Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck and Buck 10-23 Hour 3: 12th Man roundtable with Gregg Bell & Hugh Millen
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- 0:09Speaker 1: Hey, good morning to you.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Happy Thursday, Chuck Poll and Ashley Ryan with you Bucky
- 0:13Speaker 2: out today. But you know something, we have skipped a
- 0:16Speaker 2: couple of thursdays with our twelfth man roundtable. We got
- 0:19Speaker 2: a lot of catching up to do. I got to
- 0:20Speaker 2: find out how the kids are doing in Greg's world,
- 0:23Speaker 2: I got to find out how life is and Hugh
- 0:26Speaker 2: Mill in Manor. So we got a lot of things
- 0:28Speaker 2: to catch up on here and we got to talk
- 0:31Speaker 2: some Seahawks football with our guys here for the next hour.
- 0:34Speaker 2: So Hume Mill and our QB one ore Seahawks inside
- 0:37Speaker 2: of Greg Bell with us here this morning on a
- 0:40Speaker 2: by the way, a crazy day in the National Basketball Association.
- 0:44Speaker 2: And you know, I just had a sales guy come
- 0:47Speaker 2: in and say, do you think maybe that this is
- 0:50Speaker 2: why the NBA put the brakes on expansion? They knew
- 0:53Speaker 2: that they were going to be dealing with this storm.
- 0:55Speaker 2: I'm like, that's not a bad idea, Thanks sales guy.
- 0:58Speaker 2: I'll go back and sell. And then I thought, well,
- 1:02Speaker 2: maybe I should bring this up to Greg and Hugh
- 1:04Speaker 2: because I'll start with you, Greg, in light of what's
- 1:07Speaker 2: happening today in the NBA, do you think other leagues,
- 1:10Speaker 2: most notably the National Football League, are sitting here this
- 1:14Speaker 2: morning like Roger Goodell's got the order out to you know,
- 1:17Speaker 2: mind all p's and q's burn receipts, you know that
- 1:21Speaker 2: sort of thing. Do you think there's a little panic
- 1:23Speaker 2: going on with the other leagues wondering if that finger
- 1:26Speaker 2: is going to be pointed at them anytime soon.
- 1:30Speaker 3: No, I think they're copping the receipts of the money
- 1:32Speaker 3: they get from the advertising deals and the partnerships that
- 1:36Speaker 3: they have with betting. And this is the danger that
- 1:38Speaker 3: when you get in bed with the betting community. Everybody
- 1:43Speaker 3: around the NFL, around in the NBA, around Major League Baseball,
- 1:47Speaker 3: around the NHL talks about is bombarded with, inundated with
- 1:53Speaker 3: and benefit in profit from betting. Yet if a player
- 1:58Speaker 3: gets into it, oh holy cow, how did this happen?
- 2:03Speaker 3: They're trying to do two things at once. They're trying
- 2:06Speaker 3: to be having a partnership with the betting community. Fantasy
- 2:09Speaker 3: football is an extension of this. Yet they're trying to
- 2:14Speaker 3: say players, you can't get any of this will all
- 2:17Speaker 3: as the league and owners and the people who make
- 2:20Speaker 3: these contracts to advertise will benefit, But those who play
- 2:26Speaker 3: the game, of course, can't benefit because that would destroy
- 2:30Speaker 3: the integrity of the game. Pete Rosel, back when I
- 2:33Speaker 3: was first starting in this, and you remember Pete Rosel,
- 2:38Speaker 3: he was adamant that he would never put a team
- 2:40Speaker 3: in Las Vegas, and he would never do what has
- 2:43Speaker 3: become the modern day NFL of partnering with betting operations.
- 2:47Speaker 3: Because of this, he knew that he couldn't. It would
- 2:51Speaker 3: be two faced and also practically impossible to marry themselves
- 2:56Speaker 3: with the betting community and all other aspects except the players,
- 3:00Speaker 3: and then tell the players, no, you can't do this.
- 3:02Speaker 3: And then the NBA is finding this impossible. And I'm
- 3:08Speaker 3: the NFL is a pretty powerful organization, and I'm not
- 3:11Speaker 3: I would not be. This is pure supposition for me,
- 3:14Speaker 3: but I have a reason to believe it that this
- 3:16Speaker 3: is going on in the NFL. But the NFL has
- 3:18Speaker 3: enough people to tamp this down and make sure it
- 3:20Speaker 3: doesn't get out. This is everywhere, and then they're trying
- 3:24Speaker 3: to put the genie back in the bottle after it's
- 3:26Speaker 3: well out. It's hypocritical that they take their money from them,
- 3:32Speaker 3: and then they pound the people that the players if
- 3:35Speaker 3: they get involved in it at any time. The NFL's
- 3:37Speaker 3: rules are, by the way, pretty clear. If you're a
- 3:39Speaker 3: team employee, if you get any money from the team.
- 3:42Speaker 3: We're talking John Boyle, Seahawks dot Com, the assistant PR guy,
- 3:47Speaker 3: the guy who mows the lawn at Seahawks headquarters. If
- 3:50Speaker 3: you get any money from the Seahawks, you're not allowed
- 3:52Speaker 3: to bet on professional games in profit from that's period,
- 3:57Speaker 3: point blank. And they've tried to make that a car
- 4:00Speaker 3: blaunch thing. Yet the owners in the NFL benefit from
- 4:03Speaker 3: it monetarily.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Here you played, you were in a clubhouse, you were
- 4:07Speaker 2: operated under these rules. So what are your thoughts about
- 4:11Speaker 2: one way down today in the NBA and how it
- 4:13Speaker 2: might relate to the National Football LEA because gambling very
- 4:16Speaker 2: prevalent obviously in this sport.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Well, I agree most of what Greg said, well articulated.
- 4:22Speaker 1: I would just say from where we might differ, I'll
- 4:26Speaker 1: just say, as a player, my sense, you know, as
- 4:29Speaker 1: a journeyman bouncing around. So I was in a lot
- 4:31Speaker 1: of locker rooms, and there's kind of two hard and
- 4:35Speaker 1: fast rules, one internal one external that are just their
- 4:41Speaker 1: non negotiables. Internally, don't steal, you do not steal the
- 4:47Speaker 1: locker rooms are open, do not steal, and then externally
- 4:52Speaker 1: can't gamble.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Very simple.
- 4:54Speaker 1: I don't see why it's a hard rule to understand.
- 4:57Speaker 1: I don't see why it's a hard rule to fall.
