday morning on Chuck and Buck, and we
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Speaker 2: now know the opponent for the seahawks first playoff game
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Speaker 2: here of twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, it will
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Speaker 2: be the San Francisco forty nine ers. They'll come to Seattle.
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Speaker 2: They will play on Saturday. We still don't know the
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Speaker 2: time of that game, but should a little bit later
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Speaker 2: on today. All right, So Seahawks obviously get the buye
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Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that you know the injuries that whoever
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Speaker 2: needed healed up has had the time to get healed up.
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Speaker 2: Of what is this going to do for the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: and their medical tents to have two full weeks off
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Speaker 2: before they play this game on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Tic It certainly helps Charles Cross come off the hamstring issue.
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Speaker 4: He looked pretty spry running around the field in the
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Speaker 4: rain last week during the two practices they had. Kobe
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Speaker 4: Bryant's still the still the question mark from the knee injury.
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Speaker 4: He's missed the last few games, and McDonald has been
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Speaker 4: circumspect to say the least about Kobe Bryant's availability for
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Speaker 4: this week. We'll see more when they really get going
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Speaker 4: on Wednesday and have to. They'll have a practice report
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Speaker 4: tomorrow for Saturday games. The league requires a Tuesday practice report,
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Speaker 4: but Bryant is the big question mark. They still have
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Speaker 4: George Hallani and Chas Urat on injured reserve. They could
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Speaker 4: bring them both back. They have two more returned from
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Speaker 4: IR slots that you gain for making the postseason, But
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Speaker 4: the big issue to me would be Kobe Bryant. Although
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Speaker 4: ta Okata has played really well, no doubt this is
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Speaker 4: yet another benefit for the one seed to get the
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Speaker 4: week off, and more than just the health, it's just
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Speaker 4: a simple math in fact that they only they have
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Speaker 4: to win one fewer games to get to the super Bowl,
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Speaker 4: right because forty nine Ers have to win three road
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Speaker 4: games and the Seahawks have to win two home games,
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Speaker 4: and that is the biggest plus of winning the eight
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Speaker 4: week eighteen game.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously there's I mean, when it comes to Kobe Bryant,
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Speaker 6: I mean, he would be there, he wouldn't be the
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Speaker 6: starting guy if he wasn't better. But there's part of
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Speaker 6: me that does every game. When I watched Tyakota Tyakoto,
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Speaker 6: he seems like he's always at where the ball is
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Speaker 6: at and making big plays. Am I Am I missing something?
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Speaker 4: His yes, no you're not and his The gap he
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Speaker 4: had from Week one to Week eighteen against the forty
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Speaker 4: nine Ers was amazing because in Week one when Okada
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Speaker 4: had to come in, when Nick Emnworri got her and
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Speaker 4: they were playing defense differently than they had Nick even
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Speaker 4: Worri more in base back in the back as the
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Speaker 4: safety that first week. As soon as Okada came in,
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Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan targeting with George Kittle for a first down
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Speaker 4: on a touchdown, Boom boom right away, And eventually they
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Speaker 4: actually took tyle Katta out of that game. And then
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Speaker 4: in Week eighteen, o'kada starts and was a stud and
16:52
Speaker 4: coming up really hard on runs, stopping McCaffrey and others,
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Speaker 4: tackles receivers immediately going down after catching. Yeah, he's been
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Speaker 4: really good, I mean phenomenally good at times, shore tackles
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Speaker 4: being one of the many good traits that he has,
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Speaker 4: maybe the most important one. By the way, this is
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Speaker 4: the first time in NFL history that two teams have
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Speaker 4: played Week one in Week eighteen and in the playoffs
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Speaker 4: book getting the regular season. It's a very oddist fut
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Speaker 4: in the schedule. But that's never happened in the history
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Speaker 4: of the league. Do you hear all the time about
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Speaker 4: playing a team for the third time and how tricky
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Speaker 4: that is, But it's never happened like this. But Yeah,
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Speaker 4: to your point, Bucky, tyl Katta is not just some
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Speaker 4: scrap heap filling they're in trouble. He's really proven himself
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Speaker 4: of the course of the season.
