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- 0:10Speaker 1: All right, great Wednesday morning to you all. It is
- 0:12Speaker 1: a hump day. Greg Bell is going to join us
- 0:13Speaker 1: here in about three minutes, our Seahawks insider, to give
- 0:16Speaker 1: us the latest, greatest on the Seattle Seahawks who get
- 0:19Speaker 1: ready to take on the Kansas City Chiefs this Sunday night.
- 0:22Speaker 1: If they lose to an undefeated team right now, they
- 0:26Speaker 1: would fall under. 500, which seems unthinkable, but certainly possible.
- 0:31Speaker 1: We'll talk to Greg about a little bit more. Coming
- 0:34Speaker 1: up here in a moment. But first, your headlines this hour.
- 0:38Speaker 1: They are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light, cold
- 0:41Speaker 1: as the Rockies. NFL week number seven will begin tomorrow
- 0:45Speaker 1: in Chicago. Thursday night football, great matchup between the New
- 0:49Speaker 1: England Patriots and the Chicago Bears. College football week number eight,
- 0:54Speaker 1: not nearly as sexy as last week's matchups. But there
- 0:58Speaker 1: are a couple top 25 matchups, including Ole Miss and
- 1:01Speaker 1: a floundering Texas all of a sudden. Huskies are on by,
- 1:05Speaker 1: but that did not stop Jed Fish from being asked
- 1:07Speaker 1: the questions yesterday about who his quarterback's going to be
- 1:11Speaker 1: when they do return to the field, he went this far.
- 1:15Speaker 1: He said, Elijah Brown has forced me to strongly consider
- 1:18Speaker 1: him as our starting quarterback going forward. That's not word
- 1:22Speaker 1: for word, but that is in essence what he said.
- 1:25Speaker 1: So there will be a decision at some point next
- 1:29Speaker 1: week as to the direction of the Huskies program, what
- 1:32Speaker 1: quarterback will be leading the team the next time they play.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Kraken won last night in a shootout over Detroit. Didn't
- 1:39Speaker 1: have to be that way. Didn't have to make it
- 1:41Speaker 1: that interesting. They were up 3-0, but Detroit scored all
- 1:46Speaker 1: three of their goals in the third period to tie
- 1:48Speaker 1: the game, including the third with just a precious few
- 1:51Speaker 1: seconds remaining in regulation. Nobody scored in overtime, but the
- 1:55Speaker 1: Kraken needed an extra shot in the shootout and then
- 1:59Speaker 1: got the big save from Philip Grubauer to win the
- 2:03Speaker 1: game 4-3. So two points for the Kraken, and you
- 2:06Speaker 1: can have a point, Detroit.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Sure.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Go ahead. They're on the Eastern Conference. We don't care. Yeah.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Utah at Seattle will be tomorrow, so the Mammoth versus
- 2:14Speaker 1: the Kraken. The NBA season tipped yesterday with Detroit winning
- 2:18Speaker 1: and come-from-behind fashion. Philadelphia ruining the Knicks' big championship banner party.
- 2:23Speaker 1: which was hilarious, and OKC dominating the San Antonio Spurs,
- 2:29Speaker 1: who probably won't play a worse game than that the
- 2:32Speaker 1: rest of the year. WNBA Finals resume tonight, game number three.
- 2:37Speaker 1: The series shifts to Atlanta. The Dream and the Valkyries
- 2:41Speaker 1: are even at one game apiece, and the World Series
- 2:43Speaker 1: will not be played until Friday, game one in Milwaukee
- 2:47Speaker 1: between the Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers. We'll talk a
- 2:49Speaker 1: little bit more about that. coming up later this hour. Also,
- 2:53Speaker 1: New York Yankees decided to retain Aaron Boone. I know
- 2:56Speaker 1: a lot of Yankee fans wanted him out, but I
- 2:59Speaker 1: think that's a pretty good decision by the Yankees there. Finally,
- 3:03Speaker 1: we should mention this before we go to Greg, and
- 3:05Speaker 1: that is there was some misreporting about Dan Quinn yesterday
- 3:10Speaker 1: and the way that he handled the end of the
- 3:12Speaker 1: first half. Some lip-reading was done by a lot of
- 3:15Speaker 1: people that thought that he didn't know it was fourth down.
- 3:19Speaker 1: He explained it away. It seemed like a really clumsy
- 3:22Speaker 1: way of explaining. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's
- 3:24Speaker 1: not what happened. I just didn't know that the illegal shift.
- 3:29Speaker 1: wouldn't have given us another play. So he did admit to,
- 3:34Speaker 1: I don't really understand the illegal shift penalty. And Jane
- 3:38Speaker 1: Daniels certainly did throw away a fourth and two play
- 3:42Speaker 1: rather than try to squeeze it in a tight window.
- 3:44Speaker 1: He just threw it out of bounds, which you should
- 3:46Speaker 1: never do. So there's some fault. There was some blame.
- 3:50Speaker 1: But I would like to clear up because I went
- 3:52Speaker 1: with what everybody was reporting on the show yesterday. Dan
- 3:57Speaker 1: Quinn at least was aware that it was a fourth
- 4:00Speaker 1: down play, he just admitted, I don't really know the
- 4:04Speaker 1: rules of football.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Yeah, that when there's a flag on you, the other
- 4:08Speaker 3: team can decline it.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Well, I mean, a false start will kill a play. Sure.
- 4:14Speaker 1: But a legal shift does not necessarily kill a play.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Right.
- 4:17Speaker 1: So if you play it out, and then whatever, they
- 4:21Speaker 1: can decline in a legal shift.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Right.
