December 29, 2025 • 32 mins
The Seattle Seahawks improve to 13-3 as they beat the Carolina Panthers 27-10. The only scary thing is the fact that QB Sam Darnold keeps turning the football over, could he, will he be the reason the Seahawks miss out on getting to the Super Bowl? In the Seahawks win RB Zach Charbonnet had a day, is K9 done as a Seahawk? Puka Nacua stays in headlines for not great reasons, this time it's regarding concussions and if they're real.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Hawks took care of business on the road. They
did what they had to do, and it all comes
down to Saturday night, five o'clock against the San Francisco
forty nine Ers at Santa Clara Stadium for the NFC
West Division and the number one seed in the NFC.
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The defense did what the defense does. They just continue
to kick ass and take names. Julian Love with a
pick to Marcus Lawrence with a peanut, punched Tillman causing
a fumble yesterday. The defense are, to quote the Lake
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great Denny Green, who we thought they were. They're elite,
They're sick. They might be the best in the NFL.
Aside from a couple times this year against the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers and against the Rams a couple of weeks
ago at home, the defense is nothing short of spectacular.
So I could sit here all day and we can
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play that game of oh man, you know it comes
down to this. But I've got to tell you, man,
before the Mariners, Yeah, I'm I'm gonna talk about Mariners,
and there's a reason why because I'm gonna apply it
back to Seahawks before the Mariner started the postseason. As a
matter of fact, even after the trades that were made
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to bring Josh Naylor and Gino Soarez to Seattle to
make a run at that moment, and you might recall
there was virtually and literally no criticism from me of
Jerry to Poto because at that point, Jerry Depoto pulled
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off two great trades. He didn't liquidate the farm system
like Aj Preler did in San Diego, acquiring Mason Miller
at the deadline. He didn't do that. So the Mariners
farm system is intact. Jerry Depoto before the deadline did
his job, and which is why the Mariners went to
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Game seven of the ALCS and were eight outs away
from going to the franchise's first ever World Series. But
I said there was one thing, if anything, that could
hold the Mariners back from making it to their first
ever Fall Classic. Certainly wasn't Cal Riley, the guy that
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should have won the MVP. Wasn't Julio who came on
as the summer got hotter, so did he. Wasn't Josh Naylor,
who ended up probably becoming the heart and soul of
this team. Wasn't JP Crawford, wasn't Randy a Rose Arena,
And it wasn't Jorge Polanco, who if it wasn't for
Jorra Planco, this team would not advance versus the times
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in the Alds.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
There was one person.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That I felt that would hold this franchise back from
achieving its ultimate goal, and that person was the guy
that I now referred to as Damager Damager the manager,
and unfortunately it ended up becoming a fulfilling prophecy on
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my part because he was, to me, the ultimate reason.
If you're going to pinpoint, I mean, forget about Game
seven of the ALCS. You could go back to the
Detroit series and how bad he managed the bullpen there,
but he got bailed out by Hora Blanco.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Not once, but twice.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And in Game five, Gino Suarez that was the Geno
game two home runs, including the game winning grand Slam
in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the
Mariners a three to two series lead. I'm not trying
to do revision is history here, but there's a reason
why I'm saying this. So to me, there are four
words that should apply to the twenty twenty five Seattle Seahawks,
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and that is super Bowl or bust. Kind Of like
the way I felt At the end of the Mariners
regular season, the four words were World Series or bust.
They had the team, they the best roster in the
American League win healthy. The pitching staff wasn't healthy all
season long, but when healthy, they were as good, if
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not better, than everybody in baseball, including the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But there's one person that if the Seattle.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Seahawks do not achieve their ultimate goal, which is to
raise this franchise's second Vince Lombardi Trophy over at the
Virginia Mason Athletic Center and Renton, it'll because of one person.
It's not Mike McDonald Coach of the Year candidate. It's
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not Clint Kubiak. It's not Aiden Durdey. It's not DeMarcus Lawrence.
It's not JSN it's not Zach Sharboney. It's not Riek Woland,
even though at times you want to tear your hair
out when he does something stupid. It's not Devin Witherspoon,
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it's not Big Cat, Leo Williams, Byron Murphy, etc. A. J. Barner,
It'll be because of one person. And you all know
who I'm referring to. And from now on, I now
have a nickname for the starting quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks.
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If you know, since I'm the one who called Dan
Wilson damager the manager because he does more damage than
he does managing, my nickname for Sam Donald is HTM.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Like at ATM, you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Go to the bank, you need some cash because someplace
you're at or you don't want to use your credit
card there, you go to the ATM, you get cash. Well,
unfortunately for Seattle, they have gone to the HTM, which
stands for human Turnover machine, twenty times this year.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Twenty times this year.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Sam Donald leads the NFL in turnovers with twenty, more
than two a tongue of Iiloa who doesn't play that
far from where I'm at right now, more than Gino Smith,
former Seahawks quarterback. You name it, every quarterback in the NFL,
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every player in the NFL. The guy who leads the
league in turnovers is Sam freaking Darnold. And because of this,
the Seahawks have twenty eight total giveaways, which is only
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second behind the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL. The Hawks
minus four in turnover differential is tied for twenty fourth
in the league. Now, is this conduct becoming of a
Super Bowl contender who are ranked behind the Bengals, Dolphins,
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in Saints in turnover differential.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You're behind the.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Dolphins and the eighths in turnover differential. He lost another
fumble yesterday, his sixth of the season, and he threw
his fourteenth pick of the year. And I'm at this
point now where Darnold now is in well, not company
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that you want to be in. He's in a small
group of quarterbacks to have at least twenty turnovers in
a season but still lead their team to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He's one of four quarterbacks who have committed twenty total
turnovers in a regular season and has led his team
to the playoffs. Now, the other three quarterbacks, they're really
pretty good quarterbacks. Jalen Hurts did it two years ago,
Josh Allen did it two years ago. Eli Manning did
it in twenty sixteen. But this to me is and
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I have asked everybody out there. I've asked you questions.
