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10-5 H2: Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners, Fact or Fiction, Mike on the mic · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Wilson wide open for a touchdown.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: The Herber interception leads to six more for Seattle.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Herber pressure coming.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: He lost the football.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: And who's got it? Derek Hall is right there.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: Seattle saying they have it.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: And they do.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: There is a flag down on the play.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: I had to end it with, there's a fly on
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: the play. The call there on CBS Sports. Gene Steratore
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: actually watched a lot of that game yesterday, maybe with
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: his eyes closed. We'll talk to him about it tomorrow.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: We'll get Greg Bell's thoughts here in about a minute
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: and a half. Hugh Millen will join us at 8
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: o'clock with Monday Morning Quarterback. Good morning to you all.
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: Great morning to you all. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: Enjoyed that amazing fall weather. That we had, and of course,
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: a very interesting football game to break down. Seahawks do
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: win it 30-23, but Mike McDonald did not look happy
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: about it. His team committed seven... 15-yard penalties in the game.
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: Seven.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: It was seven. I was just counting up the defense.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: There was an offensive 15-yard penalty. There was a special
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: teams 15-yard penalty. Seven 15-yard penalties. But both teams were
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: guilty of the 15-yard penalty because the officiating crew was
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: guilty of calling that many 15-yard penalties. 30 penalties in all.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: 280 yards worth of penalties. Seahawks do win at 30-23,
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: but they look to be cruising at one point. At halftime,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: the Chargers had 92 total yards, 21 passing yards, three turnovers,
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: six points, a 14-point deficit, and yet somehow got the
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: ball back in the fourth quarter with a chance to
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: tie or win the game. And certainly Mike McDonald doesn't
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: feel like his team's played four quarters yet this year.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: despite the 3-1 record. We'll talk more about it with
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Greg here in a matter of moments. Let me get
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: to your other headlines quickly, brought to you by Frostbrood
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Coors Light. Cold as the Rockies. The 49ers won their 4-0.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: That's the Seahawks' next opponent. Rams won over Philadelphia somehow,
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: even though they trailed by double digits in the fourth quarter.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Could have started 1-3, but the Eagles let them off
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: the hook. so L.A. is now 2-2 on the year.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: UW lost to USC 25-21 on Saturday, so 3-2 now
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: on the season. The Dawgs, Kraken smoked the Calgary Flames 6-1.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: They've beaten them 6-1 twice in a week. Last night,
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: Mackie Samaskevich with two goals in the game. The newcomer, Sammy,
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: as Ashley calls him.
• 2:46
  Speaker 3: Would you say they extinguished the flames?
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: They did.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: They smoked the flames. Oh, yeah, there you go. I
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: like that. Two and one on the season. They did
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: lose on Saturday to Edmonton, their first loss of the year.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: And the Major League Baseball playoffs have just been sensational.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: I know it hurts. We don't have a local representative.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: But as a baseball fan, I've got to tell you,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: It was the best theater of the entire weekend, especially
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: that Milwaukee-San Diego series. Brewers are up 2-0. Atlanta and
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers tied at 1. The ALDS plays today and tonight.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk to Greg Bell.
• 3:21
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• 3:25
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• 3:28
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• 3:40
  Speaker 1: For more info, visit EmeraldQueen.com. Morning, Greg. Good morning. Thanks
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: for being with us. We appreciate it. I mean, I
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: know there is a lot to break down from this game,
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: a lot to discuss, and it wasn't just about officiating. But, man,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: I listened to Mike McDonald's entire press conference, and you
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: didn't get too far from any question. And it came
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: back to the number of turnovers, how bad the turnovers were. So,
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, was this the primary conversation overall in the
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: locker room yesterday?
• 4:17
  Speaker 5: No, it was about the penalties.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, penalties is what I meant, not the turnovers. Did
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: I say turnovers? I meant penalties, yes.
• 4:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the penalties is what it was. And it was
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: the fact that there were seven personal fouls. I mean,
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: Nicky Manwari headbutting a guard 20 yards down the field
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: and Derek Hall running into the quarterback after he threw
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: a two-yard pass on third and 24 for an automatic
• 4:41
  Speaker 5: first down. I mean, stuff like that. Yeah, you can
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: say the officials and Scott Novak's crew called every single thing,
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: and they did call a couple football plays, penalties that
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: looked to me like just regular football contact. But the
• 4:55
  Speaker 5: Seahawks absolutely contributed to their 14 penalties for team record
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: 150 yards. Mike McDonald, after the game, was pretty much
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: spitting when he said, this is not how we're going
• 5:05
  Speaker 5: to play football around here. He said, we're going to
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: go through and not around the next 24 to 48 hours,
• 5:09
  Speaker 5: this penalty issue. When I asked guys, including McDonald, well,
• 5:14
  Speaker 5: what do you do? I decided to yell at them.
