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Chuck & Buck Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, MacDonald's postgame thoughts and gearing up for tonight's National Championship. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: A ticket to the NFC Championship on the line between
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Speaker 1: these two.
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Speaker 2: NFC West rivals, and we are underway in Seattle.
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Speaker 3: Rashid Shaheed drifting.
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Speaker 2: Gears right, He'll feel the kickoff.
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Speaker 3: Of the four shady to the fifteen, across.
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Speaker 2: The twenty gears left to a twenty five, A whole,
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Speaker 2: the thirty step two a tackle, the thirty stumbles across midfield, down.
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Speaker 3: The right sideline in the thirty shay heyes, you're twenty.
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Speaker 3: He's all the way home. A Seattle touchdown on the
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Speaker 3: opening kickoff.
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Speaker 2: Six nothing Seahawks. Is that good?
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you can do that, every game might help.
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Speaker 2: Uh, just another gem from John Schneider this past couple
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Speaker 2: of years. My goodness, Pete really was the problem.
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Speaker 5: Oh what's sad?
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Speaker 2: It's Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you. Good Monday morning
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Speaker 2: to you. We're headed the NFC Conference Championship game. With
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Speaker 2: about as much momentum as a football team could have.
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Speaker 2: Forty one to six, the Seahawks stomped Division rival San
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Speaker 2: Francisco on Saturday night, punching their ticket to the final
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Speaker 2: four in the National Football League. Just one went away,
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Speaker 2: and you get to play that game at home from
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl from returning to the Super Bowl. Goodness,
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Speaker 2: good to be with you, Happy Martin Luther King day.
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Speaker 2: Of course, much respect to the great Martin Luther King
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Speaker 2: here on this Monday. But we are doing some live
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Speaker 2: radio programming that includes our experts. Greg Bell is going
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Speaker 2: to join us here in two minutes. Hugh Mellen will
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Speaker 2: be with us at eight o'clock. Mike holmgan at nine o'clock.
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Speaker 2: So we welcome you to this frost Brewed Course Light
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Speaker 2: Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to all sorts of
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Speaker 2: special little nuggets throughout the course of our broadcast day
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Speaker 2: here at KJR. But let me first get to your
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Speaker 2: Frostbrewed Corps Light Choose Chill headlines. We do just course,
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Speaker 2: start with forty one to six Seahawks over forty nine Ers.
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Speaker 2: The Rams won yesterday twenty to seventeen over the Chicago
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Speaker 2: Bears in overtime. So the Seahawks will host the Rams
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Speaker 2: for the NFC title Sunday at three point thirty right
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Speaker 2: here in Seattle. A couple of injuries that Greg will
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Speaker 2: update us on to Zach Charbonnay and Charles Cross and
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Speaker 2: Saturday's game. It's about the only thing that did go
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Speaker 2: wrong for the Hawks. The AFC Championship Game will be
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Speaker 2: played at noon on Sunday. It'll be in Denver, the
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Speaker 2: Broncos hosting the New England Patriots, who defeated the Texans
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Speaker 2: yesterday twenty eight to sixteen. The Broncos survived in overtime
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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills thirty three to thirty, but lost starting
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Speaker 2: quarterback Bo Nicks for the rest of the playoffs. It'll
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Speaker 2: be Jared Stidham starting for Denver in the AFC Championship
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Speaker 2: Game this Sunday. Speaking of championship games, the college football
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Speaker 2: National Title Game will be played tonight in Miami. I
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Speaker 2: mean featuring Miami. That's right. A home game for the
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Speaker 2: Hurricane says. They will welcome the Indiana Hoosiers to South Beach,
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Speaker 2: Indiana more than a touchdown favorite. That thing will kick
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Speaker 2: off at four thirty. College basketball, you dub crushed by
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Speaker 2: Michigan State on Saturday. They'll take on Nebraska this Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: At Nebraska. They're undefeated and a top five team in
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Speaker 2: college basketball this year. That's right. Nebraska Basketball Kracking are
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Speaker 2: taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins today at two o'clock. Right
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Speaker 2: here on KJAR it is Martin Luther King Day and
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Speaker 2: of course the NHL and the NBA. Full slate of
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Speaker 2: games all day long for the NBA. They will start
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Speaker 2: at ten am this morning, the Bucks at the Atlanta
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Speaker 2: Hawks to get them started. And the coverage is on NBC.
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Speaker 2: We're used to it being on TNT. New television deal.
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Speaker 2: It's all on NBC here on Martin Luther King Day
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Speaker 2: and breaking news here this morning. The Buffalo Bills have
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Speaker 2: in fact fired Sean McDermott. They just can't get over
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Speaker 2: the hump. They can't get to the super Bowl with
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Speaker 2: Josh Allen as their quarterback, and so Sean McDermott pays
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Speaker 2: the price. He has been fired today by the Buffalo Bills.
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Speaker 2: Their search for a new head coach begins immediately. All right,
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Speaker 2: let's talk to Greg Bell right now.
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Speaker 1: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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Speaker 1: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell, brought to
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Speaker 1: Here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Budd.
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Speaker 2: Well, good morning, Greg, Good morning.
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Speaker 5: That was a beatdown.
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Speaker 2: How about that? I mean, what on earth did we
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Speaker 2: just watch on Saturday night?
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Speaker 5: Greg? You watched Mike McDonald for one owning Kyle Shanahan,
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Speaker 5: I mean, modified own job now for two games in
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Speaker 5: a row, and the Seahawks just have the horses. The
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Speaker 5: forty nine ers don't obviously, but especially on defense, they're
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Speaker 5: just fastly superior. We talked the beginning of the season
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Speaker 5: talk when they hired him. They talked to those who
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Speaker 5: hired him, said that Mike McDonald was here for two reasons,
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Speaker 5: one to beat Kyle Shanahan and one to beat sn McGray.