Where is your where is your trust factor? On a
scale of one to ten, with ten being the most
of Sam Donald where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And mine was.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
About a six and a half Now mine is down
to a three That is my trust factor on Sam
Donald leading this team to the super Bowl. This team
is succeeding in spite of Sam Donald and not because
of Sam Donald. And you know what, I'm going to
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keep it real and I'm gonna stay true to myself
and I'm going to do my show the way I've
done it for twenty one years. You want fluff radio,
listen to another station. You want puppy dogs, ice cream
and rainbows, listen to another station. You're not gonna get that.
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Issh here with me. We've got a problem here. We've
got a problem, and unfortunately this team have so much
at stage right now. And I like Sam Donald. I
want everybody out there to know I said it was
an upgrade. I've said it is an upgrade throughout the
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course of the season. G imagine if we stayed with
Gino and dk oh Man. So I like Sam Donald.
This is nothing personal, but this at the end of
the day, like Bill Parcells always said, you kind of
are what your record is now, I'm not talking about
thirteen and three. I'm talking about twenty turnovers, six fumbles,
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fourteen interceptions and taking a team.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That and that to me shows how great this in elite.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
This defense is because the Hawks right now are minus
four and turnover differential tied for twenty fourth in the
NFL because of one person, and we all know who
that is.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I'm worried. I'm worried, and I.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Hope he can put it together for the next six weeks.
I'm hoping he can do it and we can end
up in Santa Clara after this Saturday, on the second
Sunday in February for Super Bowl sixty, and I hope
we're there and we'll be on Radio Row so I
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can look at a bunch of people. They always would say, Hey,
if you ever want to feel better about your life,
go to a Walmart on a Saturday, especially in the South.
You'll feel a lot better about your life. I just
go to Radio Row and I look around at all
the fat, ugly, balding, disgusting, repulsive individuals in our business,
and I feel so much better about my life.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I want to be in Radio Row, and I
want the Seahawks to be in the Super Bowl. But
if they don't make it, it's gonna be because of HTM,
the Human Turnover Machine, Sam Fing Donald or SFD Sam
Fing Donald I mean we are now going into week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, it's one thing for.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Something to happen where you're like, oh, that's an anomaly,
he'll fix it. Once is an accident, twice as a trend,
three times is evidence.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And twenty times is a verdict. Twenty turnovers, that is
a verdict, Seattle. And if you.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Think that I'm just out here right now doing blow
hard like loud mouth sports radio, trust me, then you
can put your pom poms down because I don't trust
this guy to get this team to where they want
to be, the Promised Land and their first super Bowl
since Super Bowl forty nine and Glendale, Arizona. I don't
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trust him. I mean, at this point, it's it's over,
like it's over. I just hope he just like it's like,
can you just not turn the damn ball over?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And he does some good things too.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm not saying, but you the worst thing you can
do is turn the ball over. It's the worst thing
you can do. And right now we have a quarterback.
If you look at all the quarterbacks that are gonna
go in the playoffs, probably other than Baker Mayfield that
I trust the least is Sam Darnold. I trust Jalen
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Hurts more than him. I trust Rock Birdie certainly, Matthew Stafford,
Drake may Bow, Knicks, Trevor Lawrence. Now you could say
Lamar Jackson's having a bad year, fine, whatever. But if
he's healthy and Lamar shows up and he places, he's
a two time MVP. I try more than Sam Darnold.
I trust Aaron Rodgers now more than Sam Darnold. I
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trust Justin Herbert now more than Sam Darnald. You get
the pitcher, Josh Allen too. Just pick one anyone other
than Baker Faker, Mayfield or Bryce Young, one of those
two guys who will be in the playoffs after this weekend.
I trust every other quarterback in the NFL more than
Sam Darnold. I'm out. I'm out on this guy, and
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I'll go you one more over this team. If you're
not evolving, if you're not changing, then you're dying, not
only in football but in life. We've got a problem
for twenty twenty six and beyond.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm not putting in a call to Eric Tacosta in Baltimore.
I'm good on that, But I am putting a call
into Cincinnati. How much does it take? How much does
it take to get Joe Burrow to Seattle? Imagine Joe
Burrow a this team with this defense. Oh yeah, you're
gonna have to give up a spoon and some first
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round picks, maybe three, But to get Joe Burrow wants out.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I am I'm out on Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
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Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm done on Sam Darnold. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I just you're gonna Like every family has a Fredo,
and the Fredo of the Seattle Seahawks is Sam Darnold.
You're gonna have to carry this guy. He is the
weak link on this team. I actually literally he is him.
He could say what you want about Anthony Bradford. Fine,
we know one of, if not the worst right guard
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in the NFL. I trust him now more than Sam Donald.
At least Anthony Bradford won't turn the ball over twenty
times twenty in sixteen games. It's ridiculous. So I'm I've
had it. I've had it on this guy. I've been
you know what I'm today Today the gloves come off
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and the Darth Vader mask goes on. I've had it.
I'm done. I don't trust him, I don't want to.
I just he is who he is. This is it,
and it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But yep, this is where we are.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
At period exclamation point. All right, But the Seahawks did
they find something in yesterday's game that they can take
as a positive into Saturday nights Epic Week seventeen showdown
for the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Frank Schwab will join us at eleven MJY and the
midday Christopher Kidd Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
There's probably exact best game as a Seahawk, I would imagine,
I mean, definitely in the last two years. You know,
it's telling Kane I can played a great game too.