- 5:00Speaker 1: The league's credibility rests on fans believing that every single
- 5:05Speaker 1: play is honest competition, and UH, I think it's it's
- 5:09Speaker 1: pretty axiomatic. And so I think that players, Yeah, I greg,
- 5:15Speaker 1: I think that they're you know, the players ideally some
- 5:19Speaker 1: of the contracts that they're receiving. UH is indirectly, you know,
- 5:23Speaker 1: from a result of the popularity of the of the league,
- 5:26Speaker 1: and the popularity of the league is is uh in
- 5:29Speaker 1: a growing extent when you consider fantasy football. Gambling is
- 5:33Speaker 1: a big part of that. We can understand that. But look,
- 5:36Speaker 1: you're either grown ass man and you can understand these
- 5:39Speaker 1: terms and operate within them UH in manners that are
- 5:43Speaker 1: uh you know, you know, in accordance with the law
- 5:46Speaker 1: and permissibility within the league, or you can't. And if
- 5:49Speaker 1: you can't, it's a hard out. You're gone. And so
- 5:52Speaker 1: I I think that the the the NFL is unequivocal
- 5:56Speaker 1: in how they they declare this proclamation to the players.
- 6:00Speaker 1: And if the players don't want to find it. Guess what,
- 6:02Speaker 1: I hope law enforcement. I hope the NFL. I hope
- 6:05Speaker 1: everybody there's security on the teams that are finding these
- 6:08Speaker 1: guys out no talents, you're gone for You're gone for good.
- 6:12Speaker 1: And if you do it enough in a way that's criminal,
- 6:14Speaker 1: you're going to be in prison. I don't I don't
- 6:16Speaker 1: think it's a hard thing to understand.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like the way you put that,
- 6:20Speaker 2: all right, Hugh Millan, Greg Bell with us. It's our
- 6:23Speaker 2: twelfth Man round table. This was just in reaction to
- 6:27Speaker 2: the big news story of the day. But we have
- 6:30Speaker 2: gathered here to talk to some Seahawks football and we
- 6:33Speaker 2: haven't done it in a couple of weeks. So let's
- 6:35Speaker 2: get to it and you. I'll start with you. Here.
- 6:38Speaker 2: You sit at the bye week. You got a five
- 6:40Speaker 2: and two football team, which puts you near the top
- 6:43Speaker 2: of the entire conference. You had some difficulties a couple
- 6:48Speaker 2: of weeks ago defensively, but got back to playing some
- 6:51Speaker 2: Mike McDonald defense in the last couple of weeks. You
- 6:53Speaker 2: haven't played the toughest schedule in the world, but it
- 6:56Speaker 2: hasn't been a soft one either. And here you sit
- 6:58Speaker 2: off to a pretty good start. So how are you
- 7:01Speaker 2: feeling about the Seahawks five and two heading into the
- 7:04Speaker 2: bye week?
- 7:05Speaker 1: Well, I think that they're right there in a clump.
- 7:07Speaker 1: If there's a horse race, what's the uh, what's the
- 7:11Speaker 1: half pole whatever? You're almost halfway there, and and there's
- 7:16Speaker 1: only one team that's ahead of you, the Packers at
- 7:19Speaker 1: four to one and one. So that's a half a game.
- 7:21Speaker 1: There's a bunch of teams clumped up at five and two.
- 7:25Speaker 1: You're a playoff team if the playoffs started. Now, I
- 7:29Speaker 1: think you're you know, you've you've operated without a good
- 7:32Speaker 1: portion of your secondary.
- 7:34Speaker 3: Uh.
- 7:35Speaker 1: They they've never really had everybody other than the first
- 7:38Speaker 1: four plays before nick Eman Worry was injured. And so
- 7:44Speaker 1: I think the idea of getting Witherspoon back, of getting
- 7:47Speaker 1: your quarterback of your secondary back, Julian Love, I really
- 7:53Speaker 1: like where this football team is. And and I I
- 7:57Speaker 1: look at at football in five phases about twenty percent, Uh,
- 8:02Speaker 1: how you run the ball, how you throw it, how
- 8:04Speaker 1: you defend the run, how you defend the pass, and
- 8:06Speaker 1: and special teams. And let's just set special teams to
- 8:10Speaker 1: the side. I think that the best part of their
- 8:13Speaker 1: team is their their rush defense. I mean they're number
- 8:17Speaker 1: one in rushing yards per game, fewest yards, they're number
- 8:22Speaker 1: two in fewest rushing yards per attempt. H. Then from there,
- 8:27Speaker 1: I think the next best is is how they pass
- 8:30Speaker 1: the football with Sam Donald. I'm not going to go
- 8:32Speaker 1: all through all the stats, but I'm looking at a
- 8:34Speaker 1: lot of stats with Sam Donald, uh in the top five.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Then I think then comes past defense and and and
- 8:45Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to be excited about with that,
- 8:48Speaker 1: as we said, with the secondary coming back, and then
- 8:50Speaker 1: and then the rush offenses. I think of those five phases,
- 8:54Speaker 1: if I'm right on that, I think that's the worst.
- 8:56Speaker 1: The run percentage, the percent that they run the football
- 8:59Speaker 1: is is highest in the league. They're number one at
- 9:01Speaker 1: forty nine percent of all plays. Their rushing yards per
- 9:04Speaker 1: game is only nineteenth, rushing yards per tempt is only thirtieth.
- 9:09Speaker 1: So I think there's some areas to improve and and
- 9:13Speaker 1: they'll be looking to do that. But I think that
- 9:15Speaker 1: the Sea Arks are well positioned.
- 9:17Speaker 2: I'd ask you, Greg, where do you think the team
- 9:20Speaker 2: feels most satisfied and where are they still really concerned
- 9:25Speaker 2: what area of the football team well?
- 9:28Speaker 3: First, Chuck I was going to start the whole show,
- 9:30Speaker 3: but because you've just disowned football the last couple weeks.
- 9:33Speaker 3: It's one hundred yard field and they play eleven on
- 9:35Speaker 3: each side to put the ball across the goal. On
- 9:40Speaker 3: you and I have been staying in football the time.
- 9:42Speaker 3: We just wanted to crush you and you're brown. Thank you,
- 9:46Speaker 3: thank you well.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Appreciate this, Appreciate the update, the refresh.