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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, Bucky was telling me lent a little bit
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Speaker 2: to this. Clint Kubiak story this week. Apparently Lamar gave
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Speaker 2: him his stamp of approval publicly. I mean, how complicated
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Speaker 2: potentially could this get getting ready for the playoffs and
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Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak his name being surfaced out there as a
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Speaker 2: head coach candidate.
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Speaker 4: Well, the NFL tries to make it not complicated now
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Speaker 4: that we're in divisional game week. The rules are that
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Speaker 4: the teams can interview a guy on a one seed
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Speaker 4: during the bye week, the wildcard week by, and then
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Speaker 4: once that weekend ends, he's off limits. And he's off
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Speaker 4: limits as of today. The Seahawks are beginning their full
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Speaker 4: preparations today. Actually, the coaches got back in the building
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Speaker 4: last night once they found out who they were going
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Speaker 4: to play, So he is not able to be talked
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Speaker 4: to at least until the end of the division round.
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Speaker 4: If the Seahawks lose, he can be interviewed again starting
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Speaker 4: on January nineteenth. The Seahawks win, they can't talk to
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Speaker 4: him until the day January twenty six, which is a
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Speaker 4: day after the conference championship games, which is the bye
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Speaker 4: week before the two week break before the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: So while last week was clunky and somewhat inconvenient, the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks only practiced twice, and they had days off Friday Saturday.
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Speaker 4: The coach and the players are off Friday Saturday, players
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Speaker 4: off Sunday too, And so he got six of his
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Speaker 4: interviews done in that Friday and Saturday, all six of them,
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Speaker 4: so he didn't miss any actual daytime. Now, let's not
19:12
Speaker 4: be ignorant. And of course he was preparing all week
19:15
Speaker 4: for these interviews. You don't just wake up and start
19:17
Speaker 4: doing interviews for your head coaching job and even wanting
19:19
Speaker 4: your whole career. And that was something of a distraction.
19:23
Speaker 4: But the league is trying to back those guys off. Now,
19:26
Speaker 4: those teams off this week.
19:27
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it looks like great weather coming up
19:30
Speaker 2: on say and probably get it like a suntand.
19:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, the sun might actually be out.
19:35
Speaker 5: How about that? Crazy?
19:36
Speaker 4: So it would either be one thirty or five. Most
19:41
Speaker 4: people around the Seahawks inside the building think the administrators anyway,
19:44
Speaker 4: think it's going to be five. But there is some
19:47
Speaker 4: primetime Lord Josh Allen going into Denver. But yeah, it
19:51
Speaker 4: would be one thirty or five on Saturday.
19:53
Speaker 2: All right, sounds great, thank you, sir. We'll have all
19:55
Speaker 2: week to discuss it.
19:57
Speaker 4: Happy Monday, Thank you.
19:58
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Speaker 2: We always you know, it's it's coaching carousel time. And
20:31
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20:35
Speaker 5: I hate it.
20:35
Speaker 2: I don't like that cliche, and so I allow you
20:39
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20:42
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20:46
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20:56
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20:59
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21:02
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21:30
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning. Monday Morning Quarterback session is underway.
21:34
Speaker 2: We've already chatted with Greg Bell, Humel will be with
21:36
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21:38
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21:41
Speaker 2: with our analysts coming up, their reaction to the Seahawks
21:45
Speaker 2: first round matchup against the Seattle Seahawks, also their reaction
21:48
Speaker 2: to anything else that happened over the weekend in the
21:51
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21:53
Speaker 2: with you as well in the eight o'clock hour. Mike
21:57
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22:00
Speaker 2: do that Mondays at seven forty five. What we don't
22:03
Speaker 2: normally do is check in on all of the NFL
22:07
Speaker 2: coaching vacancy rumors that happen over the week. And it
22:11
Speaker 2: is a juicy time for that, that's for sure. And
22:14
Speaker 2: a lot of people call it the coaching carousel. I
22:17
Speaker 2: hate it just so it doesn't even make sense to me, frankly,
22:22
Speaker 2: and yet everybody uses it so frequently. I'm just like,
22:25
Speaker 2: I don't care what we call it. We're just not
22:27
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22:30
Speaker 2: listeners every off season to come up with something, and
22:33
Speaker 2: the general rule is, whoever comes up with the very
22:37
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22:42
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22:46
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22:48
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22:50
Speaker 2: we had and then also my favorite thing that we got.
