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Chuck & Buck 1-5 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Pour down at the ballgame for San Francisco six yards
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Speaker 1: to go for their own twenty four trailing by Sad.
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Speaker 2: I've been at fifty.
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Speaker 1: Five left forty in the gun shot gun staff four
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Speaker 1: man rush.
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Speaker 2: Five of the pattern Nity.
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Speaker 1: Throws right time complete put Seahawks stand. Seattle is back
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Speaker 1: on top of the NFC West Seahawks thirteen forty nine
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Speaker 1: ers three for the first time in eleven years.
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Speaker 3: Seattle is the number one seed.
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Speaker 2: Nice to Nate Gadder just gave the information there at
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Speaker 2: the end of that game on Saturday on Westwood One
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Speaker 2: and didn't just go, oh my gosh, I hope rock
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Speaker 2: Party is alive. Yeah, because that was just a crushing
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Speaker 2: hit at the end of a really difficult night for him,
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Speaker 2: and certainly the Seahawks put the pressure on him all
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Speaker 2: day long. Speaking of pressure, I don't feel like Sam
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Speaker 2: Darnold's succumb to it. I even had buddies nationally texting like,
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Speaker 2: why doesn't people get off Sam Donald's back. So this
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Speaker 2: is just something that's been going on nationally. Apparently I'm
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Speaker 2: supposed to believe that this, you know, redeems Sam Donald.
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Speaker 2: I just don't understand the criticism locally or nationally about
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Speaker 2: this guy. Four thousand passing yards this year leads you
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Speaker 2: to a fourteen and three record, second most points in
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Speaker 2: the National Football League. As a compliment to your defense,
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Speaker 2: I thought he was outstanding this year. I don't think
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Speaker 2: that he had to redeem himself Saturday night by winning
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Speaker 2: that football game. But I'm glad for a lot of
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Speaker 2: reasons that the Seahawks won Saturday Night, and certainly people
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Speaker 2: criticizing Sam Donald unnecessarily. At least we don't have to
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Speaker 2: deal with that for a couple of days. Oh, I
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Speaker 2: don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think we should find something to bitch about,
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Speaker 4: don't you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, we have to. I mean yeah, not
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Speaker 2: only score thirteen points, score thirteen points, Sam, I mean, Sam,
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Speaker 2: we could have got, like, I don't know what's better
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Speaker 2: than the number one seed.
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Speaker 4: I mean what you or you.
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Speaker 2: Willie walk a golden ticket? Yeah, gone right to the.
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Speaker 4: You know you were only turn for twenty six with
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Speaker 4: no touchdowns. I mean sure you didn't have any picks,
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Speaker 4: but Jeami, you got to pick it up, man, I
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Speaker 4: mean fourteen and three. Sure, it's the best ever, it's
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Speaker 4: the most wins ever for the Seahawks, But you are
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Speaker 4: trash and yeah, I mean no, I don't understand how
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Speaker 4: he needs to redeem himself from anything. It's his first
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Speaker 4: year here and they just went out and won the
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Speaker 4: number one seed. So yes, hopefully those that do want
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Speaker 4: to jump on im, don't get me wrong. This room
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Speaker 4: for criticism. You don't want him to have the turnovers.
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Speaker 4: To me, it's not even the interceptions that happens sometimes,
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Speaker 4: especially when you're trying to make big time plays and
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Speaker 4: throws like he does. To me, it's just hold on
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Speaker 4: to the ball when you're getting sacked and then you
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Speaker 4: don't have anything to worry about.
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Speaker 2: Twenty years old, come into the National Football League, a
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Speaker 2: lot of expectations, joined a terrible organization and got off
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Speaker 2: to a slow start and it took him a little
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Speaker 2: while to get going. But man, the last couple of
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Speaker 2: years he's been I won't say as good as anybody.
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Speaker 2: I think that there are two or three guys that
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Speaker 2: have had been better the last couple of years, but
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Speaker 2: there are many that listen not very long. The last
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Speaker 2: two seasons. Always done is throwing touchdowns, put up wins,
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Speaker 2: and here he is is the number one seed heading
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Speaker 2: into the NFL playoffs. Glad he is our quarterback.
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Speaker 3: All right, here we are on a Monday morning. Good
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Speaker 3: to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: Seven o'clock hour gets underway on a frost brewed corps
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Speaker 2: light Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to the playoffs
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Speaker 2: frankly because there is no Monday night football anymore. Well,
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Speaker 2: there is next week, but let's go ahead and take
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Speaker 2: a look at those frost brewed corps like choose Chill
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Speaker 2: headlines to get us started this hour. Seahawks, one of
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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, thirteen to three Saturday night. They
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Speaker 2: have earned the one seed, home field advantage throughout the
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Speaker 2: NFC playoffs and a bye in the opening week, the
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Speaker 2: only team in the NFC to get that buy now
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Speaker 2: with a fourteen team field, and so they'll just sit
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Speaker 2: and watch some football this weekend. The NFL Wildcard schedule
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Speaker 2: is set. Carolina host the Rams at one thirty on Saturday,
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Speaker 2: Green Bay at Chicago at five o'clock Saturday evening. Sunday,
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Speaker 2: a triple edter Buffalo at Jacksonville gets it going at
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Speaker 2: ten am. San Francisco at Philadelphia is the afternoon game,
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Speaker 2: and the Chargers at the Patriots that will take place
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Speaker 2: Sunday night and then Monday. Yes, there will be a
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Speaker 2: Monday playoff game Houston at Pittsburgh, who defeated Baltimore in
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Speaker 2: one of the more thrilling fourth quarters you'll ever see
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Speaker 2: in your life watching football. The Steelers win, they survive.
