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- 1:05Speaker 1: are diving in here today. We're gonna have our three
- 1:08Speaker 1: wiseman Greg Bell at seven oh five, Hu Million at eight,
- 1:11Speaker 1: Mike Homrian a nine thirty, a couple of other surprises
- 1:14Speaker 1: along the way. Really time to sink our teeth into
- 1:17Speaker 1: it here on a football Friday, because the next thing
- 1:21Speaker 1: that happens is the game. As soon as we leave here,
- 1:24Speaker 1: the next thing we're focusing on is the game on Sunday,
- 1:27Speaker 1: and that game needs to have nick Emon Worri in it.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Let's face it, the bomb was dropped that he injured
- 1:33Speaker 1: his ankle and practice on Wednesday. I think I kind
- 1:37Speaker 1: of felt like, man, it's an injured ankle, it's Wednesday.
- 1:42Speaker 1: He's gonna be fine by Sunday. And then Greg Bell
- 1:45Speaker 1: came in yesterday with a sort of an ominous tone
- 1:48Speaker 1: to his voice about it. I said, are they ready
- 1:51Speaker 1: to go? He goes, no, they are not ready to go.
- 1:54Speaker 1: And this nick Emon Worri injury is serious and there's
- 1:59Speaker 1: video of him seriously severely limping into a building on
- 2:05Speaker 1: Wednesday night, And so yeah, I know these doctors Buckey
- 2:09Speaker 1: can do a lot of things in a short period
- 2:11Speaker 1: of time to get injured players ready for a game.
- 2:14Speaker 1: But of all the guys with the exception of Sam Darnold,
- 2:19Speaker 1: that needs to be one hundred percent healthy. I think
- 2:21Speaker 1: he might be the guy that we need to play
- 2:24Speaker 1: it play well on Sunday. Maybe not one hundred percent,
- 2:27Speaker 1: but he needs.
- 2:27Speaker 2: To be healthy. Yeah, he's got to be healthy enough
- 2:29Speaker 2: that he's not a detriment to the team, and I
- 2:31Speaker 2: don't think they'll put him out there if he is.
- 2:33Speaker 2: He yesterday, I mean the video after we got the
- 2:37Speaker 2: report that he had rolled his ankle, how he was limping.
- 2:40Speaker 2: He're like ooh, and then Greig comes in and says, hell,
- 2:43Speaker 2: how certain are they that he probably sixty percent?
- 2:46Speaker 1: Sixty percent?
- 2:47Speaker 2: Like I was thinking, like, that's seventy five eighty percent
- 2:50Speaker 2: is what he was going to say. Sixty percent was
- 2:51Speaker 2: far more ominous than I than I was expecting the
- 2:55Speaker 2: prognosis to be.
- 2:56Speaker 1: So yeah, if I'd have known that, I'd be like, hey, Caliendo,
- 2:59Speaker 1: I'm not jokey mood. Yeah not, you keep your jokes
- 3:02Speaker 1: to yourself. We've got an injured star defender.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, listen, sixty yeah. But then you saw the
- 3:08Speaker 2: video yesterday of him walking around after is they were
- 3:11Speaker 2: leaving media day, and it was hardly noticeable. I mean,
- 3:15Speaker 2: you're right what they can do. I tend to kind
- 3:17Speaker 2: of err on the side of they're gonna be fine,
- 3:20Speaker 2: even though I don't know that to be true. Not
- 3:22Speaker 2: everybody has the same pain tolerance. I don't know exactly
- 3:25Speaker 2: how well the medical staff does it nowadays. I just
- 3:28Speaker 2: know courtisan shots are amazing. They they really do mask
- 3:32Speaker 2: a lot of pain. And so I just was thinking
- 3:34Speaker 2: to myself, it's not going to be that big of
- 3:35Speaker 2: a deal. But if all of a sudden the sixty
- 3:38Speaker 2: percent thing comes out and he's just guessing, right, I
- 3:40Speaker 2: don't think they told him we're only about sixty percent
- 3:42Speaker 2: positive he's a play. He was just hearing reading between
- 3:45Speaker 2: the lines of how worried they were about it and
- 3:48Speaker 2: what it looked like when he saw him put his
- 3:50Speaker 2: eyes on him limping around and coming off the field.
- 3:52Speaker 2: So I think there is something to the idea of, yeah,
- 3:56Speaker 2: he's a dude that you definitely need is a He's
- 3:59Speaker 2: he's that Swiss army knife on defense that you can
- 4:01Speaker 2: basically counter whatever they bring in, right, I mean, the
- 4:05Speaker 2: chess match between Josh McDaniel and Mike McDonald is, okay,
- 4:11Speaker 2: what are they gonna do? What do I think they're
- 4:12Speaker 2: gonna do, and then you read into that based on
- 4:14Speaker 2: the person know that they bring out there. Well, Mike
- 4:16Speaker 2: McDonald when he has even worried basically being a safety
- 4:20Speaker 2: but playing like a Sam linebacker that we've heard multiple
- 4:23Speaker 2: people discuss him as he can just match up regardless
- 4:25Speaker 2: of what you want to do. He can match up
- 4:27Speaker 2: with your one of your better wide receivers. He can
- 4:30Speaker 2: set the edge like a defensive end in the run game.
- 4:32Speaker 2: So to not have him would have been huge. I mean,
- 4:36Speaker 2: it would have been big. It's not like you're gonna
- 4:38Speaker 2: not play with the player. You would had somebody step
- 4:40Speaker 2: in there. But it's obvious it would not have been
- 4:42Speaker 2: the same type of athlete that he is.
- 4:44Speaker 1: You know, if there is any truth to the you
- 4:47Speaker 1: know Sam Donald thing like he doesn't really have an
- 4:49Speaker 1: oblique injuries, just trying to throw him for a loop, yeah,
- 4:52Speaker 1: which we don't buy.
- 4:53Speaker 2: We don't believe that.
- 4:54Speaker 3: But if.
- 4:57Speaker 1: You know, taking that and running it through the Jai
- 5:00Speaker 1: and or see me the Emon warri filter, well that
- 5:03Speaker 1: would throw another team for a loop, Like that's a
- 5:05Speaker 1: completely different preparation. Yeah, don't you think that if you
- 5:09Speaker 1: have Eman Warrior, don't have Emon Worry out there, like,
- 5:12Speaker 1: you're you need to prepare for Emon Worri. Yeah, you're
- 5:16Speaker 1: not gonna be able to replicate that. You're not gonna
- 5:20Speaker 1: be able to figure out what this defense looks like.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Now if it doesn't have Emon Worri. How does Josh
- 5:25Speaker 1: McDaniel's even gonna deal with that?
- 5:28Speaker 2: Well, I think they still would prepare as if you're
- 5:30Speaker 2: going to have him, because what yeah, it's the last
- 5:33Speaker 2: game of the season. I mean, they would rip Mike
- 5:35Speaker 2: Rabel's new NFL Coach of the Year award. They would
- 5:38Speaker 2: rip it off of his chest or wherever they put
- 5:40Speaker 2: the patch, they would rip it off. If he all
- 5:42Speaker 2: of a sudden loses in the Super Bowl and he
- 5:45Speaker 2: he comes to his press conference, he's like, well, he
- 5:49Speaker 2: totally changed our game plan. Thinking that the Emon Worry
- 5:51Speaker 2: guy wasn't going to be in there, and then he
- 5:54Speaker 2: was there, totally wrecked their game plan. I mean, you've
- 5:57Speaker 2: got to prepare he wasn't going to be there.
- 6:01Speaker 4: Greg Bel said, sixty chance he was playing, So we
- 6:03Speaker 4: just playing for the forty.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Yeah, forty. We just totally threw We walked in there
- 6:08Speaker 2: basically completely hamstrung. We didn't have half of our playbook.
- 6:11Speaker 2: We thought he wasn't gonna play. I mean, that would
- 6:13Speaker 2: be against.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Ten men on defense all week long. We didn't think
- 6:18Speaker 1: they were allowed to replace him. This was a soccer that.
- 6:21Speaker 2: Would be bad. I think they're preparing for him to play,
- 6:24Speaker 2: obviously they're I mean, you have to. You have to
- 6:27Speaker 2: be pretty hurt to not want to play or not
- 6:30Speaker 2: go out there and play in a super Bowl, especially
- 6:32Speaker 2: you know what, you don't know. He's got guys on
- 6:34Speaker 2: his team that have been playing for ten plus years
- 6:36Speaker 2: and this is the first time they get to a
- 6:38Speaker 2: super Bowl. Now this is his first year and he's
- 6:40Speaker 2: getting he's right in one. So I think that there
- 6:43Speaker 2: is something to the idea of is he going to
- 6:46Speaker 2: be the same emon worry. I suppose he's probably the
- 6:48Speaker 2: biggest concern at this point because he was breaking down
- 6:50Speaker 2: where yeah, he can probably still tough it out setting
- 6:53Speaker 2: an edge, but you try to stay up with a
- 6:56Speaker 2: shifty receiver out in space if you're not one hundred
- 6:58Speaker 2: percent healthy, that could be a different Yeah.
- 7:00Speaker 1: Well, by your own admission, you're the third best athlete
- 7:03Speaker 1: at this table. But you I heard it. Yeah, I
- 7:08Speaker 1: think we could replay it for it. But yeah, you
- 7:13Speaker 1: are a you are a former professional athlete. So I
- 7:17Speaker 1: just you know, you sprain your ankle on Wednesday before.
- 7:22Speaker 2: The World Series begins.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Yeah, sprain your an lower ankle. Sprain and it hurts,
- 7:27Speaker 1: and you're limping around and people see video of you
- 7:30Speaker 1: and you're like, oh gosh, it doesn't look like it
- 7:32Speaker 1: could play right now. I mean, what's running through your head?
- 7:36Speaker 2: What are you?
- 7:37Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about d h. You got to
- 7:38Speaker 1: play the field. You got to do all the twists
- 7:40Speaker 1: and turns that you would have to do in a
- 7:42Speaker 1: normal game. I mean, what's your mindset? If somebody said
- 7:46Speaker 1: you're sixty percent right now.
- 7:48Speaker 2: I'm going to be telling well, watch what I do
- 7:50Speaker 2: with sixty percent watch this? I mean it just I am.
- 7:56Speaker 2: I would be willing to bet that even in the
- 7:58Speaker 2: midst of the niche pain of it. He said something
- 8:02Speaker 2: to the people when they're hovering around him on the practice,
- 8:04Speaker 2: You're like, dude, are you all right?
- 8:06Speaker 3: Oh man?
- 8:07Speaker 2: Oh it hurts? How is it? I'm fine. I'm gonna
- 8:09Speaker 2: be fine. I'll bet you within five minutes he said,
- 8:12Speaker 2: I'm going to be fine.
- 8:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 8:13Speaker 2: And now whether or not he was when he was
- 8:14Speaker 2: limping around like but the fact that he wasn't in
- 8:17Speaker 2: a walking boot, and you know, I mean, it's just
- 8:20Speaker 2: you get the stem and the ice and then you
- 8:22Speaker 2: heat it up and you're moving it around. They get
- 8:24Speaker 2: those compression chambers. Now you can put on your legs,
- 8:27Speaker 2: and then a shot that they inevitably were going to
- 8:30Speaker 2: put in there, I would almost guarantee it. I think
- 8:33Speaker 2: that he was certain he was going to play. It
- 8:34Speaker 2: would take a lot more than just a rolled ankle. Now,
- 8:37Speaker 2: certain things you can't play through, right, a high ankle
- 8:39Speaker 2: sprain I don't think you can, but just a normal
- 8:42Speaker 2: ankle sprain. I think that he probably was immediately thinking
- 8:45Speaker 2: I'm rock and rolling. I know that's where I would
- 8:47Speaker 2: have been. But then again, I've never tried to play
- 8:49Speaker 2: defense in the NFL.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Either shoot me up, tape me up. Yeah, do whatever
- 8:54Speaker 1: you need. I'm playing in this game, but I will
- 8:56Speaker 1: chew through these walls if you try to keep me playing.
- 9:00Speaker 4: The most promising thing, too, was him saying when he
- 9:02Speaker 4: woke up, he wasn't he was okay, like, oh, it's
- 9:05Speaker 4: not that it's not that bad, because you know, after
- 9:07Speaker 4: you sleep and then it gets stiff overnight. You'd think
- 9:09Speaker 4: that would be really sore and pretty painful the next morning,
- 9:12Speaker 4: and he seemed to be like, no, it's not too bad.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Well, he's one hundred percent going to Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 9:18Speaker 1: It's just as Bucky mentioned earlier, we talked about a
- 9:21Speaker 1: little bit yesterday. What what's he going to play at?
- 9:25Speaker 1: Is he eighty percent capable, eighty five percent capable? You know,
- 9:28Speaker 1: who knows? Ninety two percent stef who knows. But that's
- 9:32Speaker 1: that's the significance, that's the factor in the in the
- 9:35Speaker 1: game plan, and he's just it just highlights his importance.
- 9:38Speaker 1: And maybe New England doesn't realize how important he is.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Maybe Patriot fans don't realize how important he is. Maybe
- 9:44Speaker 1: the national narrative doesn't realize how important Number three is
- 9:48Speaker 1: to the Seahawks defense.
- 9:50Speaker 2: But we do.
- 9:51Speaker 1: So you know, maybe there's some Patriot fan out there, like,
- 9:55Speaker 1: what are you all worried about? I've never even heard
- 9:57Speaker 1: of this guy? Right, Well, he was and he is
- 10:02Speaker 1: about as valuable a player on the best defense, arguably
- 10:05Speaker 1: in the National Football League that there is. And so
- 10:09Speaker 1: this is a big deal, This is a really big deal.
