November 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Marc is really impressed by the Seahawks as they're 6-2 and are leading the way in the NFC West, how truly good are the Seahawks as they keep stacking good performances. The run game was okay but man what gives... MJ makes his pick in Fact or Fiction, and are you happy about the Dodgers winning the World Series over the Toronto Blue Jays?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Mike McDonald era. That was the good news.
We'll get some more good news. Sam Donald, who started
the day sixty to one odds to win the MVP,
has now that has lowered to eighteen to one odds
after last night's game. That's how great he played. Bad
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news Seattle lost middle linebacker Ernest Jones to a knee injury.
You saw it, Buckle. It looked bad. The one glimmer
of hope that the glass could be a little full,
he walked off the field. Mike McDonald was quoted about
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jones injury after the game and he said, quote, it's
not season ending, but we'll see how it goes. So
I don't know how long he's gonna be out. Hopefully
he's not out too long, like hopefully he's back for
the Rams game in two weeks. And Josh job was
also lost to a concussion in the second quarter. Don't
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can't imagine that being anything that would keep him out
any amount of time. But all I can say is this,
it's time now and we if you missed the beginning
of the show, Christopher Kidd at First Hour will be
podcasted very soon, if isn't already. We started the show
with the best football analysts on the planet on national
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national football analysts. In terms of guys that you see
on TV, Lewis Riddick, he said. Lewis Ridicks said that
he believes that the Seattle Seahawks will be in the
NFC Championship game. That's what this team is. You see
the vision right now of John Schneider, you see it,
and he's playing chess, not checkers. And this team last night,
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I mean, Sam Darnold, what can you say about him
other than at halftime he was mister perfect like the
late great Kurt Henning. Sixteen of sixteen, two hundred and
eighty two yards, four touchdowns in a perfect QB rating
of one fifty eight point three career high, seventeen straight
completions to start the game. It's just incredible. Ended up
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twenty one and twenty four three hundred and thirty yards,
light work in the second half. Had one pick was
his fault. Should have thrown that, But not gonna get
on a guy who right now is in the top
three or four depending on where you look for your
action to win the MVP in the league. Didn't have
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that on my big no card before the season.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Began.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I can tell you that much. Also, Clint Kubiak called
a great game last night. And you know the best
thing that Clint Kubiak didn't do last night. He didn't
call any of those BS trickery type gimmicky plays. He
just called called the game straight and look what happened.
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Clint Kubiak also now getting let's just say, a lot
of critical acclaim for his work this season as the
Seahawks OC. It's all happening right now before our very eyes.
It's all happening. Maybe this season. We won't know because
we're just not quite halfway there, almost halfway there. Six
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and two will be over halfway there after this Sunday
at home against looks like more than likely Jacoby Brissett
and the Arizona Cardinals last night. To me and for
all these quote so called experts, if you didn't know,
now you know it's time to start. When you look
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at the best team in the NFL, you need to
put that Seattle Seahawks logo, preferably the throwback logo, along
with the rollback uniforms next to best team in the NFL.
If I ultimately right now, gun held to head and
I hope nobody would do that. I will still go
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with the champs. To be the champ, you got to
beat the champ and the Philadelphia Eagles. To me, they
just traded for Jalen Phillips, which is like Jeff Bezos
hitting the power ball. But the Seattle Seahawks are right
there now one of the things, and we're not gonna
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get to to Nitpicky, but I have to a little
bit one of the things that we haven't quite seen
just yet, as I'm still waiting and listen. I thought
the Running Game did its job last night. I did,
And I like the fact that Canine got most of
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the carries, which is why I I don't like when
you see something that you know and and they keep
bringing in sharbon A. That's fine, you want to bring
in Charbona and the goal line and go and do that,
but K nine guys, just do I thought the Running Game.
For me, it is something that still is lacking. We're
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not there yet on the Running Game. That's the only
thing that's something that I think is a work in progress.
And after last night, yeah, you can tell it's it
was better, but we're still not there yet at all.
Still not there eighty eight yards three point seven. You know,
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Kenny Walker not great at times is good. It's I
don't know what it is. I don't know. I thought
there were better play calls last night, you know, some
stretch outside zones and whatnot. But for whatever reason, this
running game continues to be an issue. It's tough to
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really get critical when you're up thirty one to seven
at halftime. But all in all I can say is
that now, unequivocally and controvertibly, the Seattle Seahawks are arguably
the best team in the National Football League. Now, can
they get better? Absolutely? Every team can get better. Howie Roseman,
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the GM of the reigning defending Super Bowl champion Eagles,
they got better today by trading for Jalen Phillips. So
I'm hoping that there is someone out there. Wyatt Teller.
I know, I know the chop block on Uchenna Nuosu
in preseason, and apparently Mike McDonald doesn't want him in
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the locker room. But if there's a guy that you
can get to improve this team and solidify that O line,
which has been the achilles seal and weakness of this
team for over a decade, you gotta see if you
Chenna and a lot of guys in that locker room
would not have a problem with it. And there's an
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old saying you don't have to like someone to make
money with them and be successful. And if Wyatt tell
her is that guy that you can upgrade at the deadline,
so be it. But I thought last night was just
an unbelievable showing by this organization by John Schneider, Mike McDonald,
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Clint Kubiak, the defense which looks like it could be
the best in the NFL. And now it's time kid
that Yeah, yeah, it's now time where we can when
you're four to zero on the road in the league,
in the National Football League, all of a sudden, Now
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now we can kind of look at this team and say, wow,
I believe the only undefeated team in league. I believe
that's that's correct. That could be wrong, but I know
the Colts have a loss after yesterday on the road.
The Patriots did they lose on the road. They want
at Buffalo, So I have to go back and look
at that. But regardless, it doesn't matter this Seahawks team.
