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10-5 H4: MMQB on Sam Darnold and Huskies loss, One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 3: A little Monday morning quarterback action for you. Hugh Millen
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  Speaker 3: is here. We're talking about the Seahawks' 30-23 win over
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  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Chargers. We've already gone a full hour,
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  Speaker 3: and we still have a lot more. to discuss with
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  Speaker 3: this game and frankly qb on monday morning qb we
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  Speaker 3: haven't talked a lot about the qb uh hugh sam
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  Speaker 3: darnold 168 yards passing 13 for 22 he threw that
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  Speaker 3: pick that bad pick early uh in the contest it
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  Speaker 3: didn't exactly fill up the stat sheet uh yesterday but
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  Speaker 3: what was your overall evaluation of sam.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it was a relatively tough day to
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  Speaker 4: be the Seahawks quarterback. I thought he was hassled a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was reflected in McDonald's comment when asked
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  Speaker 4: about how the offensive line played earlier for those who
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  Speaker 4: didn't hear it. I mean, we all agreed there's no
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  Speaker 4: excusing that first interception. So there's no excuse making there.
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  Speaker 4: But you know there's there's some elements that lacked detail
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  Speaker 4: for example um early on you remember that awkward scramble
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  Speaker 4: where he went over to the sideline and and kind
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  Speaker 4: of yeah just passed it and he ended up getting
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  Speaker 4: a grounding yeah that was on a third and three
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  Speaker 4: well they run at what's called a two-man stick route
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  Speaker 4: um where they run shaheed in motion uh the chargers
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  Speaker 4: did a good job of covering him in the flat
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  Speaker 4: they had cooper cup on a little stick route that's
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  Speaker 4: a little five-yard hits in the out route. And so
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  Speaker 4: he looks to his left. Those are both covered. And
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  Speaker 4: he wants to come back. And the timing of when
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  Speaker 4: he would, because his third option would be with JSN
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  Speaker 4: over the middle of the ball. And I'll just stop
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  Speaker 4: right here and say, I'll concede, I'll give you that
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  Speaker 4: JSN is the best in the world. So let's operate
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  Speaker 4: from that. He's the best. I was looking up the
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  Speaker 4: definition of maestro seven days ago or 14 days ago.
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  Speaker 4: Mastery of the skill.
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  Speaker 2: He's a maestro. All of that.
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  Speaker 4: But if you want to say he's perfect and infallible,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to have a problem. And on that play,
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  Speaker 4: you can count the yards. He has an in-breaking route.
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  Speaker 4: He puts his outside foot in. He breaks in at
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  Speaker 4: six yards. You can't have Sam Darnold look to his left,
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  Speaker 4: go one, two, come back over to the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the field. And his, and his third option is an
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  Speaker 4: in breaking route. There was a window, but the receiver
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  Speaker 4: breaks off at six yards. He's not ready to throw.
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  Speaker 4: And now by the time he comes that what would
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  Speaker 4: have been an open window, had he gone even two
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  Speaker 4: more steps, certainly four more steps and been in that 10,
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  Speaker 4: 11 yard area, boom, you hit it and you get
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  Speaker 4: the first down. So, that that's lack of cohesion there.
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  Speaker 4: There was, you know, there was times here, here I'm
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  Speaker 4: hearing all this about Halani, Halani and all of his versatility. Well, he,
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  Speaker 4: Halani's bad block got Sam Darnold, his hip, hip injury in,
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  Speaker 4: in week one. And then Halani gets trucked on another
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  Speaker 4: pass protection where, where he, where Darnold's loading up and
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  Speaker 4: throwing a corner out up the deep sideline to Shahid
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  Speaker 4: chance for a big play. He gets his arm hit.
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  Speaker 4: The ball really should have been intercepted. It kind of
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  Speaker 4: somehow found the grass amongst the many Charger defenders. There
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  Speaker 4: was the third and 16 that, you know, it stated
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  Speaker 4: how open JSN was.