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Speaker 2: Tyler Loop, the rookie kicker for the Ravens, misses a
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Speaker 2: forty four yard game winning field goal, and so it's
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Speaker 2: the Steelers that win the North and we'll be playing
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Speaker 2: next Monday at home against the Houston Texans. Today is
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Speaker 2: Black Monday in the National Football League. We've already seen
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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons decide we're moving on from our headge,
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Speaker 2: coach and general manager, so Raheem Morris and Terry Fontineau
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Speaker 2: are out. Kevin Stefanski, two time Coach of the Year
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Speaker 2: in the NFL as a member of the Cleveland Browns,
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Speaker 2: is now out as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 2: He's not expected to be unemployed for long, and who
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Speaker 2: knows what else might happen on a Black Monday. People
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Speaker 2: are wondering what Miami's gonna do with Mike McDaniel, Tampa
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Speaker 2: is gonna do with Todd Bowles, and of course We've
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Speaker 2: all heard the rumors that Pete Carroll is going to
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Speaker 2: be out as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders
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Speaker 2: at some point today. The draft order is set. The
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Speaker 2: Raiders will have the number one selection in the draft
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Speaker 2: for this upcoming year. College football playoff resumes on Thursday,
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Speaker 2: with the final four one game on Thursday. One on Friday,
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Speaker 2: the transfer portals creating all sorts of crazy results. The
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Speaker 2: UDAB Huskies lost on the hardwood to Indiana last night
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Speaker 2: ninety to eighty. They will next play at Purdue Wednesday
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Speaker 2: at five point thirty. That's one of the top ranked
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Speaker 2: teams in the country and the crack in in action
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Speaker 2: tonight at Calgary to take on the Flames. They'll drop
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Speaker 2: the puck at six thirty. Let's talk Seahawks football with
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Speaker 2: our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
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Speaker 5: With the Bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
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Speaker 5: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell. Brought to
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Speaker 5: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Budd.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Greg, Good morning, all right.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. And look, you got
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Speaker 2: to cover the top team in the NFC this year
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Speaker 2: during the regular season.
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Speaker 3: Did it feel like as you were covering this team
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Speaker 3: this year?
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Speaker 2: How much of the season did you feel like you
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Speaker 2: were covering a great football team this year?
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Speaker 6: Probably the latter half of it. And we talked about
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Speaker 6: it all season. They hadn't really done anything until they
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Speaker 6: beat the Rams at the forty nine ers and they've
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Speaker 6: done that here in the last three or four weeks.
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Speaker 6: And that's why they hired Mike McDonald, that's why they
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Speaker 6: signed Sam Donald, and those are validations that they needed
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Speaker 6: to be a division champion. I have home playoff games.
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Speaker 6: Everything that they set out to do, they had to
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Speaker 6: do those two things. And so honestly, after they beat
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Speaker 6: the Rams, I started thinking, Okay, this is what they've
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Speaker 6: taken that next step.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, sorry about that. I turned my mic on.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 4: It does feel like they've evolved into that. And maybe
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Speaker 4: it wasn't right off the bat, but it does evolve
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Speaker 4: into it. I mean, what is the most impressive part
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Speaker 4: of what you've watched in this evolution from beginning to now.
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Speaker 6: Well, Bucky without it out the defense, and this is
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Speaker 6: why they hired Mike McDonald. I was sitting there in
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Speaker 6: Levi's stadium on Saturday night. I felt from the beginning
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Speaker 6: of the game that they were going to win. The
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Speaker 6: way it was gone. I had not seen a Seahawks
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Speaker 6: defense be that dominant and that of affecting the entire game,
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Speaker 6: including how the offense played and how the Seahawks offensive approaches.
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Speaker 6: I hadn't seen that since Super Bowl forty eight against
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Speaker 6: the Dayton Manning in the Meadowlands. Never before then I've
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Speaker 6: seen the Seahawks defense perform like that and be that dominant.
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Speaker 6: And while everyone back here I'm sure was up in
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Speaker 6: arms will make McDonald was going for it on fourth
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Speaker 6: and goal with the four, and while he was the
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Speaker 6: Kuviak was running on second and goal for the eleven
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Speaker 6: and throwing on firstime. I could see then in the
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Speaker 6: moment what they were doing. McDonald said, even if we
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Speaker 6: don't get a touchdown here, we're going for it because
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Speaker 6: the forty nine ers are not driving the field in
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Speaker 6: our defense. They're just not, so we're gonna get a
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Speaker 6: pun out of it and get a second chance at
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Speaker 6: the same points, So why not get two chances to
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Speaker 6: score down here, And that's basically what he did. Let
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Speaker 6: me maximize our chances to get seven points twice. And
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Speaker 6: after the game he said exactly that. He said, we
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Speaker 6: had a very aggressive model to go for it there
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Speaker 6: because the forty nine Ers all season had been one
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Speaker 6: of the best field position teams in the league, and
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Speaker 6: a lot of their points are because of field position.
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Speaker 6: He said, we wanted to take advantage of that advantageous
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Speaker 6: plus field position that even if we didn't score, we
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Speaker 6: would get the ball back in a position to score
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Speaker 6: a game. And sure enough, three and out by the
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Speaker 6: forty nine Ers against their own goal line after that
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Speaker 6: stop on fourth down from the four, which, by the way,
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Speaker 6: they had Smith and Jigber wide open one on one
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Speaker 6: with Lenora. He didn't even Donald didn't even look that way.
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Speaker 6: That was a very curious choice. But three and out
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Speaker 6: by the defense and then the drive star because of
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Speaker 6: a fifteen yard penalty on the punt by the forty
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Speaker 6: nine ers. The drive star for the Salts was that
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Speaker 6: thirty five they were already in scoring range when they
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Speaker 6: got the ball back. So from the very first drive
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Speaker 6: of the game, McDonald played and dictated like he knew
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Speaker 6: his defense was going to do what it did. That's
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Speaker 6: why after the game I asked him about his game plan,
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Speaker 6: and the thirty eight year old head coach again showed
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Speaker 6: what a leader he was. He shot me down and said, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 6: nothing to do with the game plan. Our guys played
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Speaker 6: an incredible game, how they tackled, how aggressive they were,
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Speaker 6: their attitude, their assimilation to what the forty nine ers
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Speaker 6: wanted to do. He just threw it all on the players.
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Speaker 6: I thought it was a really cool moment of a
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Speaker 6: glimpse of his leadership. And he drives those guys hard.
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Speaker 6: He's a very exacting guy, but he he gives him
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Speaker 6: the carrot quite a bit too. And including the postgame
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Speaker 6: scene of that locker room. I walked in there and
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Speaker 6: smoke was so thick I couldn't see across the locker room.
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Speaker 6: Who I was trying to talk to?
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Speaker 2: Cigars? Yes, cigars, now that.
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Speaker 6: Kind before Okay, oh yeah, what's cigars?
