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- 0:12Speaker 1: Nive o'clock hour here on a football Friday, Chuck Powell
- 0:15Speaker 1: and Ashley Ryan with you is we head into the
- 0:19Speaker 1: stretch drive here on this Friday. Mike Sander will be
- 0:23Speaker 1: joining us later on this hour. We'll do one last
- 0:25Speaker 1: thing to close out the week. Joining us now though
- 0:29Speaker 1: the staple of our Friday nine o'clock hour it is
- 0:32Speaker 1: x's and o's with our QB one Hugh Millon.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Merry Christmas here, Merry Christmas. Good to be with you.
- 0:38Speaker 2: How was it? How did everything go? Did you get
- 0:40Speaker 2: a choo choo train? Did you get the everything I wanted? Figured?
- 0:44Speaker 3: Adult sons were home from the East Coast, both of them,
- 0:49Speaker 3: and and had some friends also, So yeah, it was.
- 0:52Speaker 3: It was wonderful, Okay, very good at that point. You know,
- 0:55Speaker 3: at some point, just the presence of your kids is
- 0:58Speaker 3: all you need?
- 0:58Speaker 2: Is that right?
- 0:59Speaker 1: Okay? I need more than that. I need more than
- 1:02Speaker 1: the presence of your kids.
- 1:03Speaker 3: You need the presence from your kids, your kids.
- 1:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I need expensive one. My point is I need
- 1:11Speaker 2: your kids to buy me some presents next year.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Okay, we'll yeah, yeah, pass that message along. I was present, Yeah,
- 1:19Speaker 1: I wasn't very happy with coming year. Okay, perfect, all right, Well,
- 1:24Speaker 1: we we could get a scenario where the Seahawks are
- 1:29Speaker 1: division champs at the end of this week. I'm rooting
- 1:31Speaker 1: for a win in a Rams and forty nine Ers tie.
- 1:34Speaker 1: That's how I want to get it done. But this
- 1:37Speaker 1: Carolina team has a lot to play for themselves. I mean,
- 1:40Speaker 1: this is pretty much their super Bowl the next couple
- 1:43Speaker 1: of weeks. I don't think that they're entertaining any visions
- 1:45Speaker 1: of grandeur about being a super Bowl champion this week,
- 1:49Speaker 1: but be a nice accomplishment for them here the next
- 1:53Speaker 1: couple of weeks. To win the division would show a
- 1:55Speaker 1: lot of progress. But it's hard for me to find
- 1:59Speaker 1: anything dangers about this team. What would you highlight about
- 2:03Speaker 1: Carolina that is something worth chewing on here this morning?
- 2:06Speaker 3: I think there what's interesting to me is that over
- 2:09Speaker 3: the last nine weeks they've gone win loss, win, loss, win, loss,
- 2:13Speaker 3: et cetera. And they've got some of the more impressive
- 2:18Speaker 3: wins in the entire NFL season. I can just remember
- 2:22Speaker 3: my reaction when they went to Green Bay and beat
- 2:25Speaker 3: the Packers, when the Packers had acquired Micah Parsons and
- 2:29Speaker 3: everybody thought they were rolling and then they're win at
- 2:33Speaker 3: home against the Rams that where they scored thirty one points.
- 2:41Speaker 2: That was one of the most shocking wins.
- 2:44Speaker 3: So I think that they have I don't know, I
- 2:46Speaker 3: don't know if that constitutes a high ceiling for them
- 2:49Speaker 3: just to have a couple of impressive games, But I
- 2:52Speaker 3: think that there's a environment the Seahawks are going into
- 2:56Speaker 3: with the as you suggest that, the idea they think,
- 2:59Speaker 3: with all of their recent woes, how many times have
- 3:01Speaker 3: they had the number one overall? You know, they traded
- 3:05Speaker 3: remember they traded it to Chicago, but they've had number
- 3:08Speaker 3: one overall back to back and they've just really been down.
- 3:12Speaker 3: So I think at that fan base when you think
- 3:14Speaker 3: of what this, remember now what the Seahawks are. They're
- 3:16Speaker 3: the number one seed in the NFC. So that a
- 3:20Speaker 3: number one seed coming into your building when you think
- 3:23Speaker 3: you can kind of just wash away some of your
- 3:27Speaker 3: recent history, I think there you're going to get all
- 3:30Speaker 3: of the Panthers effort and all of that crowds effort,
- 3:34Speaker 3: and it's gonna be potentially a difficult environment.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It's not been a great year for short quarterbacks this year,
- 3:41Speaker 1: but Bryce Young has at least it seems salvaged his career.
