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Chuck & Buck 1-19 Hour 3: MMQB with Hugh Millen · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 2: joins us, Good morning, sir, good morning, great morning, oh man,
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Speaker 2: how about that?
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Speaker 3: How about it? Yeah? Yeah, on Saturday. You know, guys,
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Speaker 3: I just feel like, you know, you watch the tape
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Speaker 3: and it hits me that this is everything that Mike
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Speaker 3: McDonald his vision when he closes his eyes, looks on
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Speaker 3: the back of his eyelids. What does my team look like?
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Speaker 3: That's what it looks like. And uh, you know, particularly
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Speaker 3: on the defense, consider this. There is nobody hurt. Everything ever. Whoever,
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Speaker 3: when we're back in July and we were talking about well,
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Speaker 3: what's their their starters, who's their rotation? There is nobody missing. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and you know, even even when Kobe Bryant was hurt.
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Speaker 3: You say, you're as healthy as you could possibly want
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Speaker 3: to be. And yet now you get Kobe Bryant back.
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Speaker 3: He ends up leading the team in snaps uh the
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Speaker 3: other night. And so they're able to play the coverages
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Speaker 3: they want. They they up their their play they got
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Speaker 3: to seventeen plays a dime and uh, and they've got
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Speaker 3: the rotation inside that they want, they've got the edge pressure,
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Speaker 3: they've got the bye week that they want to discuss
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Speaker 3: to uh to put in these uh, these ferocious uh
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Speaker 3: schemes that that just bottle up all the big plays,
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Speaker 3: bottle up the running game. I mean, here again, the
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Speaker 3: forty nine ers they had on the running game, where
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Speaker 3: is it just running backs? They had twenty one carries
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Speaker 3: sixty four yards three point oh five three point five
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Speaker 3: per carries, So that's on the heels. I mean it
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Speaker 3: was like three point two the last time they played.
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Speaker 3: So they're playing a physical brand and and then you know,
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Speaker 3: the offense has just done a complete about face. They
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Speaker 3: look like some type of service academy the way they're
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Speaker 3: running the football. And so you know, I don't even
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Speaker 3: know what to make of of who this offense is
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Speaker 3: in the last four weeks. But it's certainly what Mike
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Speaker 3: McDonald wanted, you know, the opening kickoff all it was just.
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Speaker 4: Delightful, delightful. Yes, I imagine that you're not. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 4: very delightful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that beat down, murderous beatdown of the forty
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Speaker 2: nine ers.
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Speaker 3: That was a delightful set.
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Speaker 4: It's usually if it's delightful for you, it's the opposite
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Speaker 4: of that first and f and I think the opposite
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Speaker 4: of delightful is exactly how they were feeling. I mean,
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Speaker 4: the de offensive side. I'll just stick with that. I mean,
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Speaker 4: we could go anywhere here. The way in which they're
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Speaker 4: able to get the pressure, the way that they were
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Speaker 4: harassing Rock Party without having to bring a bunch of blitzes.
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Speaker 4: I mean, is this is this something that is championship worthy?
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Speaker 4: The way in which they're what they can do up front.
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Speaker 4: Obviously the backside they do their part two. It seems
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Speaker 4: like they're real sticky when they're covering guys.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the pressures. They only brought five dbs
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Speaker 3: on four occasions, and you know, for it's worth, party
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Speaker 3: was two for three for twenty four yards. They did
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Speaker 3: mostly the four man rush, no six man rushes, but
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Speaker 3: they they played zone in behind it. And then you
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Speaker 3: know what speaks to how well they covered is that
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Speaker 3: on the interception that Perdy had to Ernest Jones, the
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Speaker 3: NFL tabbed it at five point nine seconds that Perdy
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Speaker 3: held the ball, he was just you know, drifting back.
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Speaker 3: He ended up throwing it at about ten and a
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Speaker 3: half yards from a line of scrimmage. So when you
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Speaker 3: throw a check down, Purty was so deep that it
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Speaker 3: caused some confusion. Earth Stones was able to make the play.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, they were covering, they were pressuring, they were
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Speaker 3: hitting him from the beginning and just absolutely destroying any
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Speaker 3: concept of big plays. I mean, it's just it's crazy
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Speaker 3: to watch how now a man to man there was
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Speaker 3: six plays. They played six plays. Last time they played
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Speaker 3: the forty nine ers, they played nine plays. Now they
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Speaker 3: were just six plays of man to man twenty nine yards.
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Speaker 3: That's four point eight yards per play. Now that's remember
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Speaker 3: now that we're talking about passes. You know, a good
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Speaker 3: pass offense wants to be seven and a half or more.
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Speaker 3: And so everything else was zone. They played a three
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Speaker 3: deep zone just three times. Most all that was a
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Speaker 3: too high structure and out of twenty nine plays where
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Speaker 3: they played some type of two high structure. I remember
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Speaker 3: now what that means is that you're taking both safeties
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Speaker 3: and you're playing them in a variety of coverages. That
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Speaker 3: hybrid coverages where you're playing two on one half cover two,
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Speaker 3: rolling to one side off coverage, but with the safety
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Speaker 3: on that side and the other. Anyways, the combination of
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Speaker 3: those twenty nine plays exactly one hundred yards three point
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Speaker 3: four yards per play. So yeah, everything that they're doing,
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Speaker 3: they're showing enough, they're showing enough variety.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And then again rack jacking their their dime plays. I
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Speaker 3: think last time they played five or six plays a
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Speaker 3: dime in the in the week eighteen game, they cranked
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Speaker 3: it up to seventeen and uh in those plays rock
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Speaker 3: party six of twelve for six. I think it was
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Speaker 3: so you know, you know, just everything on the call
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Speaker 3: sheet for Mike McDonald looks good. Yeah, I mean just unreal.
