December 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Frank Schwab of Yahoo Sports drops by to talk about the Seattle Seahawks and what's ahead as they'll take on the San Francisco 49ers to wrap the 2025 regular season. The Miami Hurricanes have a shot to do something special, and a pair of national media guys believe they play ferocious defense. The Seahawks will be in the playoffs but how long will they last with Sam Darnold if he's turning the ball over.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
NFL Draft. I mean, he is looking phenomenal. I thought
the Bear should have pulled it out last night and
they just couldn't get it done. Joining us right now
from Yahoo Sports A good buddy, Frank Schwab. So, Frank,
I went on a epic rant in my opening monologue
because here we are, Frank, and we're going in a
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week eighteen and the NFC West Divisional titles on the
line Saturday night. The number one seed in the NFC,
which comes along with a bye is on the line
Saturday night in Santa Clara against the Frisco Niners that
they hate to be called. But Frank, we got a
quarterback here who leads the NFL in turnovers and moreover,
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Frank that this quarterback. You look at how bad this
I mean, this defense is so great. Yet Sam Darnold
has put this team in a compromising position twenty turnovers. Okay,
Hawks right now have twenty eight giveaways, only second behind
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Minnesota for second the NFL, and there minus four and
turnover differential which is tied for twenty fourth in the league.
So from your perspective, because I love objective perspective, that's
what I like to bring here because I've only been
here for ten months, Frank, so I come in with
a different mindset. I can put the pom poms down
for a second and just call it like it is.
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I like Sam Darnald, but it's kind of like the
old line from Frank, you know, from Frank Pantangeally and
The Godfather Part two where he tells Michael Corleone, your
father did business with Hyman Roth, but your father never
trusted Hymen Roth. I like Sam Darnald, but I don't
trust Sam Darnald. Where do you stand on him?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I think that's probably fair. I mean, look, you can't
turn the ball over like, you know, like he has,
although you know, Seattle keeps winning and and even in
a game like the Rams, yes we could say, oh Samuel,
Sam Darnold, but we got to give him credit for
bringing the team back at the end. He did. We
made some unbelievable plays during that comeback. And look the
results are the results. I mean, his teams over the
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last two years are what twenty seven and six? Is
that right? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, yeah, they are that? They are?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, you know what, but you know what, the next
time he wins a playoff game will be the first.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Time, right right exactly, And I look it's just hard
to say. And look, I mean there's other things going
on too. Would he be helped a lot if the
Seahawks actually run the ball consistently? Yeah he would. Would
he be helped if if they had anybody but JSN
catching the ball? I guess when AJ Barner is your
second best receiver, it is not the greatest runout for
your quarterback. But you know, it ultimately does come down
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to he can't turn the ball over in big spots
and expect to, you know, win the next four games,
five games, whatever it's and it starts on Saturday night.
Like the forty nine Ers defense is terrible, It is
absolutely right. But the one way that the Seahawks could
blow that game is you turn it over three times,
because even a bad defensive give them, give them the
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ball to three times all of a sudden that they've
done their job. So yeah, it is very hard, Sam Darnald,
I've said this, Sam Donald, of all the players whoever
this is the fourteen teams end up being out of
the sixteen or soul of all the teams on those
all the players on those teams, Sam Donald has the
most to win or lose in these playoffs. Imagine if
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we're sitting here in Donald and Sam Donald is a
Super Bowl champion and the Seaws could obviously do that,
They could be the number one seed, and I would
not pick anybody to beat them in quest Field or
whatever they're calling it these days. And uh, at that place,
that's right. I don't care about the I know Lambo,
That's about it, but that I've been to that stadium
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many times. That homefield VNA is awesome. I don't think
anybody Seattle there. And so if they can go and
win a Super Bowl, Sam Donald, all of a sudden,
just everything changes about his perception everything. But if he
goes into the playoffs, it throws four interceptions like it
did against Rams in the first game, or whatever shall be,
and they lose as a one seed or even not
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as a one seed, it doesn't even matter. There's just
coulda be still a same old Sam Donald. This is
just who he is. Just the difference in how Seattle
marches upon the playoffs and any even Week eighteen, it
just completely changes how we think of Sam Donald's entire career.
It's pretty wild to think.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
About Frank Schwab. Excellent point by you, Frank. I want
to do something here with you, and I'm gonna go ahead.
I'm gonna go of the because we still have four
teams right now. They're gonna play for two spots, Baltimore
versus Pittsburgh. So I don't know if Lamar Jackson be healthy,
but let's just for this game, let's just hype, you know,
hypothetically play that he's going to be healthy. And then
obviously Tampa Carolina for the NFC South Division. So I'm
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gonna go through all the teams who have made the
playoffs and the two the four teams of potential playoffs
and seeing who wins there. And I was just gonna
start with quarterbacks. So I'm gonna give you the list here,
and then I'm gonna ask you where you ranked Sam
Darnold on this list. This lot, there was the Lob,
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the Legion of Boom. I'm gonna do the lot, the
list of trust. Okay, we're gonna go. I'm just gonna
give you all these names, but at the end, you
tell me where you rank among all these quarterbacks. All right,
Bonis drake Man, Trey Trevor Lawrence, Aaron Rodgers, C J. Stroud,
Justin Herbert, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, NFC Caleb Williams,
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Jalen Hurtz, Bryce Young, Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, Jordan Love,
and Baker Mayfield. Of all those quarterbacks that are in
the playoffs or could potentially be in the playoffs, where
does Sam Donald rank on your list of trust there?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
For me?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I put him just above Baker Mayfield and Bryce Young.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, definitely above those guys. I counted eight as you
were listing them off, which makes sense. He's about in
the middle of the pack. For me, I trust him
more than I mean, I'm talking about where they're playing
right now. I'm not talking about career accomplishment. So I
trust one Jalen Hurts right now. They have sixteen yards
in the second half yesterday. I trust more than bow
Nix right now. I trust him more than CD Stroud
right now, even though I think the offensive line is
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more of the problem there than C. G. Stroud. So
there's a couple of guys on that list who but
I trust him. I trust. Yeah, Like you said, I
trust Darnald Morton. Baker Mayfield right now was absolutely terrible.
So there's a few guys, but there's some guys who
you're like, well, yeah, camp up over Stafford. I can't
not even Jordan Love, probably not Caleb Williams right now,
you know, obviously Drake May might might be the MVP
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of the league. Josh Allen's unbelievable. So yeah, he's about
the middle of the pack. And that makes sense to me,
like it's he is. I think he's done enough for
me anyway. They deserve the benefit of the doubt of
I don't think he's just a pumpkin. I think what
we've done done with Sam Donald is and a lot
of this has to do with Okay, this is a
very big picture of things. So it's a bear with
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me for a second. I think the draft has become
such a big deal and we all get involved in
our own opinions about the draft and our own takes,
and oh my god, so all of a sudden, people
just dug in on Sam Donald being a bust, right,
like he's a bust, And now they refuse to emit
they're wrong. They refuse to give Sam Donald any benefit
of the doubt. So whenever he has a bad game,
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whether it's against the Lions last year when he had
no blocking in front of him, whether against the Rams
when they didn't block for him, whether it's against the
Rams in the first game, Like, Sam Donald has probably
had truly five bad games over his last thirty four, Right,
that's not that bad. It's really not like nobody's saying.
He's probably Patrick Mahomes. He's a middle of the road quarterback.
But every time he has a bad game, because I
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think people don't want to admit they're wrong about Sam Donald,
all of a sudden, it's well, see Sam Donald sakes
Saml's terrible. You can't win with Sam Donald. Look at
h three Foign interceptions against the Rams, even in the
first half or the first three quarters. I guess against
the Rams and Sac it's up there. Sam Donald is
going to disappear in every big game. And I think
we're so quick to do that because we're so stuck
on our draft aches and are so stuck on well,
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he's a bust, and we're never going to admit we're wrong.
