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- 0:38Speaker 1: Well, great Monday morning to you all, and welcome into
- 0:41Speaker 1: the radio show. It is Chuck in the Morning Sports,
- 0:43Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJR-FM. It is terrific to have you with
- 0:48Speaker 1: us here on this Monday. Hope you all had a
- 0:50Speaker 1: great weekend, enjoyed perfect fall weather. Great rain on Friday
- 0:58Speaker 1: and then just gorgeousness that filled our hearts and souls.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Oh, wonderful. Welcome, Fall. I love you. Best season. Yeah,
- 1:07Speaker 3: for sure. No doubt about it. As a matter of fact, Fall,
- 1:10Speaker 3: will you marry me?
- 1:11Speaker 1: Will you take my hand in marriage? We could have
- 1:17Speaker 1: wonderful children that all look like you.
- 1:20Speaker 3: That's fine. It's fine with me.
- 1:21Speaker 4: So does that mean it leaves you for the other, what, eight,
- 1:25Speaker 4: nine months throughout the year?
- 1:26Speaker 1: Yeah, but it'll be loyal. Don't you worry about that.
- 1:29Speaker 1: I got a way about me. Great to have you
- 1:31Speaker 1: with us. Good morning to you all. Travis Moger is here.
- 1:35Speaker 1: We do have an announcement on that front at some
- 1:38Speaker 1: point a little bit later on in the show. So
- 1:40Speaker 1: Anders Hurst is here as well. And my name is
- 1:43Speaker 1: Chuck Powell. It is great to have.
- 1:45Speaker 3: You with us. And we have a lot to do today.
- 1:48Speaker 1: So that's where it's really going to start. I mean,
- 1:50Speaker 1: I should do my hi, how you doing? How is
- 1:52Speaker 1: your weekend stuff? But we don't have time for that.
- 1:56Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we we just don't have time.
- 1:59Speaker 1: I mean, there's very easily we could do an entire
- 2:02Speaker 1: show on Dan Wilson, Rick Riz, J.P. Crawford, Randy Rosarino,
- 2:09Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert and a Mariners team that finished the season
- 2:12Speaker 1: 78 and 86.
- 2:12Speaker 3: We can't do that today.
- 2:16Speaker 1: And we could very easily do an entire show on
- 2:20Speaker 1: the Washington Huskies who lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
- 2:24Speaker 3: And earned that loss.
- 2:26Speaker 1: And right now, four games into a year that was
- 2:30Speaker 1: supposed to be a breakthrough year for Jed Fish and
- 2:32Speaker 1: his program, this team just does not look like a
- 2:36Speaker 1: good football team. At this point, DeMond Williams Jr. running
- 2:40Speaker 1: for his life all evening long. No running game to
- 2:45Speaker 1: speak of, which seems to be a trend in Seattle
- 2:47Speaker 1: football right now. And the Washington Huskies are still off
- 2:52Speaker 1: to a three and one start. But I don't think
- 2:54Speaker 1: anybody is feeling good about Huskies football. But we don't
- 2:57Speaker 1: have time to do that show today. We'll try to
- 3:00Speaker 1: find some time here and there to discuss it. um
- 3:03Speaker 1: you know we also have a hockey season that starts
- 3:06Speaker 1: tomorrow and a kraken season that starts on thursday uh
- 3:11Speaker 1: and so at some point during the course of this
- 3:13Speaker 1: week we are going to dedicate some time effort energy
- 3:17Speaker 1: toward previewing the season for the kraken but we don't
- 3:21Speaker 1: have that kind of time today either so i'm just
- 3:23Speaker 1: going to sit here and promise you.
- 3:25Speaker 3: That you know Yeah.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 3:47Speaker 3: We will be spending most.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Of our show talking about how the Seahawks, of all
- 3:53Speaker 1: the teams, of all the situations to have lost your
- 3:56Speaker 1: winning streak to, it was that one. and so that
- 4:00Speaker 1: will certainly be the primary focus of today's show. We'll
- 4:03Speaker 1: try to fit all those other things in, but you're
- 4:05Speaker 1: just going to have to trust me. Tomorrow we're going
- 4:07Speaker 1: to spend more time on Dan Wilson once we have
- 4:09Speaker 1: the Jerry DiPoto press conference and Justin Hollander press conference
- 4:13Speaker 1: that will be conducted a little bit later on today.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Wednesday when we have Cam Cleland on, and we'll create
- 4:19Speaker 1: some space to talk about the Huskies at greater depth,
- 4:22Speaker 1: and then on Thursday we'll probably just fly through The
- 4:27Speaker 1: NHL regular season starting tomorrow and then just kind of
- 4:31Speaker 1: save all of that energy for Thursday as the Kraken
- 4:35Speaker 1: debut against the Calgary Flames. So we got a very
- 4:38Speaker 1: busy week ahead of us, Anders, but it obviously is
- 4:41Speaker 1: going to have to start with the Seahawks.
- 4:44Speaker 3: Suffering their first loss of the year.
- 4:46Speaker 4: Yeah i mean uh just a tough weekend overall yeah
- 4:49Speaker 4: for football fans especially here in the seattle area but i.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Just sports fans in general i mean there was nothing
- 4:55Speaker 1: to feel i mean it was great that rick riz
- 4:58Speaker 1: had his moment and and and and there were some
- 5:02Speaker 1: great moments yesterday jp crawford randy rosarina logan gilbert all
- 5:07Speaker 1: of that was was terrific But there wasn't anything to
- 5:10Speaker 1: feel good about yesterday, you know, other than a little
- 5:14Speaker 1: bit of nostalgia and hoping all of those fellas the
- 5:17Speaker 1: best going forward in their lives, including Dan Wilson. But
- 5:22Speaker 1: even that wasn't anything to feel good about. It was
- 5:24Speaker 1: a stinker of a weekend up here.
- 5:26Speaker 3: It really was.
