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- 0:00Speaker 1: Morning class pleads and gentlemen who.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Introducing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former high
- 0:10Speaker 2: school basketball stand What the hell does that mean?
- 0:13Speaker 3: Jumped any conclusions?
- 0:15Speaker 4: Not a god, You've got to lower lower your expectations.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to.
- 0:21Speaker 5: Pluto getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and form. I'll just
- 0:26Speaker 5: openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
- 0:29Speaker 6: Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champions.
- 0:36Speaker 3: A lot of useless crap up here.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
- 0:43Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan. What do you buy to La Look Casino
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- 1:07Speaker 4: Hey, good morning and happy New Year from Sports Radio
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- 1:14Speaker 3: Here we are on a Monday.
- 1:16Speaker 4: Back to a full week, regular work week here on
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- 1:23Speaker 3: Like so many of you out there driving around or.
- 1:26Speaker 4: Just listening because you cann't wait to listen to us
- 1:29Speaker 4: here at six p' oh one on a Monday morning, Yes,
- 1:33Speaker 4: we get back to the daily grind, the ritual and
- 1:37Speaker 4: the routine, and I kind of am excited to be
- 1:40Speaker 4: here to do that and so welcome in Happy twenty
- 1:43Speaker 4: twenty six to all of you. And man, there are
- 1:47Speaker 4: a lot of reasons to celebrate. Ashley Ryan's here to
- 1:50Speaker 4: do it, Bucky Jacobson's here to do it.
- 1:53Speaker 3: My name is Chuck Powell. I'm here to do it
- 1:54Speaker 3: as well.
- 1:55Speaker 4: For the next four hours, we got a pack Monday
- 1:58Speaker 4: show for you where we're gonna talk all lot of
- 2:00Speaker 4: football today, Seattle Seahawks football. There's not anybody on this
- 2:05Speaker 4: show that their their team that they root for isn't a.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Number one seed. It has a buye in the first round.
- 2:12Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, we all of us get next weekend advance.
- 2:18Speaker 5: Everybody here were advance the Yeah yeah, you guys had
- 2:22Speaker 5: to earn it. You didn't play backups. But whatever it is,
- 2:26Speaker 5: what it is, We'll all take number one.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Nothing but number ones.
- 2:29Speaker 4: They don't support anybody but number ones on this show's
- 2:32Speaker 4: right that much. I'm not gonna clarify that any further.
- 2:36Speaker 4: I'm just gonna tell you this group follows one seed.
- 2:40Speaker 3: That's right. Anything other than that and you're just a loser. Oh,
- 2:43Speaker 3: your team's a four seeds, two seed, first loser.
- 2:46Speaker 4: There might be some radio shows out there that have
- 2:49Speaker 4: to root for a two seed losers.
- 2:52Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but not this show, not in this town.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Not right now. The Seahawks are going to be the
- 3:00Speaker 3: number one seed in so or the Broncos.
- 3:02Speaker 4: As we get things started here postseason. We now go
- 3:06Speaker 4: into the post season officially, as the regular season came
- 3:10Speaker 4: to a close last night with one of the best
- 3:13Speaker 4: fourth quarters you'll ever see in football history. We'll talk
- 3:16Speaker 4: more about that with a cold turkey sandwich, but we
- 3:20Speaker 4: of course begin with the Seahawks getting done what they
- 3:22Speaker 4: needed to get done. Saturday night they roll into San Francisco.
- 3:27Speaker 4: I mean, this was a matchup where at first people
- 3:30Speaker 4: saw how aesthetically pleasing the forty nine Ers looked and
- 3:35Speaker 4: narrowly defeating the Bears the previous week, where the Seahawks
- 3:38Speaker 4: looked a little clunky offensively, and so initially the reaction was, oh.
- 3:45Speaker 3: The forty nine ers and the way they're playing right now.
- 3:48Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, over the course of
- 3:50Speaker 4: seven days, the football experts were like, I don't care
- 3:54Speaker 4: how many points they put up against the Chicago Bears
- 3:57Speaker 4: that defense is for real in Seattle, and it went
- 3:59Speaker 4: for four and a half point favorite. It opened San
- 4:02Speaker 4: Francisco to By the time kickoff occurred, the Seahawks were
- 4:06Speaker 4: a two and a half point road favorite. The points
- 4:10Speaker 4: spread swung seven points because the wise guy money came
- 4:13Speaker 4: in as the week went along. They knew Vegas knew,
- 4:17Speaker 4: and they're really I mean, I realized the game was close,
- 4:21Speaker 4: and there was a moment where San Francisco the McCaffrey
- 4:25Speaker 4: interception that deflected off of his hands. But that would
- 4:29Speaker 4: have been rather unfortunate if San Francisco would have found
- 4:32Speaker 4: their way to win that game last night or excuse me,
- 4:35Speaker 4: Saturday night, because they got dominated from beginning to end.
- 4:38Speaker 4: That was a dominant performance by the Seahawks. The only
- 4:41Speaker 4: thing that kept it from being a blowout is that
- 4:44Speaker 4: the Seahawks did not execute offensively when it came time
- 4:47Speaker 4: to scoring points. But in terms of physicality, in terms
- 4:51Speaker 4: of winning the line of scrimmage, they were better offensively,
- 4:54Speaker 4: They were better defensively. They weren't as good on special
- 4:57Speaker 4: teams this time around. I don't know what happened, but
- 4:59Speaker 4: we can talk about that later. They actually ran the
- 5:01Speaker 4: football and kind of established that you're not going to
- 5:05Speaker 4: beat us this way, as both Charbonnet and ken Walker
- 5:09Speaker 4: had over seventy yards rushing in the game.
- 5:11Speaker 3: So I mean in terms of I mean you kind
- 5:14Speaker 3: of joked about it a little bit. We got to
- 5:17Speaker 3: play backups in Denver. You did earn it.
- 5:20Speaker 4: If you are a Seahawks team, you had to go
- 5:23Speaker 4: all the way to the end. Fourteen and three with
- 5:26Speaker 4: a two point cushion, a two game win cushion over
- 5:28Speaker 4: San Francisco and Los Angeles kind of looks on paper
- 5:31Speaker 4: now like he ran away with things, but you had
- 5:34Speaker 4: to take it all the way to the bitter end,
- 5:36Speaker 4: and boy, did you just absolutely earn it on Saturday night.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Highly impressive from the Seattle Seahawks.
- 5:43Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean the defense, We've been watching it
- 5:45Speaker 5: all year and it doesn't seem like they've even crescendoed.
- 5:49Speaker 5: I mean like it reached the mountaintop. They're still kind
- 5:52Speaker 5: of growing when it comes to that.
- 5:54Speaker 3: Now.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Yeah, the scorer kind of might lead you down the
- 5:57Speaker 5: path of man to be that dog minute and yet
- 6:01Speaker 5: still have it be kind of close for the majority
- 6:04Speaker 5: of the game. Was it's something that you I'm sure
- 6:07Speaker 5: that they're going to be talking about this week and
- 6:10Speaker 5: leading up to their first game when they they do
- 6:12Speaker 5: have to play, of like, we got to clean some
- 6:14Speaker 5: of that stuff up because it was they would just
- 6:16Speaker 5: drive the ball. I mean, the run game looked better
- 6:18Speaker 5: than it has looked and some year to some degree.
- 6:21Speaker 5: I mean maybe the Niners, all of their injuries and
- 6:24Speaker 5: the things that have, you know, the people that they're missing,
- 6:27Speaker 5: maybe that had something to do with it.
- 6:29Speaker 3: But who cares.
- 6:30Speaker 5: You're going out there and you're this is still a
- 6:32Speaker 5: team that is twelve and five. I mean, it was
- 6:34Speaker 5: twelve and four coming into the game. It's not like
- 6:36Speaker 5: it's it was a pushover whether you're not they have
- 6:39Speaker 5: the injuries or not. I think that that, yeah, you
- 6:41Speaker 5: want to clean some stuff up. You want to if
- 6:43Speaker 5: you get down there, you want to end up putting
- 6:45Speaker 5: up more points because their offense played better than thirteen points. Yes,
- 6:49Speaker 5: and but the defense, I mean did it matter. Did
- 6:51Speaker 5: you need more than four points? I think four points
- 6:53Speaker 5: would have got it done.
- 6:54Speaker 3: Yea would have done it been quite the game. I
- 6:57Speaker 3: would love.
- 6:57Speaker 4: That would have been in all some way to win
- 7:00Speaker 4: the division.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Yeah, well it would have been a little bit.
- 7:03Speaker 5: I think then we would be even a little bit
- 7:04Speaker 5: more critical of how the heck do you not score
- 7:07Speaker 5: any points if you only got two safeties offensively? Because
- 7:10Speaker 5: they did they looked. I mean, Donald was efficient. But
- 7:13Speaker 5: not all games are the same. I mean, thirteen to
- 7:15Speaker 5: three is not the same as just a thirteen to
- 7:17Speaker 5: three where you don't do anything, but you have, you know,
- 7:20Speaker 5: two long field goals and some you know, punt return
- 7:23Speaker 5: for a touchdown where you didn't do anything offensively. Sam
- 7:25Speaker 5: Darnald was efficient, the run game was spectacular, and the
- 7:29Speaker 5: defense just said, we're not going to give them anything.
- 7:31Speaker 5: I mean not anything. We're not going to give them.
- 7:34Speaker 5: I mean, every single blade of grass was fought for
- 7:36Speaker 5: and they took it from them. They said, Nope, all
- 7:39Speaker 5: that matters is that we get to win. Whether or
- 7:41Speaker 5: not we score thirteen or thirty three, it doesn't matter.
- 7:45Speaker 5: Just get the win. And they went out there and
- 7:46Speaker 5: absolutely dominated them.
- 7:47Speaker 7: It's interesting too, though, because in a thirteen to three game,
- 7:50Speaker 7: ordinarily you'd be stressing out, like, oh god, because if
- 7:53Speaker 7: you know, at any moment, we can make a mistake
- 7:55Speaker 7: and they're right back in this game.
- 7:57Speaker 3: But you did not.
- 7:58Speaker 7: Get the impression that that defense was going to make
- 8:00Speaker 7: a mistake on Saturday night, like the thirteen to three
- 8:02Speaker 7: was not nearly as stressful as ordinarily I think it
- 8:06Speaker 7: would have.
- 8:06Speaker 3: No, I think that's absolutely right now.
- 8:09Speaker 4: There was that moment, the interception that bounced off McCaffrey's hands,
- 8:13Speaker 4: where there was certainly he had to give rise to
- 8:16Speaker 4: the thought of are you serious, Are you really gonna
- 8:19Speaker 4: let them have one touchdown? Drive this entire game and
- 8:22Speaker 4: make the close of this game excruciating? Because it certainly
- 8:26Speaker 4: didn't feel that way throughout the contest. But once Drake
- 8:30Speaker 4: Thomas got that interception, I might have even written that
- 8:33Speaker 4: down game. I think I wrote game over right at
- 8:36Speaker 4: that moment in the contest. But defensively, I mean considering
- 8:41Speaker 4: how well San Francisco looked like they were playing on
- 8:46Speaker 4: the offensive side of the ball. I mean, Christian McCaffrey
- 8:49Speaker 4: had twenty three yards rushing. It was like he was
- 8:52Speaker 4: running and putting, like every time he got the ball
- 8:55Speaker 4: it was just a wall there to greet him. And
- 8:57Speaker 4: I'm not sure I Brock Purty threw five passes where
- 9:01Speaker 4: he wasn't harassed in the game, and I thought he
- 9:03Speaker 4: got murdered on the last.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Play of the game. I might like it.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Oh that I mean, I actually was just like, oh gosh,
- 9:10Speaker 4: I was worried. I was worried for the opposing quarterback
- 9:13Speaker 4: that he wasn't going to get up from it.
- 9:15Speaker 3: And he did, Thank goodness. He just kind of got,
- 9:18Speaker 3: you know, saying, are two different directions. Yeah, he kind of.
- 9:20Speaker 4: Got lawn chaired in the middle of the field and
- 9:23Speaker 4: he was fine. And I'm glad that he is fine.
- 9:26Speaker 4: But man, you know, a guy that had been playing untouched,
- 9:31Speaker 4: unscathed the last couple of weeks. I think he was
- 9:34Speaker 4: responsible for ten touchdowns the previous two weeks, and once
- 9:39Speaker 4: again one against a playoff caliber team and the Bears,
- 9:42Speaker 4: for goodness sake, for Seattle to dominate defensively that much
- 9:49Speaker 4: shows you how phenomenal that Mike McDonald is and how
- 9:54Speaker 4: great a head coach that John Schneider picked. And I'll
- 9:58Speaker 4: tell you a couple of years ago, this organization was
- 10:02Speaker 4: admitted a crossroads, and I don't think it was a
- 10:05Speaker 4: slam dunk decision to get rid of Pete Carroll. I
- 10:10Speaker 4: understood why they did. I was surprised, though I was surprised.
- 10:15Speaker 4: I thought Pete Carroll had earned you have to bottom out,
- 10:18Speaker 4: you got to have like a four and thirteen season,
- 10:21Speaker 4: five and twelve season if you're going to get rid
- 10:24Speaker 4: of Pete Carroll, considering everything he'd accomplished here in Seattle.
- 10:28Speaker 4: But certainly the Seahawks were stuck in this almost Pittsburgh
- 10:32Speaker 4: Steelers mode of just kind of they're not bad, but
- 10:36Speaker 4: we're not getting any.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Closer to great here in the last few years.
- 10:40Speaker 4: And so for John Schneider to kind of make that
- 10:42Speaker 4: decision in twenty twenty four and then to just absolutely
- 10:47Speaker 4: pick a gym from that head coaching cycle to get
- 10:50Speaker 4: Mike McDonald at that point, and then ever since that time,
- 10:54Speaker 4: ever since Mike McDonald started letting John know the type
- 10:58Speaker 4: of player that he needed, has John Schneider missed anything.
- 11:01Speaker 4: I mean like it that I mean it has just
- 11:03Speaker 4: been a John Schneider masterpiece.
- 11:05Speaker 3: In twenty twenty five, the.
- 11:07Speaker 4: Quarterback decisions that he had to make, because again same situation,
- 11:12Speaker 4: Geno wasn't bad, but getting an upgrade at quarterbacks not
- 11:17Speaker 4: the easiest thing to do when you're not picking at
- 11:20Speaker 4: the top of the draft. Ever, and so for him
- 11:23Speaker 4: to not just make the not just find a trade partner,
- 11:27Speaker 4: but then have the counter move of getting Sam Darnold
- 11:31Speaker 4: in free agency and for that tool worked out as
- 11:33Speaker 4: well as it has, plus DeMarcus Lawrence plus all of
- 11:37Speaker 4: the draft picks that he's nailed the last three years.
- 11:40Speaker 4: I mean, this organization has just had a phenomenal year.
- 11:44Speaker 4: The poor Mariners had their best year in franchise history,
- 11:47Speaker 4: and hear the Seahawks the same year, maybe putting together
- 11:51Speaker 4: their masterpiece season. Now they still have the postseason to go,
- 11:55Speaker 4: but this was a masterpiece by John Schneider to put
- 11:58Speaker 4: this team together with this head coach who got this
- 12:01Speaker 4: kind of buy in from beginning of last season until now,
- 12:05Speaker 4: and for them to go from a little north of
- 12:09Speaker 4: mediocrity to statistically the best team in franchise history. I mean,
- 12:15Speaker 4: they are statistically the best team in franchise history, most
- 12:19Speaker 4: wins in a season in franchise history, and to go
- 12:22Speaker 4: into the playoffs as the one seed and I think
- 12:24Speaker 4: the undisputed favorite to win the Super Bowl right now,
- 12:28Speaker 4: I mean, in terms of the Vegas odds, just remarkable.
- 12:33Speaker 4: What a phenomenal twenty twenty five for the Seahawks organization.
- 12:37Speaker 5: Well, I mean I think a lot of times when
- 12:39Speaker 5: you I'm not one and I don't think any of
- 12:41Speaker 5: us here on our show are one that are in
- 12:43Speaker 5: a hurry to lop off heads and fire people when
- 12:47Speaker 5: they're not doing very well. And yet I think there's
- 12:49Speaker 5: a lot of times that what you've done in the
- 12:51Speaker 5: past gives you credibility, and understandably so, and yet that'll
- 12:56Speaker 5: go too far. Sometimes the powers that be will just
- 12:59Speaker 5: stick with its status quo because well, he you know,
- 13:02Speaker 5: we will just win our super Bowl and you know,
- 13:04Speaker 5: really could have been two and and and yet there
- 13:08Speaker 5: comes a point in time where you just have to say,
- 13:10Speaker 5: are we okay with middling and mediocre?
- 13:12Speaker 3: Are we okay with it?
- 13:13Speaker 5: And a lot of people stick with it simply because
- 13:16Speaker 5: it's like, well, do we know the grass is greener
- 13:18Speaker 5: on the other side of the fence. Well, what John
- 13:20Speaker 5: Schneider said was, I don't care. Well, I do care,
- 13:24Speaker 5: but I don't know if the grass is going to
- 13:25Speaker 5: be greener. But I can't find out unless I jump
- 13:28Speaker 5: across the fence. And he basically, yeah, I got rid
- 13:30Speaker 5: of one of the you know, definitely the most decorated
- 13:33Speaker 5: coach in Seahawk's history. I mean, the only guy that
- 13:35Speaker 5: won a Super Bowl here and Pete carrolln said, I
- 13:38Speaker 5: need some new blood. I need something new, I need
- 13:40Speaker 5: a fresh voice. I need I need to probably go
- 13:44Speaker 5: with a new version of what is the next best defense?
- 13:48Speaker 5: What is the defense that can stop the Sean mcvays
- 13:51Speaker 5: and and the Kyle Shanahans. And we just basically watched
- 13:54Speaker 5: right down the stretch of this thing when when the
- 13:56Speaker 5: division was up up for grabs with the Rams and
- 13:58Speaker 5: the Niners. The coaching part of this thing I saw
- 14:02Speaker 5: before the game started. Did you guys see It was
- 14:04Speaker 5: on the telecast and all of a sudden, they're getting
- 14:06Speaker 5: ready to kick off, and you just saw this smile
- 14:09Speaker 5: from Mike McDonald. I don't know if you guys caught
- 14:11Speaker 5: that that little moment. It was almost like he knew,
- 14:13Speaker 5: like we're here, this is us, We're gonna take this.
- 14:17Speaker 5: It was just like this, a very confident smile. And
- 14:20Speaker 5: I don't know if he was looking across looking at
- 14:22Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan, but it just felt to me like I'm
- 14:25Speaker 5: the one that's I'm taking over this thing. I'm taking
- 14:27Speaker 5: over the division, and they went out there and did
- 14:29Speaker 5: exactly that.
- 14:29Speaker 7: I did catch that moment, and the only reason I
- 14:31Speaker 7: remember it is because my two girlfriends that were at
- 14:34Speaker 7: our house were going on about how hot Kyle Shanahan was,
- 14:37Speaker 7: and then they showed Mike McDonald and they're.