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Speaker 2: I mean, thirteen pressures on Purdy held him to one
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Speaker 2: hundred and forty yards five point two yards per attempt.
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Speaker 2: They couldn't get any run after the catch. Christian McCaffrey
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Speaker 2: got bottled up for three point two yards per carry
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Speaker 2: out again I mean, Kyle Shannan's not used to being
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Speaker 2: whooped like this. And it's almost as if that half
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Speaker 2: field or half midfield meeting between he and Mike for
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Speaker 2: the handshake, you got the impression that Kyle Shannon.
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Speaker 3: Was like, you are the man. That was what he
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Speaker 3: whispered in his ear. I would have to think words
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Speaker 3: to that effect, right. I think Mike McDonald can't probably
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Speaker 3: Garners as much respect as any young coach could possibly
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Speaker 3: garner because he's brilliant. You throw on the tape his
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Speaker 3: vision of how NFL defense should look it is crystal
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Speaker 3: clear to him. It's complex, but he teaches it well.
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Speaker 3: And then he has a humility to him. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's no Ben Johnson, you know kind of jackwagon is
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Speaker 3: quality to him. He's just extremely humble. Yeah, I would
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Speaker 3: think he's immensely respected in the UH, in the coaching world.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I think, but just we talked about,
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Speaker 3: you know, the health of Seattle, what that enables him
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Speaker 3: to do. I'm just imagining trying to play these guys
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Speaker 3: and when you cut, when you when you watch them,
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Speaker 3: when they get into that that dime. As I said,
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Speaker 3: seventeen plays, all of them were passes by the way.
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Speaker 3: So so, uh, Mike McDonald, I mean, think of that.
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Speaker 3: He throws seventeen plays of dime out there, and they
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Speaker 3: all are seventeen plays of dropback, so he knows when
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Speaker 3: you're gonna throw, and in that he has Emon Worry
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Speaker 3: on one side and a flat defender. It's it's it's
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Speaker 3: almost always a two structure. I want to say always,
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Speaker 3: but then if you show me one, that'll make a
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Speaker 3: liar out of me. But let's just say essentially, all
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Speaker 3: of their plays are too high when they're in dime,
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Speaker 3: and Emon Worry is the flat defender on one side
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Speaker 3: and Witherspoon is the flat defender on the other side,
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Speaker 3: and so you got Ernest Jones in the middle. Now
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Speaker 3: when you watch it, if I were to stop the
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Speaker 3: video and take a picture, you'd say even Worry's got
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Speaker 3: a lot of space to cover in that because he's
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Speaker 3: got to kind of play man concepts within his zone
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Speaker 3: to his area. He's got to do what we call
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Speaker 3: Matt's number two. That means any defender to the flat
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Speaker 3: he's going to have to take a man and man.
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Speaker 3: And when he's on on the far hash, he's got
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Speaker 3: a lot of space to cover. But let's just consider
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Speaker 3: you know who this guy is. He had a forty
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Speaker 3: three inch vertical that is the highest jump of any
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Speaker 3: athlete at the combine ever for over two hundred and
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Speaker 3: he was two hundred and twenty pounds. He has a
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Speaker 3: there's this thing a relative athletics score that some of
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Speaker 3: the teams subscribe to. He has a ten point zero,
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Speaker 3: ten point zero perfect athlete score. Not even Rieke Woolan
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Speaker 3: as a tempt he has a wooland as a nine
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Speaker 3: to six eight and he, you know, and he's six four,
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Speaker 3: you know, one hundred percent iron lay arms and and
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Speaker 3: you know, runs a four to two and jumps to
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Speaker 3: forty two. But he had a slow, you know, quote
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Speaker 3: slow four point three in his twenty yards settle. So
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Speaker 3: he owns only nine six eight. So again, Ima Warrey
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Speaker 3: has a ten athletics score. That's the dude who's ranging
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Speaker 3: the who's covering the flats. And then on the other side,
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Speaker 3: you got this hyper psychotic, lunatic competitor in Witherspoon, who
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Speaker 3: who can diagnose you know, he plays out corner most
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Speaker 3: of the time, he drop him inside. He just he
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Speaker 3: his football IQ was so high and there was a
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Speaker 3: playdown in the red zone the first field goal where
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Speaker 3: its third and ten, and this is one of those
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Speaker 3: plays there they get a check down to McCaffrey in
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Speaker 3: the flat and you stop right there and you see
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Speaker 3: that that Witherspoon's the flat. Oh, you wouldn't think that
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Speaker 3: he's gonna get to uh to McCaffrey on a third
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Speaker 3: and ten. You think McCaffrey's gonna get you know, the
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Speaker 3: first down or at least close enough you can go
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Speaker 3: for it. But he just sprints and it's like the
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Speaker 3: turbo button and he he, he just corrals McCaffrey there
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Speaker 3: like like a guy at a rodeo, h you know,
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Speaker 3: roping a calf and uh. And then that forces him
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Speaker 3: into a field goal, so that their ability to cover
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Speaker 3: and close space, you know in those situations. You know,
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Speaker 3: they got some dudes and now they are dudes that
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Speaker 3: are are well coached, know where their help is uber competitors.
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Speaker 3: It's it's really uh, it's something I want every time
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Speaker 3: I throw on their tape, I just get a bucket
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Speaker 3: of popcorn because it's that entertaining.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I would have thought though, when he you know, turned
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Speaker 2: McCaffrey's neck around to get him to the ground and
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Speaker 2: then tied his three legs together.
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Speaker 3: That would have been a fifteen yarder, but it wasn't.
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Speaker 3: I was judges, They judges, they game a good score.
