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- 0:48Speaker 1: hom Grin and Hugh Millin.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Here's Chuck and Buck, mikel I'm gonna be joining us
- 0:54Speaker 2: at nine o'clock this morning. Hugh Millin ur QB one
- 0:57Speaker 2: is with us from eight to ten every Monday to
- 0:59Speaker 2: recap the latest Sea Hawk game. We also might talk
- 1:03Speaker 2: a little college football before the hour comes to a close.
- 1:06Speaker 3: But no, don't worry.
- 1:08Speaker 4: We're not gonna talk hockey this hour with you.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna keep it in the football realm, that's sure.
- 1:14Speaker 4: I guarantee you that.
- 1:15Speaker 5: All right, I'll try to let me scratch those hockey
- 1:17Speaker 5: questions off then.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you were ready, Bucky, alright, so let
- 1:22Speaker 2: me don't do it. Don't ask him about Joey to court. Okay, Hugh,
- 1:26Speaker 2: good morning, sir, good morning. Good to be with you,
- 1:29Speaker 2: Good to be with you. All right, So this was
- 1:31Speaker 2: a six to six game at halftime. Bucky referenced it earlier.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Peyton Manning one set on the Manning cast that we
- 1:39Speaker 2: overdo the halftime adjustments that there aren't as many as
- 1:44Speaker 2: what you think, or it's not as dramatic as you
- 1:46Speaker 2: think something changed you at halftime, because this is a
- 1:50Speaker 2: completely different team in the second half.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with Peyton Manning. I think generally in
- 1:55Speaker 3: those meetings, certainly from a quarterback perspective, it's kind of like, hey,
- 1:59Speaker 3: this was the game plan, and you're just kind of
- 2:01Speaker 3: looking and say, well, these are the things we like
- 2:03Speaker 3: on the game plan. You've already been studying it all week,
- 2:06Speaker 3: and so you kind of narrow your focus now that's
- 2:08Speaker 3: not to say that offensive linemen aren't over there drawing
- 2:11Speaker 3: up on the board and making some adjustments on the
- 2:13Speaker 3: how they made block. But I agree with Manning's general assertion.
- 2:18Speaker 3: But you know, for me, I think that, well, it's
- 2:21Speaker 3: easy to look at the first half. I think that
- 2:23Speaker 3: there was a juncture that delineated that was a little
- 2:28Speaker 3: bit before that with fifty seven seconds remaining. Remember, now
- 2:31Speaker 3: Atlanta just kicked that field goal. So they go up
- 2:33Speaker 3: six to three, and the Seahawks they get a drive
- 2:37Speaker 3: there where they go seven plays forty five yards and
- 2:40Speaker 3: they kick the field goal to pull within six six
- 2:43Speaker 3: at halftime. Right, remember that drive. So prior to that drive,
- 2:48Speaker 3: and sometimes what happens late in the second quarter is
- 2:52Speaker 3: a catalyst for what you talk about at halftime, and
- 2:56Speaker 3: maybe a catalyst for the view that the offensive coordinator
- 3:02Speaker 3: may have for what he wants accomplished in the second half.
- 3:05Speaker 3: And so let me let me point out that prior
- 3:08Speaker 3: to that drive got me. So we'll call that the
- 3:11Speaker 3: the you know, the juncture that it was fifty seven
- 3:14Speaker 3: seconds to go in the second quarter, which means they've
- 3:17Speaker 3: played forty eight point four to two percent of a
- 3:20Speaker 3: total game going by seconds. Yeah, I did that calculation
- 3:25Speaker 3: pretty simple. But but and the reason why I wanted
- 3:30Speaker 3: to give that calculation. At that point Darnold had eleven
- 3:34Speaker 3: targets for thirty seven yards, and prior to that UH
- 3:41Speaker 3: and that juncture you had JSN he had been fifty
- 3:48Speaker 3: five percent of the targets and seventy percent of the
- 3:53Speaker 3: pass yards. However, the Seahawks were only on a pace
- 3:57Speaker 3: at that juncture. If you go down to second they
- 4:00Speaker 3: were on a pay staff seventy six total yards of
- 4:04Speaker 3: passing for the game from that point on, from that
- 4:08Speaker 3: that juncture, on that that endo drive, and then all
- 4:12Speaker 3: the second quarter they went from targets to JASN fifty
- 4:15Speaker 3: five percent, dropped it to twenty one percent, got other
- 4:19Speaker 3: people involved. The yards went from seventy percent to thirty
- 4:24Speaker 3: one for jsn UH after that juncture just thirty one
- 4:28Speaker 3: percent of the pass yards and the pace went from
- 4:32Speaker 3: as I said they before that they were on a
- 4:35Speaker 3: pace to have seventy six yards of passing. Their productivity
- 4:39Speaker 3: after that juncture was a pace that would be worth
- 4:42Speaker 3: four hundred and eleven yards passing for a game. That
- 4:46Speaker 3: is a big change. And so you just you just look,
- 4:49Speaker 3: I think it was a very pivotal game, uh for
- 4:54Speaker 3: Rashid sa heat, you know, not just the kickoff, but
- 4:56Speaker 3: you know, I think now he feels like he's part
- 4:58Speaker 3: of the team U. But there was time you know, hey,
- 5:01Speaker 3: they're rolling the coverage to to JSN. They're playing what's
- 5:05Speaker 3: called cover six, which means you you take cover two
- 5:08Speaker 3: to to JSN side, put a safety over the top,
- 5:11Speaker 3: but then you allow free access to uh to Rashid
- 5:15Speaker 3: hi head. And he's just one on one on most routes,
- 5:19Speaker 3: and so they motioned him. They hit him on on
- 5:22Speaker 3: some third down conversions. They the the the big dig
- 5:26Speaker 3: route right before the field goal, which was to she
- 5:30Speaker 3: head over the middle. There was only one pass rusher.
- 5:35Speaker 3: There was ten guys playing zone and yet rashi Hi
- 5:38Speaker 3: Hid he made a great move on the corner, got
- 5:41Speaker 3: into the inside. If you're dropping ten, they should have
- 5:43Speaker 3: been a lot there should have been a lot more holes.