Is this Sometimes that's the way the game goes on
on some of those creases and things. And then I
mean the third down conversion was incredible. Some of those
some of those you know black zone runs are like
you know, ninety five was un blocked in the hole.
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It makes the guy missing. It's a two yard game,
but I that it's a big time two yards, So
it's it's not just the explosive runs, it's all those
those tough, tough yards as well, and then obviously finishing
out in four minute it was a big time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
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Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't know how much longer we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It either going to be maybe today or next Monday
will be the last time, so I don't know. Maybe
we'll do it in the playoffs. I'll talk to Patrick
about this and see what we're gonna do. But you
don't have much time to do it. So if you
want to do it, you can't call at noon live.
Then go to the free irt radio app ninety three
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Zach Sharboney yesterday, excellent game. Just what can you say?
Eighteen carries, one hundred and ten yards, two touchdowns, his
first one hundred yard game this season and the first
time the Hawks have had one hundred yard rusher and
back to back game since Walker did it during the
final three games of the twenty twenty two season. So
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Hawks at one hundred and sixty three on the ground
yesterday on thirty three carries. And the play that Mike
McDonald is talking about was huge because a lot of
things were going against the Hawks and they were facing
a third and fifteen from their own twenty five yard lane.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Sharbon ay, I mean for.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Click Koubiak to call that play is balls, big balls,
like ac DC one saying, and then he ran for
twenty five yards in a first down and you know
it's yeah, that was like, that was big. I mean,
he was just great the whole game. He was great
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the entire game. The two yard run the third quarter
puts Seattle up ten three and then and unfortunately, but
I understand why I lost him by Kenny Walker.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Player prop over.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Kenny didn't have it, k and I didn't have it yesterday,
and they went with Sharbona on that final drive, I'm like,
can we at least get him in the game? All
I needed was four more yards. But that beats all over.
Horrible gambling weekend, worst week end of the year for me.
But I like the fact that they're running the ball
when they need to, and that's huge because if you
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can't run the ball and you can't stop the run,
it's gonna be trouble for you in the postseason. We
know the Buffalo Bills can't stop the run. They can
run the ball, but they can't stop it. That's a
problem when you get to the playoffs. And right now
this team is hitting on all cylinders in the running
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game back to back weeks and obviously sets up for
the big one coming up on Saturday night for everything,
all the marbles, the division, the number one seed, the bye,
It's a trifecta all there on Saturday Night. So if
I'm gonna get the red pen out, I'm also gonna
give kudos and props to where it's due and Zach Charbonnet,
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And I'll just say one more thing about Jasn who's
not gonna come close to breaking Megatron Calvin Johnson's singles
even receiving yard mark of nineteen forty six. The reason
he's not going to it's not because JSN got worse.
It's because the guy throwing the ball couldn't keep up
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with jsn's rate, just couldn't keep up.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But Zach Charbonne, the running game.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That is huge, and you're gonna need that throughout the playoffs.
But specifically, I mean, you gotta win this game. I
can't even what do you drop to a five or
a six if you lose this game? It's for everything,
and kids said it. The San Francisco forty nine ers, man,
they're a team that we certainly did not want to see.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
All right, coming up next hitting to all fields.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We got some tremendous audio for you, and the great
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Hot Take Monday. Your phone calls at noon MJ in
the midday. All Right, Pookaku has been uh well, he said,
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a bunch of things done some stupid stuff. But this,
this might be, this could be a whole other level.
Here's Pooka Nakua on concussions in the NFL. I also
believe that the concussions are all in your head. Us.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Concussions aren't real.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's all on your head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's yeah, wow, there's a quick bite.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
He doesn't believe that concussions are real. They're all in
your head, you.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Know, Pooka. I didn't play the game, certainly nowhere near
at the level that you did. I'm gonna go against
you on that one. I think concussions are quite real.
And if you don't believe me, look at everything the
NFL has done to mitigate concussions since everything happened about
fifteen years ago, where they were at the epicenter of
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several civil, multi million dollar lawsuits because the NFL just
swept it underneath the rug for decades, and now they
have gone the exact opposite and they've done everything that
they can to uh A, man.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Pooka, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
He was a guy I thought always in a former Husky,
former Cougar BYU, that is, and I just never took
him for someone that would say so many dumb things
and even do dumber things. But going on Twitch live
streams is probably not great for your brand. I want
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to hear that one more time because I can't believe
he actually said it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I also believe that concussions are all in your head.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Used concussions aren't really it's all on your head.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's wow.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm sure the NFL doesn't want one of its best
wide receivers saying that concussions aren't real they're all in
your head. Well, yeah, that's usually where concussions are. But
they are definitely real, there's no doubt about that. I'm
just at this point where I'm completely shocked that someone
like him would say something kind of so stupid because
he's a really smart guy and he's gonna get paid
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big time in this offseason as he is up for
an extension, so obviously the Rams are gonna, you know,
back up the Brins truck, give him whatever he wants,
make him the highest paid receiver in the NFL, or
next to Justin Jefferson or whatever. Maybe he'll be higher
paid than Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
He deserves whatever he gets he deserves, but Pooka, you
probably want to steer clear of that. That's not something
that I don't really think that that you wanna. You
wanna really do you just don't looking around the NFL
last night or throughout this weekend. I was and I'm
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still concerned about Saturday's game. I don't want to get
fully into it, but the one thing I will say
after watching last night's game between the Bears and forty
nine Ers, there's no way the Seattle Seahawks are giving
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up nearly forty points the way the San Francisco forty
nine Ers did last night against the Chicago Bears, giving
up thirty eight, and they should have given up forty five,
but that was a tough play call at the end
of the game. I believe that Seattle will show up
in its best selves, but I thought they would yesterday,
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and they did for the better part. Most of the
rosters showed up yesterday and played their best games except
for one person. But yeah, I mean that forty nine
Ers defense as weak as hell. And I will also
say this, the forty nine Ers aren't scoring forty two
points against the Seattle Seahawks defense. They'll be lucky if
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they get to twenty two. So that's not gonna happen either.
