December 30, 2025 • 36 mins
The Los Angeles Rams went to Atlanta and took an L and are now the 6th seed in the playoffs, boy how the mighty have fallen. Sam Darnold has a turnover bug, is it a problem, should Seahawk fans be concerned ahead of the game versus the San Francisco 49ers and into the post-season... MJ hits to all fields as an ESPN analyst goes all in on Matthew Stafford as a all time Great QB!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Of the college football playoff games, including the one that
Lee and I are going to in Dallas tomorrow night
on New Year's Eve that the entire world will be
watching between our Miami Hurricanes and the Ohio State buck Eyes.
Can't wait for that. It's cracking ticket Tuesday right here
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next week Tuesday night, January sixth, So wow, uh, let's start.
Humellan will join us coming up at eleven, Mike Benton
at eleven thirty, and then we will get into the
college football playoffs at noon with one of my favorites
as well as Dalton Wasserman, who always brings it and
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he's ecstatic. There's a couple of things that nobody's talking
about with these college football playoffs, so we'll see what happens.
But it's going to be epic Tomorrow night down in
Jerry World, my second time down there. If anybody who
lived in Dallas or spent some time in Dallas, give
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me your rex on a or nose, or just is
a foodie in his nose the food scene in Dallas.
I went to Pecon Lodge, which is considered a very
one of their better barbecue restaurants. It was I I
wasn't all that into it. It was I'll never forget, man,
how time has passed? Twenty seventeen, the Kickoff Classic in
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Jerry World Canes. I went down there for that and
we're playing LSU and they had this quarterback you might
have heard of. He was making his first ever start
for LSU after transferring from Ohio State. That guy's name
is Joe Burrow, and Joe Burrow actually did not have
a good year that season at LSU. He did not so,
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but he ended up closing out strong. And it was
twenty nineteen, excuse me, twenty nineteen, so yeah, he ended
up might have been twenty eighteen. I don't even know.
It's all like boggled in my mind. But he didn't
have a good year that year at LSU. And then
the following year was just uh yeah, twenty nineteen he
was amazing. They went undefeated, National champs, Heisman the whole nine.
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He had a couple of receivers you might have heard
of named Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson. So that team
Randy Moss's kid. So looking forward to getting down there,
and believe it or not, I can't even believe it.
For me, this is my first Miami Hurricanes game of
the season. You know, living in Seattle, you can't have
a further point away from one place in America cut
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to another place from Seattle down to Miami. And I
was unable to get to any games this year because
it would have taken me. You know, you're talking two
entire days traveling back and forth. And so finally get
to go to a game tomorrow night. And what better
game to go to than the game against the Ohio
State Buckeyes. And it should be pretty fun. How about
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last night though, the la Rams and there in lies
the difference. Maybe I wonder if you could tell they
were still suffering from a Seahawks hangover from the game
that happened nearly two weeks ago, and they last night
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just looked like crap for most of the game and
they're down twenty one to nothing at halftime to win
Atlanta Falcons team that really had they have nothing to
play for. And you know, I mean the Rams did
win last night Lenoa. Yeah, no, that was their first
game since the Seattle so they've lost back to back
games now and therein lies the difference is that the
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reason why the Rams will not win this division is
because Seattle went on the road and beat Carolina in
Atlanta and the Rams didn't. They didn't beat Carolina in Atlanta,
and that's why right now they're looking at a six seed.
And you talk about an unbelievable wildcard weekend, the Rams
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right now, as it stands today would go to Philadelphia
to face the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles, which would
be unbelievable. Yep, Rams and Eagles right now, So as
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of today, it would be the Rams at the Eagles,
subject to change. So you talk about an unbelievable first round,
that would be it. I mean that that would be
the game. But I'm not gonna sing for you today,
but I will just say this to quote one of
the greatest R and B bands of all time, Jodasy
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for the Rams today. Lately, I would cry for you tonight,
I will cry for you Rams fans. It's gotta be tough,
gotta be tough. Right now, you guys thought you're gonna
be the one seed and then that back and forth
epic thriller happen on a Thursday night here in Seattle,
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and the Rams have not recovered from that. You can
see it. You can just see it now. Maybe they'll
be able to turn it around in the playoffs, but
they're locked in there. They cannot get the one seed.
I mean they're gonna they're locked in at six, so
they're not you know, they have no right now. This
is between Seattle in San Francisco. Now, normally I, because
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this would be the last show before the Hawks Niners
game on Saturday, I would give my pick for this game. However,
we have picking the Locks tomorrow from ten am to
eleven AM, and I'm gonna save my pick for then.
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And I will tell you for the first time because
I've been talking to Lee about it, and we've been
going over the games that I want and he wants,
and I finally said to him and said, hey, you know,
it's okay if we both have. You know, we picked
the same game. It's okay if we picked the same
team in the same game. So I'm not gonna tell
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you where we're leaning, subject to change, but Lee Sterling
and I are both on one side definitively for the
Seahawks forty nine Ers game. You'll have to listen tomorrow
between ten am and eleven am right here on Sports
Radio ninety three to three k JRFM. Not gonna tell
you it is. I'm gonna give out playoff predictions for
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tomorrow and it will. I believe this is going to
be our final picking the locks of the twenty twenty
five season for football. So it was fun. We appreciate
everybody who enjoyed the show. We you know, we didn't
win every week, but I even had a losing week
once and you know, but we we had some fun
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and we'll grow the show and hopefully get some affiliates
into syndication next year. So looking forward to that. But
let's talk for a second about the Seahawks and and moreover,
I want to bring something up of all the teams
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in the playoffs, and I think Seattle's on the right
side of this trend. Let's go through each team that
is playoff worthy. Now there's four of them and only
two will survive between Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the Bucks in Carolina.
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But let's go through every team. And I noticed something
that not every team does, but yet the Seahawks do
with Mike McDonald. So let's start with the Denver Broncos.
Sean Payton. He calls the plays offensively. Now I know
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this year Kansas City, obviously they're not making the playoffs.
But Andy Reid is the play caller and he has
been since he left Philadelphia to take over in Kansas
City for over a decade, winning three Super Bowls. So
Sean Payton's in. He calls the plays. Mike Rable in
New England does not call plays. Okay, it works for them.
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Neither is Nick Sirianni in Philadelphia. Hey, Sean Payton calls
the place for Denver. Liam Cohen calls the plays for Jacksonville.