- 3:46Speaker 1: I mean it was not looking good last season. I
- 3:48Speaker 1: mean they benched him last season in the middle of
- 3:51Speaker 1: the year and it was looking like a bust at
- 3:53Speaker 1: the number one overall selection. But he's played much better
- 3:57Speaker 1: this year. Where does Bryce Young give you trouble if
- 4:01Speaker 1: you're Mike McDonald's defense.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Well, he's he's a twitchy playmaker in the pocket as
- 4:06Speaker 3: would be needed at that height, right, And I think
- 4:10Speaker 3: that for that, you know, they've just got better people
- 4:13Speaker 3: around him. I think Tet McMillan is a guy that
- 4:16Speaker 3: you know, we had talked about maybe the Seahawks targeting him,
- 4:19Speaker 3: the big receiver out of Arizona, and he's really come
- 4:22Speaker 3: on and and so I think that's probably the uh
- 4:25Speaker 3: the as much of a reason for anything. Their tackles
- 4:29Speaker 3: are playing better. They still have some problems that they're
- 4:32Speaker 3: somewhat like Seattle. Their worst offensive line positions are center
- 4:36Speaker 3: and right guard. But uh but and then you know
- 4:40Speaker 3: they've got this Rico Doubtle that you know, it's kind
- 4:44Speaker 3: of emerged, an undrafted guy that almost like a folk
- 4:47Speaker 3: hero type guy in some of his uh he's he's
- 4:50Speaker 3: had again high ceiling for him. Some of the best
- 4:54Speaker 3: games by a running back in the NFL. He's had
- 4:56Speaker 3: a couple of them, so so I think that there's
- 4:58Speaker 3: some better people around him.
- 4:59Speaker 2: But you know.
- 5:00Speaker 3: He's still a guy that does not have overwhelming arm strength,
- 5:04Speaker 3: and he will be inclined to kind of back up
- 5:07Speaker 3: in the face of pressure. And when he's backing up,
- 5:10Speaker 3: where there are some players in this league that have
- 5:13Speaker 3: the arm talent to still generate velocity, you know, from
- 5:19Speaker 3: a compromised position. When I say compromise, I mean you
- 5:22Speaker 3: can't have the kinetic chain, you know, the weight transfer
- 5:25Speaker 3: that you would like. When he doesn't get his weight transfer,
- 5:28Speaker 3: he doesn't have a strong arm, there may be an
- 5:29Speaker 3: opportunity to get some hands on some balls that are
- 5:33Speaker 3: floating by a relative scale with him if you get
- 5:35Speaker 3: the right pressure in his face.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Yeah, you really don't see a lot of five foot
- 5:39Speaker 1: nine inch pocket quarterbacks in the NFL are.
- 5:42Speaker 3: No, no, though, well they're not going to see like,
- 5:44Speaker 3: let's if we're going to really dissect this issue. And
- 5:48Speaker 3: you know, I've given more thought to it because Russell
- 5:50Speaker 3: Wilson was the once to see our quarterback.
- 5:52Speaker 4: But but.
- 5:55Speaker 3: There's going to be times, you know where you don't
- 5:58Speaker 3: see how There was a time where I was asking
- 6:00Speaker 3: all the the quarterbacks I had encountered and new through
- 6:03Speaker 3: the years. Uh, you know Lway, Marino, guys I played with,
- 6:07Speaker 3: you know, rich Gannon, other guys, Danny White, you know.
- 6:10Speaker 3: I just anytime I saw a quarterback and say, hey,
- 6:13Speaker 3: what percents of the time out of one hundred times
- 6:15Speaker 3: in the pocket?
- 6:16Speaker 2: Could you not see what you want to see?
- 6:18Speaker 3: And and and they're all their answer was right around
- 6:21Speaker 3: thirty to forty percent. And these are big dudes, right
- 6:24Speaker 3: and and so if if a guy six y three,
- 6:26Speaker 3: six y four can only you know, I couldn't, couldn't,
- 6:31Speaker 3: can't see a third of the time that he'd want, well,
- 6:35Speaker 3: you know it's obviously more than a third of a
- 6:37Speaker 3: time for a shorter quarterback. So so I don't think
- 6:40Speaker 3: that can be debated. There's times where you can't see
- 6:43Speaker 3: what you want to see. The guys who play well
- 6:45Speaker 3: at a shorter height, it's what do they do when
- 6:47Speaker 3: they can't see?
- 6:48Speaker 2: Well? Often it.
- 6:52Speaker 3: The answer to that question is how do they playoff
- 6:54Speaker 3: script and move around? And do they feel comfortable playing
- 6:58Speaker 3: late in the down, potentially with receivers having broken off
- 7:02Speaker 3: their routes, and now you're playing sandloight ball guys who
- 7:04Speaker 3: have a good intuition field they can play at that height.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Well, and let's say that you were a five foot
- 7:09Speaker 1: nine inch quarterback at one point too.
- 7:11Speaker 2: It just was in the third race.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I didn't have any trouble seeing back then
- 7:19Speaker 3: when I was five to nine.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Okay, I'm seeing over everybody.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Hugh Mellon is with us x's and o's brought to
- 7:25Speaker 1: you by Frost Brewed Corps Light. It just feels like
- 7:27Speaker 1: one of those games. Just you take care of your business,
- 7:30Speaker 1: don't worry about them, You play your game, your Seattle,
- 7:34Speaker 1: and you you come away with this victory, which might
- 7:38Speaker 1: be essential in terms of your goals for this season.
- 7:42Speaker 1: So where does it? Where does it begin with a
- 7:45Speaker 1: Seahawks win? What do you want to make sure that
- 7:48Speaker 1: you see out of this football team?
- 7:49Speaker 4: So?
