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- 0:49Speaker 1: Grin and Hugh Millin. Here's Chuck and Buck.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Mike old Gridle join us at nine o'clock. Hugh Millan
- 0:56Speaker 2: with us here for the next couple of hours. Are
- 0:58Speaker 2: QB one is becoming fresh off a loss in Los
- 1:02Speaker 2: Angeles to the Rams, the final score of twenty one
- 1:05Speaker 2: to nineteen. Ashley Ryan's here, Bucky Jacobson. My name is
- 1:08Speaker 2: Chuck Pollowey. Now welcome or QB one. Hugh Millan too
- 1:12Speaker 2: the radio program This Morning. Good morning, Hugh, Good morning,
- 1:16Speaker 2: How are you great?
- 1:17Speaker 3: So much to discuss.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I would imagine we'll spend a lot of time on
- 1:21Speaker 2: Sam donald's four interceptions, and I would imagine we'll spend
- 1:24Speaker 2: a lot of time on Mike McDonald's defense and how
- 1:27Speaker 2: well it adjusted after that early start by Matt Stafford.
- 1:30Speaker 2: So where does it start though, with Hugh Millan, where's
- 1:33Speaker 2: the conversation begin?
- 1:35Speaker 4: Well, I just think it's a really disappointing that, you know,
- 1:38Speaker 4: everybody on that football team was ready to play, and
- 1:40Speaker 4: I'm not going to say Sam Donald wasn't, but but
- 1:43Speaker 4: you saw the defense, the goal line stand, you know,
- 1:46Speaker 4: to start the game, and they just played with great intensity.
- 1:51Speaker 4: And you know, for the Seahawks to have four interceptions,
- 1:57Speaker 4: for Sam Donald to have four interceptions, I mean since
- 2:00Speaker 4: two thy and ten, there have been teams one hundred
- 2:05Speaker 4: and five occasions when a quarterback or a team had
- 2:09Speaker 4: exactly four interceptions the team with foreign interceptions, and I
- 2:14Speaker 4: chose twenty ten. It's a round number. It's the first year.
- 2:17Speaker 4: John Schneider the team with foreignerceptions is seven and ninety eight.
- 2:24Speaker 4: If you and that's just all teams and the and
- 2:27Speaker 4: the average score, you can expect it to be thirty
- 2:29Speaker 4: one to fifteen to lose the game versus teams that
- 2:33Speaker 4: are five hundred are better. Now it goes to three,
- 2:38Speaker 4: your three wins versus fifty eight eight losses. And the
- 2:42Speaker 4: Rams came into yesterday having won seventy eight percent of
- 2:45Speaker 4: their games for the year. If you filter that and say, oh,
- 2:48Speaker 4: you got you're gonna you're gonna throw four interceptions against
- 2:52Speaker 4: a team that has a win percentage of seventy five
- 2:54Speaker 4: percent of more, I go back to the beginning of
- 2:56Speaker 4: the century. You're one in forty nine. I don't even
- 3:00Speaker 4: have to drag a calculator to know that you got
- 3:02Speaker 4: a two percent chance to win that game. That's what
- 3:06Speaker 4: you told Mike Donald, Mike McDonald before. If you'd have
- 3:08Speaker 4: told them before, hey, you're gonna have to overcome foreign interceptions,
- 3:12Speaker 4: you got a two percent chance. And damn it, they
- 3:15Speaker 4: almost did it. With with all of that calamity, they
- 3:19Speaker 4: almost did it. And and it took some real you know, uh,
- 3:25Speaker 4: prayers on the behalf of the Rams in some sense
- 3:28Speaker 4: in the kicking game, uh, that that Seattle didn't win
- 3:32Speaker 4: that game after having you know, uh dominated them and
- 3:36Speaker 4: in yours uh and in time of possession. So I
- 3:39Speaker 4: think just really unfortunate for the entire football team that
- 3:43Speaker 4: the quarterback had that kind of game in uh in
- 3:46Speaker 4: this in this situation.
- 3:49Speaker 5: Was it all bad throws, bad decisions?
- 3:52Speaker 6: To me?
- 3:52Speaker 5: I mean, I could be completely wrong. It felt like
- 3:54Speaker 5: there was like a little bit of a hesitation which
- 3:57Speaker 5: allowed a couple of those the guys to jump in
- 3:59Speaker 5: front of them, or was there some sort of scheme
- 4:03Speaker 5: or you know, moving guys around hiding coverages that mixed
- 4:07Speaker 5: him up.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's a lot going on on all
- 4:11Speaker 4: four of them. But you know, the first one, you're
- 4:16Speaker 4: facing a mann, a man with just a four man rush.
- 4:19Speaker 4: That means there's an opportunity for an extra hole player,
- 4:23Speaker 4: got a post safety. The quarterback's going to see that
- 4:25Speaker 4: free safety. But then the other safety he's gonna come
- 4:29Speaker 4: down into the low safety that's Kitchens. But originally Kitchens
- 4:33Speaker 4: lined up to present kind of a too high to
- 4:35Speaker 4: Sam Donald's right, as if he was over the top
- 4:39Speaker 4: of JSN. JSN was running a go route and for
- 4:42Speaker 4: all of his attributes. He doesn't have great long speed,
- 4:45Speaker 4: so it would there wasn't much separation. But you look
- 4:49Speaker 4: on the left side, Donald ends up throwing to Cooper Cup.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Cooper Cup was standing on the twenty yard line and
- 4:56Speaker 4: he's getting pressed by fourteen co Durant. You tell a receiver, hey,
- 5:03Speaker 4: if you're held up, shortened up, And yet it's right
- 5:07Speaker 4: there on the tape. Cooper Cup goes from all the
- 5:09Speaker 4: way to the thirty nine yard line. That's a nineteen
- 5:12Speaker 4: yard curl after having been jammed at the line of scrimmage.