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Speaker 5: And he beat soundly, out coached and beat Kyle Shanahan
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Speaker 5: twice with the season in the division online, and now
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Speaker 5: he's gonna have to beat Sean McGrady to get to
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Speaker 5: the super Bowl. But they have not played better all
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Speaker 5: year obviously than they're playing right now. No, two games
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Speaker 5: are the same, yes, and that more true again on
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Speaker 5: Sunday Saturday, and it'll be the same on Sunday. We've
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Speaker 5: seen the Rams twice at the Seahawks and the narrow
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Speaker 5: games and wild finishes, and I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 5: close again, obviously, but it'll be different. It'll be different
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Speaker 5: because Mike McDonald is so good at adjustments. He knows,
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Speaker 5: he's already been in the film that the Rams put
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Speaker 5: forty one and thirty seven points up on him in
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Speaker 5: his team. And that's where they're squarely in today at
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Speaker 5: Seahawks headquarters. Gee.
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Speaker 6: I mean, the team played as well as they've played
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Speaker 6: all year, I mean in that game, and hence the
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Speaker 6: reason that you win by thirty five against the division foe.
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Speaker 6: How the run game ken Walker got loose? I mean
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Speaker 6: a lot of the runs. It wasn't like he you know,
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Speaker 6: got to the one hundred and sixteen yards that he
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Speaker 6: accumulated with one or two big runs. It was just
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Speaker 6: every run was a pretty good run. And so is
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Speaker 6: there something going on with that outside zone blocking that
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Speaker 6: he's picked up on or the blockers picking up on
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Speaker 6: or is it just that you were going against a
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Speaker 6: you know, a depleted San Francisco front seven.
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, no Fred Wonder and no Nick Bosa. To
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Speaker 5: all pros in your front seven that will chase things,
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Speaker 5: but they are doing more outside zones. Darading was the
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Speaker 5: Carolina game, they did more outside zone. They were po
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Speaker 5: pirie a little bit of run throughout the season, and
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Speaker 5: now they've gone out to the tackles and a lot
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Speaker 5: of stretch plays. The reason that Walker obviously benefited is
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Speaker 5: that Zach Charbon had got hurt early in the game
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Speaker 5: and so all the substitutions on third down and two
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Speaker 5: minute drill and none of that. Walker got all those
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Speaker 5: carries that he wasn't getting earlier in the year and
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Speaker 5: all those snaps, and so he had he was the
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Speaker 5: lone guy. I mean, Dallas Jones was number three back
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Speaker 5: and they weren't going to trust him until it got
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Speaker 5: to be a blowout. So that's why it worked for Walker.
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Speaker 5: He finally got what he's wanting you and wishing he
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Speaker 5: would have had all season, which is the lead, undisputed
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Speaker 5: number one running back role. And wow for him personally,
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Speaker 5: what timing. He tied the Seahawk record as he and
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Speaker 5: Sean Alexander from twenty fourteen in Green Bay to Ford
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Speaker 5: in Green Bay are the only two Seak running backs
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Speaker 5: this score three touchdowns in a playoff game. He made
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Speaker 5: money on Sunday night, Saturday night, whether it's from Seattle
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Speaker 5: or anybody else. And it's the first time this year
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Speaker 5: that he had sole possession of a lead role, without
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Speaker 5: any job share at all, and you saw what happened.
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Speaker 5: I mean, when he goes in and his agent go
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Speaker 5: in in the offseason to talk whether the Seahawks want
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Speaker 5: to re up him or not, they'll turn the agent
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Speaker 5: will turn on the tape a Saturday Night's game and say, see,
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Speaker 5: you finally gave him the lead role, and there is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you haven't watched football in a while, even
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Speaker 2: though you're a football fan and you understand the game,
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Speaker 2: but for whatever reason, you were deprived of watching, and
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Speaker 2: this was the first game that you've watched in a
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Speaker 2: few years, you would have swore, when did the Seahawks
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Speaker 2: get the best running back in the National Football League.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's how good he looked on Saturday night,
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Speaker 2: no question about. I also want to point out somebody else,
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Speaker 2: since we're going to highlight an individual person and we've
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Speaker 2: got other things to get to. Obviously, there's so much
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Speaker 2: to discuss, but the defense and the way that it
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Speaker 2: set the tone, and we always mentioned Leonard Williams, but
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Speaker 2: I don't know if we've ever in our conversations focused
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Speaker 2: enough on him, what kind of leader is, what kind
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Speaker 2: of just dominant player he is, How he buys into
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Speaker 2: what Mike McDonald, I mean, how he bought in immediately
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Speaker 2: to what Mike McDonald was trying to teach, how he's
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Speaker 2: bought in immediately to thinking how good a job John
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Speaker 2: Schneider has done, how he's thanked them for bringing him
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Speaker 2: to Seattle to talk about just Leonard Williams and his
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Speaker 2: impact on this team, this roster, this organization.
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Speaker 5: Well he's what Chuck one of the guys who made
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Speaker 5: sure all the veterans came to the voluntary OTA Bennie
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Speaker 5: Campson meetings back in April, and periodically Mike McDonald brings
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Speaker 5: up how big of a deal that was throughout the season.
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Speaker 5: He said that really laid the groundwork this brotherhood. Leonard
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Speaker 5: Williams and de Marcus Lawrence and really everybody but especially
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Speaker 5: the older veterans talk about Jaron Reid. It started there
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Speaker 5: and Williams was the head HAUNCHSS and we're showing up.
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Speaker 5: This is what we're trying to build, and that kind
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Speaker 5: of stuff shows up on the field, This brotherhood shows up,
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Speaker 5: and it's not just this nebulous intangible that makes them
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Speaker 5: happy to go to work and food trucks when they
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Speaker 5: went on Monday and all that. It's more than that.