- 14:39Speaker 3: Like, whooh, but our coach is pretty hot too, And
- 14:42Speaker 3: so that's the only think of the same thing. And
- 14:44Speaker 3: that's the only.
- 14:44Speaker 7: Reason it sticks in my mind because I was like, gosh,
- 14:46Speaker 7: you didn't catch that smile. Note wait, I remember that
- 14:48Speaker 7: part of the conversation. All the husbands and I were like, Okay,
- 14:51Speaker 7: we can be done talking about how hot the coaches
- 14:53Speaker 7: aren't good.
- 14:54Speaker 3: I mean, that's all. I couldn't get over it either.
- 14:56Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I know you were having the same thoughts.
- 14:58Speaker 3: I yeah, so.
- 14:59Speaker 4: Hot, Shane Sdyke, And you didn't get knocked out of
- 15:02Speaker 4: the playoffs because you're.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Ugly, Shane. You know it's because you're bad.
- 15:07Speaker 7: Right right, not as attractive as apparently Kyle Shanahan and
- 15:12Speaker 7: my girlfriend night.
- 15:13Speaker 4: All right, Well, the Seahawks don't have to play this week,
- 15:18Speaker 4: and we get to watch football just with joy on Saturday,
- 15:21Speaker 4: Sunday and Monday. We'll actually introduce a little competition as
- 15:26Speaker 4: well to the festivities this weekend.
- 15:29Speaker 3: But today today is.
- 15:31Speaker 4: About setting you all up for where we sit right
- 15:34Speaker 4: now in the National Football League season. What an exciting
- 15:38Speaker 4: time of the sports year. So let's find out what
- 15:42Speaker 4: is on tap for the rest of the show today.
- 15:46Speaker 3: What's on TEP?
- 15:49Speaker 2: What's on TEP?
- 15:50Speaker 4: All right, So Seahawks went thirteen to three against the
- 15:53Speaker 4: forty nine Ers Saturday night to win the division, take
- 15:56Speaker 4: the buye and get the home field advantage throughout the
- 16:00Speaker 4: NFC playoffs, and of course the buys more valuable than
- 16:03Speaker 4: ever because you're the only team that gets it. So
- 16:06Speaker 4: a lot of people, i mean, Kyle Shanahan said going
- 16:08Speaker 4: into the game they were treating like a playoff game.
- 16:10Speaker 4: This is as important as a playoff game to try
- 16:13Speaker 4: to get the difference between a one seed and a
- 16:15Speaker 4: five seed or possibly a six seed in San Francisco's case,
- 16:19Speaker 4: which is what they ended up with. So we'll set
- 16:22Speaker 4: that scene for you in a moment. But Greg Bell,
- 16:25Speaker 4: I'll let you know we'll be joining us today at
- 16:27Speaker 4: seven oh five, so we'll recap the victory and also
- 16:31Speaker 4: Monday morning quarterback today, so Hugh Millan will be with
- 16:34Speaker 4: us at eight o'clock till ten o'clock. Mike Holmgren will
- 16:37Speaker 4: be with us from nine o'clock until ten o'clock. So
- 16:40Speaker 4: the NFL Wild Card schedule is set, including times and
- 16:44Speaker 4: dates for which the teams will play. Saturday at one
- 16:48Speaker 4: thirty is when the postseason gets underway. Did I mention
- 16:51Speaker 4: the Seahawks don't have to play this week? Carolina will
- 16:55Speaker 4: host the Los Angeles Rams starting at one thirty, So
- 16:59Speaker 4: that's the four And I had an interesting conversation with
- 17:01Speaker 4: my sushi guy and we're trying to like figure out
- 17:07Speaker 4: like the best path for the Seahawks, and he was
- 17:11Speaker 4: actually kind of hoping to avoid both the Rams and
- 17:15Speaker 4: the forty nine ers in the postseason.
- 17:18Speaker 3: And you got to remember that they do reshuffle.
- 17:21Speaker 4: They recede after the first round, so there is a
- 17:23Speaker 4: way that you could avoid both of them, but it
- 17:27Speaker 4: requires Green Bay to beat the Bears. So if the
- 17:31Speaker 4: Green Bay beats the Bears, you face the Packers. Seahawks
- 17:34Speaker 4: face face the Packers in round number two, and then
- 17:37Speaker 4: whatever else happens, they would have to square off against
- 17:40Speaker 4: one another. So not only I mean it sounds like
- 17:43Speaker 4: we're wanting our cake and eat it too. Not only
- 17:45Speaker 4: do we have the buye in the one seed in
- 17:46Speaker 4: the home field, and bad and and everything else. Now,
- 17:49Speaker 4: I got my sushi guy wanting us to face the
- 17:51Speaker 4: worst team in the NFC playoffs in round number two.
- 17:54Speaker 3: So but there is a way, there is a way
- 17:55Speaker 3: that you.
- 17:56Speaker 4: Don't face the Rams Panthers winner and round number two
- 18:00Speaker 4: because they receive Green Bay will play at Chicago at
- 18:04Speaker 4: five o'clock on Saturday night. The Sunday lineup is Buffalo
- 18:07Speaker 4: at Jacksonville, which I think is the best game of
- 18:10Speaker 4: the weekend.
- 18:11Speaker 3: I think that's so fascinating.
- 18:13Speaker 4: Then you got San Francisco at Philadelphia, as Nick Sirianni
- 18:17Speaker 4: decided it wasn't worth getting the two seed yesterday, which
- 18:22Speaker 4: we can talk about a little bit later on in
- 18:24Speaker 4: the show, so he didn't play a starters yesterday. And
- 18:27Speaker 4: the Chargers will be at New England to take on
- 18:31Speaker 4: the Patriots as well. That will be the seven in
- 18:34Speaker 4: the AFC versus the number two Denver getting the number
- 18:38Speaker 4: one seed. And then Monday night, Yes, there will be
- 18:41Speaker 4: a Monday night playoff game this week, Houston at Pittsburgh.
- 18:46Speaker 4: As the Steelers did take the North last night. If
- 18:50Speaker 4: you did not stay up to watch it or got distracted,
- 18:54Speaker 4: you missed.
- 18:55Speaker 3: Like football history. That was unbelievable. That fourth quarter.
- 18:59Speaker 4: We'll cover all that with cold Turkey Sandwich coming up
- 19:01Speaker 4: here at six point thirty a board of scores. It
- 19:04Speaker 4: is Black Monday. We've already have some victims. We know
- 19:07Speaker 4: that Raheem Morris and Terry Fontineau are out as head
- 19:10Speaker 4: coach in GM and Atlanta and the Falcons have already
- 19:14Speaker 4: announced their replacements in terms of the front office. They
- 19:18Speaker 4: have not announced their head coach, but Matt Ryan is
- 19:21Speaker 4: going to have a position in the front office with
- 19:24Speaker 4: the Atlanta Falcons. And they've also gotten rid of their
- 19:27Speaker 4: president as well, Rich McKay. They've reassigned him somewhere else
- 19:30Speaker 4: within the organization. Kevin Stefanski rumors started yesterday that he
- 19:35Speaker 4: wasn't going to keep his job. These rumors are usually
- 19:39Speaker 4: true when you start hearing him this time of the year.
- 19:41Speaker 4: So Kevin Stefanski is out as of this morning as
- 19:45Speaker 4: head coach of the Cleveland Browns, despite winning two Coach
- 19:49Speaker 4: of the Year honors as a member of the Cleveland Browns.
- 19:52Speaker 4: He is going to be a hot candidate for some
- 19:55Speaker 4: of these other vacancies this offseason, and it hasn't been
- 19:58Speaker 4: announced officially yet, but the expectation is that Pete Carroll
- 20:02Speaker 4: will also be let go by the Las Vegas Raiders
- 20:05Speaker 4: after just one year on the job and finishing with
- 20:09Speaker 4: the worst record in the National Football League. The draft
- 20:12Speaker 4: order is set. The Raiders will have the number one
- 20:15Speaker 4: selection in the draft. We'll go over the rest of
- 20:18Speaker 4: the top ten in cold Turkey sandwich here at the
- 20:21Speaker 4: bottom of the hour. College Football Playoff the final four
- 20:25Speaker 4: will be held Thursday and Friday of this week, and
- 20:28Speaker 4: so college football resumes with its three most important games
- 20:33Speaker 4: starting on Thursday. And of course, the transfer portal opened
- 20:37Speaker 4: as well since last week opened on the second, and
- 20:41Speaker 4: we had our most significant signing as Brandon Soresby, the
- 20:46Speaker 4: star quarterback at Cincinnati, was courted by several premier programs.
- 20:52Speaker 4: There were a couple of rumors that had him locked
- 20:54Speaker 4: in somewhere else over the weekend, but it is now official.
- 20:58Speaker 4: He's going to Texas Tech. So if you were watching
- 21:01Speaker 4: the Red Raiders facing the Ducks, and you were rooting
- 21:04Speaker 4: for the Red Raiders like Ashley and I were, then
- 21:08Speaker 4: you might have been saying, well, if they had a quarterback,
- 21:10Speaker 4: they could beat this team. That quarterback was terrible against Oregon,
- 21:14Speaker 4: and Oregon made him that way. But the Red Raiders
- 21:17Speaker 4: obviously saw the same thing, and they went out and
- 21:20Speaker 4: got the best quarterback in the transfer portal, at least
- 21:23Speaker 4: on paper. Brandon Soarsby College basketball. You dob lost to Indiana,
- 21:28Speaker 4: but it was kind of fun to watch them play
- 21:30Speaker 4: at Indiana's Assembly Hall. Ninety to eighty was the final
- 21:34Speaker 4: score last night, and the Kraken. We'll be at Calgary
- 21:38Speaker 4: tonight at six point thirty taking on the flames, all right,
- 21:41Speaker 4: A lot to do today coming up next though, a
- 21:44Speaker 4: board of scores.
- 21:45Speaker 3: That's right, we'll eat.
- 21:46Speaker 4: We'll feast on a cold turkey sandwich on Chuck and
- 21:49Speaker 4: Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 21:53Speaker 8: Pour down at the ballgame for San Francisco. Six yards
- 21:57Speaker 8: to go for their own twenty four trailing by Tana
- 22:00Speaker 8: five left forty of the gun shot gun.
- 22:02Speaker 3: Staff four man rush five of the pattern.
- 22:04Speaker 6: Nity throws right time, did Complaine let Seahawks stand? Seattle
- 22:09Speaker 6: is back on top of the NFT West Seahawks thirteen
- 22:15Speaker 6: forty nine ers three for the first time in eleven years.
- 22:20Speaker 3: Seattle is the number one seed.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Nice to Nate Gadder just gave the information there at
- 22:31Speaker 4: the end of that game.
- 22:32Speaker 3: On Saturday on Westwood One and didn't just go, oh
- 22:35Speaker 3: my gosh, I hope rock Party is alive.
- 22:38Speaker 4: Yeah, because that goes just a crushing hit at the
- 22:41Speaker 4: end of a really difficult night for him, and certainly
- 22:45Speaker 4: the Seahawks put the pressure on him all day long.
- 22:48Speaker 4: Speaking of pressure, I don't feel like Sam Donald's succumb
- 22:51Speaker 4: to it. I even add buddies nationally texting like, why
- 22:55Speaker 4: doesn't people get off Sam Donald's back?
- 22:57Speaker 3: So this is just something that's been going on Nash.
- 23:01Speaker 4: Apparently I'm supposed to believe that this, you know, redeems
- 23:05Speaker 4: Sam Donald. I just don't understand the criticism locally or
- 23:09Speaker 4: nationally about this guy. Four thousand passing yards this year
- 23:12Speaker 4: leads you to a fourteen and three record, second most
- 23:15Speaker 4: points in the National Football League. As a compliment to
- 23:18Speaker 4: your defense, I thought he was outstanding this year.
- 23:22Speaker 3: I don't think that he had to redeem himself Saturday
- 23:25Speaker 3: night by winning that football game. But I'm glad for
- 23:29Speaker 3: a lot of reasons that the Seahawks won Saturday Night,
- 23:32Speaker 3: and certainly people criticizing Sam Darnald unnecessarily. At least we
- 23:38Speaker 3: don't have to deal with that for a couple of days. Oh,
- 23:40Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 23:41Speaker 5: I mean I think we should find something to bitch about,
- 23:44Speaker 5: don't you.
- 23:44Speaker 3: I mean yeah, we have to. I mean yeah, only
- 23:46Speaker 3: score thirteen points, score thirteen points?
- 23:49Speaker 5: Sam, I mean Sam, we could have got like, I
- 23:52Speaker 5: don't know what's better than a number one seed.
- 23:55Speaker 3: I mean what you or you Willie wonk a golden ticket? Yeah,
- 24:00Speaker 3: right to the You.
- 24:00Speaker 5: Know you were only twenty for twenty six with no touchdowns.
- 24:04Speaker 5: I mean sure, you didn't have any picks, but Jeam,
- 24:07Speaker 5: you got to pick it up, man, I mean fourteen
- 24:10Speaker 5: and three.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Sure, it's the best ever.
- 24:13Speaker 5: It's the most wins ever for the Seahawks, But you
- 24:16Speaker 5: are trash and yeah, I mean no, I don't understand
- 24:19Speaker 5: how he needs to redeem himself from anything. It's his
- 24:24Speaker 5: first year here and they just went out and won
- 24:26Speaker 5: the number one seed. So yes, hopefully those that do
- 24:29Speaker 5: want to jump on him, don't get me wrong, this
- 24:31Speaker 5: room for criticism. You don't want him to have the turnovers.
- 24:33Speaker 5: To me, it's not even the interceptions that happens sometimes,
- 24:37Speaker 5: especially when you're trying to make big time plays and
- 24:39Speaker 5: throws like he does. To me, it's just hold on
- 24:42Speaker 5: to the ball when you're getting sacked and then you
- 24:44Speaker 5: don't have anything to worry about.
- 24:45Speaker 3: Twenty years old.
- 24:46Speaker 4: Came into the National Football League a lot of expectations,
- 24:49Speaker 4: joined a terrible organization and got off to a slow start,
- 24:52Speaker 4: and it took him a little while to get going.
- 24:54Speaker 4: But man, the last couple of years he's been. I
- 24:56Speaker 4: won't say as good as anybody. I think that there
- 24:59Speaker 4: are two three guys that have had have been better
- 25:02Speaker 4: the last couple of years, but there are many that
- 25:04Speaker 4: listen not very long the last two seasons.
- 25:06Speaker 3: Always done is throwing touchdowns, put up wins.
- 25:10Speaker 4: And here he is is the number one seed heading
- 25:12Speaker 4: into the NFL playoffs.
- 25:14Speaker 3: Glad he is our quarterback. All right, here we are
- 25:17Speaker 3: on a Monday morning. Good to have you with us.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Seven o'clock hour gets underway on a frost brewed corps
- 25:23Speaker 4: light Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to the playoffs, frankly,
- 25:29Speaker 4: because there is no Monday night football anymore.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Well there is next week.
- 25:34Speaker 4: But let's go ahead and take a look at those
- 25:35Speaker 4: frost brewed corps light Choose Chill headlines to get us
- 25:38Speaker 4: started this hour. Seahawks one of the forty nine ers
- 25:41Speaker 4: thirteen to three Saturday night. They have earned the one
- 25:44Speaker 4: seed home field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs and a
- 25:47Speaker 4: bye in the opening week, the only team in the
- 25:50Speaker 4: NFC to get that buy now with a fourteen team field,
- 25:54Speaker 4: and so they'll just sit and watch some football this weekend.
- 25:57Speaker 4: The NFL Wildcard schedule is set. Carolina hosts the Rams
- 26:01Speaker 4: at one thirty on Saturday, Green Bay at Chicago at
- 26:05Speaker 4: five o'clock Saturday evening. Sunday a triple edter Buffalo at
- 26:09Speaker 4: Jacksonville gets it going at ten am. San Francisco at
- 26:13Speaker 4: Philadelphia is the afternoon game, and the Chargers at the
- 26:16Speaker 4: Patriots that will take place Sunday night. And then Monday, Yes,
- 26:20Speaker 4: there will be a Monday playoff game.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Houston at Pittsburgh.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Who defeated Baltimore in one of the more thrilling fourth
- 26:27Speaker 4: quarters you'll ever see in your life watching football. The
- 26:31Speaker 4: Steelers win, they survive. Tyler Loop, the rookie kicker for
- 26:35Speaker 4: the Ravens, misses a forty four yard game winning field goal,
- 26:39Speaker 4: and so it's the Steelers that win the North. And
- 26:41Speaker 4: we'll be playing next Monday at home against the Houston Texans.
- 26:45Speaker 4: Today is Black Monday, in the National Football League. We've
- 26:48Speaker 4: already seen the Atlanta Falcons decide we're moving on from
- 26:51Speaker 4: our head coach and general manager, so Raheem Morris and
- 26:54Speaker 4: Terry Fontina are out. Kevin Stefanski, two time Coach of
- 26:58Speaker 4: the Year in the NFL well as a member of
- 27:01Speaker 4: the Cleveland Browns, is now out as the head coach
- 27:04Speaker 4: of the Cleveland Browns. He's not expected to be unemployed
- 27:07Speaker 4: for long, and who knows what else might happen on
- 27:09Speaker 4: a Black Monday. People are wondering what Miami's gonna do
- 27:13Speaker 4: with Mike McDaniel, Tampa is gonna do with Todd Bowles,
- 27:17Speaker 4: And of course we've all heard the rumors that Pete
- 27:20Speaker 4: Carroll is going to be out as head coach of
- 27:22Speaker 4: the Las Vegas Raiders at some point today, the.
- 27:26Speaker 3: Draft order is set.
- 27:27Speaker 4: The Raiders will have the number one selection in the
- 27:30Speaker 4: draft for this upcoming year. College football playoff rezumes on Thursday,
- 27:34Speaker 4: with the final four one game on Thursday, one on Friday,
- 27:38Speaker 4: the transfer portals creating all sorts of crazy results.
- 27:42Speaker 3: The UDAB Huskies.
- 27:43Speaker 4: Lost on the hardwood to Indiana last night, ninety to eighty.
- 27:47Speaker 4: They will next play at Purdue Wednesday at five thirty.
- 27:50Speaker 4: That's one of the top ranked teams in the country
- 27:53Speaker 4: and the Crack in an action tonight at Calgary to
- 27:55Speaker 4: take on the Flames.
- 27:57Speaker 3: They'll drop the puck at six thirty.
- 27:59Speaker 4: Let's talk Seahawks football with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
- 28:02Speaker 3: With the bell tolls.
- 28:04Speaker 2: It must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth Man
- 28:07Speaker 2: News with Greg Bell. Brought to you by Copola Diamond
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- 28:20Speaker 2: Now with twelf Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck and.
- 28:23Speaker 4: Budd Coome Morning, Greg, Good morning, all right, good to
- 28:28Speaker 4: have you with us. And look, you got to cover
- 28:31Speaker 4: the top team in the NFC this year during the
- 28:34Speaker 4: regular season. Did it feel like as you were covering
- 28:37Speaker 4: this team this year? How much of the season did
- 28:40Speaker 4: you feel like you were covering a great football team
- 28:43Speaker 4: this year?