I think Sam Donald deserves a benefit of doubt. More
than that, I think he's a good and easy Again,
there's seven eight guys walking the planet who it just
doesn't matter. They're going to succeed regardless of their system
around them, the coach of teammates. We all know the names,
and it's we all know that list of guys, right,
Sam Donald's not in that list, and he's never going
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to be in that list. But that's okay. You could
comfortably be in that second tier and win big. You
can win a Super Bowl. I mean, you need a
good team around you, like most guys, and I think
Sam Donald's a perfectly fine quarterback if he's in the
right situation, which he is now. Seatle's got a great
situation around him. So I just think that the criticism
on Sam Donald is just so quick and it's so
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over the top, almost at times where we need to
take a step back and realize, like, but over the
last two years, this guy has played at a really,
really high level, and you're gonna go You might go
fourteen to three two straight years, and I don't have
to think quarterbacks our own win loss record, but he
has a lot to do with that. And I think
at some point I almost am rooting for Sam Darnald
because I don't want to just I don't want to
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hear and be like you know, because they lose to
the Rams in the NFC Championship, and the Rams are
a really really good football team. If they lose in
the Rams NFTY Championship, it doesn't even matter what Sam
Darnald does. The whole reaction is just gonna be see
Sam Darnold Stakes. And I don't think that's far name.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's just hypothetic. Let's just say Frank Schwab from Yahoo
Sports joining us right now, Let's just say that happens,
and let's oh God, parish the thought that it does.
But let's just again, we're we're playing hypothetical because what
we can do in sports radio. And the Hawks lose
in the NFC Championship game, let's just let's just pick
another team. Let's just say it's the Eagles and not
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the Rams, because I would hate to lose to the
Rams or forty nineers, but regardless, whatever. You know, Frank,
you know this league, You've covered it for many, many years,
and you grew up loving it, just like I did.
In New England. I grew up love in the NFL
and the league. If you don't have a guy that
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you truly believe can get you to where you want
to go every year, then it's time ultimately that you
might need to pivot. Now, kudos to John Schneider, he
front loaded the contract. If the Seahawks don't get to
where they want to go, and I'm asking you, it's
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this to me is a legitimate question. Do you consider
perhaps trying to upgrade at the position and going after
an elite franchise QB I e. Joe Burrow who is
clearly disgusted and has even gone on public record and saying,
you know, he doesn't know, you know, his unhappiness is
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discontent and Cincinnati and who can blame them? And would
you at least kick the tires with Cincinnati just to
see I mean, what would it hurt? The worst they
can say is no, right, I'm in Miami right now, Frank.
The worst you know, I tell any guy right now,
if you're going out to South Beach on Collins av
or Washington or Ocean Drive, go up to the hottest
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girl that you see in the club. The worst you
can say is no, it might bruise your ego. It
won't cost you a dime. So would you at least
consider saying that, hey, we can get out of this.
That's not a huge cap hit like Tua, or you
know some of the other ones next year that are
a huge cap like Ta pacifically and Baker Mayfield. Baker's
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a fifty two million dollar hit. Tua's a fifty six
million dollar hit. Would you consider making an upgrade on
going after someone like Joe Burrow?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I mean Joe Burrow, of course, right right, So I mean,
if that situation presents itself. I don't think it will.
But if that situation presents itself, you'd be dumb not
to look into it. But here's the thing, Like I
mean in general talking about upgrading for Sam Donald, who
might be the let's say he's the twelfth best quarterback
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in the NFL. None of those first eleven guys are available.
What's gonna if Joe Burrow does thet I don't know
Joe Burrow is gonna do this. But if Joe Burrow
goes to Cincinnati ownership and says, hey, I want to
be traded, Bengals might just be like, that's great to hear, Joe,
We'll see you in August for training camp. We ain't
trade you. Who cares like you're under contract you want
to retire? There's a door, but we're not trading you
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because you're Joe Burrow and we're not gonna be the
franchise trade Joe Bert. Okay, we did discarss some Homer once,
we're not doing it again. So and you know, Patrick
ma Holmes ain't available, and Laura Jackson I don't think
is available, and Josh Allen's not available. So it's like, yes,
in theory, it sounds great to upgrade Sam Darnald, and
you should always be looking into anything you can do
to help your football team, of course, but realistically, realistically,
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what are you gonna do, Like you're you're probably just
gonna end up with somebody worse than Sam Darnold again though, yeah, Joe,
like anybody, I think there's only like fourteen in the
NFL that would be like, that wouldn't make sense to
go after Joe Burrow, right like the bubble of bills
are not traded Josh Allen, Joel Burrow.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But and right now, any.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Of the other twenty twenty seven teams, Yeah, they should
have looked into that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yet, how about would you do it on Lamar Jackson
if he used vill because there's a you know, there
apparently is a power play going on right now between
Harbor and Lamar. Would you would you consider trading for
the two time MVP.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I would. I think Lebar Jackson's one of the ten
best quarterbacks of all time. But again, like, I wow,
the Ravens might. Yeah, I love Jamar Jackson. I think
he should have been. He should be. Look, if you
look at the list of two time MVPs, it's a
list of the who's who in NFL history. If you
look at a list of the three time MVP, which
should have been because the voters got it wrong last
year to make Josh Allen the MVP. If you look
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at the three time MVPs, it's like, oh wow, this
is the elite of the elite, Like this is the
top tier of the Hall of Fame pyramid right here.
Like LeVar Jackson's that dude, he's great. Like he had
a season last year where he almost set the single
season passer rating record and also rushed for nine hundred yards.
Like we've never seen anything michaelmart Jackson before. So if
he's available, Yeah, you kicked the Tigers like I would.
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I mean, I he's not even thirty years old yet,
So yes, that's another one. Where you would. But I
think at the end of the day, Baltimore is gonna say,
we'll pick it between John Harbaugh, who hasn't won multiple
playoff games in a in a postseason since twenty twelve,
or picking or we're picking a two time MVP quarterback
at his prime. We're taking a quarterback. Sorry, John, I'm like,
so yes, I I yeah, Burrow, Labar. If they are available,
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you have those phone calls. But it is also like,
that's the thing too, It's not if these guys are available.
Let's say Joe Burrow's available in some it's SOMEWHERELD Joe
Burrow's available, What does it cost to get him?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah? Or first you're talking three number one a lot worse. Yeah, Yeah,
that's true. Three number ones, no doubt, not easily. Maybe
four he's easy.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
He has a starting. That's a starting. If I think
if a team came to Cincinnati and said we'll give
you three first round picks for Joe Burrow, They're like,
why why would we do that?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Then that's all. But seriously, Frank Schwab from Yahoo Sports
showing us here what concerns you the most besides Sam
Donald about the Seahawks as we you know, forget about
just Saturday Night for a second, but just going into
the playoffs, what concerns you the most about this team?
Obviously Donald Numero Uno, But after.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That, Yeah, and I think it's just the offense as
a whole, because you look at it and they should
be better running the ball with those two running backs
they have, and they're just not like they're very middle
of the road running team. There's not a lot of consistency.
They're not a team that's just gonna line up in
rush for a hundred sixty earths on you every game
like That's just doesn't happen very often. And I do
as easy as this is to say, it's it's harder
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to do. If a team takes JSN out of the game.