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Speaker 2: for Sleep. Well, I mean, we got a lot to
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Speaker 2: get to, but I would imagine we're gonna do, uh
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Speaker 2: get to everything. We're gonna have to uh move on
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Speaker 2: to another topic. So let us discuss that running game
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Speaker 2: that you sort of were discussing in your opening statements,
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Speaker 2: and how much Ken Walker looked like finally the running
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Speaker 2: back that you've been telling that you wanted to see
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Speaker 2: since he got drafted, and how much credit goes to
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Speaker 2: that offensive line that has just been so criticized ever
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Speaker 2: since I came into town. And in a divisional round
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Speaker 2: playoff game, I mean, they absolutely clearly won up front
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Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers on Saturday indeed, and let's
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Speaker 2: just let's just start with this.
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Speaker 3: The Seahawks have played eighteen games. In the first fourteen
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Speaker 3: of those games, for every one hundred yards of rushing,
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Speaker 3: there were two hundred and sixty two that's on designed rushes,
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Speaker 3: there were two hundred and sixty two yards passing. Got
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Speaker 3: me one hundred yards rushing two hundred and sixty two
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Speaker 3: yards passing. In the last four games, for every one
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Speaker 3: hundred yard of design rushes, there's one hundred and ten
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Speaker 3: yards passing. They have just flipped who they are. That's
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Speaker 3: why I kind of mock about their their service academy.
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Speaker 3: They're like Georgia Tech. If you know that reference and
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Speaker 3: by the way, you know I said design rushers, you
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Speaker 3: could break it down. You could throw in Darnald scrambles
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Speaker 3: and it's and it's still, uh, two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 3: two yards per hundred in the first fourteen and one
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Speaker 3: oh seven in the last four games. So they've really
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Speaker 3: remade themselves.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: The other night they go on thirty three running back attempts.
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Speaker 3: They they go if you look at the play by
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Speaker 3: play that is available in a lot of sources, they
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Speaker 3: could say, where did the statistician has a target. He says, hey, hey,
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Speaker 3: here's canine to the left hand, left tackle, left guard, middle,
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Speaker 3: and then right guard right tack. So there's seven spots
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Speaker 3: that the play by play guy can say. So if
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Speaker 3: you if you just search it, you say, well, there's
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Speaker 3: they they're tabulated for sixteen out of thirty three went
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Speaker 3: to the end. But that doesn't mean that's how it
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Speaker 3: was called. There are some plays where they're called outside
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Speaker 3: runs that end up up the middle. For example, the
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Speaker 3: first play of the first run of the game, they
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Speaker 3: go stretch to the right and Canine. He like, I
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Speaker 3: was in the meeting room at Denver when Alex Gibbs
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Speaker 3: installed this stuff. To tole Davis, He's like, hey, you
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Speaker 3: make your decision by your third step, and then that
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Speaker 3: will mean that by the fifth step you make your cut.
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Speaker 3: You put on the first run of the game, it
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Speaker 3: stretched right. They're going at two tight ends, which they
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Speaker 3: almost always did. On his fifth step, boom, he sees
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Speaker 3: the cutback and he goes instead of the front side
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Speaker 3: C or D gap because there's two tight ends out
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Speaker 3: there to the right, he goes on the backside B
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Speaker 3: gap that's the space between Charles Cross and Zabel Now
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Speaker 3: it's a moving hole. But that's how much he cut back.
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Speaker 3: And okay, and so you had a number of those cutbacks.
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Speaker 3: They ran at two tight ends, and you know, I
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Speaker 3: just think the edge. As I said, they went twenty
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Speaker 3: one of thirty three that were wide that were actually
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Speaker 3: called wide plays. To put that into perspective, Atlanta is
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Speaker 3: the only team with Bezon Robinson this year. They were
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Speaker 3: just under fifty percent. Last year, they're at fifty one percent.
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Speaker 3: The second place team, the forty nine ers, is thirty
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Speaker 3: two percent. Outside zone got me, So if you're second
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Speaker 3: place in this league, you're less than a third trying
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Speaker 3: to get to the outside. Last on Saturday night Seattle,
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Speaker 3: twenty one of thirty three, I mean, they were really
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Speaker 3: working the perimeter. Now, not all of those was zoned.
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Speaker 3: You could say a couple of them were pinning poll,
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Speaker 3: but they were mostly zoned. Whether they tossed it or
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Speaker 3: whether they handed off. Now, they never ran stretched to
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Speaker 3: the weak side away from the tight ends. They're Sometimes
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Speaker 3: they ran there's a tight end on either side, and
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Speaker 3: they ran to a tight end. Usually it was it
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Speaker 3: was they were going to the two tight end side,
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Speaker 3: and there was incredible blocking by sea hawk tight ends
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Speaker 3: out on the perimeter. In fact, I would even submit
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Speaker 3: I discussed on Saturday night. I thought that there was
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Speaker 3: some holding going on. I could list them up on
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Speaker 3: the specific plays where I just go, that's a little
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Speaker 3: bow of hold, that's a little bo hole. It's playoff football.
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Speaker 3: And I think the refs are less likely. You know,
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Speaker 3: in in the regular season, every time they stretch, I
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Speaker 3: had to hold my breath and I go, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 3: that's a good block. But are they gonna call it
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Speaker 3: a hold on the edge. We've all done that right
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Speaker 3: on those perimeter runs. Don't you feel like, Man, that's
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Speaker 3: a long time for those tight ends to hold the
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Speaker 3: block out on the perimeter. And and you see a
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Speaker 3: lot of holding calls, but there weren't any the other night.
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Speaker 3: And I think it's because of playoff football. Obviously, that
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Speaker 3: speaks well for the next couple of games if that
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Speaker 3: theory is true. But there were there were They have
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Speaker 3: change their angle a bit. Where the running back is
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Speaker 3: going a little bit wider, it's harder for the quarterback.