- 28:46Speaker 9: Probably the latter half of it, and we talked about
- 28:50Speaker 9: it all season. They hadn't really done anything until they
- 28:54Speaker 9: beat the Rams at the forty nine ers and they've
- 28:56Speaker 9: done that here in the last three or four weeks.
- 28:59Speaker 9: And that's why the hired Mike McDonald, That's why they
- 29:02Speaker 9: signed Sam Donald, and those are validations that they needed
- 29:08Speaker 9: to be a division champion. I have home playoff games.
- 29:10Speaker 10: Everything that they set out to do, they had to
- 29:13Speaker 10: do those two things. And so honestly, after they beat
- 29:16Speaker 10: the Rams, I started thinking, Okay, this is what they've
- 29:19Speaker 10: taken that next step.
- 29:21Speaker 5: Yeah, well, sorry about that.
- 29:23Speaker 3: I turned my mic on. I'm with you.
- 29:25Speaker 5: It does feel like they've evolved into that. And maybe
- 29:29Speaker 5: it wasn't right off the bat, but it does evolve
- 29:32Speaker 5: into it. I mean, what is the most impressive part
- 29:34Speaker 5: of what you've watched in this evolution from beginning to now.
- 29:38Speaker 9: Well, Bucky without it out the defense, and this is
- 29:42Speaker 9: why they hired Mike McDonald. I was sitting there in
- 29:44Speaker 9: Levi Stadium on Saturday night. I felt from the beginning
- 29:49Speaker 9: of the game that they were going to win. The
- 29:52Speaker 9: way it was gone. I had not seen a Seahawk
- 29:55Speaker 9: defense to be that dominant and that of affecting the
- 29:59Speaker 9: entire game, how the offense played and how the Seahawks
- 30:02Speaker 9: offensive approaches. I hadn't seen that since Super Bowl forty
- 30:06Speaker 9: eight against the Baiton Manning in the meadowlands. Never before
- 30:11Speaker 9: then I've seen the Seahawks defense perform like that and
- 30:15Speaker 9: be that dominant. And while everyone back here, I'm sure
- 30:19Speaker 9: was up in arms will make MacDonald was going for
- 30:22Speaker 9: it on fourth and goal with the four, and while
- 30:24Speaker 9: he would the Kuviak was running on second and goal
- 30:27Speaker 9: for me eleven and throwing on first time. I could
- 30:30Speaker 9: see then in the moment what they were doing. McDonald said,
- 30:35Speaker 9: even if we don't get a touchdown here, we're going
- 30:38Speaker 9: for it because the forty nine ers are not driving
- 30:41Speaker 9: the field in our defense. They're just not, so we're
- 30:44Speaker 9: gonna get a pun out of it and get a
- 30:46Speaker 9: second chance at the same points. So why not get
- 30:48Speaker 9: two chances to score down here? And that's basically what
- 30:51Speaker 9: he did. Let me maximize our chances to get seven
- 30:54Speaker 9: points twice, and after the game he said exactly that.
- 30:59Speaker 9: He said, we have a very aggressive model to go
- 31:01Speaker 9: for it there because the forty nine Ers all season
- 31:04Speaker 9: had been one of the best field position teams in
- 31:06Speaker 9: the league and a lot of their points are because
- 31:08Speaker 9: of field position. He said, we wanted to take advantage
- 31:12Speaker 9: of that advantageous plus field position that even if we
- 31:15Speaker 9: didn't score we would get the ball back in a
- 31:18Speaker 9: position to score again, and sure enough, a three and
- 31:20Speaker 9: out by the forty nine ers against their own goal
- 31:22Speaker 9: line after that stop on fourth down from the four, which,
- 31:26Speaker 9: by the way, they had Smith and Jigler wide open
- 31:28Speaker 9: one on one with Lenora. He didn't even Donald didn't
- 31:31Speaker 9: even look that way. That was a very curious choice.
- 31:33Speaker 9: But three and out by the defense and then the
- 31:35Speaker 9: drive star because of a fifteen yard penalty on the
- 31:37Speaker 9: punt by the forty nine ers. The drive star for
- 31:40Speaker 9: the Salts was that thirty five they were already in
- 31:43Speaker 9: scoring range when they got the ball back. So from
- 31:46Speaker 9: the very first drive of the game, McDonald played and
- 31:49Speaker 9: dictated like he knew his defense was going to do
- 31:52Speaker 9: what it did. That's why after the game I asked
- 31:54Speaker 9: him about his game plan, and the thirty eight year
- 31:57Speaker 9: old head coach again showed what a he was. He
- 32:01Speaker 9: shot me down and said, no, no, no, no, no, nothing
- 32:04Speaker 9: to do with the game plan. Our guys played an
- 32:06Speaker 9: incredible game, how they tackled, how aggressive they were, their attitude,
- 32:11Speaker 9: their assimilation to what the forty nine ers wanted to do.
- 32:14Speaker 9: He just threw it all on the players. I thought
- 32:17Speaker 9: it was a really cool moment, a glimpse of his leadership,
- 32:21Speaker 9: and he drives those guys hard. He's a very exacting guy,
- 32:25Speaker 9: but he he gives him the carrot quite a bit too.
- 32:28Speaker 9: And including the postgame scene of that locker room. I
- 32:32Speaker 9: walked in there and smoke with something I couldn't see
- 32:35Speaker 9: across the locker room. Who I was trying to talk to?
- 32:38Speaker 3: Cigars? Yes, cigars, now that kind there before?
- 32:42Speaker 9: Okay, oh yeah, what's cigars?
- 32:45Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 32:45Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
- 32:48Speaker 4: Greg mell is with US Seahawks Insider. Of course, you
- 32:50Speaker 4: can follow myt g bel Seattle complete coverage of the
- 32:53Speaker 4: seahawks wins Saturday and their path end of the playoffs
- 32:57Speaker 4: there at the News Tribune dot com. So what do
- 33:00Speaker 4: we have to say here on this Monday morning, a
- 33:02Speaker 4: couple of days to think about what went down on
- 33:05Speaker 4: Saturday about an offense that doubled up the forty nine
- 33:08Speaker 4: ers in yards, didn't seem to be struggling really at
- 33:12Speaker 4: any time during the course of the evening, got its
- 33:14Speaker 4: running game going more than it has in seventeen games
- 33:19Speaker 4: this year during the regular season. That was our best
- 33:21Speaker 4: night running the football all year long, and yet still unfortunately.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Caused a you know, kind of a tense moment.
- 33:31Speaker 4: At the end, McCaffrey doesn't fumble that you throw and
- 33:35Speaker 4: you don't get the interception, and we got a down
- 33:37Speaker 4: to the wire football game against the team that you're dominating.
- 33:40Speaker 4: So what do we make of the offense just scoring
- 33:42Speaker 4: thirteen points despite not seemingly having a bad night at
- 33:46Speaker 4: all Saturday?
- 33:50Speaker 9: They think, so what this is how we said, remember
- 33:55Speaker 9: in the summer, I told you that Jake Bob will
- 33:57Speaker 9: pull me aside and said, Greg, let me tell you
- 33:59Speaker 9: about this offense, how it's different. We're just going to
- 34:02Speaker 9: play offense so the defense can win games. And we
- 34:04Speaker 9: talked about this. He said, the running game is going
- 34:07Speaker 9: to play field position and put our defense in position
- 34:11Speaker 9: to win the game. He said, Now, as an offensive player,
- 34:13Speaker 9: we're kind of like, come on, we want to score
- 34:15Speaker 9: thirty points a game. He said, that's not how we're
- 34:17Speaker 9: designed to win. He said, there will be games we
- 34:20Speaker 9: need to win like that, but that's not how Mike
- 34:23Speaker 9: McDonald is recasting us. We're going to play enough offense
- 34:28Speaker 9: to win on defense. And that's exactly how they went
- 34:30Speaker 9: on Saturday night. Yes, without the fourth and the first
- 34:34Speaker 9: and goal, with the one malfunction in the first drive.
- 34:36Speaker 9: That's at least a pointy to nothing game in the
- 34:38Speaker 9: second quarter, so yes, and it wasn't, so therefore it
- 34:41Speaker 9: was by on the scoreboards, still a close game. At
- 34:44Speaker 9: no time did anyone on the Seattle sideline, and High
- 34:47Speaker 9: certainly didn't in the press Boks think that the forty
- 34:49Speaker 9: nine ers are going to score twice in that game.
- 34:52Speaker 9: And the game was dictated by the defense. And I
- 34:55Speaker 9: kept thinking of what Bobo told me during the game.
- 34:57Speaker 9: I was like, this is exactly what the play thought
- 35:00Speaker 9: they were gonna be all year. What's most encouraging for
- 35:04Speaker 9: the Seahawks is they are now playing exactly like they're
- 35:08Speaker 9: designed to play. In Week eighteen is the culmination of
- 35:11Speaker 9: what they've been building for since April. And there are
- 35:14Speaker 9: gonna be times that that doesn't look great on offense,
- 35:16Speaker 9: and there're gonna be times that fans are going, yeah,
- 35:18Speaker 9: but their offense, so what, That's exactly how McDonald wants
- 35:23Speaker 9: to play back a team up to its own goal line,
- 35:26Speaker 9: with your offense doing enough to get it down there,
- 35:28Speaker 9: and then the defense is gonna let them go anywhere,
- 35:31Speaker 9: and we're just gonna keep getting punched and receiving the
- 35:33Speaker 9: ball in midfield and eventually we're gonna score, and eventually
- 35:36Speaker 9: we're scoring enough points that the other team won't be
- 35:38Speaker 9: able to get close to us because our defense is
- 35:40Speaker 9: so good. I'm simplifying a lot, but that, in a nutshell,
- 35:44Speaker 9: is the approach they built this team when Jody Allen
- 35:48Speaker 9: decided to hire Mike McDonald and go with John Schneider's
- 35:53Speaker 9: way of pursuing a new head coach and rebuilding the defense.
- 35:56Speaker 9: This is what they bought and it eight team with
- 36:01Speaker 9: the division title on the line to fully realize what
- 36:04Speaker 9: they bought into two years ago. And it's somewhat remarkable
- 36:07Speaker 9: it only took them two years to get to this point.
- 36:10Speaker 9: I mean, come on, nobody expected Mike McDonald to be
- 36:13Speaker 9: the number one seed with a buy and two home
- 36:15Speaker 9: wins from the Super Bowl twenty three months ago when
- 36:19Speaker 9: they hired them. Did we? Yet they are exactly where
- 36:23Speaker 9: they were in their leads to Boon days as far
- 36:25Speaker 9: as number one seeds in the Super Bowl. I get
- 36:31Speaker 9: the there's always a glass half empty look at almost
- 36:34Speaker 9: any football game, and I get the concern about, well,
- 36:36Speaker 9: the offense did this and they scored just thirteen points.
- 36:39Speaker 9: This is how they were designed to win, and McDonald
- 36:41Speaker 9: will do it every single time. He'll take thirteen to
- 36:43Speaker 9: three all the way to the Super Bowl.
- 36:45Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I will win the win, And yeah they
- 36:48Speaker 5: were more dominant than what the number on the scoreboard says.
- 36:51Speaker 5: I mean, is this a game as big as it
- 36:54Speaker 5: was for the number one seed and the buy and
- 36:56Speaker 5: all that stuff. Is this a game that Sam Donald
- 36:59Speaker 5: gets put in his back pocket and hopefully hushes up
- 37:01Speaker 5: some of the haters?
- 37:03Speaker 9: I would think so, man, all he does is win
- 37:07Speaker 9: right now. And I keep thinking of my buddy Ken
- 37:10Speaker 9: Machat telling me when I was trying to decide who
- 37:11Speaker 9: to vote for the Cy Young Award. Wins an f
- 37:14Speaker 9: and loss is Greig and nobody else. But Tom Brady
- 37:18Speaker 9: has done what Sam Darnald's done the last two regular seasons,
- 37:22Speaker 9: fourteen wins in each, and unlike Brady, Donald's done with
- 37:26Speaker 9: two different teams. Eventually, you're gonna have to start thinking,
- 37:29Speaker 9: this guy's doing his job, which is to win football games.
- 37:33Speaker 9: And he didn't turn the ball over, which to me
- 37:36Speaker 9: is the key between now and Santa Clair and the
- 37:38Speaker 9: Super Bowl. Don't turn the ball over because your defense
- 37:41Speaker 9: is good enough to win a Super Bowl. We've talked
- 37:43Speaker 9: about that for a month now, and that's exactly how
- 37:46Speaker 9: it played out. The steadiness, the poise, the players all
- 37:51Speaker 9: saying how reassuring it is that he's always the same.
- 37:56Speaker 9: It's yeah, I hear you, Bucky, because there gonna be
- 38:00Speaker 9: people who still complain and say that he didn't do this,
- 38:03Speaker 9: he didn't do that, and why do he take a
- 38:04Speaker 9: second first and go yes, But you could look at
- 38:07Speaker 9: every quarterback in the history of the game, including Joe
- 38:09Speaker 9: Montana and the very best I've ever done it. They've
- 38:13Speaker 9: had plays and drives and turnovers. And I'm not apologizing
- 38:18Speaker 9: for him, but I do think that's the bottom line
- 38:20Speaker 9: of winning games. He's been pretty damn good at doing
- 38:22Speaker 9: that the last two years.
- 38:23Speaker 3: I'll say.
- 38:23Speaker 4: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider from the
- 38:26Speaker 4: News Tribune. All right, what's what's the update on Charles Cross.
- 38:31Speaker 4: I mean, you get you get a bye, so you
- 38:33Speaker 4: get two weeks to heal up everybody, Kobe Bryant, all
- 38:36Speaker 4: of them. I mean, man, if they can get crossing
- 38:38Speaker 4: Brian back, this is about as healthy a playoff team
- 38:41Speaker 4: as you could possibly have, considering what these guys go
- 38:44Speaker 4: through for six months.
- 38:47Speaker 9: Yeah, Tory Horton's probably gonna be the only guy recently
- 38:51Speaker 9: injured in the ones on injured reserve who doesn't have
- 38:53Speaker 9: a chance to play in the playoffs. Makes Doms said
- 38:56Speaker 9: that right before the duvet for Santa Clara and whatever
- 38:58Speaker 9: day that was Friday, it looks like his season is over.
- 39:02Speaker 9: We'll play them next year. And honestly, on top of
- 39:04Speaker 9: the shin injury, what happened to Tory Horton was Rashid Shaheit.
- 39:08Speaker 9: They don't need Tory Horton because of the trade for
- 39:11Speaker 9: Rashid Shaheed right now. But Charles Cross McDonald said, we'll
- 39:15Speaker 9: play in the first playoff game. That's the expectation I
- 39:17Speaker 9: should say. Anyway, he said that even before the forty
- 39:20Speaker 9: nine ers game. Now that they have to buy, that's
- 39:21Speaker 9: doubly true. And on Friday McDonald said that George Hallani
- 39:28Speaker 9: he has a chance to come back the third running
- 39:30Speaker 9: back off of injured reserve as well. We'll see how
- 39:35Speaker 9: many of those guys come back. They have three elevations.
- 39:38Speaker 9: They can make one left over from the regular season
- 39:40Speaker 9: and two elevations or return to place from ir in
- 39:45Speaker 9: the playoffs as well. But to your point. Yeah, in
- 39:49Speaker 9: that is one of the big big carrots of the
- 39:52Speaker 9: number one seed, the buye the rest playing one. We
- 39:55Speaker 9: were game to get to the super Bowl. But all
- 39:57Speaker 9: the players, even the ones who have been playing, are
- 40:00Speaker 9: going to benefit hugely from not having to play again
- 40:03Speaker 9: and getting the two weeks off.
- 40:05Speaker 3: They even gave Cross some money.
- 40:07Speaker 9: They did give some honey to him. Yeah, they've been
- 40:10Speaker 9: looking to give him some money for a while now.
- 40:12Speaker 9: And yeah, Abe Lucas maybe next it's they have an
- 40:17Speaker 9: interesting decision with Riek Wollen and Kenneth Walker. The way
- 40:22Speaker 9: Charbona is playing and the way they've used Walker, I'm
- 40:25Speaker 9: not sure they're going to resign Kenneth Walker, and it
- 40:27Speaker 9: doesn't have to be on their terms for maybe a
- 40:30Speaker 9: one year deal. Kobe Bryant is someone that sliding into
- 40:34Speaker 9: the radar. Is also his contract ending, and I think
- 40:36Speaker 9: they're going to make an effort to resign him as well.
- 40:39Speaker 5: I mean, is there anything that at this point John
- 40:41Speaker 5: Schneider hasn't done perfectly? I mean, yeah, you're coming into
- 40:44Speaker 5: an offseason, like you said, there's multiple people that you're
- 40:46Speaker 5: gonna have to re up.
- 40:47Speaker 3: But it was really he was really pitting out during
- 40:50Speaker 3: the game that was yeah, yeah, I mean he didn't
- 40:55Speaker 3: have a perfect year. That's true. That's true.
- 40:58Speaker 5: So bad deodorant, but good per Snell decisions. I mean, really,
- 41:01Speaker 5: is he the executive year. It's hard to think he
- 41:03Speaker 5: wouldn't be.
- 41:05Speaker 9: Well. Yeah, I mean everything he's done, of all the
- 41:09Speaker 9: things he's done right the last couple of years, hiring
- 41:13Speaker 9: Mike McDonald and drafting at the top of the first
- 41:15Speaker 9: two rounds. I mean, look at Gray's Abel and nick
- 41:18Speaker 9: emun Worry this year, Jackson Smith and Jiggler a couple
- 41:22Speaker 9: of years ago. When you hit Witherspoon across four years
- 41:27Speaker 9: ago and ninth overall, when you hit with your first
- 41:30Speaker 9: and second round picks, you're on your way because you
- 41:34Speaker 9: can win at bottom basement bargain basement price at rookie Pasco.
- 41:39Speaker 9: When you miss in the first and second round, it
- 41:41Speaker 9: sets you back for four or five six, maybe a
- 41:43Speaker 9: year's beyond that for the same reasons. Because you've invested
- 41:48Speaker 9: the biggest chips. You have to win cheap the wrong way,
- 41:53Speaker 9: and the league is full of teams that have done
- 41:55Speaker 9: this that way. The Emon Worry, We've been talking about
- 42:01Speaker 9: him since they drafted him, but he looked like I
- 42:06Speaker 9: hesitate to say it, but I will say it because
- 42:08Speaker 9: they conpared him to him the night to draft him
- 42:11Speaker 9: Sunday night, Saturday night. He looked like Cam Chancellor, both
- 42:15Speaker 9: in stature and play and how he tilted the field
- 42:19Speaker 9: and how he wiped out plays. He's just a supernatural
- 42:26Speaker 9: guy to what and now McDonald just maximizes every one
- 42:30Speaker 9: of his talents by moving him all over the field.