What's the CounterPunch at that point? Like I love hershichihid,
but I don't think they've figured out how to use
it yet. And A. J. Barterer has had a really,
really nice year. I really don't want him as my
number two option in the passing game. If if a
team is good enough, smart enough to take JSN out,
it has happened a couple times. It's pretty rare, but
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it has happened, then what's the Seahawks CounterPunch? So I
think they're just so narrow on offense, where the running
game isn't that reliable, and everybody other than JSN in
the passing game is really not scaring anybody. And Sam
Darnold has his issues too. If we talked about any oftens,
the lines of that great. So I just think it's
the offense. If we look back, I don't think it's
the defense. So the defense is gonna be great. The
defense fantastic, held right here in the fifty four yards yesterday.
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But it's the offense, I guess. Just overall. The offense
is so predicated on JSN being having one of the
greatest receiving seasons of all time that if that's not
happening in some game for whatever reason, I don't know
the Seahawks can score enough to beat most NFC playoff teams.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well yeah, well, the defense. The one thing about it.
The defense is not going to give up nearly forty
points the way the forty nine ers did last night
to the Chicago Bears. This defense ain't given like I said,
not only they're not going to give a forty point
and they're not going to allow the forty nine ers
to score forty two points like they did last night
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against the Chicago Bears. They'll be lucky to get to
twenty twenty two if they're lucky. This defense is absolutely
elite and there's payback, and I think this is just
a game. You look at Mike McDonald frank in the
two years he's been here in Seattle, fourteen and two
on the road, that's unbelievable. And he's not even the
only coach's here's the funny thing about it. They're not
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even undefeated on the road this season. There's only one
team who is. That's the New England Patriots and Mike Raybell.
They're undefeated on the road so far this year. So
looking around the league right now, Buffalo Sean McDermott, what
does he think he is? Tom Osborne in the National
Championship against Miami in nineteen eighty three, why would you
go for two? Why would you be so stupid and
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go for two rather than just get to overtime and
then rely on the MVP from last year?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And I think normally that's how I would say it too,
because it's Philly's offense had been nothing of that point,
you just trust that we're gonna get into Harver time
and win. Truly, that game meant so little for the Bills.
Weird does it sound they're not catching the Patriots in
the ACS? And I think maybe I don't know, but
I mean Dermott he has some questionable moment so maybe
he wasn't thinking this through the way I was. But
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when he went for it for two, I almost said, yeah,
that makes sense because this game really doesn't mean that
much for you as to as far as the playoffs go,
and why put your team through an extra overtime right now?
You're gonna be resting him next week anyway, I assume,
So just let's let's go one play And they got
a guy wide opened in the end zone and Josh
Allon just missed him. So I didn't mind it that much.
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Like if that would have happened in week four, okay, like, yeah,
that probably was the wrong call, I think in this
specific situation, I didn't hate it so much because I
don't know, if I'm Sean McDermott. If in the cold
and rain, I want my team playing an extra overtime
in a game that truly doesn't matter much to be
your playoff position.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, it's uh it to me. That's His's the thing
about Sean McDermott, do you know he's the longest coach,
tenured coach in NFL. His to be at one place
for a decade and never take his team to a
super Bowl, it's never happened. He's never never. Jeff Fisher
went to the Super Bowl, I believe his first or
second year in Tennessee and they lost to the Rams.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Even Schottenheimer, even Schottenheimer, huh yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, hey, well no, I don't think Martin, you know,
but was Marty Marty? But was he there for a decade?
I don't know. I don't know if he was there
for a decade at a.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Time it was, but yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Seemed like he was here for three decades, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Think there's gonna be serious. Quote like, if you look
at this year's AFC, the Bills don't come out of there,
and I don't think they will because they're really flawed
football team with one great player too, James Cook's really
good too, I'll give him that. But if they don't
come out of the AFC, you're going to say there
was no Mahomes, maybe Lit, no Lamar, no Joe Burrow.
He could make a super Bowl this year. You let
Bo next go to the super Bowl. Wi Josh Allen hasn't
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mental super Bowl? Like, we need to reevaluate what we got.
I think this is he could be one of those
coaches like Marty so many years ago speak of the
devil that if you could go to the playoffs with
a really good record and still ownership is like, this
isn't good enough. We need to change things.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, well, here's the thing. I don't know how if
the dynamic has changed, I think, and I know it's
still like this. McDermott brought Brandon Bean in the way
that Pete Carroll did with John Schneider, So I don't know.
I think McDermott has ultimate veto powers. So it would
have to come from the pagulas. They would have to
ultimately say we're gonna make a change, because I don't know.
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If Brandon Bean has that power to fu now he
could probably make it. Rat I highly would do it
either because they look at well, who are we gonna get?
But I'll tell you what, they got a guy in
house right now, and Joe Brady, who's really good, and
he's a guy who's going to be a candidate for
some jobs. Frank, I'm gonna put you in the spot
because we have a show tomorrow and then we're off
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the rest of the week. Who do you got Saturday night?
Give me a score? Seahawks forty nine Ers? Who wins
it all?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I like Seahawks just because I'm still so stuck on
the forty nine ers. I don't know what to make
of them. It's rare to see a defense that bad
be a Super Bowl contender. I think Kyle Shanahan not
only Coach of the Year, but he should be an
Adam's Coach of the Year. I that's so much respect
if I've done this year. I think anybody voting for
anybody else for Coach of the Year is doing it wrong.
And I know that's overstating it. I'm bill.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Let me get a CEO, as Zick Vital would say,
hold on, you got three coaches in the NFL in
year one in their positions who have each made a
twelve game improvement. Liam Cohen and Jacksonville, Mike Rabell New England,
and Ben Johnson Chicago. That to me usurps Kyle Shanahan,
who's made a six game improvement from a year ago. Now,
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I know they've dealt with adversity, but to me, Shanahan,
McDonald and McVeigh, they might be the three best coaches
in the NFL not named Andy Reid. Okay, but in
terms of coach of the year, you've got to I mean,
take a winning twelve game improvement in Jacksonville and New England.
That's insane. And in Ben Johnson Chicago, I mean people
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are calling Caleb a bust a year ago. That to me,
those are you pick one of those. You can't do
any wrong. But no disrespect to Kyle Shanahan because Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But yeah, here's what we do. Here's what we do
a coach of the year. We give guys way too
much credit for being better than Matt Eberflus or Jared Mayo.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Or those guys just Antonio Pearce.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah right, Like it's one of those things where those
guys dog great. I'm not taking anything away from them.
But why should I penalize Kyle Shanahan because he's already
set the bar really high of being a good coach.
If you were to go say who is the best
coaching the NFL this season? I think most people would
say Cayle Shanahan. But why can't the best coach wear
the NFL Coach of the Year. Why is that reward
so broken every year that we can't do the best
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coach coach of the year And we say, well, look,
how much better if Mike Rabel isn't Jared Mayo. Yeah,
Jared Mayo was awful, like yeah, so wild, Like Kyle
Shanahan has dealt with injuries to Purty Kittle, Trent Williams,
Brandon Ayuk, Ricky Fred Warner, and Nick Bosa.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Hey Dan, and don't forget he's dealing with that, and
don't forget he's dealing with that whole situation with Ayuk
him to not playing it and that's a whole different
and he he I'll say this, nobody deals with diversity
better than Kyle Shanahan. But we'll see on Saturday night.