• 5:17
  Speaker 5: Ernest Jones said, yeah, we're going.
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: To yell at them. That's how we're going to do it.
• 5:21
  Speaker 5: But beside harping on it, there's not a lot that
• 5:24
  Speaker 5: guys can do other than do the right thing in
• 5:26
  Speaker 5: the right moment. And they did the wrong thing in
• 5:29
  Speaker 5: a lot of wrong moments yesterday. The Chargers offense, especially
• 5:33
  Speaker 5: their offensive line, was so overwhelmed by the blitzing that
• 5:36
  Speaker 5: McDonald did. in the middle part of the game that
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: it ultimately didn't matter. But most teams, the Seahawks, most
• 5:42
  Speaker 5: teams the Seahawks would have played yesterday would have beaten
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: them with the 150 yards and penalties, not the 0-4 Chargers.
• 5:50
  Speaker 5: Half that penalty yardage and the 49ers are probably going
• 5:52
  Speaker 5: to beat them on Sunday. So it is priority one
• 5:55
  Speaker 5: to clean up. It's what they're going to be talking
• 5:56
  Speaker 5: about and doing and harping on and showing in films.
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's not a real hard film session to
• 6:02
  Speaker 5: show Nicky when you can't headbutt a lineman 20 yards
• 6:05
  Speaker 5: away from the ball. That's not really a coaching point
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: that's going to be too hard to make. So McDonald
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: always likes to have them on the edge of aggression.
• 6:14
  Speaker 5: You could argue that Derek Hall roughing the quarterback on
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: third and 24 was a borderline aggressive play. What's a
• 6:22
  Speaker 5: guy supposed to do when he's supposed to be defending
• 6:24
  Speaker 5: a quarterback? But it's the league they're in, and that's
• 6:27
  Speaker 5: what they do. That's how they call it. Can't hit
• 6:30
  Speaker 5: a quarterback below the knees. That's a Tom Brady rule.
• 6:32
  Speaker 5: That was another penalty. You can't rodeo throw a guy
• 6:35
  Speaker 5: out of bounds on a minus two-yard run like Devin Witherspoon,
• 6:39
  Speaker 5: those are all controllables that they've got to fix.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sorry, I certainly was thinking penalties the
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: whole time and it came out turnovers for whatever reason.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I guess that's Monday mornings. But yes, it just was
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: the theme for the entire game, sounded like it was
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: the theme. in the post-game comments, and a lot of them, well,
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: most of them, lion's share of them, were certainly earned,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: and it speaks to, again, I just don't recall Mike
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: McDonald's defenses having this issue consistently. Last week, it was
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: giving up touchdowns instead of field goals, and this week,
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: it's so much after the whistle that really nearly cost
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: you the game. I mean, we just have come to
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: accept a certain brand of football, especially defense, that this
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: team is going to play. Why such uncharacteristic football the
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks?
• 7:31
  Speaker 5: Well, it's just selfish. Yesterday was just selfish play. It's
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: players doing for themselves rather than doing for the team,
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  Speaker 5: and that's so opposite of what McDonald has instilled here
• 7:40
  Speaker 5: in three years. And McDonald mentioned this. He said, we
• 7:42
  Speaker 5: have a spectrum of penalties. We have cost of doing business,
• 7:46
  Speaker 5: like running onto the field to celebrate a guy's touchdown
• 7:49
  Speaker 5: in the preseason. He always calls it cost of doing business.
• 7:52
  Speaker 5: And some plays like that, okay. But not something that
• 7:57
  Speaker 5: is what he called selfish. If you're doing something that
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: is for yourself, getting aggressive on a guy or headbutting
• 8:05
  Speaker 5: him or yanking and throwing him out of bounds, that's
• 8:08
  Speaker 5: not for the team. I mean, when Witherspoon rodeoed through
• 8:11
  Speaker 5: the guy out of bounds, he was already out of bounds.
• 8:13
  Speaker 5: The team play was a loss of two yards.