Mike Tomlin does not call plays for Pittsburgh. Tomiko Ryans.
I don't believe kid does Demiko Ryans call the defensive
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plays because I know, yeah, I think he does, doesn't
he It's see, I mean, I know they have a DC,
but is he the guy that calls the defensive plays
for the Texans. Kid, all right, I guess he's not there. Kid?
Where are you? Are you not there? Okay? Hello? Does
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Demiko Ryans call the place for the Texans his defense? Yes,
that's what I thought. Okay, So let's go through this now.
Sean Payton calls the plays offensively. Liam Cohen calls the plays.
He's the o C. Demiko Ryans is the DC. Sean
McDermott is the d C. So yeah, I'll go with
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that as well. John Harbott does not called the place,
Mike Rabel does not call the place, and Mike Tomlin
does not call the place. In the NFC, Kyle Shanahan
he's the o C. He's the he calls the place.
Sean McVay, oh C calls the place, Matt Lafleur oh
C calls the place. Now, Mike McDonald DC pretty much.
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I mean, he's the one calling the place. So why
I bring this up is because it's interesting. And Ben
Johnson in Chicago calls the place. Sirianni does not, So
why do I bring this up? I think there's something
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to the effect. Now, Dan Campbell did not call the
place when he had Ben John and Aaron Glenn. Then
he stripped his new OC John Morton, from calling the
plays and did it this season, and they suffered because
of it. My point is this, I think teams are
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better when the head coach, whether on the offensive side
of the ball or the defensive side of the ball,
is calling the place for me. I like it better.
I just do. I know, Sirianni. You know, he beat
Andy Reid last year and he had Kellen Moore as
the OC and Vic Fangio as the DC. So he
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doesn't call plays. It works for them. Mike Rabel doesn't
call plays, but it works for them. I like it
better when the head coach is the one calling plays
on one side of the ball. Let's go through it.
Andy Reid three Super Bowls. Play caller, Sean Payton won
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Super Bowl, play caller McVeigh won Super Bowl. Play caller.
You've got five Super Bowls right there, right there, Mike,
when Mike Tomlin doesn't call the plays. So that but
you got five Super Bowls of guys who are calling
the plays. And Kyle Shanahan hasn't won it, but he's
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been in two Super Bowls. I like it better that way.
I think there's more of a meticulous attention to detail
when a coach is basically saying, I am in charge
of the offense Sean McVay, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, Matt Lafleur,
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or the defense, Demiko Ryans, Mike McDonald. I like it
better that way, and I think and there's just something
to me and it's not like it, you know, like
I said, the Eagles won a Super Bowl last year,
Sirianni didn't call any plays, So it can happen, and
it has happened. But you know, like when Belichick won
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six Super Bowls with New England, it was only towards
the end where he let Matt Patricia he was the DC,
and then he let Brian Flores be the DC, and
then his son and Gerrod Mayo and all that. But
you know, for the most part, Belichick was one of
those guys that just that just like he had his
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hands on every part of that franchise. And I like
the fact that Mike McDonald is the one that is
going to be the reason that the Seahawks advance or don't.
But he's not leaving it up to anybody else. He
knows that. And obviously in his mind. With all due
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respect to aid and Dirtey, there's no singular individual and
employee in renting at the vMac that can call better
defensive plays than Mike McDonald. There's probably no guy in
the NFL that's a better defensive play caller than Mike McDonald.
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So I just noticed that, and of all the teams
that are in the playoffs right now, and again we
don't know. Oh, by the way, this is not good.
Uh oh uh oh, well, it's a bad day for
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the Diggs family. The Dallas Cowboys release uh. Trevon Diggs
and his brother Stefan Diggs has been charged with assault
in strangulation yep. He's been charged with felony strangulation or
suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery charges as the result
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of a December second incident. Digs made a remote a
remote court appearance toesday morning. So, I, by the way, kid,
I don't know who he allegedly choked, but I hope
it's not his better half, right, that would not be good. Noah,
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let's hope it's not his better half. I'm gonna give
Stefan Digs the benefit of the doubt. That it's not. Now,
his lawyer came out and said Stefan Diggs categorically denies
his allegations. They are unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated
before they because they did not occur. The timing and
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motivation for making the allegations are crystal clear. They're the
direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that has
not resolved to the employee satisfaction. Stephan looks forward to
establishing the truth in a court of law. Okay, so
it's not Cardi BO WHOA. Yeah, you don't want to
do that, bro, because then all of a sudden, you're
talking about you gonna end up like justin Tucker Man.
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You don't you know, you don't want to go out
that way I gave. I mean, she didn't she just
have his baby? Didn't they just have a baby recently?
They did? Okay, good. So it's not Cardi b. Not
that it makes it anything, you know, different, But it's
a dude. It's not a woman. You're not supposed to
you know, like it's apparently a guy. Not that that
makes it better, but it would have been a lot
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worse if it was his significant other. We don't want
that happening. So it's not Cardi B. Wow, I'm like, man, WHOA.
The NFL released a statement said quote, we are aware
of the matter and have been in contact with the club.
We have no further comment at the time. There's a
January twenty third schedule arraement for Diggs should the Patriots
advance in the NFL playoffs. The AFC Championship game is
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for Sunday, January fifth. The judge in this case will
reportedly consider request to extend the arrangement date to March.
The thirty two year old Digs is in his eleventh
season after signing a three year, sixty nine million dollar
deal in March. Catches nine hundred and seventy yards and
four touchdowns, had a good year, So wow. That sort
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of was like, is the first thing you think of sometimes, like,
uh oh, was this a domestic incident? Was this domestic violence? Thankfully,
I mean it's still domestic violins, but whoo. I was like, man,
I think if he if he did something that was
physically in terms of assault of Cardi B, we would
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have known about it. It's it's almost January first, and
this alleged incident took place on December second, So I
feel like TMZ, Inside Edition, you name it, they would
have they would have found something out if this was
the case. So wow, that is not good news if
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you're the New England Patriots. And remember prior to the season,
he was on a boat with a bunch of you know,
ladies or and they had pinkcoke and I don't know what.
All I know is this when I hear cocaine and
you're on Instagram or TikTok or whatever social media platform
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you use. And he had to overcome that. He's had
a good season. But Stefan, man, you're a dad dude,
like you gotta be better. Your team's making a run
the playoffs. You're you're but you could be the one seed,
you know, so you gotta just man, that's just it's unfortunate.