- 9:52Speaker 3: That's football one on one in the nutshe Chuck. We
- 9:56Speaker 3: talked about it since they hired Clint Kubiak, that they
- 10:00Speaker 3: they were going to run the ball, come hell or
- 10:01Speaker 3: high wak, they were going to run the ball into
- 10:03Speaker 3: brick walls and they were going to be times fan
- 10:05Speaker 3: of going why are they running the ball? And the
- 10:07Speaker 3: statistics a huge just articulated is exactly that they lead
- 10:11Speaker 3: the league or second and lead the league and rushing
- 10:14Speaker 3: attempts and how often they run the ball. They're damn
- 10:18Speaker 3: near fifty to fifty, which nobody in the NFL is
- 10:20Speaker 3: even close to. Yet they're thirtieth in yards per carry.
- 10:24Speaker 3: You're running at the most and you're gaining the least yards,
- 10:26Speaker 3: but when you're running it the most. The math doesn't
- 10:30Speaker 3: even math that they're nineteenth and rushing. It just doesn't
- 10:33Speaker 3: make sense to me because when you watch them play,
- 10:34Speaker 3: they're going nowhere in the run most of the games.
- 10:37Speaker 3: They've only had one one hundred yard rushing game. That
- 10:39Speaker 3: was by Kenneth Walker in Week two at Pittsburgh. They
- 10:41Speaker 3: had one hundred and five yards, seventy nine of them
- 10:43Speaker 3: in the second half, So they really haven't functioned in
- 10:47Speaker 3: the run game except for one half of one game
- 10:50Speaker 3: out of seven, how they're designed to. In that game,
- 10:54Speaker 3: he had thirteen carries for one hundred and five yards,
- 10:56Speaker 3: so they were chunk runs in the second half against
- 10:59Speaker 3: the steel that allow them to pull away for a
- 11:01Speaker 3: fourteen point win. The point is they're winning despite themselves.
- 11:05Speaker 3: They're winning despite how they are designed to and need
- 11:09Speaker 3: to play offensively. And I'm still going to say this
- 11:13Speaker 3: until we see otherwise, and we'll find out. And they
- 11:16Speaker 3: play the Rams for the first time on November sixteenth,
- 11:19Speaker 3: they ain't beating the Rams in the forty nine ers,
- 11:21Speaker 3: they're not getting home playoff games. They're not winning the division.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Then again, anywhere they want to go until they run
- 11:25Speaker 3: the ball, and they have to run the ball against
- 11:28Speaker 3: the forty nine ers and rams to keep those defensive
- 11:30Speaker 3: fronts honest or else it's going to be everyone in
- 11:32Speaker 3: on Sam Darnold and his watch his efficiency go down
- 11:36Speaker 3: from seventy plus percent that it's been so far this year.
- 11:39Speaker 3: So they're encouraged by that. They're encouraged, as you said
- 11:43Speaker 3: that they have not had their entire defense, especially their
- 11:46Speaker 3: starting defensive secondary hole since the fifth play of the season,
- 11:51Speaker 3: the fifth play of the season, when nick Evan Moorey
- 11:52Speaker 3: went down with the high ankle spring when DeMarcus Lawrence
- 11:55Speaker 3: that was his fourth play. It was the team's fifth play,
- 11:58Speaker 3: but it was Nicky even Worey's fourth play. That fifth
- 12:01Speaker 3: play of the season is the last time they were whole.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Devin Witherspoon got hurt that day running into Josh job
- 12:08Speaker 3: on an interception he's had and bruce knee that he's
- 12:12Speaker 3: been going off site to get tests and seeing if
- 12:15Speaker 3: it can get better quickly. It hasn't now the last
- 12:19Speaker 3: three weeks. Julian Love's missed with hamstring. When Nicki mcmurrey
- 12:22Speaker 3: came back, Love and Witherspoon went out, and then Rik
- 12:25Speaker 3: Wollan had a concussion. Ric Wollan might have been traded
- 12:28Speaker 3: by now if he wasn't hurt, you can't trade a
- 12:30Speaker 3: guy who's hurt. That's a league rule, of a players'
- 12:34Speaker 3: union rule. When they get Witherspoon and Love back, which
- 12:37Speaker 3: it looks like it's going to be at Washington the
- 12:39Speaker 3: next game November second, then they'll be whole on defense.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Their defensive front has kept them afloat to get the
- 12:46Speaker 3: pressure it has gotten off and without blitzing the seven
- 12:49Speaker 3: sacks at Jacksonville being the prime example of that. To me,
- 12:53Speaker 3: the MVPs of the team have been the front four guys,
- 12:56Speaker 3: Leonard Williams, DeMarcus Lawrence, Byron Murphy, Jared Read. They're the
- 13:01Speaker 3: MVPs of the first seven games because without them, teams
- 13:04Speaker 3: would have thrown like Baker Mayfield every week on them,
- 13:06Speaker 3: and they have nobody need.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I think we may have lost, Greg, Greg Froz on
- 13:13Speaker 2: us areas.
- 13:16Speaker 1: All right, all right, man, all right.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Hugh, I don't know if you Yeah, I got a
- 13:20Speaker 2: lot to jump off on there, so just go where
- 13:22Speaker 2: you want.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well, a couple of things. Let's get a
- 13:24Speaker 1: little bit granular on the rush offense, because we heard
- 13:27Speaker 1: all summer and we heard when Clint Kubiak was signed
- 13:30Speaker 1: about the outside zone. Uh, and we've I think we've
- 13:34Speaker 1: discussed some of the schematics of that, but let's let's
- 13:36Speaker 1: kind of do a review since we're in the bye week.
- 13:38Speaker 1: So the Seahawks in terms of their outside zone percentage
- 13:42Speaker 1: at twenty five point two percent. That's seventh in terms
- 13:45Speaker 1: of the percent that's fifty one attempts, so they're at
- 13:49Speaker 1: about seven point three outside zones per game. Their average
- 13:55Speaker 1: now they're their overall average is three point seven, which
- 13:58Speaker 1: includes that outside zone, but the outside zone average gets
- 14:02Speaker 1: a little better. It's four point two. That's eighteenth. By
- 14:06Speaker 1: the way, as a percentage, Bezon Robinson is the king.
- 14:09Speaker 1: He's at fifty seven percent of all of his runs
- 14:12Speaker 1: are outside zone. So the Falcons have majored in that.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Just to put that into context. So obviously that if
- 14:20Speaker 1: you take away the outside zone, uh, that three point
- 14:24Speaker 1: seven is gonna go even worse, and they're thirtieth in that.