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  Speaker 2: That was a cover, too.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Darnold sees trips left, and they're clouding corner
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  Speaker 4: down over the top, safety over the top, excuse me,
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  Speaker 4: corner down in the flat, safety over the top. And
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  Speaker 4: in many playbooks, that route converts to a fade. You're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we can't get a skinny post here. So you just
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  Speaker 4: run a fade. Well, JSN gets an inside release, breaks
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  Speaker 4: back to the outside. That was such a big-time throw
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  Speaker 4: to not acknowledge how many– the corner could have squeezed
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  Speaker 4: on that, what's called the curl zone defender underneath. You've
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  Speaker 4: got to throw it over him, the safety in front
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  Speaker 4: of him. Like there's three guys that you have to
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  Speaker 4: put it right there. And with the guy in his face,
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  Speaker 4: that was– I just wrote on my notes, wow, that
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  Speaker 4: is some big-time quarterbacking.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: But, you know, other simple stuff like he had a
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  Speaker 4: slot option with with Cup that was going to come
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  Speaker 4: wide open. But Chris Christian Haynes just gets trucked and
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  Speaker 4: he's got to move off the spot and and on
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  Speaker 4: no play. I just think there was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: times when you watch the tape, when Brian Flory tried
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  Speaker 4: to say, all right, let's go big game hunting. Let's
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  Speaker 4: call some play action shots down the field and get
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  Speaker 4: something going. invariably somebody was busting the protection. And the
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  Speaker 4: times when Darnold, the few times that Darnold did have
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  Speaker 4: nice protection, it was always a completion. You touched on it.
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  Speaker 4: Other than the interception. The interception was bad. It was
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  Speaker 4: really bad. But other than that, he played a solid game.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to get him to the Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that with those kind of numbers. But again,
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  Speaker 4: watch the tape. He pretty much did about all you
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  Speaker 4: could do.
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  Speaker 3: So you're not buying that JSN was open all game.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Logan Ryan, who was the color analyst on
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  Speaker 3: the television broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: He was a defensive back. He was a safety, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He was a safety.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So, so on the play and they showed it on
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  Speaker 4: a highlight, they throw to AJ Barner in the flat
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  Speaker 4: on a third and was at third and five and
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  Speaker 4: Barner drops it. And so we punt and, and, And
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  Speaker 4: on that play, in my notes, I wrote brown bugle,
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  Speaker 4: which is my terminology of a bullet and go from
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  Speaker 4: offenses in my past. So I know the concept well,
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  Speaker 4: and you got the clear JSN on the clear out.
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  Speaker 4: It's all well and good to say that JSN was open,
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  Speaker 4: but when you look at how the Seahawks, how they
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  Speaker 4: block that, you had Helani lined up on the left.
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  Speaker 4: There's a linebacker at about three yards depth. So either
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  Speaker 4: the guard has to squeeze, either Zabel has to squeeze
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  Speaker 4: inside and you turn the outside guy loose, or Helani,
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  Speaker 4: you have to say, well, that's a linebacker coming from depth,
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  Speaker 4: and Helani, because it's shotgun, not under center, Helani's got
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  Speaker 4: to step up and get in the A-gap, which is–
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  Speaker 4: I'm not in their meeting room– but it'd be more
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  Speaker 4: likely to say, Helani, you got to get that A-gap.
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  Speaker 4: But either way, either Zabel squeezes and gets the A-gap,
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  Speaker 4: or Helani, he steps up and takes the A-gap. Period.
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  Speaker 2: End of story.
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  Speaker 4: There's no offense on planet Earth that lets the A-gap
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  Speaker 4: guy come in lieu of the C-gap guy. The C-gap
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  Speaker 4: guy is outside of the tackle. So we can sit
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  Speaker 4: here and say that Darnold, should have, you know, been
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  Speaker 4: able to see the go route. He has a guy
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  Speaker 4: coming totally unblocked in the A gap. The center's going right,
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  Speaker 4: and here comes the back totally unblocked. And so there was–
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  Speaker 4: and he ends up getting smoked. There's no chance for
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  Speaker 4: him to be finding, you know, the fact that the
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  Speaker 4: Chargers busted that– the Chargers busted the coverage.
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  Speaker 2: They had two guys on one.
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  Speaker 4: But that wasn't discernible in the amount of time that
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  Speaker 4: Darnold had because I'm saying most likely Helani messed up
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  Speaker 4: the protection. In the one I stated prior, I know
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  Speaker 4: for sure he did. But this was just an assignment,
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  Speaker 4: missed assignment. And so, you know, we can get a
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  Speaker 4: DB who's the color commentator to take a little tiny
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  Speaker 4: camera that's focused on JSN going deep.
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  Speaker 2: And he's open.
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  Speaker 4: Um, but here, the commentator doesn't even tell you what
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  Speaker 4: happened in the backfield, um, from the quarterback's perspective. So,
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  Speaker 4: so I reject all that. Now there was another one where,
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  Speaker 4: where JSN, they tried to get them on a double move.