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Speaker 5: It actually translates to winning on the field. And in
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Speaker 5: Leonard Williams's case, they asked him. I noticed this on
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Speaker 5: the fourth down play in the third court. It was
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Speaker 5: twenty four to six Seahawks. The forty nine ers had
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Speaker 5: just come out of halftime. They had the ball for
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Speaker 5: the first drive of the second half because they won
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Speaker 5: the coin toss and deferred, and this was their chance
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Speaker 5: to get back in the game. Shanna had had done
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Speaker 5: his halftime adjustments. The Niners were finally moving. They were
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Speaker 5: at the forty four yard line. It's fourth and two,
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Speaker 5: and of course he's going for it, try to get
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Speaker 5: back in the game. But this is their chance to
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Speaker 5: get back in it. And on fourth and two, Leonard
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Speaker 5: Williams took a direct rush route you often see X
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Speaker 5: game Siames across his loops outside spence swim moves. He
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Speaker 5: just went straight like a dog that found me lying
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Speaker 5: on his doorstep when the door opened, the front door
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Speaker 5: opened in the morning. He went straight for it. And
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Speaker 5: it was really noticeable to me from the press box.
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Speaker 5: How a direct route it was because Purdy is the guy,
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Speaker 5: as we know, who gets outside and escapes, and for
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Speaker 5: him to know that Perdy would be right in the
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Speaker 5: middle of the pocket. I asked him, Leonard Williams after
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Speaker 5: the game, why did you do that? You went a
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Speaker 5: direct route as if you knew Purdy was going to
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Speaker 5: be standing in the middle of the pocket for you
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Speaker 5: to sack for fourteen yard loss to basically end the game.
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Speaker 5: And he said, you know what, Gray's Abel did that
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Speaker 5: for me. I credit the rookie Gray's Abel for that.
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Speaker 5: He's been talking to me since spring about his Leoner
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Speaker 5: Williams's pass rush moves. And here's a rookie that was
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Speaker 5: at North Dakota State last year who had at the
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Speaker 5: time zero NFL games. He told an eleven year vet,
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Speaker 5: a three time pro bowler, Hey, when you're the center
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Speaker 5: slides to you a lot too, because when you run
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Speaker 5: inside pass rush, the center slides to pick you up
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Speaker 5: all the time. And you're running these outside moves and
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Speaker 5: inside moves and slants, and that's given the center time
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Speaker 5: to slide over and pick you up. Go straight up
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Speaker 5: field like a dead spread, and that center will never
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Speaker 5: catch you. And Williams said that Grizabel and he revisited
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Speaker 5: that at halftime on Saturday night, and so the whole
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Speaker 5: first drive of the second half, Williams was just be
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Speaker 5: line straight rushing, drop your shoulder and go straight past
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Speaker 5: the guard, and he did that on the fourth down.
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Speaker 5: There aren't a lot of teams, there aren't a lot
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Speaker 5: of guys Grey's Abel that a rookie on an offensive
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Speaker 5: line would tell an eleven year vet on a defensive
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Speaker 5: line what to do in pass rush and then remind
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Speaker 5: them of it during the game of the playoff game.
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Speaker 5: That's how close they are. That greys Abel found Leonard
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Speaker 5: Williams approachable, and Leonard Williams found Gray's Abel with somebody
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Speaker 5: he should listen to a years old. So that's an
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Speaker 5: example of his brotherhood. I wrote about it yesterday the
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Speaker 5: News Tribune because when he said that, I went, ha ha,
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Speaker 5: that's my lead to my follow story. But it's an
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Speaker 5: example of how it's not just this touchy feely we
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Speaker 5: love everybody Kumbai Yai brotherhood. It actually translates on the
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Speaker 5: field to wins. And now they've won fifteen of them.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're playing well and it seems like they are
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Speaker 6: all rolled in the same direction we know around here,
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Speaker 6: like that last Super Bowl run, that legion of Boom
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Speaker 6: was basically kind of where it seemed like most of
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Speaker 6: the attention went, and yet they had an amazing kind
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Speaker 6: of rotation of guys up there pass rushing. Where is
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Speaker 6: the strength or what is the biggest part? Obviously, you
13:43
Speaker 6: want to be able to do both things. You want
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Speaker 6: to be able to stop the run and get after
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Speaker 6: the passer, but you want to be able to cover
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Speaker 6: and defend and tackle even downfield. When you look at
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Speaker 6: this defense, what's the most outstanding part or is it
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Speaker 6: just the unit in general?
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Speaker 5: Fucky, The biggest thing, and we've talked about many times,
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Speaker 5: is that Seattle pressures and effects the quarterbacks with only
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Speaker 5: four pass rushers, allowing him to have seven in coverage.
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Speaker 5: And the math is always in Mike McDonald's favor. Seven
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Speaker 5: against four or five receivers, Seahawks win, and they win
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Speaker 5: because the quarterback doesn't have time to wait for guys
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Speaker 5: to go open. When they have two more defenders, then
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Speaker 5: they have receivers out on routes. That's the simple It's
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Speaker 5: a very simplistic way to describe the Seahawk defense, but
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Speaker 5: that's why they win. He doesn't have to blitz a lot.
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Speaker 5: He changed. He told me in the middle of the season,
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Speaker 5: I'm playing defense a lot differently than I thought I
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Speaker 5: was going to because I don't have to blitz as much.
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Speaker 5: He expected to be sending even Worry and Witherspoon quite
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Speaker 5: a bit out of the secondary on blitzes to get
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Speaker 5: pass rush to get the results he's gotten. And that
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Speaker 5: would have been five defenders to cover pass receivers. But
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Speaker 5: now he's got seven, and he's got the two guys
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Speaker 5: he would have been blitzing as his best cover guys,
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Speaker 5: even Worry and Witherspoon, And oh, by the way, Rick
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Speaker 5: Wolan's playing really well, and Julian Lovesman Pro Bowl say,
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Speaker 5: Kobe Bryant is now back, and the guy that came
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Speaker 5: in for Kobe Bryant, Tito Cotta, has excelled. And oh,
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Speaker 5: by the way, when they guys do catch passes against
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Speaker 5: their defense, they go straight to the ground immediately. It
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Speaker 5: happened again the other night. The whole reason they beat
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Speaker 5: San Francisco and did not hold him to did not
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Speaker 5: allow him a touchdown in two games, was that when
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Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey and all those guys but mainly McCaffrey caught passes,
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Speaker 5: he went straight to the ground and it was no
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Speaker 5: yards after catches. This San Francisco team was one of
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Speaker 5: the most in the league yards after catches and they
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Speaker 5: had almost zero again on Saturday night. Kyle Shanahan has
15:37
Speaker 5: been the coach for San Francisco for nine years. Since
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Speaker 5: twenty seventeen, he's four times in nine years the forty
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Speaker 5: nine Ers have scored seven or fewer points in a game.
