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Chuck in the Morning 9/21 H3: Monday Morning Quarterback with Hugh Millen · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: As part of our nonstop coverage of the NFL, your
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  Speaker 1: home for the 12th man proudly presents Chuck in the
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  Speaker 1: Morning's Monday Morning Quarterback with Hugh Millen. Brought to you
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  Speaker 2: It's the MMQB on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. I'd
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  Speaker 2: just like to go on the record and say that
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  Speaker 2: this is our first Monday Morning Quarterback of 2026. So
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time I'm hearing the audio. And
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  Speaker 2: I clear this up every single week. Monday Morning Quarterback
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  Speaker 2: stars Hugh Millen. That is the name on the marquee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm underneath. Just as Monday Morning Quarterback starring QB1 Hugh
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  Speaker 2: Millen on the Chuck in the Morning Show. That's the billing.
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  Speaker 2: So I didn't write the script, Hugh. I apologize for that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're driving hands on 10 and two. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: this thing going. Good morning. Great morning. Great morning.
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  Speaker 2: I would think that we're either going defense first or
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  Speaker 2: we're going drew lock to JSN first. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I like to start with a blank canvas on Monday
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  Speaker 2: morning quarterbacks with Hugh following every Seahawk game, which was
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  Speaker 2: a 31, seven went over the Arizona Cardinals. And I
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  Speaker 2: want you to discuss first what you're most passionate about
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  Speaker 2: from the game.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you pick it. I mean, I I'm, I've
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  Speaker 3: been watching this tape, and I was at the game
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and just kind of reveling in it all, and
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  Speaker 3: it surprised me. I thought it'd be more competitive based
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  Speaker 3: on the fact that you're playing a backup quarterback. You
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  Speaker 3: don't even worry how good the Cardinals played, and yet
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  Speaker 3: the energy in that building, you just felt like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is what a perpetually losing franchise feels like because
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  Speaker 3: I felt like, there was just kind of a, you know, there,
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  Speaker 3: there was this air of inevitability. Once the Seahawks made
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  Speaker 3: a couple of plays in that third quarter, it's like, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: here we go again. We've seen this movie and, and
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  Speaker 3: the players, you know, there wasn't a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 3: There was less energy than I expected from the Cardinal
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  Speaker 3: players and, and, and the crowd, they were quick to leave,
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  Speaker 3: but you don't credit Seattle. We're not doing an Arizona
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  Speaker 3: radio show. We're going to see a Seattle show and
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  Speaker 3: credit them for, you know, as Leonard Williams said that the, and,
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  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald has discussed, they view themselves, when they look
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  Speaker 3: in the mirror, they say our style of play is
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  Speaker 3: like a boa constrictor. We're just going to slowly, slowly
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  Speaker 3: keep squeezing and squeezing and squeezing until the point where
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  Speaker 3: you can't breathe anymore. A year ago, they were number
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  Speaker 3: one in the NFL in most points scored in the
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  Speaker 3: first quarter, number two in the NFL in most sports scored,
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  Speaker 3: point scored by half, or excuse me, point margin. Let
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  Speaker 3: me correct myself. Point margin by halftime, number one in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL by point margin in the third quarter. And
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  Speaker 3: then the fourth quarter, they just play their brand of football.
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  Speaker 3: So you saw that in evidence. Great scheming, great players.
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  Speaker 3: It's really fun to watch this team. And got up
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  Speaker 3: at 4 a.m. this morning, watched the coach's tape and And, man,
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  Speaker 3: I could talk about Drew Locke all day. I could
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  Speaker 3: talk about the defense all day. You drop anything. All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's go ahead and start on the offensive side
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  Speaker 2: of the ball because we really do have two major
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  Speaker 2: components to discuss between the quarterback play and then JSN
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  Speaker 2: just proving week after week to be unstoppable. So let's
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  Speaker 2: start on the offensive side of the ball. And let's
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  Speaker 2: just go that very first play, the 82-yard hookup between them.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see on that from QB to wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver one? Well, let's be really clear.
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  Speaker 3: That was a called out and up. You figure, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you've studied the Cardinals. You figure they're going to trigger.
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  Speaker 3: You got second and medium. You're in shotgun, and you're saying, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have a stick route. I believe it
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  Speaker 3: was Arroyo in the slot, and then we have JSN.
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  Speaker 3: running an Omaha end up. It's just a quick out.
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  Speaker 3: And a second inside step, and where there may have
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  Speaker 3: been confusion in the discussion, is that JSN ordinarily, he
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  Speaker 3: would hit his inside leg, which would be his left leg.
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  Speaker 3: And then he would go right leg, left leg, right leg.
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  Speaker 3: So then he would go two inside steps, then three
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  Speaker 3: to the out, and then up. But what he did
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  Speaker 3: is he hit his inside leg, his left leg, then
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  Speaker 3: he hit his right leg, and then he went vertical.