- 5:17Speaker 4: That is just way too deep. So Darnold's looking at him.
- 5:21Speaker 4: And then you have other issues with the Here you
- 5:24Speaker 4: got Oloa Timmy, who's thought to be the better run blocker,
- 5:28Speaker 4: not pass blocker. And because you have to take Gray's
- 5:31Speaker 4: abel and help him with Charles Cross against Jared Verse,
- 5:36Speaker 4: now you have the the unwanted situation where both guards
- 5:40Speaker 4: are fanning. The right guards going to his right, the
- 5:42Speaker 4: left guard's going to his left, and ol Timmy is
- 5:45Speaker 4: just matched up with no help, and so he gets
- 5:49Speaker 4: overrun and and he's right back in the pocket, so
- 5:52Speaker 4: he takes a quick l and and then you have
- 5:56Speaker 4: things like the running back. You've got K nine. In
- 5:58Speaker 4: man to man you would on a checkdown over the ball.
- 6:01Speaker 4: You you can't just stop. You got you want a
- 6:03Speaker 4: coach to move left or right. And I'm not saying
- 6:06Speaker 4: I'm putting it on K nine. I'm just throwing on
- 6:08Speaker 4: the tape and saying there's a lot of things that
- 6:11Speaker 4: are going wrong on that play for the Seattle Seahawks.
- 6:13Speaker 4: Standpoint and Sam Donald, look, it's first down. He uh,
- 6:17Speaker 4: he's he's got to know that he's eyeballing him. It's
- 6:20Speaker 4: bad timing. But Kitchens is able to read his eyes
- 6:23Speaker 4: and come on and get the interception on the on
- 6:26Speaker 4: the second one. The problem really is that as you progress,
- 6:31Speaker 4: the more you progress through the sequence of these, the
- 6:34Speaker 4: worse it gets. For Jays for excise me, for Sam
- 6:36Speaker 4: Darnald on the on the third quarter, on third and nine,
- 6:40Speaker 4: he's throwing the the what's called the Oak route against
- 6:44Speaker 4: cover four. There's no disguise just for for across. But
- 6:48Speaker 4: here's the thing. On an Okie route for decades and
- 6:53Speaker 4: even even today, you see teams the you line up
- 6:56Speaker 4: with your inside leg forward and you're outside back, and
- 7:01Speaker 4: and teams will do this and the and and thus
- 7:03Speaker 4: you have your third inside step is the sixth step.
- 7:06Speaker 4: And that's how the timing works. So when when J.
- 7:10Speaker 4: S N puts his inside leg back, that means his
- 7:14Speaker 4: he's gonna go a seventh step instead of a sixth step.
- 7:17Speaker 4: So Donald is waiting on that. That's helping the corner
- 7:21Speaker 4: to squat. And that's the detail. You say, well, does
- 7:25Speaker 4: that really matter? Yeah, it really matters. It's the NFL
- 7:29Speaker 4: inches matter. Details matter, and and uh and and by
- 7:33Speaker 4: the way, uh, you have h H. Bradford there on
- 7:38Speaker 4: a stunt just you know, just really pour the right
- 7:42Speaker 4: guard just you have a total free runner into Donald that.
- 7:45Speaker 4: I mean Donald threw that on two The NFL tabulated
- 7:50Speaker 4: at two point one seconds. Uh that on that second interception.
- 7:55Speaker 4: By the way, the first one had been three point
- 7:56Speaker 4: four on the one to Arroyo. As it gets worse,
- 8:00Speaker 4: the you know, that was on a first and twenty
- 8:03Speaker 4: after a penalty. But you're you're only down fourteen to twelve.
- 8:11Speaker 4: You're down two points in the third quarter, and I
- 8:16Speaker 4: don't know, I just look at that and the balls
- 8:18Speaker 4: on the right hash you're trying to get two verticals.
- 8:21Speaker 4: They're rolling over the top of jas onto the right
- 8:23Speaker 4: side kitchens. He turns his hips to the sideline as
- 8:27Speaker 4: if he's gonna defend the whole shot, which would be
- 8:29Speaker 4: the line drive go route up the right sideline. But
- 8:33Speaker 4: the window just somehow. This is the part about quarterback.
- 8:38Speaker 4: This is why quarterbacking is difficult, because you have to
- 8:42Speaker 4: see it before it happens. The window. You got to
- 8:46Speaker 4: anticipate that window. And you look and you say, by
- 8:50Speaker 4: NFL standards, somehow, some way, there's got to be a
- 8:54Speaker 4: flash in his brain that says red light, red light.
- 8:59Speaker 4: It's like, I'm my my tight end isn't clearing the
- 9:01Speaker 4: underneath coverage, arroyo. The safety is in a position to
- 9:05Speaker 4: bang on there, and you know, and just the yes,
- 9:08Speaker 4: uh a slight hesitation, but that that was that that
- 9:13Speaker 4: that that's all. These are double minuses and you know
- 9:18Speaker 4: and I when I look at that. So they're playing
- 9:20Speaker 4: a cover six. They're rolling on the uh the coverage
- 9:24Speaker 4: to the right, to the right side to to UH
- 9:28Speaker 4: J s N on the left side. We're on the right,
- 9:31Speaker 4: we're on the on the left side. Rather, we've got
- 9:36Speaker 4: the new receiver that uh heat and he's running the
- 9:41Speaker 4: out route and so they're away from the rotation, and
- 9:46Speaker 4: you got to just say, look if you don't, if
- 9:49Speaker 4: you don't want to throw that, then we either got
- 9:52Speaker 4: we shouldn't have spent a fourth and a fifth rounder
- 9:54Speaker 4: to get him, or we got to get a new court.