- 5:46Speaker 3: But I think that for both Sam Darnold and for
- 5:49Speaker 3: Clint Kubiak, you know, uh, that drive and and and
- 5:54Speaker 3: the discussion to get other people involved, not to try
- 5:57Speaker 3: and force it to j SN. I think that was
- 5:59Speaker 3: a good thing for the football team.
- 6:01Speaker 5: Well, nobody dissects it like you can and do so.
- 6:05Speaker 5: I mean, if you had to give the lion's share
- 6:07Speaker 5: of the credit, is it Kubiak making play calls where
- 6:10Speaker 5: the primary was someone else to start spreading it around
- 6:13Speaker 5: or was it Sam Darnold actually just not getting you know,
- 6:17Speaker 5: focused on trying to force it into Jays.
- 6:19Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question, and I think that the
- 6:22Speaker 3: tape shows evidence of both. I mean, you're you're you
- 6:26Speaker 3: know that motion play where you're going to motion him
- 6:30Speaker 3: and then run him on an Omaha route on on
- 6:32Speaker 3: third down, a quick out route. You know, that's clearly
- 6:35Speaker 3: he's the targeted guy. They were they on a number
- 6:37Speaker 3: of times. Flood routes are when you have a deep,
- 6:44Speaker 3: an intermediate, and a shallow uh concept and the way
- 6:49Speaker 3: the the you know, the the the Falcons were mixed.
- 6:53Speaker 3: They played a lot of man and man and and
- 6:55Speaker 3: they played a lot of zone. So so what they
- 6:58Speaker 3: were able to trigger some zone coverage and they would
- 7:02Speaker 3: get a weak side flood. What weak side flood means
- 7:05Speaker 3: is a strong side flood would be your intermediate is
- 7:10Speaker 3: a sail route, a corner route. You're deep is a
- 7:13Speaker 3: go route or a post route. And then there's somebody
- 7:16Speaker 3: in the flat, but the intermediate emanates on the strong
- 7:20Speaker 3: side of where the reed is. A weak side flood
- 7:23Speaker 3: is when you bring the backside receiver and slot and
- 7:27Speaker 3: slot him in between the deep in the shallow and
- 7:30Speaker 3: they hit thirty three yards on rashichi. He bringing him
- 7:35Speaker 3: from the other side, and it's just, you know, kind
- 7:39Speaker 3: of breathtaking how fast he can get to that spot.
- 7:42Speaker 3: So he's running intermediate crossing route. He caught the ball
- 7:46Speaker 3: twenty two yards from the line of scrimmage and he
- 7:48Speaker 3: got there, so dog one fast. So Darnold doesn't have
- 7:51Speaker 3: to wait. The picture presents itself. He's like, okay, I
- 7:55Speaker 3: got the deep guy clearing out the deep guy. I
- 7:57Speaker 3: got a flat. Now we are inserting for the opposite
- 8:00Speaker 3: side of the field. We're getting resichi heat to run
- 8:05Speaker 3: this deep angle cross or race route. There's other terms
- 8:07Speaker 3: that people use, but but they get over there and
- 8:10Speaker 3: and and uh so that's that's targeting. You know that
- 8:13Speaker 3: some serious speed getting over there. So yeah, I'd say
- 8:17Speaker 3: the answers both here.
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- 8:36Speaker 2: lot to discuss here in this game, certainly, Uh, But
- 8:40Speaker 2: on the defensive side of the ball, that was where
- 8:44Speaker 2: you were bending a little bit, not breaking in the
- 8:46Speaker 2: first half, and then you decided just not to bend
- 8:48Speaker 2: at all.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Let's just not even ben.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Uh and the second half and and and sort of
- 8:53Speaker 2: shut down Atlanta. I mean, they didn't shut out Bjon Robinson,
- 8:57Speaker 2: but did did keep him from destroy you. And we
- 9:00Speaker 2: have to talk about nick emon Waurie because we spent
- 9:03Speaker 2: a lot of time on him last week, and obviously
- 9:06Speaker 2: that was justified because man, he was.
- 9:09Speaker 3: Sensational yesterday, maybe the best we've ever seen him. He
- 9:12Speaker 3: is really blossoming, isn't he? A couple of things? Okay, So,
- 9:15Speaker 3: first of all, in my opinion, I thought the defensive
- 9:18Speaker 3: line had their poorest game since Tampa Bay. Among their
- 9:23Speaker 3: two or three worst games. I thought there was just
- 9:26Speaker 3: a noted and it was in my notes on Friday
- 9:29Speaker 3: to talk about the Falcons offensive line they don't have
- 9:31Speaker 3: Caleb McGarry the right tackle. The other four positions are
- 9:34Speaker 3: pretty damn good. I thought they they moved the line
- 9:37Speaker 3: of scrimmage better than I've seen almost any team against
- 9:42Speaker 3: the Seahawks. You know here there's articles in the Times
- 9:45Speaker 3: and everybody's throwing these flowers at the defensive line. I
- 9:48Speaker 3: just thought they were okay because I thought they got
- 9:50Speaker 3: moved too much. Now, the secondary, the back seven, even
- 9:54Speaker 3: if you want to count the linebackers, I thought had
- 9:56Speaker 3: a really good game active, you know, creating kaok and havoc.
- 10:02Speaker 3: But where the entire defense really clamped was in the
- 10:07Speaker 3: red zone. The Falcons. They had eighteen plays in the
- 10:11Speaker 3: red zone on the Falcons offense against Sales defense. A
- 10:14Speaker 3: successful play. This is not a me term. This has
- 10:18Speaker 3: been around for a few decades now. Successful play is
- 10:22Speaker 3: described as forty percent of the needed yards on first down,
- 10:26Speaker 3: sixty percent of the needed yards on second and all
- 10:28Speaker 3: the needed yards on third or fourth down, so that
- 10:30Speaker 3: that constitutes a successful play. The Falcons only had two
- 10:33Speaker 3: successful plays in the red zone for the entire game
- 10:36Speaker 3: out of eighteen.
- 10:37Speaker 4: Wow.
- 10:38Speaker 3: And so you know, when you talk about clamping down
- 10:41Speaker 3: the defensive line, all of a sudden, you're like, whoa,
- 10:44Speaker 3: that looks like the defensive line of the twenty twenty
- 10:47Speaker 3: five Seahawks. You know where was that forty yards ago?