- 10:11Speaker 1: His health heading into Sunday, well, I have Greg Bell
- 10:14Speaker 1: on at seven oh five to update this coming up
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- 10:58Speaker 1: And he made the trip to Radio Row just to
- 11:01Speaker 1: see you. You know what you do. You make more
- 11:04Speaker 1: time for Greg Bell. That's what you do.
- 11:06Speaker 2: You don't have to do that. Oh I want to
- 11:07Speaker 2: do that.
- 11:08Speaker 5: You're actually doing this for Wendy Bell. Yeah, it was
- 11:11Speaker 5: still outside of the street waiting to come in. Is
- 11:13Speaker 5: that right, She's still out there. That's how you stay married,
- 11:16Speaker 5: because you you have to handwalk her instead of got
- 11:20Speaker 5: I gotta wash, I gotta dry my hair. I muld
- 11:23Speaker 5: have been here a half hour ago, but I've been.
- 11:27Speaker 2: My hair.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I'm still hear it, Wendy, my hair is still wet.
- 11:32Speaker 1: I just keep it wet. Yeah, Yeah, that's what.
- 11:35Speaker 5: I have with the irony of it is there are
- 11:38Speaker 5: foofs on top of foofs that they let in here,
- 11:41Speaker 5: and I'm trying to tell her that. I mean, she's
- 11:43Speaker 5: not in the media, but at least she's she's not
- 11:45Speaker 5: a foof anyway. But there's so many people that are
- 11:48Speaker 5: in here, right Mom's basement people, all these people that
- 11:51Speaker 5: are in here, and they're giving her hard time about
- 11:53Speaker 5: a day pass to a pretty much open event. These
- 11:56Speaker 5: used to be open to the fans. Fans just used
- 11:59Speaker 5: to walk through Radio Row. Then Yeah, it was a
- 12:02Speaker 5: big huha and this is much more restrictive.
- 12:05Speaker 1: All right, Well we'll see her.
- 12:07Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll all work out, And I'm glad we got
- 12:11Speaker 5: to expend extend our time together because we didn't even
- 12:15Speaker 5: get to your keys.
- 12:16Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of game are you expecting on Sunday?
- 12:19Speaker 1: What kind of result are you expecting?
- 12:22Speaker 5: The key to me offensively is the same key they've
- 12:25Speaker 5: had the entire postseason. If Sam Darnald turn the ball over,
- 12:29Speaker 5: I don't see the Patriots scoring multiple touchdowns on long length,
- 12:33Speaker 5: length of field drives after punch kickoffs.
- 12:35Speaker 2: I don't.
- 12:36Speaker 5: I only see the Patriots scoring after turnovers. They may
- 12:40Speaker 5: get a touchdown or two, but can I don't even
- 12:43Speaker 5: think the Patriots can envision multiple eighty yr drives to
- 12:46Speaker 5: touchdowns in this game.
- 12:48Speaker 1: I know it was not saying Sam Darnold's got a
- 12:51Speaker 1: turnover issue. That's just a football.
- 12:53Speaker 5: Statement in any game, but especially when your defense is
- 12:57Speaker 5: number one and pitch and outs. At this point in
- 13:01Speaker 5: the playoffs, they're not playing the Browns. They've been pitching
- 13:05Speaker 5: shutouts close to it, except for the Los Angeles rounds.
- 13:08Speaker 5: You take out the Rams and they've been pretty damn
- 13:11Speaker 5: good at keeping teams from driving eighty plus yards. So
- 13:14Speaker 5: as long as they're not having first intend at the
- 13:17Speaker 5: plus twenty five for New England, I don't see multiple
- 13:20Speaker 5: touchdowns in this game.
- 13:21Speaker 2: I don't.
- 13:22Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker. I talked to him. I wrote the story
- 13:24Speaker 5: to the Newstribune dot Com right now. I put it
- 13:26Speaker 5: up this morning. Kenneth Walker, I cannot thinking off the
- 13:29Speaker 5: top of my head of a player who has had
- 13:31Speaker 5: more personally at stake in a Super Bowl than he. Yes,
- 13:35Speaker 5: Reek Wollan's contract is ending, but he doesn't touch the
- 13:38Speaker 5: ball as much as and is involved at intricate to
- 13:41Speaker 5: the result of lead running back. Yes, Rashid sha Heat
- 13:44Speaker 5: is contract ending. They're gonna get that done, maybe before Wednesday.
- 13:47Speaker 5: I mean, that's going to be the first priority of
- 13:50Speaker 5: the offseason. So Kenneth Walker has already made millions of
- 13:57Speaker 5: dollars in the last two playoff games. He hired new
- 13:59Speaker 5: as he mentioned David Cancer and the Rasports group in Florida.
- 14:05Speaker 5: He's had an eye toward this for a while, and
- 14:08Speaker 5: then when Zach Sharbone got hurt for the season ending injury,
- 14:10Speaker 5: it's been all Kenneth Walker. If Kubiak wants to run,
- 14:14Speaker 5: which we know he will and does.
- 14:17Speaker 6: Nobody's tid. In San Jose, he was by himself at
- 14:21Speaker 6: his table. Brady Russell was getting more media attention than
- 14:25Speaker 6: Kenneth Walker. Oh he does have crazy hair, Yeah he does. Yeah,
- 14:27Speaker 6: And he doesn't wear a shirt for most of the
- 14:29Speaker 6: pregames of every game.
- 14:31Speaker 5: So he was getting videography groups and microphone booms and
- 14:35Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker was just sitting there like he was a
- 14:37Speaker 5: practice squad backup, and he'd say, Wow, I'd talk it
- 14:40Speaker 5: too much more than I went to and this is
- 14:43Speaker 5: fine with me.
- 14:43Speaker 2: I'd rather just hang back.
- 14:46Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker, he's going to get a new deal after
- 14:49Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. I don't think it's going to be
- 14:52Speaker 5: from Seattle. I think that he himself has priced himself
- 14:56Speaker 5: out of Seattle. I don't think his representation is going
- 14:59Speaker 5: to tell him, Hey, the team that hasn't given you
- 15:01Speaker 5: an extension already, the team that has put you in
- 15:03Speaker 5: a job share all season to diminish some of your
- 15:06Speaker 5: available to show, let's sign with them before free agency starts.
- 15:10Speaker 5: Once a guy, we've talked about this, once a guy
- 15:12Speaker 5: gets to free agency for the first time, I at
- 15:14Speaker 5: twenty five years old, he's gonna go to go check
- 15:17Speaker 5: what the money is and test the market.
- 15:20Speaker 1: So I think that's what's gonna happen with Walker.
- 15:21Speaker 5: So tomorrow is his showcase for two hundred million each Sunday,
- 15:25Speaker 5: for two hundred million people watching, including of your GM
- 15:27Speaker 5: in the league.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Well, that'd be nice. We had Matt Hasselback on earlier
- 15:31Speaker 2: this week and he was talking, and we were talking
- 15:33Speaker 2: to him about his preparation for his Super Bowl and
- 15:36Speaker 2: he watched a bunch of replays and he wanted to
- 15:39Speaker 2: see similarities between what quarterbacks did. And so the reason
- 15:43Speaker 2: I'm bringing that up is he said, basically, every winning
- 15:45Speaker 2: quarterback let it rip, right, and we've watched him do that,
- 15:48Speaker 2: and we know the coaches are telling him, let it rip.
- 15:51Speaker 2: We're not worried about you making a mistake or having
- 15:54Speaker 2: to be perfect. I'm wondering if there should be or
- 15:56Speaker 2: could be a game plan from Klint Kubiak coming from
- 15:59Speaker 2: Mike Donov Let's go get it, because I think that
- 16:03Speaker 2: one recipe for success could be jump out to an
- 16:06Speaker 2: early lead and make Drake May let you your guys
- 16:08Speaker 2: get to pin in their ears back because Drake May
- 16:10Speaker 2: has to beat you now through the passing game, and
- 16:12Speaker 2: you could possibly turn this thing into a blowout. Any
- 16:15Speaker 2: chance that they're gonna want to do that, I think
- 16:17Speaker 2: they're coming out throwing. I think they're pushing it ball
- 16:20Speaker 2: down the field to begin the game. I think Smith
- 16:22Speaker 2: and Jigbin and Rashishi Hi deep inside with the safeties to.
- 16:26Speaker 5: Try to put them in a quantity and stay out
- 16:28Speaker 5: in the out away from Gonzales and the outside guys.
- 16:31Speaker 5: I think they're going to push it to start the game,
- 16:33Speaker 5: to then open up Walker and start running the ball.
- 16:37Speaker 5: I don't think that's one of the other wrinkles. I
- 16:39Speaker 5: think now that with the two weeks and that they're
- 16:41Speaker 5: going to present to the Patriots.
- 16:43Speaker 1: You're right, Kubiak usually establishes the run.
- 16:46Speaker 2: Establishes the run first.
- 16:49Speaker 5: They've got big plague players on offense, and if they
- 16:53Speaker 5: give time to throw, they're going to push it down
- 16:56Speaker 5: the field. That it's a misnomer with a team that
- 16:58Speaker 5: throws fifty percent of the time, they're just ground chucks.
- 17:01Speaker 5: They're not because of Smith and Jigba and the play
- 17:05Speaker 5: action passibility of Sam Darnold. I keep going back to this.
- 17:10Speaker 5: If they don't turn the ball over, I think they
- 17:12Speaker 5: win by three touchdowns. I don't see the Patriots scoring
- 17:15Speaker 5: multiple touchdowns and drive long drives on this defense.
- 17:18Speaker 1: If the game goes the way Greg Bell thinks it's
- 17:21Speaker 1: going to go. Who's the Super Bowl MVP?
- 17:28Speaker 5: Ginger, that's the I think it's like eighty percent of
- 17:34Speaker 5: Super Bowl MVP as all the winning quarterbacks. It's something
- 17:36Speaker 5: like the numbers something like that if he doesn't turn
- 17:39Speaker 5: the ball over, he's probably going to be the MVP.
- 17:42Speaker 5: If he does turn the ball over, Nick even worried.
- 17:46Speaker 5: Devin Witherspoon, Leonard Williams, you could have a defensive MVP
- 17:50Speaker 5: and they win a thirteen seven, thirteen to ten game.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Just as long as it's not a Malcolm Smith. Well,
- 17:57Speaker 1: if a deflected interception and it being dreat I'll put that.
- 18:01Speaker 5: I will take that to note. I have a Super
- 18:03Speaker 5: Bowl MVP vote on the during the game. The NFL
- 18:06Speaker 5: has asked me to be one of the voters, so
- 18:07Speaker 5: I will take that into consideration. Chuck Howley back in
- 18:11Speaker 5: the day, a defensive MVP for the Cowboys. Easy answers
- 18:16Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jigba. I think he's he's going to
- 18:20Speaker 5: have his big plays. Kenneth Walker could end up the
- 18:23Speaker 5: guy that statistically has the biggest day. I don't know
- 18:26Speaker 5: if that'll end up being an MVP because the quarterback
- 18:29Speaker 5: of a winning Super Bowl team, I guess that always
- 18:30Speaker 5: gets it. But the most impacting numbers and plays could
- 18:34Speaker 5: end up being from Kenneth Walker.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Okay, what is what are a couple of other things
- 18:38Speaker 1: that maybe we haven't asked you about that we need
- 18:40Speaker 1: to know. I mean, this is our last conversation with
- 18:44Speaker 1: you before the Super Bowl. For goodness sake, what are
- 18:46Speaker 1: we leaving out of this conversation.
- 18:48Speaker 5: Well, Kenneth Walker. I found this out yesterday writing my story.
- 18:52Speaker 5: I was the NFL dug up the fact that Walker
- 18:55Speaker 5: has joined two Hall of Famers. That's the only three
- 18:58Speaker 5: guys to have have one hundred and twenty five yards
- 19:02Speaker 5: from scrimmage plus average per game and two touchdowns per
- 19:06Speaker 5: game in the playoffs in a single playoffs. The only
- 19:09Speaker 5: other two guys to do that Terrell Davis, Bucky's Guy
- 19:12Speaker 5: from nineteen ninety seven.
- 19:15Speaker 1: More of he's more Bucky's Guy today than he's ever.
- 19:18Speaker 5: Been I know, ye yes, yeah yeah, And Jerry Rice
- 19:21Speaker 5: from nineteen eighty eight. Those are the only two guys
- 19:23Speaker 5: that do what Kennth Walker's done in the first two
- 19:26Speaker 5: playoff games this year.
- 19:27Speaker 2: And he's sitting by himself in media availability, at the table,
- 19:30Speaker 2: by himself defensively.
- 19:34Speaker 5: I think the Nicky Maworry thing is a product of
- 19:36Speaker 5: the Super Bowl hype. It's overblown. I think he's gonna
- 19:39Speaker 5: be fine. I think that it happened happening on a
- 19:42Speaker 5: Wednesday turned out to be fortuitous instead of it of
- 19:45Speaker 5: being a Friday again, I covered Cam Chancellor tearing his
- 19:48Speaker 5: mcl and his knee and still playing, and that happened
- 19:51Speaker 5: on a Friday. These guys will go to extraordinary links
- 19:54Speaker 5: to play in this game. Even where yesterday said it,
- 19:56Speaker 5: I don't know if I'll ever get back there, he said,
- 19:58Speaker 5: I'm only my first year. I'm twenty two years old.
- 20:01Speaker 1: He's amazing because so many paintings, so many twenty two
- 20:05Speaker 1: year olds, you know that had the season, are like,
- 20:07Speaker 1: I'm going to be here fifteen years. For him to
- 20:10Speaker 1: have that mindset check another box, check another box for
- 20:14Speaker 1: nick em and worry and how great a career he's
- 20:16Speaker 1: going to have.