- 42:33Speaker 9: De Marcus Lawrence continues to play incredibly well. The fourth
- 42:37Speaker 9: down stop they had in the first half was because
- 42:39Speaker 9: of Lawrence's swim move. He looked like he was twenty
- 42:42Speaker 9: five years old instead of a twelve year veteran beating
- 42:44Speaker 9: the card off the snap and ruining the entire play.
- 42:50Speaker 9: I keep going on about the defense, but de Marcus
- 42:53Speaker 9: Lawrence was another John Schneider move right, eleven year veteran
- 42:57Speaker 9: in Dallas, and let's go sign this guy at thirty
- 42:59Speaker 9: two years old to a three year contract. And we
- 43:01Speaker 9: all said, what's he doing? Well, this is what he's doing.
- 43:04Speaker 9: He's got a veteran who knows the league and has
- 43:07Speaker 9: played in playoff games before, maybe their best player the
- 43:11Speaker 9: last month of the season. Yet Snyder gets a ton
- 43:15Speaker 9: of credit. Jody Allen chose his route over Carrol's and
- 43:19Speaker 9: look where it's gone.
- 43:21Speaker 3: And congratulations to you as well. You don't have to
- 43:24Speaker 3: fly to Carolina again.
- 43:25Speaker 9: So I will say we're not supposed to root in
- 43:30Speaker 9: a press box, but I will say the entire Seahawks
- 43:32Speaker 9: traveling beat what's rooting one way? Ivan Biker said De
- 43:37Speaker 9: guard I had a funny now that Dugar has two
- 43:40Speaker 9: small kids, we have some self rooting interest at times.
- 43:44Speaker 9: If the Seahawks had lost that game, they were staring,
- 43:47Speaker 9: we were all staring at the real possibility of five
- 43:49Speaker 9: straight weeks on the road, five straight game. They were
- 43:52Speaker 9: going to probably win the first two rounds at least
- 43:55Speaker 9: certainly the first round if they were the five seed,
- 43:58Speaker 9: and then they'd have a rematch within the rams fours
- 44:00Speaker 9: in the second round. And if they had won that,
- 44:03Speaker 9: they were looking at five straight game two in the
- 44:05Speaker 9: regular season at three to begin the playoffs. We were
- 44:07Speaker 9: all thinking that during the.
- 44:08Speaker 4: Game, well you got your wish, all right, Well here
- 44:12Speaker 4: we go and we look forward to a more conversation tomorrow.
- 44:16Speaker 3: Sir, Thank you very much, appreciate.
- 44:18Speaker 9: You all right, Happy Monday, Thank you, Greg.
- 44:20Speaker 4: Bell I see Hawks inside of joining us right here
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- 45:38Speaker 2: Morning Quarterback with Mike Holmgrin and Hugh Millin. Here's Chuck
- 45:41Speaker 2: and Buck.
- 45:43Speaker 3: Oh, good morning and happy New Year. Great to have
- 45:47Speaker 3: you with us here.
- 45:48Speaker 4: So many cool things to discuss here on this Monday morning,
- 45:52Speaker 4: and our Monday Morning quarterback experts are here. Mike Holmgren
- 45:55Speaker 4: at nine o'clock. You Millon joining us here in a
- 45:57Speaker 4: matter of seconds. I told you I made nine hundred
- 45:59Speaker 4: and forty six New Year's resolutions this year, some of
- 46:03Speaker 4: them achievable and some really far fetched. But I can
- 46:06Speaker 4: check another one off my list. I resolved this year that.
- 46:09Speaker 3: I was only going to talk about one seeds locally. Yeah,
- 46:14Speaker 3: it's a really good New Year's resolution.
- 46:16Speaker 4: Only really going to cover the Seahawks if they're a
- 46:19Speaker 4: one seed and if they've earned the one seed.
- 46:21Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, so checking off the box. All right, Wow,
- 46:24Speaker 5: look at you with all these resolutions coming.
- 46:27Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel fulfilled, good the whole week into the
- 46:30Speaker 7: New Years.
- 46:31Speaker 3: You know what I'm going to do the same thing.
- 46:33Speaker 5: I don't know if I can make a news resolution
- 46:35Speaker 5: at this point because we're already a couple few days
- 46:37Speaker 5: into this bad boy, but I'm going to do the
- 46:39Speaker 5: same thing.
- 46:39Speaker 3: I'm just going to cheer for one Seeds.
- 46:42Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very good joining us now is our QB
- 46:47Speaker 4: one to talk about the Seahawks thirteen to three went
- 46:50Speaker 4: over the forty nine ers, their division championship, their home
- 46:53Speaker 4: field advantage they'll.
- 46:54Speaker 3: Carry throughout the playoffs. Oh, we got a wonderful session
- 46:58Speaker 3: ahead of you. Hi Hue. What's happening boys? Happy New
- 47:02Speaker 3: Year with you? Good morning, happy new You're very happy
- 47:04Speaker 3: New Year. Yeah, all right, Well they did it.
- 47:07Speaker 4: They got it done Saturday night, and the rather dominant fashion,
- 47:11Speaker 4: even if the score doesn't indicate that what is it
- 47:14Speaker 4: about Saturday and you've had forty eight hours now to
- 47:18Speaker 4: think about it?
- 47:19Speaker 11: That leaps out to Hugh milling about this, Well, I
- 47:22Speaker 11: usually reserve it for quarterbacks. But the defense was just
- 47:26Speaker 11: football porn. Didn't even need Biagar. That was just that
- 47:30Speaker 11: was just so simile. It was It was fun to
- 47:32Speaker 11: watch obviously live thrilling them to watch the tape, and
- 47:38Speaker 11: and I just you know, they say, well, against forty
- 47:40Speaker 11: nine ers, it's going to be a rock fight. But
- 47:43Speaker 11: I think Seahawks they brought their rock and they brought
- 47:46Speaker 11: bats with nails on the end of them, like they
- 47:49Speaker 11: came to bloody the forty nine ers. And really, you know,
- 47:54Speaker 11: in my view, they out forty nine ered the forty
- 47:58Speaker 11: nine ers.
- 47:59Speaker 3: What do you mean by that?
- 48:01Speaker 11: Well, I mean, let's say, who are the forty nine ers?
- 48:04Speaker 11: So you have Kyle Shanahan got the job in twenty seventeen.
- 48:08Speaker 11: The forty nine ers had been a two win team
- 48:11Speaker 11: the year before. It took him a couple of years,
- 48:14Speaker 11: but in his thirty year twenty nineteen, they went to
- 48:18Speaker 11: the Super Bowl thirteen and three. They since twenty nineteen,
- 48:20Speaker 11: the forty nine ers have the most wins in the
- 48:22Speaker 11: NFC against Seattle at home they have under Kyle Shanahan
- 48:28Speaker 11: since twenty nineteen. They rush for one hundred and fifty
- 48:31Speaker 11: one yards on thirty one attempts, and hell, they rush
- 48:34Speaker 11: for one hundred and thirty four yards in Seattle. They
- 48:36Speaker 11: got a six and three record. And who they are
- 48:40Speaker 11: is when you consider twenty one personnel. They play with
- 48:43Speaker 11: the fullback, they play with the tight end and you know,
- 48:48Speaker 11: some of the best that we've ever seen in Yusef
- 48:51Speaker 11: and George Kittle, how they block. To give you an
- 48:54Speaker 11: idea on that they since twenty nineteen, they have run
- 48:57Speaker 11: two thousand and four and forty nine play out of
- 49:01Speaker 11: twenty one personnel. The next closest is fourteen seventy nine
- 49:05Speaker 11: and the average is five to sixteen. Right, so they're
- 49:08Speaker 11: almost one thousand plays more than second place. And so
- 49:13Speaker 11: Seattle against Seattle, they come up, they have two running
- 49:17Speaker 11: backs in the game nineteen times. That's to us, that's
- 49:21Speaker 11: us Jeff. But he was only in the backfield one time,
- 49:26Speaker 11: one freaking time, like they were trying to do these
- 49:30Speaker 11: bells and was they were splitting him out, you know,
- 49:32Speaker 11: motion around, trying to create this magic show.
- 49:35Speaker 3: That is just not like them.
- 49:37Speaker 11: And Seattle had seventeen plays where they had Robbie Utz
- 49:42Speaker 11: on the on the field, second most of Oots's career,
- 49:46Speaker 11: and he was in the backfield sixteen out of seventeen.
- 49:49Speaker 11: They ran in those situations eleven runs sixty six yards
- 49:53Speaker 11: six yards average. That's forty nine er like and the
- 49:57Speaker 11: forty nine ers of they had ten runs to their
- 50:00Speaker 11: running backs, they had thirty two yards Christian McCaffrey. We
- 50:07Speaker 11: know it wasn't just the running that he was under
- 50:10Speaker 11: three yards per attempt, but you know, yes, here's a
- 50:14Speaker 11: guy that he had six catches fifteen yards after catch.
- 50:18Speaker 11: This is a guy that for his career averages seven
- 50:20Speaker 11: point seven yards after the catch. He had two and
- 50:23Speaker 11: a half. So I think just what they did to
- 50:25Speaker 11: Christian McCaffrey, what they did to that running game, they
- 50:29Speaker 11: you know, only three running plays from under center first
- 50:34Speaker 11: for the forty nine ers. The Seahawks had thirty three.
- 50:40Speaker 11: They ten xed them at what is their brand? And
- 50:46Speaker 11: then and by the way, when Seattle shut down their defense,
- 50:51Speaker 11: there was only one play. Like when you say there's
- 50:55Speaker 11: a binary nature to offensive football, got me. It's either
- 50:59Speaker 11: a runner or a pass. Correct, there's a binary nature
- 51:04Speaker 11: if you want to just strip it down to defense.
- 51:08Speaker 11: In the same regard, one high is a run defense,
- 51:12Speaker 11: two eyes of pass deef. That's a general rule.
- 51:16Speaker 3: We had.
- 51:17Speaker 11: Howard Mudd, the famous offensive line coach, was the offensive
- 51:20Speaker 11: line coach for for the Seahawks once and for all
- 51:24Speaker 11: of Peyton Manning's career at Indianapolis. He was on our
- 51:27Speaker 11: mount side staff. You know, spend a lot of time
- 51:29Speaker 11: with him. We've spent time at his house watching tape.
- 51:33Speaker 11: He told me how simple that Coal offense was. It
- 51:36Speaker 11: was just peyton man at the line. Hey, you got
- 51:38Speaker 11: too high run the ball, you got one high, throw
- 51:41Speaker 11: it and seattle. What they did against the forty nine
- 51:46Speaker 11: ers running They only had one defensive play where they
- 51:51Speaker 11: played with one high. They played with a two high shell,
- 51:54Speaker 11: a pass defense, and they were able to stop the
- 51:57Speaker 11: run with the front seven. And oh, by the way,
- 52:00Speaker 11: a nickel front seven em and warrior doesn't come off
- 52:04Speaker 11: the field, so they they were able to play with
- 52:07Speaker 11: a light box in nickel, not base against all those
- 52:12Speaker 11: plays with a heavy personnel by San Francisco and everywhere
- 52:15Speaker 11: you turn, you just go, wait a minute. The forty
- 52:18Speaker 11: nine ers. You guys have been doing shows with me
- 52:21Speaker 11: a long time. You know I've expressed you know, and
- 52:23Speaker 11: it's not a hot take. Everybody who watches football, you
- 52:26Speaker 11: say that forty nine team is really physical on both
- 52:29Speaker 11: sides of the ball. You know, they got guys like
- 52:32Speaker 11: Deebo Samuel. You know, the receivers block like tight ends,
- 52:36Speaker 11: The tight ends block like linemen.
- 52:37Speaker 3: They got a fullback the whole thing. They're physical on
- 52:39Speaker 3: both sides of the ball.
- 52:41Speaker 11: Well, Seattle took it to them in that way, and
- 52:45Speaker 11: oh man, there's so much to talk about, but that
- 52:48Speaker 11: would be where I would start.
- 52:49Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean there is a ton to talk
- 52:52Speaker 5: about it. I mean, I don't even know where you
- 52:53Speaker 5: want to start. Where it's they took it to them.
- 52:55Speaker 5: Obviously on the defense side of it, there's you know,
- 52:58Speaker 5: some folks I think will maybe look at well, you
- 53:01Speaker 5: dominated them and yet you only did you only scored
- 53:04Speaker 5: thirteen points. Is there anything critical because I don't really
- 53:06Speaker 5: want to go critical they not locked up the number
- 53:08Speaker 5: one seed. Is there anything that that is disappointing about
- 53:12Speaker 5: the way in which the scoreboard read considering how much
- 53:15Speaker 5: they kind of bent them over their knee?
- 53:17Speaker 11: Well, I don't have a lot of bandwidth in my
- 53:19Speaker 11: my brain for criticizing this football team. But but obviously,
- 53:24Speaker 11: you know, the red zone, the red zone fringe. You know,
- 53:28Speaker 11: I think you know, I saw a text string, or
- 53:32Speaker 11: not text string, but a fan site with a lot
- 53:35Speaker 11: about six pages that just wanted to break down that
- 53:38Speaker 11: that first down sack when they when Seattle had that
- 53:42Speaker 11: beautiful drive down to the one yard line in the
- 53:44Speaker 11: first quarter, right, yeap remember the sack. Yeah, and and
- 53:48Speaker 11: I'll just say we haven't. There's an analyst in town
- 53:51Speaker 11: here that said, it's spider too, wide banana, It's it's
- 53:53Speaker 11: it was not spider too. That the Seahawks they got
- 53:56Speaker 11: down to first and goal at the one, they go
- 54:00Speaker 11: play action. Now, the the concept that they have with
- 54:04Speaker 11: the corner to the tight end of the corner and
- 54:07Speaker 11: the back in the flat, that is ubiquitous. I guarantee
- 54:10Speaker 11: you that that Sam Darnold has been running that since
- 54:13Speaker 11: Sant Clementi High School and certainly at USC everybody has that.
- 54:17Speaker 11: But there was a little bit of a wrinkle that
- 54:19Speaker 11: Seattle had. Normally spider two.
- 54:22Speaker 3: Whye banana.
- 54:23Speaker 11: If you're if you're into football, and John Gruden gets
- 54:25Speaker 11: all excited, there's teaching.
- 54:26Speaker 3: Here to man, Yeah you got it.
- 54:29Speaker 11: Yeah right, yeah, that's what the that's what the full
- 54:31Speaker 11: back bluffing and the full backs in the flat. What
- 54:35Speaker 11: Seattle did here is they they had Robbie Utes blocking,
- 54:40Speaker 11: and they had the tailback in in charbon eye in
- 54:45Speaker 11: the flat that that just takes longer to get there.
- 54:48Speaker 11: And I went in the NFL stat port uh and
- 54:52Speaker 11: and I I looked up twenty three play action passes
- 54:57Speaker 11: by uh BY teams on the one yard line, and Tennessee,
- 55:03Speaker 11: Houston and Cincinnati did that same thing on one play
- 55:07Speaker 11: where they block with the fullback and they have the
- 55:10Speaker 11: tailback in the flat. But most teams it's the other
- 55:13Speaker 11: way around. It's the full back in the flat. He
- 55:15Speaker 11: gets there quicker. And by the way, for those who questioned,
- 55:18Speaker 11: I thought that they should have run the ball. I
- 55:20Speaker 11: was saying, run the ball. But the NFL this year
- 55:26Speaker 11: first and goal at the one yard line, three hundred
- 55:29Speaker 11: and fifty two plays, there's been eighty five passes us
- 55:32Speaker 11: a little over twenty five percent, and there's only been
- 55:36Speaker 11: two sacks and Sam Donald took one of them.
- 55:38Speaker 3: So I think as a general I wanted them to
- 55:42Speaker 3: run the ball.
- 55:42Speaker 11: But there is a rule or excuse me, every offensive
- 55:47Speaker 11: coach will say, well, if we never throw the ball
- 55:51Speaker 11: on the goal line, it's going to be a lot
- 55:52Speaker 11: tougher to run. So I just gave you the numbers.
- 55:55Speaker 11: One out of four times teams are gonna throw on
- 55:59Speaker 11: first and goal at the one. Now, what happened because
- 56:03Speaker 11: it's a little late, you know, you watch the tape,
- 56:06Speaker 11: it's really easy to see on the TV that the
- 56:09Speaker 11: back is as wide open charbonnay. But if you look
- 56:12Speaker 11: at at the block where you've got Robby ots on
- 56:16Speaker 11: the end man on line of scrimmage, it's it's it's
- 56:19Speaker 11: right in line with where he wants to throw.
- 56:22Speaker 3: So you know what it is.
- 56:23Speaker 11: I'm just certain Sam Donald didn't see it. Hey, he
- 56:26Speaker 11: might have seen the back, but there was a portion
- 56:30Speaker 11: of his vision he didn't know if there was a defender,
- 56:32Speaker 11: because remember there's a play action, he turns his back
- 56:34Speaker 11: to the defense, then he looks out to the flat.
- 56:37Speaker 11: At any rate, spider two white banana also involves a
- 56:39Speaker 11: crossing rounte from the backside, and usually a front side
- 56:42Speaker 11: crosser as well. So it wasn't exactly spider two banana,
- 56:45Speaker 11: but it has elements of that. But there's a critical
- 56:48Speaker 11: difference that running back the tailback in the flat, you know,
- 56:52Speaker 11: just it jams up the quarterbacks tim and you're like,
- 56:56Speaker 11: where's that backwards back and you get off of it
- 56:58Speaker 11: quicker because it takes longer the back to get there.
- 57:00Speaker 11: So in any rate, but you know what, they played
- 57:03Speaker 11: the field position game. When Seattle scored on the next ride,
- 57:06Speaker 11: they forced the punt and they got the ball. I
- 57:09Speaker 11: gotta look it up, but they at where thirty five?
- 57:13Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, I thought, well that that really is like
- 57:17Speaker 11: we got the touchdown. We got the touchdown that you
- 57:20Speaker 11: didn't get on the opening drive.
- 57:23Speaker 4: So in rate, yeah, I think that's one of the
- 57:25Speaker 4: under reported, under discussed aspects of being aggressive on fourth down.
- 57:31Speaker 3: And look, I would have taken the points.
- 57:33Speaker 4: I didn't go through all of that on that beautiful
- 57:35Speaker 4: first drive and then have the sack and not come
- 57:37Speaker 4: away with points. I would have taken the points in
- 57:40Speaker 4: that situation. And you know how much I like going
- 57:42Speaker 4: for it on fourth down. But this is one thing
- 57:45Speaker 4: that people don't discuss enough is when you have a
- 57:48Speaker 4: great defensive team and you can pen the other team
- 57:51Speaker 4: inside their own five, the advantage that you get from
- 57:56Speaker 4: the from the field position if you stop there, if
- 58:01Speaker 4: you have faith that you can stop them there, it
- 58:03Speaker 4: does pretty much give you two bites at that touchdown apple.
- 58:07Speaker 4: And they ended up eating the apple. Now it took
- 58:09Speaker 4: him two drives to do with you, but they ended
- 58:11Speaker 4: up getting the seven points.
- 58:13Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 58:13Speaker 3: And you know with the.