Frank always appreciate uh, your input and your takes and
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we'll do it again soon.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Absolutely appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You got it, Frank Schwab Yahoo Sports coming up next,
Let's get it New Year's Eve. Got an announcement to
make as well for a special edition of Picking the
Locks this week when it's gonna air MJ and the
Midday Hot Take Monday, your chance to win a platter
of board, said sandwiches coming up at the top of
the hour, and nothing about them resembles an acc team.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I know the patch on their chest says that, but
it very much resembles and probably even exceeds in this
given year, what Georgia is gonna put on the field,
what Michigan puts on the field, probably even what Oregon
puts on the field. So I looked at that Ohio
State draw as soon as that thing came out, and
you were gonna get either A and M or in
this case, Miami spat out at you. Then if you
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win that one, you probably got Georgia. You may be
looking at your first two toughest draws in the first
two games that you play in the bracket. But I
was at the game the other day, man, that wind
was no joke, and I think that Miami coaching staff,
that offensive staff looked at it and said, we're not
letting Carson Beck lose this game.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We realize our defense is That's what.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I refuse to believe they're that inept offensively, like that
passing game is that anemic with a multi year starter,
I don't care what people think about him. He's a
little bit better than what you saw the other day.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Josh Pates and Colin Coward uh talking about what's gonna
happen on Wednesday. Speaking of Wednesday, Lee Sterling and I
will be doing a special Picking the Locked show, the
College Football Playoff edition. We might have some NFL games,
including the Seahawks forty nine Ers there for you on Wednesday,
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so I might not make a pick. I'll at kid
make his pick tomorrow. I'll wait till Wednesday. Picking the
Locks is going to be on from ten for the
forty nine Ers Seahawks, so we're not I don't think
I'll do it tomorrow. You go ahead and tomorrow because
I think I might say that for Picking the Locks
on Wednesday at ten ten to eleven, We're going to
do a whole college Football Playoff edition because you have
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New Year's Eve. Oh and by the way, Lee Sterling
and I I want to thank Softie and Dick. We
went out to dinner the other night at the best
the only place I can ever eat Stone Crabs Joe
stone Crab on South Beach in Miami, the first ever restaurant.
It was a two and a half hour wait. Lee
and I got it there in less than four minutes.
So we had Stone Crab. We had everything with it,
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the hash browns that come with it, the grilled tomatoes,
the salad that they make, and then key Lime Pie.
Softy and Dick paid for it because they lost the
picking the Locks tag team challenge to me and Lee Sterling.
By the way, after that show, Lee Sterling and I
are getting on a plane and we are flying to Dallas.
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We will be there at the game on Wednesday night
from Miami, Ohio State twenty three years in the making,
since I was on the field at that national championship
game where we had our six national titles stolen away.
And what if you google, just google worst call college
football history? What comes up? Yeah? Yeah, twenty three years ago.
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These kids, none of them were born then, except for
Carson Beck. I believe he was two or three back
then because he's twenty four to twenty five now. But
we can't wait. Dallas is going to be off the
chain and let's see what happens. But we will have
a picking the locks addition coming up on Wednesday from
ten am to eleven am, right here before the bowl
(27:00):
game start. And it's gonna be insane. Find out the
day of flying back the day after. So, Dallas, I'm
coming for your barbecue, hoping for a win and nine
and a half point underdog. Let's go. Let's see, let's
see what happens. By the way, for those of you
right now who all said, oh, you're gonna be one
and dawn, you're gonna lose A and M. How about
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that guarantee? Kid? How about that guarantee that I gave
out on the air. Was it last Tuesday? I believe,
or no, excuse me, it was the day before Miami
played A and M. Because it's been a while. The
day was so was on Friday, December nineteenth. I gave
you a game day guarantee. I was right. I said
you could take the points, but you won't need them. Well,
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how that scoreboard? How that one work out for you?
Worked out well for me, very well for me. So
not gonna make any proclamations about this. I don't expect
to win. Let's just go and compete. Nine and a
half point dog. I don't think we're gonna lose by
more than the number, but let's see. I'll give up
my pick on that game coming up on Wednesday as well,
picking the Locks ten am to eleven am. We're fired up,
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looking forward to getting out of Dallas for like twenty
four hours and then I'm gone. It's gonna be a busy,
busy week, so looking forward to getting down there for
that game. So it's gonna be fun and man, I
just can't wait. All right, don't forget hot take Monday
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one of the observations I have made about the games
in the NFL and what this could mean in the postseason.
We'll get to that next and hot take Monday, coming
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like I'm looking at a clock here it says two
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forty nine, and I'm all messed up. But we'll do
that at noon local time, and we'll take your phone
calls as well. At two six two eight six ninety
five ninety five, so looking forward to that. One of
the things I've noticed though about teams over the course.
I mean, you can go back twenty five to thirty years.
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The teams who kind of close strong are the ones
that seem to really make a run in the playoffs. Now,
there was one year in seven where the Giants they
were like ten and six, and they had that final
regular season game of the year at the Old Metalands
(30:41):
Stadium and they lost to that eighteen to o New
England Patriots team that went sixteen to oh during the
regular season on that pass from Tom Brady to Randy
Moss going down the sidelines. But the Giants started to
turn it around before the end of that year and
they went in and they were playing their best football.
One of the things that makes me feel better about
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the Hawks is the fact that this team has won
six in a row. Unfortunately, so as the Niners going
into Saturday night, so something's got to give, right there
will one thing I can guarantee you, there will not
be well there, I get you know what, kid, I
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was gonna say, there could be a tie on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Did you know that that's a possibility.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's a possibility. Now, if that happens, the forty nine
Ers are the one seed because they beat the Seahawks,
and the Seahawks never beat them, So the forty nine
Ers would be the number one seed in the NFC
and NFC West Champions. Could you imagine? Though?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And I think the Niners have the better NFC record too.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I think they're five and one, that's correct, and the
Hawks three losses are all NFC teams, Niners, Bucks, and Rams. So,
by the way, how bad have the Bucks gotten since
that win here in Seattle?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, moving on, That's how bad they've been.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Right, I mean, it's just so bad. I mean, thankfully,
you know for them, they're getting that Panthers. But I don't.
I don't trust Baker Mayfield in that Bucks team. Something's
gone on there. They're gonna fire Todd Bowles even if
they win on Sunday. Todd Bowles is gone. Baker Mayfield
might be gone as well. And now there's there's some
scuttle butt in Green Bay that Matt Lafleur could be gone.
(32:40):
The people are sick and tired of his ish I'll
tell you right now. For John Harbaugh, And that's the
thing that concerns me about Lamar Jackson. Now we know
the talent, we know the two time MVP, but now
they are all these reports that have gone out there.
He's live streaming, playing video games till three in the morning.
He's ronically late to work. He's not putting the work
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in in the film room. It shows on the field
he doesn't look anywhere near as effective as he has
in the every year prior to this season. But I
have to tell you if I'm the owner, Steve Bushatti,
and I'm choosing between a two time MVP franchise quarterback,
and like Frank Schwab said, go back and look at
the course of NFL history on quarterbacks who have won
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two or more MVPs. It's a very short list. Tom Brady,
Peyton Manning, Bret Farvre, Aaron Rodgers. Not many qbs have
won two or more MVPs. And Lamar Jackson and I
don't think he's gonna win that battle. I'm just saying,
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you know, you could find another. And quite frankly, what
has John Harbad done since twenty twelve. He hasn't done anything,
not for Lamar jack and Lamar And you know, I'm
not saying there isn't some fire to that smoke. But
I mean, at the end of the day, you know,
and I know this is a power play. John Harbaugh
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gone could be on his way to Miami, I don't know,
or somewhere else. But there's no way he's gonna win
a power struggle with Lamar freaking Jackson. That's not gonna happen.
