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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, let's see what we got. I'm gonna get
- 0:03Speaker 1: into just a topic here in a second.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Uh.
- 0:05Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna throw at everybody and we're gonna have
- 0:07Speaker 1: some fun. Don't forget all our playoff coverage brought to
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- 0:13Speaker 1: We'll call me Casino Hotel Sports Book up there as well.
- 0:15Speaker 1: We'll be doing the show we meet will be doing
- 0:17Speaker 1: the show there tomorrow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be let's be specific when we'll be at.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hawks Peak tomorrow from one to three. We'll have great
- 0:25Speaker 1: co cell on the preview, a play we haven't had.
- 0:27Speaker 1: We haven't had a great co sale playoff preview for
- 0:29Speaker 1: a few years, so we'll looking forward to that coming
- 0:31Speaker 1: up tomorrow. Uh. So that's coming up with Cosel. We'll
- 0:34Speaker 1: have rang on. Uh. We'll also checking with Danny O'Neil,
- 0:37Speaker 1: who wrote a great column today the three. And it's
- 0:39Speaker 1: actually funny because I felt like I was reading to
- 0:41Speaker 1: Calum that Danny and I have discussed a bunch of
- 0:42Speaker 1: times today, uh in the day apostrophe. But we'll talk
- 0:45Speaker 1: to him tomorrow. Basically, it's it's you know, how the
- 0:47Speaker 1: Seahawks got here? The decisions they made, and you know,
- 0:50Speaker 1: and all those things, and and you know, you know,
- 0:52Speaker 1: hiring the right coaches the top of the list, right
- 0:54Speaker 1: like that's it's we all know how that works. And
- 0:57Speaker 1: and you know, Danny and I spent some time last
- 0:59Speaker 1: week talking about that, Mike McDonald, and I saw a
- 1:03Speaker 1: tweet from a guy today, a guy that covers the
- 1:05Speaker 1: NFL for Fox Sports. Greg Allman is his name, and
- 1:09Speaker 1: he so the twenty twenty two coaching class, all right.
- 1:15Speaker 1: That so the coaches that were hired in twenty twenty two,
- 1:18Speaker 1: four years ago, they're one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Ten.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Out of those ten guys that were hired to coach,
- 1:27Speaker 1: to start coaching in the fall of twenty twenty two,
- 1:29Speaker 1: four seasons ago, any guests out of the ten, how
- 1:33Speaker 1: many are still coaching right.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Now, still coaching or still coaching with the same.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Team, Well, doesn't even matter. But yeah, with the same
- 1:39Speaker 1: Okay as a head coach.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Jess, go ahead, I'm gonna think about this for a second.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Three Okay, that's kind of where I was thinking. Three
- 1:46Speaker 2: or four, So I'll say four two?
- 1:48Speaker 1: What two? Two?
- 1:51Speaker 3: Wow, here's the list to come in the NHL.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin O'Connell Minnesota, Todd Bowles obviously, Mike McDaniel fired,
- 2:00Speaker 1: Doug Peterson fired, Dennis Allen fired, Josh McDaniels fired, Brian
- 2:03Speaker 1: Dable fired, Matt ebra Flues fired twice. Wow, Nathaniel Hackett fired,
- 2:09Speaker 1: Lovey Smith. So eight of the ten are gone. We'll
- 2:14Speaker 1: talk about this with Danny tomorrow, a little bit with
- 2:16Speaker 1: Mike McDonald because it's I think it's just God making
- 2:19Speaker 1: the right decision is so huge. Or talked about that
- 2:20Speaker 1: with Holmegren yesterday, and you know the decision John Schneider made.
- 2:25Speaker 1: And you can all raise your hand if you like.
- 2:29Speaker 1: How many people were like, man, they didn't get the
- 2:31Speaker 1: guy they wanted, because I think they really needed to
- 2:33Speaker 1: get Ben Johnson. And listen, Ben Johnson's got his team
- 2:36Speaker 1: were in the playoffs, right, they're they're a two seats.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that, really good coach. Yeah, I'll take
- 2:41Speaker 1: our guy over him any day of the week. Any
- 2:44Speaker 1: day of the week, I'll take our guy. I like
- 2:48Speaker 1: Ben Johnson do. He's got a little red ass to him.
- 2:50Speaker 1: But like there were people kind of disappointed in this market,
- 2:55Speaker 1: like he's like, we didn't get the guy and we
- 2:58Speaker 1: should have got Ben Johnson. They got the guy they wanted,
- 3:01Speaker 1: and it's been just a hell of a ride, all right.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I tease this with MG in the midday. I was
- 3:07Speaker 1: gonna go a different road today, route today, but I
- 3:09Speaker 1: heard him on what he had Lewis rittickon I heard
- 3:12Speaker 1: just a little bit of that and I think it's
- 3:13Speaker 1: towards the end and I heard him say something and
- 3:16Speaker 1: I thought, wow, that's an interesting way. And we've had
- 3:19Speaker 1: these conversations before. Every sport's different, Every team in this
- 3:23Speaker 1: market's different, every team in every market across the country
- 3:28Speaker 1: is different in terms of expectations. But we can do
- 3:31Speaker 1: some text four nine four five one and the Tacoma
- 3:33Speaker 1: Dodge text line four nine four five one. Big thanks
- 3:37Speaker 1: to Kamba Dodge, or you can go to the iHeartRadio app,
- 3:39Speaker 1: the red microphone and fire away. We had some good
- 3:42Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday. Just Tuesday, it feels like we've had some.
- 3:44Speaker 4: Tuesday, we had a lot of really good one.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Do we have good ones Monday too? It feels like
- 3:48Speaker 1: a couple of times we've used that this week. I
- 3:49Speaker 1: don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Yeah, our listeners have stepped up their game with the talk.
- 3:53Speaker 3: I like it and I like to.
- 3:54Speaker 5: Hear from you.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Pleasease keep me company.
- 3:56Speaker 1: So here's what we're going to ask you. Go to
- 3:58Speaker 1: the red microphone. iHeartRadio apps be for thirty seconds or less.
- 4:01Speaker 1: That's kind of the time limit there. So MJ said
- 4:06Speaker 1: the following beautiful sports cliche, and and it's one. It's
- 4:10Speaker 1: a great sports radio topic. And that's why, thank you, MJ.
- 4:13Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I'm taking it and I'm gonna run
- 4:15Speaker 1: with it and take it to the next step, much
- 4:17Speaker 1: like Softy normally does with our show. I'm gonna go withna.
- 4:21Speaker 1: But he said to Lewis Reddick, he says, you know,
- 4:23Speaker 1: I think it's Super Bowl or bust for this team.
- 4:25Speaker 1: And to me, what that implies. And I want to
- 4:27Speaker 1: put words in his mouth and we'll have cross talk
- 4:29Speaker 1: tomorrow we can talk about it more. But I like
- 4:31Speaker 1: that tells me that if they don't get to or
- 4:35Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, it's a disappointment for Seattle, for
- 4:39Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and I would just me personally, I'm gonna
- 4:42Speaker 1: I'm gonna disagree with that, but I will tell you this,
- 4:46Speaker 1: if they don't get to the NFC Championship game, I
- 4:50Speaker 1: think it's a disappointment. Yes, I think is the one seed.
- 4:53Speaker 1: You better at least not pull the Detroit Lions and
- 4:55Speaker 1: lose the first game that you play at home. All Right,
- 4:58Speaker 1: I think that my it's I hate to put the
- 5:04Speaker 1: if you don't get to the super Bowl or you
- 5:06Speaker 1: don't win a championship, it's a it's a disappointing season.
- 5:10Speaker 1: We're only a few weeks removed from this team being
- 5:13Speaker 1: effectively second and third place in the division, right, Okay,
- 5:16Speaker 1: So like the fact that they were able to finaggle
- 5:18Speaker 1: their way to the top of the division and then
- 5:21Speaker 1: the number one seed. None of us were thinking super
- 5:24Speaker 1: Bowl or bust five weeks ago. Maybe you were. I
- 5:27Speaker 1: don't know, God, God bless you. You got your pretty
- 5:29Speaker 1: your your if you if you're that person, man, I
- 5:32Speaker 1: I appreciate your your support and the fact that you
- 5:36Speaker 1: got that much belief optimism, But nobody was thinking that.
- 5:40Speaker 1: So that's why I'm bringing that up. I just I
- 5:42Speaker 1: think it's really an interesting dynamic, like, is it super
- 5:45Speaker 1: Bowl or bust for you like it is for MJ
- 5:48Speaker 1: or what what are the expectations? What would disappoint you? Ill,
- 5:53Speaker 1: We'll all be disappointed if they don't get to the
- 5:55Speaker 1: super Bowl, and then we'll talk about being disappointed if
- 5:57Speaker 1: they don't win the super Bowl. Because my I'm pretty sure.
- 6:01Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that Seattle would be the favorite against
- 6:04Speaker 1: anybody in the AFC and the super Bowl. Like, I
- 6:07Speaker 1: don't think there's any doubt about that. I think they
- 6:08Speaker 1: would be the favorite in the super Bowl if they
- 6:11Speaker 1: get there. I think the Rams would be a favorite
- 6:13Speaker 1: as well in the super Bowl, even though they're a
- 6:15Speaker 1: wild card team. Maybe Chicago, it depends. I mean, the
- 6:21Speaker 1: Nico Collins injury is massive for Houston. If he's not playing,
- 6:24Speaker 1: that's there, that's taken JSNA, your lineup, like, that's that's
- 6:28Speaker 1: a big loss. I think they'd be So, yeah, you
- 6:31Speaker 1: get the super Bowl, you're probably a favorite. You'd be
- 6:32Speaker 1: disppointed if you don't win. But is it a bad season?
- 6:35Speaker 1: We have these discussions a lot. Man, This is taking
- 6:38Speaker 1: me back, honestly to two thousand and fifteen, sixteen seventeen,
- 6:43Speaker 1: when because they went to back to back Super Bowls
- 6:46Speaker 1: and won the one, there were a lot of folks
- 6:48Speaker 1: in this town that they just if they didn't get
- 6:50Speaker 1: to the super Bowl again, it's massively disappointing, and they didn't.
- 6:54Speaker 1: We all know they didn't. We all understand that it's
- 6:57Speaker 1: been a long time, it's been over a decade. We
- 6:59Speaker 1: all know that. But getting there is this is so hard.
- 7:04Speaker 1: And yeah, they only in quotations have to win two games.
- 7:08Speaker 1: But this is a franchise. It's been in existence for
- 7:11Speaker 1: fifty seasons. We're celebrating year fifty. They've been to that
- 7:16Speaker 1: big game three times and they've won it once. I
- 7:21Speaker 1: will not be I'm not saying Super Bowl or bust.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I am saying NFC Championship Game or bust. Like they
- 7:27Speaker 1: need to get there, like I would be really disappointed.
- 7:31Speaker 1: I think then we can chalk it up to being
- 7:33Speaker 1: opportunity lost team that prought There's no there's no reason
- 7:41Speaker 1: to lose to this team on Saturday. Not not this
- 7:45Speaker 1: current edition of the San Francisco forty nine ers. Who
- 7:48Speaker 1: are they a shell of what they normally are, a
- 7:52Speaker 1: shell of themselves. No Kiddle, probably no Warner, no Bosa.
- 7:58Speaker 1: They got a couple other big injuries on the defensive line.
- 8:01Speaker 1: No man, this is their wide receiving core is not
- 8:05Speaker 1: good like it is. Like we talked about Seattle's lack
- 8:08Speaker 1: of depth, on the off, on the on the wide,
- 8:10Speaker 1: for the wide receivers, I'm gonna take our guy JSN
- 8:14Speaker 1: all Pro and then take your pick from there of
- 8:18Speaker 1: Rashid Shiheed and Cooper Cup and AJ Barner. I'll take
- 8:23Speaker 1: that group over them any day. This is not your
- 8:25Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers that if you were in
- 8:27Speaker 1: August penciled it out, this is who they'd be. No,
- 8:29Speaker 1: not even close. So yeah, if you don't get to
- 8:31Speaker 1: the into the NC Championship game, to me, disappointing, that's
- 8:34Speaker 1: an opportunity lost. But what do you think? Is it
- 8:37Speaker 1: MJ's going with super Bowl or bust? Do you agree
- 8:40Speaker 1: four nine four or five one or I'd love to
- 8:42Speaker 1: hear your talk backs. What are what would get? What
- 8:44Speaker 1: would you make you content as a Seahawks fan as
- 8:47Speaker 1: we head into this first playoff game, So you can
- 8:49Speaker 1: fire that away, Andrews fire away, what's your thoughts.
- 8:51Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a step further than you.
- 8:53Speaker 2: I think if they don't make it to the super Bowl,
- 8:56Speaker 2: it would be a massive disappointment for me. I think
- 8:58Speaker 2: that the best team in the NFL. Therefore, I feel
- 9:00Speaker 2: like they should live up to those expectations.
- 9:02Speaker 3: In the playoffs. Pretty simple for me.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Absolutely win this game and it's a forty nine ers,
- 9:06Speaker 2: and then I still think you should be feel like
- 9:08Speaker 2: you need to win the next game as well. If
- 9:10Speaker 2: they don't win the Super Bowl, a lot of stuff
- 9:12Speaker 2: can happen in one game. I understand that, but I
- 9:14Speaker 2: still think they need to make it to the Super
- 9:16Speaker 2: Bowl to avoid like kind of a missed opportunity sort
- 9:19Speaker 2: of vibes.