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  Speaker 4: They're a little stutter go on, uh, on the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: sideline going, uh, going to the South end zone. And,
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  Speaker 4: and that, that was coming open. And again, Darnold had
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  Speaker 4: no time. He had to, he had to move and
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  Speaker 4: it takes a little longer to get a, a double
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  Speaker 4: move and, and JSN actually showed some signs of his affect,
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  Speaker 4: you know, frustration while the, while the play is still going,
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  Speaker 4: he realized the ball isn't coming to him. And his head,
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  Speaker 4: he looks to the sky in frustration as he's running
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  Speaker 4: up the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't wide open.
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  Speaker 4: It would have taken a hell of a throw, a
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  Speaker 4: very good throw. Maybe not a hell of a throw,
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  Speaker 4: but a very good throw. But they're trying to do
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  Speaker 4: the double move. All Darnold could do is kind of throw,
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  Speaker 4: quickly get rid of the ball and, you know, sky
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  Speaker 4: mail it over Rasheed Shahid's head, who was on a
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  Speaker 4: hook route. But that's not what the play was trying
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  Speaker 4: to do. They were trying to double move and get
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown out of it. But it's like every time
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  Speaker 4: they tried to do that, the protection wasn't there. So
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  Speaker 4: the cumulative effect, it frustrated JSN. And I'm sure it
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  Speaker 4: frustrated Darnold. He didn't show it the way Geno Smith
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  Speaker 4: used to show it. with his affect. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was that kind of day. When you say, well,
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  Speaker 4: how are you sub 200 passing yards and barely over 50%,
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  Speaker 4: it's because of stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There is a difference between a heck of a throw
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  Speaker 2: and a hell of a throw, isn't there? I think so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's like messing with somebody and effing with somebody. There's
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  Speaker 2: a difference. There's a difference in there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: We got to be judicious. We got to be a
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  Speaker 4: little chintzy with the hell of the throws now because
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  Speaker 4: if we just throw them around like they're nickels. No,
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  Speaker 4: throw them around like they're manhole covers, man. Let's have
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  Speaker 4: them mean something.
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  Speaker 3: Can I talk about one more throw and then I
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  Speaker 3: want to get to something else. 10-23 left in the
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  Speaker 3: third quarter. There's a Torrey Horton signing. He doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to play that much, but you remember the line from
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  Speaker 3: Buddy Ryan about Chris Carter? All he does is score touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody took that and ran with it, and they
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 2: That was Buddy Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Carter had a problem with drugs, and so Buddy
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  Speaker 3: Ryan knew he had to cut him, but he didn't
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  Speaker 3: want it to be about that, and so he just
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  Speaker 3: said something to diminish his game, and Chris Carter still
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  Speaker 3: acknowledges that to this day as Buddy Ryan did him
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  Speaker 3: the best favor of his entire life and it unlocked
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  Speaker 3: his career and all of his success. That said, Torrey Horton,
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  Speaker 3: all he does is catch touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: And I suppose that's a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: But man, he shows up on the field, catches a touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: and goes and sits on the bench.
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  Speaker 4: That's Torrey Horton. Yeah, the percentage of his touchdown has
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  Speaker 4: got to be... What, did he have five last year
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  Speaker 4: on maybe... 15 catches.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that. I'll look it up. Look it up.
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  Speaker 4: Can Anders look it up? But yeah, so that was
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  Speaker 4: outstanding football by the Seahawks. Excellent preparation. Excellent adapting on
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  Speaker 4: the run. So normally when we say RPO, run, pass, option,
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  Speaker 4: what that means is that the offensive line is blocking runs.
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  Speaker 4: like they're just assuming the running back's getting the running
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  Speaker 4: back takes his path as if he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: handed the football so he's running doing the run and
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  Speaker 4: normally this is out of shotgun 99 of the time
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  Speaker 4: this is out of shotgun but occasionally you see rpos
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  Speaker 4: out of under center so darnold's up under center the
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  Speaker 4: the formation is as overloaded to the left i think
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  Speaker 4: they're running duo to the left uh which is just
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  Speaker 4: a you know essentially a plunge with double teams on
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  Speaker 4: on the it's always on the play side but so
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  Speaker 4: the fourth nation to the left and horton is the
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  Speaker 4: x receiver and his split was you know medium at
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  Speaker 4: best almost a tight split and so the the defender
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  Speaker 4: is outside shoulder because there's a relatively a lot of
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  Speaker 4: grass an outbreaking route there would have been a lot
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  Speaker 4: of grass for him to cover. It was certainly what's
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  Speaker 4: called inside the divider, which is 10 yards from the sideline.