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Speaker 3: He has to stretch more to get that, so so
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Speaker 3: the aiming point is a little wider. They have I
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Speaker 3: even I'm like wait a minute, this is not this
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Speaker 3: is different. I went back and watched the forty nine
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Speaker 3: er tape from week one. The running backs not all
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Speaker 3: the time, but I would dare say most of the time.
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Speaker 3: We're at seven seven and a half yards. Now they're
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Speaker 3: at eight yards, so they're the running backs deeper when
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Speaker 3: they go inside zone. Canine is doing football coaches would
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Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about called isosteps, where it's almost
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Speaker 3: like lead draw, like a delay. And so he when
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Speaker 3: they do run to the inside, which was mostly away
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Speaker 3: from those two tight ends, can I know, start like
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Speaker 3: he's gonna take a wide path, but just for one step.
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Speaker 3: Then he gets his hips and shoulders square. He's deeper,
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Speaker 3: and so it gives him more Like all of these
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Speaker 3: angles are vitally important. You give him an extra yard
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Speaker 3: and so now he can he can hit the hole.
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Speaker 3: He had a number of cutbacks. I mentioned the first
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Speaker 3: play of the game, the cutback. Uh uh, he hit
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Speaker 3: stretches there. I know there was touchdown. There was a
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Speaker 3: that he had a cutback on like like he yeah,
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Speaker 3: they go over right guard, but he ends up going
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Speaker 3: left ind and so he so when they're handing the ball,
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Speaker 3: he's deeper and his shoulders are are totally square to
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Speaker 3: this line of scrimmage, and so the cutback is available
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Speaker 3: to him. He just kind of says, Okay, everything's going
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Speaker 3: to wash out here. I can bounce to the outside
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Speaker 3: because he has the speed to do it. On the
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Speaker 3: on the other touchdown run the last touchdown, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I the offensive line play. You mentioned that. Man, there's
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Speaker 3: so much talk about with this running back, but the
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Speaker 3: running game. But but Jalens Sendell is out there leading. Uh.
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Speaker 3: He looks like a tight end. I mean it's a
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Speaker 3: he's pulling and leading Canine into the end zone. On
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Speaker 3: the reverse, the thirty yard reverse. I'm sitting there watching
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Speaker 3: it go. Man, they got some athletic linemen. They you know.
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Speaker 3: I'm watching Gray Zabel. He's sprinting down the field. I'm
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Speaker 3: looking Sundale's sprinting down the field. Lucas Soso, Charles Cross
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Speaker 3: is athletic. He got all these dudes just running. It
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Speaker 3: looks like a part return. And these are linemen. There's
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Speaker 3: only one guy who can't run, and it's Anthony Bradford. Well,
20:36
Speaker 3: guess what you designed the reverse. You design it to
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Speaker 3: off of power left, so it looks like actually counter left,
20:45
Speaker 3: because it looks like the tight end is the gap scheme,
20:48
Speaker 3: so power encounter both get back scheme, but technically it's
20:50
Speaker 3: counter left. So you've got the pulling guard right, uh,
20:53
Speaker 3: Anthony Bradford pulling right to left, and then you've got
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Speaker 3: the tight end Salbert starting a couple of steps and
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Speaker 3: then looping back to lead on the the ends of
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Speaker 3: extremely well designed. But you got the one guy that
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Speaker 3: can't run. You say, well, we'll have him pull and
21:09
Speaker 3: be the backside. So you you you designed the reverse
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Speaker 3: off of the counter left. It's reverse right. But the
21:16
Speaker 3: the defense initially SE's counter left. They see Anthony Bradford
21:20
Speaker 3: pole and so all of this, you know, it's well conceived.
21:23
Speaker 3: A lot of their really the zone blocking was just
21:27
Speaker 3: the two tight ends. The rest of it you could
21:29
Speaker 3: almost say, is man, you got guys that are that
21:31
Speaker 3: are the uncovered linemen are just sprinting to their spots
21:35
Speaker 3: to go block guys to get to the perimeter. And
21:38
Speaker 3: Sundelle is athletic, and Gray Zabel is athletic, and Charles
21:42
Speaker 3: Cross is athletics. So those guys when you get them
21:44
Speaker 3: out on space, so where they were pounding the perimeter
21:48
Speaker 3: just you know, these stretches and these tosses over and
21:51
Speaker 3: over and over, and they had a quick pitch and
21:53
Speaker 3: they had to sweep to the weak side. Even uh,
21:56
Speaker 3: you know, even they tried to get raceits a heat
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Speaker 3: on a sweep. You know, they had these concepts to
22:03
Speaker 3: get outside. It's because they feel like they've got athleticism
22:09
Speaker 3: out there in the perimeter. And and and finally, I know,
22:11
Speaker 3: wh're in a commercial break, I've got to talk about
22:13
Speaker 3: the wide receiver's cup. Uh. A lot of times they're
22:17
Speaker 3: asking the wide receivers. They even asked Jasen to do
22:20
Speaker 3: it once, to crack back at the point of attack.
22:24
Speaker 3: They got tight splits. The receivers are close to the
22:27
Speaker 3: ball and they are cracking down on a defensive end.
22:30
Speaker 3: And that momentary, you know, at least to be able
22:33
Speaker 3: to neutralize a guy so that everybody else can pull
22:36
Speaker 3: and get around and get to their spots is important.
22:38
Speaker 3: So they had everybody dialed up getting to that perimeter.