- 20:16Speaker 5: And it was in the context of I'm playing and
- 20:19Speaker 5: he's basically said I'm playing because I may never get
- 20:21Speaker 5: back here. So the question at the top again and
- 20:24Speaker 5: how limited he is will affect their defense somewhat. But
- 20:28Speaker 5: Mike McDonald man give him two weeks to prepare for somebody, right,
- 20:32Speaker 5: He's usually okay.
- 20:35Speaker 1: At the risk of being a homer.
- 20:37Speaker 5: But I am on the Seattle station that covered the
- 20:39Speaker 5: sea at the risk of being a homer. I've thought
- 20:41Speaker 5: a lot about this game, and the only way I
- 20:43Speaker 5: see him losing is giving like in Inglewood in November,
- 20:47Speaker 5: giving the Patriots multiple touchdown drives inside their own thirty
- 20:51Speaker 5: yard line, and that's turnovers, and Darnold has not turned
- 20:54Speaker 5: the ball over in a month.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, great stuff. Great to see you hang
- 20:58Speaker 1: out thirty one to ten one ten. Wow, well you
- 21:02Speaker 1: stepped it up a notch.
- 21:03Speaker 2: That's not even clear.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Against three stairs right now.
- 21:06Speaker 5: See usually when I throw that on the road on
- 21:08Speaker 5: my phone, but nobody stares at me.
- 21:11Speaker 2: My wife's already the work.
- 21:12Speaker 1: But I what's notable to me is that as the
- 21:15Speaker 1: week goes on, you're getting more competent. We just did
- 21:17Speaker 1: the roundtable, and I think you were at twenty seven
- 21:20Speaker 1: thirteen or twenty seven to seventeen, and now you're up
- 21:22Speaker 1: to thirty one ten one touchdown.
- 21:24Speaker 2: From New England. Wow, huh.
- 21:27Speaker 1: I'm not as far with you, but I'm with you, David,
- 21:31Speaker 1: I'm with you.
- 21:32Speaker 5: They remind me offensively of San Francisco without Brock Purty
- 21:36Speaker 5: and Purty or Drake May runs the ball better than Purty,
- 21:40Speaker 5: more decisively four runs than Perty does. But I don't
- 21:43Speaker 5: think Drake May's as good as a passer as Brock
- 21:45Speaker 5: Purty is, and I don't think that Drake May has
- 21:48Speaker 5: the weapons, even with the injuries and Brina d Ayuk's exile.
- 21:53Speaker 2: From the forty nine Ers.
- 21:54Speaker 5: I think the forty nine ers offense, play calling and
- 21:56Speaker 5: weapons are better than New England's. Their quarterback runs better
- 22:00Speaker 5: in San Francisco's but type but similar type of offense,
- 22:03Speaker 5: and we've seen what Mike McDonald's done with that.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see how their receivers get open. And
- 22:08Speaker 1: then I think Trayvon Henderson's their chance if he got
- 22:11Speaker 1: a big couple big runs and maybe it's a different game.
- 22:14Speaker 2: Ohio State puck.
- 22:15Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, great to see you. Yeah, it's good
- 22:18Speaker 1: to be in person for change. Yeah, no doubt. Greg bell,
- 22:21Speaker 1: our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune, joining us ride
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- 23:08Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, let it build, Let it build, Let
- 23:12Speaker 1: it build. Super Bowl sixty is almost here. It's a
- 23:16Speaker 1: Football Friday, a Super Bowl edition of Football Friday. This
- 23:21Speaker 1: is the last Friday before the Seattle Seahawks play in
- 23:24Speaker 1: the Super Bowl twenty twenty six, three point thirty kickoff.
- 23:29Speaker 1: We've been in San Francisco all week long leading you
- 23:33Speaker 1: up to this golden moment coming on Sunday, and you
- 23:37Speaker 1: can feel it. I can feel it inside me. I
- 23:39Speaker 1: mean the energy takes a little while to get going
- 23:41Speaker 1: at radio road in the mornings, but the game itself
- 23:46Speaker 1: like they yesterday when we finished the roundtable, I'm like,
- 23:49Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's here. I mean, we are at
- 23:52Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and so that that ain't anxiousness is
- 23:56Speaker 1: really building here this morning.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday I was feeling it to the roundtable as well.
- 24:01Speaker 2: And then when we went back to the house. I was,
- 24:04Speaker 2: I was just scrolling through channels, and so then I
- 24:07Speaker 2: thought about channeling my inner Matt Hasselback and throwing the
- 24:10Speaker 2: remote behind the dresser, because I hear apparently that will
- 24:14Speaker 2: keep you from getting nervous. I don't know. I mean,
- 24:18Speaker 2: I'm ready. I don't know exactly what you do at
- 24:20Speaker 2: this point in time, but yeah, it is. It is
- 24:22Speaker 2: right around the corner. I have to think the nerves
- 24:25Speaker 2: are building for the players.
- 24:26Speaker 1: All right, Well, we get one more conversation with Hugh Mellen.
- 24:31Speaker 1: X's and O's normally happens every Friday all football season
- 24:34Speaker 1: long at nine o'clock. Today we're doing it at eight o'clock.
- 24:39Speaker 1: We have to have our QB one, you know, add
- 24:43Speaker 1: to that, add to that adrenaline that we're starting to
- 24:46Speaker 1: build up right now for Super Bowl Sunday. And so
- 24:49Speaker 1: Hugh Millan joins us right here on chugging buck. Hello, quarterback.
- 24:52Speaker 8: Hey, I'm ready, I'm in. I'm like a racehorse in
- 24:55Speaker 8: the stall. Man, I'm ready, Emon, Warris ready, Seahawks are ready.
- 24:59Speaker 8: Come on, man, let's go open up those gates. We
- 25:02Speaker 8: got to run.
- 25:04Speaker 1: Well, I mean, as as ready as we are, Hugh,
- 25:08Speaker 1: I mean, now, I'm like, can we play this on
- 25:10Speaker 1: Monday just to get Emon warr an extra day's rest?
- 25:13Speaker 1: Is there any chance they can move it to Monday
- 25:15Speaker 1: at this point?
- 25:16Speaker 8: You if that opportunity presents, why don't you take it?
- 25:20Speaker 2: Okay?
- 25:21Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, because because they'll ask you first, and
- 25:24Speaker 9: then just not just not yep, we'll push it back yep.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Uh. When that when that news hit, when Greg kind
- 25:31Speaker 1: of posted, as you know, sixty percent yesterday, and I
- 25:35Speaker 1: know that it's climbed since that time. I mean, what
- 25:38Speaker 1: did that do to you as an analyst thinking about
- 25:40Speaker 1: possibly playing the Super Bowl without number three?
- 25:44Speaker 8: Well, I don't like it. I think that he's such
- 25:47Speaker 8: a unique talent.
- 25:47Speaker 9: We've discussed all of that, and and really, you know,
- 25:50Speaker 9: for me, I sense that a lot of the discussion is, uh,
- 25:55Speaker 9: you know, is he gonna be ready? Is he gonna play?
- 25:58Speaker 9: And and it's almost with a focus of how healthy
- 26:02Speaker 9: will he be on the first play of the game.
- 26:05Speaker 9: That that's of course of great interest to all of us.
- 26:08Speaker 9: But I think of equal interest is how healthy will
- 26:11Speaker 9: he be on the last play of the game, Because
- 26:14Speaker 9: you know, it's not just enough to.
- 26:16Speaker 8: To say, Okay, I'm ready you take an injection.
- 26:19Speaker 9: Uh, and and you know it's you know, it's obviously
- 26:22Speaker 9: less than one hundred percent, but it's as you know,
- 26:24Speaker 9: you've got basically what you have is is I'm not
- 26:27Speaker 9: a doctor, but the way sprained ankles have always been described,
- 26:32Speaker 9: right as you've stretched the ligaments, I mean there's tissue damage,
- 26:35Speaker 9: soft tissue damage, and and so it's not going to
- 26:39Speaker 9: be as strong and it's going to be tender and
- 26:42Speaker 9: and you know the idea, well you got through it. Well,
- 26:44Speaker 9: there's certain things. You know, if your ligament isn't strong,
- 26:48Speaker 9: you know, you're there's a reason why why God put
- 26:52Speaker 9: a limp in our gate when we have a sprained ankle,
- 26:55Speaker 9: and uh, you know I I just I think to
- 26:57Speaker 9: expect him to be able to do all the things.
- 27:00Speaker 9: From a movement standpoint, I mean, you know, if you're
- 27:02Speaker 9: just running straight ahead, you know the forces have a
- 27:05Speaker 9: certain level.
- 27:06Speaker 8: We'll call X.
- 27:08Speaker 9: But as soon as you have to, you know, stop
- 27:10Speaker 9: and try and mirror somebody in coverage. You know, you
- 27:14Speaker 9: drop your weight down and then you push off. Well,
- 27:16Speaker 9: you're you're exerting a pressure on on that ankle. I'm
- 27:21Speaker 9: not gonna put a number to it. But it's certainly
- 27:22Speaker 9: a lot more next So uh yeah, you know how
- 27:25Speaker 9: the game unfolds is gonna be equally of interest to us.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's definitely something to it. I mean,
- 27:31Speaker 2: I wouldn't think of it as something you could just
- 27:34Speaker 2: sweep under the rug. Me For some reason, I feel like,
- 27:38Speaker 2: you know, shoot that thing with something right, some sort
- 27:40Speaker 2: of masking agent of some sort of tape it up.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Wind deck something.
- 27:44Speaker 2: I think when something more than wind decks. I don't
- 27:46Speaker 2: know if that's gonna do it. I don't know if
- 27:47Speaker 2: you want that in your ankle might be squeaky clean,
- 27:51Speaker 2: might streak a little bit. Uh you know, I don't
- 27:53Speaker 2: know if you want to do that, But I just
- 27:55Speaker 2: feel like that. And then you combine the adrenaline and
- 27:57Speaker 2: and the fact that he's young. You know, I just
- 27:59Speaker 2: think going to go out there and do it. But
- 28:01Speaker 2: I'm I'm with you. It does make sense that there
- 28:03Speaker 2: could be something that he doesn't do at one hundred
- 28:06Speaker 2: percent or near it. So, yeah, he doesn't play. I
- 28:10Speaker 2: mean we've had he missed some time earlier this season.
- 28:14Speaker 2: If he doesn't play, how much does it change what
- 28:17Speaker 2: they are capable of doing? Like what Mike McDonald wants
- 28:20Speaker 2: to do when he's calling the game.
- 28:23Speaker 9: Well, I think it changes a lot because you know,
- 28:26Speaker 9: whoever they put in, uh, you know, we've we've seen,
- 28:30Speaker 9: you know, go back to the NFC Championship game. He
- 28:34Speaker 9: was on back to back plays. He covered Puka Nakua
- 28:41Speaker 9: out on the flat and got a pass breakup. He
- 28:43Speaker 9: then covered a running back that the Rams had tried
- 28:47Speaker 9: to push the formation away from him. For Matthew Stafford,
- 28:51Speaker 9: it was the trips left and Seattle's you know, pushing
- 28:54Speaker 9: a zone to that trip side, and then they're playing
- 28:58Speaker 9: a solo on the backside where Emon Worry had a
- 29:01Speaker 9: lot of space against a halfback on an option route,
- 29:05Speaker 9: a choice route, and his part to be fundamentally sound,
- 29:09Speaker 9: he's got to defend the inside first. He can't let
- 29:13Speaker 9: the halfback cross his face. Well, you see a lot
- 29:15Speaker 9: of running excuse me, linebackers against running backs in that situation.
- 29:19Speaker 9: They deny the inside, which is their first priority. But
- 29:24Speaker 9: in so doing, you know, they kind of anchor themselves
- 29:27Speaker 9: and they just have they don't have any acceleration to
- 29:30Speaker 9: cover the flat. Well, Em and Worry, you know, fundamentally
- 29:34Speaker 9: denied the inside what would be called the Texas portion
- 29:38Speaker 9: of an option route, which is the inbreaking part.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Uh.
- 29:41Speaker 9: And then but then he has the burst in the
- 29:43Speaker 9: length to to to you know, put the turbo button
- 29:46Speaker 9: and cover the outbreaking route and get another pass break up.
- 29:50Speaker 8: And next thing, the Rams have got their punter on
- 29:52Speaker 8: the field. So you know you had that. He covered
- 29:54Speaker 8: DeVante Adams down the field.
- 29:56Speaker 9: So so if you're a quarterback, you look, you know,
- 30:00Speaker 9: he's basically we just I've been saying all year he's
- 30:02Speaker 9: a Nicol Sam and he's a Sam linebacker. But you
- 30:07Speaker 9: don't get up a read on the coverage because you
- 30:10Speaker 9: know that emon worry if he's out there, it could
- 30:14Speaker 9: be manners own because they don't fear putting him in
- 30:18Speaker 9: uh in man coverage against anybody. They put him in
- 30:20Speaker 9: man coverage against Justin Jefferson for crying out out right.
- 30:24Speaker 9: So I that that versatility is irreplaceable. You can put
- 30:30Speaker 9: a strong guy down there, Uh you can. You know
- 30:33Speaker 9: Tyrese Knight as a linebacker that made you know, one
- 30:36Speaker 9: of the great plays on that second down in in
- 30:40Speaker 9: the red zone last week when when the Rams got
- 30:44Speaker 9: down there in the fourth quarter, he made that great
- 30:46Speaker 9: tackle for for no gain. So there's some guys they
- 30:50Speaker 9: have that can fill the positions, they just don't have
- 30:53Speaker 9: one guy that can do at all.