- 7:49Speaker 3: Well, you know, I look at Carolina and I'm I'm
- 7:52Speaker 3: looking at all these stats, you know, the NFL stat
- 7:54Speaker 3: portable portal, Excuse me, they have scores of these stats,
- 7:58Speaker 3: and I'm just looking at all the rankings and and
- 8:01Speaker 3: it's amazing how much the Panthers are clustered in the
- 8:06Speaker 3: load to mid twenties. You know, points twenty seventh, the
- 8:09Speaker 3: yards twenty fifth, that's accessible drive score percentage twenty third,
- 8:12Speaker 3: red zone efficiency twenty fifth. You know, here's a stat
- 8:18Speaker 3: that I think could play a factor Seattle defensively, third
- 8:22Speaker 3: down EPA. That's expected points. We've seen that emerge. Seattle's
- 8:27Speaker 3: number one, Carolina is thirty first, you know, so I
- 8:31Speaker 3: think there may be some opportunities to extend some drives
- 8:35Speaker 3: there For the Seahawk offense. I think it's for Seattle,
- 8:39Speaker 3: it's it's as it always is. It's can you can
- 8:43Speaker 3: the offensive line block? And you know, I don't think
- 8:46Speaker 3: there's a great second, great defensive line. On paper, Seattle
- 8:52Speaker 3: is clearly the more dominant team. I think they just
- 8:55Speaker 3: have to handle the most. I think the part of it,
- 8:57Speaker 3: probably the biggest challenge is that they played the Rams
- 9:01Speaker 3: in the last game. I'm glad they got the three
- 9:03Speaker 3: or four extra days because emostly it's hard to fill
- 9:06Speaker 3: your tank, particularly now they have the knowledge that they
- 9:10Speaker 3: have the game next week at San Francisco, probably for
- 9:13Speaker 3: the division. So this in theory would be a sandwich game,
- 9:19Speaker 3: and so I think that they just emostly have to
- 9:24Speaker 3: be ready for the environment they're going into, and they're
- 9:27Speaker 3: the better team. They just have to bring their competitiveness.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Well, if you're saying offensive line needs to play, well,
- 9:33Speaker 1: what did you think of Josh Jones filling in for
- 9:36Speaker 1: Charles Cross and what if he has to do that
- 9:38Speaker 1: until the playoffs?
- 9:39Speaker 3: Yeah, reports are leading to that. I think that I
- 9:45Speaker 3: feel really good. I think back in August I was saying,
- 9:47Speaker 3: this guy, whoever seventy four is?
- 9:50Speaker 2: I hadn't done my homework, so who is this?
- 9:52Speaker 3: Well, okay, we acquired him from the Ravens, but I
- 9:55Speaker 3: didn't know that until I was after I was watching
- 9:57Speaker 3: seventy four and this guy looks really good. Like this guy,
- 10:00Speaker 3: it looks like the best backup tackle we've had in
- 10:03Speaker 3: a long long time. Because at the time you'd say, well,
- 10:05Speaker 3: he's not projected to start, right, and of course he wasn't.
- 10:08Speaker 3: But you know, whether it's uh A Stone Forsyth or
- 10:14Speaker 3: you know fant I mean, all the guys that we've
- 10:17Speaker 3: had that have had to fill in at the tackle
- 10:19Speaker 3: position during those injuries, I think Josh Jones has been
- 10:24Speaker 3: the best. And he kind of showed it the other night.
- 10:26Speaker 3: So I feel as good as I could could be
- 10:28Speaker 3: with a backup left tackle Sam Donald.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Does I mean you always hear this the guy established
- 10:35Speaker 1: the run game. But is this the type of game
- 10:38Speaker 1: where you know, maybe you don't even need it that
- 10:40Speaker 1: if Sam plays his game, you should handle the Carolina Panthers.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Well, I think so.
- 10:48Speaker 3: I think that first of all with Darnald that I
- 10:51Speaker 3: think there's a discussion we need to have if you'll
- 10:55Speaker 3: allow me to wade into shark infested waters. Okay, Sam Donald?
- 11:02Speaker 3: And who are the sharks? You know who the sharks are?
- 11:06Speaker 3: You and everybody who's listening who's been a football fan
- 11:09Speaker 3: for a long time, because you're you're probably entrenched like everybody.
- 11:15Speaker 3: And the idea you can't throw interceptions. Now, I said
- 11:18Speaker 3: that to get your attention because I'm not about here
- 11:21Speaker 3: to say you can. You know that it's fine to
- 11:23Speaker 3: throw interceptions. But I think that there's a there's a
- 11:26Speaker 3: multi layered discussion to be had about where Mike McDonald
- 11:30Speaker 3: would be with regards to Donald and the interceptions. And
- 11:34Speaker 3: it's centered around this. If you look at everybody says, well,
- 11:39Speaker 3: turnover margin is the you know, the your number one
- 11:45Speaker 3: factor for winning, Well, actually it's not. You take the
- 11:49Speaker 3: I'm gonna just go over the last three years and
- 11:52Speaker 3: you just go correlation is This is real simple. You
- 11:55Speaker 3: don't have to have robust Excel skills. You just put
- 11:59Speaker 3: all the stats in and then you you sort for
- 12:02Speaker 3: the win percentage column and and you write a correlation
- 12:07Speaker 3: formula with a correlation function, and and this is what
- 12:11Speaker 3: you have turnover margin. And think of it when I'm
- 12:15Speaker 3: about to say, I'm kind of going to use terms
- 12:18Speaker 3: like that sounds like a batting average. Okay, you know
- 12:22Speaker 3: three thirty five, that's a great batting average. Well, three
- 12:24Speaker 3: thirty five is not a high correlation. So correlation kind
- 12:27Speaker 3: of lives in that world between zero and one. Well,
- 12:30Speaker 3: batting average lives in the world between zero one because right,
- 12:33Speaker 3: because if you're too if you're two seventy five hitter,
- 12:35Speaker 3: really it's expressed with that decimal point two seventy five.
