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Chuck & Buck 12-30 Hour 2: 12th Man news with Gregg Bell, total chaos and what are the Chargers doing? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: thirtieth day of December twenty twenty five. Ashley, Ryan, Bucky
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Speaker 1: Jacobson and Chuck Powell with you. It is our final
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Speaker 1: show of twenty twenty five. We will be back on
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Speaker 1: the airwaves Friday for a Football Friday to get you
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Speaker 1: set for this Saturday's monstrous game between the Seahawks and
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers for the number one seed in
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Speaker 1: the NFC Playoffs. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs bye
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Speaker 1: and round number one. Oh yeah, there's a lot at stake.
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Speaker 1: And then there's that nifty old rivalry.
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Speaker 3: Thing you know that's also yeah, I start about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, can't you just throw the records out
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Speaker 1: the window in a great rivalry? Right? Yeah? Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: even if there wasn't all this at stake, it'd still
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Speaker 1: be awesome, right. Seahawks forty nine ers Saturday at five o'clock.
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Speaker 1: And yesterday we finished out Week number seventeen of the
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Speaker 1: NFL season with an Atlanta Falcons twenty seven to twenty
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Speaker 1: four win over the Los Angeles Rams. And there is
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Speaker 1: some significance to the Seahawks playoff path with that result.
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Speaker 1: And so we'll cover that now with your frost brew
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Speaker 1: course like choose chill headlines. And the path changes. From
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Speaker 1: this perspective, the Seahawks are now no longer a threat
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Speaker 1: to end up with the sixth seed. There was still
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Speaker 1: a possibility they could end up being the sixth seed
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Speaker 1: in all of this because out of their same division,
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Speaker 1: you had a chance for the three best records in
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Speaker 1: the NFC. Well, now that creates separation, enough separation between
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks and Rams that no matter what happens in
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Speaker 1: the final week of the regular season. The Seahawks at
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Speaker 1: worst are going to get the five seed in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: and of course, at best they are the number one seed,
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Speaker 1: and the five seed puts you in Carolina or Tampa
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Speaker 1: in week number one, where the sixth seed could have
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Speaker 1: put you in Philadelphia or in Chicago. And so to
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Speaker 1: me sounds like an easier path. I wanted to be
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Speaker 1: on the one, four to five side of the bracket,
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Speaker 1: and last night's Rams loss assured that the Seahawks will
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Speaker 1: be on that side of the bracket. Meanwhile, the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcons have also monkeyed up a little bit of the process.
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Speaker 1: Here it look like a clear cut Carolina versus Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay winner gets into the playoffs. Not so fast, my friend,
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Speaker 1: to quote Lee Corso. Now, with Atlanta having a chance
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Speaker 1: to win out, they would end up with the same
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Speaker 1: record as both Tampa and Carolina. Should Tampa beat Carolina
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, and in a three way tiebreaker, it's the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers they get into the playoffs and win the division,
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Speaker 1: not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers even should they win on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: So not exactly what the NFL was thinking. Of when
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Speaker 1: they devised the Tampa Bay Buccaneers taking on the Carolina
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Speaker 1: Panthers a Saturday. They were hoping one team's in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: One team is out, but it's no longer as clear
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Speaker 1: cut as that. Chargers are going to rest Justin Herbert
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Speaker 1: and some others for their Week eighteen tilt against the
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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Can't make the Paytriots happy. Lamar Jackson's status
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Speaker 1: to be determined before Baltimore tries to earn their playoff
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Speaker 1: spot against Pittsburgh on Sunday Night Football. The college football
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Speaker 1: playoff rezumes tomorrow at four point thirty with Miami and
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, and then three games will be played on
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Speaker 1: New Year's Day. You dub Huskies win on the hardwood
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Speaker 1: seventy four to sixty five over Utah, and we heard
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Speaker 1: the make delivery game of the game from Everett fits you.
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Speaker 1: The Krakens four game winning streak came to a close
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Speaker 1: at home against the Canucks and a shootout three to
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Speaker 1: two the final score. There, that's a lot of headlines.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk to Greg Bell with the Bell tolls.
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Speaker 4: Now with twelfth Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
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Speaker 4: and Bud.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg, Happy.
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Speaker 5: New Year, Yeah, Happy New Year. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, I know, Mike McDonald would never
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Speaker 1: admit it publicly because that would be in the form
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Speaker 1: of fall onto the umbrella of you know, bulletin board
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Speaker 1: material for an opponent. But I think he was pretty
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Speaker 1: happy with the result last night, assuring them to be
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Speaker 1: on the one four five side of the bracket. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong about that, but it just seems like even
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Speaker 1: if you lose Saturday, that's a better path to the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl than being over in Philadelphia or Chicago in
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Speaker 1: Round one of the playoffs.
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure about that because the past, the wildcard
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Speaker 5: pass the Super Bowl is treacherous no matter who you play,
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Speaker 5: because you gotta win three games on the road in
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Speaker 5: three weeks, and you just have to win two games
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Speaker 5: in both at home. If the Seahawks went on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Well no, I'm not saying that I mean, you want
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Speaker 1: the one seed for sure. I'm just saying I'd rather
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Speaker 1: have the five. I'd certainly rather have the five seed
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Speaker 1: than the six for.
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Speaker 5: The first game. Then the NFL reseeds after the first game.
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Speaker 5: It's not a set brack, so the lowest remaining seed
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Speaker 5: after the first round plays the one. So it's conceivable.