22:41
Speaker 3: And then of course that that allowed some of the
22:45
Speaker 3: inside runs because you saw the flow and then Canaine
22:49
Speaker 3: is cutting back, so it all married. There was all
22:52
Speaker 3: like the leg the knee bone is connected to the shinbone,
22:54
Speaker 3: They're that running game was all connected together for some
22:57
Speaker 3: of the reasons we've been discussing. We'll just stay acted
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Speaker 3: for two more games. Let's keep it. He'll be all right.
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Speaker 2: Sam Donald with the touchdown pass to JSN. Good morning,
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Speaker 2: a conference championship game and we're going there with these
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Speaker 2: feed up on the desk. I guess forty one six
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Speaker 2: blowout went over the San Francisco forty nine ers on
24:14
Speaker 2: Saturday night.
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Speaker 3: Got just the man to break it down for you.
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Speaker 2: It's our QB one Hugh Millan, what do you think
24:19
Speaker 2: of our quarterback play on Saturday night?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that he did everything that he should
24:26
Speaker 3: have done, needed to do given the nature of the game.
24:30
Speaker 3: I mean, it was seventeen to nothing late in the
24:32
Speaker 3: first quarter after he throws that touchdown to Injigba, right,
24:36
Speaker 3: and given the state of Seattle's defense, like that game
24:39
Speaker 3: was over. So congratulations twelves. He went to a thirteen
24:42
Speaker 3: minute game, right, you know, And I say a tongue
24:45
Speaker 3: of cheek because the twelve's were freaking awesome. But you know,
24:50
Speaker 3: you know, you start with the look he gets a
24:52
Speaker 3: double stick quick. There was no receiver more than five
24:56
Speaker 3: yards on the first play of the game, he goes
25:00
Speaker 3: to check down. Then the next play balls on the right.
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Speaker 3: Hash safety is pushing to the trips to Darnold's left.
25:07
Speaker 3: So you like that that match up, that one on
25:10
Speaker 3: one matchup with Jigma to the right. You remember he
25:14
Speaker 3: dirts the ball going up the field. I understand why
25:17
Speaker 3: he did it because the corner kind of like was
25:21
Speaker 3: in press coverage. He kind of threw in Jigba out
25:24
Speaker 3: to try and play the inside. He would have been
25:26
Speaker 3: deadly vulnerable to any kind of corner route or outbreaking route,
25:30
Speaker 3: but he kind of played an inbreaking route because he
25:32
Speaker 3: didn't have the free safety help. Anyways, the last thing
25:35
Speaker 3: a quarterback can do before, you know, like if you
25:39
Speaker 3: just went broke time down in a fraction the neurologically,
25:44
Speaker 3: the last thing you can do if you don't like
25:46
Speaker 3: the play is tell yourself to dirt the ball. And
25:50
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's what he did to get that incompletion.
25:53
Speaker 3: Then then uh, you know, I'm speaking right now in
25:57
Speaker 3: granular terms because of how I felt and maybe others
26:01
Speaker 3: felt about his health. So the ball's on the right hash.
26:05
Speaker 3: I felt good when he threw the out route, the
26:08
Speaker 3: five yard out route to cup, because I say, okay,
26:10
Speaker 3: he smoked that pretty good. But then when I really
26:12
Speaker 3: felt good, he takes the sack on the boot on
26:15
Speaker 3: the second series balls on the right hash second and
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Speaker 3: twenty cover to beautiful design play because he got Jackson
26:23
Speaker 3: Smith and Jig. But in the backfield he comes out hooks.
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Speaker 3: He's gonna hold that corner because he's number eleven. The
26:29
Speaker 3: scouting importance says, hey, number eleven, number eleven, number eleven
26:32
Speaker 3: holds a corner just enough, and darnold just with without hesitation,
26:36
Speaker 3: just smokes that ball to the far sideline to pick
26:39
Speaker 3: up the first down on second and twenty. And that's
26:41
Speaker 3: when I bet a lot of people said that, Okay,
26:45
Speaker 3: his oblique is fine for today. I mean, he had
26:49
Speaker 3: the slant route on the on third and ten late
26:54
Speaker 3: in the second quarter, the one to Bobo to Bobo. Yeah,
26:58
Speaker 3: he gets, you get sixteen yards. I thought that was
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Speaker 3: more difficult when I watched it on on tape from
27:05
Speaker 3: the end zone copy. It actually was kind of a layup.
27:08
Speaker 3: But but that was an important play. You know, he
27:11
Speaker 3: throws an out route to Cup to the left. You know,
27:14
Speaker 3: the first quarters five to seven, he's got he's got
27:17
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty passer rating. So you're up seventeen
27:20
Speaker 3: to nothing. Your quarterback has one hundred and twenty passer rating.
27:23
Speaker 3: And the two incompletions are the one I said he dirted.
27:26
Speaker 3: And then this is part of Quarterbacking two. It particularly playoffootball.
27:31
Speaker 3: How many interceptions did you see this weekend? We saw
27:34
Speaker 3: a lot of interception. What I'm about to say is
27:36
Speaker 3: part of Quarterbacking two. They had a very cool concept
27:40
Speaker 3: where it's shotgun. You got canine on the right side
27:43
Speaker 3: he's gonna come across and he's gonna and we've seen
27:46
Speaker 3: this around the NFL a little bit where routes are
27:48
Speaker 3: emanating through the offensive line. Canine's gonna go through the
27:52
Speaker 3: B gap between the tackle and the guard, and then
27:56
Speaker 3: he's gonna run a wheel route. Now they got the
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Speaker 3: coverage they want, but they elect to do it off
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Speaker 3: of what's called power pass. So they got Zabel pulling
28:05
Speaker 3: left to right to get the end. That just doesn't work.