- 12:38Speaker 3: So it's got me. So if you look at over
- 12:43Speaker 3: the last three years, the correlation for turnover margin for
- 12:49Speaker 3: a football team is five to eighty all right, the
- 12:52Speaker 3: intersection differential is five point fifty five. So whoa, those
- 12:57Speaker 3: are big numbers because because you think of a bad
- 12:59Speaker 3: batting average, No, that's just moderate correlation. We're going to
- 13:03Speaker 3: get into some higher correlation when we go passer rating
- 13:08Speaker 3: passerrating differential, the difference between your passer rating on your team,
- 13:13Speaker 3: firstus the opponents. Now we're up to seven ninety three,
- 13:16Speaker 3: and for this season it's eight oh four. Yards per
- 13:20Speaker 3: attempt differential seven eighteen. Okay, yards per play differential six
- 13:25Speaker 3: ninety seven. Here's here's just a side note for for
- 13:30Speaker 3: rushing rushing yards. The UH rushing yards per play only
- 13:38Speaker 3: has a two to seventy five correlation, but total rushing
- 13:41Speaker 3: yards has a six thirty seven. Makes sense, when you're winning,
- 13:45Speaker 3: you run the ball to assault the game way right.
- 13:47Speaker 3: But getting back to turnover margin, just interception differential has
- 13:53Speaker 3: a five point fifty five and passer rating has a
- 13:56Speaker 3: seven ninety three. Well, you say, doesn't interception percentage isn't
- 14:00Speaker 3: that part of the passer.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Rating as it's one fourth?
- 14:03Speaker 3: If if you're gonna have the passerrating differential have such
- 14:08Speaker 3: a high correlation winning, that means the other three components
- 14:11Speaker 3: are really really damn important. And those are yards per temp,
- 14:15Speaker 3: touchdown percentage, and completion percentage and and so and then
- 14:21Speaker 3: if you go if you go to an individual that was.
- 14:23Speaker 2: With the team. Those are differentials. Then if you go
- 14:27Speaker 2: to the.
- 14:28Speaker 3: NFL quarterbacks, you say interceptions, well, it has a.
- 14:35Speaker 2: A negative.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Of trying to decide how much I should explain, there's
- 14:39Speaker 3: negative correlation and positive correlation. So when one goes up
- 14:43Speaker 3: and the other one goes up. You know, hot days
- 14:45Speaker 3: go up, ice cream sales go up, that's positive correlation.
- 14:49Speaker 3: Hot days go up, hot chocolate days go down. That's
- 14:52Speaker 3: negative correlation. Got me so, but interceptions hasn't. You'd expect
- 14:58Speaker 3: it to have a negative, but it's only one seventy three.
- 15:00Speaker 3: This is now for the players. But epa per dropback
- 15:05Speaker 3: has a six forty eight. Adjusted net yards per attempt
- 15:10Speaker 3: has a six to seventy three. So Sam Donald is
- 15:14Speaker 3: third in the NFL at a statistic that has a
- 15:18Speaker 3: six to seventy three correlation to winning, and he's he's
- 15:22Speaker 3: near the bottom in a correlation that's only one seventy three.
- 15:26Speaker 3: The close yard is zero is statistically insignificant. Uh, yards
- 15:30Speaker 3: per dropbacks, Sam Donald's number one in the NFL. Let
- 15:33Speaker 3: me repeat that yards per dropback Sam Donald is number
- 15:37Speaker 3: number one in the NFL. It had and that that
- 15:39Speaker 3: stat has a six sixty three correlation to winning. So
- 15:42Speaker 3: are we gonna Are we gonna neuter a guy's ability
- 15:47Speaker 3: to generate big plays down the field, so that so
- 15:52Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna diminish a factor that has a
- 15:56Speaker 3: six sixty three win correlation so that we can improve
- 16:00Speaker 3: on a statistic that has a one seventy three correlation.
- 16:03Speaker 3: That doesn't make sense. And I don't think it's makes
- 16:05Speaker 3: sense to to Mike McDonald. So when you hear Mike
- 16:08Speaker 3: McDonald say, hey, we're just gonna keep letting it, say
- 16:11Speaker 3: let a rip, you know, let a rip.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Hey, We're fine. He's our dude, Like, you're.
- 16:17Speaker 3: Your second in this in the NFL and points scored,
- 16:20Speaker 3: and and you're first in the NFL in wins, and
- 16:25Speaker 3: your quarterback is first in the NFL in yards per dropback.
- 16:29Speaker 2: So we want to sit there and say.
- 16:30Speaker 3: Oh my god, let's let's turn over the apple cart
- 16:34Speaker 3: and and and fix this interception thing. And when you
- 16:37Speaker 3: hear Mike McDonald like, pump the brakes not so fast,
- 16:40Speaker 3: that's not my philosophy. I'm I'm not saying that he
- 16:43Speaker 3: that he would recite all of this what I've recited
- 16:46Speaker 3: with correlations, but I bet he has a pretty good grasp,
- 16:51Speaker 3: either intuitively or the numbers he's been shown.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know that you are just lumping me
- 16:57Speaker 1: in by saying you h with like the Sharks being
- 17:00Speaker 1: the media.