And they're dangerous and there's no doubt about it. You
can make an argument right now in the NFL the
top three. I'm not saying they're gonna be the coach
of the year. I don't think anyone's gonna win the
coach of the Year. And I brought this up before
because and for all of you out there, at as
much as I love Mike McDonald charter member of his
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fan club, you got three coaches in the NFL right
now who each have twelve game improvements from a year
ago in terms of taking over a year one and
winning twelve more games than the team did the previous
season doing it in year one. Mike Raybull in New England,
Liam Cohne and Jacksonville, and Ben Johnson in Chicago. So
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that eliminates Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDonald, and Sean McVeigh. But
that being said, Mike McDonald unbelievable year and he's gonna
have to be at his best. And one of the things,
and we'll talk about this. I noticed over the core
of the weekend are the teams in the NFL playoffs
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and why the team there's a certain trend of the
team for the most part, the teams in the playoffs
and why they are going into the postseason, and only
a few of them are against the grain on this trend.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The Hawks are.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
On one of those teams that have the trend going
in the right way. And Mike McDonald's been nothing short
of spectacular. He deserves all the praise and everything. We
are not worthy of his greatness. And it's only going
to get better. Got to find a way and maybe
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it's Clint Kubiak and maybe leaning on Charbonnet and K
nine is going to hopefully mitigate and alleviate the turnovers
by the quarterback. That's going to be everything, because if
you turn the ball over against the San Francisco forty
nine Ers, they will make And Brock Purty through not one,
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not two, not three, not four. But I believe he
had five touchdown passes last night or no, he did
it last week. Excuse me against the Colts. He did
it last week against Colts. Drake May did it last night?
Rock Purty, bad game last night? You only had three
touchdown passes. But he's on a heater right now. And
that team, kid, you were the one you said it
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before the season, man, and here we are the forty
nine Ers and Hawks for the division. You've been banging
that drum no matter how much adversity they have overcome. Kid,
here the Niners no matter what. Playing for everything on
Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Here it is, but I think fans will want that.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
A team that they hate the most, you get opportunity
to stick it to them when it matters, right. So
this is a huge game, and hopefully the run game
can continue the success that they had against the Panthers
because this forty nine Ers team, as you mentioned, they're
not the same defense. The Seahawks can easily score on
this team defense. Their defense, I think they don't have
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a pass rush. I don't know if they can stop
the run. They just got a bunch of guys out
there playing their ass off, playing the best they can,
and they got away with one at home on Sunday
night against Chicago Bear because as you mentioned, Brock Purty,
Christian McCaffrey, those guys, they took it to another level.
So when it comes down to it, the Seahawks should
handle business. It's a tough road game, it's a it's
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a rival. You know what the Niners want to do offensively,
you know what they're gonna try to do defensively. But
I think it's gonna come down to Mike McDonald and
the coaching staff beating the Niners in every form.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They don't want a prediction yet. I don't think you're
gonna we don't want your prediction till tomorrow. Wasn't prediction
for tomorrow. I wasn't given a prediction.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I was saying, they're gonna have to out coach them
pretty much is where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
You're gonna have to make smart, sound decisions.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
So if they do that, I think they should be
able to figure things out and have an opportunity to
have the championship go through Seattle before they get to
Santa Clara. So that's kind of where my mindset is.
I know you're pretty much out on Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Hopefully he doesn't have to. I don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The running was on the wall though we all knew
that he had turnover issues. Granted his last two games
were like, Wow, you put pressure on the guy and
he doesn't do well. He turns the ball over. And
I think you talked about it after that first loss
to the Rams on that Thursday night.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I forget. I think week eleven or whatever you said, Sam,
take the sack.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I think he needs to just maybe it sucks, but
just take it in the chops, take it in the
chops and hang on to the football. You do those
two things and you don't turn the football over because
the interception he threw was kind of like, bro, do
you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Jackson?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
By the way, I thought that, I thought, you know,
the fumbles week, But it's like, why do you keep
putting your self in this team in a position.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It's gonna be sad, by the way for those of you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And this is one of the reasons too.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'm so glad I just ignore the text line when
it comes to I just I'm just so over it
is that I'm not I'm not ragging on the quarterback
for the sake of doing it. It's like, let me
introduce you to this is how it's done in other markets.
If Sam Darnold was the quarterback of the Patriots today,
he beginning destroyed on ninety eight five the Sports up
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in Boston by Mike Felger. If he was the quarterback
of the Eagles and after the crap he pulled yesterday,
he being destroyed on WIP and Philly. If he was
the quarterback of the Giants or Jets, he'd be getting
destroyed on WFA N right now by Craig Carton, who
will be back very soon. This is how it's done.
Let me let me like, this is how it's done.
You want Pom pom waivers and O okay, just wait
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and see.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Remember this monologue. Kid mark the tape with a C.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mark the tape on this MJ's mond the day after
the Panthers game, when I said there's gonna be one
guy if this team does not get to where they're
trying to go in that Promised Land and Super Bowl
sixty is gonna because of the quarterback. Just mark the tape.
You can wave your pomp bums all you want. That's fine.