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  Speaker 4: The divider is the area you say, hey, do I
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  Speaker 4: play him on his outside shoulder or on his inside shoulder?
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  Speaker 4: So he's inside the divider. So that's another good piece
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  Speaker 4: by Brian Flory. Put him in a spot that forces
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  Speaker 4: the defender to play not head up, not inside shoulder,
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  Speaker 4: but outside shoulder. But the problem, and this is where
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  Speaker 4: the breakdown comes from the Chargers, they had no safety advantage.
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  Speaker 4: No help inside, whatever. So his divider rules might have
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  Speaker 4: told him, hey, play the outside shoulder. But based on
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the front and the rest of the defense,
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  Speaker 4: you can't play outside shoulder. You have to stop the inside.
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  Speaker 4: So Darnold sees this.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: So what's going through his mind? I'm either going to
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  Speaker 4: hand it to Emmanuel Wilson or, oh, there's no linebacker,
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  Speaker 4: what we call tucked. There's no tucked linebacker who could
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  Speaker 4: buzz out underneath it. And the corner can't drive on
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  Speaker 4: it because he's off and outside. So now Darnold just says,
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  Speaker 4: from under center, he takes the ball. Instead of turning
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  Speaker 4: the hand the ball off, he just says, let me
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  Speaker 4: take advantage of everything that I just described in terms
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  Speaker 4: of the look. You get a walk-in touchdown. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's excellent preparation, excellent recognition, excellent plan. And it's unsound
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  Speaker 4: football by the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not a bust. A bust is if you
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  Speaker 4: just turn somebody loose. But unsound is where you say,
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  Speaker 4: if you do that 100 times, you're going to get
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  Speaker 4: beat so frequently because you're not playing the first priority first.
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  Speaker 4: And so that guy had to be close to the
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  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage and inside technique and then just try
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  Speaker 4: and react to an outbreaking route.
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  Speaker 2: Or at least head up.
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  Speaker 4: But way off and outside on that yard line was
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  Speaker 4: like the four-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, bad alignment.
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  Speaker 4: Very unsound football by the Chargers and excellent recognition by Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: 17 career catches, six touchdowns. That's Torrey Horton's numbers. Better
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  Speaker 2: than one out of three, right? One out of three.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if Jerry Rice would have caught a touchdown. Essentially
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  Speaker 2: a 35% touchdown loss. Great or thereabouts. Yeah, that's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Torrey.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's come back to the main story, which was
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  Speaker 3: the penalties.
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  Speaker 2: Your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was 30-13 at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: third quarter, and all of a sudden the Chargers go
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  Speaker 3: on a 16-play drive extended by two different Seattle flags,
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  Speaker 3: 15-yard roughing penalties. One... that erased a second and 17,
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  Speaker 3: which Mike McDonald will take all day long, and then
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  Speaker 3: a third and 24 to keep that drive going, and
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  Speaker 3: then finished with just running the ball right down the
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  Speaker 3: defense's throat for a touchdown that got them back in
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  Speaker 3: the game. That might have been like, as Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 3: sitting there on the sideline, that might have been the
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  Speaker 3: drive that caused him to be so angry afterwards in
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  Speaker 3: his press conference because That was the most un-McDonald-like drive
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  Speaker 3: I've seen since he took over as the Seahawks head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think he was pretty darn upset at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the second quarter with M and Worries.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The right guard for the Chargers, as I said, has
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  Speaker 4: really struggled, but somehow he got his mitts.
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  Speaker 2: On M and Worries.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe there was a hold, but it wasn't on the
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  Speaker 4: outside of his frame. It was inside his breastplate, and
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  Speaker 4: And he blocked Eamon Worry for 15 yards and kept
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  Speaker 4: blocking in Eamon Worry's judgment past the whistle. But really,
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  Speaker 4: you give that offensive guard a plus block on that. Hell,
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  Speaker 4: he literally blocked him for more than 10 yards. And
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  Speaker 4: so it's a frustration, you know, the selfish part from,
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  Speaker 4: and we all love Eamon Worry, but okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? He's a pro too. He's on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to pick up his check and he got you.