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Speaker 2: Yea yeah. Greg mel is with US Seahawks Insider. Of course,
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Speaker 2: you can follow at g BEL Seattle come complete coverage
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Speaker 2: of the Shawks wins Saturday and their path into the
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Speaker 2: playoffs there at Thenewstribune dot com. So what do we
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Speaker 2: have to say here on this Monday morning, couple of
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Speaker 2: days to think about what went down on Saturday? About
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Speaker 2: an offense that doubled up the forty nine ers in yards,
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Speaker 2: didn't seem to be struggling really at any time during
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Speaker 2: the course of the evening, got its running game going
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Speaker 2: more than it has in seventeen games this year during
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Speaker 2: the regular season. That was our best night running the
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Speaker 2: football all year long, and yet still unfortunately caused a
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of a tense moment at the end.
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Speaker 2: McCaffrey doesn't fumble that throw and you don't get the interception,
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Speaker 2: and we got a down to the wire football game
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Speaker 2: against the team that you're dominating. So what do we
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Speaker 2: make of the offense just scoring thirteen points despite not
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Speaker 2: seemingly having a bad night at all Saturday?
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Speaker 6: They think, So what this is? How we said, remember
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Speaker 6: in the summer, I told you that Jake bobb Will
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Speaker 6: pulled me aside and said, Greg, let me tell you
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Speaker 6: about this offense, how it's different. We're just going to
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Speaker 6: play offense so the defense can win games. And we
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Speaker 6: talked about this. He said, the running game is going
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Speaker 6: to play field position and put our defense in position
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Speaker 6: to win the game. He said, Now, as an offensive player,
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Speaker 6: we're kind of like, come on, we want to score
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Speaker 6: thirty points a game. He said, that's not how we're
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Speaker 6: designed to win. He said, there will be games we
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Speaker 6: need to win like that, but that's not how Mike
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Speaker 6: McDonald is recasting us. We're going to play enough offense
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Speaker 6: to win on defense. And that's exactly how they won
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Speaker 6: on Saturday night. Yes, without the fourth and the first
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Speaker 6: and goal, with the one malfunction in the first drive,
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Speaker 6: that's at least a twinty to nothing game in the
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Speaker 6: second quarter, so yes, And it wasn't so therefore it
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Speaker 6: was by on the scoreboards, still a close game. At
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Speaker 6: no time did anyone on the Seattle sideline and high
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Speaker 6: certainly didn't in the press box think that the forty
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Speaker 6: nine ers are going to score twice in that game.
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Speaker 6: And the game was dictated by the defense. And I
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Speaker 6: kept thinking of what Bobo told me during the game.
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Speaker 6: I was like, this is exactly what the players thought
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Speaker 6: they were gonna be all year. What's most encouraging for
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Speaker 6: the Seahawks is they are now playing exactly like they're
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Speaker 6: designed to play in Week eighteen is the culmination of
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Speaker 6: what they've been building for since April. And there are
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Speaker 6: gonna be times that that doesn't look great on offense,
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Speaker 6: and there's gonna be times that fans are going, yeah,
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Speaker 6: but their offense, so what. That's exactly how McDonald wants
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Speaker 6: to play back a team up to its own goal line,
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Speaker 6: with your offense doing enough to get it down there,
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Speaker 6: and then the defense is gonna let them go anywhere,
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Speaker 6: and we're just gonna keep getting punched and receiving the
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Speaker 6: ball in midfield, and eventually we're gonna score, and eventually
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Speaker 6: we're scoring enough points that the other team won't be
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Speaker 6: able to get close to us because our defense is
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Speaker 6: so good. I'm simplifying a lot, but that, in a
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Speaker 6: nutshell is the approach they built this team when Jody
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Speaker 6: Allen decided to hire Mike McDonald and go with John
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Speaker 6: Schneider's way of pursuing a new head coach and rebuilding
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Speaker 6: the defense. This is what they bought and it came
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Speaker 6: to eight week eighteen with the division title on the
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Speaker 6: line to fully realize what they bought into two years ago.
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Speaker 6: And it's somewhat remarkable. Only took them two years to
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Speaker 6: get to this point. I mean, come on, nobody expected
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Speaker 6: Mike McDonald to be the number one seed with a
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Speaker 6: buy and two home wins from the Super Bowl twenty
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Speaker 6: three months ago when they hired them, did we? Yet
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Speaker 6: they are exactly where they were in their Legion to
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Speaker 6: Boom days as far as number one seeds in the
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Speaker 6: Super Bowl. I get the there's always a glass half
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Speaker 6: empty look at almost any football game, and I get
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Speaker 6: the concern about, well, the offense did this and they
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Speaker 6: scored just thirteen points. This is how they were designed
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Speaker 6: to win. And McDonald will do it every single time.
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Speaker 6: He'll take thirteen to three all the way to the
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Speaker 6: Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I will win to win, And yeah they
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Speaker 4: were more dominant than what the number on the scoreboard says.
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Speaker 4: I mean, is this a game as big as it
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Speaker 4: was for the number one seed and to buy and
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Speaker 4: all that stuff. Is this a game that Sam Donald
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Speaker 4: gets put in his back pocket and hopefully hushes up
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Speaker 4: some of the haters?
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Speaker 6: I would think, so, man, all he does is win
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Speaker 6: right now. And I keep thinking of my buddy Ken
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Speaker 6: Machat telling me when I was trying to decide who
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Speaker 6: to vote for the Cy Young Award. Wins an F
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Speaker 6: and loss is great, and nobody else but Tom Brady
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Speaker 6: has done what Sam Donald's done the last two regular seasons,
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Speaker 6: fourteen wins in each, and unlike Brady, Donald's done with
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Speaker 6: two different teams. Eventually, you're gonna have to start thinking,
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Speaker 6: this guy's doing his job, which is to win football games,
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Speaker 6: and he didn't turn the ball over, which to me
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Speaker 6: is the key between now and Santa Clair and the
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Speaker 6: super Bowl. Don't turn the ball over because your defense
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Speaker 6: is good enough to win a super Bowl. We've talked
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Speaker 6: about that for a month now, and that's exactly how
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Speaker 6: it played out. The steadiness, the pois, the players all
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Speaker 6: saying how reassuring it is that he's always the same.