- 30:55Speaker 1: Hugh Melanis Wether's x's and o's getting you ready for
- 30:59Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Super Bowl sixty coming up on Sunday.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Let's talk about the approach on the offensive side of
- 31:05Speaker 1: the ball. I think we're all in the let it
- 31:07Speaker 1: rip Sam category on this show with our experts, but
- 31:12Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you're necessarily coming out firing you. I mean,
- 31:15Speaker 1: I expect this to be a slobber knocker. I expect
- 31:20Speaker 1: this to be two defensive teams just knocking the snot
- 31:24Speaker 1: out of one another for four quarters. So I'm wondering
- 31:28Speaker 1: how you would approach that. Do you come out throwing
- 31:30Speaker 1: the football or do you come out a little more conservative.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Let's establish walker, let's bide our time for big plays,
- 31:39Speaker 1: and then in the end we think that we can
- 31:41Speaker 1: outlast this football team. What's your approach to how you
- 31:46Speaker 1: handle the game plan offensively aggressive or conservative?
- 31:52Speaker 9: Well, I think Clint Kubiak is going to try and
- 31:55Speaker 9: establish the run early. I think it's more likely to
- 31:58Speaker 9: be to the outside because I think you want to
- 32:02Speaker 9: run away from Christian Barmore and Milton Williams, those defensive
- 32:06Speaker 9: tackles that are quick like uh three technique guys, but
- 32:11Speaker 9: but have the size of nose tackles type of thing.
- 32:14Speaker 9: You know, they're they're a load inside. So I I,
- 32:17Speaker 9: you know, particularly just with their strength and and so
- 32:22Speaker 9: I think it's more we're more likely to see, hey,
- 32:25Speaker 9: let's try and get the outside zone the stretch going,
- 32:27Speaker 9: you know, and and test those defensive ends chasing and
- 32:30Speaker 9: landry and see if they can set an edge as
- 32:34Speaker 9: far as the the the game plan in the passing game.
- 32:39Speaker 9: Looking at the Patriots, they they're feisty and they're they're
- 32:44Speaker 9: trigger happy. What does that mean? They're you know, you
- 32:47Speaker 9: in the NFL sometimes you throw on a tape and
- 32:48Speaker 9: you see a secondary that that they you know, they
- 32:51Speaker 9: want to maintain a cushion. They're they're clearly coached. They
- 32:55Speaker 9: don't give up the big play. I mean, nobody wants
- 32:58Speaker 9: to give up the big play. That's the word. Thing
- 33:00Speaker 9: you can do in pass coverage. But you know, defense taketh,
- 33:03Speaker 9: defense giveth. And it's as if Mike vrabel is saying
- 33:07Speaker 9: to his secondary, listen.
- 33:11Speaker 8: I know we may give up a big play.
- 33:13Speaker 9: I don't want to, but it's worth it to me to,
- 33:15Speaker 9: you know, to try and really be disruptive on the
- 33:18Speaker 9: short and intermediate stuff. Let's go, let's go after him.
- 33:21Speaker 9: If we have the pass rush to be able to
- 33:23Speaker 9: make a quarterback, you know, make fast decisions, you know,
- 33:27Speaker 9: you know, go try and get a pass breakup, you know,
- 33:30Speaker 9: And so they're susceptible to a double move.
- 33:32Speaker 8: I think that that that could be a big part
- 33:34Speaker 8: of the game plan.
- 33:35Speaker 9: And then you know, final thought on on what may transpire.
- 33:40Speaker 9: When I described how Seattle on third and medium may
- 33:44Speaker 9: give the ball to Kenneth Walker, I understand what's brought
- 33:48Speaker 9: him there. Jsn right, he's the offensive player of the here.
- 33:51Speaker 9: I get that that's what you want to do is
- 33:54Speaker 9: throw on third and medium. But that's under the pretense
- 33:57Speaker 9: that your guards are are are having a normal challenge
- 34:03Speaker 9: and and and if they have an abnormal challenge that's difficult.
- 34:07Speaker 9: Then you've got to hit the Patriots where they're vulnerable.
- 34:10Speaker 9: Let me explain what I mean. I think most of
- 34:13Speaker 9: us understand that it's harder to play tackle than it
- 34:17Speaker 9: is to play guard in pass coverage. Why, because tackle
- 34:21Speaker 9: you have more space, you have to widen out against
- 34:24Speaker 9: a defensive end, you just have more area that you
- 34:27Speaker 9: know you're when you play guard, it's like you have
- 34:29Speaker 9: bumper bumper rails on either side, you know, just in
- 34:32Speaker 9: tighter space. So so space is the friend of the
- 34:36Speaker 9: of the defense, you know, in in that situation. So
- 34:41Speaker 9: if if what I'm seeing on tape from the Patriots
- 34:45Speaker 9: is that they take their defensive tackles, they're putting.
- 34:48Speaker 8: Them in in in a four four technique that's head
- 34:52Speaker 8: up over tackles.
- 34:53Speaker 9: Four eye technique is the inside I've seen the defensive
- 34:56Speaker 9: tackles on a five technique.
- 34:58Speaker 8: That's that's that's that's.
- 35:00Speaker 9: Where the defensive tackle is the outside shade of the tackle,
- 35:03Speaker 9: and then there's an en way out beyond that.
- 35:05Speaker 8: They got the A gaps open at.
- 35:07Speaker 9: Least one B gap, sometimes two B gaps like you're
- 35:11Speaker 9: and you're asking the guards in pass protection to fan out,
- 35:16Speaker 9: widen out, and they're taking the steps of an offensive
- 35:19Speaker 9: tackle to do that. So it's not that it's about
- 35:24Speaker 9: what you know, dance with the girl that brung you.
- 35:27Speaker 9: It's the Patriots are throwing something at you you've never
- 35:30Speaker 9: seen that is not sound in terms of just a
- 35:34Speaker 9: quick trap or you can block it a lot of
- 35:36Speaker 9: different ways. You can zone block it, but you can
- 35:39Speaker 9: trap it. You can do these things on a on
- 35:42Speaker 9: an inside run. On third medium. You can't, in my opinion,
- 35:45Speaker 9: you can't let them line up like that and make
- 35:48Speaker 9: your guards have to play in space as if they're tackles.
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yeah. I hear what you're saying there. That makes a
- 35:54Speaker 2: lot of sense. It's gonna be interesting.
- 35:56Speaker 9: It's all over the take, guys, it's all you know.
- 35:58Speaker 9: We'll just watch the AFC Championship like down after down.
- 36:01Speaker 9: I'm watching the end zone copy and I'm like, whoa,
- 36:04Speaker 9: what is with that front like like that that you know?
- 36:08Speaker 9: Is it is this third and fourteen? And I look, no,
- 36:10Speaker 9: it's third and four you know they're doing stuff. Yeah,
- 36:15Speaker 9: they're daring them to do it, So I look for that.
- 36:18Speaker 9: There could be some of that and then and then
- 36:21Speaker 9: what's the what's what's the effect?
- 36:23Speaker 3: What?
- 36:23Speaker 9: What that then does is say that uh, you know
- 36:28Speaker 9: they have then the pages have to play a front
- 36:31Speaker 9: where they get the guards Zabel and Bradford into a
- 36:35Speaker 9: little bit more confined space like like is typical of
- 36:39Speaker 9: what guards have to do in pass protection.
- 36:41Speaker 8: You have to force them back into being sound.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Is there a chance I don't necessarily think there is,
- 36:47Speaker 2: but is there a chance that vrabel is going to
- 36:50Speaker 2: be able to even more than just contain JSN? I mean,
- 36:55Speaker 2: I would think you would have to be like, you
- 36:57Speaker 2: can't let that guy beat us. But I mean, could
- 37:00Speaker 2: he just sell out and just be like, we're having
- 37:03Speaker 2: two guys on him at all times? And if then
- 37:06Speaker 2: Cooper cup is running wild or a J. Barner or
- 37:09Speaker 2: whoever it is, is there a way in which they
- 37:11Speaker 2: could shut him down or is he playing wide receiver
- 37:14Speaker 2: at an unguardable pace at this point?
- 37:16Speaker 9: Okay, so let's go back to the greatest show on turf.
- 37:20Speaker 9: And you know, obviously that's Belichick and that Super Bowl
- 37:25Speaker 9: in two thousand and one, Brady's first Super Bowl, Belichick's
- 37:28Speaker 9: first Super Bowl. They're going against the greatest show on turf,
- 37:31Speaker 9: and they were taking their defensive ends and they were
- 37:34Speaker 9: widening them so much that they were jamming receivers. They
- 37:39Speaker 9: were jamming Marshall Falk anytime he tried to leave. They
- 37:42Speaker 9: in essence said, it's more important for our defensive ends
- 37:46Speaker 9: to disrupt receivers who are in the area than it
- 37:50Speaker 9: is for them to rush and you've got in Clint Kobiak,
- 37:55Speaker 9: a guy that is similar to Kyle Shanahan, likes to
- 37:58Speaker 9: have a lot of squeezed for me, and that allows
- 38:02Speaker 9: you to have inserts on the running game. What does
- 38:05Speaker 9: squeeze formation means? The receivers are close to the ball,
- 38:08Speaker 9: whether it's trips which we call that bunch, or whether
- 38:11Speaker 9: it's stack formations or what have you that allows the
- 38:16Speaker 9: receiver to be part of the run blocking fits. It
- 38:21Speaker 9: allows receivers if they're not on an outbreaking route, there's
- 38:25Speaker 9: a lot of grasp because you've tightened your split close
- 38:27Speaker 9: to the ball. If you want to run a crossing route,
- 38:30Speaker 9: you can get over to the opposite side from where
- 38:33Speaker 9: you align. You line up in the left slot real
- 38:35Speaker 9: close to the ball, and you want to run an
- 38:38Speaker 9: intermediate crossing route, you can get way over to the
- 38:41Speaker 9: near the numbers faster because you've aligned closer to the ball.
- 38:45Speaker 9: All of these tenants that are part of the Kyle
- 38:49Speaker 9: Shanahan Clinton Kobiak philosophy worldview about offensive football involve a
- 38:56Speaker 9: lot of type formations. So then what's the what's the
- 39:01Speaker 9: length to which the Patriots will take their defensive ends
- 39:05Speaker 9: and try and jam JSN. So if he's close to
- 39:08Speaker 9: the ball, they they may really widen guys out to
- 39:12Speaker 9: try and disrupt him. We've seen that from from Belichick
- 39:15Speaker 9: through the years, as I've described, not just that game,
- 39:18Speaker 9: but in games since then, and and and so, the
- 39:22Speaker 9: the formations house Seattle lines particularly, you ask about JSN,
- 39:26Speaker 9: what are they going to do? Uh, don't be surprised
- 39:29Speaker 9: if you see defensive ends trying to get a shot
- 39:32Speaker 9: at uh at Injigba at the onset of the play,
- 39:36Speaker 9: if Injigba is lining aligned. Uh with what what some
- 39:40Speaker 9: people call, well all all coaches call, for whatever reason,
- 39:43Speaker 9: the term that the X receiver is called a nasty split.
- 39:47Speaker 9: And you play quarterback in the NFL, and you're tight,
- 39:49Speaker 9: you're you're split in as close to the ball, you
- 39:52Speaker 9: hear the defense going nasty, nasty, nasty. I don't know
- 39:54Speaker 9: where it originated, but but it's it's an alert that
- 39:57Speaker 9: it could be a crack block or a shallow cross.
- 40:00Speaker 9: So you hear nasty. You know, Mike Holmgan would call
- 40:03Speaker 9: it Z close, the opposite from the exit of the Z.
- 40:07Speaker 9: You know, the Z close where the Z is really
- 40:09Speaker 9: close to the ball. And of course the slot receivers
- 40:12Speaker 9: can be real close to the ball right in the alley,
- 40:15Speaker 9: you know, just a few paces off of the tackle.
- 40:19Speaker 9: That's a component of the game that I think that
- 40:23Speaker 9: I certainly will be watching because I've seen the Belichick
- 40:27Speaker 9: Vrabel Tree go to great lengths to try and disrupt
- 40:30Speaker 9: the pass routes.
- 40:31Speaker 1: Hugh Mellen our final x's and o's before the Super Bowl,
- 40:34Speaker 1: brought to you by Frost Brewed Corps like shoes. Chill,
- 40:38Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to ask you this as our
- 40:39Speaker 1: last question here today, our last chance to chat with
- 40:43Speaker 1: Hugh Millan, before the Super Bowl, even though Clint Kubiak,
- 40:47Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, Sam Darnold ken Walker had nothing to do
- 40:51Speaker 1: with February first, twenty fifteen. If this game comes down
- 40:56Speaker 1: to we're at the one yard line and we need
- 40:58Speaker 1: a touchdown to win, will they be affected by what
- 41:03Speaker 1: happened that day?
- 41:04Speaker 2: Human?
- 41:05Speaker 9: You know, it's possible. I you know, if it came
- 41:08Speaker 9: down to circumstances. You know, no, no, two snowflakes are
- 41:12Speaker 9: exactly the same, and no plays are exactly the same.
- 41:15Speaker 9: But if it gets down to a similar situation, it's
- 41:19Speaker 9: not inconceivable to me that either Kubiak or McDonald's say,
- 41:23Speaker 9: you know, hey, we got to run this ball. But
- 41:25Speaker 9: you know, I know it's going to be discussed on Sunday. Yeah,
- 41:28Speaker 9: but but just a thought. You know, in standard football,
- 41:32Speaker 9: with the with the personnel you've got uh you know,
- 41:36Speaker 9: if you've got two wide receivers, you have four dbs.
- 41:38Speaker 9: If you replacing an ad a third receiver, then you
- 41:41Speaker 9: go five dbs. So you want to have two more dbs,
- 41:45Speaker 9: then the opponents have uh wide receivers. On that play,
- 41:50Speaker 9: the where they didn't give the ball to Marshawn Lynch,
- 41:54Speaker 9: the Patriots went so heavy they called it goal line
- 41:58Speaker 9: three corners. They only had three dbs on there and
- 42:02Speaker 9: Seattle had three wide receivers. It was immensely balanced. The
- 42:07Speaker 9: all of the the the the axioms of football say
- 42:13Speaker 9: you need to throw the ball and and and if
- 42:16Speaker 9: you like the if you look at.