- 5:27Speaker 4: You know, it stars the Seahawks. It's like there's so
- 5:31Speaker 4: many different. avenues in which you can be frustrated with
- 5:35Speaker 4: that game yesterday. I just was watching with, you know,
- 5:39Speaker 4: kind of doing some other stuff with my son, and
- 5:43Speaker 4: even he was a little frustrated with the Seahawks and
- 5:45Speaker 4: their play yesterday, because he was a little fussy, and
- 5:47Speaker 4: I don't know if the two are related, but I'm
- 5:49Speaker 4: sure there's something going on there. He's becoming a true
- 5:51Speaker 4: Seattleite football fan.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Seahawks made him poop his pants.
- 5:56Speaker 4: Yeah, they did. I think they pooped their pants a
- 5:59Speaker 4: little bit more, but that's just me.
- 6:00Speaker 1: You know, I really am not taking this one that hard.
- 6:05Speaker 1: I mean, it was just almost freakish how they lost
- 6:10Speaker 1: this game.
- 6:11Speaker 3: I'm looking for the statistic.
- 6:14Speaker 1: It was retweeted last night by Jackson Bevins, and I
- 6:17Speaker 1: don't know where he came across it, but there's a
- 6:23Speaker 1: statistic out there that when a defense operates.
- 6:26Speaker 3: At such a level of proficiency....
- 6:30Speaker 1: And an offense operates at such a level of proficiency,
- 6:35Speaker 1: then that team just does not lose a football game.
- 6:39Speaker 1: And the Seahawks checked both of those boxes according to
- 6:43Speaker 1: this statistical breakdown that there was really no way they
- 6:48Speaker 1: should have lost the game because the defense, even though
- 6:52Speaker 1: it bent and broke a little bit more than what
- 6:56Speaker 1: we're used to, it still sort of dominated the game
- 6:59Speaker 1: in a weird way. And the offense had 28 first
- 7:04Speaker 1: downs and 379 passing yards and put 31.
- 7:10Speaker 3: Points on the board.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And so normally when you have an offensive display like
- 7:15Speaker 1: that and you have a defense as good as Mike
- 7:18Speaker 1: McDonald Seahawks defense, you win that football game. But a
- 7:22Speaker 1: couple of things stood out. Number one, the turnover battle.
- 7:26Speaker 1: And we spent some time on that on Friday. I
- 7:29Speaker 1: think Greg Bell made it his key. Just don't lose
- 7:31Speaker 1: the turnover battle. I took it even further. You can
- 7:35Speaker 1: lose the turnover battle. You just can't lose it by
- 7:39Speaker 1: minus three. And I didn't say that specifically, but I
- 7:43Speaker 1: did say specifically, you can't lose it, I think, by
- 7:46Speaker 1: two or three.
- 7:47Speaker 3: And they lost by minus three.
- 7:50Speaker 1: And they not only lost the turnover battle, but One
- 7:53Speaker 1: of the turnovers, Price's fumble, directly led to a field goal.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And then obviously there was a horrible pick six by
- 8:00Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. Now, Hugh Millen said on Friday, and he
- 8:03Speaker 1: has a lot of statistical data to back this up, that,
- 8:07Speaker 1: you know, don't lose the turnover battle. That statistic in
- 8:11Speaker 1: and of itself isn't as impactful as some other statistics
- 8:15Speaker 1: out there historically when it comes to figuring out who's
- 8:18Speaker 1: going to win or lose a National Football League game.
- 8:21Speaker 1: That said, he also closed his comments on Friday by saying,
- 8:25Speaker 1: you know, all of that said, don't lose.
- 8:27Speaker 3: The turnover battle. It's true.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Because it really was the only way. If you lost
- 8:32Speaker 1: the turnover battle by a significant margin and you gave
- 8:37Speaker 1: them points by losing the turnover battle, as well as
- 8:41Speaker 1: Washington played in a lot of areas, and they did,
- 8:44Speaker 1: surprising to me, which we'll get into in a moment,
- 8:47Speaker 1: they played well in a lot of areas, still... You
- 8:51Speaker 1: don't hand them 10 points and you don't– and if
- 8:57Speaker 1: you can create a turnover of your own, which you
- 9:00Speaker 1: were unable to do during the course of the game,
- 9:02Speaker 1: so it's not a glaring minus three. I mean there
- 9:05Speaker 1: were a million ways to win that game and they
- 9:08Speaker 1: just didn't win the game, Anders.
- 9:09Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's funny when we can– really boil
- 9:14Speaker 4: it down to one thing that changed the game. And
- 9:16Speaker 4: it was the turnover battle. It's why Mike McDonald post
- 9:18Speaker 4: game was just instantly talking about that. And they scored
- 9:22Speaker 4: 21 points off those three turnovers. It was like, that's
- 9:26Speaker 4: literally the difference in the game by a, by a
- 9:28Speaker 4: significant margin. And when, and that explains why you still
- 9:32Speaker 4: have what, uh, You know, 33 points scored on you,
- 9:36Speaker 4: but the defense still feel like it played pretty well
- 9:38Speaker 4: in some ways. I think Sam Darnold had a great
- 9:41Speaker 4: comeback in a weird, fluky interception and then one bad one,
- 9:45Speaker 4: of course.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Terrible one. Yeah. And the running game.
- 9:48Speaker 4: Is really the most frustrating thing. But the thing that
- 9:50Speaker 4: frustrates me more most about that game, I totally agree
- 9:53Speaker 4: with you. I don't think this is any sort of
- 9:55Speaker 4: like oh alarm bells ringing seasons in jeopardy here no
- 10:00Speaker 4: there's none of that going on but there were things
- 10:02Speaker 4: that happened yesterday that don't normally happen to Mike McDonald
- 10:05Speaker 4: coached teams and one of those things was the turnover
- 10:09Speaker 4: battle the other thing was just an inability to run
- 10:13Speaker 4: the ball at all with any sort of effectiveness, bad
- 10:18Speaker 4: mental mistakes in huge key moments, even really late in
- 10:22Speaker 4: the game after all those turnovers, you still had a
- 10:24Speaker 4: chance to go win it.
- 10:26Speaker 3: A really good chance, I think.