- 9:57Speaker 4: I know it's the wide side of the field, but
- 9:59Speaker 4: you one from shotgun one, two, three, put your foot
- 10:03Speaker 4: in the ground and rip that thing to the far
- 10:05Speaker 4: side of the field because that's what they're where the
- 10:07Speaker 4: coverage is telling you to go. And so so you know,
- 10:12Speaker 4: again that's a double minus. And then on the on
- 10:15Speaker 4: the third and three, I mean, okay, yeah, you're down
- 10:19Speaker 4: or you're down nine points, but a field goal at
- 10:21Speaker 4: that point, if we just dirt the ball, if we
- 10:25Speaker 4: just dirt the ball, we're having it. We're trying a
- 10:27Speaker 4: fifty four yard field goal.
- 10:28Speaker 6: Is it a gimme?
- 10:29Speaker 4: No? But Myers had already made a fifty seven yarder.
- 10:32Speaker 4: So now you if you dirt the ball, you got
- 10:36Speaker 4: your you're kicking. I'm not saying you're getting the three
- 10:39Speaker 4: points because because your fifty four yards is not a layup,
- 10:42Speaker 4: but you got a chance at least and and so
- 10:47Speaker 4: uh on that one there, that's a situation where they
- 10:51Speaker 4: they disguise the coverage. They end up in what's called
- 10:54Speaker 4: a two invert cover two invert. So to Sam Darl's right,
- 10:58Speaker 4: there's gonna be safety over the top and a corner
- 11:00Speaker 4: in the flat. But the invert part, what what why
- 11:03Speaker 4: do you tag that invert? That's because to his left
- 11:07Speaker 4: the corner instead of playing a corner, he's gonna run
- 11:11Speaker 4: and he's gonna play the safety the way you would
- 11:13Speaker 4: see in a in a in a two deep a
- 11:16Speaker 4: cover two defense with one safety and any left. But
- 11:19Speaker 4: it's the corner and then the linebacker is gonna buzz
- 11:21Speaker 4: out in the flat. A recognition by Darnold would have
- 11:25Speaker 4: had j San on A on an intermediate outbreaking route,
- 11:28Speaker 4: a kind of a short sail to his left, but
- 11:32Speaker 4: by the kind he kind of misses it there. And
- 11:34Speaker 4: that one he had good protection. The other ones not
- 11:37Speaker 4: not as much. But uh, you know in the in
- 11:40Speaker 4: the window royal, the earlier one, the seam, I mean
- 11:43Speaker 4: there's a guy in his face. The NFL had had
- 11:45Speaker 4: that at two point six seconds he's trying to throw
- 11:48Speaker 4: out of a well. So so when you talk about
- 11:51Speaker 4: the different factors, uh, yeah, there there's there's scheming there's
- 11:56Speaker 4: protection issues, what have you. There's miss reads and and
- 11:59Speaker 4: uh and so he he doesn't he doesn't recognize the
- 12:02Speaker 4: two invert and that he would have an opportunity to
- 12:05Speaker 4: get JSN out on the left. And then he comes back,
- 12:08Speaker 4: you know, looking for an outlet and to try and
- 12:11Speaker 4: get you know, a vert of sack and doesn't see
- 12:14Speaker 4: a guy and and and then there you have another interception.
- 12:17Speaker 4: So so uh, you know, that's kind of the nuts
- 12:20Speaker 4: and bolts of it. There's more on my notes, but
- 12:22Speaker 4: but you'd probably get the point. Yeah, well, four interceptions,
- 12:25Speaker 4: that's the that's the point of it all. Humilanis with
- 12:29Speaker 4: us here on Monday morning quarterback. And it wasn't just
- 12:31Speaker 4: the interceptions, unless Greg Olsen and I both got confused
- 12:37Speaker 4: by it. He also missed what looked to be a
- 12:40Speaker 4: sure fire touchdown. I mean, yeah, Forbes made a nice
- 12:44Speaker 4: recovery and swats the ball away from Rashid Shaheed, but
- 12:48Speaker 4: there was that drive where you had to settle for
- 12:50Speaker 4: your fourth field goal of the day, and a bad
- 12:53Speaker 4: hold by caller up and then a looked like an
- 12:56Speaker 4: underthrow to me from Darnold kept Shaheed from scoring a
- 13:00Speaker 4: touchdown that would have been put you up at that point. Yeah,
- 13:02Speaker 4: single safety, nobody over the top. It's just it's press. Uh,
- 13:06Speaker 4: there's zoning an uh inside but that you know, it's
- 13:09Speaker 4: the equivalent of man to man. And and some people
- 13:11Speaker 4: say you got to put more touch on it. I
- 13:15Speaker 4: think for some quarterbacks when you go press cut, when
- 13:18Speaker 4: you when you have a bump and run, also term press.