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Speaker 5: Two of those four times have happened in the last
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Speaker 5: fourteen days by Mike McDonald and the Seahawks. Over nine years,
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Speaker 5: the defense being able to rush for still stop the run.
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Speaker 5: We've talked about Byron Murphy stopping and he was brilliant
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Speaker 5: again Saturday night doing the same thing doing his turkeys,
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Speaker 5: get up, kettlebell, move off the ground with one knee,
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Speaker 5: and just refusing to be blocked inside. When you have
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Speaker 5: guys doing those things, you don't have to devote extra
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Speaker 5: players like the rest of the NFL does those things
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Speaker 5: get Most teams have to run, blitz or send their
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Speaker 5: outside linebackers or their safeties in the box. They don't
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Speaker 5: do this with five and six defensive backs like McDonald does.
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Speaker 5: But because of Williams and Lawrence and Murphy and what
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Speaker 5: they do up front, he can do anything he wants
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Speaker 5: with the personnel groupings behind him because of how good
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Speaker 5: the front four is. It starts with the run, then
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Speaker 5: stopping the run, and it'll last to again on Sunday
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Speaker 5: against the Rams and Kiran Williams. But man, the math
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Speaker 5: has just been in the favor because the front four
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Speaker 5: dudes are playing like there's a front eight up there.
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Speaker 2: Greg Bell with US Seahawks in Sary, we only got
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Speaker 2: about three minutes that we got a lot of ground
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Speaker 2: to cover. We haven't even talked about Sam Garnold. So
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Speaker 2: take us through the eating of Sam Darnold injury wise,
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Speaker 2: how he felt going in, how he played, and how
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Speaker 2: he came out of that game.
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Speaker 5: Well, we said Friday, there's no way he's throwing the
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Speaker 5: ball from Thursday into the game time. That's what happened.
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Speaker 5: And then two hours an hour and a half before
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Speaker 5: the game, the quarterbacks come out and sweats with the
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Speaker 5: receivers that they always do, and Darnald wasn't out there,
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Speaker 5: and we're all like okay. At the time, though I
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Speaker 5: wrote there's one of two things going on here. They've
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Speaker 5: either waited to they've already decided, already know because he's
17:29
Speaker 5: already tested it, or they are yet to test his
17:33
Speaker 5: league and throwing at the last possible moment, And in fact,
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Speaker 5: he was inside at the same time the lock and
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Speaker 5: mill Roe were outside. He was inside throwing in their
17:42
Speaker 5: locker room. Fans haven't been in there, but the locker
17:45
Speaker 5: room at Bloomenfield for the Seahawks is like a warehouse.
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Speaker 5: It's gigantic, a really nice warehouse, carpeted and everything else,
17:52
Speaker 5: but it's gigantic with high ceilings. You can easily throw
17:55
Speaker 5: passes the twenty yard passes in there easily with the
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Speaker 5: room they have, and that's what he did. So they
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Speaker 5: knew at that time what it was was. They didn't
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Speaker 5: want him to come out there and sweats with Locke
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Speaker 5: and Milroe and test his throat for first time in
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Speaker 5: forty eight hours since he felt the injury, and then
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Speaker 5: if he twined and fell something terrible and the whole
18:13
Speaker 5: world got to see him lamely walk off the field,
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Speaker 5: including the forty nine, and they didn't want it add
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Speaker 5: so they wanted to do it in the privacy of
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Speaker 5: the locker rooms. They did. He threw well enough. I
18:24
Speaker 5: didn't confirm it, and teams and players and everybody, it's
18:28
Speaker 5: like this taboo thing to admit. But I'm pretty sure
18:31
Speaker 5: he got an injection and a painkilling injection. And I'm
18:35
Speaker 5: pretty sure because of his because his first pass, first
18:39
Speaker 5: deep pass. I don't know if you remember, there was
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Speaker 5: a seam route Jackson Smith and Jigbo in the first
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Speaker 5: drive of the game was breaking free twenty plus yards
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Speaker 5: down the field behind the defender, and Darnold tried to
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Speaker 5: hit him, and the ball looked like a four year
18:52
Speaker 5: old thrown a nerf. It rose and then it fell about.
18:56
Speaker 5: It was so far it was behind the defender whose
18:58
Speaker 5: back was to the ball. I mean he missed him
19:00
Speaker 5: by five yards. It was a soft throw that went
19:03
Speaker 5: straight into the ground. And I thought to myself, he
19:07
Speaker 5: can't feel his left side, he can't torque off his throw,
19:11
Speaker 5: and his throws lack everything. Well, that paintell this is
19:15
Speaker 5: me suppositioning, which is dangerous live radio, and that's not
19:18
Speaker 5: what journalistic I should be doing. But that throw was
19:22
Speaker 5: so weak and so short that I think he was
19:24
Speaker 5: still feeling the effects of his pregame injection. And it
19:27
Speaker 5: took him a while for that to kick in, as
19:30
Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan said after the game, and by then, after
19:34
Speaker 5: the immediate effect of it wore off, he could then
19:36
Speaker 5: throw more fluidly, and he looked like he did the
19:39
Speaker 5: rest of the game. The throat, the touchdown pass to
19:41
Speaker 5: Smith and Jigba, you would have never known he was
19:44
Speaker 5: ever hurt. I asked Smith and jigback in the back
19:47
Speaker 5: of the end zone there on the left side, I
19:49
Speaker 5: asked Smith and Jigbab, I mean he zipped that in there?