I thought that was small, weak market radio ish, but
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I don't do that. So if you don't like the truth,
then to f and bad because I'm gonna tell it
like it is and get over it. Frank Schwab Yahoos
Sports next MJ in the midday
The Hawks took care of business on the road. They
did what they had to do, and it all comes
down to Saturday night, five o'clock against the San Francisco
forty nine Ers at Santa Clara Stadium for the NFC
West Division and the number one seed in the NFC.
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The defense did what the defense does. They just continue
to kick ass and take names. Julian Love with a
pick to Marcus Lawrence with a peanut, punched Tillman causing
a fumble yesterday. The defense are, to quote the Lake
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great Denny Green, who we thought they were. They're elite,
They're sick. They might be the best in the NFL.
Aside from a couple times this year against the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers and against the Rams a couple of weeks
ago at home, the defense is nothing short of spectacular.
So I could sit here all day and we can
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play that game of oh man, you know it comes
down to this. But I've got to tell you, man,
before the Mariners, Yeah, I'm I'm gonna talk about Mariners,
and there's a reason why because I'm gonna apply it
back to Seahawks before the Mariner started the postseason. As a
matter of fact, even after the trades that were made
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to bring Josh Naylor and Gino Soarez to Seattle to
make a run at that moment, and you might recall
there was virtually and literally no criticism from me of
Jerry to Poto because at that point, Jerry Depoto pulled
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off two great trades. He didn't liquidate the farm system
like Aj Preler did in San Diego, acquiring Mason Miller
at the deadline. He didn't do that. So the Mariners
farm system is intact. Jerry Depoto before the deadline did
his job, and which is why the Mariners went to
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Game seven of the ALCS and were eight outs away
from going to the franchise's first ever World Series. But
I said there was one thing, if anything, that could
hold the Mariners back from making it to their first
ever Fall Classic. Certainly wasn't Cal Riley, the guy that
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should have won the MVP. Wasn't Julio who came on
as the summer got hotter, so did he. Wasn't Josh Naylor,
who ended up probably becoming the heart and soul of
this team. Wasn't JP Crawford, wasn't Randy a Rose Arena,
And it wasn't Jorge Polanco, who if it wasn't for
Jorra Planco, this team would not advance versus the times
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in the Alds.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
There was one person.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
That I felt that would hold this franchise back from
achieving its ultimate goal, and that person was the guy
that I now referred to as Damager Damager the manager,
and unfortunately it ended up becoming a fulfilling prophecy on
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my part because he was, to me, the ultimate reason.
If you're going to pinpoint, I mean, forget about Game
seven of the ALCS. You could go back to the
Detroit series and how bad he managed the bullpen there,
but he got bailed out by Hora Blanco.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Not once, but twice.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And in Game five, Gino Suarez that was the Geno
game two home runs, including the game winning grand Slam
in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the
Mariners a three to two series lead. I'm not trying
to do revision is history here, but there's a reason
why I'm saying this. So to me, there are four
words that should apply to the twenty twenty five Seattle Seahawks,
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and that is super Bowl or bust. Kind Of like
the way I felt At the end of the Mariners
regular season, the four words were World Series or bust.
They had the team, they the best roster in the
American League win healthy. The pitching staff wasn't healthy all
season long, but when healthy, they were as good, if
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not better, than everybody in baseball, including the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But there's one person that if the Seattle.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Seahawks do not achieve their ultimate goal, which is to
raise this franchise's second Vince Lombardi Trophy over at the
Virginia Mason Athletic Center and Renton, it'll because of one person.
It's not Mike McDonald Coach of the Year candidate. It's
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not Clint Kubiak. It's not Aiden Durdey. It's not DeMarcus Lawrence.
It's not JSN it's not Zach Sharboney. It's not Riek Woland,
even though at times you want to tear your hair
out when he does something stupid. It's not Devin Witherspoon,
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it's not Big Cat, Leo Williams, Byron Murphy, etc. A. J. Barner,
It'll be because of one person. And you all know
who I'm referring to. And from now on, I now
have a nickname for the starting quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks.
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If you know, since I'm the one who called Dan
Wilson damager the manager because he does more damage than
he does managing, my nickname for Sam Donald is HTM.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Like at ATM, you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Go to the bank, you need some cash because someplace
you're at or you don't want to use your credit
card there, you go to the ATM, you get cash. Well,
unfortunately for Seattle, they have gone to the HTM, which
stands for human Turnover machine, twenty times this year.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Twenty times this year.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Sam Donald leads the NFL in turnovers with twenty, more
than two a tongue of Iiloa who doesn't play that
far from where I'm at right now, more than Gino Smith,
former Seahawks quarterback. You name it, every quarterback in the NFL,
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every player in the NFL. The guy who leads the
league in turnovers is Sam freaking Darnold. And because of this,
the Seahawks have twenty eight total giveaways, which is only
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second behind the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL. The Hawks
minus four in turnover differential is tied for twenty fourth
in the league. Now, is this conduct becoming of a
Super Bowl contender who are ranked behind the Bengals, Dolphins,
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in Saints in turnover differential.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You're behind the.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Dolphins and the eighths in turnover differential. He lost another
fumble yesterday, his sixth of the season, and he threw
his fourteenth pick of the year. And I'm at this
point now where Darnold now is in well, not company
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that you want to be in. He's in a small
group of quarterbacks to have at least twenty turnovers in
a season but still lead their team to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He's one of four quarterbacks who have committed twenty total
turnovers in a regular season and has led his team
to the playoffs. Now, the other three quarterbacks, they're really
pretty good quarterbacks. Jalen Hurts did it two years ago,
Josh Allen did it two years ago. Eli Manning did
it in twenty sixteen. But this to me is and
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I have asked everybody out there. I've asked you questions.