- 13:21Speaker 4: I'm using those terms synonymously. A lot of quarterbacks like
- 13:24Speaker 4: to have a lower trajectory because you can get the
- 13:27Speaker 4: ball on him soon. You don't have your brain doesn't
- 13:28Speaker 4: have to calculate leading the receiver as much, so you
- 13:31Speaker 4: kind of throw it on a lower line. I mean
- 13:33Speaker 4: I I used to marvel. All the announcers would say,
- 13:38Speaker 4: oh man, you got to put and you've got to
- 13:39Speaker 4: put air on that. And and I played both with
- 13:42Speaker 4: and against Dan Marino for the Dolphins and with the
- 13:45Speaker 4: Patriots against him, and man, that dude would would if
- 13:48Speaker 4: he had press coverage, he would he would line drive
- 13:52Speaker 4: that thing up the sideline to Mark Duper and those guys.
- 13:55Speaker 4: And I mean the ball didn't get more and ten
- 13:57Speaker 4: feet off the ground, and and he says, look, I
- 13:59Speaker 4: can be more accurate that way. So I don't have
- 14:01Speaker 4: a problem with the trajectory. It just he didn't throw
- 14:04Speaker 4: it far enough. It's real simple, you know. I mean
- 14:06Speaker 4: that one is say sometimes the cigar is just a cigar,
- 14:09Speaker 4: and he underthrew himself thought farther.
- 14:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, was there things that you saw that
- 14:17Speaker 5: Sam or just offensively, maybe it was play calls that
- 14:20Speaker 5: that helped the kind of stagnation of the offense when
- 14:24Speaker 5: they got down in the red zone, because settling for
- 14:26Speaker 5: four field goals obviously just one of those things changes
- 14:29Speaker 5: and you find yourself in a different thing at the
- 14:31Speaker 5: ball game at the end of the ball game too.
- 14:32Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think a couple of things in the
- 14:35Speaker 4: red zone. You know, there was only where I got
- 14:39Speaker 4: my red zone. I got a entire notes for the
- 14:42Speaker 4: red zone.
- 14:43Speaker 1: You know.
- 14:43Speaker 4: The couple things there were. I think they were a
- 14:49Speaker 4: little bit conservative on both first down runs. On the
- 14:53Speaker 4: first two they they didn't they just ran the ball
- 14:57Speaker 4: to Hallani Hallani yards.
- 15:00Speaker 6: I knew that.
- 15:01Speaker 4: And then and then and then we got, you know,
- 15:05Speaker 4: for another first down and you know, given to Charbonne
- 15:08Speaker 4: for no gain. So and then when you look at
- 15:12Speaker 4: all of the plays, how many times did they throw
- 15:14Speaker 4: to the end zone. Uh, with a legitimate chance they didn't.
- 15:19Speaker 4: There was just I didn't think that they were running
- 15:21Speaker 4: concepts that that allowed for multiple guys in the end zone.
- 15:26Speaker 4: You know, Uh, we're gonna have coach home grin on here.
- 15:29Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot a lot of people. Coach, Hey,
- 15:32Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you some uh two or three opportunities
- 15:36Speaker 4: touchdown or checkdown. I'm gonna give you some opportunities with
- 15:39Speaker 4: somebody in the back of the end zone. So we
- 15:41Speaker 4: throw it high in the back of the end zone,
- 15:43Speaker 4: we throw it low in the front of the end zone,
- 15:46Speaker 4: and and there just wasn't a lot of opportunities, so
- 15:49Speaker 4: there ended up being checkdowns because there may be be
- 15:52Speaker 4: one or nobody in the end zone. And and I
- 15:55Speaker 4: think that as we're talking about the uh the different
- 16:00Speaker 4: elements of it, excluding the last two drives on neutral
- 16:06Speaker 4: downs that's define his first and ten or second and
- 16:11Speaker 4: six or less, the Seahawks ran the ball twenty times
- 16:15Speaker 4: and only threw it eleven outside of those last two drives,
- 16:19Speaker 4: when obviously the clock dictated you had to throw so
- 16:22Speaker 4: so that that was manifested. I think there was a
- 16:25Speaker 4: conservativism that that that I didn't love and and certainly
- 16:30Speaker 4: in the red zone that played out, but uh yeah,
- 16:33Speaker 4: you got you got to hit that. I mean, there's
- 16:36Speaker 4: a you get the duo play. Duo is just double
- 16:39Speaker 4: teams at the point of attack. You don't have a
- 16:42Speaker 4: backside poller. And so so that that the running back
- 16:47Speaker 4: has got to he's got to read the middle linebacker
- 16:50Speaker 4: because you're going to be slow to get to him.
- 16:52Speaker 4: And if you have an opportunity to bounce, you got
- 16:54Speaker 4: to bounce. Kenny Walker ran that beautifully, just absolutely perfect.
- 16:58Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what. If that was holding, then
- 17:02Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say there's ninety nine holdings per play
- 17:05Speaker 4: because that was the week. Now there was the other one.