- 42:19Speaker 8: The mass that they were looking at to try and
- 42:23Speaker 8: run the ball. There was a lot of.
- 42:28Speaker 9: Statistics that year pointed to Marshall Lynch, as great as
- 42:31Speaker 9: he was, that he wasn't a great third and fourth
- 42:35Speaker 9: and one running back, not because he wasn't great, because
- 42:38Speaker 9: the defense focuses on it in that game they had
- 42:40Speaker 9: already had a third and one, they got zero and
- 42:43Speaker 9: they had to punt. So really there was a lot
- 42:46Speaker 9: of sense that that the Seahawks were trying to limit
- 42:51Speaker 9: the amount of time that Tom Brady would have to
- 42:53Speaker 9: go down and kick a field goal. He was the
- 42:55Speaker 9: best that year and in many years. In the two
- 42:57Speaker 9: minute offense, that was big on their mind. They only
- 43:01Speaker 9: had one time out. That interception was thrown on second down.
- 43:04Speaker 9: For everybody who says give it to Marshawn Lynch, there
- 43:08Speaker 9: was there was soundness to the uh. They they had
- 43:13Speaker 9: a run play and then they had a check and
- 43:15Speaker 9: that check, they had what's called Z spot to his
- 43:17Speaker 9: let to Russell Wilson's left for his zone, and they
- 43:20Speaker 9: had the now screen to the right on mand a
- 43:23Speaker 9: man so was man and a man and and there
- 43:25Speaker 9: was soundness. But here's the part for all the crap
- 43:29Speaker 9: that that the Sea Hot coaches get, you know, Carol
- 43:32Speaker 9: gets for that, there's a couple of guys that are
- 43:35Speaker 9: getting off Scott Free, Russell Wilson, you know who says
- 43:39Speaker 9: I want to be the greatest of all time. Dude,
- 43:41Speaker 9: it's second down. If it's not a bright green light,
- 43:46Speaker 9: just break a camera lens in the back of the
- 43:49Speaker 9: end zone with the football, throw it out of bounds,
- 43:51Speaker 9: break a cheerleader's nose, throw it wherever other than to
- 43:54Speaker 9: a patriot, right and uh and and so if you so,
- 43:59Speaker 9: then if you do that, if you call the pass play,
- 44:03Speaker 9: because if you if you run the ball, then you're
- 44:06Speaker 9: gonna have to call a timeout, in which case you
- 44:08Speaker 9: that you know that on the third down that you
- 44:11Speaker 9: have to throw it. So if you throw it on
- 44:14Speaker 9: second down, he's like, hey, maybe something pops open. If
- 44:17Speaker 9: it's bright green, throw it for Otherwise, ditch it in
- 44:20Speaker 9: the back and guess what then you're gonna have. You're
- 44:23Speaker 9: gonna have two plays. You're gonna have what all the
- 44:26Speaker 9: fans want is, uh is for Marshall Lynch to have
- 44:30Speaker 9: one crack from the one yard line.
- 44:31Speaker 8: Guess what you're gonna get two.
- 44:33Speaker 9: You're gonna get third down, give it to Marshon Lynch,
- 44:36Speaker 9: and then you're gonna have ther timeout still available. You're
- 44:39Speaker 9: gonna call timeout with four seconds to go, and you're
- 44:42Speaker 9: gonna have one play on fourth and one win this.
- 44:44Speaker 9: You would have had two of those. If you've got
- 44:47Speaker 9: to expect professionals to be professionals. And the other guy
- 44:50Speaker 9: who's getting off scott free is Jermaine Curse. He had
- 44:53Speaker 9: brown and Browner on him. His only job was to
- 44:57Speaker 9: rip inside and to get in the path of a
- 45:00Speaker 9: Malcolm Butler. Malcolm Butler to get that interception had to
- 45:04Speaker 9: draw a line from point A to point B. If
- 45:06Speaker 9: he had to even go around a traffic cone, around
- 45:09Speaker 9: a coffee cup, just deviate from his path one inch,
- 45:14Speaker 9: he would not have made that play. And the guy
- 45:16Speaker 9: who's supposed to get that rub on him is Jermaine Curse,
- 45:20Speaker 9: and he did not rip inside that he allowed Brandon
- 45:23Speaker 9: Browner to have a path. I can get six receivers
- 45:27Speaker 9: from Skyline High School on their JV that can take
- 45:30Speaker 9: an inside release and get in the path of Malcolm Butler.
- 45:34Speaker 9: There was horrible execution by professional standards that were happening
- 45:40Speaker 9: in that play. You give Russell Wilson an F and
- 45:44Speaker 9: you give Jermaine Curse an F minus because you can
- 45:47Speaker 9: get high school receivers to do the job he didn't do.
- 45:51Speaker 9: And so there's a in my opinion, there's a lot
- 45:54Speaker 9: more sound thinking behind what they did in terms of
- 45:59Speaker 9: how they wanted to preserve the You know that one
- 46:01Speaker 9: time out Tom Brady thing I discussed I don't know, uh,
- 46:07Speaker 9: you know, we had a decision analyst come on on
- 46:11Speaker 9: the thirty third team, who who his entire career is
- 46:16Speaker 9: is is about decision trees and choices businesses make. And
- 46:20Speaker 9: he comes on and he just goes, well, we all
- 46:22Speaker 9: know that that that was the right decision to throw
- 46:25Speaker 9: the ball. And he says, well, this is how businesses
- 46:28Speaker 9: have to do decisions like like there there is a
- 46:31Speaker 9: lot of sound reason. Anyways, I've blown past the clock.
- 46:34Speaker 9: But we're gonna hear a lot about that page, you know, yeah,
- 46:38Speaker 9: you know, how about this.
- 46:40Speaker 8: Russell Wilson And you know what.
- 46:43Speaker 9: Russell Wilson was miked up and he's standing there forty
- 46:46Speaker 9: five seconds after the play and he tells to Darryl
- 46:49Speaker 9: Bevill he goes, he goes, which way did he go?
- 46:52Speaker 8: On the play?
- 46:53Speaker 9: Meaning he didn't know if Malcolm Butler went over the
- 46:56Speaker 9: top of the screen or underneath.
- 46:57Speaker 8: You know what that means.
- 46:58Speaker 9: He didn't see it. He didn't see it his own words,
- 47:03Speaker 9: tied a noose around his own neck because he he
- 47:05Speaker 9: asked Aaron Welball which wayed did he go around?
- 47:08Speaker 1: The play?
- 47:09Speaker 2: It was.
- 47:09Speaker 9: It was murky likely. He had no business trying to
- 47:13Speaker 9: throw that touchdown. It's boshould have gone out of the
- 47:15Speaker 9: back of the end zone. And uh, you know, Jermaine
- 47:18Speaker 9: Curse just gets a clean rub boom it's a touchdown
- 47:21Speaker 9: and and uh you know you know so at an event.
- 47:26Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, thank you very much all season,
- 47:30Speaker 1: all week. Uh, greatly appreciate. It wouldn't be football Friday
- 47:33Speaker 1: without hearing x's and o's from Hugh Milling. And we
- 47:37Speaker 1: will break it down on Monday, like no.
- 47:39Speaker 8: Breaking the wind down on Monday.
- 47:41Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, look at that. Yeah, go Hawks, all right,
- 47:45Speaker 1: go Hawks, go key all right, enjoy guys. Thanks man,
- 47:48Speaker 1: x's and o's with Hugh millon every Football Friday right
- 47:53Speaker 1: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. Sorry, coming
- 47:55Speaker 1: out next. More from Radio Row Sports Radio ninety three
- 47:58Speaker 1: point three kh A r F M flag football. All right,
- 48:01Speaker 1: sorry about that. Well I don't want to do it, Yeah,
- 48:04Speaker 1: I don't want to do it.
- 48:05Speaker 2: You know that you're out of shape when you don't
- 48:06Speaker 2: like picture and yourself shirtless, So thanks for that.
- 48:12Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I look over here, we got Kay Adams.
- 48:14Speaker 1: She does her show over here. Something tells me that
- 48:18Speaker 1: she didn't spend last night eating pepperoni pizza and drinking
- 48:22Speaker 1: Scotch all night long or bourbon.
- 48:25Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess not.
- 48:26Speaker 1: I guess that's not what she did with her evening
- 48:29Speaker 1: last night.
- 48:29Speaker 2: No, No, she looks like she's got a lot more
- 48:31Speaker 2: beauty rest than you and I have a lot more.
- 48:35Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, something tells me she just had a wafer
- 48:40Speaker 1: last night for dinner.
- 48:41Speaker 2: Yeah, a rice cake. Yeah sounds fun, sounds good. I'm
- 48:45Speaker 2: glad I had pizza. I had a she had a sprig.
- 48:47Speaker 1: Of alfalfa and a perrier. Yeah, ran this morning. Meanwhile,
- 48:55Speaker 1: you and I like, just order two largest too large,
- 48:58Speaker 1: and I think it would be good. Then we're prepared.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Did four more people come?
- 49:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'd be great. We get on there.
- 49:04Speaker 2: I don't know, A bunch of meat, just as much
- 49:08Speaker 2: meat as we can buy a lot. It sounds good.
- 49:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think Hey Adams would have come to
- 49:13Speaker 1: our party last night had we invited her. But no,
- 49:15Speaker 1: does feel like a missed opportunity?
- 49:18Speaker 2: Asking, Yeah, well it's as opportunity for her too. I mean,
- 49:21Speaker 2: live a little bit right, pizza right exactly?
- 49:24Speaker 1: A woman can't live on sprigs alone. No, it's Jugabuck
- 49:27Speaker 1: in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
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- 49:59Speaker 1: are not staying for the Super Bowl, and it sounds
- 50:02Speaker 1: like there are a lot of people that, you know.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I'm sure the first choice would be to see the
- 50:10Speaker 1: Super Bowl in person those listening, But it sounds like,
- 50:13Speaker 1: according to this story here this morning, that the idea
- 50:18Speaker 1: of going to a Super Bowl party or going to
- 50:21Speaker 1: some sort of event is going by the wayside. It
- 50:25Speaker 1: sounds like people are getting really specific about exactly what
- 50:29Speaker 1: they want to eat and drink and be with. They
- 50:32Speaker 1: want the privacy, they want their seahawk moment. It's just
- 50:37Speaker 1: too personal now to share with anybody else. So apparently
- 50:40Speaker 1: there's a surge of people staying home to watch the
- 50:43Speaker 1: Super Bowl these days.
- 50:45Speaker 2: Ah, that's interesting. I mean, I do think a lot
- 50:48Speaker 2: of folks, especially if you've done it once before, If
- 50:51Speaker 2: if you've been through watching your team fight for a
- 50:53Speaker 2: championship and that not go your way, and you're amongst
- 50:57Speaker 2: people that are not like minded, I think it that
- 51:00Speaker 2: pain sticks with you. Yeah, I'll just tell you. There
- 51:02Speaker 2: was one. It was I think forty three thousand to
- 51:06Speaker 2: eight is what the final score ended up being. I'm
- 51:09Speaker 2: pretty sure it was my favorite team, the Denver Broncos,
- 51:13Speaker 2: and they're playing against Seattle Seahawks. So that was not
- 51:16Speaker 2: long ago, really, but it felt like yesterday. The pain
- 51:19Speaker 2: is still real, and so I was amongst all Seahawks
- 51:23Speaker 2: fans and it was probably something I'll never do again.
- 51:26Speaker 2: I'll probably never watch a Super Bowl with all Seahawk
- 51:28Speaker 2: fans if it's against my Broncos, because it was painful.
- 51:32Speaker 2: I think it's I think a lot of people just
- 51:33Speaker 2: want to be able to have their emotions and not
- 51:36Speaker 2: have it interrupted. So if you're around friends, close friends
- 51:39Speaker 2: that are all in the same rooting interest, then when
- 51:42Speaker 2: things are going great, then you're sharing in the glow
- 51:44Speaker 2: things are. If something goes poorly, you're all on the
- 51:47Speaker 2: same page. But to go out in public where there's
- 51:50Speaker 2: mixed things and you have that thought of like you
- 51:52Speaker 2: stop cheering when something bad goes for my team.
- 51:55Speaker 3: You know.
- 51:56Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think today's fan is just so much
- 51:59Speaker 1: more rabbit. I mean, my dad's not sitting there on
- 52:02Speaker 1: the couch on Super Bowl Sunday and his you know,
- 52:05Speaker 1: Joe Montana jersey or whatever, you know, with my uncles
- 52:09Speaker 1: and hanging on the edge of the seat. I just
- 52:12Speaker 1: don't think our dad's operated that way. But today's fan
- 52:15Speaker 1: takes it so personally. Uh, and it's so important to
- 52:20Speaker 1: them compared to two generations ago, even one generation to go,
- 52:25Speaker 1: I would imagine. Yeah, that kind of makes sense to me.
- 52:27Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be in mixed company where there might be,
- 52:32Speaker 1: for goodness sake, i might show up and somebody's new
- 52:35Speaker 1: boyfriend is a Patriots fan. For goodness sake, I'm not watching.
- 52:38Speaker 1: We don't get at the Super Bowl every year as
- 52:40Speaker 1: a football fan. I'm not gonna be sitting there watching
- 52:43Speaker 1: it with somebody who's you know, a Tom Brady jersey
- 52:46Speaker 1: on af that I'm staying home I'm having Fredo's Nobody's
- 52:49Speaker 1: gonna judge me for it, and I am gonna scream
- 52:51Speaker 1: at the television because damn it, I'm a Seahawks fan, right, Yeah.
