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- 0:49Speaker 1: Grin and Hugh Millin.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Here's Chuck and Buck.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Ah Yes, nine o'clock hour arrives here on this Monday
- 0:56Speaker 3: live radio program. I mean as we react to the
- 0:59Speaker 3: Seahawks twenty seven ten went over the Carolina Panthers to
- 1:02Speaker 3: move them to thirteen and three on the season, but
- 1:05Speaker 3: they still have not secured the number one seed that
- 1:09Speaker 3: division championship, and they won't be able to do it
- 1:13Speaker 3: if they don't defeat the San Francisco forty nine Ers
- 1:16Speaker 3: this Saturday.
- 1:17Speaker 2: That's right.
- 1:17Speaker 3: They put out the schedule and the Seahawks and forty
- 1:20Speaker 3: nine Ers will be showcased on the national stage at
- 1:23Speaker 3: five o'clock on Saturday, and so we will finally learn
- 1:28Speaker 3: then if it will be the Seahawks are forty nine
- 1:30Speaker 3: ers celebrating as division champs, and the number one seed
- 1:33Speaker 3: throughout the NFC playoffs. Joining us now is Mike Homron.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Hugh Millon, of course, has been with it since eight
- 1:40Speaker 3: o'clock Monday morning. Quarterback continues, Good morning, coach, how was
- 1:44Speaker 3: your holiday? Did you get to you know, like everything
- 1:47Speaker 3: you wanted, like maybe a trampoline for the backyard or Lamborghini.
- 1:52Speaker 3: What did you get for Christmas this year?
- 1:55Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I got a Tommy Mohammad shirt.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Oh I want a real change at Yeah, Bety knows
- 2:06Speaker 2: what I like. You know, we kind of went easy
- 2:08Speaker 2: on it. We kind of went easy on the presence because, uh,
- 2:12Speaker 2: you know, we had we've taken all the kids. I'm
- 2:14Speaker 2: in sun Katia right now. We took all the kids
- 2:16Speaker 2: there the families here, So that was everyone's Christmas present
- 2:19Speaker 2: kind of all right, Well.
- 2:20Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that you don't deserve something. I mean,
- 2:23Speaker 3: you took them to sun Kadia.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. In fact, I deserve quite a lot
- 2:27Speaker 2: because my daughters made all the arrangements and uh, price
- 2:33Speaker 2: is no, there's no object. No, no, price didn't matter.
- 2:38Speaker 2: You know why because I paid for it.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Well it never does when you have to pay for it.
- 2:44Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's dive into this, uh, this situation
- 2:48Speaker 3: that the Seahawks find themselves in. So a win over Carolina,
- 2:52Speaker 3: it ends up on the scoreboard being convincing, but there
- 2:54Speaker 3: are a couple of hairy moments in there. So as
- 2:57Speaker 3: you come out of this victory, are you more impressed
- 3:01Speaker 3: with how dominant the defense was or concerned over the
- 3:06Speaker 3: offense being sluggish this close to crunch time?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Well, I think I'm a little bit more of the latter,
- 3:13Speaker 2: quite honestly. You know, I told you I was Katie.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And what they have here at this home is a
- 3:19Speaker 2: theater with beautiful comfortable seats. You can put, you know,
- 3:26Speaker 2: massage on the seats. And I'm watching the game by
- 3:28Speaker 2: myself in there, and I almost fell asleep it was
- 3:33Speaker 2: so bad by Carolina and their offense. And I'm sure
- 3:38Speaker 2: I don't know if you felt the same way, but
- 3:39Speaker 2: I'm looking at them going they have they can't do
- 3:42Speaker 2: anything yet at halftime it's three or three. And then
- 3:47Speaker 2: if it wasn't for there was a couple of key
- 3:49Speaker 2: things in the second half, otherwise the game would have
- 3:52Speaker 2: been relatively close, I think. But you got to give
- 3:56Speaker 2: the Seaux defense credit. But you know what we got
- 4:01Speaker 2: to see because this is a big one coming up
- 4:03Speaker 2: and the forty nine ers can put points on the board.
- 4:06Speaker 4: Well, Mike, let's drill down on that. You said there's
- 4:08Speaker 4: key things. What was key to you in the second half,
- 4:11Speaker 4: and then as you're expressing your concern, maybe amplify your
- 4:16Speaker 4: thoughts on what concerns you.
- 4:19Speaker 2: Well, you know, there was a couple of turnovers in there,
- 4:21Speaker 2: Hugh that led to points for the Hawks and the
- 4:25Speaker 2: short fields. You know, they started on the twenty one
- 4:30Speaker 2: of Carolina's twenty one to get one. But then Carolina
- 4:35Speaker 2: somehow the game was still relatively close seventeen to ten
- 4:40Speaker 2: after Young made that run in getting him touchdown. But
- 4:45Speaker 2: then and then it got to be third and twenty one.
- 4:47Speaker 2: You guys, remember the play third and twenty one. They're
- 4:50Speaker 2: just handing the ball and they just throw a little
- 4:53Speaker 2: They're doing something just to I forget the exact play,
- 4:56Speaker 2: but just to kind of get in a little better
- 4:58Speaker 2: field position to punt the ball, and the corner for
- 5:02Speaker 2: Carolina does that crazy grabs a face mask to get
- 5:05Speaker 2: a penalty, and then they go on to kick another
- 5:07Speaker 2: field goal to make it twenty to ten, and then
- 5:09Speaker 2: at that point it was over. But prior to that
- 5:13Speaker 2: those there were a couple of key plays. You know
- 5:16Speaker 2: that they fumbled right after getting the ball on one play,
- 5:22Speaker 2: so Carolina, you know, they played it close and I
- 5:26Speaker 2: don't know, it's just the play selection, Hugh, and I
- 5:30Speaker 2: just didn't like how they ran their offense in that game.
- 5:32Speaker 2: And I know this Yawks are on defense, but they
- 5:35Speaker 2: didn't even give themselves a chance in my opinion, right, Coach.
- 5:39Speaker 5: I'm gonna just ask this because it seems absurd to me.
- 5:42Speaker 5: But you can either shoot it down or you can
- 5:44Speaker 5: tell me that whoever thinks this is right. I mean,
- 5:48Speaker 5: I heard a couple of different people say that when
- 5:52Speaker 5: people were criticizing the Seahawks offense, which has been stagnant,
- 5:56Speaker 5: to some degree compared to what they're ceiling is what
- 5:59Speaker 5: they were showed they're capable of. But I heard a
- 6:02Speaker 5: couple of people say, well, I think that maybe they're
- 6:04Speaker 5: just saving stuff, right the playoffs are coming up, big
- 6:06Speaker 5: game against the Niners, they're just saving stuff, Like Clint
- 6:09Speaker 5: Kubiak's not calling their best plays because they didn't think
- 6:12Speaker 5: they needed it against the Panthers. That to me seems absurd.