- 4:23Speaker 1: That he did not know. All right, let's talk to
- 4:25Speaker 1: Greg Belk.
- 4:27Speaker 5: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man.
- 4:30Speaker 5: This is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
- 4:34Speaker 5: with our own Greg Bell. Brought to you by Emerald
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- 4:52Speaker 4: Good morning.
- 4:54Speaker 1: All right, what's the latest? I know Mike addressed the
- 4:57Speaker 1: Zach Charbonnet situation yesterday, so it looks like he'll suit up.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Looks like he'll play a little bit. Are you able
- 5:04Speaker 1: to read his thoughts these days? Do you know how
- 5:09Speaker 1: much Zach Charbonnet we can expect him to play on Sunday?
- 5:13Speaker 4: Not yet, because he hasn't practiced yet. Well, he practiced
- 5:17Speaker 4: on Monday. But the full practice and preparing for the game.
- 5:22Speaker 4: They will start that today. The players were off yesterday.
- 5:25Speaker 4: And the condition is that he gets through that. Okay.
- 5:30Speaker 4: And they have to see that he does that. He
- 5:33Speaker 4: hasn't been on a field since Jan. Well, he's been
- 5:35Speaker 4: doing side work, but he hasn't been with his teammates
- 5:38Speaker 4: practicing full go in the offense since January. So they
- 5:42Speaker 4: need to see three days of that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
- 5:45Speaker 4: and then they'll have a gauge on whether he can play.
- 5:47Speaker 4: And then McDonald said, well, He didn't say he'd be
- 5:51Speaker 4: playing a lot. He said in some capacity that he'd
- 5:55Speaker 4: be playing on Sunday. So I would temper the expectations.
- 6:00Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to have 20, 25 carries
- 6:03Speaker 4: and be the running back one, eight months, first game,
- 6:07Speaker 4: right out of reconstructive knee surgery, nor should he. But
- 6:11Speaker 4: there is a push-pull here because, as we've talked about,
- 6:14Speaker 4: this is the last year of his contract, and every
- 6:16Speaker 4: week that goes by is his chance to prove his
- 6:19Speaker 4: worth for a new deal next year. And so Charbonnet
- 6:22Speaker 4: is absolutely anxious. And that, I think, plays into what
- 6:25Speaker 4: McDonald said was a pretty audacious timeline that he himself, Charbonnet,
- 6:30Speaker 4: has had to get back from all this. And the
- 6:33Speaker 4: Seahawks and their medical staff have to protect the player
- 6:36Speaker 4: from the player in his regard because he wants to
- 6:39Speaker 4: get out there yesterday.
- 6:41Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this a little bit earlier
- 6:42Speaker 1: in the show. Get your thoughts on it. But John
- 6:45Speaker 1: just doesn't strike me as a guy that easily cops
- 6:48Speaker 1: to making a mistake. I think he wants to see
- 6:51Speaker 1: it play through. Hell, he never even admitted to this
- 6:54Speaker 1: day that Jamal Adams was a bad trade. He still
- 6:57Speaker 1: sticks by his guns on that. From that standpoint, I
- 7:01Speaker 1: know it looks obvious to a lot of people that
- 7:04Speaker 1: this team needs to address its running back room before
- 7:06Speaker 1: the NFL trade deadline, but do you think John Schneider
- 7:09Speaker 1: will be in that camp? Do you think that he
- 7:13Speaker 1: will sort of admit a mistake by adding to his
- 7:16Speaker 1: running back room before the deadline reaches?
- 7:19Speaker 4: Well, I think if he adds to the running back room,
- 7:22Speaker 4: it's not him admitting a mistake. It's him acknowledging where
- 7:25Speaker 4: they are at at running back. They don't have Zach
- 7:28Speaker 4: Charbonnet back full go yet. He's yet to play in
- 7:32Speaker 4: eight months. And they have Jadarian Price, their replacement for
- 7:35Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker on injured reserve. And those... That's not what
- 7:41Speaker 4: they want their backfield to be, and that was not
- 7:44Speaker 4: the vision when they decided to let Walker go. He
- 7:49Speaker 4: did this, and we've said this a lot this week,
- 7:51Speaker 4: this was a philosophical decision on how they spend their
- 7:55Speaker 4: money and how they allocate resources to positions. And you
- 7:59Speaker 4: go all the way back to Chris Carson after Marshawn Lynch,
- 8:03Speaker 4: and this is how they do it. They go to
- 8:06Speaker 4: younger players. running backs whom they draft and then have
- 8:09Speaker 4: on four-year relatively inexpensive contracts. Chris Carson's career-ending neck injury
- 8:15Speaker 4: underscores why you don't pay big bucks to free agent
- 8:20Speaker 4: running backs, why the Seahawks don't do that. And beyond
- 8:23Speaker 4: the first contract, they go back to square one and
- 8:26Speaker 4: start again with a rookie deal. And they did it
- 8:30Speaker 4: with Walker, and then they drafted Charbonnet a year after Walker,
- 8:34Speaker 4: and now they've drafted Price. It's an organization franchise philosophy
- 8:39Speaker 4: on running backs. And you can go back all the
- 8:42Speaker 4: way to Todd Gurley and the Rams, $ 60 million, and
- 8:45Speaker 4: he played only a couple games of that guaranteed contract
- 8:49Speaker 4: after his breakout season with the Rams about eight years
- 8:52Speaker 4: ago to see why they do that. The position is
- 8:55Speaker 4: just a car wreck, and players get hurt more than
- 8:59Speaker 4: any other position. They have the shortest career span. the
- 9:03Speaker 4: most injured position on the field, and therefore they allocate
- 9:07Speaker 4: their resources somewhere else. Now, the Chiefs are making it
- 9:11Speaker 4: look like a mistake, but it is a mistake in
- 9:15Speaker 4: the short term. It's not the mistake that John Schneider
- 9:18Speaker 4: won't admit to it a mistake because of how he
- 9:20Speaker 4: believes running backs should be paid and how you should
- 9:23Speaker 4: go about building a roster with them.