22:54
Speaker 2: So I would like to propose our brand new name
22:58
Speaker 2: for our coaching Carousels segment, and that's the last time
23:01
Speaker 2: I want to refer to it as the coaching carousel.
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23:58
Speaker 2: in the mornings, as we get you up to date
23:59
Speaker 2: on all of the rumors out there. Uh, let's start
24:02
Speaker 2: with Clint Kubiak, the local one. Bucky was reading this
24:06
Speaker 2: to me off the air. Apparently Lamar Jackson weighed in
24:08
Speaker 2: on Clint Kubiak over the weekend and has kind of
24:11
Speaker 2: given him his thumbs up. I would imagine that goes
24:14
Speaker 2: a long way with the Baltimore Ravens.
24:16
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I mean, I don't know for sure. He's says,
24:20
Speaker 6: I ain't gonna lie. Clint's different. That's what he was.
24:23
Speaker 6: That's what Lamar Jackson's saying. Watching his stuff. He's he
24:27
Speaker 6: he really be in his bag. Defense has got to
24:29
Speaker 6: defend the whole field. So he's watched some stuff. He's
24:33
Speaker 6: he's looked at him. He likes how he he makes
24:35
Speaker 6: it easy on the quarterback and lets the playmakers do
24:38
Speaker 6: their thing. I mean, I guess if you're if you
24:42
Speaker 6: watch different times during this season, you most certainly I mean,
24:45
Speaker 6: you got the number one wide receiver and Jackson Smith
24:48
Speaker 6: and Jigba. You've you've taken Sam Darnold from you know,
24:53
Speaker 6: his rebound year last year and just kind of kept
24:56
Speaker 6: that train moving in the right direction.
24:58
Speaker 5: The running backs get a lot of work.
25:00
Speaker 6: I mean, imagine if Derrick Henry got as many touches
25:03
Speaker 6: as the running backs here do, it feels like he
25:06
Speaker 6: would get to get.
25:07
Speaker 5: On a roll. So yeah, I'm sure it does go
25:10
Speaker 5: along ways.
25:10
Speaker 6: If the starting quarterback, the guy that's won a couple
25:12
Speaker 6: MVP says, that's the guy I'd like.
25:15
Speaker 7: I would just like, though, to have an offensive coordinator
25:18
Speaker 7: that just wants to be an offensive coordinator, because you
25:21
Speaker 7: either have one that's terrible and gets fired and then
25:24
Speaker 7: you're just switching him every year because of that, or
25:26
Speaker 7: you have one that's good and gets poached. There's there's
25:29
Speaker 7: not really You're not just like getting a great offensive
25:31
Speaker 7: coordinator for five years.
25:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's hard. I mean, even like Vic Fanuro and
25:36
Speaker 2: Wink Martindale, I thought those were guys and they were
25:39
Speaker 2: defensive guys that kind of were those guys that you're
25:43
Speaker 2: talking about.
25:44
Speaker 5: I just want to be a coordinator. I don't want
25:45
Speaker 5: to deal with all.
25:45
Speaker 2: The stuff that and eventually they wanted to be head
25:48
Speaker 2: coaches too. Clint Kubiak's a young guy. I'm sure that
25:52
Speaker 2: it's his dream, but you know, he's not exactly the
25:56
Speaker 2: most dynamic of personalities. I don't know how well he's
26:00
Speaker 2: going to fare in the interviews. We'll see. We'll see.