- 6:16Speaker 5: Is that ever something that would happen in an NFL offense?
- 6:21Speaker 2: You know, Bucky, I agree with you, that's absurd. You're
- 6:24Speaker 2: playing the game. It's a close ball game. You're playing
- 6:27Speaker 2: the game to win. You're not holding anything back. You
- 6:30Speaker 2: know you would, you would studied it all week. These
- 6:32Speaker 2: are the players that are going to work. These are
- 6:34Speaker 2: the plays that you get US points. No, I don't.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I don't buy that one at all. So that's probably
- 6:41Speaker 2: why I'm not. I mean, they've had a great season
- 6:45Speaker 2: and they're going to go in the playoffs. I picked
- 6:47Speaker 2: them to go to the super Bowl, honestly, but there's
- 6:50Speaker 2: a little hesitation for me now because of what I'm
- 6:54Speaker 2: seeing from the offense at times.
- 6:57Speaker 3: Mike Comeran Hugh Millan with US It's Monday morning, quarterback
- 7:00Speaker 3: here as we react to weight twenty seven to ten
- 7:03Speaker 3: win over the Carolina Panthers in the penultimate game of
- 7:06Speaker 3: the regular season yesterday in Charlotte. All right, So, how
- 7:10Speaker 3: would you describe Sam Darnold's play right now as we
- 7:14Speaker 3: get ready for a huge game on Saturday and get
- 7:17Speaker 3: ready for the playoffs afterwards. How does Mike Holmbern think
- 7:20Speaker 3: Sam's playing right now?
- 7:23Speaker 2: Well, he has his us and downs. You know, I'm
- 7:25Speaker 2: you know this, I said it from the beginning. I'm
- 7:27Speaker 2: in his corner. I think he you know, you get
- 7:30Speaker 2: to this point where your record is great, and it's
- 7:34Speaker 2: a lot of it's because of how he has played.
- 7:37Speaker 2: The other things that make people nervous, of the turnovers
- 7:40Speaker 2: and things like that. It usually happens when he gets
- 7:44Speaker 2: really rushed and the offensive line has done a poor
- 7:47Speaker 2: job in protecting him. But I've got a lot of
- 7:50Speaker 2: confidence in him, and when they've needed to score, really
- 7:54Speaker 2: needed to score, he's come through for them. In my opinion,
- 7:57Speaker 2: I would like to see them spread the ball around
- 7:59Speaker 2: just a little bit. Cup got one catch yesterday. Other
- 8:02Speaker 2: than the tight end and Jigma, you know, the receiver,
- 8:06Speaker 2: they don't catch any passes, and so I think you
- 8:09Speaker 2: would be more effective, maybe get the ball out of
- 8:11Speaker 2: his hands quicker at times if you involve more people
- 8:15Speaker 2: in the passing game. But you can't argue with what
- 8:18Speaker 2: Injigma's done and Donald he looks, he's good, you know.
- 8:24Speaker 2: I just people worry about the turnovers. It's because sometimes
- 8:29Speaker 2: the pressure and the protection breaks down quickly, and then
- 8:33Speaker 2: how he handles that at times, like any quarterback would,
- 8:38Speaker 2: I think, uh kind of gets people thinking differently.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Mike, you said a moment ago that the play calling
- 8:46Speaker 4: seemed to have exasperated you. Tell us what now, you
- 8:53Speaker 4: just mentioned a few things. There is there anything else
- 8:55Speaker 4: from a play calling standpoint that's on your mind?
- 8:59Speaker 2: Well, you know what, you know, I was referring to more.
- 9:01Speaker 2: I was referring to Carolina's because no, no, no, that was
- 9:07Speaker 2: a frustration, you know. You know, look at I'm watching
- 9:10Speaker 2: the game, and I'm rooting for the Seahawks, and I
- 9:12Speaker 2: want to see him well and I want to see him win,
- 9:14Speaker 2: but I'm also looking for good offensive play, and you know,
- 9:19Speaker 2: I'm putting myself in a position sometimes of course, because
- 9:22Speaker 2: I never made any mistakes. You guys know that. So
- 9:25Speaker 2: you know, okay, so but you know they how they
- 9:29Speaker 2: did it. They had their longest pass play was eight
- 9:33Speaker 2: yards well into the fourth quarter. You know, I mean,
- 9:37Speaker 2: it's nuts. I'm going, what is this? You know, maybe
- 9:41Speaker 2: maybe I don't know their talent, I don't know their
- 9:43Speaker 2: roster well enough, and maybe they're hurting that way. But
- 9:47Speaker 2: from the Seahawks perspective, no, I don't have any grap
- 9:50Speaker 2: with the play calling. From their end, I think, well,
- 9:53Speaker 2: it was interesting to me was how they've played sharbon
- 9:55Speaker 2: A and Walker and Charbone had a light He did
- 9:58Speaker 2: a great job. He had the lights out game in
- 10:00Speaker 2: my opinion, and they're still doing that. They both get
- 10:03Speaker 2: to almost the same amount of carrieres and so it's
- 10:06Speaker 2: working for them, and so that to me, I thought
- 10:09Speaker 2: that was a great job by them play calling.
- 10:11Speaker 4: Well, we'll hit more on the running backs, because I
- 10:13Speaker 4: think that's an interesting topic. But let me share with
- 10:17Speaker 4: you a critique that I had of Clint Kobiak's play
- 10:21Speaker 4: calling that I really discovered when I watched the coaches
- 10:25Speaker 4: tape they all twenty two, and it was that Mike
- 10:29Speaker 4: Jackson and j. C. Horn, the corners for Carolina were
- 10:35Speaker 4: squatting just aggressively just sitting on all the short and
- 10:41Speaker 4: intermediate routes even though they had no safety over the top.
- 10:45Speaker 4: And I can I'll just tell quickly a football lesson
- 10:48Speaker 4: I learned Ernie's when I played for Ernie's Zmpzi, who
- 10:51Speaker 4: had been the offensive coordinator for the Chargers during Eric Coriel,
- 10:54Speaker 4: like when they're they were thrown for four hundred yards
- 10:57Speaker 4: when nobody was thrown for three hundred. And I asked Ernie,
- 11:02Speaker 4: why is nine eighty nine on their game plan on first?