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Speaker 5: Let's say that the Packers beat the Bears, and the Rams,
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Speaker 5: who if they can right themselves, are one of the
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Speaker 5: best teams in the league, wins their first round game,
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Speaker 5: and then if the Seahawks went to Tampavera, Carolina and
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Speaker 5: won its first round game, it's conceivable that the first
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Speaker 5: seed would be playing the seven, and the five would
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Speaker 5: host the six, and suddenly the Seahawks have a home
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Speaker 5: game against the Rams in round two. It's but the
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Speaker 5: simple math of having to win three games go to
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Speaker 5: Super Bowl rather than two means, of course, this is
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Speaker 5: so important Saturday night for the Seahawks to win in
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Speaker 5: terms of the very first round game. Yes, you'd much
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Speaker 5: rather be the five than the sixth, and last night's
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Speaker 5: result breaks Seattle's way in that regard. But that's of
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Speaker 5: course not how McDonald and the Seahawks are viewing it.
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Speaker 5: They're viewing their process over results. They make a game
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Speaker 5: plan and prepare accordingly to play another strong game and
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Speaker 5: win the game on Saturday night, and then where do
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Speaker 5: they play next? And that's kind of how his attitude
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Speaker 5: was yesterday about the Saturday game versus a Sunday game.
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Speaker 5: Instead of the NBC choosing the Seahawks forty nine Ers
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Speaker 5: for the Sunday night game, no surprise to me at
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Speaker 5: all that they chose Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers against
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Speaker 5: the Ravens, potentially with Lamar Jackson a winner out, win
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Speaker 5: or go home situation. And we asked McDonald yesterday about
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Speaker 5: I got play Saturday after flying back from the East Coast.
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Speaker 5: So what when do we play? Just tell us when
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Speaker 5: we play. So it's all about that stuff that we
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Speaker 5: are left those of us get to talk about all
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Speaker 5: the other stuff.
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Speaker 6: Gee. I mean after last night's game, where the Rams
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Speaker 6: to some degree felt like they just weren't really all
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Speaker 6: there to play at first. I mean, Stafford throws a
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Speaker 6: couple of balls and right to their guys they pick
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Speaker 6: sixes and whatnot. But I am wondering, after last night's game,
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Speaker 6: do you feel like the folk over there at the
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Speaker 6: v mac ar Our thing, and we're the best team
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Speaker 6: in the NFL, right, I mean they're preparing obviously for
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Speaker 6: a big game that has a lot of implications with
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Speaker 6: the number one seed and.
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Speaker 1: To buy and all that stuff.
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Speaker 6: But are they feeling like they're the best because, I mean,
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Speaker 6: over in the AFC, I don't know if there's anybody
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Speaker 6: over there that is the world beater, world dominator, and
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Speaker 6: that same thing really in the NFC, even though the
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Speaker 6: Rams maybe have been the closest thing to that, and
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Speaker 6: yet they've scuffled here the last I don't know, a
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Speaker 6: few weeks.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they have. Stafford looked nothing like himself last night
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Speaker 5: all the way through the end of the game, is
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Speaker 5: seeing wide open guys and everything else. I think the
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Speaker 5: Seahawks believe they have the best defense in the world,
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Speaker 5: and I think they think that might be enough to
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Speaker 5: get to the Super Bowl. And I wrote a story yesterday.
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Speaker 5: I feel like I've written this story about six times
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Speaker 5: the last six weeks. Can the Seahawks win the Super Bowl?
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Speaker 5: Can they keep winning? With Sam Darnold turning the ball
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Speaker 5: over like this? And yeah, I know that could have
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Speaker 5: been a fumble ruled in complete past the fumble could
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Speaker 5: have been ruled in it and compete pass. And yeah,
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Speaker 5: I know the other interception, maybe Mike Jackson's foot is
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Speaker 5: on the end line. It was still a poor throw
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Speaker 5: and for that coverage, but he could have had two
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Speaker 5: more interceptions, including to the first pass of the game,
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Speaker 5: first play of the game, when he should have thrown
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Speaker 5: a check down and then up rolling out and thrown
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Speaker 5: it off a defender's helmet. The way the Seahawks are
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Speaker 5: playing defense and the way they beat the Rams, which
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Speaker 5: wasn't because of their defense until the fourth quarter, when
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Speaker 5: it was because of their defense, I'm not so sure
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Speaker 5: they can't win the Super Bowl as well as their
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Speaker 5: defenses plan. To your point, Buckie, Yeah, and that's my point.
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Speaker 5: At the beginning, they're saying, I could see the Bears
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Speaker 5: going in and beaten the Packers beating the Bears if
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Speaker 5: the Jordan Love can come back and play. Although the
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Speaker 5: Bears look really good the other night, especially on offense
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Speaker 5: against the forty nine Ers, the Niners defense is nothing
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Speaker 5: like we've seen in the last decade, mostly because of
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Speaker 5: the injuries. No Bosa, no Warner Jackson. They are a
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Speaker 5: shovel themselves, and I think the Seahawks feel confident they
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Speaker 5: can score on San Francisco after having watched with Chicago
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Speaker 5: did to them. Ay, even Philip Rivers and the Colts
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Speaker 5: scored twenty seven on them. I think the Seahawks believe
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Speaker 5: they can score, and I know they believe they can
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Speaker 5: hold the forty nine ers down. Can the Seahawks do
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Speaker 5: what they did the McCaffrey and the opener? McCaffrey was
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Speaker 5: a non factor. I know the Niners missed two field goals,
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Speaker 5: but they scored seventeen. Could have had twenty three points.