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Speaker 6: It's yeah, I hear you, Bucky, because there're gonna be
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Speaker 6: people who still complain and say that he didn't do this,
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Speaker 6: he didn't do that, and why do you take a
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Speaker 6: second first and go yes, But you could look at
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Speaker 6: every quarterback in the history of the game, including Joe
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Speaker 6: Montana and the very best I've ever done it. They've
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Speaker 6: had plays and drives and turnovers. And I'm not apologizing
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Speaker 6: for him, But I do think that's the bottom line
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Speaker 6: of winning games. He's been pretty damn good at doing
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Speaker 6: that the last two years.
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Speaker 2: I'll say. Greg Bell is with us our Seawks insider
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Speaker 2: from the News Tribune. All right, what's the update on
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Speaker 2: Charles Cross. I mean, you get you get a bye,
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Speaker 2: so you get two weeks to heal up everybody, Kobe Bryant,
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Speaker 2: all of them. I mean, man, if they can get
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Speaker 2: Crossing Brian back, this is about as healthy a playoff
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Speaker 2: team as you could possibly have, considering what these guys
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Speaker 2: go through for six months.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Tory Horton's probably gonna be the only guy recently
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Speaker 6: injured and the ones an injured reserve who doesn't have
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Speaker 6: a chance to play in the playoffs. Make MacDonald said
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Speaker 6: that right before the dust for Santa Clara and whatevery
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Speaker 6: day that was Friday. It looks like his season is over.
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Speaker 6: We'll play the next year. And honestly, on top of
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Speaker 6: the shin injury, what happened to Tory Horton was Rashid Shaheed.
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Speaker 6: They don't need Tory Horton because of the trade for
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Speaker 6: Rashid Shaheed right now, but Charles Cross McDonald said, we'll
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Speaker 6: play in the first playoff game. That's the expectation, I
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Speaker 6: should say. Anyway, he said that even before the forty
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Speaker 6: nine ers game. Now that they have to buy, that's
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Speaker 6: doubly true. And he on Friday McDonald said that George
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Speaker 6: Hollani he has a chance to come back the third
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Speaker 6: running back off of injured reserve as well. We'll see
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Speaker 6: how many of those guys come back. They have three elevations.
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Speaker 6: They can make one left over from the regular season
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Speaker 6: and two elevations or return to play from ir in
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Speaker 6: the playoffs as well. But to your point, yeah, in
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Speaker 6: that is one of the big big carrots of the
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Speaker 6: number one seed, the buye the rest playing one were
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Speaker 6: game to get to the super Bowl. But all the players,
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Speaker 6: even the ones who have been playing, are going to
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Speaker 6: benefit hugely from not having to play again and getting
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Speaker 6: the two weeks off.
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Speaker 2: Then gave Cross some money.
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Speaker 6: They did give some honey to him. Yeah, they've been
18:17
Speaker 6: looking to give him some money for a while now.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, abe Lucas maybe next it's they have an
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Speaker 6: interesting decision with Riek Wollen and Kenneth Walker. The way
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Speaker 6: Charvona is playing and the way they've used Walker, I'm
18:32
Speaker 6: not sure they're going to resign Kenneth Walker, and it
18:35
Speaker 6: doesn't have to be on their terms for maybe a
18:37
Speaker 6: one year deal. Kobe Bryant is someone that sliding under
18:41
Speaker 6: the radar is also his contract ending, and I think
18:44
Speaker 6: they're going to make an effort to resign him as well.
18:46
Speaker 4: I mean, is there anything that at this point John
18:48
Speaker 4: Schneider hasn't done perfectly? I mean, yeah, you're coming into
18:52
Speaker 4: an offseason, like you said, there's multiple people that you're
18:54
Speaker 4: gonna have to re up.
18:55
Speaker 2: But it was really he was really pitting out during
18:58
Speaker 2: the game. That was unt.
19:02
Speaker 6: Yeah.
19:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he didn't have a perfect year, that's true.
19:05
Speaker 2: That's true.
19:05
Speaker 4: So bad deodorant, but good personnel decisions. I mean, really,
19:09
Speaker 4: is he the executive year? It's hard to think he
19:11
Speaker 4: wouldn't be.
19:13
Speaker 6: Well. Yeah, I mean everything he's done, of all the
19:17
Speaker 6: things he's done right the last couple of years, hiring
19:20
Speaker 6: Mike McDonald and drafting at the top of the first
19:23
Speaker 6: two rounds. I mean, look at Gray's Abel and nickymun
19:26
Speaker 6: worry this year, Jackson Smith and Jiggler a couple of
19:30
Speaker 6: years ago. When you're hid Witherspoon across four years ago
19:35
Speaker 6: and ninth overall, when you hit with your first and
19:38
Speaker 6: second round picks, you're on your way because you can
19:42
Speaker 6: win at bottom basement bargain basement price at rookie Pasco.
19:47
Speaker 6: When you miss in the first and second round, it
19:49
Speaker 6: sets you back for four or five six, maybe a
19:51
Speaker 6: year's beyond that. It's for the same reasons, because you've
19:55
Speaker 6: invested the biggest chips. You have to win cheap the
20:00
Speaker 6: wrong way, and the league is full of teams that
20:03
Speaker 6: have done this that way. The emon worry. We've been
20:09
Speaker 6: talking about him since they drafted him, but he looked
20:12
Speaker 6: like I hesitated to say it, but I will say
20:16
Speaker 6: it because they contared him to him the night to
20:18
Speaker 6: draft him Sunday night, Saturday night. He looked like Cam Chancellor,
20:22
Speaker 6: both in stature and play and how he tilted the
20:26
Speaker 6: field and how he wiped out plays. He's just a
20:33
Speaker 6: supernatural guy to what and now McDonald just maximizes every
20:38
Speaker 6: one of his talents by moving him all over the field.
20:41
Speaker 6: De Marcus Lawrence continues to play incredibly well. The fourth
20:45
Speaker 6: downstop they had in the first half was because of
20:47
Speaker 6: Lawrence a swim move. He looked like he was twenty
20:50
Speaker 6: five years old instead of a twelve year veteran beating
20:52
Speaker 6: the card off the snap and ruining the entire play.
20:58
Speaker 6: I keep going on about the defense, but de Marcus
21:01
Speaker 6: Lawrence was another John Schneider move right, eleven year veteran
21:04
Speaker 6: in Dallas, and let's go sign this guy at thirty
21:07
Speaker 6: two years old to a three year contract. And we
21:09
Speaker 6: all said, what's he doing? Well, this is what he's doing.