Where is your where is your trust factor? On a
scale of one to ten, with ten being the most
of Sam Donald where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And mine was.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
About a six and a half Now mine is down
to a three That is my trust factor on Sam
Donald leading this team to the super Bowl. This team
is succeeding in spite of Sam Donald and not because
of Sam Donald. And you know what, I'm going to
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keep it real and I'm gonna stay true to myself
and I'm going to do my show the way I've
done it for twenty one years. You want fluff radio,
listen to another station. You want puppy dogs, ice cream
and rainbows, listen to another station. You're not gonna get that.
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Issh here with me. We've got a problem here. We've
got a problem, and unfortunately this team have so much
at stage right now. And I like Sam Donald. I
want everybody out there to know I said it was
an upgrade. I've said it is an upgrade throughout the
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course of the season. G imagine if we stayed with
Gino and dk oh Man. So I like Sam Donald.
This is nothing personal, but this at the end of
the day, like Bill Parcells always said, you kind of
are what your record is now, I'm not talking about
thirteen and three. I'm talking about twenty turnovers, six fumbles,
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fourteen interceptions and taking a team.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That and that to me shows how great this in elite.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
This defense is because the Hawks right now are minus
four and turnover differential tied for twenty fourth in the
NFL because of one person, and we all know who
that is.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I'm worried. I'm worried, and I.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Hope he can put it together for the next six weeks.
I'm hoping he can do it and we can end
up in Santa Clara after this Saturday, on the second
Sunday in February for Super Bowl sixty, and I hope
we're there and we'll be on Radio Row so I
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can look at a bunch of people. They always would say, Hey,
if you ever want to feel better about your life,
go to a Walmart on a Saturday, especially in the South.
You'll feel a lot better about your life. I just
go to Radio Row and I look around at all
the fat, ugly, balding, disgusting, repulsive individuals in our business,
and I feel so much better about my life.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
But I want to be in Radio Row, and I
want the Seahawks to be in the Super Bowl. But
if they don't make it, it's gonna be because of HTM,
the Human Turnover Machine, Sam Fing Donald or SFD Sam
Fing Donald I mean we are now going into week eighteen.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You know, it's one thing for.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Something to happen where you're like, oh, that's an anomaly,
he'll fix it. Once is an accident, twice as a trend,
three times is evidence.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And twenty times is a verdict. Twenty turnovers, that is
a verdict, Seattle. And if you.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Think that I'm just out here right now doing blow
hard like loud mouth sports radio, trust me, then you
can put your pom poms down because I don't trust
this guy to get this team to where they want
to be, the Promised Land and their first super Bowl
since Super Bowl forty nine and Glendale, Arizona. I don't
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trust him. I mean, at this point, it's it's over,
like it's over. I just hope he just like it's like,
can you just not turn the damn ball over?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And he does some good things too.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm not saying, but you the worst thing you can
do is turn the ball over. It's the worst thing
you can do. And right now we have a quarterback.
If you look at all the quarterbacks that are gonna
go in the playoffs, probably other than Baker Mayfield that
I trust the least is Sam Darnold. I trust Jalen
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Hurts more than him. I trust Rock Birdie certainly, Matthew Stafford,
Drake may Bow, Knicks, Trevor Lawrence. Now you could say
Lamar Jackson's having a bad year, fine, whatever. But if
he's healthy and Lamar shows up and he places, he's
a two time MVP. I try more than Sam Darnold.
I trust Aaron Rodgers now more than Sam Darnold. I
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trust Justin Herbert now more than Sam Darnald. You get
the pitcher, Josh Allen too. Just pick one anyone other
than Baker Faker, Mayfield or Bryce Young, one of those
two guys who will be in the playoffs after this weekend.
I trust every other quarterback in the NFL more than
Sam Darnold. I'm out. I'm out on this guy, and
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I'll go you one more over this team. If you're
not evolving, if you're not changing, then you're dying, not
only in football but in life. We've got a problem
for twenty twenty six and beyond.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm not putting in a call to Eric Tacosta in Baltimore.
I'm good on that, But I am putting a call
into Cincinnati. How much does it take? How much does
it take to get Joe Burrow to Seattle? Imagine Joe
Burrow a this team with this defense. Oh yeah, you're
gonna have to give up a spoon and some first
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round picks, maybe three, But to get Joe Burrow wants out.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I am I'm out on Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
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Speaker 2 (15:22):
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Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm done on Sam Darnold. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I just you're gonna Like every family has a Fredo,
and the Fredo of the Seattle Seahawks is Sam Darnold.
You're gonna have to carry this guy. He is the
weak link on this team. I actually literally he is him.
He could say what you want about Anthony Bradford. Fine,
we know one of, if not the worst right guard
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in the NFL. I trust him now more than Sam Donald.
At least Anthony Bradford won't turn the ball over twenty
times twenty in sixteen games. It's ridiculous. So I'm I've
had it. I've had it on this guy. I've been
you know what I'm today Today the gloves come off
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and the Darth Vader mask goes on. I've had it.
I'm done. I don't trust him, I don't want to.
I just he is who he is. This is it,
and it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But yep, this is where we are.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
At period exclamation point. All right, But the Seahawks did
they find something in yesterday's game that they can take
as a positive into Saturday nights Epic Week seventeen showdown
for the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Frank Schwab will join us at eleven MJY and the
midday Christopher Kidd Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
There's probably exact best game as a Seahawk, I would imagine,
I mean, definitely in the last two years. You know,
it's telling Kane I can played a great game too.
Is this Sometimes that's the way the game goes on
on some of those creases and things. And then I
mean the third down conversion was incredible. Some of those
some of those you know black zone runs are like
you know, ninety five was un blocked in the hole.
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It makes the guy missing. It's a two yard game,
but I that it's a big time two yards, So
it's it's not just the explosive runs, it's all those
those tough, tough yards as well, and then obviously finishing
out in four minute it was a big time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
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Speaker 2 (17:46):
I don't know how much longer we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It either going to be maybe today or next Monday
will be the last time, so I don't know. Maybe
we'll do it in the playoffs. I'll talk to Patrick
about this and see what we're gonna do. But you
don't have much time to do it. So if you
want to do it, you can't call at noon live.
Then go to the free irt radio app ninety three
to three KGr, hit the microphone icon button and rant away.
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Zach Sharboney yesterday, excellent game. Just what can you say?
Eighteen carries, one hundred and ten yards, two touchdowns, his
first one hundred yard game this season and the first
time the Hawks have had one hundred yard rusher and
back to back game since Walker did it during the
final three games of the twenty twenty two season. So
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Hawks at one hundred and sixty three on the ground
yesterday on thirty three carries. And the play that Mike
McDonald is talking about was huge because a lot of
things were going against the Hawks and they were facing
a third and fifteen from their own twenty five yard lane.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Sharbon ay, I mean for.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Click Koubiak to call that play is balls, big balls,
like ac DC one saying, and then he ran for
twenty five yards in a first down and you know
it's yeah, that was like, that was big. I mean,
he was just great the whole game. He was great
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the entire game. The two yard run the third quarter
puts Seattle up ten three and then and unfortunately, but
I understand why I lost him by Kenny Walker.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Player prop over.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Kenny didn't have it, k and I didn't have it yesterday,
and they went with Sharbona on that final drive, I'm like,
can we at least get him in the game? All
I needed was four more yards. But that beats all over.
Horrible gambling weekend, worst week end of the year for me.
But I like the fact that they're running the ball
when they need to, and that's huge because if you
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can't run the ball and you can't stop the run,
it's gonna be trouble for you in the postseason. We
know the Buffalo Bills can't stop the run. They can
run the ball, but they can't stop it. That's a
problem when you get to the playoffs. And right now
this team is hitting on all cylinders in the running
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game back to back weeks and obviously sets up for
the big one coming up on Saturday night for everything,
all the marbles, the division, the number one seed, the bye,
It's a trifecta all there on Saturday Night. So if
I'm gonna get the red pen out, I'm also gonna
give kudos and props to where it's due and Zach Charbonnet,
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And I'll just say one more thing about Jasn who's
not gonna come close to breaking Megatron Calvin Johnson's singles
even receiving yard mark of nineteen forty six. The reason
he's not going to it's not because JSN got worse.
It's because the guy throwing the ball couldn't keep up
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with jsn's rate, just couldn't keep up.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
But Zach Charbonne, the running game.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That is huge, and you're gonna need that throughout the playoffs.
But specifically, I mean, you gotta win this game. I
can't even what do you drop to a five or
a six if you lose this game? It's for everything,
and kids said it. The San Francisco forty nine ers, man,
they're a team that we certainly did not want to see.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
All right, coming up next hitting to all fields.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We got some tremendous audio for you, and the great
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the midday. All Right, Pookaku has been uh well, he said,
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a bunch of things done some stupid stuff. But this,
this might be, this could be a whole other level.
Here's Pooka Nakua on concussions in the NFL. I also
believe that the concussions are all in your head. Us.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Concussions aren't real.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
It's all on your head.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's yeah, wow, there's a quick bite.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
He doesn't believe that concussions are real. They're all in
your head, you.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Know, Pooka. I didn't play the game, certainly nowhere near
at the level that you did. I'm gonna go against
you on that one. I think concussions are quite real.
And if you don't believe me, look at everything the
NFL has done to mitigate concussions since everything happened about
fifteen years ago, where they were at the epicenter of
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several civil, multi million dollar lawsuits because the NFL just
swept it underneath the rug for decades, and now they
have gone the exact opposite and they've done everything that
they can to uh A, man.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Pooka, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
He was a guy I thought always in a former Husky,
former Cougar BYU, that is, and I just never took
him for someone that would say so many dumb things
and even do dumber things. But going on Twitch live
streams is probably not great for your brand. I want
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to hear that one more time because I can't believe
he actually said it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I also believe that concussions are all in your head.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Used concussions aren't really it's all on your head.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's wow.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm sure the NFL doesn't want one of its best
wide receivers saying that concussions aren't real they're all in
your head. Well, yeah, that's usually where concussions are. But
they are definitely real, there's no doubt about that. I'm
just at this point where I'm completely shocked that someone
like him would say something kind of so stupid because
he's a really smart guy and he's gonna get paid
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big time in this offseason as he is up for
an extension, so obviously the Rams are gonna, you know,
back up the Brins truck, give him whatever he wants,
make him the highest paid receiver in the NFL, or
next to Justin Jefferson or whatever. Maybe he'll be higher
paid than Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
He deserves whatever he gets he deserves, but Pooka, you
probably want to steer clear of that. That's not something
that I don't really think that that you wanna. You
wanna really do you just don't looking around the NFL
last night or throughout this weekend. I was and I'm
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still concerned about Saturday's game. I don't want to get
fully into it, but the one thing I will say
after watching last night's game between the Bears and forty
nine Ers, there's no way the Seattle Seahawks are giving
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up nearly forty points the way the San Francisco forty
nine Ers did last night against the Chicago Bears, giving
up thirty eight, and they should have given up forty five,
but that was a tough play call at the end
of the game. I believe that Seattle will show up
in its best selves, but I thought they would yesterday,
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and they did for the better part. Most of the
rosters showed up yesterday and played their best games except
for one person. But yeah, I mean that forty nine
Ers defense as weak as hell. And I will also
say this, the forty nine Ers aren't scoring forty two
points against the Seattle Seahawks defense. They'll be lucky if
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they get to twenty two. So that's not gonna happen either.