- 14:28Speaker 1: But let's talk about Canine versus zach Sarbonnes. If you
- 14:34Speaker 1: go all running backs of twenty attempts or more on
- 14:37Speaker 1: the outside zone, Canine at five point five yards per
- 14:42Speaker 1: attempt is fourth, and there are nineteen running backs who
- 14:46Speaker 1: have twenty or more outside zone. Zach Sarbonney averages one
- 14:51Speaker 1: point nine yards on the outside zone. Now it's just
- 14:54Speaker 1: sixteen attempts, and maybe he's had some bad luck, but
- 14:57Speaker 1: the you know, the gap between five point five and
- 14:59Speaker 1: one point nine Zach Sharbonnay is the lowest of all
- 15:04Speaker 1: qualifying running backs who've had the outside zone. So I
- 15:08Speaker 1: think that that something that they might consider, like the
- 15:13Speaker 1: they're a poor running team, but they're average at the
- 15:16Speaker 1: outside zone, but they're good with canine running. So if
- 15:22Speaker 1: we want to just kind of filter that thing, one
- 15:25Speaker 1: could be led to the hey, let's get some more
- 15:27Speaker 1: outside zones going with knine. Now you'd say, well, if
- 15:30Speaker 1: you have a greater frequency, are you going to be
- 15:32Speaker 1: as effective? You're going to be a five point five.
- 15:34Speaker 1: I understand that, but but it's something that we discussed
- 15:37Speaker 1: a lot the outside zone, Greg and and and that's
- 15:41Speaker 1: kind of the assessment of where we are. They're they're
- 15:44Speaker 1: poor otherwise, they're middle of the road, uh in the
- 15:47Speaker 1: outside zone, but they're they're pretty darn good with canine
- 15:50Speaker 1: at it.
- 15:52Speaker 3: And again it bears mentioning again they are any maintenance
- 15:56Speaker 3: program with Kenneth Walker, they're not playing him as they
- 15:59Speaker 3: wish they could. Good, they're playing him as they have to.
- 16:02Speaker 3: He's had a foot issue that's related to the ankle,
- 16:05Speaker 3: the high ankle sprain, and he put him on injured
- 16:07Speaker 3: reserve at the end of the end of last season
- 16:09Speaker 3: in December, and they're trying to get him through seventeen games,
- 16:12Speaker 3: and he's really held bet on getting through seventeen games
- 16:15Speaker 3: because it is a contract year for him. Every week
- 16:18Speaker 3: is on audition for him to get a job somewhere
- 16:20Speaker 3: else next year for a new contract and may not
- 16:22Speaker 3: be in Seattle. So it drives fans nuts. I get
- 16:26Speaker 3: texts from friends during games and people on Twitter ask
- 16:29Speaker 3: me why are they replacing Walker in the middle of
- 16:32Speaker 3: drives And he'll go Casper after a couple of six
- 16:35Speaker 3: yard runs and then you don't see in the rest
- 16:36Speaker 3: of the drive. It's because they don't think they can
- 16:39Speaker 3: give him a full twenty plus carries seventy percent of
- 16:43Speaker 3: snaps in a game that he won't last if healthwise
- 16:48Speaker 3: his footworm hold up. And that's why you've seen Sharb
- 16:51Speaker 3: not to mention that. They of course, Charbona is the
- 16:54Speaker 3: second the two minute back. Charbona is offen the third
- 16:57Speaker 3: down back, and in NFL games, third down and too
- 17:00Speaker 3: met drills often become a preponderance of your snaps. Then
- 17:03Speaker 3: that's how Kenneth Walker ends up with fewer snaps than
- 17:06Speaker 3: the less productive Jack Sharboning. To me, when I watch
- 17:11Speaker 3: him without the numbers, charbon At seems a little less
- 17:14Speaker 3: decisive and sometimes a lot less decisive cutting into the holes.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Sometimes Walker's too decisive. There were a couple times against
- 17:21Speaker 3: Houston where he just cut before the hole even developed,
- 17:25Speaker 3: before the lineman even got to their assigned gap. But
- 17:29Speaker 3: suffice to say that the run game is broken because
- 17:32Speaker 3: the offensive line is not pushing guys out of the hole.
- 17:35Speaker 3: The zone blocking scheme, you get an assigned spot, you
- 17:37Speaker 3: have to be there at time and place when the
- 17:39Speaker 3: running back marries up with the timing of the play,
- 17:42Speaker 3: and if you don't move guys out of the hole,
- 17:43Speaker 3: they're not going anywhere. And that is the simple explanation
- 17:46Speaker 3: for what's wrong with the run game. They are worth searching,
- 17:51Speaker 3: is what Mike McDonald says, which means they are going
- 17:54Speaker 3: to revot. They are reevaluating it. That's byweek the type
- 17:58Speaker 3: of runs they're calling. The situation since they're calling them.
- 18:01Speaker 3: They need an overhaul, and they also need their outifitsive
- 18:04Speaker 3: linemen to do their jobs, which they haven't done in
- 18:06Speaker 3: pretty much most of the last decade.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Well, I can think of a couple of guys that
- 18:10Speaker 2: are masking the inefficiencies in the run game, and I
- 18:12Speaker 2: want to talk about them in the next segment and
- 18:15Speaker 2: talk about who might be emerging as the next Sea
- 18:18Speaker 2: Hawks star as well. We've got Greg Bell, We've got
- 18:22Speaker 2: Hugh Millon. Turns out football still is around. That's what
- 18:26Speaker 2: Greg is letting me know that it didn't go away
- 18:30Speaker 2: in the last couple of weeks.
- 18:31Speaker 1: So I guess we'll talk about it.
- 18:34Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Oh, it's Thursday,
- 18:47Speaker 2: and we have reassembled the team for the most part.
- 18:49Speaker 2: BUCkies not here, but we do have our experts every
- 18:53Speaker 2: Thursday for an hour most Thursdays, they join us for
- 18:57Speaker 2: the twelfth Man Roundtable. Our QB one You Millan is
- 19:00Speaker 2: with us. Our Seahawks insider Greg Bell is with us.
- 19:03Speaker 2: It is bye week, but by gum, we're going to
- 19:05Speaker 2: talk some Seahawks football for an entire hour here today.
- 19:08Speaker 2: And so we kind of finished off talking about a
- 19:12Speaker 2: couple of the deficiencies of this team and still not
- 19:15Speaker 2: being able to establish the run this season, injuries in
- 19:19Speaker 2: the secondary, a pass rush that disappeared against the Tampa
- 19:23Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers. But boy, here you cover up a lot
- 19:26Speaker 2: of warts when you've got the number one rated quarterback
- 19:29Speaker 2: in PFF and you've got the number one wide receiver
- 19:32Speaker 2: by two hundred yards in the National Football League, Sam
- 19:36Speaker 2: Donald and JSN. I think, in an honest moment, John
- 19:38Speaker 2: Schneider has to admit they're even better than I thought
- 19:41Speaker 2: they were going to be. Yeah, I totally agree.