21:12
Speaker 6: He's got a veteran who knows the league and has
21:15
Speaker 6: played in playoff games before, maybe their best player the
21:19
Speaker 6: last month of the season. Yet Snyder gets a ton
21:23
Speaker 6: of credit. Jody Allen chose his route over Carrol's and
21:27
Speaker 6: look where it's gone.
21:29
Speaker 2: And congratulations to you as well. You don't have to
21:31
Speaker 2: fly to Carolina again.
21:33
Speaker 6: So I will say we're not supposed to root in
21:37
Speaker 6: a press box, but I will say the entire Seahawks
21:40
Speaker 6: traveling beat what's rooting one way? Evan Biker said De
21:45
Speaker 6: guard I had a funny now that Dugar has two
21:48
Speaker 6: small kids, we have some self rooting interest.
21:51
Speaker 2: At times.
21:52
Speaker 6: If the Seahawks had lost that game, they were staring,
21:55
Speaker 6: we were all staring at the real possibility of five
21:57
Speaker 6: straight weeks on the road. They were going to probably
22:01
Speaker 6: win the first two rounds at least certainly the first
22:03
Speaker 6: round if they were the five seed, and then they'd
22:06
Speaker 6: have a rematch with the Rams of forty nine ers
22:08
Speaker 6: in the second round, and if they had won that,
22:11
Speaker 6: they were looking at five straight game two in the
22:13
Speaker 6: regular season at three to begin the playoffs. We were
22:15
Speaker 6: all thinking that during.
22:16
Speaker 2: The game, well you got your wish. All right, Well
22:19
Speaker 2: here we go and we look forward to a more
22:23
Speaker 2: conversation tomorrow, sir, Thank you very much, appreciate you.
22:26
Speaker 6: All right, Happy Monday, Thank you, Greg bell.
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Speaker 2: For us. We've got Seahawks to discuss with our experts.
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Speaker 2: Hugh Mellon joins us at eight o'clock. Mike homeran at
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Speaker 2: nine o'clock. It's Monday morning. Quarterback coming your way right
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Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio ninety three point three k JRFM.
23:15
Speaker 2: We got a football team. It finishes the regular season
23:18
Speaker 2: fourteen and three. For goodness sake, the number one seed,
23:21
Speaker 2: a buy in the first round, home field throughout the playoffs. Yes,
23:25
Speaker 2: when you break it down, your two home wins away
23:28
Speaker 2: from returning to the super Bowl. It's just fantastic. But
23:33
Speaker 2: there is another side to this Monday. There's a reason
23:36
Speaker 2: why they call it black Monday. A lot of head coaches,
23:40
Speaker 2: personnel members across the National Football League find out that
23:43
Speaker 2: their services are no longer required. And so we give
23:47
Speaker 2: you the latest updates here on a black Monday. And
23:51
Speaker 2: I think it starts with, well, let me let me
23:53
Speaker 2: just give you the updates. We do know that Atlanta
23:56
Speaker 2: has moved on Raheem Morris and the Falcons won their
23:59
Speaker 2: life four games. Some might look at that as progress,
24:04
Speaker 2: but I think Arthur Blank had decided long ago that
24:08
Speaker 2: this was a disastrous season based compared to what we
24:13
Speaker 2: thought we were going to be getting this year, and
24:15
Speaker 2: so the Falcons owner is moving on from both general
24:19
Speaker 2: manager Terry Fontineau and head coach Raheem Morris. Despite the
24:24
Speaker 2: strong finish, at the bottom line with Arthur Blank is
24:28
Speaker 2: he's ever seen him. There's not like a hair out
24:30
Speaker 2: of place. He's got the best suits in the National
24:33
Speaker 2: Football League. He's been at this a long time. He's
24:36
Speaker 2: an old man at this stage, and and he's just
24:41
Speaker 2: wants to win a Super Bowl. He hasn't been able
24:43
Speaker 2: to finish this thing off. So I just don't think
24:45
Speaker 2: he's got patience for mediocrity, and yet he just keeps
24:49
Speaker 2: hiring these guys with fingers crossed that maybe they're the
24:53
Speaker 2: right guy. I think it's just time that Arthur Blank
24:58
Speaker 2: goes out there and gets something that's been more proven.
25:02
Speaker 2: Spend whatever it takes Ardie. Might be that John Harball
25:06
Speaker 2: is going to be available, might be that Mike Tomlin's
25:09
Speaker 2: going to be available. Stay away from Bill Belichick.
25:11
Speaker 3: That didn't seem like a very good idea Arthur Blank.
25:14
Speaker 2: But I think he just needs a more proven commodity
25:18
Speaker 2: because he keeps trying these coordinators and it just keeps blowing.
25:21
Speaker 4: Up in his face. Yeah, well, I mean I think
25:24
Speaker 4: the you know, another guy that basically just got the
25:28
Speaker 4: acts to Stefanski. I think he might be a great candidate, right,
25:32
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got Michael Penis. They have all kinds
25:34
Speaker 4: of weapons that divorce in Cleveland for him being Coach
25:38
Speaker 4: of the Year a couple different times. I mean, he
25:41
Speaker 4: had a bad season and yet it felt it feels
25:43
Speaker 4: to me like there was more underlying stuff where they
25:46
Speaker 4: weren't on the same page with the Deshaun Watson situation.
25:49
Speaker 4: Then they go out and they draft twelve quarterbacks this year.
25:52
Speaker 4: You know, just the whole thing felt really uneasy, and
25:55
Speaker 4: so he's gonna be looking for a job and they
25:57
Speaker 4: got the opening. It feels like a guy that can build,
26:00
Speaker 4: you know, is definitely a good coach. I mean, the
26:02
Speaker 4: fact that he's won a couple of the Coach a year,
26:04
Speaker 4: Like I said, I wouldn't be surprised if they're already
26:06
Speaker 4: on the phone with him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah maybe maybe. I mean he's not proven that he
26:10
Speaker 2: can get you all the way. I mean there are
26:13
Speaker 2: there might be a couple of candidates like Harball that
26:15
Speaker 2: have won it all before. It's all said and done
26:18
Speaker 2: that maybe that's something they'd be more interested in. But
26:21
Speaker 2: I think Stefanski is a strong candidate. There some other things.
26:26
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go over the board and then we'll
26:28
Speaker 2: come back to what the main topic is here. Been
26:33
Speaker 2: looking Tennessee and the Giants. They've been looking for a
26:35
Speaker 2: while safe officially safe Aaron Glenn with the Jets, Shane
26:40
Speaker 2: Steichen at the Indianapolis Colts, Dan Quinn at Washington's going
26:46
Speaker 2: to be brought back, and so is Jonathan Gannon at
26:48
Speaker 2: the Arizona Cardinals. So they've already been given the assurance
26:51
Speaker 2: that they're going to be back. Some other candidates we
26:55
Speaker 2: might see before the day comes to a close. Mike
26:58
Speaker 2: McDaniel with Miami. I don't think that's a good sign
27:01
Speaker 2: at all that they have brought in Troy Aikman as
27:04
Speaker 2: a consultant. I think Troy Aikman believes in disciplinarian coaches,
27:09
Speaker 2: and I think that he thinks they need a different quarterback.
27:13
Speaker 2: He's been one of the harshest critics of both McDaniel
27:17
Speaker 2: and to it publicly, so probably not a good sign
27:21
Speaker 2: for him that he's going to keep his job. Might
27:23
Speaker 2: not happen today, But it kind of feels like there's
27:25
Speaker 2: going to be a change there in Miami. I think
27:27
Speaker 2: Todd Bowles has to be a little nervous to have
27:30
Speaker 2: the season fall apart on him the way that it did,
27:33
Speaker 2: But something tells me he's going to survive. And then
27:36
Speaker 2: you've got Schottenheimer in Dallas. You never know what Jerry's
27:40
Speaker 2: going to do. Sean McDermott might have to win at
27:44
Speaker 2: all in order to keep his job. In Buffalo, I
27:47
Speaker 2: think they run out of patience in the Josh Allen
27:49
Speaker 2: era of not at least making it to the super Bowl.
27:53
Speaker 2: And I've even heard Lafleur might be a candidate because
27:57
Speaker 2: of the way the Green Bay Packers season nearly disintegrated
28:00
Speaker 2: on them. And John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin also are
28:04
Speaker 2: guys that might just want to move on, might just
28:07
Speaker 2: be ready for something new. But Pete Carroll is the
28:10
Speaker 2: name that we have circled here on this Black Monday.
28:13
Speaker 2: Report started to circulate yesterday that he will be out
28:17
Speaker 2: at some point today as the head coach of the
28:19
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders. It makes sense to me. I mean,
28:23
Speaker 2: you don't bring it. You brought in a seventy five
28:26
Speaker 2: year old head coach with the idea and a forty
28:30
Speaker 2: year old quarterback. Thirty five year old quarterback because and
28:34
Speaker 2: maybe you convinced yourself poorly of this. Maybe it's your fault.
28:38
Speaker 2: You thought you were close. You thought, if you've got
28:41
Speaker 2: a guy that's won before and a quarterback with some experience,
28:46
Speaker 2: you improve that position and you're going to be a
28:49
Speaker 2: better team. You're gonna be a playoff team this year.
28:51
Speaker 2: And instead, Ashley, they had the worst record in the
28:54
Speaker 2: National Football League, They've got the number one pick in
28:57
Speaker 2: the draft, and they're staring straight into the face of
29:01
Speaker 2: a rebuild. And you just don't have a seventy five
29:03
Speaker 2: year old head coach when you're starting a rebuild.
29:06
Speaker 7: No, and it was an interesting choice when they took him,
29:08
Speaker 7: but I you know, his energy is positive and maybe
29:11
Speaker 7: that's what they were looking for. I didn't quite understand it,
29:14
Speaker 7: but I was happy for Pete to get the job.
29:15
Speaker 7: But it's not like the Raiders even ever looked good
29:19
Speaker 7: this season. Yes, they got to win yesterday, but that
29:21
Speaker 7: was against the Chiefs without Patrick Mahomes.
29:23
Speaker 2: And without them trying.
29:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. So, I mean they couldn't have looked worse
29:27
Speaker 7: this year.
29:28
Speaker 4: Honestly, Yeah, they're bad and I'm all for it, and so,
29:33
Speaker 4: I mean, I I think it probably is because yes,
29:36
Speaker 4: you're staring a rebuild, right smack dab in the face,
29:40
Speaker 4: and you've got a bunch of tough decisions to make.
29:42
Speaker 4: I don't know for sure if they're still paying a
29:45
Speaker 4: lot of people, like I know, Chip Kelly's gone, right
29:48
Speaker 4: and they and you're paying him Antonio Brown from last year,
29:51
Speaker 4: I think they're going Antonio Yeah, wait, Antonio Brown. Yeah,
29:55
Speaker 4: he wasn't their head coach Antonio Pierce.
29:56
Speaker 2: Should he?
29:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wouldn't be good.
29:58
Speaker 2: Terrible head coach.
29:59
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably one of the worst ever well the worst ever,
30:04
Speaker 7: topy on that one.
30:06
Speaker 4: So, I mean it's one of those you keep moving
30:09
Speaker 4: on from people, but you have to figure out which
30:11
Speaker 4: is the right one. You have to you have to
30:13
Speaker 4: spend the money and figure out who's the right guy.
30:16
Speaker 4: And you're right, I mean, as much as people can
30:18
Speaker 4: love Pete Carroll, this year was not a good sign.
30:21
Speaker 4: And I think he's probably done.
30:22
Speaker 2: I think he's coached his last game in the National
30:25
Speaker 2: Football League. And I know he's got the energy, I
30:28
Speaker 2: know he's got the spirit, but I think part of
30:31
Speaker 2: it frankly is you also have to look at what
30:34
Speaker 2: Seattle has done since he left. I mean, if you're
30:37
Speaker 2: the Raiders and you're making that decision and you're like,
30:39
Speaker 2: look what you've done to our team. We thought we
30:41
Speaker 2: were going to be good this year, and then you
30:43
Speaker 2: look at what the team has done that you left,
30:46
Speaker 2: and how much they've gotten better in the course of
30:49
Speaker 2: a couple of years. It's just to me, the writings
30:52
Speaker 2: on the wall. I think he's a Hall of Fame candidate.
30:56
Speaker 2: I think he could certainly be a coach at level somewhere,
31:01
Speaker 2: but I think his days with the Raiders are over,
31:03
Speaker 2: and I think his days in the National Football League
31:05
Speaker 2: are over.
31:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel bad for him because, I mean, it's
31:09
Speaker 7: we talk about it all the time. You want the
31:10
Speaker 7: people that you really like to go out on the
31:12
Speaker 7: best note, right, on a high note, and this is
31:15
Speaker 7: not a high note for him.
31:16
Speaker 2: You know what though, But considering where they were, he
31:21
Speaker 2: got to win in his last game, Yeah, that's true.
31:23
Speaker 2: He got one more crack at it. He didn't have
31:25
Speaker 2: to sit on the beach and think to himself, Hey,
31:28
Speaker 2: I just want one more shot, Just get me one
31:31
Speaker 2: more Well, he got his shot. Yeah, and he didn't
31:33
Speaker 2: come through. I mean, I'm sure there were a lot
31:36
Speaker 2: of things that conspired against him as head coach of
31:39
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Raiders, but this is a bottom line business.
31:42
Speaker 2: And you went three and fourteen. No one had a
31:45
Speaker 2: worse record in the entire National Football League in a year.
31:48
Speaker 2: You told us at the beginning of the year that
31:50
Speaker 2: you thought you could win the division. Hey, you want
31:53
Speaker 2: to talk about falling short of expectations. So I think
31:56
Speaker 2: he's out. I'd fire him on the Raiders.
31:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I would too. I mean, it just doesn't
32:02
Speaker 4: working now. I don't know, it's unfortunate because I don't
32:05
Speaker 4: think all the blames on him. He doesn't have a
32:07
Speaker 4: great group of players. He's got a few good players,
32:11
Speaker 4: but you just watch you look at the teams that
32:13
Speaker 4: are in the playoffs, the teams that are excelling, and
32:15
Speaker 4: it just they're built better. And so it's not all
32:18
Speaker 4: on him. He shows up one year and tries to
32:20
Speaker 4: make chicken salad out of you know what, and he
32:24
Speaker 4: just didn't do it. So, yeah, they're gonna move on.
32:25
Speaker 4: I would be willing to bet even though they're just
32:28
Speaker 4: continuing to kind of turn this thing over. But you
32:30
Speaker 4: got to keep trying until you find the right guy.
32:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well he did bring the chicken Geno Smith, that
32:35
Speaker 2: was his decision.
32:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he did do that.
32:38
Speaker 2: That was terrible too. Coming to Angelma coming up next.
32:45
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they took it to the street. Took it to
32:53
Speaker 4: their butt backside, is what they did.
32:54
Speaker 2: Took it it, taking it to the seat pants. I
32:58
Speaker 2: see what you're saying. Yeah, what we did was we
33:00
Speaker 2: just to bend him over our defensive knee and just
33:02
Speaker 2: paddled him. Yeah, that spanked him.
33:04
Speaker 4: That's not nice.
33:05
Speaker 2: A little bit of a whoopy. Yeah, and not with
33:08
Speaker 2: like a paddle, like insultingly, like with a bare hand.
33:10
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, smack smack smack that spanking rock.
33:14
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then he couldn't wiggle off.
33:16
Speaker 4: Yeah. Where you think you're going? Yah, send him to
33:19
Speaker 4: their room afterwards too.
33:21
Speaker 6: Well.
33:21
Speaker 2: Legs flailing, little tiny baby legs flying all over the place.
33:27
Speaker 2: The Seahawks win it over the forty nine ers by
33:29
Speaker 2: final score of thirteen to three on Saturday night. It
33:33
Speaker 2: wasn't nearly as close as the final score indicates Troy
33:36
Speaker 2: Aikman made that very clear throughout the broadcast of how
33:39
Speaker 2: much the Seahawks were dominating. I mean, it was a
33:42
Speaker 2: little unsettling that we weren't pulling away. But in the end,
33:46
Speaker 2: the Seahawks get the job done. And it all was
33:50
Speaker 2: about the defense. San Francisco offense that had been rolling
33:54
Speaker 2: as of late, but against Mike McDonald and his defense,
33:59
Speaker 2: they could not do a thing. Christian McCaffrey just kept
34:02
Speaker 2: running into walls. Rock Party had no time to throw
34:06
Speaker 2: a dominant performance by the defense. How'd they get it done?
34:09
Speaker 2: Here's coach.
34:10
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're a tremendous offense, probably, you know, top whatever
34:14
Speaker 8: in the league. They're doing it for a long time.
34:17
Speaker 8: They got great players, they got great coaches, man numbers,
34:21
Speaker 8: back it up. Our got our got our guys played
34:23
Speaker 8: great complimentary football today. They really did. And I can't
34:28
Speaker 8: say enough. I can't wait to watch the tape to see.
34:30
Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of assists going on in there,
34:32
Speaker 8: you know, guys, you know, guys rushing unselfishly to you know,
34:36
Speaker 8: to free somebody else up, or to let somebody else
34:37
Speaker 8: have a two way go so they can cover for them.
34:39
Speaker 8: You know, how we played in the back end. You know,
34:41
Speaker 8: it felt like it felt like we were ahead of plays.
34:44
Speaker 8: These guys did a great job. So yeah, I'm looking
34:47
Speaker 8: forward to watching it. I won't watch it on the plane,
34:48
Speaker 8: but i'll watch it tomorrow.
34:49
Speaker 6: Uh. Yeah.
34:50
Speaker 2: He talks about how he wants it to feel like
34:53
Speaker 2: there are twelve guys on defense, and that's how it
34:56
Speaker 2: felt Saturday night. It felt, I mean, and I can
34:58
Speaker 2: tell that's the way it felt with Rock. I mean,
35:00
Speaker 2: he had been on a flat roll as of late.
35:05
Speaker 2: What do you have five throws that he didn't He
35:08
Speaker 2: wasn't being hit on. It felt like in the game
35:10
Speaker 2: McCaffrey didn't have one hole the entire game, and there
35:14
Speaker 2: wasn't one hole. Yeah, he had twenty three yards rushing
35:16
Speaker 2: for goodness sake, he didn't have a single hole. He
35:19
Speaker 2: ran into some walls and created three or four yards
35:23
Speaker 2: on a few different carries, but he didn't have one hole.
35:26
Speaker 2: I mean, you're facing a red hot offense, a division rival,
35:29
Speaker 2: that much at stake, and you don't even allow them
35:33
Speaker 2: to get off the mat. It's like wrestling your older brother,
35:36
Speaker 2: you know, and you thought maybe you'd get a little
35:38
Speaker 2: bit of an advantage and you can't even get off
35:41
Speaker 2: of the living room carpet and you're just getting so
35:44
Speaker 2: angry and frustrated, and mom and dad won't even help
35:47
Speaker 2: you because you need to learn that lesson. And that's
35:50
Speaker 2: what the forty nine ers learned.
35:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, the defense was stifling.
35:53
Speaker 2: I mean McDonald was over them, like taking a loogie
35:56
Speaker 2: and like dripping it down.
35:59
Speaker 6: Back up.
36:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, take that, that's rude. Yeah, but I did it
36:03
Speaker 4: to my little brother. I mean Christian McCaffrey's longest run
36:06
Speaker 4: was five yards. I mean for him to not be
36:08
Speaker 4: able to I mean I was coming into it thinking
36:11
Speaker 4: that's kind of a key, he's gonna get his. No,
36:14
Speaker 4: he didn't get his. That's a it's not even you
36:17
Speaker 4: didn't you hope to contain him. You just absolutely stopped
36:20
Speaker 4: him and you were harassing brock Purty. And then even
36:23
Speaker 4: when he was completing passes, there was nothing after the catch.
36:26
Speaker 4: I mean it was just all around stifling. I mean
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Speaker 4: it was a smothering defensive performance. And you couldn't showed
36:32
Speaker 4: up at a better time.
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Speaker 7: No, And I think they definitely remembered that first game
36:36
Speaker 7: and wish they would have won it. And they were like, okay, well,
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Speaker 7: we'll show you now where we're at at the end
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Speaker 7: of the season, when it's all on the line, the
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Speaker 7: one that matters.
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Speaker 2: It just doesn't even seem close. I know the score
36:46
Speaker 2: stayed close throughout the entire game, but it just did
36:48
Speaker 2: not even feel like they were even in the same category.
36:53
Speaker 2: And if you did have twelve guys, it's because Nicki
36:56
Speaker 2: and Warri there are two of them. I mean, he
36:58
Speaker 2: just seemed like he was everywhere. Was one play he's
37:01
Speaker 2: hitting Kittle on a screen for a loss of six.
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Speaker 2: The next he's covered McCaffrey and making sure he doesn't
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Speaker 2: catch a ball out of the backfield. The next time
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Speaker 2: he's hitting Purty as he throws. What a sensational draft
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Speaker 2: pick he's been. And that's not a rookie. That's not
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Speaker 2: a rookie that we have on defense wearing number three.
37:22
Speaker 2: That is somebody that has arrived. He is one of
37:24
Speaker 2: the best defensive players in the National Football League right now.
37:29
Speaker 2: As far as what it has earned you, well, we
37:32
Speaker 2: can tell you that they now have home field advantage
37:35
Speaker 2: throughout the playoffs, But what does that mean to coach McDonald.
37:38
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up.
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Speaker 8: All the things you've been talking about over the last
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Speaker 8: you know, thirty minutes or so. I mean, that's that's
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Speaker 8: definitely a point of pride. You know that we can
37:48
Speaker 8: we can have a home you know, at least one
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Speaker 8: home playoff game in front of the twelves. They've been
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Speaker 8: dynamite this year. They've been absolute, just incredible, So we're
37:58
Speaker 8: really excited to be able to stay home.
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Speaker 7: Oh, in case you lose one game at a time,
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Speaker 7: one game at a time.
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Speaker 2: I see, I see he's not getting ahead of himself.
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Speaker 2: H Yeah. Well look, I mean they've been better on
38:11
Speaker 2: the road here in the Mike McDonald here than they've
38:14
Speaker 2: been at home. But certainly you want the home field advantage.
38:17
Speaker 2: I think the biggest advantage is having this week off
38:21
Speaker 2: and not have to risk anything. It feels like a
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Speaker 2: wide open NFL playoffs this year, maybe unlike anything we've
38:28
Speaker 2: ever seen. The AFC certainly feels wide open. I do
38:31
Speaker 2: count the Seahawks as the favorite to win the NFC,
38:35
Speaker 2: but certainly there are teams that can jump up and
38:40
Speaker 2: get you. So whatever advantage you can get, they earned
38:43
Speaker 2: it this season. They earned it Saturday night, and home
38:47
Speaker 2: field advantage is one of those advantages. They could get
38:50
Speaker 2: and they made sure they got it done. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's a weird season where it's it
38:55
Speaker 4: seemed like there wasn't a bunch of teams that wanted
38:58
Speaker 4: to rise up and say we're the best. And yet
39:01
Speaker 4: over the last couple of months the Seahawks are kind
39:03
Speaker 4: of gradually going in the direction. Now they're drastically going
39:06
Speaker 4: in that direction defensively, and then there's been some scuffles
39:09
Speaker 4: to some degree offensively or I don't know if we
39:12
Speaker 4: want to call it scuffle, just not looking the same,
39:14
Speaker 4: not looking as explosive as they were early. But that's said,
39:17
Speaker 4: I mean, it's you just you go out and play
39:19
Speaker 4: to win, and you figure out how you're going to
39:21
Speaker 4: get that done. Sometimes you have to score thirty, other
39:24
Speaker 4: times you can score thirteen. And right now the defense
39:26
Speaker 4: is playing in a way where the offense just needs
39:29
Speaker 4: to be complementary to them, and right now they're doing that. So,
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Speaker 4: I mean, they're the favorites, I think, the favorites to
39:35
Speaker 4: win at all at this point in time, and yet
39:37
Speaker 4: there's still is work to be done. They're not going
39:39
Speaker 4: to be easy.
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Speaker 2: They're only three teams the entire National Football League with
39:42
Speaker 2: a plus point differential of more than one forty, and
39:46
Speaker 2: the Seahawks are number one with one ninety one, one
39:51
Speaker 2: ninety one. I mean, think about how good the Jaguars
39:54
Speaker 2: have been there plus one thirty eight. So it's not
39:58
Speaker 2: just been defense, even though that certainly carried the team.
40:02
Speaker 2: But you don't get to a plus one ninety one
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Speaker 2: point deferential if you're not also putting points up on
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Speaker 2: the board throughout the season. And Sam Darnold has done
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Speaker 2: just that. He and JSN and the Seahawks offense. All
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