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When we're gonna separate contenders from pretenders, we know which
side of the ledger. The Seattle Seahawks team is on kid.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
On and cooking.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It has been quite a ride for this team. I
think the expectation coming in was that they could be
a fringe playoff team and surprise some people. But I
think people are starting to realize they're not fringe. They
have a chance to win it all, which is what
they believe from the jump. Whether or not fans or
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media believe that, it doesn't matter. They believe from the jump.
When OTA started, they probably rolled on the board, Super
Bowl whatever. However, they got to their decision, they stamped
it early, and they put the pieces together and you're
seeing it come about. You're seeing Sam Donald be the
most efficient, if not best quarterback in the NFL. He
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was sixteen for sixteen at one point last night, just
beautiful throws. The touchdown to Royo was you can't place
a better football.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You can't. But it was the fact that they were
staying with the run.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It wasn't as good because I think Canaan only averaged
like three point three yards per carry his biggest run,
but I think for eleven yards, a couple of penalties
here and there, but nonetheless they're forcing teams to have
to switch things up. They want to play this type
of defense. Well, my McDonald kubi, I say no, no, no,
you're gonna have to play man against us because you
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can't fill the run lanes. You can't just you don't
have the guys up front to knock our guys off.
The commanders don't have a d line they can stop
the run to save their lives. But it was the
like could stop there, And it was the fact that
the Seahawks kept doing it and getting three yards and
after a.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
While, you know what you're gonna do. Heres are blitzing guys.
You're gonna fill that box.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And when they do that, you're leaving one on one
with the dbs that have no shot against Tory Horton,
who put on a mixtape of just having dbs uncomfortable
in certain scenarios some of his releases. Last night they
show a replays of it. My goodness, he is just
whipping the DB's behind. And then JSN the touchdown that
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Arroyo caught. JSN ended up hurting tray Amos. He shook
him so bad he hurt himself. He had to come
out the game. He did come back and then he
gave a sixty two yard bomb to Cody White. So
you're just seeing the Seahawks is picking at the defense's
weaknesses and exploiting that and putting up points. That's another
blowout win for this team. Point differential is pretty important.
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It shows you the top dogs. It does it shows you, Okay,
this team is really good. Oh look, who's another good
team with point differential? The Los Angeles Rams right there
with the seas I think the I think the Seahawks
are plus eighty. I haven't done the math on it,
but nonetheless, the point is if the Rams and the Seahawks,
they're going to be fighting for that one spot in
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the NFC West. Could be for the entire NFC, depending
on what the Eagles do, how the Bugs fare. But
right now, when you're looking at it, you gotta shoe love.
The Seahawks are doing every and every They're doing any
and everything they want to opposing teams.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm glad you mentioned that, kid. I'm glad you mentioned
that point differential. Rams are plus eighty two, number one
in the league. Who's number two? You're Seattle Seahawks at
plus eighty one, number two in the league. Can you
imagine that guy. I don't want to get ahead of
ourselves because when you get ahead of yourselves, you can
have a slip up. And Mike McDonald and this team
and man like you hear me, and I will tell
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you that from the outside. Actually I'm sorry, they're number
three in the league. The Cults are still number one
at plus one oh nine. So it's Colts rams Seahawks
one two three in point differential. Colts are plus one
oh nine.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know what, MJ.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Don't even worry about the AFC because the Super Bowl,
to your point, and you won't see the Colts in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
There's no way, there's no fn way, There's no way, no.
I My thing is that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is why I always say it. And a lot
of people like who are you know? Who get on
me for being hard on certain people in this town,
right like Damnager right, my nickname for the baseball coach
of the professional baseball team in this market. But then
I'm equally effusive in my praise, if not more, of
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John Schneider. I've watched John Schneider from AFAR for many,
many years and marveled at his drafts and marveled at
a lot of his moves and then looked at someone
like Jamal Adams say WTF, but I want to go
back to win this whole league because this is a
copycat league. Kid. When you get Sean McVeigh, then you
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start getting clones. Oh Stefanski, Oh, Zach Taylor, Oh Matt Lafleur,
Oh Mike McDaniel. John Schneider said, Lee Corso not so fast,
my friend. Now I'm gonna go the other way. Well,
everybody's zigging, I'm gonna zag and I'm gonna go with
a defensive coach, and I'm gonna go with a guy.
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And look at the Baltimore Ravens defense. Now take away
that game against the Dolphins on Thursday night. They are
a I can't even say they are an abortion. That
defense is pathetic. Do you know why? Because they don't
have Mike McDonald as their coordinator anymore. That's why they're
a joke, an absolute complete dumpster fire is show. Mike
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McDonald is him. You watch him, He's he's got everything
under like and I'm not gonna do this. I'm not
gonna do this now because we're celebrating such a unbelievable
statement flex victory on Sunday Night football. But do you
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see why don't you juxtapose? Okay, let's do a split screen.
Let's put Mike McDonald on the left and watch him
in every game. The guy looks like General Patton going
in the next World War. You feel confident, You know
that this team will not fold in a stressful, panic,
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do or die game situation in the fourth quarter. You
have that. It engenders confidence. And then you look at
his counterpart on the right hand side, Damager, and you
saw him in the postseason, and it looks like he
had just been caught shoplifting at Bloomingdale's and he was
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about to go to jail. One guy confidence, the other guy,
you're just like you want to close your eyes and
hope you just make it. Therein lies the difference. Mike
McDonald is him. When we're gonna sit here today, and
we talked to Lewis ritic last hour, he said, Sam Donald,
no question MVP, he said, Seattle Seahawks NFC championship game,
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Tory Horton potentially rookie of the year. Let's give Mike
McDonald and look at him as the possible coach of
the year. I know we're not even fifty percent through.