19:51
Speaker 5: I said, well, you were surprised, as heard as your
19:53
Speaker 5: quarterback was as the zip on that path. He said,
19:56
Speaker 5: I was surprised, not that he the zip. I was
19:59
Speaker 5: surprised he ch to throw it. I wasn't open, and
20:02
Speaker 5: so I asked Donald need to say, Well, I saw
20:05
Speaker 5: the safety was relax coming over and I could tell
20:08
Speaker 5: he couldn't get there if I did throw it. And
20:09
Speaker 5: that's exactly what happened. The flat footed safety couldn't beat
20:12
Speaker 5: the throw. Hey, Donald showed him as if they didn't
20:16
Speaker 5: as if they didn't trust him already. He showed him something.
20:20
Speaker 5: He's first playoff win. What he did to do it? Yeah,
20:26
Speaker 5: the stock went way up in the locker room with
20:28
Speaker 5: Sam Donald on Saturday night.
20:30
Speaker 2: All right, we only got well actually over but thirty
20:32
Speaker 2: seconds Charboney and Cross. Just an update as we sit
20:36
Speaker 2: here on a Monday.
20:38
Speaker 5: Cross seems fine. He was joking in good spirits after
20:41
Speaker 5: the game and said I'm fine. McDonald's labeled it as
20:44
Speaker 5: something of a precaution that they put didn't put it
20:46
Speaker 5: back and he got hurt at the point of the
20:47
Speaker 5: game that it was about thirty one to six at
20:49
Speaker 5: the time. So it looks like Cross will play. It's
20:52
Speaker 5: a foot issue, not related apparently the other ones. They
20:56
Speaker 5: had him out for three games. Charbonay not quite as
20:58
Speaker 5: conclusive that he's okay. Mcdonald' said initial test star. It
21:02
Speaker 5: doesn't look like anything serious in the knee structurally, which
21:05
Speaker 5: means they did flex tests and whatnot. But they were
21:08
Speaker 5: still gonna go get imaging which would confirm that. So
21:11
Speaker 5: still be determined on that. I would guess Sarmony is
21:14
Speaker 5: not gonna practice a lot this week. Well, it's interesting
21:17
Speaker 5: to me, guys, is how much is Donald gonna throw
21:19
Speaker 5: this week? Are they gonna shut him down and have
21:22
Speaker 5: him just do air reps? Are they gonna have him,
21:25
Speaker 5: it's gonna be able physically to throw during the week.
21:28
Speaker 5: It'll certainly, of course, feel better than it did for
21:31
Speaker 5: less than forty eight hours playing after he injured it.
21:34
Speaker 5: But that to me is the main health storyline of
21:36
Speaker 5: the week of how much preparation is a quarterback actually
21:39
Speaker 5: gonna do? All right?
21:39
Speaker 2: Well, a lot more to discuss. We'll do that tomorrow
21:42
Speaker 2: with you. Thank you, sir. We appreciate it, great stuff
21:45
Speaker 2: as always, and it's gonna be a fun week.
21:48
Speaker 5: It is. Let me remind people listening this franchise has
21:51
Speaker 5: existed for fifty years. This is only the fourth time
21:55
Speaker 5: in fifty years as has ever happened the Seahawks hosting
21:58
Speaker 5: an NFC Championship game number one seed. In the previous
22:02
Speaker 5: three times it's happened, the've gone to the Super Bowl.
22:04
Speaker 5: This is the twenty first time division rivals we'll meet
22:06
Speaker 5: for the conference championship. The home team is fifteen and
22:10
Speaker 5: five and those those meetings. The last time a home
22:13
Speaker 5: team lost twenty eleven, when the Packers beat the Bears
22:15
Speaker 5: and Soldier Field to go on to beat the Steelers
22:18
Speaker 5: in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Man, it's freaking awesome.
23:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of the way I want you to
23:03
Speaker 2: punch it. Yeah, you see what I'm saying. My little
23:05
Speaker 2: a little flat, okay, little critique, Yeah, a little pitchy
23:09
Speaker 2: at times.
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23:12
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Speaker 3: Forty one to six out of chance, didn't.
23:33
Speaker 2: I think at one minute and fifty seconds left in
23:36
Speaker 2: the first quarter. That's when I think they didn't. I
23:38
Speaker 2: think even Kyle Shannan was like this team. I would
23:41
Speaker 2: love to know what Shannan whispered in coach McDonald's ear
23:44
Speaker 2: at the end of the game, because it was very complimentary.
23:47
Speaker 2: I can tell you that I think it was, you
23:49
Speaker 2: have beaten my ass for two straight games. You are good.
23:53
Speaker 2: I think it was something along those lines, because Kyle
23:56
Speaker 2: Shannon's not used to losing a battle of wits, much
23:59
Speaker 2: less get and stomped out. But that's what's happened the
24:03
Speaker 2: last two times these guys have faced. Obviously the forty
24:05
Speaker 2: nine ers a little undermanned, but anybody that thought that
24:10
Speaker 2: this was going to be a different game, it wasn't.
24:12
Speaker 2: It was not. It was just as dominant. But this
24:15
Speaker 2: time the final score indicated the dominance forty one to six.
24:19
Speaker 2: The final score. Mike McDonald will never say it out loud,
24:23
Speaker 2: he'll probably wait till the end of the year, but
24:25
Speaker 2: there's no question that he's got his team playing it's
24:27
Speaker 2: best football at the right time of the year.
24:29
Speaker 7: And in terms of our team, I mean, that's probably
24:31
Speaker 7: the most complimentary game we've played up to this point
24:34
Speaker 7: and obviously starting the game out with the kickoff return
24:36
Speaker 7: for a touchdown was tremendous. Again, excited to see the
24:39
Speaker 7: blocks on that play, but a great, great return by Rashid,
24:42
Speaker 7: and then just you know, kept stacking plays, the takeaways
24:45
Speaker 7: on defense, kept playing. You know, quarterbacks a hard guy
24:48
Speaker 7: to contain and he makes plays and so you know,
24:50
Speaker 7: you can't get frustrated. You got to keep playing. And
24:53
Speaker 7: then offensively, being able to control the ball, ball number,
24:55
Speaker 7: being in jeopardy, being able to run it, scoring on
24:57
Speaker 7: the resident, all those things we've been trying to do
25:00
Speaker 7: finally coming to life, and you just keep stacking those
25:02
Speaker 7: things and it's the sack of a win man. It's
25:04
Speaker 7: funny in the locker room, it's like, you know, we're
25:06
Speaker 7: really excited, we're very proud of the effort, but the
25:09
Speaker 7: guys understand that there's still a mission at hand and
25:12
Speaker 7: we got another week coming up here that we need
25:15
Speaker 7: to take care of business every day. So that's the
25:17
Speaker 7: focus part of the group. We'll celebrate today, guys will
25:21
Speaker 7: be off tomorrow and back on Monday.
