Latest / Chuck in the Morning / 10-12 H4: MMQB w/ Hugh Millen & One Last Thing
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm with you.
- 0:00Speaker 2: I think that other than a bad interception or play
- 0:04Speaker 2: or two, I think he's played really well since his return.
- 0:07Speaker 2: I'm not sure I feel that way about yesterday's performance, though.
- 0:11Speaker 2: What is your evaluation of 14 yesterday?
- 0:14Speaker 3: Yeah, watching the tape, it would be hard for me
- 0:17Speaker 3: to say he had a good game. I don't think
- 0:21Speaker 3: he was seeing things right. He was turning down open receivers.
- 0:26Speaker 3: He was failing to turn down guys, obviously, in a
- 0:31Speaker 3: couple of interceptions there. Now, I do think he was
- 0:36Speaker 3: pressured a lot. Right now, he stands as the fifth
- 0:39Speaker 3: most pressured in the league. So I think that there's
- 0:41Speaker 3: a lot of guys in his lap, and it's not
- 0:44Speaker 3: real easy to play. But then there was other times
- 0:46Speaker 3: where he had really good protection. So, you know, it
- 0:50Speaker 3: I don't know if we can whistle through some of
- 0:51Speaker 3: these plays.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Oh, we can whistle.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. So the first sack, this is just chronologically.
- 0:58Speaker 3: First sack, he had– now I think that the 49ers
- 1:03Speaker 3: had a beat on this.
- 1:05Speaker 1: This is an early.
- 1:09Speaker 3: Part of the script, and I think they were ready
- 1:12Speaker 3: for this. Double sticks by the inside, that's the– That's
- 1:16Speaker 3: the square out, and then the speed outs on the outside.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Everybody jumped it, but JSN was open there. He turned
- 1:23Speaker 3: it down and then went elsewhere. Everybody was covered, and
- 1:28Speaker 3: he gets a sack. The interception, it's really a testament
- 1:33Speaker 3: to how Rasheed Shaheed is not fitting in because you
- 1:38Speaker 3: had a mirrored what's called oaky routes, the 10, 12-yard
- 1:42Speaker 3: out routes, And to Darnold's left, where Shahid was, the
- 1:47Speaker 3: corner was way off. I mean, that was Diamador Lenore.
- 1:53Speaker 3: He was at least two yards further back. But he
- 1:55Speaker 3: went with JSN, and Renardo Green's number zero was just squatting.
- 2:01Speaker 3: The term is squat. And had there been the double
- 2:04Speaker 3: move like we saw by JSN– in the third play
- 2:10Speaker 3: of the game against the Cardinals for the 80-yard touchdown.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Had Seattle done that, probably would have been the same
- 2:15Speaker 3: result because he's squatting. But he's got to see it.
- 2:19Speaker 3: But I also look and I say, why wasn't he
- 2:22Speaker 3: going left pre-snap? He should say, I'm going to take Shahid.
- 2:26Speaker 3: And it's just another example of how that's not coming together.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Seattle does not have a number two receiver. I'll just
- 2:33Speaker 3: say it, you know, hard stop. And that play is
- 2:37Speaker 3: an indicator. And by the way, Shahid ran his route
- 2:41Speaker 3: too few of steps. So he didn't even run it right.
- 2:46Speaker 3: So maybe that's why Darnold isn't looking over it. But
- 2:49Speaker 3: that's a problem in my mind. He turned down JSN
- 2:54Speaker 3: on an arrow route, which is just a quick dart
- 2:56Speaker 3: to the sideline after he had thrown that pick. So
- 3:00Speaker 3: now he got a little bit tentative and he comes
- 3:02Speaker 3: back to Cup over the middle. Ball got deflected there.
- 3:06Speaker 3: There was two plays, guys, where I swear almost back-to-back
- 3:13Speaker 3: that there was a bust by Seattle. You had A.J.
- 3:17Speaker 3: Barner and J.S. Ann coming in routes at the exact
- 3:21Speaker 3: same levels, and that almost repeated it with J.S. Ann
- 3:27Speaker 3: and Cup. And I don't know. I mean, you could say, well,
- 3:33Speaker 3: hit either in route right off the break, but you
- 3:36Speaker 3: don't see that kind of spacing. So, so I think
- 3:39Speaker 3: there's a few things where I was going, uh, you know,
- 3:42Speaker 3: I put BF, Brian Flory, like what, how about the screens?
- 3:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:45Speaker 3: You know, you know, two tight end screens to Barner, uh, one,
- 3:49Speaker 3: you drop, uh, you know, cause it's a mess and, and, and, uh,
- 3:53Speaker 3: hell it could have been intercepted when he had the dirt.
- 3:56Speaker 3: He had another, um, he had another screen to, uh, Wilson, uh,
- 4:01Speaker 3: where his eyes, you look out and cup was wide
- 4:05Speaker 3: open in the flat. Hey, just throw it to him.
- 4:07Speaker 3: You know, you're going to get eight yards. Your eyes
- 4:10Speaker 3: are there, even though the screen is called. You know,
- 4:13Speaker 3: you're looking there, and usually you're taught, hey, if that
- 4:16Speaker 3: first receiver is there, just throw it. Who cares if
- 4:19Speaker 3: you have a screen? Because they only got two yards
- 4:21Speaker 3: coming back. So on three screen passes, they got two yards.
- 4:26Speaker 3: You know, receipt to heed. You're trying to get him
- 4:30Speaker 3: on a Z post. And, Darnold, this is very poor
- 4:33Speaker 3: that he throws into double coverage. They had the coverage
- 4:38Speaker 3: they want, which is quarter, quarter, half, where you're cloud
- 4:42Speaker 3: to one side, which is denying free access, but then
- 4:47Speaker 3: you're corner off on the other. And the safety's in
- 4:51Speaker 3: a position– here's the safety's responsibility– If the tight end
- 4:56Speaker 3: comes at him, in this case, Barner, and he gets
- 4:59Speaker 3: vertical more than 10 yards, then you've got to cover him.