28:07
Speaker 3: The end blows that up, and then the center Sondel
28:11
Speaker 3: because the left guard is vacating. That leaves a hole
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Speaker 3: there in the B gap to Sundale's left and and
28:18
Speaker 3: so now all of a sudden, Darnold has two guys
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Speaker 3: in his face. Even though he had to have loved
28:23
Speaker 3: the matchup, Canine was it was gonna be a touchdown.
28:26
Speaker 3: He could have been tempted to try and lob it over,
28:28
Speaker 3: maybe a safety comes over and makes the play, but
28:31
Speaker 3: he just dirts it. And and it had to kill
28:35
Speaker 3: him to dirt it because because he had everything he
28:37
Speaker 3: wanted from a coverage standpoint. But that's part of quarterbacking,
28:41
Speaker 3: right is sometimes the right play is to dirt it
28:46
Speaker 3: because it's the only play because it was just it
28:49
Speaker 3: was a nice idea. Let's go, let's how are we
28:51
Speaker 3: gonna protect this? We like this idea, but let's go
28:53
Speaker 3: power pass uh and and and and stuff. Canine through
28:57
Speaker 3: that B gap. We'll pull Zabel like. It looks good
28:59
Speaker 3: on the whiteboard. It looked to get in practice against
29:02
Speaker 3: scout team, but it didn't look good on Saturday night.
29:04
Speaker 3: And he didn't make anything over. So that's your two
29:06
Speaker 3: incompletions in the first quarter. And you know, for all
29:11
Speaker 3: intenses and purposes of the game's over. Now, there was
29:14
Speaker 3: a couple that were missed. I bet you're probably asking
29:17
Speaker 3: miss two to uh Shaheed up the field. Third and
29:20
Speaker 3: two could have gone to the flat to Cooper, Cup,
29:24
Speaker 3: could have gone the over route, intermediate overroute to JSN.
29:27
Speaker 3: He elects, he lects, just strike up the band and
29:30
Speaker 3: try and get a big play down the field. On
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Speaker 3: third and two, the safety had vacated the middle of
29:35
Speaker 3: the field on the crossing route to help on the
29:39
Speaker 3: crossing with JSN. When the safety vacates the middle of
29:43
Speaker 3: the field, now you say, wait a minute, As this
29:44
Speaker 3: is a quarterback's mindset, I've got Shaheed who runs a
29:47
Speaker 3: four to two you know, not really, but you know
29:50
Speaker 3: four to three. Yes, if he runs a post to
29:53
Speaker 3: the middle of the field, we've got something. Well, Shaheed,
29:57
Speaker 3: he starts to go like a post, like he's gonna
30:00
Speaker 3: cross the defender's face, but then he goes vertical. So
30:04
Speaker 3: it's a long foul ball in fair territory because of
30:07
Speaker 3: the middle of the field. But but they're just not
30:09
Speaker 3: on the same page. This is again the product uh
30:12
Speaker 3: uh she het was acquired on November fourth. They're still
30:15
Speaker 3: not on the page. They haven't hit that big ball
30:18
Speaker 3: down the sideline, and so that would be an area
30:21
Speaker 3: where and and then another one. I know, up, we're
30:25
Speaker 3: up against you here. But but uh, the Seahawks, they
30:29
Speaker 3: had to have practiced it against cover two. This was
30:32
Speaker 3: a cover two beater. They get covers two deep five
30:35
Speaker 3: hunder zone in this case Tampa, which means the middle
30:37
Speaker 3: linebacker's a little deeper. Put JSN in the backfield on
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Speaker 3: the right, he's the half back on the right. He's
30:43
Speaker 3: gonna go and he's gonna again hold the attention of
30:46
Speaker 3: the corner route. Uh. In the flat we call that
30:49
Speaker 3: a chief route, which is a word conjunction check inside
30:52
Speaker 3: flat so so hey, he's gonna run this little chief route.
30:55
Speaker 3: He's gonna hold the curl defender and the flat defender
30:58
Speaker 3: because he's Jackson Smith and Jake he's number eleven right,
31:01
Speaker 3: his first team off ro You're good, that's what you
31:04
Speaker 3: use decoy. Now you're gonna have a tight split by
31:07
Speaker 3: by Rashid Shaheed and he's gonna be close to the ball.
31:10
Speaker 3: He's gonna inside release against that corner and then he's
31:13
Speaker 3: gonna break into into a window that that is between
31:19
Speaker 3: the middle linebacker and the coal defender. There's a there's
31:21
Speaker 3: a window there and and our quarterback Donald rips that
31:26
Speaker 3: thing because he's expecting Shaheed to sprint through that hole
31:31
Speaker 3: because that's where the hole is. But Shaheed, he is
31:34
Speaker 3: he is eye leaning down like's it is his own coverage.
31:37
Speaker 3: He's eye leaning, opens up his hips as if to say, hey,
31:41
Speaker 3: I'm slowing down. But you only do that when you
31:44
Speaker 3: slow down in that window. But in this case, he
31:48
Speaker 3: needed to get to the next window, and and Donald's
31:51
Speaker 3: expecting him to sprint through that next window. So it's
31:54
Speaker 3: off the fingertips to Shaheed a chance for a big play.
31:57
Speaker 3: And you're probably thinking, oh, that's a bad throw. No,
32:00
Speaker 3: it's it's it's it's they're not on the same page.
32:02
Speaker 3: He darnol threw it exactly where his brain intended to
32:06
Speaker 3: throw precisely. He just thought that Shahed was gonna sprint through,
32:11
Speaker 3: not try and idle down. Shaheed was was doing a
32:16
Speaker 3: a zone concept idea, but he was idling down right
32:20
Speaker 3: in front of the curl defender, like, no, don't do that.