- 17:01Speaker 3: I'm me no, nothing, No, this is the fans because.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Because I do need to explain this, because I mean
- 17:09Speaker 1: it is is you know, my show. So I but
- 17:12Speaker 1: I have been I have been on the let it Rip.
- 17:14Speaker 1: I've been in the let let it Rip club. So
- 17:17Speaker 1: I know you know that I'm just the way that
- 17:19Speaker 1: it came off, you were putting me in the other category,
- 17:23Speaker 1: it sounded like to the listener. So I just want
- 17:25Speaker 1: to make sure that people know on the Chuck and
- 17:27Speaker 1: Buck Show that I've been in the let it Rip
- 17:30Speaker 1: club because I will live with an interception per game
- 17:33Speaker 1: if it means I get all of that other excellent
- 17:35Speaker 1: quarterback play I've gotten from Sam Donald this year.
- 17:37Speaker 3: I will vouch for that. You've absolutely been in that camp.
- 17:40Speaker 3: So that that was me poorly laying that out. What
- 17:43Speaker 3: I meant is the Shark confessed waters. I was throwing
- 17:45Speaker 3: myself in. I was throwing all the listeners that when
- 17:49Speaker 3: when I the onset of this portion of the conversation,
- 17:52Speaker 3: when I I'm I'm gonna go in. I'm gonna basically,
- 17:55Speaker 3: I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get on
- 17:58Speaker 3: the radio and i'm gonna gonna well a lot of
- 18:00Speaker 3: people who know a lot about football and have been
- 18:03Speaker 3: watching football for years and decades. I'm gonna get on
- 18:06Speaker 3: and I'm gonna tell him, Hey, don't worry about Sam
- 18:08Speaker 3: Donald's interception. Is that? And I was like, WHOA, that
- 18:11Speaker 3: sounds like swimming in shark infested waters. And guess who's
- 18:14Speaker 3: in the Who's one of the sharks myself? Because I'm
- 18:17Speaker 3: a fan, Like like to me, when I look at
- 18:19Speaker 3: these numbers, I I.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Said, whoa. You know, I've been told my whole life,
- 18:25Speaker 2: you know, interceptions don't do it.
- 18:27Speaker 3: Right, and so any of it. No, You're right, you
- 18:30Speaker 3: have been saying that. But I so let's let's all.
- 18:32Speaker 3: The conclusion that I'm trying to say is that that, yes,
- 18:37Speaker 3: we want to limit those interceptions, but it's a very
- 18:42Speaker 3: very delicate process. And and and you cannot throw the
- 18:49Speaker 3: hammer down on Sam Donald and say stop the effing interceptions.
- 18:53Speaker 3: Above all else, stop the effing interceptions, because guess what
- 18:56Speaker 3: he can and he would and Mike McDonald doesn't want that,
- 19:00Speaker 3: And I don't think you, as a Seattle Seahawk fan,
- 19:03Speaker 3: want that, right because you're you're the unwanted consequences are there,
- 19:09Speaker 3: and it's it's it's it's baked into football, and it's
- 19:13Speaker 3: a very tough thing to be an NFL quarterback and
- 19:16Speaker 3: be in a pocket and and you're in micro hundreds
- 19:19Speaker 3: of a second, you're sitting there thinking to yourself, is
- 19:22Speaker 3: this is this past gonna work? When I hit JSN
- 19:25Speaker 3: and he comes in between the second basement and the
- 19:27Speaker 3: third basement, those are the hook defenders in his zone
- 19:30Speaker 3: defense under when he went goes into that window, Am
- 19:32Speaker 3: I gonna have a shot? And if you sit there
- 19:35Speaker 3: and go I gotta see it. I gotta see it
- 19:37Speaker 3: before I really want to turn it loose. I got
- 19:39Speaker 3: to see it. I gotta see it. I gotta see
- 19:40Speaker 3: it's got to be wide open. If you're playing with
- 19:42Speaker 3: any kind of paralysis like that, you will never hit
- 19:45Speaker 3: that window, right, You'll never hit that window. So it
- 19:48Speaker 3: is a very delicate process when we're talking about dialing
- 19:53Speaker 3: down a quarterback's uh interceptions who has been this robust
- 19:57Speaker 3: at producing big plays and points and all the rest
- 20:00Speaker 3: and wins.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Yeah, the guys the winningness.
- 20:02Speaker 3: The guy's the winningness quarterback in the NFL over this
- 20:06Speaker 3: year is tied for first. Over the last two years,
- 20:08Speaker 3: he's number one, and over the last four years, Folks.
- 20:12Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty two, Sam Darnold has the highest win
- 20:15Speaker 3: percentage in the NFL. And of those five and you know,
- 20:20Speaker 3: Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen are right behind him. But
- 20:22Speaker 3: of the guys in the top five, he's the only
- 20:23Speaker 3: one who has a triple digit passer rating, Like, like,
- 20:28Speaker 3: let's please pump the brakes on, you know, just crapping
- 20:33Speaker 3: on the guy because we all want him to throw
- 20:35Speaker 3: fewer interceptions.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Anyways, I think I've made my point. Yeah, he all.