But when we're talking about coaches of the year, Steichen,
no question, McVeigh absolutely, Mike McDonald, no doubt. It's time.
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This franchise is in the best position to contend for
a Super Bowl since the lob era of twenty twelve
to twenty sixteen. And I'm not going on any limb
by saying that, kid, do you agree?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah? They you have to show love. You can't.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And by the way, let me also just say this,
kid and I will both eat Crow bro. Before the season.
We had this as an L. Last night we had
it as an L and all of you did too,
So don't lie. Not many of you we're talking preseason now.
Not many of you thought that we were going to
go into to DC and beat the team who went
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to the NFC Championship Game last year, knocked off the
Lions on the road, right, kid, Willie Crow gladfully?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, you know, we can't predict injuries, We can't predict anything.
We just looked up the schedule and said win lost,
just like anybody else would do. And the Seahawks doesn't
matter who they face, They're just putting belt tasks. You
could tell them, Hey, you go and play the former
legion of boom. They say, bring them. They love the challenge.
They are excited to go out and and go on
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a national stage and just barrass you.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Make you wonder like, damn, can we do anything?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Doesn't Letter Williams? Is he not like a fine wine
that gets better with age? Look at him.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
All about the fourth and fifteen, right, yeah? Dan Quinn's like, yo,
if you don't get this ball game?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And you know what what do I say to open
the show talking about Jaden?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What he was able to do.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If the offense ain't moving the football throwing it, it's
him in the legs fourth and fifteen. Nobody's open pass,
russe is doing their part, and you see Jaden take
off and you're thinking he's probably gonna get it because
that's all they have. And what does Leo do? Leo
just says, you know what, I'm gonna lay it all
on the line. A leader of this football team, someone
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that has been dominant for the past two seasons, got
a new deal. He's showing up and he makes a
huge stop turnover on downs. If it wasn't for Leo
on that play, Jaden might have scored I haven't seen
the All twenty two to see who else is around,
but the way Jayden got up and was like dang,
like you would have thought he was going to run
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down for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And he probably would have if it was ninety nine, right.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I mean when agent like fine Wine doing the job.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Like he looks like right now, Leonard Williams looks like
Warren Sap in his prime. I want to get to
this though one click. I want to get to kid
Chris Sims and what he thinks of the Seattle Seahawks
five words or less.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Time the Seahawks beat the Commanders thirty eight to fourteen,
I'll give.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You the floor. They are Super Bowl contenders. Well done, right.
I've said this to a few people, right, just like
on you know, we both go on talk radio around
the country and ever, and they go, hey, what's one
team that you know nobody's thinking about to say, watch
out right, the Seattle Seahawks are that team for me
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to go, like, I know everybody looks like, oh yeah,
there's sixtion two, But I don't think everybody's quite giving
them credit for as good as they are. I think
that's what jumps out to me Seattle to me with
what you're seeing them do on the offensive side of
the ball, their O line plays better, Sam Donald's on fire,
Jackson Smith and Jigba is actually making me question whether
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he's not the best receiver in football. That's how good
he is. I'm not saying he is. He's in there
with Puka and Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson. There's no
denying it. There's none. He's incredible that way. Their defense,
you know, I wax poetically about their defense. I like
their defense. It's ass kickers everywhere. They got a big,
physical front seven. When their secondary is healthy, which you
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got closer to last night, it's a special secondary. Their
coach special on the defensive side of the ball between
Mike McDonald that was a butt whoopen last night. And
Seattle is a team that I say, yeah, watch out
for because I just feel like they're going upwards on
a big way. I respect and always admire Chris Sims.
Unlike somebody else on that channel, Chris Simms is actually
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better than his father as an analyst. Maybe not as
a player because he got hurt, but he's tough, tough
as hell, Unlike somebody else at NBC. I think we
all know who I'm talking about here, little nepotism. Okay,
Son's on the pregame, right, Sons on the pregame, and
we know, we know that guy doesn't belong in the broadcast.
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But Chris Simms is one of the best in the business.
For him to say that, real recognizes real, and I
want everybody here to appreciate that. Listen, I'm not the
Pom Pom waiver cheerleader, sports talk host. Okay, I make
fun of every buddy like that, but I'm telling you
right now, when it comes time to just like after
the guy used to call Girard, Jerry Depoto at the
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deadline traded for Naylor and Suarez. Once he did that,
I said, Okay, I hands are off Jerry Depoto the
rest of the year. He's done his job. He's put
this team in a position to win a World Series.
There's only one person who can hold them back, and
that person, unfortunately did Chris Simms. He recognizes it. This
team super Bowl contenders. Factor fixtion. You don't forget hot
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La Dodgers winning the World Series. Really really, I mean
I get it to a certain extent, and to have
the Blue Jays, you know heart's being broken fair enough,
but really you'll want to see the New Evil Empire
win another World Series. We'll get to that coming up
at eleven forty five Factor fiction next. And said that
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Sam Darnold is an MVP, and he said Leonard Williams
needs to start getting some some talk about him being
the potential Deepoy defensive player. Of the year. So it
is uh, it's already up. If you missed it, don't
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All Right, Factor Fiction Here I went four and three
on the weekend on picking the Locks with Lee Sterling.
I don't know what he went on the top of
my head, but I know I went four and three
and it would have been a lot better if it
wasn't for Frickin' Navy North Texas going under and c. J.
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Stroud getting hurt yesterday, I would have gone at least
five and two, maybe even six and one. I had
the under on the Broncos Texans. Bingo. How about BJ
Robinson third straight game under fifty yards? Nail that one,
nail that one. Lost on the over on Navy North.