26:04
Speaker 2: Maybe he turns on the charm and the interviews. We
26:06
Speaker 2: shall see. But there's no getting around it. I mean,
26:10
Speaker 2: all the questions that the Seahawks offense was supposed to
26:13
Speaker 2: face this year, and you finish what second third and
26:17
Speaker 2: the National Football League and points scored and all of
26:19
Speaker 2: the things that Bucky said. I mean, I think I
26:22
Speaker 2: don't think Baltimore has a JSN, but certainly they've got
26:26
Speaker 2: an offense that looked broken this year, and they're they're
26:30
Speaker 2: kind of starting from scratch with Lamar Jackson, not with
26:33
Speaker 2: the roster, but with how they're want to coach this
26:37
Speaker 2: offense going forward. I guess it was a disaster behind
26:40
Speaker 2: the scenes with Todd Monkin and Harbaugh and Lamar, and
26:45
Speaker 2: so whatever happens, you're probably gonna have to get Lamar's endorsement. Yeah,
26:50
Speaker 2: of whoever's going to be the head coach, and it
26:52
Speaker 2: sounds like he's already given it to Clint Kubiak. We
26:55
Speaker 2: shall see. The other one is the Packers. That's the
27:00
Speaker 2: breaking news this morning.
27:02
Speaker 4: Man.
27:02
Speaker 2: It just felt to me like I was gonna come
27:04
Speaker 2: on the airwaves today and tell you Matt Lafleor is
27:07
Speaker 2: out and a head coaching candidate for one of these
27:10
Speaker 2: other vacancies. I mean, there was already smoke in regards
27:14
Speaker 2: to whether or not he was going to be back,
27:16
Speaker 2: and then maybe one of the worst coaching performances we've
27:19
Speaker 2: ever seen in the postseason on Saturday. To blow that
27:22
Speaker 2: lead and to do it in such disastrous fashion, I
27:26
Speaker 2: thought for sure we would be hearing that the Packers
27:29
Speaker 2: are going to move on. As a matter of fact,
27:30
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and still believe that. I think
27:32
Speaker 2: Packer's gonna move on from him. I think they're gonna
27:35
Speaker 2: end up with John Harball, and I think Matt Lafleur
27:37
Speaker 2: will be out.
27:38
Speaker 6: I don't. I wouldn't go there. I mean, and I
27:41
Speaker 6: don't fully understand. I mean, he's like the I mean,
27:44
Speaker 6: they've been pretty damn good since he's been there. I
27:46
Speaker 6: saw something, I want to say, it was like, second,
27:49
Speaker 6: he's got the second most wins of any coach in
27:52
Speaker 6: the first five or six.
27:53
Speaker 5: Years of his career.
27:54
Speaker 6: Like, I don't think it's that easy to just find
27:56
Speaker 6: somebody new that you know is going to be better
27:59
Speaker 6: than the next. Now, there's some stuff that obviously he
28:02
Speaker 6: has his hand in when it comes to them giving
28:06
Speaker 6: up that game yesterday, But I don't know for sure.
28:09
Speaker 6: I mean I wouldn't move on from him personally. That
28:11
Speaker 6: would not be That would not be the direction that
28:14
Speaker 6: I would go. There's still a playoff team that feels
28:17
Speaker 6: like they had every opportunity to advance, and they could
28:20
Speaker 6: have been a very dangerous team had they been the
28:22
Speaker 6: one that comes into Seattle, and yet they just didn't
28:25
Speaker 6: do enough.
28:26
Speaker 7: They took a pretty big step or not big step,
28:28
Speaker 7: but they did take a step backwards this year after
28:30
Speaker 7: from last year.
28:31
Speaker 2: I mean, well, yeah, I mean this is the youngest
28:33
Speaker 2: roster and everybody says they're a playoff contender, and then
28:36
Speaker 2: they you know, nine to seven and one this year.
28:39
Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't in charge of the smoke starting.