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  Speaker 4: He got you. And, and, and instead of hurting the
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  Speaker 4: football team, just realize that dude who's, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: his mind, you know, that's a sorry player anyways. And
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  Speaker 4: he just walked me 12 yards. Like I gotta be better. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: what was what you'd hope, but anyways, get, but get
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  Speaker 4: to the fourth quarter. You know, I think there was some, um,
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  Speaker 4: bad luck there. on the hit below the knees. But
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  Speaker 4: certainly Derek Hall, if there's the new guy that we're
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  Speaker 4: concerned about, it's Derek Hall. Like the one guy you say,
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  Speaker 4: who's going to do something knuckleheaded? It's going to be
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  Speaker 4: Derek Hall. Did you say it was third and 24?
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  Speaker 2: Third and 24.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and to get anything close to a late hit,
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Just unforgivable. But the part about them macking on the
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: running game, if there's any lingering concern I have, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: have more concern about what they did in the running
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: game there defensively than I did. We talked about it,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: how they weren't building their wall. They weren't quite getting
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: off the blocks and presenting themselves as a threat in
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the hole. Running backs were able to just you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: go through unimpeded, uh, you know, and burst.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: So I'm Ryan Hampton, you know, he was just going,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: he did. And normally when Seattle's playing great run defense,
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  Speaker 4: which they are like, this is the first game, you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: over the last year and, and change the best part
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: of their football team is how they stopped the run. So, uh, I, we're,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: we're going to have to see a breakdown more than
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: one game in my opinion.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Before we start to get some concern. But for that game,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: it was a little bit un-Seahawk-like, as you mentioned. You
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: better be sharp this week. You know, you better not play.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: You better play better than you've played so far this season.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: You better get four quarters out of this next effort
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: against the 49ers.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Well, it's.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Really going to be good because the 49ers, they're the
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: undefeated team, but they're going to feel like they're certainly
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: the underdog. based on having lost the last two and
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: they're playing the Super Bowl champions. And so you're going
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: to get their best effort. And I think Seattle, given
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: the fact they're playing an undefeated team, they should be
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: ready to give their best effort. They're probably going to
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: get their ass chewed and the focus part of it.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: So I'm expecting a high level of effort and And
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: a really good football game this Sunday.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. All right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: We've got another segment here with Hugh, but we're going
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: to jump over to the college ranks. His thoughts on
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the Huskies' loss to USC and had every chance to
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: win that football game. Why did it not happen? We'll
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: talk to our QB1 next. Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Monday Morning Quarterback with Chuck in
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the Morning and Hugh Millen. Brought to you by Muckleshoot
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• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, the old college marching band.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Somehow tells, something tells me that, like, members of the
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: UW marching band weren't as successful with the.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Ladies as, say, the Beatles. Is that a reach, Hugh?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Is that maybe? Or is it even? Is it even?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know, man. Maybe there's a Charles S. Breezewater
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: hanging out in the Husky band. Maybe, maybe.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You know, just jamming. Gucci, like.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Maybe some dude in the piccolos looks like Brad Pitt.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: There you go. Plants from everywhere.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Channing Tatum over there on the calliope, just wailing away.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It is Hugh Mellon with us. It's our Monday morning
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: quarterback session, and we're going to finish it out by
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: talking a little college football. Huskies lost to USC 25-21.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say they outplayed the Trojans, but they certainly
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: had plenty of opportunities to win this game.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: There was a terrible.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Turnover by DeMond Williams that led to six points by
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: the USC defense. You lose by four. That stands out.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: And still, on that last drive, the opportunity to win
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: the game with a touchdown. They had a tremendous fourth
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: down play by DeMond that he pulled a rabbit out
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: of the hat. And then I thought a really schemed
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: up nice fourth and three play that kept the drive
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: going on a pass out to Desmond Roebuck. But then
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: You end up sitting there with fourth down again at
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the end of the game, and this time you can't
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: come through. Let's start with the third down play down there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Third and fourth, the USC 12, where DeMond got sacked
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: for a loss of six.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, after that fourth down that was really kind
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: of breathtaking, right? You knew it was going to be
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: a chess match between Jed Fish, the play caller, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Gary Patterson, the play caller. And, you know, because you're
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: going to get in a situation where it's roughly 50-50,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: you know, in four down territory or something along those lines.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Certainly have to get that first down. But the third
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: down really is hard to swallow if you're a Husky
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: fan because Washington comes out and they declare an empty.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: They're three receivers to the right and two receivers to