- 10:27Speaker 4: And there were multiple just bad errors from players you
- 10:31Speaker 4: do not normally see that from. It's it's that's the
- 10:34Speaker 4: thing that I think I came away with. Like, dang,
- 10:36Speaker 4: that's that's something that I maybe took for granted with
- 10:39Speaker 4: this team, because there's so many times where you come
- 10:43Speaker 4: away from a game and it's like, that's a really
- 10:44Speaker 4: well-coached team.
- 10:45Speaker 3: I didn't get that yesterday.
- 10:47Speaker 4: That's the one kind of part that I'm struggling to
- 10:50Speaker 4: cope with at this point today. But season overall, I'm
- 10:53Speaker 4: not feeling too terrible about it.
- 10:54Speaker 1: I think that's it. I mean, it was, I mean,
- 10:57Speaker 1: there are just some days that just, you don't win
- 10:59Speaker 1: the game.
- 11:00Speaker 3: And you're right.
- 11:02Speaker 1: There were some unusual errors that were made in the
- 11:07Speaker 1: game that we don't see from the team, which is
- 11:09Speaker 1: why I, I, even though it's a terrible loss to
- 11:12Speaker 1: what I think is a terrible team.
- 11:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 11:14Speaker 3: I don't think that anybody should be worried.
- 11:18Speaker 1: I don't think that anybody worries like, oh, are we
- 11:20Speaker 1: not as good as we thought we were? No, I
- 11:22Speaker 1: think you're just as good as you thought we were.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I think that Julian Love, maybe if there's a lesson
- 11:27Speaker 1: to be learned, that how invaluable Julian Love is to
- 11:31Speaker 1: this particular football team. Obviously, Nick Eamon Worry is not
- 11:34Speaker 1: up to speed. He's not the guy that we had
- 11:38Speaker 1: a season ago, not just yet. Drake Thomas actually played
- 11:41Speaker 1: a really good game yesterday, but in... Big moments, he
- 11:45Speaker 1: was asked to set the edge, which I don't think
- 11:48Speaker 1: is really his job.
- 11:49Speaker 3: It shouldn't be his job.
- 11:51Speaker 1: And you slip a Rashad wide out, and Marcus Mariota
- 11:55Speaker 1: on a keeper gets outside your defense, which is just
- 11:59Speaker 1: absolute no-nos at any level of football in that situation,
- 12:04Speaker 1: and yet that happened to him. So I think that's
- 12:06Speaker 1: why I'm not overly concerned about it. It just felt
- 12:10Speaker 1: like one of those games. Like... And let's give a
- 12:14Speaker 1: lot of credit to Marcus Mariota.
- 12:16Speaker 3: He plays balls off yesterday.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Because that's probably the best game I've seen him play
- 12:22Speaker 1: since he was a young Tennessee Titan, and people thought
- 12:25Speaker 1: that the Titans with him and Derrick Henry were going
- 12:27Speaker 1: to be something special once upon a time. I don't
- 12:32Speaker 1: know what it was about what Mariota read, because most
- 12:37Speaker 1: quarterbacks can't read Mike McDonald's defense. And I thought for sure...
- 12:42Speaker 1: Second half adjustments, he's going to confuse the hell out
- 12:45Speaker 1: of this old man. And that didn't happen either. And
- 12:48Speaker 1: it's not like Mariota just lit up the scoreboard or
- 12:53Speaker 1: put highlight play after highlight play on tape. I mean,
- 12:57Speaker 1: he only had 176 yards passing in the game. But
- 13:00Speaker 1: he did something that I don't think I've ever seen
- 13:04Speaker 1: a quarterback do against a Mike McDonald defense. He was
- 13:07Speaker 1: getting rid of the ball lightning fast. which in a
- 13:10Speaker 1: lot of cases, Mike McDonald will welcome that. If you're
- 13:13Speaker 1: just going to take the ball and just throw it,
- 13:16Speaker 1: just so you don't take a sack, you're going to
- 13:18Speaker 1: take the first read, we probably have something for that.
- 13:21Speaker 1: And it probably is going to result in an interception
- 13:24Speaker 1: of our own or a pick six of our own.
- 13:27Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, Marcus Mariota was getting that football,
- 13:31Speaker 1: he was getting rid of it in the blink of
- 13:34Speaker 1: an eye to avoid the pressure, and every time he...
- 13:38Speaker 1: Every read he made was to an open receiver, which
- 13:43Speaker 1: was unusual in and of itself. Why are so many
- 13:46Speaker 1: Washington receivers getting open against our secondary? And I didn't
- 13:51Speaker 1: watch the All-22. I know somebody that did, Hugh Millen,
- 13:54Speaker 1: and maybe he can tell us starting at 8 o'clock.
- 13:57Speaker 1: But was Marcus Mariota just consistently in the blink of
- 14:02Speaker 1: an eye? making the perfect read all day long to
- 14:06Speaker 1: the one open receiver. Cause I got to believe this
- 14:09Speaker 1: defense isn't leaving a ton of guys wide open, but
- 14:12Speaker 1: he just kept, I'm getting the ball and I'm just
- 14:15Speaker 1: going to fling it. And on the other end, an
- 14:18Speaker 1: open receiver was waiting to catch the football. To me,
- 14:21Speaker 1: it felt like you're either getting really lucky or you
- 14:26Speaker 1: and David Blau, your offensive coordinator were really, really prepared for,
- 14:32Speaker 1: for what you were going to see. Because it was,
- 14:35Speaker 1: I'm not taking a sack, and I'm also not going
- 14:38Speaker 1: to throw a turnover. That combination, making reads that quickly,
- 14:42Speaker 1: and just getting rid of the football, usually leads to turnovers.
- 14:46Speaker 1: And yet, not only did we not force a turnover,
- 14:48Speaker 1: I don't even remember us coming close to forcing a turnover,
- 14:52Speaker 1: because Mariota's reads were that quick, that decisive, and that
- 14:57Speaker 1: accurate to... open receivers and we just don't see the
- 15:02Speaker 1: seahawks leave open receivers like that yeah.