28:42
Speaker 2: I figured Matt Laflori's young was going to be there forever,
28:45
Speaker 2: but the smoke was already there. There's no way he
28:47
Speaker 2: could have helped his cause, not after Saturday. And so
28:50
Speaker 2: if you've got this many great candidates out there, including
28:54
Speaker 2: a John Harball, who I would imagine would like to
28:57
Speaker 2: take over a place with a quarterback staff, the youngest
29:01
Speaker 2: roster in the National Football League, a team that's made
29:04
Speaker 2: the playoffs with the youngest and for whatever reason, has
29:07
Speaker 2: not taken that next step forward. I would think John
29:11
Speaker 2: Harball would be very interested in that, not to mention
29:13
Speaker 2: the historical significance of becoming the next Green Bay Packers
29:17
Speaker 2: head coach man. There could be and he might not
29:21
Speaker 2: be the only phenomenal name that's going to be here.
29:24
Speaker 2: I mean, remains to be seen if Pittsburgh gets eliminated tonight,
29:28
Speaker 2: if Mike Tomlin becomes available, because I think the very
29:32
Speaker 2: similar story has happened this year in Pittsburgh that happened
29:35
Speaker 2: in Baltimore, where maybe Mike Tomlin and the organization can
29:39
Speaker 2: both look at each other and say, it's been a
29:40
Speaker 2: hell of a run, but it's time to move on.
29:44
Speaker 2: Things have gotten flat. I'm tired of the criticism, tired
29:47
Speaker 2: of the drama. I need a fresh start, and I
29:50
Speaker 2: maybe you do as well. So he might become available
29:53
Speaker 2: out there as well. And don't forget, Matt Lafleur's buddy
29:56
Speaker 2: just went from Green Bay to Miami to run the
29:59
Speaker 2: Dolphins as the general manager, and so maybe Matt Lafleur
30:03
Speaker 2: would want to move on. Maybe that's for a young
30:07
Speaker 2: head coach that has the opportunity to possibly have more
30:10
Speaker 2: say in personnel decisions as opposed to being there with
30:13
Speaker 2: Brian Goodie koonst that maybe he goes to Miami and
30:17
Speaker 2: has a little more of a higher profile and Miami
30:20
Speaker 2: gets a sizzling young head coach to lead up. That
30:24
Speaker 2: that true. Yeah, so I think that's that's a possibility
30:28
Speaker 2: as well. But there are rumors flying all over the
30:30
Speaker 2: place right now, obviously on the coaching front. Tomorrow, I'm
30:35
Speaker 2: just gonna assign it. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
30:38
Speaker 2: say this is what's going to happen. Oh maybe I
30:40
Speaker 2: wait till reckless of break well, recklessly okay on Wednesday,
30:44
Speaker 2: But yeah, all sorts of juicy stuff out there on
30:48
Speaker 2: the coaching front. Maybe we'll ask coach home Run about
30:51
Speaker 2: it in our nine o'clock hour coming up next. I
30:54
Speaker 2: think we're pretty set with our coach. I think we're
30:56
Speaker 2: pretty happy. I think we're pretty well adjusted. You, i'd
31:00
Speaker 2: say so. I mean, there was no period of uncomfortability
31:04
Speaker 2: that we had to get through. But right now, Mike
31:07
Speaker 2: McDonald seems like it was the gold mine of a
31:12
Speaker 2: choice by John Schneider. And every Monday we hear from
31:15
Speaker 2: the coach right here on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
31:17
Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM.
31:25
Speaker 8: I'll get your time, give you time if you want
31:28
Speaker 8: to fix that, because I can't do this segment without
31:33
Speaker 8: getting in the mood, you know what I mean.
31:36
Speaker 5: Oh, I gotta be there.