- 9:19Speaker 3: So that's how I feel, Jess.
- 9:21Speaker 4: I'm with Anders. I think just because of the momentum
- 9:24Speaker 4: that they have.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you guys are a tough crowd.
- 9:27Speaker 4: I like it, expect I think that they're that good
- 9:31Speaker 4: that you know that they I think they're the best
- 9:33Speaker 4: team that's still alive right now, and I think it'll
- 9:37Speaker 4: be a disappointment if they don't make it. I'm not
- 9:39Speaker 4: going to say, you know, make it to the NFC
- 9:42Speaker 4: Championship Game and lose, I'm still going to be disappointed.
- 9:44Speaker 4: I think it's a great feat and that doesn't take
- 9:46Speaker 4: away from what the team did this year if they
- 9:48Speaker 4: should lose in that NFC Championship game, but I will
- 9:52Speaker 4: I will be disappointed because I think they have what
- 9:54Speaker 4: it takes to make the Super Bowl.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Okay, so I know we gets a break. But a
- 9:58Speaker 1: quick twist. Were we saying heading into the al DS
- 10:06Speaker 1: series about the baseball.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Team that they needed to make the Alcs?
- 10:12Speaker 1: The World Series? Wasn't Alcs or bus But if they
- 10:15Speaker 1: don't get the World Series? Were okay with it?
- 10:17Speaker 6: Yes?
- 10:18Speaker 1: It underscores. I agree, because that's what it was. That's
- 10:21Speaker 1: what it was. In general terms. The expectations for the
- 10:25Speaker 1: football team are so far greater than the baseball team
- 10:28Speaker 1: in this town. It's amazing. The hockey team, if they
- 10:31Speaker 1: just get to the playoffs, we're gonna be thrilled. Now
- 10:33Speaker 1: we also know that there's a juggernaut called Colado Avalanche,
- 10:36Speaker 1: and so winning the Stanley Cup might be out of
- 10:39Speaker 1: the question. They're not going to go win as a
- 10:40Speaker 1: one seed by any means, certainly not in the West.
- 10:42Speaker 1: But I get the expectations in this town highest for
- 10:46Speaker 1: the Seahawks in terms of the three pro sports, highest
- 10:49Speaker 1: for the Seahawks, number two of the Mariners and number three.
- 10:51Speaker 3: The crack who had a regular season between the Seahawks
- 10:54Speaker 3: and Mariners.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Eain, Well, it would have been the Seahawks because they
- 10:57Speaker 1: were the number one seed. But barely like bear like
- 11:00Speaker 1: like if you look around, like they had to win
- 11:02Speaker 1: a game. And at the end of the year the
- 11:04Speaker 1: Mariners clinch that Al West. They weren't, they weren't the
- 11:08Speaker 1: one seed, but they were damn close. Yeah right, they
- 11:11Speaker 1: were damn close.
- 11:12Speaker 4: Well, especially considering the lull they had in the summer, you.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Know, but they but just in terms of the numbers,
- 11:16Speaker 1: in terms of standings, they were, they were very close.
- 11:18Speaker 1: All right. So that's I want to get some talkbacks,
- 11:20Speaker 1: say just wants to hear your voice super Bowl or bust?
- 11:23Speaker 1: Thanks MJ or is it something else? Are you a
- 11:26Speaker 1: little bit more realistic and nice like me and not
- 11:28Speaker 1: going to start yelling and screaming about how is a
- 11:30Speaker 1: bad season, which these guys apparently will do. I'm kidding.
- 11:32Speaker 1: All right, we'll come back. We'll check in with Corvin Smith.
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- 12:20Speaker 7: It's time to take a deep dive into all things
- 12:23Speaker 7: Seahawks with Corbyn Smith, sports reporter for Emerald City Spectrum.
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- 12:45Speaker 1: Here's Ian Corvin Smith, Emerald City Spectrum. You better be
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- 12:57Speaker 1: get you going. They're the best stories. All right, what
- 12:59Speaker 1: do you got going on? Corbin?
- 13:00Speaker 6: Worry buddy, I'm good man.
- 13:03Speaker 8: What a bombshell we've gotten now? Sam Donald added to
- 13:07Speaker 8: the Seahawks final injury or questionable with a bleak injury
- 13:12Speaker 8: time out, time.
- 13:13Speaker 3: Out just one minute ago? Thank you, Cordyn.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Okay, let's holy what? What the hell? Walk me through this?
- 13:22Speaker 1: What the hell did this happen?
- 13:24Speaker 8: This is a completely out of left field situation because
- 13:29Speaker 8: Sam Donald was not on the injury report at all.
- 13:32Speaker 6: This week for the Seahawks, so this is.
- 13:34Speaker 8: New and the fact that they're adding him is questionable.
- 13:38Speaker 8: We'll see what Mike McDonald has to say on that front.
- 13:41Speaker 8: But gosh, could you imagine the circus that would be
- 13:46Speaker 8: in play potentially if Drew Lock has to start this
- 13:49Speaker 8: game in the divisional round?
- 13:52Speaker 1: Holy? Holy cow, Holy cow. Well I'm just I just
- 13:58Speaker 1: saw some some video of him running out onto the
- 14:03Speaker 1: field a second ago using what do you call those things?
- 14:06Speaker 1: A little miss handhelpon? Is what it's called? Theragon?
- 14:10Speaker 3: A gun?
- 14:10Speaker 1: Like they're a gun? They're a gun? Did what time
- 14:13Speaker 1: is it today? Is the fifteenth? Did Sam Donald speak today?
- 14:18Speaker 6: Yes?
- 14:18Speaker 1: He did. Did he say anything about it? He probably didn't.
- 14:22Speaker 4: Well, he's scheduled to speak.
- 14:23Speaker 3: I think it's actually after practice that she's actually.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Supposed to speak right now, Jess, can you make sure
- 14:27Speaker 1: you're on that Yes, okay, thank you? Uh wow, that
- 14:31Speaker 1: is crazy. Yeah, he's supposed to schedule. He's supposed to
- 14:33Speaker 1: be talking a minute ago, open locker room at won
- 14:36Speaker 1: fifty McDonald speaks tomorrow, Corbyn. Let me throw this at
- 14:40Speaker 1: you because well, this is obviously kind of one of
- 14:42Speaker 1: those things that's happening in real time is are they
- 14:45Speaker 1: playing games here? Like the whole Fred Warner stuff? Are
- 14:49Speaker 1: we playing games here?
- 14:51Speaker 9: You know?
- 14:52Speaker 8: I wonder if that could potentially be part of the
- 14:55Speaker 8: you know, coachman coachmanship that's going on here. But man,
- 15:00Speaker 8: if he has a legit oblique injury that just cropped
- 15:04Speaker 8: up at the end of the week, like as somebody
- 15:07Speaker 8: that is throwing the football, that that starts to go
- 15:11Speaker 8: into the back of your mind like wait a second,
- 15:13Speaker 8: that might not be good. So I'm not trying to
- 15:17Speaker 8: create doomsday for fans.
- 15:18Speaker 6: It might not be anything.
- 15:20Speaker 8: But if there is actually an obleak strain there, I've
- 15:24Speaker 8: had one before and I was not playing quarterback. But
- 15:28Speaker 8: I cannot imagine trying to drive into a throw with
- 15:34Speaker 8: an oblique injury if you have a legitimate one that
- 15:37Speaker 8: you know. I'm thinking about when George Springer for the
- 15:39Speaker 8: Blue Jays was trying to play through one in the playoffs.
- 15:43Speaker 6: And swinging a bat.
- 15:45Speaker 8: So again, I'm not trying to create a doomsday scenario,
- 15:48Speaker 8: but this is kind of you know, this is kind
- 15:50Speaker 8: of interesting. This is popping up this time of week,
- 15:53Speaker 8: going into the biggest playoff game that this franchise has
- 15:56Speaker 8: had really since the Legion of Boom.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Yeah, he Quinck Kubiak spoke a couple of moments ago,
- 16:03Speaker 1: said he doesn't want to talk about Sam Jerald. He
- 16:05Speaker 1: just said Drew Locke got some first team reps today.
- 16:08Speaker 1: So McDonald speaks tomorrow, so we'll see what's going on.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Josh Jones ruled out with a knee injury. Yeah. I
- 16:15Speaker 1: don't know, man, that's a what did Gino have? Didn't
- 16:18Speaker 1: Gino have an oblique issue for a while or was
- 16:21Speaker 1: it shoulder? What was his deal?
- 16:24Speaker 8: I don't remember him having an oblique injury.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Maybe it was like, oh, maybe it's pack. I think
- 16:29Speaker 1: it might have been a pack or something as.
- 16:30Speaker 6: What Yeah, I think he I think he had a
- 16:32Speaker 6: pectoral strain.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds right. I think that was I think
- 16:38Speaker 1: it was a pectoral God, you know what I remember,
- 16:42Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you were recovering these guys yet, Corbin.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Back in twenty eleven, uh late Tavaris Jackson played through
- 16:50Speaker 1: like a pack injury all year, or an oblique injury
- 16:52Speaker 1: or a pack injury one of the two all year.
- 16:54Speaker 1: I mean throwing the football. That's hard. I don't know, man,
- 16:57Speaker 1: I don't know, buddy. That does not sound good.
- 17:00Speaker 8: All the fact that Drew lock is getting first team
- 17:03Speaker 8: reps on the final practice leading up to the you
- 17:06Speaker 8: know that, look, that creates a different storyline all by itself.
- 17:11Speaker 8: If Seattle can't go with Sam Darnold in this game.
- 17:15Speaker 8: Like talk about the pressure on Drew Locke, who has
- 17:18Speaker 8: not started a game since that Eagles game.
- 17:21Speaker 6: A couple of years back for Seattle.
- 17:23Speaker 8: I guess he started in New York last season, but
- 17:25Speaker 8: hasn't started for the Seahawks since that Eagles game that
- 17:28Speaker 8: he orchestrated the win against the Eagles late.
- 17:31Speaker 6: So it's I guess. I guess that's the.
- 17:33Speaker 8: Positive thing that you could put into this and and
- 17:36Speaker 8: it could be a case where they're just being cautious
- 17:38Speaker 8: to We'll see what Mike McDonald has to say when
- 17:40Speaker 8: he talks to the media, but we're not gonna hear
- 17:42Speaker 8: from him till tomorrow. So that's the schedule that we've
- 17:45Speaker 8: got this week with the Saturday game. So now everybody's
- 17:49Speaker 8: just gonna be kind of hanging on a thread here
- 17:51Speaker 8: wondering what the heck is going on until then.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I mean, we'll see it. Sure feels
- 17:58Speaker 1: like this is a day and age where you get
- 18:01Speaker 1: the old shot in there and the ware you go.
- 18:07Speaker 8: I would, but he's so much different when he can
- 18:11Speaker 8: run a little bit, like if he if he's got
- 18:13Speaker 8: mobility issues that I mean, man, I've got a lot
- 18:18Speaker 8: to write about here in a little bit.
- 18:21Speaker 6: This this could potentially be a massive issue from the
- 18:24Speaker 6: Seattle Seahawks.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, boy, Yeah, that's that's crazy. I The thing
- 18:31Speaker 1: that's that's weird about it is like injured in practice,
- 18:36Speaker 1: Like just that's such a weird like you're because obviously
- 18:39Speaker 1: he hasn't played in two weeks. He hasn't been on
- 18:41Speaker 1: the injury report until today. So did something twisted something,
- 18:45Speaker 1: did something? Man, I'd be looking. I'd be looking internally
- 18:48Speaker 1: right now at my strength and training staff going what
- 18:51Speaker 1: the hell are we doing? Like what is going on here?
- 18:53Speaker 1: That's just is that's just crazy. All right, Let's I'm
- 18:56Speaker 1: gonna play doomsday for a second. Let's assume that he's
- 19:00Speaker 1: in a situation where they just don't feel comfortable with
- 19:03Speaker 1: him starting. What does that mean, Drew Locke you mentioned
- 19:07Speaker 1: hasn't played in a while. What does that do to
- 19:09Speaker 1: this offense?
- 19:11Speaker 8: Well, first and foremost, if he thought they ran the
- 19:14Speaker 8: ball a lot in week eighteen, wait till you see Saturday,
- 19:18Speaker 8: Which might not be a bad thing, because this is
- 19:20Speaker 8: a forty nine ers defense that's had some issues defending
- 19:23Speaker 8: the run, and we know Seattle rushed for one hundred
- 19:26Speaker 8: and eighty yards in that game less than two weeks ago.
- 19:30Speaker 6: But at the.
- 19:30Speaker 8: Same time, you know, if you're Robert sala, I think
- 19:33Speaker 8: that really changes the way that he's going to coordinate
- 19:37Speaker 8: things because and I wrote about this yesterday ironically, I
- 19:40Speaker 8: was writing about Stam Darnold having the ball in his
- 19:44Speaker 8: court going into this game, because I do expect Robert
- 19:47Speaker 8: sala is going to be playing a second his second
- 19:49Speaker 8: safety in the box a bit more in this game
- 19:52Speaker 8: the way that he did in the second half in
- 19:54Speaker 8: that game a couple of weeks ago, when they held
- 19:56Speaker 8: the Seahawks of sixty five rushing yards in the last
- 19:59Speaker 8: two quarters. Now, I absolutely if I'm Roberts, So I'm like,
- 20:02Speaker 8: I'm absolutely doing that.