- 9:26Speaker 1: How much, I mean, it's pretty easy to pick on
- 9:28Speaker 1: the running backs that are new and that are in
- 9:31Speaker 1: roles that they shouldn't have been in, and they get
- 9:33Speaker 1: the carries and they keep getting dropped before they can
- 9:38Speaker 1: be effective. How much is the offensive line responsible for
- 9:44Speaker 1: the running game struggling so far this year?
- 9:47Speaker 4: Well, yes, it's all of it. But as I said,
- 9:52Speaker 4: they have miscast running backs running an offense that the
- 9:56Speaker 4: guys that they, the guy that they drafted. to replace
- 10:01Speaker 4: Walker is better suited for. The main reason they drafted Price,
- 10:07Speaker 4: even though he was a backup at Notre Dame, is
- 10:09Speaker 4: his quickness and decisiveness at running outside zone. His ability
- 10:13Speaker 4: to get out to those lanes quickly. The lead back
- 10:17Speaker 4: they've had since he got hurt doesn't do that quickly,
- 10:19Speaker 4: Emmanuel Wilson. And George Helani was supposed to be and
- 10:23Speaker 4: has been a special teams player and a blocking back
- 10:26Speaker 4: on third down. And he's been the one that's been
- 10:28Speaker 4: trying to run outside zone. And Dallas Jones is a
- 10:32Speaker 4: practice squad player who was a wide receiver at the
- 10:34Speaker 4: start of training camp. And Robert Henry Jr. is a
- 10:38Speaker 4: practice squad player who happens to be on the active
- 10:40Speaker 4: roster because that's how they got him off the commander's
- 10:42Speaker 4: practice squad. I just listed the four running backs they've
- 10:46Speaker 4: had behind Jadarian Price getting injured. So in the meantime,
- 10:53Speaker 4: they're waiting for Charbonnet to come back, and they're waiting
- 10:56Speaker 4: for Price to come back, and they're trying to get
- 10:59Speaker 4: there with running backs who aren't getting to the holes
- 11:02Speaker 4: that the offensive line are blocking outside on the edge.
- 11:05Speaker 4: So it is a mismatch compared to what they had
- 11:10Speaker 4: planned it to be. Now, having said that, the offensive
- 11:13Speaker 4: line also has had major issues in pass protection because
- 11:17Speaker 4: our defenses don't have to honor the run because of
- 11:20Speaker 4: the running back situation I just described. And that doesn't
- 11:24Speaker 4: help pass protection either. And a main reason that you
- 11:29Speaker 4: want to run the ball is to make defenses play
- 11:31Speaker 4: you honestly and to be on 3rd and 2 instead
- 11:34Speaker 4: of 3rd and 9 and 3rd and 11. And all
- 11:37Speaker 4: of that hasn't happened and helped Sam Donald either. The interceptions,
- 11:42Speaker 4: the pressure he got, the 17 hits he took in Denver,
- 11:45Speaker 4: all of that would go down if the running game
- 11:48Speaker 4: was something a defense can honor, and right now they
- 11:50Speaker 4: don't honor it very much. They know that the Seahawks
- 11:53Speaker 4: are going to try to throw to Jackson, Smith, and
- 11:55Speaker 4: Jigba to win games and get first downs, and they
- 11:59Speaker 4: don't believe that the Seahawks can consistently get first downs
- 12:02Speaker 4: with the running game they have, and that includes the
- 12:04Speaker 4: linemen and includes the backs.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider, and you
- 12:08Speaker 1: can follow him at GBellSeattle on X. He joins us
- 12:11Speaker 1: almost every day here at 7.05. A matchup of the No.
- 12:15Speaker 1: 1 offense yardage-wise in the National Football League versus the No.
- 12:19Speaker 1: 1 defense yardage-wise in the National Football League. It's crazy
- 12:24Speaker 1: that the Ken Walker week, because of our association with him,
- 12:27Speaker 1: has dominated the conversation, but the truth of the matter is,
- 12:31Speaker 1: They have maybe the quarterback of his generation playing at
- 12:34Speaker 1: a really high level again, coming off of a knee injury.
- 12:37Speaker 1: So I'm sure Mike McDonald would love nothing more, Greg,
- 12:41Speaker 1: than to shut down Ken Walker and shut down some
- 12:44Speaker 1: of this narrative surrounding their mistake, letting him go. But
- 12:48Speaker 1: he's got a great quarterback he has to worry about
- 12:51Speaker 1: facing on Sunday as well. So how does he go
- 12:53Speaker 1: about this?
- 12:55Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of the same recipe as every week.
- 12:58Speaker 4: make Mahomes be in situations where everyone knows he has
- 13:01Speaker 4: to throw. And with Walker running the league-leading 665 yards,
- 13:07Speaker 4: they don't have to throw. They've been running Walker 20-plus
- 13:10Speaker 4: times a game for 117-plus yards a game, and they
- 13:15Speaker 4: could be in third in anything they want, third and three,
- 13:18Speaker 4: third and two. And Mahomes can run pass. He can
- 13:22Speaker 4: get outside. He can do his sideways passes like shuffle passes.
- 13:26Speaker 4: He can do whatever he wants. when it's third and two.