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: the left. And they kind of were. standing at the
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: line of scrimmage and, you know, they didn't shift or
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: motion to it. They just showed empty to USC's defense. And,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: and so now whether or not that was an automatic call,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: we don't know, but we know that, that SC has
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a better chance when it's just presented to them in the, in,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: in the way it did was, as I said, no shifts,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: no motion, standing at the line of scrimmage, everybody knows
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: it's empty. And, There's a real simple call that every
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: defense has if you're going to have empty. Because empty,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: you got the five eligible receivers spaced out. They're not
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: in a position to block. And so if the defense
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: wants to bring six against your five linemen, they're going
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: to have somebody uncovered. And both of the tackles are
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: what's called open edge. There's no tight end on either side.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: So both defensive ends are relatively close to your quarterback.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: So if they're going to bring six, you have to
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: either motion somebody in to block them or you've got
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: to have a hot. And so the dude coming off
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: the edge, the Huskies are sending the center to the right,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: so the dude coming off the left tackle, you know
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: he's unblocked. That's Cameron Crawford, who's, you know, he was
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: a four-star player To be a five-star, you have to
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: be over 97.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: He was a 96-87.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: He was 13 decimal points away from being a five-star, 6'5, 2'6.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: You're not this long-legged, long dude. You're not going to
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: get out of his grasp. So you better have a
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: quick option to the quick flat. You better have a
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: quick hot. You can't just say, well, DeMond Williams is
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: a good athlete, and so that's our blitz plan. You
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: have to have a better plan. And so your wide
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: receiver's running a go route, and so Desmond Roback in
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: the slot, he's got to get to the flat. But
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: he comes up three steps, and he starts shaking and
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: shimmying like it's zone coverage or something. And DeMond has
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: no chance to throw that there. You could say that
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: there was a shallow cross coming from the other side,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: but nowadays with poppers like USC had, a guy's dropping off,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: you know, the hots with on the shallow cross can
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: be dangerous. And, and that was long developing.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So it was just a bad plan on the third down.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And, and it gets a sack and you say, well, Oh,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: all right. Demond, um, get, you know, find a way to, um, not, not, uh,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: get sacked.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: That's the plan. That's not a plan. That's a hope. Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Um, and so I, I thought it was very disappointing
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: by Washington, just schematically the chess match on that down, uh,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: gave the Huskies next to no chance to execute by
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the way they handled that.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: What about the way they handled 4th and 10? Instead
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: of having 4th and 4 at worst, you end up
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: with 4th and 10 because of the sack and didn't
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: really give Roebuck.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Much of a chance to catch that ball. Pressured again.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: The Huskies, they go trips. They're an 11 personnel. They've
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: got a running back and a tight end. They have
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: the tight end on the single side, well, that is,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: is likely to induce a coverage where you're going to
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: roll the coverage to the three receivers. And so that's
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: what SC does. Cause they're not worried about the speed
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: at tight end to get 10 yards. Right. I mean,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: they've got a defender out there, but they're, they want
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: to push the coverage to the, to the strong side. And, and, and, and,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: What you had with Roebuck, he was supposed to be
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: clearing out in what's kind of called a dagger concept.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: And what the dagger concept would be is you had
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Chris Lawson as the widest receiver on an in route.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: So Roebuck clears out the deep coverage, and you're supposed
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: to bring Lawson in for the first down catch. But here's, again,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: where the chess match is. SC, the Huskies line up
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: the running back to DeMond Williams' right. So SC has
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: the linebacker come because they know they're going to swallow
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: up the running back to have to pass block. They
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: drop the other end off. So they're still only in
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: a four-man rush, but they have necessitated the running back
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: has to block. So in that dagger concept, there's always
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: structurally somebody that has to influence the defender on the slot.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: In this case, it was number seven, Alex Graham. He
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: lines up over the slot. He lines up over Roebuck.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: And then it's zone, so he releases the Roebuck go
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: to the safety and what have you. And then he
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: sits and waits for that in-breaking route, the dagger. He
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: sits right there. There's no chance that, you know, SC
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: put a guy exactly in the spot. They won the
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: chess match. And there was no running back or anybody.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: He didn't run the tight end on a shallow cross
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: or to uh to influence number seven you didn't have
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: a running back that could release because he had to
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: pass block and the reason i just described so now
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: you're throwing a go route into a cloud in the