But kid, do you like that better when a head
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coach is concentrating and says, Okay, I've got the defense
or I've got the offense, or does it matter to you?
I don't think it matters. Every coach is different.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I know Mike McDonald has alluded that he would love
for Aiden Dirty to take over because it's a lot
to be a head coach and calling the defense. You
would just want to be able to be able to
oversee both sides and give your input. But we all
know the brain of McDonald, he is a genius on defense.
But I do think he would love to just oversee
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and pass that off to Aiden Dirday. I don't know
when that will happen, if it's next year, in two years,
or maybe even going into the posts, and I don't know,
but that is kind of what McDonald would love. And
I think any head coach wouldn't mind overseeing. But then
there are some guys that do love being in control
and having that direct communication with players on their offense
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and or defense. As you mentioned with Sean Payton, who
is a phenomenal play caller on the offense. He's done
it when he was Drew Bees with the Saints. That's
his calling card, you see that. So there are coaches
that can.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Do it really well.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You have Andy Reid who's another phenomenal play caller, and
he runs the offense how he sees fit and then
he also oversees everything else. So there are guys that
can do it, and I don't think it mad. I
think it just depends on the scheme and what your
coach is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think there's got to become and I think for
Mike McDonald's who this is his second season, and I
think he just wants to make sure that everything is
done right. And I think eventually maybe he will take
the training wheels off for Aiden Durdey and let him
call the plays. But he wants to make sure. Hey,
if the Hawks, I mean, this game is so monumental
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on Saturday night, and I don't need to tell you.
If the Hawks take care of business on Saturday night,
they're two wins away from going back to the Super Bowl.
I want everybody out there in the PNW to think
about that. If the Hawks take care of business. Oh,
by the way, you want a little update on the
line there. So the line started off as the forty
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nine Ers as a four and a half point favorite. Okay,
right now that line and the pendulum has swung and
the Seahawks are a one and a half point favorite.
It swung six points in over thirty six and a
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half hours. So that tells you where all the money
is on. All the money is on the Hawks. I
love it when a line switches that much. That's all
I need to know. I can't believe the Hawks opened
up as an underdog, but yet here we are, all right,
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So there's that. Want to get your thoughts on that.
Do you like the fact that Mike McDonald is the
guy who is the one calling the place here in Seattle?
I love it. That's exactly what I want. I think
it just kind of It's like, if you're a Chiefs fan,
you just kind of know that there's nobody else better
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that's gonna be calling plays for you offensively than Andy Reid.
Same thing with the Broncos, with Sean Payton, Matt Lafleur,
with the Packers. You just it's just different. It doesn't
mean the other way can't work. I just like it.
I think I sleep better at night knowing that for
me it's a personal preference, but I just know there
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will be no holes or lapses if Mike McDonald is
calling the defensive plays whatsoever. I sleep better at night,
and I think we all do on that all right.
Will the slow starts and turnovers eventually doom the Seahawks?
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I brought this up yesterday, but it needs to be
asked Huesday. Tuesday, Hugh Millen at eleven Mike Betton eleven thirty,
and we'll get into the college football playoffs with the
Great Brady excuse me, Brady, with the Great Dalton Wasserman
from Pro Football Focus coming up at noon right here
on the Final Mjay in the midday with Christopher Kidd
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of the twenty twenty five year don't go anywhere in
overtime against the Canucks though, face the Bruins next Tuesday night.
Get a chance to see that here, Klie. I'm at
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eleven Mike Benton. We'll talk about the crack with him
at eleven thirty. We'll give away cracking tickets every hour,
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So be the tenth caller when you hear the sounder.
We're just not going to tell you when it's going play.
That's why you have to listen. So all right. I
brought this up yesterday. Brady Henderson does a really good
job with ESPN dot Com covering the Seahawks, and he
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goes over the stats that I gave out yesterday. Hawks
second in the NFL most turnovers twenty eight. They're twenty
fourth and turnover differential minus four, and he talked about
Sam Darnald and saying that he's got twenty turnovers leading
the league. So it's it's it's something that's a concern.
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And Sam Donald after the game said, quote it will.
I felt like a slow start, but a good win,
A good team win. Again, not the way we wanted
to start on offense, but I feel like our defense
and our special teams kept us in the game. We
did enough in the second half as an offense to
win the game. Then Mike McDonald, he talked about Sam Donald. Now,
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remember he had two turnovers on Sunday. He could add
three more that were nearly picked off and deflected, so
he could add five turnovers on Sunday, And Mike McDonald
came out and stead, it's just really just the ball
being in jeopardy, deflections, things like that. Those things happen.
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But I think if we take care of the front
end of the plays better, it won't be as big
of an issue. It's how you finish plays. We've got
to double down on that. It's critical to this part
of the year. So Mike Jackson, former Seahawk, picked off
Donald on a deep throw in the end zone, and
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you know, like my thing is, you don't have to
worry about it, and it's not an issue until it is.
You needed to worry about it against the Rams the
first time in la and he threw four interceptions, yet
the defense still held true. So if he can mitigate
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the turnovers, or here's shut of the thought, eliminate all turnovers,
what's stopping this team right now? If they can get
consistent in the running game and rely on that to
set up the play action. I think Sam Darnald and
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we saw an overtime a couple of weeks ago on
the Thirday Night thriller against the Rams. When Sam Darnald
is in play action, he's dangerous. But if it's not
a clean pocket and it closes quickly, he does have
some athletic ability to evade it. But you just can't
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make the stupid turnover decision. You can't do it. I've
always admired Aaron Rodgers for that. Aaron Rodgers, and now
I see a lot of it in Caleb Williams. Even
in his rookie year, Caleb Williams would rather get his
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legs chopped off than throw an interception. That's Caleb Williams.
It's what he does. That's why he only has six
picks on the year six not fourteen. And there's a
part of Sam Darnald that needs to channel his inner
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case Williams. Just don't put the ball in harm's way.
We can't be doing that in week eighteen, because you
did it in week seventeen. It can't be doing that
as we get into the playoffs. So this is a
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concern and everybody sees it and everybody knows it. Will
he be able to fix it? I only hope, So
I'm pulling for Sam Donald. I like Sam Donald, but
I don't trust Sam Donald. I just don't. It's like
you're waiting for it, like when's he gonna fumble, When's
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he gonna throw a pick? When's it gonna happen. It
feels like it's not a matter of if, it's a
matter of when. And that's not a good feeling. So
he and Clint Kubiak and Mike McDonald need to get
back on the same page and just say what can
we do to mitigate and hopefully hopefully knock on on
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would eliminate any potential turnovers. You don't turn the ball
over with this defense. This team's going to the Super Bowl.
This team's gonna be playing at Levi Stadium in five weeks,
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no doubt. I truly believe it. Because this defense is
just too sick and it's too elite that nobody in
the playoffs are going to want to face a Mike
McDonald coach defense. Just don't turn the ball over. That's
all I ask, that's all anybody asks. All right, We'll
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talk to Hugh Millen coming up on Tuesday. Tuesday, coming
up at eleven, Mike Betting at eleven thirty, Dalton Wasserman
at noon on Kraken Ticket Tuesday, coming up. Now, a
statement was made, but the statement was made prior to
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last night's game. We'll hear what an analyst said about
Matthew Stafford. Does that change a little bit after what
happened last night in Atlanta. We'll get to that next.
On hitting all Fields, MJ in the midday, all right,
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Hitting all Fields. Jan Orlowski made a statement prior to
last night's game for the Rams about the guy that
most people had as the front runner to MVP before
last night's.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Game, has been asked to make more high leverage throws
than Matthew Stafford. There's no quarterback who's made high leverage
throws than Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
There's no quarterback that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Has been asked to make more tight window throws, and
Matthew Stafford specifically down in the red zone. When you
just watched the ball that has played and the stuff
that they ask Stafford to operate, it makes you drop
your draw. I would tell you this, if Stafford wins
MVP and he wins.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The Super Bowl, I think it puts.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Him in the conversation for one of the greatest quarterbacks
of all time. I think it puts him into that
group of that top ten, top fifteen quarterbacks of all
time because he's gonna have the hardware and.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
The stats to go with it. I think it's close.
I'm gonna give you that.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I think what Drake May has done this year has
been absolutely remarkable and to the expectations and what he's
doing it with I totally agree. My pushback to you
with the Drake May thing is who's that signature win.
Where's that signature win? They on the road won Buffalo
and I think week three or week four, I'll give you,
but outside of that, and it's not his fault. They
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just haven't played anybody. I would also put McCaffrey right
into that conversation. When McCaffrey has done this year is remarkable.
But I think Matthew Stafford is the MVP leader right now.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
All right, those are all fair and accurate statements, and
then last night happening through three interceptions. So but he's
got forty two touchdown passes and that's tough to beat.
Now here's the one thing he did win. I'm talk
about Drake May. Now, Drake May did win at Buffalo,
and the knowing the Patriots Clinton Division, the Rams are
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going to be the sixth seed, So that doesn't necessarily
mean that I disqualify Matthew Stafford from being the MVP.
And then the guy, you know, I don't know how
much he's gonna play because they don't have much to
play for if he plays at all. He's got forty
two touchdown passes and Drake May has thirty. I think
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it's I think it's pretty close in terms of yards.
Stafford has two hundred and forty five more yards passing,
so not you know, so much better, but I think
it's between both of those guys. And I have to
say this, and yeah, I mean, I mean, here's the thing.
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I went what everybody says about the Patriots, but you
know they can only play the teams based on their
schedule and how their record was a year ago, which
was atrocious. Last year the Rams, you know, the Rams
won the division and they almost knocked off the Eagles
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in the divisional playoff game, so you know therein lies
the difference. But Drake May's an unbelievable season. Would I
lose any sleep or think it was some travesty if
Drake May won the MVP over Matthew Stafford, No, now,
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one thing he said, their kid. If he wins the
MVP and wins the Super Bowl, you can put him
in the top ten quarterbacks of all time. I have
no issue with that whatsoever. I think I think, I mean,
right now, he's pretty much to me, you know, borderline
top ten as it is your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Man, that's a fascinating one. But he's he was really
good when he was in Detroit. He just played for
a really bad franchise, hits his first opportunity with a
good defense, a great play caller, and what do you know,
he win the championship and he was very close last
season to get into another super Bowl. This year, they
have an opportunity to do the same thing. So he's
definitely creating a really strong resume. I just want to
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see how it ends. I don't want to put anything
on him now while he's still playing the game. I
wanted to finish his career see if you get another
super Bowl added to that resume if he does win
the MVP, because I think that'll only make his case
stronger for those type of accolades for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah. I mean, if I had to vote today, I'm
gonna go with Stafford. What about you? Yeah? I want
to mean last night was a bad look though, that
wasn't a good I mean he's not playing. I mean
he walked back to mash This is two games out
of an eighteen. We're talking. We're talking about an individual
award and the thing about Matthew Stafford that nobody can
(34:08):
talk about, nobody is talking about. I remember Texters saying
begun to see his back is bad. Oh, he's not
gonna make it. He might not even play this season,
and he's had the arguably the greatest statistical season of
his entire Hall of Fame career at the age of
thirty seven will be thirty eight four days before Super
Bowl sixty. That's unbelievable. So for me, I'm gonna give
(34:31):
me the MVP. He ain't winning a Super Bowl, no way.
I'm sorry. You can't lose to the Atlanta Falcons in
week seventeen and think you're gonna win a Super Bowl.
There's no way. And now, do I want to rematch
with the Rams for a trilogy?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Hell no, no, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. Does
Jake Paul want to get back in the ring with
Anthony Joshua, No, no, he doesn't. Not saying that the
Seahawks or Jake Paul. But I don't want any part
of the Rams in the postseason. I'm good. Let the
Eagles or somebody else take care of them so we
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don't have to face them again. All right, We'll talk
to you Millan QB one Huesday. Tuesday coming up next,
Mike Betton at eleven thirty and Kid will also have
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(35:30):
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Lee Stirling from ten am to eleven am. We're gonna
go through every college football playoff game, and Lee and
I we agree on a particular game that we're gonna
save this pick for tomorrow, and it has to do
(35:52):
with the Hawks and forty nine Ers on Saturday Night,
and we've never agreed on a pick all season long,
So we'll have that coming up tomorrow on Picking the
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Of the college football playoff games, including the one that
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Humellan will join us coming up at eleven, Mike Benton
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college football playoffs at noon with one of my favorites
as well as Dalton Wasserman, who always brings it and
(01:05):
he's ecstatic. There's a couple of things that nobody's talking
about with these college football playoffs, so we'll see what happens.