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Speaker 5: That's it. I think the Sea Arks going into this
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Speaker 5: thinking they can score twenty four points on San Francisco's defense.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks insider Greg Mello is with us. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: can follow Greg at g mel Seattle on x A
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Speaker 1: and Thenews Tribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage. Is
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Speaker 1: We talked to Greg this morning for the final time
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, and of course we will be
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Speaker 1: doing a show on Friday to get you ready for
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Speaker 1: Seahawks and forty nine Ers on Saturday. For all the marbles,
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Speaker 1: and so I would ask next about Sam Darnold. I
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Speaker 1: realize that there are a lot of people in sports
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Speaker 1: talk radio. There are a lot of fans sitting on
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Speaker 1: their barstools and are worried a little bit about the
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Speaker 1: way he's playing. Mike McDonald has been just the opposite.
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Speaker 1: Let it rip has sort of been his theme. So
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Speaker 1: as you're getting ready to play the biggest game of
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Speaker 1: the year and then start the playoffs for goodness sake,
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Speaker 1: is there any chance that they'll get a little more
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Speaker 1: conservative with Sam going forward or is it too late
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Speaker 1: to change that at this point.
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Speaker 5: No, they're going to push the ball down the field,
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Speaker 5: especially against San Francisco. I think they're going to test
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Speaker 5: that secondary and the lack of a pass rush. Forty
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Speaker 5: nine ers are last in the league in sacks because
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Speaker 5: of the injuries and no Bosa and the lack of
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Speaker 5: affecting the quarterback could really make it a passing frenzy
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Speaker 5: for Seattle. I think they're going to open it up
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Speaker 5: quite a bit Saturday night and push the ball down
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Speaker 5: the field like they saw Chicago doing. Donald if he
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Speaker 5: finishes with the NFL league and turnovers and up by
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Speaker 5: a couple right now with twenty, you have to go
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Speaker 5: back to the mid seventies to find a team that
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Speaker 5: entered the playoffs as a top seed with a guy
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Speaker 5: who led the league in turnovers mid seventies. Man, it's
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Speaker 5: as old as I am, as old as you are.
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Speaker 5: That's been a while, and can that be sustainable? Is
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Speaker 5: the question. That's the question surrounding this whole push right now.
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Speaker 5: To me, it's the the question of this team. They
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Speaker 5: can't just give San Francisco short fields like they did Carolina,
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Speaker 5: like they did earlier in the game against the Rams,
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Speaker 5: like they have for months of the last month. I
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Speaker 5: think it's eight touchdowns and eight interceptions in his last
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Speaker 5: half dozen games or so. Yet, having said all that,
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Speaker 5: he made two of his best throws of the game
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Speaker 5: when it got down to be seventeen to ten and
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Speaker 5: Carolina was pushing. Donald made back to back throws a
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Speaker 5: Smith and jig, but once on third down and once
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Speaker 5: on first down. They got him into the red zone
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Speaker 5: and set him up for the touchdown that pretty much
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Speaker 5: put the game away. Or the fields they made a
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Speaker 5: twenty to ten before the final touchdown. But Donald's been
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Speaker 5: like that turnover and then comes back and looks brilliant.
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Speaker 5: I'm not here to say the Seahawks are winning in
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Speaker 5: spite or despite Sam Donald, but I do think this
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Speaker 5: is not a recipe to win the Super Bowl. And
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Speaker 5: if this, if he has games he doesn't turn the
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Speaker 5: ball over, including Saturday Night, I think the Seahawks can
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Speaker 5: get to the super Bowl. The defense is that good,
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Speaker 5: but the margin is so thin in the playoffs, then
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Speaker 5: possessions become so scarce, and field position is such a
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Speaker 5: big deal. You just can't hand teams that are good
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Speaker 5: enough to be playing four chance to win the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 5: You can't hand them short fields and points. You just can't.
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Speaker 5: With the exception of the Rams, they are able to
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Speaker 5: do it against pretty much five hundred and sub five
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Speaker 5: hundred teams. Atlanta, Carolina go down the list. The Colts.
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Speaker 5: I don't think they can do that three times, two
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Speaker 5: or three times in a row to get to the
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Speaker 5: Super Bowl. Just handing the ball to the other team.
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Speaker 6: I'm well, I'm with you. I mean, you know, there's
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Speaker 6: no doubt about it. Turnovers. There's a reason why it's
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Speaker 6: a you got to win the turnover battle, or it
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Speaker 6: feels like you do. But when it comes to him,
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Speaker 6: what would be more concerning from your perspective, is it
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Speaker 6: the fumbles? Because he's right up there I think he's
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Speaker 6: right behind cam Ward for the most fumbles in the league,
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Speaker 6: and then what have you got fourteen interceptions or whatever. Obviously,
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Speaker 6: not all turnovers are created equal, right, I mean, they're
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Speaker 6: not all your fault necessarily. Sometimes the receiver clanks one
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Speaker 6: and it goes up in the air and you get
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Speaker 6: an interception for it, even though it shouldn't be on you.
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Speaker 6: Sometimes you get hit from the blind side and you're
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Speaker 6: you know, you fumble the ball. You want to be
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Speaker 6: able to feel that, or you want your guy to
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Speaker 6: be able to feel that. But what's your bigger concern
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Speaker 6: when it comes to if there's an issue with the turnovers?
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Speaker 6: Because there is there's an issue there, and yet I
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Speaker 6: think the good outweighs the bad.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Bucky, I think the concern is that when he's
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Speaker 5: near pressure and guys getting near him, he loses the ball,
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Speaker 5: he fumbles. It's just the security of the ball in traffic.