- 5:04Speaker 3: And then that leaves Shahid one-on-one with the corner. But
- 5:08Speaker 3: if Barner doesn't get vertical and he runs the six-yard
- 5:12Speaker 3: in route, which he did, the safety is just going
- 5:15Speaker 3: to turn and double team. So Darnold knows this. That's
- 5:19Speaker 3: fundamental to that coverage. And yet, I would say to
- 5:24Speaker 3: Brian Flory, if you're trying to get a post route
- 5:29Speaker 3: to receipt to heed, you, you gotta have Barner on
- 5:33Speaker 3: a vertical route. You could sit them down at 12.
- 5:35Speaker 3: You could run a double, a post, but you've got
- 5:38Speaker 3: to do something to occupy that safety as it was.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Darnold throws it into double coverage. Very poor by Darnold,
- 5:45Speaker 3: but I would say very poor by Brian Flory. There's
- 5:49Speaker 3: another time where you try and get a double move,
- 5:51Speaker 3: a stutter go at about 10 yards to get Sheehy.
- 5:54Speaker 3: That play is designed to get a touchdown. The next
- 5:57Speaker 3: play is supposed to be a Myers kick and a PAT. Now,
- 6:00Speaker 3: that doesn't mean you're going to get it, but you
- 6:02Speaker 3: want to get the most favorable look. Well, they set
- 6:04Speaker 3: the formation so that the 49ers, they roll to that side.
- 6:09Speaker 3: The safety is 20 yards back. So, like, it's a wasted–
- 6:14Speaker 3: it's a wasted opportunity because they matched the coverage to
- 6:18Speaker 3: the formation. So they're on a double slant to Shahid,
- 6:25Speaker 3: and Shahid got his face ripped off by the safety
- 6:27Speaker 3: coming down. Do you remember that? Yeah, Mustafa blew him up,
- 6:32Speaker 3: almost got him killed. And on that point, okay, you're
- 6:37Speaker 3: from shotgun. You can't go shotgun three steps. The ball's
- 6:42Speaker 3: going to be late. If you're from shotgun, you're going
- 6:44Speaker 3: to throw that inside slant. You got to just go
- 6:47Speaker 3: take your right foot back, put in the ground and go.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Ball's out.
- 6:50Speaker 1: One step.
- 6:51Speaker 3: One step. And three-step is guaranteed to be late, and
- 6:56Speaker 3: it was late. And so, you know, it should have
- 6:59Speaker 3: been a penalty, right? It should have been a targeting.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:04Speaker 3: So, you know, I mean, I could keep going, but
- 7:08Speaker 3: I probably ought to hit on that second interception. So
- 7:13Speaker 3: you've got the 49ers playing a three deep zone with
- 7:19Speaker 3: four underneath. You've got, by the time you motion away,
- 7:24Speaker 3: you have technically Arroyo who's in a wing, which is
- 7:29Speaker 3: just a hip, one yard behind the tight end and
- 7:33Speaker 3: one yard outside. He's going to run a deep angle
- 7:37Speaker 3: crossing round. The formation that they chose to do that,
- 7:41Speaker 3: means the corner, even though it's zoned underneath, the corner's
- 7:44Speaker 3: going to run with him. And I would have rather
- 7:48Speaker 3: had it trips formation, put the Z, keep the corner
- 7:52Speaker 3: on the Z. Now, instead of Arroyo being number one,
- 7:56Speaker 3: meaning the closest to the sideline and being covered by
- 7:58Speaker 3: the corner, then now he'd have been zoned. You could
- 8:01Speaker 3: have had him in the same wing position, just put
- 8:04Speaker 3: a receiver out there. It's just called, you know, trips
- 8:06Speaker 3: right wing if, you know, they use common vernacular. And
- 8:11Speaker 3: And now Arroyo doesn't have to beat a corner who's
- 8:14Speaker 3: a lot faster than him. And so I hate the formation,
- 8:18Speaker 3: particularly when you consider that everybody else is playing zone,
- 8:22Speaker 3: but they're running with the number one with the corner.
- 8:29Speaker 3: And so the angle of it, you know, Darnold, to
- 8:34Speaker 3: his credit, he said, yeah, he was expecting that high angle.
- 8:39Speaker 3: I thought maybe that that it would have been better
- 8:41Speaker 3: if he had flattened it, but they had discussed they
- 8:43Speaker 3: want to take the high angle, so Darnold's got to
- 8:45Speaker 3: throw that over the top. But you're asking Darnold to
- 8:51Speaker 3: beat the underneath zone coverage, the two hook defenders in
- 8:55Speaker 3: the middle, the two curl flat defenders outside of them,
- 8:58Speaker 3: so he's got to see the underneath zone coverage, and
- 9:01Speaker 3: then he's got to have the precision on man-to-man with
- 9:04Speaker 3: a corner chasing a tight end and all that speed.
- 9:09Speaker 3: So you're asking him basically to hit a target the
- 9:13Speaker 3: size of a coffee mug over the top of the corner.
- 9:16Speaker 3: And it's unnecessary. You don't have to do it from
- 9:19Speaker 3: that formation. So didn't like that. Didn't like the throw.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Didn't like the concept. You know, I think Darnold was
- 9:28Speaker 3: late on it. They tried to do a smoke rail
- 9:30Speaker 3: where they faked to Shahid on the wide receiver screen,
- 9:34Speaker 3: and then JSN released up the sideline. Darnold looked, and
- 9:38Speaker 3: then he kind of went back to the middle of
- 9:40Speaker 3: the field, and then he looked to throw again, and
- 9:42Speaker 3: he got sacked. And that should have just been like
- 9:45Speaker 3: a quick shoulder shimmy on the sideline, and then boom,
- 9:48Speaker 3: it gets up right now. So I thought it was late.