- 20:38Speaker 1: I mean, ideally you want your quarterback to be Tom Brady,
- 20:41Speaker 1: But if I have my second choice, I'm probably going
- 20:44Speaker 1: Brett Farvre. And I'm not saying he's either one of
- 20:47Speaker 1: those guys, but far through a lot of interceptions, but
- 20:50Speaker 1: he also made so many big plays. You live a
- 20:54Speaker 1: little bit with with the mistakes because of how much
- 20:58Speaker 1: you've gained from the way he plays.
- 21:00Speaker 2: You've been preaching that. Yeah, yes, I will vouch for that.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Yeah, So In other words, we want four touchdown passes
- 21:06Speaker 1: and one interception from Saturay Sunday.
- 21:10Speaker 3: If I told you that, would you take it?
- 21:13Speaker 1: I would take that. Yeah, let me have I'd even know.
- 21:15Speaker 1: I'll even throw in a fumbled snap.
- 21:19Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Hey, whatever he's been doing has been working.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, all right, sag with you, sir. We'll talk
- 21:27Speaker 1: to you on Monday. We'll recap it all of it. Okay,
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- 21:44Speaker 1: going to join us next Sports Radio ninety three point
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- 22:15Speaker 1: is our NFL insider on a Friday, and not a Thursday.
- 22:19Speaker 1: It is Mike Sando of the of the athletic How
- 22:22Speaker 1: are you.
- 22:22Speaker 6: Sir, I'm pretty good. This is definitely a week where
- 22:25Speaker 6: I have no idea what day it was. I was like, shoot, day,
- 22:29Speaker 6: agree to do something today. I thought it was Monday,
- 22:30Speaker 6: you know, I'm like, oh, no, it's Friday.
- 22:32Speaker 2: So it is definitely just good.
- 22:34Speaker 1: It's the most mondayest feeling on a Friday I've ever
- 22:37Speaker 1: had in my entire life.
- 22:39Speaker 6: That's good, though, because you get a weekend coming.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
- 22:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:42Speaker 1: It's been a really hard, grueling week of day of work.
- 22:45Speaker 1: So now now I get ready for it to relax
- 22:48Speaker 1: this weekend.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Well, did you have a good holiday? Absolutely good?
- 22:53Speaker 6: Yep, A lot to be grateful for and absolutely.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Okay, well excellent, And now you got a bunch of
- 22:58Speaker 1: football to watch tomorrow and then the Sunday.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Let's start with the local club.
- 23:04Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 23:04Speaker 2: I mean, Carolina Panthers. How weird are they this year?
- 23:08Speaker 1: But they've got more incentive, I suppose than what even
- 23:12Speaker 1: the Seahawks do on Sunday. They can actually walk off
- 23:15Speaker 1: the field as division champs. The Seahawks can't do that
- 23:18Speaker 1: on Sunday. What is it about them that they've found
- 23:21Speaker 1: ways to be in this thing?
- 23:25Speaker 6: So they're ranked like twenty third, twenty fourth on each
- 23:29Speaker 6: side of the ball, so that you know they have
- 23:32Speaker 6: a better record than their performance would indicate. I think
- 23:35Speaker 6: what they've done is, you know, before they were just
- 23:40Speaker 6: kind of incompetent and they just could get rolled. I
- 23:44Speaker 6: think they've been more competitive. I think that their offense
- 23:47Speaker 6: on its best day can get some things going. Now,
- 23:52Speaker 6: I still don't think they're a very good team. I
- 23:54Speaker 6: think it's an interesting matchup a little bit because Dave
- 23:56Speaker 6: Canalis is their head coach. He spent a lot of
- 23:58Speaker 6: time in Seattle, and he's not going up again. Pete
- 24:00Speaker 6: Carroll his mentor, but he's still going.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Up against Seattle.
- 24:03Speaker 6: Dan Morgan as their general manager, you know, longtime Seattle
- 24:06Speaker 6: for an office guys, so they're gonna I'm sure they've
- 24:09Speaker 6: been paying attention watching the Seahawks a little bit more
- 24:11Speaker 6: than they watched other teams outside their division. There's been
- 24:15Speaker 6: some talk that, hey, they don't really have to win
- 24:17Speaker 6: this game. The big game next week for them is
- 24:18Speaker 6: against Tampa that's going to decide the division.
- 24:21Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 24:22Speaker 6: I think they probably still need to play it and
- 24:24Speaker 6: you know, try to string together as many good games
- 24:26Speaker 6: as they can. But I think Seattle's defense should be
- 24:29Speaker 6: way too much for them, and they have a little quarterback,
- 24:34Speaker 6: you know, just to me, it just feels like this
- 24:36Speaker 6: should be, should be if Seattle's got that great defense,
- 24:39Speaker 6: a little bit of a bully game for them.
- 24:40Speaker 1: It's not been a good year for little quarterbacks. Bryce
- 24:43Speaker 1: Young has had the best year of them, and he's
- 24:46Speaker 1: and I'll give him credit, I mean, because it looked
- 24:48Speaker 1: like he was heading toward bustville last year, but he's
- 24:51Speaker 1: bounced back, and boy, his teammates seem to love him
- 24:55Speaker 1: there in Carolina.