- 20:04Speaker 6: I'm getting rid of my.
- 20:05Speaker 8: Two deep safety looks, and I'm not near as worried
- 20:08Speaker 8: about the shot plays downfield if Sam Donald's not playing,
- 20:11Speaker 8: and I'm gonna try to turn up the heat on
- 20:14Speaker 8: Drew Lock and see if I can coax him into
- 20:16Speaker 8: a couple of turnovers too. So I think it manipulates
- 20:20Speaker 8: what the forty nine ers are gonna do schematically and
- 20:23Speaker 8: be more comfortable doing, and that has a ripple effect
- 20:26Speaker 8: on Seattle. I I don't know. And Drew Lock has
- 20:28Speaker 8: the arm talent to get the ball down field, I
- 20:30Speaker 8: just don't know that he is. He doesn't have to
- 20:32Speaker 8: touch that Sam Donald has, and it's been a long
- 20:34Speaker 8: time since he has started a game, So yeah, you're
- 20:36Speaker 8: putting a lot in his plate. But he is a
- 20:38Speaker 8: veteran and he has played a lot of football. So
- 20:41Speaker 8: Seattle's in a better spot than a lot of teams
- 20:43Speaker 8: would be in this case. But if that's where things
- 20:46Speaker 8: are going out. It doesn't matter who your backup quarterback is.
- 20:49Speaker 8: If you're in the divisional round and suddenly you have
- 20:51Speaker 8: to go with that guy starting a game for the
- 20:52Speaker 8: first time in the year, that creates a bleach situation
- 20:56Speaker 8: game plan wise.
- 20:57Speaker 1: I'm just glancing. I don't think Sam's even taking a
- 21:00Speaker 1: snap ever or Drew locks that are taking a snap
- 21:02Speaker 1: in in postseason, right, so because yes, and he's with
- 21:06Speaker 1: some bad teams in the Seattle obviously he didn't.
- 21:08Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think he's ever gotten a playoff rep.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he would have. The only time he
- 21:13Speaker 1: probably was I'm just looking through the only time he
- 21:15Speaker 1: would have been in the playoffs, right, would have been
- 21:21Speaker 1: probably well he would have backed up Gino, right.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty twenty two to three.
- 21:25Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty twenty two or twenty three.
- 21:27Speaker 6: And he obviously didn't play any in those games.
- 21:29Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I mean, well that'd be interesting. I
- 21:32Speaker 1: I I feel, I mean, start talking about the guys
- 21:37Speaker 1: that you don't want to lose your quarterbacks. Canna bet
- 21:39Speaker 1: the top of the list for a game and how
- 21:42Speaker 1: it changes things Drew Lock is it's the drop from
- 21:46Speaker 1: Sam Darnald and Drew lock is significant. There's a lot
- 21:49Speaker 1: of teams across football that the drop from the number
- 21:51Speaker 1: one to the number two would be a lot worse.
- 21:54Speaker 8: This also team built on Yeah, that's the like you said,
- 21:57Speaker 8: that's the optimistic take we can take with this, and
- 21:59Speaker 8: is that there are a lot of teams in the
- 22:01Speaker 8: league where you would be you know, I can't repeat
- 22:04Speaker 8: the quote that now retired Tom Moore said about losing
- 22:07Speaker 8: Peyton Manning and why they never gave any other quarterbacks reps.
- 22:11Speaker 8: I can't repeat that on the air, But there's a
- 22:14Speaker 8: lot of teams in the NFL who would share that viewpoint.
- 22:17Speaker 8: I can at least say the Seahawks have a guy
- 22:19Speaker 8: that they feel they can win games with and believe
- 22:21Speaker 8: they can win games with, and.
- 22:23Speaker 6: The question is going to be can he win a
- 22:25Speaker 6: playoff game for you? And how much is the rest
- 22:27Speaker 6: of the team gonna be able to pick him up?
- 22:30Speaker 2: Yeah, just now just came out on the other side
- 22:33Speaker 2: of the ball, Fred Warner will not be activated for
- 22:36Speaker 2: Saturday's games, said Kyle Shanahan.
- 22:38Speaker 1: So okay, there you go. So yeah, I'm just that's
- 22:40Speaker 1: being no surprise there. Also, yeah, that's not a surprise
- 22:44Speaker 1: That's why I said with the darnold thing, he's you know,
- 22:47Speaker 1: if he sore, they're taping those practices. The league keeps
- 22:51Speaker 1: an eye on those things. If he's feeling something and
- 22:54Speaker 1: they want to give some snaps and other stuff and
- 22:56Speaker 1: he's gonna be sitting out some some drills. They got
- 22:58Speaker 1: a list of his questionable they didn't list him as doubtful, right, Corbyn,
- 23:01Speaker 1: that's I think that's a that's a pretty if.
- 23:04Speaker 8: He's listen as doubtful, like you might as well put out, yes.
- 23:08Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a significant, significant thing that he's not
- 23:11Speaker 1: listed as doubtful. The fact he's listening as questionable is
- 23:14Speaker 1: certainly not great, but the fact that he's not listed
- 23:17Speaker 1: is doubtful is good. Doubt Phil leaves you like that
- 23:20Speaker 1: little glimmer of hope. But for the most part, like
- 23:21Speaker 1: Corbyn said, he ain't gonna play. So if it is
- 23:23Speaker 1: Drew Locke, we'll have to wait and see that. That
- 23:27Speaker 1: makes things really interesting, doesn't it? For this weekend? No
- 23:29Speaker 1: Fred Warner, though again Kyle Shanahan making that official just
- 23:31Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago for the San Francisco forty
- 23:34Speaker 1: nine ers. All right, let's work on the assumption Corbyn
- 23:37Speaker 1: that he is playing and all things being kind of
- 23:40Speaker 1: what they were two weeks ago, except we know one
- 23:42Speaker 1: guy that isn't playing, and that is and that is
- 23:44Speaker 1: George Kittle. What does that do for San Francisco?
- 23:48Speaker 8: You know, it obviously is a big drop off when
- 23:51Speaker 8: you're going from an all pro, a perennial all pro
- 23:53Speaker 8: like George Kittle to the other tight ends that the
- 23:55Speaker 8: forty nine ers have. I just I don't expect that
- 23:58Speaker 8: it's gonna alder how the forty nine offense operates very
- 24:01Speaker 8: much though, And you know, the Seahawks figured out Tonga
- 24:04Speaker 8: has had the game winning touchdown in Week one, so
- 24:07Speaker 8: it's not like the Seahawks don't know about their other
- 24:09Speaker 8: tight ends on this roster. Kyle Uschek is that h
- 24:13Speaker 8: back fullback that can play some tight end, and they've
- 24:16Speaker 8: been using him more in that capacity. Now they're gonna
- 24:18Speaker 8: have even more reason to do that with Kittle being out.
- 24:21Speaker 8: Farrell's a guy that you can make a few plays
- 24:23Speaker 8: if you need him to. I just don't think it's
- 24:26Speaker 8: gonna change the way the forty nine ers approach their offense.
- 24:28Speaker 8: They're still gonna have their two back sets They're still
- 24:30Speaker 8: gonna have multiple tight end personnel groupings, and they're gonna
- 24:35Speaker 8: be looking to get some of those tight ends involved
- 24:36Speaker 8: in the passing game.
- 24:37Speaker 6: Use check maybe a bigger part of that.
- 24:40Speaker 8: But it clearly takes away a guy that has been
- 24:42Speaker 8: a thorn in Seattle side offensively for a long time.
- 24:47Speaker 6: They did hold him down.
- 24:48Speaker 8: In Week eighteen, just five catches for twenty nine yards.
- 24:51Speaker 8: But you've got Nicki Minwori who's been the equalizer against
- 24:55Speaker 8: tight ends. Now you can utilize him against Tongas and
- 24:58Speaker 8: the rest of the tight ends that the forty nine
- 25:00Speaker 8: ers have, and Christian McCaffrey as well out of the backfield.
- 25:04Speaker 8: I don't expect that it's going to all their Seattle's
- 25:06Speaker 8: defensive approach very much, if at all, because I just
- 25:09Speaker 8: don't expect Shanahan to just suddenly read write his offense
- 25:13Speaker 8: and shift things that much with the injury, even though
- 25:16Speaker 8: it is a significant one for them talent wise.
- 25:19Speaker 1: All right, Corbin Smith joining us here on the Beacon
- 25:22Speaker 1: Plumbing hotline. The Yeah, I brought this up with the
- 25:26Speaker 1: guys earlier, and I brought it up for our listeners
- 25:29Speaker 1: as well. What is the realistic our buddy, mg in
- 25:36Speaker 1: the midday said, you know, super Bowl up rust for
- 25:38Speaker 1: this team, anything you know basic which insinuates anything less
- 25:40Speaker 1: than super Bowl's a disappointment. I countered with in my
- 25:44Speaker 1: opinion would be Corbin a fifty years, they've been in
- 25:47Speaker 1: the Super Bowl three times. Getting there's really hard. And
- 25:50Speaker 1: just a few weeks ago we were talking about this
- 25:51Speaker 1: team hopefully getting in as a wild card team. Now
- 25:54Speaker 1: they're the number one seed, and obviously that does change
- 25:56Speaker 1: probably expectations. Obviously you get home field advantage, get the
- 25:58Speaker 1: buy in the first round. But if they don't get
- 26:02Speaker 1: to the super Bowl with this particular Seahawk team, is
- 26:05Speaker 1: it a disappointing season or or not? I would take
- 26:09Speaker 1: it one step further. I said, I think they need
- 26:11Speaker 1: to Now this is before Darnold, but I would say
- 26:13Speaker 1: they at least need to get to the NFC Championship game.
- 26:15Speaker 1: If they don't do that and they lose the first game,
- 26:18Speaker 1: ie what Detroit did last year, then I think then
- 26:20Speaker 1: I'll go down the disappointment road. If they lose a
- 26:23Speaker 1: great game to the Rams or the Bears next week, like,
- 26:26Speaker 1: you know what, pretty good time in Mike McDonald's second year.
- 26:29Speaker 8: But what do you say, yeah, I think you and
- 26:32Speaker 8: I are an agreement on that. I do think if
- 26:35Speaker 8: they lose this week, and especially consider in look, the
- 26:38Speaker 8: reality is the forty nine ers are missing Fred Warner,
- 26:41Speaker 8: they're missing Nick Bosa, they don't have Brandon Au. Trent
- 26:46Speaker 8: Williams is playing it well below one hundred percent. Like,
- 26:49Speaker 8: you lose this game to San Francisco with all the
- 26:52Speaker 8: injuries at George Kittle as well, all the guys that
- 26:55Speaker 8: are out for that team, like, this is your window,
- 26:58Speaker 8: this is your time. If you lose to the Rams
- 27:01Speaker 8: or the Bears, who are much healthier teams in the
- 27:04Speaker 8: NFC Championship game, than so be it. If they just
- 27:07Speaker 8: outraged beat you, it's a great season. But I think
- 27:10Speaker 8: if you lose this game to the forty nine ers
- 27:12Speaker 8: with the injuries, now Sam Donald doesn't play, obviously that
- 27:15Speaker 8: that's an asterisk that we can put on there as well.
- 27:18Speaker 8: But assuming that he is gonna play, and the health
- 27:20Speaker 8: that Seattle has coming off the bye week slipping up
- 27:24Speaker 8: this weekend, yeah, that would that would be a that'd
- 27:27Speaker 8: be a real real bummer at the end of a
- 27:30Speaker 8: season that's been historically good for the Seahawks.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Even with Locke. Would you still expect him to win
- 27:36Speaker 1: if that has to happen.
- 27:39Speaker 6: At that point, it becomes a fifty to fifty for me.
- 27:41Speaker 8: Ian, I think Seattle would right now, Seattle would win
- 27:45Speaker 8: eight to nine out of ten games between these two
- 27:47Speaker 8: teams with Sam Donald.
- 27:48Speaker 6: Just because the injuries San Francisco has, I think.
- 27:51Speaker 8: It becomes more of a five out of ten fifty
- 27:54Speaker 8: to fifty thing. And it's just because Seattle's defense is
- 27:57Speaker 8: so good and I think the run game has taken
- 27:59Speaker 8: such a big step that they can have that complimentary
- 28:02Speaker 8: football to takes some pressure off of Drew Locke.
- 28:05Speaker 6: That's why I.
- 28:06Speaker 8: Would say fifty to fifty, But it makes it a
- 28:08Speaker 8: much murkier situation in my opinion.
- 28:11Speaker 1: All right, let folks know what you got going on
- 28:13Speaker 1: at the Emerald City Spectrum.
- 28:15Speaker 8: Yeah, well, right now, I'm getting ready to grab my
- 28:18Speaker 8: computer and I'm going to be dishing out some thoughts
- 28:20Speaker 8: on what.
- 28:21Speaker 6: Sam Donald's new injury news means.