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: corner can sink because there's no there's no there's nothing
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: in his zone and so it ends up being double
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: coverage so so if you're a husky fan you gotta
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: you gotta score squarely accept these facts on those two
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: plays one and all out blitz a casino blitz sc
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: had the better plan then on zone on third and
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: ten the route that uh that jed fish the play
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: caller chose to call sc had exactly the coverage for
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: that and perfectly covered it was as if Gary Patterson
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: was in the Husky huddle or was signal, you know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: stealing the, the communication because SC covered perfectly when the
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: game was on the line and, Gary Patterson gets the
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: W as the play caller for USC, and Jed Fisk
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: takes the L as the play caller for the Washington offense.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, damn. Yeah. Are you excited about Thursday? I mean,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: did you see it that way? Yeah, yeah. I mean,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: not to that detail, but.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: obviously those two last two plays, I mean, you want
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to come up with your best two plays, find a
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: touchdown here.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And they just both got blown up. Just absolutely blown up.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, you could say on the third down, Hey,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: just find a way to throw it out, throw it
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: out of bounds.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: But how many times has demand made a play where
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: he's made somebody miss and then everybody lauds him and
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: says how special he is.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And, and, Whether it's against the Cougars getting out of
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: the trouble or what have you. So his impulse to
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: maybe try and make a guy miss, there's a reason
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: for that. But you just look at the athlete that
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: was coming off the edge on that third down. That guy's,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, his ass is damn near at his neck.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a long, high-cut, long-armed, nearly five-star
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: edge rusher that is a premier athlete. All you have
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: to do is look at his body and you can
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: tell he's a premier athlete, right? Like the idea that
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: you're going to get away from him, that's a scant opportunity. Yeah.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: There's a funny story Jamie Foxx tells about Ray Lewis.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Somebody showed up and said that they could run a
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: 4-2 at one of his pickup football games. So he
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: called Ray Lewis and he said, is there any chance
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: that this is true? And apparently Ray Lewis told Jamie Foxx.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Look at his ass, Jamie. Look at his ass. Tell
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: me what his ass looks like.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the strongest.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it makes us uncomfortable because we're,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: you know, we're dudes and it's sports radio, but the
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: glutes are the strongest muscle. Like Don James, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: they say, Hey, uh, if you got, if you, uh,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: body profile.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Uh, the guy who can run and jump probably has
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: an ass on him, you know? And, uh, but this
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: is a, this, this dude we're talking about is a
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: high cut guy and, and trying to say, all right,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Our plan on empty, we're going to go up and
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: we're going to take a long time being empty. We're
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: going to see it that it's covered zero. Clearly cover zero,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: no disguise in the blitz. They're blitzing, they're rushing six.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: We've got five. And, oh, by the way, when you
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: rush six, in theory, you can hem in every single
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: gap and escape hatch that DeMond would have because you
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: got six for five, you know, with five offensive linemen,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: there's six gaps that DeMond could escape. Well, you've got
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: a man for each one of those. Like, that's a plan.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: And, um, and, and, and it's like, Hey, DeMond, you,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: you have to get rid of the ball. And yet
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: DeMond would say where my slot receiver is going up and.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: and shimmy jocking with the, uh, with his defender acting
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: like there's no urgency. And meanwhile, I got this fricking stallion,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: this six, five, you know, five-star, uh, edge guy, you know, um,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: with arms that longer than Manute bull.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: And like, like, what am I supposed to do?
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: If you don't give me something in the flat immediately,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: a hot immediately, then.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: How am I supposed to do anything? Okay. Throw it out,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: throw it to the cheerleaders. And he got fourth and four. Yeah.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: I could buy a little bit of that, but it
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: still doesn't mean– then guess what? Every time you're an empty,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: you say, all right, well, then let the defense blitz.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: They bring six. You got five. And you'll always have
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: the quarterback throw it to the cheerleaders because they don't
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: have a plan.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: That's not a plan.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: So very disappointing to be a fan. I was at
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: the game and just watching and just going, wow.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Wow, we just got checkmated on the chessboard, on the
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: play calling.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, no one has mistaken me for being
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: fast in a while based on the way my ass looks,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much. All right, Hugh, thank you, sir.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it. Enjoy it. We'll talk to you soon.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: All right, Hugh Mellon, our QB1, joining us here on
• 34:21
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  Speaker 3: Greg's going to empty the notebook on that Seahawks-Chargers game. And,
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• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Andrews, what do you got?