- 19:45Speaker 1: And you look at the yards per attempt Sam Donald
- 19:50Speaker 1: number one, yards per completion number one, and then when
- 19:55Speaker 1: you go percentage of completions that are ten or more yards,
- 19:58Speaker 1: Sam Donald's number one, fifty eight percent. I'm gonna mention
- 20:03Speaker 1: number two for obvious reasons. It's Michael Pennix at fifty
- 20:06Speaker 1: two point one percent. The gap between one and two
- 20:11Speaker 1: is greater in the gap between two and seven. That again,
- 20:14Speaker 1: you know, so he's pushing the ball down the field
- 20:16Speaker 1: that I actually had in the stat portal that that
- 20:20Speaker 1: I actually the NFL has a they have a category
- 20:24Speaker 1: called checkdown. His checkdown percentage, now that would be subjective.
- 20:30Speaker 1: That's somebody going through and he is. He's thirtieth so
- 20:34Speaker 1: meaning meaning he he had out of thirty two quarterbacks,
- 20:39Speaker 1: he's checking down almost the least. His off target percentage.
- 20:44Speaker 1: Here's another one. The average in the NFL is ten
- 20:47Speaker 1: point four percent of quarterbacks have off target and even
- 20:52Speaker 1: with Darnold pushing the ball that the greed that we're
- 20:54Speaker 1: talking about, his off target percent is six point three percent.
- 20:58Speaker 1: That's number two in the end. NFL like you just
- 21:03Speaker 1: the longer you pour over the stats, the more you're looking. Said,
- 21:05Speaker 1: this guy's having a hell of the season, and Jysn,
- 21:07Speaker 1: what can you say? I thought there might be a
- 21:10Speaker 1: concern whether he could win on the outside to the
- 21:14Speaker 1: level that he was winning on the inside. I thought
- 21:16Speaker 1: he's an elite inside guy, but maybe just kind of
- 21:20Speaker 1: slightly above average outside. Well, I can kind of table
- 21:24Speaker 1: that concern for a long time because he's just shown
- 21:28Speaker 1: he can do it all. I think the only concern,
- 21:31Speaker 1: Greg is that that if when I envisioned the Seahawks
- 21:37Speaker 1: reaching their ultimate potential and whatever that means, and obviously
- 21:41Speaker 1: we're talking about how that might play out in January
- 21:43Speaker 1: and maybe even hopefully February February. I just I cannot
- 21:50Speaker 1: get my arms around that this is the best ratio
- 21:53Speaker 1: when when you had JSN had fourteen targets the other
- 21:56Speaker 1: night and Cooper Cup had one, the other starting receiver.
- 22:00Speaker 1: I don't think they're realizing their highest potential. So that
- 22:03Speaker 1: would be my one concern in the passing game is
- 22:05Speaker 1: is it too much JSN center?
- 22:09Speaker 3: And when you ask Darnold about that, he says, these
- 22:11Speaker 3: are my progressions. I asked him why he threw on
- 22:15Speaker 3: fourth and one on a rollout. He had Barner in
- 22:17Speaker 3: the flat in the third I think it was the
- 22:20Speaker 3: third quarter against Houston, had Barner in the flat, and
- 22:23Speaker 3: then he had JSN on an eighteen yard out route.
- 22:25Speaker 3: He threw the eighteen yard out route and converted it
- 22:27Speaker 3: and they got a touchdown in that drive. I think
- 22:29Speaker 3: it was a touchdown on drive. I was watching two
- 22:32Speaker 3: games at once that night. So the point is he's
- 22:35Speaker 3: going to Smith and Jigby even when the play, I mean,
- 22:38Speaker 3: most quarterbacks are going to throw the three yard out
- 22:41Speaker 3: route there. He said on that particular play he thought
- 22:43Speaker 3: the linebacker would tackle Barner immediately and he had less
- 22:46Speaker 3: of a chance of getting a first down than JSN
- 22:48Speaker 3: beating his guy Smith and Jigba was beating every coverage
- 22:52Speaker 3: they've seen Shell, they've seen double coverage, they've seen man,
- 22:55Speaker 3: they play zone, they've shading and rolling coverage to his side, backside,
- 23:01Speaker 3: they've been throwing the JSN. He's going out of his
- 23:03Speaker 3: way to throw to Smith and jig but regardless of formation,
- 23:06Speaker 3: regardless of coverage, regardless of pressure, and so far it's winning.
- 23:11Speaker 3: But the disparity that Hughes talking about. The coaches are
- 23:16Speaker 3: aware of it and they're trying to even that out somewhat.
- 23:21Speaker 3: But the guy who's making the decisions throwing the ball
- 23:23Speaker 3: doesn't care about that. He's just going with what he
- 23:26Speaker 3: sees as progression and his best chance to complete a pass.
- 23:30Speaker 3: It is an interesting down the line. Defenses are going
- 23:34Speaker 3: to scheme that way and to see if they can
- 23:37Speaker 3: tilt the tables completely in coverage against Smith and jig
- 23:41Speaker 3: and if Donald's still gonna throw that way. That is
- 23:45Speaker 3: a cat and mouse game that may rear itself when
- 23:48Speaker 3: they play the Rams twice and the forty nine ers
- 23:50Speaker 3: coming up. But so far, it doesn't matter what coverage,
- 23:53Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what situation Donald's deciding he's throwing to
- 23:57Speaker 3: Smith and jigg With. They especially do it. I don't
- 23:59Speaker 3: have the numb in front of me, just anecdotally. They
- 24:01Speaker 3: especially do it on sudden change. You'll notice when they
- 24:05Speaker 3: get stops on turnover, on downs or interceptions and fumbles,
- 24:09Speaker 3: they take deep strikes with Smith and Jigba almost every time.