25:23
Speaker 2: There's something that the terminology changes over the years, you know,
25:28
Speaker 2: the glossary of football terms, but I mean the mindset
25:32
Speaker 2: kind of sounds exactly what Kurt Signetti is saying about
25:35
Speaker 2: Indiana's success. How did you get from ground zero to
25:38
Speaker 2: the best program in college football in two years? Same
25:41
Speaker 2: thing like the stack and the plays and they you
25:44
Speaker 2: don't worry about the last play, whether it was good
25:46
Speaker 2: or bad. The internal eternal focus on the very next
25:51
Speaker 2: play at hand and executing and being your very best.
25:54
Speaker 2: It's the same mentality. And I don't know, I don't
25:56
Speaker 2: think it's a coincidence that right now the two best
26:00
Speaker 2: teams in football college is Indiana and right now in
26:04
Speaker 2: the NFL it's the Seattle Seahawks.
26:07
Speaker 6: Well, the idea, there's nothing new about it.
26:09
Speaker 5: It is.
26:10
Speaker 6: It's the idea of you have to gain the trust
26:12
Speaker 6: of the people you're coaching, and then once you have that,
26:16
Speaker 6: then you have to put together a good process that
26:20
Speaker 6: they are going to trust because the outcomes actually come
26:22
Speaker 6: out of it. I mean, that's just that is just
26:24
Speaker 6: the way in which pretty much everything is right. I mean,
26:27
Speaker 6: you don't have to worry about the outcome if you
26:29
Speaker 6: actually go through your and do your business the way
26:31
Speaker 6: you're supposed to prepare the right way. Get meant get
26:34
Speaker 6: ready the correct way, and then go out there and
26:37
Speaker 6: let the work actually shine. And I mean, yeah, I
26:40
Speaker 6: think you have two coaches that basically have both of
26:42
Speaker 6: their teams bought in one hundred percent to their process,
26:47
Speaker 6: and then you don't have to worry about anything else.
26:49
Speaker 6: You just get to go out there and you know,
26:51
Speaker 6: in football, fly around the field, as they say, confident
26:54
Speaker 6: that you're going to be reacting in the smart way,
26:56
Speaker 6: in the proper way, in the correct way, and if
26:59
Speaker 6: you do that, then you're gonna come out on top.
27:01
Speaker 6: If if you are, then man for man, you're as
27:04
Speaker 6: good as the other team, but your process is better,
27:06
Speaker 6: you're gonna win. I mean, it just makes sense to me.
27:09
Speaker 6: And I think that the leadership of the both coaches
27:11
Speaker 6: you're talking about are on full display right now.
27:13
Speaker 3: Yeah.
27:14
Speaker 4: I mean we talked about how the chess match or
27:16
Speaker 4: what we thought we you know, what we expected I
27:19
Speaker 4: guess of the chess match, and Mike McDonald went in
27:21
Speaker 4: and was like, checkmate, yeah right away.
27:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, right away. To Bucky's point, I think it's a
27:26
Speaker 2: great point. Coaches have always tried to teach that one
27:29
Speaker 2: play at a time, but it was kind of a
27:31
Speaker 2: throwaway cliche. I think it goes back to something Mike
27:35
Speaker 2: McDonald told us in our interview with him last week,
27:38
Speaker 2: and it was we're not a results oriented business. In
27:44
Speaker 2: other words, like that's not how he put it, but
27:47
Speaker 2: he's like, we want We don't just reward results. We
27:51
Speaker 2: reward the execute. If we don't get the result we want,
27:54
Speaker 2: we're we're not going to blame the player. And I
27:58
Speaker 2: think that is one of the changes from the old
28:00
Speaker 2: school coach, because the old school coach would say, take
28:03
Speaker 2: it a play at a time, and if you screwed up,
28:04
Speaker 2: he yell at you. But I think Signetti and McDonald
28:08
Speaker 2: do it a little differently. Right now, as long as
28:10
Speaker 2: you ran the play the way you were supposed to
28:14
Speaker 2: and through where you were supposed to, and maybe you
28:17
Speaker 2: weren't as accurate, or maybe your timing was off a
28:19
Speaker 2: little bit, but as long as you were where you
28:22
Speaker 2: needed to be, we're gonna reward that. We're not only
28:26
Speaker 2: gonna not discipline it, We're gonna reward it because that's
28:30
Speaker 2: what we want to establish here. And I think that
28:32
Speaker 2: might be the difference, you know, modern modern coaching, modern
28:36
Speaker 2: philosophy of not necessarily just thinking about the result but
28:41
Speaker 2: whether or not we executed the play the way we
28:45
Speaker 2: intended to and then moved on to the next one,
28:48
Speaker 2: it seems a little bit different. Sam Darnold obviously a
28:50
Speaker 2: huge story all the time, but at the end of
28:55
Speaker 2: last week the injury popped up, and then of course
28:58
Speaker 2: he did play played well, got the win, and coach
29:03
Speaker 2: McDonald was asked afterwards when he knew Sam was going
29:06
Speaker 2: to play well.
29:07
Speaker 7: I mean, from what we told you is how it
29:09
Speaker 7: was going down. It was just, you know, there's a hey,
29:13
Speaker 7: he could come out here and throw it and feel
29:14
Speaker 7: terrible and then we would have to kind of pivot.