- 13:29Speaker 4: And when you're running that effectively, any quarterback becomes more
- 13:32Speaker 4: effective in using any play in the playbook. 66, over 66%
- 13:37Speaker 4: of his passes, nine touchdowns against his three interceptions, been
- 13:41Speaker 4: sacked six times in five games. He has come back
- 13:46Speaker 4: splendidly so far from his knee injury very quickly, relatively quickly.
- 13:51Speaker 4: And he's done it because he's got a running game.
- 13:53Speaker 4: It's why they spent $ 14 million a year on the
- 13:56Speaker 4: running back position for Kenneth Walker, and they are using
- 14:00Speaker 4: all of him. We talked about 70-plus percent of the
- 14:03Speaker 4: snaps on pace from 350 touches. They use him in
- 14:08Speaker 4: the pass game. He scored a couple touchdowns there as well.
- 14:12Speaker 4: He is making Mahomes much better than Mahomes already is,
- 14:16Speaker 4: which is pretty much one of the best quarterbacks of
- 14:18Speaker 4: his generation. That's the task for the Seahawks. But people
- 14:22Speaker 4: are already looking at this game and forgetting that and
- 14:26Speaker 4: not overlooking that the Chiefs defense is playing really well.
- 14:29Speaker 4: It's among the league leaders in yards allowed. I know
- 14:33Speaker 4: the Chargers are a mess, and McDaniel might get axed,
- 14:36Speaker 4: and the Chargers offense has gone nowhere. But they got
- 14:39Speaker 4: six points coming off just allowing six points to the Chargers.
- 14:44Speaker 4: They gain 400 plus, 414 yards a game while allowing
- 14:48Speaker 4: only 306. So it's 100-plus more yards a game tilting
- 14:53Speaker 4: in the Chiefs' favor so far. The Seahawks' offense has
- 14:57Speaker 4: a huge task, probably as big as the Seahawks' defense
- 15:02Speaker 4: does in stopping Kansas City's offense.
- 15:05Speaker 1: Well, Mahomes looks 100%. I mean, it doesn't look like
- 15:08Speaker 1: he's having any ill effects from that injury that he
- 15:10Speaker 1: came back from a lot earlier than anyone expected. Last week,
- 15:14Speaker 1: I think maybe Nicky Manwari, that was... That was Nicky
- 15:18Speaker 1: Manwari looking 100% back. The usage, the explosiveness, everything. So
- 15:25Speaker 1: is Nicky Manwari now ready to go? Is he up
- 15:28Speaker 1: to speed, speed of the game, and is he ready
- 15:32Speaker 1: to now become a guy that going into this season
- 15:35Speaker 1: people thought could be a Defensive Player of the Year candidate?
- 15:38Speaker 1: That's how much he impressed as a rookie.
- 15:41Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, he is, and now he's the full deal
- 15:44Speaker 4: in all three levels. We'll line up a little bit
- 15:47Speaker 4: of defensive end, hybrid linebacker, safety, and then that allows
- 15:51Speaker 4: McDonald to do anything. Now, again, McDonald has played Witherspoon
- 15:56Speaker 4: outside the last two games more than I expect him
- 16:00Speaker 4: to do over the course of the season. He hasn't
- 16:02Speaker 4: done as much dime. Even though Nehemiah Pritchett has played
- 16:06Speaker 4: well as an extra defensive back, he kept Witherspoon outside
- 16:09Speaker 4: quite a bit in Denver. And will that change against Mahomes?
- 16:15Speaker 4: Teams often use extra defensive backs, five, six defensive backs
- 16:19Speaker 4: against Kansas City, sometimes not quite to spy but to
- 16:22Speaker 4: have an extra speed guy inside against Mahomes' threat to run.
- 16:27Speaker 4: And now that they have Kenneth Walker, the Chiefs will
- 16:30Speaker 4: run against that. So that's part of the chess match
- 16:34Speaker 4: on Sunday. How much are they going back to last
- 16:36Speaker 4: year's dime? We even worry all over the place. and
- 16:41Speaker 4: Witherspoon inside at nickel, or will they keep Witherspoon outside
- 16:44Speaker 4: and have Ewan Worry more like a nickel? They call
- 16:48Speaker 4: it nickel-five defensive. It's really a base defense with a
- 16:51Speaker 4: hybrid safety playing linebacker when Ewan Worry's up and Witherspoon's outside.
- 16:55Speaker 4: So that's some of what the Drake Thomas injury is
- 16:59Speaker 4: somewhat related to that. Thomas, it sounds like, at least
- 17:02Speaker 4: early in the week, is not yet back, and McDonald
- 17:04Speaker 4: said he doesn't know. Nothing new on Drake Thomas's ankle
- 17:08Speaker 4: injury that had him on the sidelines in Denver. That's
- 17:12Speaker 4: your inside linebacker that starts next to Ernest Jones. And
- 17:17Speaker 4: if he doesn't play, then they may do Tyrese Knight
- 17:20Speaker 4: played in Denver, but he may do less of more
- 17:24Speaker 4: less space and more extra defensive back. So Neiman worries
- 17:27Speaker 4: the key to all that to move him all around
- 17:30Speaker 4: and have Mahomes try and read, try to guess where
- 17:32Speaker 4: he's coming from. Yeah.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Yeah, and a few extra days to prepare versus Kansas
- 17:36Speaker 1: City from Thursday to the next Sunday. So who knows?
- 17:41Speaker 1: Let's just Eamon Worry them all night long. That sounds
- 17:44Speaker 1: like a plan. All right, what do you got planned
- 17:46Speaker 1: for the show here today?