- 24:13Speaker 3: They did it four different times against Houston, and they
- 24:16Speaker 3: had a lot of opportunities because Houston went for fourth
- 24:18Speaker 3: downs three times and missed it. They went right to
- 24:21Speaker 3: Jasen down the field on the quick strike after the
- 24:23Speaker 3: sudden change. It's it's kind of like the old Pete
- 24:27Speaker 3: Carroll defense. Around here. We're going to tell you exactly
- 24:30Speaker 3: how we're doing it. We're gonna do it. Try to
- 24:32Speaker 3: stop it, you can't stop us. And that's what they're
- 24:34Speaker 3: doing with jaa center. Now.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because I remember Hugh like the NBA
- 24:39Speaker 2: used to be about like balance the floor, everybody can shoot,
- 24:42Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, this guy named Michael
- 24:44Speaker 2: Jordan came around and they're like, why we want everybody
- 24:46Speaker 2: to shoot when we just want him to have the
- 24:49Speaker 2: ball and then let's just get four complimentary pieces around
- 24:52Speaker 2: him and if he wants to shoot every time. He
- 24:53Speaker 2: can shoot every time, but we're gonna trust him to
- 24:55Speaker 2: throw it to the open man. You really den never
- 24:58Speaker 2: had that advantage in the National Foot League. I'm with you,
- 25:01Speaker 2: like with the balance, But I just heard Gronk say Saturday, man,
- 25:05Speaker 2: Jamar Chase is getting targeted twenty three times in a game,
- 25:08Speaker 2: and it worked out for the Bengals on Thursday night.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson should get targeted twenty three times a game
- 25:14Speaker 2: as well. And I'm starting to wonder if Jsen is
- 25:17Speaker 2: not in this category with Jamar Chase and with and
- 25:21Speaker 2: with Justin Jefferson, and maybe Sam should be throwing him
- 25:25Speaker 2: the ball every single time that he's open.
- 25:27Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Yeah, I think there's
- 25:30Speaker 1: some truth to that. And and look, I've there's a
- 25:32Speaker 1: lot of layers to this discussion. The play that Greg
- 25:36Speaker 1: references that on the fourth down, Yeah, he had Barner
- 25:39Speaker 1: on what's called a slip route where he's going when
- 25:41Speaker 1: they snap the ball, he's behind the guard. So by
- 25:44Speaker 1: the time he gets out to the flat in man
- 25:46Speaker 1: to man coverage, that guy's waiting for him. So I'm
- 25:49Speaker 1: not surprised. I mean, tell me, the greatest tight end
- 25:52Speaker 1: receiving Kellen Winslow and his prime wasn't going to be
- 25:55Speaker 1: open on that play and JSN one on that play.
- 25:58Speaker 1: That's absolutely true, and we're seeing a lot of that.
- 26:02Speaker 1: But I watched the tape and there are are times
- 26:07Speaker 1: where Tory Horton is wide freaking open on a dagger
- 26:12Speaker 1: route and Cooper Cup has been open as well. I
- 26:18Speaker 1: think even from a play calling standpoint, having UH thrown
- 26:22Speaker 1: just throwing, just throwing the ball out in the flat
- 26:25Speaker 1: or a wide receiver screen, to me, like, if I
- 26:27Speaker 1: throw a wide receiver screen, I'm not gonna throw it
- 26:30Speaker 1: to JSN usually because that's an opportunity for those to go.
- 26:34Speaker 1: And I just i'd compare it to the US nuclear strategy,
- 26:37Speaker 1: the strategic doction UH of the triad. Greg you're in
- 26:41Speaker 1: the military, you know you go. You want to have
- 26:43Speaker 1: a third of your your arsenal in in in ground
- 26:47Speaker 1: based ICBMs, a third of your arsenal in in subs,
- 26:51Speaker 1: and a third of your arsenal in in bomber base
- 26:53Speaker 1: which are retaliatory, but at least in the event that
- 26:57Speaker 1: that the Soviets or somebody else knock out one of
- 27:00Speaker 1: those phases, you still have two other robust phases. And
- 27:04Speaker 1: so I don't want to come in in January and
- 27:07Speaker 1: be doing a post game where where we lose nineteen
- 27:12Speaker 1: to thirteen in a playoff game and a team figured
- 27:15Speaker 1: out how to corral JSN and and you hadn't developed
- 27:22Speaker 1: the the cohesion and the ability to get production out
- 27:27Speaker 1: of those other receivers, including the tight ends. So that
- 27:30Speaker 1: would be my concern. Look, look, if they're if they're
- 27:32Speaker 1: not going to roll the coverage to them, they're gonna
- 27:33Speaker 1: give him single coverage. And on that play the Greg
- 27:36Speaker 1: describes he Greg is absolutely right, and Sam Darnold's absolutely right.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Was man to man coverage. Barner's covered in the flat
- 27:45Speaker 1: throw it uh to uh JSN on the out route.
- 27:49Speaker 1: But I think as a comprehensive idea, I'll stand by
- 27:53Speaker 1: I think that they need to change the balance a little.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Great it's to do that, though, right, because I mean,
- 28:00Speaker 3: Arnold is leading the league and everything, and he's this
- 28:02Speaker 3: wildly successful quarterback doing it this way, I could see intrinsically,
- 28:06Speaker 3: why even if coach is telling him to do it,
- 28:08Speaker 3: why when he's actually throwing the ball in games, he won't.
- 28:11Speaker 2: They like having a hot hand, Like why should I
- 28:13Speaker 2: stop shooting thirty five footers.
- 28:14Speaker 1: I'm hitting. I'm hot. Well, there are times where there
- 28:19Speaker 1: was fairly significant intermediate completions to be had that are
- 28:24Speaker 1: fairly easy that you say, well, well, whoa, whoa. If
- 28:27Speaker 1: you're just doing quarterback one oh one, the matchup, the
- 28:32Speaker 1: coverage where it is, you'd say, take a look at
- 28:36Speaker 1: Horton on that eighteen yard dagger. It's wide ass open.
- 28:40Speaker 1: It's a laying you know. So I'm mostly on it. Look,
- 28:45Speaker 1: if i haven't made myself clear, I'll say it again.
- 28:48Speaker 1: I love Sam Donald as a quarterback, as a guy,
- 28:51Speaker 1: as the leader of this team, as a toughness as
- 28:53Speaker 1: he's pushing the ball down the field. I am not
- 28:56Speaker 1: here to criticize Sam Donald. I'm loving what I'm seeing
- 28:59Speaker 1: as a Seahawks fan. I'm just trying to say, hey,
- 29:03Speaker 1: you're always trying to reach your highest potential, right and
- 29:07Speaker 1: and to just say well, we're good, let's not try
- 29:11Speaker 1: and improve. That's not gonna get you a championship. Usually,
- 29:14Speaker 1: that's not what Super Bowl teams do, is sitting there
- 29:17Speaker 1: say we're good. No, you're always looking to try and
- 29:19Speaker 1: get better. And I think they can be a little
- 29:20Speaker 1: better on offense, score a few more points and be
- 29:23Speaker 1: even better in the passing game with it just a
- 29:25Speaker 1: little bit of a tweak, A little bit of a tweak.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Fourteen to one is start. I'll say that we have
- 29:40Speaker 1: that ratio times cup twice.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Here mail at Greg Mell with his twelfth man round table.