- 9:51Speaker 3: You know, he takes a sack on a boot left.
- 9:54Speaker 3: And you're looking at Charles Cross, and he's blocking as
- 9:58Speaker 3: if it's a drop back. Charles Cross should be pinning
- 10:01Speaker 3: that guy inside. So I thought Cross missed some things, and.
- 10:10Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, it just seemed out of rhythm.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Everything seemed out of rhythm. It seemed like the game
- 10:15Speaker 2: was moving fast. For Sam and a lot of that
- 10:18Speaker 2: credit goes to the San Francisco 49ers. Obviously, they put
- 10:21Speaker 2: a lot of heat on him and they were an
- 10:25Speaker 2: agent in creating it to be that dysfunctional.
- 10:29Speaker 1: But yeah, it just.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Felt like he could not slow the game down. That's
- 10:34Speaker 2: how it felt to me watching from home.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just think his decision-making, you know, I
- 10:42Speaker 3: think that there's times open guys, he either wasn't on
- 10:45Speaker 3: time or he turned it down. And, you know, like
- 10:50Speaker 3: I said, I think he was under pressure that final
- 10:52Speaker 3: play involving Cup in the dive. Cup was wide open.
- 10:58Speaker 3: That was a hell of a job by Brian Flory.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Got the man, Cup was on a shell across. It
- 11:02Speaker 3: would have been an easy first down. But Charles Cross
- 11:06Speaker 3: misses his block, so Darnold has to step up. And
- 11:09Speaker 3: then now he got additional pressure. He had to move
- 11:12Speaker 3: and float. And so Charles Cross losing the play early
- 11:17Speaker 3: in the down killed the play.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:21Speaker 3: You know, I suppose we should talk about the drop
- 11:24Speaker 3: by JSN just from a quarterback perspective. It's called a
- 11:28Speaker 3: two-man where you're man-to-man underneath and the defenders can ride
- 11:33Speaker 3: underneath because they know they have a, a safety on
- 11:36Speaker 3: each half of the field. And, uh, you know, corner
- 11:39Speaker 3: route is actually a good route against that. Jason ran
- 11:42Speaker 3: a good route, but when Darnold is throwing, uh, he
- 11:46Speaker 3: had good protection, you know, trying to get the angle. Hey,
- 11:50Speaker 3: is he going to be flat? Is it going to
- 11:51Speaker 3: be higher? Wow. It takes so much time to get
- 11:56Speaker 3: that right. And, and Darnold thought he, you know, it's
- 11:58Speaker 3: just going to go a little bit higher. I don't,
- 12:01Speaker 3: I don't think that, that, um, I would criticize Darnold
- 12:05Speaker 3: nor JSN. It's just the cost of doing business. Sometimes
- 12:09Speaker 3: you just don't quite have the angle. It wasn't a
- 12:13Speaker 3: perfect throw. Based on where JSN chose his angle, you
- 12:17Speaker 3: would have liked to flatten him out to the sideline.
- 12:19Speaker 3: It would have been an easy catch. As it was,
- 12:21Speaker 3: it was a tough catch, but certainly that goes into
- 12:24Speaker 3: the category of a drop. JSN's got to, in the moment,
- 12:27Speaker 3: be better. Of course, he's capable. I mean, I asked
- 12:30Speaker 3: my We were talking amongst us in the press box,
- 12:32Speaker 3: and I said, I don't know if there's ever been
- 12:34Speaker 3: a Seattle Seahawk who's ever played his position as well
- 12:40Speaker 3: or better than JSN. That's Walter Jones. That's Cortez Kennedy.
- 12:45Speaker 3: We got some Hall of Famers. That would be a
- 12:48Speaker 3: big statement. I'm not going to try and cement that
- 12:51Speaker 3: and make some claim that can't be backed up, but
- 12:58Speaker 3: But that's how good the guy is. Just the fact
- 12:59Speaker 3: that we could be in that discussion at this stage
- 13:02Speaker 3: in his career. And yet, you know, he didn't meet
- 13:05Speaker 3: his own standards on that play.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:08Speaker 1: And it wasn't an easy catch, by the way.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I mean, his body was sort of contorted, but he just, yeah,
- 13:15Speaker 2: he just didn't pull it in. We just expect him
- 13:18Speaker 2: to make.
- 13:19Speaker 1: That grab every single time.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Excellent point. But I do, I'm not sure if I
- 13:24Speaker 3: made the point clear. When I watched the game live. Yeah.
- 13:28Speaker 3: I was thinking that Darnold, that ball should be pulled
- 13:34Speaker 3: more to the sideline. I thought that there was more
- 13:37Speaker 3: blame on Darnold. I still thought it was more. I
- 13:41Speaker 3: never thought that it was equal. I always thought JSN
- 13:44Speaker 3: had more blame. But I thought that Sam Darnold had
- 13:47Speaker 3: a pretty healthy blame in it, maybe 30%, 40%. When
- 13:52Speaker 3: I watched the tape and I saw his timing and
- 13:55Speaker 3: what he would have expected, It's as I tried to describe.
- 14:00Speaker 3: It's just he thought the angle was going to be
- 14:02Speaker 3: a little higher. JSN flattened it out. A high angle
- 14:05Speaker 3: would have been good, too, because he was open. The
- 14:09Speaker 3: flatter angle would be good, too. It won't make quite
- 14:14Speaker 3: as many yards. I mean, if you throw the high
- 14:16Speaker 3: angle and you get it, you might score there. If
- 14:18Speaker 3: you do the flatter angle... you're not going to score,
- 14:23Speaker 3: but you have a higher percentage chance of getting a completion.