- 10:51Speaker 3: But they just came alive and great. You know, you
- 10:56Speaker 3: know they're played a lot of zone down there. And
- 10:59Speaker 3: I tell you what I'm is so much more inspired
- 11:02Speaker 3: by watching defenses that play zone defense. Great because there's
- 11:07Speaker 3: a cohesion. You have to know where your help is.
- 11:10Speaker 3: You have to go, you know, cover this guy for
- 11:13Speaker 3: precisely the right number of steps down to the step
- 11:16Speaker 3: and then turn and don't get out of position, and
- 11:19Speaker 3: trust if you play man to man. Some people call
- 11:22Speaker 3: that cat defense. Don't confuse that with cat blitz. Is
- 11:25Speaker 3: that's a corner blitz. But people who call it cat blitz,
- 11:28Speaker 3: they just say, hey, our cat, my cat against your cat.
- 11:31Speaker 3: And if you can, you know, play good defense, well
- 11:33Speaker 3: you got better cats than them in man and man.
- 11:35Speaker 3: But the zone just the way they trigger on their
- 11:40Speaker 3: their route recognition, they're so well coached, they're they're tied together,
- 11:44Speaker 3: and you know, you get numbers like two successful plays
- 11:48Speaker 3: out of eighteen in the red zone.
- 11:49Speaker 5: What's the main thing when a defense tightens up it's
- 11:53Speaker 5: obviously not just all right, guys, we've allowed them to
- 11:56Speaker 5: get down here. Now we've got to get tougher. I mean,
- 11:59Speaker 5: is it because there's not as much rooms they can't
- 12:02Speaker 5: really take the top off, there is no top left.
- 12:04Speaker 5: Is it that the secondary plays with cohesion like you're
- 12:08Speaker 5: talking about in the zone or is it? I mean,
- 12:10Speaker 5: obviously it's a combination of more than just one thing.
- 12:13Speaker 5: But from your standpoint, when a good defense has the
- 12:16Speaker 5: ability to then stiffen up when they get down in
- 12:19Speaker 5: the red zone, why typically is that?
- 12:21Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think I have opposite responses to that.
- 12:24Speaker 3: I think, first and foremost, I think the adage, hey
- 12:28Speaker 3: stop the run and get ahead of the sticks, you know,
- 12:31Speaker 3: put them in second along, etc. And of course the
- 12:34Speaker 3: field tightens up. But I think all you know, from
- 12:38Speaker 3: a quarterback perspective, you know, on first down, when they're
- 12:41Speaker 3: inclined to take shots and send two or three, you know,
- 12:45Speaker 3: at least a couple guys at the end zone and
- 12:47Speaker 3: then have a checkdown, it's like you better, you better
- 12:50Speaker 3: be able to you know, deny any windows because out
- 12:55Speaker 3: in the middle of the field, if you give up
- 12:57Speaker 3: a seventeen yard completion, okay, you know you live. You know,
- 13:01Speaker 3: they got a first down lineup and stop him. On
- 13:03Speaker 3: the next year, you give up a seventeen yard completion,
- 13:06Speaker 3: it's a touchdown. So you got to be really sticky
- 13:09Speaker 3: in terms of presenting preventing those big plays that people
- 13:13Speaker 3: draw up to try to get, particularly to the back
- 13:15Speaker 3: of the end zone in the red zone, you know,
- 13:17Speaker 3: and and uh so you got to be sound over
- 13:22Speaker 3: the top and you got to stop the run, and
- 13:23Speaker 3: they were doing both. As for Emon worry, I don't know, Chuck,
- 13:27Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I I answered that. You know,
- 13:29Speaker 3: there's so much to talk about with him, But.
- 13:31Speaker 4: Where did they take it that you have not seen
- 13:33Speaker 4: him go before?
- 13:34Speaker 3: I mean yesterday. Well, I think his recognition, you know,
- 13:39Speaker 3: he's you heard the sound bite from Mike McDonald, he's
- 13:42Speaker 3: I think it's very important for Mike McDonald to not
- 13:45Speaker 3: overburden him with responsibilities. It's like, hey, trust your instinct,
- 13:49Speaker 3: and you know he had tackle for loss where he's
- 13:51Speaker 3: a like essentially a Nickelson. He's just a Sam linebacker
- 13:56Speaker 3: and at two hundred and twenty pounds, you know he
- 13:59Speaker 3: has the ability, but his it's his it's his athleticism.
- 14:06Speaker 3: At that size, I mean at six foot three. Here's
- 14:09Speaker 3: his here's his percentiles for safeties. He's in the ninety
- 14:13Speaker 3: one percentile for height, his arm span, and we'll talk
- 14:17Speaker 3: about the field. Go block is eighty seven percent. His
- 14:19Speaker 3: forty yard dash is ninety six percent. His ten yards
- 14:22Speaker 3: split his ninety three percent. His broad jump is one
- 14:26Speaker 3: hundred percent. He had one hundred and thirty eight in
- 14:28Speaker 3: broad YMP his vertical of forty three inch, his ninety
- 14:31Speaker 3: nine percent all and is tackling. By the way, coming
- 14:34Speaker 3: out of college, he was in the one hundred percentile
- 14:37Speaker 3: for tackling efficiency. So you're talking about a dude who's
- 14:40Speaker 3: a really big man who can move and jump. He's
- 14:43Speaker 3: got explosion. And so now when you're just you're kind
- 14:47Speaker 3: of say, hey, cut it loose. You know, his tackle
- 14:50Speaker 3: for loss is just he just saw an opening off
- 14:53Speaker 3: ball line back. That wasn't a dog, that wasn't a
- 14:56Speaker 3: run blitz, that was just him being off ball and sensing, oh,
- 14:59Speaker 3: here here's an opportunity to knife in there. And and
- 15:03Speaker 3: he's so fast because of his size, he covers a
- 15:06Speaker 3: lot of ground. He's strong enough that unless you really
- 15:09Speaker 3: get a center cut block on him, if you just
- 15:12Speaker 3: get a shoulder, he's gonna run through it. And so
- 15:15Speaker 3: I think his instincts are playing out. Uh, you know
- 15:18Speaker 3: you got a credit Witherspoon for on both those interceptions,
- 15:23Speaker 3: him triggering on you know, as a zone defender, just
- 15:26Speaker 3: being sticky in zone, popping the ball up. But him
- 15:29Speaker 3: and Worry had the you know, the the quick hands,
- 15:32Speaker 3: the athletic hands to be able. That's that's a hard
- 15:34Speaker 3: play for a lot of defenders to make that tip ball,
- 15:37Speaker 3: but he was able to well, oh I got it
- 15:39Speaker 3: and then converted to an interception, So that play making
- 15:42Speaker 3: ability is just coming through. And then on the field
- 15:45Speaker 3: goal block, here's the guy. You guys have been watching
- 15:48Speaker 3: football along that I was gonna say as long as me,
- 15:52Speaker 3: but I'm older. But you know what I mean. You
- 15:53Speaker 3: guys been watching You know the guys who play on
- 15:55Speaker 3: the edge on field goal block, they're always cornerbacks. They're
- 15:59Speaker 3: always cornerbacks, right because because they have the quickness to
- 16:03Speaker 3: turn the radius of the circle right. Well, they put
- 16:06Speaker 3: him and Worry out there at I already gave you
- 16:09Speaker 3: the height in the reach and everything, so so you
- 16:11Speaker 3: tell me, in a game of inches, the guy to
- 16:14Speaker 3: be that big, but then also to have an ability
- 16:17Speaker 3: to turn it, uh the hoop on the field goal
- 16:19Speaker 3: block as if he was a cornerback, but just in
- 16:22Speaker 3: a longer package. Well that's that's a that's a nightmare
- 16:26Speaker 3: for a special teams meeting. I was. I was a holder,
- 16:29Speaker 3: so I've been in those meetings. Yeah, I mean, you know,
- 16:32Speaker 3: he just creates havoc due to his athleticism and his
- 16:35Speaker 3: emerging instincts. Yeah.