- 58:14Speaker 11: Kickoffs, now, the starting field position is you know, pushing
- 58:20Speaker 11: up over the thirty yard line.
- 58:21Speaker 3: So the field goal has less value. It just flat
- 58:26Speaker 3: out does.
- 58:26Speaker 11: It has less value because of the field position you
- 58:30Speaker 11: turn around after you kick off.
- 58:31Speaker 4: Hugh Mellinis with us Monday morning Quarterback Session brought to
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- 58:37Speaker 4: for Sleep and Core Construction. I know we have a
- 58:41Speaker 4: lot more things to discuss on the defensive side of
- 58:43Speaker 4: the ball, but since we're on the offensive side of
- 58:45Speaker 4: the ball. Sam Darnold and his performance, what did you
- 58:49Speaker 4: think about it? Only put thirteen points on the board,
- 58:52Speaker 4: but got himself a running game yesterday or Saturday night,
- 58:56Speaker 4: And certainly I thought he played well.
- 59:00Speaker 3: Even if you didn't score more than thirteen.
- 59:04Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you look in you say, okay, that
- 59:07Speaker 11: was the context of that game, and and it was
- 59:09Speaker 11: important for him. I bet internally I'm not in his head,
- 59:13Speaker 11: but you know, he's talked about, hey, I I want
- 59:16Speaker 11: to limit the turnovers, and everybody has been putting spotlights
- 59:21Speaker 11: on him. You know, it seems like no matter how
- 59:23Speaker 11: many big games he wins, you know, you know, people
- 59:27Speaker 11: who don't really want to peel the next layer of
- 59:29Speaker 11: the onion. They want to say, well, he's never won
- 59:31Speaker 11: a big game, which is just absurd and nonsense. But
- 59:34Speaker 11: but I think he he realized what he needed to do.
- 59:37Speaker 11: He made He made a few big time throws. He played,
- 59:39Speaker 11: made some plays off script. Uh, he got to his
- 59:42Speaker 11: fourth receiver on on on some third down conversions that
- 59:47Speaker 11: uh you know in the fourth quarter when he scrambled
- 59:50Speaker 11: out and hit Cup on that crosser. Uh uh, that
- 59:54Speaker 11: was a huge play. Uh you know, I think that
- 59:57Speaker 11: that uh there. You know, there was a lot he
- 1:00:00Speaker 11: had to do, so it was probably more just you know,
- 1:00:04Speaker 11: run the offense.
- 1:00:05Speaker 7: So I.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: Commend what he did.
- 1:00:09Speaker 11: And as you said, when you lean on when you
- 1:00:12Speaker 11: have that glaring of a discrepancy in the running game,
- 1:00:16Speaker 11: you know, how you're running the football, how they're they're
- 1:00:19Speaker 11: not running the football, and how they're banging around the
- 1:00:23Speaker 11: passing game for the forty nine as well, I think
- 1:00:25Speaker 11: he just took the temperature of the game and executed.
- 1:00:28Speaker 11: I think I think what Bob Candota game a B plus.
- 1:00:30Speaker 11: I would agree with that.
- 1:00:32Speaker 5: All right, Well, that's good. I mean when it comes
- 1:00:34Speaker 5: to the run game, maybe him not having to do
- 1:00:37Speaker 5: as much I mean no touchdowns, but obviously that who cares.
- 1:00:41Speaker 5: You just go out and win the ball game. And
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: large part is because of the run game. I mean,
- 1:00:45Speaker 5: what did you see is that a depleted defensive front
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: or was that just where the Ken Walker and Zack
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: Sarburney and the and the blocking.
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: Was as good as we've seen.
- 1:00:57Speaker 11: Well, I think they they started off the first play
- 1:01:00Speaker 11: the game with a stretch and they were particularly going
- 1:01:02Speaker 11: off that right side and getting the flow of This
- 1:01:07Speaker 11: is what we talked about last summer. Okay, with the
- 1:01:09Speaker 11: wide zone. When you run that wide zone and you
- 1:01:13Speaker 11: get that thing working, then the defense flows and then
- 1:01:19Speaker 11: then you get those cutbacks up in the middle, and
- 1:01:21Speaker 11: I just the middle of that field was just really great,
- 1:01:27Speaker 11: great movement inside. I think certainly the forty nine ers
- 1:01:31Speaker 11: are hurting inside. They don't have the d tackles they
- 1:01:33Speaker 11: used to have. They don't have Fred Warner inside. I mean,
- 1:01:36Speaker 11: there was a play we talked about Robby Uts and
- 1:01:40Speaker 11: how he had the second most plays on a twenty
- 1:01:43Speaker 11: yard run by Knine. D Winters was the linebacker who
- 1:01:50Speaker 11: had to take on on Robby Utes, and he just
- 1:01:56Speaker 11: ollayed like a matador, like he wanted no part of
- 1:02:01Speaker 11: that Robbie Oots, smoke whatsoever. Right at the point of attack,
- 1:02:06Speaker 11: just completely running around a block like I can't tell
- 1:02:09Speaker 11: you how uncommon that is for a linebacker in the
- 1:02:12Speaker 11: NFL to try and handle a block in that situation. Yeah,
- 1:02:17Speaker 11: maybe in a you know, a wide play where you think, okay,
- 1:02:20Speaker 11: I got to slip a guy. No, not at the
- 1:02:22Speaker 11: point of the attack. Dee Winners said, no thanks, And
- 1:02:25Speaker 11: that is not the forty nine you know, that's that's
- 1:02:27Speaker 11: not NFL is certainly not the forty nine ers. I mean,
- 1:02:30Speaker 11: I think that they just uh they played they they
- 1:02:33Speaker 11: only ran power what's called gap scheme where you're pulling
- 1:02:37Speaker 11: from the backside. They ran a power left and they
- 1:02:41Speaker 11: got shut down with Anthony Bradford. I don't know why
- 1:02:43Speaker 11: they don't know power right with Greys Abel that that
- 1:02:46Speaker 11: didn't work, and so they they didn't run one more
- 1:02:49Speaker 11: gap scheme. I don't believe the rest of the game
- 1:02:51Speaker 11: they had a They did have one trap where uh,
- 1:02:56Speaker 11: Gray's Abel was gonna go left to right on a trap,
- 1:02:58Speaker 11: which is different than but other than that, it was
- 1:03:01Speaker 11: all zone blocking lead zone blocking, as I said with
- 1:03:04Speaker 11: Robbi Uotz, and another a play called duo where it's
- 1:03:07Speaker 11: when you look at where the running back looks like
- 1:03:09Speaker 11: he's just blasting it straight up in the middle. Chances
- 1:03:12Speaker 11: are it's a play called duo where you got heavy
- 1:03:15Speaker 11: double teams. It's always a strong side play. And they
- 1:03:18Speaker 11: were just moving guys, and I thought there was a
- 1:03:21Speaker 11: great you know, tandem with the Charbonne and CA nine. Obviously,
- 1:03:27Speaker 11: I know you're gonna ask me about the third and
- 1:03:29Speaker 11: seventeen and the nineteen yard run there, but yeah, I
- 1:03:33Speaker 11: would say schematically relatively simple. Not they didn't try a
- 1:03:37Speaker 11: lot of stuff, not a lot of bells and whistles,
- 1:03:39Speaker 11: whereas the forty nine ers were trying to do all
- 1:03:41Speaker 11: this misdirection. As I said, you know, the idea that
- 1:03:45Speaker 11: I know that wasn't your question, but I just want
- 1:03:47Speaker 11: to make the contrast Seattle's running game versus San Francisco.
- 1:03:50Speaker 11: The idea that you'd have Yusteff on the field for
- 1:03:53Speaker 11: nineteen plays, but you'd only put him in the backfield once.
- 1:03:57Speaker 3: That ain't forty nine a ball?
- 1:03:58Speaker 9: What is this?
- 1:04:00Speaker 11: And so so yeah, you're just all over Seattle just uh,
- 1:04:04Speaker 11: you know, they said rock fight my ass. You know,
- 1:04:07Speaker 11: here here's a freaking Louisville slugger. That your freaking cranium.
- 1:04:10Speaker 11: I mean it just that's the mentality, Like like the
- 1:04:14Speaker 11: the two things that you hear coaches talk about the
- 1:04:16Speaker 11: most in my in my experience is execution and physicality.
- 1:04:21Speaker 11: Execution can be everything, right, offensive line have to execute,
- 1:04:26Speaker 11: the you know, obviously quarterbacks and receivers ext execute. But
- 1:04:30Speaker 11: but that's a part that you don't have to appeal
- 1:04:33Speaker 11: to a player viscerally.
- 1:04:35Speaker 7: Uh.
- 1:04:36Speaker 11: But but the physicality, you gotta freaking dig deep. You
- 1:04:40Speaker 11: gotta appeal to these guys like you go out there
- 1:04:43Speaker 11: and you dominate, and and that's where the motivation all
- 1:04:47Speaker 11: the you know, the you know, the Danzel Washington movies
- 1:04:51Speaker 11: and everything. If you've ever heard a a a really
- 1:04:55Speaker 11: fiery speech, either a pregame speech, it has it's a
- 1:05:00Speaker 11: appealing to physicality. How determined are you to be physical?
- 1:05:04Speaker 11: And the Seahawks just they just they took a team
- 1:05:08Speaker 11: that has had the reputation, as they said, winning his
- 1:05:11Speaker 11: team in the NFC since twenty nineteen, with a reputation
- 1:05:14Speaker 11: of being the most physical, and Seattle said, no, it's over,
- 1:05:19Speaker 11: it's over. Those days are gone. And oh, just I mean, damn,
- 1:05:25Speaker 11: you gotta you don't love I don't care if it's
- 1:05:27Speaker 11: thirteen to three, you missed two field goals. I don't
- 1:05:29Speaker 11: care thirteen to three.
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: You know what.
- 1:05:30Speaker 11: I liked that it was only thirteen to three because
- 1:05:33Speaker 11: that just rubs their freaking nose.
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: In it more.
- 1:05:36Speaker 4: You meling with us Monday morning quarterback session. We do
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: have a little bit of breaking news. I think we
- 1:05:42Speaker 4: should mention here and I'll get just a quick reaction
- 1:05:44Speaker 4: from you, Hugh on it as Pete Carroll has in
- 1:05:48Speaker 4: fact been fired this morning by the Las Vegas Raiders.
- 1:05:51Speaker 4: So Pete Carroll got another shot in the National Football League.
- 1:05:55Speaker 4: He lasted just one season, posted the worst record in
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: the NFL this year. He got thirty seconds for me
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: on Pete Carroll's demise there in Vegas.
- 1:06:04Speaker 11: No schordenfreud for me or whatever however you pronounce it.
- 1:06:08Speaker 11: You know, I just kind of look at he's probably
- 1:06:10Speaker 11: done coaching, may you know, probably in the Hall of
- 1:06:13Speaker 11: Fame at the college level, maybe at the Hall of
- 1:06:16Speaker 11: Fame at the NFL level. And you know, he's the coach.
- 1:06:22Speaker 11: This is a franchise, has been around fifty years. He's
- 1:06:24Speaker 11: the coach that brought the one Lombardi Trophy. So and
- 1:06:27Speaker 11: an innovator in terms of bringing a college mentality of
- 1:06:34Speaker 11: Hey how do we support the players. He was a
- 1:06:37Speaker 11: cover two guys shell guy at USC. He was totally
- 1:06:41Speaker 11: different at Seattle with a single high cover three. Very
- 1:06:48Speaker 11: influential for for you know, the better part of a
- 1:06:51Speaker 11: decade in terms of the schematics around the NFL, and
- 1:06:55Speaker 11: you know, and won a lot of games. So I
- 1:06:57Speaker 11: think that you can have two truths. John Schneider did
- 1:07:01Speaker 11: the right thing at the right time relative to Pete Carroll,
- 1:07:07Speaker 11: and we can we can stop for a minute and
- 1:07:10Speaker 11: tip our hat and be appreciative.
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: Of what he brought. That would be my thought. Yeah, absolutely,
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: all right.
- 1:07:15Speaker 4: We continue a lot more to discuss about Saturday Night,
- 1:07:19Speaker 4: the path moving forward, the season at large as a whole.
- 1:07:23Speaker 4: We'll discuss at all with our top analyst, Hugh Millineck
- 1:07:26Speaker 4: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM, Niners.
- 1:07:31Speaker 8: Half second dout and go with a six yard let
- 1:07:33Speaker 8: of Seattle super receivers left and one right shot step party,
- 1:07:36Speaker 8: he looks right, he grows short, caught five.
- 1:07:37Speaker 9: McCaffrey.
- 1:07:38Speaker 3: No, he juggle it and it's picked off. What let's
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: pull away? Frake Thomas picks it up.
- 1:07:47Speaker 9: Man.
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: Drake Thomas has turned out to be a solid player.
- 1:07:50Speaker 3: It's Chuck Buck, it's Ashley. Yes, it's Chucking Buck.
- 1:07:53Speaker 4: In the mornings, Monday Morning Quarterback session, we're talking about
- 1:07:57Speaker 4: the seahawks thirteen to three win over San Francisco that
- 1:08:00Speaker 4: locked up the division.
- 1:08:01Speaker 3: The number one seed, home field advantage, the bye.
- 1:08:05Speaker 4: Everything, everything in the world all at once, and we've
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: got our QB one with us Hugh Millen to discuss it.
- 1:08:11Speaker 4: We wanted to dive further into the defense and just
- 1:08:14Speaker 4: to kind of set the backdrop for this question here.
- 1:08:16Speaker 4: I mean, Rock Party had been just absolutely on fire
- 1:08:19Speaker 4: coming into this game, over nine hundred yards passing over
- 1:08:23Speaker 4: the course of the last three games combined. He was
- 1:08:26Speaker 4: responsible for thirteen touchdowns over those last three games combined.
- 1:08:31Speaker 4: I mean, he was doing no wrong really for San Francisco.
- 1:08:34Speaker 4: And Hugh, he runs into Mike McDonald, felt like he
- 1:08:38Speaker 4: didn't get a clean pocket the entire game, throughout the contest,
- 1:08:43Speaker 4: all the way up to the very last snap of
- 1:08:45Speaker 4: the game. So what did Mike McDonald and the defense
- 1:08:49Speaker 4: do so well to confuse him?
- 1:08:51Speaker 11: Yeah, and he had been averaging two hundred and ninety
- 1:08:54Speaker 11: seven yards as you said, in one hundred and forty
- 1:08:57Speaker 11: three passerwaying over the last three weeks and he gets
- 1:09:00Speaker 11: one hundred and twenty seven yards and a sixty four
- 1:09:02Speaker 11: point nine passer rating just literally more than halved what
- 1:09:06Speaker 11: his performance had been. And you know what what impresses
- 1:09:09Speaker 11: me is just how Seattle was so on point on
- 1:09:16Speaker 11: eleven guys when they wanted to play cover four Mike McDonald,
- 1:09:21Speaker 11: which is a four deep three under zone, six plays
- 1:09:25Speaker 11: nineteen yards three point two yard average. For the forty
- 1:09:28Speaker 11: nine ers when they want to play a two deep
- 1:09:31Speaker 11: cover a two deep five under they had four plays
- 1:09:34Speaker 11: fifteen yards. That's three point seven yards. The three deep
- 1:09:38Speaker 11: that Pete Carroll had four plays nineteen yards under five yards.
- 1:09:43Speaker 11: These were talking past. These not running stats. These you know,
- 1:09:47Speaker 11: these are passed under five yards the uh.
- 1:09:52Speaker 3: But what probably when when they.
- 1:09:54Speaker 11: Rest five they had eight plays. Forty nineers had thirty
- 1:09:58Speaker 11: two yards exactly four yard cards, so they were sound.
- 1:10:01Speaker 11: They only brought six guys one time. It was the
- 1:10:05Speaker 11: fourth down and Seattle played a two deep three under zone.
- 1:10:09Speaker 11: Now let me just try and express to you what
- 1:10:11Speaker 11: that means. If you're the usually if you rush you
- 1:10:15Speaker 11: have four guys, you got seven guys playing zero. If
- 1:10:18Speaker 11: you're gonna play a two deep you gotta have five under.
- 1:10:21Speaker 11: Seattle played two deep three under, and yet they still
- 1:10:25Speaker 11: were able to glove up the uh. The route combination
- 1:10:29Speaker 11: where they're trying to get George Kittle on a sale,
- 1:10:31Speaker 11: the safety in the corner in the position to squeeze
- 1:10:34Speaker 11: on it. Uh.
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: The pressure came fast.
- 1:10:37Speaker 11: Like there if you played, if you played a grease
- 1:10:40Speaker 11: board argument with an offensive coordinator a defensive coordinator, and
- 1:10:44Speaker 11: a defensive coordinator goes up and says, well, here's a
- 1:10:46Speaker 11: two D three under. The offensive coordinator laugh, and it
- 1:10:49Speaker 11: just start drawing up. Let you all, you can't cover this.
- 1:10:51Speaker 11: You can't cover this. Look at these holes, like, what
- 1:10:53Speaker 11: are you talking about? Two deep three under? And yet
- 1:10:55Speaker 11: they did that on the fourth down. The probably what
- 1:10:59Speaker 11: I like the best when they played mandom Many. They
- 1:11:03Speaker 11: played nine on plays of Manda Man. The forty nine
- 1:11:08Speaker 11: ers had eighteen yards two yards per play in Mando Man,
- 1:11:14Speaker 11: and every single time they kept us a post safety
- 1:11:17Speaker 11: in the middle. They didn't they didn't play any cover zero,
- 1:11:19Speaker 11: they didn't get crazy casino and leave the middle exposed.
- 1:11:23Speaker 11: But a couple of plays I loved the play where
- 1:11:27Speaker 11: they they ran a bunch of misdirection.
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: We got we got.
- 1:11:32Speaker 11: Us Jeff going in motion. We're gonna fake fly sweep.
- 1:11:35Speaker 11: There was there was all these things buzzing around, and
- 1:11:38Speaker 11: I know that Kyle Shanhan was going, oh, I love this,
- 1:11:42Speaker 11: I love this because he's gonna put Juwan Jennings running
- 1:11:48Speaker 11: behind the line of script some people called a submarine route,
- 1:11:51Speaker 11: and he Shanahan was looking, go oh yeah, yeah, man,
- 1:11:54Speaker 11: we got cover one.
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: Great, great great.
- 1:11:56Speaker 11: And Rik Wollen went from one slot and he sprinted
- 1:12:01Speaker 11: across and they had and Drake Thomas didn't pick him.
- 1:12:07Speaker 11: I know Kyle Sander was hoping Drake Thomas they had it.