- 17:49Speaker 4: We're going to go to Kansas City and talk to
- 17:50Speaker 4: Sam McDowell. He's a Kansas City star writer, former McClatchy
- 17:54Speaker 4: colleague of mine. He's with the Chiefs, and we're going
- 17:57Speaker 4: to talk about Ken Walker and can they keep using
- 17:59Speaker 4: him at the rate they're using him. We'll do a
- 18:02Speaker 4: lot of Chiefs talk at 11 o'clock.
- 18:04Speaker 1: All right. Sounds good. All right, Greg. Thank you very much, sir.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Thanks. Happy Wednesday.
- 18:10Speaker 1: All right. Greg Bell, our segment with him, brought to
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- 18:16Speaker 1: the Greg Bell segment right now. And he'll be on
- 18:19Speaker 1: at 10 o'clock with more on the Seahawks. One of
- 18:22Speaker 1: the things I was trying to lead him to in
- 18:24Speaker 1: that conversation is he responded on X to Ryan Paginetti.
- 18:30Speaker 1: who does a lot of numbers, a lot of analytics stuff.
- 18:35Speaker 1: And he put out a post yesterday, percentage of runs
- 18:39Speaker 1: in the National Football League hit at or behind the
- 18:42Speaker 1: line of scrimmage through week six. And the Browns are
- 18:46Speaker 1: number one in the league, or number 32, depends on
- 18:50Speaker 1: how you look at it. At the most. They have
- 18:54Speaker 1: the most. 56.7% of their runs, they're getting hit behind
- 18:56Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. to which he put at the
- 18:59Speaker 1: bottom of the post, for clarification, ranking first in this
- 19:03Speaker 1: is bad. But the Seahawks are third on that list.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Third worst. Third worst. Over 52.5% of their runs. So
- 19:16Speaker 1: that's why I thought I was leading him to there
- 19:20Speaker 1: about maybe the offensive line's got to be called out
- 19:22Speaker 1: a little bit as well. But I think that the
- 19:24Speaker 1: answer that he gave, and that's why I moved on
- 19:26Speaker 1: from him and didn't push it, was something that Hughes
- 19:30Speaker 1: talked about a lot. We don't have that running back
- 19:33Speaker 1: with speed that can get to the hole where the
- 19:36Speaker 1: play is designed. And I don't think the offensive line's
- 19:40Speaker 1: killing it.
- 19:41Speaker 4: No.
- 19:42Speaker 1: But the bigger issue seems to be where is, I mean,
- 19:45Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson can be a person you can have in
- 19:48Speaker 1: your running back crowd. of course that can move a
- 19:51Speaker 1: pile three yards in a cloud of dust um but
- 19:54Speaker 1: where's that guy that can get you seven yards and
- 19:57Speaker 1: uh you know uh a.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Well, and especially the scheme the Seahawks employ in the
- 20:02Speaker 3: running game. Hughes talked about it many times. The outside zone,
- 20:05Speaker 3: it takes speed to get to that zone before the
- 20:08Speaker 3: defense does, right? And we saw it many times with
- 20:11Speaker 3: Ken Walker. I think the classic example was in the...
- 20:14Speaker 3: The Super Bowl where he gets all the way outside
- 20:16Speaker 3: and it just seems like he was going to get
- 20:18Speaker 3: stopped in the backfield. But it's not breaking tackles. It's
- 20:21Speaker 3: the speed to get to the outside. And the Seahawks
- 20:23Speaker 3: don't have that.
- 20:23Speaker 1: We don't have it right now. There's no doubt. Factor
- 20:25Speaker 1: Fiction next. Plus, it's a waiver wire Wednesday. Sports Radio
- 20:30Speaker 1: 93.3 KJR FM. And then we took her out to
- 20:33Speaker 1: the movies and a little snack. Probably at Panera Bread,
- 20:38Speaker 1: I'm sure. And over a salad filled with grapes, looked
- 20:43Speaker 1: at her like, I don't even like you. Why did
- 20:45Speaker 1: I fantasize about you my entire life? I'm just going
- 20:50Speaker 1: to go ahead and check this box. And be done
- 20:52Speaker 1: with it. And be on to something better. Yeah. Oh, man.
- 20:58Speaker 1: How about that? How about that run of impressive poetry?
- 21:02Speaker 4: Stuff.
- 21:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Well done.
- 21:04Speaker 4: All right.
- 21:04Speaker 1: We've got Factor Fiction coming your way at 735. It
- 21:07Speaker 1: is a Waiver Wire Wednesday, though, so maybe a few
- 21:10Speaker 1: fantasy tips for you here on this day. I'm going
- 21:12Speaker 1: to give you the first one because it's advice that
- 21:14Speaker 1: I took just this morning. Jordan Tyson, who a lot
- 21:18Speaker 1: of people believe is the best wide receiver in this
- 21:20Speaker 1: rookie class this year, has been injured. This entire season
- 21:24Speaker 1: has not been available, and he's kind of gone forgotten,
- 21:28Speaker 1: but he's getting ready to be activated. He actually took
- 21:30Speaker 1: the trip with New Orleans to Paris for this Sunday's
- 21:34Speaker 1: European game. I don't know if he's going to get
- 21:38Speaker 1: activated in time, but you can grab him right now
- 21:40Speaker 1: still in a lot of leagues off of the IR.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I read a few articles last night about him. He
- 21:47Speaker 1: could be a game changer for the New Orleans Saints.
- 21:50Speaker 1: So I picked him up. He was available in our league.
- 21:53Speaker 1: If you've slept on Jordan Tyson, if you've forgotten that
- 21:56Speaker 1: he was the eighth overall pick in the NFL draft
- 21:59Speaker 1: and by many people's belief, the best wide receiver in
- 22:02Speaker 1: this class. He could be a really valuable asset down
- 22:06Speaker 1: the stretch. Yeah.