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Speaker 5: He handles it every play and he's going to have
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Speaker 5: guys come in on him. He has to be secure
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Speaker 5: with the ball and there are times when he's not.
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Speaker 5: The interceptions if they're going to continue pushing it down
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Speaker 5: the field, which they have for seventeen games, So I
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Speaker 5: would like to Chuck's point, They're not suddenly going to change,
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Speaker 5: especially with San Francisco lacking of passers. They're going to
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Speaker 5: push down the ball down the field, and that's, as
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Speaker 5: McDonald would call it, the cost of doing business. So
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Speaker 5: they're going to continue to throw, and he's going to
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Speaker 5: probably throw more interceptions between now and the end of
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Speaker 5: their season. Whenever that ends up being. It's holding onto
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Speaker 5: the ball when guys are coming in on you. I
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Speaker 5: keep thinking, it's been seems like years ago, but I
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Speaker 5: keep thinking that the Seahawks really should have beaten the
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Speaker 5: forty nine could have been forty nine ers at the
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Speaker 5: end of the game. If Donald simply holds onto the
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Speaker 5: ball when his right tackle got pushed into him by
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Speaker 5: Nick Bosa, that's a fundamental. I mean, he wasn't expecting it. Yes,
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Speaker 5: he was trying to throw a check down over the middle. Yes,
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Speaker 5: so he was raising his arm and he lost the ball.
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Speaker 5: The same thing he did against that Carolina raising the
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Speaker 5: ball to throw. He lost the ball. You have to
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Speaker 5: hold onto the ball the period, end of story. It's
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Speaker 5: the number one fundamental of his position because he holds
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Speaker 5: it on every play. To me, that probably is the
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Speaker 5: most alarming thing. I'm not here to say that Sam
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Speaker 5: Donald is a problem for them. The turnovers are problem,
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Speaker 5: but Sam Donald has shown this season he's also capable
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Speaker 5: of winning playoff games. For you.
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Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed, what's the latest with him?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a big deal because they didn't have Shaheed
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Speaker 5: the first time they played the forty and I didn't
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Speaker 5: have she for half the season, and he has tilted fields,
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Speaker 5: changed field position with the He basically was the reason
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Speaker 5: they came back against the Rams with that pump return
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Speaker 5: when they're down sixteen midway through the fourth quarter. Look,
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Speaker 5: the average concussion, not every concussion, to say, not every
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Speaker 5: brain's the same. And I'm never going to spouse somebody
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Speaker 5: rushing back from a concussion and more important things than
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Speaker 5: quality of life and playing a football game with a
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Speaker 5: head injury. The average concussion is nine days of recovery time.
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Speaker 5: They only have six five really between playing when he
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Speaker 5: got the concussion and Saturday. I wouldn't think he's going
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Speaker 5: to play. McDonald said that he's doing well early in
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Speaker 5: the concussion protocol, but there's a very strict five step
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Speaker 5: process that the NFL has prescribed that you have to
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Speaker 5: go through, and you can't go from one phase to
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Speaker 5: another until you're cleared. And if you have a setback
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Speaker 5: of any symptoms reappearing as you increase your physical activity,
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Speaker 5: you gut to go back to the previous phase. I
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Speaker 5: can't see that six days pulling that off. And by
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Speaker 5: the way, that was needless to say, a penalty on
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Speaker 5: Mike Jackson, the former Seahawks corner three yard four yards
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Speaker 5: into the White rodeo, throwing him down onto his head
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Speaker 5: into the Carolina bench, then standing over and pushing down
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Speaker 5: on him. I asked McDonald what he thought of that
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Speaker 5: play yesterday, and he said, well, we put a lot
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Speaker 5: of plays into the league for review on my things
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Speaker 5: recalled and what you weren't and obviously we're going to
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Speaker 5: protect our hope that our players get protected. They didn't
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Speaker 5: like that. They definitely thought that's an unnecessary injury. They
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Speaker 5: may be feeling the effects and field position and game breaking.
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Speaker 5: Not to mention defenses have to play Smith and Jig,
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Speaker 5: but a little more honestly, with the speed of shaheat
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Speaker 5: down the field in the offense, that's gonna be a
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Speaker 5: big loss if you can't play, and it would surprise
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Speaker 5: me if you can.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. It's not like last week for Seahork
18:38
Speaker 5: fans to know they're not taking New Year's Day off.
18:40
Speaker 5: They are actually meeting today, practicing a little bit today,
18:44
Speaker 5: and then Wednesday, Thursday, they're practice in full go. There'll
18:48
Speaker 5: be an injury report today for a Saturday game. The
18:50
Speaker 5: NFL requires them put an injury practice participation report today.
18:54
Speaker 5: But yeah, different schedule this week then last.
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Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, Thanks man, appreciate we'll talk to
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Speaker 1: one thing that we did discuss late in the show yesterday,
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Speaker 1: We're going to discuss the chaos possession that took place
19:54
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half against the Panthers.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 7: We're trying to get into or two minute mode and
20:02
Speaker 7: trying to push the ball forward. But we were trying,
20:04
Speaker 7: we just weren't doing it. So that's the way the
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Speaker 7: drive went, you know. And again you're not trying to
20:08
Speaker 7: get you know, we have the ball come out of
20:09
Speaker 7: the half and originally we're trying to go score a touchdown,
20:12
Speaker 7: but weren't able to get it going. So at that
20:14
Speaker 7: point trying to get in field goal range and didn't
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Speaker 7: get it, you know, So but we by doing that,
20:20
Speaker 7: we also you know, basically eliminated their ability to go
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Speaker 7: score field goal as well, So that was the top
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Speaker 7: behind it. I don't know, I just it looked like
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Speaker 7: to me and from the naked eye, that we got it,
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Speaker 7: you know so, but they said we didn't.