- 16:37Speaker 5: Well, I mean he's probably on his way then to
- 16:39Speaker 5: living up to like the X factor that was Jamal Adams.
- 16:43Speaker 6: Right, almost dumped that on. That's what we're going for,
- 16:51Speaker 6: isn't it? I thought X factor?
- 16:54Speaker 3: Yeah? A weapon? What was it? Weapon?
- 16:56Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 16:57Speaker 3: Weapon? How that's invest in the nation. She well, you
- 17:02Speaker 3: know the sack he you know, there's a timing to
- 17:05Speaker 3: that and ability to close ground, be powerful. Uh yeah,
- 17:11Speaker 3: you know things that we we uh really didn't see
- 17:14Speaker 3: from from.
- 17:15Speaker 5: I haven't seen emon worry do a header yet like
- 17:18Speaker 5: try to get an interception and just headed back to
- 17:20Speaker 5: somebody else yet, but maybe next week.
- 17:23Speaker 2: I do wonder how many sacks even wore he could
- 17:26Speaker 2: get if Pete Carroll was just trying to get him.
- 17:29Speaker 3: Then yeah, yeah, right, just so he could he could
- 17:34Speaker 3: turn to the owner, so he could turn to judges, Yeah,
- 17:38Speaker 3: Jody Allen and say, hey see this is why we
- 17:41Speaker 3: acquired him. Oh what a fraud, that whole situation. Sorry,
- 17:45Speaker 3: I don't know why I went.
- 17:46Speaker 2: There, even even Worri Sack. I mean he almost had
- 17:50Speaker 2: a forced fumble too. I mean he approached it the
- 17:53Speaker 2: perfect way and almost ripped the ball out of Cousin's hands.
- 17:56Speaker 2: I mean, just just the sensational And I'm glad you
- 17:59Speaker 2: brought up Witherspoon because to me, it felt like every
- 18:02Speaker 2: single play he was involved in.
- 18:04Speaker 3: I thought he had a great game yesterday too. Oh yeah,
- 18:07Speaker 3: I'll touch on him. But just a final thought on
- 18:09Speaker 3: the on the Emon Warrior Sack. So when I was
- 18:11Speaker 3: I coached youth in and high school, middle school, high
- 18:15Speaker 3: school for twenty four seasons, and and you know, so
- 18:19Speaker 3: that means I was involved for the defense in some
- 18:21Speaker 3: of those years. And I would have a drill where
- 18:26Speaker 3: I would have the I would have the defensive guys,
- 18:28Speaker 3: anybody who's likely to to be coming after the quarterback.
- 18:31Speaker 3: I would set up a cone. I would have a
- 18:33Speaker 3: spot for the quarterback, and then I would set up
- 18:35Speaker 3: a cone two yards to the right handed quarterback's right,
- 18:40Speaker 3: because you don't want to go at straight at a
- 18:43Speaker 3: right handed quarterback he's because his impulse will be to
- 18:46Speaker 3: evade to the right. Now, all of a sudden, the
- 18:48Speaker 3: right handed quarterback, he's outside the pocket, and you got
- 18:51Speaker 3: a good chance of losing that play. He can you know,
- 18:53Speaker 3: he can remain a running threat. So what I do
- 18:56Speaker 3: is set up a cone like sprint to the cone
- 18:58Speaker 3: and then to the quarterback. Does that make sense so
- 19:02Speaker 3: that it denies the quarterback's instincts to evade to his right.
- 19:08Speaker 3: And you've heard me on a number of times coming
- 19:10Speaker 3: and go, how are we letting a right handed quarterback
- 19:12Speaker 3: out of the pocket. I mean he lost the forty
- 19:14Speaker 3: nine er game because d Law, a guy with all
- 19:17Speaker 3: his experience, led a right handed quarterback out out of
- 19:20Speaker 3: the pocket to the right and so on the em
- 19:23Speaker 3: and worry play. If you look at it, he looked
- 19:25Speaker 3: exactly like I would say in the teaching tape teaching
- 19:29Speaker 3: my kids, like go to the cone and then change
- 19:32Speaker 3: your angle to the quarterback so that he has Now
- 19:35Speaker 3: you're gonna say, Cousins, not that athletic, But there's a
- 19:38Speaker 3: certain instinct of like, no, I'm not gonna even let
- 19:41Speaker 3: you think about bailing out of the escape hatch to
- 19:46Speaker 3: the right side. I'm gonna I'm gonna take that angle
- 19:49Speaker 3: then close hard into you. And that's exactly what he did.