- 14:28Speaker 3: So it's just, you know, there's different coaches that philosophically, hey,
- 14:31Speaker 3: give me the high angle because if we hit it,
- 14:33Speaker 3: I want to score. You know, others say, no, I
- 14:35Speaker 3: want the completion. So we could go round and round
- 14:38Speaker 3: on that, but it was just they, you know, one
- 14:41Speaker 3: was zigging, one was zagging. In my mind, there's no
- 14:43Speaker 3: blame that way. It wasn't the throw. It was Darnold's
- 14:48Speaker 3: interpretation of where will And he put it on that spot,
- 14:54Speaker 3: and he just was off by a yard, and that
- 14:57Speaker 3: made the more difficult throw.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like the hips were not quite there.
- 15:02Speaker 2: The hands were not quite there, and the ball was
- 15:05Speaker 2: not quite.
- 15:06Speaker 1: It was just like a little bit off.
- 15:07Speaker 3: Yeah, a bad time to be a little off, isn't it?
- 15:10Speaker 2: Yeah, and yet he still almost always makes that catch anyway.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Anything that hits his hands, he usually brings in. Did
- 15:17Speaker 2: Cup get the first down or not?
- 15:20Speaker 3: Well, as I understand it, it's– think about this. This
- 15:25Speaker 3: is how stupid the NFL officiating and all it can be.
- 15:29Speaker 3: This is not the goat herder's fault. This is the
- 15:32Speaker 3: rules committee. But think about– down on the goal line–
- 15:36Speaker 3: you can jump and the goal line plane extends around
- 15:41Speaker 3: the globe, right? So you can be as far out
- 15:43Speaker 3: of bounds as you want. But the first down, but
- 15:46Speaker 3: the spot to make the first down, which you would
- 15:48Speaker 3: think would mirror the goal line, like the same rules
- 15:53Speaker 3: would apply, but no, if you jump, it's where does
- 15:57Speaker 3: the ball cross the sideline plane? And so by that
- 16:04Speaker 3: interpretation of I think they probably got it right, or
- 16:06Speaker 3: at least there wasn't enough to overturn. Right. But I
- 16:09Speaker 3: think it's kind of silly that you have, you know,
- 16:13Speaker 3: where we get used to one interpretation for the goal line,
- 16:17Speaker 3: and in essence, if you think of the first down
- 16:20Speaker 3: line as like a goal line, every time we snap
- 16:23Speaker 3: the ball, there's a goal line.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Right.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Right?
- 16:25Speaker 3: You know, 10 yards away if it's first and 10.
- 16:28Speaker 3: And so I don't feel cheated on that.
- 16:34Speaker 2: I don't feel cheated, but I do think that Cooper
- 16:37Speaker 2: Cup probably did get it because he has such court awareness.
- 16:41Speaker 2: And then I think that if the official who might
- 16:45Speaker 2: have been out of place gives him the benefit of
- 16:49Speaker 2: the doubt, they weren't going to overrule it. So it
- 16:51Speaker 2: really did come down to that official and his ruling
- 16:55Speaker 2: on a play that I don't think that they proved.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Was short of the first down. You know, now that you, you,
- 17:02Speaker 3: you mentioned all this, let's dump it on the goat herders.
- 17:04Speaker 2: You know, he was a little bit out of place,
- 17:08Speaker 2: you know, I mean, nobody got ripped by the goat
- 17:11Speaker 2: herders like Kalen DeBoer.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Oh God.
- 17:14Speaker 3: That's, that's the old time pratfall by the goat herders. Uh,
- 17:17Speaker 3: you know, a thousand, 10,000 out of 10,000 fans, expert,
- 17:21Speaker 3: former officials, former coaches, whomever, um, There's not one out
- 17:27Speaker 3: of 10,000 that would say that's not pass interference.
- 17:30Speaker 1: Right.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Man, did he get jobbed.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 17:33Speaker 1: I think he got jobbed twice.
- 17:35Speaker 2: And I think that that's why he was so angry
- 17:37Speaker 2: at his player because he was still fuming over the,
- 17:41Speaker 2: not that he shouldn't have been angry at his player
- 17:43Speaker 2: as well, but he was so fuming at the two
- 17:47Speaker 2: calls that went against them.
- 17:49Speaker 1: That anything was going to set him off.
- 17:51Speaker 2: If he would have, if he would have walked into the,
- 17:53Speaker 2: you know, back to the back bench and somebody had
- 17:56Speaker 2: left a jar of mayonnaise open, he was going to
- 17:59Speaker 2: go off on whoever, you.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Know, grandma DeBoer would have gotten an earful.
- 18:04Speaker 3: We got purple Gatorade dot blue. What are, who did this?
- 18:07Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, I agree with you, but, uh, you know,
- 18:12Speaker 3: and we don't, we don't know how much, uh, effort and,
- 18:17Speaker 3: And discussion they've had about not retaliating too, right? Clearly
- 18:21Speaker 3: the Seahawks did that. I mean, with the youth team,
- 18:25Speaker 3: once I lined them, I lined us up and, you know,
- 18:30Speaker 3: paired everybody up and then had Stan three and then
- 18:33Speaker 3: do a fake slow motion punch. And then I had
- 18:37Speaker 3: all my guys raise their hand and take three steps back.
- 18:41Speaker 3: The guy who got the punch, raise your hand. Like,
- 18:43Speaker 3: this is not the time to prove you're a tough guy.
- 18:45Speaker 3: There's officials, there's guys in black and white handle this.
- 18:48Speaker 3: But I would practice like, hey, you just got punched,
- 18:52Speaker 3: raise your hand, take three steps back. Essentially kind of
- 18:55Speaker 3: what Ernest Jones was doing after he got, you know, like, hey,
- 18:59Speaker 3: and you can see that that was a big point
- 19:00Speaker 3: of emphasis.
- 19:01Speaker 1: For sure.