- 15:04Speaker 4: And it's funny because one of the things that hugh
- 15:05Speaker 4: millen brought up yesterday when he was talking about hey
- 15:08Speaker 4: it's not just a turnover battle there are other um
- 15:10Speaker 4: stronger factors uh in who determines uh a winning team
- 15:14Speaker 4: one of them was passer rating the quarterback passer rating
- 15:17Speaker 4: uh more often you the higher the quarterback with the
- 15:20Speaker 4: higher passer rating um wins more often than the team
- 15:23Speaker 4: that has the higher turnover battle or turnover margin. And
- 15:26Speaker 4: that was the case yesterday, too. Mariota outplayed Sam Darnold,
- 15:29Speaker 4: even though I thought Sam Darnold was really good in
- 15:33Speaker 4: a lot of cases with this team. But for Mariota,
- 15:36Speaker 4: it wasn't just that it's not like he was having
- 15:39Speaker 4: all day to throw. He was getting pressured by this
- 15:41Speaker 4: defensive line all day.
- 15:43Speaker 3: He was just getting the ball and getting rid of it.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Usually when you play that haphazardly, when you're just like,
- 15:50Speaker 1: I'm just getting rid of the football.
- 15:51Speaker 3: I'm not going to take a sack. It usually leads
- 15:54Speaker 3: to bad things.
- 15:54Speaker 1: But with him, he kept reading the open receiver all
- 15:58Speaker 1: game long. So either the commanders just had open receivers
- 16:02Speaker 1: running everywhere throughout the football game, or Marcus.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Mariota was making....
- 16:08Speaker 1: One, tremendous reads all day long, or two, he was
- 16:11Speaker 1: getting really lucky.
- 16:14Speaker 3: I'm just going to get.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Rid of the ball to the next red shirt I see,
- 16:17Speaker 1: and hopefully there's not a blue shirt standing next to him.
- 16:21Speaker 3: Terry was scary again yesterday, I'll tell you that.
- 16:24Speaker 4: Terry McLaurin, it felt like he really had a breakout
- 16:27Speaker 4: game for them as well, so he played his balls off.
- 16:29Speaker 4: That offense just outplayed the defense, even though I still
- 16:32Speaker 4: feel like the defense played pretty well.
- 16:34Speaker 3: It wasn't like you just.
- 16:35Speaker 4: You choked out a big game like that. But, yeah,
- 16:39Speaker 4: there's just a lot of fluky nature to this one
- 16:42Speaker 4: for me that kind of puts it in perspective a
- 16:44Speaker 4: little bit.
- 16:45Speaker 1: Well, they only had 183 yards passing, and they only
- 16:48Speaker 1: had 82 yards rushing. I mean, it was 437 yards
- 16:52Speaker 1: to 258.
- 16:53Speaker 3: It's not like.
- 16:57Speaker 1: They had small fields, though, shorter fields. It's not like
- 16:59Speaker 1: we got your number, Mike McDonald.
- 17:01Speaker 3: It was more like, hey, what little.
- 17:04Speaker 1: openings you're going to give us, we're going to take
- 17:07Speaker 1: advantage of. And if you do lose the turnover battle,
- 17:10Speaker 1: we're going to be right there to possibly steal this
- 17:13Speaker 1: away from you. And if you lose the turnover battle
- 17:15Speaker 1: three to nothing, we might just win this game. And
- 17:18Speaker 1: if you lose the turnover battle three to nothing and
- 17:21Speaker 1: every turnover that you cause gives us excellent field position
- 17:25Speaker 1: or a pick six, yeah, we're going to win the game.
- 17:29Speaker 1: They showed up and played, and they pulled off a
- 17:32Speaker 1: victory that I did not see coming, 33-31. But, I mean,
- 17:38Speaker 1: it was– Washington kind of took it from them. Certainly
- 17:42Speaker 1: the Seahawks didn't play their best. There's no question about it.
- 17:45Speaker 1: But I certainly feel like they played well enough to
- 17:48Speaker 1: win the game. It's just costly mistakes at bad times.
- 17:53Speaker 1: I mean, Sam Darnold had 379 passing yards. And he
- 17:56Speaker 1: had one interception that bounced off a helmet. I mean,
- 17:59Speaker 1: the other one was horrible. But it came at the
- 18:01Speaker 1: absolute worst time that it could have come at. Jadarian Price,
- 18:06Speaker 1: you know, was taught a lesson yesterday. He got sent
- 18:09Speaker 1: to the doghouse yesterday after giving the commanders the ball.
- 18:14Speaker 3: And the team suffered for it.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Early in the contest. You never got a running game
- 18:17Speaker 1: going during the course of the game yesterday.
- 18:20Speaker 3: And so... It's a loss.
- 18:23Speaker 1: And 33-31, your final score, and we will spend our
- 18:27Speaker 1: entire show pretty much talking about this loss because there's
- 18:30Speaker 1: a lot more to get into. We're just kind of
- 18:33Speaker 1: scratching the surface. Let's find out what's on tap for
- 18:36Speaker 1: the rest of the show.
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- 18:54Speaker 1: Greg Bell will join us with information at 7.05 today.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Hugh Millen will be with us from 8 to 9.40
- 18:59Speaker 1: today with a session of Monday Morning Quarterback. We have
- 19:03Speaker 1: an NFL scoreboard coming your way later this hour as well.
- 19:07Speaker 1: Wins and tough wins. will be yours at 645 this morning.
- 19:11Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Rams are 1-2, by the way, after
- 19:15Speaker 1: a stunning loss to the Denver Broncos. Looked like the
- 19:17Speaker 1: Rams had it in hand, but the Broncos found some offense,
- 19:21Speaker 1: maybe a couple breaks with the officials late in the game,
- 19:24Speaker 1: and it's Denver 30-26 over the Rams. We'll find some
- 19:29Speaker 1: time to talk about that later on the show. Huskies
- 19:31Speaker 1: started Big Ten play at home against the Minnesota Golden Gophers,
- 19:35Speaker 1: who beat them 27-24. was the final score in that one.