- 19:52Speaker 3: I don't you know, I don't know if he did
- 19:54Speaker 3: the drill, you know, that's just instinctive in his mind,
- 19:57Speaker 3: or McDonald broke out drill. But whatever it was, you know,
- 20:01Speaker 3: it was textbook how he finished. As for Witherspoon, I
- 20:07Speaker 3: mean Doug Garnett, I mean, who doesn't love the way
- 20:10Speaker 3: this guy competes. I mean he is just so infectious
- 20:15Speaker 3: and feisty, and he's got him playing corner that he
- 20:19Speaker 3: doesn't play in the what's called the overhang defender as
- 20:22Speaker 3: much because he had been nickel. I think that's a
- 20:24Speaker 3: good decision. I think it preserves his body to play
- 20:28Speaker 3: more to the outside. But he's still when he gets
- 20:31Speaker 3: the opportunity, he's a feisty dog and he's gonna get after.
- 20:36Speaker 3: He's gonna give you all one hundred and eighty one
- 20:37Speaker 3: pounds that he's that he's got.
- 20:39Speaker 4: Hugh mellanis with us r QB one.
- 20:41Speaker 2: We are Monday Morning Quarterbacking, which usually means two straight
- 20:44Speaker 2: hours of Seahawks conversation, but I want to get thoughts
- 20:47Speaker 2: from you on the college football playoff controversies that have
- 20:52Speaker 2: stemmed from the rankings that were made official yesterday. So
- 20:55Speaker 2: we'll talk some college football next Sports Radio ninety three
- 20:57Speaker 2: point three kJ R F m.
- 21:13Speaker 3: H.
- 21:13Speaker 2: It's Monday Morning Quarterback with Hugh Millen here this morning,
- 21:16Speaker 2: and normally it's all Sea Hawk Talk, brought to you
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- 21:27Speaker 2: But this college football story is such a big topic
- 21:31Speaker 2: that I wanted to get huge thoughts on it. What
- 21:33Speaker 2: was your biggest reaction.
- 21:36Speaker 4: To Sunday's announcements.
- 21:38Speaker 3: I thought that the committee got every single pick right.
- 21:43Speaker 6: Wow.
- 21:44Speaker 3: And I understand the arguments for against. I think we
- 21:48Speaker 3: all do. It's just what you value. But I think
- 21:53Speaker 3: that I'm glad that the argument is is not the BCS.
- 22:00Speaker 3: The argument is, you know number three got screwed, and
- 22:03Speaker 3: then initially in the CFP, then oh number five got screwed. Well,
- 22:06Speaker 3: now we're saying number thirteen got screwed. But I think
- 22:11Speaker 3: that given the circumstances, Yes, every single spot, every team,
- 22:17Speaker 3: and every spot. In my opinion, I agree with.
- 22:20Speaker 5: Oh well, I mean, then Alabama's right where they should be,
- 22:24Speaker 5: even though I mean, I don't want to fault them
- 22:26Speaker 5: for losing in a conference championship game when others didn't
- 22:30Speaker 5: even have the opportunity to and yet it seems like
- 22:34Speaker 5: they did do that to b YU.
- 22:37Speaker 3: Agreed, and there's a distinction in my mind. First of all, Bama,
- 22:43Speaker 3: you watch the game. What color jerseys were was Alabama
- 22:48Speaker 3: wearing in that game? You guys remember, h yeah they
- 22:52Speaker 3: were red? No? They were yeah? Yeah, right, yeah, they're
- 22:57Speaker 3: wearing their their dark reds. You know why because they're
- 22:59Speaker 3: the number one seed from the SEC one hundred years
- 23:04Speaker 3: from now. If you look in an almanac, the Alabama
- 23:09Speaker 3: was the number one team in the regular season in
- 23:11Speaker 3: the SEC. There was four who had one loss, and
- 23:15Speaker 3: the way the conference determines, they say strength of schedule.
- 23:19Speaker 3: Of those four Bama, Georgia, Texas A and n Ole
- 23:22Speaker 3: Miss Bama had the number one strength of schedule. Georgia
- 23:26Speaker 3: had the number two. Now Bama wasn't number one seed
- 23:29Speaker 3: because they had the number one strength of schedule. They were.
- 23:34Speaker 3: They just eliminated Texas A and N and min Ole
- 23:36Speaker 3: miss due to strength to schedule, and then it left
- 23:39Speaker 3: George and Bama, and because Bama beat Georgia, they were
- 23:42Speaker 3: number one. And so if you had told me in
- 23:45Speaker 3: August the team that this is the SEC now maybe
- 23:50Speaker 3: at the top two or three, it's even with other conferences,
- 23:52Speaker 3: but you go ten twelve deep. I mean, these are
- 23:56Speaker 3: the teams from the SEC that didn't make it. They
- 23:59Speaker 3: got five who were in Texas didn't make it, Vanderbilt, Missouri, Tennessee, LSU.
- 24:03Speaker 3: That is by I think Anti Metrics is the deepest
- 24:07Speaker 3: conference in college football. And for Alabama to be the
- 24:12Speaker 3: number one, if you told me in August the number
- 24:14Speaker 3: one team from the SEC, whoever it is, do they
- 24:18Speaker 3: deserve to be in a twelve team playoff? I would
- 24:20Speaker 3: say absolutely, unequivocally yes. And you know, yeah they played,
- 24:26Speaker 3: they didn't look good. But what in the hell is
- 24:29Speaker 3: with college football? In the NFL and the Major League Baseball,
- 24:32Speaker 3: all these sports the best teams get a bye. So
- 24:36Speaker 3: how is college football got this thing where now the
- 24:39Speaker 3: best teams, well, they don't get a bye. They have
- 24:41Speaker 3: to play each other. And teams like Oregon, and A
- 24:45Speaker 3: and M and H and Ole miss they sit here
- 24:49Speaker 3: and they don't play. So I think we all understand that.
- 24:53Speaker 3: But to me, it's what I value, and Alabama is
- 24:56Speaker 3: in and I don't have any hesitation with that.
- 24:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think college conference championships are going to
- 25:02Speaker 2: be around much longer.
- 25:03Speaker 3: I think it's too difficult. I don't know.
- 25:05Speaker 2: I mean even in the ACC, I mean, why do
- 25:08Speaker 2: you have a tie breaker system that puts why couldn't
- 25:12Speaker 2: you have Miami versus Virginia and we could have avoided
- 25:15Speaker 2: all of this?