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree with that. But also to my
20:39
Speaker 1: naked eye, it looked like a complete and total mess.
20:42
Speaker 3: So one would call it a cluster.
20:46
Speaker 1: And you and the Seahawks played a really major role
20:49
Speaker 1: in that complete and utter mess that was. Mike McDonald
20:52
Speaker 1: reminds me of New Year's resolution to eighty four that
20:56
Speaker 1: I have this year, I'm going to stop introducing myself
20:59
Speaker 1: to the strangers as Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald.
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Speaker 3: That's probably good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, hey, I did that a lot this past year.
21:05
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know why.
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Speaker 6: Just just yeah, you've decided to just somebody else.
21:12
Speaker 1: That's not really fair because then they see me. If
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Speaker 1: they're sitting there wondering at the bar, is that really
21:17
Speaker 1: coach McDonald doesn't look like him at all? And then
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Speaker 1: I start acting a fool?
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Speaker 5: Right?
21:21
Speaker 7: Yeah?
21:22
Speaker 1: Then that him?
21:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, in the organization, that's good. You would stop for
21:27
Speaker 6: that reason.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you should still make reservations using his name, though,
21:31
Speaker 8: you'll get better seats.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'll do.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
21:33
Speaker 1: Now I have four hundred and seven New Year's resolutions. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
21:37
Speaker 1: and uh, of course there's a New Year's resolution ninety
21:41
Speaker 1: eight eat more Snap Peace. It's Chuck Buck and Ashley
21:45
Speaker 1: with you. And yes that was I didn't even bring
21:49
Speaker 1: it up. I mean, we do Monday Morning Quarterback, and
21:51
Speaker 1: Hughes got a lot of thoughts, and Greg's got a
21:53
Speaker 1: lot of thoughts, and Coach has a lot of thoughts,
21:55
Speaker 1: and we try to set those guys up for all
21:56
Speaker 1: of their many, many, many thoughts, and we don't even
21:58
Speaker 1: get to all of them. But by the flow of
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Speaker 1: the show, we ended up not talking about that chaos
22:04
Speaker 1: possession at the end of the first half, and I
22:06
Speaker 1: wanted to discuss it before we brought Gene's sterator on
22:09
Speaker 1: the air today at eight o'clock because the refs had
22:12
Speaker 1: a lot to do with the chaos, and maybe the
22:15
Speaker 1: NFL rules had a lot to do with the chaos.
22:17
Speaker 1: I can't even explain everything that happened. Maybe we haven't
22:20
Speaker 1: given this enough time, because that was just nonsense. They
22:24
Speaker 1: get the ball three forty six left in the first
22:27
Speaker 1: half and the score is tied at three so we're
22:29
Speaker 1: all ready frustrated, like, is the offense ever going to
22:31
Speaker 1: kick in? What's going on here? They look terrible here
22:34
Speaker 1: in the first half, and then all of a sudden
22:37
Speaker 1: second and six from the forty four you have that
22:40
Speaker 1: play to JSN where it seemed to me like there
22:44
Speaker 1: was a horse collar and a face mask on the
22:47
Speaker 1: same play, and somehow the official and there was one
22:50
Speaker 1: in the screen, missed both. JJ Watt said, called it out.
22:56
Speaker 1: Wasn't that both? And they missed them both? And then
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Speaker 1: they came back from a break. He starts explaining, how well,
23:03
Speaker 1: I guess it wasn't technically a horse caller, so I'm
23:06
Speaker 1: assuming that the Gene Sterotre on that network whispered in
23:11
Speaker 1: his ear. No, that's not well, I don't know what
23:13
Speaker 1: a horse collar is if that's not a horse caller.
23:15
Speaker 1: So we'll have Gene explain this to us. But just
23:19
Speaker 1: how you miss both the face mask and the horse
23:22
Speaker 1: collar situation on a day you aren't exactly shining as
23:25
Speaker 1: a crew, let's face it up until that moment that
23:29
Speaker 1: was part of the.
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Speaker 6: Chaos anyway, Yeah, it did look like a horse caller.
23:34
Speaker 6: I didn't watch any of the replayer. I didn't see
23:36
Speaker 6: the replay of it, just like in real time. It
23:38
Speaker 6: was like, yep, the hand was right there. Now I
23:41
Speaker 6: will be interested to hear what Gene's territory has to
23:44
Speaker 6: say about is. I don't know if there's something about
23:46
Speaker 6: you can have your hand there. I know there's somewhere
23:49
Speaker 6: where you can do I know outside, I'm pretty sure
23:52
Speaker 6: you can do horse caller somewhere, like if it's inside
23:55
Speaker 6: the interior of the offensive line or something where something
23:58
Speaker 6: like that's okay to be interesting to find out. But
24:01
Speaker 6: that face mask was another one was one. Yeah, that
24:06
Speaker 6: one actually kind of turned his head. I mean the
24:08
Speaker 6: last one, the more important one to some degree, like
24:12
Speaker 6: he just has hands to high. It's like he ran
24:15
Speaker 6: into his hand, he ran his face into his hand,
24:18
Speaker 6: and he didn't even really try to grab onto it.
24:20
Speaker 6: Now you'd run into it first split second, and it's
24:22
Speaker 6: a face mask. It's the way that's going to be.