- 1:12:09Speaker 11: They had it scattered out and Riek Wollen. When you
- 1:12:13Speaker 11: see a coat when the players watch the all twenty two,
- 1:12:16Speaker 11: the zoom lens is pulled back and so all the
- 1:12:19Speaker 11: players like you got twenty two little ants. I mean
- 1:12:21Speaker 11: that's an exaggeration. But when you see like real speed,
- 1:12:25Speaker 11: it just you just go whoa because the camera lens
- 1:12:28Speaker 11: is so far. And Rik Wollan sprinted all the way
- 1:12:31Speaker 11: across and took Juwan Jennings and he grabbed him and
- 1:12:34Speaker 11: he freaking threw him on the ground for a one
- 1:12:36Speaker 11: yard loss and Kyle Sandan is going, what whiskey tango
- 1:12:42Speaker 11: foxtrot is going on around here? Other plays in Man
- 1:12:45Speaker 11: and Man, a throwback screen, all this misdirection. They wanted
- 1:12:49Speaker 11: to put on a magic show every damn play with
- 1:12:51Speaker 11: with all the different things going, and Seattle just said,
- 1:12:55Speaker 11: do your little magic show. At some point you got
- 1:12:57Speaker 11: advanced the football, pass the line scrimmage. They were so
- 1:13:00Speaker 11: disciplined in their eyes. They have a throwback screen to
- 1:13:04Speaker 11: uh to Uh. George Kittle in Man to Man and
- 1:13:08Speaker 11: Nicky Man Worry he sniffs this thing out. There's three
- 1:13:11Speaker 11: linemen to block him. Uh uh, Emon Worry just sniffed.
- 1:13:15Speaker 11: You know, I went around those guys dropped him for
- 1:13:18Speaker 11: six yard loss.
- 1:13:19Speaker 8: Uh.
- 1:13:19Speaker 11: Misdirection in some sense, a little whip route where you
- 1:13:23Speaker 11: start the shell across and then snap back out. You
- 1:13:26Speaker 11: try and take an advantage of a over aggressive corner.
- 1:13:30Speaker 11: Witherspoon is out there. He follows the shell across with
- 1:13:33Speaker 11: that beautiful athleticism. He sprints back. Uh uh, party, throws
- 1:13:38Speaker 11: it out on the flat, throws it high and and
- 1:13:41Speaker 11: Witherspoon just buries the receiver in the chest minus one yard,
- 1:13:47Speaker 11: like like these are the things. These are soul crushing
- 1:13:50Speaker 11: when they're just their reaction the uh uh? What are
- 1:13:56Speaker 11: what are some other ones that I love?
- 1:13:57Speaker 10: The uh uh?
- 1:13:59Speaker 11: How the uh there's okay, here's another part of their
- 1:14:03Speaker 11: pass defense that I love. So coaches, when you play
- 1:14:08Speaker 11: every team in the NFL has a drill called the
- 1:14:10Speaker 11: seven on seven. It's a pass only drill. So if
- 1:14:13Speaker 11: the quarterback so they're oftentimes the linebackers are getting deep
- 1:14:17Speaker 11: and sometimes you have to throw a check down that
- 1:14:19Speaker 11: you want don't want to and then the defensive coach
- 1:14:22Speaker 11: is always woofed. They go, yeah, five yards plus a headache,
- 1:14:26Speaker 11: five yards plus a headache. You know you want to
- 1:14:28Speaker 11: check down in zone, We're gonna come and wrap your ass. Well,
- 1:14:31Speaker 11: guess what Fourteen times that brock Purty through where the
- 1:14:36Speaker 11: air yards are one to six, those are in that
- 1:14:39Speaker 11: that's generally where you go with a checkdown.
- 1:14:41Speaker 3: What does that mean? That means brock perty has been
- 1:14:43Speaker 3: given a play, he wants to throw the.
- 1:14:45Speaker 11: Ball down the field, the Seahawks are defending the play
- 1:14:49Speaker 11: and he's got to go to his checkdown. He gets
- 1:14:51Speaker 11: ten completions out of it because they forced some incompletions,
- 1:14:54Speaker 11: and twenty three yards after the catch twenty three yards
- 1:14:59Speaker 11: after the cat on ten completions, that's two point three
- 1:15:03Speaker 11: well two point three. Wait a minute, if you're six
- 1:15:07Speaker 11: feet tall, that's two yards already. That means if you
- 1:15:09Speaker 11: just stopped and you just fell forward with your with
- 1:15:13Speaker 11: the football above your helmet, that's that's the yards after
- 1:15:17Speaker 11: the catch that see they're tackling was crazy five yards Aheadache,
- 1:15:22Speaker 11: how about the time? Oh, let me do all this,
- 1:15:25Speaker 11: you know, bells and whistles, and let me go a
- 1:15:27Speaker 11: flea flicker, and we're gonna try and go post wheel.
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: So we're gonna post. Nope, riek Wilan's got the post.
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: We're gonna go a wheel route.
- 1:15:35Speaker 11: We're gonna kind of stutter and stutter try and get
- 1:15:37Speaker 11: George Kittle on a wheel route up the sideline which
- 1:15:39Speaker 11: has burned the sea X. By the way, I mentioned that,
- 1:15:43Speaker 11: Uh this forty nine ers since twenty nineteen rush for
- 1:15:46Speaker 11: what I say, one one hundred and fifty one yards
- 1:15:49Speaker 11: per game. They throw for two hundred and fifty six.
- 1:15:52Speaker 11: Like I've seen him hit these wheels. Guess what Julian
- 1:15:56Speaker 11: love is.
- 1:15:56Speaker 3: Just like it's like he was in the huddle. No no,
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: no post, no wheel.
- 1:16:00Speaker 11: Let's check it down to Christian McCaffrey. Well, there's Emn
- 1:16:02Speaker 11: Worry and Ernest Jones to just smack the hell out
- 1:16:06Speaker 11: of three yards and Kyle Shanhan's going. We practiced that.
- 1:16:10Speaker 11: We got a fleet flicker, we got post wheel, we
- 1:16:12Speaker 11: didn't practice getting three yards and a headache. Like so
- 1:16:16Speaker 11: it's it's just all over this damn tape. It's just
- 1:16:20Speaker 11: they're so tied together. They only played man man as
- 1:16:24Speaker 11: I said, when I say nine times eighteen yards. The
- 1:16:28Speaker 11: rest of the time their zone and there's and different zones.
- 1:16:31Speaker 11: As I describe, they are so tied together they have
- 1:16:35Speaker 11: an awareness of where everybody is and where their help is.
- 1:16:41Speaker 11: Drake Thomas had a hell of a game. Oh man,
- 1:16:43Speaker 11: just my eyes get watery just thinking about what a
- 1:16:49Speaker 11: freaking bootstomp that was against your arch rival.
- 1:16:52Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean you mentioned Drake Thomas. I mean,
- 1:16:55Speaker 5: this defense doesn't need a lot of luck. They create
- 1:16:58Speaker 5: some of it. And then there's like you said, we're
- 1:17:00Speaker 5: just smothering and their tackling was unbelievable. But all of
- 1:17:03Speaker 5: a sudden you do get some with that. I mean
- 1:17:06Speaker 5: kind of the drive that they're getting ready to go
- 1:17:08Speaker 5: down there and possibly turn it into a one score game,
- 1:17:10Speaker 5: and I think the wall was tipped a little bit.
- 1:17:14Speaker 5: Then it makes him go behind Christian McCaffrey and it
- 1:17:16Speaker 5: goes off his hands right into Drake Thomas's belly. I mean,
- 1:17:19Speaker 5: you can't help but get a little bit lucky in
- 1:17:22Speaker 5: a situation like that, right.
- 1:17:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say.
- 1:17:26Speaker 11: So, you know, it's a second and six and the
- 1:17:31Speaker 11: forty nine ers have a bunch left and Seattle's playing
- 1:17:34Speaker 11: what's called a cover four with a component to what's
- 1:17:40Speaker 11: called poach. What that means, it's a four deep three
- 1:17:43Speaker 11: under Well, if you only have three guys underneath, you
- 1:17:46Speaker 11: have to play what's called man concepts within a zone,
- 1:17:49Speaker 11: and that's really critical. Yeah, Drake Thomas against Christian McCaffrey,
- 1:17:52Speaker 11: it's like man to man because the safety to his
- 1:17:55Speaker 11: side is the term poach is let's brock here, rock party.
- 1:18:02Speaker 11: And I am sitting there and I'm looking at I
- 1:18:05Speaker 11: got three receivers to my left, three man concept. Originally
- 1:18:09Speaker 11: I thought it was an option route to Christian McCaffrey
- 1:18:13Speaker 11: on the right, but you got an inbreaking route coming
- 1:18:17Speaker 11: from the opposite place, So so McCaffrey was only going
- 1:18:22Speaker 11: to break to the flat. He was not going to
- 1:18:24Speaker 11: break inside. He did not have that option. But Drake
- 1:18:28Speaker 11: Thomas doesn't know that, so he plays inside out. He's
- 1:18:31Speaker 11: got a guard what's called the Texas route, the angle
- 1:18:34Speaker 11: route inside, he's got a block. He's got to cover
- 1:18:37Speaker 11: that first. Kittle had been on that side to clear
- 1:18:40Speaker 11: out the corner. So you got a one on one.
- 1:18:42Speaker 11: If you're San Francisco, you like that matchup. The safety
- 1:18:45Speaker 11: to that side was poaching, meaning he's looking even though
- 1:18:48Speaker 11: he's on the side away from the bunch, he's looking
- 1:18:52Speaker 11: over to any crossing route to that side. And so
- 1:18:57Speaker 11: but I thought Drake Thomas had pretty good coverage. He was,
- 1:19:01Speaker 11: you know, in a position where you're right a perfect throw,
- 1:19:05Speaker 11: it's gonna be a touchdown. But boy Mafy gets his
- 1:19:09Speaker 11: hand up. And that's one of the things that's another
- 1:19:11Speaker 11: part of this past defense. I thought the edge rushers
- 1:19:15Speaker 11: they were converting speed to power all night.
- 1:19:19Speaker 3: What do I mean?
- 1:19:20Speaker 11: They were getting a what what's called a wide nine
- 1:19:22Speaker 11: technique wide and then they were bursting up, but they
- 1:19:25Speaker 11: weren't trying to go around the tackles they were they
- 1:19:29Speaker 11: were they were running and then they would convert that
- 1:19:31Speaker 11: speed and then bullrushing late. So they were squeezing the
- 1:19:35Speaker 11: brock Purty all night. And then I thought there was
- 1:19:38Speaker 11: good pressure from the inside. Maybe not elite, but there
- 1:19:43Speaker 11: was just constant pressure. And there was a few times
- 1:19:46Speaker 11: you saw it. Purdy got whipsawed and but but I
- 1:19:50Speaker 11: thought the ends, you know, a Hall was just you know,
- 1:19:54Speaker 11: he got suspended. He came back like a man who
- 1:19:56Speaker 11: was suspended and pissed the hell off. He he had
- 1:19:59Speaker 11: a hell of game and and Mafey got his hand
- 1:20:02Speaker 11: up and yeah, there's a little bit of luck. But
- 1:20:04Speaker 11: you know what, Drake Thomas, that was a that was
- 1:20:07Speaker 11: an unbelievable athletic play. You know, if JSN caught a
- 1:20:11Speaker 11: tipball like that, you'd go, WHOA. That just shows the
- 1:20:14Speaker 11: type of hands, hand eye coordination that JSN had for
- 1:20:17Speaker 11: Thomas to make that interception.
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was that was a hell of
- 1:20:23Speaker 3: a play.
- 1:20:23Speaker 11: But you know what he he diagnosed in the running
- 1:20:26Speaker 11: game and in the passing game. He was part of
- 1:20:29Speaker 11: those five yards and a headache crowd. Uh wow. So
- 1:20:34Speaker 11: so yeah, they got fortunate there play the game. But
- 1:20:37Speaker 11: but just credit his athleticism to be able to have
- 1:20:39Speaker 11: the hands and somehow turn that into his interception.
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- 1:22:08Speaker 2: hom Grin and Hugh Millin. Here's Chuck and Buck.
- 1:22:13Speaker 3: All right, nine o'clock hour here on this Monday. Happy
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- 1:22:18Speaker 4: into the daily routine around these here parts. It's Chuck Powle,
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- 1:22:25Speaker 4: course our Monday Morning Quarterback stars Hugh Millan who's been
- 1:22:29Speaker 4: with us since eight o'clock, and Mike Homer who now
- 1:22:31Speaker 4: joins us here in studio at nine o'clock. I do
- 1:22:35Speaker 4: want to mention because there's a lot of news on
- 1:22:37Speaker 4: Monday after the season ends. Turns out we will have
- 1:22:41Speaker 4: a new head coach in the division next year. The
- 1:22:43Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals have decided to let go Jonathan Gannon, despite
- 1:22:48Speaker 4: reports here in the last few days saying that he
- 1:22:50Speaker 4: was safe and that they were going to bring him back.
- 1:22:53Speaker 4: They have let young Jonathan Gannon go there in Arizona.
- 1:22:58Speaker 4: So a new direction starting with the Cardinals going forward.
- 1:23:02Speaker 4: All Right, we've got great things to talk about around here.
- 1:23:06Speaker 4: Number one seed, a thirteen to three win over the
- 1:23:09Speaker 4: San Francisco forty nine ers to lock that up on
- 1:23:12Speaker 4: Saturday night, and Mike Homeran now joins the conversation, Happy.
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: New Year, Happy New Year. Guy's good to be here,
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: great to have you, great to see you.
- 1:23:20Speaker 4: And man, I mean, I can't imagine that there were
- 1:23:23Speaker 4: many times in your career where you're like this defensive
- 1:23:26Speaker 4: guy's got my number, And I can't imagine that Kyle
- 1:23:29Speaker 4: Shanahan's had too many experiences with that. But coach, I mean,
- 1:23:33Speaker 4: what was Mike McDonald doing to take everything away from
- 1:23:38Speaker 4: Kyle Shanahan Saturday night?
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: You know what, It's a little bit of a puzzle
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: because the forty nine ers had looked so good offensively
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: prior to the game, and so I was a little surprised,
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: quite honestly. How many games where you score thirteen do
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: you win?
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: You know?
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: And they won, and San Francisco they dominated, They dominated
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. I think Uh and Hugh touched
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: on it earlier about what they chose to do defensively
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: in their lineup the Seahawks and and then how Kyle responded,
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: and that was that I would have responded differently. I'm
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: not saying it would have worked, but I'm saying, if
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: you're all of a sudden playing against more nickel and
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: dime people, a smaller guys a little bit, you know,
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go power. I'm not going to be
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: messing around with a lot of different different formations and
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: and different personnels. Necessarily, I'm going to keep that fullback.
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna run at you and then see
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: how you handle that. Because that defense, I'm sorry you
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: no please, but the defense the way that the way
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: it was set up. You know, obviously they have aggressive
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: guys in the secondary, and Uh, it worked. But I
- 1:24:57Speaker 1: thought Kyle kind of on played into the Seahawks hands
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: just a little bit.
- 1:25:03Speaker 9: You know.
- 1:25:04Speaker 11: I think what Mike might say, Mike McDonald might say
- 1:25:07Speaker 11: is that he says, hey, we're nickel. But you know,
- 1:25:11Speaker 11: last year we had Witherspoon, who was one hundred and
- 1:25:15Speaker 11: eighty one pounds at the combine. This year we have
- 1:25:18Speaker 11: Nick and Wory as Nicol who was exactly two hundred
- 1:25:21Speaker 11: and twenty pounds at the combine. So we've gained thirty
- 1:25:24Speaker 11: nine pounds there. And so when they play him Mike,
- 1:25:28Speaker 11: you know, terminology, I think we'd use as just Nicol Sam.
- 1:25:30Speaker 11: He's just the Nicol Sam, right, like a Sam backer.
- 1:25:34Speaker 11: And and yet so I think he would say, we
- 1:25:37Speaker 11: feel like we almost have linebacker type of size, you know,
- 1:25:41Speaker 11: at two twenty. But then how about Mike forty nine ers?
- 1:25:47Speaker 11: This is not forty nine or football. They had Kyle
- 1:25:49Speaker 11: Yushchev on the field for nineteen plays, but they only
- 1:25:56Speaker 11: had him in the backfield once they were doing this
- 1:25:59Speaker 11: thing where were he'd started the wing. When the balls
- 1:26:01Speaker 11: snapped with the wing, he try and run backwards and
- 1:26:04Speaker 11: then try and be a lead blocker. But you know it,
- 1:26:07Speaker 11: you know, probably something looked good on a whiteboard, but
- 1:26:10Speaker 11: they never really got to the physicality part that you
- 1:26:13Speaker 11: suggest that you would have tried to get to.
- 1:26:15Speaker 1: Yeah, and your point about looking good on the whiteboard,
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: you know, you you get in the room and you
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: start creating, and you're with your coaching staff and you're
- 1:26:23Speaker 1: you got all these great plays and all these things. Well,
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: that's all well and good. That's all well and good,
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: until you try and do that in the game and
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: it doesn't work. We've talked about it how many times
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: this year that it's not working.
- 1:26:35Speaker 3: Go to plan B. What's plan B.
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: Put put you in the backfield, Let him be the
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: lead blocker and see if that works. See what happens there,
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: you know, because it's worked for us in the past.
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: So having said all that, however, you can't take anything
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: away from what Mike Mike McDonald has put together defensively
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: and how that defensive team plays. I got a feeling
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: watching the game, you guys, that emotionally it wasn't even close.
- 1:27:04Speaker 1: Forget about the x'es and o's and all that stuff.
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: It just seemed like there was a lot more fire
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: on the Seoux side to me than the forty nine
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: er side.
- 1:27:14Speaker 5: Does it look like their peeking at the right time?
- 1:27:17Speaker 5: And defensively they most certainly are. But offensively, you know,
- 1:27:20Speaker 5: they did enough, and it never felt like the game
- 1:27:23Speaker 5: was really in question because of what you said, just
- 1:27:26Speaker 5: the overall atmosphere and the way in which the defense
- 1:27:29Speaker 5: was playing. But does it feel like this team is
- 1:27:32Speaker 5: kind of you know, rising at the right time. I
- 1:27:36Speaker 5: think so, Buck, and I think the although, like I said,
- 1:27:41Speaker 5: thirteen points usually doesn't win for you, you know. So
- 1:27:46Speaker 5: there's still some hope, I mean, still some feeling about
- 1:27:50Speaker 5: the offensive team offensive side of the ball. Although the
- 1:27:53Speaker 5: running game was look good, you know, and that that
- 1:27:56Speaker 5: seems to be there, that seems to be getting better,
- 1:27:59Speaker 5: and how they they're using Walker and Sharbonne, and because
- 1:28:02Speaker 5: we've talked about it again all year that some games
- 1:28:05Speaker 5: they didn't do much and then we go, why are
- 1:28:08Speaker 5: they doing this? But that that seems to be clicking
- 1:28:12Speaker 5: a little bit better now and that will help Sam Darnold,
- 1:28:16Speaker 5: you know.
- 1:28:17Speaker 10: And so.
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: You get into the playoffs, you're playing the best teams
- 1:28:24Speaker 1: that finish the season, and you just have to be
- 1:28:28Speaker 1: at your best. And I think offensively, I'm not sure
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: we've seen that yet. We saw it a couple times
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: during the season, but consistently it hasn't been exactly the same.