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  Speaker 3: And he took it inside of the corner because he
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  Speaker 3: had the sense that the corner was in an outside
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  Speaker 3: leverage position and could drive on the out route. And
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  Speaker 3: as Drew Locke said in the presser, he said, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I just wasn't ready for him to win that fast.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't a case of, of JSN turning any
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  Speaker 3: route into an out. No, that's a call play that, that,
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  Speaker 3: but he was expecting it again to be off his
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  Speaker 3: third step, not his first step. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, so now he's, he's just, he, he had the sense, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: the best way for me to get by the corner
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  Speaker 3: is just to, to nod, go one step and then
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  Speaker 3: go vertical. The safety Buddha Baker had, you know, the,
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  Speaker 3: the safety on the far hash had, had, been doing
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  Speaker 3: with a cover to look where the safety is getting
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  Speaker 3: wide and high over the top of the corner. But
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  Speaker 3: the safety on JSN side, he that was Buda Baker.
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  Speaker 3: He just he wasn't gaining any width. He was just
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  Speaker 3: going vertical. So he he wasn't in a position to
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  Speaker 3: be over the top of any vertical route. So it's
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  Speaker 3: the corner you're beating. And Jason just made the decision,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, if I go three steps, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get buried in the route. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: It means that the corner can turn and run and
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  Speaker 3: kind of ride you out and what have you. But
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  Speaker 3: he says, hey, I think he's driving at an angle,
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  Speaker 3: an outside angle enough that I'll go one step and
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  Speaker 3: just shoot it right up the field. And then for Locke,
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  Speaker 3: you know, look, great protection. But the thing about him
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  Speaker 3: is he has a live arm. And if you look
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  Speaker 3: at his mechanics, he goes a wide base there, and
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  Speaker 3: then he doesn't take a single step. He's just standing flat-footed.
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  Speaker 3: And that ball goes 45 yards in the air vertically
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  Speaker 3: plus the hypotenuse. I mean, you're just about a 48-yard
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  Speaker 3: throw just flat-footed, and he just makes it look effortless.
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  Speaker 3: And you say, look, I don't want to oversell this
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  Speaker 3: and tell you this was a really difficult pass because
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  Speaker 3: then next week when I said this was a difficult pass,
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  Speaker 3: you say that about all the boys. So that was
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  Speaker 3: not a difficult pass. But we have seen guys, when
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  Speaker 3: you know it's that wide open, you say, well, I
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  Speaker 3: can't overthrow him. That would be the ultimate sin, right?
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  Speaker 3: But then what ends up happening sometimes is you underthrow
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  Speaker 3: him so much. Yes, you get the completion and you
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  Speaker 3: get the 50-yard gain, but then Buda Baker gets in
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  Speaker 3: the play, makes the play because he underthrew the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I would say it was just watching the tape just
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  Speaker 3: narrowly underthrown. He just slowed his stride down. just a tad,
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  Speaker 3: but it was enough, right? And so a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times guys would be, you know, they won't cheese the completion,
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  Speaker 3: but they'll cheese the touchdown because they'll so vastly underthrow
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  Speaker 3: it because they don't want to overthrow it, right? So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he still gets a double plus because 82
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  Speaker 3: yard touchdown, but what a great way to start the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And I'm glad you brought up the
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  Speaker 2: protection too because that was outstanding on that play. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he had time to do his taxes. in the pocket
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  Speaker 2: and still completes the touchdown. Maybe this year's taxes. Next
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  Speaker 2: year's taxes are going to be– he keeps playing like this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Taxes are going to get a lot
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  Speaker 3: more complex.
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  Speaker 2: Two words, charitable contributions.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about– well, let's just stay on
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  Speaker 2: that vein. Let's just go through all the three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: and then maybe we just summarize how good Drew and JSN–
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  Speaker 2: have looked together, but they do it again. It waits
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  Speaker 2: until the third quarter, but you get the kick return
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  Speaker 2: where Shahid fumbles, Surratt recovers. It sets up a short
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  Speaker 2: touchdown drive that included a nice run by Jadarian Price's
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  Speaker 2: only really nice run of the game. And then Locke
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  Speaker 2: and JSN hook up for a second touchdown. What stood
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  Speaker 2: out to you in that drive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, if you got JSN as the single receiver
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  Speaker 3: to the left, so you're in shotgun, okay? Let's be
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke for a second. Let's say, okay, I got
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  Speaker 3: a corner over the top of JSN. I know JSN
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  Speaker 3: can beat the corner. I'm not even worried about that.
