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- 0:02Speaker 1: Oh that sounds serious.
- 0:08Speaker 2: It's coming in hot my left ear some serious football
- 0:15Speaker 2: music to get us going.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Here on a Monday morning quarterback day. Hey, great morning
- 0:18Speaker 3: to you all. If you had a terrific weekend.
- 0:20Speaker 2: My name is Chuck Powell andrews Hurst here filling in
- 0:22Speaker 2: for Ashley Ryan. She will be back a little bit
- 0:25Speaker 2: later on this week from her vacation to Hawaii, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: so she's not here to break down the preseason game
- 0:35Speaker 2: number two for us. It's a good thing we got
- 0:37Speaker 2: Hugh Millan to do it. R QB one joins us
- 0:40Speaker 2: here on the radio program.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Hi, Hugh, how are you. We're doing all right? Good morning,
- 0:45Speaker 3: doing all right with you?
- 0:47Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be with you. So I'll just you know,
- 0:50Speaker 2: open canvas here. I mean I like to start because
- 0:54Speaker 2: you never know where Hugh. The number one item is
- 0:58Speaker 2: for Hugh Millan. So where does it begin with you?
- 1:00Speaker 2: Where does this conversation start this morning about the Seahawks today?
- 1:05Speaker 4: Well, I think I'm probably still just a little sad
- 1:07Speaker 4: about I mean, you get on a plane to go
- 1:10Speaker 4: down and practice and play against the Titans, and three
- 1:15Speaker 4: guys who were likely to you know, dress up and
- 1:18Speaker 4: suit and play and be integral. You know, they come
- 1:24Speaker 4: back and their season's gone. Now I don't know that
- 1:29Speaker 4: from but but you know, Mason Richmond will see maybe
- 1:33Speaker 4: he gets in. But you know, even you know last week,
- 1:36Speaker 4: if you remember, you know that that was kind of
- 1:39Speaker 4: one of the standout guys in the I think it
- 1:41Speaker 4: was the only lineman I mentioned. Was was watching how
- 1:45Speaker 4: he had played. I said, hey, this seventy eight guy
- 1:47Speaker 4: looks long playing guard, and he looks like he has
- 1:50Speaker 4: the frame to play tackle. And thought thought he really
- 1:53Speaker 4: had had made some progress. So I think that part
- 1:58Speaker 4: of it is probably uh forefront on my mind. And
- 2:02Speaker 4: and uh, you know, you you draft a guy, I mean,
- 2:05Speaker 4: Bud Clark. There's some there's some who believe in the
- 2:09Speaker 4: building that the very favorite player in the entire college
- 2:13Speaker 4: football draft at any position, in any round for Mike
- 2:18Speaker 4: McDonald's Bud Clark.
- 2:20Speaker 3: So it's a little somber, but you know that's ball.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh, you know, nobody's going to be sitting around,
- 2:26Speaker 4: you know, sucking on a binkie over in renting the
- 2:29Speaker 4: you know today, and so so onward we go. That's
- 2:33Speaker 4: that's that's how you have to handle it. I mean,
- 2:35Speaker 4: you didn't you know, put it this way, there's some
- 2:38Speaker 4: some some other names that could have got got hurt
- 2:41Speaker 4: in practice that we'd probably be uh feeling it's more grim.
- 2:45Speaker 4: So yeah, you just you just forge one and there's
- 2:49Speaker 4: nothing you can do about it.
- 2:50Speaker 2: I mean, uh, I know, you see the merits and
- 2:53Speaker 2: preseason I wish they didn't have it. I know softy
- 2:57Speaker 2: has been allowed about wishing they didn't have it, but
- 2:58Speaker 2: the bottom line is they do have it. And you
- 3:00Speaker 2: got to put somebody out on the football field, and
- 3:02Speaker 2: you got to play three preseason games, and there is
- 3:04Speaker 2: some value to take from those three preseason games that
- 3:07Speaker 2: can help you during your football season. But you're right,
- 3:10Speaker 2: if you're gonna play ball, if you're gonna line them
- 3:11Speaker 2: up in the sport of football, you run the.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Risk of injury.
- 3:15Speaker 2: And unfortunately we got to live without Jake Bobo, Bud Clark.
- 3:19Speaker 3: And Mason Richmond for a while. Yeah.
- 3:21Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know you certainly can't. There's no room
- 3:25Speaker 4: for any second guest scene of Mike McDonald being too aggressive.
- 3:30Speaker 4: I mean, here the Titans are playing their starters. You say, well,
- 3:33Speaker 4: we played the backups. Go watch the tape that Patrick
- 3:39Speaker 4: O'Connell and Tyree Knight are your number two off ball linebackers.
- 3:44Speaker 4: They didn't play.
- 3:45Speaker 3: I mean you look at the.
- 3:47Speaker 4: The the first quarter. Chris Ball, I guess he got
- 3:52Speaker 4: tired of playing point guard.
- 3:54Speaker 3: In the NBA.
- 3:55Speaker 4: He was the middle linebacker. Yeah right, ye chance Serat
- 4:02Speaker 4: was the will linebacker. Andre Fuller was the nickel. I mean,
- 4:06Speaker 4: that's your third string. Look at the depth chart and
- 4:09Speaker 4: h and they're going against the Titans starters. So would
- 4:13Speaker 4: would there be anybody or any way you could say
- 4:16Speaker 4: Bud Clark wouldn't have They're no part of me, not
- 4:20Speaker 4: one sell out of seventy five trillion cells in our bodies.
- 4:25Speaker 4: I would not second guess the fact that Bud Clark
- 4:28Speaker 4: was playing on that play. You know, it's just a
- 4:30Speaker 4: freak deal. He comes from, you know, it's a too
- 4:32Speaker 4: high structure. He comes back. He just kind of kind
- 4:35Speaker 4: of a jop jump on pile. He's, you know, trying
- 4:38Speaker 4: to avoid a pile and jumps over and you know,
- 4:41Speaker 4: somebody kind of catches him. Kind of a fluke deal,
- 4:44Speaker 4: and so he breaks his ankle. Are we okay at
- 4:47Speaker 4: this position? I mean we're out trying to find cornerbacks,
- 4:51Speaker 4: you know, who are running from the law. For goodness
- 4:55Speaker 4: sake right now, and now we just lost Bud Clark.
- 4:59Speaker 4: We're trying to resurrect Trayvon Diggs. Do you feel I mean,
- 5:03Speaker 4: we're gonna get into some stuff about the game last night,
- 5:05Speaker 4: but do you feel like the Seahawks are okay.
- 5:08Speaker 3: And their secondary right now? Well, I I kind of
- 5:13Speaker 3: as do you.
- 5:15Speaker 4: I put them in different categories, and and so I
- 5:17Speaker 4: don't put the Bud Clark in in in the same
- 5:20Speaker 4: category of of the the cornerbacks and and and looking
- 5:25Speaker 4: all around and and uh and all of that is
- 5:28Speaker 4: true of course their secondary. So so that's that point
- 5:31Speaker 4: is not lost on me. But but I think for me,
- 5:34Speaker 4: I look at Bud Clark, and he was kind of
- 5:37Speaker 4: a guy that seems like he was drafted either to
- 5:41Speaker 4: replace Kobe Bryant, you know, got a nice contract going
- 5:44Speaker 4: to the Bears. Uh, you know, he's you know, uh,
- 5:47Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant was a back end safety. You know, he
- 5:50Speaker 4: was not a line of scrimmage type of safety or
- 5:53Speaker 4: you know, they moved around. What would he be a
- 5:56Speaker 4: guy that could be a nickel type guy.
- 5:59Speaker 5: Uh.
- 5:59Speaker 4: So I don't think that his position was entyler entirely declared,
- 6:04Speaker 4: But he's kind of a thin safety uh, and that's
- 6:07Speaker 4: how Mike McDonald likes him. I mean, Kobe Bryant played
- 6:11Speaker 4: corner in college and and Julian Lovelay corner in college,
- 6:15Speaker 4: and then they're not they're not big thumpers, but they
- 6:18Speaker 4: they they flow well in space, they move, they can accelerate,
- 6:22Speaker 4: they they they're they're twitchy enough to change direction, and
- 6:27Speaker 4: and what they lack in size, you know, they just
- 6:29Speaker 4: kind of make up for with taking good angles and
- 6:32Speaker 4: providing an aggression. So so I think that my feeling
- 6:35Speaker 4: was that ty Ocotta Uh is kind of a you know,
- 6:40Speaker 4: not a fringe starter certainly, but a guy that you'd say,
- 6:44Speaker 4: not an elite starter, more than a backup, but not
- 6:48Speaker 4: not an elite starter. So so that the thought would
- 6:51Speaker 4: be in my mind would be Okada who filled in
- 6:55Speaker 4: well when when Kobe Bryant was hurt, like like the
- 6:58Speaker 4: Seax didn't miss a beat. But you know, at some
- 7:02Speaker 4: point you can't say everybody is a star out there,
- 7:05Speaker 4: and so I would have thought Okada would be, you know,
- 7:08Speaker 4: for the first couple of months, would be the guy,
- 7:10Speaker 4: and then at some point Bud Clark would overtake him
- 7:14Speaker 4: and beat him out. Just on the basis of his athleticism.
- 7:17Speaker 4: But you know that's that's not the case. And and
- 7:21Speaker 4: then now the the you know, the third corner is
- 7:24Speaker 4: a separate topic. But but yeah, that's a concern. So
- 7:28Speaker 4: I think the if you want to lump them together,
- 7:30Speaker 4: the entire secondary uh yeah, you could make an argument
- 7:34Speaker 4: it's the shallowest position on the team.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Yeah, it do me some good if I could see
- 7:40Speaker 2: some video of nick emn Warry doing back handsprings out
- 7:42Speaker 2: of practice right now, I'll tell you that right now.
- 7:45Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Some somewhere, somehow, somebody said that their concern level was
- 7:52Speaker 4: in the negative numbers, not like not like a negative
- 7:57Speaker 4: because the whole, the whole, uh, the whole situation is
- 8:02Speaker 4: negative to the football team, not in that sense as
- 8:05Speaker 4: in the you know, the opposite of zero or the
- 8:10Speaker 4: other side of zero. So that's a confounding take to me.
- 8:14Speaker 4: I'm very concerned with with Nicki Minoorrie. If nothing else,
- 8:21Speaker 4: he hasn't got any reps, you know, And then you
- 8:25Speaker 4: know there's always that minority possibility that you know that
- 8:29Speaker 4: this could be lingering or god forbid, I don't want
- 8:32Speaker 4: to use the word chronic, So Yeah, there's a few
- 8:35Speaker 4: things that Mike McDonald, You know this, it hasn't been
- 8:39Speaker 4: any crisis, but there's probably more guys that have gone
- 8:43Speaker 4: down to more question marks than he would have won it.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Here Melani is with us Monday Morning quarterback reacting to
- 8:49Speaker 2: a nineteen sixteen loss to the Tennessee Titans and preseason
- 8:52Speaker 2: game number two. But as you mentioned, I mentioned it
- 8:55Speaker 2: a couple of times your second string was beating their
- 8:59Speaker 2: first string through the first quarter plus sixteen to three.
- 9:04Speaker 3: How much did that impress you?
- 9:05Speaker 2: Locked to Arroyo, that first quarter by Mike McDonald's second
- 9:10Speaker 2: teamers impressed me a lot.
- 9:13Speaker 4: Yeah, because this is the NFL. I mean, if this
- 9:17Speaker 4: was the Huskies playing against Portland State and and somehow
- 9:22Speaker 4: it was the number two's beating the starters, that wouldn't
- 9:26Speaker 4: impress me much but much. But but yeah, any there,
- 9:31Speaker 4: as bad as we decry and denounce what you saw
- 9:35Speaker 4: on Saturday night, pretty pretty uh nondescript football game, right
- 9:41Speaker 4: that either of those teams, you know, you take the
- 9:45Speaker 4: Seahawks backups and even in the even in the second half,
- 9:49Speaker 4: you could take that team that was playing for the
- 9:51Speaker 4: Seahawks go line them up who's the number one team
- 9:54Speaker 4: in college football?
- 9:55Speaker 3: Texas, Georgia.
- 10:00Speaker 4: I know, Oregon's thought to be Ohio State, that team
- 10:04Speaker 4: that was playing in the second half of the Seahawks
- 10:06Speaker 4: would line up and beat Texas today. Like that's when
- 10:10Speaker 4: when you got a bunch of twenty six twenty seven
- 10:13Speaker 4: year olds who've been in the league a few times, right,
- 10:15Speaker 4: and they're all you know, add on near the top,
- 10:18Speaker 4: the depth, the depth they have, you're seeing, you know,
- 10:22Speaker 4: the Texas when Texas plays Ohio State in September. That's
- 10:26Speaker 4: not the second best football that you will watch this year.
- 10:29Speaker 4: The second best football you will watch is the NFL preseason.
- 10:33Speaker 4: And so now that's not to say it's a it's
- 10:36Speaker 4: an entertaining product. I'm not saying that. I'm just talking
- 10:39Speaker 4: about the talent. So yeah, if if, if your number
- 10:43Speaker 4: two's are beating an NFL team's number one, yeah you
- 10:47Speaker 4: doug On right, that's impressive. So yeah, yeah that should
- 10:52Speaker 4: not go and mentioned And I'm glad you did. Yeah
- 10:54Speaker 4: did mention it?
- 10:55Speaker 3: Well?
- 10:56Speaker 2: Who then stood out to you in that grouping, uh,
- 11:00Speaker 2: offensively or defensively that you thought, you know, played maybe
- 11:06Speaker 2: an exceptional game last night in your eyes.
- 11:10Speaker 4: Well, I mentioned those off ball linebackers. I don't even
- 11:13Speaker 4: know if they're going to make the team. But but uh,
- 11:16Speaker 4: I thought Paul and Sarat really just kind of you know,
- 11:21Speaker 4: kind of were all they really they deciphered things well
- 11:25Speaker 4: and and got to the football, made tackles, seemed to
- 11:29Speaker 4: be leadership, played with a lot of confidence. Uh you know,
- 11:31Speaker 4: there was there was you know, a mishap there where
- 11:36Speaker 4: Sarat and Igbinoga Andy bump into each other on a
- 11:41Speaker 4: little what's called a two men snag route where the
- 11:45Speaker 4: wide receiver comes in like a Slanton stops. Uh, Mike
- 11:49Speaker 4: Holmgren would would would call that route a spot and
- 11:51Speaker 4: then you have a fast out swing by the back
- 11:55Speaker 4: and you know, you got to have communication be a
- 11:57Speaker 4: different level. So though they wink into each other and
- 12:00Speaker 4: cam Ward gets about a thirty thirty five yard gain
- 12:02Speaker 4: out of that. So you know, there were there were
- 12:04Speaker 4: there was some problems in that regard, but I thought
- 12:07Speaker 4: the I thought they had the front seven just really
- 12:12Speaker 4: was alive in the game and and uh, you know,
- 12:16Speaker 4: flowing to the football and collapse in the pocket. So
- 12:20Speaker 4: so they showed signs of good coaching and it's gonna
- 12:23Speaker 4: be it's gonna be tough. I think in a lot
- 12:25Speaker 4: of positions. Like I said, somebody's not gonna play make
- 12:28Speaker 4: the team as a as an inside linebacker for the Seahawks,
- 12:32Speaker 4: and they're gonna get snagged up in the in the
- 12:34Speaker 4: cuts immediately. So yeah, I thought there was some good
- 12:38Speaker 4: depth there, all right.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Uh, let's talk about Jacartia right then. The sixty nine
- 12:43Speaker 2: yard touchdown run certainly was maybe the highlight of the night.
- 12:48Speaker 2: But then he had seven carries for twelve yards otherwise.
- 12:52Speaker 2: So did we see I mean, did we see enough
- 12:56Speaker 2: like everything taken into consideration, Uh, to think that Jacarti,
- 13:00Speaker 2: a wright, maybe made some strides toward making us feel
- 13:04Speaker 2: comfortable about the running back den.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Well, it depends on how many guys they keep. I'm
- 13:09Speaker 4: not the best guy to play the roster. Roulette stuff
- 13:13Speaker 4: at the back of the law.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Of the roster.
- 13:17Speaker 4: You've got the issue sharbon a. You know, when do
- 13:19Speaker 4: you expect to come in? How many running backs are
- 13:21Speaker 4: you going to keep? I haven't really drilled down on that.
- 13:26Speaker 4: I would say this if if you want to take
- 13:31Speaker 4: a Now, this is just a thought experiment, right, this
- 13:34Speaker 4: is this is just coffee and beer talk, right, hopefully
- 13:38Speaker 4: coffee at this time of the morning, beer later. But
- 13:42Speaker 4: the if if we could clone the Seahawks and then
- 13:47Speaker 4: go play you know, seventeen games. Hey, while we're out,
- 13:51Speaker 4: let's play seventeen hundred. Let's let a computer simulate all
- 13:55Speaker 4: this and with that clone team, the only difference is
- 14:01Speaker 4: I get Jakarti right at half back on my team,
- 14:05Speaker 4: and you get, uh, you have to.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Have oh, what's our? What's our? Oh jeez, I.
- 14:16Speaker 4: Got a lot of names in my head. You get
- 14:18Speaker 4: George Halani on your team. Okay, I will I will
- 14:22Speaker 4: make a bet that my team rushes for more yards
- 14:25Speaker 4: than your team. Uh. And I would say the same
- 14:30Speaker 4: thing with Vellas Jones. Now that's not to degrade George
- 14:33Speaker 4: Lellani's contribution to the team, because I think it's it's
- 14:37Speaker 4: a versatile. But as far as just running the football, yeah,
- 14:41Speaker 4: I thought that there was. Look, I think they're kind
- 14:44Speaker 4: of fringe at NFL running backs. You know, if they
- 14:46Speaker 4: make the team, they're gonna, uh, they're you know, they're
- 14:49Speaker 4: the family's gonna bake a cake and celebrate as they should.
- 14:53Speaker 4: So I don't want to say that, you know, I'm
- 14:55Speaker 4: that impressed. Pressed, But because you're talking about depth guys.
- 14:58Speaker 4: But but I thought it was good. And as for
- 15:01Speaker 4: you know that corn that that counterplay, I mean, you've
- 15:06Speaker 4: got your going counter left. There's a one technique in
- 15:11Speaker 4: the get in the gap between the guard and the tackle,
- 15:15Speaker 4: and so the center blocks away the guard. Excuse me,
- 15:21Speaker 4: there's a one technique between the center and the guard.
- 15:24Speaker 4: To that side, the guard and the tackle they block
- 15:27Speaker 4: that one technique and then the the left tackle is
- 15:34Speaker 4: supposed to go off to the backside linebacker, the right
- 15:37Speaker 4: guard Christian Haynes. He kicks out on what's called the
- 15:39Speaker 4: E M L O S and then the tight end
- 15:42Speaker 4: he's supposed to fit on the outside linebacker.
- 15:44Speaker 3: But because because eighteen.
- 15:49Speaker 4: Our man Arroyo misses his block, then the pulling tight
- 15:55Speaker 4: end he comes up and he fits on Arroyo's man,
- 15:58Speaker 4: which means the weak side linebacker was the one guy
- 16:00Speaker 4: who didn't have a hat on him and he couldn't
- 16:02Speaker 4: make the play because because he got you know, caught
- 16:05Speaker 4: up on the wash.
- 16:06Speaker 3: What's happened.
- 16:06Speaker 4: But anyways, my bottom line saying that if you draw
- 16:09Speaker 4: that on the on the whiteboard in training camp and
- 16:13Speaker 4: say where does that ball fit? It basically fits exactly
- 16:17Speaker 4: like he follows the he follows the kickout guard and
- 16:20Speaker 4: then and then he follows the tight end. That that's
- 16:24Speaker 4: basically about as as as much as you almost to
- 16:31Speaker 4: almost to it. I at man a man on the
- 16:34Speaker 4: blitz or on the on the blocking rather, that's how
- 16:38Speaker 4: it is drawn up. And so the running back is
- 16:41Speaker 4: just following that second lead blocker, which is eighty one
- 16:45Speaker 4: Salbert the the puller on the on the counter. So
- 16:49Speaker 4: it was a garden variety walk through type of of play.
- 16:55Speaker 4: And that you know, they're now one one component of this.
- 16:59Speaker 4: The two wide receivers for the Seahawks, eighty six and
- 17:04Speaker 4: eighty seven. Man, there's a lot of numbers and a
- 17:07Speaker 4: lot of guys I'm watching, so I guess I got
- 17:09Speaker 4: to run to them. But but maybe you uh, Monterey
- 17:12Speaker 4: Foster is.
- 17:17Speaker 3: Okay.
- 17:17Speaker 4: So they were squeezed down in the formation. The Texans
- 17:21Speaker 4: are playing a too high structure. They instead of blocking
- 17:24Speaker 4: the corners. But because they're squeezed down, it's a condensed formation.
- 17:28Speaker 4: This is gonna be something we're going to see. Now
- 17:30Speaker 4: they are in a position to go go get the safeties.
- 17:34Speaker 4: The safety is triggered hard. Both receivers respectively blocked the safeties.
- 17:38Speaker 4: That means the corners we were unblocked. But when you're
- 17:42Speaker 4: running straight up the middle, not surprising that that they
- 17:45Speaker 4: were able to gas. So you know, there were some breakdowns.
- 17:50Speaker 4: They were a little aggressive from the Titan perspective, but
- 17:54Speaker 4: that's kind of how you draw it up on the Whitebard,
- 17:57Speaker 4: with the exception of as I said that that we
- 18:00Speaker 4: side linebacker, uh, that that you didn't fit on him,
- 18:04Speaker 4: but that that's a garden variety corner. So I don't
- 18:07Speaker 4: think anybody went off off the reservoir, uh, off the
- 18:09Speaker 4: reservation to uh specifically the running back. You know, he
- 18:14Speaker 4: just he just followed his lead blockers and there's your touchdown.
- 18:18Speaker 4: So does Hailani go for sixty nine yards on that pook? Uh?
- 18:22Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to degrade. I probably I've
- 18:24Speaker 3: probably well maybe the answer is yes.
- 18:27Speaker 4: I just you know, listen, I I otherwise, like I
- 18:30Speaker 4: didn't want to pick any fight with George Lani. I
- 18:33Speaker 4: just have heard so much like raving about Georgia, like
- 18:37Speaker 4: like what are we doing here? You know, look, I
- 18:40Speaker 4: understand he's a really nice guy in the locker room,
- 18:42Speaker 4: and so so uh, I'm sure that that that makes
- 18:46Speaker 4: us have an affinity and we're drawn to his personality.
- 18:50Speaker 4: But but let's assess him as a running back and
- 18:53Speaker 4: and and and then say he's a utility guy important
- 18:57Speaker 4: to the team, but he's not. We're not gonna bubble
- 18:59Speaker 4: wrap George Hallane. Right, you know he didn't play last
- 19:04Speaker 4: night though, No, maybe they did. I get well, you know,
- 19:06Speaker 4: they may have wanted to. They may have wanted to
- 19:09Speaker 4: see the other guys, which I would have wanted to see. Yeah,
- 19:12Speaker 4: I know enough about George Halane. I wouldn't have played Hallane,
- 19:16Speaker 4: not because I want to protect him, but I want
- 19:19Speaker 4: to see the other guys and say, hey, where are
- 19:24Speaker 4: we on our depth? If you know, we don't have
- 19:27Speaker 4: Sharbonney Jdarion Price. There's some questions about his durability, given
- 19:33Speaker 4: that he was the backup to Jeremiah Love, had fewer
- 19:36Speaker 4: touches than you're going to see from just about any
- 19:38Speaker 4: first round draft pick, right, and and so we don't
- 19:42Speaker 4: know what kind of load he can carry. I want
- 19:44Speaker 4: to see how many guys I can. I can feel
- 19:46Speaker 4: in September I can handle the football too, and and
- 19:48Speaker 4: I feel I can get yards and and that list
- 19:51Speaker 4: is short in my opinion.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I want the Titans to cut that Julia's
- 19:56Speaker 2: chestnut last night.
- 19:58Speaker 3: I'll grab him. I kind of like what I saw
- 20:00Speaker 3: to him.
- 20:01Speaker 4: Uh, if we could get a guy named Julius Chesna,
- 20:03Speaker 4: I just want to say that as many times as possible,
- 20:06Speaker 4: that that's just sweet man. I want I want one.
- 20:08Speaker 4: I want one night in the club. I want to
- 20:11Speaker 4: go up to a girl and say, yeah, I'm Julius Chesna.
- 20:14Speaker 4: I want to introduce myself that way. Yeah, bring that
- 20:18Speaker 4: guy that's like Chuckie Breeze.
- 20:22Speaker 3: Water is what that is? Chucky?
- 20:23Speaker 4: Oh, Chuckie, don't Yeah, listen, Chuckie Breese. He's commanding the
- 20:29Speaker 4: dance floor, so you're not going to contest with him.
- 20:32Speaker 4: But all right, humil it is with us. Julius Chestnut's
- 20:35Speaker 4: going to give him a little bit of a run.
- 20:37Speaker 3: Coming up.
- 20:38Speaker 2: On the other side, we'll talk about some quarterback play
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- 21:25Speaker 3: They're great, he's got his EyeBlack on.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Let's go.
- 21:31Speaker 2: It's Monday Morning Quarterback Chuck Powell andrews Hearst with you
- 21:34Speaker 2: here today and of course Monday Morning Quarterback stars.
- 21:37Speaker 3: Hugh Millen, ur QB, one.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Former NFL quarterback for eleven years and of course has
- 21:43Speaker 2: been a part of this radio station of Idol Park
- 21:46Speaker 2: for over a couple of decades here breaking it down
- 21:49Speaker 2: for you like nobody else. And he's going to be
- 21:51Speaker 2: with us again this season here on Mondays, and we are.
- 21:54Speaker 3: Thrilled about it.
- 21:56Speaker 2: But we're even thrilled when we're just talking pre season football,
- 21:59Speaker 2: and yet we've got Hugh with us here this morning.
- 22:02Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some quarterbacks on Monday Morning quarterback,
- 22:05Speaker 2: mister Millan, and.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Let's start with let's actually start.
- 22:11Speaker 2: With Drew Locke a little bit, because if we're gonna
- 22:14Speaker 2: say that the ones looked pretty impressive against the twos, well,
- 22:18Speaker 2: Drew Locke was operating the offense. Sam Darnold certainly heaped
- 22:23Speaker 2: some praise on him in his very lengthy interview on
- 22:25Speaker 2: the sidelines last night, and the connection with ed with
- 22:30Speaker 2: Elijah Royo led to a long touchdown pass against the
- 22:35Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans on that very first drive. So did we
- 22:38Speaker 2: see what we wanted to see out of the backup
- 22:41Speaker 2: quarterback last night?
- 22:42Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 22:42Speaker 4: I thought he looked real sharp, and I thought he
- 22:45Speaker 4: looked better once I watched the All twenty two tape,
- 22:52Speaker 4: the coach's tape that you hear in the press conference, like, hey,
- 22:54Speaker 4: I got to see the tape right yeap? And for me,
- 22:58Speaker 4: you know, when you watch the tea game, you know,
- 23:02Speaker 4: I see him with his feet, he's making reads and
- 23:06Speaker 4: he's going for this happened a number of times. He
- 23:08Speaker 4: started on the left and you can see him scanning
- 23:12Speaker 4: out and you know that the running back has a
- 23:16Speaker 4: check swing to the right, and he hits the running
- 23:20Speaker 4: back on a check swing. And so you know, in
- 23:23Speaker 4: my notes while I'm watching TV, I'm going, well, that's
- 23:26Speaker 4: that's for sure the fifth option in the route. There's
- 23:31Speaker 4: no question about that. But I don't know exactly what
- 23:35Speaker 4: he saw. Did he pass over an opportunity? And what
- 23:39Speaker 4: the tape showed is that that every time he passed
- 23:43Speaker 4: over and went to even to the fifth receiver, often
- 23:46Speaker 4: to the third or fourth. He should have got that
- 23:50Speaker 4: because there was nothing else. So he was really seeing
- 23:54Speaker 4: things at a fast pace. And his feet were very
- 24:00Speaker 4: mechanically sound. And even though you just throw a swing
- 24:03Speaker 4: pass out and you get two three yards, you know,
- 24:07Speaker 4: not taking a sack there and not forcing the ball.
- 24:09Speaker 4: So oftentimes it's it's you know, quarterbacking is is not
- 24:13Speaker 4: what you do, it's what you don't do. And so
- 24:16Speaker 4: he looked like a professional quarterback there. You know, he
- 24:18Speaker 4: gets he gets a gift on the uh on the
- 24:22Speaker 4: seam route, it's a bust of coverage.
- 24:24Speaker 3: It's three deep coverage.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Uh.
- 24:25Speaker 4: The say, you know they they motion, they cause some
- 24:28Speaker 4: uh some miscommunication. Uh, you got a tight end in
- 24:33Speaker 4: the flat, and you got to tight end up the scene.
- 24:35Speaker 4: And uh, I would expect the corner would take uh
- 24:39Speaker 4: take the seam. Uh it's possible that they that. I mean,
- 24:42Speaker 4: you've seen defense. They can communicate and pass that off.
- 24:45Speaker 4: The safety can carry the scene. But but either way, UH,
- 24:49Speaker 4: clearly they they had you know, both guys in the
- 24:52Speaker 4: flat and and nobody covering the seam.
- 24:55Speaker 3: And and if.
- 24:56Speaker 4: You ask Robert Salah, well if we're going to miscommunicate, Uh,
- 25:00Speaker 4: I'd rather have two guys covering the scene and nobody
- 25:03Speaker 4: in the flat, right. So so they had the worst
- 25:07Speaker 4: kind of bust that you could have. And you know,
- 25:10Speaker 4: I assume Milroe or any other NFL quarterback, any any
- 25:14Speaker 4: quarterback who suited up and played in a game this year,
- 25:18Speaker 4: in a preseason game, would have had that touchdown presumably, right,
- 25:22Speaker 4: unless you really choose the throw in an appalling way.
- 25:26Speaker 4: And so so I'm not going to give him a
- 25:28Speaker 4: lot of credit for that. But but some of the
- 25:32Speaker 4: other stuff, the pocket management and again the decision making,
- 25:36Speaker 4: I think he's gonna have a very good grade when
- 25:39Speaker 4: when when it comes out today.
- 25:40Speaker 3: Very good.
- 25:41Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's talk about the third stringer, because
- 25:44Speaker 2: I mean.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Was it just me?
- 25:46Speaker 2: I actually saw some things that I liked in the
- 25:48Speaker 2: third quarter and nothing that I liked in the.
- 25:51Speaker 4: Fourth quarter from Jalen Milroe. Yeah, I think that's a
- 25:55Speaker 4: fair take. I think that as I've described it, I've
- 26:00Speaker 4: at it many times. To me, it's he's a Petri
- 26:04Speaker 4: Dish experiment. It's all about the facets that make a
- 26:11Speaker 4: quarterback when you scout him out of college, because all
- 26:14Speaker 4: the things that you really want but are not totally mandatory.
- 26:22Speaker 4: Jalen Milroe has it, the quickness, the strong arm, the
- 26:26Speaker 4: quick release. Obviously you know, just not just a fast runner,
- 26:31Speaker 4: but a strong runner. He can run not only in
- 26:33Speaker 4: the alley but up the middle and uh and and
- 26:38Speaker 4: yet the two aspects that were most in question about
- 26:42Speaker 4: him are the two aspects that are the non negotiables.
- 26:47Speaker 4: You can't you can't you can't function unless you process well,
- 26:53Speaker 4: which is throwt to the right guy at the right
- 26:55Speaker 4: time and then throw accurately. And so those are the
- 27:00Speaker 4: biggest question marks about him and everything else. You say, Okay,
- 27:03Speaker 4: if we can just get that right, if we can
- 27:06Speaker 4: just get him to process, make good decisions, process right,
- 27:09Speaker 4: and then throw accurately. Well, that's a big ask because
- 27:13Speaker 4: you're talking about the two most important things. Again, this
- 27:16Speaker 4: is all my take about the position. And so what
- 27:21Speaker 4: you're seeing out there is signs. It's exactly what you
- 27:25Speaker 4: saw at Alabama. It's why he was a third rounder,
- 27:29Speaker 4: not a top half of the first round because exactly that.
- 27:34Speaker 4: And so you're seeing processing issues and an accuracy issues.
- 27:37Speaker 4: I mean he turns down a hook route, I mean
- 27:41Speaker 4: he turns down a corner stop route. They're giving him
- 27:45Speaker 4: mirrored concepts to keep it as basic as we can do.
- 27:49Speaker 4: We're just gonna say, hey, on your left and on
- 27:52Speaker 4: your right, we're gonna go up turn like break like
- 27:56Speaker 4: we're going to the corner, and then we're gonna stop.
- 27:58Speaker 4: We're gonna have two guys in the floor they mirror
- 28:00Speaker 4: each other also, and then we have a guy over
- 28:03Speaker 4: the middle. They have they're doing all kinds of concepts
- 28:06Speaker 4: like this, just mirrored concepts with a guy over the middle.
- 28:10Speaker 4: You pick a side and then when you look and
- 28:14Speaker 4: you say, you know, Cody White runs out, does a
- 28:16Speaker 4: corner stop, He's wide open and the hook defense you
- 28:20Speaker 4: know it's a three deep. This is the play is
- 28:23Speaker 4: called for this coverage and you just read the hook defenders.
- 28:27Speaker 4: That's like reading the second basement and the short stop
- 28:30Speaker 4: in a in a like, hey does the short who's
- 28:33Speaker 4: gonna squeeze to the second base? Is it going to
- 28:36Speaker 4: be the second basement or the short stop? If you
- 28:38Speaker 4: see the second basement squeeze to the second base, then
- 28:42Speaker 4: throw it out to right center, you know, you know,
- 28:44Speaker 4: like I'm just trying to create create a visual of
- 28:47Speaker 4: of where you want to go. With the ball and
- 28:49Speaker 4: relatively simple reads, and he's just he's blowing it. He
- 28:53Speaker 4: comes out on a boot and misses a flat the
- 28:56Speaker 4: the he underthrows the ball on a go route where
- 28:59Speaker 4: he could he had a guy wide up in the flat.
- 29:01Speaker 4: He chose chose to throw the go route, uh to
- 29:04Speaker 4: Cody White. Okay, if you're gonna do that, if you
- 29:06Speaker 4: can take the shot, then give him a chance. Well
- 29:10Speaker 4: we underthrow that. The interception. The first interception was probably
- 29:14Speaker 4: a busted coverage on the left.
- 29:16Speaker 3: He had he had the.
- 29:17Speaker 4: Uh, the bunch to the left, he had two guys
- 29:20Speaker 4: running a corner. There's no way that that that that's
- 29:23Speaker 4: how you you they want that route. But he comes
- 29:28Speaker 4: off the left, comes back and there's a guy over
- 29:30Speaker 4: the middle, and and how he just he didn't see
- 29:32Speaker 4: that defender. He just stares him down, stares him down,
- 29:35Speaker 4: stares him down with a uh, no awareness that that
- 29:39Speaker 4: middle linebacker is just gonna hunt your eyes. I mean
- 29:42Speaker 4: it's late, it's a stare down. It's just not professional quarterbacking.
- 29:47Speaker 4: And and so it which is hard because he's just
- 29:50Speaker 4: really a good dude man, you know, like like you
- 29:54Speaker 4: see him interviewed, you see how his teammates respond, you know,
- 29:56Speaker 4: talk to people at Alabama. Uh, this is really an
- 30:00Speaker 4: easy guy to root for, but it's a he makes
- 30:05Speaker 4: quarterbacking look hard, yeah, because it is hard. Yeah, And
- 30:11Speaker 4: trying to see the movie before it plays out is
- 30:14Speaker 4: the hardest part. And so throwing to the right guy
- 30:17Speaker 4: at the right time is a problem for him, and
- 30:19Speaker 4: throwing accuracy as a problem for him.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Here Mellan is with us Monday Morning quarterback Session. We
- 30:25Speaker 2: got a lot more to break down. We'll continue next
- 30:27Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All right,
- 30:48Speaker 2: Happy Monday, Monday Morning quarterback session with Hugh Millan. After
- 30:51Speaker 2: the nineteen sixteen loss deceiving loss to the Tennessee Titans
- 30:56Speaker 2: last night in preseason game number two. We're going to
- 30:59Speaker 2: take our conversation to nine twenty this morning with you.
- 31:03Speaker 2: During the regular season, we'll be going two full hours
- 31:06Speaker 2: on Mondays with you.
- 31:07Speaker 3: Don't you worry.
- 31:09Speaker 2: But we still have some more things to get to
- 31:11Speaker 2: and I actually in our remaining segment here in the
- 31:15Speaker 2: eight o'clock hour, we got a few minutes. I wanted
- 31:17Speaker 2: to ask you about their quarterbacks a little bit, Hugh,
- 31:20Speaker 2: I mean cam Ward obviously, some local interest here in
- 31:24Speaker 2: last year's number one overall pick in the NFL draft,
- 31:29Speaker 2: Are you seeing from him the type of progress that
- 31:33Speaker 2: you'd like to see from a number one overall draft pick.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Well, I.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Think that My answer it goes straight to I just
- 31:44Speaker 4: don't think that they have great targets, and that's one
- 31:49Speaker 4: reason why they drafted a wide receiver with the fourth
- 31:53Speaker 4: overall pick. And so you know, I don't think he
- 31:58Speaker 4: played much and wasn't there was and an impact or
- 32:01Speaker 4: they didn't get the ball to him much. So so
- 32:04Speaker 4: I was asked to do a breakdown of him for
- 32:06Speaker 4: the thirty third team last year is about halfway through
- 32:09Speaker 4: the season. I looked at every single snap and I
- 32:13Speaker 4: didn't think he had a great offensive line. But I
- 32:18Speaker 4: really thought his wide receiver targets were as probably as
- 32:23Speaker 4: poor as any's any in the league. So I think
- 32:26Speaker 4: there's an issue there. I think his best route is
- 32:29Speaker 4: a seam route. He really can anticipate guy. You know,
- 32:33Speaker 4: when you think about hitting windows, we think about horizontal windows.
- 32:37Speaker 4: I think he's really good at at anticipating and feeling
- 32:40Speaker 4: how the development of vertical windows as guys run away
- 32:44Speaker 4: from him down the field, and so so.
- 32:48Speaker 3: I don't. I wouldn't be giving up on him if
- 32:50Speaker 3: I was a Titan fan. Yet.
- 32:53Speaker 4: I think he's putting in the work ethic Brian Dabo,
- 32:56Speaker 4: and you know, we'll we'll see. He's done a lot
- 32:59Speaker 4: of good things for quarterbacks. Of course, he's also seem
- 33:03Speaker 4: to bungle a lot of quarterbacks. You know, his personality is,
- 33:06Speaker 4: you know, he's pretty rough, So we'll see see if
- 33:09Speaker 4: if they mess.
- 33:10Speaker 3: But but but he's a talented guy and you just
- 33:14Speaker 3: got to play to his strings.
- 33:15Speaker 2: How about Will Levis, I mean, third string behind Mitchell Trubisky.
- 33:19Speaker 2: This is a guy that was starting for them two
- 33:21Speaker 2: years ago and he can't get out of there. He's
- 33:24Speaker 2: asked them to trade him. He can't get moved. And
- 33:28Speaker 2: you know, he had a man eight How many people
- 33:30Speaker 2: have a man aise ad nationally and then the next
- 33:33Speaker 2: year they're the third string quarterback for one of the
- 33:36Speaker 2: worst teams in the National Football League.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Will Levis has fallen on some hard times here.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 33:42Speaker 4: You know, he's really married to the weight room. And
- 33:43Speaker 4: there there will be some that tell you that he's
- 33:46Speaker 4: just too tight and bound up. And one of those
- 33:49Speaker 4: people would tell you would be Tom Brady, because Tom.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Brady is a huge believer in that, you know.
- 33:54Speaker 4: The muscle bellies of your arms, you want them longer,
- 33:59Speaker 4: not tighter. So he was always doing everything to Uh
- 34:03Speaker 4: to keep keep his his arm pliable. And Will Levis
- 34:07Speaker 4: is about the least pliable in that regard, and so
- 34:11Speaker 4: there's a stiffness to his game. I think there's a
- 34:14Speaker 4: stiffness to his processing. I think that there's there's a
- 34:18Speaker 4: lot of similarities between Levis and UH and Jalen Milroe
- 34:22Speaker 4: just in terms of their challenges. You know, physical guys,
- 34:26Speaker 4: but an aid accuracy is not one of their pluses
- 34:29Speaker 4: and processing isn't either, And what a surprise. That's the
- 34:33Speaker 4: hardest part about playing quarterback.
- 34:35Speaker 2: Do you still think I know we had our Jalen
- 34:37Speaker 2: Miller conversation, but do you still think there's a specialty
- 34:41Speaker 2: role for him on this team at minimum that he
- 34:45Speaker 2: can still be a useful tool that Mike McDonald can
- 34:49Speaker 2: keep in the toolbox.
- 34:51Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they probably really explore that.
- 34:54Speaker 4: It kind of all came crashing down on him and
- 34:56Speaker 4: that Tampa Bay game on that speed option to his
- 35:00Speaker 4: left hand, which I don't think was Clint Kubiak's finest hour.
- 35:03Speaker 4: That call and and so he ends up what three
- 35:05Speaker 4: four plays for the entire season. I would think they
- 35:08Speaker 4: would want to get more in there. But but they're
- 35:11Speaker 4: also not going to take Sam Darnold off and and uh,
- 35:15Speaker 4: you know, and and kind of mess with his rhythm
- 35:20Speaker 4: if there's not something fruitful with it.
- 35:22Speaker 3: So I think it's very much in question. I think
- 35:26Speaker 3: that they.
- 35:27Speaker 4: Want to have Milroe be the number two next year
- 35:31Speaker 4: if nothing else. The cost, you know, he's real cheap
- 35:34Speaker 4: and and so they're trying to develop him and in
- 35:37Speaker 4: addition to being able to present a different threat, but
- 35:40Speaker 4: you still have to be trusted that you can run
- 35:43Speaker 4: these these simple concepts. And when I talk about uh,
- 35:47Speaker 4: you know, I describe a play called Hank. All the
- 35:49Speaker 4: football coaches that that are driving around go yep, I know, Hank.
- 35:53Speaker 4: Hank's been around a long time. I mean, that's that's
- 35:55Speaker 4: a kind of a staple for Milrow both at Alabama.
- 35:58Speaker 4: Here just these mirrored routes. It's just a curl flat
- 36:02Speaker 4: the guy sitting over the middle and pick a side.
- 36:05Speaker 4: You know, this is pretty pretty generic reads. And if
- 36:09Speaker 4: he's turning down stuff and not playing with anticipation there,
- 36:12Speaker 4: if I'm Mike McDonald. I'm like, Okay, well, what package
- 36:15Speaker 4: can we trust him with? Because if he can't, we
- 36:17Speaker 4: can't throw him on hank, uh you know, then then
- 36:21Speaker 4: then he we might as well just run the wildcat.
- 36:23Speaker 4: We might as well just put a running back in
- 36:25Speaker 4: that shotgun, and just if we're going to run the quarterback,
- 36:28Speaker 4: we might as well just you know, run somebody else.
- 36:31Speaker 4: So and I think that there there will be a package,
- 36:34Speaker 4: But I think Milroe's got to step up and declare
- 36:38Speaker 4: what that's gonna be.
- 36:38Speaker 2: Is it safe to say that if you were on
- 36:40Speaker 2: one side of a door and on the other side
- 36:42Speaker 2: of the door was the quarterback whose traits were opposite
- 36:46Speaker 2: of yours, that Jaln Milroe would be standing on the
- 36:49Speaker 2: other side of the door.
- 36:55Speaker 4: Well, listen, I had my own struggles in just in
- 37:00Speaker 4: every phase of quarterback. So but but I was I
- 37:04Speaker 4: was never miss on a third and six, you know,
- 37:08Speaker 4: I was never mistaken on a quarterback draw for Jayalen Mirroe.
- 37:11Speaker 3: That that's what you're driving at.
- 37:16Speaker 2: There are no design runs that don jameson into the huddle.
- 37:20Speaker 4: Or uh just you know, the option on the goal line. Okay,
- 37:24Speaker 4: that was it. The option on the goal line. Yeah,
- 37:26Speaker 4: but you mastered it. Well, I don't. I don't know
- 37:30Speaker 4: that you ever master that. If you run down the
- 37:32Speaker 4: line and and and just find a hole and try
- 37:35Speaker 4: and fall into the end zone from from six inches away.
- 37:38Speaker 4: That was about all I was trusted with. Yeah, I was.
- 37:41Speaker 3: I was. If your six is from the goal line,
- 37:43Speaker 3: I might be your man.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Hugh Millin is with us Monday morning quarterback session. We'll
- 37:50Speaker 2: get right back into some of the other big topics
- 37:53Speaker 2: Bud Clark, Jake Bobo and others in our final segment together,
- 37:57Speaker 2: and then we of course might stray into a few
- 38:01Speaker 2: few million classics will follow up, So we'll do that
- 38:05Speaker 2: in our next segment. Our final segment together here on
- 38:07Speaker 2: a Monday Next Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
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