- 24:57Speaker 6: Well, that's one of the interesting things that I heard
- 24:59Speaker 6: behind behind the the scenes there last year was, you know,
- 25:02Speaker 6: he got benched only two games into Dave Canals' tenure
- 25:05Speaker 6: last year and looked like he was about done. But
- 25:08Speaker 6: for whatever reason, I heard that he kind of became
- 25:12Speaker 6: a different guy from a leadership standpoint, from an accountability standpoint.
- 25:16Speaker 6: After that, he kind of snapped into maybe his best self.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Now.
- 25:20Speaker 6: I still think he's limited, and I think there's thirty
- 25:23Speaker 6: one teams that would love to see the Panthers sign
- 25:26Speaker 6: him to a big two A type contract, right, So
- 25:29Speaker 6: I think that still will be interesting to see what
- 25:32Speaker 6: do they do now because typically when you draft a
- 25:34Speaker 6: guy that high first from the draft and he's quote
- 25:38Speaker 6: unquote successful, like they get paid a lot. But he's
- 25:41Speaker 6: not that guy, right, He's not the top guy. So
- 25:44Speaker 6: I think that'll be fascinating to see how they handle that.
- 25:46Speaker 6: I think he's he's a nice story. I don't think
- 25:50Speaker 6: anyone's afraid to play him.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's what I feel. Mike Sander was with
- 25:55Speaker 1: us our NFL Insider and you can follow him at
- 25:57Speaker 1: Sando NFL there and on Twitter. Yesterday's the results a
- 26:03Speaker 1: couple of interesting things. I mean, well, I just did
- 26:05Speaker 1: not see the Detroit Lions. I mean I didn't buy
- 26:08Speaker 1: the They've lost both coordinators, they're in trouble and yet
- 26:12Speaker 1: to be eight and eight and out of the playoffs entirely.
- 26:16Speaker 1: What kind of offseason do you expect Detroit to have?
- 26:19Speaker 1: What kind of look in the mirror kind of moment
- 26:20Speaker 1: do you expect from them?
- 26:22Speaker 6: We're going to find out how arrogant they are, right,
- 26:24Speaker 6: I think this is they've shorn a lot of confidence
- 26:28Speaker 6: and they've done a really good job. But I've always sensed,
- 26:31Speaker 6: you know, Brad Holmes has kind of gotten he's a GM.
- 26:34Speaker 6: He came from the Rams, and he's a all everything
- 26:37Speaker 6: I've heard, a great guy, but he's kind of had
- 26:40Speaker 6: this attitude of like rushing off criticism and questions because
- 26:43Speaker 6: they've gotten the last laugh to this point. Right, So,
- 26:46Speaker 6: how honest do you have to be with where you
- 26:49Speaker 6: are when you have this type of a season.
- 26:53Speaker 2: And I'm not.
- 26:53Speaker 6: Sure because it's not like they went they won four games.
- 26:56Speaker 6: It's not like Jared Goff had a terrible year. Shoot,
- 26:58Speaker 6: his stats look great. Yeah, So this is one of
- 27:02Speaker 6: those tester years where I feel like, do they show
- 27:06Speaker 6: some arrogance And it may not just be arrogance that
- 27:08Speaker 6: maybe hey, stay the course, right, don't panic if it
- 27:11Speaker 6: works out, But clearly they need an offensive coordinator. I
- 27:14Speaker 6: think their offensive line must be addressed because as we've
- 27:18Speaker 6: seen firsthand when Jared Goff was in the division here
- 27:21Speaker 6: playing for the Rams, there's almost no one who can
- 27:24Speaker 6: look as good or as bad depending what his protection is.
- 27:27Speaker 6: Wouldn't you agree?
- 27:28Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? Whether like this guy needs to.
- 27:33Speaker 6: Be in a temperature controlled office with you know, you know,
- 27:40Speaker 6: with his favorite brand of water and a bowl of
- 27:43Speaker 6: his favorite kind of Eminem's there, and there needs to
- 27:46Speaker 6: be no noises and when he does that, he's like
- 27:49Speaker 6: the most He's as efficient a worker as as Mahomes.
- 27:54Speaker 6: But when you start making him play in the mud
- 27:58Speaker 6: or his his protection is there, he can suddenly look
- 28:02Speaker 6: very different. And so I think they have to make
- 28:05Speaker 6: sure the line is where it starts, because remember when
- 28:08Speaker 6: the Rams got rid of him, it was after their
- 28:10Speaker 6: best line kind of atrophied. Remember they had that great
- 28:13Speaker 6: line Andrew Whitworth, all those guys, and then it kind
- 28:15Speaker 6: of went away, and they're like, oh, what's wrong with
- 28:17Speaker 6: GoF It's not the same. I think they got to
- 28:19Speaker 6: do that first and foremost, it's their whole identity through
- 28:22Speaker 6: Dan Campbell controlling land of scrimmage. They've lost their center
- 28:26Speaker 6: for years and Frank ragnow you know they may have
- 28:29Speaker 6: a tackle issue. They've drafted a couple of young guards
- 28:31Speaker 6: that may or may not be the guy fix it,
- 28:34Speaker 6: Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, and then you may have a
- 28:37Speaker 6: better year next year.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, Liam Cohen or somebody else for Coach of
- 28:42Speaker 1: the Year. I think it's hard to go against Mike Rabel.