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  Speaker 3: But I got a safety inside, and he's high, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm double coverage. I'm off of him if that
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  Speaker 3: safety stays there. So we motion, they get the adjustment,
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  Speaker 3: and then we see, oh, they're trying to do a
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  Speaker 3: disguised cover zero. And what that means is there's no
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  Speaker 3: safety in the back. So the safety is coming down
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  Speaker 3: for the number two, which would be the halfback. And
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  Speaker 3: the halfback, it's a five-out protection, so the halfback does
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  Speaker 3: a swing. That pulls the safety out. And and now,
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  Speaker 3: as Drew said, he just had to worry, but he
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  Speaker 3: thought there was two poppers. He said he used the
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  Speaker 3: terminology in the press conference. Yeah, I knew his cover
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  Speaker 3: zero and I had to beat the two poppers. A
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  Speaker 3: popper would be a defensive tackle that that. starts to
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  Speaker 3: rush and then drops back out. You remember when Leonard
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  Speaker 3: Williams had that 91-yarder against Aaron Rodgers back in the
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  Speaker 3: Meadowlands on a pick six? That was a popper situation. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as it turned out, the tape shows there was only
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  Speaker 3: one popper, but You know, that would be fairly common
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  Speaker 3: for a quarterback to see, have a general picture, but
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  Speaker 3: not a totally detailed picture because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things happen down at ground level. from his perspective. So
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  Speaker 3: it's beautiful quarterbacking. He had to make sure that the,
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, drew lock seeing poppers.
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  Speaker 2: Now the whole national audience is going to spread it.
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  Speaker 2: He admitted he's seeing poppers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he'd seen one too many poppers. It's a scandal. So,
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  Speaker 3: so he had to go over the top. Great, you know,
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  Speaker 3: JSN didn't get great separation because they're not allowed time
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  Speaker 3: to get great separation when you're getting jammed and all
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  Speaker 3: you're doing is running a slant. But it was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke is backing up. Good job by the offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: He's backing up and doesn't even set his feet, kind
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  Speaker 3: of throws a little of a sidearm. As I said,
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  Speaker 3: he had to worry about the popper. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you remember Sam Darnold's interception against the Rams, on
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  Speaker 3: the Thursday night game, uh, last year in the, in the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: in the third quarter, early in the fourth quarter, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was, it was a poppers. It was cover zero
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  Speaker 3: with the poppers and held Mike McDonald damn near invented that.
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  Speaker 3: So now everybody's stealing it. And, um, and so, but
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  Speaker 3: he had, he did a hell of a job to
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  Speaker 3: get the touchdown on that one. The third touchdown, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Do you have that in front of you? Give us
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  Speaker 3: the play-by-play.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Got the ball at the Arizona 42. The highlights
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  Speaker 2: of it were the JSN touchdown at the end, but
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  Speaker 2: also this also doesn't get called in his statistics where
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  Speaker 2: he had 155 receiving yards, but he also had a
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  Speaker 2: PI that he earned 16 yards on on that drive.
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  Speaker 2: And that just pretty much sets you up third and
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  Speaker 2: six from the 12-yard line of the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So on this one, this is empty. And so you
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  Speaker 3: have five eligible receivers. So, so you want to say,
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  Speaker 3: are we a three by two? Are we a four
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  Speaker 3: by one? You got to be one of the other
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  Speaker 3: ultimately from the defense. So, so it's a three by
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  Speaker 3: two and JSN is, is the inside of the three
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  Speaker 3: on the, so the trip side is on the, on
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  Speaker 3: the right. The double side is on the left. He's
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  Speaker 3: the inside of the three.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And so he's, he's going down and, and he's working
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  Speaker 3: on Buddha Baker and, and, in, in the slot doing
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  Speaker 3: a post, but the, the thing that JSN does, they,
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  Speaker 3: they allow them free access. So credit, credit, uh, Flory for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of moving them around. And, and, and
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  Speaker 3: now that we talked last week, this Mack Wilson, middle linebacker,
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  Speaker 3: he had a hell of a game against the charges.
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  Speaker 3: He knocked out, uh, um, Oh, God, I always forget their... McConkie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he knocked him out. So he can be active in
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  Speaker 3: pass coverage. And so, in a sense, you could say
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  Speaker 3: the Cardinals were double-teaming him because Mack Wilson's underneath it
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  Speaker 3: and Buda Baker is the safety over the top. But
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  Speaker 3: JSN just Just the right amount of lean. It's like
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  Speaker 3: Goldilocks and the Poors. Don't lean too much to the
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  Speaker 3: corner because then you'll lose your inside leverage. But you
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  Speaker 3: got to lean a little bit to freeze Buda Baker.