31:38
Speaker 2: I gotta have that soul. Mike McDonald audio of our
31:42
Speaker 2: own on Friday, In case you missed our conversation with coach,
31:46
Speaker 2: you can check that out at our podcast ninety three
31:48
Speaker 2: to three KJR dot com. Full twenty two minute conversation
31:53
Speaker 2: with the Seahawks head coach during the bye week. And
31:56
Speaker 2: I had a great conversation with the coach and so well,
32:00
Speaker 2: if you want to check it out to feel free
32:01
Speaker 2: to do so. A lot of that stuff is still fresh.
32:03
Speaker 2: Obviously on Friday we did not know the opponent, but
32:06
Speaker 2: there are a lot of things when you don't play,
32:09
Speaker 2: uh in the wild card week, and a lot of
32:11
Speaker 2: this stuff remains fresh that we discussed because you know,
32:15
Speaker 2: we haven't had anything that that has changed the situation.
32:21
Speaker 2: You're the number one seed. Yeah, you get to just yeah,
32:23
Speaker 2: build an advantage. Wait wait, huh. So we'll pick up
32:28
Speaker 2: the conversation with the coach when we asked them if
32:32
Speaker 2: there's any way that this team could play better defense
32:35
Speaker 2: than they did against the forty nine ers in their
32:38
Speaker 2: last matchup.
32:39
Speaker 9: I think that's a fair statement. That's that's uh, that's
32:41
Speaker 9: probably the best we've we've played up to this point,
32:44
Speaker 9: just from first to the last play, all eleven guys
32:48
Speaker 9: on one accord, playing with playing with shocking effort, you know,
32:52
Speaker 9: and and it was just it was just it was
32:55
Speaker 9: just a great team effort, really was you know, it
32:57
Speaker 9: wasn't try to say it after the game. I mean,
32:59
Speaker 9: our coaches have on a great job of putting plans together,
33:02
Speaker 9: but I think the more important part is like how
33:04
Speaker 9: we've prepared our guys, the work that our guys have
33:06
Speaker 9: put in, like on a weekly basis, so they can
33:08
Speaker 9: go play that way, you know, and then at the
33:10
Speaker 9: end of the day, the guys they make the decision
33:12
Speaker 9: every time they take the field that uh, there's a
33:15
Speaker 9: standard they want to uphold, and they really they really
33:17
Speaker 9: made it come to.
33:17
Speaker 10: Life on Saturday night.
33:19
Speaker 5: It was it was.
33:20
Speaker 9: It was a pretty pretty awesome game by those guys.
33:22
Speaker 2: So let's talk about your quarterback. The entire nation, even
33:26
Speaker 2: some people here locally seem really worried about his number
33:29
Speaker 2: of turnovers. Why is Mike McDonald not worried about that
33:34
Speaker 2: at all?
33:34
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think we're worried about what Sam does.
33:38
Speaker 5: All the inputs.
33:39
Speaker 9: You know, it's because it's it's it's easy to tell,
33:42
Speaker 9: like I've said this before, but when you start coaching outcomes,
33:46
Speaker 9: that's that to me, that's like confusing as a player,
33:48
Speaker 9: you know, like I don't know, make like you got
33:51
Speaker 9: to make that tackle or you gotta like why don't
33:53
Speaker 9: you get a sack.
33:54
Speaker 10: On that play?
33:55
Speaker 9: Like, well, you know, why why wouldn't you work? Why
33:57
Speaker 9: wouldn't you be coaching.
33:58
Speaker 10: Me on why I went aligned and how I got
34:01
Speaker 10: off the football, and like the how I like how
34:05
Speaker 10: I attack, like the the contact zone and the rush,
34:07
Speaker 10: or how I finished the play.
34:08
Speaker 9: Well, the same thing with the quarterback. You know, it's
34:11
Speaker 9: what was your mentality going to the play? Okay, let's
34:13
Speaker 9: coach your footwork up? Where did your eyes start? How'd
34:15
Speaker 9: you see the read? You know, where you decide it.
34:18
Speaker 4: In that moment?
34:18
Speaker 10: The way we want you to play?
34:20
Speaker 9: You know, I think those are the things that are
34:23
Speaker 9: clear to a player on how you want them to play.