- 11:05Speaker 4: You know, on third and three, third and medium, third
- 11:07Speaker 4: and long every single week? Nine eighty nine is always
- 11:10Speaker 4: on the game plan and nine eighty nine checking buck
- 11:13Speaker 4: nine routes are our go routes. So nine eighty nine
- 11:16Speaker 4: would be double go with this with the eight route
- 11:20Speaker 4: would be a seam read down the middle MIC And
- 11:22Speaker 4: so I why you nine eighty nine is always on
- 11:26Speaker 4: every section he goes because if we call the go route,
- 11:31Speaker 4: even if we don't get it, then a we might
- 11:34Speaker 4: get a pass interference, we might get a completion. But
- 11:38Speaker 4: let's say we get an incompletion, we still then come
- 11:41Speaker 4: back the next time. And if we throw something in
- 11:45Speaker 4: front of the corner, but the corners loosened off because
- 11:47Speaker 4: we threw the go route. Now we're one for two.
- 11:51Speaker 4: He says, what do you think fifty percent does in
- 11:52Speaker 4: third down? Where do you think that ranks well near
- 11:56Speaker 4: the top. Yeah, he probably lead the league if you're
- 11:58Speaker 4: fifty percent. And that theory could be applied to first
- 12:02Speaker 4: time as well.
- 12:03Speaker 6: Mike.
- 12:03Speaker 4: I just thought there was they should have called some
- 12:06Speaker 4: go routes there. They had a lot of quarter quarter
- 12:08Speaker 4: a half with quarters to the side. They didn't do that.
- 12:11Speaker 4: You know, the Mills concept with the with the post,
- 12:14Speaker 4: the double post or anything that the quarters beaters that
- 12:17Speaker 4: they've hit earlier in the season when they got those coverages,
- 12:20Speaker 4: Why weren't they trying that? I thought that they they
- 12:23Speaker 4: didn't try and dial up some home runs either up
- 12:25Speaker 4: the sideline on the go routes or on the double
- 12:28Speaker 4: post to beat that quarters on that side of the field.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Well, I couldn't agree with you more. I think. Uh,
- 12:34Speaker 2: then that tells me. I mean, Donald studied a film
- 12:37Speaker 2: like you do. But earnyer tame Beas, first of all,
- 12:39Speaker 2: was one of the great coaches offensive coordinators ever, and
- 12:43Speaker 2: so if he said it, there was there was a
- 12:46Speaker 2: reason he said it, And the reason is exactly what
- 12:50Speaker 2: how we explained it, and that's that's a valuable tool
- 12:54Speaker 2: in your play calling arsenal. And you got to let
- 12:57Speaker 2: them know you're going to do that. You got to
- 13:00Speaker 2: let the defense know you're going to do that. And
- 13:03Speaker 2: it's not the ball is out of his hands. You know,
- 13:06Speaker 2: it's a five five step drop. Most of the time
- 13:09Speaker 2: the ball's out of his hands, you're not risking anybody's
- 13:12Speaker 2: getting sacked, and it really loosens up the defense. So
- 13:16Speaker 2: if you saw that on film, you know, maybe they
- 13:19Speaker 2: come I hope they're listening. Maybe they come out and
- 13:22Speaker 2: try it a little bit. You saw the forty nine
- 13:24Speaker 2: ers do it. I watched a little bit of that game,
- 13:26Speaker 2: and they hit that tight end right down the middle
- 13:28Speaker 2: on exactly that type of play, you know, where they're
- 13:32Speaker 2: crowding the outside and the safety's went a little wider
- 13:35Speaker 2: boom they hit them, And so I would hope that
- 13:38Speaker 2: we'd do that.
- 13:39Speaker 5: Coach, Is there any chance that Charbonay starts getting more
- 13:43Speaker 5: carries than ken Walker based on just the fact that
- 13:46Speaker 5: he had probably his best game of his career. I mean,
- 13:49Speaker 5: at least as far as when he's he is a
- 13:52Speaker 5: backup coming into the game and he ends up getting
- 13:55Speaker 5: a couple more carries and it was far more productive.
- 13:57Speaker 5: Is there anything about the way that he's running that
- 13:59Speaker 5: you're like, nah, I think we're going to go with
- 14:01Speaker 5: that a little bit more. Was it the ken Walker
- 14:02Speaker 5: just didn't have as many good opportunities or seems to run.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Through I think, you know, that's such a good question, Buck.
- 14:09Speaker 2: I think that the personalities factor into this a little bit.
- 14:15Speaker 2: And you say, well, that makes no sense. But you know,
- 14:18Speaker 2: I don't know if if one guy all of a
- 14:20Speaker 2: sudden gets a little bit in the tank because he's
- 14:23Speaker 2: not getting his carries or whatever. Sharboney came in with
- 14:26Speaker 2: as the second guy, and now that he had more
- 14:30Speaker 2: yards and had a really productive game. I don't think
- 14:33Speaker 2: they're going to change too much play both of them
- 14:36Speaker 2: because we've seen Walker pop things too. But there's different
- 14:39Speaker 2: styles and and you see ken Walker every once in
- 14:42Speaker 2: a while he'll you know, we talked about it before
- 14:44Speaker 2: he goes to one side, goes to the other, and
- 14:46Speaker 2: then all of a sudden he's jumping around and he
- 14:48Speaker 2: gets the he loses the yard. You never see Charbonay
- 14:52Speaker 2: do that. Ever, he's going to hit the hole and
- 14:55Speaker 2: in that style of offense that's out of a running game.
- 14:58Speaker 2: You know, the zone, the zone blocking schemes. That's what
- 15:03Speaker 2: the backs, all the backs I saw at Denver, that's
- 15:05Speaker 2: how they played. They hit it, cut boom, and that's
- 15:09Speaker 2: how Shardonay plays. But I don't think they're gonna mess
- 15:13Speaker 2: with how they're doing it. He who hits it? Yeah,
- 15:16Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Gudd.
- 15:16Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I know you're fine, Hugh. I want you
- 15:19Speaker 3: to respond to that as well, because I mean, you're
- 15:22Speaker 3: a pro Walker guy. I'm a pro Walker host. I've
- 15:25Speaker 3: been all about getting ken Walker established. But I wrote
- 15:29Speaker 3: down in my notes yesterday, I don't think ken Walker
- 15:32Speaker 3: has run where the play's been designed all day long.