- 17:08Speaker 4: I saw a Gray's abel on a on a third
- 17:10Speaker 4: down and he was arm and and Anthony Bradford. There
- 17:14Speaker 4: was a lot of times where there should have been holding,
- 17:16Speaker 4: so I guess it all evens out. But on that that, uh,
- 17:20Speaker 4: that holding was a very weak holding. And and you know,
- 17:25Speaker 4: so you just have all these situations where you go, okay,
- 17:29Speaker 4: that missing the go route to see heat, that's a
- 17:33Speaker 4: four point miss. The holding call is a four point
- 17:37Speaker 4: holding call. You know, not being able to punch in
- 17:41Speaker 4: I mean when you're you know, at one point you
- 17:43Speaker 4: had first and goal at the seven after the barner
- 17:46Speaker 4: tuss push. Gotta hate to use that term, and I
- 17:50Speaker 4: hate to see the play, but but uh, you know,
- 17:52Speaker 4: credit the Rams because they uh, you know, they just
- 17:56Speaker 4: cover guys up well. And then and then when they didn't,
- 17:59Speaker 4: there was a time on a checkdown, they ran on
- 18:02Speaker 4: a third down, they ran JSN on on a fade
- 18:05Speaker 4: to uh to Donald's right, and then it was a
- 18:08Speaker 4: trips left overload. And there's a term called flanker drive,
- 18:12Speaker 4: very very ubiquitous. Mike Holman's probably called that play ten
- 18:15Speaker 4: thousand times flanker drive where you have you have Cooper
- 18:18Speaker 4: Cup on a shallow crossing, you got an intermediate in route,
- 18:21Speaker 4: and then they had a follow by the second tight
- 18:24Speaker 4: end barner and it can be hard to sort that
- 18:27Speaker 4: out when especially when they had a running back to
- 18:29Speaker 4: the swing. Anyways, they had a really nice concept and
- 18:32Speaker 4: we've seen Donald when he's had the time, you know,
- 18:35Speaker 4: whistle through his progression and that would have been a
- 18:38Speaker 4: walk in touchdown. But that was a play where Gray's
- 18:42Speaker 4: abel got beat and Donald had to do that lway
- 18:45Speaker 4: spin and and you know, now once once you know
- 18:47Speaker 4: you're fifteen yards behind the goal line, the chance of
- 18:51Speaker 4: getting a completion and running to your left, he just
- 18:54Speaker 4: had to you know, throw it to the cheerleaders and
- 18:55Speaker 4: kick a field goal. So yeah, it was it was.
- 18:59Speaker 4: It was really key, you know, those three opportunities that
- 19:02Speaker 4: you had to score touchdowns and you got Instead of
- 19:05Speaker 4: twenty one, you got nine. So there's a lot of
- 19:07Speaker 4: different areas you can say, well, there's your game. Yep.
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- 20:09Speaker 2: can't respond to you.
- 20:10Speaker 3: Okay, Well, there you go.
- 20:12Speaker 2: It's Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you here on this
- 20:14Speaker 2: Monday as we react along with our experts to yesterday's
- 20:18Speaker 2: twenty one nineteen loss in Los Angeles to the Rams.
- 20:22Speaker 2: The Seahawks bad day for Sam Donald. Four interceptions in
- 20:25Speaker 2: the game. We highlighted or lowlighted those in our first
- 20:29Speaker 2: segment with our.
- 20:29Speaker 3: QB one, Hugh Millen.
- 20:31Speaker 2: But I do want to highlight something here, Hugh. I
- 20:34Speaker 2: do want to get your take because I thought, and
- 20:37Speaker 2: maybe maybe I'm, you know, drinking the kool aid. Maybe
- 20:40Speaker 2: I'm the local guy that's given the local head coach
- 20:44Speaker 2: too much credit. But I thought Mike McDonald sort of
- 20:48Speaker 2: confused Matt Stafford, who's one of the toughest guys to
- 20:52Speaker 2: confuse in the National Football League. I mean, other than
- 20:56Speaker 2: handing him seven points in the first quarter and then
- 20:59Speaker 2: they had one touchdown drive. The entire game felt to
- 21:02Speaker 2: me like matt Stafford was giving up on an awful
- 21:05Speaker 2: lot of plays because he just had nowhere to throw.
- 21:07Speaker 4: How did you see it? Yeah, that's exactly how I
- 21:10Speaker 4: saw it.
- 21:11Speaker 3: I think that.
- 21:12Speaker 6: Uh.
- 21:13Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about how Mike McDonald was brought
- 21:16Speaker 4: into battle, you know, on a chess board with Sean
- 21:21Speaker 4: McVay and Kyle shanahan, and we're talking about the Rams
- 21:24Speaker 4: today and I'll just say this, Mike McDonald is winning
- 21:28Speaker 4: those matchups. And if you don't agree with me, we're
- 21:31Speaker 4: gonna have to meet under a freeway behind the railroad tracks,
- 21:34Speaker 4: and only one of us is coming out alive. And
- 21:37Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's gonna be me, but you're you're
- 21:39Speaker 4: you're gonna have blood either way, because if you look
- 21:42Speaker 4: at that Matthew Stafford in the last two years, he's
- 21:45Speaker 4: gone against twenty head coaches, and his completion percentage against
- 21:52Speaker 4: Mike McDonald's fifty three and a half percent, that's twentieth
- 21:55Speaker 4: out of twentieth. His yards per tempt five point one,
- 21:59Speaker 4: twentieth out of t twenty coaches okay yards per game
- 22:03Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy four. That's eighteenth, third down conversions
- 22:07Speaker 4: fifteen point eight percent, eighteenth, passer rating nineteenth. So uh,
- 22:12Speaker 4: and then you know similar numbers for Sean McVay if
- 22:16Speaker 4: you if you throw out the JV game that in
- 22:20Speaker 4: Week eighteen, that nobody had any but anything to play
- 22:22Speaker 4: for last year. So there's been two matchups. Remember now,
- 22:25Speaker 4: last year in Seattle, the in regulation, the Rams only
- 22:29Speaker 4: scored thirteen points against the defense. It was Gino Smith
- 22:33Speaker 4: game up one hundred and six yard pick six and
- 22:36Speaker 4: essentially that's what you saw yesterday with the pick down
- 22:39Speaker 4: to the three yard line. And so there was just
- 22:42Speaker 4: thirteen points last year. So Sean McVay, if we're going
- 22:47Speaker 4: coaching matchups, you've got if you just following upon or
- 22:53Speaker 4: a kickoff, if you if you can just do that,
- 22:57Speaker 4: you have the Seahawks only whowing one point one eight
- 23:03Speaker 4: points per drive. That's eighteenth out of twenty. That's that's
- 23:06Speaker 4: less than half of what the forty nine ers give
- 23:09Speaker 4: up for a fifty yard field or more. If the
- 23:13Speaker 4: Seahawk defense has a half a field or more to defend,
- 23:18Speaker 4: they are only allowing to the Rams one point five
- 23:21Speaker 4: points per drive. Again, that's eighteen and the only one
- 23:23Speaker 4: who did better was in a weird game an Tony
- 23:26Speaker 4: Pierce with the head coach of the Raiders. So I
- 23:29Speaker 4: promise you Matthew Stafford wants no part of Mike McDonald
- 23:34Speaker 4: and Sean McVay. Is is that rascal? Holy cow? So, yeah,
- 23:38Speaker 4: there was a matchup. It was big time, it was anticipated,
- 23:41Speaker 4: it was discussed. We've seen two of them now and uh,
- 23:44Speaker 4: you know, but for the offense given a three point field,
- 23:49Speaker 4: excuse me, a three yard field and a twenty five
- 23:51Speaker 4: yard field, there's only one long touchdown, you know. So
- 23:56Speaker 4: I see it exactly the way you do.