34:25
Speaker 9: And if you start coaching outcomes now now, I think
34:28
Speaker 9: you're going to start getting players on your team that
34:30
Speaker 9: aren't playing the way you want and you don't get
34:32
Speaker 9: the style of play that we've been able to create.
34:34
Speaker 9: And so you know, it's the most important position, and
34:37
Speaker 9: and and Sam is a great player, But the way
34:39
Speaker 9: we coach our guys is going to remain the same.
34:41
Speaker 9: And that's just how we're going to roll here, you know.
34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think sometimes we lose sight of that
34:46
Speaker 2: from a coaching standpoint. And this is why Sam Darnold's
34:49
Speaker 2: not going to change playing the way that he is playing.
34:52
Speaker 2: This is why Hugh points out all of that data
34:54
Speaker 2: that Hugh comes up with about you know, uh, the
35:00
Speaker 2: the interception caliber plays. I know that's not turnover.
35:04
Speaker 7: Caliber plays, turnover.
35:06
Speaker 2: Worthy plays versus the turnovers, and how Sam has actually
35:10
Speaker 2: had more turnovers than turnover worthy plays, or at least
35:13
Speaker 2: his ratio is among the best. I think it's only
35:16
Speaker 2: behind Jared Goff if I can remember Hugh's recital of
35:20
Speaker 2: those statistics. You don't get the downfield production that you've
35:25
Speaker 2: gotten out of Sam Donald because he starts playing differently
35:28
Speaker 2: in order to preserve himself against the calamity of a turnover.
35:34
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald sounds perfectly willing to go with Sam Donald's
35:39
Speaker 2: gotten us here, and he's played this way, and he's
35:41
Speaker 2: played this way because I've urged him to play this way,
35:44
Speaker 2: and we sure as hell aren't going to change that
35:47
Speaker 2: just because the outcomes suggests he's thrown more interceptions or
35:51
Speaker 2: committed more turnovers than any other quarterback in the National
35:53
Speaker 2: Football League. He also has as many wins as any
35:56
Speaker 2: quarterback in the National Football League as well, and you
36:00
Speaker 2: certainly can relate to this. I think of baseball when
36:02
Speaker 2: I hear that, I think of baseball, and when a
36:06
Speaker 2: guy hits a line drive to center field on a
36:09
Speaker 2: day that he goes oh for four, and then he
36:11
Speaker 2: trots over to the dugout and the hitting coaches there saying, yes, yes,
36:17
Speaker 2: you know, we're not gonna judge it because you had
36:21
Speaker 2: three for four, but you had two duck snorts over
36:23
Speaker 2: the third baseman's head, and then you also hit a
36:27
Speaker 2: ground ball off the pitcher's ankle that the official score
36:32
Speaker 2: decided not to call an air. Three for four in
36:35
Speaker 2: the box score might look good, but you have some
36:37
Speaker 2: things to work on, and it goes the other way
36:40
Speaker 2: as well. You hit three line drives, it probably means
36:43
Speaker 2: you're on at that state. So I like it. I
36:48
Speaker 2: like hearing that from coach.
36:49
Speaker 6: It's one of the things that is frustrating about, you know,
36:53
Speaker 6: like talking to some of my buddies who are strictly
36:56
Speaker 6: outcome based, Like I mean, that's it, That's all that
36:59
Speaker 6: they care about is come. It's like, well, I mean,
37:01
Speaker 6: if he throws a dime right to your receiver's hands,
37:04
Speaker 6: goes through his hands and then the safety behind picks
37:07
Speaker 6: it off and takes it to the house, is that
37:09
Speaker 6: really a pick?
37:10
Speaker 2: Sick?
37:10
Speaker 6: Is that his fault? Now, don't get me wrong. There's
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Speaker 6: questionable throws that he makes. And and yet that's what
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Speaker 6: you have to cut, that's what you want to rain
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Speaker 6: him in on, like you're not.
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Speaker 5: You have to read that.