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  Speaker 3: And so he just, Jason, we are watching a maestro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If you're into classical music, there's a guy named Joshua
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  Speaker 3: Heifetz that was supposedly the greatest violin. I wouldn't know
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  Speaker 3: him from. you know, an eighth grader down at the
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  Speaker 3: middle school, but evidently Heifetz is, is, is the all
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  Speaker 3: time maestro at violin. And we are watching Heifetz play
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver for the Seattle CX. It's every like Chuck,
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  Speaker 3: I have freaking two pages of drew lock notes with,
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  Speaker 3: with little stars with, with Jason. We could go, we
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  Speaker 3: could go right through Ian's Ian show today. Just blow
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  Speaker 3: right through everything right by Greg show everything. just talking
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  Speaker 3: about Locke and JSN. So I know we've got limited time,
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  Speaker 3: but I've got so many notes and so many ideas
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  Speaker 3: on this guy. But that touchdown, I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 3: everything is always right with his decision. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: if he's inside. It doesn't matter if he's outside. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter if it's man or zone. And hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 3: get into some details of that. But it's just absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: it's always the right lateral position. You know, the leverage
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  Speaker 3: is always correct. He makes the the the break at
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  Speaker 3: the right depth so that you don't want to make
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  Speaker 3: the break too too far from the defender because he
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  Speaker 3: can drive on it. You don't want to make it
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  Speaker 3: too close because then you might have to chop your
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  Speaker 3: feet and and and you could get contacted. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everything is just like, OK, that's teaching tape. That's teaching tape.
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  Speaker 3: That's teaching tape. You know, it's it's it's really something
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  Speaker 3: high fits.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's high. I'm not saying he's Jerry Rice, but
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  Speaker 2: we have a Jerry Rice. That's my statement about him
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  Speaker 2: here on this Monday. And from the standpoint of as
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  Speaker 2: a teenager, I'm sitting there watching NFL football and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't the other team know Jerry Rice is on it?
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  Speaker 2: Because he was always open, even though everybody knew he
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  Speaker 2: was the best. And now over time, you realize he
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  Speaker 2: was so good. that you couldn't cover him. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that JSN's Jerry Rice you, but I
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  Speaker 2: think we have a Jerry Rice. I think we have
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  Speaker 2: a guy that can't be covered. That's how it feels
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  Speaker 2: from week to week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in the NFC West in Jerry Rice's prime.
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  Speaker 3: So with the Rams and then Falcons, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 3: I know some of the younger guys. So that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: make sense geographically. No, it doesn't. But the Falcons were
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  Speaker 3: in the NFC West. We played them twice a year
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  Speaker 3: and we watched a lot of opponent tape. And I
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  Speaker 3: used to be very, fixated as what makes him great.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought there's a lot of things that made
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  Speaker 3: him great, but he could accelerate so damn fast, and
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  Speaker 3: then he could slow down so damn fast, and then
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  Speaker 3: re-accelerate so damn fast. And then, of course, his hands,
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  Speaker 3: which were a question early on, and then the run
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  Speaker 3: after the catch. I mean, you're right. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: the greatest receiver of all time. I think that JSN
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  Speaker 3: is the greatest Seahawk receiver of all time. And I
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  Speaker 3: saw Largent from the very first game, in the kingdom
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  Speaker 3: against the Cardinals in 1976, and probably damn near every
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  Speaker 3: game he ever played for the Seahawks, and loves Steve Largent.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, you and I, we'll pick teams,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll go play in the park. I'll take JSN,
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  Speaker 3: you take Steve Largent, and I'll be doing just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Largent is pretty old.
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  Speaker 3: Say it again?
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  Speaker 2: Steve Largent is pretty old at this point. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's unfair. I think I should get to pick first.
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  Speaker 3: I think the unspoken assumption is that we have a
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  Speaker 3: time machine. But I mean, JSN is, is two and
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  Speaker 3: a half inches taller. You know, he's, he's two tenths
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  Speaker 3: of a second faster, probably stronger. Now larger, nobody's going
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  Speaker 3: to have quicker sewing machine feet that large. And so
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  Speaker 3: let's say they're equal in that regard. JSN had the
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  Speaker 3: highest speed at the car combine for the, the cone drills.
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  Speaker 3: And because of his, his frame I mean you look
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  Speaker 3: at his frame and he's just thick legs and they're
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  Speaker 3: short legs his long torso short legs you know I
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  Speaker 3: said he'd be a world-class skier if that had been
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  Speaker 3: his choice no doubt in my mind just looking at
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  Speaker 3: his frame and knowing his athleticism but what he does
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  Speaker 3: as a receiver is is that he can just make
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  Speaker 3: turn speed cuts. And there's an important part. God, there's
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: so many notes that I have here. So I have,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I got my grubby little hands on a San Francisco
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: 49er playbook, a Kyle Shanahan playbook. And in the section
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: that has the route trees, you guys heard about the
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: three digit, you know, there's the two route, the two
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: is a slant and threes and out and Four is
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: a hook. And the implication is that there are 10
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: or less routes, which is kind of absurd. So the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: three-digit system, and I played in a number of teams
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: that had the three-digit. You say, okay, eight routes a post,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: seven's a corner, and all this stuff is ubiquitous. In
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the San Francisco 40 current playbook of Kyle Shanahan, you
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: want to care to guess how many routes there are?