And if it does, Wow, that tells me what you know,
Steve Bashatti thinks of Lamar Jackson right now, and I
don't think he thinks anything other than the best. All Right,
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five Hot Take Monday next
NFL Draft. I mean, he is looking phenomenal. I thought
the Bear should have pulled it out last night and
they just couldn't get it done. Joining us right now
from Yahoo Sports A good buddy, Frank Schwab. So, Frank,
I went on a epic rant in my opening monologue
because here we are, Frank, and we're going in a
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week eighteen and the NFC West Divisional titles on the
line Saturday night. The number one seed in the NFC,
which comes along with a bye is on the line
Saturday night in Santa Clara against the Frisco Niners that
they hate to be called. But Frank, we got a
quarterback here who leads the NFL in turnovers and moreover,
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Frank that this quarterback. You look at how bad this
I mean, this defense is so great. Yet Sam Darnold
has put this team in a compromising position twenty turnovers. Okay,
Hawks right now have twenty eight giveaways, only second behind
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Minnesota for second the NFL, and there minus four and
turnover differential which is tied for twenty fourth in the league.
So from your perspective, because I love objective perspective, that's
what I like to bring here because I've only been
here for ten months, Frank, so I come in with
a different mindset. I can put the pom poms down
for a second and just call it like it is.
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I like Sam Darnald, but it's kind of like the
old line from Frank, you know, from Frank Pantangeally and
The Godfather Part two where he tells Michael Corleone, your
father did business with Hyman Roth, but your father never
trusted Hymen Roth. I like Sam Darnald, but I don't
trust Sam Darnald. Where do you stand on him?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I think that's probably fair. I mean, look, you can't
turn the ball over like, you know, like he has,
although you know, Seattle keeps winning and and even in
a game like the Rams, yes we could say, oh Samuel,
Sam Darnold, but we got to give him credit for
bringing the team back at the end. He did. We
made some unbelievable plays during that comeback. And look the
results are the results. I mean, his teams over the
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last two years are what twenty seven and six? Is
that right? Like?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, yeah, they are that? They are?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay, you know what, but you know what, the next
time he wins a playoff game will be the first.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Time, right right exactly, And I look it's just hard
to say. And look, I mean there's other things going
on too. Would he be helped a lot if the
Seahawks actually run the ball consistently? Yeah he would. Would
he be helped if if they had anybody but JSN
catching the ball? I guess when AJ Barner is your
second best receiver, it is not the greatest runout for
your quarterback. But you know, it ultimately does come down
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to he can't turn the ball over in big spots
and expect to, you know, win the next four games,
five games, whatever it's and it starts on Saturday night.
Like the forty nine Ers defense is terrible, It is
absolutely right. But the one way that the Seahawks could
blow that game is you turn it over three times,
because even a bad defensive give them, give them the
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ball to three times all of a sudden that they've
done their job. So yeah, it is very hard, Sam Darnald,
I've said this, Sam Donald, of all the players whoever
this is the fourteen teams end up being out of
the sixteen or soul of all the teams on those
all the players on those teams, Sam Donald has the
most to win or lose in these playoffs. Imagine if
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we're sitting here in Donald and Sam Donald is a
Super Bowl champion and the Seaws could obviously do that,
They could be the number one seed, and I would
not pick anybody to beat them in quest Field or
whatever they're calling it these days. And uh, at that place,
that's right. I don't care about the I know Lambo,
That's about it, but that I've been to that stadium
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many times. That homefield VNA is awesome. I don't think
anybody Seattle there. And so if they can go and
win a Super Bowl, Sam Donald, all of a sudden,
just everything changes about his perception everything. But if he
goes into the playoffs, it throws four interceptions like it
did against Rams in the first game, or whatever shall be,
and they lose as a one seed or even not
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as a one seed, it doesn't even matter. There's just
coulda be still a same old Sam Donald. This is
just who he is. Just the difference in how Seattle
marches upon the playoffs and any even Week eighteen, it
just completely changes how we think of Sam Donald's entire career.
It's pretty wild to think.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
About Frank Schwab. Excellent point by you, Frank. I want
to do something here with you, and I'm gonna go ahead.
I'm gonna go of the because we still have four
teams right now. They're gonna play for two spots, Baltimore
versus Pittsburgh. So I don't know if Lamar Jackson be healthy,
but let's just for this game, let's just hype, you know,
hypothetically play that he's going to be healthy. And then
obviously Tampa Carolina for the NFC South Division. So I'm
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gonna go through all the teams who have made the
playoffs and the two the four teams of potential playoffs
and seeing who wins there. And I was just gonna
start with quarterbacks. So I'm gonna give you the list here,
and then I'm gonna ask you where you ranked Sam
Darnold on this list. This lot, there was the Lob,
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the Legion of Boom. I'm gonna do the lot, the
list of trust. Okay, we're gonna go. I'm just gonna
give you all these names, but at the end, you
tell me where you rank among all these quarterbacks. All right,
Bonis drake Man, Trey Trevor Lawrence, Aaron Rodgers, C J. Stroud,
Justin Herbert, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, NFC Caleb Williams,
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Jalen Hurtz, Bryce Young, Brock Purdy, Matthew Stafford, Jordan Love,
and Baker Mayfield. Of all those quarterbacks that are in
the playoffs or could potentially be in the playoffs, where
does Sam Donald rank on your list of trust there?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
For me?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I put him just above Baker Mayfield and Bryce Young.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, definitely above those guys. I counted eight as you
were listing them off, which makes sense. He's about in
the middle of the pack. For me, I trust him
more than I mean, I'm talking about where they're playing
right now. I'm not talking about career accomplishment. So I
trust one Jalen Hurts right now. They have sixteen yards
in the second half yesterday. I trust more than bow
Nix right now. I trust him more than CD Stroud
right now, even though I think the offensive line is
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more of the problem there than C. G. Stroud. So
there's a couple of guys on that list who but
I trust him. I trust. Yeah, Like you said, I
trust Darnald Morton. Baker Mayfield right now was absolutely terrible.
So there's a few guys, but there's some guys who
you're like, well, yeah, camp up over Stafford. I can't
not even Jordan Love, probably not Caleb Williams right now,
you know, obviously Drake May might might be the MVP
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of the league. Josh Allen's unbelievable. So yeah, he's about
the middle of the pack. And that makes sense to me,
like it's he is. I think he's done enough for
me anyway. They deserve the benefit of the doubt of
I don't think he's just a pumpkin. I think what
we've done done with Sam Donald is and a lot
of this has to do with Okay, this is a
very big picture of things. So it's a bear with
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me for a second. I think the draft has become
such a big deal and we all get involved in
our own opinions about the draft and our own takes,
and oh my god, so all of a sudden, people
just dug in on Sam Donald being a bust, right,
like he's a bust, And now they refuse to emit
they're wrong. They refuse to give Sam Donald any benefit
of the doubt. So whenever he has a bad game,
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whether it's against the Lions last year when he had
no blocking in front of him, whether against the Rams
when they didn't block for him, whether it's against the
Rams in the first game, Like, Sam Donald has probably
had truly five bad games over his last thirty four, Right,
that's not that bad. It's really not like nobody's saying.
He's probably Patrick Mahomes. He's a middle of the road quarterback.
But every time he has a bad game, because I
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think people don't want to admit they're wrong about Sam Donald,
all of a sudden, it's well, see Sam Donald sakes
Saml's terrible. You can't win with Sam Donald. Look at
h three Foign interceptions against the Rams, even in the
first half or the first three quarters. I guess against
the Rams and Sac it's up there. Sam Donald is
going to disappear in every big game. And I think
we're so quick to do that because we're so stuck
on our draft aches and are so stuck on well,
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he's a bust, and we're never going to admit we're wrong.