- 19:40Speaker 1: We'll find a little bit of time to talk about it.
- 19:43Speaker 1: I'm sure Hugh will want to weigh in on it
- 19:45Speaker 1: as well. The biggest story in college football, Oregon 41-20.
- 19:50Speaker 1: 41-27 over USC, a game in which Dante Moore left
- 19:53Speaker 1: with a concussion. And all sorts of controversy spilled out
- 19:58Speaker 1: from that. USC safety Desmond Stevens not only knocked Dante
- 20:03Speaker 1: Moore out of the game with a questionable hit, but
- 20:08Speaker 1: also celebrated it. And when given time to think about
- 20:12Speaker 1: what he'd done, continued to celebrate it. He's been suspended
- 20:17Speaker 1: both by the Big Ten and it sounds like USC,
- 20:20Speaker 1: but it's obviously a huge talking point. and then it
- 20:24Speaker 1: was exacerbated by the fact that Lincoln Riley didn't handle
- 20:28Speaker 1: it well, acting like it was no big deal after
- 20:32Speaker 1: the game was over, wasn't going to suspend the player,
- 20:35Speaker 1: apparently was forced into doing it, and Dan Lanning acted
- 20:38Speaker 1: like a child like he normally does. He had a
- 20:41Speaker 1: great opportunity to finally just make a statement about that,
- 20:45Speaker 1: and instead... He spent his entire press conference reminding everybody
- 20:50Speaker 1: how much better Oregon's been at USC since he got there.
- 20:55Speaker 3: Really? That's the time.
- 20:56Speaker 1: That's how you're going to use your... Dante Moore comments
- 21:01Speaker 1: is to pat yourself on the back.
- 21:02Speaker 3: For how great you are? I can't stand him. I
- 21:05Speaker 3: can't stand him at all.
- 21:07Speaker 1: How did you fail in that moment? People don't like you,
- 21:12Speaker 1: and people actually had sympathy for you yesterday and your program,
- 21:16Speaker 1: and you managed to ruin all of it.
- 21:18Speaker 3: Not for long.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Because you're an egomaniac. Sounders won again, 3-1 over Minnesota United.
- 21:26Speaker 1: So two wins in four days. They'll try to make
- 21:29Speaker 1: it three. I think it's on Thursday, October 1st on Thursday,
- 21:33Speaker 1: taking on Sporting KC. Kraken finished their preseason undefeated. They
- 21:38Speaker 1: will start the regular season this Thursday at Calgary. The season, though,
- 21:43Speaker 1: gets underway in the National Hockey League. And the Mariners'
- 21:46Speaker 1: season comes to an end with a 76-86 record. That
- 21:52Speaker 1: bad record cost Dan Wilson his job yesterday, as expected.
- 21:57Speaker 1: We will hear from him next. JP also walked off
- 22:01Speaker 1: the field with tears in his eyes yesterday, seeing the
- 22:04Speaker 1: writing on the wall. Randy Rosarino was pulled from the
- 22:07Speaker 1: game in the seventh inning.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Got a great ovation.
- 22:10Speaker 1: And Randy obviously had a great year this year with
- 22:15Speaker 1: the Mariners, but probably the last time he wears the
- 22:18Speaker 1: uniform and the entire weekend highlighted by Rick Riz, the
- 22:23Speaker 1: farewell to the voice of summer, Rick Riz. who signed
- 22:28Speaker 1: off yesterday for the last time. So we'll do Mariners
- 22:31Speaker 1: morning after, last time of the season, as the regular
- 22:35Speaker 1: season comes to a close. And for the Mariners, the
- 22:38Speaker 1: season comes to a close. So that comes your way next.
- 22:41Speaker 1: It's Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. JP, I've been very
- 22:47Speaker 1: critical of JP this season, but I think he's been
- 22:50Speaker 1: a really good Mariner. And to see how emotional he
- 22:54Speaker 1: was and his comments about, I owe everything to Seattle,
- 22:58Speaker 1: which he does.
- 22:58Speaker 3: I mean, his career was lost when he first got here.
- 23:01Speaker 1: He wasn't really in love with baseball and the Mariners
- 23:06Speaker 1: trading for him, showing faith in him, giving him a
- 23:10Speaker 1: new life that he felt was being distinguished, extinguished, I
- 23:14Speaker 1: should say. And Philadelphia, you know, lives in Woodinville now.
- 23:20Speaker 1: God's country. You know, he doesn't want to leave. He
- 23:25Speaker 1: wants to stay here. Just doesn't know what kind of
- 23:27Speaker 1: role he's going to have to see the tears streaming
- 23:29Speaker 1: down his face to see Randy just so and, you know,
- 23:32Speaker 1: express such love and gratitude and appreciation for Seattle. Um,
- 23:37Speaker 1: and Dan, if you've listened to this show at all,
- 23:39Speaker 1: you know how I feel about Dan that he should
- 23:42Speaker 1: be let go this season. I felt it should have happened, uh,
- 23:46Speaker 1: at the all-star break at the latest, it should have
- 23:48Speaker 1: happened at the all-star break, but he's such a nice
- 23:51Speaker 1: guy and, and everybody knows he's such a nice guy. And, um,
- 23:56Speaker 1: and so I take, I took no joy in that
- 23:59Speaker 1: yesterday and him being fired Anders, uh, But it is
- 24:02Speaker 1: the right thing to do, and it is long overdue, frankly.
- 24:05Speaker 3: Yeah, and he took it with class.
- 24:06Speaker 4: I liked how he kind of took his post-game press
- 24:10Speaker 4: conference and kind of thanked everyone, the fans. It was
- 24:15Speaker 4: kind of like all these situations where the news comes
- 24:21Speaker 4: out before the game's even over that Dan Wilson isn't
- 24:23Speaker 4: even returning.
- 24:24Speaker 3: So it was obviously decided ahead of time.