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: And again, this is relevant because Brian Flory just came
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: from The 49ers. We're not just talking about the 49ers. Okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Care to guess how many routes there are?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I do care.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Individual routes.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I really don't know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: This is not past concept. All right. I know you
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: don't know. Any guess? I'd say 50.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go lower.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: 25. 126. Whoa. Wow.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: 126 routes in the playbook, the individual routes, wide receiver,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: tight end and running back routes. So, so this is
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: something that I've, you'll remember Chuck, if you're been paying attention,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: you remember, I didn't make it as big a deal
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: about it this summer as, as last, but, but I've said,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I don't like it when, when the receivers come up
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and come to a slowdown and, and try and shake
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: and then run an out route, like fake the post
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: because I've been in different systems. I prefer the speed out,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: where you just keep your momentum running, your inside foot hits,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: your momentum will take you up the field, but you
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: stay on the move and you just speed out. It's
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: not a square cut. It's a speed and it's a
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: radius cut. And uh, in the, um, in the 49ers playbook,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: which I presume that they're using that same terminology, terminology,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: they call that the scooter route. And the scooter is
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: where you come up and you make the little shake. And,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and I've watched it in routes on air and training
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: camp with the Seahawks. And I'm like, God, I hate that. No, don't, don't,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: don't just do the speed out. Just do the speed out.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Stop doing the, you know, stop doing the scooter route. Well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: they have also the blaze out, the blaze out and
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: some others. I'm not going to get into all of them, but,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: but the blaze out is the speed out. And I'm
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: telling you yesterday, there wasn't a single scooter route. Everything
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that you saw from Jew lock and throwing out to
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the weather was with Cooper cup to the sideline right
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: before the two minute, uh, on a, um, That was
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: on a seven step out route, whether it was to
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: JSN on all of his outbreaking routes. Everything was blaze
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: out style speed cut. I think it's a big deal.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's not big deal to radio people. I'm trying
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: to impart to you why. Because I don't want JSN
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to come up and then slow down. And then if
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: he shakes to the inside, now the quarterback holds the ball.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: It's a lot harder to throw with timing. You have
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to wait longer. Different guys run it at different areas.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: And you're slowing yourself down. So then now you have
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: to reaccelerate to get to the sideline. You're racing the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: corner to the sideline. It's better to say, no, stay
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: on the move. You will beat him to the sideline.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: And now as a quarterback, I can just throw it
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: over there. I can get rid of it so I
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: can read it easier. It fits my eye. And Mike
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Martz and Norv Turner, I could go even back to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Ernie Zampezi with the air choreo. There are so many
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: disciples of the speed cut philosophy. And I just love
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that we did only speed cuts yesterday. And Drew Locke
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: was flat ass on the money on third down conversions
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: down by the goal line. I mean, he, he is,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: he goes a spray release. This is a JSN working
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: on Buddha Baker. And he was able to just the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: way he lunged and, and just like dipped his shoulder. It, but,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: but if you look at his feet, like, so he
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: had a little bit of an upper body shimmy, but
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: his feet, never slowed down his chest never came back
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: and so to me his technique i'm just going that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Is just that is just so perfect it's high fits
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: he hit every note and so um at any event
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: i i think it's really important i love it we
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: got a new offensive coordinator hey bury the freaking scooter
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: route more blaze outs please yes please.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Uh marvin harrison jr i think was running rascal scooter
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: routes He might as well have been on a motorized.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Cart if he was so slow. I got to tell you, man,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: 28 years of doing the draft. That's one of my notes.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I was like, I was so dead-ass wrong. He was
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the fourth overall pick in the draft.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: He got more hype than JSN at college.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I thought he was a lock just like everybody
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: else thought he was a lock. I'm flabbergasted. He has
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: a slow strike in track. Not that I ever ran track.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: This is just stuff that I hear other people talking about.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: But in track, they have what's called your strike. You
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: have stride length, and then your strike is how much
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: time is spent with your foot on the ground. And,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: of course, time can be sliced into infinite fractions and
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: decimal points. So we could measure that in a thousandth
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: of a second, right? Like how long is your foot
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: in the ground? And the strike, if you're going to