- 22:07Speaker 3: I mean, it's good to kind of get ahead of
- 22:09Speaker 3: maybe one week before he gets activated, then he goes
- 22:12Speaker 3: off and everyone's clamoring to the waiver wire to get him.
- 22:14Speaker 3: So if you have a spot in your IR, might
- 22:16Speaker 3: as well.
- 22:16Speaker 1: Yeah. I had two kickers because I didn't want to
- 22:19Speaker 1: cut Will Reichert because it looks like he might be
- 22:22Speaker 1: the best kicker in the league right now. And so
- 22:25Speaker 1: I had a spot, I had a hole, so I
- 22:27Speaker 1: made the move, but somebody might keep your eye on. Also,
- 22:31Speaker 1: it might be that time, and this is good advice,
- 22:34Speaker 1: but then again, we also have to look at the variables.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Like Saquon Barkley and Jonathan Taylor, I mean, we're three
- 22:39Speaker 1: weeks away from the NFL trade deadline. Do you consider
- 22:43Speaker 1: getting their backup right now? just in case they are moved.
- 22:48Speaker 1: Because all of a sudden, you don't want to wait
- 22:52Speaker 1: until the actual moves are made. And then again, you've
- 22:55Speaker 1: got the clamoring if you've got a spot open. Now,
- 22:58Speaker 1: I say that, but right now, Saquon Barkley's backup is
- 23:02Speaker 1: the Eagles' fourth stringer because their second and third stringers
- 23:06Speaker 1: are hurt too. So, I mean, I have Damian Pierce
- 23:10Speaker 1: and he came through for me last week. So, might
- 23:12Speaker 1: be somebody worth getting, but he did not look like
- 23:15Speaker 1: somebody you want to have on your starting lineup. And
- 23:18Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor's backups in Indianapolis are a guy named Seth McGowan.
- 23:23Speaker 1: and D.J. Giddens. Yeah. So I don't know. I can't
- 23:27Speaker 1: really tell you. Go stock up on Colts running backs
- 23:31Speaker 1: in case Jonathan Taylor. But just the strategy of, it
- 23:34Speaker 1: looks like there are some guys that are going to
- 23:36Speaker 1: move at the trading deadline, and once that happens, then you,
- 23:41Speaker 1: obviously the whole target culture changes in that particular organization,
- 23:46Speaker 1: and you might want to grab him now.
- 23:48Speaker 3: If you have the ability. Yeah, you always want to
- 23:50Speaker 3: struggle with the balance of, okay, D.J. Someone who's going
- 23:53Speaker 3: to be in a good position versus an actual good player, right?
- 23:56Speaker 3: Sometimes those two things don't coexist together.
- 23:58Speaker 1: I saw that Kidd picked up Aaron Rodgers this week.
- 24:02Speaker 1: He's always been a big Aaron Rodgers guy. Did you
- 24:04Speaker 1: have Jalen Hurts or something?
- 24:05Speaker 6: No, I have— Sam Darnold. I have Baker Mayfield, who
- 24:09Speaker 6: hasn't played. And then I had Sam Darnold the last
- 24:12Speaker 6: two weeks, who did not help. So I'm like, you
- 24:13Speaker 6: know what? A-Rod's playing good ball. You are struggling at
- 24:17Speaker 6: the quarterback position.
- 24:18Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah. I've got Patrick Mahomes. Maybe we should talk.
- 24:21Speaker 1: I got Jared Goff. All right, let's play some factor fiction.
- 24:25Speaker 1: We're set to go. Glad you're with us.
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- 24:45Speaker 1: Before anyone asks, no, I'm not starting Patrick Mahomes against
- 24:49Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Well done. Good job. I'm not doing that.
- 24:51Speaker 1: You're not hedging. Nope, nope, nope, nope. He wouldn't be
- 24:54Speaker 1: my starter either way. I don't think he's going to
- 24:56Speaker 1: have that great of a game. Good. All right, it's
- 24:58Speaker 1: time for Fact or Fiction. It is my pick. Look,
- 25:03Speaker 1: I've kind of felt this way for a couple of
- 25:05Speaker 1: years now. We certainly have to acknowledge it this season.
- 25:10Speaker 1: The Texas Longhorns are overrated. Dun, dun. Overrated. They've now
- 25:20Speaker 1: lost a couple games outright. The program seems to be
- 25:24Speaker 1: reeling right now. They're coming off a loss to Florida,
- 25:28Speaker 1: who's been getting boat raced by teams in the SEC
- 25:33Speaker 1: at least the last couple of weeks. Since their win
- 25:38Speaker 1: over Ole Miss, quite frankly. And so you're looking at
- 25:42Speaker 1: a team that not only has two losses, they've won
- 25:45Speaker 1: only once against the spread this entire season. Did I
- 25:49Speaker 1: mention overrated? Overrated. Can't remember. Did I do a chant
- 25:53Speaker 1: about that earlier?
- 25:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:55Speaker 1: So I think they're reeling. I think they've got some
- 25:58Speaker 1: quarterback questions right now. I don't know if they're playing
- 26:00Speaker 1: with the best confidence. And being in the middle of
- 26:03Speaker 1: your SEC schedule and trying to figure out your identity
- 26:06Speaker 1: is like trying to find a contact on the floor
- 26:09Speaker 1: in the dark. I think Ole Miss is going to
- 26:13Speaker 1: roll into Texas and beat them outright. And I think
- 26:17Speaker 1: they're going to beat them pretty convincingly. So for them
- 26:20Speaker 1: to be getting points in this game... Yeah, I'm going
- 26:23Speaker 1: to take Trinidad Chambliss and the Rebels. They're not coming off.