I think Sam Donald deserves a benefit of doubt. More
than that, I think he's a good and easy Again,
there's seven eight guys walking the planet who it just
doesn't matter. They're going to succeed regardless of their system
around them, the coach of teammates. We all know the names,
and it's we all know that list of guys, right,
Sam Donald's not in that list, and he's never going
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to be in that list. But that's okay. You could
comfortably be in that second tier and win big. You
can win a Super Bowl. I mean, you need a
good team around you, like most guys, and I think
Sam Donald's a perfectly fine quarterback if he's in the
right situation, which he is now. Seatle's got a great
situation around him. So I just think that the criticism
on Sam Donald is just so quick and it's so
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over the top, almost at times where we need to
take a step back and realize, like, but over the
last two years, this guy has played at a really,
really high level, and you're gonna go You might go
fourteen to three two straight years, and I don't have
to think quarterbacks our own win loss record, but he
has a lot to do with that. And I think
at some point I almost am rooting for Sam Darnald
because I don't want to just I don't want to
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hear and be like you know, because they lose to
the Rams in the NFC Championship, and the Rams are
a really really good football team. If they lose in
the Rams NFTY Championship, it doesn't even matter what Sam
Darnald does. The whole reaction is just gonna be see
Sam Darnold Stakes. And I don't think that's far name.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's just hypothetic. Let's just say Frank Schwab from Yahoo
Sports joining us right now, Let's just say that happens,
and let's oh God, parish the thought that it does.
But let's just again, we're we're playing hypothetical because what
we can do in sports radio. And the Hawks lose
in the NFC Championship game, let's just let's just pick
another team. Let's just say it's the Eagles and not
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the Rams, because I would hate to lose to the
Rams or forty nineers, but regardless, whatever. You know, Frank,
you know this league, You've covered it for many, many years,
and you grew up loving it, just like I did.
In New England. I grew up love in the NFL
and the league. If you don't have a guy that
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you truly believe can get you to where you want
to go every year, then it's time ultimately that you
might need to pivot. Now, kudos to John Schneider, he
front loaded the contract. If the Seahawks don't get to
where they want to go, and I'm asking you, it's
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this to me is a legitimate question. Do you consider
perhaps trying to upgrade at the position and going after
an elite franchise QB I e. Joe Burrow who is
clearly disgusted and has even gone on public record and saying,
you know, he doesn't know, you know, his unhappiness is
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discontent and Cincinnati and who can blame them? And would
you at least kick the tires with Cincinnati just to
see I mean, what would it hurt? The worst they
can say is no, right, I'm in Miami right now, Frank.
The worst you know, I tell any guy right now,
if you're going out to South Beach on Collins av
or Washington or Ocean Drive, go up to the hottest
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girl that you see in the club. The worst you
can say is no, it might bruise your ego. It
won't cost you a dime. So would you at least
consider saying that, hey, we can get out of this.
That's not a huge cap hit like Tua, or you
know some of the other ones next year that are
a huge cap like Ta pacifically and Baker Mayfield. Baker's
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a fifty two million dollar hit. Tua's a fifty six
million dollar hit. Would you consider making an upgrade on
going after someone like Joe Burrow?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I mean Joe Burrow, of course, right right, So I mean,
if that situation presents itself. I don't think it will.
But if that situation presents itself, you'd be dumb not
to look into it. But here's the thing, Like I
mean in general talking about upgrading for Sam Donald, who
might be the let's say he's the twelfth best quarterback
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in the NFL. None of those first eleven guys are available.
What's gonna if Joe Burrow does thet I don't know
Joe Burrow is gonna do this. But if Joe Burrow
goes to Cincinnati ownership and says, hey, I want to
be traded, Bengals might just be like, that's great to hear, Joe,
We'll see you in August for training camp. We ain't
trade you. Who cares like you're under contract you want
to retire? There's a door, but we're not trading you
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because you're Joe Burrow and we're not gonna be the
franchise trade Joe Bert. Okay, we did discarss some Homer once,
we're not doing it again. So and you know, Patrick
ma Holmes ain't available, and Laura Jackson I don't think
is available, and Josh Allen's not available. So it's like, yes,
in theory, it sounds great to upgrade Sam Darnald, and
you should always be looking into anything you can do
to help your football team, of course, but realistically, realistically,
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what are you gonna do, Like you're you're probably just
gonna end up with somebody worse than Sam Darnold again though, yeah, Joe,
like anybody, I think there's only like fourteen in the
NFL that would be like, that wouldn't make sense to
go after Joe Burrow, right like the bubble of bills
are not traded Josh Allen, Joel Burrow.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But and right now, any.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Of the other twenty twenty seven teams, Yeah, they should
have looked into that.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yet, how about would you do it on Lamar Jackson
if he used vill because there's a you know, there
apparently is a power play going on right now between
Harbor and Lamar. Would you would you consider trading for
the two time MVP.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I would. I think Lebar Jackson's one of the ten
best quarterbacks of all time. But again, like, I wow,
the Ravens might. Yeah, I love Jamar Jackson. I think
he should have been. He should be. Look, if you
look at the list of two time MVPs, it's a
list of the who's who in NFL history. If you
look at a list of the three time MVP, which
should have been because the voters got it wrong last
year to make Josh Allen the MVP. If you look
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at the three time MVPs, it's like, oh wow, this
is the elite of the elite, Like this is the
top tier of the Hall of Fame pyramid right here.
Like LeVar Jackson's that dude, he's great. Like he had
a season last year where he almost set the single
season passer rating record and also rushed for nine hundred yards.
Like we've never seen anything michaelmart Jackson before. So if
he's available, Yeah, you kicked the Tigers like I would.
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I mean, I he's not even thirty years old yet,
So yes, that's another one. Where you would. But I
think at the end of the day, Baltimore is gonna say,
we'll pick it between John Harbaugh, who hasn't won multiple
playoff games in a in a postseason since twenty twelve,
or picking or we're picking a two time MVP quarterback
at his prime. We're taking a quarterback. Sorry, John, I'm like,
so yes, I I yeah, Burrow, Labar. If they are available,
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you have those phone calls. But it is also like,
that's the thing too, It's not if these guys are available.
Let's say Joe Burrow's available in some it's SOMEWHERELD Joe
Burrow's available, What does it cost to get him?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah? Or first you're talking three number one a lot worse. Yeah, Yeah,
that's true. Three number ones, no doubt, not easily. Maybe
four he's easy.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
He has a starting. That's a starting. If I think
if a team came to Cincinnati and said we'll give
you three first round picks for Joe Burrow, They're like,
why why would we do that?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Then that's all. But seriously, Frank Schwab from Yahoo Sports
showing us here what concerns you the most besides Sam
Donald about the Seahawks as we you know, forget about
just Saturday Night for a second, but just going into
the playoffs, what concerns you the most about this team?
Obviously Donald Numero Uno, But after.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That, Yeah, and I think it's just the offense as
a whole, because you look at it and they should
be better running the ball with those two running backs
they have, and they're just not like they're very middle
of the road running team. There's not a lot of consistency.
They're not a team that's just gonna line up in
rush for a hundred sixty earths on you every game
like That's just doesn't happen very often. And I do
as easy as this is to say, it's it's harder
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to do. If a team takes JSN out of the game.
What's the CounterPunch at that point? Like I love hershichihid,
but I don't think they've figured out how to use
it yet. And A. J. Barterer has had a really,
really nice year. I really don't want him as my
number two option in the passing game. If if a
team is good enough, smart enough to take JSN out,
it has happened a couple times. It's pretty rare, but
(16:02):
it has happened, then what's the Seahawks CounterPunch? So I
think they're just so narrow on offense, where the running
game isn't that reliable, and everybody other than JSN in
the passing game is really not scaring anybody. And Sam
Darnold has his issues too. If we talked about any oftens,
the lines of that great. So I just think it's
the offense. If we look back, I don't think it's
the defense. So the defense is gonna be great. The
defense fantastic, held right here in the fifty four yards yesterday.