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: be fast, you want to have a fast strike. Marvin Harrison,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: it's like he's wearing concrete shoes. Like, every strike, it's
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: just his foot's in the ground for half an hour.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And he can't get off press. There's no separate. It's like,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's like. Like he's running in water.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or he has some undiagnosed condition or something. How
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: could you go from that to that?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: So that's their problem. That's right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: That's their problem. We got the good Ohio State receiver.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: All right. I promise we'll get back to Locke and
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: to JSN because I know you got a lot more
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: to say about them, but we'll do that at 9
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: o'clock here today and get into some of those details.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But we can't go any further without talking about this
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: defense and about our head coach and what he does
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to opponents. So we'll do that next with you, Millen.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Monday morning, quarterback, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM. But then in
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the last three quarters of the game, under 11 minutes
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: total time of possession for the Cardinals. Hugh, Mike McDonald
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: just allows people to have some fun in the first quarter,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: then makes his adjustments and chokes the life out of them.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: That seems to be the game plan. Yeah, and it's
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: really cool to kind of watch the adjustments. On that
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: touchdown drive, you're feeling like, man, they're getting pushed around.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And they were going off the right side where the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: ball was on the right hash. And they were playing
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: some 13 personnel with the three tight ends. And the
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: way the Seahawks were lining up, there was a double
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: tight end to the field and a single tight end
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: to the boundary. But they had a guy in the
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: A gap. That's between the guard and the center. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: then they didn't have anybody else in the gap until
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: the D gap, which is outside of the tight end.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: If you're counting at home, you say, wait a minute,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: that means what about the B and the C gap? Well,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: you had an off-ball linebacker, Drake Thomas, had the B gap.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: C gap's totally unblocked, so what do the Cardinals do? Bam,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: hike the ball, and they go right to the C gap.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: That was eight yards. They turn around on the very
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: next play, line up in an almost identical formation. The
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Seahawks line up the wrong way, same mistake. They hit
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: the C gap again. They get nine yards. So they
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: were having some lineup problems. Then on the touchdown pass,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: you got Jobe against McBride. I don't love that matchup,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: but they had Julian Love down inside to help. So
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: if you're coaching Jobe, you're saying, dude, you've got help
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: to the inside on a slant. That would be your
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: number one worry, but we're going to give you Julian
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Love down there. And especially when the Cardinals went fast
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: motion away to make quad, what does that mean? The
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: running back was aligned to the single receiver side, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: right before the snap, he goes... in motion to the
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: trip side to create a four by one, that means
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: love and Job, all they had, you know, together, they
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: could work to stop McBride. Well, McBride's, his split was reduced.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: He was close to the tackle, which means there's a
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: tendency for outbreaking routes. We talked on Friday that that's
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: most of his His damage against the Chargers was out
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: breaking routes. So, Job, don't line up to McBride's inside eye.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Line up to his outside eye, to his outside foot.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Because you've got help to the inside. But he lined
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: up inside, which left him susceptible to the out breaking route.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: They give up the touchdown. From that point on, however,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: just the adjustments. The very first play of the next drive,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks line up in a bare front. What does
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: that mean? They took some, they had, they had Byron
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Murphy as a nose tackle. They had Jaron Reed over
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the guard and they had Riley Mills over the other
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: guard in three techniques, outside shade of the guards. And
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: then they had the linebackers to the outside. So that's
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a heavy, like, okay, that was, they don't play a
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: lot of base. They usually play five or six DBs that,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: that time there are only four DBs. They, they, they had,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Drake Thomas on, he, he responded on that next drive.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: He had a three yard loss where he shot the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: gap so fast. I was sitting there going, is that a,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Is that a run dog? Like, was that a blitz
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: or did he just decipher it so fast? But but
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: in any event, he made an incredible play. They they
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: they put Leonard Williams as the not just the defensive end,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: but the seven technique like really wide. Well, that's where
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: they were hitting the stretch. Well, guess what? Leonard Williams
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: just annihilates Paris Hilton, changes the running angle, and now
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: that stretch just gets washed out, and I think it
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: was one yard. So you got a personnel change in there.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: They had been getting beat by 85 over and over again, right?