24:24
Speaker 6: I can't have your hands up there. But that one
24:26
Speaker 6: was deliberate where it was like, how do neither one
24:29
Speaker 6: of those things he called it was it was a
24:30
Speaker 6: bit of a cluster, yes, actually.
24:32
Speaker 1: Said I don't know that contributed to the confusion that
24:35
Speaker 1: our coaching staff seemed to have in that moment, but
24:38
Speaker 1: they had the two minute warning to kind of reset.
24:42
Speaker 1: They get the run for Charbonnay for the first down,
24:45
Speaker 1: and then you had that crazy Darnald in completion that
24:48
Speaker 1: got batted down by the same guy who almost picked
24:52
Speaker 1: it off. Well, I don't know how often that's happened,
24:55
Speaker 1: where you batted out, you deflect the ball, it hits
24:59
Speaker 1: the receiver and then bounces back to you as a
25:02
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. I'm not sure I've even never seen that point. No,
25:05
Speaker 1: I have not, So that certainly contributed to the Cats.
25:09
Speaker 1: Plus Cooper Cup and the ball was deflected, so it's
25:12
Speaker 1: not like he just dropped it. But you you just think.
25:15
Speaker 1: I always think of Cooper Cup as if the ball
25:18
Speaker 1: hits him in the hands or comes within like an
25:21
Speaker 1: area code of his hands, he's going to catch the ball.
25:24
Speaker 1: So even that was a strange. Part of it was
25:27
Speaker 1: that a Cooper Cup drop. Then you see the deflection,
25:30
Speaker 1: then you see who it hits off of and who
25:32
Speaker 1: it bounces back to, and the guy that deflected it
25:35
Speaker 1: and fell to the ground almost gets the interception, which
25:37
Speaker 1: they called an interception at the time, which was a
25:39
Speaker 1: terrible call as well, and then had to overrule it
25:43
Speaker 1: later chaos.
25:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it looked like an interception in real time,
25:47
Speaker 6: and then as they showed it and slowed it down,
25:49
Speaker 6: you're like, yeah, it's slipping through his hands there at
25:51
Speaker 6: the end. So they got it right at the end.
25:53
Speaker 1: Again.
25:54
Speaker 6: At this point, I'm feeling like, you're you still should
25:56
Speaker 6: get some points out of this thing, but they found
25:57
Speaker 6: a way not to.
25:58
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then you got to the forty eight, then the forty,
26:01
Speaker 1: then the the forty five, and then you had the
26:03
Speaker 1: walker play yeah, where he catches the ball and he didn't.
26:07
Speaker 1: It wasn't a drop. You think of a drop as
26:11
Speaker 1: you throw a ball to somebody and they don't catch.
26:13
Speaker 3: It right like their tournament field before.
26:15
Speaker 1: They really caught the ball, and then you think, then
26:17
Speaker 1: you have a fumble where you have the ball and
26:20
Speaker 1: then you get hit and the ball pops loose. This
26:23
Speaker 1: was a drop of a different kind. He caught the
26:25
Speaker 1: ball and then turned around and just dropped it. He
26:29
Speaker 1: just dropped it.
26:29
Speaker 3: I need that.
26:30
Speaker 1: And it wasn't the first time we'd seen that happen.
26:32
Speaker 1: Mitchell Evans did it earlier for Carolina, just turned to
26:36
Speaker 1: run with it and dropped it.
26:38
Speaker 6: It was a little rainy.
26:39
Speaker 1: It was a little rainey. I'm sure there's a reason,
26:41
Speaker 1: but still, I mean, there's a lot to happen on
26:43
Speaker 1: one drive. Yeah, And so here you're racing against the clock.
26:46
Speaker 1: You're at one thirteen at that point, he gets six yards.
26:53
Speaker 1: So at that point Mike McDonald thinks they have the
26:55
Speaker 1: first down, but Carolina is like, that's not even in
26:58
Speaker 1: a completion or did he fumble? And they don't take
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Speaker 1: the time to stop and address any of it because
27:05
Speaker 1: Carolina doesn't want to stop the clock, I guess, and
27:08
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, I don't know what it is about. McDonald
27:12
Speaker 1: wanted to hold onto his timeouts in the first half,
27:14
Speaker 1: but he'll save them, all three of them un till
27:16
Speaker 1: there's ten seconds left in the first half. I mean
27:19
Speaker 1: to me, I would want to clear up that confusion.
27:22
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he didn't want to in case it was
27:25
Speaker 1: incomplete or a fumble, and so he just let the
27:28
Speaker 1: clock roll. And now we don't know if you've converted
27:31
Speaker 1: on fourth down or not. We don't know if it's
27:34
Speaker 1: a fumble. We don't know anything about it, and the
27:37
Speaker 1: play just continues chaos. I'm telling you chaos.
27:40
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he had said too, oh, we didn't want
27:42
Speaker 8: to burn a time out there to make sure that
27:46
Speaker 8: we could run something else that might be more significant
27:49
Speaker 8: on that fourth I don't know.
27:52
Speaker 1: Even if you have them to burn, and even if
27:54
Speaker 1: he doesn't get it. I mean, Myers, that's a sixty
27:57
Speaker 1: three yard field goal at that point. I mean, that's
27:58
Speaker 1: a little bit on comfortable. But he's it's attemptable, yep. Right,
28:04
Speaker 1: So if it is fourth and six they get you
28:06
Speaker 1: find out the worst news that it's an incomplete pass. Yeah,
28:09
Speaker 1: and it's fourth down and six, you still at least
28:11
Speaker 1: get a field coal attempt at that point. But instead
28:14
Speaker 1: you're you're like, did he get the first down? Was
28:16
Speaker 1: it a catch? Was it a fumble? So you're getting
28:19
Speaker 1: ready to call a fourth and one play and now
28:22
Speaker 1: you're getting down to it. Now you're down to within
28:25
Speaker 1: what just thirty seconds or so. You don't even have
28:28
Speaker 1: time to run your barner play out on the field.