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: Or whatever the result of the play was.
• 8:17
  Speaker 5: The Witherspoon, for me, play was, okay, now that he's
• 8:21
  Speaker 5: out of bounds, I'm going to throw him into the bench.
• 8:23
  Speaker 5: So that's selfish. So you're right. The team first, the brotherhood,
• 8:28
  Speaker 5: the ethos that they've had for the three seasons was
• 8:31
  Speaker 5: counter to that. They got away with it yesterday. In
• 8:34
  Speaker 5: many ways, a coach loves this, that he can go
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: spend a week after a win harping on them like
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: they lost. And that's how it really felt yesterday.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Well, they haven't played four quarters yet this year, four games.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: And they're going to have to this week. I mean,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. We have
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: a lot to break down from yesterday. But 49ers are upcoming.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: Feels like a pretty big game, at least at this
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: stage in the season. And they are playing well. I
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: don't think the Seahawks are playing Seahawks football. So whatever
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: message he has to deliver, I hope it soaks in
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: this week because this team needs to wake up a
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the 49ers will get their attention, and I would
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: think they're going to be sharper just because of the opponent.
• 9:19
  Speaker 5: Not that just three games in, you can bypass any
• 9:22
  Speaker 5: other team. It wasn't West Tennessee A & M they
• 9:26
  Speaker 5: were playing yesterday, but... They are going to sharpen.
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: It up for the 49ers versus the Chargers. That's just
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: human nature.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: They can say they're all the same, but it's different.
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: The undefeated 49ers coming into their house. The last time
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: they were in here.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: They beat them.
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: So far, the 49ers defense, which, of course, had so
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: many injuries, Bosa and Warner and all those guys have
• 9:46
  Speaker 5: been panged up. They're not allowing any big plays. So
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: they're forcing teams to be mistake-free on offense by driving
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: down the field without allowing big plays, and the Seahawks'
• 9:57
  Speaker 5: offense has not been mistake-free pretty much all season. Even
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: when Drew Locke was in there, they were having a
• 10:03
  Speaker 5: procedure penalty before the snap penalties. So you're right. They've
• 10:07
  Speaker 5: yet to play a full game. A full game from
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks will beat pretty much everybody on their schedule.
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: That's how I feel about their talent and their defense,
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: and they've yet to play that.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us, our Seahawks insider, joining us
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: after the Seahawks' 30-23 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: For complete coverage, thenewstribune.com. And, of course, you can follow
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: Greg on X at GBellSeattle. He joins us almost every
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: day at 7.05 and now has his own radio show
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: at 10 o'clock. So we'll be able to talk more
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: about this coming up at 10 o'clock with you, the listeners.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about a couple of positive things after a win.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Interesting way to get Rashid Shahid involved, not just as
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: someone in the running game, but as someone that was
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: lining up as a tailback. I mean, hands on thigh
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: pads and running design runs and two carries, 33 yards
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Very creative from Brian Flory. I liked
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: what I saw.
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he looked like Billy Sims back in the day.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: You remember who Billy Sims was.
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a little higher return on investment of $ 17
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: million a year this.
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: Morning than last week.
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: It's part of necessity because they put Judarian Price on
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: injured reserve on Saturday, and when they did, there went
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: your speedy, quick-cutting, can-out-run defenders to the edge back. Manuel
• 11:23
  Speaker 5: Wilson is not that. George Helani is not that. Velas
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: Jones Jr. up from the practice squad, not that. Well,
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: Rashid Shaheed is that. Now, McDonald yesterday said it was interesting.
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: He kind of was a throwaway line, but he said,
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: we've had that in the playbook for a long time,
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: meaning that wasn't reactionary that we just put in as
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: soon as it was apparent Price wasn't going to play
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: in this game or beyond. So it wasn't so much that,
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: but the very fact that the first time they've unveiled
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: it is the day that Price is on injured reserve
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: was telling the 28-yard touchdown, he just was faster than
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: everybody to the edge and ran down the sideline untouched.