32:23
Speaker 3: So when we talk about a JSN as having this
32:27
Speaker 3: incredibly high i Q, well, that's in relation to other
32:31
Speaker 3: NFL receivers. You have to to have an idea of
32:35
Speaker 3: a of a straight line in the sidewalk. You have
32:37
Speaker 3: to have an idea of a cricket line in the
32:39
Speaker 3: sidewalk right like that. It's it's all relative. So Jackson
32:42
Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba is brilliant by wide receiver standards in
32:45
Speaker 3: the NFL because he doesn't do that stuff. He knows
32:48
Speaker 3: when to idle, idle in the correct window, he knows
32:51
Speaker 3: when to accelerate. I could show you a tape of
32:53
Speaker 3: five hundred damn plays where where I would would that
32:56
Speaker 3: would would would would back up the contention. So there's
33:02
Speaker 3: a few things they missed, But you're talking about twelve
33:05
Speaker 3: to seventeen, one hundred and eleven one hundred and eleven
33:08
Speaker 3: passer rating. You did what you needed to do. I mean,
33:10
Speaker 3: we're apparently we're Georgia Tech now, which is fine because
33:13
Speaker 3: if we can run like that and control the game,
33:16
Speaker 3: I don't care if they throw it seven times, right,
33:18
Speaker 3: you know, it's just it's beautiful football. But I think
33:21
Speaker 3: those are some of the details. You saw a few breakdowns,
33:25
Speaker 3: and in my estimation, that's how that's the source of
33:28
Speaker 3: some of it.
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Speaker 5: Oh graty. He's like, look, this guy was not in
33:57
Speaker 5: a good spot on Thursday and me or football Thursday Wednesday,
34:01
Speaker 5: So for him to kind of get up to speed,
34:02
Speaker 5: get ready to play. The guys follow his lead and
34:07
Speaker 5: two tremendous plays have really changed the course of the
34:09
Speaker 5: game with those takeaways.
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Speaker 2: All that is Mike McDonald talking about Ernest Jones a
34:15
Speaker 2: force fumble, also an interception as well. Man. You don't
34:18
Speaker 2: see inside linebackers with the six interceptions in a season
34:22
Speaker 2: very often, but that's what we've got in number thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Part of the impressive equation that was the Seahawks forty
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Speaker 2: one six winner with the San Francisco forty nine Ers
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Speaker 2: Saturday night. We're headed to the NFC Conference championship game.
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Speaker 2: It'll be played Sunday at three point thirty right here
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Speaker 2: in Seattle. Mike Holmer will join us at the top
34:42
Speaker 2: of the hour. But we've got Hugh Mellen here for
34:45
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34:48
Speaker 3: And you've given any.
34:49
Speaker 2: Thought to that Rams matchup? I mean, didn't we kind
34:53
Speaker 2: of know it was gonna end up this way?
34:56
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was hoping against it all through this, all
35:00
Speaker 3: through this playoffs Carolina yesterday, of course, But yeah, I
35:06
Speaker 3: think my thought is Pooka Nakula is arguably the best
35:12
Speaker 3: non quarterback in the NFL. I know you're gonna say
35:15
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett twenty five sacks and all. I mean, I
35:17
Speaker 3: haven't studied Cleveland tape to know how disruptive he is.
35:20
Speaker 3: I just know that pooka nakula. Every time there's an
35:25
Speaker 3: important play to be made, this guy has a way
35:28
Speaker 3: of doing it. I don't know how a receiver can
35:31
Speaker 3: get that strong. I don't know if he's from the Islands,
35:34
Speaker 3: you know, and he's throwing sugarcanes around his whole life.
35:39
Speaker 3: But that dude is so strong with his hands and
35:42
Speaker 3: his body running through tackles. He has a remarkable ability
35:46
Speaker 3: to make a play at the most needed time. So
35:50
Speaker 3: he scored Seattle. You better have an answer for him.
35:53
Speaker 3: But you know what, I can't wait for seven days
35:56
Speaker 3: from now because I just believe Mike McDonald's ability to adjust.
36:01
Speaker 3: The three times where I've really been disappointed in his
36:06
Speaker 3: defense was last year after Buffalo, this year after Tampa Bay,
36:10
Speaker 3: and this year after the RAM the second RAM game,
36:13
Speaker 3: And in all three of those times, the very next
36:16
Speaker 3: next week, seven days later, everything was put out. He's
36:21
Speaker 3: the fireman. All the fires were put out. He has
36:23
Speaker 3: an markability, remarkable ability to fix stuff. I think he's
36:27
Speaker 3: gonna look at that tape. I'm not saying that Seattle's
36:31
Speaker 3: gonna win, but because the Rams are damn good. But
36:36
Speaker 3: there if they lose, they're not gonna lose in the
36:38
Speaker 3: manner that they lost when the Rams had five hundred
36:42
Speaker 3: and eighty one yards the last time.
36:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, is Karen Williams a big worried when
36:48
Speaker 4: you're getting ready for this game? I mean Pukainakup is
36:50
Speaker 4: one where I mean, he went off against you last time,
36:54
Speaker 4: but you still ended up winning that game, and a
36:56
Speaker 4: kind of miracle to get that done. But to me,
36:59
Speaker 4: it's the whole idea of stopping the run is where
37:01
Speaker 4: you get started on a good defense. And Kevin Williams
37:05
Speaker 4: has had a couple of decent games against Mike McDonald's defense.
37:08
Speaker 3: Is he a worrier or and it runs hard? Yeah,
37:10
Speaker 3: and they run between the tackles. They're not trying to
37:12
Speaker 3: get outside very often. And so yeah, if you're playing
37:16
Speaker 3: light boxes, you know, no safety the nickel. I don't
37:21
Speaker 3: even think of Seattle as nickel anymore. I just think
37:24
Speaker 3: demon Worry is just a big, badass SAM linebacker. But
37:27
Speaker 3: I've been saying that all year, But yeah, I think
37:30
Speaker 3: it's a concern. Now, I think that it's highly possible.