- 28:45Speaker 1: I think I right about this a little bit.
- 28:47Speaker 6: Well, if you go into the year of what everybody
- 28:50Speaker 6: thought of the teams were you know, you would have
- 28:52Speaker 6: said Newellan could have been a bottom three team in
- 28:54Speaker 6: their division. And so the things I like about what
- 28:59Speaker 6: he's done is is uh okay, getting the absolute best
- 29:04Speaker 6: out of this quarterback. And he's not an offensive coach Verbell,
- 29:06Speaker 6: but he's got Josh McDaniel's there. That's a great guy
- 29:09Speaker 6: to have running your offense. And then things like this
- 29:12Speaker 6: Stefan Diggs difficult guy to deal with. He's having a
- 29:15Speaker 6: great year, like he's coaching that team to play well
- 29:20Speaker 6: together to get it. I think he's got good leaders
- 29:24Speaker 6: and I think Drake May is a good young leader.
- 29:26Speaker 6: Like they've got something going there to where I think
- 29:30Speaker 6: they have as good a chance as anyone to make
- 29:32Speaker 6: a deep run in the AFC.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Yeah, well, a lot of good candidates for it to
- 29:36Speaker 1: including Canalis in Carolina. All right, man, Well, every every
- 29:40Speaker 1: day there's football on. That's Christmas for Mike Sando. And
- 29:43Speaker 1: every day Mike Sando joins this program, it's Christmas for us.
- 29:47Speaker 6: Every thank you, every day, Oh every day that I
- 29:49Speaker 6: do is well said yeah, Well said yeah, I should
- 29:52Speaker 6: just shut up.
- 29:52Speaker 2: You said it so well, and I tried to correct you.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Thank joy Well doctor next week all right, love you guys.
- 29:57Speaker 2: All right, that's our NFL insider Mike sand to a segment.
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- 31:38Speaker 1: Just like you helped everyone's fantasy team.
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- 32:02Speaker 5: It was quite funny when she's like, just like you
- 32:04Speaker 5: helped everyone's fantasy team.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Was good. That really is like a punishment to get
- 32:12Speaker 1: all Oh yeah, you've never.
- 32:13Speaker 5: Heard people sit there for twenty four hours and they
- 32:16Speaker 5: have to eat like certain number of pancakes in the
- 32:19Speaker 5: twenty four hours.
- 32:20Speaker 2: Wow, I kind of want to lose.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't had a big pancake breakfas in a
- 32:25Speaker 1: long time.
- 32:27Speaker 5: Well, he's a real big pancake breakfast, lunch, dinner snack.
- 32:32Speaker 1: That's good for him to have a sense of humor
- 32:33Speaker 1: and play along because he did ruin a lot of
- 32:35Speaker 1: fantasy football.
- 32:36Speaker 5: Team fantasy football teams.
- 32:39Speaker 1: I'm going to close my one last thing with football
- 32:42Speaker 1: as well, and I guess it's a bit of a fantasy.
- 32:44Speaker 1: I just saw for the first time this Madden movie trailer.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and Nicholas Cage is playing John Madden. I
- 32:51Speaker 1: feel about that. I don't really like it. I mean,
- 32:54Speaker 1: you have Frank Caliendo who can do him like spot on?
- 32:57Speaker 1: Uh huh, And then don't tell me, well, we didn't
- 32:59Speaker 1: want a guy that did an impersonation. Then why is
- 33:03Speaker 1: Christian Bale doing an impersonation of Al Davis?
- 33:07Speaker 2: And it is awesome?
- 33:08Speaker 1: Yeah, Like Christian Bale, who I already I am a
- 33:10Speaker 1: big fan of for him to like, I want to
- 33:14Speaker 1: be Al Davis and he like he is Al Davis. Yeah,
- 33:17Speaker 1: I'm unreal.
- 33:18Speaker 5: He is like the epitome of if you give him
- 33:20Speaker 5: a role, he's like, I'm all.
- 33:22Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, yeah, more so, he's like even more
- 33:26Speaker 1: than Daniel day Lewis.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:27Speaker 1: But anyway, it looks really good. I look forward to
- 33:31Speaker 1: watching it. I just don't know if I'm buying Nick
- 33:33Speaker 1: Cage is John Madden.
- 33:35Speaker 2: No, I don't.
- 33:36Speaker 5: But to be fair, I don't buy him as a
- 33:37Speaker 5: lot of things, and I end up liking a lot
- 33:39Speaker 5: of his movies.
- 33:39Speaker 2: So but I despite him.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Almost to see him in the one where he plays himself. Yeah,
- 33:47Speaker 1: he plays himself as like the unbearable being.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Or something like that. Yes, it's actually really really good.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I believe that.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:58Speaker 1: I've liked him in a lot of things, and I
- 34:00Speaker 1: have not liked him, yeah, a few things.
- 34:02Speaker 5: My only problem is now these days I just picture
- 34:04Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers looking like Nicholas Kge.
- 34:07Speaker 2: You can't shout up to Packers camp that one year.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Yeah, play him, play Aaron Rodgers in the movie, not
- 34:12Speaker 1: John Medmen.
- 34:12Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:13Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for us. Have a great weekend.
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