- 15:35Speaker 3: I'm not sure that he did. I think he jumped
- 15:37Speaker 3: out of the play every single time, and I'm sure
- 15:40Speaker 3: I'm sure he had terrible blocking in front of him.
- 15:42Speaker 3: But I thought he was very guilty Hugh yesterday of
- 15:46Speaker 3: just trying to improvise every time he put his hands
- 15:49Speaker 3: on the ball.
- 15:50Speaker 4: Well, I watched every play, you know, the end zone
- 15:53Speaker 4: copy on the sideline copy, and I think one of
- 15:56Speaker 4: the things Mike that might have influenced him early in
- 15:59Speaker 4: the game, he had to playoff right tackle and it
- 16:03Speaker 4: was jammed up and he started to go back to
- 16:05Speaker 4: the inside to his left, there's a defender who was
- 16:08Speaker 4: coming at him. He had to lose ground and at
- 16:11Speaker 4: that point you say, stop and go what in the
- 16:13Speaker 4: hell is that running back doing. But he got to
- 16:17Speaker 4: the left edge again, the play was off a right tackle.
- 16:20Speaker 4: He gets to the left edge, always to the left
- 16:22Speaker 4: side land he gets sixteen yards on that play. Well,
- 16:25Speaker 4: everybody says, oh hallelujah. You know, and and I'm not
- 16:30Speaker 4: in his head, but I can make an inference that
- 16:33Speaker 4: that might have influenced his thinking throughout the rest of
- 16:38Speaker 4: the game, because there were you know, there were there
- 16:40Speaker 4: were you know, I would say three, four, maybe five
- 16:43Speaker 4: times where where he could have hit the hole where
- 16:47Speaker 4: it was designed to be. Not that there was great
- 16:51Speaker 4: yards there, but maybe just you know, jam it up
- 16:53Speaker 4: in there. I agree if you're grading him. And then
- 16:57Speaker 4: he had that, you know, on the interception, he had
- 17:00Speaker 4: a relatively weak past block. You know, it was not
- 17:03Speaker 4: his finest game. But I think sometimes, Mike, when you
- 17:06Speaker 4: see a guy make a big play off script the
- 17:09Speaker 4: way I described, do you think that that influences them like, oh, hey,
- 17:13Speaker 4: I can. I can take take this ball wherever I
- 17:16Speaker 4: want because I can get sixteen yards.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Again absolutely, I mean they say, well, how can you
- 17:22Speaker 2: be critical of me on that play when I gained
- 17:25Speaker 2: sixteen yards and he had. There's a point to that
- 17:28Speaker 2: because he has the ability to do that. I don't,
- 17:30Speaker 2: you know, not many backs can do what he did there,
- 17:33Speaker 2: you know, but it reminds me of Sean Alexander who
- 17:35Speaker 2: was with me, who was a great runner and really
- 17:39Speaker 2: a great runner. And then we get down into the
- 17:41Speaker 2: red zone and he was he liked to score touchdowns.
- 17:44Speaker 2: They all do, but he really liked to score touchdowns.
- 17:46Speaker 2: So he'd jump around and do anything he thought he
- 17:49Speaker 2: could do. And there were times when I just needed
- 17:52Speaker 2: two yards. I didn't need seventeen. So I tell hasseback,
- 17:57Speaker 2: I say, tell him not to around, tell him to
- 18:01Speaker 2: hit the hole for me. And so, you know, there
- 18:05Speaker 2: are times when I'd like to see Walker do that
- 18:09Speaker 2: instead of taking in his mind I'm gonna make twenty
- 18:13Speaker 2: every time. Yeah, you know, and I think this it's hard.
- 18:15Speaker 2: I mean, he's really a good runner, he's a good back,
- 18:18Speaker 2: but they're different styles and we saw it, I think yesterday.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure, you're right, coach, and I think he
- 18:25Speaker 3: probably feels the same way.
- 18:26Speaker 2: I think.
- 18:27Speaker 3: You know, at this stage, game number seventeen, you're probably
- 18:30Speaker 3: just gonna go with the same plan that you've been using,
- 18:32Speaker 3: and Walker's your number one guy. But I do think
- 18:34Speaker 3: there's going to be a quicker leash because what we
- 18:36Speaker 3: saw to Charbonay yesterday was just more effective than when
- 18:40Speaker 3: Ken Walker was running the football. And I'm a pro
- 18:42Speaker 3: Walker guy, but Charbonnay was just the better running back
- 18:46Speaker 3: yesterday in my opinion. Anyway, all right, we got more
- 18:49Speaker 3: with coach, we got more with Hewit's Monday morning quarterback.
- 18:52Speaker 3: We certainly have a big game coming up on Saturday,
- 18:55Speaker 3: so we'll get some early thoughts from a coach on
- 18:58Speaker 3: that front. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM and
- 19:03Speaker 3: Carolina takes over.
- 19:05Speaker 4: Got a handoff to Hubbard, trusta ricorrect.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Loose to the football. Ain't Seattle's cutting, Seahawks are running
- 19:12Speaker 3: with it.
- 19:14Speaker 6: Lawrence, Texas.
- 19:14Speaker 3: I didn't stand, didn't stand, sadly yeah, but still forced fumble,
- 19:24Speaker 3: fumble recovery set them up on the doors step DeMarcus Lawrence,
- 19:28Speaker 3: another big game the poll bowler. DeMarcus Lawrence Seahawks went
- 19:32Speaker 3: over the Carolina Panthers twenty seven to ten, thirteen and
- 19:35Speaker 3: three on the season, with a chance to go fourteen
- 19:39Speaker 3: and three this Saturday when they faced the San Francisco
- 19:42Speaker 3: forty nine Ers in Santa Clara. Everything's on the line,
- 19:46Speaker 3: the number one seed in the NFC playoffs, the division championship,
- 19:51Speaker 3: home field advantaged throughout the postseason, the free will of man.
- 19:55Speaker 3: Everything is on the line for this game on the
- 19:59Speaker 3: Saturday night, and we got our experts here, you Millan
- 20:03Speaker 3: and Mike Holmgren to break it down on a Monday
- 20:05Speaker 3: morning quarterback. So, coach, when you think about this game,
- 20:09Speaker 3: this matchup with the forty nine ers, what's the first
- 20:11Speaker 3: thing that hits you?