- 24:30Speaker 4: I think that can be a good thing because a
- 24:32Speaker 4: lot of people think, oh, at least give Rick Riz
- 24:35Speaker 4: his day. No, I think I want to make sure
- 24:37Speaker 4: Dan Wilson is able to give his thoughts on the
- 24:41Speaker 4: situation and say goodbye to fans and stuff like that.
- 24:44Speaker 1: So, well, look, there's some people out there that just
- 24:47Speaker 1: want to crush the Mariners and everything they do and
- 24:50Speaker 1: ownership and Jerry and Justin and everything else. I thought
- 24:54Speaker 1: what they were doing was probably discussed. How do you
- 24:58Speaker 1: want to him? Do you want to have a goodbye? Uh, Dan, um,
- 25:02Speaker 1: Rick Riz had all Saturday night, Saturday night was his. Yeah.
- 25:06Speaker 1: And when they woke up Sunday morning, uh, Jerry notified
- 25:11Speaker 1: him that this is going to be your last game.
- 25:13Speaker 3: How do you want to do it? And I think
- 25:16Speaker 3: Dan wanted.
- 25:16Speaker 1: To have that press conference afterwards to be able to
- 25:20Speaker 1: prepare thoughts, which he read from a script, which we'll
- 25:24Speaker 1: get to in a moment. But yeah, If you just
- 25:29Speaker 1: let Riz have his Sunday on top of his Saturday,
- 25:33Speaker 1: then Dan doesn't get to go out the way he
- 25:35Speaker 1: wants to go out. He doesn't pull J.P. Crawford maybe
- 25:39Speaker 1: off of the field, doesn't pull Randy Rosarino off the field,
- 25:42Speaker 1: doesn't take Logan Gilbert out of the game after four
- 25:44Speaker 1: innings with a no-hitter to make sure that all of
- 25:47Speaker 1: those guys got their flowers from the fans yesterday. And
- 25:51Speaker 1: we can discuss that at greater detail a little bit
- 25:54Speaker 1: later on, but I I'm with you. I thought that actually,
- 25:58Speaker 1: not only do I not criticize the Mariners bought it,
- 26:01Speaker 1: I actually think they did him a solid. I mean,
- 26:04Speaker 1: how many people in your life aren't on their last
- 26:06Speaker 1: day of work, given any opportunity, they just take your
- 26:09Speaker 1: key card and.
- 26:10Speaker 3: You're out of here.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 26:11Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:11Speaker 1: You know, most guys don't even get a press conference,
- 26:15Speaker 1: but they allowed Dan, they had trust and faith in Dan,
- 26:17Speaker 1: the Mariner and respect for him. to let him have
- 26:21Speaker 1: the final word on this before they have their press
- 26:25Speaker 1: conference today at 1 o'clock, and they know they're going
- 26:27Speaker 1: to take it in the shorts today at 1 o'clock.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Here is Rick Riz. This is his final call, and
- 26:34Speaker 1: this does come from 710, which we would never, ever
- 26:37Speaker 1: mention except for in this particular special case.
- 26:40Speaker 6: It's been a heck of a ride this year, some
- 26:42Speaker 6: ups and downs and all arounds, but the Mariners will wind.
- 26:50Speaker 7: Down 20-26 in our 50th season.
- 26:51Speaker 6: Man, how about the celebration we had about a month ago?
- 26:54Speaker 6: Here's the pitch on the way to Zach Netto, and
- 26:56Speaker 6: it's a strike at the count of 0-1, bringing in
- 26:59Speaker 6: the 50 greatest players in the history of the franchise.
- 27:02Speaker 1: All in one place.
- 27:03Speaker 6: What a celebration to celebrate the history of this franchise
- 27:07Speaker 6: and to bring Jay Buhner back today.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Ken Griffey Jr. swinging a fly ball deep in the
- 27:11Speaker 3: right field. Canzone going back. He's there and he makes
- 27:15Speaker 3: the catch and the ball game is over. The Mariners
- 27:19Speaker 3: win the finale of 2026, 7-3 over the Angels. They
- 27:22Speaker 3: take the final two games of the season. Look at that.
- 27:27Speaker 3: Even on the last out with enthusiasm.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we won.
- 27:30Speaker 3: Only in Rick Riz fashion.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Most disappointing season ever.
- 27:34Speaker 3: But Riz. We finished it out of the high notes.
- 27:37Speaker 3: You know, I mean, that's Riz right there. That is Riz.
- 27:40Speaker 1: You know, and it wasn't about him. It was like,
- 27:42Speaker 1: that's the final call. I love that, yeah. About the organization. So,
- 27:47Speaker 1: I mean, he's just such a great person. I mean,
- 27:50Speaker 1: just love that guy. Everybody loves that guy. I'm so
- 27:53Speaker 1: glad that.
- 27:53Speaker 3: He had his.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Hall of Fame moment a little bit earlier, that announcement
- 27:58Speaker 1: in his last year. And then this entire weekend was
- 28:01Speaker 1: certainly about him. Saturday was all about him. So he
- 28:05Speaker 1: had that opportunity, and the tips of the cap from
- 28:08Speaker 1: the players that came out was incredible yesterday, and then
- 28:13Speaker 1: Saturday was incredible for Rick Riz, his final call, and
- 28:17Speaker 1: so the voice of summer. He's still going to be around,
- 28:20Speaker 1: but 41 years of broadcasting with the Mariners did come
- 28:23Speaker 1: to an end. So did Dan Wilson's tenure. Here is
- 28:26Speaker 1: that press conference afterward. Here's Dan Wilson just sitting at
- 28:30Speaker 1: the podium by himself, with the opportunity to acknowledge that, yes,
- 28:37Speaker 1: what you've heard throughout the course of the day is true.
- 28:39Speaker 1: I have just managed my last game.
- 28:43Speaker 7: This season has been very difficult. And, of course, the.
- 28:46Speaker 5: Results have not been what any of us have expected.
- 28:51Speaker 5: As a result, it's concluded that today is my last
- 28:53Speaker 5: day as manager of the Seattle Mariners. I'm still processing
- 28:57Speaker 5: this with my family, and it's a very difficult day.
- 29:00Speaker 7: We love this city. We love this community.
- 29:05Speaker 5: And we appreciate the organization for what it has meant
- 29:08Speaker 5: to the family since coming here as a player in 94.
- 29:12Speaker 5: We feel extremely blessed by all the opportunities we've been afforded.
- 29:15Speaker 5: We've raised our family here, and we will continue to
- 29:18Speaker 5: call Seattle home. First, I just want to thank my wife,
- 29:23Speaker 5: who has been my rock and solid foundation through this
- 29:26Speaker 5: baseball journey. Jumping back into baseball brought many obstacles, but
- 29:32Speaker 5: we weathered them together.
- 29:34Speaker 7: And thank you for everything. It's always better together.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Secondly, I'd like to thank the incredible coaching staff and
- 29:43Speaker 5: support staff that has worked so tirelessly over these last
- 29:48Speaker 5: couple years. They have stuck with it, and they have
- 29:52Speaker 5: stuck with me through thick and thin. My gratitude cannot
- 29:56Speaker 5: accurately be expressed for their countless hours of of analyzing video,
- 30:01Speaker 5: working with players and making us better on the field.
- 30:05Speaker 5: I will cherish each relationship with these staff members and
- 30:08Speaker 5: I wish them all continued success going forward. Thank you
- 30:13Speaker 5: for giving all of yourselves every day. I also wish
- 30:17Speaker 5: to thank the special group of players in that clubhouse.
- 30:20Speaker 5: It has been an honor and a privilege to work
- 30:21Speaker 5: with you over these last couple seasons. You are an
- 30:25Speaker 5: incredibly talented group and have shown overwhelming resiliency over the
- 30:29Speaker 5: last couple of seasons.
- 30:30Speaker 7: You fight and it is exactly that fight that will
- 30:33Speaker 7: bring you back to prominence.
- 30:35Speaker 5: Thank you for all your dedication and hard work every day.
- 30:38Speaker 5: And thank you for fighting as you did each and
- 30:40Speaker 5: every ball game. I love all of you and your
- 30:44Speaker 5: families and pray for continued blessings as you continue on
- 30:47Speaker 5: with your baseball journeys.
- 30:50Speaker 7: Lastly, I'd like to thank the Seattle fans. You are
- 30:53Speaker 7: our inspiration.
- 30:55Speaker 5: Hearing Team Mobile Park back in October last year, and
- 30:58Speaker 5: seeing the support you gave us even during a difficult
- 31:00Speaker 5: season is greatly appreciated.
- 31:03Speaker 7: Thank you for always being there. I don't know what
- 31:06Speaker 7: the future holds.
- 31:08Speaker 5: The Mariners organization has expressed interest in a role going forward,
- 31:11Speaker 5: and I look forward to investigating those.
- 31:12Speaker 7: Options in the future.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 31:17Speaker 8: And was this your decision or was this a decision
- 31:20Speaker 8: made for you?
- 31:20Speaker 7: You know, this was, you know, I've been in baseball
- 31:24Speaker 7: a while.
- 31:25Speaker 8: You know this is what happens managers shoulder the blame
- 31:27Speaker 8: and uh shoulder the responsibility and um you know this
- 31:31Speaker 8: is uh obviously difficult and uh my family and i
- 31:35Speaker 8: are still like i said still processing it and and
- 31:37Speaker 8: uh we'll get through it okay.
- 31:39Speaker 5: You've been part of this organization like you said for
- 31:40Speaker 5: more than 30 years just what are the emotions here
- 31:43Speaker 5: to end this chapter like this yeah i mean um
- 31:47Speaker 5: you know not how we wanted to turn it you
- 31:48Speaker 5: know how we wanted to turn out that's just you
- 31:50Speaker 5: know how these things go.
- 31:51Speaker 7: And um you know, uh, it's, it's, it's been a
- 31:55Speaker 7: difficult season and it's been, you know, a difficult stretch.
- 31:59Speaker 5: Um, but, uh, you know, you kind of contrast that
- 32:03Speaker 5: with the joy and, and, and the incredible, um, season
- 32:06Speaker 5: that we had last year. And, uh, um, you know,
- 32:09Speaker 5: baseball is, it's, it's never, you know, it's, it's never
- 32:12Speaker 5: over until it's over. And, and, uh, um, this was,
- 32:15Speaker 5: you know, clearly a, um, you know, different type of season. Um, and, uh, But,
- 32:21Speaker 5: you know, all in all, it's still kind of processing.
- 32:25Speaker 7: Everything that's going through.
- 32:26Speaker 1: Dan Wilson, yesterday after the game, his final game as
- 32:30Speaker 1: manager of the Mariners. And we'll just let that speak
- 32:32Speaker 1: for itself. A classy guy came off classy.
- 32:36Speaker 3: In that moment. He got to read some prepared statements.
- 32:40Speaker 3: And I think he covered everything.
- 32:42Speaker 1: All of the ground and I'm not surprised I mean
- 32:45Speaker 1: even though I was not impressed with Dan Wilson the
- 32:47Speaker 1: manager I've always been impressed with Dan Wilson the man
- 32:50Speaker 1: and obviously all of those players love this guy and
- 32:54Speaker 1: maybe to his detriment maybe they just loved him too
- 32:56Speaker 1: much and took him for granted at times and didn't
- 32:59Speaker 1: play as hard for him.
- 33:01Speaker 3: As they should have because I think a.
- 33:02Speaker 1: Lot of Mariner players were wearing some guilt and a
- 33:05Speaker 1: little bit of shame yesterday once they heard that Dan
- 33:09Speaker 1: Wilson was not going to be back next season. We'll
- 33:12Speaker 1: save analysis probably for tomorrow because we'll have the Jerry audio,
- 33:16Speaker 1: the Justin audio tomorrow. So we'll do as much as
- 33:20Speaker 1: we possibly can about Dan Wilson on tomorrow's radio program.
- 33:24Speaker 3: But most of today, let's face it.