- 19:02Speaker 3: I don't know that they lined guys up and did
- 19:04Speaker 3: fake punches like I did with my 12-year-olds, but they
- 19:08Speaker 3: did something like that and maybe, Maybe DeBoer had already
- 19:13Speaker 3: done a drill like that, and he's like, I'm not
- 19:15Speaker 3: getting through to these guys.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Anyways. Yeah, he was already a race car in the red.
- 19:21Speaker 1: He was already red. And then all of a sudden
- 19:24Speaker 1: you have to deal with that.
- 19:25Speaker 3: Do not think that is yours.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Oh, it's not.
- 19:28Speaker 2: That's from Pulp Fiction. I stole that from Pulp Fiction.
- 19:32Speaker 2: That's John Travolta. I'm a race car in the red
- 19:35Speaker 2: right now, Jules.
- 19:37Speaker 3: See, I forget everything.
- 19:39Speaker 2: All right, one more segment with our Monday morning quarterback,
- 19:42Speaker 2: Hugh Millen, Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
- 19:46Speaker 1: These two things by saying this. I'm in total agreement.
- 19:49Speaker 3: Your first.
- 19:50Speaker 2: comments about the Seahawks were my first comments this morning
- 19:54Speaker 2: as well, where I kind of felt the exact same
- 19:57Speaker 2: way as I did after the first 49ers-Seahawks game a
- 20:01Speaker 2: year ago. I felt the better team lost the game
- 20:05Speaker 2: and can't wait to face them again because I think
- 20:09Speaker 2: that Mike McDonald will have ironed out these wrinkles, these
- 20:13Speaker 2: different sets of wrinkles that we've confronted here the last
- 20:16Speaker 2: three weeks. If it was the same ongoing problem, I'd
- 20:19Speaker 2: be a little more worried. There's been three different things.
- 20:22Speaker 2: So I have every confidence that we'll track down the 49ers,
- 20:26Speaker 2: and I think we'll beat the tar out of them
- 20:28Speaker 2: the next time that we face.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Them, quite frankly.
- 20:31Speaker 3: Talk to me.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Now. I don't know if I feel the same way
- 20:34Speaker 2: after what I watched Friday night. I'm not sure I'm
- 20:36Speaker 2: feeling that confident about that Husky turnaround at.
- 20:39Speaker 1: This point, Hugh.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Well, it feels, and I agree with you, like a
- 20:44Speaker 3: year ago, the Seahawks were 3-2 with a home loss
- 20:49Speaker 3: to the 49ers, which is exactly where they are right now.
- 20:51Speaker 3: And it's good that they're kind of chasing where they
- 20:56Speaker 3: want to be. They're looking forward. If they were 5-0
- 20:59Speaker 3: right now, eventually they'd you know you know a wheel
- 21:03Speaker 3: a lug net to get loose and then they'd be
- 21:05Speaker 3: going oh why can't we just play like we were
- 21:08Speaker 3: you know so at least they're they're they're working to
- 21:12Speaker 3: uh to to refine as far as the huskies it
- 21:17Speaker 3: feels really grim and uh you know with the quarterback
- 21:22Speaker 3: you know there's a bonafide quarterback controversy uh in my
- 21:26Speaker 3: mind right now i think enough of the The Husky
- 21:29Speaker 3: brass would love to see Eliza Brown kind of seen
- 21:32Speaker 3: enough of DeMond Williams. So I think that it's about
- 21:36Speaker 3: as in flux as it could possibly be. And, you know,
- 21:41Speaker 3: as bad as you could have reasonably anticipated at this
- 21:46Speaker 3: juncture of the season.
- 21:47Speaker 2: How do you explain, I mean, how much of that
- 21:50Speaker 2: for Elijah Brown was, you know, Iowa's got a big
- 21:53Speaker 2: lead and, you know, the defense may have softened up
- 21:56Speaker 2: a little bit. Also, his ability to just get rid
- 22:01Speaker 2: of the ball quickly versus an offensive line that didn't
- 22:06Speaker 2: seem to be protecting DeMond and hasn't seemed to protected
- 22:10Speaker 2: him well all this year. And then DeMond Williams Jr.
- 22:14Speaker 2: just certainly not playing good football at this point. So
- 22:17Speaker 2: how do you make sense of all of those elements?
- 22:20Speaker 3: Well, we've talked about this for years. One of the
- 22:23Speaker 3: biggest fallacies I think we make as fans is we
- 22:27Speaker 3: look at a play that DeMond or another athletic quarterback
- 22:33Speaker 3: makes and we say, man, it's a good thing we
- 22:36Speaker 3: have him because our less athletic quarterback would be taking
- 22:41Speaker 3: even more sacks. And the facts throughout the different eras,
- 22:46Speaker 3: doesn't matter what era you go back to, it just
- 22:49Speaker 3: doesn't square. The athletic quarterbacks always take more sacks because
- 22:53Speaker 3: they take more chances. And the less athletic guys, they
- 22:57Speaker 3: know they have to beat the sacks with knowing where
- 23:02Speaker 3: to go with the ball right now. I mean, about
- 23:06Speaker 3: all I can say that no Husky fan can dispute
- 23:11Speaker 3: or anybody who has watched I know that DeMond Williams
- 23:16Speaker 3: has punt returner skills in terms of his twitch and
- 23:20Speaker 3: his elusiveness. So he's a punt returner that at the picnic,
- 23:24Speaker 3: if he's throwing the ball around with your cousins, you'd say, man,
- 23:27Speaker 3: that punt returner throws a pretty good ball too. So
- 23:32Speaker 3: he throws the ball well, and he's unquestionably twitchy and elusive.
- 23:38Speaker 3: But there's a big gap between that and playing the
- 23:42Speaker 3: position well. And so what you saw with Elijah Brown,
- 23:47Speaker 3: he came in and he just stood in his spot
- 23:51Speaker 3: and he just said, hey, I know where I got
- 23:53Speaker 3: to get out of the ball. Now, he's been a
- 23:55Speaker 3: scout team quarterback. I know I technically I could say this.