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll get my little feet wet with hockey here,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: as it's been basically football central for.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: The entire show. Wet them up.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Alex Ovechkin announced that this year will be his last year.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Should have been five years ago.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: It should have been, but it finally is happening. He
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: wanted to break the record, the all-time goal-scoring record.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't want you to. I didn't either.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: I don't love him as a player, but you still
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: have to respect his greatness. There's a lot of empty
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: net goals in there, too. He doesn't get a lot
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: of assists.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: He kind of.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: is a power play merchant. All those things can be
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: very much true with Alex Ovechkin. But you have to
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: respect the greatest goal scorer of all time in the
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: National Hockey League. He is calling it quits after this year.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: He has a really good team in Washington, too. Very deep.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: He's like.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: probably the fifth or sixth or seventh best player on
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: their team. So they have a chance to, you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: maybe go out on top in his last year, which
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: would be pretty great. But I just wanted to give
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: a quick shout out to one of the greatest. And
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I'm totally with you. I don't love watching him play.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: There's so many other players that are, you know, more
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: fun to watch and stuff like that. But just he
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: announced this today. At least it became public today. So
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: his last year in the NHL will be this year.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Well, can we get that in writing? So that he
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: can't un-retire because maybe we can talk Gretzky into coming back.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: That would be great.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Probably would be better than Ovechkin now.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Retaking the lead and goals like God intended. It's true.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And we can go back to, you know, the world
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: kind of started going south the moment he broke that record.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very true. I think that the two are
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: very much related. The world going south and Alex Ovechkin
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: breaking Wayne Gretzky's goal record. It also kind of ruined
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: one of my favorite stats in sports.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: That if you, it's still true that if you take
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: away all of Wayne Gretzky's goals, he's still the greatest
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: point getter of all time. And it made it even
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: more of a great stat when he was the greatest
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: goal scorer of all time. And then he took away
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: all of his goals and he's still at the most
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: points in NHL history.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you should feel ashamed of yourself, Ovechkin. I've always
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: felt that way.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: I don't think he does.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to close out with this.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Our guy, Ty France, with the San Diego Padres, who's
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: had this incredible bounce back here.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, truly one of the most unfortunate. I think A.J.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Pierzynski described it as the most unlucky play in.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: The history of sports.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, that ball looked like it was going to
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: go upper deck down the left field line to give
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: the Padres a two-run lead in the ninth.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was just a towering, towering shot. But
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: he also hit it far.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. In addition to that, and it hits the roof
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: in Milwaukee, a rail, and then stops its forward trajectory.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: It drops down. Jackson Churrio catches it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: In left field, and the ground rules there are that
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: that is an out.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: This is why the managers go out at home plate.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, you just think that it's just lineup
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: handing and shaking hands and good luck. No, they go
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: over the ground rules at home plate before every game
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: so that everybody understands the quirks of every different stadium.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And Milwaukee's happen to be that if the ball hits.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Our roof in fair territory and lands in fair territory,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: it is in play.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: It's in play for a homer. It's in play for
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: a double.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: It could have caromed off very easily into the left
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: center field gap. And all would have ended well for
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Ty France, potentially. But that thing was leaving the yard.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: It hits the roof and falls right down to Jack
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Centurio's instead of being the hero who hits the two-run
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: game-winning homer in the top of the ninth, they still
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: would have had an at-bat. Instead, it's just an out.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: And really, I know how frustrated Ty was. I would
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: have been too because that was like his moment. That
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: could have been the best moment of his entire career.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: But nothing was wrong. The umpires didn't do anything wrong.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Those are the ground rules of Milwaukee. It could have
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: just as easily, what if Churio would have been camping
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: under it and it hits that rail and goes somewhere else.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Could have easily happened that way, but it didn't. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Ty France, one of the most likable people I've ever met,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: instead of being the hero on Saturday night, he ends
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: up having that taken away by pure luck.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Bad luck. Yeah.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Combine that with the blown save by Mason Miller yesterday.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: You go from being 2-0 up against the Brewers to
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: being 0-2.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Just like that. How great was that Miller-Turio at-bat? So good.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: All of those at-bats, though.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: To load the bases and build up his pitching total.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: That's called team at-bats. Those are team at-bats right there.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, that was like three straight 3-2 walks to
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: load up the bases.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: We love walks! What a great couple of games.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Like I said earlier, there was a lot of great football,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: nothing in sports compared to those two games between the
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Brewers and the Padres this weekend. All right, we'll talk
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: to you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Greg and Jess are
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: next on KJR.