Texas lost on the over on USC Nebraska. Dylan Rylo
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got hurt. That game lost on Texans minus one and
a half over the Broncos. I got the under one
the Broncos. Texans lost on the spread. Hit Vikings Lions
over easy, very easy, and jsaid ninety four and a
half receiving yards like stealing candy from a baby. So
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here we go, factor fiction. All right. The rematch down
in Santa Clara, the home of Super Bowl sixty Rams
forty nine ers, Big one on Sunday. By the way,
the Rams got the Niners and Seahawks and back the
next two weeks. Oh wow, Remember how the forty nine
Ers went on the road and won that game. Well,
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ers are currently a four point favorite. I suggest, wherever
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of fact, they might not even need the points, but
I'm gonna take them, specially you give me four. I'm
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text in fact to four nine four to five one.
If you disagree, text in fiction to four nine to four,
five to one. It's gonna be a great game. Divisional game.
You can't give Kyle Shanahan and that team is much
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injuries as they've had. We've seen it. Fred Warner, Nick
Bosa Brock. Perty doesn't matter. All they do is win,
and they find a way to do it. Look what
they did yesterday to the Giants at the Meadowlands. Give
me forty nine ers plus four at home on Sunday
Home Dog versus the Rams text in four nine four
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next do you really derive enjoyment from a team who
spent over four hundred million dollars winning another World Series.
We'll get to that next Mjay in the midday with
Christopher Kidd victory from the jaws of defeat for the
Dodgers in the top of the ninth inning hitting that
home run off of Hoffman. Didn't have that, And then
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in the extra innings it might have been the bottom
of the ninth he saved the game on a really
tough ground ball. The second he kind of slipped a
little bit and he threw it to home. Will Smith
nailed the runner, and when Miguel Rojas hit that home run,
you knew that Toronto was done. You knew it now.
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I'll tell you. Before the series began, I took the
Blue Jays plus one ninety odds because there was a
statistic that teams who had swept a Leach Championship series
as opposed to teams who had gone to Game seven,
the teams who went seven had won the previous six
or seven series. So I felt good. I felt Toronto's
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playing with house money. They were up three games to two,
like the Mariners, and how they blew it was even
more excruciating for them. So I understand you deriving some enjoyment,
and I want to hear that that made you feel better,
if that did make you feel better. But to me,
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it'd be the equivalent of this the Seahawks losing to
the Detroit Lions and the playoffs and be like, oh,
I hate the Lions, we should have beaten them. And
then the Lions losing to the Rams. Would that make
you feel better? If the Rams going to the Super Bowl?
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So for me, I get it, But there's nothing. There's
no sports city or sports that are worse than La So,
I mean, I won't say I shed any tears for Toronto,
but I didn't feel great that the Dodgers won another
World Series. Now they deserve to win it, though they
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made the play. And how about that play by pase
In in center field, like pause, just completely going over
key k a Hernandez and that could have been the
end of the game, end of the World Series and
he just said, no, I got this ball. They could
have lost that series in the top of the ninth
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if Miguel Rojas doesn't hit the solo home run, they
could have lost it. In the bottom of the ninth
if Rojas at second base doesn't make that throw to
home plate and then on pause catch basically pretty much
just throwing Key k Hernandez around, and then of course
Will Smith's home run to win it there in extra innings,
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and then Mookie Bets double play to end the World Series.
The Dodgers were the best, they go back to back.
I personally though, I mean, LA winning does that really
make you feel better? It's LA? I mean, really is
there any I mean there's no city, and not only
with the Rams, but you think of the Lakers USC football.
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I mean, I don't really count the Angels, even though
they're in the M's Division. They're never relevant. They certainly
haven't been since the beginning of Mike Krout's career. But
I don't know. I just to me, the Dodgers winning
another World Series, Now, there was one person in the
Dodgers I'm very happy for that. I got to know
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when he was the director of baseball operations for the
Tampa Bay Rays and they went to their first World
Series in two thousand and eight, Andrew Friedman, who's now
won his third World Series as the President of Baseball
Operation with the Dodgers. For Andrew Friedman, who's a total mench.
I'm happy for him. I love Andrew Friedman, that guy,
So for him, I'm happy. Everybody else, no, no, and
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I covered Mookie Bets with the Red Sox, but MOOKI
now he's a three time World Series champion, won one
with the Uh well wait a second, he's he a
four time World Series champion? Now? Was he like at
a check that he might be a four time World
Series champion? But the Red Sox will rue the day
that Mookie Bets. They let him leave and go to
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the Dodgers. So it was an unbelievable Game seven. And
I'm not gonna say this just because of recency bias.
It Yeah, he is a four time World Series champion. Now,
that's right. His first year with the Dodgers, he won
the World Series MVP. Mookie bets four time World Series champion.
Holy ish damn? Now was three. I you know, I
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don't really count the COVID cardboard cutout. I don't count
the NBA Finals in twenty twenty, so I'm gonna keep
it consistent, so I don't really count that. But they
have won two more since then, so I sort of
am gonna give them credit if they just won the
cardboard cutout like the Lakers did. Lakers won the COVID
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Cardboar Cutout Finals. That's the weakest title in the history
of pro sports. It's a joke. Every player in that
bubble wanted to get the f out of there, including
James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, I mean hell, Paul George, and
Montrell's Montrez Harrell on The Clippers were about They literally
were about to fight. They were going to fight on
the sidelines during those playoffs. That's why the Clippers implode
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and they lost to the Nuggets. But I don't count
I don't count COVID. I don't count it. I don't
so but yeah, Dodgers winning, I mean, I guess all right,
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In the Mike McDonald era. That was the good news.
We'll get some more good news. Sam Donald, who started
the day sixty to one odds to win the MVP,
has now that has lowered to eighteen to one odds
after last night's game. That's how great he played. Bad
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news Seattle lost middle linebacker Ernest Jones to a knee injury.
You saw it, Buckle. It looked bad. The one glimmer
of hope that the glass could be a little full,
he walked off the field. Mike McDonald was quoted about
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jones injury after the game and he said, quote, it's
not season ending, but we'll see how it goes. So
I don't know how long he's gonna be out. Hopefully
he's not out too long, like hopefully he's back for
the Rams game in two weeks. And Josh job was
also lost to a concussion in the second quarter. Don't
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can't imagine that being anything that would keep him out
any amount of time. But all I can say is this,
it's time now and we if you missed the beginning
of the show, Christopher Kidd at First Hour will be
podcasted very soon, if isn't already. We started the show
with the best football analysts on the planet on national
(01:27):
national football analysts. In terms of guys that you see
on TV, Lewis Riddick, he said. Lewis Ridicks said that
he believes that the Seattle Seahawks will be in the
NFC Championship game. That's what this team is. You see
the vision right now of John Schneider, you see it,
and he's playing chess, not checkers. And this team last night,
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I mean, Sam Darnold, what can you say about him
other than at halftime he was mister perfect like the
late great Kurt Henning. Sixteen of sixteen, two hundred and
eighty two yards, four touchdowns in a perfect QB rating
of one fifty eight point three career high, seventeen straight
completions to start the game. It's just incredible. Ended up
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twenty one and twenty four three hundred and thirty yards,
light work in the second half. Had one pick was
his fault. Should have thrown that, But not gonna get
on a guy who right now is in the top
three or four depending on where you look for your
action to win the MVP in the league. Didn't have
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that on my big no card before the season.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Began.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I can tell you that much. Also, Clint Kubiak called
a great game last night. And you know the best
thing that Clint Kubiak didn't do last night. He didn't
call any of those BS trickery type gimmicky plays. He
just called called the game straight and look what happened.
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Clint Kubiak also now getting let's just say, a lot
of critical acclaim for his work this season as the
Seahawks OC. It's all happening right now before our very eyes.
It's all happening. Maybe this season. We won't know because
we're just not quite halfway there, almost halfway there. Six
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and two will be over halfway there after this Sunday
at home against looks like more than likely Jacoby Brissett
and the Arizona Cardinals last night. To me and for
all these quote so called experts, if you didn't know,
now you know it's time to start. When you look
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at the best team in the NFL, you need to
put that Seattle Seahawks logo, preferably the throwback logo, along
with the rollback uniforms next to best team in the NFL.
If I ultimately right now, gun held to head and
I hope nobody would do that. I will still go
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with the champs. To be the champ, you got to
beat the champ and the Philadelphia Eagles. To me, they
just traded for Jalen Phillips, which is like Jeff Bezos
hitting the power ball. But the Seattle Seahawks are right
there now one of the things, and we're not gonna
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get to to Nitpicky, but I have to a little
bit one of the things that we haven't quite seen
just yet, as I'm still waiting and listen. I thought
the Running Game did its job last night. I did,
And I like the fact that Canine got most of
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the carries, which is why I I don't like when
you see something that you know and and they keep
bringing in sharbon A. That's fine, you want to bring
in Charbona and the goal line and go and do that,
but K nine guys, just do I thought the Running Game.
For me, it is something that still is lacking. We're
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not there yet on the Running Game. That's the only
thing that's something that I think is a work in progress.
And after last night, yeah, you can tell it's it
was better, but we're still not there yet at all.
Still not there eighty eight yards three point seven. You know,
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Kenny Walker not great at times is good. It's I
don't know what it is. I don't know. I thought
there were better play calls last night, you know, some
stretch outside zones and whatnot. But for whatever reason, this
running game continues to be an issue. It's tough to
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really get critical when you're up thirty one to seven
at halftime. But all in all I can say is
that now, unequivocally and controvertibly, the Seattle Seahawks are arguably
the best team in the National Football League. Now, can
they get better? Absolutely? Every team can get better. Howie Roseman,
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the GM of the reigning defending Super Bowl champion Eagles,
they got better today by trading for Jalen Phillips. So
I'm hoping that there is someone out there. Wyatt Teller.
I know, I know the chop block on Uchenna Nuosu
in preseason, and apparently Mike McDonald doesn't want him in
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the locker room. But if there's a guy that you
can get to improve this team and solidify that O line,
which has been the achilles seal and weakness of this
team for over a decade, you gotta see if you
Chenna and a lot of guys in that locker room
would not have a problem with it. And there's an
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old saying you don't have to like someone to make
money with them and be successful. And if Wyatt tell
her is that guy that you can upgrade at the deadline,
so be it. But I thought last night was just
an unbelievable showing by this organization by John Schneider, Mike McDonald,
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Clint Kubiak, the defense which looks like it could be
the best in the NFL. And now it's time kid
that Yeah, yeah, it's now time where we can when
you're four to zero on the road in the league,
in the National Football League, all of a sudden, Now
(07:55):
now we can kind of look at this team and say, wow,
I believe the only undefeated team in league. I believe
that's that's correct. That could be wrong, but I know
the Colts have a loss after yesterday on the road.
The Patriots did they lose on the road. They want
at Buffalo, So I have to go back and look
at that. But regardless, it doesn't matter this Seahawks team.
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When we're gonna separate contenders from pretenders, we know which
side of the ledger. The Seattle Seahawks team is on kid.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
On and cooking.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It has been quite a ride for this team. I
think the expectation coming in was that they could be
a fringe playoff team and surprise some people. But I
think people are starting to realize they're not fringe. They
have a chance to win it all, which is what
they believe from the jump. Whether or not fans or
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media believe that, it doesn't matter. They believe from the jump.
When OTA started, they probably rolled on the board, Super
Bowl whatever. However, they got to their decision, they stamped
it early, and they put the pieces together and you're
seeing it come about. You're seeing Sam Donald be the
most efficient, if not best quarterback in the NFL. He
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was sixteen for sixteen at one point last night, just
beautiful throws. The touchdown to Royo was you can't place
a better football.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You can't. But it was the fact that they were
staying with the run.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It wasn't as good because I think Canaan only averaged
like three point three yards per carry his biggest run,
but I think for eleven yards, a couple of penalties
here and there, but nonetheless they're forcing teams to have
to switch things up. They want to play this type
of defense. Well, my McDonald kubi, I say no, no, no,
you're gonna have to play man against us because you
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can't fill the run lanes. You can't just you don't
have the guys up front to knock our guys off.
The commanders don't have a d line they can stop
the run to save their lives. But it was the
like could stop there, And it was the fact that
the Seahawks kept doing it and getting three yards and
after a.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
While, you know what you're gonna do. Heres are blitzing guys.
You're gonna fill that box.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And when they do that, you're leaving one on one
with the dbs that have no shot against Tory Horton,
who put on a mixtape of just having dbs uncomfortable
in certain scenarios some of his releases. Last night they
show a replays of it. My goodness, he is just
whipping the DB's behind. And then JSN the touchdown that
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Arroyo caught. JSN ended up hurting tray Amos. He shook
him so bad he hurt himself. He had to come
out the game. He did come back and then he
gave a sixty two yard bomb to Cody White. So
you're just seeing the Seahawks is picking at the defense's
weaknesses and exploiting that and putting up points. That's another
blowout win for this team. Point differential is pretty important.
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It shows you the top dogs. It does it shows you, Okay,
this team is really good. Oh look, who's another good
team with point differential? The Los Angeles Rams right there
with the seas I think the I think the Seahawks
are plus eighty. I haven't done the math on it,
but nonetheless, the point is if the Rams and the Seahawks,
they're going to be fighting for that one spot in
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the NFC West. Could be for the entire NFC, depending
on what the Eagles do, how the Bugs fare. But
right now, when you're looking at it, you gotta shoe love.
The Seahawks are doing every and every They're doing any
and everything they want to opposing teams.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm glad you mentioned that, kid. I'm glad you mentioned
that point differential. Rams are plus eighty two, number one
in the league. Who's number two? You're Seattle Seahawks at
plus eighty one, number two in the league. Can you
imagine that guy. I don't want to get ahead of
ourselves because when you get ahead of yourselves, you can
have a slip up. And Mike McDonald and this team
and man like you hear me, and I will tell
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you that from the outside. Actually I'm sorry, they're number
three in the league. The Cults are still number one
at plus one oh nine. So it's Colts rams Seahawks
one two three in point differential. Colts are plus one
oh nine.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know what, MJ.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Don't even worry about the AFC because the Super Bowl,
to your point, and you won't see the Colts in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
There's no way, there's no fn way, There's no way, no.
I My thing is that.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
This is why I always say it. And a lot
of people like who are you know? Who get on
me for being hard on certain people in this town,
right like Damnager right, my nickname for the baseball coach
of the professional baseball team in this market. But then
I'm equally effusive in my praise, if not more, of
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John Schneider. I've watched John Schneider from AFAR for many,
many years and marveled at his drafts and marveled at
a lot of his moves and then looked at someone
like Jamal Adams say WTF, but I want to go
back to win this whole league because this is a
copycat league. Kid. When you get Sean McVeigh, then you
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start getting clones. Oh Stefanski, Oh, Zach Taylor, Oh Matt Lafleur,
Oh Mike McDaniel. John Schneider said, Lee Corso not so fast,
my friend. Now I'm gonna go the other way. Well,
everybody's zigging, I'm gonna zag and I'm gonna go with
a defensive coach, and I'm gonna go with a guy.
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And look at the Baltimore Ravens defense. Now take away
that game against the Dolphins on Thursday night. They are
a I can't even say they are an abortion. That
defense is pathetic. Do you know why? Because they don't
have Mike McDonald as their coordinator anymore. That's why they're
a joke, an absolute complete dumpster fire is show. Mike
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McDonald is him. You watch him, He's he's got everything
under like and I'm not gonna do this. I'm not
gonna do this now because we're celebrating such a unbelievable
statement flex victory on Sunday Night football. But do you
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see why don't you juxtapose? Okay, let's do a split screen.
Let's put Mike McDonald on the left and watch him
in every game. The guy looks like General Patton going
in the next World War. You feel confident, You know
that this team will not fold in a stressful, panic,
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do or die game situation in the fourth quarter. You
have that. It engenders confidence. And then you look at
his counterpart on the right hand side, Damager, and you
saw him in the postseason, and it looks like he
had just been caught shoplifting at Bloomingdale's and he was
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about to go to jail. One guy confidence, the other guy,
you're just like you want to close your eyes and
hope you just make it. Therein lies the difference. Mike
McDonald is him. When we're gonna sit here today, and
we talked to Lewis ritic last hour, he said, Sam Donald,
no question MVP, he said, Seattle Seahawks NFC championship game,
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Tory Horton potentially rookie of the year. Let's give Mike
McDonald and look at him as the possible coach of
the year. I know we're not even fifty percent through.
But when we're talking about coaches of the year, Steichen,
no question, McVeigh absolutely, Mike McDonald, no doubt. It's time.
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This franchise is in the best position to contend for
a Super Bowl since the lob era of twenty twelve
to twenty sixteen. And I'm not going on any limb
by saying that, kid, do you agree?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah? They you have to show love. You can't.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And by the way, let me also just say this,
kid and I will both eat Crow bro. Before the season.
We had this as an L. Last night we had
it as an L and all of you did too,
So don't lie. Not many of you we're talking preseason now.
Not many of you thought that we were going to
go into to DC and beat the team who went
(16:29):
to the NFC Championship Game last year, knocked off the
Lions on the road, right, kid, Willie Crow gladfully?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, you know, we can't predict injuries, We can't predict anything.
We just looked up the schedule and said win lost,
just like anybody else would do. And the Seahawks doesn't
matter who they face, They're just putting belt tasks. You
could tell them, Hey, you go and play the former
legion of boom. They say, bring them. They love the challenge.
They are excited to go out and and go on
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a national stage and just barrass you.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Make you wonder like, damn, can we do anything?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Doesn't Letter Williams? Is he not like a fine wine
that gets better with age? Look at him.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
All about the fourth and fifteen, right, yeah? Dan Quinn's like, yo,
if you don't get this ball game?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
And you know what what do I say to open
the show talking about Jaden?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What he was able to do.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
If the offense ain't moving the football throwing it, it's
him in the legs fourth and fifteen. Nobody's open pass,
russe is doing their part, and you see Jaden take
off and you're thinking he's probably gonna get it because
that's all they have. And what does Leo do? Leo
just says, you know what, I'm gonna lay it all
on the line. A leader of this football team, someone
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that has been dominant for the past two seasons, got
a new deal. He's showing up and he makes a
huge stop turnover on downs. If it wasn't for Leo
on that play, Jaden might have scored I haven't seen
the All twenty two to see who else is around,
but the way Jayden got up and was like dang,
like you would have thought he was going to run
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down for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
And he probably would have if it was ninety nine, right.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I mean when agent like fine Wine doing the job.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Like he looks like right now, Leonard Williams looks like
Warren Sap in his prime. I want to get to
this though one click. I want to get to kid
Chris Sims and what he thinks of the Seattle Seahawks
five words or less.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Time the Seahawks beat the Commanders thirty eight to fourteen,
I'll give.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You the floor. They are Super Bowl contenders. Well done, right.
I've said this to a few people, right, just like
on you know, we both go on talk radio around
the country and ever, and they go, hey, what's one
team that you know nobody's thinking about to say, watch
out right, the Seattle Seahawks are that team for me
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to go, like, I know everybody looks like, oh yeah,
there's sixtion two, But I don't think everybody's quite giving
them credit for as good as they are. I think
that's what jumps out to me Seattle to me with
what you're seeing them do on the offensive side of
the ball, their O line plays better, Sam Donald's on fire,
Jackson Smith and Jigba is actually making me question whether
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he's not the best receiver in football. That's how good
he is. I'm not saying he is. He's in there
with Puka and Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson. There's no
denying it. There's none. He's incredible that way. Their defense,
you know, I wax poetically about their defense. I like
their defense. It's ass kickers everywhere. They got a big,
physical front seven. When their secondary is healthy, which you
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got closer to last night, it's a special secondary. Their
coach special on the defensive side of the ball between
Mike McDonald that was a butt whoopen last night. And
Seattle is a team that I say, yeah, watch out
for because I just feel like they're going upwards on
a big way. I respect and always admire Chris Sims.
Unlike somebody else on that channel, Chris Simms is actually
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better than his father as an analyst. Maybe not as
a player because he got hurt, but he's tough, tough
as hell, Unlike somebody else at NBC. I think we
all know who I'm talking about here, little nepotism. Okay,
Son's on the pregame, right, Sons on the pregame, and
we know, we know that guy doesn't belong in the broadcast.
(20:23):
But Chris Simms is one of the best in the business.
For him to say that, real recognizes real, and I
want everybody here to appreciate that. Listen, I'm not the
Pom Pom waiver cheerleader, sports talk host. Okay, I make
fun of every buddy like that, but I'm telling you
right now, when it comes time to just like after
the guy used to call Girard, Jerry Depoto at the
(20:46):
deadline traded for Naylor and Suarez. Once he did that,
I said, Okay, I hands are off Jerry Depoto the
rest of the year. He's done his job. He's put
this team in a position to win a World Series.
There's only one person who can hold them back, and
that person, unfortunately did Chris Simms. He recognizes it. This
team super Bowl contenders. Factor fixtion. You don't forget hot
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Sam Darnold is an MVP, and he said Leonard Williams
needs to start getting some some talk about him being
the potential Deepoy defensive player. Of the year. So it
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All Right, Factor Fiction Here I went four and three
on the weekend on picking the Locks with Lee Sterling.
I don't know what he went on the top of
my head, but I know I went four and three
and it would have been a lot better if it
wasn't for Frickin' Navy North Texas going under and c. J.
(23:51):
Stroud getting hurt yesterday, I would have gone at least
five and two, maybe even six and one. I had
the under on the Broncos Texans. Bingo. How about BJ
Robinson third straight game under fifty yards? Nail that one,
nail that one. Lost on the over on Navy North.
Texas lost on the over on USC Nebraska. Dylan Rylo
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got hurt. That game lost on Texans minus one and
a half over the Broncos. I got the under one
the Broncos. Texans lost on the spread. Hit Vikings Lions
over easy, very easy, and jsaid ninety four and a
half receiving yards like stealing candy from a baby. So
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here we go, factor fiction. All right. The rematch down
in Santa Clara, the home of Super Bowl sixty Rams
forty nine ers, Big one on Sunday. By the way,
the Rams got the Niners and Seahawks and back the
next two weeks. Oh wow, Remember how the forty nine
Ers went on the road and won that game. Well,
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ers are currently a four point favorite. I suggest, wherever
you get your action, you jump on the forty nine
ers literally, not just fact or fiction, but you jump
on the forty nine ers at plus four because it
won't be at plus four that much longer. Give me
the forty nine ers the Burgundeingen Gold at home. Matter
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of fact, they might not even need the points, but
I'm gonna take them, specially you give me four. I'm
taking them forty nine ers plus four. If you agree
text in fact to four nine four to five one.
If you disagree, text in fiction to four nine to four,
five to one. It's gonna be a great game. Divisional game.
You can't give Kyle Shanahan and that team is much
(25:38):
injuries as they've had. We've seen it. Fred Warner, Nick
Bosa Brock. Perty doesn't matter. All they do is win,
and they find a way to do it. Look what
they did yesterday to the Giants at the Meadowlands. Give
me forty nine ers plus four at home on Sunday
Home Dog versus the Rams text in four nine four
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a four nine four or five one. And as always,
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bet it now, wait for it, wait for it, thank
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button at ninety three to three KJR. Rant away, or
we'll open up the phone line to two oh six
two eight six ninety five ninety five. Who knows, maybe
Commando Dave will come out of the the woodworks again.
Command O Dave, I'm calling for you. I'm calling for you,
Commando Dave, to call all the great callers. I want
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you in at noon to give you a platter of
boor said sandwiches. So we'll have that coming up. But
next do you really derive enjoyment from a team who
spent over four hundred million dollars winning another World Series.
We'll get to that next Mjay in the midday with
Christopher Kidd victory from the jaws of defeat for the
Dodgers in the top of the ninth inning hitting that
home run off of Hoffman. Didn't have that, And then
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in the extra innings it might have been the bottom
of the ninth he saved the game on a really
tough ground ball. The second he kind of slipped a
little bit and he threw it to home. Will Smith
nailed the runner, and when Miguel Rojas hit that home run,
you knew that Toronto was done. You knew it now.
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I'll tell you. Before the series began, I took the
Blue Jays plus one ninety odds because there was a
statistic that teams who had swept a Leach Championship series
as opposed to teams who had gone to Game seven,
the teams who went seven had won the previous six
or seven series. So I felt good. I felt Toronto's
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playing with house money. They were up three games to two,
like the Mariners, and how they blew it was even
more excruciating for them. So I understand you deriving some enjoyment,
and I want to hear that that made you feel better,
if that did make you feel better. But to me,
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it'd be the equivalent of this the Seahawks losing to
the Detroit Lions and the playoffs and be like, oh,
I hate the Lions, we should have beaten them. And
then the Lions losing to the Rams. Would that make
you feel better? If the Rams going to the Super Bowl?
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So for me, I get it, But there's nothing. There's
no sports city or sports that are worse than La So,
I mean, I won't say I shed any tears for Toronto,
but I didn't feel great that the Dodgers won another
World Series. Now they deserve to win it, though they
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made the play. And how about that play by pase
In in center field, like pause, just completely going over
key k a Hernandez and that could have been the
end of the game, end of the World Series and
he just said, no, I got this ball. They could
have lost that series in the top of the ninth
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if Miguel Rojas doesn't hit the solo home run, they
could have lost it. In the bottom of the ninth
if Rojas at second base doesn't make that throw to
home plate and then on pause catch basically pretty much
just throwing Key k Hernandez around, and then of course
Will Smith's home run to win it there in extra innings,
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and then Mookie Bets double play to end the World Series.
The Dodgers were the best, they go back to back.
I personally though, I mean, LA winning does that really
make you feel better? It's LA? I mean, really is
there any I mean there's no city, and not only
with the Rams, but you think of the Lakers USC football.
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I mean, I don't really count the Angels, even though
they're in the M's Division. They're never relevant. They certainly
haven't been since the beginning of Mike Krout's career. But
I don't know. I just to me, the Dodgers winning
another World Series, Now, there was one person in the
Dodgers I'm very happy for that. I got to know
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when he was the director of baseball operations for the
Tampa Bay Rays and they went to their first World
Series in two thousand and eight, Andrew Friedman, who's now
won his third World Series as the President of Baseball
Operation with the Dodgers. For Andrew Friedman, who's a total mench.
I'm happy for him. I love Andrew Friedman, that guy,
So for him, I'm happy. Everybody else, no, no, and
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I covered Mookie Bets with the Red Sox, but MOOKI
now he's a three time World Series champion, won one
with the Uh well wait a second, he's he a
four time World Series champion? Now? Was he like at
a check that he might be a four time World
Series champion? But the Red Sox will rue the day
that Mookie Bets. They let him leave and go to
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the Dodgers. So it was an unbelievable Game seven. And
I'm not gonna say this just because of recency bias.
It Yeah, he is a four time World Series champion. Now,
that's right. His first year with the Dodgers, he won
the World Series MVP. Mookie bets four time World Series champion.
Holy ish damn? Now was three. I you know, I
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don't really count the COVID cardboard cutout. I don't count
the NBA Finals in twenty twenty, so I'm gonna keep
it consistent, so I don't really count that. But they
have won two more since then, so I sort of
am gonna give them credit if they just won the
cardboard cutout like the Lakers did. Lakers won the COVID
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Cardboar Cutout Finals. That's the weakest title in the history
of pro sports. It's a joke. Every player in that
bubble wanted to get the f out of there, including
James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, I mean hell, Paul George, and
Montrell's Montrez Harrell on The Clippers were about They literally
were about to fight. They were going to fight on
the sidelines during those playoffs. That's why the Clippers implode
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and they lost to the Nuggets. But I don't count
I don't count COVID. I don't count it. I don't
so but yeah, Dodgers winning, I mean, I guess all right,
coming up next, Hot take Monday. Open up the phones
two six two eight six. If you go ahead a
platter of boars Head sandwiches to give away. I open
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up the phones one time a week and it is now,
So call in right now if you want to win
a platter of bores Head sandwiches. The calls and the
not only the calls, but you go into the free
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step it up even more like the Seahawks did last night.
A platter of bores head sandwiches on the line, open
phones two O six two eight six ninety five ninety
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out earlier today. We'll do that next hot take Monday,
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