- 28:23Speaker 8: That was not something I was anticipating today, But that'll
- 28:27Speaker 8: be dropping as soon as I can possibly get it
- 28:29Speaker 8: posted on Emerald Cityspectrum dot com.
- 28:32Speaker 1: All Right, it sounds like Sam Darnald might be talking
- 28:35Speaker 1: right now. So we'll do this, we'll take a break,
- 28:37Speaker 1: we'll try to turn that around. Coming up next ninety
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- 29:00Speaker 1: Now here's a let's get in to this right away.
- 29:04Speaker 1: We uh, the news came out just about twenty five
- 29:06Speaker 1: minutes ago. Sam Donald has been added to the injury
- 29:09Speaker 1: report for the Seahawks this week. He is listed as
- 29:12Speaker 1: questionable with an oblique injury. By the way, tomorrow seven
- 29:15Speaker 1: o'clock our man Greg Bell twelfth Man preview show for
- 29:19Speaker 1: the game on Saturday seven and nine tomorrow with Greg
- 29:21Speaker 1: Bell right here in ninety three point three kJ RFM,
- 29:24Speaker 1: speaking of Greg Bell, courtesy of Greg. Here is Sam
- 29:27Speaker 1: Donald moments ago at the podium.
- 29:31Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously, you know, just in routes on air, just
- 29:36Speaker 10: kind of felt a little a little something out of bleak.
- 29:39Speaker 11: Just didn't want to push it.
- 29:42Speaker 10: You know, it wasn't the day to push it, so
- 29:44Speaker 10: that was That was it. So I just came inside,
- 29:46Speaker 10: I got some rehab and you know, feel like I'll be.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Ready to go that way.
- 29:50Speaker 9: That was just today, that happened.
- 29:52Speaker 6: Yeah. You ever had anything obeaque issues.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Or anything with it?
- 29:56Speaker 11: No, No, never had Oblak issues.
- 29:57Speaker 10: But it's fun. You know, we'll attack at the next
- 30:00Speaker 10: a couple of days and be ready to go for Saturday.
- 30:02Speaker 11: It just sounds like a brilliant side.
- 30:04Speaker 1: You don't you know what I'm saying.
- 30:06Speaker 11: It's just on my left side. You know, it is
- 30:09Speaker 11: what it is. But yeah, again, like I said, fault
- 30:11Speaker 11: on the throw, but you know I'll be ready.
- 30:14Speaker 9: To what percent of you thinks you might not play.
- 30:18Speaker 10: Us a very low percentage, probably closer to zero.
- 30:23Speaker 1: All right, Well, that sounds a lot better. I feel better,
- 30:27Speaker 1: No more dooms day, Ian, I feel better a lot better.
- 30:30Speaker 4: Greg also put out a video of him jogging out
- 30:32Speaker 4: and I guess he had there. Yeah, like we we
- 30:34Speaker 4: had said earlier, he was like, nothing to see here.
- 30:38Speaker 1: I do want to play Clint Kubiak because there they
- 30:40Speaker 1: are having to get Drew Lockes some reps. You have
- 30:41Speaker 1: that Andrews ready to go? Yep, all right, here's Clint
- 30:44Speaker 1: Kubiak offensive coordinator.
- 30:45Speaker 11: No, no, never had oblique issues, but.
- 30:48Speaker 12: That was Drew's been really impressive throughout OTA's in training
- 30:52Speaker 12: camp and in his role. He started a lot of
- 30:55Speaker 12: football games, twenty eight games in the league, so confidence
- 30:59Speaker 12: and Drew brought him here for.
- 31:02Speaker 1: All right. Well, yeah, I thought that was more sorry
- 31:05Speaker 1: my fault. Yeah, so there you go. That's that's quick, kubyek.
- 31:08Speaker 1: He talked about getting them reps today and all that
- 31:10Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I listen listening to Sam Donald there,
- 31:14Speaker 1: it doesn't sound nearly as bad as initially it came
- 31:18Speaker 1: out like questionable. We've seen guys questionable not play and
- 31:22Speaker 1: not be activated for games all season long. As mentioned
- 31:25Speaker 1: when we were talking to Corbyn Smith a minute ago.
- 31:27Speaker 1: You know, when you're listening as doubtful, you might as
- 31:28Speaker 1: well just say out because that's that's what it's going
- 31:30Speaker 1: to be. Questionable truly is kind of that. It's fifty
- 31:33Speaker 1: to fifty a lot of times. But I feel a
- 31:36Speaker 1: lot better listening to Sam Donald right there. I'm throwing
- 31:41Speaker 1: the football, none of us know. I don't know what
- 31:42Speaker 1: he's doing. I think air on the side of caution.
- 31:45Speaker 1: It's that time of the year. It also feels like
- 31:48Speaker 1: because he felt a little twins Beau, I'm gonna go
- 31:50Speaker 1: in and get this kind of you know rehab, you know,
- 31:52Speaker 1: tweaked at mess around with a little bit. It sounds
- 31:55Speaker 1: like he did that because he's thrown against air. And
- 31:57Speaker 1: then the video with Greg Wor's great. Can you guys
- 32:00Speaker 1: see if Greg can come on real quick, just call him,
- 32:03Speaker 1: don't text him, call him. Let's see we can do
- 32:05Speaker 1: that because I want to know the timeline because to me,
- 32:08Speaker 1: the timeline is important because if he was he said
- 32:12Speaker 1: he was throwing against air, which means probably just warming up.
- 32:16Speaker 1: And that's but the fact that he came back out
- 32:19Speaker 1: onto the field, I think with the little gun in
- 32:23Speaker 1: his hand, and you know, had already gone inside for
- 32:27Speaker 1: the treatment. I don't think they would send him back
- 32:29Speaker 1: out if there was a massive, massive concern.
- 32:33Speaker 3: If there's any question, really right honesty.
- 32:37Speaker 1: The fact that he came back out and the video
- 32:38Speaker 1: that Greg has has the has the gun in his
- 32:41Speaker 1: hand tells.
- 32:42Speaker 3: Me that seems like just an abundance of caution for me.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. Listen, it's the time of
- 32:49Speaker 1: the year, paranoia. This is a this is like every
- 32:53Speaker 1: injury for a key guy is massive. Nico Collins is
- 32:57Speaker 1: probably not going to play for Houston. Didn't practice again today.
- 33:00Speaker 1: That basically rules him out for Saturday. Fred Warner already
- 33:04Speaker 1: has been ruled out for Saturday. They're not gonna activate
- 33:07Speaker 1: him this week. So yeah, it's you know, it's the
- 33:11Speaker 1: first thing you see, Oh my god, Sam Donald's on
- 33:14Speaker 1: on the injury report, and then you think, well maybe
- 33:16Speaker 1: after listening to him, it doesn't sound as serious as
- 33:19Speaker 1: we once thought, but certainly something to definitely keep an
- 33:22Speaker 1: eye on. And I'm trying to get ahold of Greg
- 33:24Speaker 1: right now, are we are we calling him? Yes?
- 33:26Speaker 9: No?
- 33:26Speaker 1: Yeah, you take a break, I got him, yes, okay, perfect, Okay,
- 33:32Speaker 1: we'll get Greg on a second here and let me
- 33:33Speaker 1: know when he's there, and we'll get our guy on
- 33:36Speaker 1: the scene. Mister Bell from the Coma News Tribune, if
- 33:39Speaker 1: you're just joining us. Just a short time ago. Sam
- 33:42Speaker 1: Donald added to the injury report this weekend for the Seahawks,
- 33:46Speaker 1: with Liz being listed as questionable for the game on
- 33:50Speaker 1: Saturday against the forty nine ers. Listening to Donald, who
- 33:53Speaker 1: did go to the podium and speak, he he made
- 33:56Speaker 1: it sound like probably a pretty good chance he's gonna
- 33:58Speaker 1: play and that's why we have our Greg Bell. You
- 34:00Speaker 1: can hear him tomorrow seven pm, twelve man preview show
- 34:04Speaker 1: right here on ninety three point three kter FM. We
- 34:06Speaker 1: saw the video you posted of Sam walk us. Can you, Greg,
- 34:09Speaker 1: what do I want to do? Really? Because we only
- 34:11Speaker 1: have a couple of this year, walk me through the
- 34:12Speaker 1: timeline of this today. Because he said he was thrown
- 34:15Speaker 1: against air. Did he come out kind of warm up,
- 34:17Speaker 1: throw against he air? Go inside and then they let
- 34:19Speaker 1: him come back out?
- 34:21Speaker 9: Yeah, he came out, but he came out to practice.
- 34:26Speaker 9: He came out to practice day holding a there again,
- 34:28Speaker 9: one of those oka you have massager things, and he
- 34:32Speaker 9: was using it on the right throwing side up near
- 34:35Speaker 9: his shoulder in his arm. And he joked to us
- 34:38Speaker 9: as we watched him walk jog out the practice walkout,
- 34:40Speaker 9: saying nothing to see here. Then he said he was
- 34:43Speaker 9: throwing against air during the practice and he felt his
- 34:46Speaker 9: oblique tight and it's on the left side, opposite of
- 34:49Speaker 9: his throwing side, and he and the team decided, the
- 34:52Speaker 9: coaches and the medical stat attrainers just decided to shut
- 34:54Speaker 9: it down.
- 34:55Speaker 6: Right then, okay, out of precoction.
- 34:57Speaker 9: They just shut it down during practice. Then he came
- 34:59Speaker 9: in and didn't fin practice, which is why Drew Locke,
- 35:02Speaker 9: according to klint Koviak, did get reps with the Ones today.
- 35:06Speaker 9: So now it's going to be almost round the clock
- 35:08Speaker 9: treatment between now and five o'clock on Saturday. On the
- 35:12Speaker 9: oblique of Sam Donald, and I asked him, you probably
- 35:15Speaker 9: aired it. What percentage of you thinks that you're not
- 35:17Speaker 9: going to play? And he said, pretty darn close to zero.
- 35:20Speaker 9: He's going to play. It's going to be maybe less
- 35:23Speaker 9: than one hundred percent, Sam Donald, but he is. I
- 35:27Speaker 9: would be shocked. I'm already shocked that it came up
- 35:29Speaker 9: to this, but I would be shocked if he doesn't play.
- 35:32Speaker 9: He has between now and Saturday to get better.
- 35:35Speaker 1: Greg kind of let us let our listeners know the
- 35:38Speaker 1: protocol here, because I think that there is the way
- 35:41Speaker 1: the NFL is. This is not This is not the
- 35:44Speaker 1: National Hockey League where someone has upper body, lower body
- 35:47Speaker 1: or undisclosed and we hide behind the veil of secrecy
- 35:49Speaker 1: all the time. Not that I'm bitter about that, but
- 35:52Speaker 1: that's how it works in the NHL the NFL, you
- 35:55Speaker 1: have to have some transparency and in the case of
- 35:58Speaker 1: a quarterback or not finishing a practice and the number
- 36:02Speaker 1: two guy doing that, they have to list him on
- 36:04Speaker 1: the injury report. Correct, And number two with that, I
- 36:07Speaker 1: would say is this is also a time of the
- 36:09Speaker 1: year where a lot of guys are bumped up and
- 36:10Speaker 1: banged up. If this was maybe even a walk through,
- 36:13Speaker 1: would they even have had to do anything? I mean
- 36:14Speaker 1: kind of tell walk us through the protocol here?
- 36:17Speaker 9: Well, the same question first, and yes, even if there's
- 36:19Speaker 9: a walkthrough, if he wasn't participating in any part of
- 36:22Speaker 9: the practice, they have to list that, and they have
- 36:24Speaker 9: to list a reason why. And that means one hundred percent.
- 36:26Speaker 9: If a guy misses one drill of one of his
- 36:30Speaker 9: normal reps of a practice, he has to be listed
- 36:32Speaker 9: as limited on the report. And to your point about
- 36:36Speaker 9: the injuries, about a dozen years ago they did away
- 36:40Speaker 9: with the probable designation. So now if a guy is
- 36:43Speaker 9: hurt at all to the point that he's questioned, if
- 36:46Speaker 9: there's any issue toward a game, he's listed as questionable
- 36:50Speaker 9: unless there is a near certainty of him playing. So
- 36:53Speaker 9: anything short of what the term around the league used
- 36:56Speaker 9: is virtual certainty. If there's anything less than a virtual
- 36:59Speaker 9: certainty that a player's going to plays mean to get
- 37:01Speaker 9: on the injured list for what used to be probable.
- 37:03Speaker 9: I would guess if there was an old probable, Darnold
- 37:05Speaker 9: would be listed as probable. But because there's not a
- 37:08Speaker 9: listing of probable anymore, he's listed as questionable. And yeah,
- 37:11Speaker 9: they teams can get fine, they can get doc draft picks.
- 37:15Speaker 9: It's how much the betting public in the NFL have
- 37:18Speaker 9: gone into cohoots. But I don't expect him not to play.
- 37:24Speaker 9: This is a surprise, of course, that had come up
- 37:26Speaker 9: two days before a playoff game. But I would be
- 37:29Speaker 9: very surprised if he doesn't play. And oh, by the way,
- 37:31Speaker 9: it doesn't hurt that there's some gamesmanship with a division
- 37:34Speaker 9: rival here. I mean in San Francisco. They've been talked
- 37:36Speaker 9: to me trying to float the possibility of Fred Warner
- 37:38Speaker 9: coming back to speech from an Acchilties, which it doesn't
- 37:41Speaker 9: look like he's going to play, but they've tried to
- 37:42Speaker 9: make it look like he might. So there's some of
- 37:44Speaker 9: that going on too between division rivals.
