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- 0:00Speaker 1: Devils Sports Radio three point three.
- 0:03Speaker 2: It is good a j R f L Seattle number
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- 0:15Speaker 3: Excited for the opportunity, So yeah, uh, I think it's
- 0:19Speaker 3: a I guess that's a great opportunity. And obviously you
- 0:23Speaker 3: know plush this one. You know been been here before
- 0:26Speaker 3: and the and uh you know around before. So I
- 0:29Speaker 3: try to take that to our advantage and and come
- 0:31Speaker 3: out ready to go tomorrow.
- 0:32Speaker 4: I love the team down for sure. Wanted to win
- 0:34Speaker 4: it tonight and I have a great opportunity, but it's
- 0:37Speaker 4: on me. But the team's got a ton of play.
- 0:39Speaker 4: I think I believe we're gonna bounce back like we've
- 0:42Speaker 4: done all year.
- 0:43Speaker 1: And it's a game seven tomorrow. And obviously you th today,
- 0:46Speaker 1: how difficult is that to sort of be sitting and
- 0:50Speaker 1: watching and not being able to help my cycling. Yeah,
- 0:53Speaker 1: as it started to get pretty much one shot with
- 0:55Speaker 1: was today.
- 0:56Speaker 4: Uh, obviously we wanted to make it happen lunch and
- 0:58Speaker 4: be done with it, but just didn't do my job.
- 1:02Speaker 4: I'll show up in sporteen tomorrow and I know.
- 1:04Speaker 1: A lot of guys in this room that have a
- 1:06Speaker 1: ton of fight, they're gonna step up tomorrow. So I
- 1:08Speaker 1: think they're gonna pick me up big time.
- 1:09Speaker 5: Where do you think the mental fortitude of this team.
- 1:11Speaker 6: Is right now?
- 1:13Speaker 1: I mean it's Game seven.
- 1:14Speaker 7: I think everyone's gonna come in tomorrow the same as.
- 1:16Speaker 1: We came in the start of the postseason. We just
- 1:19Speaker 1: want to win every single day, every inning, every single pitch,
- 1:21Speaker 1: and have fun while doing so, even if we're down. No,
- 1:24Speaker 1: there's no kind of give up attitude. We're just we're
- 1:28Speaker 1: really resilient and it's going to be a fun day tomorrow.
- 1:32Speaker 1: We're all excited for it. Well, tomorrow is today now,
- 1:37Speaker 1: Game seven today, five o'clock. George Kirby versus Shane Bieber
- 1:42Speaker 1: about everyone, Like the old line from The Professional when
- 1:46Speaker 1: Gary Oldman's like, give me everyone, everyone, sir, everyone.
- 1:54Speaker 5: I like that.
- 1:54Speaker 1: We gotta find that clip. I want to play it. Yeah,
- 1:57Speaker 1: that's what it's gonna be like tonight. You heard from
- 2:01Speaker 1: cal there, you heard from Logan there, Logan really taking responsibility.
- 2:05Speaker 1: Let's pick him up. He's so nice. Let's pick up
- 2:08Speaker 1: Logan who did not have a good performance last night
- 2:12Speaker 1: and maybe shouldering too much of the responsibility for last
- 2:16Speaker 1: night six to two loss. But that's where we set.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Game number seven of the American League Championship Series tonight
- 2:22Speaker 1: in Toronto. Loser goes home, the winner goes to the
- 2:27Speaker 1: World Series to meet the Los Angeles Dodgers starting on Friday.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Greg Bell's going to join us here in a moment.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Let me rip through your frost brewed cors Light choose
- 2:35Speaker 1: chill headlines. Sounders went over the over New York City
- 2:39Speaker 1: two to one on Saturday. They now know that they
- 2:42Speaker 1: are going to start their playoff Monday week from today
- 2:46Speaker 1: at Minnesota against Minnesota United. Tomorrow is the start of
- 2:50Speaker 1: the NBA season, but who has time to talk about it?
- 2:52Speaker 1: In the NHL Cracking back in action Tonight on this
- 2:55Speaker 1: road trip, they'll be in Philadelphia. They'll drop the pucket
- 2:58Speaker 1: four o'clock against the Flyers. Got you covered here on
- 3:01Speaker 1: the flagship KJR. They're off to a three to zero
- 3:04Speaker 1: and two start, and apparently I've decided to play all
- 3:07Speaker 1: of their games in overtime and even shootouts. That's what
- 3:10Speaker 1: they're going to do for the entire season. Good plan.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Michigan got excuse me, Michigan mauled the Huskies on Saturday,
- 3:18Speaker 1: so you dub fails to get that big signature win
- 3:21Speaker 1: on the road under Jed Fish, it still is out there, lingering.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Michigan jumped into the top twenty five. Obviously, the Huskies
- 3:28Speaker 1: did not receive votes. Meanwhile, there was a shakeup in
- 3:32Speaker 1: college football, couple of undefeated teams, including number two Miami,
- 3:36Speaker 1: losing over the weekend. Indiana is now the new number two,
- 3:40Speaker 1: trailing only Ohio State atop the polls. National Football League,
- 3:45Speaker 1: it felt like separator week in the NFL. Some contenders
- 3:49Speaker 1: and pretenders met up and they were separated by the
- 3:52Speaker 1: outcomes of some blowouts on Sunday. And of course Mike
- 3:57Speaker 1: McDaniel is on job watch there in Miami. But the
- 4:00Speaker 1: week is not over. Tonight two Monday night football games,
- 4:04Speaker 1: so one will feature Detroit and Tampa Bay maybe in
- 4:08Speaker 1: the conversation for the do best teams in the NFC.
- 4:11Speaker 1: The other involves our Seahawks hosting the Houston Texans. To
- 4:15Speaker 1: join us to talk about it is our Seahawks insider
- 4:17Speaker 1: Greg Bell lots to do here today. What do you
- 4:20Speaker 1: think Game seven? What's your gut feel?
- 4:24Speaker 2: Man? Great, biggest game in Maren's history. I think George
- 4:29Speaker 2: Kirby has a short hook to say the least I
- 4:32Speaker 2: would have. I'd like to see Luis Castilla started games
- 4:34Speaker 2: like this. Like I said that earlier in the series.
- 4:36Speaker 2: I think Castilla is going to enter quickly early in
- 4:40Speaker 2: the game and he could be a big week key
- 4:42Speaker 2: for them. Man Carrero, he's a problem. That's that's a problem.
- 4:50Speaker 2: I say, they do it the hell this is. This
- 4:52Speaker 2: team is desite everybody anyway. It was never gonna be easy.
- 4:57Speaker 2: They were going, he's gonna do it the hard way.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I said, they do it. What do you say?
- 5:01Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I mean I think they most certainly can.
- 5:04Speaker 9: It's got to go out next to you obviously, play
- 5:06Speaker 9: a cleaner game than they saw yesterday. Yeah, when you're
- 5:10Speaker 9: watching that, I mean, you chalk that up to nerves
- 5:13Speaker 9: just I don't know, just just natural that happens in baseball.
- 5:17Speaker 9: What's your thoughts on how they played so sloppy.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Yeah, some of it.
- 5:21Speaker 10: Has to be nerves right there in the customs and
- 5:23Speaker 10: something they've never done before. And they talked about it
- 5:25Speaker 10: after Game five in the clubhouse. They were talking about it. Yeah,
- 5:28Speaker 10: we know we've never been here and we're not shout
- 5:30Speaker 10: away from that. We know that, and then Juli Rodriguez
- 5:33Speaker 10: talked openly about that. So it wasn't just another game,
- 5:37Speaker 10: but a lot of games that happens, just in a
- 5:41Speaker 10: crucible like that. When it happens, it gets magnified and
- 5:43Speaker 10: then momentum and crowd and Toronto.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Just butchers every mistake you make. I think all that
- 5:50Speaker 2: had to do with it. But I would hope that
- 5:53Speaker 2: with some of it was nerves and that's not gonna
- 5:56Speaker 2: get any less. Nervous attens tonight.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, whenever they get back in the corner,
- 6:00Speaker 1: it's usually when they play their best. As you pointed
- 6:02Speaker 1: to a little bit earlier. It just it's a strange team.
- 6:05Speaker 1: They don't do anything easy, that's for sure. No, no,
- 6:09Speaker 1: how are you going to manage this today? So you're
- 6:11Speaker 1: in Toronto? Now, what's going on with Seahawks coverage from
- 6:15Speaker 1: the news.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Well, the News Tribune decided that I'm gonna and I
- 6:18Speaker 2: get it. The Seahawks beat writers.
- 6:20Speaker 1: So I'm going to cover the Yeah, okay, I got.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Back at three in the morning. I'm gonna cover the
- 6:25Speaker 2: Seahawks game. And yeah, if if the Mariners pull this off,
- 6:30Speaker 2: I'll be in Dodger Stadium and this weekend.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Okay, look at that? Do you like that? Are you
- 6:36Speaker 1: having fun with it? Being the ide on Sanders some sports.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Coverage, It's fun. I'd rather be in Toronto, honestly, personally?
- 6:44Speaker 2: Is it just a sports fan and a person who
- 6:47Speaker 2: appreciates big events. I'd try to be in Game seven,
- 6:49Speaker 2: but I get it. It's my first job. And there's
- 6:53Speaker 2: some faith in those the news tribunes saying, well, just
- 6:55Speaker 2: go to the World Series, Greg, We'll just save it
- 6:57Speaker 2: for that.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, it's fun.
- 7:01Speaker 2: No, it's fun, and I love Toronto and I love Yeah,
- 7:04Speaker 2: it's great. And I've got to actually spend Saturday in
- 7:08Speaker 2: most of Sunday in Boston with my daughter, head of
- 7:12Speaker 2: the Charles Regatta, which is amazing event. Three hundred thousand
- 7:15Speaker 2: people come to watch. It's amazing on the bridges and
- 7:19Speaker 2: it was a beautiful New England weekends. And I'm very fortunately.
- 7:22Speaker 2: I love my job and I love the news tribute
- 7:24Speaker 2: for send I mean, give me opportunities to cover great,
- 7:27Speaker 2: great things.
- 7:28Speaker 8: That Friday night game, Yeah.
- 7:29Speaker 11: That Friday game is probably the second loudest building I've
- 7:34Speaker 11: been in.
- 7:34Speaker 2: The first was the Kingdom for Edgar's double, but that
- 7:36Speaker 2: was close to that with the with the Grand Slam.
- 7:38Speaker 1: That was remarkable. Yeah, some good stuff. And we're we're yeah,
- 7:41Speaker 1: we were so fixed here on a Monday morning on
- 7:45Speaker 1: what just most recently happened. We spent a little bit
- 7:48Speaker 1: of time on Friday. But man, was that a great night?
- 7:52Speaker 2: Uh?
- 7:52Speaker 1: And man, we're May and Her fans fired up afterwards.
- 7:55Speaker 1: All right, Well, you know, I.
- 7:56Speaker 2: Want to say what I don't bry it that it
- 7:58Speaker 2: doesn't matter if they don't win, but that that.
- 8:01Speaker 11: Grand Slam didn't matter and none of that.
- 8:03Speaker 2: No one will remember that, no way. This team, every game,
- 8:07Speaker 2: every game they win at this point is team history
- 8:10Speaker 2: and that will always be the Geno Slam will go
- 8:13Speaker 2: down in Seattle sports history like Sherman's tip and Edgar's double.
- 8:17Speaker 2: And yeah, if they don't go to the World Series,
- 8:21Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that that didn't happen and that the
- 8:24Speaker 2: building didn't shake, because it did. The stadium literally shook.
- 8:28Speaker 2: I was sitting in it, and it was the loudest,
- 8:30Speaker 2: one of the loudest moments in Seattle sports history. And yeah,
- 8:35Speaker 2: I wouldn't just say wow, it's a wasteed win. Tonight.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right, and we need to
- 8:40Speaker 1: give it its due because that was a remarkable, remarkable moment,
- 8:44Speaker 1: no question about it. So is the ground going to
- 8:47Speaker 1: shake tonight? You're a looming field. It's a Monday night football.
- 8:50Speaker 1: I mean, you got the baseball team kind of going
- 8:52Speaker 1: up against it for part of the game tonight. But
- 8:56Speaker 1: no doubt Mike McDonald wants to get back this legendary
- 8:59Speaker 1: home home field advantage. Yeah, they've turned into a great
- 9:02Speaker 1: road team here under his watch, but I'm sure that
- 9:07Speaker 1: he wants he wants to match that fervor tonight against
- 9:11Speaker 1: the Texans.
- 9:12Speaker 2: I think it'll it'll only shake if the Manors win.
- 9:15Speaker 2: During the first or second quarter of the Seahawks game,
- 9:18Speaker 2: there'll be a lot of people tuning into their phones
- 9:21Speaker 2: and watching the game, one eye on the Seahawks and
- 9:24Speaker 2: one and a half eyes on the Manor. They're nine
- 9:27Speaker 2: and eleven at home. The Seahawks are since twenty twenty three,
- 9:31Speaker 2: nine and eleven.
- 9:32Speaker 11: I mean, that's like the New York Jets might have
- 9:35Speaker 11: a record probably worth well, it's.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Nine and eleven without having a bad team, Like that's
- 9:40Speaker 1: the that's what you got.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Ten win team exactly, and the team that before that
- 9:45Speaker 2: had nine wins and exactly, you can say it's inexplicable.
- 9:50Speaker 2: When they don't play well, they lose. And a lot
- 9:52Speaker 2: of times they don't play well on defense at home.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Look at the Tampa Bay game. We've talked about this.
- 9:58Speaker 2: They've yet to play a complete game.
- 10:00Speaker 11: They haven't run the ball that would sure help Houston tonight.
- 10:04Speaker 11: Mike McDonald talked about this this week in Houston's defense
- 10:07Speaker 11: happened to lead the league and points allowed, and they
- 10:10Speaker 11: just went to Baltimore before they're buying forty four to ten.
- 10:13Speaker 11: They beat the Ravens, and we know the Ravens have problems,
- 10:16Speaker 11: but McDonald, you for sure, has given full attention to
- 10:20Speaker 11: that and shown his team.