37:35
Speaker 3: It wouldn't shock me at all if McVeigh comes out.
37:38
Speaker 3: There was a during the Greatest Show on Turf Mike
37:41
Speaker 3: Martz came out started a game, and I think it's
37:44
Speaker 3: twenty one straight passes. I'm not even exaggerating. It is
37:47
Speaker 3: north of twenty straight passes, and it wouldn't surprise me.
37:52
Speaker 3: It would surprise me if you want twenty straight passes,
37:55
Speaker 3: but it wouldn't surprise me if it was something like that,
37:58
Speaker 3: like a heavy, heavy, heavy imbalance of pass to run,
38:05
Speaker 3: because he may look at Seattle and just go look,
38:07
Speaker 3: these numbers are legit and the tape is legit. These
38:10
Speaker 3: guys stop the run against any anybody and everybody, So
38:13
Speaker 3: why put ourselves behind in the chains so he may
38:17
Speaker 3: come out and really those first couple series be trying
38:20
Speaker 3: to knife it down the field. Sounds like some that
38:23
Speaker 3: guy Homegren would do.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna join us at nine o'clock, so I doubt
38:27
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring up college football to coach. But I'll
38:31
Speaker 2: ask you in our last minute this hour about tonight's
38:34
Speaker 2: National championship game, Indiana versus Miami. You have a Heisman vote.
38:39
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you went Fernando Mendoza. What do you like
38:42
Speaker 2: about his game? What makes him so special?
38:44
Speaker 3: Well? Yes, and I watch a lot of tape of everybody.
38:48
Speaker 3: I get access to the coaches tape, and I figure,
38:51
Speaker 3: you know, it's a privilege and honor to vote. I
38:54
Speaker 3: want to give them their due and really study the tape,
38:58
Speaker 3: the coaches tape, And it was Mendoza. I mean, people
39:03
Speaker 3: talk about a Heisman moment. I really don't like that
39:05
Speaker 3: term because you know what about Joe Burrow never really
39:08
Speaker 3: had a Heisman moment. It was just Pearl Harbor every
39:11
Speaker 3: Saturday because it was just he was raining everything down.
39:14
Speaker 3: So I don't think you need a moment person. That's
39:17
Speaker 3: just my take. The Heisman Trust doesn't say, hey, you've
39:21
Speaker 3: got to find that moment. If there was, you could
39:23
Speaker 3: argue his penn state. But I'll just say this regarding him,
39:27
Speaker 3: and look out for this tonight. If there was potentially
39:31
Speaker 3: a moment in the Big Ten Championship game, with about
39:34
Speaker 3: two minutes to go and Indiana up by three points,
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Speaker 3: there was a third and six balls on the left
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Speaker 3: hash and he throws to that Becker. That Becker, dude
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Speaker 3: is an NFL player, Like he's like a Jordi Nelson,
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Speaker 3: Like you know, I know, it's like big white dude
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Speaker 3: who runs fast. Yeah, okay, but that dude is a player.
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Speaker 3: He can jump, he can run. He is something. And
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Speaker 3: they they convert a thirty three yard er on third.
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Speaker 3: That was the game winner. That was the win the
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Speaker 3: Big Den Championship. And here's what impressed me. The NFL
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Speaker 3: tabulates the time to throw. That was two point three seconds.
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Speaker 3: He got it out, and they tabulate air yards twenty
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Speaker 3: nine air yards. So from the left hash he's throwing
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Speaker 3: a far side go route and he's going fast feet.
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Speaker 3: It reminds me of Troy Aikman. Beautiful balance. Ball's up.
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Speaker 3: And here's the key tonight. I promise you you will
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Speaker 3: see a some type of vertical up the sideline. Watch
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Speaker 3: how low Fernando Mendoza throws that ball. Again, he got
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Speaker 3: a go route up and down in twenty nine air yards.
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Speaker 3: What he does And people always say, oh, they love
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Speaker 3: that arc, the ball arc the ball. Well, that's fine
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Speaker 3: when the corner's off, but if you get a double
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Speaker 3: move or if the corner's impressed, just throw that thing.
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Speaker 3: Just stab that ball on a line it's easier to
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Speaker 3: be accurate because you don't have to lead the guy
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Speaker 3: as much. You could put it high and away for Decker,
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Speaker 3: the uh Becker rather the the uh the big receiver
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Speaker 3: and uh and and I'm just really impressed with his processing.
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Speaker 3: Of course, the the accuracy you know he's hitting, Uh
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Speaker 3: targets the size of a coffee mug all over. He's
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Speaker 3: like Steph Curry. But but but I specifically want you
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Speaker 3: as as viewers to watch on vertical throws, watch the
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Speaker 3: trajectory of the ball. He holds it as low as anybody.
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Speaker 3: You know who The last guy who I saw consistently
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Speaker 3: throw the ball that low on vertical routs, Dan Marino.
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Speaker 3: When he's throwing to Duper and Clayton, everybody says, throw
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Speaker 3: the ball up there, like like uh, uh uh, who's
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Speaker 3: the Who's the dude from Cincinnati helped me out that
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Speaker 3: that uh the qbaker? Yeah, yeah, exactly, dude, I can't
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Speaker 3: believe you pulled that. You throw it high, like Jeff Blake.
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Speaker 3: Lobrino is like, hell with that. I'm throwing a laser
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Speaker 3: because I can be more accurate. And uh, and that's
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Speaker 3: how Mendoza throws his verticals that I bet he's get
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Speaker 3: at least one of those tonight.
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