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Speaker 6: If a guy's playing under and you throw that out
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Speaker 6: route and he picks it off and takes it to
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Speaker 6: the house, you got you can't make that mistake like
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Speaker 6: you have. That's a rookie mistake and you you're not
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Speaker 6: a rookie, So don't make those.
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Speaker 5: Types of things.
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Speaker 6: But the turnovers are going to happen when you try
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Speaker 6: to force it in the tight windows that come in
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Speaker 6: the NFL. And yet if you clip his wings, like dude,
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Speaker 6: that's the only way that we lose is if you
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Speaker 6: do that, all of a sudden, he's he's not going
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Speaker 6: to throw the ball with conviction. He's going to be
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Speaker 6: worried about the outcome versus the process. And if there's
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Speaker 6: one team that right now, well, I mean, we cover
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Speaker 6: this team, so we hear Mike McDonald's words talk about it.
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Speaker 5: We hear people like Greg Bell report.
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Speaker 6: On it that it's all about the process and the
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Speaker 6: whole team. That's like another word for approach in baseball.
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Speaker 6: He said, approach a lot. It's the process in which
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Speaker 6: you go about your business, that's what that's what contributes
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Speaker 6: to the outcome. But you can't really control the outcome
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Speaker 6: all the time. You can't control whether or not your
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Speaker 6: guy catches the ball. You can just control whether or
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Speaker 6: not you throw it to the right guy, like you
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Speaker 6: says on time and and make you give him the
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Speaker 6: opportunity to make that catch. And so to me, I
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Speaker 6: think it's a I think it's a short sighted conversation.
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Speaker 6: If people just want to talk about now, I'll say this,
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Speaker 6: holding onto the ball in the pocket is a big one.
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Speaker 5: Right Like.
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Speaker 6: Now, don't get me wrong, if you don't see a
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Speaker 6: guy coming from your blind side and he hits you
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Speaker 6: and hits your arm, then you're gonna fumble. But there's
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Speaker 6: we've seen other times where he gets hit or gets bumped,
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Speaker 6: or the pocket's collapsing, and you know he's feeling it,
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Speaker 6: he can recognize it happening all around him, and the
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Speaker 6: ball is jarred loose. You got to be more like
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Speaker 6: a like Ben Roethlisberger, more like a Josh All And
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Speaker 6: where you don't let go of the ball in those situations.
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Speaker 6: That's being a little bit carrierless like when a running
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Speaker 6: back or a ball carrier some sort of hold the
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Speaker 6: ball out there like a loaf of bread. They say,
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Speaker 6: you got to make sure that that thing's protected when
39:12
Speaker 6: you when you get in a dangerous situation. And so
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Speaker 6: I think that there's room to clean things up without
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Speaker 6: causing some sort of.
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Speaker 5: Hey, don't do that, or where that's going to kill us?
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean. You don't want to do that.
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Speaker 6: Otherwise you're going to find yourself with an apprehensive quarterback.
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Speaker 6: And I think that's way worse than somebody that pushes
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Speaker 6: the ball do the field and every.
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Speaker 5: Once in a while it turns into a turnover.
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Speaker 2: I would also like to point out that those who
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Speaker 2: are carrying their loafs of bread home like a football,
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Speaker 2: you are also making a mistake. Yeah, yeah, you're crushing its.
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Speaker 2: Take your bread a little bit. It's like mangled by
39:41
Speaker 2: the time I'm ready to make a sandwich. Then what
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Speaker 2: come on, Yeah, it's two different entities, let's handle them differently. True, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's so much Yeah, there's just so much talk about
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Speaker 2: not carrying a football like a loaf of bread. And
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Speaker 2: I think that we should also urge the other and
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Speaker 2: that might be more important. I think it is. I've
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Speaker 2: eaten a lot more for most people than I have
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Speaker 2: fumbled in the national football greed. All right, Hugh Millon
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Speaker 2: is gonna join us. Next it's time for a Monday
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Speaker 2: morning quarterback session, his thoughts on the matchup against the
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