• 12:00
  Speaker 5: And as well blocked as that may have been on
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: the edge, it really was Shahid just being faster than
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: anybody the Chargers had out there. I think you'll see
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: more of it. I think it gives them back some
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: of the dimension they lost with price. And it does,
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: let's face it, it does give them some more return
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: on investment of $ 17 million a year for a guy
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: who had only, I think it was, 12 catches in
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: four games and three games, something like that. So, yeah,
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: I think you're going to see more of that. I
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: also think there's, whether there's smoke, there's fire in terms
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: of them looking for veteran running backs. We've talked about this,
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: whether they were going to sign a veteran free agent
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: or trade for one. Jay Glazier yesterday in the Fox
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: television pregame show reporting that Joe Mixon is going to
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: make a free agent visit to the Seahawks. He hasn't
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: played since the end of the 2024 season with Houston
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: and He had a foot injury that he reportedly told
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: some old Bengals teammates would end his career. He didn't
• 12:56
  Speaker 5: think he'd ever play again. Now the Seahawks are going to.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: See how healthy he is.
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: He had four 100-yard seasons in his first seven years
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: with the Bengals in the league, and then he had
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: 1,000-yard seasons, and then he had a 1,000-yard season in
• 13:07
  Speaker 5: his one year with Houston before the foot injury that
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: got in the preseason of 2025.
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: So we'll see.
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks will see if Mixon is healthy enough to
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: consider signing, but they're going to add to that position.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: They have to.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: McDonald sounded almost cryptic when talking about Price and how
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: long he could be out. I mean, four weeks for sure,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: but just sort of the reaction that he had sort
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: of suggested it could be longer than that.
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: It was a disconnect between what he said after the
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: game and what General Manager John Schneider said on the
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: pregame show of the Seahawks radio network yesterday. Schneider said that,
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: first of all, the injury is more like an upper rib,
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: that Price got one.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: L.J. Collier, former first-round pick for the.
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: Seahawks, landed on him in the Week 2 game in
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: Arizona after he caught a swing pass, and that's where
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: the original injury was from. He said Price gutted it
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: out at Washington and was wearing a red jersey and
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: no contact in practice all that week. And then the
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: aggravation of the injury came on Wednesday of this past
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: week when Price fell on it on the same side
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: onto his high ribs. They're calling it a chest, but
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: ribs high up near the shoulder. And that falling on
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: it on Wednesday is what exacerbated.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: The injury and forced him on the injury list.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: But he, like Snyder said, it's not like he's out
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: for the whole season or anything.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: So read that as you may.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: It sounds like it's going to be between four weeks
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: and a lot longer, but not the end of the season.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Television broadcast spent a lot of time talking about how
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold didn't get JSN involved and JSN was open repeatedly.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: According to the primary analyst there on CBS, any talk
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: about that after the game?
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: No, not much because of all the penalty talk, but
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: it was the first time this season he had a
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: sub-100-yard game, 76 yards. He was trying to tie Randy Moss'
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: record for consecutive 100-yard reception games to begin a season.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: So an abnormality for sure. I thought a couple times
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: he threw when Smith and Jigba was covered. Now, there
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: was an in route on a deep third and 16
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: that he was wide open on against his own coverage
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: that he converted the first down on. But another couple
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: tight window throws to Smith and Jigba. And then a
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: lot of times he just didn't have much time. After
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: the game, somebody asked McDonald about, what did you think
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: of your offensive line today? And he said, good enough to.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Win the game.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: That wasn't a ringing endorsement of the offensive line. I
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: don't think that they liked the pass protection yesterday. I
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: think they wanted to do more straight dropbacks that turned
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: into scramble plays because of the pressure, and I think
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: that affected Darnold's ability to get the ball to Smith
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: and Jigler further down the field.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Let me hand out a few other flowers. I mean,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Ernest Jones had an interception thrown right to him, granted,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: a sack, and he led the team in tackles. There's
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: got to be some sort of name for that if
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you get a sack, an INT, and lead the team
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: in tackles. There should be some sort of award for that.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: But is that just fell on the stat sheet, or
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: did Ernest Jones play as good a game as the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: stats suggest?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Well, to me, that's being a middle linebacker in Mike
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: McDonald's defense. I mean, they design a lot of the
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: shifting up front and the looping games and all that
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: the linemen do force to free Ernest Jones to make tackles.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: What makes Jones so good is when he makes the tackles,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: the guys go straight to the ground. There's no yards
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: after contact with Ernest Jones. And that's what makes him
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: so effective for what McDonald wants.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: As a middle linebacker.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't call the interception one of his greatest
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: athletic feats. He said he was waiting a long time
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: for a play like that, meaning a quarterback to throw
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: it directly to me without me even moving. Herbert just
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: didn't see him. It was an in route by his
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: McConkie behind him. And all that Jones did on the
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: interception was drop into his hook, curl zone, and stand there.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: And here came the ball. It looked like his linebacker
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: coach was practicing to him.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jamal Adams made that play look really hard. I'd
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: just like to point out.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, he did.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: So we can just blow that off as not being
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: that hard of a play. But I've seen one guy
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: make it look really hard.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: And if you think about it, in Jamal Adams' tenure
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: in Seattle, he made a lot.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Of things really hard on and off the field.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Do you ever see two interceptions on the first two
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: plays of a game?
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: No.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen that?
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: No, not at any level. And I think what a
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: little digging I could do. The Elias Sports Bureau said
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: that since their stats go back to 1978, they said
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: it had never happened. And some more digging I did,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's ever happened in the history of
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: the NFL, which is 110 or so years now, that
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: nobody has ever, no game has begun with interceptions by
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: both quarterbacks in the first two plays. That was a
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: very poor throw by Sam Darnold. At first, I thought
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Emmanuel Wilson in live didn't really react to the ball
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: very well. But that was a check down throw with
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Darnold not really looking at check downs. He just kind
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: of blindly threw it out there, not knowing that the
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: linebacker was standing right with Wilson, his check down back.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: And the throw was about four yards wide of Wilson
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: right to the linebacker. And Darnold, to his credit after
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: the game, said, yeah, I didn't realize the linebacker was
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: that close, which means to tell me he didn't even look.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: He just threw it out there blindly, assuming that there
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: would be nobody in the flat on the check down. So, yeah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: that was a good reminder for Sam Darnold. He's in
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: the NFL and not playing Southern California high school football anymore.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: What's coming up at 10?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I talked to Nicky Maury in the locker room yesterday,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: and I thought he had a couple interesting things. First,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: he had an interesting way to talk about the officiating
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: and all the penalties and his creative way to try
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: to stay out of trouble with the league. Although, like
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I said, the headbutt he deserved, and any official should
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: have thrown that flag. And then I asked him about
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: how he now views the Seahawks bringing him back from
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: that surgery, now that he's three games in.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: And full go yesterday.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: He was full go. He was on the line.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: He was off the line.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: He was a Sam linebacker.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: He was a safety. He was a cover. He was blitzing.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: It looked like the full 2025 Nick even warrior experience
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: for the first time since the surgery yesterday. And I
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: thought he had an introspective answer about how the team
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: now in retrospect, he really.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Appreciates how the Seahawks handled that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: I said, I love this team for that, that they
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: weren't selfish, said most teams would have thrown me out
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: there and had me go full.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Go right away.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And this is why I love this team. So you'll
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: hear from him. We'll talk about the penalty issue here
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: from Mike McDonald in full at 11 o'clock.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Sounds great. Thank you, Greg. We'll be listening.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Happy Monday. Thank you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 19:44
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• 19:46
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• 19:49
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• 20:01
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• 20:05
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• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 20:09
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• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the letter N. N is for Negron, as in Chris Negron,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: who keeps coming up as somebody that could be the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: man to replace Dan Wilson. To me, I mean, I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: like Chris Negron a lot. I think he's going to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: be a good manager at some point for some major
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: league team, but it flies completely Anders in the face
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: to me. of what Jerry said that he was looking
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: for in a new manager. He said, we need, need,
• 20:38
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• 20:43
  Speaker 1: around here and just bringing back someone who was an
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: assistant coach for you for five seasons and spent one
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: year away, I don't think gives you the new eyes
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that you seek.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think your point that you said at
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: the beginning of that is, that doesn't mean that he
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: won't be a good Major League Baseball manager. I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: he has a lot of the tools, and frankly, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: thought that's where they were going when they made the
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: hire to Dane Wilson. I thought the easiest decision was, hey,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: give Negron the interim job, let him kind of earn
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: it in the offseason, and then they could give him
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the shot to have it full-time. He's been touted as
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: one of the next... MLB managers for a long time now,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: but you're right. If, if, if what you're looking for
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: is a managerial experience, which he said was important and
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: be someone from outside the organization. those two things don't
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: necessarily apply to him. So I don't know why there's
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: so many links. But like I said, I'm a fan
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: of him, and I think that doesn't mean he won't
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: be a good manager. It's just not what you said
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you were looking for.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: O is for odd. I don't know if anyone's paying
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: attention to the Chicago White Sox-Cleveland Guardians series, but what
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: will Venable, who's going to run away with American League
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Manager of the Year, what he is doing in this playoff,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: If they weren't winning, it would be driving baseball fans
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: up a wall. The way that he is using his
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: pitching staff, I have never seen anyone use a pitching
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: staff in the playoffs in my entire life. And I
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: know White Sox fans, there's a lot of baseball fans like,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this guy's an idiot. Look at the way he's using
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: his pitchers.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: If we weren't winning by three or four runs every game,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I'd be so pissed.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's why you're winning.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: He hasn't had a starting pitcher pitch more than four innings.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: He's had a starting pitcher close out one of their
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: three wins in the playoffs by going two innings. He
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: had his closer pitch four full innings the other day.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Four innings he pitched. His closer.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: What's the last closer that pitched four innings in a game?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And this isn't like a former starter. That's literally his closer.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: His starting pitcher tonight is Anthony Kaye, who just pitched
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: in relief in game number one two nights ago. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: not just for a batter. For an inning and a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: third in the eighth inning in a high leverage situation.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And he's starting tonight. I mean, he is... reinventing the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: wheel on how to use a pitching staff in the playoffs.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And so far he's three for three.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: And I think what's the kind of the way he's
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: thinking about it, maybe this isn't, this is a little
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: oversimplification of it, but it seems like he's kind of
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: just thrown out the roles. And it's just like, we're
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: going strictly on matchups. Like if, if you're pitching well,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: we're sticking with you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Or if, you know, if there's a guy that's a
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: better matchup, we're taking you out. I don't care if
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: you're a starter and you're pitching really well, like it's, No,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: it's completely unorthodox. Like you said, there's no starters, there's
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: no relief pitchers, there's no high leverage. It's just, hey,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: we're going to throw our best guy out there. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: for a team that's, frankly, one of their weaknesses is
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the pitching staff, it's a great way.
• 23:48
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• 23:50
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• 23:56
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• 25:21
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• 25:24
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• 25:26
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• 25:30
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• 25:35
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• 25:39
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• 25:44
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• 25:48
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• 25:51
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• 25:54
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• 25:57
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• 25:59
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• 26:01
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• 26:03
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• 26:08
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• 26:11
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• 26:15
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• 26:19
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• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I do think the Falcons have a lot of pieces,
• 26:27
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• 26:29
  Speaker 3: didn't have a quarterback for so long. Their defense has
• 26:31
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• 26:34
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• 26:36
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• 26:38
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• 26:41
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• 26:43
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• 26:51
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  Speaker 1: I like the pick. All right. We're going to go
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• 27:02
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald talks a lot about penalties in his post-game
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: press conference last night. Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM. Yes, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: think they should just save us the effort, cut out
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the middleman, and just play it during the press conference.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Even when he's angry and he's pissed off. Yeah, we're
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: not going to go around it. We're going to go
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: through it this week. I like that line. We're going
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to have just direct communication about this nonsense has to stop.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: And this team has not played Seahawks football through four games.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And I don't think that anything on earth would probably
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: bother Mike McDonald more than to be four games into
• 29:31
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• 29:35
  Speaker 1: their capabilities, not playing to the way that they want
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: to play football. I mean, I think he could go
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: home and his wife could leave him a Dear Mike letter.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And I think he would be, well, there's that. She
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: ran off with my best friend, but a little more
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: concerned right now with us not playing Seahawks football. That's true. Yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you could see, You know, he does
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: always measure it. Very grateful. Wins are hard to come by.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: We got the victory, but my goodness, we have got
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to get this cleaned up. And yes. The officials were
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: flag happy. I look back at it the first time
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in my notes that I wrote down, uh-oh, flag happy
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: crew was at the eight minute mark of the first quarter.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So I'd already sniffed them out.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: They were going to be flag happy. So I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: write that. I can take a picture of it and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: put it on social media if you'd like. I sniffed
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that out halfway through the first quarter. Oh, gosh, here
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: we go. One of those type of games. And then
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks didn't do themselves any favors at all because
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: most of those 15-yard penalties that went against them, oh,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they earned it. Here's Coach McDonald on the penalties.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: To have seven personal foul penalties is unacceptable on any level,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: however you slice it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: That's not us, and that's not going to be how
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: we play football around here. It seemed like you guys
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: had them on the ropes during.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: The second half of 21 points with their missing some guys.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Why do you think it took you until the end
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: of the game to really shut them down?