- 52:56Speaker 2: And imagine if you had like a sickness where you
- 52:58Speaker 2: had to sit in the same chair, in the same
- 53:00Speaker 2: position and had to eat the same things, like if
- 53:03Speaker 2: you were superstitious. I don't know who would be like that.
- 53:05Speaker 2: Then you obviously don't want to go out and bring
- 53:08Speaker 2: in mixed variables that might mess up the entire thing
- 53:11Speaker 2: for the whole city.
- 53:12Speaker 1: Ashley, do you have a plan.
- 53:13Speaker 4: Yeah, We're having only Seahawks fans at our house.
- 53:16Speaker 3: It's all the time.
- 53:17Speaker 1: Only what if you found out? What if somebody just
- 53:19Speaker 1: at the last second invited like a cousin.
- 53:22Speaker 4: There's no inviting. No, you are either you got the invite.
- 53:28Speaker 4: You do not extend the invite to anyone else. There's
- 53:30Speaker 4: only a certain number of people that can be there.
- 53:33Speaker 4: You can't have it too loud that you can't hear
- 53:34Speaker 4: the TV. Anyone who has kids. Those kids will be
- 53:38Speaker 4: in Palmer's room. They can watch a movie if they
- 53:40Speaker 4: don't want to watch the game. There's no playing in
- 53:43Speaker 4: the living room.
- 53:44Speaker 2: Oh, I like Ashley's rule. Wait to just lay down
- 53:47Speaker 2: the wall.
- 53:47Speaker 4: Yeah, all the playing will be done in the kid's
- 53:49Speaker 4: bedroom and other than that, it's football only outside of
- 53:52Speaker 4: the well.
- 53:53Speaker 2: There and break in with a Patriots jersey on.
- 53:58Speaker 1: I just think today's football it's such a personal experience
- 54:02Speaker 1: for them. I think Ashley as was way ahead of
- 54:05Speaker 1: the curb on this. These are the rules, yep. And
- 54:08Speaker 1: you're not going to come in and ruin my Seahawk
- 54:10Speaker 1: party with your Patriot Bowl. I'll I'll watch. It's fun
- 54:16Speaker 1: if my team's not in it. But this is different. Yeah,
- 54:19Speaker 1: all right, we will continue our coverage from Radio Row
- 54:22Speaker 1: next Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r
- 54:25Speaker 1: f M.
- 54:25Speaker 2: Yeah. And then when the song came over, the doors
- 54:29Speaker 2: burst open and we went out there and throttled them.
- 54:33Speaker 1: Is that right?
- 54:34Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
- 54:35Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 54:35Speaker 1: What did super What did the ads go for back then?
- 54:39Speaker 1: For eleven year old you know our NL? Yeah? What
- 54:44Speaker 1: were they add rates back then to get on that show?
- 54:47Speaker 2: We all got one Caprice son, two orange slices. Okay,
- 54:53Speaker 2: it was worth it.
- 54:54Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you dominated, Oh.
- 54:57Speaker 2: It was absolute dominating. Yeah, And it was actually my
- 55:00Speaker 2: first can't trash song down like yeah, it was my
- 55:04Speaker 2: first attempt of trash talk as well. Yeah, there was
- 55:08Speaker 2: a guy on the other team. Duffer was his last name. Yeah,
- 55:13Speaker 2: he was doofy talking trash before the game, and then
- 55:18Speaker 2: we whooped him, and so I said, hey Dufe, Hey Dufe.
- 55:22Speaker 1: Scoreboard, bud scoreboard.
- 55:27Speaker 9: Him.
- 55:27Speaker 2: It did.
- 55:28Speaker 1: It's as if God got involved to give you a
- 55:31Speaker 1: starter kit trash talking opportunity. I'm going to give you,
- 55:36Speaker 1: when you're ready, an arrogant, very easy, arrogant guy named
- 55:41Speaker 1: Dufer Dufer.
- 55:42Speaker 2: I mean it's just it's endless. I mean you can't miss.
- 55:45Speaker 2: It was a can't miss. It was a can't miss,
- 55:47Speaker 2: and it started me on my trash talk journey with
- 55:49Speaker 2: a with a vote of confidence because I was like,
- 55:52Speaker 2: I just nailed that. What a journey. It's then, hey dufe, scoreboard.
- 55:57Speaker 2: That's what I said to him. I was like, man,
- 55:58Speaker 2: I am good at this. At eleven, well.
- 56:02Speaker 1: Our radio row coverage is going to conclude today. We
- 56:06Speaker 1: got one more hour to go before we put the
- 56:09Speaker 1: raps on a heck of a week. Do you want
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- 56:17Speaker 1: We will have the call of the Super Bowl on Sunday,
- 56:20Speaker 1: the National Call with Kevin Harlan, also Kurt Warner and
- 56:25Speaker 1: our own Genes Sterotor on Westwood One. So make sure
- 56:29Speaker 1: you're listening to Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
- 56:32Speaker 1: r FM and joining us now here on the program
- 56:37Speaker 1: is the NFL Networks Gerald McCoy, former Buccaneers defensive tackle
- 56:44Speaker 1: and he joins us here at our set. Good to
- 56:46Speaker 1: have you, man, Thanks.
- 56:47Speaker 3: For having me. Man.
- 56:48Speaker 10: I heard you mentioned in one of my colleagues, Kurt Warner.
- 56:51Speaker 10: Man oh, sitting next to him every Sunday. Yeah, Kurt,
- 56:57Speaker 10: when the show is over, Kurt, I mean, and he
- 57:00Speaker 10: runs a Tyreek Hill forty to the locker.
- 57:03Speaker 3: Room and gets out of there so he can come
- 57:04Speaker 3: call these games.
- 57:05Speaker 10: So he loves needless to say, Kurt loves it so
- 57:09Speaker 10: and kurtis he's one of the he's one of the
- 57:12Speaker 10: greatest author.
- 57:13Speaker 2: Man.
- 57:13Speaker 3: I love Kurt.
- 57:13Speaker 1: Yeah, watching it. But you can't just say nice things.
- 57:16Speaker 1: Tell us something bad about Marry Uchie or about rich Eyes,
- 57:20Speaker 1: and give me some dirt.
- 57:21Speaker 3: So mooch, we always we always say mooch. He's a
- 57:28Speaker 3: he gets very antsy. And you know, some.
- 57:31Speaker 10: People like if you say, take five steps to get
- 57:36Speaker 10: to your destination, and he gets five steps and he's
- 57:39Speaker 10: not there, and he might have to take a six,
- 57:42Speaker 10: his knees might.
- 57:42Speaker 3: Crumble because it's like instead of instead of just saying, oh,
- 57:48Speaker 3: I just need to take an extra step, Mooch is like,
- 57:51Speaker 3: but you said five and I'm not there yet. That's
- 57:54Speaker 3: how Mooch operates. And then Kurt.
- 57:58Speaker 10: Kurt is the guy who if you had a cookbook, yeah, yeah,
- 58:06Speaker 10: now you don't know how to cook, but you give
- 58:08Speaker 10: him a cookbook with all the ingredients. Kurt is gonna
- 58:12Speaker 10: look at the ingredients and say, well, why these ingredients here?
- 58:15Speaker 10: It's like, bro, you don't even know how a cook
- 58:17Speaker 10: I get that, but why these here?
- 58:20Speaker 3: And why is this not in there? It's like, well,
- 58:23Speaker 3: you don't know why.
- 58:24Speaker 1: It tastes the way it tastes the.
- 58:26Speaker 3: Way you like it.
- 58:27Speaker 10: It tastes like that because of these ingredients. I understand that,
- 58:31Speaker 10: but why didn't you add this?
- 58:33Speaker 3: That's Kurt? Wow, that's Kurt.
- 58:35Speaker 10: And then Rich's just he's professor X oh I call
- 58:39Speaker 10: him Richar's professor X. He's just he's freaking incredible. His
- 58:42Speaker 10: mind the way rich mind works. Man it's freaking incredible.
- 58:46Speaker 10: So it's a blessing to be up there with those guys.
- 58:49Speaker 10: I love him so much. They had a team that
- 58:54Speaker 10: was like the Avengers or the Justice League with those
- 58:58Speaker 10: three and then Michael word so losing Earth and them
- 59:03Speaker 10: inviting me in and welcoming me with open arms. I'm
- 59:07Speaker 10: overly indebted to them so much. So did sometimes I
- 59:10Speaker 10: sit up there and get emotional because they didn't have
- 59:14Speaker 10: to do that, and they didn't have to be as
- 59:17Speaker 10: welcoming as they were for me. Because I'm telling you
- 59:21Speaker 10: right now, Michael Irvin is their brother. So it's tough
- 59:25Speaker 10: to lose a family member when you've been doing it
- 59:27Speaker 10: the way you've been doing it.
- 59:28Speaker 3: For so long. But I never felt it.
- 59:32Speaker 10: Not one time did I ever feel unwanted or unwelcome.
- 59:36Speaker 3: So I love those guys so much.
- 59:39Speaker 1: Well, you add a lot, Yeah, you add a lot
- 59:41Speaker 1: to that show.
- 59:42Speaker 3: I just try and bring me.
- 59:43Speaker 1: Yeah, Jerald McCoy is that's right here on now, chucking
- 59:45Speaker 1: back all right, Well, bring you and your analysis to
- 59:49Speaker 1: our beloved Seahawks as they get ready to play Sunday
- 59:52Speaker 1: in this Super Bowl. My guess is you're a big
- 59:56Speaker 1: Leonard Williams fan. You like Leonard Williams game. Uh, tell
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: me how you have analyzed this this front four for
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: the Seahawks all year long and what kind of impact
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: they could have on Sunday.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: Yeah, like Leonard.
- 1:00:10Speaker 10: I like Murphy, I told, I said, and he's a
- 1:00:13Speaker 10: Texas guy. Yeah, but I watched him in Texas. You tolerate,
- 1:00:19Speaker 10: I said, I hate to get his guy some credit, man,
- 1:00:24Speaker 10: dang it, but I gotta do.
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: It's really good sooner.
- 1:00:29Speaker 10: But man, I'm a defender first. I'm a defensive tackle first,
- 1:00:35Speaker 10: and I love great defensive tackle play. And Murphy's one
- 1:00:39Speaker 10: of those guys. Man, So I knew.
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: So you start with Murphy more.
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:00:45Speaker 10: Well, I mean, Leonard gets all the praise and he should.
- 1:00:48Speaker 10: He deserves it. But Murph, Man, when Murph wasn't a
- 1:00:52Speaker 10: pro bowler, he was upset for a reason. It was
- 1:00:55Speaker 10: very valid because he played that well. And you know,
- 1:00:59Speaker 10: he's just continues that play. And I don't bring up
- 1:01:03Speaker 10: a lot of names or people often because I don't
- 1:01:07Speaker 10: give a lot of praise out because it's very difficult
- 1:01:11Speaker 10: to be really good in this league. He has the
- 1:01:15Speaker 10: ability to be one of the greats over the next
- 1:01:18Speaker 10: ten years. He has that level of ability. But it's
- 1:01:23Speaker 10: all gonna be in punging on how much he learns
- 1:01:25Speaker 10: from Leonard, because Leonard did the same thing.
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: He came up under Mo Wilkerson.
- 1:01:31Speaker 10: With the Jets, and he learned and he got better
- 1:01:34Speaker 10: and got better, kept trusting in himself and looking what
- 1:01:39Speaker 10: he is now, and he just continued to play for
- 1:01:42Speaker 10: all these years. Man, But you gotta have that guy
- 1:01:44Speaker 10: that's dominant in the middle, man, the Marcus Lawrence. I
- 1:01:47Speaker 10: was with him at the Pro Bowl a couple of times,
- 1:01:50Speaker 10: but then I had a chance to. I stopped in
- 1:01:52Speaker 10: Dallas with a cup of coffee, you know, before I
- 1:01:54Speaker 10: hurt my knee, and I had a chance to sitting
- 1:01:56Speaker 10: meeting with him and sitting in the locker room with
- 1:01:58Speaker 10: him and d law He's just he's such a phenomenal leader.
- 1:02:04Speaker 10: He's I mean, he overflows with confidence, not arrogance.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: It's confidence because if.
- 1:02:13Speaker 10: You've ever watched him work his offseason work when he's
- 1:02:17Speaker 10: on that grass, the work he puts in is why
- 1:02:20Speaker 10: he carries himself the way he carries himself. And I
- 1:02:23Speaker 10: just love that this front or this defense as a whole.
- 1:02:26Speaker 10: What I love most about them is their ability to pressure.
- 1:02:30Speaker 10: They can send five, they can rush with four, they
- 1:02:33Speaker 10: can show.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: Six and send four. They can show six and send six.
- 1:02:37Speaker 10: And it's because of what they have in the back end.
- 1:02:41Speaker 10: This even worry kid Man. Well tell you something, that
- 1:02:46Speaker 10: dude is a different animal. When you can go from
- 1:02:50Speaker 10: covering Pooka one on one to covering Davante one on one,
- 1:02:54Speaker 10: to cover somebody else, to blitzing to tackling in the
- 1:02:58Speaker 10: run game to it's just it's nothing he can't do.
- 1:03:03Speaker 10: And he's played far beyond his years and that allows
- 1:03:06Speaker 10: you to do what I believe will be the detriment
- 1:03:08Speaker 10: to New England.
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: When we watched New England.
- 1:03:13Speaker 10: Versus the Broncos, we didn't see Drake May beat them
- 1:03:18Speaker 10: with his arm. He picked up six or seven first downs.