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: And so Trey McBride, their best player, On a third
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: and two coming out of the goal line, they had
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Julian Love in the hook zone. That's an inside linebacker zone.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: That's like saying, okay, we're going to have you play
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: second base. Like shallowing in the middle. And he reads
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: McBride coming from the opposite side, what's called a nub
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: tight end. And on a third and two, you would
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: think Jacoby's just, hey, he's going to get his completion
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: right there. And yet Julian Love just fires and forces
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: the incompletion.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: You know, the biggest adjustment, though, was that he turned
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Paris Johnson into Paris Hilton in that analysis.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Did I just say that?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, you did.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Did I literally say that? Paris and Hilton?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, you said Paris Hilton.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? And you know what? I wrote
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: it down, too. I'm looking at my notes. Paris Hilton.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: You know what? That's how bad Paris Johnson was blocking
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams. It just triggered something subliminally. So, yeah, we're
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: going to go with Paris Hilton because he was getting beat.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: You know what? I'll tell you this. That wasn't the
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: end of it for Paris Hilton because he got his
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: ass walked back to the quarterback by Derek Hall. later
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: in the second half. So, you know, now he's a
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: high draft pick, but, you know, blocking like Paris Hilton,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe he won't get an extension. So
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: they also– this is something– you go back to the
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl, the Rams against the Patriots, the greatest show
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: on turf when Bill Belichick said, my outside linebacker rushing
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: isn't as important getting to the quarterback as it is
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: for him to jam– The running back– oh, come on.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Greatest show on turf running back from San Diego State.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Marshall Falk. Marshall Falk. Jam Marshall Falk before he goes
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: into the pattern. So they go way out of their
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: way to jam the halfback. Well, you saw some of that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: That happened yesterday where you had– it was Demarcus Lawrence.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: He's lined up as a pass rusher, but when McBride
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: was in a tight split, he just widened out and
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: jammed McBride. Um, so there, there was just all kinds
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: of adjustments that there was many more, but, but, uh, uh,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you know, they, here, here's one they had because here's
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: the thing about Jacoby Brissett that if we were doing
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Cardinal radio this morning, you'd say Jacoby Brissett is one
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: of these fringe starters that can do okay for you,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: but On a game like yesterday, he's really going to
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: show his deficiency. The guy was so eager to check
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: the ball down. He would put his foot down. It
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: was like he wasn't even looking down the field. It
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: was just check down Charlie, check down Charlie. So you
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: got that part. He is disposed to want to have
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: a high completion percentage and not try and push the
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: ball down the field. The other part about his game
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: is he's not athletic. The Seahawks on one play, they
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: had a four-man rush. Honest to God, all four of
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks lined up on the Seahawks' right side of
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: the center, the Cardinals' left side. Nobody rushed from the
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: right side. And you can't do that against an athletic quarterback,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: especially a right-handed athletic quarterback. Are you understanding that picture?
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: So that if I'm Jacoby Brissett, the closest guy to
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: the ball on my left side is Byron Murphy. He's
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: going to start in the gap on my left, but
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: he has, if we drew up it on a whiteboard,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: he has contain on me on the right side. So, like,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: even remotely athletic quarterback would have had all kinds, just, like,
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: impulsively just said, oh, the right is wide open, just
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: run for first down. Actually, you know what? I saw
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of those those kinds of blitzes too. Now
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: that I think about it, I think the defensive coordinators
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: were making the same statement about me. Um, I, I kid, but, but, uh,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: so there was a number of things. They were doing
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: some stunts with Leonard Williams on the side that, that
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: you'd say, okay, we would be exposed to a running quarterback,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: but he's not a running quarterback. So we can be
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: a little bit more creative with our pass rushes and
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: our stunts. And, uh, and, you know, drop to the
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: side of McBride and what have you. And so, yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, he wasn't confused.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: He knew exactly how to handle whatever ills, and they
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: were of a, you know, very minimal nature, but whatever
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: ills afflicted them, he was able to get that stuff right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're basically until that second to last play
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: of the game, I think they were at 127 total yards.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: And he was even, yeah, McDonald's was even, he was
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: even in the press box. He goes until that second
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: to the last run. Yeah. That was even irking him.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Uh, 81 passing yards for a game where the team
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: trailed for most of the second half, where you typically
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: see throws 2.7 yards per attempt from Jacoby percent, 23
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: yards in the second half alone.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, let me, yes.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: And, and, and a couple of things, um, there was
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: a play where, uh, where you have Witherspoon. I'm going
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: to just go from Brissette's standpoint. Witherspoon's to my left,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: and Julian Leff is the post. Now, we're going to
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: try and get a scissors. I'm going to try and
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: get Trey McBride, who lines up on the right on
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: a corner route, and then I'm clearing it out with
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: a post. Now stop, and I'll show you what I
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: see from a Seahawk perspective. I see with Witherspoon, he
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: looks and he's got what's called a nub tight end.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: The tight end is is on the ball to his side,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: but there's no receiver. So football people call that a nub.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: So the nub tied in and he's blocking, which often happens.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: So they're trying to set up a flood to the
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: quarterback's right side. So Witherspoon, he looks and says, oh, okay,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I got a tight end and a nub. He might
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: be blocking. Yep, he's blocking. He immediately starts going towards,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: he vacates his zone. He starts going to the middle
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: of the field, and you see him waving Julian Love over.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: He's like, go, go, go. He's telling Julian Love, you
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: go guard the flood. You don't have to get to
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: the middle of the field. I'll get to the middle
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: of the field. You can see Julian Love looks at him.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: He stops going to the middle of the field. He
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: turns his hips. He covers the– like there's this incredible
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: communication going on by two guys that are– Oh, Julian
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Love is playing so damn well right now. I talked
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: about how he's in the hook zone playing second base,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: making a stop on third and two. He's all over
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: the field. You saw the interception. Mike McDonald said that's
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: pretty good for a post safety to get there. Well,
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: you know what? He didn't get to the post because
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  Speaker 3: he was lined up on the right side. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: get to the middle of the field because he already
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  Speaker 3: deciphered it, so he was a little bit on the
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  Speaker 3: short side so he could go make that play and
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  Speaker 3: catch it off the ground, right? So Julian Love is
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  Speaker 3: just making every kind of play possible in all facets.