- 20:14Speaker 2: What a great game. I'm just saying, I'm really looking
- 20:16Speaker 2: forward to seeing it because you have two teams. It's
- 20:20Speaker 2: kind of unbelievable. It's like when the forty nine ers,
- 20:22Speaker 2: excuse me, when the Seahawks played the Rams, that division,
- 20:26Speaker 2: the whole division. It's so close, and now so much
- 20:29Speaker 2: is writing on it, you know, the division title, first
- 20:33Speaker 2: round by those types of things, and so plus it's
- 20:37Speaker 2: your rivals, it's everything is there. It's just set up
- 20:41Speaker 2: perfectly I think the TV people are very, very excited
- 20:44Speaker 2: about this. Mike.
- 20:46Speaker 4: I'd like to get your thoughts on Brock Purdy because
- 20:49Speaker 4: I think it's an interesting just development that they have
- 20:55Speaker 4: had down there in the sense that they draft trade
- 20:58Speaker 4: Lance number three. Overall all, they spent two number ones
- 21:01Speaker 4: to climb up to get him, and he was a
- 21:04Speaker 4: big dude that can run, strong arm, what have you.
- 21:08Speaker 4: And yet Kyle Shanahan didn't need to coach him for
- 21:12Speaker 4: very long before he just gave up on him and
- 21:15Speaker 4: trade him for a mid round pick to the Cowboys
- 21:18Speaker 4: in favor of Rock Party mister irrelevant, who's shorter, slower,
- 21:24Speaker 4: much weaker arm. So there, there's got to be something
- 21:28Speaker 4: in there. I mean, I certainly obviously have my ideas,
- 21:31Speaker 4: but I would love to hear from you. Why would
- 21:34Speaker 4: a coach is accomplished as Kyle Shanahan go with a
- 21:39Speaker 4: Rock Party to be his franchise quarterback, give him a
- 21:41Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty million dollar contract and all that
- 21:44Speaker 4: when you see some of the limitations with him physically.
- 21:49Speaker 2: Well, I think you know what goes to show you
- 21:53Speaker 2: is that you have quarterbacks are rated on the things
- 21:57Speaker 2: you mentioned. You look at that first rank, maneuverability, accuracy,
- 22:03Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. But then the tough part
- 22:07Speaker 2: to evaluate, and you see it. You see it every
- 22:10Speaker 2: year with different teams and guys who are drafted high that.
- 22:15Speaker 2: But there's something missing. You know. It's not he doesn't
- 22:19Speaker 2: compute properly. He's got the tools, but he doesn't compute properly,
- 22:23Speaker 2: whereas Rock Purdy I think computes perfectly. I think he
- 22:27Speaker 2: really does that. And for a coach like Shanahan who
- 22:31Speaker 2: is coach quarterbacks and offense his life, his entire life,
- 22:35Speaker 2: and me I liked it too, that there's an attraction there.
- 22:39Speaker 2: And then when you put him in the game what
- 22:41Speaker 2: he has done. Okay, you know they decided to make
- 22:44Speaker 2: the decision. Let's say he goes in and it doesn't
- 22:48Speaker 2: work it for whatever reason, it doesn't work. Now you
- 22:52Speaker 2: go another direction. But it has worked with him. You've
- 22:55Speaker 2: seen it. You saw it yesterday and you see it.
- 22:59Speaker 2: You know he's accurate, he makes good decisions, his teammates
- 23:02Speaker 2: love him. He can run. No, it's so they've hit
- 23:06Speaker 2: it and you don't always get to hit it. Joe Montana,
- 23:10Speaker 2: if you remember he didn't start until his third year, right,
- 23:14Speaker 2: you know that Steve de Berg. They had some guys
- 23:16Speaker 2: in there and then Joe you know now, but all
- 23:20Speaker 2: of a sudden you got the guy for a long time,
- 23:23Speaker 2: in fact, one of the best ever. So it's an
- 23:26Speaker 2: interesting thing. Quarterbacks are an interesting thing. You don't always
- 23:29Speaker 2: hit the ones you think you're gonna had on. Yeah,
- 23:31Speaker 2: quarterbacks are weird. Yeah, around so weird. Coach.
- 23:38Speaker 5: I'm going to ask you something that I did ask you,
- 23:40Speaker 5: and and surprisingly, for the first time of my life,
- 23:43Speaker 5: it was something that he hadn't really thought of. Uh,
- 23:46Speaker 5: so mission accomplished by me. I'm when you're playing a
- 23:50Speaker 5: division foe like they are going to have here, obviously
- 23:53Speaker 5: you play them twice a year. Is it, in your experience,
- 23:57Speaker 5: was an advantage an advantage for you as the offensive guy,
- 24:01Speaker 5: or did you feel like the second time you played
- 24:04Speaker 5: somebody it's advantage for the defensive minded guy.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Oh that's a good question, Bucket. I think it's I
- 24:11Speaker 2: always saw if I the more I knew a team,
- 24:15Speaker 2: it was to my advantage. That's what I felt, And
- 24:18Speaker 2: I'm sure they felt the same way. And you know,
- 24:20Speaker 2: you play the teams all the time, and you know
- 24:23Speaker 2: the coaching staff and you know the personnel. Now it's
- 24:27Speaker 2: important then to insert into the game and you will
- 24:30Speaker 2: see it. We will see it next Saturday. You know.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Things so maybe we haven't seen yet, or the other
- 24:36Speaker 2: team hasn't seen yet, not a not a lot of things,
- 24:38Speaker 2: but some things, you know. And so you know, I
- 24:42Speaker 2: remember when I was at the forty nine ers, we
- 24:44Speaker 2: played the Rams in the championship game, and that was
- 24:47Speaker 2: the fourth game, fourth time we played them that year.
- 24:51Speaker 2: We played them in preseason, we played two games in
- 24:54Speaker 2: the regular season, and then we played them in the
- 24:56Speaker 2: championship game. And I was going, you know, I was
- 24:58Speaker 2: new to the forty nine ers. I going, well, this
- 25:00Speaker 2: is different now, but we've known him pretty well, and
- 25:03Speaker 2: so I think it's I always looked at it as
- 25:06Speaker 2: that was a good thing for me if I knew
- 25:08Speaker 2: the team and knew kind of what their tendencies were.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:11Speaker 3: I've heard about this my entire life. I've heard it
- 25:13Speaker 3: all season long that Mike McDonald is like saving stuff
- 25:17Speaker 3: and spreading out stuff that he's saving all season long.
- 25:20Speaker 3: How on earth are you able to do that? Can
- 25:22Speaker 3: you play sixteen games in the National Football League trying
- 25:25Speaker 3: to win every single one of them? Because we know
- 25:27Speaker 3: every week's a war in the NFL. How do you
- 25:31Speaker 3: save stuff for a certain team or a certain game
- 25:34Speaker 3: or a certain situation.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Coach, you know, Chuck, you know. It reminds me of
- 25:39Speaker 2: when you hear coach speak. A guy gets to the
- 25:41Speaker 2: podium and he says all this stuff and you leave
- 25:43Speaker 2: and you go, what did he say? What's what's what's
- 25:45Speaker 2: you talking about? I don't understand this. It's it's to me,
- 25:48Speaker 2: it's writers speak, Okay, you know, talking about Mike, Mike
- 25:53Speaker 2: McDonald and then how how he does stuff? And oh,
- 25:57Speaker 2: this is going to be a good story because I
- 25:59Speaker 2: know saving stuff. So it comes out that way and
- 26:02Speaker 2: then people catch on. I don't believe the first second.
- 26:06Speaker 2: He's calling the game and he's doing what he has
- 26:08Speaker 2: to do to win that game, and you know, he
- 26:11Speaker 2: might have some things in his arsenal he hasn't called yet,
- 26:14Speaker 2: but he's certainly not saving things for the opportunity of
- 26:18Speaker 2: maybe in the NFC Championship game. No, he got to
- 26:22Speaker 2: get there. You got to get there, and then you
- 26:25Speaker 2: do what you have to do.
- 26:27Speaker 4: So, Mike, what are some matchups or some areas that
- 26:31Speaker 4: you anticipate being important? I think it's interesting that the
- 26:36Speaker 4: forty nine ers. You know, for many years they could
- 26:40Speaker 4: generate a pass rush with four guys, highlighted by Bosa,
- 26:44Speaker 4: and they had some good guys on the inside as well,
- 26:47Speaker 4: but they have really dried up in terms of their
- 26:51Speaker 4: four man rush. I think they're second to the worst
- 26:55Speaker 4: in terms of producing sacks in the league, and so
- 26:58Speaker 4: they got to do it by scheme. Are there some
- 27:00Speaker 4: other things that you see as far as some matchup
- 27:05Speaker 4: areas that intrigue you, well, I.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Think one thing is the forty nine ers lost their
- 27:11Speaker 2: two best defensive players, really good defensive players in Warner
- 27:16Speaker 2: and Mosa, and so it doesn't surprise me that they're
- 27:20Speaker 2: struggling a little bit that way, you know, but they
- 27:23Speaker 2: are an aggressive group. As far as matchups, I don't
- 27:27Speaker 2: think I wouldn't go into too many matchups. But what
- 27:31Speaker 2: I would do for this game is that the forty
- 27:34Speaker 2: nine ers are going to have a plan to try
- 27:37Speaker 2: and take Enigma away and it's hard to do. It's
- 27:41Speaker 2: hard to do even when you're trying. It's hard to do.
- 27:44Speaker 2: But that should open up some other things. So in
- 27:47Speaker 2: the preparation and thinking about how I'm going to do this,
- 27:51Speaker 2: that's what I focus on just a little bit more
- 27:53Speaker 2: on the preparation, knowing I'm going to throw the ball
- 27:56Speaker 2: at in Jigma, but I'm going to get some other
- 27:58Speaker 2: guys involved. But as far as targeting a particular guy
- 28:03Speaker 2: on their defense, I don't think. I don't think that's
- 28:05Speaker 2: in the cards. I don't think they have those guys
- 28:08Speaker 2: necessarily right now. And so I run my offense. I
- 28:13Speaker 2: do what I have to do, but I trying to
- 28:15Speaker 2: spread it around and again use the play action pass
- 28:18Speaker 2: a lot, particularly after the game Sharbone had had last week.
- 28:22Speaker 5: Uh, coach, is there anything Did you ever have a
- 28:24Speaker 5: time when the offense was sputtering a little bit to
- 28:27Speaker 5: start with in games and you just said, Okay, I'm
- 28:31Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna completely flip this thing around. Like maybe
- 28:33Speaker 5: you're just like, we're not going to run the ball
- 28:36Speaker 5: at all. We're just going and we're not even going
- 28:38Speaker 5: to go just try to move the change. We're going
- 28:40Speaker 5: to just take maybe a first couple of possessions and
- 28:42Speaker 5: we're going to take a couple of shots and and
- 28:44Speaker 5: try to get big chunk plays to maybe spark that
- 28:47Speaker 5: thing and ignite the offense earlier in the game.
- 28:50Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of a famous thing I did when
- 28:54Speaker 2: we couldn't We couldn't run a lick, and I said
- 28:57Speaker 2: during a game, I said that all the coaches everyone heard.
- 29:00Speaker 2: That's it. We're throwing every play. And then all of
- 29:02Speaker 2: a sudden, the line coach kind of gave me some
- 29:04Speaker 2: static in the phone, and I told him in a
- 29:07Speaker 2: nice way, I said, be quiet, we'll never do that.
- 29:09Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw the ball. I don't want to hear
- 29:11Speaker 2: from you. And then you know that, because because we
- 29:14Speaker 2: needed to do something, what we were doing wasn't working,
- 29:19Speaker 2: and I didn't see a way out other than okay,
- 29:22Speaker 2: let's open this thing up and see if we can
- 29:24Speaker 2: hit a couple of loosen things up. So I think
- 29:26Speaker 2: that has to be and your you have to have
- 29:29Speaker 2: a plan B. You have to have it ready, you know.
- 29:32Speaker 2: And this game is going to be unbelievable on Saturday.
- 29:35Speaker 2: It really is.
- 29:36Speaker 3: I remember that time where Mike Homer was like, all right, Hasselbeck,
- 29:39Speaker 3: the rest of the game left handed, We're only going
- 29:42Speaker 3: to throw left handed, just to shake it up, just
- 29:44Speaker 3: to catch them off guard. All right, I want to
- 29:47Speaker 3: squeeze this in real quickly. We do have to go
- 29:50Speaker 3: to break, but have how often in your career did
- 29:53Speaker 3: you line up in victory formation losing by seventeen?
- 29:58Speaker 2: Never ever? And it surprised me, And then it caught
- 30:04Speaker 2: me off guard. Maybe it's because I was in that
- 30:06Speaker 2: chair that I was massaging, and I was kind of
- 30:08Speaker 2: sleepy at that point. What are they doing? What are
- 30:12Speaker 2: they doing? But then I saw the coach on the
- 30:14Speaker 2: sideline and I think the announcer told me what they
- 30:17Speaker 2: were doing, So that was okay. But no, I had
- 30:20Speaker 2: never done that. I hadn't seen it. You seen it?
- 30:23Speaker 4: Uh No, I'm not seen it in the second half.
- 30:27Speaker 3: Especially with time, yeah, time left on the clock for
- 30:30Speaker 3: the other team to get the wall backed. It was
- 30:32Speaker 3: it was interesting.
- 30:33Speaker 2: No, uh yeah, all right, anyone getting hurt? They were
- 30:39Speaker 2: looking ahead?
- 30:39Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true, Yes, they were.
- 30:40Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. One last thing next Sports Radio ninety
- 30:43Speaker 3: three point three kJ R f M. Probably one last
- 30:51Speaker 3: thing for coach Homegren here this morning. We got Hugh
- 30:55Speaker 3: Millen here of course, Monday morning quarterback, our final segment.
- 30:58Speaker 3: I usually go last than this segment, but I want
- 31:01Speaker 3: to go first because we have not touched upon a
- 31:04Speaker 3: something that happened in the game that I think is
- 31:06Speaker 3: pretty significant, and I don't know if he wants to
- 31:08Speaker 3: weigh in on this as well, but at the end
- 31:11Speaker 3: of the first half, you want to talk about chaos football.
- 31:15Speaker 3: I just got to get your reaction to this, coach
- 31:18Speaker 3: and yours, Hugh as well. First of all, horrible officiating,
- 31:21Speaker 3: I thought throughout the game, certainly on this drive, this
- 31:24Speaker 3: particular drive, they missed a horse collar and a face
- 31:27Speaker 3: mask on the same play.
- 31:28Speaker 4: I don't know how you missed that.
- 31:30Speaker 3: And then you add Sam have that pass that got
- 31:33Speaker 3: deflected off of Brown's bicep, then dropped by Cup and
- 31:38Speaker 3: then almost gets intercepted by the guy that deflected it,
- 31:42Speaker 3: so that added to the chaos. Then Walker catches the
- 31:45Speaker 3: ball and then drops it like he didn't drop the pass.
- 31:49Speaker 3: He caught it and then drops it and said then
- 31:52Speaker 3: we didn't know if he had the first down or not.
- 31:54Speaker 3: And then time's ticking down and Mike for some reason
- 31:57Speaker 3: doesn't want to use his timeouts ever anymore in the
- 32:00Speaker 3: first half, so he's got three timeouts, he doesn't use
- 32:02Speaker 3: any of them. Then it's fourth down and one and
- 32:05Speaker 3: they they don't even have time to get Barner out there.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Who's your normal sneak guy so Sam just sneaks it
- 32:10Speaker 3: and then he's short, and then they can't challenge apparently
- 32:15Speaker 3: either one of them in the situations. And now so
- 32:18Speaker 3: seventeen seconds left on the clock, you had a short
- 32:21Speaker 3: fire field goal. You thought at least attempt there that
- 32:25Speaker 3: you could make with Myers, you end up coming away
- 32:27Speaker 3: with nothing. And then to add to the chaos, Carolina
- 32:30Speaker 3: gets the ball and decides, nah, we don't have a
- 32:33Speaker 3: quarterback with a strong arm. We're not gonna throw a
- 32:35Speaker 3: hail Mary. I mean, so you two makes sense of this?
- 32:39Speaker 3: What should have been done in that situation? Coach to
- 32:41Speaker 3: handle all of that muck and nonsense.
- 32:45Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I'm glad have you settled down
- 32:49Speaker 2: today since you saw that? Since no, apparently not. That's
- 32:53Speaker 2: the most fired up I've heard you for in a
- 32:56Speaker 2: long time. But no, you have a good point. It
- 32:59Speaker 2: was crazy, and that was to my point in the
- 33:03Speaker 2: when at half time I'm thinking, what in the world
- 33:06Speaker 2: did we just see? And you know, I hate the
- 33:10Speaker 2: Dutch Hughes button on the officiating, but it was really
- 33:13Speaker 2: it was really ego. Come on, you got to see
- 33:16Speaker 2: that that on the on those calls. That's the first thing.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Then that one play that the big guy, it came
- 33:23Speaker 2: off his helmet and then it came back.
- 33:25Speaker 6: To him, and oh, you're right. I hadn't seen that
- 33:28Speaker 6: in a long time.
- 33:29Speaker 2: But to me, that was the perfect ending to a
- 33:33Speaker 2: first half like we saw.
- 33:34Speaker 6: It was the perfect ending.
- 33:37Speaker 4: The cherry on the top well, I mean as far
- 33:40Speaker 4: as coach McDonald and the time outs, that's there's a
- 33:43Speaker 4: simple reason. I mean, he's just saving it so we
- 33:46Speaker 4: can have six in the second half. I mean, but
- 33:51Speaker 4: you know, I think the goat Herders had a really
- 33:54Speaker 4: really bad day.
- 33:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:55Speaker 4: And you know, on a third down in their own
- 33:59Speaker 4: territory airline, on their one touchdown drive, they throw a
- 34:02Speaker 4: bubble screen and you you know, holding is more holding
- 34:07Speaker 4: the closer yard to the ball. Uh And right at
- 34:10Speaker 4: the point of attack you got Witherspoon. He gets yanked
- 34:14Speaker 4: by his shoulder. He yanks is it's like a corkscrews him.
- 34:18Speaker 4: He gets yanks so bad. And he was he was
- 34:20Speaker 4: the guy who was gonna make the tackle. And how
- 34:23Speaker 4: they don't miss how they missed that. I mean, if
- 34:25Speaker 4: they call that now, you're gonna have it third and
- 34:28Speaker 4: and and exceptionally long. You're probably gonna get a pun
- 34:31Speaker 4: out of that. I mean, that was a seven point missed.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Uh.
- 34:34Speaker 4: I could go on and on with that. You're right,
- 34:36Speaker 4: the whole sequence was a mess. But hey, speed, so
- 34:41Speaker 4: they have fast eyes when they show up on Sunday.
- 34:44Speaker 4: Guess what, that's what we're gonna get every single week.
- 34:47Speaker 4: My trick Uck said, he was Chuck, calm down, you
- 34:52Speaker 4: calm down, it's your turn.
- 34:55Speaker 5: Go ahead, what's your one last thing talking about squeeze
- 34:58Speaker 5: and things. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go off
- 35:00Speaker 5: on the officials. I'm just an ass playing and simple coach.
- 35:03Speaker 5: I mean, and this is I think every team could
- 35:07Speaker 5: probably say, well, if this happens, you're probably not going
- 35:10Speaker 5: to go as far as you want in the playoffs.
- 35:12Speaker 5: But it's a trend. There's a the idea of turning.
- 35:15Speaker 2: The ball over.
- 35:16Speaker 5: We just watched, you know, the Bears play last night,
- 35:19Speaker 5: and the fact that they're sitting where they're sitting in
- 35:22Speaker 5: the standings is in large part from taking the ball away.
- 35:25Speaker 5: If this Seahawks team, who's a legitimate Super Bowl contender,
- 35:30Speaker 5: they're they're up there, I think second in the NFL
- 35:33Speaker 5: as far as scoring goes, and we know how good
- 35:36Speaker 5: and dominant their defense can be. Is turnovers going to
- 35:40Speaker 5: be the reason why the team does not get to
- 35:42Speaker 5: the Super.
- 35:43Speaker 2: Bowl or win it all? I think so, I think,
- 35:47Speaker 2: supper Buck. I think turnovers are for years, turnovers usually
- 35:53Speaker 2: determine what happens. We've gone through a couple of crazy
- 35:57Speaker 2: games this season where was kind of the opposite, you know,
- 36:01Speaker 2: but I think, I think when you had two really
- 36:04Speaker 2: good teams playing against each other, although although we saw
- 36:08Speaker 2: it it didn't work quite that way a couple of
- 36:10Speaker 2: weeks ago, it turnovers will decide it. And that's that's
- 36:16Speaker 2: that's my worry. I suppose you know, and so well,
- 36:22Speaker 2: you know, it might be you might see it. You
- 36:24Speaker 2: really might see it playing to the game on Saturday,
- 36:27Speaker 2: because you got two really good teams too close, closely
- 36:30Speaker 2: know each other. They're they've been playing the same way,
- 36:34Speaker 2: and we'll see it on Saturday. But I think that
- 36:35Speaker 2: will be the determining factor.
- 36:37Speaker 5: I do.
- 36:37Speaker 4: All right, here you.
- 36:38Speaker 3: Get the last one last thing, question, what do you
- 36:41Speaker 3: got for us?
- 36:42Speaker 4: Well, you know, Seattle was nine to sixteen on third
- 36:45Speaker 4: down fifty six percent. That's that's great, right, Like if
- 36:48Speaker 4: that's all you knew, you would assume you had a
- 36:50Speaker 4: big day, but Mike first downs there was twenty seven
- 36:54Speaker 4: first downs, only six of which did Seattle have more
- 36:57Speaker 4: than four yards, only ten of which of the twenty
- 37:00Speaker 4: seventy they have more than three. On second downs, twenty
- 37:03Speaker 4: two second downs, twelve of twenty two were eight or
- 37:07Speaker 4: more yards to go. And that led to this stat
- 37:10Speaker 4: with neutral downs Chuck and Buck being described as either
- 37:13Speaker 4: first and ten or less or second and six or less.
- 37:18Speaker 4: Those are neutral downs. Sam Donold passer rating Mike one
- 37:22Speaker 4: hundred and eight on neutral downs, on non neutral downs
- 37:26Speaker 4: fifty six. It was cut in half essentially. And so
- 37:31Speaker 4: just talk to us about so much is said about
- 37:34Speaker 4: about third down, but that kind of I don't know,
- 37:39Speaker 4: call it futility, but in insufficiency on first and second
- 37:46Speaker 4: down is a problem. How did you what was your
- 37:49Speaker 4: mindset about when you're having those type of bad first
- 37:52Speaker 4: downs and putting your team behind the behind the chains. Yeah,
- 37:57Speaker 4: I get I mentioned earlier. You go to plan B.
- 38:01Speaker 4: You know, if you won't go in and all of
- 38:02Speaker 4: a sudden it's not happening. You have a plan your
- 38:05Speaker 4: first fifteen or your first fifteen of the second half
- 38:07Speaker 4: or whatever it is, and it's not going the way
- 38:11Speaker 4: you want it to go. Then you either make adjustments
- 38:15Speaker 4: on the field with your alignement or or the running
- 38:18Speaker 4: backs you know, hit the hole whatever you're saying, to
- 38:20Speaker 4: make those adjustments to make it manageable. You know, now
- 38:24Speaker 4: to your point, initially nine out of sixteen on third down,
- 38:28Speaker 4: that's pretty good.
- 38:30Speaker 2: But that was hard doing it the hard way kind
- 38:32Speaker 2: of like you know, so you know, you make adjustments.
- 38:35Speaker 6: And be willing to change, be willing to.
- 38:38Speaker 2: Make those adjustments, and then at halftime, you know they've
- 38:42Speaker 2: come out to the second half in a lot of
- 38:43Speaker 2: games and done pretty well.
- 38:45Speaker 6: But I think I want can I end it? Check
- 38:48Speaker 6: on one last year?
- 38:50Speaker 2: Go ahead? I don't know if I don't know if
- 38:52Speaker 2: you guys were watching it as close as I was
- 38:54Speaker 2: in the in the massage chair.
- 38:56Speaker 6: But the guy that came on that looked like Sam Arnold.
- 39:00Speaker 6: Did you see him?
- 39:01Speaker 2: Yes?
- 39:01Speaker 5: I did, Yeah, stand Arnold?
- 39:03Speaker 6: Now yeah, no, stand Marmald.
- 39:06Speaker 2: We'll call himself Donald. You know he is now very
- 39:10Speaker 2: famous and can write his own ticket. Did you see
- 39:14Speaker 2: how much he enjoyed that? Oh he's the.
- 39:17Speaker 3: Guy Gingers are weird. That's quarterbacks and gingers typically Or.
- 39:23Speaker 2: I was watching I was watching the game, getting kind
- 39:26Speaker 2: of down in the dumps, and then this movie start
- 39:28Speaker 2: comes on.
- 39:28Speaker 6: I I love it.
- 39:32Speaker 3: Hey, Happy New Year to both of you. We'll talk
- 39:35Speaker 3: to you later on this week, and then of course
- 39:39Speaker 3: on Monday we get to recap this big game. So
- 39:43Speaker 3: thank you very much, gentlemen. Awesome as always, talk to
- 39:46Speaker 3: you soon.
- 39:46Speaker 4: All right, thanks so much having to your guys now.
- 39:48Speaker 3: All right, you melling Mike homegrun with us, uh, and
- 39:51Speaker 3: we will be back tomorrow at six A. M Ashley,
- 39:55Speaker 3: Bucky and myself coming up next. It's uh, is it
- 39:58Speaker 3: Mark James and Chris Kid? Or we on a Bowl game?
- 40:00Speaker 3: I think it's Mark James and Chris Okay, Mark James
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