- 10:21Speaker 2: The tape of that. But they only give up twelve
- 10:24Speaker 2: points a game on defense. And McDonald's saying that their
- 10:27Speaker 2: pass rush is unique. It is different than what the
- 10:30Speaker 2: Seahawks especially do, is that they run vertically straight up
- 10:33Speaker 2: the field.
- 10:34Speaker 11: They have Will.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Anderson and the former Minnesota Viking his name is escaping
- 10:40Speaker 2: right at the top of him. As soon as I
- 10:42Speaker 2: wrote about him, lest Daniel Hunter, Daniel Hunter, thank you,
- 10:45Speaker 2: and former pro bowler with the Vikings. He's leading the team.
- 10:48Speaker 2: He's got four sacks and five games. Will Anderson has
- 10:52Speaker 2: three sacks. Those guys run straight up the field, so
- 10:56Speaker 2: they're not.
- 10:56Speaker 12: Worried about rush gap integrity or the gap they might
- 11:00Speaker 12: have the lanes, how wide the lane might be inside
- 11:03Speaker 12: of them from the quarterback to step, and they're running
- 11:05Speaker 12: straight up the field and trying to have the offensive
- 11:07Speaker 12: tackle beat you to the spot basically.
- 11:10Speaker 11: And so McDonald's was saying, how that's got his attention,
- 11:14Speaker 11: the way they passed rush so vertically up the field
- 11:17Speaker 11: so quickly, And that's what puts the big onus on
- 11:20Speaker 11: Abe Lucas and Charles Cross outside of tackles. I would
- 11:24Speaker 11: expect them, especially with Lucas, to help chip him with
- 11:27Speaker 11: tight end. Might see two tight ends a lot when
- 11:30Speaker 11: they throw tonight to help Lucas in particulars have some
- 11:33Speaker 11: troubles in one on one pass rush. But that's a key,
- 11:36Speaker 11: big key tonight is how they.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Handle the vertical, quick upfield pass rush.
- 11:40Speaker 11: That the Texans have.
- 11:42Speaker 2: And I keep saying it, but they're going to try
- 11:44Speaker 2: to run the ball, and they're gonna try to run
- 11:46Speaker 2: the ball against all defenses. Good in this one we'll
- 11:50Speaker 2: see if tonight's tonight they finally get the running game
- 11:53Speaker 2: going consistently. When I look at numbers and see that
- 11:56Speaker 2: they're twenty fourth in the NFL, they seem worse than
- 11:58Speaker 2: that against the run rushing the ball, don't. It doesn't
- 12:02Speaker 2: seem like I mean, there's only been one one hundred
- 12:04Speaker 2: yard rushing day by a Seahawk and that was way
- 12:07Speaker 2: back in Week two for Kenneth Walker against the Steelers.
- 12:11Speaker 2: At seventy nine of his one hundred and five happened
- 12:13Speaker 2: in the second half that night that day in Pittsburgh.
- 12:17Speaker 2: They're gonna keep running. It is tonight the night they
- 12:19Speaker 2: finally get some traction running the ball against a really
- 12:22Speaker 2: active pass defensive pass rush for Houston.
- 12:25Speaker 8: Do they have to be successful at it?
- 12:27Speaker 9: Or is just showing it, you know, being consistent in
- 12:31Speaker 9: showing it and trying it enough. I mean, because the
- 12:34Speaker 9: numbers are starting to look like that. You know, Sam
- 12:36Speaker 9: Darnold's having a good year and he's doing really well
- 12:39Speaker 9: in play action passing. So is it necessary for them
- 12:43Speaker 9: to be successful running or do they just have to
- 12:45Speaker 9: keep being committed to it and making sure that it's honored.
- 12:48Speaker 2: I think it is Bucky and they say it is
- 12:50Speaker 2: They say they they not only they want to, they
- 12:54Speaker 2: need to because how they're built. It's what the system
- 12:57Speaker 2: is predicated on. You look at their play actions and passes,
- 13:01Speaker 2: and well just quick game for instance, in bubble screens
- 13:04Speaker 2: or a quick slam patterns. Is there anything that's a
- 13:09Speaker 2: quick game pass game. What has happened often is that
- 13:14Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage is just there's no room. There's
- 13:19Speaker 2: no room to run, there's often no room to throw.
- 13:22Speaker 2: The teams sometimes stack the box against them and added
- 13:25Speaker 2: after safety down to the box. That is some of
- 13:28Speaker 2: the reasons, in simple terms, why they've thrown the ball
- 13:30Speaker 2: down the field. There's more room down there, and they've
- 13:33Speaker 2: had time throwing the ball because the offensive line has
- 13:37Speaker 2: done pretty well in pass protection. You could make the
- 13:40Speaker 2: case that they had what are you talking about, Well,
- 13:42Speaker 2: they don't need to run the ball. Look at Donald's
- 13:44Speaker 2: are almost seventy percent passer and he's nine almost ten
- 13:49Speaker 2: yards a throw, which is leaving the league. Well, I
- 13:54Speaker 2: don't think this is sustainable against San Francisco in the RAMS.
- 13:57Speaker 2: I keep saying this, but they ain't going anywhere till
- 14:00Speaker 2: they beat San Francisco in the Rams and they didn't
- 14:02Speaker 2: beat San Francisco. They should have did. And I hadn't
- 14:05Speaker 2: play the Rams yet, but they're win the division until
- 14:08Speaker 2: they do, and I don't think they can win the division.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Just smoking mere for pretending wink wink to run the ball.
- 14:14Speaker 2: They've got of control games against those teams running the football.
- 14:17Speaker 1: To me, all right, what's the latest on the injury front.
- 14:20Speaker 1: We got Spoon and Love back to Love and spoonful.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Nah, he had done that. It looked like middle of
- 14:26Speaker 2: the week. Yeah, they were both back to practice and
- 14:29Speaker 2: then they weren't practicing fully. They were unlimited by the
- 14:32Speaker 2: end of the week, and then they listened them as
- 14:33Speaker 2: questionable for the game tonight. McDonald. We asked him. He
- 14:38Speaker 2: was asked on Saturday after practice, did they have to
- 14:42Speaker 2: practice Witherspoon and Love? Do they have to do a
- 14:45Speaker 2: workout pregame to test these injuries to before they make
- 14:48Speaker 2: the decision, And that's usually the final step of guys
- 14:51Speaker 2: who were really on the cuss and McDonald said no,
- 14:55Speaker 2: which means they've already made up their mind. And I
- 14:58Speaker 2: think Spoon's case, they may not play him because there's
- 15:02Speaker 2: a buy coming up after this game and give him
- 15:04Speaker 2: two weeks off. Love seemed to be the Thursday when
- 15:09Speaker 2: I was out there at practice before the Mariners game,
- 15:11Speaker 2: Love was moving pretty well, and I know it's just
- 15:14Speaker 2: the beginning of practice. He looked though he running fluidly.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Didn't he looked like he was fully participating and started
- 15:22Speaker 2: practice and when I saw him Thursday, So he's playing.
- 15:25Speaker 2: So if you just had to tell, if you put
- 15:28Speaker 2: money down, what would you bet on? What would you
- 15:30Speaker 2: guess that Witherspoon won't play to get the extra two
- 15:34Speaker 2: weeks this weekend next because of the buye that Love
- 15:36Speaker 2: will play all right?
- 15:37Speaker 1: So what's key tonight?
- 15:40Speaker 2: The pass rush containing the outside eddresses. I said, I
- 15:44Speaker 2: think they're going to start running the ball at some
- 15:46Speaker 2: point in the season because they're going to commit to
- 15:48Speaker 2: but one of the offensive linemen going to push back.
- 15:51Speaker 2: The defensive is it going to be the number one
- 15:54Speaker 2: scoring defense, the fourth overall defense of the league. That's
- 15:58Speaker 2: their task tonight. That's the key tonight. And then defensively,
- 16:03Speaker 2: c J Stroud. Everyone thinks c J. Stroud has had
- 16:06Speaker 2: a terrible season because they started own three Texans have
- 16:10Speaker 2: won two in a row, and Stroud has eight touchdowns
- 16:12Speaker 2: and three interceptions and as a sixty five plus percent passer,
- 16:16Speaker 2: make him make turnovers. He by pressuring him like any
- 16:21Speaker 2: quarterback who's prone the mistakes, but he is has faked
- 16:24Speaker 2: of turnovers at times. The pass rush had seven sacks
- 16:28Speaker 2: last week against Trevor Lawrence. I don't think they're getting
- 16:30Speaker 2: seven at night. I think that Stroud's going to be
- 16:32Speaker 2: more elusive than Trevor Lawrence was. So I'm expecting something
- 16:36Speaker 2: of a slog of a game both teams and the
- 16:38Speaker 2: team scoring and the Seahawks with some big play by
- 16:42Speaker 2: Donald the Smith and Jigbin the fourth quarter win some
- 16:45Speaker 2: like sixteen thirteen something like that.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be a memorable evening in Seattle
- 16:50Speaker 1: sports here tonight.
- 16:51Speaker 8: Yeah, no getting around that.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Yes it is. We already had a memorable month, but yeah,
- 16:57Speaker 2: this is this is unique.
- 16:58Speaker 1: All right, Greg, thank you, appreciate it, and we will
- 17:01Speaker 1: catch up tomorrow. All right, enjoy the game, all right,
- 17:04Speaker 1: Greg Bell Jet Center joining us right here on Chugubuck
- 17:07Speaker 1: in the mornings. Yes, he's been covering the Mariners postseason
- 17:10Speaker 1: run for the News Tribune and also he will be
- 17:13Speaker 1: on hand to cover the Seahawks. His day job. If
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- 18:01Speaker 7: Another two too, that's other spend trip the other.
- 18:26Speaker 1: It matters.
- 18:27Speaker 7: We've Game five, six to two.
- 18:34Speaker 1: We spent pretty much our entire first hour today recapping
- 18:37Speaker 1: the frustration of game number six, and we're gonna spend
- 18:40Speaker 1: our entire eight o'clock hour kind of previewing the exhilaration
- 18:46Speaker 1: of game number seven. But man, we got to tuck
- 18:49Speaker 1: somewhere into this radio program this morning. Uh, the unbelievable
- 18:54Speaker 1: moment that was Game five and Ginos Wrez his grand
- 18:58Speaker 1: slam that it gave the team the lead at six
- 19:01Speaker 1: to two, trailed most of that game and then come
- 19:05Speaker 1: back there in the bottom of the eighth inning with
- 19:07Speaker 1: a five spot. Just incredible. You just heard the call
- 19:12Speaker 1: from Fox Sports. We were there in the building. The
- 19:15Speaker 1: place was shaking. That was one of the great moments
- 19:19Speaker 1: in Seattle sports history, authored by Geno Suarez, and all
- 19:23Speaker 1: the build up leading up to it, and then the
- 19:26Speaker 1: fanfare afterwards, I mean the energy that came bursting through
- 19:30Speaker 1: the doors. We went over like a half inning early
- 19:33Speaker 1: to get set up for the postgame show and then
- 19:35Speaker 1: to watch one marin or fan. I mean there were
- 19:38Speaker 1: fifty year old men coming out and then they're jumping
- 19:40Speaker 1: on each other, jumping on us, you know everything else.
- 19:43Speaker 1: It was fantastic Friday night.
- 19:45Speaker 9: I mean, it's the biggest game, you know, to date
- 19:49Speaker 9: until today. I think today kind of trumps it just
- 19:52Speaker 9: because of the impact and how much is weighing on it.
- 19:55Speaker 9: And yet that one was after you went to their place,
- 19:59Speaker 9: lose to place that pivotal game, which is a game
- 20:02Speaker 9: five that then does allow one team the luxury of
- 20:06Speaker 9: playing a subpar ball game and still having a chance
- 20:09Speaker 9: to advance to the World Series.
- 20:10Speaker 8: It was.
- 20:11Speaker 9: It's as big as we've ever had here in Seattle
- 20:15Speaker 9: Mariner's history, in my opinion, And to find yourself down
- 20:19Speaker 9: and all of the little things that that you had
- 20:22Speaker 9: to do, that little moments in the game, the double
- 20:26Speaker 9: play where that line drive to Naylor, you doubled up
- 20:29Speaker 9: what's his name at second base, that other double play
- 20:32Speaker 9: that that col turned all of that, getting out of
- 20:35Speaker 9: that jam with the bases loaded, and you get out
- 20:37Speaker 9: of that whole thing. There were so many things that
- 20:40Speaker 9: were crazy. It's just this so oh my gosh, the
- 20:42Speaker 9: tension that was in the air, and obviously the crowd
- 20:44Speaker 9: was just on fire for what's going on. And then
- 20:47Speaker 9: for cal to hit the game tying home run, that
- 20:50Speaker 9: moonshot that almost hits the roof. And then Gino, the
- 20:55Speaker 9: guy that really hadn't checked in for the most part
- 20:57Speaker 9: throughout the postseason town.
- 20:59Speaker 1: In the regular Sea yeah ye, since he's come here.
- 21:02Speaker 8: Yeah yeah.
- 21:03Speaker 9: And yet he he checked in with the first pitch,
- 21:06Speaker 9: a home run that he'd hit earlier that kind of
- 21:08Speaker 9: gave us the lead. Then we relinquished that lead for
- 21:11Speaker 9: him to come up their bases loaded nowhere to put
- 21:13Speaker 9: him have a good ab. It wasn't just a first pitch,
- 21:17Speaker 9: you know, hacking and you run into one a good
- 21:19Speaker 9: ab and to go opo grand slam. I mean that
- 21:22Speaker 9: place it was literally shaking mm hmm.
- 21:25Speaker 1: And that was awesome. Yeah, it was incredible. Yeah.
- 21:27Speaker 6: I was watching at home while hosting eight other children
- 21:32Speaker 6: for an eleven year old sleepover birthday party. I had
- 21:36Speaker 6: warned Palmer, Hey, by the way, just so you know, Palmer,
- 21:38Speaker 6: are great, there's a chance that the Mariners game is
- 21:40Speaker 6: going to be on in the living room if they're
- 21:42Speaker 6: playing on Friday night, so you just got to be prepared.