28:32
Speaker 1: What you should have been doing if you called a
28:34
Speaker 1: time out, you set up the barner play. Yeah, Barny,
28:37
Speaker 1: we don't use the time out because we're trying to
28:40
Speaker 1: preserve the five yards. I'm assuming I would assume so,
28:42
Speaker 1: and then you're trying to run a quick play with darnold,
28:46
Speaker 1: you don't ask for a measurement or you don't get
28:48
Speaker 1: a measurement. I'm not sure.
28:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, it because they virtually measured it that quickly. Well,
28:55
Speaker 6: it's all it is, is a spot. They just spot it.
28:57
Speaker 6: And then why that's where they just do it? They
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Speaker 6: didn't show it on the screen.
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Speaker 1: Then why does when they do do a virtual measurement
29:04
Speaker 1: it takes like fifteen minutes to show it. If you
29:07
Speaker 1: can do it that quickly.
29:08
Speaker 5: I don't know.
29:09
Speaker 3: It's a great question, right, So that's what I'm saying.
29:11
Speaker 1: This whole thing is just like chaos. So then you
29:13
Speaker 1: have four to one and then the Seahawks think they
29:16
Speaker 1: got the first down and they don't.
29:18
Speaker 5: Know you didn't.
29:19
Speaker 1: Well, can you measure it?
29:20
Speaker 5: Nope?
29:21
Speaker 1: Can we challenge it?
29:22
Speaker 5: Nope?
29:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have three timeouts. Why can't we challenge it?
29:27
Speaker 1: We want to challenge the spot. They told me we couldn't.
29:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, they told me we just didn't get it.
29:31
Speaker 1: What Like, the whole thing was insane and I didn't
29:36
Speaker 1: understand any of it. And maybe there's perfectly good explanations
29:40
Speaker 1: for all of those things, but I'm just sitting here
29:42
Speaker 1: going what is going on? Will somebody get their arms
29:46
Speaker 1: around this football game right now? Because I think that
29:50
Speaker 1: both teams are so afraid of making a mistake, they
29:53
Speaker 1: are letting a bunch of mistakes take place, and it
29:56
Speaker 1: ended up resulting in no points at all. I mean, yes,
30:00
Speaker 1: seventeen seconds on the clock. If you don't go for
30:02
Speaker 1: that quarterback sneak, now you're definitely in Jason myersfield goal range.
30:06
Speaker 1: Now now you're looking at a fifty seven yard or
30:09
Speaker 1: he makes those in his sleep these days. And so
30:11
Speaker 1: you just blew any chance to get any points rushing
30:15
Speaker 1: your fourth and one sneak play that isn't even your
30:19
Speaker 1: fourth and one sneak play, and you end up going
30:22
Speaker 1: into the locker room with all three timeouts because you
30:25
Speaker 1: were afraid of what reviews going to show, and then
30:28
Speaker 1: you were denied being able to see what review might tell.
30:33
Speaker 1: What kind of a possession was that that was?
30:36
Speaker 3: It was ugly, that is just and then the.
30:39
Speaker 1: Top it all off, Carolina gets the ball at the
30:41
Speaker 1: fifty yard line and they decide our quarterback doesn't have
30:45
Speaker 1: a strong enough arm to throw a hail mary, so
30:47
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go into the locker room.
30:49
Speaker 3: What, Yeah, that was lucky.
30:52
Speaker 1: How do you not try a hail Mary there? You
30:54
Speaker 1: just didn't want to expose the Bryce Young can only
30:56
Speaker 1: throw the ball twenty five yards. Rivers would have tried it,
31:01
Speaker 1: he would at least got it twenty six. I don't know.
31:04
Speaker 1: It was crazy. Maybe Jean's got some explanations to this.
31:07
Speaker 1: We'll talk to him at eight o'clock. Coming up next though,
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Speaker 1: why are the Chargers resting their starting quarterback for a
31:13
Speaker 1: game that could impact the playoffs? Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's great to.
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Speaker 1: Welcome you into twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: Might be the best way to start a new year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you gotta start at eleven fifty
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Speaker 1: hour at two oh six two eight six ninety five
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Speaker 1: to secure your tickets to the game. Chargers have decided,
32:13
Speaker 1: and they do have a little bit at stake. I
32:15
Speaker 1: mean there could be in their conference a chance to
32:19
Speaker 1: face not as mighty a foe if you end up
32:22
Speaker 1: with the five seed. They were eliminated from any shot
32:25
Speaker 1: at being able to host a first round game or
32:29
Speaker 1: to get the number one seed. Maybe they no, they
32:32
Speaker 1: didn't even have a shot at that this past week.
32:34
Speaker 1: But they were eliminated from division title this past week.
32:37
Speaker 1: But they still could play for better seeding in the playoffs.
32:42
Speaker 1: But Jim Harbaugh has decided it's not worth it for us,
32:47
Speaker 1: So he's sitting as banged up quarterback Justin Herbert. He's
32:50
Speaker 1: sitting several other starters. It will give Denver a leg
32:54
Speaker 1: up over New England. I can't imagine New England's going
32:57
Speaker 1: to be too happy about this. But certainly the Broncos
33:02
Speaker 1: who are trying to get the one seed, got to
33:04
Speaker 1: be happy about not having to face Justin Herbert and
33:07
Speaker 1: the Chargers this week. Yeah.