- 26:27Speaker 1: A big win over LSU where they got tripped up
- 26:30Speaker 1: by Florida the next week. Ole Miss has had time
- 26:33Speaker 1: to get regrouped, and they've got Kieran Lacy back. So
- 26:38Speaker 1: I think the Rebels are winning this thing outright, so
- 26:41Speaker 1: I'm certainly going to take the points. So give me
- 26:43Speaker 1: Ole Miss plus three points. at Texas against the Fighting
- 26:47Speaker 1: McConaughey's this Saturday. That's my pick for Fact or Fiction.
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- 28:01Speaker 1: morning at 1135 with Greg Bell and the lovely Miss
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- 28:08Speaker 1: to get reckless at breakfast. Oh, Andrew's going to get
- 28:12Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. Hey, look, the
- 28:17Speaker 1: Ken Walker thing is done. He's not going to be
- 28:18Speaker 1: a Seahawk. He's not a Seahawk anymore. He's not coming back.
- 28:21Speaker 1: He's not going to be having those 175-yard rushing games
- 28:25Speaker 1: for us. So what do you do now? The running
- 28:28Speaker 1: back room obviously is not up to par. So what's
- 28:31Speaker 1: your move? What should the team do? Trade, benching, promotion,
- 28:36Speaker 1: more of this, more of that. What would you do
- 28:38Speaker 1: now going forward? uh, to fix the running game. Uh,
- 28:42Speaker 1: want to hear your suggestions. You can do that on
- 28:44Speaker 1: our talk back feature at 93, three KJR.com, uh, lay
- 28:48Speaker 1: down a track of 30 seconds, uh, your hot take, uh,
- 28:52Speaker 1: or hit us, uh, with a text at four, nine, four, five, one,
- 28:55Speaker 1: or you can even communicate via our YouTube channel as well.
- 28:58Speaker 1: But mirror mirror is coming up at the top of
- 29:00Speaker 1: the hour. Ken Walker's gone. So what now for the
- 29:03Speaker 1: Seahawks at running back? How would you fix it? Give me, uh, something.
- 29:08Speaker 1: that we can react to. But let's get a little
- 29:10Speaker 1: reckless at breakfast right now. And this is just something
- 29:14Speaker 1: that I know we're not going to solve. But can
- 29:17Speaker 1: I just say that Junior Caminero did go too far
- 29:22Speaker 1: in his home run trot, but that maybe it's okay.
- 29:27Speaker 1: That it's not the end of the world. Yeah. And
- 29:30Speaker 1: for you young people that love your celebrations and don't
- 29:33Speaker 1: understand that sometimes that feels disrespectful to the opponent that
- 29:38Speaker 1: is playing the game. can you not for once just say, hey,
- 29:42Speaker 1: I like it, but I get this one. That's a
- 29:46Speaker 1: little much. That's a little over the top. Because... The overreaction,
- 29:51Speaker 1: the extreme reaction to what happened with Junior Caminero's 39-second
- 29:58Speaker 1: home run trot the other day where he humped second
- 30:02Speaker 1: base and gyrated at first and stopped before home plate
- 30:07Speaker 1: and stared into the netherworlds and then finally crossed the plate.
- 30:11Speaker 1: I mean, he is a colorful character and he has
- 30:14Speaker 1: a reputation for doing this to begin with. And it
- 30:17Speaker 1: didn't bother me. But I do at least acknowledge that
- 30:22Speaker 1: those who are really steeped in the tradition of not
- 30:25Speaker 1: liking this and not liking showing up your opponent, I
- 30:29Speaker 1: knew and understand why they might have been angered by it.
- 30:33Speaker 1: And on the flip side, for those that have been
- 30:35Speaker 1: dying for... More of this, more of emotion in the
- 30:41Speaker 1: sport of baseball. You got what you wanted from seeing
- 30:45Speaker 1: Junior Caminero, but maybe you could also be understanding that Because, Anders,
- 30:52Speaker 1: if I saw that on every single home run in
- 30:55Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, I would stop watching the sport. I'm
- 30:58Speaker 1: only giving him a pass because I know his reputation,
- 31:02Speaker 1: and that was a big moment. Not like it was
- 31:04Speaker 1: the biggest moment. No, it was not. It wasn't even
- 31:06Speaker 1: the biggest home run of the game there, Junes. It
- 31:07Speaker 1: was not. But I know the player. I know his
- 31:11Speaker 1: reputation for that. I like the player. I like that
- 31:14Speaker 1: he plays with that kind of emotion. And that was
- 31:16Speaker 1: a big moment for the Rays. It did feel like
- 31:19Speaker 1: they sealed it at that point. So it didn't bother
- 31:22Speaker 1: me because it felt on brand. But I knew that
- 31:26Speaker 1: it was going to bother some people. And I am
- 31:29Speaker 1: very understanding of the former baseball player that says, I
- 31:34Speaker 1: don't want to be disrespected, shown up that way because
- 31:38Speaker 1: you had a good moment. I had a bad moment.
- 31:40Speaker 1: And you, and so when they already feel that way
- 31:44Speaker 1: about the game, obviously that's an example of that pisses
- 31:49Speaker 1: me off. So it's the extreme like. I can't watch
- 31:53Speaker 1: these kids play the game today anymore. If they're going
- 31:56Speaker 1: to do that versus I want more of that all
- 31:59Speaker 1: the time. No, you're both wrong. Uh, somewhere in the
- 32:03Speaker 1: middle lies the sweet spot where we can have a.