- 23:58Speaker 5: Early on the broadcast was harping on the idea of
- 24:03Speaker 5: McVeigh switched some stuff up with their personnel, their thirteen
- 24:07Speaker 5: personnel where they were instead of spreading it out the
- 24:09Speaker 5: way that he did when he first came into the
- 24:11Speaker 5: league and was getting all the accolades he was that
- 24:13Speaker 5: he had done some stuff and it did look like
- 24:15Speaker 5: it was working. Did you see some sort of adjustment
- 24:18Speaker 5: that McDonald made to where it was pretty much non
- 24:21Speaker 5: existent or it wasn't working the same the rest of
- 24:23Speaker 5: the way.
- 24:24Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, First of all, going into the game of
- 24:27Speaker 4: the last three games the Rams, the NFL average is
- 24:32Speaker 4: you get twelve yards per game out of thirteen personnel.
- 24:36Speaker 4: The second place team was fifty yards per game. The
- 24:42Speaker 4: Rams were first at one hundred and sixty yards per
- 24:45Speaker 4: game out of thirteen personnel. So what did what happened?
- 24:51Speaker 4: What happened yesterday? They had eighteen plays forty nine yards
- 24:57Speaker 4: two point seven yards per play. And in the passing game,
- 25:03Speaker 4: where excuse me, where Stafford had had eight touchdowns in
- 25:08Speaker 4: the last three games. In that Stafford goes three for
- 25:13Speaker 4: six for four yards. Now he did get a touchdown
- 25:17Speaker 4: out of that group, but but again four yards in
- 25:20Speaker 4: the passing game. So so what he saw there was
- 25:24Speaker 4: a mixture of nickel and dime, and and certainly they're
- 25:30Speaker 4: not going to play dime against the thirteen personnel. The thirteen,
- 25:33Speaker 4: for those who don't know, that's one running back, three
- 25:35Speaker 4: tight ends, and one receiver. And so you've got guys
- 25:39Speaker 4: like Emon Worry who uh you know, he's he's got
- 25:43Speaker 4: the length even though he's a dB, he can he
- 25:46Speaker 4: can run, and Olcatta's coming down heel though the safeties
- 25:50Speaker 4: were really firing hard and kind of almost disavowing play action, saying,
- 25:55Speaker 4: screw that you had. Ernest Jones had had on two
- 25:59Speaker 4: long runs, he had got out of a gap on
- 26:02Speaker 4: a lead. He was supposed to be in the B
- 26:04Speaker 4: gap on the inside edge of the B gap because
- 26:06Speaker 4: Emon Warrey was on the outside, So they gave up
- 26:08Speaker 4: thirty something yards on that run. And then on a
- 26:13Speaker 4: stretch play where he was in the same gap with
- 26:16Speaker 4: Leonard Williams, he should have been in a C gap
- 26:18Speaker 4: one gap over. He admitted it. It's clear on the tape.
- 26:22Speaker 4: But then all of a sudden they just button that up.
- 26:25Speaker 4: And then they had been hurt by tight end screens
- 26:27Speaker 4: in the first quarter, and now you literally see the
- 26:30Speaker 4: first play of the second quarter, Okata just he literally
- 26:34Speaker 4: throws to the ground on the of the intended tight end.
- 26:37Speaker 4: He just not throws him because that would have been illegal,
- 26:39Speaker 4: but but just Jackson and the dude falls down. They
- 26:41Speaker 4: were just totally ready for it. So everything that they
- 26:44Speaker 4: had seen in the first quarter and that had burned them,
- 26:47Speaker 4: they made the adjustments. They played more man to man
- 26:49Speaker 4: for a while. They were more active in the set
- 26:53Speaker 4: from second quarter beyond in terms of the pressures that
- 26:57Speaker 4: they were bringing the simulated pressures. And what I really like,
- 27:00Speaker 4: because we discussed it last week, is that I liked
- 27:03Speaker 4: that they were coming off of Matthew Stafford's right side
- 27:06Speaker 4: as a right handed quarterback, which causes him to go
- 27:09Speaker 4: to his left. That's a win. There's been times I go, oh,
- 27:12Speaker 4: coach McDonald, that is such a beautiful blitz. Why are
- 27:14Speaker 4: you doing it from the left side, because now we
- 27:16Speaker 4: just lost contain a right handed quarterback ran away from
- 27:19Speaker 4: it and was able to get a completion and a conversion.