And they're dangerous and there's no doubt about it. You
can make an argument right now in the NFL the
top three. I'm not saying they're gonna be the coach
of the year. I don't think anyone's gonna win the
coach of the Year. And I brought this up before
because and for all of you out there, at as
much as I love Mike McDonald charter member of his
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fan club, you got three coaches in the NFL right
now who each have twelve game improvements from a year
ago in terms of taking over a year one and
winning twelve more games than the team did the previous
season doing it in year one. Mike Raybull in New England,
Liam Cohne and Jacksonville, and Ben Johnson in Chicago. So
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that eliminates Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDonald, and Sean McVeigh. But
that being said, Mike McDonald unbelievable year and he's gonna
have to be at his best. And one of the things,
and we'll talk about this. I noticed over the core
of the weekend are the teams in the NFL playoffs
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and why the team there's a certain trend of the
team for the most part, the teams in the playoffs
and why they are going into the postseason, and only
a few of them are against the grain on this trend.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The Hawks are.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
On one of those teams that have the trend going
in the right way. And Mike McDonald's been nothing short
of spectacular. He deserves all the praise and everything. We
are not worthy of his greatness. And it's only going
to get better. Got to find a way and maybe
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it's Clint Kubiak and maybe leaning on Charbonnet and K
nine is going to hopefully mitigate and alleviate the turnovers
by the quarterback. That's going to be everything, because if
you turn the ball over against the San Francisco forty
nine Ers, they will make And Brock Purty through not one,
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not two, not three, not four. But I believe he
had five touchdown passes last night or no, he did
it last week. Excuse me against the Colts. He did
it last week against Colts. Drake May did it last night?
Rock Purty, bad game last night? You only had three
touchdown passes. But he's on a heater right now. And
that team, kid, you were the one you said it
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before the season, man, and here we are the forty
nine Ers and Hawks for the division. You've been banging
that drum no matter how much adversity they have overcome. Kid,
here the Niners no matter what. Playing for everything on
Saturday night.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Here it is, but I think fans will want that.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
A team that they hate the most, you get opportunity
to stick it to them when it matters, right. So
this is a huge game, and hopefully the run game
can continue the success that they had against the Panthers
because this forty nine Ers team, as you mentioned, they're
not the same defense. The Seahawks can easily score on
this team defense. Their defense, I think they don't have
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a pass rush. I don't know if they can stop
the run. They just got a bunch of guys out
there playing their ass off, playing the best they can,
and they got away with one at home on Sunday
night against Chicago Bear because as you mentioned, Brock Purty,
Christian McCaffrey, those guys, they took it to another level.
So when it comes down to it, the Seahawks should
handle business. It's a tough road game, it's a it's
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a rival. You know what the Niners want to do offensively,
you know what they're gonna try to do defensively. But
I think it's gonna come down to Mike McDonald and
the coaching staff beating the Niners in every form.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They don't want a prediction yet. I don't think you're
gonna we don't want your prediction till tomorrow. Wasn't prediction
for tomorrow. I wasn't given a prediction.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I was saying, they're gonna have to out coach them
pretty much is where I'm going.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
You're gonna have to make smart, sound decisions.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
So if they do that, I think they should be
able to figure things out and have an opportunity to
have the championship go through Seattle before they get to
Santa Clara. So that's kind of where my mindset is.
I know you're pretty much out on Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Hopefully he doesn't have to. I don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I don't want to be.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
The running was on the wall though we all knew
that he had turnover issues. Granted his last two games
were like, Wow, you put pressure on the guy and
he doesn't do well. He turns the ball over. And
I think you talked about it after that first loss
to the Rams on that Thursday night.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I forget. I think week eleven or whatever you said, Sam,
take the sack.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I think he needs to just maybe it sucks, but
just take it in the chops, take it in the
chops and hang on to the football. You do those
two things and you don't turn the football over because
the interception he threw was kind of like, bro, do
you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Jackson?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
By the way, I thought that, I thought, you know,
the fumbles week, But it's like, why do you keep
putting your self in this team in a position.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It's gonna be sad, by the way for those of you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And this is one of the reasons too.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'm so glad I just ignore the text line when
it comes to I just I'm just so over it
is that I'm not I'm not ragging on the quarterback
for the sake of doing it. It's like, let me
introduce you to this is how it's done in other markets.
If Sam Darnold was the quarterback of the Patriots today,
he beginning destroyed on ninety eight five the Sports up
(31:29):
in Boston by Mike Felger. If he was the quarterback
of the Eagles and after the crap he pulled yesterday,
he being destroyed on WIP and Philly. If he was
the quarterback of the Giants or Jets, he'd be getting
destroyed on WFA N right now by Craig Carton, who
will be back very soon. This is how it's done.
Let me let me like, this is how it's done.
You want Pom pom waivers and O okay, just wait
(31:52):
and see.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Remember this monologue. Kid mark the tape with a C.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mark the tape on this MJ's mond the day after
the Panthers game, when I said there's gonna be one
guy if this team does not get to where they're
trying to go in that Promised Land and Super Bowl
sixty is gonna because of the quarterback. Just mark the tape.
You can wave your pomp bums all you want. That's fine.
I thought that was small, weak market radio ish, but
(32:19):
I don't do that. So if you don't like the truth,
then to f and bad because I'm gonna tell it
like it is and get over it. Frank Schwab Yahoos
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