- 32:07Speaker 7: Little more of emotion and our major league baseball, a
- 32:10Speaker 7: little more of the Latino flair, which I am opening
- 32:13Speaker 7: my arms to, but at least acknowledge that if I
- 32:17Speaker 7: saw this all the time, I'd probably stop watching the sport.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:21Speaker 3: I mean, I, I, think i fall into the same
- 32:23Speaker 3: category and not not often do we come to the
- 32:26Speaker 3: reckless at breakfast segment and fall in the middle of
- 32:29Speaker 3: something right true but this is where we are.
- 32:32Speaker 1: But i feel like i'm the only person saying.
- 32:34Speaker 2: It's true it's true it does feel kind of reckless
- 32:37Speaker 2: considering it's everyone on one side versus everyone on the
- 32:40Speaker 2: other side i definitely lean more to the hey i
- 32:44Speaker 2: want more of this type of stuff.
- 32:47Speaker 1: And I lean more to the other.
- 32:49Speaker 4: Right, right.
- 32:50Speaker 3: But I also understand why someone might not think this
- 32:56Speaker 3: is the best thing, especially if it's going to be
- 32:58Speaker 3: all the time, every single time. And even I, as
- 33:01Speaker 3: someone who likes that stuff, thinks Junior Caminero's.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Was probably still a little over the top. Now, I
- 33:07Speaker 1: don't really care about that. It doesn't really bother me.
- 33:09Speaker 1: I don't think it bothers most players either.
- 33:13Speaker 4: Right.
- 33:13Speaker 1: But the former player who– and that's one of the things, though,
- 33:18Speaker 1: about the former player. They acted like no one ever
- 33:21Speaker 1: did this. That is a lie. Ricky Henderson did it
- 33:25Speaker 1: every time he hit a home run off one of
- 33:28Speaker 1: you old bastards.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Yeah. It's true.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Gary Matthews used to throw his bat back at the catcher.
- 33:37Speaker 1: He would sling it. So it's not like it didn't
- 33:41Speaker 1: happen on your watch. I mean, the most famous home
- 33:44Speaker 1: run arguably in World Series history was Reggie Jackson's third
- 33:48Speaker 1: home run, and he watched all of them. Oh, yes.
- 33:50Speaker 1: And took as much time as he did to enjoy
- 33:53Speaker 1: the entire arc of the home run. So it's not
- 33:57Speaker 1: like it didn't happen on your watch. Stop acting like
- 33:59Speaker 1: a tough guy. But we don't need the extreme. We don't,
- 34:03Speaker 1: I can't watch this sport anymore because of this. And
- 34:07Speaker 1: then we also don't, if you don't like it, this
- 34:10Speaker 1: is the new wave. The young people are here to
- 34:12Speaker 1: take over. We love disrespect. Okay, boomer. We love disrespect.
- 34:17Speaker 1: We love being disrespectful. And it's because you who are
- 34:21Speaker 1: saying that has never been in the heat of that
- 34:23Speaker 1: kind of competition and felt the sting of giving up
- 34:25Speaker 1: that home run and then have someone rub it in
- 34:28Speaker 1: your face. Yeah, I mean, yes, I agree. Totally agree.
- 34:31Speaker 3: And there is an element of act like you've been there, brother.
- 34:34Speaker 3: And again, it's a big moment. Like, you probably haven't
- 34:36Speaker 3: been there. Junior Caminero has, in fact, not been there.
- 34:39Speaker 3: He has not hit a home run in a game
- 34:41Speaker 3: that clinches his team to go to the World Series, right?
- 34:44Speaker 3: He has not been there. So the act like you've
- 34:46Speaker 3: been there crowd, like, Like I said, I lean more
- 34:49Speaker 3: to one side, but there is a point where it
- 34:51Speaker 3: gets over the top.
- 34:52Speaker 1: It was over the top. It was over the top.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's got to admit it. That was too much.
- 34:58Speaker 4: Right.
- 34:59Speaker 1: But is that an outlier? And can we... be okay
- 35:04Speaker 1: with it without thinking the world is ending.
- 35:06Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:06Speaker 3: How is it any different than the turnover celebrations that
- 35:09Speaker 3: the entire team goes to the end zone and just
- 35:11Speaker 3: does this weird ass dance. You're celebrating someone else's bad
- 35:14Speaker 3: play as well. Oh, we're seeing it in all the sports.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And I think we see too much of it.
- 35:19Speaker 4: I do.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Um, But I'm glad we see some of it.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 35:25Speaker 1: And sometimes guys go over the top. If ever there
- 35:28Speaker 1: was a candidate that was going to go over the top.
- 35:30Speaker 1: It would be Junior Caminero. It's Junior Caminero. But he's
- 35:32Speaker 1: a fantastic player. He's a very likable player. I can't
- 35:36Speaker 1: wait to watch him in the World Series. But I'm
- 35:39Speaker 1: going to be rooting for the Brewers, and it has
- 35:41Speaker 1: nothing to do with Junior Caminero's 39-second home run. No,
- 35:44Speaker 1: it doesn't.
- 35:44Speaker 3: I'm not rooting against that or anything. I think I'm.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Rooting against terrible Tampa fans who don't deserve this more
- 35:52Speaker 1: so than anything. Totally agree. All right, coming up next,
- 35:55Speaker 1: it's Mirror, Mirror time. Ken Walker is gone, so what now?
- 35:59Speaker 1: How do we fix this running back room going forward?
- 36:03Speaker 1: And maybe the fixes don't do anything. Just let it
- 36:06Speaker 1: play out. We want to hear from you. You can
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