- 25:16Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 25:17Speaker 3: Yeah, but even the tie breakers.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Seasons, Yeah, I agree. Talk about Notre Dame. Do they
- 25:24Speaker 2: have a beef though? I know, I know you're saying
- 25:26Speaker 2: they got it all right? So why do you think
- 25:28Speaker 2: Notre Dame deserved to be on the outside looking in?
- 25:30Speaker 3: Well, listen, they have been invited to the conference, the
- 25:33Speaker 3: Big Ten. I've looked it up for decades. They played
- 25:38Speaker 3: one hundred and nineteen years. They have turned down the
- 25:40Speaker 3: opportunity to be in a conference, the Big Twelve, the ACC.
- 25:44Speaker 3: In fact, during the COVID they were temporarily in the ACC.
- 25:47Speaker 3: And of course they've they've been in the Big East
- 25:49Speaker 3: and the ACC and other sports. But they want to
- 25:51Speaker 3: be independent. Okay, fine, you can still win the national
- 25:54Speaker 3: championship as an independent, but you're going to lose all
- 25:57Speaker 3: ties if you go out and you play a schedule
- 26:00Speaker 3: like that. They their their their one impressive win is
- 26:03Speaker 3: is usc and they you know, they lose the AM
- 26:07Speaker 3: and m they lose to Miami and then they they
- 26:09Speaker 3: don't want to play in a conference. So to me,
- 26:13Speaker 3: when you compare that to what Alabama, you know, Alabama
- 26:17Speaker 3: had to go four straight games and beat and they
- 26:20Speaker 3: did beat ranked teams, I think that the you know,
- 26:24Speaker 3: the schedule and the idea that so before they played
- 26:29Speaker 3: the conference championship game, then you would have said Alabama
- 26:32Speaker 3: at two losses has a much more impressive resume than
- 26:36Speaker 3: Notre Dame at two losses and then at least on
- 26:40Speaker 3: the balance of the season. And then and then you say,
- 26:42Speaker 3: well Alabama had to play and well, okay, Notre Dame
- 26:46Speaker 3: is never going to put themselves in that situation. In
- 26:48Speaker 3: my opinion, what I value, I'd say, Notre Dame, you're
- 26:51Speaker 3: going to lose all ties. This was a tie, you
- 26:54Speaker 3: lost the tie. I'm with you.
- 26:56Speaker 5: I think I think that there's room for that, and
- 26:58Speaker 5: yet that kind of goes to the Tulane and James Madison.
- 27:02Speaker 3: Yeah, before you get to that, just a point on
- 27:04Speaker 3: Notre Dame. They played football for one hundred nineteen years.
- 27:07Speaker 3: For one hundred and four of those years, there was
- 27:09Speaker 3: no Big Ten championship game. So in that so the discrepancy,
- 27:14Speaker 3: you know, between them being independent, it didn't it didn't
- 27:17Speaker 3: get thrust to the forefront when in the rankings because
- 27:20Speaker 3: nobody else was playing conference championship games. In this era
- 27:23Speaker 3: of conference championship games, I think that they're in a
- 27:27Speaker 3: detriment to the the in the manner that I described.
- 27:30Speaker 5: All right, well, I mean so too. Then to me,
- 27:33Speaker 5: it's like there's a couple of teams you were saying,
- 27:35Speaker 5: like Texas and Vanderbilt and some other teams that are
- 27:38Speaker 5: good teams in that SEC conference. For example, Notre Dame
- 27:41Speaker 5: is a good team. They've been playing good football, and
- 27:43Speaker 5: yet they're along with the others on the outside looking in.
- 27:46Speaker 5: And I like, giving an underdog an opportunity to play
- 27:49Speaker 5: with the big boys, and yet I'm not one hundred
- 27:51Speaker 5: percent sure if I mean, you're just looking at you know, Tulane,
- 27:56Speaker 5: for example, one of their losses. It's not like they
- 27:58Speaker 5: went undefeated. One of their losses, they lost forty five
- 28:00Speaker 5: to ten to Old Miss is who they are going
- 28:02Speaker 5: to face now in the first round of the playoffs.
- 28:04Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like that's one of the teams that
- 28:06Speaker 5: really has a chance of winning this thing.
- 28:08Speaker 3: Everything that I'm going to say really has nothing to
- 28:11Speaker 3: do with, hey, do we want to give the little
- 28:14Speaker 3: guy a chance? You know, look, look we're the United
- 28:18Speaker 3: States and the Olympics. You know a lot of people
- 28:20Speaker 3: look at us like we're the Yankees, or you know,
- 28:23Speaker 3: we're Notre Dame or what have you. This is an
- 28:27Speaker 3: argument from pragmatics, and I think we all I'll just
- 28:31Speaker 3: say for me, and I'll try maybe to convince you,
- 28:34Speaker 3: we need to shut the hell up and accept the
- 28:39Speaker 3: group of five. For the following reason. If you know,
- 28:43Speaker 3: when I was a player rep in the NFL, did
- 28:45Speaker 3: a lot of reading about anti trust law school. We're
- 28:48Speaker 3: going through the strike then that intrigued me. I've read
- 28:53Speaker 3: all fifty four pages of Allston versus the NCAA, all
- 28:57Speaker 3: the things that a lot of college felt football fans.
- 29:00Speaker 3: I would say most football fans are turned off about
- 29:03Speaker 3: college football the nil the revenue sharing, the open transfer portal,
- 29:10Speaker 3: all of that was triggered by the NCAA, who got
- 29:15Speaker 3: greedy in the Alston case. That was just that was
- 29:17Speaker 3: not a case about the compense overall compensation for players.
- 29:22Speaker 3: That was just educated education related like computers or postgraduate training,
- 29:29Speaker 3: or a violin for a musician a music major. And
- 29:34Speaker 3: the NCAA they lost at the appellate court or the
- 29:37Speaker 3: lower court. They lost at the appellate court. They took
- 29:39Speaker 3: it to the Supreme Court, not Austin, and they lost
- 29:42Speaker 3: nine to nothing. They have had some really bad legal
- 29:45Speaker 3: advice when you look with respect to understanding anti trust laws.
- 29:51Speaker 3: When you look at the college football playoffs, this is
- 29:54Speaker 3: the courts look at that as a multi billion dollar
- 29:56Speaker 3: commercial marketplace, not just a tournament. They control the TV money,
- 30:01Speaker 3: the recruiting, visibility, conference, financial survival. I'm talking about the
- 30:06Speaker 3: group of five right now. Okay, the group of five.