- 37:47Speaker 1: We had Corbin and Smith on a little bit earlier
- 37:49Speaker 1: and right right when all this stuff is breaking, and
- 37:51Speaker 1: I actually mentioned that to him. I said, it's I
- 37:54Speaker 1: feel I feel there's some gamesmanship going because the whole
- 37:57Speaker 1: Fred Warner circus in Kyle Sha came out I think
- 38:00Speaker 1: when you guys were in the press conferences and said, yeah,
- 38:02Speaker 1: we're not activating Fred war this week, so he's not
- 38:05Speaker 1: going to play. So that that ends that little that
- 38:07Speaker 1: little thing where he practiced yesterday in practice today. But
- 38:10Speaker 1: it's your division rival, and yeah, I mean it's so
- 38:13Speaker 1: Sam Darold. Now there's a seed of doubt and all that.
- 38:15Speaker 1: But again, you just from what you had the conversation
- 38:18Speaker 1: with him, you guys on the podium with him, what
- 38:20Speaker 1: he said as he ran by, you fully expect him
- 38:23Speaker 1: to play on Saturday.
- 38:25Speaker 13: I do.
- 38:26Speaker 1: It would be.
- 38:28Speaker 9: We would know the reason if he doesn't play, but
- 38:30Speaker 9: I'd be very surprised if he doesn't.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Great stuff, Buddy, will keep following you in Tacoma News Tribune,
- 38:34Speaker 1: Greg Bell, go follow and listen to him tomorrow night
- 38:36Speaker 1: seven o'clock here on the radio station. He'll be with you.
- 38:39Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll be tom on tomorrow with the boys
- 38:41Speaker 1: in the morning at seven. You're a busy man these days.
- 38:43Speaker 1: I appreciate you popping on last second, my friend, Thank you.
- 38:46Speaker 9: No problem, I got something to talk about on the
- 38:48Speaker 9: flow tomorrow.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Thank you do. Indeed, that's Greig Bell again. He'll have
- 38:52Speaker 1: the special show tomorrow seven to nine pm right here
- 38:54Speaker 1: on nine three point three k TERFM. We'll take a break,
- 38:56Speaker 1: come back, we are gonna talk some college football. Thank
- 38:58Speaker 1: we all breathe easy after listening to Greg. We'll talk
- 39:00Speaker 1: some college football with our guy Stuart Mandel coming up.
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- 39:16Speaker 1: chilling big news. About a half hour ago, Seahawk injury
- 39:19Speaker 1: port Sam Donald listed as questionable for Saturday against the
- 39:23Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers with an oblique injury. He
- 39:29Speaker 1: spoke to the media just about fifteen minutes ago and
- 39:32Speaker 1: said he expects to play on Saturday, At one point
- 39:36Speaker 1: jogging onto the field with the little massage gun, saying
- 39:40Speaker 1: to Greg Bell and others, nothing to see here, really
- 39:44Speaker 1: nothing to see here. There's a lot to see here, Sam,
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- 39:50Speaker 1: expects to play on Saturday. Josh Jones has been ruled out.
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- 40:02Speaker 1: has just been announced by head coach Kyle Shanahan. Ricky pearsall,
- 40:05Speaker 1: I'll be right now sorry. Juwan Jennings their best receiver.
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- 40:25Speaker 1: close game. For the most part, it got a little
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- 41:23Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Stuart Mandel join us normally
- 41:26Speaker 1: on Wednesdays, but we got him on a Thursday today
- 41:28Speaker 1: because short show yesterday with Krack and playing early in
- 41:31Speaker 1: New Jersey. So we did not want to this week
- 41:33Speaker 1: to go by without checking with Stuart Mendel because why
- 41:36Speaker 1: oh yeah, we got a little thing called the National
- 41:38Speaker 1: Championship Game coming up on Monday. We've got some stuff
- 41:41Speaker 1: to talk about. Because the last time we talked to
- 41:43Speaker 1: Stuart it was it was like pre middle I don't
- 41:46Speaker 1: even know where the hell we were with the demon
- 41:48Speaker 1: Williams situation. It was all over the place, but we
- 41:52Speaker 1: got a lot to discuss today in the world of
- 41:53Speaker 1: college football. High Stewart, how are you.
- 41:56Speaker 13: I'm good, Ian, How are you?
- 41:57Speaker 1: I'm great? I am great. We're gonna get into my
- 42:00Speaker 1: am We'll get in Indiana in a second. But let's
- 42:02Speaker 1: let's circle back to to last week. A strange week
- 42:06Speaker 1: here in Seattle. Uh, I mean entertaining. I guess unless
- 42:10Speaker 1: you're a Husky fan, and then I guess you in
- 42:11Speaker 1: the end, you were probably happy. But Demon Williams is gone,
- 42:14Speaker 1: Then Demon Williams is back. Jetfish comes on our station
- 42:17Speaker 1: on Friday, does an interview with Dave Softy Maller and
- 42:20Speaker 1: Dick Faane our afternoon show. First interview. We did tells
- 42:24Speaker 1: us that, hey, you know, we we were in great
- 42:25Speaker 1: communication with Demon and blah blah blah. No one believes it.
- 42:29Speaker 1: We all think that Demon was gone, but he was
- 42:30Speaker 1: forced to come back. But now that it's all kind
- 42:33Speaker 1: of wrapped up a little bit. What Stuart Mandel's take
- 42:36Speaker 1: on the whole DeMont Williams situation.
- 42:40Speaker 13: It was weird, It was interesting. I think you must
- 42:44Speaker 13: have gotten some bad advice to try to go into
- 42:47Speaker 13: the portal in the first place, given that contract, I mean,
- 42:51Speaker 13: I think we're all waiting to see if these new
- 42:56Speaker 13: these school revshare contracts can act as a deterrent from
- 43:00Speaker 13: keeping players moving around so much because of those buyout clauses.
- 43:04Speaker 13: That seems to be certainly what scared demand Williams into
- 43:08Speaker 13: going back, But it was also we're talking about a
- 43:11Speaker 13: guy who signed a four million dollar contract, and if
- 43:14Speaker 13: Washington's threatening to come for all of that, that's a
- 43:18Speaker 13: much different situation obviously than most players who are making
- 43:22Speaker 13: far less than that. So at some point, I mean,
- 43:26Speaker 13: you know, from a pure Washington fans wouldn't want this,
- 43:29Speaker 13: but from a pure like interest in the game, it
- 43:32Speaker 13: would have been actually quite helpful if it had like
- 43:36Speaker 13: escalated to a court case. Short of that, though others
- 43:40Speaker 13: will probably test it. There's a case right now about
- 43:43Speaker 13: a defensive end who left Georgia last year under similar circumstances.
- 43:48Speaker 13: But yeah, what happened with Devon is exactly what schools
- 43:50Speaker 13: we're hoping this new system would would bring about. That Hey,
- 43:55Speaker 13: if you you want to go in the portal, you
- 43:57Speaker 13: want to leave our school, okay, but there's no your
- 44:00Speaker 13: price to pay for that, and that's just a question
- 44:02Speaker 13: of whether that becomes a president or not.
- 44:04Speaker 1: You wrote about how this is the House settlement system working.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Explain how the House settlement you know, works, and how
- 44:12Speaker 1: it's working in this situation for folks.
- 44:15Speaker 13: Up until last July, before the House Settlement, all of
- 44:18Speaker 13: these nil payments, these contracts of the players were third
- 44:22Speaker 13: party deals, you know, usually with collectives, and the schools
- 44:25Speaker 13: had absolutely no control over them. So while those haven't
- 44:29Speaker 13: gone away entirely, you know, the main way these guys
- 44:33Speaker 13: are being paid now is through these contracts directly from
- 44:36Speaker 13: the schools, and the schools are putting in pretty stiff
- 44:39Speaker 13: language regarding transferring. I think the fundamental question that needs
- 44:44Speaker 13: to be answered, though, is how do you say that
- 44:46Speaker 13: these contracts, and I've seen a couple in writings are
- 44:50Speaker 13: non employment agreements and they're not paid for play. But
- 44:54Speaker 13: at the same time, the schools like Washington are saying, yes,
- 44:57Speaker 13: but they bind you to our schools play football for
- 45:00Speaker 13: our school, which those two things seem to be at odds,
- 45:04Speaker 13: but right now it's working. It worked in this case.
- 45:08Speaker 13: It's I just saw yesterday Charlie Baker and say president
- 45:13Speaker 13: said that trans kids and that's going into portal is
- 45:15Speaker 13: down like twenty three percent from last year, so it
- 45:19Speaker 13: is at least for now, having a stabilizing effect.
- 45:22Speaker 1: Suear Mandel joining us. So you're kind of you're basically
- 45:26Speaker 1: what a contract employee, like a ten ninety nine, kind
- 45:29Speaker 1: of like a freelancer, but you're tied to a particular.
- 45:31Speaker 13: You're not you're not an employee at all. You're and
- 45:35Speaker 13: this is where you can you know, you kind of
- 45:36Speaker 13: have to roll your eyes a little bit, but yeah,
- 45:39Speaker 13: the schools will claim that these agreements are just a
- 45:44Speaker 13: licensing agreement for their nil rights.
- 45:46Speaker 9: That's it.
- 45:47Speaker 13: You're an employee. We're not paying you to play football
- 45:49Speaker 13: at the University of Washington. We're just licensing your nil rights.
- 45:53Speaker 13: But oh, by the way, they require you to play
- 45:56Speaker 13: football for our school.
- 45:58Speaker 1: It's it is still so strange and on a lot
- 46:01Speaker 1: of levels. You know, we had a thing here years ago, Stuart.
- 46:04Speaker 1: You might remember a little thing called the Seattle SuperSonics.
- 46:06Speaker 1: They used to play in Seattle, and they're a different
- 46:09Speaker 1: market now. I'm not sure where they are. I lost track,
- 46:11Speaker 1: but there there was a lawsuit that would and it
- 46:15Speaker 1: was based trying to keep the Sonics here back in
- 46:16Speaker 1: two thousand and eight in the law the crux of
- 46:19Speaker 1: the lawsuit was specific performance clause which would force them
- 46:24Speaker 1: to perform their duties and i e. Stay with the lease.
- 46:28Speaker 1: The City of Seattle sold out before they had on
- 46:31Speaker 1: the day actually the ruling was going to come down.
- 46:34Speaker 1: I talked to an attorney last week that was involved
- 46:35Speaker 1: with that, and he said that he kind of thought that,
- 46:37Speaker 1: you know, maybe in some ways there are the specific
- 46:39Speaker 1: performance clause in these nil contracts. My question would be,
- 46:43Speaker 1: and I don't think you know, I'm I'm just throwing
- 46:45Speaker 1: it out there. We can discuss it. I wonder at
- 46:47Speaker 1: what point did and you see, you've seen a couple
- 46:49Speaker 1: of these contracts. If they're a specific performance clause, would
- 46:53Speaker 1: it ever include the entire season? I e. Bowl games
- 46:56Speaker 1: or college football playoffs. I bring that up because you know,
- 46:59Speaker 1: Or was shorthanded in their bowl game. I don't think
- 47:02Speaker 1: it matters. I don't think any of us believe it
- 47:03Speaker 1: would have mattered if they would have had a couple
- 47:05Speaker 1: extra running backs or what have you. But guys going
- 47:08Speaker 1: in the portal and not quote finishing out the season.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Like I wonder if they're ever going to write those
- 47:12Speaker 1: in there, Like it's one thing to play twelve games,
- 47:15Speaker 1: but then what if you have thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, do
- 47:18Speaker 1: you still have you know, because a lot of these
- 47:19Speaker 1: kids are still on nil deals.
- 47:22Speaker 13: You know, Look, I haven't seen any deals recently, and
- 47:26Speaker 13: you know, these things are kind of fluid, They're constantly
- 47:28Speaker 13: the language is constantly changing. They might vary from school
- 47:32Speaker 13: to school. I do think there are forms of that
- 47:34Speaker 13: floating around. I mean the main one just being scheduling
- 47:38Speaker 13: the payments. So you've got to stay through the bowl
- 47:40Speaker 13: game to get like a huge chunk of it. But
- 47:45Speaker 13: if you know you're if you know there's a kind
- 47:48Speaker 13: of a you know, perhaps an even bigger payday waiting
- 47:52Speaker 13: on the other side, then that might not deter you. Ultimately,
- 47:59Speaker 13: Like I said, like we're in the very early stages
- 48:01Speaker 13: of figuring out how this is all going to work
- 48:04Speaker 13: and whether it's whether it's enforceable. But yeah, I just
- 48:09Speaker 13: keep getting back to the schools trying to have their
- 48:11Speaker 13: cake and eat it too. These are non employment deals,
- 48:14Speaker 13: they're not pay for play. But oh, by the way,
- 48:17Speaker 13: I mean I know this. There are contracts that raise
- 48:20Speaker 13: or lower the salary based on your performance. Like it
- 48:24Speaker 13: can go up if you become an All Conference player,
- 48:26Speaker 13: if you win the Heisman. I saw one last year
- 48:29Speaker 13: that said they can just kind of unilaterally lower it
- 48:32Speaker 13: at any time if you're not performing well. So it's
- 48:34Speaker 13: just really this all needs to be tested in court.