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  Speaker 3: They're lining them up in different spots. But you know what? Witherspoon, Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 3: there are very few players when you watch a tape
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  Speaker 3: All right, hey, we've got to go to break.
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  Speaker 1: We are way, way over.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so Hugh Mellon, our QB1 Monday morning quarterback
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  Speaker 2: session coming up next. I do want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the running game. We're only going to have a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes anyway, so I'm going to try to squeeze that
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  Speaker 2: into our next segment on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the Monday Morning Quarterback with Chuck in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning and Hugh Millen. Brought to you by Muckleshoot
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  Speaker 1: Bingo and by the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling on
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday Morning Quarterback, the first true Monday Morning Quarterback
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  Speaker 2: session of the brand-new football season. We're actually doing it
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  Speaker 2: on a Monday, which is a relief in its own self.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's Chuck Anders, Travis with you, and, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the star Monday Morning Quarterback, our QB1, Hugh Millen. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot more to get into. I mean, a
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  Speaker 2: ton more to get into. But I have a short
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  Speaker 2: segment here, Hugh, and I at least wanted to spend two,
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  Speaker 2: three minutes on the running game. what you saw from
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  Speaker 2: Chadarian Price, and then Emmanuel Wilson doing something very valuable,
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  Speaker 2: which is in a blowout in the fourth quarter, chewing
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of clock because he can't be stopped.
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  Speaker 2: And so he showed us a little bit yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to know what you made of it all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I really liked what I saw from Wilson, just
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  Speaker 3: in the sense of, you know, to make the effect
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  Speaker 3: I've been stating, because I actually believe it, that I
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  Speaker 3: feel like the Seahawks have a first stringer That's a rookie,
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  Speaker 3: you know, starter that's unproven. And we're hoping for the
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  Speaker 3: best from him. And then we have a few number threes,
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  Speaker 3: but no number two. And I felt like Wilson really
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  Speaker 3: looked like a good, solid, reliable, thick, four-minute type of
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  Speaker 3: number two running back. That four-minute offense where you have
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  Speaker 3: the lead, you're trying to kill it. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: thick through the, you know, through his hind quarters and
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  Speaker 3: And but I thought that there was a quickness there
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  Speaker 3: that that really impressed me. You know, he bounced off,
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  Speaker 3: broke some tackles. He's able to get outside. But his
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  Speaker 3: lateral quickness was more maybe slightly more than I thought
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  Speaker 3: of him. So feel good about him coming out price.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying it's a chest injury. I don't think that's true.
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  Speaker 3: My I think it's a shoulder injury. You know, just
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  Speaker 3: kind of watching the sling that he had after the
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  Speaker 3: game and and the ice on his shoulder and, and
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  Speaker 3: the way I believe it was when, uh, not who's 91, uh, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: LJ Collier, um, 91 landed on him on a screenplay.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's when he got hurt. Um, because when
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  Speaker 3: you go down, when you go down sideways, like, like
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  Speaker 3: if you, if you go straight on your, on your
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  Speaker 3: Your chest, you're going to be fine. You go straight
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  Speaker 3: on your back, you're going to be fine. But you
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  Speaker 3: go sideways and get driven in, that is just ripe
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  Speaker 3: for an AC separation. I don't know. If I was betting,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's got maybe a grade one AC separation
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  Speaker 3: or grade half or what have you, just an annoyance. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I could be all wrong. They say it's a chest,
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  Speaker 3: but there's other signs that point to me that it's
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  Speaker 3: not a chest. But in any event, it's a concern.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about, does he have the stocky build that
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  Speaker 3: you usually see in a running back? I mean, his
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  Speaker 3: guns look great, but I think that he's built more
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  Speaker 3: like a stocky slot receiver than an ideal framed running back.
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  Speaker 3: by National Football League standards.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, we've got a lot more on Drew
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  Speaker 2: Locke to get to, a lot more on the defense
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  Speaker 2: to get to, a lot more on even JSN to
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  Speaker 2: get to as the Seahawks win to move to 2-0
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  Speaker 2: on the season, 31-7 over the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. And
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  Speaker 2: we're here to break it down for you on a Monday,
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback starring Hugh Millen continues next on Sports
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  Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJRFM.