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- 1:39Speaker 2: Bowl sixty, which is now just a scant nine sleeps away.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Welcome into the radio program. It is Chuck Powell, it
- 1:46Speaker 2: is former mayriner Bucky Jacobson, it is Ashley Ryan with
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- 2:15Speaker 2: I do want to mention a couple of quick things
- 2:17Speaker 2: before we get started here. Number one, as you know,
- 2:20Speaker 2: I had four hundred and ninety six New Years resolutions, yes, sir.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Number three hundred and ninety one was to not complain,
- 2:28Speaker 2: particularly on the airwaves about bad drivers on the way. Yeah,
- 2:32Speaker 2: so I'm not going to violate that today. I am
- 2:35Speaker 2: going to say something that is going to be very
- 2:36Speaker 2: unexpected to you. I did not run into one a
- 2:39Speaker 2: hole driver on an entire drive.
- 2:42Speaker 3: You know.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Impossible?
- 2:43Speaker 4: That is?
- 2:45Speaker 2: It is possibly like I split an at him.
- 2:47Speaker 4: Did you fall asleep because you had to have passed?
- 2:50Speaker 2: Maybe I was the a hole and I just you know,
- 2:53Speaker 2: if you don't can't recognize the a hole on the
- 2:55Speaker 2: road too, Maybe that's what it was. An A hole
- 2:58Speaker 2: driver at the grocery store yesterday and lost my You
- 3:00Speaker 2: know what on them. Well, I was yesterday today, it
- 3:03Speaker 2: was completely today. It was a Friday. Everyone's a good driver.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I ran into two bad drivers that were scared. I
- 3:12Speaker 2: have a little more patience for them. Yeah, and so
- 3:16Speaker 2: I had to suffer them on the you know, go
- 3:19Speaker 2: five lanes over from you know, the to get to
- 3:23Speaker 2: where I needed to go part of the mission. And
- 3:27Speaker 2: so that's always interesting every morning to do that, huh.
- 3:31Speaker 2: And so there were a couple scaredy cats that didn't
- 3:34Speaker 2: make life a little annoying. But I don't think I
- 3:37Speaker 2: dropped one f bomb. Wow on a thirty mile drive.
- 3:41Speaker 2: I think that's a new record for me. Well, yeah,
- 3:44Speaker 2: zero is going to tie the best record for sure. Good.
- 3:46Speaker 2: I'm good for you. I don't think I've ever done
- 3:49Speaker 2: not since sixteen that's number one. Yeah, I think it's
- 3:52Speaker 2: the first zero. Well, congratulating to be celebrated.
- 3:57Speaker 5: Well, i'll tell you what your weekend is looking up
- 3:59Speaker 5: right now? Shirt started off like that kind of felt
- 4:02Speaker 5: that way.
- 4:02Speaker 6: I have a feeling it was a reward for you
- 4:04Speaker 6: doing so well on your New Year's resolutions.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it is, just really paying them off. Yeah,
- 4:09Speaker 2: but there was a moment I'm getting ready to enter
- 4:12Speaker 2: the second bridge on the ninety, you know, on our
- 4:14Speaker 2: way in here, and I'm like, what an easy drive
- 4:18Speaker 2: I've had. I don't think i've been angry once. Then
- 4:21Speaker 2: were you worried you jinxed it? And then I was
- 4:23Speaker 2: worried I jinxed it because I literally said it out loud,
- 4:26Speaker 2: oh yeah, by myself in my car, and I'm like, oh, well,
- 4:29Speaker 2: that's a total jinx. The rest of my drive is
- 4:32Speaker 2: going to be a disaster. And yet I only had
- 4:35Speaker 2: like the two you know, scaredy cats and we kind
- 4:38Speaker 2: of got rid of them pretty quickly. Yeah, just zoom
- 4:41Speaker 2: on by Yeah, and then after that, smooth sailing again.
- 4:45Speaker 2: So I don't know what I did do to receive
- 4:49Speaker 2: that gift. You're just traffic gods. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah,
- 4:53Speaker 2: been living right, and I've bet big heart, and.
- 4:55Speaker 6: I bet you know, traffic gods are Seahawks fans, and
- 4:58Speaker 6: they know that you've been a really great Seahawks.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it is.
- 5:01Speaker 6: Yeah, trying to make the date a little bit brighter
- 5:04Speaker 6: for you.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Traffic gods are like, man, I've really enjoyed you. I
- 5:07Speaker 2: don't listen to sports a lot yea, as traffic gods.
- 5:10Speaker 2: I feel like I have to share it. But this
- 5:12Speaker 2: week Super Bowl, I've been really locked in. Yeah, boy,
- 5:15Speaker 2: you are doing a heck of a job to reward
- 5:17Speaker 2: you rich.
- 5:19Speaker 5: Be really pumped if you have somehow got the traffic
- 5:23Speaker 5: gods to listen to us.
- 5:24Speaker 2: We are number one. He showed me the numbers. We
- 5:27Speaker 2: are number one with traffic gods between the ages of
- 5:30Speaker 2: thirty five, hundred and forty five. Oh my gosh, that
- 5:32Speaker 2: is a large gap.
- 5:33Speaker 4: It's a tough demographic.
- 5:34Speaker 2: We've never been number one in that category. Benders owned
- 5:39Speaker 2: that category for years. And ye's for that.
- 5:42Speaker 6: Number one with everybody else Jody and Bender of course,
- 5:45Speaker 6: but right with all the other traffic gods.
- 5:48Speaker 2: I'm going to span an ageless gap. I'm so glad
- 5:51Speaker 2: we finally took those a holes down. Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 5:56Speaker 4: They get too big for their bridge.
- 6:00Speaker 2: All the time being like good morning, yeah yeah. Yeah.
- 6:07Speaker 2: So you're successful in stuff because you drive in every
- 6:09Speaker 2: day with joy in your heart. Drivers, I probably get like,
- 6:15Speaker 2: please escort probably helicopters. That's Bender for you. The other thing,
- 6:20Speaker 2: and I would just mention this very quickly. So I
- 6:23Speaker 2: went to get my car and then in the garage
- 6:27Speaker 2: next to the car and I share, It's not like
- 6:30Speaker 2: I have my own garage, there was a sword leaning
- 6:34Speaker 2: up against the wall. There's a sword. Now, I don't
- 6:37Speaker 2: know if it was a toy, so it looked real.
- 6:39Speaker 2: I'm sure it wasn't sharp around. No. I mean I
- 6:43Speaker 2: was a little late, and I knew I had to
- 6:44Speaker 2: get gas and put it in the trunk, and I
- 6:46Speaker 2: was sure that I was gonna have to run into
- 6:49Speaker 2: my average thirty nine A hole drivers on my way
- 6:52Speaker 2: in uh and I ended up that was one where
- 6:54Speaker 2: I didn't need to have could have played with the sword. Well,
- 6:57Speaker 2: so here's the sword and I but I'm been away,
- 7:00Speaker 2: and I'm like, should I have grabbed that for like
- 7:03Speaker 2: public safety to keep somebody else the wrong person coming
- 7:08Speaker 2: by to grab that. I mean, I don't want to
- 7:10Speaker 2: look like as that's like a thief, like I'm stealing
- 7:13Speaker 2: it from someone. But I just don't think people should
- 7:15Speaker 2: leave their swords out in public. I'm pretty sure it's
- 7:18Speaker 2: frowned upon. Actually you're supposed to keep it polstered.
- 7:21Speaker 5: Well, it could you could have grabbed it and then
- 7:23Speaker 5: your fingerprints. It could be a murder. Murder weapon you
- 7:27Speaker 5: would have just put in the back of your trunk.
- 7:29Speaker 6: Yeah, so for public safety, yeah you probably should have.
- 7:31Speaker 6: But you know what, if the traffic gods really love you,
- 7:33Speaker 6: that sword will still be there when you get back,
- 7:35Speaker 6: and then you can do the right thing between it into.
- 7:37Speaker 2: The kill motorists. Oh, we're not supposed to say that loud, right,
- 7:42Speaker 2: Oh okay, No, I was just supposed to wink about it.
- 7:46Speaker 2: I just thought that that's just seemed like the obvious solution. No,
- 7:49Speaker 2: it does. But yeah, so I don't know. I don't
- 7:51Speaker 2: know what do you do when you run across an
- 7:53Speaker 2: unattended sword in the year twenty twenty six? Is there
- 7:57Speaker 2: a law on that?
- 7:59Speaker 5: At a minimum, I pick it up and I swing
- 8:01Speaker 5: it around, you know, feel the weight of it, feel
- 8:03Speaker 5: if it's balanced or not, and then uh, probably look
- 8:06Speaker 5: around and you have put it in my trunk because
- 8:08Speaker 5: I mean, you can never have too many swords, and
- 8:11Speaker 5: if you leave it out it's a finder's keeper. Then yeah,
- 8:13Speaker 5: of course, I mean I only own one sword. It's
- 8:16Speaker 5: actually my wife.
- 8:17Speaker 2: I could have just been in the backyard with a sword.
- 8:20Speaker 2: It was more of a like a medieval looking thing.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It was that kind of looking sword and I'm sure
- 8:26Speaker 2: I don't know if it was sharp. It may have
- 8:28Speaker 2: been a toy. But if it was a toy, I
- 8:30Speaker 2: mean Bear would have just like, oh.
- 8:31Speaker 4: My godh yeah, he loves the greatest toy.
- 8:34Speaker 5: Basically, he turns everything that is longer than his arm
- 8:37Speaker 5: into a sword. So a real sword he would like.
- 8:42Speaker 3: Cool.
- 8:42Speaker 4: Yeah, So if it's still there, yeah, I get it.
- 8:44Speaker 4: Bear would love it.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Uh, mom, are you using the broom right now? I
- 8:49Speaker 2: would like to take ex Brumber out into the yard
- 8:52Speaker 2: and slay some drag.
- 8:54Speaker 5: But the first time the broom has been turned into
- 8:55Speaker 5: a sword. Matter of fact, he does push ups because
- 8:58Speaker 5: his mom is sick of him swinging things in the
- 9:00Speaker 5: house like swords.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Oh well, he would have. If he would have, I
- 9:04Speaker 2: wouldn't even known what to do, because I mean, you
- 9:07Speaker 2: just can't leave your sword hanging around that much, unsheathed
- 9:11Speaker 2: or didn't have a sheath, No, just sitting there leaning
- 9:14Speaker 2: up against the tip was down on the concrete, and
- 9:18Speaker 2: then the hilt was lean up against the wall, and
- 9:21Speaker 2: it was just sitting there to be taken and used
- 9:25Speaker 2: by any former lord. Yeah. Yeah, night.
- 9:30Speaker 5: Maybe the Highlander lives in your building.
- 9:34Speaker 4: I know that for sure.
- 9:35Speaker 2: It was. I think, I think I know that one
- 9:37Speaker 2: for sure. That we had Highlander night last Wednesday. He
- 9:43Speaker 2: was really shy dunke an egg from the new in
- 9:47Speaker 2: your building. That's what it was. Just probably a hedge night.
- 9:49Speaker 2: It was probably what it was.
- 9:51Speaker 6: So, I mean, you can't take them too seriously because
- 9:53Speaker 6: no one else does apparently.
- 9:54Speaker 2: But a hedge night, even they have honor. You don't
- 9:56Speaker 2: leave your sword in a garage attended, you know you
- 9:58Speaker 2: should do. If it's there when you get back, kick
- 10:00Speaker 2: it over and see if it makes.
- 10:01Speaker 6: A loud clanging noise or a quiet cleaning noise, then
- 10:03Speaker 6: you'll know if it's real or fake.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Realer toy. Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know
- 10:08Speaker 2: what to do with it. I didn't know what to
- 10:09Speaker 2: do with it. I don't know what kind of laws
- 10:11Speaker 2: we have in this country. It just seemed inappropriate just
- 10:14Speaker 2: say that it's unusual. I would say that very bad night.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Curious if any of our listeners no sword laws, if
- 10:20Speaker 2: they want to help us out there they have no
- 10:21Speaker 2: sword law. Maybe pender gas Law knows. Maybe pender gas
- 10:25Speaker 2: Law can help me out. Oh that's right, they probably can.
- 10:27Speaker 7: Yep.
- 10:28Speaker 2: All right, Well it's a super Bowl sixty time. And yes,
- 10:34Speaker 2: we have done this series called a Series of Unfortunate
- 10:37Speaker 2: super Bowl Conversations, and it comes to an end today.
- 10:40Speaker 2: This is the last one. It's a four series part series,
- 10:44Speaker 2: all right, and so today is the final one because
- 10:47Speaker 2: we don't want to talk about unfortunate topics when we're
- 10:50Speaker 2: at the super Bowl next week. So I want to
- 10:54Speaker 2: start with it today. It just feels like the best
- 10:56Speaker 2: place to put this. And another reason why is because
- 10:59Speaker 2: I had to listen to a conversation this morning on
- 11:03Speaker 2: the drive in that is right in this area, right,
- 11:07Speaker 2: I mean, it just feeds right into this topic. And
- 11:11Speaker 2: so what I wanted to bring up was that I'm
- 11:14Speaker 2: sure we're going to start hearing the man the super
- 11:18Speaker 2: Bowl really doesn't do anything for me. Oh.
- 11:21Speaker 6: I was thinking about this on the way in because
- 11:23Speaker 6: I saw something like, Okay, yeah.
- 11:24Speaker 2: This conversation, like I don't know then just doesn't interest me.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Seahawk's Patriots, And so we're going to hear this and
- 11:39Speaker 2: and it's bs is what it is. You've got a
- 11:43Speaker 2: one seed and a two seed making it to the
- 11:46Speaker 2: super Bowl for goodness sake, and I just can't stand
- 11:49Speaker 2: that sentiment of I've heard of Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, yeah,
- 11:56Speaker 2: I didn't even hear this. Drake may Garden, Till bush Yer.
- 12:00Speaker 2: I just hate that sentiment. It's like, no, you don't want,
- 12:04Speaker 2: you don't want to, you don't want a good Super Bowl.
- 12:07Speaker 2: You just want people who've once upon a time, you know,
- 12:12Speaker 2: been the faces of insurance ads. That's that's because those
- 12:16Speaker 2: are the only people you know. And if it's from
- 12:19Speaker 2: a fan from Omaha, Nebraska, and you know they spend
- 12:23Speaker 2: their Sundays at church and helping you know, grandma get
- 12:27Speaker 2: around the house, and they've not heard of some of
- 12:30Speaker 2: the Seahawks players or some of the Patriots players or
- 12:34Speaker 2: whatever they can. Okay, I'll give that a pass, but
- 12:36Speaker 2: we're gonna hear it from national media members like I
- 12:40Speaker 2: did this morning. Where's the star power? Where's the star
- 12:44Speaker 2: power in this game? Will? I don't know. One of
- 12:47Speaker 2: the teams had six Pro Bowlers, And I'm not talking
- 12:50Speaker 2: about Shidwear Sanders Pro Bowlers. I'm talking about guys that
- 12:54Speaker 2: actually got in on the very first ballot. Uh and
- 12:58Speaker 2: the New England Patriots have the run. He's going to
- 13:00Speaker 2: be the runner up for MVP. That's the second highest
- 13:04Speaker 2: vote totals. Since this doult doesn't understand sports, that's the
- 13:09Speaker 2: second highest vote total in the entire National Football League.
- 13:12Speaker 2: They also have arguably the best cornerback in the National
- 13:16Speaker 2: Football League and Christian Gonzales. If you haven't heard of
- 13:19Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon, Nick Eman Worri, Leonard Williams, JSN, Jackson Smith
- 13:25Speaker 2: and jab number one offensive guy. If you haven't heard
- 13:28Speaker 2: of these people, bottom line, let me bottom line something
- 13:32Speaker 2: for you. If you haven't heard of any of these
- 13:35Speaker 2: people and you are a national sports host slash figure,
- 13:40Speaker 2: you are terrible at your job. Yeah, I mean awful,
- 13:46Speaker 2: Like get another profession. If you've not heard of Drake
- 13:52Speaker 2: may or Christian Gonzales, And you know, maybe you got
- 13:55Speaker 2: to stretch a little bit to recognize the importance of
- 13:58Speaker 2: Milton Williams and Christian bar More. And maybe you gotta
- 14:03Speaker 2: stretch a little bit to just kind of see the
- 14:07Speaker 2: value in Charles Cross and Gray Zabel since their offensive
- 14:11Speaker 2: linemen and aren't recognized as household names. But there's plenty
- 14:15Speaker 2: of star power. And it's a one seed versus a
- 14:18Speaker 2: two seed, and these are two great brands in the
- 14:21Speaker 2: National Football League. Did the Patriots sneak up on you. Yeah,
- 14:26Speaker 2: I mean, I know they've been living in obscurity for
- 14:29Speaker 2: the last quarter century. I didn't know they were yehere
- 14:31Speaker 2: are they from the New England area where Boston. So,
- 14:39Speaker 2: I mean, we're going to hear this and it's unfortunate.
- 14:42Speaker 2: That's why we're bringing it up, that we're gonna have
- 14:45Speaker 2: to deal with this. But I just want everybody listening
- 14:48Speaker 2: to rest assured that this is a fantastic Super Bowl
- 14:52Speaker 2: matchup with two teams that have absolutely earned their way there.
- 14:57Speaker 2: And I think that the best team in the National
- 15:01Speaker 2: Football League this season, the Seattle Seahawks, is going to
- 15:04Speaker 2: end up winning the Super Bowl. And that's how I
- 15:07Speaker 2: want a sports season that I've dedicated my time and
- 15:11Speaker 2: interest in as a talk show host who's actually proud
- 15:15Speaker 2: to actually know what the f he's talking about. That's
- 15:18Speaker 2: what I want the season to end with. I want
- 15:21Speaker 2: to believe in the champion at the end of the year.
- 15:24Speaker 2: I just don't need people who've you know, been on
- 15:27Speaker 2: the view before. I mean, if that's what you need,
- 15:30Speaker 2: star power wise in order to appreciate the Super Bowl matchup.
- 15:35Speaker 2: So there's my statement for the day. Yeah, Well, I
- 15:38Speaker 2: don't even understand. Mean, there's there's times I suppose that
- 15:41Speaker 2: certain Super Bowls feel less appealing, and yet it still
- 15:45Speaker 2: is the Super Bowl to me. I just there's that
- 15:48Speaker 2: I don't get.
- 15:49Speaker 5: I don't really ever let my own thoughts about which
- 15:53Speaker 5: teams I like or dislike, or if it's one that
- 15:55Speaker 5: I follow, or if it's one that has a star
- 15:58Speaker 5: power you know. I mean you think of the Brain,
- 16:00Speaker 5: the Seahawks, you know, the Patriots.
- 16:03Speaker 4: You know, those are two big brands, like you're talking about.
- 16:05Speaker 5: If it was you know, if the Cleveland Browns are
- 16:08Speaker 5: in it, then yeah, maybe not as appealing per se,
- 16:11Speaker 5: but then there's the appeal of a team that never makes.
- 16:14Speaker 2: It that would be phenomenal.
- 16:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 16:15Speaker 5: So to me, there's always and a group of guys
- 16:19Speaker 5: on both sides that are playing the Browns.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:23Speaker 5: Actually, well, then wouldn't be able to be in the
- 16:27Speaker 5: Pro Bowl. You probably choose to ninth alternate in the
- 16:31Speaker 5: Pro Bowl over playing in the Super Bowl. That's not true,
- 16:34Speaker 5: but I mean I think that there's just then there's
- 16:37Speaker 5: always a storyline and ultimately, to me, it's you come
- 16:39Speaker 5: down to a championship game in any sport, and I
- 16:43Speaker 5: think about it through Wow, the dreams that are coming
- 16:46Speaker 5: true for the individuals that are out there on the field, right.
- 16:49Speaker 5: I mean, it's that's way bigger than our fandom. I mean,
- 16:53Speaker 5: it just is. There's there's something about being able to
- 16:56Speaker 5: hoist that trophy and get that Super Bowl ring, and
- 16:58Speaker 5: you basically are kind often into the history books forever
- 17:01Speaker 5: as one that won the Super Bowl. And so to me,
- 17:04Speaker 5: I don't care which teams are there. I don't care
- 17:07Speaker 5: if you got there in some sort of flukyway or
- 17:10Speaker 5: if there's debate about are you the most deserving team?
- 17:13Speaker 2: I think that these.
- 17:14Speaker 5: Teams both did earn their way there through the playoffs
- 17:17Speaker 5: and the way that they got there. Both of them
- 17:19Speaker 5: earned their way to get into the playoffs, even if
- 17:21Speaker 5: you want to discount the strength of schedule for one
- 17:25Speaker 5: team or the other.
- 17:26Speaker 2: They're going to go out there and throw it all
- 17:28Speaker 2: out on the field and see who wins.
- 17:30Speaker 5: To me, as long as it's a legitimate championship game,
- 17:33Speaker 5: not something on some shortened season or some technicality. If
- 17:37Speaker 5: there was some oh well, we found out that the
- 17:41Speaker 5: Rams they spent fifteen dollars over the salary cap, and
- 17:44Speaker 5: so even though they beat the Seahawks, they don't get
- 17:47Speaker 5: to go play some stupid thing that would be silly.
- 17:49Speaker 5: And yet this is both teams earned it. I don't
- 17:51Speaker 5: understand how people wouldn't.
- 17:53Speaker 2: I mean, there's a better match up out there. I
- 17:54Speaker 2: would like to I think Seahawks Bills is more appealing
- 17:58Speaker 2: to have Josh Allen there, and they never won the
- 18:00Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I mean that would be a big There's
- 18:02Speaker 2: a better matchup. And believe me, I'm not believed in
- 18:05Speaker 2: the New England Patriots all season long. I mean we
- 18:07Speaker 2: did a draft and they were the fourth round pick
- 18:10Speaker 2: for our Super Bowl picks, fourth round, like the fifteenth overall.
- 18:13Speaker 2: So I don't think any of us truly believed in
- 18:15Speaker 2: the Patriots all year long. But Ashley, I mean a
- 18:18Speaker 2: one seed versus a two seed. I mean, I mean,
- 18:20Speaker 2: I don't know how you can knock it for not
- 18:22Speaker 2: being interesting. No, And that's what I don't understand either.
- 18:26Speaker 6: And I saw somebody post on Sunday an anotional guy
- 18:29Speaker 6: right away, worst super Bowl ever, and I was like, Okay,
- 18:32Speaker 6: first of all, we're super Bowl ever would probably be
- 18:34Speaker 6: like Tampa Bay versus Miami, Like that would be a
- 18:36Speaker 6: terrible super Bowl.
- 18:37Speaker 2: Nobody outside of Florida would care.
- 18:39Speaker 6: But I just think, like one, you're just clearly doing
- 18:43Speaker 6: it for attention or I don't know, or just you're uneducated.
- 18:47Speaker 2: I don't uneducated, That's what it's uneducated. Like I don't
- 18:51Speaker 2: do my homework as a person that has this job
- 18:54Speaker 2: and as the responsibility of this job, I don't know
- 18:57Speaker 2: enough of the players, and so I don't find it
- 18:59Speaker 2: as interest like I need guys that I've heard of,
- 19:02Speaker 2: the obvious guys that are in commercials and are in
- 19:05Speaker 2: movies and stuff. That's ridiculous. So you want to say,
- 19:07Speaker 2: what the Chiefs again, Yeah, and then you would complain
- 19:10Speaker 2: I've got Chiefs boys, Yeah exactly.
- 19:12Speaker 6: I mean, and you and look at just the amount
- 19:15Speaker 6: of things that are so interesting in this game. You've
- 19:17Speaker 6: got two younger head coaches that are just both phenomenal
- 19:21Speaker 6: and what they're doing so early in their careers.
- 19:24Speaker 2: Sure, that's so fun. Yeah, I mean it's a great matchup.
- 19:28Speaker 2: I mean it's a great matchup. Now, do I think
- 19:29Speaker 2: there could have been a better AFC team in They're sure,
- 19:33Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that this is some lackluster Super
- 19:36Speaker 2: Bowl matchup, And there have been some over the years.
- 19:39Speaker 2: But we still watch. We still watch. But yeah, I
- 19:42Speaker 2: think that that's I'm not saying that that conversation's off
- 19:45Speaker 2: the table if you end up. But the NFL's gone
- 19:48Speaker 2: a long way to making sure that no seven seed
- 19:52Speaker 2: with a sub five hundred record ever gets to the
- 19:54Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Again, look at all the inherent advantages the
- 19:58Speaker 2: Seahawks were given when they got the number one seed.
- 20:01Speaker 2: They want to make sure that two of the best
- 20:04Speaker 2: teams in the National Football League are there so that
- 20:06Speaker 2: we can avoid this conversation during Super Bowl weeks. And
- 20:11Speaker 2: this is a one seed versus a two seed, an
- 20:14Speaker 2: MVP candidate versus the number one defense in the National
- 20:18Speaker 2: Football League. I mean, I don't know what more you want?
- 20:21Speaker 2: What more do you want other than you just want
- 20:25Speaker 2: to complain about every stinking thing out there. All right,
- 20:28Speaker 2: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
- 20:30Speaker 2: the show. What's on tip? What's on tip? Now, both
- 20:36Speaker 2: the quarterbacks are hurt, Then we got another story. Both
- 20:39Speaker 2: Sam Darnold and Drake May landed on the injury report
- 20:43Speaker 2: this week. Sam we know with the obleak, even though
- 20:46Speaker 2: he's played two games with it and hasn't looked affected
- 20:48Speaker 2: at all. Drake May popped up on the injury report
- 20:51Speaker 2: with a shoulder injury. That one came a little bit
- 20:54Speaker 2: more out of left field, so certainly something some things
- 20:59Speaker 2: to monitor here over the next nine days. Greg Bell
- 21:02Speaker 2: is going to be joining us today. You'll give us
- 21:04Speaker 2: the latest at seven o five our Seahawks insider. Seahawks
- 21:08Speaker 2: going all blue by the way for the Super Bowl
- 21:11Speaker 2: with the available matches, this is my favorite. I wish
- 21:17Speaker 2: that they could wear the throwbacks. I wish the Patriots
- 21:21Speaker 2: could wear their throwbacks. That would be the all time
- 21:24Speaker 2: Super Bowl clothing matchup we've ever seen. But they don't
- 21:29Speaker 2: allow it. I know, and I wish they did. Yeah,
- 21:30Speaker 2: it's just I don't know why you would think that
- 21:33Speaker 2: they would not worry about which uniform you're wearing in
- 21:36Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and worry more about a stupid Hall
- 21:39Speaker 2: of Fame voting process. But nope, we're going to go
- 21:42Speaker 2: ahead and make sure that you can only wear these
- 21:46Speaker 2: clothes to the Super Bowl. College Basketball Illinois Dispatch to
- 21:51Speaker 2: U Doublast. Now you hung in. It was kind of
- 21:53Speaker 2: a strange game, like they hung in the entire game,
- 21:56Speaker 2: but you never really felt like they were going to
- 21:58Speaker 2: win at any moments. But seventy five sixty six the
- 22:02Speaker 2: final score. U Dubs off to a rough start in
- 22:05Speaker 2: conference play, but in their defense, they have faced a
- 22:09Speaker 2: murderous schedule, including Illinois last night. They're playing as well
- 22:13Speaker 2: as anyone in the country. So seventy five to sixty
- 22:16Speaker 2: six the final there Dog's at Northwestern tomorrow at five
- 22:20Speaker 2: o'clock and the Kraken win again. They've won four out
- 22:23Speaker 2: of five, five to two over the Toronto maple Leiefs
- 22:26Speaker 2: last night. Shane Wright had two goals. That new number
- 22:30Speaker 2: one line had two goals again last night, and Las
- 22:34Speaker 2: Vegas is the matchup tomorrow at seven o'clock. So they're
- 22:38Speaker 2: on the road for the final three games before the
- 22:40Speaker 2: Olympic break, and of course they are going to probably
- 22:45Speaker 2: win them all because this is how Laine Lambert coaches.
- 22:48Speaker 2: You win ten in a row and then you lose
- 22:50Speaker 2: ten in a row. Just to keep everybody on us.
- 22:52Speaker 2: It's a roller coaster. That's I'm not loving. Come on now,
- 22:57Speaker 2: just just raise your hands and screen you know. That's
- 23:00Speaker 2: how you're enjoy it doing that. That's how you enjoy
- 23:02Speaker 2: a roller coaster. All right? Coming up next, in case
- 23:05Speaker 2: you missed it, something from Matt hasselback Wednesday. Great stuff
- 23:10Speaker 2: from him. He's been a regular guest throughout the postseason
- 23:13Speaker 2: Wednesdays at eight and we always replay a little bit
- 23:15Speaker 2: of it before the week comes to a close. And
- 23:17Speaker 2: that's coming your way next on kJ R gets Road
- 23:22Speaker 2: to center into the offense event.
- 23:32Speaker 8: Where did Montour full Monty from.
- 23:36Speaker 2: The right side five whole.
- 23:38Speaker 8: Onstollars had the trucket hoop by a pair three on
- 23:43Speaker 8: thirteen oh six left at the second.
- 23:48Speaker 2: I watched a lot of that game. Was Montour naked? Yeah?
- 23:51Speaker 2: Did you not see that part? Wouldn't lie? Said full
- 23:54Speaker 2: Monty whole Monty?
- 23:56Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that means I didn't see it,
- 23:58Speaker 5: but I'm pretty sure it means he was naked.
- 23:59Speaker 2: That sounds terrible.
- 24:01Speaker 6: It's a different way to play hockey, not one that's
- 24:03Speaker 6: as comfortable stick.
- 24:05Speaker 2: I know he's you know, he's got some Native American
- 24:08Speaker 2: in him, but that just seems way too brave. Yeah,
- 24:13Speaker 2: tougher than your average bear. Yeah, sure, wouldn't recommend it. Yeah,
- 24:17Speaker 2: that's your make delivery of the game. Last night's top
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- 24:34Speaker 2: The great Effort fits you on the call last night
- 24:36Speaker 2: with Al Kaniski right here all the flagship sports Radio
- 24:40Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ R FM, the crack and
- 24:43Speaker 2: do it again. They've now won four of their last five.
- 24:46Speaker 2: I mean, there's just no getting around this anymore when
- 24:48Speaker 2: it comes to evaluating our local hockey team. I think
- 24:51Speaker 2: they're doing it on purpose. They're winning ten in a
- 24:54Speaker 2: row and then losing ten in a row. I think
- 24:56Speaker 2: they are too. It's tiring, yeah, not super consistent, but
- 25:01Speaker 2: they're fun to watch. More ultimate consistent. Like they're just
- 25:05Speaker 2: really good for a minute and then not good for
- 25:08Speaker 2: a minute.
- 25:08Speaker 5: Right, that's as consistently inconsistent.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Count on it as like as much as the sun rises.
- 25:13Speaker 2: They're gonna win nine out of ten and then lose
- 25:15Speaker 2: nine out I would rather.
- 25:17Speaker 5: Them figure out a way at some point to win
- 25:19Speaker 5: nine out of ten. I just want them to maybe
- 25:21Speaker 5: make the nine out of ten losses.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Less, yeah, I think.
- 25:25Speaker 6: Well, but also knowing now that that's how it's going,
- 25:27Speaker 6: I think maybe it'll be less stressful on me because
- 25:30Speaker 6: usually I'm like cheering for them to win when they
- 25:33Speaker 6: lose and I'm like, oh, now, we can't lose again.
- 25:35Speaker 6: But if I know, okay, no, we have to lose
- 25:38Speaker 6: ten in a row because we won ten in a row,
- 25:40Speaker 6: then I'll just like, okay, I just know what's coming.
- 25:43Speaker 2: But change it up. They should got the Olympic break
- 25:46Speaker 2: coming up, Maybe maybe get together and just decide to
- 25:49Speaker 2: do it a little differently in the second Yeah, win
- 25:52Speaker 2: them all. Yeah, Crack and do win. Last night with
- 25:54Speaker 2: the Toronto Maple Leafs of five to two of the
- 25:56Speaker 2: final score, they won four of their last five. They
- 25:59Speaker 2: found a magic number one line with McCann, Eberly and Beniers,
- 26:03Speaker 2: which kind of would have been my thought from the
- 26:05Speaker 2: beginning of the year to put those three together. I
- 26:07Speaker 2: don't know. I guess I don't know hockey all that well,
- 26:10Speaker 2: but it seems a little weird that we just now
- 26:12Speaker 2: figured that out. Also, Shane Wright scored two goals last
- 26:15Speaker 2: night as well. Cracking will next play tomorrow at Las
- 26:19Speaker 2: Vegas against the Golden Knights. They play three on the
- 26:22Speaker 2: road to close out the first half, if you will,
- 26:24Speaker 2: of the season before the Olympic break takes them away
- 26:27Speaker 2: from us for three whole weeks. Elsewhere with your frost
- 26:31Speaker 2: brewed corpse like choose chill headlines college basketball. Last night,
- 26:35Speaker 2: you Dubb loses to Illinois. Very strange kind of game.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Illinois is a power man. They are really playing some
- 26:41Speaker 2: great basketball right now, and you Dub kept it close.
- 26:45Speaker 2: The Dogs kept it close, but never really felt like
- 26:47Speaker 2: a threat that they were going to win the game.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Illinois takes it seventy five to sixty six, and the
- 26:53Speaker 2: Huskies will face a far lesser opponent in Northwestern tomorrow
- 26:57Speaker 2: at five o'clock. And of course, nine sleeps away from
- 27:01Speaker 2: Super Bowl number sixty Seahawks versus Patriots, and we have
- 27:05Speaker 2: quarterback injury news to update. Let's talk to our Seahawks
- 27:09Speaker 2: insider Greg Bell seriously.
- 27:14Speaker 1: With the bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and
- 27:17Speaker 1: time for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell. Brought to
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- 27:34Speaker 1: Greg Bell with Chuck and Buck should.
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- 27:43Speaker 2: to three KJR dot com. For all of Greg Bell's
- 27:47Speaker 2: outstanding Seahawk information, you can go to the Newstribune dot
- 27:51Speaker 2: com and you can listen nearly every day at seven
- 27:54Speaker 2: oh five to hear him gab with us. Good morning, Greg,
- 27:57Speaker 2: Good morning, Happy Football Friday to you.
- 28:00Speaker 7: Yes, sort of for me, but yeah.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, well we've got quarterback injury news. I mean,
- 28:11Speaker 2: nothing new for us. Sam Darnold's been playing with an
- 28:13Speaker 2: oblique for a couple of weeks, but the Drake May's
- 28:16Speaker 2: shoulder injury popped up yesterday, I mean nine days shy
- 28:20Speaker 2: of the Super Bowl. Maybe it's no big deal, but man,
- 28:23Speaker 2: when both starting quarterbacks show up on the first injury
- 28:26Speaker 2: report of Super Bowl, the Super Bowl, you know, a
- 28:30Speaker 2: two week period, it's worth discussing. So what do you
- 28:34Speaker 2: know about these situations.
- 28:37Speaker 7: That they're both playing and there's nine games until the game,
- 28:41Speaker 7: nine days till the practice. Recover your bread, they will
- 28:45Speaker 7: both play mate was stiff arming a player in Denver
- 28:50Speaker 7: in the AFC Title game and appears that's when he
- 28:52Speaker 7: injured his shoulder. And this was the first practice for
- 28:56Speaker 7: the Patriots since the title game, just like the Seahawks,
- 29:00Speaker 7: on the same plan so far, no reason to have
- 29:03Speaker 7: him extensively throw during a bye week, so he was
- 29:07Speaker 7: limited in practice yesterday. He was out there at the
- 29:10Speaker 7: beginning and running around in things, But looks like he's
- 29:13Speaker 7: going to be for now, on the same plan he's
- 29:15Speaker 7: been on the last two weeks to preserve between the games.
- 29:18Speaker 7: So it's managing maintenance time. They'll both play.
- 29:23Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously they're going to be out there. I mean,
- 29:25Speaker 5: I don't think there's much concern about Sam Darnold. He
- 29:28Speaker 5: just doesn't want to reaggravate that getting ready for it.
- 29:31Speaker 5: But I am I am wondering is there any other news?
- 29:34Speaker 5: Are you hearing anything else about any other injuries around
- 29:36Speaker 5: for the Yawks?
- 29:39Speaker 7: Well, Drake Thomas was on the field. He had been
- 29:41Speaker 7: injured in the title game. He was on the field yesterday.
- 29:45Speaker 7: They had listed Ernest Jones with an issue and the
- 29:48Speaker 7: day before and there estimated practice, but he was out there.
- 29:52Speaker 7: Charles Cross was not at practice, but Floyd, I'm sure
- 29:57Speaker 7: they're resting. I'm not taking too much into Super Bowl
- 30:01Speaker 7: bye week injury reports. They're not practicing all that hard.
- 30:04Speaker 7: They're not pads. They just have a couple of days
- 30:07Speaker 7: and then they're going to go out into San Jose.
- 30:09Speaker 7: So even the Super Bowl week practices are glorified walk throughs.
- 30:15Speaker 7: They aren't exactly hammering each other in full pads during
- 30:18Speaker 7: those either. It's not the time of year for that.
- 30:21Speaker 7: So it is the time of year for guys to
- 30:23Speaker 7: take rests and breaks, and NFL injury report rules mean
- 30:28Speaker 7: that if you take days off, you have to be
- 30:30Speaker 7: listed as not participating. If you miss any one of
- 30:34Speaker 7: your normal reps, by definition, you have to be listed
- 30:37Speaker 7: as limited. When you start playing football in August and
- 30:40Speaker 7: you're in February, you're going to have guys that have
- 30:43Speaker 7: to take time off. That's the nature of the game.
- 30:46Speaker 2: Greg Melli is with us. Tis time for our Seahawks
- 30:49Speaker 2: insider to join us here on the program. Of course,
- 30:51Speaker 2: if you want to follow Greg on the act, you
- 30:53Speaker 2: can do so at g Bell Seattle. So on the
- 30:56Speaker 2: roundtable yesterday, a really great conversation about the the fourth
- 31:01Speaker 2: and four play the DeMarcus Lawrence went rogue play that
- 31:06Speaker 2: might have saved the NFC Conference Championship game. You had
- 31:09Speaker 2: said on the show that you were going to make
- 31:12Speaker 2: that a priority of yours in your reporting yesterday. What
- 31:16Speaker 2: did you find out from DeMarcus Lawrence?
- 31:19Speaker 7: Yeah, I did. The only purpose in the locker room
- 31:21Speaker 7: yesterday was for me to talk to him, and I
- 31:22Speaker 7: waited until he came in and talked to him, and
- 31:26Speaker 7: it was just myself and one or two others and
- 31:28Speaker 7: then everyone joined in. But he he said, yeah, I
- 31:34Speaker 7: saw the running back go out far quicker than running
- 31:38Speaker 7: back on a hot read normally would on that route.
- 31:40Speaker 7: And when he saw kyn Williams just take off, not chip,
- 31:46Speaker 7: not read whether there's a blitzer or not, and then
- 31:49Speaker 7: leave when he saw him go straight out past Julian Love,
- 31:53Speaker 7: who had been blitzing outside of Lawrence, Lawrence said, I
- 31:57Speaker 7: knew I had to get out there. I knew something
- 31:59Speaker 7: was different, that that's not a normal blitz read. And
- 32:03Speaker 7: in fact he read correctly that Sean mcvayh had schemed.
- 32:06Speaker 7: And I mentioned this yesterday. McVeigh had beaten McDonald on
- 32:10Speaker 7: scheme on that play. McDonald had a Julian Love blitz
- 32:15Speaker 7: off the outside edge as zero blitz with no safety
- 32:18Speaker 7: in the middle of the field, and McVeigh had the
- 32:21Speaker 7: perfect play call for it, his back going straight to
- 32:24Speaker 7: the left sideline where no one was, all the other
- 32:27Speaker 7: receivers for the rams going the other way, and Stafford's
- 32:32Speaker 7: first look when he took the snap was to Kien Williams,
- 32:34Speaker 7: and he couldn't believe. And DeMarcus Lawrence said that just
- 32:40Speaker 7: as she had talked about yesterday, Julian Love came in
- 32:44Speaker 7: too hot, he blits too fast, too soon, and over
- 32:47Speaker 7: committed to the blitz. Loves Loves responsibility is that if
- 32:51Speaker 7: he reads the back is coming out instead of trying
- 32:53Speaker 7: to block him, that he has to go cover the back. Well,
- 32:57Speaker 7: Love blitz so aggressively that Williams got and Williams was
- 33:01Speaker 7: two steps behind him already at the line of scrimmage,
- 33:04Speaker 7: and a defensive end, twelve year defensive end who has
- 33:07Speaker 7: been paid one hundred and forty three million dollars in
- 33:10Speaker 7: his career to sack quarterbacks, decided at that moment to
- 33:14Speaker 7: go be a defender. That to me is the most
- 33:17Speaker 7: interesting part of the story, which is what I asked
- 33:19Speaker 7: him about what about you that had been in this
- 33:22Speaker 7: league for twelve years and made all the money you've made,
- 33:25Speaker 7: whose job has been to go sack the quarterback? And
- 33:27Speaker 7: he was un encumbered to the court. No one was
- 33:30Speaker 7: going to block him. He could have had a free
- 33:32Speaker 7: rush in on Stafford as could Love what made him?
- 33:37Speaker 7: What instinctly made him go get that guy? And he said,
- 33:40Speaker 7: because I knew that wasn't a normal play. I knew
- 33:43Speaker 7: that they were going to throw a touchdown pass to
- 33:45Speaker 7: running down paraphrasing they knew they were he was going
- 33:48Speaker 7: to throw a touchdown pass over our heads to the
- 33:50Speaker 7: running back because no one was back there. Talk about
- 33:53Speaker 7: a team first play. He didn't even look in a statue.
- 33:57Speaker 7: You don't even know DeMarcus Lawns was on the field
- 33:58Speaker 7: on that play, no quarterback, he had no past defense,
- 34:01Speaker 7: no interception. Yet he won the game for them, And
- 34:06Speaker 7: Love said, so I gradually love and asked him about it,
- 34:11Speaker 7: and I said, moving up to Marcus Lawrence is playing
- 34:13Speaker 7: fourth or four and looked at me and said, he
- 34:16Speaker 7: saved my ass. So that it wasn't luck. It wasn't
- 34:22Speaker 7: a fortuitous bust that the Rams wanted to portray, even
- 34:26Speaker 7: Mike McDonald didn't know it was going on. Donald was
- 34:28Speaker 7: yelling where's the end? During the play? That was all
- 34:31Speaker 7: the Marcus Lawrence freelancing, he said, he called it law logic,
- 34:37Speaker 7: and that's the product of being in the league for
- 34:38Speaker 7: eleven years.
- 34:39Speaker 2: Law logic. I like that.
- 34:42Speaker 5: I've heard a few people say that Drake May's legs
- 34:46Speaker 5: are something that the Seahawks team needs to be worried about.
- 34:49Speaker 5: And obviously you can run, but is a mobile quarterback
- 34:54Speaker 5: or somebody scrambling? Is that a kryptonite of any sort
- 34:57Speaker 5: to this team?
- 34:59Speaker 7: Well, it has been a I'm lucky for this team
- 35:01Speaker 7: for a couple of years, especially this year too. The
- 35:03Speaker 7: extending play quarterback Baker Mayfield is the one who did
- 35:05Speaker 7: it most effectively. John Schnyder yesterday, Interestingly, the GM barely
- 35:10Speaker 7: talked to him. Was like a meteor strike that we
- 35:12Speaker 7: got to talk to him on the record yesterday and
- 35:15Speaker 7: he said that Drake may is a running back who
- 35:17Speaker 7: can also throw. And he didn't mean that the disparage
- 35:20Speaker 7: is throwing. He meant to say that he's a better
- 35:22Speaker 7: runner than Brock Purdy. He's a better runner than pretty
- 35:25Speaker 7: much everyone they faced this year and that he'll just
- 35:28Speaker 7: tuck it and run. And yesterday Drake May told the
- 35:32Speaker 7: reporters in New England that he has done that more
- 35:35Speaker 7: recently and he's made a concerted effort to just decisively
- 35:38Speaker 7: turn up field and run. So in that sense, he's
- 35:42Speaker 7: probably unique to everyone that they have faced this season,
- 35:46Speaker 7: and he's in that sense not as maybe not as quick,
- 35:49Speaker 7: but is in that sense, he's like Lamar Jackson was
- 35:51Speaker 7: a few years ago before the Ravens started saying, let's
- 35:54Speaker 7: make you a thrower. So that's a new different challenge
- 35:58Speaker 7: for the Seahawks in this game and definitely one that
- 36:01Speaker 7: they're going to be front the center of the game plan.
- 36:03Speaker 2: With Greg Bellis with us our Seahawks insider here on
- 36:07Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck in the Mornings, talking Seahawks nine days
- 36:10Speaker 2: away from the Super Bowl, Super Bowl number sixty in
- 36:13Speaker 2: Santa Clara, California, Seahawks versus the New England Patriots. You know,
- 36:18Speaker 2: it's been talking a lot. We always kind of mentioned
- 36:21Speaker 2: every once in a while. The Ken Walker playing for
- 36:24Speaker 2: the contract. Rieke Woolan has been a big topic of
- 36:27Speaker 2: conversation all week long, and he's on an expiring contract.
- 36:32Speaker 2: I'm curious since we've been talking about them so much.
- 36:35Speaker 2: How hell bent are the Seahawks on keeping those two
- 36:38Speaker 2: guys for next year.
- 36:41Speaker 7: I don't know about hell bent. The way that this
- 36:44Speaker 7: stuff works is they'll have a price, and Schneider and
- 36:48Speaker 7: his team will say, this is how much we value
- 36:50Speaker 7: this player at this position for this long of a contract,
- 36:54Speaker 7: and then that player has earned the right if he
- 36:56Speaker 7: wants to to no, I'll go with the free agency.
- 36:58Speaker 7: And I've mentioned and this a few times. This is
- 37:01Speaker 7: the contract in the situation that these players get up
- 37:04Speaker 7: at six am and do all the lifting and captain's
- 37:08Speaker 7: practices back in high school and college. Four. This second
- 37:10Speaker 7: contract is the generational wealth contract. And the closer that
- 37:15Speaker 7: a player and first time free agency gets the free agency,
- 37:17Speaker 7: the more likely he will go shop and test the market.
- 37:21Speaker 7: So the Seahawks have about three weeks maybe closer to
- 37:25Speaker 7: four after the Super bowlins before the free agency period begins.
- 37:30Speaker 7: The sooner in those two or three weeks they get
- 37:33Speaker 7: to offering Kenneth Walker and his new agents, and Rashid
- 37:38Speaker 7: Shaheed for that matter, who's also due for a new
- 37:40Speaker 7: contract as rookie. One they inherited from New Orleans is
- 37:43Speaker 7: expiring and Rik Roland's agents. The sooner they get to
- 37:46Speaker 7: them with offers, the more of a chance that they
- 37:49Speaker 7: will take it. The further into the four week window
- 37:52Speaker 7: they settle and haggle on and finally present the less
- 37:57Speaker 7: chance because then they'll be tempted to try the market.
- 38:00Speaker 7: I get the sense with Walker that his price has
- 38:02Speaker 7: gone up around the league because of his late season
- 38:05Speaker 7: in postseason performances. Maybe no one on the team has
- 38:09Speaker 7: made more money and put himself in a better position
- 38:11Speaker 7: for next year in the last couple of weeks than
- 38:13Speaker 7: has Kenneth Walker, and that means that the price is
- 38:17Speaker 7: going to go up to stay in Seattle. There will
- 38:20Speaker 7: be a ceiling to that price, and so that is
- 38:23Speaker 7: that's the rub. Where's that ceiling? You could say that
- 38:26Speaker 7: much the same for Greek Willing, especially compared to when
- 38:29Speaker 7: they were trying to potentially shop him in October, to
- 38:33Speaker 7: where he is now, his Seahawks price will also have
- 38:36Speaker 7: a ceiling. Now. Having said all this, the Seahawks have
- 38:39Speaker 7: sixty eight million dollars plus and what is estimated to
- 38:42Speaker 7: be the salary cap next year, which is the fourth
- 38:45Speaker 7: fifth best amount of space in the league. So they
- 38:49Speaker 7: can't afford, and it'll be how much of a priority
- 38:52Speaker 7: they make to bringing back their own guys. And in
- 38:54Speaker 7: the last few years that has been their number one priority.
- 38:59Speaker 7: They earn his jone last year in the offseason, and
- 39:02Speaker 7: a couple of years before that, their priority has been
- 39:04Speaker 7: let's bring back our guys first and spend our big
- 39:07Speaker 7: bucks and make our big free agent signing b re
- 39:10Speaker 7: signing our own before we go shopping. So they don't
- 39:14Speaker 7: have a quarterback to go pay this year because they've
- 39:16Speaker 7: already paid him, and signing Sam Darlin free agency last year,
- 39:20Speaker 7: that will set up so give them more buying power
- 39:24Speaker 7: than they had this time last year. So it'll be
- 39:27Speaker 7: interesting to see. There was a time that I thought
- 39:29Speaker 7: Kenneth Walker wasn't staying, neither Rousbek will one, and now
- 39:32Speaker 7: I'm starting to think that maybe trending more towards staying.
- 39:35Speaker 7: As long as they agree to the price that Seattle sets.
- 39:39Speaker 2: Gee, we.
- 39:43Speaker 5: Take Sam Darnold and probably JSN out of it, Who
- 39:46Speaker 5: would you say might be a guy that could this.
- 39:49Speaker 9: Team six and ten If you do that, wait, I know, honestly,
- 39:52Speaker 9: I want you to pick maybe like an unsung and
- 39:55Speaker 9: an off the radar MVP for the Seahawks that you
- 39:58Speaker 9: think might be able to jump up and just have
- 40:00Speaker 9: a gigantic game.
- 40:01Speaker 7: Bom aj Barner overlook, overlook the three MVP.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was about to mention.
- 40:12Speaker 7: Not only does he have six touchdown catches, he can
- 40:15Speaker 7: be a crucial factor on short yardage. I get the
- 40:19Speaker 7: sense that Kubiak and McDonald are going to expand their
- 40:22Speaker 7: use of the barnyard push push beyond just the strict
- 40:26Speaker 7: one yard And he's gotten so good at his think
- 40:29Speaker 7: it's ten out of eleven tries now, not to mention,
- 40:32Speaker 7: not that doesn't include about four or five times he's
- 40:35Speaker 7: caused guys to go off sides because of this hard count.
- 40:39Speaker 7: So he can he can extend drives which will lead
- 40:43Speaker 7: to points. If you're going forward on fourth and one
- 40:46Speaker 7: in the Super Bowl, you're probably not on your own
- 40:48Speaker 7: twenty yard line, right, You're near closer to midfield or
- 40:51Speaker 7: scoring position where a first down is going to lead
- 40:53Speaker 7: to points or at least the opportunity for points, at least.
- 40:55Speaker 2: A field goal.
- 40:56Speaker 7: So every time Barnard lines up and does that in
- 40:59Speaker 7: the Super well that's a potentially three, four to seven
- 41:02Speaker 7: point play. And the ability to catch the ball in
- 41:06Speaker 7: one on one against when safeties or linebackers try to
- 41:09Speaker 7: cover the strength of the Patriots defense and maybe the
- 41:13Speaker 7: team is their secondary Christian Gonzalez gets all the attention,
- 41:16Speaker 7: but there are a lot of dudes back there that
- 41:17Speaker 7: are really good, especially on the outside. Gonzales the Pro Bowl,
- 41:21Speaker 7: All Pro recognition guy. He usually stays outside and covers
- 41:25Speaker 7: outside receivers, and the Patriots are uniquely equipped at count
- 41:29Speaker 7: at covering outside receivers. That may leave AJ Barner inside
- 41:34Speaker 7: with tons of opportunities to make big plays.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I'm going to say this is a
- 41:40Speaker 2: really dramatic hot take. I know that we've tried to
- 41:43Speaker 2: avoid these when we can, but I'm going to say
- 41:46Speaker 2: that A. J. Barner has the greatest hard count of
- 41:49Speaker 2: any tight end in NFL history. Wow, how about that
- 41:53Speaker 2: is hot? Almost controversial. Yeah, try to pick that apart
- 42:00Speaker 2: stephen A. Smith.
- 42:01Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the Saints quarterback tight end guy, Taysom Hill?
- 42:06Speaker 4: Yeah, he would have something to say about that.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. I
- 42:10Speaker 2: can suck it, that's right, what Ashley said?
- 42:13Speaker 7: Uh, all right, Gretor Barner has said to me He's
- 42:16Speaker 7: surprised people jump off sides to him because they really
- 42:19Speaker 7: haven't changed their count too much during the season. He
- 42:22Speaker 7: said they have it in the back pocket to change
- 42:24Speaker 7: it up, but he hasn't. He's really used the same
- 42:25Speaker 7: one all the time and it's still gotten.
- 42:27Speaker 2: Guys. I think it's better than Dave Casper's, Mark Bavaro's
- 42:30Speaker 2: John Macki's all of them, all right, Jack, Greg, what
- 42:34Speaker 2: you got the show tonight? I do reminding me, I
- 42:38Speaker 2: didn't even know what day it was.
- 42:39Speaker 7: It feels like Thursday because it's only the second practice day. Yeah,
- 42:42Speaker 7: it's seven and nine tonight on the show. We're also
- 42:45Speaker 7: doing seven and nine at Radio Row in San Francisco
- 42:47Speaker 7: next week that's the super Bowl.
- 42:50Speaker 2: But uh yeah, we'll dive into more of this.
- 42:52Speaker 7: De Marcus Lawrence is a sage and a genius.
- 42:56Speaker 10: Okay, And you'll hear from a couple others as well,
- 42:59Speaker 10: and have a guest and either an NFL guest or
- 43:03Speaker 10: a Boston Patriots reporter guest to talk about the other side.
- 43:07Speaker 2: All right, look forward to it. Thank you, sir, We
- 43:09Speaker 2: appreciate it.
- 43:10Speaker 7: We'll talk to you on Monday, Pee Fred, I'll talk
- 43:12Speaker 7: to you from you'll be in San Francisco. I'll be
- 43:14Speaker 7: in San Jose. They have to see it for those
- 43:16Speaker 7: again at the Seahawks arrive in San Jose on Sunday.
- 43:20Speaker 7: Monday's more of a media availability game day before the
- 43:24Speaker 7: Commissioner's press conference, and then they go into their media
- 43:27Speaker 7: night Mondon Night. Tuesday is when the football begins in
- 43:30Speaker 7: San Jose State for the Seahawks.
- 43:31Speaker 2: Excellent, all right, man, Well we'll see you there. We
- 43:34Speaker 2: look forward to it, all right. Greg Bell joining us
- 43:37Speaker 2: right here on chalk them back in the morning, our
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- 46:06Speaker 2: O show here this hour your eight top stories of
- 46:09Speaker 2: the day to get you ready for the weekend and
- 46:12Speaker 2: also wrap up the week. And there is no bigger
- 46:15Speaker 2: story in the world than Super Bowl sixty. We are
- 46:19Speaker 2: just nine sleeps away from Seahawks versus Patriots next Sunday
- 46:26Speaker 2: in Santa Clara, California to decide the world championship. Chris
- 46:31Speaker 2: Collinsworth's going to be on the call on NBC next
- 46:34Speaker 2: Sunday alongside Mike Turrico. Chris Collinsworth joined Softy and Faine.
- 46:39Speaker 2: I don't know why Turrico is such a snob, but
- 46:42Speaker 2: Collinsworth joined Softy in Faine yesterday afternoon and talked about
- 46:48Speaker 2: this matchup.
- 46:49Speaker 11: I will say about whenever. It was about mid season,
- 46:54Speaker 11: maybe a little bit after that, we had Seattle in
- 46:58Speaker 11: Washington and when I was doing the tape that I
- 47:04Speaker 11: always put together tapes to preview the two teams, and
- 47:09Speaker 11: I came in our meetings afterwards and I said, I
- 47:12Speaker 11: think Seattle's going to go to the super Bowl.
- 47:14Speaker 2: And everybody went berserk.
- 47:17Speaker 11: Everybody's like, get what are you talking?
- 47:19Speaker 2: You know, one of those kind.
- 47:20Speaker 11: Of things, And I said, no, I go this defense
- 47:27Speaker 11: has something going on.
- 47:28Speaker 2: I mean, they really do.
- 47:30Speaker 11: And even today as I'm studying getting ready for the game,
- 47:35Speaker 11: you can feel the intensity of that defense.
- 47:38Speaker 2: You can just feel it on every snap. That is
- 47:42Speaker 2: a hungry defense. And Chris collins Worth, if you want
- 47:48Speaker 2: to hear the entire conversation, you can do so ninety
- 47:50Speaker 2: three three kjar dot com will be on a Softy
- 47:53Speaker 2: and Dick's podcast. But you know, it's kind of strange
- 47:56Speaker 2: that he channeled that because now, granted it was the
- 48:00Speaker 2: night of dominating the Commanders with Jade Daniels in the lineup,
- 48:04Speaker 2: by the way, I mean, that was a pretty easy
- 48:07Speaker 2: night to kind of come in the work the next
- 48:10Speaker 2: day and think, my goodness, that's the first time. That
- 48:13Speaker 2: game was certainly the first time where I thought this
- 48:17Speaker 2: is a super Bowl caliber team. I mean, that's where
- 48:20Speaker 2: that seed was planted. I think that day you were
- 48:23Speaker 2: coming off of by the Commanders were still kind of
- 48:26Speaker 2: thought of as a playoff contender. They just had to
- 48:28Speaker 2: get healthy. But they weren't healthy at the time, and
- 48:31Speaker 2: the Seahawks just went out there and waxed that ass.
- 48:36Speaker 2: I mean, they just dominated what was supposed to be
- 48:39Speaker 2: a playoff contending team. And I remember thinking watching that
- 48:43Speaker 2: game like this team might have super Bowl capabilities. I
- 48:46Speaker 2: might have been the first time I thought that.
- 48:48Speaker 5: I remember that was that game was on the heels
- 48:51Speaker 5: of the bye, but before that, it was Houston, and
- 48:54Speaker 5: Houston got off to a horrible start. They were like
- 48:56Speaker 5: two and four something when the Seahawks be them, and
- 49:00Speaker 5: so everybody diskind of like, well, Houston's not very good,
- 49:03Speaker 5: and yet look now what happened after that. They went
- 49:06Speaker 5: on quite the run and ended up being a playoff
- 49:08Speaker 5: team and some people were thinking Super Bowl contender as
- 49:12Speaker 5: the season wound down, and so, yeah, it was one
- 49:15Speaker 5: of those. Some of their losses or wins Jacksonville and
- 49:18Speaker 5: Houston leading up to that game were better wins than
- 49:21Speaker 5: they were given credit for at the time. And yet
- 49:24Speaker 5: Washington after last season was looked at his willyive what
- 49:27Speaker 5: can you do against them? And they absolutely handled him.
- 49:30Speaker 5: So I'm with you, I think that was maybe a
- 49:32Speaker 5: turning point I wouldn't be surprised if it was a
- 49:34Speaker 5: bit of a turning point inside the building of you
- 49:37Speaker 5: know what, a lot of people aren't giving us whole
- 49:39Speaker 5: bunch of credit.
- 49:39Speaker 2: Let's go show him something real quick. And they did.
- 49:42Speaker 2: He only did they They just don't dominate in the
- 49:44Speaker 2: NFL like they did in that game. Now, Collins was saying,
- 49:47Speaker 2: I felt that way studying the tape for that. Yeah. So,
- 49:52Speaker 2: I mean he could be lying just to get a
- 49:54Speaker 2: paddle back. I don't know, but yeah, he's been. He's certainly.
- 49:59Speaker 2: I think he's terrific and he'll be on the call
- 50:01Speaker 2: on Sunday, and he certainly is one of those guys.
- 50:03Speaker 2: I do believe him. I don't think he is surprised
- 50:05Speaker 2: by the Seahawks success this year at all, and the
- 50:08Speaker 2: Seahawks grow as a bigger favorite by the day. The
- 50:11Speaker 2: line has moved up to four and a half points.
- 50:13Speaker 2: I think it's still going to climb higher. I mean,
- 50:17Speaker 2: you've been the NFL's David all year long. We talked
- 50:20Speaker 2: about this a little bit earlier in the week, and
- 50:22Speaker 2: suddenly you turned into Goliath along the way. I saw
- 50:26Speaker 2: a panel of experts on one of the networks the
- 50:29Speaker 2: other day. I think there were twelve on the list,
- 50:31Speaker 2: and every single one of them took the Seahawks, usually
- 50:34Speaker 2: because they use the phrase save the graphic. One of
- 50:37Speaker 2: them does it just to be a sport. But none
- 50:40Speaker 2: of them wanted to be attached to a wrong prediction
- 50:44Speaker 2: of the New England Patriots. And I'm not saying the
- 50:46Speaker 2: New England Patriots couldn't win on next Sunday. I'm just
- 50:49Speaker 2: saying it just feels like the entire nation of football
- 50:53Speaker 2: analysts are picking the Seahawks into picking them to win
- 50:56Speaker 2: comfortably right now.
- 50:57Speaker 5: And that's pretty much where I think most people are landing,
- 51:00Speaker 5: and understandably so. I mean, I don't know how how
- 51:04Speaker 5: you can go through the course of a full season
- 51:06Speaker 5: where you know, the Rams Seahawks, the battles that they
- 51:10Speaker 5: ended up having before the NFC Championship game led you
- 51:14Speaker 5: down the path of kind of feeling like that's the
- 51:15Speaker 5: best team and and I don't think it's I don't
- 51:18Speaker 5: think it's wrong to say. Man, the AFC seems so
- 51:20Speaker 5: up in the air. It didn't feel like there was
- 51:22Speaker 5: any dominant team. I mean, my Broncos were the number
- 51:25Speaker 5: one seed, yet I wasn't crazy confident that they were
- 51:28Speaker 5: going to run the run the entire thing.
- 51:31Speaker 2: Why did you get that tattoo? This is Broncos twenty
- 51:33Speaker 2: twenty six. It's on my bottle and the horse on
- 51:37Speaker 2: your forehead, Yeah.
- 51:38Speaker 5: That's that one was I wasn't get that anyways. It's
- 51:40Speaker 5: just an emblement, so it makes my head look like
- 51:42Speaker 5: a helmet. Okay, but I think that the uh, I
- 51:45Speaker 5: think that the idea of who are the best teams?
- 51:48Speaker 5: Like who felt you know, I'm talking maybe like a
- 51:51Speaker 5: month ago, who did you feel most confident about?
- 51:53Speaker 1: Well?
- 51:53Speaker 5: I think it was probably the Seahawks and Rams. Probably
- 51:56Speaker 5: is where majority of people, if they could put their
- 51:58Speaker 5: allegiance aside, would think those are the two teams and
- 52:01Speaker 5: now you're going against a team where there's easy, it's
- 52:03Speaker 5: easy to poke holes in it. But that also the
- 52:06Speaker 5: fact that I feel confident also leads.
- 52:09Speaker 2: Me down the path of the boy.
- 52:10Speaker 5: You better not feel too confident because the Patriots are legit.
- 52:14Speaker 2: You know, And I don't worry about that. I mean,
- 52:16Speaker 2: it has happened before. I mean Mike Holmgren said it
- 52:18Speaker 2: happened to his team, the Packers, but they'd already won
- 52:21Speaker 2: a championship. I don't think when you haven't won one
- 52:24Speaker 2: that maybe you are guilty of that. Though following year,
- 52:27Speaker 2: if you make it back, maybe you're not as hungry
- 52:29Speaker 2: as where you were. But that first year, there's no
- 52:31Speaker 2: way that a four and a half point spread, or
- 52:34Speaker 2: the fact that the entire panel of NFL Game Day
- 52:38Speaker 2: morning is picking you to win. I don't think that
- 52:41Speaker 2: affects the Seahawks and Mike McDonald whatsoever.
- 52:44Speaker 6: No, not with this team and not with that leadership,
- 52:46Speaker 6: and not just Mike McDonald, but the locker room leadership.
- 52:49Speaker 6: There's no way they're letting any of them get too
- 52:50Speaker 6: big for the Britches.
- 52:51Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd think of growth smoking U all right. Item
- 52:55Speaker 2: number two on the O show your eight top stories.
- 52:57Speaker 2: So the day, both quarterbacks ended up on the injury report.
- 53:00Speaker 2: And even though I don't think anything's anybody in New
- 53:03Speaker 2: England's got to worry about this, or anyone in the
- 53:06Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest has to worry about this, nevertheless, the first
- 53:10Speaker 2: injury report has put both Sam Donald and Drake May
- 53:13Speaker 2: on it. Sam with the obleague, Drake May with a shoulder.
- 53:17Speaker 2: Greg Bell was with us our Seahawks insider one hour
- 53:20Speaker 2: ago and he gave us the lowdown.
- 53:22Speaker 7: They're both playing, and there's nine games until the game,
- 53:25Speaker 7: nine days till the practice. Recover your break, they will
- 53:28Speaker 7: both play. Mate was stiff farming a player in Denver
- 53:33Speaker 7: in the AFC title game and appears that's when he
- 53:35Speaker 7: injured his shoulder. And this was the first practice for
- 53:38Speaker 7: the Patriots since the title game. Just like the Seahawks,
- 53:42Speaker 7: Donald's on the same plan so far, no reason to
- 53:45Speaker 7: have him extensively throw during a bye week, so he
- 53:48Speaker 7: was limited in practiced yesterday. He was out there at
- 53:51Speaker 7: the beginning and running around and things, but I think
- 53:54Speaker 7: he's going to be for now on the same plan
- 53:55Speaker 7: he's been on the last two weeks to preserve between
- 53:58Speaker 7: the games, so it's man in maintenance time. They'll both play.
- 54:02Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not no surprise to anybody. I don't
- 54:05Speaker 2: even care if they were serious injuries. They're still going
- 54:07Speaker 2: to try to play in the super Bowl for goodness sake.
- 54:10Speaker 2: But nonetheless, it's newsworthy noteworthy when both quarterbacks end up
- 54:14Speaker 2: on the injury report ten days before Super Bowl sixty.
- 54:18Speaker 2: But I'm sure they'll be fine. I mean, Sam's been
- 54:20Speaker 2: dealing with his oblique now for two straight games, and
- 54:24Speaker 2: I couldn't tell. If you wouldn't have you would have
- 54:25Speaker 2: told If you wouldn't have told me that he had
- 54:27Speaker 2: a book injury, I would have never guessed that he
- 54:29Speaker 2: had an injury that he was dealing with.
- 54:30Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean when I heard about it, like the
- 54:33Speaker 5: fact that it was like tweaked kind of, that's obviously
- 54:36Speaker 5: better than pulling pulling it and making it seriously bad
- 54:40Speaker 5: because I don't think it goes away. I don't think
- 54:41Speaker 5: you have enough time for it to go away if
- 54:43Speaker 5: you really injured it injured, But to tweak it a
- 54:45Speaker 5: little bit, I wasn't thinking it was that big of
- 54:47Speaker 5: a deal. And then when Hugh kind of started saying, well,
- 54:49Speaker 5: you never know until you let it rip. You never know, Well,
- 54:52Speaker 5: we know Nurry Ward yeah, her Ward Mill Yeah, that's right, breed.
- 54:57Speaker 2: They call him all the time when I text him.
- 54:59Speaker 4: Maybe Gingers have tougher obliques than you.
- 55:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's gonna get vanity plates. Worry Ward
- 55:08Speaker 2: won Drake Thomas, by the way, that is somebody that
- 55:13Speaker 2: I was concerned about. But Greg Bell doesn't seem to
- 55:15Speaker 2: be concerned at all. He was limited in practice throughout
- 55:18Speaker 2: the week, but you don't read anything into that. Sounds
- 55:21Speaker 2: like he's going to be ready to play by next
- 55:22Speaker 2: Sunday as well, and of course Jsn's going to play
- 55:26Speaker 2: next Sunday. Matt Hasselback was with us on Wednesday, number
- 55:30Speaker 2: eight at eight. He's been with us every Wednesday at
- 55:32Speaker 2: eight o'clock throughout the entire Seahawks postseason run. And I
- 55:36Speaker 2: just asked him about the uniqueness of JSN. Have you
- 55:40Speaker 2: ever did you ever play with a guy that plays
- 55:43Speaker 2: like this?
- 55:44Speaker 12: Has anybody played with anybody like JASN? I don't know,
- 55:48Speaker 12: you know, like some people ask me to do a like, hey,
- 55:51Speaker 12: who does he remind you of?
- 55:52Speaker 2: Who is he?
- 55:53Speaker 3: Like?
- 55:53Speaker 2: Give us a cop?
- 55:54Speaker 12: And it's almost disrespectful to his game because he's so
- 55:58Speaker 12: he's so much, so much of a unicorn. He's just
- 56:01Speaker 12: you know, he's got the smoothness of a Terry Glenn
- 56:04Speaker 12: if if you remember that name. And he's just effortless though,
- 56:08Speaker 12: And I think he's so confident, he's patient.
- 56:11Speaker 2: That one handed catch.
- 56:12Speaker 12: On the sideline was like, happened right in front of me,
- 56:15Speaker 12: and it was Uh, I mean, it's.
- 56:17Speaker 2: Like, I don't think it's a play I'll ever forget.
- 56:20Speaker 12: It was just incredible, and uh, it was such an
- 56:23Speaker 12: important play too, So to go one handed like that,
- 56:26Speaker 12: there's only like maybe a handful of people on the
- 56:28Speaker 12: planet that would choose to try that way to catch
- 56:31Speaker 12: the ball in that kind of a moment and do
- 56:34Speaker 12: it with such you know, no effort, just so confident. Uh,
- 56:38Speaker 12: he's got that infector. Matt Hasselbeg, no question about it.
- 56:40Speaker 12: I want to hear the entire Hassleback conversation. You can
- 56:43Speaker 12: do so on our podcast at ninety three three KJR
- 56:45Speaker 12: dot com twenty minutes with number eight at eight every
- 56:49Speaker 12: Wednesday throughout the postseason.
- 56:52Speaker 2: I don't know what my dad used to hit me
- 56:54Speaker 2: fly balls. It was he was always like, don't run
- 56:56Speaker 2: on your heels. Yeah, yeah, your bounce on your and
- 57:00Speaker 2: you're making the ball flight bounce. You know, you know
- 57:03Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba's brother played for the Pirates. He's
- 57:06Speaker 2: a baseball player. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. I
- 57:09Speaker 2: guarantee you the Smith and Jigba brothers never had their
- 57:12Speaker 2: dad have to correct them because that JSN is the
- 57:17Speaker 2: smoothest damn runner I think I've ever seen. It doesn't
- 57:20Speaker 2: even look it doesn't look like his eyes move an
- 57:23Speaker 2: inch when he runs.
- 57:24Speaker 7: Well.
- 57:24Speaker 5: Tom Brady was talking about it during the NFC Championship
- 57:26Speaker 5: game too, that his shoulder level doesn't change right. And
- 57:30Speaker 5: you can talk and Hugh breaks down how much people
- 57:33Speaker 5: have to sit down? Yeah, Worrywart has to chop his
- 57:36Speaker 5: feet like a sewing machine in order to break right. Well,
- 57:39Speaker 5: if in order to chop your feet, then you're sitting
- 57:41Speaker 5: down your shoulder pad level. And it was when Tom
- 57:43Speaker 5: Brady was saying that it was the next play was
- 57:47Speaker 5: that touchdown kind of on that little flag thing towards
- 57:50Speaker 5: the edge, the touchdown play at the end of the half.
- 57:53Speaker 5: And so I was sitting there watching him, and sure
- 57:55Speaker 5: enough he takes off and he runs and he does
- 57:58Speaker 5: like a little cut and it looked like you could
- 58:01Speaker 5: have put, you know, glasses of wine on his shoulder
- 58:03Speaker 5: pads and they wouldn't have spilled. Like it was just
- 58:05Speaker 5: like He's like, you'd be the best waiter ever. You know, Ballerina,
- 58:10Speaker 5: I'm a very light on his feet. With all due
- 58:13Speaker 5: respect to our.
- 58:14Speaker 2: Service industry, I've been the biggest waste of talent ever.
- 58:16Speaker 2: If JSN would have said, I'm so smooth, Dad, I
- 58:20Speaker 2: think I could carry a tray of drinks and never
- 58:22Speaker 2: spill it for my entire career, and.
- 58:24Speaker 5: You're gonna be great like NFL player. Possibly, Dad, just
- 58:27Speaker 5: put another glass on there and watch it.
- 58:29Speaker 6: I do love that you had a preface with no
- 58:30Speaker 6: disrespect to our service industry. I worked in the service
- 58:33Speaker 6: industry for a long time. If you had an opportunity
- 58:36Speaker 6: at an NFL career or waiting tables and dealing with
- 58:39Speaker 6: customers but never spilled, take the NFL opportunity, I'd slap you.
- 58:44Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of money. I know there's
- 58:46Speaker 2: a lot of fame, Dad, but my passion is Applebee's.
- 58:50Speaker 2: It is fancy.
- 58:52Speaker 5: Uh.
- 58:52Speaker 2: We had one other big story this week in the
- 58:54Speaker 2: National Football League vote gate. Whenever Bill Belichick is involved
- 58:58Speaker 2: with the controversy have to throw gate on the end
- 59:01Speaker 2: of it. There was spygate, there was deflate gate, there
- 59:03Speaker 2: was I'm dating way too young of a girl gate,
- 59:06Speaker 2: and now we've got vote gate. He did not get
- 59:08Speaker 2: voted into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot,
- 59:11Speaker 2: and people are up in arms about it. I mean
- 59:14Speaker 2: up in arms about it. Mike Sando is a Hall
- 59:17Speaker 2: of Fame voter. Maybe it's more passion towards this subject
- 59:22Speaker 2: than anyone on planet Earth. And he just so happens
- 59:25Speaker 2: to join us every Thursday on our show to talk football.
- 59:29Speaker 2: So what do you think we discussed with him yesterday?
- 59:32Speaker 2: We talked about the Bill Belichick controversy.
- 59:35Speaker 13: One is that some of the voters, not me, but
- 59:39Speaker 13: some of the voters are very concerned with finalists and
- 59:44Speaker 13: who've been waiting a long time. And so instead of
- 59:47Speaker 13: looking at the class and just saying, hey, i'll chuck's
- 59:50Speaker 13: the best, he goes in when forced to choose, being
- 59:52Speaker 13: Belichick and in this case some senior players that may
- 59:56Speaker 13: never get a chance to be in the room again.
- 59:58Speaker 13: And so that's why, especially now that the NFL has
- 1:00:01Speaker 13: or the Hall of Fame has last year made it
- 1:00:04Speaker 13: harder to get in for everybody. That combination has created
- 1:00:09Speaker 13: this I think embarrassing situation.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. Mike went on to say that
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: he does believe the tweaks to the voting process will
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: be made before the next vote next year. That's how
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: big of a deal this has turned into, how obvious
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: the process is flawed, and he thinks that we will
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: see a different Hall of Fame voting process by the
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: time we do this again. And I think, I mean,
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: let's just start with this. I mean, all of those
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: guys that are on the ballot for the last time,
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: we can remove the sentimentality and just put him on
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: the same ballot. I mean, we can still say you've
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: got to get eighty percent of the vote. But if
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: sentimentality for the guy that's on the ballot for the
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: very last time is getting in the way of guys
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: who are on the ballot for the first time and
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: our obvious choices for getting into the Hall of Fame,
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: then we've got we can't put them on the same ballot, Bucky,
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: and can't have a rule that you can only vote
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: for three of the five guys. I don't know who
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: came up with that dumb idea, and I can't believe
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: that they didn't figure out in discussing that dumb idea
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: that maybe there was a pitfall or two to it.
- 1:01:15Speaker 5: I don't understand it either. I mean, it's you would
- 1:01:17Speaker 5: think that that there would be ways in which you
- 1:01:20Speaker 5: try to formulate rules about making it where you're not
- 1:01:23Speaker 5: letting too many people in, but you're not leaving too
- 1:01:27Speaker 5: many people out that don't go into this. I was
- 1:01:30Speaker 5: discussed with Kate and she's like, it kind of seems
- 1:01:33Speaker 5: like this is something where they wanted more like to
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: make their job more difficult, or wanted more attention to
- 1:01:39Speaker 5: their job.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: It's like like college football does.
- 1:01:41Speaker 5: Yeah, let's let it. No pub is bad pub. Well, yeah,
- 1:01:45Speaker 5: that's not really true. Sometimes when people are like, that's
- 1:01:48Speaker 5: an idiotic idea. That's just an idiotic idea, whether you're
- 1:01:51Speaker 5: getting attention for it or not.
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: Let's move to item number five. We moved beyond football
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: and our eight item o show. I know it was
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: a mid winter evening last night, so why were the
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: crack and raking the leafs? Matthews try to drop it off.
- 1:02:07Speaker 8: Terry mccadd finds a loose pot store Jared mccadd with
- 1:02:18Speaker 8: the Kaffer on.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: This one two thirty seven left here in the third.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: It's a five two crocket. Lead man of Mystery ever
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: fits you on the call last night Cracking Audio Network
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: I don't know why Lane Lambert's teams winning chunks and
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: losing chunks, but that's obviously the way he coaches. Right now,
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: we are winning in chunks. Two goals from Shane Wright
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: last night, two goals from that magic new line of McCann,
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: Beneers and Everley, and Seattle goes on to a five
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: to win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. They've won four
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: of their last five games. We're winning in chunks again,
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: winning in chunks.
- 1:02:57Speaker 5: I'm fine with it. I guess if you want to
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: be chunky, just make sure there's more chunks of winning
- 1:03:01Speaker 5: than chunks of losing.
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: That's what we need.
- 1:03:04Speaker 5: I mean, I think that this team, hopefully they go
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: out and make a move that kind of continues to
- 1:03:09Speaker 5: bolster this thing, because they're right there. They've sneakily kind
- 1:03:12Speaker 5: of under the radar, found themselves a way to kind
- 1:03:15Speaker 5: of jump right back up or right back up into
- 1:03:17Speaker 5: the mix of things. I think they're in a playoff
- 1:03:19Speaker 5: spot as of right now. They just got to keep
- 1:03:21Speaker 5: rocking and rolling.
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: At Las Vegas tomorrow night at seven of those damn nights,
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: only three games remaining before the Olympic break, and then
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: they don't play for three weeks. So let's just go
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: ahead and take advantage of this hot streak. It'll stink
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: that if we're hot heading into the Olympic break and
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: have to put it on pause for three weeks, but
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and live with that. If you can
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: take seven out of eight going into the Olympic plan
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: college basketball, you dub has just faced a nightmare early
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: Big ten scheduled this year. They faced another Big Ten
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: power last night, top ten ranked Illinois, who is as
- 1:03:56Speaker 2: hot as any team in college basketball, and it didn't
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: work out. They lost by nine points to the ALIGNI
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: on the road, Danny Sprinkle after the game.
- 1:04:04Speaker 14: It's hard just because we keep shooting ourselves in the foot,
- 1:04:07Speaker 14: you know, and like I told our team, like at
- 1:04:09Speaker 14: some point you got to get tired of it, you know,
- 1:04:11Speaker 14: like we cut it to five, you know, we first off,
- 1:04:14Speaker 14: you know, the end of the first half, you know,
- 1:04:15Speaker 14: we came out and we said, hey, we have.
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: To take great shots. There's a minute eighteen left.
- 1:04:19Speaker 14: We come out and take two crazy shots, and they
- 1:04:21Speaker 14: make us pay and go on a five hole run.
- 1:04:23Speaker 7: You know.
- 1:04:23Speaker 14: Now all of a sudden, instead of cutting the lead
- 1:04:25Speaker 14: to two, you all of a sudden, it's like seven
- 1:04:26Speaker 14: or eight at halftime. And then at the end of
- 1:04:28Speaker 14: the game here, you know, we cut it to five
- 1:04:30Speaker 14: and we have like three straight turnovers.
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:04:32Speaker 14: But at the end of the day, it was where
- 1:04:33Speaker 14: the game started, and we told them the whole scout
- 1:04:35Speaker 14: is when that shot goes on the rim, you know,
- 1:04:37Speaker 14: you have to box out.
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:04:39Speaker 14: We had a couple of guys leaking out, you know,
- 1:04:41Speaker 14: especially earlier the first five minutes of the game, like
- 1:04:43Speaker 14: our guards, I don't know what they were doing. You know,
- 1:04:45Speaker 14: we were staring and they were getting every offensive rebound.
- 1:04:48Speaker 14: But the critical ones in the second half just broke
- 1:04:50Speaker 14: our back. You know, some back cut layups, you know,
- 1:04:53Speaker 14: twenty four to four on second chances, and I understand,
- 1:04:56Speaker 14: like that's what they do. They're number one in the
- 1:04:57Speaker 14: country at doing that. But if you want to beat them,
- 1:05:00Speaker 14: stop it, you know, And we just weren't tough enough
- 1:05:02Speaker 14: on the board.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Tonight one of those games where the Dogs held their
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: own on the road against one of college basketball's best teams,
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: but you never really felt like they had a chance
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: to win. It seemed like the ligne I just kept
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: him at arms length for forty minutes of basketball. They
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: end up winning by nine. Freshman Keaton Woggler scored twenty
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: two points. He scored sixty eight points in his last
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: two games for Illinois. You double be at Northwestern, so
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: at least the competition lightens a little bit tomorrow night
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: at five o'clock and you can hear it on KHR.
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: Rick Riz. This is a story that I wish we
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: would have had more time to talk about this week,
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: but then again, we will have all season to pay
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: tribute to our friend, Rick Riz, the voice of summer
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: for the Seattle Mariners, who announced earlier this week that
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: this is going to be his final year.
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: You know, you get to a certain point where you're
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: not that little kid you know watch in the games TV.
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: You know, wishing you were Jack Brickhouse. You know, I'm
- 1:06:02Speaker 3: twelve years old and I didn't think I was in
- 1:06:06Speaker 3: I'm still going to try not to use this, okay.
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: And so the last fifty one years, eight years in
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: the minor leagues, you know, right in those buses and
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: Alexander Louisiana, Amerald, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio, they
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: pay off and to get here. I wouldn't be here
- 1:06:23Speaker 3: without the great Dave Niehouse. I've had the most marvelous
- 1:06:26Speaker 3: journey one human man can ever ask for, you know,
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: fifty one years of living my dream.
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: I know Rick probably wouldn't want us to play that
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: clip where he actually, you know, got emotional, because he
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: was steady as a rock for almost that entire press conference.
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: But I wanted to play the clip where he got
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: emotional because that's that's where is and that's that's the
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: effect that this job, in this game, and he got
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: to live out his dream. I wanted to hear that
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: from Rizz. Yeah.
- 1:06:57Speaker 5: I've exchanged him text when with him since we found out,
- 1:07:02Speaker 5: you know that he was that this is going to
- 1:07:03Speaker 5: be his last year. And I wrote a little story
- 1:07:06Speaker 5: about it, and the first time I was talking to
- 1:07:09Speaker 5: my wife about it, I ended up getting choked up
- 1:07:11Speaker 5: because and he ends up saying, well, thank you for
- 1:07:14Speaker 5: the story. It's been a pleasure to be able to
- 1:07:18Speaker 5: make an impact on people. And you know, I am
- 1:07:21Speaker 5: just one of many that grew up with him. I mean,
- 1:07:25Speaker 5: if you're a Mariner fan, that voice, along with Dave
- 1:07:28Speaker 5: Niehouse for the majority of your fandom. If you're our
- 1:07:31Speaker 5: age or older, you know there it's just it's one
- 1:07:35Speaker 5: of the voices of summer. It's the it's the voice
- 1:07:37Speaker 5: that carries you through the ups and the downs, and
- 1:07:40Speaker 5: the in betweens and and your highs and lows, and
- 1:07:43Speaker 5: it's it's something that as I as the days went on,
- 1:07:46Speaker 5: I felt more and more like of a pit in
- 1:07:49Speaker 5: my stomach that was just like, man, this is going
- 1:07:52Speaker 5: to be Hopefully we can win it all, you know,
- 1:07:54Speaker 5: get to the World Series and win a World Series
- 1:07:56Speaker 5: for for the risk.
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: Chance there is a chance. Well, if you want to
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: check out Bucky's article that he wrote, it's floating around
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: on Twitter, so just follow Bucky and you will find it.
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: Also it's on our website somewhere. But good luck and
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: so great stuff from Bucky. And then of course I
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: can't wait to celebrate Riz all year long. We'll see
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: him at spring training here in a couple of weeks.
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: Softie and Fan are gonna have Jerry Depoto on today
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: have three twenty. So there is some Mariner stuff to
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: talk about right now, even though we're counting down the
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: days to the Super Bowl. All right, coming up next,
- 1:08:31Speaker 2: something that we started a little bit earlier this week,
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: and we're not done. As a matter of fact, it's
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: gonna be two weeks before we're done. We're handing out
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: these on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Talk
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: about Sports Radio ninety three point three k j R
- 1:09:05Speaker 2: f M, And in the moments we will be doing
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: our civic duty. But let me first tell you and
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: that drafting sports books calling your name, and I want
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: to just swing by to Leila Brasort Casino or Quilcita
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: Creek Casino, you know, and just decide, you know what,
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: I need. A Super Bowls just not enough for me.
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: I need a little juice on the action. So does
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: this swing on over there, Maybe lay down duck or
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: two and have a little extra juice on the game.
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: I want to know. I want I know Ken Walker's
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: rushing for over one hundred oh wow, yeah, a good
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: little prop bet. I think that that's what I'm wanting
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: to do.
- 1:09:42Speaker 5: I've been looking to see if there is a bet
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: like which Ginger would be the MVP or something like that,
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: and I think maybe that line hasn't came out yet.
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: But I don't think they have racist lines. It's not racist.
- 1:09:55Speaker 5: It's more of a mutation more than anything genetic. But
- 1:10:01Speaker 5: superheroes have them. Superheroes and Gingers have it, so it's
- 1:10:05Speaker 5: not really race related. But yes, I'm excited about going.
- 1:10:10Speaker 5: I actually am going to go there at some point
- 1:10:12Speaker 5: in time. I'm heading north to head up to another place,
- 1:10:15Speaker 5: and I think I'm gonna stop in there and make
- 1:10:17Speaker 5: a couple of little prop bets.
- 1:10:18Speaker 2: Well, the betting kiosks t Leila P Resort Casino or
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: like JSN, they're always open twenty four hours. Twenty four hours,
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: you can bet it. They're kiosk there throughout the resort.
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: So Talala P Resort Casino, make sure that's a destination
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: for you between now and the super Bowl. All right,
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: let's do our civic duty. And I put it that
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: way because there's some people out there and I don't
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: have the power to arrest them, but I do have
- 1:10:46Speaker 2: the power as a legally abiding citizen to call them
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: out for their wrongness. Yep. For so long. Sam Darnold
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: has been a topic of conversation all football season long.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: And I get the doubters. I understand the doubters. I
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: don't have a problem with the doubters. Doubting is okay,
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: doubt away. I mean, we are in the business that
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: we're supposed to have opinions, and you throw them out there,
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: and sometimes you're right and sometimes you're wrong, and hopefully
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: you're right more than you are wrong. Otherwise I'm not
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: sure why you're here. But nonetheless, hey, there's nothing wrong
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: with having doubted Sam Darnold at some point and then
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: come around to you know what, he's pretty good. He's
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: pretty good. I gotta give it to him. I was
- 1:11:29Speaker 2: wrong about him. But there are some that have just
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: been way too dug in. There have been some that
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: have been just way too nasty. And even though some
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: of those people are starting to backpedal a little bit
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: right at Super Bowl time, it's too late. You're getting
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: a scarlet dye. That's right.
- 1:11:49Speaker 4: When now she says it, it's really funny.
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about the Scarlet letter. It was once
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: upon a time a scarlet a that the young lady
- 1:11:58Speaker 2: had to carry around town at all times. Well, we're
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: giving people the scarlet d because you're never living down
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: your nastiness toward our quarterback, and that includes you, ESPN
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: face of the franchise, Steven A. Smith. Sam Donald was
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: balling out. I sat up there weeks.
- 1:12:18Speaker 15: In advance and I said, we gonna see when it counts.
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: Now, we gonna see when it counts because you got
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: about six years of history to look ahead as the
- 1:12:26Speaker 2: season Wayne, how much am I supposed to believe in
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: this brother?
- 1:12:30Speaker 12: How many times does he have to win a game
- 1:12:33Speaker 12: for us to finally give him the benefit of the doubt.
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: I can't sit here and ignore what happened last year
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: against the Rams, and ignore again what happened yesterday are
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: because I wouldn't allow it. I still believe in Sam Donald.
- 1:12:43Speaker 15: That defense is rid, hold on hold, that home crowd
- 1:12:46Speaker 15: is rare.
- 1:12:47Speaker 2: Our quarterback got the potential to mess it all up.
- 1:12:50Speaker 2: I believe in Sam Donald. I think he's a top
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: ten quarterback.
- 1:12:52Speaker 15: I'll be dead if I'm not concerned about Sam Donald
- 1:12:54Speaker 15: and his potential to blow it.
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: He's backed off, he's a little He's one of those
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: guys it's back and singing the Seahawks praises this week,
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: and look, I'm all about people healing, There's no question
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: about it. But you will heal while forever wearing but
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: Scarla Day.
- 1:13:13Speaker 5: Yeah, and again, I think that it's good to know
- 1:13:16Speaker 5: that we are in the business of given opinions. It's
- 1:13:20Speaker 5: just at some point that's hyper critical. The fact that
- 1:13:24Speaker 5: there's still some people out there thinking, well, it doesn't
- 1:13:27Speaker 5: hasn't shown me anything yet. Like what I mean, he's
- 1:13:31Speaker 5: basically he's Outsee, he's got the biggest margin of victory
- 1:13:35Speaker 5: besides the Rams, and then he just beat them the
- 1:13:37Speaker 5: last two times they faced each other one last week
- 1:13:40Speaker 5: to go to the Super Bowl, and he's done it impeccably.
- 1:13:43Speaker 5: I mean, maybe it's not perfect, but he hasn't made
- 1:13:45Speaker 5: any big mistakes. He's went out there and beat the
- 1:13:48Speaker 5: toughest teams in the toughest division to get to the
- 1:13:51Speaker 5: number one seed. I just don't understand the hesitation for
- 1:13:54Speaker 5: people to get up off of their bad take, even
- 1:13:57Speaker 5: though I think it's that's just.
- 1:13:58Speaker 4: The epitome of it. You just can't back away from
- 1:14:01Speaker 4: your take. You're gonna stick to it even though you're wrong.
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: They're still saying, well, he has to prove it in
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: a big game. You know, Kenny win the big game. Well,
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: he's won a couple of them, three in a row actually,
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: and he had.
- 1:14:10Speaker 6: One bad playoff loss his first time to the playoffs.
- 1:14:14Speaker 6: And that's the thing that you can't get out of
- 1:14:16Speaker 6: your mind. Are you kidding?
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: Yeah, because people can't improve at their jobs. And maybe
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: you are a shining example of that, mister scarlet D.
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: But he's getting the D. You know, it doesn't matter.
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: The D is yours and you will wear it. I mean,
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: you can come out after the Super Bowl and say
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: I always knew Sam Donald. No one's gonna believe you
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: because you have been stained by the scarlet D. Take
- 1:14:44Speaker 2: the D. Emmanuel Acho, who's made a little bit of
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: a name for himself, a former linebacker, he's a guy
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: that has some really strong opinions out there. Not only
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: has he doubted Sam Donald the entire process, he's still
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: doubting Sam donaldnald and he didn't even give him any
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: credit for Sunday's fantastic performance. No, he said the problem
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: was the rams. Let Sam Donald be good.
- 1:15:09Speaker 15: As much as we're praising Sam Donald, shame on the
- 1:15:13Speaker 15: Rams defense for allowing us to praise Sam Donald dis
- 1:15:15Speaker 15: much like y'all allowed Sam Donald to look like Matthew Stafford,
- 1:15:20Speaker 15: y'all allowed Sam Donald to look like Peyton Manning. Y'all
- 1:15:24Speaker 15: allowed Sam Donald to have a Tom Brady stat line.
- 1:15:28Speaker 4: Like y'all allowed that to happen.
- 1:15:30Speaker 15: Sam Donald went out there and played better statistically than
- 1:15:33Speaker 15: every quarterback. And there's been about what fifteen or so
- 1:15:36Speaker 15: games played by quarterbacks in the playoffs, and y'all let
- 1:15:39Speaker 15: Sam Darnald have the best statistical game.
- 1:15:42Speaker 7: Boy.
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: I know Emmanuel Lacho loves sleeping with coworkers. He loves it,
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: and that's gonna be hard to explain whenever you're walking
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: around the office with uscarlengy Day.
- 1:15:55Speaker 5: That a big one too, Yeah you're holding to it.
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: Yeah you were in the big is one yet.
- 1:16:00Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big cape. I can't wait to see
- 1:16:03Speaker 4: you on radio row.
- 1:16:05Speaker 5: I have to give you a two handed pat slap
- 1:16:07Speaker 5: backslap with slap that big d's and look like a
- 1:16:10Speaker 5: wedding dress train falling behind him.
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: You know what, Aunt Jo, you're getting scarlet double.
- 1:16:16Speaker 5: D maybe one on the front end of the back.
- 1:16:20Speaker 5: Don't trip over that D D. Don't trip with that
- 1:16:22Speaker 5: D right there? Yeah, well does that feel you're listening?
- 1:16:27Speaker 5: Where's something that that matches with scarlet? You're wearing a
- 1:16:31Speaker 5: bunch of it.
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: You're the first one to get a double D. That's
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: how long you are You continue to be at least
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: some people are backpedaling a little bit, have finally come
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: around to it a little bit. Finally, I want to
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: get one more in here, and that is another guy
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: from the old four letter network.
- 1:16:49Speaker 7: I have to.
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: Listen to him pretty much every morning, the least pieces
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: of him as I try to get all the intel
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: I can on the drive in. And his name is Evan.
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: He hosts unsportsmanlike in the mornings, and he probably has
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: been the person in the entire industry who's been the
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: most wrong about Sam Donald. He still claims Sam Donald
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: hasn't proven anything. And yet if he does win the
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: Super Bowl, then he moves ahead of Josh Allen and
- 1:17:24Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson wow as his best quarterback in the national
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: right right, right, He's either still a failure or the
- 1:17:34Speaker 2: best quarterback not named Patrick Mahomes in the NFL. That's
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: the line that he has drawn. He is also the
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: person that has gone as far all season long to
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: saying that Jalen Milroe will eventually be the starting quarterback
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: for the Seattle Seahawks. He's backed off of that since,
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: but he continues to sound ridiculous when talking about Sam Donald,
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: and he's gonna say even dumber going forward. When we
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: shove a scarlet D down your throat.
- 1:18:08Speaker 4: Oh.
- 1:18:09Speaker 5: I mean, it's one thing to just be critical versus
- 1:18:13Speaker 5: you know, opinionated, but to be critical to the point
- 1:18:17Speaker 5: of just like being silly.
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: I mean, the how in the heck do you go from?
- 1:18:22Speaker 5: He hasn't proven anything yet, but if he wins and
- 1:18:26Speaker 5: he's better than Josh Allen and Lamar.
- 1:18:28Speaker 4: Jackson m vps.
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: Yeah, because of one game?
- 1:18:32Speaker 4: I mean, is that not the epitome of.
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: The best? I don't how in between? How because he
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: wears a scarlet D forever and can never get rid
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: of it, and it's clouding as he needs one carved
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: he needs to. I don't care how many baths he
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: take or how many changes of clothing that he goes through.
- 1:18:51Speaker 2: He will always and forever wear the scarlet D. Where
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: the D where the D? Where this is good? This
- 1:19:05Speaker 2: has been very cathartic. I agree, Hugh Mellon's going to
- 1:19:08Speaker 2: join us at nine o'clock. Mike Homeran in nine thirty
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: on a Football Friday. Coming up next though a little
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: bit more on the super Bowl. Maybe we got to
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: admit to being wrong about a few things. Sports Radio
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- 1:19:29Speaker 2: is a former UB quarterback, former NFL quarterback and has
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: been our QB one for years. Hugh Millan is with
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: us for x's and o's here on a Friday.
- 1:19:37Speaker 16: Good morning, sir, good morning. That imagery is not making
- 1:19:41Speaker 16: me feel younger. In fact, the imagery is making me
- 1:19:43Speaker 16: feel older. Oh really, yes, yeah, how stiff and awkward
- 1:19:47Speaker 16: that would be?
- 1:19:48Speaker 5: Oh no, no, Actually the visual I got you looks smooth.
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- 1:19:56Speaker 5: Like I said, the smoke machine you had that rocking
- 1:19:58Speaker 5: and I think maybe is you to cut back on
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- 1:20:01Speaker 2: Yeah, just let's just work clear. If you don't move
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: like usher, don't tell me. Yeah, That's what I've got
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- 1:20:27Speaker 2: let's dive into things with hum Mill. And so here
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: we said nine days shy of the sea Hawks fourth
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. Hugh, And I'm just
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: curious where are your where's your mind at right now? Well,
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: my mind's in a lot of place. Has been watching
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: a lot of tape, crunching a lot of numbers.
- 1:20:45Speaker 16: I don't think you're surprised by that, but you know,
- 1:20:47Speaker 16: I want to ask you guys a trivia question. You
- 1:20:50Speaker 16: get game for that? Yeah, a little trivia, Little Seahawks trivia.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: Love that. Now we're all comfortable in the honor system.
- 1:20:55Speaker 16: If you know this, you you have to disclose it
- 1:20:59Speaker 16: and there's no looking it up. Okay, okay, So what
- 1:21:03Speaker 16: player on the sea Now PFF as a Pro Football Focus.
- 1:21:08Speaker 16: They are every team in the NFL subscribes to their services,
- 1:21:11Speaker 16: And so I want to ask you what player on
- 1:21:14Speaker 16: the Seattle Seahawks is ranked the highest at his position
- 1:21:19Speaker 16: of all players on the Seahawks.
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: I don't know by pff, I don't know it. So
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: in the playoff, but I'll like Bucky go first.
- 1:21:27Speaker 4: I'm going to say, Ken Walker.
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to say, oh, you want to answer
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: that here?
- 1:21:36Speaker 16: The whole thing just got blown up by Bucky's brilliance.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: Is that right? Yes, Yes, I'm blown up. I would
- 1:21:43Speaker 2: have never got that. I would never guessed.
- 1:21:46Speaker 16: So you guys were supposed to be guess, like fourteen
- 1:21:49Speaker 16: dudes before you come around.
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: Kenneth, all right, I would have never guessed that. I'll
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: be honest, I would have. He would have been like
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: the tenth guy that I would.
- 1:21:57Speaker 16: All right, that's a three and out punt on the
- 1:21:59Speaker 16: first series, third and twelve, fourth to twelve els act. Yeah,
- 1:22:07Speaker 16: so yes, Kenneth Walker, where do I go from here?
- 1:22:10Speaker 16: So the first drive, the Walker had four carries in
- 1:22:17Speaker 16: each of the first two drives against the Rams, and
- 1:22:22Speaker 16: the first seven carries. This there's a term called success.
- 1:22:25Speaker 16: It's not my metrix, but it's forty percent of the
- 1:22:28Speaker 16: needed yards on on first down, sixty percent of the
- 1:22:31Speaker 16: needed yards on second down, and all of the needed
- 1:22:33Speaker 16: yards on third or four of the first seven carries.
- 1:22:37Speaker 16: There were six successful runs and then uh the so
- 1:22:44Speaker 16: then the lap. In the middle portion of the game
- 1:22:48Speaker 16: until the last drive, there were seven drives and Walker
- 1:22:53Speaker 16: only had five carries. Now in that in those seven drives,
- 1:22:57Speaker 16: cl had four punts, three touchdowns. So the three touchdowns
- 1:23:00Speaker 16: the sevens, that's actually a pretty good touchdown rate. But
- 1:23:04Speaker 16: it is interesting. Walker's here, he's ready to deliver. He's
- 1:23:09Speaker 16: giving you that kind of performance. Let's see what happens
- 1:23:11Speaker 16: in the super Bowl. But but I thought maybe the
- 1:23:14Speaker 16: to see if you got away from him a little bit.
- 1:23:15Speaker 16: There's no griping about what happened on Sunday, but it
- 1:23:18Speaker 16: is something to note and and and think about that.
- 1:23:21Speaker 16: Now there's a little asterisk to the question. And Chuck,
- 1:23:26Speaker 16: I'll let you jump in and guess here, Walker's the
- 1:23:31Speaker 16: number one guy on the offense. Who's the number one
- 1:23:33Speaker 16: graded guy on the defense? Well, I would have guessed,
- 1:23:35Speaker 16: even Worri would have been my guess. It would have
- 1:23:37Speaker 16: been a great guess. Would not have been correct? Is
- 1:23:41Speaker 16: not correct?
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: And want to jump in. Teacher's got a class favorite. Yeah,
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: Bucky's right, you're wrong.
- 1:23:49Speaker 5: Yeah, Well it's because I'm right, you're wrong. I would
- 1:23:53Speaker 5: guess Witherspoon.
- 1:23:56Speaker 16: It's Witherspoon and I'm starting to I'm starting to have lunch. Yea,
- 1:24:00Speaker 16: So Devin Witherspoon, Yeah, no.
- 1:24:01Speaker 2: Kidding, because Hughes told us all week long the Weatherspoon
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: al rough Witherspoon was yeah, no, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry,
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: no no.
- 1:24:08Speaker 16: This is for the entire season season. Okay, this is
- 1:24:12Speaker 16: for the entire regular season and playoffs. So Kenneth Walker
- 1:24:17Speaker 16: is the Jackson Smith and Jigba is the second rated
- 1:24:21Speaker 16: wide receiver in the NFL. Kenneth Walker is the number
- 1:24:25Speaker 16: one rated halfback. How is that number one over Beson Robinson.
- 1:24:30Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just reporting the facts. And Devin
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: Witherspoon is.
- 1:24:35Speaker 16: The number one defensive player on the UH on the
- 1:24:40Speaker 16: Seahawks for the entire season plus playoffs.
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: Ok so at an event hopefully.
- 1:24:44Speaker 16: Well, you know, he made his mark as we talked
- 1:24:46Speaker 16: about with that that third and fourth down pass breakups. Yeah,
- 1:24:51Speaker 16: but he got he got beat three times. He got
- 1:24:53Speaker 16: beat by Davante Adams, he got beat by Nikoua on
- 1:24:58Speaker 16: a double move go route and then on a slant.
- 1:25:00Speaker 16: So he yeah, he took his lumps, but he was
- 1:25:04Speaker 16: able to battle back.
- 1:25:05Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm just I actually look at that
- 1:25:08Speaker 5: because you reference it at times, and so I look
- 1:25:10Speaker 5: at it, and I've not I think js N is
- 1:25:12Speaker 5: the highest rated on there for from the offense, but
- 1:25:16Speaker 5: I didn't know for sure if he would have been
- 1:25:18Speaker 5: the highest rated UH wide receiver. So you said he's
- 1:25:21Speaker 5: number two. It's interesting, Yeah, and it's interesting because I'm
- 1:25:25Speaker 5: with you. I don't know for sure how how ken
- 1:25:28Speaker 5: Walker would end up being number one, but I can
- 1:25:30Speaker 5: see how.
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: We have been JSN. All due respect to PFF. I mean,
- 1:25:37Speaker 2: who the hell's had a better season than this year? Yeah, again,
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: don't shoot the messenger. It's just you know, I'm Collins
- 1:25:45Speaker 2: full of crap. That's all I know. I don't know,
- 1:25:52Speaker 2: that's right. Take it up with him. I'm going to Yeah,
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: when I see him at the Super Bowl, I'm going
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: to tackle is indeed Hugh mellon his weathers that A
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: and o's here on this football Friday. So if you
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: do have a concern, I mean, all of a sudden,
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: our little David has turned into Goliath in terms of
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: the NFL analysts out there across the country. Now they're
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: kind of predicting a Seahawks runaway nine days from now.
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: But if you do have a concern for the Seahawks
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: at this stage in the process, what would that be.
- 1:26:23Speaker 16: Well, I think it's that the Patriots there in year
- 1:26:26Speaker 16: one with their coach. In a similar way we've talked
- 1:26:28Speaker 16: about Mike McDonald. We said expect the first part of
- 1:26:34Speaker 16: the first year, which was last year, we're talking about
- 1:26:37Speaker 16: McDonald now, that things aren't going to be going great.
- 1:26:40Speaker 16: That's what had happened in Baltimore. And halfway through the
- 1:26:43Speaker 16: season last year, the Seahawks were in the low twenties
- 1:26:47Speaker 16: in terms of their rankings and the important stats, and
- 1:26:50Speaker 16: then they vaulted up, you know, in some cases all
- 1:26:54Speaker 16: the way to number one in the second half of
- 1:26:57Speaker 16: the season.
- 1:26:57Speaker 2: That's exactly what had happened at Baltimore.
- 1:27:00Speaker 16: So you saw Mike Rabel comes in and if you
- 1:27:03Speaker 16: go by d V o A, this is one of
- 1:27:06Speaker 16: these sabermetrics deals. The Patriots had their worst game early
- 1:27:12Speaker 16: and in fact, I quoted this word for word. They're
- 1:27:16Speaker 16: the biggest gap in if you go by waited by
- 1:27:20Speaker 16: the season as the season goes along, the biggest gap
- 1:27:25Speaker 16: in full season weighted versus full season versus weighted DVOA
- 1:27:33Speaker 16: of any playoff team ever, meaning there there are some
- 1:27:38Speaker 16: sabermetricians out there that are looking at saying that Patriots
- 1:27:42Speaker 16: are the most improved team in the history of the
- 1:27:44Speaker 16: NFL playoffs. Now, you know, it all depends on what
- 1:27:49Speaker 16: you're looking at, but but there is some truth that
- 1:27:52Speaker 16: now the weather assists in that it was awful against
- 1:27:56Speaker 16: the Texans.
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: It was awful obviously in Denver for half of that game.
- 1:28:01Speaker 16: But the fact remains they're an improved team. And watching
- 1:28:05Speaker 16: them on defense, I think they have good players on
- 1:28:08Speaker 16: all levels. And I don't think they're great on defensive end,
- 1:28:11Speaker 16: but they're really good in the middle of their defensive line.
- 1:28:15Speaker 16: They got linebackers that are tough, you know, kind of
- 1:28:17Speaker 16: rabelisk and and then they got a lot of guys
- 1:28:21Speaker 16: in the secondary that play with a lot of aggression.
- 1:28:24Speaker 16: And now they got a little smurf slot guy you
- 1:28:27Speaker 16: might be able to beat up on. But but they
- 1:28:29Speaker 16: got a couple of tall corners and safeties that want
- 1:28:31Speaker 16: to jump stuff, and and they play fast, and they
- 1:28:35Speaker 16: they trigger on they're triggering defense. They they they go
- 1:28:39Speaker 16: after what they see. They don't sit around and wonder
- 1:28:42Speaker 16: whether they trust their vision. They just go and they
- 1:28:46Speaker 16: could be success susceptible to a double move. I would
- 1:28:49Speaker 16: hope Seattle'll be able to hit him one time on
- 1:28:53Speaker 16: some of their variety of double moves that I think
- 1:28:56Speaker 16: they're exposed to. But but they're damn good defense and
- 1:29:00Speaker 16: they got a hell of a quarterback.
- 1:29:02Speaker 2: Uh.
- 1:29:03Speaker 5: We we've talked a lot as of late, I mean
- 1:29:05Speaker 5: the last month or so, since the whole Rams Seahawks
- 1:29:08Speaker 5: and the battles that ensued the last couple of times. Anyways,
- 1:29:12Speaker 5: about Sean McVay versus Mike McDonald. When you think of
- 1:29:17Speaker 5: Josh McDaniel versus Mike McDonald, is it something similar or
- 1:29:22Speaker 5: is McVeigh on his level of his own.
- 1:29:25Speaker 16: I think Josh mcdonell's pretty darn good. I mean I
- 1:29:28Speaker 16: think that that he's, you know, trying to figure out
- 1:29:33Speaker 16: how to navigate without a truly great number one receiver
- 1:29:39Speaker 16: and so, but you know, he knows how to respond
- 1:29:43Speaker 16: to stuff he gets. Uh you know, he works the
- 1:29:46Speaker 16: screen game. I think I think he now they're passing
- 1:29:50Speaker 16: at a higher rate than than the Seahawks. You know,
- 1:29:53Speaker 16: they they trust in in uh In Drake May, but
- 1:29:57Speaker 16: Drake May in terms of getting the ball down the field.
- 1:30:01Speaker 16: Most of the season, Sam Darnold was the leader in
- 1:30:04Speaker 16: the pack and all those yards per per attempting, yards
- 1:30:07Speaker 16: per dropback and what have you. And then May at
- 1:30:11Speaker 16: the end, again speaking to the improvement of the Patriots,
- 1:30:15Speaker 16: May has come on and clipped him at the end.
- 1:30:18Speaker 16: For all those they pushed the ball down the field.
- 1:30:20Speaker 16: And there's a scrambling component to Drake. Maybe we'll maybe
- 1:30:24Speaker 16: we'll discuss, but yeah, I think that mc I don't
- 1:30:28Speaker 16: I don't know that I'm gonna put him at the
- 1:30:29Speaker 16: level of McVeigh or Shanahan, but he's probably in this
- 1:30:32Speaker 16: in the next level.
- 1:30:33Speaker 2: What's the level you put May at? Then? What is
- 1:30:36Speaker 2: what's your first glimpse reaction as well?
- 1:30:40Speaker 16: You know, I'm gonna look more at him in the
- 1:30:42Speaker 16: passing game, and We've got all next week to break
- 1:30:45Speaker 16: this stuff down and I'll give you details.
- 1:30:48Speaker 2: But here here's the thought to you.
- 1:30:50Speaker 16: So May has sixty one scrambles and eighteen of them
- 1:30:58Speaker 16: are for ten or more yards. To put that into perspective,
- 1:31:02Speaker 16: Lamar Jackson in all of his years, he averages fourteen
- 1:31:06Speaker 16: point five scrambles ten or more yards per year. He's
- 1:31:09Speaker 16: only had two out of his eight years that he's
- 1:31:11Speaker 16: had more than eighteen. Kyler Murray has never had a
- 1:31:16Speaker 16: season where he has eighteen. He only averages eight point
- 1:31:20Speaker 16: six again, eighteen scrambles of ten or more yards on
- 1:31:26Speaker 16: sixty one of his scrambles. So if you're a Patriot fan,
- 1:31:30Speaker 16: you think that this guy is gonna rush for two, three,
- 1:31:33Speaker 16: four first downs in this game, and in a tight
- 1:31:36Speaker 16: game that really could matter. Now, of the I looked
- 1:31:39Speaker 16: at all forty one of his design runs. They're mostly
- 1:31:44Speaker 16: taking a knee in quarterback sneaks. By the way, they
- 1:31:46Speaker 16: don't do the toush push. They do just the standard
- 1:31:48Speaker 16: old quarterback sneak. He only had three read keeps in
- 1:31:53Speaker 16: the entire seaton. So even though that surprised the hell
- 1:31:57Speaker 16: out of me when I saw that he had forty
- 1:31:58Speaker 16: one designed rush I thought, you know, fifteen twenty twenty five,
- 1:32:03Speaker 16: a couple dozen would be the reed keeps. No, that
- 1:32:06Speaker 16: didn't happen. He salted a few games away late in
- 1:32:09Speaker 16: the game. But what the red keep would be is
- 1:32:11Speaker 16: in shotgun, you know, put the football on the belly
- 1:32:15Speaker 16: of the running back and then if the end crashes
- 1:32:17Speaker 16: in that alley is open. Then the quarterback keeps it.
- 1:32:20Speaker 16: We've all seen that as fans, but that's not part
- 1:32:23Speaker 16: of his game. As athletic and big as he is.
- 1:32:27Speaker 16: The design quarterback sweeps sweeps that you see from Josh
- 1:32:31Speaker 16: Allen Drake May being a big guy six four and
- 1:32:34Speaker 16: three eights at the Combine two twenty five big, good looking,
- 1:32:37Speaker 16: fast athlete. There's no forty time for him. He didn't
- 1:32:40Speaker 16: run at the Combine Norris bro Day, but you know
- 1:32:42Speaker 16: on tape he just looks big and fast, and so
- 1:32:46Speaker 16: that running component is going to be a factor.
- 1:32:49Speaker 5: Yeah, he kind of did it in the Bronco game,
- 1:32:51Speaker 5: and he figured out a way with his legs to
- 1:32:54Speaker 5: get it done in that game.
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: I'm with you.
- 1:32:56Speaker 5: The guys that are going to run the ball, I'm
- 1:32:58Speaker 5: in the majority of the time, Trevion Henderson and Stevenson.
- 1:33:02Speaker 5: When you're watching those guys, any anything about that that
- 1:33:05Speaker 5: makes your the hair on the back of your next
- 1:33:07Speaker 5: stand up.
- 1:33:08Speaker 16: Well, I think they run hard, Stevenson particularly, and and
- 1:33:12Speaker 16: Henderson's more of a big, you know, big play threat.
- 1:33:16Speaker 16: You know, he's a guy that if you miss a
- 1:33:18Speaker 16: gap that he can go. That hasn't been a problem
- 1:33:20Speaker 16: for Seattle, so I I actually feel good with the
- 1:33:25Speaker 16: Seahawks stopping the run in this game that of of
- 1:33:30Speaker 16: any concerns I might have that that ain't one of them.
- 1:33:33Speaker 16: But you know, more in part because of the offensive line.
- 1:33:37Speaker 16: But Seattle's just been you know, they're so good at
- 1:33:41Speaker 16: all levels and and smart to be able to cover
- 1:33:44Speaker 16: up if if, by chance, on the rear occasion, you
- 1:33:46Speaker 16: get to the third level. You know, Julian Love and
- 1:33:50Speaker 16: and and all the rest of them have been you know,
- 1:33:53Speaker 16: whether it's Bryant back there or even Okada, you know,
- 1:33:56Speaker 16: they they've been able to clean up the mess from
- 1:33:58Speaker 16: the front seven, which doesn't get spilled very often. But yeah, no,
- 1:34:01Speaker 16: I think we're okay stopping the run. I would be
- 1:34:04Speaker 16: surprised if we come back with a Patriot winning this
- 1:34:10Speaker 16: game and we're describing how Seattle's run game run defense
- 1:34:14Speaker 16: just broke down.
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that's happening. You know what
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: I'd like to see from a Sunday is just a
- 1:34:20Speaker 2: game where it really doesn't come down to fourth down decisions,
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: even though it's fun. But I know a great way
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: to not let the game come down to fourth down decisions. Hugh,
- 1:34:32Speaker 2: and that is by scoring touchdowns in the red zone
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: before it's fourth down. So yeah, right, where are we
- 1:34:40Speaker 2: with the Seahawks red zone offense right now in your estimation?
- 1:34:43Speaker 16: Well, you know, I actually had to go back through
- 1:34:46Speaker 16: some pile and pull out some notes that I had
- 1:34:49Speaker 16: a page of notes that I had about this going
- 1:34:51Speaker 16: into the playoffs and in reading here, So this is
- 1:34:57Speaker 16: all again after Week eighteen, going.
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: Into the playoffs.
- 1:35:01Speaker 16: The what I had, what was a concern for me,
- 1:35:05Speaker 16: first of all, is how Seattle ran the ball. They
- 1:35:07Speaker 16: had a propensity to run the ball. They were two
- 1:35:10Speaker 16: conservative and on first down, if you say from from
- 1:35:14Speaker 16: the thirty on end, that's the red zone fringe, they
- 1:35:17Speaker 16: were two point three yards per rush. That was thirty
- 1:35:20Speaker 16: second in the NFL. On first downs per rush in
- 1:35:24Speaker 16: the actual red zone as defined twenty and in they
- 1:35:26Speaker 16: were two point two yards. So they weren't running worth
- 1:35:29Speaker 16: a darn on first down. And then when they were throwing,
- 1:35:33Speaker 16: you know, they were throwing a lot of like quick
- 1:35:35Speaker 16: game where you say, okay, if Donald throws to his
- 1:35:38Speaker 16: first guy, you know it's gonna it's gonna be five
- 1:35:41Speaker 16: yards from the line of screamer. It's like double stick.
- 1:35:43Speaker 16: You got two little stick routes. Those are quick outs,
- 1:35:45Speaker 16: and then you got flat routes to either side, pick aside,
- 1:35:48Speaker 16: you know, you know, and then work it and then
- 1:35:50Speaker 16: you got to check down in the middle of wall.
- 1:35:51Speaker 16: Five receivers are within five or six yards the line
- 1:35:54Speaker 16: of screams. So we talked about, hey, take some shots throw,
- 1:35:57Speaker 16: get get some shots down the field. Where Darnald's first read,
- 1:36:01Speaker 16: his first read, he's got a guy or two in
- 1:36:04Speaker 16: the end zone that he can you can say, touchdown, checkdown.
- 1:36:07Speaker 16: And at that point we're saying that in the red
- 1:36:12Speaker 16: zone passes to the end zone, Seattle only had twenty eight. Meanwhile,
- 1:36:17Speaker 16: for example, the Rams had forty six and from the
- 1:36:23Speaker 16: red zone fringe the Seattle only had three. And Denver,
- 1:36:31Speaker 16: who was number one seed, they had eleven. You know,
- 1:36:33Speaker 16: there's all these stats where you're say in Seattle doesn't
- 1:36:36Speaker 16: want to throw into the end zone.
- 1:36:37Speaker 2: Well, now go back.
- 1:36:38Speaker 16: To Sunday against the Rams. They late in the second
- 1:36:42Speaker 16: quarter they get the forty two yard little sting route
- 1:36:47Speaker 16: on to JSN. We all remember that play right the
- 1:36:51Speaker 16: post down the middle, and then from first down he
- 1:36:55Speaker 16: got hit in the head and it.
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: Should have been a fifteen extra yards play? Was that
- 1:37:01Speaker 2: the next one?
- 1:37:03Speaker 16: Oh oh oh, you're talking about js An getting hitting there. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:37:09Speaker 16: I mean that's not my visit in football, but sure
- 1:37:11Speaker 16: I get it that within the rules, you could argue that.
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: But there.
- 1:37:14Speaker 16: So now they're down in the red zone, red zone,
- 1:37:16Speaker 16: fringe and the official play sheet. And you may remember
- 1:37:21Speaker 16: Halani gets a little checkdown on the alley, actually runs
- 1:37:25Speaker 16: he gets thirteen yards. Great play, right, But on that
- 1:37:29Speaker 16: play they they had Bobo on a they had on
- 1:37:33Speaker 16: a on a post route from the left going to
- 1:37:36Speaker 16: the right like wide open. And I'm actually, if I'm
- 1:37:40Speaker 16: grading Darnald on that play, I give him minus because
- 1:37:43Speaker 16: he missed a chance for a touchdown.
- 1:37:45Speaker 2: But that's Kobe.
- 1:37:46Speaker 16: That speaks to Kubiak, Hey take you know, you get
- 1:37:49Speaker 16: down in that area, first down, dial it up, be aggressive, touchdown, checkdown. Well,
- 1:37:54Speaker 16: in that case, Donald, he forewent if that's the past
- 1:37:57Speaker 16: term and four go he passed on the uh he
- 1:38:00Speaker 16: turned down the post route, got the thirteen yard completion,
- 1:38:04Speaker 16: No big deal. Then the next play they got they
- 1:38:08Speaker 16: designed a dagger concept where they got a guy coming
- 1:38:11Speaker 16: on the goal line and then Jasn in the back
- 1:38:14Speaker 16: first down like aggressive two guys into the end zone.
- 1:38:18Speaker 2: They throw it out of the back of the end zone.
- 1:38:20Speaker 16: But then they come back and they throw another one
- 1:38:22Speaker 16: on third down and they get the touchdown on the
- 1:38:24Speaker 16: corner route with Jasn from the backfield. When Derek Young
- 1:38:28Speaker 16: landed on the on the punt fumble in the third quarter,
- 1:38:33Speaker 16: first play take a shot. In fact, they max protected
- 1:38:37Speaker 16: that thing, picked up the blitz. There's only two guys
- 1:38:39Speaker 16: in the route, Jsn on a go route to the
- 1:38:42Speaker 16: end zone and Bobo on a post route to the
- 1:38:45Speaker 16: end zone. So the things that we discussed, you know,
- 1:38:48Speaker 16: showed up in the aggression of Koubi. Hey, we get
- 1:38:52Speaker 16: into this area and you know, Mike Holmgren's you know,
- 1:38:55Speaker 16: we're singing to the choir for him, because that's what
- 1:38:58Speaker 16: does he say, Hey, I got a got a field
- 1:39:00Speaker 16: goal in the in my pocket already, So let's take
- 1:39:03Speaker 16: some shots and let's let's you know, let's make it
- 1:39:05Speaker 16: a four point play. What's a four point play? The
- 1:39:07Speaker 16: difference between the three that you know you have in
- 1:39:09Speaker 16: your pocket and the touchdown that you go get because
- 1:39:11Speaker 16: of aggressive play calling, particularly on first down. So I
- 1:39:15Speaker 16: thought that that was an important part. I mean, there
- 1:39:18Speaker 16: was four straight times. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna cheat
- 1:39:21Speaker 16: a little bit on this. That post route to to
- 1:39:23Speaker 16: uh to JSN had it been thrown earlier in jays
- 1:39:28Speaker 16: and makes a guy miss that's not possible touchdowns. I'm
- 1:39:31Speaker 16: probably fibbing, but it for sure it's three straight wide
- 1:39:37Speaker 16: open touchdowns that Clint Kubiak called early in the in
- 1:39:40Speaker 16: the play sequence and and uh and Seattle eventually gets
- 1:39:44Speaker 16: the touchdown on on the on the third one. But
- 1:39:47Speaker 16: I think there was a clear mark of aggression of
- 1:39:50Speaker 16: putting eligible receivers into the end zone and giving Darnold
- 1:39:53Speaker 16: the chance to strike up the band.
- 1:39:55Speaker 2: Well, we'll be down in Santa Clara starting on Monday
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: to do our shows. Who's gonna to be down there
- 1:40:00Speaker 2: with us? The kJ R house will be rocking. You
- 1:40:03Speaker 2: are responsible for oreos and ever clear, that's your job, Hugh.
- 1:40:08Speaker 2: So yeah, you're random, Okay, hey before Yeah, you have
- 1:40:14Speaker 2: to have them together. You just have to have them
- 1:40:16Speaker 2: both there.
- 1:40:16Speaker 16: Just yeah, exactly, we're just not stopping to go right,
- 1:40:22Speaker 16: We're just straight straight to the.
- 1:40:25Speaker 7: One.
- 1:40:26Speaker 2: Hey. By the way, the.
- 1:40:27Speaker 16: Concern for Sam donald and is oblique every time I
- 1:40:32Speaker 16: discuss it.
- 1:40:33Speaker 2: It's the probability.
- 1:40:34Speaker 16: Like I say, probably he's going to be fine, but
- 1:40:38Speaker 16: we're concerned about an unwanted event product of two factors
- 1:40:42Speaker 16: probability times magnitude. He's probably gonna be fine. But if
- 1:40:45Speaker 16: he's not fine, Uh, you know that very consequential for Seattle.
- 1:40:49Speaker 16: So so as predicted by the probability, Donald was fine
- 1:40:54Speaker 16: and is likely to be fine, it doesn't mean there
- 1:40:57Speaker 16: wasn't a concern, right, I agree?
- 1:41:01Speaker 2: Yeah, did you hear us call you a worry wart
- 1:41:05Speaker 2: somewhere somewhere?
- 1:41:06Speaker 16: It made it to me, But yeah, I think they
- 1:41:09Speaker 16: can put it this way. If if you have a
- 1:41:12Speaker 16: twenty five percent chance you get bit by a mosquito,
- 1:41:15Speaker 16: you're probably you're still gonna go to the picnic. If
- 1:41:17Speaker 16: you have a twenty five percent chance that you're gonna
- 1:41:19Speaker 16: get stung by a bee, yeah, probably still go. If
- 1:41:23Speaker 16: you got a twenty five percent chance of getting bit
- 1:41:25Speaker 16: by a scorpion, and maybe you don't go. If you
- 1:41:27Speaker 16: have a twenty five percent chance that you're gonna get
- 1:41:29Speaker 16: bit by a rattlesnake, you ain't going. If you got
- 1:41:32Speaker 16: a twenty five percent chance of getting bit by a shark,
- 1:41:35Speaker 16: you're you're going back to the picnic and you ain't
- 1:41:37Speaker 16: getting near the water. Each one of those were twenty
- 1:41:40Speaker 16: five percent.
- 1:41:41Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:41:42Speaker 16: The probability doesn't change, the magnitude changes. And I think
- 1:41:46Speaker 16: when you have your quarterback not practicing, uh before the
- 1:41:50Speaker 16: NFC Championship game, he'll probably be okay. But if he isn't,
- 1:41:54Speaker 16: I don't know. Sounds like a rattlesnake bike or a
- 1:41:57Speaker 16: shark right to me.
- 1:41:58Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. Also it sounds like you and
- 1:42:01Speaker 2: I live with different women because if there's a you know,
- 1:42:05Speaker 2: I've not gone to dinner sometimes because we were afraid
- 1:42:09Speaker 2: of malaria. Oh oh, the skeeters can get you. They
- 1:42:14Speaker 2: get the point. Actually, that's that's the bucky.
- 1:42:18Speaker 16: Do you know the more that mosquitoes cause more destiny
- 1:42:21Speaker 16: than the other animal?
- 1:42:22Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 1:42:22Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, man, Well, we'll see you on Monday.
- 1:42:26Speaker 2: Don't forget the oreos double stuff. Yeah you keep waiting, Okay,
- 1:42:31Speaker 2: caming down. Enjoy guys. X's and o's for you right
- 1:42:34Speaker 2: here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. All right.
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