- 21:44Speaker 6: She's like, oh, that's fine, that's fine. Well, they were
- 21:46Speaker 6: running around screaming. Then a couple moms had stayed to
- 21:49Speaker 6: watch the game, and we'd be like when when Gino
- 21:52Speaker 6: got his first home run and when Cal got his
- 21:54Speaker 6: home run, and then they'd.
- 21:55Speaker 1: All come running in.
- 21:57Speaker 6: Yeah, they'd all jump up and down, and then they'd leave,
- 22:00Speaker 6: and then they'd hear something exciting, and then they'd all
- 22:03Speaker 6: come running in, and then they'd all jump up.
- 22:05Speaker 5: And down, and then they believe.
- 22:06Speaker 1: Yeah. I was more like, I know, I committed to this.
- 22:09Speaker 8: We have to do it.
- 22:10Speaker 1: But I am locking you guys in this room.
- 22:13Speaker 5: I should have.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Yeah, here's some snacks and some drinks. Yeah, and here's
- 22:19Speaker 1: some here's I got a honey pot for you, perfect
- 22:22Speaker 1: little portable toilet for you all. I don't even want
- 22:25Speaker 1: to see you. We're watching the game.
- 22:27Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 22:27Speaker 6: Well, and that's the nice thing is at least no
- 22:29Speaker 6: one came in was like trying to have a dance
- 22:30Speaker 6: party in front of the TV.
- 22:31Speaker 5: Or they all been kicked out.
- 22:33Speaker 6: Oh, they were playing elsewhere until something exciting happened, then
- 22:35Speaker 6: they'd come running in.
- 22:38Speaker 1: Well, I really think that that cow moment, you know,
- 22:41Speaker 1: the one that brought rain that home run. I don't
- 22:44Speaker 1: know if I've ever seen a home run that was
- 22:48Speaker 1: longer in doubt. I mean, the anticipation of it, coupled
- 22:53Speaker 1: with the height of it, It was like, is this
- 22:55Speaker 1: gonna leave or not? Eventually gravity did reveal to us
- 23:00Speaker 1: that it was far enough, just far enough, And I
- 23:03Speaker 1: think it kind of unlocked that entire inning. Certainly, Gino's
- 23:06Speaker 1: going to have his place in Mariner's history forever with
- 23:09Speaker 1: the Grand Slam, But I kind of think that, like
- 23:11Speaker 1: the Cow moment is what it might have even been
- 23:14Speaker 1: a bigger moment because you had to have the run
- 23:17Speaker 1: to try to tie that thing up, and then I
- 23:19Speaker 1: think the rest of the lineup kind of relaxed after that.
- 23:22Speaker 1: Now Softy brought up in our post game show after
- 23:26Speaker 1: he spit in my mouth, Oh you liked it. Yeah,
- 23:29Speaker 1: it was accidental, but he did it. It happened. No, no,
- 23:33Speaker 1: it didn't really ask for it, kind of got ambushed.
- 23:36Speaker 5: Frankly, would you ask for it next time?
- 23:38Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, never asked for her before.
- 23:41Speaker 1: We'll never ask for the game. But he brought up
- 23:44Speaker 1: like he thought maybe the mood had changed with the
- 23:46Speaker 1: hit by pitch of George Springer, and we haven't really
- 23:49Speaker 1: discussed this yet. Look, John Schneider, forty thousand people weren't
- 23:54Speaker 1: cheering that George Springer was hurt. There were some, Yeah,
- 23:58Speaker 1: there were some. But when you have that many people
- 24:01Speaker 1: inside the building and there's that much intensity, and there's
- 24:04Speaker 1: that much of a downtime, and they already don't like
- 24:07Speaker 1: the guy.
- 24:07Speaker 2: All right.
- 24:08Speaker 1: I don't like the fact that we booed an injured player.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I don't think anybody should ever do that or cheer
- 24:14Speaker 1: an injured player. There was a little bit of mixture
- 24:16Speaker 1: of the two. I don't like that, but it happens
- 24:20Speaker 1: almost with every fan base at some point, and I
- 24:23Speaker 1: love that people found examples of when Toronto fans did
- 24:28Speaker 1: it to opposing players, not just in baseball, but in
- 24:31Speaker 1: a lot of different sports. So don't get on your
- 24:34Speaker 1: high horse hypocrites, you know. And John Schneider trying to
- 24:38Speaker 1: stir something that really wasn't there. And then last night
- 24:41Speaker 1: Springer takes a high pitch inside from Carlos Vargas and
- 24:44Speaker 1: all the fans were like, why are they throwing him?
- 24:47Speaker 2: Now?
- 24:47Speaker 1: All he did was get hit by a pitch. Hey,
- 24:50Speaker 1: Carlos Vargas has no idea where the ball is going.
- 24:53Speaker 1: That was so unintentional that I can't even express it
- 24:58Speaker 1: to you. But Johnder's trying to use that, I guess
- 25:01Speaker 1: has a little bit of fuel whatever it takes to
- 25:04Speaker 1: get them across the finish line. But I think being
- 25:07Speaker 1: a little melodramatic. If you ask me, you're not even
- 25:10Speaker 1: the best John Schneider in sports.
- 25:12Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's tough to do. Whan it's not that
- 25:15Speaker 9: common of a name. But I do think it was
- 25:17Speaker 9: completely overblown the whole there's yeah, some people don't like him.
- 25:21Speaker 9: I don't like him. He was an astro that he
- 25:24Speaker 9: was part of the cheating scandal. I don't I don't
- 25:26Speaker 9: ever wish injury upon someone that said I don't have
- 25:30Speaker 9: one bit of remorse about him getting hurt.
- 25:33Speaker 8: He didn't get injured. He got hurt. It hurt him, Ali,
- 25:38Speaker 8: you'll get over it. It hit him in the knee.
- 25:39Speaker 9: If it hit him in the face and people were
- 25:41Speaker 9: cheering it or or whatever, I'd be like, come on,
- 25:44Speaker 9: you got to check yourself. That's that's a totally different
- 25:46Speaker 9: hit him in the knee, and so get off your
- 25:48Speaker 9: high horses, right, nobody's nobody's too good to to be
- 25:53Speaker 9: able to call everybody out for something you think is
- 25:56Speaker 9: not nice. I agree, it's not nice to do it,
- 25:58Speaker 9: and yet at the same time, when you do, you
- 26:00Speaker 9: find yourself in George Springer situation, you're gonna have people
- 26:04Speaker 9: that just dislike you, period. Even though he might be
- 26:06Speaker 9: a really good dude. I'm sure that he probably is
- 26:08Speaker 9: a really good dude and a good teammate. But it's
- 26:12Speaker 9: sports hate. And so he got hitting the knee.
- 26:14Speaker 8: It is. It wasn't a grenade.
- 26:16Speaker 9: I don't think Brian Wu switched the baseball into a
- 26:19Speaker 9: grenade that blew his knee up. He played the very
- 26:22Speaker 9: next game, so yeah, tell me it's kind of stop.
- 26:26Speaker 13: Well.
- 26:26Speaker 6: And also I'm sure that some of the cheering to
- 26:28Speaker 6: start was that he got hit from Blue Jays fans
- 26:30Speaker 6: because now he's on base, which you I mean, Randy
- 26:32Speaker 6: got hit and everyone even Randy cheered when he got
- 26:35Speaker 6: hit and went to first base and so and then
- 26:37Speaker 6: the other part of the booing, too was Blue Jays
- 26:39Speaker 6: fans booing Brian wu for hitting him. So it was
- 26:42Speaker 6: a combination of things, and John Schneider decided to make
- 26:44Speaker 6: it all about people being He decided to George Springer.
- 26:47Speaker 1: Stir up the hornets nest in his press press conference afterwards,
- 26:52Speaker 1: I will say this, maybe you know, George Springer, I mean,
- 26:57Speaker 1: if he would have really been fortunate, he would have
- 26:59Speaker 1: got base and found that there was a barber shop
- 27:03Speaker 1: there so that they could fix that horrible hair of his.
- 27:07Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, we're gonna preview game number seven,
- 27:10Speaker 1: and Ryan Healy's going to be joining us at eight
- 27:12Speaker 1: point thirty. We'll get his thoughts on how the series
- 27:15Speaker 1: is unfolding. Here we go, People Sports Radio ninety three
- 27:18Speaker 1: point three KJRFM.
- 27:20Speaker 9: Yeah, I was feeling that after the two zero, Yeah,
- 27:22Speaker 9: let's let's lose a couple and then we get to
- 27:25Speaker 9: Game five where it's everybody's like, man, this guy's falling,
- 27:28Speaker 9: and then they'll seize the opportunity.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Look, I mean, it's not like the Mariners just cornered
- 27:36Speaker 1: the market on big games that you played where you
- 27:39Speaker 1: don't show up and play your best. When I grew up,
- 27:41Speaker 1: every Super Bowl was a blowout. Like ten straight years,
- 27:45Speaker 1: it was nothing but blowouts. The AFC didn't seem like
- 27:48Speaker 1: it could compete with the NFC. So it's not like
- 27:52Speaker 1: every team that ever arrives for the biggest game that
- 27:55Speaker 1: they've played that year or in a while hasn't laid
- 27:59Speaker 1: an egg on an occasion. And I think that the
- 28:02Speaker 1: Mariners did last night. They just did not play well.
- 28:05Speaker 1: They've had a couple of those games in this series
- 28:08Speaker 1: where we're sitting there like, now, now you're gonna play
- 28:10Speaker 1: that poorly? What the hell's going on? But I will
- 28:13Speaker 1: say every time that they have been pushed to the brink,
- 28:16Speaker 1: whether it's regular season or postseason, they tend to respond
- 28:22Speaker 1: when they are up against it, just like they did
- 28:25Speaker 1: in Game number five, and there were some tenuous moments,
- 28:27Speaker 1: looked like it was going to get away several times
- 28:30Speaker 1: in Game five against the Detroit Tigers, but they pulled
- 28:33Speaker 1: it out. So you know, call it what you will.
- 28:36Speaker 1: But here we are to Game number seven, coming off
- 28:38Speaker 1: a lackluster performance in Game number six, and I expect
- 28:42Speaker 1: them to be sharp tonight and I expect them to
- 28:45Speaker 1: pull out the victory tonight.
- 28:46Speaker 9: Yeah, frankly, yeah, well, I mean, yesterday felt worse than
- 28:49Speaker 9: six to two because of the ugliness in which like
- 28:53Speaker 9: made it turn into six to two, the way in
- 28:55Speaker 9: which it happened, and then the letdown when your expectations
- 28:58Speaker 9: are high for a guy like Logan overt and he
- 29:00Speaker 9: goes out there and doesn't look sharp, and then you
- 29:03Speaker 9: compound that with poor defense behind him, and then you
- 29:06Speaker 9: know them taking advantage of poor pitches and situational baseball
- 29:11Speaker 9: that we didn't play well and they did play well.
- 29:14Speaker 9: It felt worse than a six to two final. It
- 29:17Speaker 9: felt worse than just one loss in a game that
- 29:20Speaker 9: basically didn't decide your season but sends it to a
- 29:23Speaker 9: deciding Game seven for the first time ever in franchise history.
- 29:26Speaker 9: And yet there's so many little things that if it
- 29:29Speaker 9: just goes a little differently, I mean, the geno air uncharacteristic.
- 29:34Speaker 9: He's been pretty solid for the most part, and yet
- 29:36Speaker 9: I don't know for sure if if he clanks that ball,
- 29:39Speaker 9: if he's not thinking about looking the runner back. But
- 29:42Speaker 9: the reason he's thinking about looking a runner back is
- 29:45Speaker 9: because Julio clanked it out in center and turns a
- 29:47Speaker 9: single into a double. There's just little things like that.
- 29:51Speaker 9: Somebody had texted Cal screwed up big time swinging first
- 29:53Speaker 9: pitch with the bases loaded.
- 29:55Speaker 8: No he didn't.
- 29:56Speaker 9: He just didn't square it up perfect. He hit it hard,
- 29:58Speaker 9: one hundred mile an hour exit velocity. It just so happens.
- 30:01Speaker 9: If it's a foot further to Vladimir's right, it's two
- 30:07Speaker 9: RBIs aer scoring, two guys are scoring. If it's if
- 30:10Speaker 9: he catches it a half inch further down, it's a
- 30:12Speaker 9: line drive in the corner, two or three runs of
- 30:14Speaker 9: scorn a full inch lower down, and it's off. If
- 30:18Speaker 9: it's off the up in the cheap seat somewhere, and
- 30:20Speaker 9: you're celebrating Cal Rawley in the Year of Cal and
- 30:22Speaker 9: a Grand Slam, and we're maybe talking about punching our
- 30:25Speaker 9: ticket to the World Series. There's so many little things
- 30:28Speaker 9: in a game that it's like you can't just say, well,
- 30:31Speaker 9: they didn't do anything that was even remotely close to
- 30:34Speaker 9: resembling a team that deserves to go to the World Series.
- 30:37Speaker 9: They just didn't do enough little things, and the Toronto
- 30:40Speaker 9: Blue Jays did. Today's a new day starts zero zero.
- 30:43Speaker 9: They don't get a carryover from yesterday, and you just
- 30:46Speaker 9: got to go out there and prove that you're better.
- 30:48Speaker 8: There's gonna be about one hundred days.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Strange. It does seem strange though, that they could have
- 30:53Speaker 1: stinkers like that when they don't absolutely have to have it,
- 30:56Speaker 1: and then when they do have to have it, then
- 30:59Speaker 1: everything because to me, the Julio error was a lack
- 31:03Speaker 1: of focus. That's a routine high hopper easily caught and
- 31:09Speaker 1: he didn't squeeze the ball. Gino was a lack of focus.
- 31:12Speaker 1: I was worried more about the runner than I was
- 31:15Speaker 1: making the play. Leo Revos, JP Crawford base running, lack
- 31:19Speaker 1: of focus. I don't know if Logan's I think we
- 31:22Speaker 1: just chalked that up to just a bad day for Logan.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Gilbert out on the mound, but I don't fear that
- 31:29Speaker 1: that's going to carry over into tonight because I've seen
- 31:32Speaker 1: too much history of them. You know, when it absolutely
- 31:36Speaker 1: does matter, everything gets tightened up. It does mystifying to
- 31:40Speaker 1: me how you could play so loose and so sloppy
- 31:42Speaker 1: and so non focused with so much at stake where
- 31:46Speaker 1: your one went away from the World series. But maybe
- 31:48Speaker 1: they do need that extra push, Maybe they do need
- 31:51Speaker 1: that extra little bit of pressure in order for them
- 31:54Speaker 1: to be lasered in. And I expect them to be
- 31:57Speaker 1: lasered in because I've watched them do it time and
- 31:59Speaker 1: time again.
- 32:00Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't expect to see them come out tonight
- 32:03Speaker 6: looking like they did last night by any means. We
- 32:05Speaker 6: did also get a text of someone saying, well, clearly
- 32:07Speaker 6: they just didn't care.
- 32:08Speaker 5: They don't care anymore. It's like, okay, that's absurd.
- 32:11Speaker 6: Yeah, that's basically what I wrote back, like that's one
- 32:13Speaker 6: of the most ridiculous things, and the person did right back.
- 32:15Speaker 6: I think I'm just venting night, you know, And I
- 32:17Speaker 6: understand every fan is going through an entire lifetime of
- 32:22Speaker 6: a roller coaster of emotions today, So I get it.
- 32:25Speaker 1: You're they don't make it easy on you. No, I'll
- 32:27Speaker 1: give you that.
- 32:28Speaker 5: No they don't, and it's gonna continue.
- 32:30Speaker 6: I mean, you've got nine more hours of this roller
- 32:32Speaker 6: coaster just till the game starts, and then they're gonna
- 32:34Speaker 6: take you on a roller coaster during the game.
- 32:36Speaker 5: So just buckle up and.
- 32:39Speaker 1: It's gonna be a blast. And Bucky's pointed this out
- 32:41Speaker 1: a lot, and maybe we're in four. I mean, Game
- 32:44Speaker 1: five was unbelievable and Game five, and I'm talking about
- 32:48Speaker 1: this series is Game five. Last series is Game five
- 32:52Speaker 1: was one of the most unforgettable sporting events you're ever
- 32:54Speaker 1: gonna watch. Yeah, And so you know, it will all
- 32:58Speaker 1: be worth it if we pull it out to be
- 33:00Speaker 1: taken to this level of stress too, for Softy to
- 33:04Speaker 1: have to, you know, have to basically watch tonight's game
- 33:07Speaker 1: with an EMT. Yeah you know, yeah, I think you
- 33:11Speaker 1: just put him on a drip bag and let's go. So,
- 33:15Speaker 1: I mean, it's all gonna be worth it if we
- 33:17Speaker 1: get another one of these unforgettable decisive games victories. You know,
- 33:24Speaker 1: it was worth watching the team kind of fumble away
- 33:28Speaker 1: a chance to win it in six last night, because
- 33:30Speaker 1: I kind of felt like that's what they did. They
- 33:32Speaker 1: just were not nearly they didn't play nearly as well
- 33:36Speaker 1: as the team that they faced, and it shouldn't have
- 33:38Speaker 1: even been as close as it actually was. There were
- 33:40Speaker 1: a couple of times we had a chance to get
- 33:42Speaker 1: back into that thing and grounded into double plays. So
- 33:45Speaker 1: you know, it'll all be worth the ride as long
- 33:48Speaker 1: as we punched that ticket and advance to the World Series.
- 33:51Speaker 9: Yeah, And the unfortunate possibility is the reality of you
- 33:54Speaker 9: played you know, you played one too many games with
- 33:59Speaker 9: you know, kind of a lackluster performance as far as
- 34:02Speaker 9: the outcomes and the process and the approach and all
- 34:05Speaker 9: that kind of stuff. You could find yourself looking back,
- 34:08Speaker 9: what if, what would it?
- 34:09Speaker 8: Could have? Should have?
- 34:10Speaker 9: And and so I mean, you play with fire. I
- 34:13Speaker 9: don't want to say giveaway games, but you give away
- 34:15Speaker 9: moments in games that could be tide turning, and you
- 34:20Speaker 9: can get burnt.
- 34:21Speaker 8: You play with fire, you can get burnt.
- 34:23Speaker 9: So it's one of those I'm not over the top confident,
- 34:26Speaker 9: But then again, I wasn't over the top confident coming
- 34:28Speaker 9: back to zero. At the same time, when we lost
- 34:31Speaker 9: the first two games, I wasn't like, oh this game,
- 34:33Speaker 9: this team's cooked, They're not as good. All of the
- 34:36Speaker 9: same things that we go through as a fan base.
- 34:38Speaker 9: There's a difference because we've never been to the World Series,
- 34:41Speaker 9: so there's a different type of weight that kind of
- 34:43Speaker 9: weighs on us. And you see that in Softy's face
- 34:46Speaker 9: when you talk to him, and you know how he's
- 34:48Speaker 9: on the verge of tears NonStop because of how much
- 34:51Speaker 9: it means to him. That said, every fan base goes
- 34:54Speaker 9: through these little things that is just.
- 34:56Speaker 8: Like how can he do that?
- 34:57Speaker 1: Or how why did he do that? We heard of
- 35:00Speaker 1: that a lot, you know last night from the crowd.
- 35:03Speaker 9: Everybody. Everybody does it. Everybody has it. They're humans, they're
- 35:07Speaker 9: not They're out there trying to entertain us, and whether
- 35:11Speaker 9: you believe it or not, they care a lot. They
- 35:13Speaker 9: care a lot a lot about whether or not they
- 35:18Speaker 9: can come through for themselves, for the team, for the city.
- 35:22Speaker 9: They want this just as bad as you do. Even
- 35:25Speaker 9: if you've been a fan for fifty years. I've been
- 35:26Speaker 9: a fan for fifty years. I can tell you for
- 35:29Speaker 9: sure that if I was in that dugout, I would
- 35:31Speaker 9: care just as much as anybody else would have cared.
- 35:34Speaker 9: That's on the outside looking in. They just from time
- 35:37Speaker 9: to time don't show up.
- 35:38Speaker 8: And play the way that they're capable of.
- 35:40Speaker 9: But I think tonight's a night where there's not going
- 35:42Speaker 9: to be any lack of focus. But it's gonna come
- 35:44Speaker 9: down to who does the little things right, who does
- 35:47Speaker 9: them better? And if you can find yourself making your
- 35:49Speaker 9: twenty seven outs tougher than their twenty seven outs, you're
- 35:52Speaker 9: gonna find yourself getting to play for all the marbles.
- 35:55Speaker 6: I just wonder how many times I'm gonna throw up
- 35:57Speaker 6: between now and five fourteen.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Yeah, at least at thirteen and a half. Yeah, I'm
- 36:01Speaker 1: taking the over I would, yeah, but yeah, Game six
- 36:05Speaker 1: felt sloppy. Game four they were just terrible. Game three
- 36:09Speaker 1: George kind of blew up, and that to me was
- 36:13Speaker 1: the key to that game. And now we put George
- 36:15Speaker 1: back out on the mound tonight in game number seven.
- 36:18Speaker 1: They have absolute faith in him. Otherwise they wouldn't have
- 36:21Speaker 1: put him in such pivotal positions to be the starting pitcher.
- 36:25Speaker 1: But as much faith as they have in George Kirby,
- 36:28Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the organization having in George Kirby,
- 36:31Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna see a game managed like you've
- 36:34Speaker 1: never seen before. I mean we've never had a game
- 36:36Speaker 1: seven I mean you saw a little bit you saw
- 36:39Speaker 1: it in game five. Certainly it's going to be that type.
- 36:43Speaker 1: But we have even more arms really at our disposal tonight.
- 36:47Speaker 1: The onlybody person that is not going to be available
- 36:50Speaker 1: is going to be Logan but Castile my pitch. Bryce Miller,
- 36:55Speaker 1: who's the only starter that's had any effectiveness against this lineup.
- 36:58Speaker 1: We might see him for a couple of bits. Brian
- 37:00Speaker 1: Woo's back, and he only pitched two innings the other night,
- 37:04Speaker 1: so I would imagine that he is available. I certainly
- 37:08Speaker 1: certainly Bizardo, even though he went two innings last night,
- 37:11Speaker 1: he's available. Even Caleb Ferguson might have to be used
- 37:15Speaker 1: at some point in this game in a very specific
- 37:18Speaker 1: situation early on. If you're gonna take George, if he
- 37:22Speaker 1: doesn't go deep into the game, I'd throw him in
- 37:25Speaker 1: there to get Addison Barger out. He has been killing
- 37:28Speaker 1: us both in the field and at the plate. And
- 37:31Speaker 1: if they want to pinch hit for Miles Straw and
- 37:34Speaker 1: the third inning against Caleb Ferguson, and it has to
- 37:37Speaker 1: be like two outs in the inning, I don't want
- 37:39Speaker 1: to set him up for having to get three outs.
- 37:41Speaker 1: Just get us out. Of this inning, get this guy
- 37:43Speaker 1: or get him out of the game. Addison Barger, I
- 37:46Speaker 1: don't mind throwing Caleb Ferguson into that specific situation and
- 37:51Speaker 1: then saving Gabe Spier for a later situation where they
- 37:54Speaker 1: stack lefties against us. I think everybody gets used tonight,
- 37:59Speaker 1: and so don't think we're going to see a three
- 38:01Speaker 1: hour game tonight, because I think there might be about
- 38:04Speaker 1: seventeen pitching changes combining the two teams.
- 38:07Speaker 9: Well, I'm basically preparing myself for a seventeen inning game.
- 38:11Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know if there's any more Mariner
- 38:14Speaker 8: way to do this, coming in.
- 38:15Speaker 6: And doing the post game from here so that you
- 38:16Speaker 6: can just bleed it into the show in the morning.
- 38:19Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this, if it is seventeen innings, I
- 38:21Speaker 1: feel a lot better about our chances. Yeah, this is
- 38:23Speaker 1: that these are the games that we win. Let it
- 38:25Speaker 1: go forty nine innings, we'll win it.
- 38:27Speaker 8: That's right.
- 38:31Speaker 9: In the seventeenth inning Nails last night, Leo Revas went
- 38:37Speaker 9: nine perfect innings on the mound.
- 38:40Speaker 1: We've never seen a lob pitch be more effective in
- 38:44Speaker 1: baseball history.
- 38:45Speaker 8: I've been waiting my whole life for it.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Medio Ball Show for eight innings. The Mariners did the unthinkable.
- 38:51Speaker 1: They stranded twenty four base runners against Blue Jays pitching,
- 38:56Speaker 1: but they won it in the bottom of the thirty
- 39:00Speaker 1: one to nothing. This is a legends are made.
- 39:06Speaker 8: That's right.
- 39:07Speaker 5: This is how heart attacks happen.
- 39:10Speaker 8: You're ready for it. A lot going on.
- 39:15Speaker 5: That is the thing. You have to be ready for
- 39:16Speaker 5: anything and everything.
- 39:18Speaker 9: And if there's a team that I mean, I have
- 39:20Speaker 9: a hard time, like I don't watch every Toronto Blue Jays,
- 39:23Speaker 9: but I've watched every Mariner game pretty much for the
- 39:25Speaker 9: last few years. The idea of how many one run
- 39:28Speaker 9: games they play in that is a trial by fire
- 39:31Speaker 9: type of thing. I think that this team is kind
- 39:34Speaker 9: of forged in the fire. I think that they will
- 39:36Speaker 9: rise to the occasion tonight. Not that they're going against
- 39:38Speaker 9: a team that you're gonna be able to walk over,
- 39:40Speaker 9: because that team over there believes one hundred percent in themselves,
- 39:43Speaker 9: just like the Mariners do, and so you've got to
- 39:45Speaker 9: go take it, you've got to go win it. And
- 39:47Speaker 9: I just think that this team understands what it feels
- 39:50Speaker 9: like to have all the pressure, all the stuff on them,
- 39:53Speaker 9: and I think that they're I don't think they're going
- 39:54Speaker 9: to collapse under the pressure tonight.
- 39:56Speaker 1: It was one of the craziest stats I've ever heard,
- 39:59Speaker 1: is the one that Kevin pointed out to us last
- 40:02Speaker 1: week where I didn't even realize just what attack mode
- 40:06Speaker 1: Toronto was in against George Kirby. So they got the
- 40:08Speaker 1: scouting report. Everybody in the league knows George Kirby hates
- 40:12Speaker 1: walking people, so he is going to come after you
- 40:15Speaker 1: and going to attack you. And the Blue Jays just
- 40:17Speaker 1: flipped the script on him. And we should have been
- 40:19Speaker 1: prepared for that. We should have been able to zig
- 40:21Speaker 1: to their zag. And they had eighteen hits against us
- 40:26Speaker 1: in that game, not all of them against George obviously,
- 40:28Speaker 1: but the mindset going into it was one that they
- 40:31Speaker 1: attached to having to face George Kirby. They had eighteen hits,
- 40:35Speaker 1: all within the first three pitches of the bat. I
- 40:39Speaker 1: mean when that was revealed to us, I mean, my
- 40:41Speaker 1: jaw hit the floor. So how are we going to respond?
- 40:45Speaker 1: How is George going to change his game up a
- 40:47Speaker 1: little bit? How long of a leash does he get tonight?
- 40:51Speaker 1: I mean, is it two base runners? He gives up
- 40:54Speaker 1: two base runners and the first is he coming out
- 40:56Speaker 1: of the game. I mean, we got we've got enough
- 40:58Speaker 1: that we can throw. We can probably throw thirty innings tonight,
- 41:02Speaker 1: much less nine. So we've got en off at our
- 41:05Speaker 1: disposal that we don't have to suffer through anybody struggle
- 41:10Speaker 1: at this point. So, I mean, just so much strategy
- 41:13Speaker 1: pouring into this. Does George then react to what they
- 41:17Speaker 1: did to him the last time? And then are they
- 41:20Speaker 1: prepared for that reaction from George Kirby? And then even
- 41:24Speaker 1: if he does get effective, I mean, how much wiggle
- 41:27Speaker 1: room do you give him? And any given time, if
- 41:30Speaker 1: he's through five and he's blowing through people and then
- 41:32Speaker 1: he gives up back to back runners in the sixth,
- 41:35Speaker 1: do you take him out? All of that goes into.
- 41:37Speaker 6: To me, and all of it is gonna be questioned
- 41:39Speaker 6: if it doesn't go right well, And that's.
- 41:41Speaker 1: The beauty of being a sports fan for sure.
- 41:43Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the beauty. It's really annoying, but it is
- 41:46Speaker 8: the beauty of it.
- 41:46Speaker 9: I to me, you pitch to the scoreboard, right, so
- 41:51Speaker 9: it start zero zero, so you pitch like every single
- 41:53Speaker 9: pitch is the difference in the game. And one thing
- 41:57Speaker 9: I mean I've thought it with from the beginning of
- 42:00Speaker 9: series that this team puts the ball in play, and
- 42:03Speaker 9: this team is going to be aggressive, because you should
- 42:06Speaker 9: be aggressive against the Mariner starters. You should be aggressive.
- 42:09Speaker 9: They are known for pounding the zone. They are known
- 42:11Speaker 9: for trusting their stuff. I don't want them to not
- 42:13Speaker 9: trust their stuff. I just want them to be careful, right,
- 42:16Speaker 9: And so there's a way you can throw a pitch
- 42:18Speaker 9: with convictions, saying I'm putting this right in up underneath
- 42:21Speaker 9: Vladimir Gurero's hands that top corner, and I'm hitting it,
- 42:25Speaker 9: and if I miss and it goes in, I don't
- 42:27Speaker 9: care if it hits them.
- 42:28Speaker 8: Off is our elbow? Okay? Runner does it?
- 42:31Speaker 13: Score?
- 42:32Speaker 8: Does it hit his elbow? And he gets a jug
- 42:33Speaker 8: around the base?
- 42:34Speaker 9: Says no, now, because the next guy's gonna come up
- 42:36Speaker 9: and I'm gonna dot it on the outside corner. If
- 42:38Speaker 9: I miss, I'm gonna miss down in a way. If
- 42:39Speaker 9: I fall behind, fine, I trust that I can make
- 42:42Speaker 9: another pitch. And if if there's one guy that I
- 42:44Speaker 9: have the most confidence that he can just paint the
- 42:48Speaker 9: box all the way around that box, it's George Kirby.
- 42:52Speaker 9: And yet he has to go out there thinking that
- 42:54Speaker 9: don't go out there thinking, remember when we heard it
- 42:56Speaker 9: was that Bryce Miller said he gave up that leadoff
- 42:59Speaker 9: home run, And we have a joke.
- 43:00Speaker 8: That says, first pitch, all it doesn't count.
- 43:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:02Speaker 9: Yah, that's because they think rare back let it eat.
- 43:06Speaker 9: And you do that during the regular season because you
- 43:08Speaker 9: need to go deep. You can't say, well, if I
- 43:10Speaker 9: go four shutout innings and we get five out of
- 43:13Speaker 9: our bullpen every single night, you're not gonna have a
- 43:15Speaker 9: bullpen at the end of the year. You have to
- 43:17Speaker 9: go deeper than that. So you have to challenge guys
- 43:19Speaker 9: and hope they hit it at guys. That's not the
- 43:21Speaker 9: way you approach this game. You approach this game saying
- 43:23Speaker 9: I'm going to paint and if I miss, I'm missing
- 43:26Speaker 9: away from damage period. And if you walk a guy, fine,
- 43:30Speaker 9: just keep never give in, never give in, and you
- 43:32Speaker 9: have good enough stuff you don't have to give in.
- 43:35Speaker 9: And then if I think that their aggressiveness will go
- 43:38Speaker 9: work against them, then they might not swing at the
- 43:41Speaker 9: first one that's two inches off the plate away, put
- 43:43Speaker 9: another one that's one inch off the plate, ground ball
- 43:45Speaker 9: to second base. Don't say okay, well here you go,
- 43:47Speaker 9: here's a cookie. Because that one's gonna end up in
- 43:49Speaker 9: the gap. They're gonna be ready to rock and roll.
- 43:51Speaker 9: They're not going to change their game plan that worked
- 43:53Speaker 9: against you, So if you change yours, it's advantage George
- 43:57Speaker 9: Kirby and I think that he will.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Yeah, and zero worry about hitch count or anything like that.
- 44:01Speaker 1: You burn that building down. We don't worry about that
- 44:05Speaker 1: because we've got everybody that we can throw tonight. So
- 44:09Speaker 1: that's the time of night it's gonna be. We're gonna
- 44:11Speaker 1: be joined by Ryan Healy next. We'll get his thoughts
- 44:13Speaker 1: on game six Game seven Both Sports Radio ninety three
- 44:16Speaker 1: point three kJ RFM. Ashley, are you ready for a
- 44:19Speaker 1: Game seven?
- 44:20Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 44:20Speaker 1: Yeah, Bucky? Are you ready for a Game seven?
- 44:23Speaker 9: I'm not getting anything tattooed on my face, but yes,
- 44:28Speaker 9: Ryan Heally.
- 44:28Speaker 1: Is with us. Are you ready for a game seven?
- 44:31Speaker 2: Right? Heley?
- 44:32Speaker 14: I can't feel my face? How do these players still
- 44:34Speaker 14: right now? Because I can't imagine.
- 44:36Speaker 8: I can't feel my face.
- 44:38Speaker 1: I can't even feel my face. Ryan Heally's been with
- 44:42Speaker 1: us throughout the postgame show form or Mariner, and we've
- 44:45Speaker 1: had a ball chatting with him throughout this entire process,
- 44:49Speaker 1: and we want to carry it into the World Series.
- 44:51Speaker 1: So here we go. Game seven, gotta be done tonight.
- 44:55Speaker 1: How you feeling, How you're really feeling about this team tonight?
- 45:00Speaker 14: Confused, but honestly so excited.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 45:03Speaker 15: The last time we talked, it was just after Game
- 45:05Speaker 15: four and I was feeling frustrated, the emotions that I'm
- 45:09Speaker 15: sure Mariners fans had lived with for the last twenty
- 45:12Speaker 15: four years, and I felt it to my soul. And
- 45:14Speaker 15: then they come out there and they make me feel
- 45:16Speaker 15: like the most beautiful girl in the ball and they
- 45:18Speaker 15: hit a grand Slam in the bottom of the eighth inning,
- 45:21Speaker 15: a cal Rawle game tying home run. It's just so confusing.
- 45:24Speaker 15: I thought Rick Riz summed it up perfectly on his
- 45:26Speaker 15: broadcast yesterday. They're the cardiac kids. If we love them,
- 45:29Speaker 15: we have to love every version of them, and we're
- 45:32Speaker 15: gonna love them all the way through Game seven.
- 45:33Speaker 1: What did you think of Game six? Then let's go
- 45:36Speaker 1: ahead and let's dust that off. Let's get that out there,
- 45:39Speaker 1: and then we can focus on Game seven. Because I
- 45:42Speaker 1: had a lot of similar feelings after Game four that
- 45:45Speaker 1: I experienced last night.
- 45:48Speaker 15: See that's interesting because I didn't I didn't have those
- 45:50Speaker 15: same feelings after Game six, I felt like we had
- 45:53Speaker 15: a lot more opportunity to score runs.
- 45:56Speaker 14: It didn't happen.
- 45:56Speaker 15: Baseball is unfortunately the most cruel game out there. The
- 46:00Speaker 15: same situation happened in Game five to the Blue Jays.
- 46:02Speaker 15: A base is loaded.
- 46:04Speaker 1: What happened there? Hold on? Hold on? Hold on?
- 46:07Speaker 2: Right?
- 46:07Speaker 8: I don't know what happened.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, we gotta get his audio. Oh got
- 46:10Speaker 1: his audio back? All right?
- 46:11Speaker 15: I think we got your but my internet doesn't work
- 46:13Speaker 15: before nine. Am so really right the line right now?
- 46:16Speaker 15: It's nice, But I didn't have those same feelings Chuck yesterday.
- 46:20Speaker 15: I didn't feel like the Mariners gave the game away.
- 46:22Speaker 15: I thought you savage through tremendous. Yes, the defense, that's
- 46:24Speaker 15: such a fluke though, Like this is one of the
- 46:26Speaker 15: best defensive teams in the league, and they'll showcase that tonight.
- 46:29Speaker 15: But I think the jitters were there early. Hopefully they
- 46:31Speaker 15: got him out so they won't show up in Game seven.
- 46:34Speaker 15: But the offense had some opportunity. They'll come through. They
- 46:37Speaker 15: have come through all season, but their backs have been
- 46:39Speaker 15: up against the wall. And I think there's like a
- 46:41Speaker 15: sick part of the Mariners that wanted a game seven
- 46:44Speaker 15: just to really feel the pressure, and I'm excited to
- 46:46Speaker 15: see how they show up tonight.
- 46:47Speaker 9: Well, I mean, we got George Kirby on the bump,
- 46:50Speaker 9: and obviously he didn't have a very good outing. It
- 46:53Speaker 9: was a four innings, eight runs, eight hits. The first
- 46:56Speaker 9: time your boy Kevin Polar came on and he dropped
- 46:59Speaker 9: the stat of all eighteen hits that game came in
- 47:02Speaker 9: the first three pitches of the at bat. I mean,
- 47:05Speaker 9: it makes sense. It's a recipe that the Mariners trust
- 47:07Speaker 9: their stuff. They pound the zone, and you're going against
- 47:11Speaker 9: team that puts the ball in play and they just
- 47:12Speaker 9: were ultra aggressive. So do you do you expect George
- 47:16Speaker 9: to come out there and just do the same thing
- 47:18Speaker 9: that didn't work out last time, or maybe be a
- 47:21Speaker 9: little bit more cautious and try to pound the corners
- 47:24Speaker 9: all right?
- 47:24Speaker 1: Now, he's not hearing us.
- 47:26Speaker 9: Oh man, he lost audio.
- 47:30Speaker 8: You can hear us now?
- 47:31Speaker 1: Yeah, it does look sharp.
- 47:32Speaker 8: Yeah, he's thumbs up, but we can't hear him.
- 47:34Speaker 1: He's got a thumbs up to what the heck?
- 47:36Speaker 8: Hel it's game seven?
- 47:37Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, can you hear us now? Say something? Ryan,
- 47:41Speaker 1: say something.
- 47:42Speaker 15: I'm here Okay, he's here, Bucky, repeat the question I
- 47:46Speaker 15: lost you with Kevin Polar. You talked about the adjustments
- 47:48Speaker 15: that they were making here.
- 47:49Speaker 9: Well, yeah, Kevin had brought up the stat that they
- 47:51Speaker 9: had hit got all eighteen hits on the first three
- 47:54Speaker 9: pitches of the at bat, and so they were ultra aggressive.
- 47:57Speaker 9: And that makes sense because of how our pitching staff
- 47:59Speaker 9: pounds his own and doesn't throw a bunch of balls,
- 48:01Speaker 9: and so it just was a recipe for disaster. Do
- 48:04Speaker 9: you expect George to continue the I trust my stuff
- 48:07Speaker 9: will get you out.
- 48:07Speaker 8: I'm gonna just go ahead and throw it in the zone.
- 48:09Speaker 9: Or do you think he makes an adjustment says it's okay,
- 48:12Speaker 9: if I walk a guy here and there, I'm gonna
- 48:14Speaker 9: pitch the edges of the zone. If I miss, I'm
- 48:16Speaker 9: gonna miss away from danger.
- 48:18Speaker 15: There's gonna be specific situations where he's okay with walking
- 48:21Speaker 15: a guy, and I think there's batters in this lineup
- 48:23Speaker 15: where you can navigate around. But the one thing that
- 48:26Speaker 15: I'm gonna look for for George early tonight is he
- 48:28Speaker 15: able to command that slider. If he can get that
- 48:31Speaker 15: slider in the zone early, it's going to expand for
- 48:33Speaker 15: chase because there are some players in this lineup that
- 48:35Speaker 15: will expand we saw Kirk chase a slider in the
- 48:38Speaker 15: left handed batter's box the other night, so I note
- 48:40Speaker 15: that there's guys that are chased. We cannot let Vladimir
- 48:43Speaker 15: Guerrero Junior win Game seven for the Blue Jays. I
- 48:46Speaker 15: think that's like the name we're circling. That's the non
- 48:48Speaker 15: negotiable in this game. We have to force the rest
- 48:51Speaker 15: of the lineup to beat us. And the leadoff doubles.
- 48:54Speaker 15: I don't know how you mitigate leadoff doubles. That's the
- 48:57Speaker 15: probably really locking in from pitch one to lead off
- 49:00Speaker 15: an inning of how do we.
- 49:01Speaker 1: Keep traffic off the bases.
- 49:02Speaker 15: But if George can command that slider in the zone early,
- 49:05Speaker 15: and I'd look to see that sinker if he can,
- 49:07Speaker 15: if he can move right handed hitters off of the plate,
- 49:11Speaker 15: meaning throw that sinker underneath their hands, it's going to
- 49:13Speaker 15: open up the slider for the outside part of the plate.
- 49:15Speaker 15: And I'm really curious see if he'll be able to
- 49:17Speaker 15: command that back door to seamer to clip the outside
- 49:20Speaker 15: part of the zone. But his command and his execution
- 49:22Speaker 15: of his secondary pitches earlier are going to be really
- 49:24Speaker 15: important because that's where he ran the trouble in the
- 49:26Speaker 15: last start.
- 49:26Speaker 1: All right, what's the key to scoring runs? Then tonight
- 49:29Speaker 1: for the MS, we know what it is.
- 49:31Speaker 15: For the MS, it's hit home runs. So how do
- 49:33Speaker 15: we get players on base that the home runs aren't
- 49:35Speaker 15: solo shots? And I thought they did a nice job
- 49:37Speaker 15: that last night they flip the lineup a little bit
- 49:39Speaker 15: by moving Juli up to the leadoff spot.
- 49:41Speaker 14: I don't mind that. I thought cal Rawley hit a
- 49:43Speaker 14: couple of balls balls hard.
- 49:44Speaker 15: Yesterday, Polonko hit a couple balls off the end of
- 49:47Speaker 15: the bat to right field that could have been Homer's.
- 49:49Speaker 15: There was another ball that went off the top of
- 49:51Speaker 15: the wall that I think Revos hit. Like there's good
- 49:54Speaker 15: slings going around the numbers from top to bottom for
- 49:57Speaker 15: these Mariners, Like if you look at the bottom through
- 49:59Speaker 15: the lineup, they don't look tremendous, But for me, if
- 50:02Speaker 15: they can get on base, like Randy Rose, Rain is
- 50:04Speaker 15: finding ways to contribute to this team two hits the
- 50:07Speaker 15: other night as well. So I'm interested to see how
- 50:10Speaker 15: are we able to get bodies on the bases so
- 50:12Speaker 15: that when these big dudes come up and they connect
- 50:14Speaker 15: with one into two to three run home run. But
- 50:16Speaker 15: that's how the Mariners got here, and that's how they
- 50:18Speaker 15: brought up us to a game seven, So I don't
- 50:19Speaker 15: expect anything different.
- 50:20Speaker 9: All right, take me inside the hitters meeting against Shane Bieber.
- 50:23Speaker 9: I mean, veteran guy. He doesn't seem like he's going
- 50:26Speaker 9: to give in either. He had a good, good outing
- 50:28Speaker 9: against us his first time around. What do they got
- 50:30Speaker 9: to do to knock him around?
- 50:32Speaker 15: That's a great question. I thought that him and Insurzer
- 50:35Speaker 15: did a really good job similar pitch repertoires, between multiple
- 50:38Speaker 15: breaking balls, moving away from ron handed hitters, and locating
- 50:40Speaker 15: fastballs early. This is a situation where you're gonna have
- 50:44Speaker 15: to be aggressive earliness fastball, and you're gonna have to
- 50:48Speaker 15: be willing to make adjustment. They're gonna have a game plan,
- 50:50Speaker 15: they're gonna have a hitters meeting, They're gonna know exactly
- 50:52Speaker 15: what Bieber's trying to do to them. But there's gonna
- 50:54Speaker 15: have to be adjustments from inning to inning, because that's
- 50:57Speaker 15: where I think they lost Shane in the last start,
- 50:59Speaker 15: as he made an adjust in the second inning on
- 51:02Speaker 15: and the Mariners never counterstrike to that. That adjustment that
- 51:05Speaker 15: Beaver made, So I'm curious how they adjust inning to inning,
- 51:08Speaker 15: and I really like to see opportunities when we're at
- 51:11Speaker 15: this bottom third of the order. I think one of
- 51:13Speaker 15: those three guys, when Crawford canzone or Rebos, is going
- 51:15Speaker 15: to get a big hit tonight. But I'm also going
- 51:16Speaker 15: to see them moving runners over when the lineup turns around.
- 51:20Speaker 1: If I set the number at ten and a half
- 51:22Speaker 1: of pitchers used tonight by both teams combined, you take
- 51:27Speaker 1: the over or the under on that.
- 51:31Speaker 14: Over all day like this is.
- 51:32Speaker 15: They were talking last night in the broadcast of how
- 51:34Speaker 15: many starting pitchers would be available in the bullpen head
- 51:36Speaker 15: with Jaysonnight. This is gonna be a long, long box
- 51:39Speaker 15: score for both teams in the pitching side.
- 51:42Speaker 1: So what are you feeling, what's your gut? Tell you
- 51:45Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. What's the result here tonight?
- 51:48Speaker 14: I think the Mariners win in fifteen?
- 51:50Speaker 8: Ah, I said seventeen.
- 51:53Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't take it.
- 51:56Speaker 5: I can't.
- 51:57Speaker 8: I can't Why.
- 52:00Speaker 15: I had to take my ORR ring off last night.
- 52:02Speaker 15: My heart rate was getting too high. And if it
- 52:04Speaker 15: goes a seventeen, I might just have to throw this thing.
- 52:06Speaker 8: Away.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Well, of the three men in this conversation, you're the
- 52:10Speaker 1: only healthy one amongst us. So if it's doing that
- 52:13Speaker 1: to you, imagine what it's doing to both.
- 52:16Speaker 14: Scream man, play off baseball.
- 52:21Speaker 8: Well what a treat?
- 52:22Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. All right, man, Well enjoy it tonight.
- 52:25Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you in the next chance that
- 52:26Speaker 1: we have. Man, it's gonna be some fun, there's no
- 52:29Speaker 1: doubt about it.
- 52:32Speaker 15: Enjoy the journey, all right, no control over the outcome,
- 52:34Speaker 15: so just enjoy show.
- 52:35Speaker 8: All right.
- 52:35Speaker 1: There he is Ryan Healy joining us right here on
- 52:38Speaker 1: Chuck a Buck In the morning. We'll have an entire
- 52:40Speaker 1: Mariner hour before we hand things over to talk a
- 52:43Speaker 1: little football here this morning. We do have a Monday
- 52:46Speaker 1: night football game. Of course, you Mellan will be with
- 52:48Speaker 1: us at nine, Mike Holmber will be with us at
- 52:50Speaker 1: nine thirty. So what could we possibly do in our segment?
- 52:54Speaker 1: Next segment, it's ABC's at the m's time on Sports
- 52:57Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. He just happened to
- 53:00Speaker 1: have at five o'clock Game seven of the American League
- 53:03Speaker 1: Championship Series being played tonight. We've been talking about the
- 53:06Speaker 1: Mariners all morning long, but we will not ignore the
- 53:10Speaker 1: Seahawks Monday night football matchup against the Houston Texans, and
- 53:13Speaker 1: so Mike Holgern will join us at nine point thirty
- 53:15Speaker 1: this morning, and joining us now for his normal X's
- 53:18Speaker 1: and o's segment. It's our guy, the QB one, Hugh Millon,
- 53:22Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, what's happening? Good morning? Oh everything, everything
- 53:25Speaker 1: all at once is happening. No time for anything else.
- 53:28Speaker 1: You got a take on this game seven to night.
- 53:30Speaker 7: Well, look, you guys are the experts. You guys are
- 53:33Speaker 7: doing a phenomenal job. You ushould get an Emmy or something.
- 53:37Speaker 7: So I just got a late person's take, which would be,
- 53:40Speaker 7: you know, think of an NFL football player.
- 53:43Speaker 1: You only play once a week.
- 53:46Speaker 7: There's just seventeen games, obviously, and you usually play in
- 53:51Speaker 7: front of a full stadium or nearly full, and there's
- 53:55Speaker 7: a lot of importance. And then when you get to
- 53:57Speaker 7: the playoffs, every game isn't out. It's like a seventh game.
- 54:03Speaker 7: So the Mariners are the equivalent of the of playing
- 54:06Speaker 7: in the NFC Championship game tonight. And so a player
- 54:10Speaker 7: you've already kind of been in those pressure situations.
- 54:15Speaker 1: Now, let's contrast that to baseball.
- 54:17Speaker 7: The whole regular season, you're playing in relatively insignificant games,
- 54:25Speaker 7: not any one game. An NFL player has the weight
- 54:28Speaker 7: of ten baseball games. A baseball player and any one
- 54:33Speaker 7: game when he goes to the park for three hours,
- 54:35Speaker 7: he can say, well, you know, look, if I don't
- 54:38Speaker 7: play real well, there's not a lot of weight to it.
- 54:40Speaker 7: And then when you get to the playoffs, you know,
- 54:42Speaker 7: usually there's another playoff game. You rarely get into a
- 54:46Speaker 7: deciding game. So for the Mariners to be in the
- 54:49Speaker 7: seventh game, there is no professional athlete that has a
- 54:55Speaker 7: bigger delta that jump between how he usually goes the
- 55:00Speaker 7: park and the weight that is on the game when
- 55:03Speaker 7: he usually goes to the park to what the Mariners
- 55:06Speaker 7: have tonight. Every one of those players knows that the
- 55:09Speaker 7: Mariners have never been to the World Series. You say, well,
- 55:12Speaker 7: what about the seventh game of the World Series. Yeah,
- 55:14Speaker 7: most circumstances. But I think for the Mariners uniquely tonight,
- 55:20Speaker 7: they they know that if they make the World Series,
- 55:23Speaker 7: this is a successful season. They've got to know that.
- 55:26Speaker 7: And even if they were to lose, hell, if they
- 55:28Speaker 7: if they go, they're gonna be underdogs to the Dodgers.
- 55:31Speaker 7: I think in a way, they might be looser in
- 55:33Speaker 7: a seventh game of the World Series than they would
- 55:36Speaker 7: be tonight. There's a hell of a lot of pressure,
- 55:38Speaker 7: and so to me, I would just say, don't think
- 55:41Speaker 7: about who's the better team. Stop talking about who's the
- 55:43Speaker 7: better team.
- 55:44Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
- 55:45Speaker 7: The only thing that matters tonight is who is clutch.
- 55:49Speaker 7: Somebody is gonna be a clutch player tonight, and somebody
- 55:53Speaker 7: is gonna be a relative goat. I don't want to
- 55:55Speaker 7: say the whole game falls on them, but somebody's gonna have.
- 55:58Speaker 7: People are gonna have good games and see people are
- 56:01Speaker 7: gonna poor games tonight. Obviously you hope it's it's the mirrors,
- 56:04Speaker 7: but I think it's it's it's it's all about who
- 56:08Speaker 7: is clutch.
- 56:09Speaker 1: And we're gonna find out.
- 56:10Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna I mean, I'm kind of on that topic.
- 56:14Speaker 9: I mean, you played in some big games, right, You'll
- 56:16Speaker 9: you'll demean and you'll talk down about how you were
- 56:19Speaker 9: a backup guy and whatnot. But I know you played
- 56:22Speaker 9: in some big games whatever, but you still you played
- 56:24Speaker 9: in some big games in your life. You were parts
- 56:27Speaker 9: of that. And yet I mean, knowing you I know
- 56:30Speaker 9: how cerebral you are, how much you think about what
- 56:33Speaker 9: it is you're supposed to be thinking about, and so
- 56:36Speaker 9: what type of mindset, how how would you think is
- 56:40Speaker 9: the best way to try to arrive at being clutch
- 56:43Speaker 9: in that moment? I mean, what is the thing that
- 56:45Speaker 9: you have to kind of channel to hopefully find yourself
- 56:48Speaker 9: in the zone when when the pressure gets the toughest.
- 56:51Speaker 7: I think everybody processes it differently. I think some really
- 56:56Speaker 7: look at it and they say, hey, yes, this is
- 57:00Speaker 7: the uh, this is the the crucible of pressure.
- 57:04Speaker 1: I love it.
- 57:05Speaker 7: Tell me that the whole world is watching, and tell
- 57:08Speaker 7: in fact, tell me, tell me they're watching in the
- 57:11Speaker 7: Southern hemisphere, like I want it all. Some guys just
- 57:14Speaker 7: they'll say, hey, you know, I want to I want
- 57:17Speaker 7: to bring it back to normalcy. What what if this
- 57:19Speaker 7: was just a spring training game and it's just me
- 57:22Speaker 7: against the pitcher. Uh, then you know, how would I, well,
- 57:25Speaker 7: I'd break against this guy if it was spring training.
- 57:28Speaker 7: So let's just try and have the attitude. So I
- 57:30Speaker 7: think I think different athletes just process it differently in
- 57:34Speaker 7: that regard, and you're going to have a lot of
- 57:36Speaker 7: guys that that are trying to say, Hey, I relish this.
- 57:41Speaker 7: There's gonna be guys that are going to be trying
- 57:42Speaker 7: in their mind to diminish. Hey, it's no big deal.
- 57:45Speaker 7: It's just like a game in May, and you know,
- 57:48Speaker 7: you know, I just think that's the nature. But I
- 57:51Speaker 7: do think it is noteworthy that baseball players, for the
- 57:56Speaker 7: reasons I've stated, they have a bigger vault that they
- 58:01Speaker 7: are not used to going to the park and walking
- 58:06Speaker 7: into that locker room and getting dressed. They are not
- 58:08Speaker 7: used to having this kind of wait, at least in
- 58:13Speaker 7: terms of relative to other athletes and other team sports.
- 58:17Speaker 7: And so it's really not about who's the best team.
- 58:20Speaker 7: It's about who is going to be clutched in the
- 58:23Speaker 7: moment with us. Yeah, and we don't know it until
- 58:26Speaker 7: we don't know it until we see it.
- 58:27Speaker 1: R QB one. Yes, we got a Monday night football
- 58:30Speaker 1: game tonight, Seahawks taking on the Texans, along with every
- 58:34Speaker 1: other game in the world apparently being played tonight as well.
- 58:37Speaker 1: So let's dive into this Monday night affair. What stands
- 58:41Speaker 1: out to you as the pivotal aspect of this matchup?
- 58:45Speaker 7: Well, first of all, let's talk about the Texans. This
- 58:48Speaker 7: was a team that in twenty twenty two, where's three
- 58:51Speaker 7: and thirteen. They got the second pick in the draft
- 58:54Speaker 7: after Bryce Young went to Carolina. They pick up CJ.
- 58:58Speaker 7: Stroud and they trade so they got the second pick
- 59:01Speaker 7: in the draft, and they pick up Will Anderson, the
- 59:04Speaker 7: great linebacker with a third pick, so they get the
- 59:08Speaker 7: second and third pick. Then they go that next year
- 59:11Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, they go ten and seven, and they
- 59:13Speaker 7: went ten and seven last year, So a huge vault
- 59:16Speaker 7: right with a new coach as well. And I just
- 59:20Speaker 7: look at them now, they're two and three, but they're
- 59:24Speaker 7: off of two wins. They've got to buy If you
- 59:27Speaker 7: look at the AFC in that division, the Colts are
- 59:30Speaker 7: six and one. Let's assume they're running away from it.
- 59:32Speaker 7: But from a wildcard standpoint, the Bills are would be
- 59:36Speaker 7: the number one wildcard right now at four and two.
- 59:39Speaker 7: Then you've got four other teams that have three losses,
- 59:43Speaker 7: and the Texans are one of them. So in their mind,
- 59:45Speaker 7: we look at two and three, we say you're not
- 59:47Speaker 7: even a five hundred team. In their mind, they are
- 59:50Speaker 7: right equal with a playoff team, and so they're going
- 59:53Speaker 7: to come in here. And this is the part that
- 59:56Speaker 7: I want to say concerns you, but it sure as
- 59:58Speaker 7: hell gets your attention. Number One defensively and fewest points
- 1:00:02Speaker 7: allowed at twelve point two Seattle. We think of seattleven
- 1:00:05Speaker 7: a damn good defense. They're at nine. They're at sixth
- 1:00:08Speaker 7: in the NFL with nineteen and a half. So there's
- 1:00:11Speaker 7: a touchdown less that the Texans. The yards the Texans
- 1:00:15Speaker 7: are third, the first downs on defense, first downs allowed fourth.
- 1:00:20Speaker 7: I look at I go to the NFL stat portal
- 1:00:23Speaker 7: and I just I just look at page after page
- 1:00:25Speaker 7: on the website. It would be too many to discuss
- 1:00:29Speaker 7: in a segment like this or another segment, how many stats.
- 1:00:33Speaker 7: They're in the top five defensively, and so they've got
- 1:00:36Speaker 7: a hell they got a hell of a front four.
- 1:00:39Speaker 7: They they play mostly zone defense. In Cover one, which
- 1:00:44Speaker 7: is man to man, their twentieth in Cover zero, which
- 1:00:46Speaker 7: is an aggressive man to man with no free safety,
- 1:00:49Speaker 7: they're twenty ninth. But the percent of the time where
- 1:00:53Speaker 7: they have five rushers, they're fifth in the league. What
- 1:00:55Speaker 7: does that tell me? So they're a zone team, but
- 1:00:58Speaker 7: they rush five five is a that's a lot of
- 1:01:02Speaker 7: zone dogs. They want to fool you. So for Sam Darnold,
- 1:01:06Speaker 7: he got an extra day of preparation. You cannot be fueled.
- 1:01:10Speaker 7: A year ago. You had Justin Herbert, the only quarterback
- 1:01:15Speaker 7: in the history of the NFL, more interceptions in one
- 1:01:18Speaker 7: playoff game than he had had the entire regular season.
- 1:01:21Speaker 7: He had three interceptions in the regular season, four in
- 1:01:24Speaker 7: the playoff game. So that zone blitz that are reflected
- 1:01:28Speaker 7: in the numbers that I said has got to be
- 1:01:30Speaker 7: something that that.
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: You're prepared for.
- 1:01:35Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, you're talking about the way in which
- 1:01:39Speaker 9: their defense, where they rank number one obviously, and the
- 1:01:41Speaker 9: points allowed and whatnot. I was looking through some stuff
- 1:01:44Speaker 9: and and you know there, I think fifth in passing
- 1:01:48Speaker 9: yards allowed and they've only given up three touchdown passes
- 1:01:51Speaker 9: through six games.
- 1:01:52Speaker 8: That's a pretty low number.
- 1:01:54Speaker 9: They're rushing numbers against are pretty good as well, And
- 1:01:57Speaker 9: so I'm kind of wondering where your thoughts at as
- 1:02:00Speaker 9: far as is this a game where they have to
- 1:02:03Speaker 9: rush the ball effectively against this team because of the
- 1:02:06Speaker 9: fact that they don't give up a whole heck of
- 1:02:07Speaker 9: a lot in the passing game either.
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
- 1:02:11Speaker 7: But I think that Seattle has been able to put
- 1:02:14Speaker 7: up points without rushing the ball. That's just a testimony
- 1:02:17Speaker 7: to how good of a season Sam Darnold's had. I
- 1:02:20Speaker 7: think that when you look at there's I don't see
- 1:02:22Speaker 7: a lot of defensive lines that have the ratings. Uh,
- 1:02:26Speaker 7: you know it's you got. You've got Rankins, Sheldon Rankins
- 1:02:30Speaker 7: and Tim Settle as the defensive tackles. We mentioned Will
- 1:02:34Speaker 7: Anderson the third overall pick. He's he's got a lot
- 1:02:36Speaker 7: of juice. He's going to be over Lucas. I think
- 1:02:38Speaker 7: you got to protect him. But then you know, on
- 1:02:41Speaker 7: the other side, Daniel Hunter. Now, if if I'm assuming
- 1:02:45Speaker 7: you're a pretty good NFL fan, let's just make this.
- 1:02:48Speaker 7: If I told you that here's the top highest paid
- 1:02:51Speaker 7: defensive ends. If I told you Micah Parsons is number one,
- 1:02:54Speaker 7: you're not surprised. If I told you Tz Wats is
- 1:02:56Speaker 7: number two, you're not surprised. Miles Garrett's number three, You're
- 1:02:59Speaker 7: not surprised. Daniel Hunter's number four, not Will Anderson. Daniel
- 1:03:03Speaker 7: Hunter for the Texans is going over Charles Cross and then, oh,
- 1:03:08Speaker 7: by the way, behind him are Max Crosby, Nick Moson,
- 1:03:11Speaker 7: Trey Henderson. You would you would expect all those guys.
- 1:03:13Speaker 7: So I think Daniel Hunter of those seven is the
- 1:03:16Speaker 7: guy you go hunh oh, I didn't know him, and
- 1:03:19Speaker 7: and so that front four. And then you take their secondary.
- 1:03:23Speaker 7: Now Stingley is the third overall pick, the corner on
- 1:03:27Speaker 7: on Seattle's right side. Uh, and then Kamari Lassiter the
- 1:03:32Speaker 7: second rounder out of Georgia. I mean they got talented corner.
- 1:03:35Speaker 7: The corners aren't probably playing to the level of their talent.
- 1:03:38Speaker 7: But then Jalen Petre's playing his ass off as a
- 1:03:41Speaker 7: nickel and a safety guy. So so I think that
- 1:03:44Speaker 7: they're Oh, by the way, their middle linebacker. It seems
- 1:03:47Speaker 7: like every week Seattle's playing good middle linebackers. But but uh, yeah,
- 1:03:51Speaker 7: there's just there's a lot of talent out there. But
- 1:03:54Speaker 7: but I think it's it's the coaching. And uh, when
- 1:03:58Speaker 7: they brought in CJS Stroud, they also they they Lovey
- 1:04:03Speaker 7: Smith is gone and they've got They've got Demiko Ryans
- 1:04:07Speaker 7: as a hell of a defensive coach. They are tied together.
- 1:04:10Speaker 7: As you said, I'm more impressed with the coaching when
- 1:04:12Speaker 7: I see a team that plays zoned, because you have
- 1:04:15Speaker 7: to play more as a unit as opposed to man
- 1:04:17Speaker 7: to man and and so in that regard, there's some
- 1:04:20Speaker 7: similarities between the Texans defensively and what Mike McDonald has
- 1:04:25Speaker 7: done with Baltimore and Seattle.
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: Hugh melanis Weather's our QB one x'es and o's segments
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: here on a Monday with a Monday night football game
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: being played tonight at Looming Field against the Houston Texans.
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: But it's been such a busy week. I mean, it's
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: a week in which Hugh Millan's Washington Husky's faced as
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: mister Millons Michigan Wolverines. Yeah, over the weekend, and so
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: obviously did not go the way of the dogs. What's
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: your take from that Saturday debacle.
- 1:04:58Speaker 7: Well, I'm just kind of thinking about Jedfish today and
- 1:05:02Speaker 7: I'm wondering whether Saturday on that plane ride and yesterday
- 1:05:08Speaker 7: was add or near the bottom of his just his
- 1:05:13Speaker 7: mood at lowest point of his coaching career. Maybe maybe
- 1:05:18Speaker 7: certainly head coaching for the following reasons. So he's on
- 1:05:22Speaker 7: record as having said that he'd be very intrigued by
- 1:05:26Speaker 7: the Florida job. He wears a advisor as an homage
- 1:05:30Speaker 7: to Steve Spurrier. He has said it'd be very hard
- 1:05:33Speaker 7: to turn that away. So the Florida jobs as most
- 1:05:37Speaker 7: no came open. Billy Napier got fired yesterday. I'm theorizing
- 1:05:43Speaker 7: that he wants that job, and he could have reasonably
- 1:05:47Speaker 7: thought that he was a candidate for that job. And
- 1:05:50Speaker 7: so now going back to ann Arbor at this time,
- 1:05:56Speaker 7: when when Florida is considering different candidates, to go back
- 1:06:00Speaker 7: and only score seven points against a good but not
- 1:06:03Speaker 7: great Michigan team and lose by seventeen. And then furthermore,
- 1:06:07Speaker 7: it's the way they did it because his prize pupil,
- 1:06:11Speaker 7: Demond Williams. We all love Demond Williams, we all see
- 1:06:14Speaker 7: his talent. And yet a year ago, let's say on
- 1:06:19Speaker 7: November eleventh, a year ago, after playing Penn State, this
- 1:06:22Speaker 7: is what Jedfish said. He goes quote and now when
- 1:06:26Speaker 7: Demond gets in there next year, meaning this year, he's
- 1:06:30Speaker 7: going to have the experience of playing in a white
- 1:06:32Speaker 7: out in front of one hundred and seven thousand, he's
- 1:06:34Speaker 7: going to have the experience of what does it feel
- 1:06:37Speaker 7: like to try and make a slant throat into tight
- 1:06:39Speaker 7: coverage on fourth and fifth and be able to draw
- 1:06:42Speaker 7: from that experience end quote that there's some irony there
- 1:06:46Speaker 7: because you were you played demand at sometimes at awkward
- 1:06:50Speaker 7: times a year ago, and maybe the senior senior players
- 1:06:54Speaker 7: were grousing like, hey, are we playing for twenty twenty four?
- 1:06:57Speaker 7: Are we played for the future? And so so Demon
- 1:07:01Speaker 7: Williams was given that experience for Saturday's game against Michigan.
- 1:07:05Speaker 7: And the irony is that he had he had spoken
- 1:07:08Speaker 7: to Now it wasn't fourth and the five this past Saturday,
- 1:07:12Speaker 7: and it wasn't a white out, but it wasn't front.
- 1:07:15Speaker 7: It was in front of one hundred and seven thousand,
- 1:07:17Speaker 7: and the critical interception the base when it was the
- 1:07:20Speaker 7: score was tied seven to seven, and it was essentially
- 1:07:22Speaker 7: a pick six that was a slant route and which
- 1:07:27Speaker 7: which against Fish had commented on that particular route a
- 1:07:31Speaker 7: year ago. And both of those interceptions, the first two
- 1:07:34Speaker 7: interceptions that were on first and ten. The first one
- 1:07:37Speaker 7: was a slant route. He just didn't see the will linebacker.
- 1:07:39Speaker 7: That was a good good play for that defense. You
- 1:07:43Speaker 7: just you got to in and out high low that
- 1:07:44Speaker 7: Will linebacker and and he didn't see him. So that's
- 1:07:48Speaker 7: on Demon Williams. The second interception was called why stick.
- 1:07:54Speaker 7: That is the most ubiquitous. I was literally coaching that
- 1:07:57Speaker 7: in seventh grade it's all over high school in the NFL.
- 1:08:01Speaker 7: That concept it's been around for a long damn time,
- 1:08:04Speaker 7: and you don't want to run that against a five
- 1:08:06Speaker 7: hundred two deep z. So so wink what Martin Deel,
- 1:08:10Speaker 7: the defeats defensive coordinator for Michigan, he out coached him
- 1:08:13Speaker 7: on that play. And then the confusion where the tight
- 1:08:17Speaker 7: ends breaking out and demon Williams is expecting him to
- 1:08:20Speaker 7: hook apparently. You know when I coach that, I was like, hey,
- 1:08:24Speaker 7: tight end, if you're going to hook it up in
- 1:08:26Speaker 7: the zone, then turn inside. If you're going to break
- 1:08:29Speaker 7: away from that, what's called the third defender, you count
- 1:08:31Speaker 7: outside end. If you're going to break away from the
- 1:08:34Speaker 7: number three, then then you break to the outside. And
- 1:08:38Speaker 7: then there's there is a a cohesion and understanding between
- 1:08:42Speaker 7: quarterback and receiver and so on that play. The second interception, Uh,
- 1:08:48Speaker 7: Washington out coached and so I think it's a I
- 1:08:51Speaker 7: think it was really a probably a disillusioning plane ride going.
- 1:08:57Speaker 7: We just scored seven points and damn Florida jobs open
- 1:09:01Speaker 7: and DeMont Williams just threw it three interceptions. And I
- 1:09:04Speaker 7: thought we had groomed him so that he this would
- 1:09:07Speaker 7: be the type of game he could take over. And
- 1:09:09Speaker 7: he still has yet to have a quality win against
- 1:09:12Speaker 7: a good opponent.
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:09:14Speaker 7: You know, he's beat beat, beat up on, beat up
- 1:09:17Speaker 7: mightily on the feeble, but Demond Williams has yet to
- 1:09:21Speaker 7: have that signature win. And don't tell me the Louisville
- 1:09:24Speaker 7: game when they missed their start. You know, their their
- 1:09:27Speaker 7: starting quarterback bout out for the Bowl, their second string
- 1:09:30Speaker 7: went in the transferred poll, their their best defense and
- 1:09:33Speaker 7: they had got their their best defensive dB. Everybody pulling
- 1:09:38Speaker 7: out of that game. That was You watched that tape.
- 1:09:40Speaker 7: It looked like there was eight guys playing defense for Louisvill.
- 1:09:44Speaker 7: So don't tell me the Bowl game. He's got to
- 1:09:46Speaker 7: have a win like he should have had on Saturday.
- 1:09:50Speaker 7: That's why you played him a year ago. And so
- 1:09:52Speaker 7: at any event, I think that it's a little bit
- 1:09:54Speaker 7: of a sobering experience for Jed Fish trying to get
- 1:09:57Speaker 7: over that game.
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: Well tonight we got enjoy the craziness of this. It is, yeah, crazy,
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: it can be.
- 1:10:05Speaker 7: Well tomorrow, you guys are going to kill it again
- 1:10:08Speaker 7: no matter what happens.