- 27:22Speaker 4: And so I thought that that, you know, just in
- 27:25Speaker 4: every way that I mean the numbers I gave him
- 27:26Speaker 4: to you.
- 27:27Speaker 6: You saw the tape, the idea that you could take
- 27:32Speaker 6: a team at rioting as high as the rams and
- 27:36Speaker 6: you could be that damn close after having four interceptions.
- 27:40Speaker 4: It's a testimony to the rest of the football team.
- 27:43Speaker 4: It's a testimony in the defense and the scheming of it.
- 27:47Speaker 4: And so I don't know, Yeah, just unfortunate, but also
- 27:52Speaker 4: a lot to like.
- 27:53Speaker 2: All right, well, I do want to get a thirty
- 27:55Speaker 2: thousand foot view about those things coming up in our
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- 28:07Speaker 3: For machine Go.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Hugh Millan is with us and he'll be with us
- 28:10Speaker 2: until ten o'clock. Mike Homeran joins the conversation at nine,
- 28:14Speaker 2: but we get one more conversation solely here with Hugh.
- 28:17Speaker 2: We'll do it next on Sports Radio ninety three point
- 28:19Speaker 2: three KJRFM.
- 28:21Speaker 7: We''s seeing twice a year, possibly three. And to me,
- 28:24Speaker 7: it's like who evolves best from game to game, who
- 28:26Speaker 7: learns from it, who grows the most. He is gonna
- 28:30Speaker 7: get the advantage every time we play, but every time
- 28:32Speaker 7: we play it's been an absolute knockdown, track out fight.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Mike McDonald after last night's lost to the Los Angeles
- 28:41Speaker 2: Rams twenty one nineteen.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Mike Homber will join us at nine o'clock. We got
- 28:45Speaker 3: Hugh Millan here our QB one for the rest of
- 28:48Speaker 3: the hour.
- 28:48Speaker 2: And we got him right in the right in the
- 28:50Speaker 2: crosshairs to ask him some really blistering questions here. So, Hugh,
- 28:55Speaker 2: we did talk about Sam Darnold's four interceptions is off game,
- 29:00Speaker 2: and really I think he'd raise his hand and say
- 29:02Speaker 2: I cost us that game. I think that we can
- 29:05Speaker 2: all sort of accept that. That said, there was a
- 29:09Speaker 2: narrative that started last week nationally, and you even touched
- 29:13Speaker 2: upon it on Friday about you know, maybe Sam Donald's
- 29:17Speaker 2: not cut out for these big games and these big
- 29:19Speaker 2: moments and these huge matchups and great defenses like he
- 29:23Speaker 2: faced on Sunday. What is your thought after watching Sam
- 29:28Speaker 2: struggles Sunday about just big picture if he's the right
- 29:31Speaker 2: guy for this job.
- 29:33Speaker 4: Well, I think for me, what I was trying to
- 29:35Speaker 4: say Friday is it's a bigger game for Sam Donald
- 29:39Speaker 4: than any of the other principles. It's gonna matter more
- 29:43Speaker 4: like if if Mike McDonald had a bad game, I
- 29:46Speaker 4: don't think people are gonna say, well, he's not a
- 29:48Speaker 4: good defensive coach. Certainly Matthew Stafford had you know, he
- 29:52Speaker 4: did have a bad game. You know, even if he
- 29:54Speaker 4: had thrown four picks, he's still going the Hall of Fame,
- 29:57Speaker 4: right and on and on. Sean McVay is still going
- 29:59Speaker 4: to be thought. But I think that there's enough I
- 30:03Speaker 4: don't say lack of data in these circumstances that there
- 30:07Speaker 4: was a thought that, you know, what does this mean
- 30:10Speaker 4: for Donald? His last memory. Of course, he was with
- 30:12Speaker 4: the Vikings, but it was a playoff lost to the Rams.
- 30:15Speaker 4: It was ugly for not not really for Sam Donald
- 30:21Speaker 4: as much as the entire Viking offense. They took nine sacks.
- 30:24Speaker 4: I think the week before against the Lions it was
- 30:26Speaker 4: it was more ugly in that regard. And he's getting questions.
- 30:30Speaker 4: He's getting questions in pre production meetings, he's from the
- 30:33Speaker 4: national guy, he's getting questions locally, and and so I
- 30:38Speaker 4: think it's I think it's tough. I still believe in
- 30:41Speaker 4: the guy. He's looked too good and won too many games,
- 30:45Speaker 4: But excuse me, these next four games, he could be
- 30:50Speaker 4: the NFC Player of the Week and everybody's gonna just say, yeah, well, well,
- 30:55Speaker 4: let's see what happens on December eighteenth. Yeah, guys, that's
- 30:58Speaker 4: when the Rams come into town. And until December eighteenth,
- 31:03Speaker 4: there's nothing he can really do to rehabilitate himself in
- 31:07Speaker 4: the eyes of those critics.
- 31:09Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean when it comes to the running backs,
- 31:13Speaker 5: I mean, you guys were discussing a little bit. You
- 31:15Speaker 5: want to go deeper into the reason why or what
- 31:19Speaker 5: you think about the fact that Ken Walker's not even
- 31:22Speaker 5: getting what half of the carries out there.
- 31:24Speaker 4: The reason why I'm a little bit flummex But just
- 31:27Speaker 4: let me say this. In my opinion, I think Canine
- 31:32Speaker 4: is the running back. Period into story for me. Let
- 31:36Speaker 4: me see if I can convince you there are twenty
- 31:38Speaker 4: nine running backs who have one hundred or more rush attempts.