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: Well, we were off the field multiple times, and we
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: got penalties. So it's cut and dry. It's not how
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: we're going to do business. That's not how we're going
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: to play. It's unacceptable.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a seven-minute playoff. press conference mike
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: on the mic yesterday i don't think taking taking it
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to the street seat i think you'd have to play
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: twice yeah to get through the entire press conference and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: yet i mean yeah we're going to talk penalties a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: lot there are a lot of other things that we
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: can talk about but there's no question what the number
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: one story was an officiating crew throws 300 yards worth
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of penalties on the field and you earned most of
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: them yeah i think they were flag happy but As
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you go through the seven, and there were seven 15-yard
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: penalties against the Seahawks. And the Chargers had their fair
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: share as well. And I would argue, this won't be
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: a popular argument here in Seattle, I would argue the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Chargers got more screwed by the officials with their penalties
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: than what the Hawks did.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Now, the Brady-Russell one I thought was horrible, and that
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: was the tone setter for a day of 15-yard penalties thrown.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: And the Connor O'Toole, eh... mean are we really going
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to throw a penalty on every single return in this
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: game which I think they did.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: That's not exaggerating yeah I'm pretty sure that they did
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: those two I could have done without but Eamon Worry
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: face mask on Mitchell's got to be called Eamon Worry
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: the one that made.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Coach McDonald as furious as he was I mean not
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: only was that did he earn that penalty it was
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: just stupid in a lot of ways.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I thought the Witherspoon one was a little ticky-tack.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. And then he had a bad drive, because
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: later in the drive, he celebrated.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: That was, yes, as the guy catches the ball.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Catches the ball and gets a first down, and he's celebrating, like, okay,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: come on. We love the way you play with passion,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: but this was not one for the time capsule for Witherspoon. No,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that was definitely a penalty. Lawrence's was definitely a penalty.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Hall's was definitely a penalty. So.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, they called seven. I think a couple of
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: them could have been overlooked, and maybe we would have
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: had a different game. I don't know. They were so ticky-tack,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: some of them. But the Seahawks earned, I would argue,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: five of those seven penalties for sure. And so they
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: were their own worst enemy. And it's not Seahawks football.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: That's two weeks in a row just playing very uncharacteristically
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: based on the team that I've kind of just taken
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: for granted. This is the way that they play. They
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: don't give up touchdowns. They hold teams to field goals.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: That didn't happen last week. And then this week, they
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: don't extend drives by making stupid, reckless plays. This is
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a smart football team, especially a smart defense, a smart
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: football team overall. They don't make stupid. And there's just
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: one after the other. We'll get Hugh's thoughts on that
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: at 8 o'clock. But let's close out Mike on the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: mic by talking about something positive. He actually cracked a
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: smile when talking about Rashid Shaheed in the running game.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: We got to be able to run the ball.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: So the guys did a great job. I thought Emmanuel
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: ran the ball well.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I thought.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: George ran the ball well. It was great to get
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: Sheed going, which is really cool. And Justin Allen deserves
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: a lot of credit. John Benton, it's a team effort,
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: so the guys did a great job.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, there were some good things. I mean,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: it was a nice job by Brian Fleury getting creative
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: with Shahid, and it felt like he got involved, felt
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: like that was that. He was even returning punts and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: not fair catching. uh, yesterday. So yeah, exactly. I mean,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: maybe he needed that. Maybe he needed a little bit
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of success to grow the confidence and to do the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: things that he, we know he's capable of doing. I mean,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the defense was stifling in the first half. They allowed
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: 21 passing yards in the first half, three forced turnovers
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: look like they were going to run away with the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: game at that point. And so, uh, Ernest Jones stacked, uh,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the stat sheet, uh, yesterday, uh, There were some good things,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: but there were also some very frustrating things, certainly, about
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the course of the game, which we'll get into with
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen. But Emmanuel Wilson, he got the job done yesterday.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: He had two touchdowns, 120 yards of offense from the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, and moved the chains. So there was
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a running game, not much of a passing game yesterday
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: in the contest. And so, yes, it's a 30-23 sloppy win.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: You will take it, but we are still sitting here
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: waiting for the Seahawks to play four full quarters of football.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It has not happened so far, and we are a
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: quarter of the way through the season. We'll talk about
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: it with Hugh Millen. Monday morning quarterback session begins next.
• 35:53
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