- 29:47Speaker 2: I still want to talk about what looks to be
- 29:49Speaker 2: a breakout star for the Seahawks all and our last
- 29:52Speaker 2: segment together, and I'm sure we got some other things
- 29:54Speaker 2: to discuss. Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A
- 29:56Speaker 2: r F M all right, twelve man roundtable Today, We've
- 30:09Speaker 2: got Humillan with us. We've got Greg Bell with us.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Normally have Greg make a prediction, but we don't have
- 30:15Speaker 2: a game. It is a bye week, and so I'm
- 30:17Speaker 2: going to give him the humill In treatment today. I
- 30:19Speaker 2: am going to let both you and Greg just talk
- 30:21Speaker 2: about whatever they want about the Seahawks with their last thoughts.
- 30:24Speaker 2: But before we do that, I do want to ask
- 30:27Speaker 2: you both about nick em and Warri. I'll start with you, Greg.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Are we looking at somebody that is just about ready
- 30:34Speaker 2: to break out as a star, maybe even eventual superstar
- 30:37Speaker 2: in this league?
- 30:39Speaker 3: Are you surprised. We've talked about this since what may.
- 30:45Speaker 2: You well, I mean second round pick you have, you
- 30:48Speaker 2: have belief, you like like what you see, but until
- 30:51Speaker 2: they actually do it on the football field, you don't know.
- 30:54Speaker 2: And man, it is really pop. He's really popping. I'll
- 30:57Speaker 2: just say that.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Well, McDonald is using exactly as he said he would
- 31:01Speaker 3: the night he drafted him. He said he was Kyle
- 31:03Speaker 3: Hamilton and Cam Chancellor. I mean, come on, he adn't
- 31:06Speaker 3: even played a game yet. He would be a national
- 31:09Speaker 3: star if he hadn't gotten hurt and missed a month
- 31:11Speaker 3: and a half with the high ankle sprain. He's the
- 31:15Speaker 3: best of many good things he's doing. I talked to
- 31:17Speaker 3: McDonald about this on Monday. The best of many good
- 31:20Speaker 3: things he's doing is tackling. His defense, especially in the secondary,
- 31:24Speaker 3: have had problems tackling this year. Not even worried when
- 31:28Speaker 3: they were at their worst tackling even worry was not
- 31:30Speaker 3: even on the field he was out injured. He tackles
- 31:33Speaker 3: in what McDonald always describes as the alley. That's basically
- 31:36Speaker 3: the slot down the hash marks, and that's where a
- 31:39Speaker 3: lot of bubble screens go. It's where slamt patterns go.
- 31:42Speaker 3: That's where runners tend to go after they catch swing
- 31:44Speaker 3: passes or short quick throws. That alley between the outside
- 31:49Speaker 3: corner and the inside safeties are where a lot of
- 31:52Speaker 3: lost yards for defenses come in the NFL with the
- 31:55Speaker 3: quick game in passing these days, well, when they come
- 31:58Speaker 3: at even Worry with that stuff, he goes and tackles
- 32:01Speaker 3: them and they go right to the ground. Even Worry
- 32:03Speaker 3: is the Ernest Jones of the secondary. When he hits guys,
- 32:06Speaker 3: they go straight down. There's no yards after contact, there's
- 32:10Speaker 3: no breaking tackles. By and large, he's their surest tackler
- 32:14Speaker 3: next to Ernest Jones right now, and at his position
- 32:17Speaker 3: slot nickel, which they're using them, he's the primary nickel
- 32:19Speaker 3: guy right now. I think he's going to be the
- 32:21Speaker 3: nickel guy when Witherspoon comes back. I think Woolven's gonna
- 32:24Speaker 3: be the odd man out when they're just gonna have
- 32:26Speaker 3: Witherspoon and Joe be the outside and keep Emon Worry
- 32:29Speaker 3: is the inside. Because he's too valuable as a tackler.
- 32:31Speaker 3: They're using them as a blitzer, they're using him as
- 32:34Speaker 3: a coverage safety, they're using him as a run stopper.
- 32:37Speaker 3: He is Kyle Hamilton for Seattle right now, and he's
- 32:41Speaker 3: only what three four to four full games into his career.
- 32:45Speaker 3: He's his advertised He is what Mike McDonald told us
- 32:47Speaker 3: he would be the night the drafted him.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you Monday. I think this guy is
- 32:54Speaker 1: just a rising star, a future star, and maybe he's
- 32:59Speaker 1: a star already. I think he's got he's got all
- 33:02Speaker 1: that measurables. You know, he's a high waisted, tall guy, long,
- 33:08Speaker 1: but he's very fluid in his change of directions. His
- 33:12Speaker 1: acceleration is elite getting from point A to point B
- 33:16Speaker 1: in an area of you know, eight ten, twelve, fourteen yards.
- 33:20Speaker 1: I mean, he had a play the other night on
- 33:23Speaker 1: a play action pass where he is the he is
- 33:26Speaker 1: the curral defender on the right side of the defense.
- 33:30Speaker 1: That's that's just inside the flat so it's it's between
- 33:33Speaker 1: the numbers and the hash and they're trying to hit
- 33:38Speaker 1: Nico Collins on what's called a skid route out of
- 33:41Speaker 1: like a little short post glance type thing on the
- 33:44Speaker 1: opposite side, and he just he just backpedaled and he
- 33:49Speaker 1: kind of sensed the way the play was developing, and
- 33:51Speaker 1: then he converged on the play leaps with all that
- 33:55Speaker 1: length and has a pass defense in there. I mean
- 33:58Speaker 1: that that'd be something and you expect from Kyle Hamilton,
- 34:02Speaker 1: you know, guy who's been in the league six eight
- 34:04Speaker 1: years whatever it is, or you know ten year vets.
- 34:06Speaker 1: So so I think the instincts every time I watch
- 34:09Speaker 1: him on tape, I feel like he's processing faster and faster.
- 34:13Speaker 1: So yeah, I I they use him as the Nicol
- 34:17Speaker 1: Sam and you know this is this is just a star.