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: So keep up the good work.
- 1:10:11Speaker 8: All right.
- 1:10:11Speaker 1: We'll talk to you as well, all right, r QB
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: one Hugh Millan, and he will be with us tomorrow
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: whether the Mariners winn or lose, to spend some time
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: on the Seahawks and their game against the Texans. Tonight,
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: we will spend a little bit more time on it
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: with Mike Holmgren, who joins us next Sports Radio ninety
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- 1:11:02Speaker 2: Hi.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: Yes, coach, O'm gonna joins us here on this Monday.
- 1:11:06Speaker 1: So much going on around these here on parts uh
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: and yet we do have a Monday night football game.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: We haven't talked to coaching a little while. We miss
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: him and so here he is with us on Chuck
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: and Buck. Good morning, sir, Good morning Chuck.
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: How's it going?
- 1:11:20Speaker 8: All right?
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: Going? All right? What do you think?
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: What do you think about game seven to night? What's
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: your gut feel? What are you feeling?
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: Oh?
- 1:11:26Speaker 13: Well, the Marriers are gonna do it. It's gonna be exciting.
- 1:11:29Speaker 13: Uh uh they got it. It's been so good and
- 1:11:34Speaker 13: then last night it just uh you know, it got
- 1:11:37Speaker 13: away from him. So see how the pitching is.
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: That's the big thing.
- 1:11:40Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I like to get you in that clubhouse maybe,
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: uh meal, a little pep talk.
- 1:11:46Speaker 13: Well, I don't think, you know, Dan, Dan seems to
- 1:11:47Speaker 13: be able to get him going, so you know, I
- 1:11:51Speaker 13: hope he does it again.
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: I don't know. I think a homegun fire needs to
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: be unders.
- 1:11:57Speaker 8: I couldn't hurt.
- 1:11:58Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I think. What do you you what
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: do you chart out as the key to this thing tonight?
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: Going up against a great defense in Houston.
- 1:12:07Speaker 13: Yeah, I think it's going to be. It could be
- 1:12:09Speaker 13: a low scoring game and they you know, Houston has
- 1:12:11Speaker 13: a good defense, a good line up front. So the
- 1:12:17Speaker 13: matchup between the offensive line for the Seahawks and the
- 1:12:20Speaker 13: upfront for the for the Texans is going to be
- 1:12:23Speaker 13: the deciding factor, I think, So I hope a lot
- 1:12:25Speaker 13: of play action. That's what I'm hoping for.
- 1:12:27Speaker 8: Well that's what I was going to go with.
- 1:12:29Speaker 9: It was the play action, and yet they haven't really
- 1:12:32Speaker 9: ran the ball super effectively, and yet the play action
- 1:12:35Speaker 9: still works. So being the offensive mastermind that you are,
- 1:12:39Speaker 9: is do you do you have to establish the run
- 1:12:43Speaker 9: or is it no? Just run it a couple of
- 1:12:45Speaker 9: times and then do what's been working more often than not,
- 1:12:48Speaker 9: even though you know you're going up against a defense
- 1:12:50Speaker 9: that doesn't give up a bunch running or passing.
- 1:12:53Speaker 13: Yeah, you know what, it always helps when you can
- 1:12:55Speaker 13: establish the runner for your playpack, play pass game. But
- 1:12:59Speaker 13: I think the just have to come out and call things,
- 1:13:03Speaker 13: you know, throw it on first down, call your game
- 1:13:06Speaker 13: a little differently, you know, to keep the defense off
- 1:13:08Speaker 13: balance because they've got a good defense. So that's what
- 1:13:11Speaker 13: I'm hoping to see.
- 1:13:12Speaker 1: Mike Comrian with US says the Seahawks take on the
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: Houston Texans here this evening. What is your take on
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: c J. Stroud. He got off to such a great
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: start as an NFL quarterback and then maybe a little
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: bit of a sophomore slump a year ago, even though
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: he still helped his team get into the playoffs, and
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: then this year off to a little bit of a
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: slow start, a lot of people thought he was going
- 1:13:34Speaker 1: to have a rebound. So what's your read on CJ.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: Stroud as he plays in his third year in the NFL.
- 1:13:42Speaker 13: Well, I think he's kind of hot and cold. He's
- 1:13:45Speaker 13: not real consistent right now. But he's really a talented guy.
- 1:13:49Speaker 13: So when I watch him play, it looks like some
- 1:13:50Speaker 13: of the decision making physically he's got everything okay, But
- 1:13:55Speaker 13: typically with quarterbacks and you guys know this, You know
- 1:13:58Speaker 13: their decision making and how they redefense is how they
- 1:14:01Speaker 13: prepare for the game. Even the great physical talent doesn't
- 1:14:05Speaker 13: get you through things unless you prepare properly, unless you understand,
- 1:14:09Speaker 13: really understand what you're trying to do and every pass.
- 1:14:12Speaker 13: So that's what I see. I see at a little bit,
- 1:14:18Speaker 13: not throwing it on time, making some bad decisions on occasion.
- 1:14:22Speaker 13: Otherwise he's got everything. I really love to have this
- 1:14:26Speaker 13: guy on my team.
- 1:14:27Speaker 9: What do they have to do the Seahawks? I mean,
- 1:14:29Speaker 9: is it just as simple as win to try to
- 1:14:32Speaker 9: get over this hump? A little bit of the home
- 1:14:35Speaker 9: field advantage. I mean it used to be back you know,
- 1:14:38Speaker 9: you kind of brought that thing here and it was
- 1:14:40Speaker 9: the worst place to come play.
- 1:14:42Speaker 8: Nobody liked doing it.
- 1:14:43Speaker 9: And yet they're going on the road and winning left
- 1:14:45Speaker 9: and right, but finding it more difficult to do at home.
- 1:14:47Speaker 8: What do they got to change?
- 1:14:50Speaker 13: Well, you know, Buck, it's a puzzle, honestly, because we
- 1:14:53Speaker 13: talk about it each week. It seems like and and
- 1:14:56Speaker 13: they you have such an advantage, the team has such
- 1:14:59Speaker 13: an advance here, and that advantage should equate to wins.
- 1:15:04Speaker 13: And I don't know, you know, I mean I was
- 1:15:08Speaker 13: even thinking if I do they stay in hotels and
- 1:15:12Speaker 13: that before the game. Do they let them stay home?
- 1:15:14Speaker 13: I don't know what they do, but I always said,
- 1:15:17Speaker 13: if I can control them at home, I'm going to
- 1:15:19Speaker 13: control them. So they're going to stay in the hotel,
- 1:15:21Speaker 13: I'm going to check them for bedcheck, and then we're
- 1:15:23Speaker 13: going to go to the stadium. I don't know if
- 1:15:25Speaker 13: they do that. If they do that, fine, but there's
- 1:15:27Speaker 13: something that they're not taking advantage of. And so to
- 1:15:32Speaker 13: your point, they got to win. They got to win
- 1:15:35Speaker 13: big at home and get them rolling that way and
- 1:15:38Speaker 13: get them using the crowd and the fans will react accordingly.
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: You know, coach and the National Football League quarterbacks, if
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: they get off to a rough start in their careers,
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: they tend to get put to the back of the line.
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: But we've seen a couple of guys Baker Mayfield and
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: Sam Darnold with the Seahawks that are kind of taking
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: that rich Gannon approach. Like something clicked here in the
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: last couple of years. I don't know what it is.
- 1:16:07Speaker 1: Maybe you can tell me. What is it that like
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback who's not really found his success until
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: later in life, what tends to kick in? What do
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: they tend to have in common when it finally does
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: start to go well.
- 1:16:24Speaker 13: I think, first of all, it's the combination, is the
- 1:16:26Speaker 13: connectedtivity between the coach or the coordinator and the player.
- 1:16:32Speaker 13: Because you know, we talked about it for as well.
- 1:16:34Speaker 13: You know, you go to the Jets as your number
- 1:16:36Speaker 13: one draft pick and a lot of expectations. It's New
- 1:16:39Speaker 13: York and it doesn't work, and all of a sudden
- 1:16:41Speaker 13: you go into a little bit of a slump saying,
- 1:16:43Speaker 13: maybe I wasn't as good as I thought it was.
- 1:16:46Speaker 13: But then you get with the right coach, the right program,
- 1:16:49Speaker 13: surrounded by some people that can really play, and then
- 1:16:53Speaker 13: you're calling the game to his strength, and all of
- 1:16:55Speaker 13: a sudden you get to be more effective, and then
- 1:16:58Speaker 13: it builds your confidence and then you become the player
- 1:17:02Speaker 13: that you were supposed to be. And you see it
- 1:17:05Speaker 13: and at Baker Mayfield's a great example of that. Sam
- 1:17:10Speaker 13: Donald's is a great example of that. He signally had
- 1:17:12Speaker 13: a place well, I think he went to the place
- 1:17:15Speaker 13: last year, so he got a good, good situation in Minnesota.
- 1:17:21Speaker 13: Look at Minnesota now, I mean they're struggling a little
- 1:17:23Speaker 13: bit with their quarterback situation because of injury. But with
- 1:17:27Speaker 13: those guys that come into your program, and you know
- 1:17:30Speaker 13: that when you get one of those guys and then
- 1:17:33Speaker 13: you say, okay, I always thought it throwing complete caution
- 1:17:37Speaker 13: to the win. Just give me somebody, give me somebody
- 1:17:41Speaker 13: with physical talents, and I can help him be the
- 1:17:43Speaker 13: best he can be. And I think that's how you
- 1:17:45Speaker 13: have to approach it. And then then you get the
- 1:17:47Speaker 13: kid to buy in and then you got something coach.
- 1:17:51Speaker 9: Obviously, I mean even after this week, they're going to
- 1:17:53Speaker 9: have ten weeks of football, so long ways to go.
- 1:17:56Speaker 9: But how important do you feel it is for them
- 1:17:59Speaker 9: to keep pace with the forty nine ers and Rams
- 1:18:03Speaker 9: considering if they win this one, they'll still be tied
- 1:18:05Speaker 9: record wise anyways with them versus falling the game behind.
- 1:18:10Speaker 13: Yeah, no, I think it's this game is really important, Bucket.
- 1:18:12Speaker 13: It's really important because the forty nine ers are doing
- 1:18:16Speaker 13: it even though they're quarterbacks. A lot of people are hurt.
- 1:18:19Speaker 13: But it's going to go down to the wire in
- 1:18:21Speaker 13: the division, in my opinion, it's going to be really close.
- 1:18:24Speaker 13: So every single game is important, and this game in
- 1:18:27Speaker 13: particular because then they have the buy I think next week, right, yep, yep, yeah,
- 1:18:33Speaker 13: so going into the buy, kind of regroup, get the
- 1:18:35Speaker 13: injury guys back, and then play the rest of the season.
- 1:18:39Speaker 13: But listen, we thought they were going to be pretty good,
- 1:18:42Speaker 13: but they're they're pretty good. I mean, they're doing fine.
- 1:18:45Speaker 13: But this game, this game tonight is really important for
- 1:18:48Speaker 13: all the reasons you mentioned, not the downplay at all,
- 1:18:53Speaker 13: win at home, get it going at home, and then
- 1:18:55Speaker 13: you can see a really bright future.
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: You know, when you were head coach the Seahawks, you
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: were here for each your romania, the record setting a
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: regular season that the Mariners had and uh, of course
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: World Series dreams and so what what is that like
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: to be the football team in town that usually gets
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: the most attention?
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: Uh?
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you know, you start
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: sharing that stage, if not handing the stage over to
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: the local baseball team in town. What was that experience
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: like for you? And uh? And and what is the
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: what is it like for the players?
- 1:19:34Speaker 13: I didn't like it. It put a lot of pressure on me,
- 1:19:36Speaker 13: you know, no, I I you know, I gotta I
- 1:19:41Speaker 13: got a chance to visit with all the managers. Not
- 1:19:45Speaker 13: not this year, but when when I was coaching and
- 1:19:48Speaker 13: we kind of had a mutual respect and mutual relationship
- 1:19:52Speaker 13: and I was rooting for them all the way and
- 1:19:53Speaker 13: they knew that. And so yeah, this is it's you
- 1:19:57Speaker 13: just you're happy for them. You're happy for them, You're
- 1:19:59Speaker 13: happy for the fans. This is a really exciting deal.
- 1:20:03Speaker 13: And if they go to the World Series, oh my goodness.
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:20:05Speaker 13: But I went to went to church yesterday and I
- 1:20:08Speaker 13: had guys come up to me. I was at the game.
- 1:20:10Speaker 13: I was at the game, you know, a game. I said, Okay,
- 1:20:13Speaker 13: calm down, we still got a little to play.
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: Here.
- 1:20:15Speaker 13: You know I want to how about you mean football? No,
- 1:20:19Speaker 13: not football?
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: Uh well it's fun, there's no question about it. So
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: get out the popcorn tonight, you know, yes, and enjoy yourself.
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: I mean, you got a lot of stuff to choose from.
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: You got your cracking hockey at four o'clock. That's when
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: I get started, and then you got baseball at five,
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: and you got football at seven. So just buckle in,
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: get your snacks ready.
- 1:20:45Speaker 13: No, I'm in fact, I'm taking some pressure off Cathy
- 1:20:48Speaker 13: to I'm making ribs. You're making ribs, coleslaw, and garlic
- 1:20:53Speaker 13: mashed potatoes.
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: Those three.
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: All right, So Bucky and I are broadcasting high from
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: the Holme grins. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:21:01Speaker 13: I was hoping Buck, you'd bring a little dip over,
- 1:21:03Speaker 13: but I guess that's.
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: What could happen.
- 1:21:05Speaker 9: Well, if I'm invited for all those fictions, I'll bring
- 1:21:08Speaker 9: some elk dip for sure.
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: They'll bring a vat bring a keg. You just go
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: tag keg? All right, coach, Well, enjoy. We'll talk to
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: you tomorrow, right guys.
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: Thanks?
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: All right, Mike Homberan joining us right here on Chuck
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: and Buck in the mornings. One last thing to close
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: out this Monday edition of Chucking Buck in the Morning.
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