- 31:42Speaker 4: As Bill Parcel said, you know, you know how you
- 31:45Speaker 4: find who's a good running back hand on the ball
- 31:47Speaker 4: and see who gets yards. And so Canine is at
- 31:51Speaker 4: four and a half yards per attempts. Starbony is at
- 31:54Speaker 4: three point three. When you go buy sixcess. There's different
- 31:58Speaker 4: ways to hit this when you go buy success full,
- 32:00Speaker 4: which is, you know, forty percent of the needed yards
- 32:02Speaker 4: on first down, sixty percent of the needed yards on second,
- 32:05Speaker 4: and all of the needed yards on third or fourth.
- 32:08Speaker 4: Sharbonna has a slight advance forty four point eight percent
- 32:13Speaker 4: to forty four point one percent, but that does not
- 32:16Speaker 4: offset the following in explosive run percent. The NFL has
- 32:21Speaker 4: these stats twelve plus yards. You have can Canine at
- 32:27Speaker 4: ten point three percent. He's sixth in the NFL. The
- 32:30Speaker 4: percentage of the plays that become explosive. Zach Sarbina is
- 32:35Speaker 4: dead last twenty nine, out of twenty nine guys, only
- 32:38Speaker 4: three point eight percent turned into explosive runs. On twenty
- 32:41Speaker 4: plus runs. Knine has seven, Starbonne one ten ten yard runs,
- 32:48Speaker 4: Canine has nineteen, Sarbonne has four. And then and then
- 32:53Speaker 4: while their their yards post contact are almost exactly the
- 32:56Speaker 4: same yards pre contact, this is an interesting stat for me.
- 33:00Speaker 4: While Sarbonne has point thirty nine pre contact, you have
- 33:05Speaker 4: Canine has two point nine four He is he is
- 33:07Speaker 4: five and a half times that figure. Oh okay, what
- 33:11Speaker 4: does that mean? He that that would speak division, and
- 33:15Speaker 4: that would speak to his speed when he when he
- 33:18Speaker 4: sees that scretch and he sees a hole, he's the
- 33:20Speaker 4: only guy that can accelerate through the damn thing. And
- 33:23Speaker 4: that's there supposedly the bread and butter. What about him?
- 33:25Speaker 4: And the there was I was, uh, how about him?
- 33:29Speaker 4: In the passing game? I was, you know, going through
- 33:32Speaker 4: the and I have other notes on the Sam Donald
- 33:35Speaker 4: minus Tart. We went through the interceptions, but I've got
- 33:37Speaker 4: a whole nother I literally have a page at the
- 33:39Speaker 4: tops of ram u. Uh Sam Donald minuses and on
- 33:44Speaker 4: one of all I was going to give him, So
- 33:45Speaker 4: why didn't he throw the ball on that ten yard curl.
- 33:47Speaker 4: He threw it. He only threw it to uh the
- 33:49Speaker 4: checkdown to Uh to Canine. Well, Canine took the ball
- 33:53Speaker 4: and just turber buttoned it up the up the side.
- 33:56Speaker 4: And you remember that one. Yep, you know in the
- 33:58Speaker 4: second episode like there, you just look at the tape
- 34:00Speaker 4: off enough and you just say, you get an idea
- 34:03Speaker 4: what these guys burst is. And there's nobody on that
- 34:07Speaker 4: football team that has a burst like Canaine and you know,
- 34:12Speaker 4: a Mamy. I suppose you could say Rashid Shahida, but
- 34:17Speaker 4: you know, from the running back position, I don't get it.
- 34:20Speaker 4: I wish they would stop. I know that there's been
- 34:22Speaker 4: issues about maintenance with his foot. He's probably you know,
- 34:24Speaker 4: a good chance he won't be a Seahawk next year,
- 34:27Speaker 4: last years of his contract. You know, use this man,
- 34:31Speaker 4: and to my eyes and the stats that I'm giving you,
- 34:33Speaker 4: he's clearly the better running back. To me, it just
- 34:36Speaker 4: bothers me, like we're gonna be that investment. What do
- 34:38Speaker 4: we say on neutral downs? We had twenty runs yesterday.
- 34:43Speaker 4: Sorry I'm not on the team. The Seahawks had twenty
- 34:45Speaker 4: runs just eleven passes. So if you're gonna be that
- 34:50Speaker 4: committed to the running the running game. When you have
- 34:54Speaker 4: a pro Bowl level quarterback, you're gonna be that committed.
- 34:57Speaker 4: Then that better be a dude. And we've got a
- 35:00Speaker 4: guy that is just a fringe starter, you know, backup
- 35:03Speaker 4: type guy, and we keep handling the ball in sharboney.
- 35:06Speaker 4: I just like, you know, yeah, if you want to
- 35:08Speaker 4: run it like that, give it to Canine please. All right,
- 35:11Speaker 4: there's there's my soapbox. That's my thoughts on the running bow.
- 35:14Speaker 2: I actually wrote that down when I was taking my notes.
- 35:16Speaker 2: And I don't like the usage of Walker in this game,
- 35:19Speaker 2: and I know Hugh won't. Well, have we done a
- 35:25Speaker 2: couple of shows together exactly?
- 35:27Speaker 3: All right?
- 35:28Speaker 2: Hugh Millan is with us our QB one. We've got
- 35:30Speaker 2: more Monday Morning Quarterback with Hugh and with Mike Holmgren
- 35:33Speaker 2: coming your way next Sports Radio ninety three point three
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