- 1:03:21Speaker 10: I think it was with his legs. And it's because
- 1:03:24Speaker 10: of the rush lane integrity and all of that means
- 1:03:28Speaker 10: is is a lot of people think past rush is
- 1:03:30Speaker 10: just pass rus. It's not how it works. You have
- 1:03:32Speaker 10: to know how to rush, you have to know what
- 1:03:33Speaker 10: lanes you have cover each other up. Rush four as
- 1:03:36Speaker 10: one is what I was taught. Well, he kept finding
- 1:03:38Speaker 10: the opening in the rush lane. How you take that
- 1:03:41Speaker 10: away as you just rush five. You can't double team
- 1:03:44Speaker 10: unless you do a max pro so you Seattle has
- 1:03:48Speaker 10: the ability to do that. Y'all have five rushers that
- 1:03:50Speaker 10: can rush. If I'm putting Leonard Williams over the center,
- 1:03:54Speaker 10: that's what I'm doing, putting them over the center, because
- 1:03:57Speaker 10: the center, it's rare that the cin there is the
- 1:04:00Speaker 10: best offensive alignment.
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: You know, if we got in a fight right.
- 1:04:03Speaker 10: Now, right and whoever can't fight, are we gonna put
- 1:04:08Speaker 10: them on the outside and we're gonna put them in
- 1:04:10Speaker 10: the middle and surround them. Right, That's how I look
- 1:04:12Speaker 10: at when I think about centers. So if I'm taking
- 1:04:15Speaker 10: my best defense attack on putting them over the center,
- 1:04:18Speaker 10: because can that quarterback do anything without the ball? No,
- 1:04:21Speaker 10: So not only does he have to worry about getting
- 1:04:24Speaker 10: him the ball, I gotta worry about this all probe
- 1:04:26Speaker 10: in front of me, like, oh my godsh And then
- 1:04:29Speaker 10: he can't help because he gotta govern him.
- 1:04:31Speaker 3: He can't help because he gotta govern him.
- 1:04:33Speaker 10: The Marcus Lawrence is out there, or I put de
- 1:04:35Speaker 10: Marcus Lawrence over will Campbell and then I say, okay,
- 1:04:38Speaker 10: you go over there now, Drake May He has to
- 1:04:42Speaker 10: really beat you with his arm because there's no rush lane,
- 1:04:45Speaker 10: there's no escape. And the reason you can do that
- 1:04:48Speaker 10: is because I'm not afraid of nobody that he's throwing
- 1:04:50Speaker 10: the ball to. I love Dixie, but Dixie's not gonna
- 1:04:56Speaker 10: beat me all game. As good as he is, he's
- 1:04:59Speaker 10: not gonna beat me all games. So I'm gonna play man.
- 1:05:02Speaker 10: Or I can zone it up in the back again
- 1:05:04Speaker 10: and now show me y'all can beat me, because these
- 1:05:08Speaker 10: guys up front ain't blocking our guys. Show me, y'all
- 1:05:10Speaker 10: can beat me. So if I'm Seattle, that's what I'm doing.
- 1:05:14Speaker 10: That's the luxury of having the defense, y'all have.
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: How much credit do you give the Patriots defense? A
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: lot of people people are discounting, you know, the numbers
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: they put up because of the weather they played in
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: and the fact that maybe shroud, you know, look like
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: a deering head legs a little bit. Are you giving
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: them the credit that they absolutely? Okay?
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no, no.
- 1:05:35Speaker 10: See without this defense, we wouldn't even be talking about
- 1:05:39Speaker 10: the New England Patriots. The defense is the reason we
- 1:05:42Speaker 10: even having this conversation, and the key to that defense
- 1:05:45Speaker 10: is the free agent signing that they had from the.
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagle Eagles Nelton Williams.
- 1:05:51Speaker 10: They were giving up dang their three hundred and something
- 1:05:55Speaker 10: plus yards a game before Week eighteen when he came back. Since,
- 1:06:00Speaker 10: they've been giving up two hundred and nine yards a game.
- 1:06:03Speaker 10: Two hundred and nine. That's the impact of a Milton Williams.
- 1:06:06Speaker 10: And he's healthy, he's been in these games before, he's
- 1:06:09Speaker 10: played well in these games before. And if you think
- 1:06:13Speaker 10: that this defense is going to be easy to move
- 1:06:15Speaker 10: the ball on, you got another thing coming. Because this
- 1:06:18Speaker 10: team takes on the identity of the head coach. The
- 1:06:20Speaker 10: head coach is Mike Rabo, who is a Belichick disciple. However,
- 1:06:28Speaker 10: what did what was Belichick's m I'm gonna take away.
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: What you do best.
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: That's what he did. The best thing they do is
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: get the ball to Jsid good luck.
- 1:06:39Speaker 10: He's the guy, right, he's the guy. So let's say
- 1:06:43Speaker 10: we do our best to take him away. Here's why
- 1:06:46Speaker 10: I have Seattle in this game.
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: It's because everybody said, oh, Charvon's out, Charmonnay's out. Okay.
- 1:06:55Speaker 10: When Montgomery and Detroit went out, Mr Gibbs was already there.
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: Jamiir Gibbs was already the explosive running back. That's who
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker is.
- 1:07:05Speaker 10: He had double the explosive to Sharbonnay. So people think, well,
- 1:07:09Speaker 10: the reds On running back. Okay, but we got in
- 1:07:13Speaker 10: the reds On and sharbonn they came in, we knew
- 1:07:16Speaker 10: what was gonna happen. Now, if Kenneth Walker's back there,
- 1:07:19Speaker 10: we don't know what the heck is gonna happen. They
- 1:07:21Speaker 10: could go outside, they can run inside. He can catch
- 1:07:23Speaker 10: the ball at the backfield, because that's just the guy
- 1:07:25Speaker 10: he is. Now, you actually just opened up the offense.
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: But here's the X factor. Let's say they take away JSN.
- 1:07:32Speaker 10: There's a guy on Seattle's team who has not only
- 1:07:36Speaker 10: played in this game, he's won this game and he's
- 1:07:39Speaker 10: been a Super Bowl MVP in this game. His name
- 1:07:42Speaker 10: is Cooper Cup. So take away JSN all you want.
- 1:07:46Speaker 10: What better time for Cooper Cup to show the world
- 1:07:48Speaker 10: that I still got it than the Super Bowl?
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: They just y'all just got too much firepower. Man.
- 1:07:53Speaker 10: As great as this defense is, they can take away
- 1:07:55Speaker 10: one piece and y'all got more.
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: Take away this and y'all got more.
- 1:07:59Speaker 10: And really it's all dependent on the quarterback who I
- 1:08:04Speaker 10: would rather play against Drake May than play against Sam
- 1:08:07Speaker 10: Darnold's because a quarterback who was standing in the pocket
- 1:08:09Speaker 10: and beat you with his mind is something you don't
- 1:08:11Speaker 10: want to deal with.
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: I watch you every Sunday morning. I knew you were
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: going to bring analysis to the table. I didn't know
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: you were going to bring honey in port, didn't. Yeah,
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: I know that was gonna happen with Jerald McCoy. I
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: know you got to get run and man this great stuff.
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: I do want to ask you, just personally and not
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: to get the cart before the horse here. But I'm
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: watching all these Hall of Famers parade around. You're on
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: the ballot for the first time next year. Are you
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: ready for this unpredictable ride of you know whether or
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: not I'm good enough for Canton?
- 1:08:39Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? Here's here's so I did.
- 1:08:46Speaker 10: I did Damn Patrick yesterday morning. He asked me the
- 1:08:48Speaker 10: same thing, and this is what I said.
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: He copied me.
- 1:08:51Speaker 10: All the kids, any kid who hears this, any young
- 1:08:56Speaker 10: athlete who's listening to this, we all dream to make
- 1:09:01Speaker 10: it into the Hall of Fame. Dan Patrick asked me
- 1:09:06Speaker 10: that question. You just asked you that question. My dad
- 1:09:09Speaker 10: always raised me, g be in the conversation. That's the goal.
- 1:09:15Speaker 10: Be good enough to be in the conversation. That room
- 1:09:18Speaker 10: is so rare to get into. We would all love
- 1:09:22Speaker 10: to get in there, but everybody can't get in. But
- 1:09:25Speaker 10: when they put that ballot out last night and they
- 1:09:27Speaker 10: said notable players, and they put six seven guys up,
- 1:09:30Speaker 10: and Gerald's face was on there, you're in the conversation,
- 1:09:33Speaker 10: getting the conversation. Mission accomplished. Man, I'm from the south
- 1:09:36Speaker 10: side of Oklahoma City. Don't nobody come out of there.
- 1:09:38Speaker 10: So for a kid that wasn't even getting recruited to
- 1:09:42Speaker 10: going to an OU camp, to them seeing me, me
- 1:09:45Speaker 10: going to the Nike camp, and now I'm on the
- 1:09:47Speaker 10: map to being a possible Hall of Famer. God, thank you.
- 1:09:52Speaker 10: That's all I'll say. So I'm not about to ride
- 1:09:55Speaker 10: this roller coaster of emotions of whether I get in
- 1:09:57Speaker 10: or whether I don't. If I get a knock, great,
- 1:10:00Speaker 10: if I don't. Guess what y'all see my name, I
- 1:10:03Speaker 10: was in the conversation. I did enough in my career
- 1:10:06Speaker 10: where to even be considered missing the compass.
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: You're a great player, You're a great analytics, a great
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: guest here today, Jerald McCoy joining us right here on
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the mornings us as we talked
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: to the NFL networks. Uh. He I watch those guys
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: every Sunday morning. They do an outstanding job. That was
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: a breakdown right there from Jerald McCoy, Like he's got
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's game plan. He's like, hey, coach, you might
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: want to do this. I know you're a genius and all,
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: but if I were you, I do this good stuff
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: from him?
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: Yeah here today. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. I mean, obviously
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: the dude does his homework and he's just not very
- 1:10:48Speaker 2: far removed from it, right. I mean, it's We've talked
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: to a lot of people this week, and they all
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: know their stuff. I mean I'm learning stuff from a
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: bunch of them. To talk to somebody that, like he
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: just said, is in the conversation for a Hall of
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: Fame pretty soon that also understands how the game has
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: changed just recently. It wasn't that long ago that he
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: was playing.
- 1:11:09Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: He does seem to have kind of a it doesn't
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like it's this overconfident. It's just like
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: the confidence that I think most of us have felt
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: for the last better part of the last two weeks
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: about how the Seahawks team just feels like it's ready
- 1:11:23Speaker 2: for this, they're kind of built for this. He just
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: kind of solidified it with just about every single thing
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: that he said.
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, and I well, look, I'm doing
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: my best. I think I do my best all the time.
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: Not to let bias get in the way just because
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: I talked to a Seattle audience. It's genuine. I just
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: think that this is the better football team, and as
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: long as both teams play their normal game, I think
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: the Seahawks win. But that sports right, doesn't mean you're
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: going to show up and not play your Sea game.
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: And if they play their A game, you're losing. You're
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: losing that game on Sunday. But I I agree with Gerald,
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: and I agree when I mean, Hugh doesn't make predictions, right.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: We had you on at eight o'clock today for his
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: x AS and O segment. He doesn't make predictions. We
- 1:12:08Speaker 1: got done with his segment today and I said, well,
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: can't wait to break this one down with you on
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: Monday morning. He said, break down the win with me
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: on Monday morning. Yeah, you doesn't make predictions. Very well
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: known that he doesn't do that, but that's how confident
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: he is. Greg Bell every time we see him extends
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: the amount of points that the Seahawks are gonna win
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: by Greg tries to operate on a day by day
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: menu and by minute basis without bias when he covers
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: this football team, and yet he believes that it's a
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: little I mean, the Seahawks are just the better football team.
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: They just are. Now that doesn't mean they'll play the
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: best game and doesn't mean they'll win, but on paper,
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: they're just the better football team.
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: They're just more ways that they can get it done,
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: you know what I mean. That's kind of the mo
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: of the way in which I look at sports in general, right.
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: I Mean, there was times that I'm up at the
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: plate and it was against Pedro Martinez and there was
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: more ways that he was going to get me out
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: than ways I was going to be successful. That's what
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: it feels like it. You know, it feels like the
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: Seahawks offense can put up numbers and bunches at times.
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: We've seen that Sam Darnold can go out and sling
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: it with the best of them. Now we've also seen
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: that there's a there can be a game where that
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: he doesn't do all that well, or that he puts
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: the ball in danger. There is weapons. Jaysen seems borderline unstoppable.
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: But the fact that, like what Jaral McCoy was just saying,
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: if they were if Mark Mike Vrabel was to figure
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: out a game plan that says, we are not going
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: to let him beat us. Yeah, he might get three
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: four catches, we're gonna tackle him right away. It's four
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: catches for fifty two yards and no touchdowns. That's containing Jaysn. Well,
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: if you do that, you do have a guy that was,
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: you know, MVP caliber receiver not that long ago. He's
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: not the same guy, but you do have a Cooper
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: Cup there. And then you have a running back that
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: now is kind of for a big bag when it
- 1:14:01Speaker 2: comes to the money and understanding free agencies on the horizon. Uh,
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: I just think there's just way more ways And that
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: was just some offensive things and the defense is really
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: the straw that starves the drink in this with this team,
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: there's just so many more ways the Seahawks can get
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: it done. But you're right, it's sports. That's the beauty
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: of it. They still got to go out and put
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: their money where their mouth is.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: You know, Bucky, you've had a great week of broadcasting
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: here at at Radio Row, your first time here. You've
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: been really but you have opened yourself up to yet
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: another meme. Right now, Keith Miller is working on Pedro
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: Martinez an Seahawks uniform, pitching to Bucky Jacobson in a
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: Patriot unifors. Oh, he's working on it right now through AI.
- 1:14:42Speaker 2: Uh to. He wasn't. He wasn't until you put the idea.
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: I mean, Keith, I hope you're not listening. Oh, Keith,
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: don't do it. And Nick Allen you can keep out
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: of this AI game as well, artists bo of them. No,
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: you're not even doing it yourself. It's artificial intelligence, and
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: it's not it's funny, right.
- 1:15:06Speaker 4: Yeah, it's awesome intelligence.
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: It's not awesome. It's just kind of funny.
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: It's like having James Cameron and Picasso listening to your
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: show every day.
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: Okay, keep your creativity to yourself, all right.
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: Coming up next, we gotta hear from this guy before
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: kickoff on Sunday. Mike Holmgren Sports Radio ninety three point
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- 1:16:01Speaker 1: Right, Uh, here we go, final guest of the week.
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: Shouldn't it be Mike Holmgren? Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, should
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: it be? I mean yeah, Hugh Millon's in the running?
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: Well sure, but it's coach Holmgren joining us for his
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: nine thirty segment every Friday on a football Friday. But
- 1:16:20Speaker 1: it's a special Super Bowl Football Friday.
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: It's a super Mike Homegren segment. It really is super.
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: Mike Holmgren joins us right here on Chuck and Buck
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: in the morning. Hello, Super Mike.
- 1:16:30Speaker 11: Hello guys. Did I hear you correctly? You say he
- 1:16:33Speaker 11: was still in the running?
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: Uh?
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: I love it coming in hot throwing some shade out
- 1:16:42Speaker 2: of boy super Bowl.
- 1:16:43Speaker 11: I was gonna say, I was gonna say, I am
- 1:16:46Speaker 11: honored to be in the same conversation.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: A great response by the legend Mike Hongrin is with
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: it's great to have you on. By the way, I
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: just saw Barry Sanders and I was gonna ask him
- 1:17:02Speaker 1: if he would come on this segment with you. But
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: I didn't want you to have your night terrors return
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: to your life.
- 1:17:09Speaker 11: No, I know, I started right now, so he said,
- 1:17:13Speaker 11: he said no.
- 1:17:14Speaker 1: Huh No, he didn't say no. I didn't have time
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: to go over there and get him.
- 1:17:17Speaker 5: He left.
- 1:17:18Speaker 1: The chare too quick, right, saw Jerry yesterday, Jerry Rice.
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: I mean, they only bring over the greats and they
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: just tease us with him over here, and then before
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: we can get our headsets off, they're gone.
- 1:17:31Speaker 11: How was your week good?
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: It's been good. It's been really good. I wish you
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: would have been here. That would have been really the
- 1:17:37Speaker 1: cherry on top of it all if we would have
- 1:17:39Speaker 1: been able to hang out with you a little bit,
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: have you down here at Radio Row. But it's good
- 1:17:43Speaker 1: to have you on. So here we go more just
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: a couple of days away from Super Bowl Sunday. What
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: in the world is going through Mike McDonald's mind, the
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: head coach of a team getting ready to coach in
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: his first Super Bowl forty eight hours away.
- 1:18:00Speaker 11: Well, right now, he's a normal Friday, I think. I
- 1:18:04Speaker 11: think he's probably doing red zone and go on and
- 1:18:06Speaker 11: those types of things. So he's still got a practice day,
- 1:18:09Speaker 11: although considerably lighter, I would think, because they've been at
- 1:18:14Speaker 11: it for a couple of weeks. But I really didn't
- 1:18:18Speaker 11: start thinking, and I think might folly the same way. No,
- 1:18:20Speaker 11: maybe not. Maybe he's he's got full speed ahead every
- 1:18:24Speaker 11: minute of every day. But on Friday, I'd be like that.
- 1:18:27Speaker 11: And then Saturday, the day before the game. I remember,
- 1:18:31Speaker 11: I take my family out to dinner Saturday night, you know,
- 1:18:34Speaker 11: those types of things, and just kind of just soak
- 1:18:38Speaker 11: it in. I'm here, you know, we're finished practicing, we
- 1:18:42Speaker 11: have the plan.
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: Now.
- 1:18:44Speaker 11: I want to sleep good tonight and then tomorrow we'll
- 1:18:46Speaker 11: kick it up. So it's at the end of the week.
- 1:18:50Speaker 11: At the end of the second week, I really thought
- 1:18:53Speaker 11: there should be and I should kind of back away
- 1:18:56Speaker 11: and just just smell the roses a little bit.
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: If you were in Mike McDonald's shoes. Are you wanting
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: to kind of start this game out in aggressive fashion
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: maybe or more cautious fashion. What would just be your
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: overarching theme as to what you're thinking if you had
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: this team to coach in this game?
- 1:19:18Speaker 11: You know what, Buck, I think, I don't think it's
- 1:19:20Speaker 11: going to be any different really than all the games
- 1:19:24Speaker 11: I think you go in. If you're on defense, he's
- 1:19:27Speaker 11: going to do all this stuff to stop their offense
- 1:19:30Speaker 11: and their young quarterback, and that's not going to change.
- 1:19:33Speaker 11: And then on offense, you cut it loose. You do
- 1:19:35Speaker 11: what you've practiced, you believe in what you've practiced, and
- 1:19:40Speaker 11: that first fifteen or however many Clint does on his
- 1:19:43Speaker 11: sheet there, that's the score. That's to score a touchdown.
- 1:19:48Speaker 11: You're looking to see what motions and different things can
- 1:19:52Speaker 11: maybe make their defense do, but the ultimate goal is
- 1:19:55Speaker 11: to score on that first drive. So I don't think
- 1:19:57Speaker 11: you're going to see anything different early. I don't think
- 1:20:01Speaker 11: they're going to back off.
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: Do you think you'll see something different from McDonald from
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: the standpoint of how aggressive he's been recently on fourth
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: and medium, not taking the points going for it. I mean,
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: this is a topic that we've discussed a lot. But
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: this game, maybe more so than any other game. Is
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: this feel to you like a please take the points
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: kind of game for both these teams, Seahawks and Patriots.
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: Considering the defense of might that's going to be on
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: the football field.
- 1:20:29Speaker 11: Sunday, Well, you know what I think. All year in
- 1:20:32Speaker 11: the studio and we've talked about it, I said it,
- 1:20:35Speaker 11: and you said it, but said, I think we said
- 1:20:37Speaker 11: take the points, get the points, get them on the board,
- 1:20:40Speaker 11: and they haven't done that. I mean, the league hasn't
- 1:20:43Speaker 11: done that. Guys are going forward on fourth down. It's different.
- 1:20:46Speaker 11: So I don't I really Again, it's the Super Bowl, certainly,
- 1:20:51Speaker 11: but the strategy that got you here is going to
- 1:20:55Speaker 11: be I think the strategy they use in the football game.
- 1:20:58Speaker 11: And again I might be yelling at the screen, take
- 1:21:00Speaker 11: the field goal, take it and in all probabilities they'll
- 1:21:04Speaker 11: go for it and fourth down.
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: Coach h what kind of a boost does it get
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: for an offense? I think that, you know, I think
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: that the Seahawks are a better team if you just
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: go man for man. I think that this is a
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: game that they could not easily but they should win.
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: But What kind of advantage is it when you think
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: of a Josh McDaniel that is going to be called
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: and plays that they you know, that matchup him against
- 1:21:31Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's defense is going to be a big tail
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: of how this game goes. Josh McDaniels has been here,
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: he's been in these big games, he's won these big games,
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: called and plays. How big of a boost is it
- 1:21:42Speaker 2: when you I mean, you were a guy that called
- 1:21:44Speaker 2: plays in multiple Super Bowls. How much more comfortable did
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: you feel when you got more of that experience under
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: your belt?
- 1:21:51Speaker 11: I excuse me, Buck, I think you do get more comfortable.
- 1:21:56Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:21:57Speaker 11: That's why I said, come on and and get the
- 1:22:00Speaker 11: Super Bowl jitters out of your system. When you walk
- 1:22:03Speaker 11: on the field in pregame and Saturday night or whatever,
- 1:22:07Speaker 11: and then when the game starts, did your play selection?
- 1:22:11Speaker 11: How you're doing it? Both Josh and Clint are excellent
- 1:22:14Speaker 11: play callers. And I don't think I just think it's
- 1:22:18Speaker 11: gonna be I think it's gonna be a little closer
- 1:22:21Speaker 11: than people think the game. But I still think the
- 1:22:24Speaker 11: Seahawks are gonna win. I think they're a better football team.
- 1:22:27Speaker 11: But as far as the two offensive coordinators. They're gonna
- 1:22:29Speaker 11: let it fly and you might see the Chuck's point.
- 1:22:32Speaker 11: I think you're gonna see maybe a couple of little
- 1:22:34Speaker 11: weird things happened early in the game.
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Mike Holmgren with us right here on
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the morning. So, are you gonna
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: wear your Super Bowl rings on Sunday? I mean, even
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: though you're gonna probably be from home just having snacks
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: with Kathy and the family, are you just gonna flawn it?
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: You're gonna brag in front of all the family members
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: on Sunday?
- 1:22:54Speaker 11: Well, I have a plan. See, all my grandsons are
- 1:22:57Speaker 11: coming over, four of them, and granddaughters are there too,
- 1:23:01Speaker 11: so they might get mad, but I'm gonna bring them out.
- 1:23:03Speaker 11: They're also each gonna wear one. Oh, I've got I
- 1:23:06Speaker 11: got rinks for everybody with the backup rings and stuff.
- 1:23:10Speaker 11: So I'm gonna I'm gonna flaunt it out there a
- 1:23:12Speaker 11: little bit. I don't think I'm gonna wear one. Kathy
- 1:23:15Speaker 11: certainly isn't gonna wear one.
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: You know, I'll wear one.
- 1:23:22Speaker 11: Yeah, I'll see you on Monday when I I'll see
- 1:23:24Speaker 11: you on Monday. Yeah, Yeah, I'm bringing him in I'm
- 1:23:26Speaker 11: bringing him in Monday. We'll wear one last time this year.
- 1:23:31Speaker 3: Yes, I love it.
- 1:23:32Speaker 1: Uh, Coach Ogrin is with us, all right, so tell me, Uh,
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: I got to get your reaction to this nick Emon
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: worry thing. You're getting ready for the super Bowl and
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: then practice on Wednesday, one of your best weapons rolls
- 1:23:43Speaker 1: his ankle. What does that do to a head coach
- 1:23:48Speaker 1: that close to to game time, to see that good
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: of a player go down with that mysterious of a situation.
- 1:23:55Speaker 11: Yeah, that's that's a little bit of a shock, and
- 1:23:57Speaker 11: you never want to see that happen. And then what
- 1:24:00Speaker 11: you tell yourself is look at it's it happened. So
- 1:24:05Speaker 11: now I'm relying on the doctors, and the doctors better
- 1:24:09Speaker 11: tell me what I want to hear, you know, otherwise
- 1:24:11Speaker 11: their jobs are on the line. So you know, I
- 1:24:15Speaker 11: remember studying when they told me how so back couldn't
- 1:24:17Speaker 11: play anymore? Is his last year? My last year. I said,
- 1:24:20Speaker 11: you're all fired. Get out of my office there ten
- 1:24:23Speaker 11: there I did, and I obviously they say they looked
- 1:24:27Speaker 11: at me, and I go, all right, I know I
- 1:24:28Speaker 11: can't do that, but but no, it's it's he's such
- 1:24:32Speaker 11: a vital part of their defense. But it's my understanding
- 1:24:37Speaker 11: that that he's going to play. Is that what you
- 1:24:40Speaker 11: guys hear here?
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll play.
- 1:24:42Speaker 11: Yeah, but you know if he's not the guy that
- 1:24:46Speaker 11: he has been because of the injury, which is understandable,
- 1:24:50Speaker 11: then you know that that helps, that helps the Patriots.
- 1:24:53Speaker 11: He really does.
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: All right, Well, I got to tell you this, uh
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: be because we were watching yes today. We had a
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: little downtime yesterday for the first time this week, and
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: so Bucky and I were getting ready to throw a party.
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: Were the only two people that attended, and so we
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: had to find some stuff to watch, and we stumbled
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: upon a John Elway documentary. And even though they didn't
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: show you in the documentary as forty nine Ers offensive
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: coordinator laughing at the Broncos, Bucky, did you know have
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: to watch highlights of you dominating the Denver Broncos and
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: a Super Bowl yesterday?
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: It was fun.
- 1:25:39Speaker 11: I feel really bad about that. I'm sorry. Yeah, although
- 1:25:46Speaker 11: I remember out loud, out loud, we're doing this and
- 1:25:51Speaker 11: this is awesome. I didn't know Bucket the time. Now
- 1:25:54Speaker 11: I feel now I feel really bad about it.
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: No you don't, Yeah, I don't think.
- 1:26:00Speaker 3: No, I don't.
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: I know, I don't out at all.
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: All right, So what do you think you're feeling good
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: about Sunday for the Seahawks.
- 1:26:08Speaker 11: Yeah, I am. I think it's gonna be like I said,
- 1:26:10Speaker 11: I think it's gonna be a little closer than people think.
- 1:26:13Speaker 11: But I think the Seahawks are the better team, and
- 1:26:16Speaker 11: I think it's gonna also be a little bit low scoring.
- 1:26:19Speaker 11: I don't think it's gonna be the thirty five, thirty
- 1:26:22Speaker 11: six winner, you know. I think it's gonna be down
- 1:26:25Speaker 11: in the twenties.
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: All right, Coach, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: Enjoy Sunday with the family. We'll see you on Monday.
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: We will be recapping a Super Bowl with you. We
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: can't wait.
- 1:26:37Speaker 11: Yeah, safe trip home, guys.
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: Thank you, coach.
- 1:26:39Speaker 3: All right.
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