- 23:59Speaker 3: I was truly a professional scout team quarterback.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Why?
- 24:03Speaker 3: Why can I say that? Because I was a backup
- 24:05Speaker 3: more than I was a starter. When you're the backup,
- 24:07Speaker 3: you're going against the number one defense. And you know
- 24:10Speaker 3: to get completions, you have to– you basically better figure
- 24:13Speaker 3: out where your number one is. Like I got one
- 24:17Speaker 3: spot to go with the ball, maybe two at best.
- 24:19Speaker 3: But I don't have– you know, the playbook might say, hey,
- 24:22Speaker 3: my third and fourth. That stuff ain't happening. I got
- 24:26Speaker 3: to find my first, maybe second, and that's it because
- 24:31Speaker 3: everything is going to cave in on me. So he
- 24:33Speaker 3: played like a scout team quarterback, like just– I better
- 24:37Speaker 3: find the one guy to get the ball out of
- 24:39Speaker 3: my hand, and he did. There's a levels concept that
- 24:45Speaker 3: Peyton Manning used to run with the Colts, and he
- 24:47Speaker 3: looked to his left, came back, and he was just
- 24:50Speaker 3: firing through his progressions. Now, you did raise a very
- 24:55Speaker 3: essential point. I think we all know this, but I
- 24:56Speaker 3: think that maybe there's a tendency to try and disregard it.
- 25:01Speaker 3: There was a big difference in intensity. Just because Elijah
- 25:07Speaker 3: Brown made the plays and put up the statistics he
- 25:11Speaker 3: did when it was 27-0 and thereafter does not mean
- 25:18Speaker 3: that he could have done that at 0-0 with Iowa.
- 25:20Speaker 3: I do not believe that. I don't know what multiplier
- 25:24Speaker 3: you put on. Is it. 9,. 95,. 7? But it
- 25:25Speaker 3: would be, in my mind, fallacious to not put a
- 25:29Speaker 3: multiplier on his performance based on the circumstances of the game.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Can we agree on that?
- 25:39Speaker 5: Yes.
- 25:39Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what it is.
- 25:42Speaker 3: You want to say it's. 4 or whatever? I'm sure,
- 25:45Speaker 3: you know, DeMond's kin is probably saying. 1. You know,
- 25:49Speaker 3: like multiply that thing down, you know. But, you know,
- 25:55Speaker 3: we'll see. You know, Purdue handled Minnesota. I think Jetfish,
- 25:58Speaker 3: it's going to be very interesting today. There's going to
- 26:01Speaker 3: be a very interesting game. press conference and what seems
- 26:06Speaker 3: like would be the most probable is to just say
- 26:10Speaker 3: well you know demand's not quite a hundred percent you
- 26:14Speaker 3: know and then we can kind of just put it
- 26:15Speaker 3: in the injury category and then we get another look
- 26:19Speaker 3: at elijah brown that that seems like the most logical
- 26:24Speaker 3: thing that's going to play out today but i don't
- 26:26Speaker 3: know what's going to play i don't it could be
- 26:28Speaker 3: elijah brown's the starter For, uh, for non injury reasons.
- 26:33Speaker 3: I think that meaning if, if we, I don't think
- 26:36Speaker 3: jet fish is going to come up and say, Demond
- 26:38Speaker 3: Williams is cleared. He's totally, he's healthy enough to start,
- 26:42Speaker 3: but I'm going to start Elijah Brown.
- 26:44Speaker 2: Right.
- 26:44Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to say that.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:45Speaker 3: So I think it's either Demond Williams is going to start,
- 26:49Speaker 3: but I think that, that he is, is, is going
- 26:52Speaker 3: to want to see Elijah Brown. And I think we're
- 26:54Speaker 3: going to be able to, there's enough ambiguity around the,
- 26:58Speaker 3: the Williams injury. that we can kind of just say, hey,
- 27:01Speaker 3: Eliza Brown's starting because DeMond Williams is not 100% healthy,
- 27:04Speaker 3: and then just let him take the Purdue game and
- 27:07Speaker 3: then assess from there.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Very strange that we are in the college football world
- 27:11Speaker 2: and can make the statement, you're paying him so much money,
- 27:14Speaker 2: he has to play. But that sentiment is there now.
- 27:20Speaker 3: Do we feel that way?
- 27:22Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but it does.
- 27:24Speaker 2: I've seen the conversation being held. And it just seems
- 27:29Speaker 2: strange that we would have that about college football.
- 27:31Speaker 3: I think if politics– as players, we used to just
- 27:35Speaker 3: call it politics, put that in the big bucket of politics.
- 27:39Speaker 3: If politics are going to play a part, I feel
- 27:42Speaker 3: like it's not the money. I think it's the– that's
- 27:48Speaker 3: the guy that he pulled him up here from Arizona,
- 27:52Speaker 3: and that's the guy he's rode. That's the guy he
- 27:54Speaker 3: said he's going to get him to New York. to
- 27:57Speaker 3: be a Heisman semifinalist, and he's the face of the program.
- 28:01Speaker 3: I mean, Jed chose an interesting quarterback to hitch his
- 28:06Speaker 3: wagon to. You know, you think of how does a
- 28:09Speaker 3: coach hitch a wagon to a quarterback? Well, I've been
- 28:13Speaker 3: watching it for a couple years, and he has. And
- 28:16Speaker 3: so I would think the politics would be in that
- 28:20Speaker 3: subcategory as opposed to the money, but maybe I'm not.
- 28:24Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we always say, The answer to
- 28:27Speaker 3: all your questions is money, so maybe it will simply
- 28:29Speaker 3: be money. But at any event, I think it'll be
- 28:32Speaker 3: interesting who lines up under center for the first play
- 28:36Speaker 3: against Purdue.