- 30:09Speaker 3: They compete in the same division under the same rules,
- 30:13Speaker 3: and so the courts say that's the same legal marketplace.
- 30:16Speaker 3: If the if the power for schools want to coordinate
- 30:19Speaker 3: some exclusion that is unlawful restrative trade and from the
- 30:24Speaker 3: championship market and the same principles that they lost the
- 30:30Speaker 3: Austin and lost the old Bona abandon case. You cannot
- 30:35Speaker 3: restrict economic opportunity without lawful competitive justification, and so they
- 30:42Speaker 3: they would be running a foul. They would be foolish
- 30:44Speaker 3: for another time to UH to to push the group
- 30:48Speaker 3: of five into anti trust court, because that they lose
- 30:51Speaker 3: an anti trust court and they misjudged like they did
- 30:55Speaker 3: with with Austin. They're going to have cord inclusion of
- 30:59Speaker 3: the group in five. You know you're gonna get a
- 31:01Speaker 3: lot more group of five teams involved. They're gonna have
- 31:03Speaker 3: force revenue sharing, okay, just like they've ordered the players
- 31:08Speaker 3: to get about twenty million, they're gonna have UH an
- 31:10Speaker 3: anti trus court. When you lose, it's called treble damagel
- 31:13Speaker 3: treble damages. What's treble just meets triple So whatever injury
- 31:17Speaker 3: you can show that you've you have, then the UH
- 31:22Speaker 3: the defendant owes you three times as much. You're gonna
- 31:25Speaker 3: have a loss of postseason control. I would just say
- 31:28Speaker 3: this in the same way that the the NCAA should
- 31:31Speaker 3: have just said, hey, let the players have their freaking violin.
- 31:35Speaker 3: Don't let this get exposed in the courts, I would
- 31:38Speaker 3: say to you know, for me, I just look at it.
- 31:41Speaker 3: It's a ten team tournament and there's two teams from
- 31:44Speaker 3: the group of five. Let it be. Let those two
- 31:48Speaker 3: teams play. And if you if you say, well, that's
- 31:51Speaker 3: bad football, don't watch, just to say Oregon's got a
- 31:54Speaker 3: scrimmage and it just had instead of it being an
- 31:57Speaker 3: intersquad scrimmage, they're gonna scrimmage JM. You don't watch, but
- 32:00Speaker 3: don't try and eliminate JMU, because you're going to have consequences.
- 32:05Speaker 3: You had no idea, the idea and guess what, you've
- 32:08Speaker 3: already lived it in the last five years. I think.
- 32:11Speaker 3: So let's understand where the NCAA and and where the
- 32:16Speaker 3: college football playoff would be with respect to the anti
- 32:18Speaker 3: trust laws, and don't incite those group of fives to
- 32:22Speaker 3: take the power forward to court.
- 32:24Speaker 2: I think James Madison's winning by thirty here.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I'd rather I'd rather give them three teams.
- 32:33Speaker 3: If you want to pump it up to sixteen, I'd
- 32:35Speaker 3: rather and and and not have to go to court.
- 32:40Speaker 3: So at any event, I hope, I hope, I'll just
- 32:43Speaker 3: I'm not you know, think how you want to you
- 32:46Speaker 3: want to hate the JMU and and and Tulane is
- 32:48Speaker 3: in there, fine, but there's a damn good reason why
- 32:52Speaker 3: they're in there. Just put them in another category in
- 32:54Speaker 3: your mind. Just put them in a different category. It's
- 32:57Speaker 3: a ten team power for conference. And get us what Oregon,
- 33:02Speaker 3: Oregon gotta buy with James Madison and Ole Miss gotta
- 33:08Speaker 3: buy with tu let Just think of it as not
- 33:10Speaker 3: four teams, with the buy six teams. That's what I
- 33:13Speaker 3: would recommend.
- 33:14Speaker 4: It's still better than just having four in so.
- 33:18Speaker 3: And by the way, you know, the one thing they
- 33:21Speaker 3: could do. You know, if you look up, if you
- 33:23Speaker 3: just google NFL Playoff on procedures, you can find it
- 33:28Speaker 3: right on NFL dot com. It says what happens if
- 33:30Speaker 3: two teams they call it two clubs tie? What are
- 33:33Speaker 3: three or more? And there's literally twelve stages in order
- 33:37Speaker 3: in order and how they The NCAA's problem is they
- 33:40Speaker 3: need to do it, like they need to say this
- 33:43Speaker 3: is what the system is, so that we don't have
- 33:46Speaker 3: to wait for the committee, like what are they doing
- 33:48Speaker 3: this year? What are they doing next year? You just
- 33:51Speaker 3: follow the program just like the NFL, and have twelve
- 33:55Speaker 3: steps on how to determine who's in.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Monday Morning Quarterback with Hugh Millan, and we will get
- 34:01Speaker 2: back to Seahawks talk next and of course with coach
- 34:04Speaker 2: Holmgren at nine o'clock Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 34:11Speaker 7: Third of the yard play action Donald on the roll
- 34:15Speaker 7: looking downfield, deflected kind it's intercepted, picked up by my
- 34:20Speaker 7: cues off the deflection of down at the thirty of Seattle.
- 34:29Speaker 4: Fox Sports with the highlight call.
- 34:31Speaker 2: The Seahawks had a lot of highlights in the second
- 34:34Speaker 2: half of their blowout, went over the Atlanta Falcons to
- 34:37Speaker 2: move to ten and three on the season, thirty seven
- 34:39Speaker 2: to nine, the final score of a game that was
- 34:42Speaker 2: tied at halftime, six to six. Mike Homer will join
- 34:45Speaker 2: us at nine o'clock, which means one more segment here
- 34:49Speaker 2: with just Hugh millin r QB one as part of
- 34:52Speaker 2: our Monday Morning Quarterback session and boy Man game talk
- 34:56Speaker 2: about a game that turns on a dime, and we've
- 34:59Speaker 2: already talked about the second half adjustments, but Rashid shah
- 35:04Speaker 2: Heed to return that kick and I guess Mike McDonald
- 35:07Speaker 2: called it in the second half. You can't get much
- 35:12Speaker 2: better start to a second half than that. Hugh, Yeah,
- 35:15Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd pump the brakes on that thought.