But it's going to be epic Tomorrow night down in
Jerry World, my second time down there. If anybody who
lived in Dallas or spent some time in Dallas, give
(01:26):
me your rex on a or nose, or just is
a foodie in his nose the food scene in Dallas.
I went to Pecon Lodge, which is considered a very
one of their better barbecue restaurants. It was I I
wasn't all that into it. It was I'll never forget, man,
how time has passed? Twenty seventeen, the Kickoff Classic in
(01:51):
Jerry World Canes. I went down there for that and
we're playing LSU and they had this quarterback you might
have heard of. He was making his first ever start
for LSU after transferring from Ohio State. That guy's name
is Joe Burrow, and Joe Burrow actually did not have
a good year that season at LSU. He did not so,
(02:13):
but he ended up closing out strong. And it was
twenty nineteen, excuse me, twenty nineteen, so yeah, he ended
up might have been twenty eighteen. I don't even know.
It's all like boggled in my mind. But he didn't
have a good year that year at LSU. And then
the following year was just uh yeah, twenty nineteen he
was amazing. They went undefeated, National champs, Heisman the whole nine.
(02:36):
He had a couple of receivers you might have heard
of named Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson. So that team
Randy Moss's kid. So looking forward to getting down there,
and believe it or not, I can't even believe it.
For me, this is my first Miami Hurricanes game of
the season. You know, living in Seattle, you can't have
a further point away from one place in America cut
(03:00):
to another place from Seattle down to Miami. And I
was unable to get to any games this year because
it would have taken me. You know, you're talking two
entire days traveling back and forth. And so finally get
to go to a game tomorrow night. And what better
game to go to than the game against the Ohio
State Buckeyes. And it should be pretty fun. How about
(03:22):
last night though, the la Rams and there in lies
the difference. Maybe I wonder if you could tell they
were still suffering from a Seahawks hangover from the game
that happened nearly two weeks ago, and they last night
(03:45):
just looked like crap for most of the game and
they're down twenty one to nothing at halftime to win
Atlanta Falcons team that really had they have nothing to
play for. And you know, I mean the Rams did
win last night Lenoa. Yeah, no, that was their first
game since the Seattle so they've lost back to back
games now and therein lies the difference is that the
(04:05):
reason why the Rams will not win this division is
because Seattle went on the road and beat Carolina in
Atlanta and the Rams didn't. They didn't beat Carolina in Atlanta,
and that's why right now they're looking at a six seed.
And you talk about an unbelievable wildcard weekend, the Rams
(04:27):
right now, as it stands today would go to Philadelphia
to face the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles, which would
be unbelievable. Yep, Rams and Eagles right now, So as
(04:51):
of today, it would be the Rams at the Eagles,
subject to change. So you talk about an unbelievable first round,
that would be it. I mean that that would be
the game. But I'm not gonna sing for you today,
but I will just say this to quote one of
the greatest R and B bands of all time, Jodasy
(05:13):
for the Rams today. Lately, I would cry for you tonight,
I will cry for you Rams fans. It's gotta be tough,
gotta be tough. Right now, you guys thought you're gonna
be the one seed and then that back and forth
epic thriller happen on a Thursday night here in Seattle,
(05:33):
and the Rams have not recovered from that. You can
see it. You can just see it now. Maybe they'll
be able to turn it around in the playoffs, but
they're locked in there. They cannot get the one seed.
I mean they're gonna they're locked in at six, so
they're not you know, they have no right now. This
is between Seattle in San Francisco. Now, normally I, because
(06:03):
this would be the last show before the Hawks Niners
game on Saturday, I would give my pick for this game. However,
we have picking the Locks tomorrow from ten am to
eleven AM, and I'm gonna save my pick for then.
(06:23):
And I will tell you for the first time because
I've been talking to Lee about it, and we've been
going over the games that I want and he wants,
and I finally said to him and said, hey, you know,
it's okay if we both have. You know, we picked
the same game. It's okay if we picked the same
team in the same game. So I'm not gonna tell
(06:44):
you where we're leaning, subject to change, but Lee Sterling
and I are both on one side definitively for the
Seahawks forty nine Ers game. You'll have to listen tomorrow
between ten am and eleven am right here on Sports
Radio ninety three to three k JRFM. Not gonna tell
you it is. I'm gonna give out playoff predictions for
(07:06):
tomorrow and it will. I believe this is going to
be our final picking the locks of the twenty twenty
five season for football. So it was fun. We appreciate
everybody who enjoyed the show. We you know, we didn't
win every week, but I even had a losing week
once and you know, but we we had some fun
(07:29):
and we'll grow the show and hopefully get some affiliates
into syndication next year. So looking forward to that. But
let's talk for a second about the Seahawks and and moreover,
I want to bring something up of all the teams
(07:50):
in the playoffs, and I think Seattle's on the right
side of this trend. Let's go through each team that
is playoff worthy. Now there's four of them and only
two will survive between Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the Bucks in Carolina.
(08:14):
But let's go through every team. And I noticed something
that not every team does, but yet the Seahawks do
with Mike McDonald. So let's start with the Denver Broncos.
Sean Payton. He calls the plays offensively. Now I know
(08:35):
this year Kansas City, obviously they're not making the playoffs.
But Andy Reid is the play caller and he has
been since he left Philadelphia to take over in Kansas
City for over a decade, winning three Super Bowls. So
Sean Payton's in. He calls the plays. Mike Rable in
New England does not call plays. Okay, it works for them.
(08:57):
Neither is Nick Sirianni in Philadelphia. Hey, Sean Payton calls
the place for Denver. Liam Cohen calls the plays for Jacksonville.
Mike Tomlin does not call plays for Pittsburgh. Tomiko Ryans.
I don't believe kid does Demiko Ryans call the defensive
(09:18):
plays because I know, yeah, I think he does, doesn't
he It's see, I mean, I know they have a DC,
but is he the guy that calls the defensive plays
for the Texans. Kid, all right, I guess he's not there. Kid?
Where are you? Are you not there? Okay? Hello? Does
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Demiko Ryans call the place for the Texans his defense? Yes,
that's what I thought. Okay, So let's go through this now.
Sean Payton calls the plays offensively. Liam Cohen calls the plays.