- 33:26Speaker 1: In reaction to the Seahawks loss, we already have that
- 33:29Speaker 1: scheduled and ready to rip. So coming up on the
- 33:32Speaker 1: other side, our NFL scoreboard on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
- 33:49Speaker 1: There is one teeny tiny reason why it's good that
- 33:53Speaker 1: the baseball season is over is I don't have to
- 33:55Speaker 1: jam the NFL scoreboard into a 45 segment anymore. All right,
- 34:00Speaker 1: here we go.
- 34:01Speaker 3: Here we go.
- 34:02Speaker 1: Here are your NFL scores from yesterday. It's time for
- 34:05Speaker 1: a round.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Of wins and tough ones.
- 34:08Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills won over the Los Angeles Chargers 24-16.
- 34:12Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills had a minus four turnover disparity and
- 34:18Speaker 1: yet still pulled off the victory. The Bills start 3-0,
- 34:22Speaker 1: and the Chargers did play tougher, did play better, but
- 34:25Speaker 1: they are 0-3 on the season.
- 34:26Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not only turnovers, as Hugh would tell us.
- 34:29Speaker 4: When you have Josh Allen, it's pretty hard to lose games. But, yeah,
- 34:33Speaker 4: the Bills pulled that one out. Chargers earned a rough one.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Texans are also 0-3, which I would not have predicted.
- 34:41Speaker 3: But C.J.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Stroud continues to struggle, just 167 passing yards yesterday. And
- 34:46Speaker 1: the Colts, who also were trying to avoid 0-3, get
- 34:49Speaker 1: their first win of the year, 19-17, the final. Minnesota
- 34:53Speaker 1: Vikings are 3-0, and it's time to pay attention to
- 34:56Speaker 1: Brian Flora's defense. because Kyler Murray only completed 50% of
- 35:01Speaker 1: his passes yesterday, and they still win another game over
- 35:04Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, 23-16. The Buccaneers are winless. They had only
- 35:08Speaker 1: 57 yards rushing in the game. The Miami Dolphins are
- 35:12Speaker 1: winless at 0-3, but.
- 35:13Speaker 3: We expected that.
- 35:14Speaker 1: They did actually play a lot better against the Kansas
- 35:17Speaker 1: City Chiefs than people realize. They dominated time of possession,
- 35:21Speaker 1: 34 minutes to 25, and just kept extending drives.
- 35:25Speaker 3: They just couldn't score points.
- 35:27Speaker 1: And Mahomes and Kelsey look reborn together. 24-10, the Chiefs
- 35:31Speaker 1: win it. They're 3-0 on the year. The Cleveland Browns, boy,
- 35:35Speaker 1: they gritted out a victory over the Carolina Panthers, 21-18.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Deshaun Watson and the Browns are 2-1.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Mason Graham dominated this game up front. for Cleveland Detroit
- 35:47Speaker 1: nearly blew a 14.4th quarter lead against former DC Aaron
- 35:53Speaker 1: Glenn now head coach of the New York Jets but
- 35:56Speaker 1: the Lions behind Jameer Gibbs did put together a game-winning
- 35:59Speaker 1: drive and they take it 31 to 24 Tennessee Titans
- 36:03Speaker 1: had the ball inside the 10-yard line with a chance
- 36:06Speaker 1: to win but they needed a touchdown couldn't settle for
- 36:09Speaker 1: a field goal and didn't get the job done so
- 36:12Speaker 1: the Giants with Jameis Winston at quarterback win over the
- 36:15Speaker 1: 0-3 Titans, 12-7 the final score. Pittsburgh, 30-27 winners over
- 36:21Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers' offense, night
- 36:26Speaker 1: and day better. Three touchdowns for Rodgers, no interceptions, and
- 36:30Speaker 1: the Steelers are 2-1, so is Cincinnati.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that was one of the surprising ones
- 36:35Speaker 4: of the day. I thought Cincinnati would dominate defensively, but...
- 36:39Speaker 4: Looks like the Steelers, for whatever reason, figured something else,
- 36:41Speaker 4: something else out offensively.
- 36:43Speaker 3: Excuse me. They still got some fun.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Jacksonville, 35 to six. Just truck the New England Patriots,
- 36:50Speaker 1: who truly do look bad. Drake May looks terrible. Three
- 36:56Speaker 1: turnovers in the game for Drake May and all of
- 36:59Speaker 1: them at. Horrible moments in the contest Jacksonville rolls. San
- 37:04Speaker 1: Francisco 36-30. They hold on against the Arizona Cardinals. Brock
- 37:08Speaker 1: Purdy is having an MVP start to his season. Four
- 37:12Speaker 1: touchdown passes yesterday for Purdy. The Baltimore Ravens survive against
- 37:17Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in Rio 34-31. So the Cowboys off
- 37:23Speaker 1: to a 1-2 start. Dak Prescott called it an embarrassment.
- 37:27Speaker 1: I don't think it's that embarrassing to lose by three
- 37:29Speaker 1: to Baltimore. No, especially in Rio. The Raiders are 3-0
- 37:34Speaker 1: under Clint Kubiak. They defeated the New Orleans Saints 35-27
- 37:38Speaker 1: in the breakout bowl. One of these two teams might
- 37:41Speaker 1: be the breakout team of 2026. And right now, looks
- 37:46Speaker 1: like the Raiders might be that team. Tyler Shuck had
- 37:49Speaker 1: two fumbles, costly fumbles in the game yesterday. He complained
- 37:54Speaker 1: that one of those was not a fumble, but I
- 37:56Speaker 1: think you're lit out of Shuck. And finally, Denver won
- 38:00Speaker 1: over the Los Angeles Rams. Fantastic football game last night.
- 38:04Speaker 1: 30-26 was the final score. The Rams led 16-0 at
- 38:09Speaker 1: halftime and blew it against Denver. 30-26 the final, and
- 38:14Speaker 1: the Rams, who are going to go undefeated this year,
- 38:17Speaker 1: if you recall, are now 1-2 on the year. All right,
- 38:21Speaker 1: Greg Bell next, plus your headline, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.