- 28:36Speaker 2: And it does need to be mentioned, it wasn't just
- 28:39Speaker 2: a quarterback or offense thing. That was an entire effort
- 28:43Speaker 2: of just horrible football on Friday.
- 28:46Speaker 1: The defense.
- 28:47Speaker 2: I mean, Iowa wide receivers running wide open in your
- 28:50Speaker 2: end zone, a running back you couldn't stop. I mean,
- 28:54Speaker 2: it was all-encompassing failure on Friday night.
- 28:58Speaker 3: Amen. You said it better than I could say. In
- 29:02Speaker 3: every regard, every facet, it was a beatdown of rare
- 29:10Speaker 3: proportions by a program that's probably in the upper half
- 29:14Speaker 3: of the Big Ten this year. Um, but man, they
- 29:18Speaker 3: look good. They look good. There was a certain grit
- 29:21Speaker 3: to them. They lost to Ohio state. They were playing
- 29:23Speaker 3: on a short week and they came out and they, uh,
- 29:26Speaker 3: you know, uh, the, the, the, they drag the Huskies
- 29:31Speaker 3: into the octagon and they say, Hey, by the way,
- 29:33Speaker 3: close the doors behind it.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Lock the doors.
- 29:38Speaker 3: We want these Huskies. Yeah. We don't want them to escape.
- 29:41Speaker 3: There's going to be a beat down like none other.
- 29:44Speaker 3: So they tip the hat to them. All right.
- 29:46Speaker 1: Great stuff, man.
- 29:47Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
- 29:48Speaker 1: We'll do it again later this week.
- 29:49Speaker 3: All right.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Hugh Mellon, our Monday morning quarterback joining us here today.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Next year from him on Thursday with our 12th man, Finally,
- 29:59Speaker 1: Hugh and Greg back together again, hopefully this week.
- 30:01Speaker 2: But we'll close out our Monday edition of Chalk in
- 30:04Speaker 2: the Mornings with one last thing next.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right, final segment of
- 30:21Speaker 1: this Monday edition of Chuck in the Morning.
- 30:23Speaker 2: So you got Greg Bell, Jessamyn McIntyre coming your way next,
- 30:26Speaker 2: coming up at 10 o'clock here today.
- 30:29Speaker 1: But let's go around the room. One last thing. What
- 30:31Speaker 1: do you got over there, Anders?
- 30:32Speaker 5: Well, a lot's been said about the turnovers in the
- 30:35Speaker 5: Seahawks game. A lot's been said about the fumbles in
- 30:38Speaker 5: the Seahawks game. One thing that I did notice that
- 30:41Speaker 5: was very un-Mike McDonald-like was the lack of run defense.
- 30:45Speaker 5: They didn't really go to it a ton because they
- 30:48Speaker 5: found something that worked in Mike Evans on Josh Jobe
- 30:50Speaker 5: and just kept spamming that. But Christian McCaffrey averaged over
- 30:55Speaker 5: six yards a carry. And it seemed like whenever they
- 30:58Speaker 5: needed to stop the few times the Niners had to
- 31:01Speaker 5: drive the full length of the field, it was either
- 31:03Speaker 5: a key play on third down to Mike Evans or
- 31:05Speaker 5: it was second and short because of an eight yard
- 31:07Speaker 5: run on first down. from Christian McCaffrey, even Kalon Black
- 31:11Speaker 5: a couple times as well. So, yes, the defense, I think,
- 31:15Speaker 5: mostly played pretty dang good, but those couple bad spots,
- 31:19Speaker 5: including the run defense, which, again, on the list of
- 31:22Speaker 5: things that went wrong is pretty low, but it's something
- 31:26Speaker 5: that I'm not used to saying about this Seahawks team.
- 31:28Speaker 5: We talked all about the too-high shell and their ability
- 31:30Speaker 5: to stop the run when they leave it in the
- 31:32Speaker 5: too-high shell. They didn't really have the success that they
- 31:34Speaker 5: normally do in that aspect yesterday.
- 31:37Speaker 1: I actually think the defense played great. I think so, too.
- 31:40Speaker 2: They allowed 154 total yards through three quarters. I do
- 31:44Speaker 2: think they got tired eventually, and I don't agree with
- 31:49Speaker 2: Mike dismissing the question about whether or not Josh Jobe
- 31:54Speaker 2: was the right matchup for Evans down the stretch, because
- 31:57Speaker 2: Evans was.
- 31:59Speaker 3: Dominant.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Yeah, he was basically doing.
- 32:00Speaker 2: The, like, the guy where the long-armed guy puts his...
- 32:05Speaker 2: palm on his forehead and then the short arm guy
- 32:08Speaker 2: swings at him i mean that's basically that was the
- 32:10Speaker 2: wide receiver cornerback equivalent of that i mean there there
- 32:14Speaker 2: are a lot of things i mean there are a
- 32:16Speaker 2: lot of things that this team's not functioning well with
- 32:19Speaker 2: and it seems like there's a big issue every single
- 32:23Speaker 2: week but it's a different issue every single week i
- 32:26Speaker 2: still think they're going to be fine i think that
- 32:30Speaker 2: this is a when your head coach says i hate
- 32:32Speaker 2: early season games.
- 32:35Speaker 1: Because I don't have enough film to study.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:38Speaker 2: And then you were 3-2 a year ago and ended
- 32:42Speaker 2: up winning the Super Bowl.
- 32:44Speaker 1: I think they're going to fix it all.
- 32:46Speaker 3: I hope so.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Eventually. But right now, it's not fixed. There's no question.
- 32:49Speaker 1: All right, kid, what's your one last thing?
- 32:50Speaker 4: Speaking of fixed, the Chargers, they are... I think they
- 32:55Speaker 4: have a strong possibility of going 0-9 and not getting
- 32:58Speaker 4: their first win until November 22nd. So right now, they
- 33:01Speaker 4: play the Chiefs coming up next Sunday. Will not be favored.