He's the o C. Demiko Ryans is the DC. Sean
McDermott is the d C. So yeah, I'll go with
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that as well. John Harbott does not called the place,
Mike Rabel does not call the place, and Mike Tomlin
does not call the place. In the NFC, Kyle Shanahan
he's the o C. He's the he calls the place.
Sean McVay, oh C calls the place, Matt Lafleur oh
C calls the place. Now, Mike McDonald DC pretty much.
(10:33):
I mean, he's the one calling the place. So why
I bring this up is because it's interesting. And Ben
Johnson in Chicago calls the place. Sirianni does not, So
why do I bring this up? I think there's something
(10:53):
to the effect. Now, Dan Campbell did not call the
place when he had Ben John and Aaron Glenn. Then
he stripped his new OC John Morton, from calling the
plays and did it this season, and they suffered because
of it. My point is this, I think teams are
(11:16):
better when the head coach, whether on the offensive side
of the ball or the defensive side of the ball,
is calling the place for me. I like it better.
I just do. I know, Sirianni. You know, he beat
Andy Reid last year and he had Kellen Moore as
the OC and Vic Fangio as the DC. So he
(11:38):
doesn't call plays. It works for them. Mike Rabel doesn't
call plays, but it works for them. I like it
better when the head coach is the one calling plays
on one side of the ball. Let's go through it.
Andy Reid three Super Bowls. Play caller, Sean Payton won
(11:58):
Super Bowl, play caller McVeigh won Super Bowl. Play caller.
You've got five Super Bowls right there, right there, Mike,
when Mike Tomlin doesn't call the plays. So that but
you got five Super Bowls of guys who are calling
the plays. And Kyle Shanahan hasn't won it, but he's
(12:20):
been in two Super Bowls. I like it better that way.
I think there's more of a meticulous attention to detail
when a coach is basically saying, I am in charge
of the offense Sean McVay, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, Matt Lafleur,
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or the defense, Demiko Ryans, Mike McDonald. I like it
better that way, and I think and there's just something
to me and it's not like it, you know, like
I said, the Eagles won a Super Bowl last year,
Sirianni didn't call any plays, So it can happen, and
it has happened. But you know, like when Belichick won
(13:03):
six Super Bowls with New England, it was only towards
the end where he let Matt Patricia he was the DC,
and then he let Brian Flores be the DC, and
then his son and Gerrod Mayo and all that. But
you know, for the most part, Belichick was one of
those guys that just that just like he had his
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hands on every part of that franchise. And I like
the fact that Mike McDonald is the one that is
going to be the reason that the Seahawks advance or don't.
But he's not leaving it up to anybody else. He
knows that. And obviously in his mind. With all due
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respect to aid and Dirtey, there's no singular individual and
employee in renting at the vMac that can call better
defensive plays than Mike McDonald. There's probably no guy in
the NFL that's a better defensive play caller than Mike McDonald.
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So I just noticed that, and of all the teams
that are in the playoffs right now, and again we
don't know. Oh, by the way, this is not good.
Uh oh uh oh, well, it's a bad day for
(14:33):
the Diggs family. The Dallas Cowboys release uh. Trevon Diggs
and his brother Stefan Diggs has been charged with assault
in strangulation yep. He's been charged with felony strangulation or
suffocation and misdemeanor assault and battery charges as the result
(14:54):
of a December second incident. Digs made a remote a
remote court appearance toesday morning. So, I, by the way, kid,
I don't know who he allegedly choked, but I hope
it's not his better half, right, that would not be good. Noah,
(15:17):
let's hope it's not his better half. I'm gonna give
Stefan Digs the benefit of the doubt. That it's not. Now,
his lawyer came out and said Stefan Diggs categorically denies
his allegations. They are unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated
before they because they did not occur. The timing and
(15:38):
motivation for making the allegations are crystal clear. They're the
direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that has
not resolved to the employee satisfaction. Stephan looks forward to
establishing the truth in a court of law. Okay, so
it's not Cardi BO WHOA. Yeah, you don't want to
do that, bro, because then all of a sudden, you're
talking about you gonna end up like justin Tucker Man.
(15:59):
You don't you know, you don't want to go out
that way I gave. I mean, she didn't she just
have his baby? Didn't they just have a baby recently?
They did? Okay, good. So it's not Cardi b. Not
that it makes it anything, you know, different, But it's
a dude. It's not a woman. You're not supposed to
you know, like it's apparently a guy. Not that that
makes it better, but it would have been a lot
(16:21):
worse if it was his significant other. We don't want
that happening. So it's not Cardi B. Wow, I'm like, man, WHOA.
The NFL released a statement said quote, we are aware
of the matter and have been in contact with the club.
We have no further comment at the time. There's a
January twenty third schedule arraement for Diggs should the Patriots
advance in the NFL playoffs. The AFC Championship game is
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for Sunday, January fifth. The judge in this case will
reportedly consider request to extend the arrangement date to March.
The thirty two year old Digs is in his eleventh
season after signing a three year, sixty nine million dollar
deal in March. Catches nine hundred and seventy yards and
four touchdowns, had a good year, So wow. That sort
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of was like, is the first thing you think of sometimes, like,
uh oh, was this a domestic incident? Was this domestic violence? Thankfully,
I mean it's still domestic violins, but whoo. I was like, man,
I think if he if he did something that was
physically in terms of assault of Cardi B, we would
(17:28):
have known about it. It's it's almost January first, and
this alleged incident took place on December second, So I
feel like TMZ, Inside Edition, you name it, they would
have they would have found something out if this was
the case. So wow, that is not good news if
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you're the New England Patriots. And remember prior to the season,
he was on a boat with a bunch of you know,
ladies or and they had pinkcoke and I don't know what.
All I know is this when I hear cocaine and
you're on Instagram or TikTok or whatever social media platform
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you use. And he had to overcome that. He's had
a good season. But Stefan, man, you're a dad dude,
like you gotta be better. Your team's making a run
the playoffs. You're you're but you could be the one seed,
you know, so you gotta just man, that's just it's unfortunate.
But kid, do you like that better when a head
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coach is concentrating and says, Okay, I've got the defense
or I've got the offense, or does it matter to you?
I don't think it matters. Every coach is different.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I know Mike McDonald has alluded that he would love
for Aiden Dirty to take over because it's a lot
to be a head coach and calling the defense. You
would just want to be able to be able to
oversee both sides and give your input. But we all
know the brain of McDonald, he is a genius on defense.
But I do think he would love to just oversee
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and pass that off to Aiden Dirday. I don't know
when that will happen, if it's next year, in two years,
or maybe even going into the posts, and I don't know,
but that is kind of what McDonald would love. And
I think any head coach wouldn't mind overseeing. But then
there are some guys that do love being in control
and having that direct communication with players on their offense
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and or defense. As you mentioned with Sean Payton, who
is a phenomenal play caller on the offense. He's done
it when he was Drew Bees with the Saints. That's
his calling card, you see that. So there are coaches
that can.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Do it really well.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You have Andy Reid who's another phenomenal play caller, and
he runs the offense how he sees fit and then
he also oversees everything else. So there are guys that
can do it, and I don't think it mad. I
think it just depends on the scheme and what your
coach is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think there's got to become and I think for
Mike McDonald's who this is his second season, and I
think he just wants to make sure that everything is
done right. And I think eventually maybe he will take
the training wheels off for Aiden Durdey and let him
call the plays. But he wants to make sure. Hey,
if the Hawks, I mean, this game is so monumental
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on Saturday night, and I don't need to tell you.
If the Hawks take care of business on Saturday night,
they're two wins away from going back to the Super Bowl.
I want everybody out there in the PNW to think
about that. If the Hawks take care of business. Oh,
by the way, you want a little update on the
line there. So the line started off as the forty
(20:38):
nine Ers as a four and a half point favorite. Okay,
right now that line and the pendulum has swung and
the Seahawks are a one and a half point favorite.
It swung six points in over thirty six and a
(21:00):
half hours. So that tells you where all the money
is on. All the money is on the Hawks. I
love it when a line switches that much. That's all
I need to know. I can't believe the Hawks opened
up as an underdog, but yet here we are, all right,
(21:20):
So there's that. Want to get your thoughts on that.
Do you like the fact that Mike McDonald is the
guy who is the one calling the place here in Seattle?
I love it. That's exactly what I want. I think
it just kind of It's like, if you're a Chiefs fan,
you just kind of know that there's nobody else better
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that's gonna be calling plays for you offensively than Andy Reid.
Same thing with the Broncos, with Sean Payton, Matt Lafleur,
with the Packers. You just it's just different. It doesn't
mean the other way can't work. I just like it.
I think I sleep better at night knowing that for
me it's a personal preference, but I just know there
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will be no holes or lapses if Mike McDonald is
calling the defensive plays whatsoever. I sleep better at night,
and I think we all do on that all right.
Will the slow starts and turnovers eventually doom the Seahawks?
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I brought this up yesterday, but it needs to be
asked Huesday. Tuesday, Hugh Millen at eleven Mike Betton eleven thirty,
and we'll get into the college football playoffs with the
Great Brady excuse me, Brady, with the Great Dalton Wasserman
from Pro Football Focus coming up at noon right here
on the Final Mjay in the midday with Christopher Kidd
(22:50):
of the twenty twenty five year don't go anywhere in
overtime against the Canucks though, face the Bruins next Tuesday night.
Get a chance to see that here, Klie. I'm at
Pledge Arena. Hugh millin US a Tuesday, joining us at
eleven Mike Benton. We'll talk about the crack with him
at eleven thirty. We'll give away cracking tickets every hour,
(23:10):
So be the tenth caller when you hear the sounder.
We're just not going to tell you when it's going play.
That's why you have to listen. So all right. I
brought this up yesterday. Brady Henderson does a really good
job with ESPN dot Com covering the Seahawks, and he
(23:31):
goes over the stats that I gave out yesterday. Hawks
second in the NFL most turnovers twenty eight. They're twenty
fourth and turnover differential minus four, and he talked about
Sam Darnald and saying that he's got twenty turnovers leading
the league. So it's it's it's something that's a concern.
(23:55):
And Sam Donald after the game said, quote it will.
I felt like a slow start, but a good win,
A good team win. Again, not the way we wanted
to start on offense, but I feel like our defense
and our special teams kept us in the game. We
did enough in the second half as an offense to
win the game. Then Mike McDonald, he talked about Sam Donald. Now,
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remember he had two turnovers on Sunday. He could add
three more that were nearly picked off and deflected, so
he could add five turnovers on Sunday, And Mike McDonald
came out and stead, it's just really just the ball
being in jeopardy, deflections, things like that. Those things happen.
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But I think if we take care of the front
end of the plays better, it won't be as big
of an issue. It's how you finish plays. We've got
to double down on that. It's critical to this part
of the year. So Mike Jackson, former Seahawk, picked off
Donald on a deep throw in the end zone, and
(25:09):
you know, like my thing is, you don't have to
worry about it, and it's not an issue until it is.
You needed to worry about it against the Rams the
first time in la and he threw four interceptions, yet
the defense still held true. So if he can mitigate
(25:34):
the turnovers, or here's shut of the thought, eliminate all turnovers,
what's stopping this team right now? If they can get
consistent in the running game and rely on that to
set up the play action. I think Sam Darnald and
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we saw an overtime a couple of weeks ago on
the Thirday Night thriller against the Rams. When Sam Darnald
is in play action, he's dangerous. But if it's not
a clean pocket and it closes quickly, he does have
some athletic ability to evade it. But you just can't
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make the stupid turnover decision. You can't do it. I've
always admired Aaron Rodgers for that. Aaron Rodgers, and now
I see a lot of it in Caleb Williams. Even
in his rookie year, Caleb Williams would rather get his
(26:39):
legs chopped off than throw an interception. That's Caleb Williams.
It's what he does. That's why he only has six
picks on the year six not fourteen. And there's a
part of Sam Darnald that needs to channel his inner
(26:59):
case Williams. Just don't put the ball in harm's way.
We can't be doing that in week eighteen, because you
did it in week seventeen. It can't be doing that
as we get into the playoffs. So this is a
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concern and everybody sees it and everybody knows it. Will
he be able to fix it? I only hope, So
I'm pulling for Sam Donald. I like Sam Donald, but
I don't trust Sam Donald. I just don't. It's like
you're waiting for it, like when's he gonna fumble, When's
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he gonna throw a pick? When's it gonna happen. It
feels like it's not a matter of if, it's a
matter of when. And that's not a good feeling. So
he and Clint Kubiak and Mike McDonald need to get
back on the same page and just say what can
we do to mitigate and hopefully hopefully knock on on
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would eliminate any potential turnovers. You don't turn the ball
over with this defense. This team's going to the Super Bowl.
This team's gonna be playing at Levi Stadium in five weeks,
(28:26):
no doubt. I truly believe it. Because this defense is
just too sick and it's too elite that nobody in
the playoffs are going to want to face a Mike
McDonald coach defense. Just don't turn the ball over. That's
all I ask, that's all anybody asks. All right, We'll
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talk to Hugh Millen coming up on Tuesday. Tuesday, coming
up at eleven, Mike Betting at eleven thirty, Dalton Wasserman
at noon on Kraken Ticket Tuesday, coming up. Now, a
statement was made, but the statement was made prior to
(29:10):
last night's game. We'll hear what an analyst said about
Matthew Stafford. Does that change a little bit after what
happened last night in Atlanta. We'll get to that next.
On hitting all Fields, MJ in the midday, all right,
(29:34):
Hitting all Fields. Jan Orlowski made a statement prior to
last night's game for the Rams about the guy that
most people had as the front runner to MVP before
last night's.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Game, has been asked to make more high leverage throws
than Matthew Stafford. There's no quarterback who's made high leverage
throws than Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
There's no quarterback that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Has been asked to make more tight window throws, and
Matthew Stafford specifically down in the red zone. When you
just watched the ball that has played and the stuff
that they ask Stafford to operate, it makes you drop
your draw. I would tell you this, if Stafford wins
MVP and he wins.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The Super Bowl, I think it puts.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Him in the conversation for one of the greatest quarterbacks
of all time. I think it puts him into that
group of that top ten, top fifteen quarterbacks of all
time because he's gonna have the hardware and.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
The stats to go with it. I think it's close.
I'm gonna give you that.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
I think what Drake May has done this year has
been absolutely remarkable and to the expectations and what he's
doing it with I totally agree. My pushback to you
with the Drake May thing is who's that signature win.
Where's that signature win? They on the road won Buffalo
and I think week three or week four, I'll give you,
but outside of that, and it's not his fault. They
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just haven't played anybody. I would also put McCaffrey right
into that conversation. When McCaffrey has done this year is remarkable.
But I think Matthew Stafford is the MVP leader right now.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
All right, those are all fair and accurate statements, and
then last night happening through three interceptions. So but he's
got forty two touchdown passes and that's tough to beat.
Now here's the one thing he did win. I'm talk
about Drake May. Now, Drake May did win at Buffalo,
and the knowing the Patriots Clinton Division, the Rams are
(31:26):
going to be the sixth seed, So that doesn't necessarily
mean that I disqualify Matthew Stafford from being the MVP.
And then the guy, you know, I don't know how
much he's gonna play because they don't have much to
play for if he plays at all. He's got forty
two touchdown passes and Drake May has thirty. I think
(31:47):
it's I think it's pretty close in terms of yards.
Stafford has two hundred and forty five more yards passing,
so not you know, so much better, but I think
it's between both of those guys. And I have to
say this, and yeah, I mean, I mean, here's the thing.
(32:08):
I went what everybody says about the Patriots, but you
know they can only play the teams based on their
schedule and how their record was a year ago, which
was atrocious. Last year the Rams, you know, the Rams
won the division and they almost knocked off the Eagles
(32:29):
in the divisional playoff game, so you know therein lies
the difference. But Drake May's an unbelievable season. Would I
lose any sleep or think it was some travesty if
Drake May won the MVP over Matthew Stafford, No, now,
(32:50):
one thing he said, their kid. If he wins the
MVP and wins the Super Bowl, you can put him
in the top ten quarterbacks of all time. I have
no issue with that whatsoever. I think I think, I mean,
right now, he's pretty much to me, you know, borderline
top ten as it is your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Man, that's a fascinating one. But he's he was really
good when he was in Detroit. He just played for
a really bad franchise, hits his first opportunity with a
good defense, a great play caller, and what do you know,
he win the championship and he was very close last
season to get into another super Bowl. This year, they
have an opportunity to do the same thing. So he's
definitely creating a really strong resume. I just want to
(33:30):
see how it ends. I don't want to put anything
on him now while he's still playing the game. I
wanted to finish his career see if you get another
super Bowl added to that resume if he does win
the MVP, because I think that'll only make his case
stronger for those type of accolades for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah. I mean, if I had to vote today, I'm
gonna go with Stafford. What about you? Yeah? I want
to mean last night was a bad look though, that
wasn't a good I mean he's not playing. I mean
he walked back to mash This is two games out
of an eighteen. We're talking. We're talking about an individual
award and the thing about Matthew Stafford that nobody can
(34:08):
talk about, nobody is talking about. I remember Texters saying
begun to see his back is bad. Oh, he's not
gonna make it. He might not even play this season,
and he's had the arguably the greatest statistical season of
his entire Hall of Fame career at the age of
thirty seven will be thirty eight four days before Super
Bowl sixty. That's unbelievable. So for me, I'm gonna give
(34:31):
me the MVP. He ain't winning a Super Bowl, no way.
I'm sorry. You can't lose to the Atlanta Falcons in
week seventeen and think you're gonna win a Super Bowl.
There's no way. And now, do I want to rematch
with the Rams for a trilogy?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Hell no, no, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. Does
Jake Paul want to get back in the ring with
Anthony Joshua, No, no, he doesn't. Not saying that the
Seahawks or Jake Paul. But I don't want any part
of the Rams in the postseason. I'm good. Let the
Eagles or somebody else take care of them so we
(35:08):
don't have to face them again. All right, We'll talk
to you Millan QB one Huesday. Tuesday coming up next,
Mike Betton at eleven thirty and Kid will also have
you another chance for you to win a pair of
tickets on Cracking Ticket Tuesday to see him versus the
Big Bad Boston Bruins and David Pastanach. Next Tuesday night
(35:30):
at Climate Pledge Arena, Dalton Wasserman coming up at noon
on the Final Mjay in the midday, don't forget, we
got a special Picking the Locks tomorrow with me and
Lee Stirling from ten am to eleven am. We're gonna
go through every college football playoff game, and Lee and
I we agree on a particular game that we're gonna
save this pick for tomorrow, and it has to do
(35:52):
with the Hawks and forty nine Ers on Saturday Night,
and we've never agreed on a pick all season long,
So we'll have that coming up tomorrow on Picking the
Locks right here on Sports Radio ninety three three k
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