33:09
Speaker 6: I mean, if you're wanting to get that number one
33:11
Speaker 6: seed and if they're gonna rest some guys, okay, great,
33:14
Speaker 6: I mean, because it is a you still got to
33:17
Speaker 6: win because the Patriots, who do they play, They're playing
33:20
Speaker 6: somebody bad Miami, Miami. Yeah maybe Miami with the quinn
33:25
Speaker 6: Ewers guy, maybe they have a chance. But typically you
33:27
Speaker 6: would just kind of figure that's probably a w for them,
33:30
Speaker 6: and they would need they would need the Broncos would
33:33
Speaker 6: need the Patriots and the Jaguars to lose if they
33:36
Speaker 6: don't pull one off against the Bolts and so to
33:39
Speaker 6: get that number one seed. So yeah, that's they're trying
33:41
Speaker 6: to win this one and be able to get that
33:44
Speaker 6: week off.
33:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely an advantage. Patriots would need help in order
33:48
Speaker 1: to get them, and obviously the Chargers aren't willing to
33:51
Speaker 1: give them any right, I mean, it's not their responsibility,
33:55
Speaker 1: but it's not like they don't have anything to play for, right,
33:58
Speaker 1: And yet there's and then also there's the whole like
34:03
Speaker 1: you know, like you owe it to the league kind
34:05
Speaker 1: of thing as well. That comes into play.
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, because even teams that are fully out of
34:10
Speaker 8: it aren't resting.
34:11
Speaker 3: Right people, Right, Yeah, you just go out and play.
34:14
Speaker 5: Now.
34:14
Speaker 1: I believe thoroughly that you have to do what's in
34:17
Speaker 1: the best interest of the Chargers. And if you think
34:20
Speaker 1: that justin Herbert getting a weak arrest, considering how banged
34:23
Speaker 1: up he's been and he's out there hand yeah, playing
34:25
Speaker 1: like Chubbs Peterson, then you got to do what you
34:28
Speaker 1: got to do to help the Chargers win. And if
34:31
Speaker 1: you think that's more valuable than a five seed or
34:34
Speaker 1: a six seed, and you're perfectly willing to take the
34:36
Speaker 1: seven seed and have a healthy er justin Herbert, you
34:40
Speaker 1: think that's the best strategy, then you do that. I
34:44
Speaker 1: have a theory though, Oh I don't think he wants
34:47
Speaker 1: to face his brother. He never beats his brother. He
34:53
Speaker 1: doesn't like playing his brother. So why am I going
34:56
Speaker 1: to risk my quarterback to try to get a five
34:59
Speaker 1: seed and try to get a win against the Denver
35:01
Speaker 1: Broncos and ruin their day? And like, the best thing
35:05
Speaker 1: that I can achieve out of this is to get
35:07
Speaker 1: a five seed. And then I got to face my
35:09
Speaker 1: brother in the first round of the playoffs. I hate
35:11
Speaker 1: facing my brother. He beats me every single time, number
35:14
Speaker 1: one and number two. I don't even like beating him,
35:17
Speaker 1: So I don't I think his feeling was if the
35:20
Speaker 1: if the perk of playing my injured quarterback when I
35:25
Speaker 1: can't catch the Broncos is simply to get the five
35:29
Speaker 1: seeds so I can possibly play on the road against
35:32
Speaker 1: the NFC North champion. That doesn't sound like an incentive
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Speaker 1: I'm going to risk my quarterback for I'll take the
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Speaker 1: six or the seventh seed and feel perfectly fine with that.
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Speaker 1: And Denver is New England's problem, it's not our problem.
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Speaker 1: That's what I think he's done.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Well, I mean, they had
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Speaker 6: a chance going into this week still with that. It
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Speaker 6: could have came down the AFC West title and they
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Speaker 6: still would have been in the running with the Broncos.
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Speaker 6: They would have the Patriots to fall at some point
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Speaker 6: in these last couple they still had a chance basically
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Speaker 6: of getting that number one seed. In that bye they
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Speaker 6: lost to Houston Texans, and I think probably at that
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Speaker 6: point in time when they start looking at it. It's
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Speaker 6: just like man, I mean, justin Herbert's been bawling out
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Speaker 6: and playing as tough as he can with a broken hand.
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Speaker 6: I remember the first game back that he played right
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Speaker 6: after it had happened, and he played finished the game
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Speaker 6: that it happened. In the next game he comes back
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Speaker 6: out he had surgery, and now he's wearing a glove
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Speaker 6: with like a little bit of patting on it, and
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Speaker 6: guys are going after it and he can't fall on it.
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Speaker 1: The whole thing. It makes sense at the same time.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if your theory has some
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Speaker 6: validity to it. I mean, playing his brother, if he
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Speaker 6: has a hard time beating him right there at this point,
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Speaker 6: if you don't get that first round by the rest
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Speaker 6: of them, it's kind of all right, go figure it out,
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Speaker 6: because I don't think it's one of those you are.
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Speaker 6: There's a buzz saw waiting for you anywhere on either
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Speaker 6: side of the bracket. NFC and AFC, I think both
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Speaker 6: sides have every team that's in it is vulnerable, and
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Speaker 6: yet just about every team, maybe without with the exception
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Speaker 6: of Pittsburgh, I think maybe has a shot at going
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Speaker 6: all the way.
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Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, Geane sterotur Man, we got
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Speaker 1: a lot of things to discuss with the CBS rules.
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