- 33:04Speaker 4: Probably will lose that game. Then they go to the Rams,
- 33:07Speaker 4: November 1st. Probably lose that game. Then you play the Texans.
- 33:11Speaker 4: Probably lose that game. And then I would imagine Lamar
- 33:14Speaker 4: Jackson will be back. You play the Ravens. Then they
- 33:16Speaker 4: have the Jets. That might be their first win of
- 33:19Speaker 4: the season. That is November 22nd.
- 33:21Speaker 3: So I have a... If there was a.
- 33:23Speaker 4: If I could throw $ 100 down that they lose their
- 33:25Speaker 4: next four games, I probably would do that.
- 33:28Speaker 1: They are getting a little bit better every week.
- 33:31Speaker 3: A little closer to winning.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Every single week. But, yeah, I don't see them winning
- 33:36Speaker 1: in the next four.
- 33:37Speaker 2: Where they were supposed to win was Cardinals-Raiders to start
- 33:42Speaker 2: the year. And then can we get one of the
- 33:45Speaker 2: next three against Bills, Seahawks, and Broncos? But, man, that
- 33:50Speaker 2: is one hell of a schedule. Bills, Seahawks, Broncos, Chiefs, Rams, Texans, Ravens.
- 33:56Speaker 3: Wow.
- 33:56Speaker 1: And I remember during.
- 33:59Speaker 3: What?
- 33:59Speaker 4: We had our fantasy draft. late in August, and I
- 34:02Speaker 4: remember someone taking Herbert. I'm like, have you seen the schedule?
- 34:05Speaker 1: Yeah. And they were like, no.
- 34:06Speaker 4: And I was like, you should probably go look back
- 34:08Speaker 4: at it. And Herbert is not even on any rosters
- 34:12Speaker 4: right now, which is hilarious.
- 34:13Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't be.
- 34:16Speaker 2: I try not to give too much attention to looking
- 34:19Speaker 2: ahead at schedules because you never know what that team's
- 34:22Speaker 2: going to be health-wise by the time that you do
- 34:24Speaker 2: face them. But you certainly can look in hindsight at
- 34:27Speaker 2: a team's schedule. No question about that. When you face them,
- 34:31Speaker 2: how you face them, and stuff like that. Yeah, I
- 34:34Speaker 2: did not see 0-5 for them, but you're right, kid.
- 34:37Speaker 2: I think they'll probably be 0-9. I can't see a world,
- 34:41Speaker 2: barring quarterback injuries, where they win any of the next
- 34:44Speaker 2: four games.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Maybe at home against the Texans?
- 34:47Speaker 3: Maybe.
- 34:47Speaker 2: That's a big maybe. That's a big maybe. That's a
- 34:49Speaker 2: big maybe. And yet, I don't think they'll abandon it either.
- 34:53Speaker 2: I don't think they're a team that's going to tank
- 34:55Speaker 2: or sell or anything like that.
- 34:57Speaker 1: I think they're pot committed. I'm going to close.
- 35:00Speaker 2: I mean, we're going to have a really interesting conversation
- 35:03Speaker 2: tomorrow with Gene Steratore for a second week in a row.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Just going through all.
- 35:08Speaker 2: There are 14 things in the 49ers-Seahawks game alone that
- 35:11Speaker 2: we could bring up.
- 35:13Speaker 1: But when you take college into account and the NFL
- 35:16Speaker 1: into account.
- 35:17Speaker 2: My goodness, are we going to have a lot to
- 35:18Speaker 2: discuss with Gene tomorrow at 8 o'clock?
- 35:21Speaker 1: I will say this.
- 35:23Speaker 2: Kalen DeBoer was applauded for his anger and also harshly
- 35:28Speaker 2: criticized on social media for his display.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Grown man throwing a fit on the sidelines. He had
- 35:36Speaker 1: two really big.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Calls that went against him that were wrong, that were
- 35:44Speaker 2: just flat out wrong. So you're facing a rival. You're
- 35:49Speaker 2: coming down the stretch of He's red-faced. You never saw.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Him lose his cool.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Never.
- 35:54Speaker 1: Ever here. And he is just... He can't take it anymore.
- 35:59Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, his own player, who
- 36:01Speaker 2: they've had problems with, decides to punch a guy twice.
- 36:05Speaker 5: While they get off the field.
- 36:07Speaker 2: After the play was over, when they're close to getting
- 36:09Speaker 2: off the field. And it was just a build-up of everything.
- 36:14Speaker 2: He was already furious when that occurred.
- 36:19Speaker 1: If the game.
- 36:21Speaker 2: Hadn't had those two calls, Kalen DeBoer would have been
- 36:23Speaker 2: angry at his player.
- 36:24Speaker 1: He would have said something to his player, but he
- 36:27Speaker 1: wouldn't have done the old, you just cost us the game.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't have gone for that.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Even if it's true.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Even if it's true.
- 36:36Speaker 2: But he probably wouldn't have gone to that level had
- 36:38Speaker 2: he not already been at a level that we never
- 36:41Speaker 2: see him at in terms of his anger. But how
- 36:45Speaker 2: do you come down from that? If I'm angry in
- 36:48Speaker 2: a situation and then all of a sudden.
- 36:52Speaker 2: You know, some delivery guy throws a package that breaks
- 36:56Speaker 2: my glass window. Odds are there's a much better chance
- 37:00Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and beat him on the
- 37:02Speaker 2: sidewalk because I'm already angry than if it would have
- 37:06Speaker 2: happened while I'm just having milk and cookies.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Good point.
- 37:09Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah. So we'll talk more
- 37:12Speaker 1: about it later.
- 37:12Speaker 3: Yes.
- 37:12Speaker 2: We also have Rick Neuheisel tomorrow, so a lot to
- 37:15Speaker 2: talk about with him tomorrow as well. Greg and Jess,
- 37:18Speaker 2: I'm in our next Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.