- 48:39Speaker 1: Yeah, and unfortunately Demon bailed out before it got to court.
- 48:43Speaker 1: You're right, I mean, I know Washington wouldn't want that.
- 48:45Speaker 1: Maybe the the Williams family wouldn't want it. Although you
- 48:47Speaker 1: know the agent who had Doug Hendrickson, his agent dropped
- 48:51Speaker 1: him apparently on that day. Yeah, you know, which is
- 48:54Speaker 1: wild because you know, if you remember, Doug Hendrickson had
- 48:57Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Marshawn Lynch, and you
- 48:59Speaker 1: want to talk about high mat and it's that would
- 49:00Speaker 1: be at the top of the list. We all love
- 49:02Speaker 1: Marshaun out here, but if you're able to handle Marshawn
- 49:04Speaker 1: Lynch all those years, it shows you how messy this
- 49:07Speaker 1: this world of nil is. Of Doug unders and says yeah,
- 49:09Speaker 1: I'm out, I'm good, I'll move on. Thanks for coming,
- 49:13Speaker 1: all right, Stuart Mandel with us.
- 49:14Speaker 13: Unfortunately, in these a lot of these kind of nil
- 49:17Speaker 13: sagas that I've covered, oftentimes the player himself is not
- 49:21Speaker 13: the one driving it. Family members, you know, people, people
- 49:29Speaker 13: besides just the player himself. I don't have the specifics
- 49:32Speaker 13: of what happened here, but chances are he did not
- 49:35Speaker 13: know latterly decide he was going to fail on a
- 49:37Speaker 13: contract he signed a few days earlier for an offer
- 49:41Speaker 13: then may or may not have materialized.
- 49:44Speaker 1: Stuart. Does tampering exist anymore in college football? Or is
- 49:46Speaker 1: it just a free for all? Can you really get
- 49:49Speaker 1: in trouble for tampering? Used to be you could get
- 49:50Speaker 1: in trouble for that.
- 49:52Speaker 13: Well, is it tampering if everybody's doing it all the time?
- 49:57Speaker 13: I mean, it's just yeah, you're operating procedure.
- 50:01Speaker 9: You can't.
- 50:01Speaker 13: You can't. You're not gonna be able to field a
- 50:04Speaker 13: roster without it. Now, that can take many different forms,
- 50:07Speaker 13: I think one of the main, don't I don't know
- 50:10Speaker 13: that there's that many. Well, I don't want to generalize
- 50:12Speaker 13: like that. A common thing is, you know, these guys
- 50:15Speaker 13: have agents, and the agents throughout the season are reaching
- 50:18Speaker 13: out to coaches and jams and other programs saying, hey,
- 50:22Speaker 13: if this guy jumps in the portal after the season,
- 50:25Speaker 13: what do you think he might be worth? Would you
- 50:28Speaker 13: be interested in what do you think he might be worth?
- 50:30Speaker 1: Right?
- 50:31Speaker 13: So, I think that's still technically falls on a definition
- 50:34Speaker 13: of tampering, But who the heck is enforcing it.
- 50:37Speaker 1: It's kind of like when you drive. You're driving on
- 50:39Speaker 1: the freeway and there's like eight cars all at once,
- 50:41Speaker 1: and they're all going seventy five and they go past
- 50:43Speaker 1: the trooper. He's like, yeah, everyone's doing it. I'm not
- 50:45Speaker 1: gonna I can't pull over one. I can't pull over
- 50:47Speaker 1: one and let the other ones go. So why you go?
- 50:50Speaker 1: Jed knows about tampering. Jade and Laura, We'll leave it
- 50:52Speaker 1: at that. Okay, let's talk about the games. I read
- 50:57Speaker 1: your mail bag, listen. I have great respect for people
- 51:00Speaker 1: that say this because a lot of people in the
- 51:01Speaker 1: media don't. I do because I'm wrong multiple times a day.
- 51:05Speaker 1: Jessaman will usually point it out to me or someone
- 51:07Speaker 1: else will. But Stuart Mandel was wrong. You were wrong
- 51:11Speaker 1: about Indiana. Stuart? How dare you? How could you be?
- 51:14Speaker 1: I can't believe you were wrong about Indiana. I mean,
- 51:16Speaker 1: you got all those years of history behind you. How
- 51:18Speaker 1: could you be wrong?
- 51:20Speaker 13: Well, specifically, I mean what Indiana has done is just
- 51:23Speaker 13: blown up all the entire time of current long history
- 51:28Speaker 13: of you have to be of blue blood to be
- 51:31Speaker 13: able to not just get the talent, but get the
- 51:34Speaker 13: depth to win a national championship. And so what I
- 51:37Speaker 13: was saying early in the season was, oh, yeah, they're
- 51:38Speaker 13: really good, Like clearly they're really good. But if they
- 51:41Speaker 13: get into a playoff and they have to win three
- 51:43Speaker 13: straight games and they're playing in Ohio State or at
- 51:45Speaker 13: Georgia or whoever it may be, I just don't think
- 51:47Speaker 13: they have the depth to I don't think it's possible
- 51:50Speaker 13: for a program like Indiana. Well, guess what in the
- 51:52Speaker 13: game the other night against Oregon. I mean they've had
- 51:55Speaker 13: their top two pass rushers injured at various points that
- 51:59Speaker 13: are out. Now the third string guy steps in and
- 52:03Speaker 13: gets two sacks and blocks a punt. So clearly Kripnetti
- 52:07Speaker 13: has developed depth as well as a blue blood can.
- 52:10Speaker 13: And so that just kind of shatters the whole paradigm.
- 52:12Speaker 13: And so what I said is winner lose on. This
- 52:15Speaker 13: all came up early in the season when before Signetty
- 52:18Speaker 13: signed his big contract, about whether they would be able
- 52:21Speaker 13: to hold on to him right or whether a Florida
- 52:23Speaker 13: or somebody would get him, and I said, well, ultimately,
- 52:26Speaker 13: I'm sure he's very happy they're also went. He probably
- 52:28Speaker 13: knows he can't win a national championship there. Well, clearly
- 52:30Speaker 13: he can. And I and I say that whether or
- 52:33Speaker 13: not they went on Monday night, he has proven you
- 52:36Speaker 13: can get that program to the top of the sport
- 52:39Speaker 13: because the rules have changed and it's a completely different
- 52:42Speaker 13: model now.
- 52:44Speaker 1: It's I think it's interesting to look even at Indiana
- 52:47Speaker 1: as a school because you know, for a long time
- 52:49Speaker 1: they were probably considered to be a blue blood in basketball.
- 52:52Speaker 1: They haven't won a championship since the eighties, and then
- 52:55Speaker 1: you know, a national championship since the eighties. I've been
- 52:57Speaker 1: to the Sweet sixteen in twelve years years, they've missed
- 53:01Speaker 1: the tournament more often than they've made it. In the
- 53:03Speaker 1: last twelve years, they've only made it twice in the
- 53:05Speaker 1: last decade and a half. And yet that's always been
- 53:08Speaker 1: thought of as a basketball school. And yet now as
- 53:10Speaker 1: we see they've you know, Signette's turned them into a
- 53:12Speaker 1: football school. I think it's interesting to see that changing
- 53:17Speaker 1: of the guard in a little bit, and it does
- 53:18Speaker 1: feel like with his recruiting abilities that maybe this is
- 53:22Speaker 1: a guy in a program that that isn't just two
- 53:25Speaker 1: and done. You know, they done it with two different quarterbacks.
- 53:27Speaker 1: Obviously the second one a Heisman Trophy winner. But is
- 53:30Speaker 1: Signetti and are Signetti in Indiana? Are they here for
- 53:34Speaker 1: a while? Are they going to be a problem for
- 53:35Speaker 1: college football and the Big Ten and their teams and
- 53:39Speaker 1: the sport as a whole. Are they going to be
- 53:40Speaker 1: a problem for a while.
- 53:42Speaker 13: I don't see why they wouldn't be. Now may time
- 53:46Speaker 13: may pass, and we say that was just a particularly
- 53:48Speaker 13: special period and a special group, and you know they
- 53:51Speaker 13: couldn't replicate it from there. But the scary thing is
- 53:55Speaker 13: only like this program was built on two three are
- 54:00Speaker 13: guys who committed to Indiana out of high school and
- 54:02Speaker 13: develop and he developed them. Or that transfer class he
- 54:06Speaker 13: brought in when he was first hired, which was full
- 54:08Speaker 13: of James Madison and other groups of five players who
- 54:11Speaker 13: he was a student enough to recognize could play at
- 54:13Speaker 13: high level.
- 54:13Speaker 9: In the Big Ten.
- 54:15Speaker 13: And now that they have all this, you know, proven
- 54:18Speaker 13: track record, now they're able to get the best transfers
- 54:21Speaker 13: in the country. Josh Uber is coming in the quarterback
- 54:24Speaker 13: from TCU. Nick marsh is one of the top receivers
- 54:27Speaker 13: from Michigan State, like, they are only now going to
- 54:30Speaker 13: be able to bring in even better players than they
- 54:32Speaker 13: were before. So as long as he's there, he's been
- 54:35Speaker 13: able to hang on to his coordinators. And Indiana's just
- 54:39Speaker 13: spending a lot of money, and I think it taught
- 54:41Speaker 13: people off guard. Well, how can Indiana have this kind
- 54:43Speaker 13: of money to spend on football? Well, if you're in
- 54:46Speaker 13: the Big Ten today, everybody in the Big Ten has money.
- 54:50Speaker 13: Mark Cuban has come out and said he basically gave
- 54:53Speaker 13: them a you know, small fortune for this portal class.
- 54:57Speaker 13: So they are operating in every way now any other
- 55:01Speaker 13: powerhouse football program.
- 55:03Speaker 1: Well, they'll take on Miami on Monday the National Championship.
- 55:07Speaker 1: How's Miami got here, because it's been a long time
- 55:09Speaker 1: since we've seen Miami at this level football as well, Stuart.
- 55:13Speaker 13: Well, you know, fans in the Northwest remember that Mario
- 55:16Speaker 13: Cristobal built his Oregon teams around the trenches and they
- 55:20Speaker 13: just didn't get to the point that this Miami team has.
- 55:24Speaker 13: And that's true of this team. It's been interesting to
- 55:27Speaker 13: see in the playoffs that while they have Carson Beck
- 55:32Speaker 13: and he's a big name and he played really well
- 55:34Speaker 13: in the in the All This game, Like their identity
- 55:37Speaker 13: is We're just gonna bully Volue. And I thought what
- 55:39Speaker 13: they did so well in the All Miss game was
- 55:42Speaker 13: just keep all this off the field. They had like
- 55:44Speaker 13: at one point they had held the ball for like
- 55:47Speaker 13: thirty three minutes. To Ole Miss is eleven minutes. The
- 55:53Speaker 13: problem is nobody's been able to run the ball Indiana, Like,
- 55:56Speaker 13: I don't think you can do that against Indiana. They're
- 55:58Speaker 13: going to have to find other ways to meet football.
- 56:03Speaker 1: It's well in their defensive line is I mean the
- 56:05Speaker 1: two defensive lines period. It feels like this is a
- 56:08Speaker 1: bet the under game Stewart doesn't. I mean, it just
- 56:13Speaker 1: feels like that's along the way is I'll ask you
- 56:16Speaker 1: kind of the same question. I mean, Chrystal Baul was
- 56:17Speaker 1: here and up in at Oregon didn't get to the
- 56:20Speaker 1: same level. You know right now it doesn't appear. But
- 56:24Speaker 1: is is Miami in it for the whole? Is Miami
- 56:27Speaker 1: football back? I guess that'd be the best way to
- 56:28Speaker 1: answer it, because Indiana is here, But is Miami football
- 56:32Speaker 1: after a couple of decades, is Miami football back?
- 56:36Speaker 13: My good friend and podcast co host Bruce Seldman, Miami alum,
- 56:41Speaker 13: author of a big book about Miami football, will tell
- 56:44Speaker 13: you that you're only allowed to say that you is
- 56:46Speaker 13: back if they win the national team Mike, once they
- 56:49Speaker 13: win a national championship.
- 56:51Speaker 6: Interesting, I am.
- 56:55Speaker 13: I agree that with that to some extent, but they're
- 56:58Speaker 13: definitely back in the conversation. When I covered Miami, you
- 57:02Speaker 13: know when I was first starting out, and it was
- 57:04Speaker 13: those great Ken Dorsey, Andre Johnson, you name it. Team
- 57:08Speaker 13: like they just used with slagger, like they were people
- 57:12Speaker 13: feared them. They won thirty four games in a row.