- 34:22Speaker 1: He's gonna be a central part of this defense. I
- 34:24Speaker 1: cannot wait to get Julian Love back. Yeah, and we
- 34:28Speaker 1: can Witherspoon. I mean, with these guys, it's just it's
- 34:33Speaker 1: just to be really fun to watch his defense. That's fun.
- 34:35Speaker 2: That's a word that comes to mind. All Right, So
- 34:37Speaker 2: I'm gonna go a little bit over to give you
- 34:40Speaker 2: guys this, but don't kill me on the time. So
- 34:43Speaker 2: just a minute each from the two of you. Greg
- 34:45Speaker 2: anything that we didn't bring up that your final thoughts
- 34:48Speaker 2: as we close out this roundtable.
- 34:51Speaker 3: Well, not to ray on the enthusiasm that might be
- 34:55Speaker 3: building for the Seahawks now that people who realize they're
- 34:57Speaker 3: playing again and the Mariners are done, but I don't.
- 35:00Speaker 3: There's something of a paper five and two to me, Yeah,
- 35:03Speaker 3: you can make the argument that could be seven to zero.
- 35:05Speaker 3: A lot of teams around the league fan bases can
- 35:07Speaker 3: argue that if they Donald doesn't drop the ball against
- 35:09Speaker 3: San Francisco and doesn't turn it over at the end
- 35:11Speaker 3: against Tampa Bay, but they're not doing it the right way,
- 35:15Speaker 3: their right way, meaning run the ball effectively, and I
- 35:20Speaker 3: still am very skeptical about their chances to win the
- 35:23Speaker 3: NFC West running the ball they way they currently are.
- 35:26Speaker 3: They can. However, when they get Witherspoon and Julian Love back,
- 35:30Speaker 3: their defense may be good enough to win the division
- 35:32Speaker 3: by itself and the offense still be malfunctioning. That's the
- 35:37Speaker 3: whole crux of this Every NFL season the Seahawks, to me,
- 35:40Speaker 3: it comes down to are they gonna have home playoff games?
- 35:43Speaker 3: Because if they don't, they're not going to win the
- 35:44Speaker 3: super Bowl. That's what history tells us. If they're not
- 35:48Speaker 3: gonna get home playoff gas unless they win a division,
- 35:50Speaker 3: they're not gonna win a division unless they beat the
- 35:52Speaker 3: Rams in the forty nine ers. To me, they can't
- 35:54Speaker 3: do it the way they're playing. We'll see if I'm wrong,
- 35:57Speaker 3: we'll see if the defense alone can have them win
- 35:59Speaker 3: the division. But right now I think they're too flawed
- 36:02Speaker 3: offensively unless their defense trump's all that and wins it
- 36:06Speaker 3: by themselves.
- 36:07Speaker 2: Dude, take us home.
- 36:08Speaker 1: What do you want to talk about the clothes say?
- 36:10Speaker 1: You know, we're throwing a lot of flowers at the defense.
- 36:12Speaker 1: They deserve it, just but a concern I have just
- 36:15Speaker 1: kind of watching the tape and I said, hey, are
- 36:17Speaker 1: there some numbers that can reflect this concern? And in
- 36:20Speaker 1: fact there are. So you go back to the Houston game.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Out of fourteen drives, the drives where the Texans had
- 36:28Speaker 1: the most yards fifty one to fifty two yards were
- 36:31Speaker 1: the two last drives. The Tampa Bay there's three drives
- 36:35Speaker 1: of seventy yards or more. They were all in the
- 36:37Speaker 1: second half. Arizona going to the fourth quarter Euroupe, what
- 36:41Speaker 1: twenty to six? You give up fourth quarter drives of
- 36:44Speaker 1: seventy three and fifty seven touchdown drives. We saw the
- 36:48Speaker 1: Pratt fall in the fourth quarter of the forty nine ers.
- 36:50Speaker 1: This is a consistent deal. So I look and I say,
- 36:53Speaker 1: all right, where are they? The past defense numbers weren't
- 36:58Speaker 1: as bad as I thought fourth quarter they there's a
- 37:01Speaker 1: little bit of a regression but not too bad. But
- 37:03Speaker 1: the pressure. The Seahawks are a hit in hits. This
- 37:07Speaker 1: is all quarters. They're sixth in hits, eleventh in sack rate,
- 37:12Speaker 1: but number one in hurries. Okay, but here's the one
- 37:16Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna focus on. The Seahawks are in
- 37:19Speaker 1: pressure rate. That takes all of them. This is a
- 37:21Speaker 1: percentage of plays where they apply pressure. The Sea Hawks
- 37:24Speaker 1: are fourth in quarters one to two and three, they're second.
- 37:29Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, they're twenty second. So when I
- 37:32Speaker 1: felt like when I was watching that pass us and
- 37:34Speaker 1: I'm like, man, they just don't seem to have the
- 37:37Speaker 1: gas at the end. There are numbers absolutely to support
- 37:41Speaker 1: that observation. And I would say, as we're talking about
- 37:44Speaker 1: Julian Love and the return of Witherspoon, I don't think
- 37:49Speaker 1: Derek Hall is a game changer. He's got four hits,
- 37:53Speaker 1: eight hurries and no sacks. But I think him in
- 37:56Speaker 1: the rotation getting him back. I think they're missing somebody
- 38:01Speaker 1: in the rotation so that that pass rush can be
- 38:05Speaker 1: a little bit more alive. In the fourth quarter. Hill
- 38:07Speaker 1: Mellan is.
- 38:08Speaker 3: Gonna come back in Washington, Mike McDonald says another one.
- 38:11Speaker 1: But I just feel like they're a man light in
- 38:14Speaker 1: the rotation because I'm seeing I'm not seeing the same
- 38:18Speaker 1: energy in the fourth quarter of these games, and the
- 38:22Speaker 1: numbers as I described, you know, they're falling off more
- 38:25Speaker 1: than Mike McDonald.
- 38:26Speaker 3: One hut going his boy, I'm off my back if
- 38:30Speaker 3: going all right? Man.
- 38:32Speaker 2: I thought that this hour went really great without Bucky
- 38:35Speaker 2: talking the whole time, that's for sure. So yeah, nice work, gentlemen.
- 38:40Speaker 2: Great to catch up with you here for this hour.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Our Seahawks inside of Greg Bell ur QB one Hugh
- 38:45Speaker 2: Mellen will talk to both of them tomorrow on the
- 38:47Speaker 2: radio program. But coming up next we're gonna talk about
- 38:50Speaker 2: Dan Wilson and it's a segment I like to call
- 38:54Speaker 2: Manage Angerment. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
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