(16:24):
But it's the offense, I guess. Just overall. The offense
is so predicated on JSN being having one of the
greatest receiving seasons of all time that if that's not
happening in some game for whatever reason, I don't know
the Seahawks can score enough to beat most NFC playoff teams.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well yeah, well, the defense. The one thing about it.
The defense is not going to give up nearly forty
points the way the forty nine ers did last night
to the Chicago Bears. This defense ain't given like I said,
not only they're not going to give a forty point
and they're not going to allow the forty nine ers
to score forty two points like they did last night
(17:00):
against the Chicago Bears. They'll be lucky to get to
twenty twenty two if they're lucky. This defense is absolutely
elite and there's payback, and I think this is just
a game. You look at Mike McDonald frank in the
two years he's been here in Seattle, fourteen and two
on the road, that's unbelievable. And he's not even the
only coach's here's the funny thing about it. They're not
(17:21):
even undefeated on the road this season. There's only one
team who is. That's the New England Patriots and Mike Raybell.
They're undefeated on the road so far this year. So
looking around the league right now, Buffalo Sean McDermott, what
does he think he is? Tom Osborne in the National
Championship against Miami in nineteen eighty three, why would you
go for two? Why would you be so stupid and
(17:44):
go for two rather than just get to overtime and
then rely on the MVP from last year?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And I think normally that's how I would say it too,
because it's Philly's offense had been nothing of that point,
you just trust that we're gonna get into Harver time
and win. Truly, that game meant so little for the Bills.
Weird does it sound they're not catching the Patriots in
the ACS? And I think maybe I don't know, but
I mean Dermott he has some questionable moment so maybe
he wasn't thinking this through the way I was. But
(18:12):
when he went for it for two, I almost said, yeah,
that makes sense because this game really doesn't mean that
much for you as to as far as the playoffs go,
and why put your team through an extra overtime right now?
You're gonna be resting him next week anyway, I assume,
So just let's let's go one play And they got
a guy wide opened in the end zone and Josh
Allon just missed him. So I didn't mind it that much.
(18:33):
Like if that would have happened in week four, okay, like, yeah,
that probably was the wrong call, I think in this
specific situation, I didn't hate it so much because I
don't know, if I'm Sean McDermott. If in the cold
and rain, I want my team playing an extra overtime
in a game that truly doesn't matter much to be
your playoff position.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, it's uh it to me. That's His's the thing
about Sean McDermott, do you know he's the longest coach,
tenured coach in NFL. His to be at one place
for a decade and never take his team to a
super Bowl, it's never happened. He's never never. Jeff Fisher
went to the Super Bowl, I believe his first or
second year in Tennessee and they lost to the Rams.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Even Schottenheimer, even Schottenheimer, huh yeah, yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, hey, well no, I don't think Martin, you know,
but was Marty Marty? But was he there for a decade?
I don't know. I don't know if he was there
for a decade at a.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Time it was, but yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Seemed like he was here for three decades, right, Yeah, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Think there's gonna be serious. Quote like, if you look
at this year's AFC, the Bills don't come out of there,
and I don't think they will because they're really flawed
football team with one great player too, James Cook's really
good too, I'll give him that. But if they don't
come out of the AFC, you're going to say there
was no Mahomes, maybe Lit, no Lamar, no Joe Burrow.
He could make a super Bowl this year. You let
Bo next go to the super Bowl. Wi Josh Allen hasn't
(19:54):
mental super Bowl? Like, we need to reevaluate what we got.
I think this is he could be one of those
coaches like Marty so many years ago speak of the
devil that if you could go to the playoffs with
a really good record and still ownership is like, this
isn't good enough. We need to change things.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, well, here's the thing. I don't know how if
the dynamic has changed, I think, and I know it's
still like this. McDermott brought Brandon Bean in the way
that Pete Carroll did with John Schneider, So I don't know.
I think McDermott has ultimate veto powers. So it would
have to come from the pagulas. They would have to
ultimately say we're gonna make a change, because I don't know.
(20:30):
If Brandon Bean has that power to fu now he
could probably make it. Rat I highly would do it
either because they look at well, who are we gonna get?
But I'll tell you what, they got a guy in
house right now, and Joe Brady, who's really good, and
he's a guy who's going to be a candidate for
some jobs. Frank, I'm gonna put you in the spot
because we have a show tomorrow and then we're off
(20:51):
the rest of the week. Who do you got Saturday night?
Give me a score? Seahawks forty nine Ers? Who wins
it all?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I like Seahawks just because I'm still so stuck on
the forty nine ers. I don't know what to make
of them. It's rare to see a defense that bad
be a Super Bowl contender. I think Kyle Shanahan not
only Coach of the Year, but he should be an
Adam's Coach of the Year. I that's so much respect
if I've done this year. I think anybody voting for
anybody else for Coach of the Year is doing it wrong.
And I know that's overstating it. I'm bill.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Let me get a CEO, as Zick Vital would say,
hold on, you got three coaches in the NFL in
year one in their positions who have each made a
twelve game improvement. Liam Cohen and Jacksonville, Mike Rabell New England,
and Ben Johnson Chicago. That to me usurps Kyle Shanahan,
who's made a six game improvement from a year ago. Now,
(21:41):
I know they've dealt with adversity, but to me, Shanahan,
McDonald and McVeigh, they might be the three best coaches
in the NFL not named Andy Reid. Okay, but in
terms of coach of the year, you've got to I mean,
take a winning twelve game improvement in Jacksonville and New England.
That's insane. And in Ben Johnson Chicago, I mean people
(22:02):
are calling Caleb a bust a year ago. That to me,
those are you pick one of those. You can't do
any wrong. But no disrespect to Kyle Shanahan because Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
But yeah, here's what we do. Here's what we do
a coach of the year. We give guys way too
much credit for being better than Matt Eberflus or Jared Mayo.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Or those guys just Antonio Pearce.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah right, Like it's one of those things where those
guys dog great. I'm not taking anything away from them.
But why should I penalize Kyle Shanahan because he's already
set the bar really high of being a good coach.
If you were to go say who is the best
coaching the NFL this season? I think most people would
say Cayle Shanahan. But why can't the best coach wear
the NFL Coach of the Year. Why is that reward
so broken every year that we can't do the best
(22:46):
coach coach of the year And we say, well, look,
how much better if Mike Rabel isn't Jared Mayo. Yeah,
Jared Mayo was awful, like yeah, so wild, Like Kyle
Shanahan has dealt with injuries to Purty Kittle, Trent Williams,
Brandon Ayuk, Ricky Fred Warner, and Nick Bosa.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Hey Dan, and don't forget he's dealing with that, and
don't forget he's dealing with that whole situation with Ayuk
him to not playing it and that's a whole different
and he he I'll say this, nobody deals with diversity
better than Kyle Shanahan. But we'll see on Saturday night.
Frank always appreciate uh, your input and your takes and
(23:29):
we'll do it again soon.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Absolutely appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You got it, Frank Schwab Yahoo Sports coming up next,
Let's get it New Year's Eve. Got an announcement to
make as well for a special edition of Picking the
Locks this week when it's gonna air MJ and the
Midday Hot Take Monday, your chance to win a platter
of board, said sandwiches coming up at the top of
the hour, and nothing about them resembles an acc team.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I know the patch on their chest says that, but
it very much resembles and probably even exceeds in this
given year, what Georgia is gonna put on the field,
what Michigan puts on the field, probably even what Oregon
puts on the field. So I looked at that Ohio
State draw as soon as that thing came out, and
you were gonna get either A and M or in
this case, Miami spat out at you. Then if you
(24:16):
win that one, you probably got Georgia. You may be
looking at your first two toughest draws in the first
two games that you play in the bracket. But I
was at the game the other day, man, that wind
was no joke, and I think that Miami coaching staff,
that offensive staff looked at it and said, we're not
letting Carson Beck lose this game.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We realize our defense is That's what.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I refuse to believe they're that inept offensively, like that
passing game is that anemic with a multi year starter,
I don't care what people think about him. He's a
little bit better than what you saw the other day.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Josh Pates and Colin Coward uh talking about what's gonna
happen on Wednesday. Speaking of Wednesday, Lee Sterling and I
will be doing a special Picking the Locked show, the
College Football Playoff edition. We might have some NFL games,
including the Seahawks forty nine Ers there for you on Wednesday,
(25:06):
so I might not make a pick. I'll at kid
make his pick tomorrow. I'll wait till Wednesday. Picking the
Locks is going to be on from ten for the
forty nine Ers Seahawks, so we're not I don't think
I'll do it tomorrow. You go ahead and tomorrow because
I think I might say that for Picking the Locks
on Wednesday at ten ten to eleven, We're going to
do a whole college Football Playoff edition because you have
(25:30):
New Year's Eve. Oh and by the way, Lee Sterling
and I I want to thank Softie and Dick. We
went out to dinner the other night at the best
the only place I can ever eat Stone Crabs Joe
stone Crab on South Beach in Miami, the first ever restaurant.
It was a two and a half hour wait. Lee
and I got it there in less than four minutes.
So we had Stone Crab. We had everything with it,
(25:51):
the hash browns that come with it, the grilled tomatoes,
the salad that they make, and then key Lime Pie.
Softy and Dick paid for it because they lost the
picking the Locks tag team challenge to me and Lee Sterling.
By the way, after that show, Lee Sterling and I
are getting on a plane and we are flying to Dallas.
(26:13):
We will be there at the game on Wednesday night
from Miami, Ohio State twenty three years in the making,
since I was on the field at that national championship
game where we had our six national titles stolen away.
And what if you google, just google worst call college
football history? What comes up? Yeah? Yeah, twenty three years ago.
(26:38):
These kids, none of them were born then, except for
Carson Beck. I believe he was two or three back
then because he's twenty four to twenty five now. But
we can't wait. Dallas is going to be off the
chain and let's see what happens. But we will have
a picking the locks addition coming up on Wednesday from
ten am to eleven am, right here before the bowl
(27:00):
game start. And it's gonna be insane. Find out the
day of flying back the day after. So, Dallas, I'm
coming for your barbecue, hoping for a win and nine
and a half point underdog. Let's go. Let's see, let's
see what happens. By the way, for those of you
right now who all said, oh, you're gonna be one
and dawn, you're gonna lose A and M. How about
(27:21):
that guarantee? Kid? How about that guarantee that I gave
out on the air. Was it last Tuesday? I believe,
or no, excuse me, it was the day before Miami
played A and M. Because it's been a while. The
day was so was on Friday, December nineteenth. I gave
you a game day guarantee. I was right. I said
you could take the points, but you won't need them. Well,
(27:44):
how that scoreboard? How that one work out for you?
Worked out well for me, very well for me. So
not gonna make any proclamations about this. I don't expect
to win. Let's just go and compete. Nine and a
half point dog. I don't think we're gonna lose by
more than the number, but let's see. I'll give up
my pick on that game coming up on Wednesday as well,
picking the Locks ten am to eleven am. We're fired up,
(28:07):
looking forward to getting out of Dallas for like twenty
four hours and then I'm gone. It's gonna be a busy,
busy week, so looking forward to getting down there for
that game. So it's gonna be fun and man, I
just can't wait. All right, don't forget hot take Monday
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(28:52):
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(29:14):
one of the observations I have made about the games
in the NFL and what this could mean in the postseason.
We'll get to that next and hot take Monday, coming
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do that coming up at twelve at noon. I'm all
messed up. I'm on the East coast right now, so
like I'm looking at a clock here it says two
(29:58):
forty nine, and I'm all messed up. But we'll do
that at noon local time, and we'll take your phone
calls as well. At two six two eight six ninety
five ninety five, so looking forward to that. One of
the things I've noticed though about teams over the course.
I mean, you can go back twenty five to thirty years.
(30:21):
The teams who kind of close strong are the ones
that seem to really make a run in the playoffs. Now,
there was one year in seven where the Giants they
were like ten and six, and they had that final
regular season game of the year at the Old Metalands
(30:41):
Stadium and they lost to that eighteen to o New
England Patriots team that went sixteen to oh during the
regular season on that pass from Tom Brady to Randy
Moss going down the sidelines. But the Giants started to
turn it around before the end of that year and
they went in and they were playing their best football.
One of the things that makes me feel better about
(31:04):
the Hawks is the fact that this team has won
six in a row. Unfortunately, so as the Niners going
into Saturday night, so something's got to give, right there
will one thing I can guarantee you, there will not
be well there, I get you know what, kid, I
(31:26):
was gonna say, there could be a tie on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Did you know that that's a possibility.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's a possibility. Now, if that happens, the forty nine
Ers are the one seed because they beat the Seahawks,
and the Seahawks never beat them, So the forty nine
Ers would be the number one seed in the NFC
and NFC West Champions. Could you imagine? Though?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And I think the Niners have the better NFC record too.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
I think they're five and one, that's correct, and the
Hawks three losses are all NFC teams, Niners, Bucks, and Rams. So,
by the way, how bad have the Bucks gotten since
that win here in Seattle?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, moving on, That's how bad they've been.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Right, I mean, it's just so bad. I mean, thankfully,
you know for them, they're getting that Panthers. But I don't.
I don't trust Baker Mayfield in that Bucks team. Something's
gone on there. They're gonna fire Todd Bowles even if
they win on Sunday. Todd Bowles is gone. Baker Mayfield
might be gone as well. And now there's there's some
scuttle butt in Green Bay that Matt Lafleur could be gone.
(32:40):
The people are sick and tired of his ish I'll
tell you right now. For John Harbaugh, And that's the
thing that concerns me about Lamar Jackson. Now we know
the talent, we know the two time MVP, but now
they are all these reports that have gone out there.
He's live streaming, playing video games till three in the morning.
He's ronically late to work. He's not putting the work
(33:02):
in in the film room. It shows on the field
he doesn't look anywhere near as effective as he has
in the every year prior to this season. But I
have to tell you if I'm the owner, Steve Bushatti,
and I'm choosing between a two time MVP franchise quarterback,
and like Frank Schwab said, go back and look at
the course of NFL history on quarterbacks who have won
(33:24):
two or more MVPs. It's a very short list. Tom Brady,
Peyton Manning, Bret Farvre, Aaron Rodgers. Not many qbs have
won two or more MVPs. And Lamar Jackson and I
don't think he's gonna win that battle. I'm just saying,
(33:46):
you know, you could find another. And quite frankly, what
has John Harbad done since twenty twelve. He hasn't done anything,
not for Lamar jack and Lamar And you know, I'm
not saying there isn't some fire to that smoke. But
I mean, at the end of the day, you know,
and I know this is a power play. John Harbaugh
(34:07):
gone could be on his way to Miami, I don't know,
or somewhere else. But there's no way he's gonna win
a power struggle with Lamar freaking Jackson. That's not gonna happen.
And if it does, Wow, that tells me what you know,
Steve Bashatti thinks of Lamar Jackson right now, and I
don't think he thinks anything other than the best. All Right,
(34:27):
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