- 57:15Speaker 13: I don't think that's how people feel about this Miami
- 57:18Speaker 13: era just yet. If they were to win a national championship,
- 57:22Speaker 13: I don't. I don't think you would see that come
- 57:24Speaker 13: out droves. But it's good to have them back on
- 57:27Speaker 13: the conversation and you talk about having resources. It came
- 57:32Speaker 13: out this week that Ty Simpson, the Alabama quarterback, he
- 57:36Speaker 13: already declared the NFL, and but Miami tried to do
- 57:40Speaker 13: what they did with Cam Worden Carson Beck, where they
- 57:42Speaker 13: basically paid them enough for them to pull out of
- 57:45Speaker 13: the NFL, and it was reported that they were willing
- 57:48Speaker 13: to give him six point five million dollars next year
- 57:51Speaker 13: unprecedented for a college quarterback, and it's a lot of
- 57:58Speaker 13: lot to disconnect with, like how the NFL feels about
- 58:02Speaker 13: how the NFL drafts experts feel about Ty Simpson versus
- 58:05Speaker 13: how I feel about him. With Dante Moore just announcing
- 58:07Speaker 13: that he's coming back, like people are saying Ty Simpson
- 58:10Speaker 13: might be the second quarterback taken after Mendoza. I don't
- 58:14Speaker 13: see it, but that's what they say. So yeah, the
- 58:17Speaker 13: fact that they have that kind of money, I mean,
- 58:19Speaker 13: Carson back this year was highly pick one of the
- 58:22Speaker 13: highest paid, if not the highest paid, tells you that
- 58:25Speaker 13: they're in it for the long run. They made a
- 58:27Speaker 13: pretty significant shift. I wrote in the mail today about
- 58:31Speaker 13: it's kind of lost the history now, but when the
- 58:35Speaker 13: Lad of many dias is last year, Kirk Kirkstreet went
- 58:37Speaker 13: on game day and just went on this rant of
- 58:39Speaker 13: how Miami doesn't the administration doesn't care about football enough
- 58:43Speaker 13: and they're they're just going to keep being bad, and
- 58:46Speaker 13: that woke some people up there. It was like a
- 58:48Speaker 13: one to eighty from that point forward in terms of
- 58:50Speaker 13: how much they're investing in football real quick.
- 58:53Speaker 1: Just I want to get back to im to wrap
- 58:54Speaker 1: it up a Dante more in a second, but just
- 58:56Speaker 1: the game on Monday. I kind of joked about betting
- 58:58Speaker 1: the under, but it just feels like Indiana is destined
- 59:02Speaker 1: to get there. But boy, watching Miami, those edge rushers
- 59:05Speaker 1: are crazy good. I don't know, what do you expect?
- 59:08Speaker 1: How do you think this is going to play out
- 59:09Speaker 1: on Monday?
- 59:11Speaker 9: Yeah? I see it.
- 59:12Speaker 13: You know, I think I think Indiana's a much better team,
- 59:15Speaker 13: but I don't think they're going to be able to
- 59:17Speaker 13: like march the ball at will like they did against Oregon.
- 59:20Speaker 13: So but I think I just I'm struggling to see
- 59:23Speaker 13: how Miami even scores. So I think it could be
- 59:26Speaker 13: like a twenty four to seven kind of game where
- 59:30Speaker 13: Indiana is in control but Mendoz is not, you know,
- 59:34Speaker 13: throwing for a thousand yards or they're breaking you know,
- 59:38Speaker 13: if I'm Miami. I'm looking at film of when Indiana
- 59:41Speaker 13: played Iowa where I would just really muddied it up,
- 59:44Speaker 13: and I don't think either team scored twenty points. But eventually,
- 59:49Speaker 13: I you, like they always do, you know, broke a
- 59:51Speaker 13: big play and set up the game winning field goal,
- 59:53Speaker 13: and I think that'll probably happen at some point.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Dantin Moore coming back. Do you think that's the right
- 59:59Speaker 1: to say. I think it's the right decision. I just
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: I never did I think, Wow, that guy's screamed. I mean,
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: he didn't look as good as cam Ward or any
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: guys that have come out the last couple of years
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: and been near the top of the draft. But a
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: week quarterback class, just a quick thought on Dante more
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: coming back. Right decision.
- 1:00:13Speaker 13: Yeah, I think that was a smart decision, especially coming
- 1:00:16Speaker 13: off that nightmare game the other day. I just think
- 1:00:19Speaker 13: another year. Remember he's only in a third year of college,
- 1:00:21Speaker 13: so another year to develop, to put more good tape
- 1:00:25Speaker 13: out there. I'm sure if he had turned probably he
- 1:00:27Speaker 13: would have been drafted high. But you want to be
- 1:00:30Speaker 13: able to be developed enough to succeed once you get there.
- 1:00:34Speaker 14: Right.
- 1:00:34Speaker 13: The money's nice, but you don't want to be playing
- 1:00:36Speaker 13: out of the league in three years. So yeah, I
- 1:00:39Speaker 13: think it's the right decision and obviously huge for Organ.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: I think it's a cam Ward plant. I mean, you know,
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: we watched you and I talked about it a couple
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: of years ago. I mean we watched cam Ward for
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: two years at Wazoo, and good quarterback, solid quarterback. Never
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: once did I sit there and think watching him play
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: for Wazoo. You know, God, this guy's this guy's a
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: top five pick, much less number one overall. He he
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: goes to Miami and takes that next step in his
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: career is number one and looked pretty good at times
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: this year in the NFL. It's just it's the right
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: It's kind of the cam Ward plan B quarterbacks needed.
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: I love the fact that kids coming back. I know
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: Husky fans and others don't like it because Oregon obviously
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: we'll be talking about them next week when we wrap
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: up the season. That probably puts him right back near
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: the top of the preseason rankings one more time. But
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: in the meantime Stu dan Lanning.
- 1:01:23Speaker 13: By the way, Dan Lanning has a history of this,
- 1:01:25Speaker 13: you know, he he he and his staff what they
- 1:01:28Speaker 13: did with Bonix, Like nobody would have said when Bonix
- 1:01:30Speaker 13: got to Oregon, the no starting quarterbacks in the Timver
- 1:01:34Speaker 13: broncos No and Dylan Gabriel. Dylan Gabriel too. Dylan Gabriel
- 1:01:39Speaker 13: wanted to turn pro and quickly realized he wasn't going
- 1:01:41Speaker 13: to get drafted, so he played that year at Oregon
- 1:01:44Speaker 13: and did get drafted. And was at least at one
- 1:01:46Speaker 13: point a starter this year, and he.
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: Was a Day two draft, which means he made some
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: money and which I guess Antaey Moore will make some
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: money next year for sure. Down in Eugene, Stewart, tell
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: me about the Audible podcast. What you got going on.
- 1:01:57Speaker 3: There the Audible.
- 1:01:59Speaker 13: We'll have another episode on Thursday, and then there'll be
- 1:02:02Speaker 13: an extra one down. I'm not going to a championship
- 1:02:04Speaker 13: for Bruce and ralphar they'll they'll have an episode from
- 1:02:07Speaker 13: there and then we'll be back live after the championship
- 1:02:10Speaker 13: game on Monday night.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: You guys do a great job. Check out the Audible
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: where we get your podcast. Those guys, those three guys
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: do a terrific job. I love listening to it, love
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: reading Stuart stuff on the Athletic Theathletic dot com as well.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: We'll put a rap in a bowl on the season.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: It's been fun having you on this year. Stud. We'll
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: put a bowl on it next week. Talk the end
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: of college football National Championship. After math'll look ahead into
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth season. We'll do that next next
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: week to wrap things up, my friend, Thank you.
- 1:02:34Speaker 13: All right, I look forward to it. Thanks guys.
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: That is Stuart Mandel from The Athletic in the edible
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- 1:03:05Speaker 5: Now here's the end.
- 1:03:08Speaker 15: I feel the expectation is get to.
- 1:03:11Speaker 6: The super Bowl or bust.
- 1:03:14Speaker 16: The reason being that's what we're conditioned to think.
- 1:03:17Speaker 15: With the number one seed, two home games, we are
- 1:03:20Speaker 15: going to the.
- 1:03:21Speaker 16: Super Bowl year two of Mike McDonald's all.
- 1:03:24Speaker 6: This is great.
- 1:03:26Speaker 16: Now. If they're in the same position as they are
- 1:03:28Speaker 16: right now next year, then I think we should be
- 1:03:31Speaker 16: having this conversation that if they don't win against the
- 1:03:35Speaker 16: forty nine ers, this year's a bust. Right year two
- 1:03:38Speaker 16: of Mike McDonald's regime, this is all gravy.
- 1:03:41Speaker 14: I wish I could feel the same as Andreers and
- 1:03:43Speaker 14: Jess but with this offense, I am satisfied with the
- 1:03:50Speaker 14: one seed. Sure, I'd love to win the Super Bowl,
- 1:03:53Speaker 14: but I took the under eight and a half because
- 1:03:55Speaker 14: this offense is just not that good. And twenty five
- 1:03:59Speaker 14: days until pitchers and catchers report, and before someone starts texting,
- 1:04:06Speaker 14: and that we have a record number of points and
- 1:04:11Speaker 14: we average twenty eight points a game. Those are both true,
- 1:04:15Speaker 14: but I believe it's eleven of those games we play
- 1:04:19Speaker 14: teams that give up more than twenty one points a game.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: Don't be bothering me with your stats. They they don't
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: fit my narrative. All right, Welcome back in ninety three
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: point three KJFM, me in Frona's with you. We'll get
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: we get some more talkbacks, we'll get to we get
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: a bunch of text as well. We'll get to those
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: in a second before we do that again. If you're
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: just tuning in right now. We had an interesting half
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: hour between about one twenty five till two, a little
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: bit of a scramble, a little scrambled. We found out
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: that Sam Darnold is now on the injury report Listen
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: is questionable with an oblique injury. He spoke to the media,
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: which is always a good sign. I can tell you this.
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: They don't put guys in the podium that are really hurt.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: That just it's a seahawk thing and it has been
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. Probably goes back to their
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: old PR guy, Gary Wright. So the fact he spoke
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: is a good sign, really good sign. He said he
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: expects to play on Saturday. It's still not ideal, like
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: it's whatever it is that caused him to miss some
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: of practice today and be limited is still not great.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: But he is listed as questionable limited today with an
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: oblique but he said himself he expects to play. Josh
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: Jones is out. Carlos Arroyo also is out. They had
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: to add those guys, he and Chas Surat to the
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: injury list because they have their practice window I guess
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: open for the forty nine ers. They have Fred Warner
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: now listed as out. He will not be suited up
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: coming back off of that broken ankle this weekend. Ricky
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: Piersall is the other big name right now that they're
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: wondering about. He is listed as questionable, as is the Winters,
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: who actually is a part of what they do defensively
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: listened as questionable as well, so there you go. That's
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: your update. Let a couple more to voice talk tuckbacks.
- 1:06:03Speaker 17: I think that this next game is a must win
- 1:06:05Speaker 17: against the forty nine ers, and after that it depends
- 1:06:09Speaker 17: on who we play in the championship game. If we
- 1:06:11Speaker 17: play the Bears in the championship game, I think that's
- 1:06:13Speaker 17: a must win as well, because I think they're a
- 1:06:15Speaker 17: lesser opponent. If we play the Rams in the championship
- 1:06:18Speaker 17: game and lose, I will definitely not feel as bad.
- 1:06:20Speaker 17: I don't think it will be a or bust situation
- 1:06:23Speaker 17: because the Rams are good there.
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: We have split the series with them this year. That's
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: you know, that's a really good team. I still hate them.
- 1:06:32Speaker 18: Hey, Ian jess Anders, this is Greg and Graham a
- 1:06:36Speaker 18: long time no talk. It will definitely be a disappointment
- 1:06:39Speaker 18: if they don't make the super Bowl, just because that
- 1:06:41Speaker 18: is the franchise standard number one seed you go to
- 1:06:45Speaker 18: the super Bowl. It will just be disappointed if we
- 1:06:48Speaker 18: lose a home playoff game.
- 1:06:50Speaker 6: So all of that, Yeah, it's super Bowl or bust
- 1:06:54Speaker 6: for sure. Okay, guys, take care either.
- 1:06:57Speaker 15: Ian Justmann unders for some Gerion, so it's not as
- 1:07:00Speaker 15: necessarily super Bowl or bust in my opinion for the Seahawks,
- 1:07:03Speaker 15: we're coming off of the greatest season in franchise history
- 1:07:08Speaker 15: and we're building from that in only Mike McDonald's second
- 1:07:13Speaker 15: year as head coach.
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: So if you lose to the forty nine.
- 1:07:17Speaker 15: Ers, absolute bust. But let's say it's the Bears. Okay,
- 1:07:21Speaker 15: bust because they're paper tigers. But if we lose to
- 1:07:24Speaker 15: the Rams and the championship, I get.
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: That based on just the conversation we had listen to
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: MV earlier at Super Bowl or busts. Yeah, I think
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: expectations change depending on what happens, assuming the Seahawks wins Saturday,
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: which I'm assuming, ye, depending what happens with the Bears
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: and the Rams. But yeah, I'm just still just trying
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: to wrap my head. I just wonder if there's a
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: little bit of gamesmanship going on. I mean, I know
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: we missed. I mean the whole Fred Warner circus this
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: week was silly, wasn't gonna play practice now Ever, practiced
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: yesterday a little bit and you know, next thing, you know,
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: it's like, oh, come on, man.
- 1:08:07Speaker 9: But.
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: Like, what's a little old leiaque. Since I don't have
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: a little oblique I got a big o'bliaque. What's a
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: little oblique.