29:17
Speaker 7: But from what he was saying and what the guys
29:19
Speaker 7: were saying, you know, the medical medical team was saying,
29:21
Speaker 7: it seemed like he was gonna be able to give
29:23
Speaker 7: it a go. So that's basically what happened. And you know,
29:26
Speaker 7: it felt you felt like he was based on his
29:30
Speaker 7: communication with us, it felt like he was confident. So
29:32
Speaker 7: that's that's where we're at. What'd you think about the
29:34
Speaker 7: way you played tremendous. Tremendous's a couple of couple of
29:38
Speaker 7: plays early that I think to get in the swing
29:39
Speaker 7: of things, But I say, manage the game as like
29:43
Speaker 7: a very high powered compliment, you know, just throwing around time,
29:48
Speaker 7: taking care of the ball, making the plays when we
29:51
Speaker 7: need to. I think, I think there's gonna be some more.
29:53
Speaker 7: There's some explosives out there that maybe we could get to.
29:55
Speaker 7: But shoot, I thought there's a lot of operations stuff
29:59
Speaker 7: that was that really helped.
30:01
Speaker 2: Us as well. Yeah, the stat line isn't gonna blow
30:05
Speaker 2: anyone away. Nobody's going to look at this game fifty
30:08
Speaker 2: years from now and circle that stat say, well, there
30:11
Speaker 2: you go, there's the reason why they won that game
30:13
Speaker 2: forty one to six. That said, I mean, I gave
30:16
Speaker 2: him an a plus for the way he played on
30:19
Speaker 2: Saturday night. I don't care if he didn't put up
30:21
Speaker 2: the stats. He did exactly what they needed him to
30:24
Speaker 2: do for sure, and I think even to a degree
30:26
Speaker 2: what they wanted him to do. You know, based on
30:29
Speaker 2: the situation dealing with the entry. If we can establish
30:32
Speaker 2: the run, we're going to ride the running game as
30:35
Speaker 2: long as we can. And obviously you need to compliment that.
30:39
Speaker 2: So if that's game managing and we want to look
30:41
Speaker 2: at that as an insult Bucky. In today's world, nobody
30:44
Speaker 2: wants to be labeled as a game manager. Well, that's
30:47
Speaker 2: as well as you can manage a game. As far
30:49
Speaker 2: as I'm concerned, I thought he was extraordinary. Never put
30:52
Speaker 2: the ball at risk. It felt maybe I'm missing a
30:55
Speaker 2: player too, No turnovers in the contest, playing hurt and
30:59
Speaker 2: yet never showing at at any time, got hit hard
31:01
Speaker 2: a couple of times, got right back up. I'd give
31:04
Speaker 2: him an A plus for Saturday, even though he only
31:06
Speaker 2: had one hundred and twenty four passing yards.
31:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think that stats matter. The scoreboard is
31:11
Speaker 6: what matters. How you get to the scoreboard is the
31:14
Speaker 6: most important thing. So it's I if Sam Darnald was
31:18
Speaker 6: needed to make a throw here and there, he did.
31:21
Speaker 6: There was third down conversions, he did it, bobo. He
31:24
Speaker 6: just yeah, they just didn't have to do it very often.
31:27
Speaker 6: I mean really, it took him thirteen seconds into the
31:30
Speaker 6: game before they had outscored. What the Niners were gonna
31:32
Speaker 6: do so the next fifty nine minutes and forty seven seconds,
31:37
Speaker 6: manage the game.
31:38
Speaker 2: Just manage the game. Just don't screw it up.
31:41
Speaker 6: And yet he didn't know that, None of them knew
31:43
Speaker 6: that until it became abundantly clear that okay, we don't
31:48
Speaker 6: have to throw a ball once in the fourth quarter.
31:51
Speaker 6: So we don't need you to do anything. We just
31:53
Speaker 6: need you to play the game the way that the
31:56
Speaker 6: process has set up. And right now, it was once
31:59
Speaker 6: you broke their will, they were gonna be able to
32:02
Speaker 6: run on them. Sam just you know, obviously, handle the
32:04
Speaker 6: snap and handle the handoff is all that needed to
32:07
Speaker 6: be done. I would you have been worried if if
32:10
Speaker 6: the game would have been more in question for another
32:12
Speaker 6: quarter or a quarter and a half, I wouldn't have
32:14
Speaker 6: been because Sam Donald didn't look like he was incapable
32:17
Speaker 6: of fitting in the tight windows.
32:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
32:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you said that, they just jogged something. I
32:22
Speaker 2: knew that he came out of the game with thirteen
32:24
Speaker 2: minutes to go, so he didn't play the last thirteen
32:27
Speaker 2: minutes of the game. That's ideal. Yeah, take your quarterback
32:31
Speaker 2: out in the playoff game because you're up so much.
32:33
Speaker 4: I mean I wanted him to not have to plan
32:34
Speaker 4: for the first quarter when we were up seventy to nothing.
32:36
Speaker 3: That was a close second.
32:37
Speaker 2: But his last throw was with three minutes left in
32:41
Speaker 2: the third quarter. That was his last throw. Yeah, yeah,
32:45
Speaker 2: I'll take that game.
32:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, we'll talk to Hugh milling about it at
32:49
Speaker 3: eight o'clock.
32:49
Speaker 2: Coming up next though, there's another big event, another game
32:52
Speaker 2: that we have to watch tonight, the National Championship game.
32:56
Speaker 2: So a little bit on that before we return our
32:59
Speaker 2: focus and tire to the Seahawks. Well you're from Rick
33:02
Speaker 2: new Isil next on KJR.
33:21
Speaker 5: Thank you.
33:24
Speaker 2: All right, you bell, it's gonna join it at the
33:26
Speaker 2: top of the hour Monday morning quarterback. He might have
33:29
Speaker 2: a thing or a thousand to say about the seahawks
33:32
Speaker 2: forty one to six win over the San Francisco forty
33:35
Speaker 2: nine ers on Saturday night to earn their birth into
33:38
Speaker 2: the NFC Conference Championship Game. But speaking of championships tonight,
33:42
Speaker 2: then Natty goes down. In college football, the season comes
33:45
Speaker 2: to an end in Miami with the Hurricanes hosting the
33:49
Speaker 2: Indiana Hoosiers for the National Championship. Rick new Isle was
33:54
Speaker 2: on with us last week in case you missed it.