- 1:28:38Speaker 4: I would ask you that because I certainly wanted to
- 1:28:41Speaker 4: discuss this before our time expired here today, and so Hugh,
- 1:28:45Speaker 4: I want to ask you the same conversation. I mean,
- 1:28:49Speaker 4: all the Hayes in the barn fourteen to three, got
- 1:28:51Speaker 4: the number one seed. You get to a week to
- 1:28:54Speaker 4: rest up, get healthy. Looks like they're going to be
- 1:28:56Speaker 4: the healthiest team in the league two weeks from now.
- 1:28:59Speaker 4: What concerns, if any, do you have as they get
- 1:29:03Speaker 4: ready for this postseason run? And he I'll start with you,
- 1:29:07Speaker 4: and maybe they don't have any. Maybe you're just like,
- 1:29:09Speaker 4: just keep doing what you're doing. That's the only the
- 1:29:11Speaker 4: advice that I would give.
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: Well, I think they got to work on the red
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: zone and the red zone fringe.
- 1:29:18Speaker 11: You know that the fringe being you know that area
- 1:29:20Speaker 11: you don't call it the thirty five forty, you know,
- 1:29:22Speaker 11: just kind of like you're almost in in Myers field
- 1:29:25Speaker 11: goal territory. I think that they they've installed there and
- 1:29:28Speaker 11: I think the big play standpoint. I almost wonder if Sam,
- 1:29:33Speaker 11: like there was a play. Now, I know, I'm gonna
- 1:29:35Speaker 11: say this on the radio, I'm gonna give the impression
- 1:29:37Speaker 11: that this was happening all over.
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: It was not happening all over.
- 1:29:40Speaker 11: But there was a play Mike where they're trying to
- 1:29:43Speaker 11: get Jackson Smith and Jigba on a you know, deep
- 1:29:46Speaker 11: angle cross right to left. Guys, that's an intermediate crossing
- 1:29:49Speaker 11: route and you gotta check down. But you can have
- 1:29:52Speaker 11: a clear out generally, and then you know, it can
- 1:29:54Speaker 11: be a post, it can be a go. Well on
- 1:29:56Speaker 11: this case, you got resits. You heed on a high
- 1:29:59Speaker 11: angle corner. So he's on Sam Darnold's left. He lines
- 1:30:02Speaker 11: up on the left, he starts like he's going to
- 1:30:04Speaker 11: the middle field, and then he goes high to the back,
- 1:30:07Speaker 11: piling on the left a flag you know, high flag route,
- 1:30:10Speaker 11: and then you're gonna have JSN schematically from the right
- 1:30:14Speaker 11: side fit into that area intermediate under But but you've
- 1:30:18Speaker 11: got Rashichi he clearing that out.
- 1:30:20Speaker 3: Man, I'm looking at that.
- 1:30:22Speaker 11: I would tell fourteen Mike, I'd say, hey, crank that
- 1:30:25Speaker 11: thing up, just throw it high to the sideline. Give
- 1:30:29Speaker 11: him a chance, you might, you know, it looks like
- 1:30:31Speaker 11: he's got a step, maybe a step and a half.
- 1:30:34Speaker 11: Just go let him go, you know, get the ball.
- 1:30:35Speaker 11: Maybe you get a pass interference or you're loosen him up.
- 1:30:38Speaker 11: So I think maybe, just like, let's let's take a
- 1:30:41Speaker 11: couple of big shots. What's the last time we saw
- 1:30:43Speaker 11: a go route up the sideline, you know, or a
- 1:30:46Speaker 11: post route where you try and beat quarters coverage, so
- 1:30:49Speaker 11: that would be a couple of things I'd want to
- 1:30:51Speaker 11: get out of the offense.
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that because of how everyone's been
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: talking about Sam all year and for the last two years,
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: probably there might be a little part of him that
- 1:31:04Speaker 1: doesn't want to take that chance. I'm not saying that,
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: but I'm guessing here. But here, you know what an
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: interesting thing, Chuck to your point about having number one seed,
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: the experience I had with the forty nine ers with
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: coach Walsh. We had a great year, Dominated had had
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: the first round by so we had two weeks to prepare.
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: Then we played Minnesota in that game and they beat us.
- 1:31:31Speaker 1: They came in and beat us in San Francisco, and
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: it was horrible, and we tried to analyze why for
- 1:31:39Speaker 1: those two weeks we prepared for two teams. We didn't
- 1:31:43Speaker 1: know who we were going to play, so you're prepared.
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: And Bill later said, I made a mistake, you know,
- 1:31:50Speaker 1: because we prepared for and we practiced like crazy for
- 1:31:53Speaker 1: two weeks, and we practiced. By the time we got
- 1:31:56Speaker 1: to the game, we didn't have any It seemed like
- 1:32:01Speaker 1: you left. And then we practiced for against two teams,
- 1:32:04Speaker 1: two different teams. You know, it just was the preparation
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: and how they do it now is going to be huge.
- 1:32:10Speaker 1: I don't know how much is going to do it,
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: but it's.
- 1:32:14Speaker 3: On Kadia's take the whole team to Don Kadia. Yeah,
- 1:32:16Speaker 3: oh no, they can all fit in that seater. Yeah
- 1:32:19Speaker 3: that's right. No, but I think no, but that's gonna
- 1:32:22Speaker 3: be huge. How he does that.
- 1:32:24Speaker 4: Monday morning quarterback session with Hugh and with coach here
- 1:32:29Speaker 4: this morning, as we have a lot of sea our
- 1:32:31Speaker 4: things to discuss, and look, you brought it up a
- 1:32:34Speaker 4: couple of times, so let's dive into this topic of conversation,
- 1:32:37Speaker 4: and that is the offense having only scored thirteen points
- 1:32:42Speaker 4: even though they played well, felt like they were moving
- 1:32:45Speaker 4: the ball. They had a couple of really impressive drives,
- 1:32:47Speaker 4: one at the beginning of the game and an eight
- 1:32:49Speaker 4: minute drive at the end of the game.
- 1:32:51Speaker 3: So what is it?
- 1:32:52Speaker 4: What are the finer two points that you felt that
- 1:32:56Speaker 4: they had an issue with. Does it just boil down
- 1:32:58Speaker 4: to Jason Myers having a bad game?
- 1:33:00Speaker 3: Was there more to it?
- 1:33:00Speaker 2: No?
- 1:33:01Speaker 1: Well, he that was unusual, you know where that's automatic.
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: So there's yeah, usually six points, you know, I mean,
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: so then instead of thirteen. It's nineteen, but it's still
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: field goals. There's still field goals instead of touchdowns. And
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: you brought it up earlier. You know the red zone
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: and what you do down there and have the plan
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: for the red zone, and you know, again that was
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: my baby. So if we came away with field goals
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: instead of touchdowns, I blame myself. I don't know how
- 1:33:30Speaker 1: they set it up, but there was a couple of
- 1:33:32Speaker 1: fourth down situations there that they didn't convert. I thought
- 1:33:36Speaker 1: Sam missed a touchdown and an easy touchdown throw down
- 1:33:40Speaker 1: in there close and took a sack that got him
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: out of position. So the fourth down, the red zone,
- 1:33:47Speaker 1: red zone, to answer your question, and then if you're
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: gonna go for it on fourth down instead of taking
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: the points, it better be the play on your sheet.
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: This is guaranteed to win. This is guaranteed to happen,
- 1:33:59Speaker 1: and it's they've struggled with that just a little bit.
- 1:34:03Speaker 11: Let's talk about what you said there, the playdown on
- 1:34:06Speaker 11: the goal line. I think a lot of fans are
- 1:34:08Speaker 11: you know, just talking about the philosophy. And of course
- 1:34:12Speaker 11: nobody wants to see Donald take a sack. I couldn't
- 1:34:15Speaker 11: believe Anthony Bradford Mike on a turn protection they got uh,
- 1:34:18Speaker 11: you know, full right guard turn and left. There's only
- 1:34:22Speaker 11: three guys to block. There's a delayed blitz. I don't
- 1:34:25Speaker 11: know how Anthony Bradford doesn't see that guy and come
- 1:34:27Speaker 11: off of him. But it was like he had blinders on.
- 1:34:29Speaker 11: But at any rate, not absolving Sam Donald. If I'm
- 1:34:34Speaker 11: coaching them, as you said, you know, you'll get at
- 1:34:36Speaker 11: least one minus on that. But but but just the
- 1:34:39Speaker 11: philosophy of what happened down there, not taking the field goals,
- 1:34:43Speaker 11: the decision to throw the ball on first and goal
- 1:34:47Speaker 11: from the one.
- 1:34:47Speaker 3: What you make of all that sequence early on in
- 1:34:49Speaker 3: the game, Well, they're done.
- 1:34:51Speaker 1: They had a great drive and they're on the one
- 1:34:53Speaker 1: yard line. So I'm not a post to them throwing
- 1:34:55Speaker 1: on first down. It survives me a little bit the
- 1:34:58Speaker 1: way they were running, you know, but you have downs
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: and you're on the one yard line. You're thinking, okay,
- 1:35:02Speaker 1: I could run four quarterback snakes and get it in.
- 1:35:05Speaker 1: You know, somehow I got to get it in. But
- 1:35:08Speaker 1: they went for a pass on first down, which is
- 1:35:10Speaker 1: the down to do it. That's the down to do it.
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: If you're gonna throw the ball because everyone's geared up,
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: everyone's kind of got their tail up, and they're gonna
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: stop you from getting that one yard. I thought that
- 1:35:22Speaker 1: type of play we used to run a lot, and
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: the throw was not I'm not talking about the play
- 1:35:29Speaker 1: they ran, the play we used to run, well, very similar.
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: The throw was to the guy in the flat.
- 1:35:34Speaker 3: That was the guy.
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: You design the play to get that guy open, and
- 1:35:39Speaker 1: you're not looking anyplace else, really, or you don't have
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: time for that, and it's first down. If you don't
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: have me throw it away, come back second down on
- 1:35:46Speaker 1: the one. You know, and to me, I guess he
- 1:35:51Speaker 1: couldn't see him, but on the TV he looked to
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: be open. I mean, that was that was the guy
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: I thought he was supposed to throw the ball to.
- 1:36:01Speaker 1: So and I'm going on no, and then the sack
- 1:36:04Speaker 1: just adds on to that. So you either hit that
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: guy in the flat or you throw it away and
- 1:36:10Speaker 1: you come back second and goal from the one. That
- 1:36:13Speaker 1: was what bothered me more than anything else.
- 1:36:15Speaker 11: Well, Mike, let's talk about the scheme there, because because
- 1:36:18Speaker 11: I always say the precisions in the details, right, and
- 1:36:21Speaker 11: and Kubiak elected schematically is it fair to say that
- 1:36:26Speaker 11: usually on that play they're in ifirmation green right your
- 1:36:31Speaker 11: your green formation? Yes, that the full back from the ifirmation,
- 1:36:35Speaker 11: and you would often set it to green strong where
- 1:36:37Speaker 11: the fullback is a little bit offset to the play side.
- 1:36:40Speaker 11: But but the fullback's gonna bluff and the he's in
- 1:36:43Speaker 11: the flat is how it's typically done right right, But Seattle,
- 1:36:49Speaker 11: and I know we have Fox two and Hound two
- 1:36:50Speaker 11: and Hound four and all that stuff, But just for
- 1:36:53Speaker 11: the for the listeners, the decision, am I gonna have
- 1:36:57Speaker 11: the full back in the flat or am I gonna
- 1:37:00Speaker 11: have the full back block and then the tailback from
- 1:37:02Speaker 11: the I formation he's gonna run a flat obviously affects
- 1:37:07Speaker 11: the timing.
- 1:37:09Speaker 3: I think you're right. I sent a photo.
- 1:37:11Speaker 11: Maybe Chuck and Buck can show you the photo of
- 1:37:15Speaker 11: of where it was from Donald's perspective. The block just
- 1:37:18Speaker 11: happened to line up in his vision, I think. And
- 1:37:21Speaker 11: it just, you know, one of those things that happens
- 1:37:23Speaker 11: where it's clearly wide open, but the block blocks his vision.
- 1:37:29Speaker 11: And and and maybe Donald is quick to get off
- 1:37:32Speaker 11: because that it's the tailback, not the fullback who's in
- 1:37:35Speaker 11: the flat. A little bit later, messes with your your
- 1:37:38Speaker 11: timing a little bit.
- 1:37:40Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I I understand what you're saying, but
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: I would say, just if if that's the play, stay
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: with it a little longer. You got to move out
- 1:37:50Speaker 1: of there, stay with it a little longer if you
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: might still have him. I think they. I think he
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: still would have had him, but he decided to stop.
- 1:37:59Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember exactly what his footwork was.
- 1:38:03Speaker 1: But and you know that, but I just say, stay
- 1:38:06Speaker 1: with it, you know, and then if you don't get it,
- 1:38:08Speaker 1: you come back and you got another play on that one.
- 1:38:11Speaker 5: Do you agree with the not taking the points right there?
- 1:38:14Speaker 5: I mean, you have them backed up with your defense,
- 1:38:16Speaker 5: like I think they were at the four yard line
- 1:38:18Speaker 5: when they went forward on fourth down, and so it's like, well,
- 1:38:20Speaker 5: if we don't get it, then you know, if we
- 1:38:22Speaker 5: can stop them down here, if our defense comes out
- 1:38:24Speaker 5: in places. But this is before you'd seen what your
- 1:38:27Speaker 5: defense was going to do to their offense. Do you
- 1:38:29Speaker 5: take the points there? Or do you like, we'll find
- 1:38:32Speaker 5: we'll pin them if we turned it over on downs?
- 1:38:34Speaker 1: I think I probably I probably disagree with my friends
- 1:38:37Speaker 1: sitting across from me here, but I take the points
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: you know I would take the points.
- 1:38:41Speaker 3: I would have taken them, and that's you would. Yeah,
- 1:38:43Speaker 3: And that's the guestion.
- 1:38:44Speaker 4: But I do understand the logic of what he's accomplishing, Like, hey,
- 1:38:49Speaker 4: even if we don't get it, we've got him pinned
- 1:38:51Speaker 4: back and get the ball back.
- 1:38:52Speaker 3: And that's an interesting look at it, you know, just
- 1:38:56Speaker 3: the wrong one.
- 1:38:59Speaker 1: Look for you to agree with me much. You were
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: good to the first one and then you know that
- 1:39:03Speaker 1: you don't have to add that a little.
- 1:39:06Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this. I mean, you were
- 1:39:09Speaker 3: an offensive guy.
- 1:39:11Speaker 4: My guess is you don't have a lot of pillows
- 1:39:13Speaker 4: that are you know that are monogram defense wins championships.
- 1:39:16Speaker 3: No, yeah, And yet there have been a few over
- 1:39:20Speaker 3: the years. Eighty five Bears, Ravens, Ravens, they add a
- 1:39:24Speaker 3: team defense, one champion. There have been a few that
- 1:39:26Speaker 3: have won championships. When you look at this Mike McDonald defense,
- 1:39:30Speaker 3: do you think that can win the championship? Right there?
- 1:39:33Speaker 3: That defense they're good enough to win the championship? Can
- 1:39:37Speaker 3: they do it by themselves? I don't think so.
- 1:39:41Speaker 1: I Well, let's go, that's the offensive guy talking now,
- 1:39:45Speaker 1: you know, because you got to have you got to
- 1:39:48Speaker 1: score more than thirteen points. You got to score more
- 1:39:50Speaker 1: than sixteen points. I think when you get into the
- 1:39:53Speaker 1: playoffs and you play, start playing the teams that have
- 1:39:56Speaker 1: a little bit more juice than some teams.
- 1:40:00Speaker 11: All right, yeah, So do you think from a standpoint
- 1:40:05Speaker 11: of how that play calling went. Do you just keep
- 1:40:10Speaker 11: leaning on the running game and be you know, content,
- 1:40:13Speaker 11: you know, keeping it in the teams type of thing.
- 1:40:16Speaker 11: As you said, you make the field goals, it's nineteen
- 1:40:18Speaker 11: to three, or does that do you say, hey, the
- 1:40:22Speaker 11: running game is going to really give us an opportunity
- 1:40:24Speaker 11: to go play pass on first down and try and
- 1:40:26Speaker 11: get some chunk plays. How would you balance that? Do
- 1:40:30Speaker 11: you think that they have the right balance right now?
- 1:40:35Speaker 3: I think they do.
- 1:40:37Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:40:38Speaker 1: There it's as a game, every game is different. So
- 1:40:40Speaker 1: as this game went along, look at the RAMS go
- 1:40:43Speaker 1: alad go back to the Rams game thirty eight, thirty
- 1:40:46Speaker 1: seven or whatever it was, you know, and then this
- 1:40:49Speaker 1: game is different. So you're going through the game and
- 1:40:52Speaker 1: you're on the sideline. You're thinking, these guys can't score,
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: they can't do anything against us. So you start thinking
- 1:40:59Speaker 1: about how reckless or how how exaggerated you want to
- 1:41:06Speaker 1: be on offense as opposed to let's just we'll kick
- 1:41:09Speaker 1: the field goals. We can get to sixteen nineteen. They're
- 1:41:11Speaker 1: not going to do anything, so that enters in. But yeah,
- 1:41:16Speaker 1: the way the running game was going, I run the ball,
- 1:41:18Speaker 1: stay with it, but then play pass screen. I'm always
- 1:41:23Speaker 1: you got to do that too, and that those should work.
- 1:41:26Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and take the points when you get them. Yeah,
- 1:41:28Speaker 3: that's right, Thank you, thank you. Yeah.
- 1:41:31Speaker 4: Mikel Imgrin, you melan with us some more. Monday Morning
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- 1:42:16Speaker 4: It's Monday Morning quarterback, so much more to discuss, so
- 1:42:19Speaker 4: we're just going to discuss at all.
- 1:42:21Speaker 3: How about that Hugh Millan is with us.
- 1:42:23Speaker 4: We've also got Mike homerun with us, Ashley Bucky Chuck
- 1:42:26Speaker 4: with you here on this Monday, Happy New Year, do everyone.
- 1:42:29Speaker 4: Your football team's really good and they've accomplished what they
- 1:42:33Speaker 4: set out to accomplish as far as the regular season goes.
- 1:42:36Speaker 4: And I know we got a lot of different areas
- 1:42:39Speaker 4: to cover, but I didn't want to get through the
- 1:42:41Speaker 4: hour without talking about your friend John Schneider. Man two seasons,
- 1:42:47Speaker 4: two big decisions head coach and quarterback.
- 1:42:51Speaker 3: And it couldn't have been easy.
- 1:42:52Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like Pete was doing a terrible
- 1:42:55Speaker 4: job and Gino was a terrible quarterback. It wasn't easy decisions.
- 1:42:59Speaker 4: And yet he pulls the trigger coach on both of
- 1:43:01Speaker 4: those decisions, and they couldn't have worked out better in
- 1:43:05Speaker 4: my estimation anyway. I mean, just talk about the job
- 1:43:08Speaker 4: John Schneider's done here in the last eighteen months to
- 1:43:11Speaker 4: get this team to where it is right now.
- 1:43:13Speaker 1: Well, you know, he's he's really done a great job.