- 1:08:14Speaker 4: He's got an oblique, he carol, Ease, there's different sections
- 1:08:17Speaker 4: of it, so it's just one little He.
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: Would just say he's got a little something going on
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: down there.
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, He's just got a little something.
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: A knee. Yeah, that our guy, Chuck Knox, Chuck, what's
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: wrong with him? He's got a knee? Well, but I
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: thought I saw Warner carted off on it on a stretcher.
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's an ecl tear. He's basically his
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: career has changed. He's got a knee. Okay, things gotta
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: love you Chuck knocks, all right.
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: I love what Greg and Graham said though, because every
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: year the Seahawks have been the one seed, they've gone
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. So that's I think another thing
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: to add to the go to the super Bowl US Pope,
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: great point everything.
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: I'm serious.
- 1:08:55Speaker 5: It's true.
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: Every time we've gotten a new pope is the year
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: the Seahawks go to the super Bowl.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: You guys are I'm telling you right now, don't go
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: down that road because because the new pope he's from Chicago.
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: I know, you really think that's gonna help. If it's
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: Seattle and the Bears. Do you think that's gonna be? Okay?
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: The Chicago Pope.
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: He's gonna patrol in the super Bowl.
- 1:09:14Speaker 19: Well, then don't bring up the Pope. If you want
- 1:09:18Speaker 19: to bring up the Pope, if you want to bring
- 1:09:19Speaker 19: up I'm telling you the Pope. He ain't the Bush
- 1:09:22Speaker 19: come to shove this pulpe and a Seahawks fan.
- 1:09:24Speaker 5: No he's not.
- 1:09:25Speaker 6: He's not.
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: I mean he's got enough issues because I think isn't
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: he a white Sox fan?
- 1:09:29Speaker 5: Yes?
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: Yes he is, God helping holidays.
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: I didn't mean to use the Lord's name in vain there.
- 1:09:34Speaker 3: But yeah, that's perfect.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: Come on.
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: Also, I don't get I understand the Rams are good
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: and we lost them earlier this year. I still think
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: the Bears are really good too. And if I don't
- 1:09:48Speaker 2: feel any differently, if the Seahawks face the Bears versus
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: if the Seahawks face the Rams in the next next.
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: Round, all right, all right, take a break, come back
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: soft he's next.
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- 1:10:22Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously you know just and routes on air, just
- 1:10:27Speaker 10: kind of felt a little little something of bleak.
- 1:10:30Speaker 11: Just didn't want to push it. Uh you know, it
- 1:10:33Speaker 11: wasn't the day to push it.
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: So that was that was it.
- 1:10:36Speaker 10: So just came inside. I got some rehab and you know,
- 1:10:40Speaker 10: feel like I'll be ready to.
- 1:10:40Speaker 11: Go for Saturday.
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: That was just today, that happened.
- 1:10:43Speaker 11: Yeah, you ever had anything pleeak issues or anything.
- 1:10:47Speaker 10: No, No, never had oblique issues. But it's fun. You know,
- 1:10:50Speaker 10: we'll attack it the next couple of days and be
- 1:10:52Speaker 10: ready to go for Saturday.
- 1:10:53Speaker 11: This sounding like brilliant side.
- 1:10:55Speaker 10: You don't feel I'm saying it's just on my left side.
- 1:10:59Speaker 10: You know, it is what it is.
- 1:11:01Speaker 11: But yeah, again, like I said, Cultson on the throw,
- 1:11:03Speaker 11: But you know, I'll be ready to go.
- 1:11:07Speaker 9: You think you might not play.
- 1:11:09Speaker 10: Uh, very low center, probably closer to zero.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: There you go. Sam Donald about an hour ago, speaking
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: of the media, questionable oblique, What the hell is going
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: on to? All right, we can all take a deep breath, relax,
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: and we move on. All is good in the Seahawks world. Hello, Dave,
- 1:11:26Speaker 1: how are you?
- 1:11:27Speaker 5: I'm good.
- 1:11:27Speaker 20: I'm glad that you and I can be here to
- 1:11:29Speaker 20: talk about the big news coming out of Seattle. Brandon
- 1:11:32Speaker 20: Montour back baby tonight. That's bruins. How about what's going on?
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: I didn't know Donnie's back, Jake jacob bonsa got sent down,
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: people are in an uproar, and Sam Donald's got a
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: battle bleak. Have you ever had a battle bleak?
- 1:11:46Speaker 5: I've I've I've bruised my ribs before.
- 1:11:49Speaker 20: I don't know if that counts as an open but
- 1:11:52Speaker 20: I have bruised my ribs. I bruised my ribs water
- 1:11:54Speaker 20: skiing on Lake Washington about twenty years ago, bouncing up
- 1:11:58Speaker 20: and down, which is really ridiculous because twenty years ago
- 1:12:00Speaker 20: I was fat as a house and had about eighty
- 1:12:03Speaker 20: five pounds of padding.
- 1:12:04Speaker 5: Around my rib kit.
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: Yeah, houch, you get hurt.
- 1:12:06Speaker 20: I don't know, dude, I don't know. There's a choppy
- 1:12:08Speaker 20: day on Lake Washington, but that'd bean. Bruising your rib
- 1:12:11Speaker 20: sucks because every time you breathe, you can feel it.
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: It's freaking terrible. You have homegroun on today, right, we do. Yes,
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: do you have is Hugh coming on it all?
- 1:12:20Speaker 20: He was gonna come on at three oh five and
- 1:12:21Speaker 20: we'll get his thoughts on it. From a quarterbacks perspective,
- 1:12:24Speaker 20: There's there's two things that actually make me feel pretty
- 1:12:26Speaker 20: good about this whole thing.
- 1:12:27Speaker 5: Yes, Number one, the.
- 1:12:28Speaker 20: Fact that it's his left side, not his right side right,
- 1:12:31Speaker 20: which is which is his throwing where I guess where
- 1:12:32Speaker 20: his power would come from would be his right side.
- 1:12:35Speaker 20: And then number two, the fact that he actually spoke
- 1:12:36Speaker 20: to the media. I mean, there's a there was a
- 1:12:39Speaker 20: guy a couple of years ago.
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: I don't god.
- 1:12:41Speaker 20: Darn it remember who it was, but he's hurt and
- 1:12:43Speaker 20: he went out there. I mean it may have been
- 1:12:44Speaker 20: a Mariner player. Actually, I remember just thinking, Okay, if
- 1:12:47Speaker 20: that guy was really in trouble, there's no way he's
- 1:12:49Speaker 20: addressing the media at number one, because number two, he'd
- 1:12:52Speaker 20: be in the training room right with forty eight hours
- 1:12:54Speaker 20: to go until kickoff on Saturday, getting as much treatment
- 1:12:57Speaker 20: as he can on that thing before the game. But
- 1:13:00Speaker 20: the fact that Darnold actually addressed the media today, man,
- 1:13:03Speaker 20: I mean, I don't know. I'm not saying it's a
- 1:13:05Speaker 20: it's a zero I'm not saying it's a nothing burger,
- 1:13:08Speaker 20: but I feel pretty damn good about Darnald playing in
- 1:13:10Speaker 20: the game on Saturday and playing well by the way.
- 1:13:13Speaker 20: I mean, I know there's concerned about how much he
- 1:13:15Speaker 20: can get in this deep ball, right how much juice
- 1:13:17Speaker 20: does he have on those you know, post routes and
- 1:13:20Speaker 20: sideline routes and things like that.
- 1:13:21Speaker 5: But I don't know.
- 1:13:22Speaker 20: I mean, I first heard the news on your show. Actually, man,
- 1:13:25Speaker 20: how about that breaking news on the in for show?
- 1:13:27Speaker 20: And I was like what, I just doubt out what
- 1:13:31Speaker 20: in my car because this came out of nowhere? And
- 1:13:33Speaker 20: then I and then I heard you say to Jess
- 1:13:36Speaker 20: Sam Donald spoke today.
- 1:13:37Speaker 5: We're gonna have the audio.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: It's like, okay, what, Yeah, Well, if you've been you've
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: covered this thing, you've been out there a zillion years
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: like I have. Uh. You know that they do their
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: pr staffit. They do a phenomenal job, Jeff and Dave
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: and Rich. They're really good. They do a great job.
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: The one thing that they have been consistent with and
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: this goes back to the nineties when I was at
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: Cold One with Bruce King and that was Gary Wright
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: running the show and Pearson was his was his assistant.
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: They don't let guys who were hurt talk ever, So
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: to me, as soon as he's on the podium, I'm like, okay,
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: I'm taking a deep breath. And then you hear him
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: say yeah, becausezero, we're airing on the side of caution.
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: I'm curious from Hugh though, Dave, this is the weird
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: part about it for me. Have you seen the great
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: belt video?
- 1:14:24Speaker 5: Yeah, he was doing his right side with them.
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: Is like top of his right shoulder with the thearra
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: gun and then he's.
- 1:14:30Speaker 5: Having a little bit of a sore shoulder too. I mean,
- 1:14:32Speaker 5: it's James, this is a team forgot.
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: Telling you right now. This is a full Hugh Millin
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: bought football in a wind tunnel breakdown of how the
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: Because I heard.
- 1:14:41Speaker 20: You say on your show today, I don't remember what
- 1:14:43Speaker 20: the topic was, but you're like, what does it mean?
- 1:14:45Speaker 20: What does it mean when the guy's walking off the
- 1:14:49Speaker 20: field on the Thursday before a playoff?
- 1:14:52Speaker 5: Got a massage? Guys right shoulder?
- 1:14:54Speaker 20: Dude, here's the thing, man, Uh, these guys are all
- 1:14:57Speaker 20: nicked up, right, They're all nick right, They're all getting massages,
- 1:14:59Speaker 20: they're all getting cold tubs they're all in the hot tub,
- 1:15:01Speaker 20: They're all using the massage gun. I mean, hell, I'm
- 1:15:04Speaker 20: fifty two years old. I am not an athlete by
- 1:15:06Speaker 20: any stretch of the imagination. I've got three massage guns
- 1:15:09Speaker 20: at home, three of them, okay, that I use all
- 1:15:11Speaker 20: the time on my ass, my hammy, my quads, my glutes,
- 1:15:14Speaker 20: the whole freaking thing.
- 1:15:15Speaker 5: Man.
- 1:15:15Speaker 20: So those guys are constantly using things like that. And
- 1:15:19Speaker 20: if this, if this report hadn't come out, if Sam
- 1:15:23Speaker 20: Sam Darnold had not been added to the injury report
- 1:15:26Speaker 20: with a oblique injury, nobody's saying buppkus about him using
- 1:15:29Speaker 20: a thera gun on his shoulder.
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: No, nobody, exactly, exactly nobody. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: the guy to tell people to calm down. But calm down, people,
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: calm down, get a hold of yourself. Okay, be honest
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: with you. Nothing to see here, Be honest with me.
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: When when Cord and I Cord and I first started talking,
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: and in the conversation he said that what happened, you.
- 1:15:49Speaker 5: Know what happened?
- 1:15:50Speaker 20: I actually tuned in right in the middle of Corbin
- 1:15:53Speaker 20: talking about if Drew Lock plays, I'm.
- 1:15:55Speaker 5: Like, what what the hell are you talking about it.
- 1:15:58Speaker 5: Drew lock plays just not happened.
- 1:16:00Speaker 20: And then I looked it up and I saw that
- 1:16:01Speaker 20: he over and added to the injury updates. So yeah,
- 1:16:05Speaker 20: that that that that actually is the first that I
- 1:16:07Speaker 20: found out when I heard Corbyn talking about Shanahan and
- 1:16:10Speaker 20: Sawid dropping safeties down because I'm not worried about the
- 1:16:12Speaker 20: deep ball because two locks.
- 1:16:14Speaker 5: Playing, I'm like, what did this? Something?
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: The Hell's going on here? Drew locks Playing, You're like, well,
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: and here's the problem. Drew Lox slipped on the turf
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: today and his Jalen Milroe will be.
- 1:16:25Speaker 5: You know what if that happened, I take the Niners
- 1:16:26Speaker 5: and the Points.
- 1:16:27Speaker 20: By the way, the Hawks actually maybe underdogs at that point,
- 1:16:30Speaker 20: I think the Niners would be favored.
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: Ends up story.
- 1:16:33Speaker 20: Lord, all right, so you got Millan and holding on today,
- 1:16:35Speaker 20: we got Miller, we got Steve mary Ucci from the
- 1:16:37Speaker 20: NFL network night Jo.
- 1:16:39Speaker 5: Said, well, Holme, Grin is gonna be here for.
- 1:16:41Speaker 20: A couple of segments before we get to cracking ruins
- 1:16:44Speaker 20: pregame four thirty from the five twenty bar and grills.
- 1:16:46Speaker 5: So a lot of oblique talk, a lot of muscle talk.
- 1:16:49Speaker 1: With home run two years ago, Homegrod at one point
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: told me Esped told the same thing. We never even
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: had obleaks back.
- 1:16:57Speaker 5: Then, exactly. Yeah, he's getting back a thing until like
- 1:17:01Speaker 5: four years ago. Alright, for the mild mannered and marginally
- 1:17:07Speaker 5: objectionable Inverness this paddle day saying so long everyone,