33:57
Speaker 2: We dove headlong because we knew we weren't gonna be
34:00
Speaker 2: to chat with them again before this game got played,
34:03
Speaker 2: and so we talked about the National Championship game, and
34:06
Speaker 2: I'll wanted to replay some of it for you here
34:08
Speaker 2: on National championship Day, and we will pick up in
34:12
Speaker 2: the conversation where I asked them about the dominance of
34:15
Speaker 2: the Indiana Hoosiers.
34:17
Speaker 8: It is really astounding to fathom what we're watching. Do
34:21
Speaker 8: you realize since the turn of the century, everybody remembers
34:25
Speaker 8: y two k Indiana has had twenty one losing seasons
34:30
Speaker 8: in this century, twenty one out of twenty out of
34:35
Speaker 8: twenty five losing seasons. And yet here they are the
34:40
Speaker 8: undisputed number one team in the land and not even close.
34:43
Speaker 8: They're laying waste to their opponents. And I mean the
34:47
Speaker 8: quarterback in two college football playoff games, you know, the
34:52
Speaker 8: best in terms of a competition is thirty one of
34:57
Speaker 8: thirty six and eight touchdowns. Thirty one of thirty six
35:02
Speaker 8: with eight touchdowns. They are twenty and twenty eight on
35:05
Speaker 8: third down conversions, they are and four hundred yards rushing
35:10
Speaker 8: in the two games. I mean, they're just mauling people.
35:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's pretty impressive. But I mean, I'd
35:16
Speaker 6: love to get your take on this. I mean, I
35:18
Speaker 6: hear people for some reason, and don't get me wrong,
35:20
Speaker 6: I mean Mendoza is a bit goofy in some of
35:23
Speaker 6: his interviews and whatnot. But I mean, the way in
35:25
Speaker 6: which he plays quarterback is pretty impressive. And yet I'll
35:28
Speaker 6: hear people, you know, call him like a game manager,
35:31
Speaker 6: as if that's like a bad thing, because I don't
35:34
Speaker 6: really understand it. When you're watching this guy play, what's
35:37
Speaker 6: your scouting report on him?
35:40
Speaker 8: Clearly he has the keys to the car, which means
35:43
Speaker 8: that he's been given the freedom to change plays, and
35:45
Speaker 8: he's got an incredible acumen for the game.
35:48
Speaker 5: I mean, when you list what.
35:50
Speaker 8: He studied at cal is molecular engineering and calculus and
35:54
Speaker 8: football at his core. Assuming that everybody's equal talent is mass.
36:00
Speaker 8: So what he sees his angles advantages and as places
36:05
Speaker 8: in the geometry game of eleven on eleven and you're
36:07
Speaker 8: looking for advantages when you put people in motion and
36:11
Speaker 8: you shift and create formations. He sees all that, and
36:15
Speaker 8: so he's able in the forty second shot clock to
36:18
Speaker 8: get the next play run in a downhill fashion where
36:21
Speaker 8: you have an angles advantage, and he puts the ball
36:24
Speaker 8: in places where you have an angles advantage. The world
36:28
Speaker 8: of the back shoulder throw doesn't care where the defender
36:32
Speaker 8: is as long as you can put it where the
36:34
Speaker 8: defender can't humanly make a play, and you've got a
36:37
Speaker 8: talent enough receiver to adjust his hips and put his
36:40
Speaker 8: hips and make the play on the outside shoulder, as
36:43
Speaker 8: sarat Eliza Suratt has been able to do over and
36:45
Speaker 8: over again, or Becker has been able to do over
36:48
Speaker 8: and over again.
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Speaker 5: O Mark Cooper.
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Speaker 8: He puts the ball where only they can get it,
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Speaker 8: and to see it is one thing, and then to
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Speaker 8: actually have the gifts to throw it and put it there,
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Speaker 8: it's been remarkable. I mean, it is as good a
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Speaker 8: football as we've seen in recent memory. It's not just
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Speaker 8: overpowering people because you're bigger than they are. It's beautiful
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Speaker 8: football being played, and it's at a place that no
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Speaker 8: one could have imagined. This program started the season as
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Speaker 8: the losingest program in the history of college football, and
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Speaker 8: now they look like one of the best teams that's
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Speaker 8: ever played the game.
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Speaker 2: So if Miami has a shot Monday night, how does
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Speaker 2: that happen.
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Speaker 8: They've got to be able to run the ball and
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Speaker 8: play their own version of Indiana football. They've got to
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Speaker 8: be able to Fletcher has been fantastic, and look, they
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Speaker 8: controlled the ball against Ole Miss for forty two minutes.
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Speaker 8: When you have the ball for forty two minutes. That
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Speaker 8: game should never have been close. They dropped four interceptions,
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Speaker 8: They had ten penalties that cost them possessions and points.
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Speaker 8: They can't play like that. If they play clean and efficiently,
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Speaker 8: you know, taking that term from Indiana, then they can
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Speaker 8: hang in there because they're physical enough on both lines
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Speaker 8: of scrimmage to hang in there with Indiana. The question
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Speaker 8: is can they be as efficient as Indiana.
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Speaker 3: Reg New Issel with us last week?
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Speaker 2: But perfect little three minutes to play for you here
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Speaker 2: today to preview tonight's National championship game. Ashley and I
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Speaker 2: both were confident the Seahawks are going to hammer the
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Speaker 2: forty nine ers on Saturday night. I feel just as
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Speaker 2: confident Indiana is going to do that to Miami, and
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Speaker 2: I think Miami has a really good team. I just
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Speaker 2: think that the Hoosiers are just that much better than
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Speaker 2: everyone else right now. In college football four thirty kickoff
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Speaker 2: National Championship game. We'll recab it for you tomorrow coming
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