- 1:43:16Speaker 1: You know, those are big, big decisions to make, and
- 1:43:19Speaker 1: usually if it doesn't work, then you're you're in a
- 1:43:22Speaker 1: little trouble, you know, But you can't worry about that
- 1:43:25Speaker 1: you got, you know, and I would say Leonard Williams,
- 1:43:27Speaker 1: I would say Jones. I would say he's made the
- 1:43:30Speaker 1: moves he's made in the last couple of years, you know,
- 1:43:33Speaker 1: have gotten the team to where they are. I remember
- 1:43:35Speaker 1: going in telling him before you hired Mike, I said,
- 1:43:38Speaker 1: I think you ought to hire an offensive coach, and
- 1:43:41Speaker 1: so he thought, you know, we had we had a
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: nice discussion. I've known him forever and uh, unfortunately he
- 1:43:47Speaker 1: didn't listen to me, you know, and he hired Mike.
- 1:43:50Speaker 1: But he sent me John was in San Francisco and
- 1:43:52Speaker 1: he sent me a really nice text. He was he
- 1:43:55Speaker 1: was at the hotel and he said, I'm at the hotel.
- 1:43:59Speaker 1: We're about ready to to go to the stadium. And
- 1:44:00Speaker 1: I was just reflecting on thirty years ago and Green Bay.
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: We came in to play San Francisco there and you
- 1:44:06Speaker 1: let Regie McKenzie and I come with you on the
- 1:44:09Speaker 1: plane and you won the game. And he thanked ron
- 1:44:14Speaker 1: Wolf and me and all this. It was just really nice,
- 1:44:17Speaker 1: nice way to start the new year. But I'm so
- 1:44:20Speaker 1: very happy for him because he was finally I don't
- 1:44:25Speaker 1: know exactly how they worked it when he and Pete
- 1:44:27Speaker 1: were together. I'm sure there was a lot of give
- 1:44:29Speaker 1: and take and all that, but I don't know who
- 1:44:31Speaker 1: made the final call. But now john is in a
- 1:44:34Speaker 1: position now and they gave him the final call and
- 1:44:38Speaker 1: it's paid off.
- 1:44:39Speaker 3: He's done a great job. Mike, that's a great story.
- 1:44:41Speaker 3: You deserve that.
- 1:44:43Speaker 11: But I want to pick up on that. Why did
- 1:44:46Speaker 11: you say that he should get an offensive coach? Obviously
- 1:44:50Speaker 11: Pete had been a defensive coach, and just as a review,
- 1:44:56Speaker 11: I think that what they wanted was to get a
- 1:45:00Speaker 11: brilliant mind and they they really had their mind on
- 1:45:03Speaker 11: on Ben Johnson on the offensive side of the ball,
- 1:45:07Speaker 11: and then Mike McDaniel on the Mike McDonald on the
- 1:45:10Speaker 11: defensive side of the ball. And they, you know, once
- 1:45:13Speaker 11: they interviewed McDonald, they just said, this guy's got the juice,
- 1:45:16Speaker 11: this is the this is the dude.
- 1:45:17Speaker 3: But you know there are some people.
- 1:45:19Speaker 11: Say, well, if you if if you hire a defensive
- 1:45:22Speaker 11: coach and then your quarterback and your offense really hums,
- 1:45:26Speaker 11: you're going to lose your coordinator in this case Kubiak,
- 1:45:29Speaker 11: and then that's going to really set the offense back.
- 1:45:33Speaker 11: But why did you want them to have an offensive
- 1:45:36Speaker 11: coach and and and what about that component of it.
- 1:45:40Speaker 1: Well, again, I was thinking from my own history and
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: how you know, I thought it was easier for me
- 1:45:48Speaker 1: to do, you know, if I wanted to call the
- 1:45:50Speaker 1: players who offensively to find the right defensive coordinator, to
- 1:45:55Speaker 1: find that guy and then hand it to him, which
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: I did, And I thought that was an easier path.
- 1:46:02Speaker 1: And then based on what they had gone through for
- 1:46:06Speaker 1: the last couple of years with the offense in Seattle,
- 1:46:11Speaker 1: I thought.
- 1:46:13Speaker 3: It was my own It was my own feeling that
- 1:46:15Speaker 3: enter into that, you know.
- 1:46:16Speaker 1: And and John, I think if if John the Chicago
- 1:46:20Speaker 1: Bear coach, Ben John Johnson, I believe they hired, they
- 1:46:24Speaker 1: interviewed him as well. And my my feeling was that
- 1:46:27Speaker 1: that that did not go well. I don't know what
- 1:46:31Speaker 1: that means exactly, but so it has turned out. I
- 1:46:36Speaker 1: told you, I'm glad he didn't listen to me, you know,
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: but he was going to do his own thing. I
- 1:46:41Speaker 1: was just kind of thing having some fun with him
- 1:46:43Speaker 1: and saying, you know, you know what, you need a
- 1:46:45Speaker 1: guy that really called the plays and do all that
- 1:46:48Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And so it was more like one
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: of those conversations coach.
- 1:46:52Speaker 5: I mean with the playoffs, you know, they get to
- 1:46:54Speaker 5: take this week offensive back and get healed up and
- 1:46:58Speaker 5: rest and see who they're gonna play. Of the teams
- 1:47:00Speaker 5: in the NFC, which would be the one that you
- 1:47:03Speaker 5: think they maybe would want to avoid in the first round? U, Rams, Niners?
- 1:47:10Speaker 3: Is it that easy? Or is it just it doesn't matter?
- 1:47:13Speaker 3: Bring on all comers?
- 1:47:14Speaker 7: Is it?
- 1:47:15Speaker 9: Eagles?
- 1:47:15Speaker 3: Bears, Packers? Do you worry about them?
- 1:47:17Speaker 9: Well?
- 1:47:17Speaker 3: I think they've played.
- 1:47:19Speaker 1: You know, I'm not so worried about the Packers right
- 1:47:21Speaker 1: now because there they seem to be struggling.
- 1:47:23Speaker 3: To me, well, they've lost five in a row. I mean,
- 1:47:26Speaker 3: it's it's not.
- 1:47:27Speaker 1: But I think the Eagles will will cause problems for
- 1:47:31Speaker 1: anybody they play. Yeah, but I think the Rams, to me,
- 1:47:37Speaker 1: the Rams, the Rams are right up there at the top.
- 1:47:42Speaker 1: I think they're They're the the Seahawks and the Rams are,
- 1:47:45Speaker 1: in my opinion, the two best teams in the NFC.
- 1:47:48Speaker 3: Do we have the quarterback to win at all?
- 1:47:51Speaker 4: I mean, there seem to be a lot of critics
- 1:47:53Speaker 4: out there of Sam Darnold and they.
- 1:47:55Speaker 3: Won't go away.
- 1:47:57Speaker 4: I had buddies nationally texting, why is Sam Donald always
- 1:48:00Speaker 4: get criticized, and I'm like, I don't know.
- 1:48:03Speaker 3: I get it early in his career because he wasn't
- 1:48:05Speaker 3: playing well.
- 1:48:06Speaker 4: He's played really well the last two years, but he
- 1:48:09Speaker 4: certainly hasn't proven he can win a super Bowl. To
- 1:48:12Speaker 4: this point in his NFL career, he hasn't even proven
- 1:48:15Speaker 4: he can have playoff success. So what makes this Sam
- 1:48:18Speaker 4: different than the one that we've seen in the past.
- 1:48:21Speaker 3: Well, I think he is different.
- 1:48:22Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's played very well this year,
- 1:48:25Speaker 1: and everyone will point to that four interception game, but
- 1:48:28Speaker 1: that hasn't happened since he's and he's been sacked a
- 1:48:30Speaker 1: couple of times that play in the game. I didn't like,
- 1:48:34Speaker 1: you know, but I don't think Sam. There are some
- 1:48:37Speaker 1: teams I refer to my friend Andy Reid in Kansas
- 1:48:41Speaker 1: City the last few years that mahomes kind of won
- 1:48:45Speaker 1: the games for them, and I don't think Sam Donald.
- 1:48:49Speaker 1: I don't think they're asking him to do that. I
- 1:48:53Speaker 1: think we've got this great defense we got now establishing
- 1:48:56Speaker 1: a really pretty good running game. He has proved and
- 1:49:00Speaker 1: he can do, but he doesn't have to win it
- 1:49:01Speaker 1: by himself, and so I think that's the difference. Then
- 1:49:05Speaker 1: some of the teams that have won Super Bowls in
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: the past.
- 1:49:08Speaker 3: But he won't get in the way of them. When no,
- 1:49:09Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think you know I'm gonna
- 1:49:13Speaker 3: stick with him all the way. Yeah, Mike.
- 1:49:17Speaker 11: Is part of the calculus for Sam Darnold that at
- 1:49:21Speaker 11: thirty three and a half million, which you know, it's
- 1:49:24Speaker 11: hard to say that's a bargain, but the fact is
- 1:49:26Speaker 11: it's the eighteenth highest paid on an average basis, and
- 1:49:31Speaker 11: to have him under contracted that in those terms, I'll
- 1:49:34Speaker 11: give you a couple of guys to Marcus Lawrence. You
- 1:49:36Speaker 11: pick him up, he goes to the Pro Bowl. And
- 1:49:39Speaker 11: I can't overstate that the Josh Jones playing left tackle
- 1:49:45Speaker 11: in the last three weeks, two of the two biggest
- 1:49:49Speaker 11: games of the year. You haven't had Charles Cross right,
- 1:49:52Speaker 11: it's been Josh Jones and and it's been very quiet
- 1:49:55Speaker 11: over there at left tackle, which is a good thing.
- 1:49:57Speaker 11: And he was four million, his predecessor was one point
- 1:50:00Speaker 11: two million. You could maybe infer that that the money
- 1:50:04Speaker 11: you're saving with Donald, you can get guys like DeMarcus
- 1:50:06Speaker 11: Lawrence and backups like Josh Jones. How much of that
- 1:50:10Speaker 11: component do you when you kind of think of the
- 1:50:13Speaker 11: team and how it's structured. Then you say, okay, that
- 1:50:16Speaker 11: enters into how we evaluate Sam Darnold.
- 1:50:19Speaker 1: Well, I think you know, like you said, it's hard
- 1:50:21Speaker 1: to say he's only making thirty three million. I mean,
- 1:50:27Speaker 1: you know, uh, but but you're right, and some teams
- 1:50:31Speaker 1: that have to pop huge for the quarterback. You you,
- 1:50:37Speaker 1: you lose some good players at other positions because the
- 1:50:41Speaker 1: way that salarycap is set up, so he he's going
- 1:50:46Speaker 1: to be who he is, and if he continues to
- 1:50:49Speaker 1: be who he is, his next deal, because he's not
- 1:50:53Speaker 1: that his next deal.
- 1:50:54Speaker 3: Now you're gonna have to make this crappy thirty three million.
- 1:50:57Speaker 1: No, no, no, he can eat you know, he doesn't.
- 1:50:59Speaker 1: He can he can eat it a nice restaurant instead
- 1:51:01Speaker 1: of a coffee shop.
- 1:51:02Speaker 9: You know.
- 1:51:03Speaker 1: But no, But then then we'll see how it gets juggled.
- 1:51:07Speaker 1: Because we've talked about it before on the show. You know,
- 1:51:09Speaker 1: every once in a while, the Super Bowl timing and
- 1:51:15Speaker 1: your roster timing gets different once that quarterback gets paid
- 1:51:19Speaker 1: fifty million, And so you're.
- 1:51:22Speaker 4: Gonna reference to your friend Andy Reid again, that's right there,
- 1:51:25Speaker 4: you go. I mean, look at how dominant they were
- 1:51:28Speaker 4: when they weren't having to pay him, and even though
- 1:51:29Speaker 4: he gives them a little bit of a break, I
- 1:51:32Speaker 4: don't think it's a coincidence. You know, it's not the
- 1:51:36Speaker 4: tire equation, but I don't think it's a coincidence that
- 1:51:38Speaker 4: they're not as good since they've had to actually pay them.
- 1:51:41Speaker 1: Well, didn't they talk about that Brady doing that for
- 1:51:43Speaker 1: a long time in New England. I think they're probably
- 1:51:47Speaker 1: they were probably stashing something somewhere, probably, you know, yeah,
- 1:51:51Speaker 1: I mean.
- 1:51:51Speaker 3: No, I could be right. Atriot's never no, of course
- 1:51:54Speaker 3: they don't.
- 1:51:55Speaker 1: Yeah, no, but you know they Yeah, if a quarterback's
- 1:51:58Speaker 1: willing to do that, most of them are not. Certainly
- 1:52:02Speaker 1: their agents are not.
- 1:52:05Speaker 5: Yeah, Coach, I mean there's been a lot of talk
- 1:52:07Speaker 5: about Sam and then the turnovers, and understandably so, and
- 1:52:10Speaker 5: yet I think that all of us agree in order
- 1:52:13Speaker 5: to make that thing go, you're gonna have to sometimes
- 1:52:16Speaker 5: try to fit it in windows and interception are gonna happen.
- 1:52:18Speaker 5: To me, my bigger concern is the fumbles, right, and
- 1:52:21Speaker 5: so I'm wondering a couple of things that he almost
- 1:52:23Speaker 5: had a fumble when it was a ten to three game.
- 1:52:25Speaker 5: He did have a fumble he got stepped on, and
- 1:52:27Speaker 5: then it's going down and the handoff went south and
- 1:52:31Speaker 5: luckily Charbonnay.
- 1:52:32Speaker 3: Got on that ball.
- 1:52:33Speaker 5: Otherwise they're right in position to possibly tie the game up,
- 1:52:37Speaker 5: even after dominating the way that they had all the
- 1:52:39Speaker 5: way into the fourth quarter when that happened.
- 1:52:41Speaker 3: What do you teach a guy about.
- 1:52:43Speaker 5: I mean, sometimes it's just as possible if you don't
- 1:52:45Speaker 5: see the guy coming from behind you and he, you know,
- 1:52:48Speaker 5: hits your arm and you knocks it out.
- 1:52:49Speaker 3: That's what it is.
- 1:52:50Speaker 5: But is there something that you taught a guy of, Hey,
- 1:52:53Speaker 5: we really got to do this to make sure when
- 1:52:56Speaker 5: I get hit that it's not dislodging the ball, because
- 1:52:58Speaker 5: I think that could be a bugaboo that would come
- 1:53:01Speaker 5: back to haunt them if it happens in the playoffs.
- 1:53:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I think yes.
- 1:53:06Speaker 1: First of all, you talk about it, and there are
- 1:53:07Speaker 1: drills that you do to get his mind thinking, Okay,
- 1:53:12Speaker 1: I get this kind of pressure, I'm getting squeezed. This
- 1:53:14Speaker 1: is what I do with the ball. There are drills
- 1:53:17Speaker 1: to do that. Now, how he processes that and does
- 1:53:23Speaker 1: it help him or does I keep seeing the same
- 1:53:26Speaker 1: thing or what? I can't answer that for him? But
- 1:53:29Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. There are things you talk about and then
- 1:53:32Speaker 1: there are drills to help fix that. But you know what, guys,
- 1:53:36Speaker 1: I think until he wins the Super Bowl, ye, people
- 1:53:40Speaker 1: are going to be talking about Sam Dnoald in a
- 1:53:44Speaker 1: in a kind of a question different way.
- 1:53:46Speaker 3: Yes, ye hear. What your thoughts on the fumbles situation?
- 1:53:52Speaker 11: Yeah, you'd rather not fumble than fumble. I think that
- 1:53:56Speaker 11: there's they're not all created equal. I mean, I think
- 1:53:59Speaker 11: if you're draw if you separate your hands and you're
- 1:54:03Speaker 11: in the process of throwing and your eyes are taking
- 1:54:07Speaker 11: to you to a certain portion of the field in
- 1:54:10Speaker 11: one angle of your field of view, and somebody from
- 1:54:13Speaker 11: an area you couldn't expect to see, he hits you.
- 1:54:16Speaker 11: You know, I think that that's absolvable, right. I do
- 1:54:20Speaker 11: think that it's you know, the turnover worthy plays that
- 1:54:26Speaker 11: Pro football focus on tracks they try and you know
- 1:54:30Speaker 11: they say that that kind of takes some of the
- 1:54:32Speaker 11: luck out of it. So Sam Donald, as we know,
- 1:54:37Speaker 11: he has twenty turnovers, he's judged to have nineteen turnover
- 1:54:41Speaker 11: worthy plays. So of all the quarterbacks, there's only three
- 1:54:45Speaker 11: quarterbacks who are at one hundred percent or more. The
- 1:54:48Speaker 11: most unlucky guy this year is Jared Goff. He's got
- 1:54:52Speaker 11: one hundred and eight percent of them. But Sam Donald's
- 1:54:56Speaker 11: out one hundred and five percent. The average you take
- 1:55:01Speaker 11: out the Donald, the average is seventy one percent of
- 1:55:04Speaker 11: your turnover worthy plays are going to result in turnovers,
- 1:55:08Speaker 11: you know. And for example Caleb Williams, only half of
- 1:55:12Speaker 11: his turnover worthy plays has resulted. So I think he's
- 1:55:14Speaker 11: been a little bit unlucky. And then the other part
- 1:55:16Speaker 11: of it is, Mike that the ratio of big time
- 1:55:21Speaker 11: throws to UH to turnover worthy on plays, Sam Donald
- 1:55:28Speaker 11: is well above the median, and he's above Drake may
- 1:55:33Speaker 11: who's supposed to be, you know, first or second in
- 1:55:36Speaker 11: the MVP. He's above Justin Herbert, he's above Trevor Lawrence,
- 1:55:39Speaker 11: he's above Patrick Mahomes, c J. Stroud, Lamar Jackson like so,
- 1:55:43Speaker 11: so yes, he's got more turnover worthy plays than you'd like.
- 1:55:47Speaker 11: He has been lucky in the way I've said it,
- 1:55:49Speaker 11: But Mike, he's offsetting that with with you know, these
- 1:55:53Speaker 11: these categories where he's number one in the NFL and
- 1:55:56Speaker 11: in deep throws and passer rating when deep and as
- 1:56:00Speaker 11: I said, the racial big time throw to turnover worthy
- 1:56:03Speaker 11: plays is very favorable compared to some of those guys
- 1:56:06Speaker 11: I just mentioned.
- 1:56:07Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what excuse me. That's why.
- 1:56:12Speaker 1: I think I understood what you said. You know, every
- 1:56:16Speaker 1: once in a while he has to, you know, coach
- 1:56:19Speaker 1: me up a little bit. But no, that's why I'm
- 1:56:22Speaker 1: in his corner. And and and you know what, it's
- 1:56:26Speaker 1: he he's not going to have to do this by himself.
- 1:56:28Speaker 3: Though with this team. I don't think, Yeah, he's saying
- 1:56:32Speaker 3: the big play Sam Donald makes makes up for the
- 1:56:37Speaker 3: additional seven, the additional.
- 1:56:41Speaker 4: Risk that he you know, yeah, all right, we're going
- 1:56:48Speaker 4: to close it out with one last thing. Next Sports
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