- 35:19Speaker 2: I think that every coach says that, you know, hey,
- 35:23Speaker 2: we're getting the kick off, you know, you know, hey, hey,
- 35:25Speaker 2: let's return for a touchdown. Yeah, you say say it
- 35:28Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty times and finally it happens. I
- 35:32Speaker 2: don't know, maybe that was the first time.
- 35:33Speaker 3: I haven't been in that locker, but but I think
- 35:35Speaker 3: that's pretty typical coach talk. But I'll tell you what,
- 35:39Speaker 3: that that heat that he brings is just breathtaking, right,
- 35:43Speaker 3: I mean, he has such a beautiful stride. I mean
- 35:45Speaker 3: you could you could put a champagne glass on top
- 35:48Speaker 3: of his helmet as he's sprinting. He's just so smooth
- 35:51Speaker 3: and there's just this this gliding nature to it. I mean,
- 35:55Speaker 3: just beautiful gait in him. And it's just so explosive.
- 35:59Speaker 3: And I mean, you had Todd gone and I had
- 36:02Speaker 3: it in my notes where the great blocks, but but
- 36:06Speaker 3: you had you had a double team at the point
- 36:08Speaker 3: of attack. Bobo uh And I'll get those numbers in
- 36:12Speaker 3: a second. Bobo had the most difficult single block. And
- 36:15Speaker 3: the good thing that he did is while he started
- 36:18Speaker 3: to lose it, which will happen. These are long bloss
- 36:21Speaker 3: to sustain. But how often do you see a great
- 36:24Speaker 3: kickoff return like that, And of course it's negated because
- 36:28Speaker 3: somebody held, so Bobo at the point of attack had
- 36:32Speaker 3: the discretion to say, hey, I lost that block, which
- 36:34Speaker 3: was better, but I'm just I'm not gonna I'm not
- 36:37Speaker 3: gonna hold because of it. And that was where he
- 36:39Speaker 3: had a slight broken tackle there uh coming up the
- 36:43Speaker 3: pipe for Shihet and the rest of it was just
- 36:46Speaker 3: you know, he just fast enough to make guys miss
- 36:48Speaker 3: and uh and and so at any rate, that's you
- 36:52Speaker 3: know that fourth and fifth round and that was that
- 36:54Speaker 3: that they gave up. Nice to see it pay off
- 36:57Speaker 3: payoff yesterday.
- 36:58Speaker 5: Well, I don't know how few have enough time to
- 37:01Speaker 5: get into that Donald interception.
- 37:03Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some people like, oh now.
- 37:04Speaker 5: The turnover and although I don't know for sure, that's
- 37:07Speaker 5: one that you would say are all created equal?
- 37:09Speaker 3: Right, Well it you know, it's oddly it was the
- 37:12Speaker 3: same structure of the play that member against the Vikings
- 37:15Speaker 3: when when Max Broswell threw that eighty five yard pick six.
- 37:19Speaker 3: Of course you do. It was just a week ago
- 37:20Speaker 3: Ernest Jones right. Structurally was the same thing. You're you're
- 37:23Speaker 3: you're in an offset eye. The fullback's going away, but
- 37:26Speaker 3: the run the tailback is going to the side of
- 37:29Speaker 3: the role. And so Canine was kind of covered there
- 37:33Speaker 3: and and so Donald. You know, as a right handed
- 37:36Speaker 3: quarterback going to his left, he's they've had more naked
- 37:39Speaker 3: bootlegs to his left. I think that's a harder throw
- 37:43Speaker 3: Eliza Royo, you know he's working on man to man
- 37:45Speaker 3: against a corner. They're a lighter man. You know, you
- 37:49Speaker 3: want on that route, you want to do what's called
- 37:52Speaker 3: the ladder step, go vertical and then flatten. He did that,
- 37:56Speaker 3: he didn't get the separation goes. He's going against a
- 37:58Speaker 3: faster man. What you see in JSN all over it
- 38:02Speaker 3: was on yesterday's tape, it's been on the tape all
- 38:04Speaker 3: the time, is he will lose ground slightly on an
- 38:09Speaker 3: inbreaking route when he senses that the need. And so
- 38:13Speaker 3: I think Arroyo could have lost more ground. What I
- 38:16Speaker 3: mean by that has come close angled, closer to the
- 38:18Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. You know, he kind of slowed down,
- 38:24Speaker 3: which which caused the ball to be ahead. I think
- 38:26Speaker 3: Arroyo was thinking, hey, I'll get this guy in my
- 38:29Speaker 3: back like a rebounder. I think Darnold even referenced that
- 38:32Speaker 3: in the post game, So they weren't quite on the
- 38:35Speaker 3: same page and the technique. And by the way, one
- 38:37Speaker 3: further point, this is what this is what professional football
- 38:40Speaker 3: is all about. Precisions in the detail. So this is
- 38:42Speaker 3: a we talked about the week side flood, deep, intermediate
- 38:45Speaker 3: and short, and and Arroyo's being the intermediate guy from
- 38:49Speaker 3: the opposite side Cody White to that song, He's got
- 38:51Speaker 3: the deep route against that corner, He's got to go
- 38:55Speaker 3: over the top of him to create a nice picture
- 38:57Speaker 3: for the quarterback. Instead, he tries the crawl face. So
- 39:00Speaker 3: instead of having deep, intermediate, short, in essence, there was
- 39:05Speaker 3: two guys in the intermediate window. Do you want to
- 39:08Speaker 3: have better spacing than that? That could cause a little
- 39:11Speaker 3: bit of a hesitation for a quarterback. I don't know
- 39:14Speaker 3: if Darnold would confirm that, but I know that that
- 39:17Speaker 3: spacing wasn't right. So just cleaning up the details and
- 39:21Speaker 3: at least you got that red zone defense we talked about.
- 39:24Speaker 3: Only two out of eighteen successful plays by the Falcons
- 39:27Speaker 3: in the red zone. They cleaned up the mess.
- 39:30Speaker 4: It's Monday morning, quarterback time.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Mike Omber joins the conversation next as we continue to
- 39:34Speaker 2: talk about the seahawks tenth win of the year over
- 39:38Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons, a second half runaway on Sports Radio
- 39:41Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFM.