January 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Jori Epstein, NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports is back for her weekly visit. We talk wild card matchups, Rex Ryan has interviewed for Jets head coaching job is he a fit, Seahawks OC position, who can fill that role and much more. We hit the text line and read back messages from listeners, and we close the show with Ian Furness joins the show to preview what he has planned on his show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And that's the most painful thing. When I'm walking to
the store, I'm seeing people in vehicles that are customed
for the snow, and I'm just like, that could be me.
But here I am freezing my butts off walking to
the store to get groceries or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's beautiful, though it is not snowing. If you're not
in Seattle right now, it's not snowing. Chrisanine's girding against
the case it does. It's a cracking ticket Tuesday here
on the station. How that works is when you hear
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and a ferry horn be the tenth collar to two
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take the tenth collar every hour between now and seven
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pm with Dave Toftymuller and Dick Faye in the tenth
caller will win two tickets to see the kracking January
twenty third against the Washington Capitals at Climate Pledge Arena.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You'll hear that this hour, you hear that next hour.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You're here one o'clock hour with the infirness and so
on all the way through seven o'clock again tenth collar
when you hear the sounder for the Krack and to
win two cracking tickets to January twenty third against the
Washington Capitol was a climate pledgerna. Mike McDonald's seeking a
new offensive coordinator after firing Ryan Grubb. We'll talk about
candidates putting a top in house. One, McDonald said, Devin
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Witherspoon became a real team leader this season by how
he played. You know, he made the second Pro Bowl
for the second consecutive season. You'll hear from the Pro
Bowl cornerback right here on our show at ten forty five.
At ten to thirty, Mike Benton is going to join
us talk about the Kraken. He was going to yesterday,
but the Ryan Grubb news took precedence and he has.
Now Mike Benton has the latest cracking game to talk about.
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Last night, eleven o'clock, joey Epstein, a senior NFL writer
for Y'allhoo Sports, makes her weekly visit thanks to Zeke's
Pizza z Expizza dot Grum, home grown in the Northwest.
I'm going to ask her who she thinks the candidates
across the league with play calling experience in the NFL
who might be interested in the Seahawks coaching job. Eleven thirty,
weere reback to a text four nine, four to five
one on the TELEHM. We're do text sign when it's
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game time, it's Tully time. Eleven thirty is our time
to do that. Our headlines brought to you by Frostbrewed
cors Lightsh's Chill. Mike McDonald did Ryan Grebb like Pete
Carroll di Jeremy Bates fourteen years ago. He fired him
as offensive coordinator after only one season with the Seahawks
and several reasons because Greub didn't run the ball enough
for how McDonald wants his team to play, for the
mentality that McDonald wants his team to have on both
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sides of the ball. Twenty eighth in rushing yards, twenty
ninth in rushing attempts, despite the fact they were middle
of the pack seventeenth in yards per carry.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That, in a nutshell, is why Ryan.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Grubb is no longer the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks
Mike McDonald. I'd been told McDonald was considering this in
the bye week, which tells you that that was broken
from almost the start it was not McDonald's higher it
was John Schneider's hier, Ryan Grubb, And when McDonald took
the job, Schnyder said, I think we can get Ryan Grub.
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We gotta get him now as he was starting to
dig in Alabama, and that's how that went down. So
that will be different this time around.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
As we talked about yesterday, Chris, he would not have
made this move Mike McDonald if he didn't already have
his guy in mind.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh. Absolutely, It's just that's that simple.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Mike knows who he wants or knows a couple of
guys that he's looking at, and I think we'll get
an answer who this new OC will be pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I would think. So we're gonna talk. I am going
to talk to Ryan gros Excuse me, I'm not talking
to Ryan Grub today. I'm talking to Mike McDonald at
one o'clock down and renting his press conference. I'll be
down there for it, and I'm gonna ask him how
important is the prerequisite for this new offensive coordinator that
the he have NFL play calling experience, because that does
funnel the candidate list. We'll talk about the top in
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house candidate the Seahawks have, but he doesn't have NFL
play calling experience. Stories will be up at Twitter, exit
GBL Seattle and at the Newstribune dot com later today
after the Mike McDonald press conference. I have my stories
up now of why Mike McDonald did what he did yesterday,
and it was his decision, not John Schneiders, to fire
Ryan Grabb.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The NFL draft order is set.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The Seahawks are picking eighteenth, as we talked about yesterday.
That's not high enough to go get a quarterback for
those of you who think they should draft a quarterback,
not one that could help him right away anyway. The
playoffs begin this weekend in the NFL with the Chargers
at Houston. The first game ten thirty excuse me, one
to thirty on Saturday, and then the night game Saturday
is Pittsburgh at Baltimore. The Steelers have lost four in
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a row, only the third team in NFL history to
enter the playoffs with a four game losing streak. Sunday,
Denver at Buffalo at ten am, Green Bay at Philadelphia.
I think the best game of the weekend four to
thirty on Sunday. Packers have a real shot to win
that game. If Jalen Hurts is still banged up and
his health is an issue, we'll talk to jury about that.
At levee o'clock Washington at Tampa Bay five o'clock on
Sunday night, the NBC Sunday Night Game, and then Monday
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night ESPN's Monday Night game for the playoffs. Minnesota at
the Los Angeles Rams. The Titans day fired General Major
Ram Carthon after Tennessee went three and fourteen this season.
The Titans say Brian Callahan is remaining as their head
coach after his one season again three and fourteen in Tennessee.
The Cracking lost again last night at home three two
to New Jersey on a goal early in the third period.
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Adam Lars and Shane Wright scored for Seattle. Philip Grubarer
twenty six saves while starting with Joey to Cord injured.
The Cracking have lost three straight, one of those an
overtime loss to Vancouver last week, and eight of ten now.
As they continue to one step forward, two steps back
in the season, Krack and put joe to Cord Aanyonni
Gordon injured reserve yesterday. There are seventeen wins twenty one
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loss of three overtime losses overall, that's seventh in the
Pacific Division. They're double digits out of a playoffs. By
they they got some more than a little bit of
work to do on what's already been a very frustrating
season for the Crack And now they had on the
road Thursday night, Thursday afternoon our time in Columbus right
here on ninety three point three KGRFM. College football playoffs
begin Thursday, two days so now the Orange Bowl semi Finals,
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Penn State No. Dame Friday, Cotton Bull semi Final, Ohio State, Texas,
and the Football Championship Subdivision. Last night, North Dakota State
won its tenth national championship in fourteen years. They beat
previously fifteen and oh Montana State thirty five to thirty
two Your tax four nine, four to five one on
the tell them we'll do tex sign when his game time.
It's Tully time. Who do you want is the next
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Seahawks offensive cordator? That's the question I posed at the
top of the show. We'll reback your text at eleven
thirty candidates. Again, you wouldn't think it'd go with one
that doesn't have NFL play calling experience, because we just
saw that in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You got a young, thirty seven year old, first time
head coach. It would seem that he wants to swing
it the other way for experience, people who have played
calling experience. How about Mike Kafka, Giants offensive coordinator the
last three years. He interviewed here in Seattle this time
last year before they hired Ryan Grubb. Kafa impressed a
lot of people, not just in Seattle but around the league.
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The last coaching cycle hires. He's thirty seven, and so
you got the young versus youngster. It would be that
dynamic still, but he does have the play calling experience
in the NFL as again, just finished his third season
doing that for the New York Giants, who only won
three games this year. We talked yesterday about Doug Peterson
born in Bellingham, raised in Ferndale, who's now unemployed because
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the Jaguars fired him as their head coach.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Today.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's fifty seven six going on fifty seven. Would he
want to be a former Super Bowl winning head coach
at the Philadelphia the top of his profession about six
years ago. Would he want to subvert himself to be
the offensive coordinator for a thirty seven year old first
time head coach, and I'm not sure he'd want to
do that. And we'll see if anybody would be interested
in him as a head coach after the Jaguars fired
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him yesterday. The top in house candidate when we didn't
talk about yesterday, Chris, with all that was going on,
is Jake Pets. He's thirty nine years old. He's the
Seahawks pass game coordinator this season. For the first time
I mentioned yesterday, I saw Jake Pets thrown for thirty
minutes at ten forty five am in Sofi Stadium Sunday morning,
two hours forty five minutes before the kickoff against the Rams.
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He does that with Lockett all that. Tay did it
all the time early pregame this season. He has experience
coaching for four NFL teams, does Jake Pets. He was
always an offensive assistant in twenty twenty one. He was
an offensive coordinator at LSU, but he has not played
had play calling experience at the NFL level. He is
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their top end house candidate would appear, but I don't
know Chris that they want to go again with the
route of someone who hasn't done the job before.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I will say this though, at least he's familiar with it,
meaning he has been around the game. He wasn't He's
not just coming from college or whatever he was doing.
So you're going to be in this position. That's what
Ryan Grubb did. He didn't come in as a passing
game coordinator. That probably would have been a better direction
for Ryan based on what the Seahawks want to do,
because now he can learn what Mike McDonald does and
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doesn't like, right, because you're not really responsible for the
entire offense. You're just a coordinator for the specific area
of the office.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Christ he would have never left Alabama to be.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
A probably not, but maybe he sees the vision like, okay,
maybe this can set me up. But to your point,
he probably wouldn't have left, so it was either OC
or nothing. But I think that's what makes Pete a
little bit more of a possibility, just because he's been
around and he knows McDonald and now, which Grubb did not. Yes,
so he understands fully well. He wants to play a
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physical style using the running game, and in certain situations
you just have to know that and if you don't,
then there's going to be obviously an issue between the
head coach and the offensive coordinate. As we have now
realized that was the problem with Brian Grubb and Mike and.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That speaks to the yeah, he's a past Jake Pets
is a pass game cordner. Why would you have a
guy a past game coordinator come in when you don't
want to run the ball more. But he knows Mike
McDonald's system, he knows his mentality, just coached in it.
This is what McDonald said about Jake Pets late in
the season quote. He adds a lot of experience. I've
known Jake for a long time and he's been around
the block. He's seen a lot of things. People that
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offer their opinions, and it's well thought out, detailed and
built around the principles that we want to do. And
that's a lot of stuff that Jake does both as
a program and with our offense. Definitely respect his opinion.
So if they want some continuity, they could go that route.
If they had made the move at the bye week,
as a I told Mike McDonald was contemplating, that's probably
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what they would have done to bring something you wouldn't
bring somebody from another NFL staff in the middle of
the season unless that other guy got fired, So that
would have been probably the move then, So.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I could be the move now.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I will again ask at one o'clock about internal
candidates and specific specifically, I will ask how big a
deal previous NFL play calling experience is to Mike McDonald
and hiring the new guy. But as we've said, he's
got his guy in mind. It's not like he's gonna
border it out at the press conference today, but he
absolutely has this guy in mind, or he wouldn't have
made this move four nine four five one to tell
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him a new text line, who would you like to
see as the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks. We'll read
back your text already getting some opinions on that. You
could pie in this guy to. Some people are going
to put some names in there that probably aren't gonna happen.
But he puts Steve Sarkisian or somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, I doubt that will happen, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Sar Gee's not gonna leave Texas for an offensive coordator job,
and he NFL. He's got unlimited bank right now in Texas.
Peterson does interest me from the dynamic of a older, experienced,
been in the league guy that I think would swing.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That would be the.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Opposite of what they did with Ryan grem Remember we
talked yesterday about Grubb. He was the first offensive coordinator
in thirty years for the Seahawks who had no NFL
experience before taking the job, no NFL experience. Remember we
talked Bob Rakowski in the early nineties at Washington State.
OC came in was the Seahawks offensive cordator for three years.
So the Seahawks have tried that twice in thirty years,
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and having just done it, it failed and spectacularly failed
in the terms of him Grub lasting only one season.
I'm just not sure they're going to go that route
with a college or somebody that's now. Jake Peatz doesn't
fall into that category. As we just said, He's coached
for four different NFL teams as an offensive assistant, so
at least he has coached in the league and now
he has just coached one year under Mike McDonald. Suffice
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to say, Chris that last year McDonald did not have
nearly the input on this decision that he's going to
have this year.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is his baby, so he is going to make
sure whoever he gets obviously John got the sign off
on it, but whoever he gets it is one hundred
percent a match physicality, offensively, schematically, everything they won in
the offense. It's going to mirror his vision kind of
what he alluded to on the show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What's interesting about that If remember in January this time,
when they fired Pete Carroll last year, John Schneider made
a point, a big one, of saying, I'm in charge
of the coaching staff for the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's my authority, not.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Pete Carroll's executive vice president of football operations.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Me.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm in charge of the coaching staff. And that's why
I dug yesterday when I got to rent and to
find out was this Snyder's decision or was at McDonald's.
And it was clear, crystal clear to me. The guy
who would know directly would know that this was Mike
McDonald's call. So this hiring is going to be Mike
McDonald's call.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Grub was not.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Grub was presented to him by John Schneider as an
opportunity to get this guy we want to get him, now,
would you be on board?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And this was.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thirteen day they hired Grub, thirteen days after they hired McDonald.
So exactly the opposite going on here and that Chris.
It also speaks to the larger thing that's going on
this offseason that McDonald's going to be far more involved
in all personnel, coaching.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
And players than he was last year.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And if we've haven't, we've already seen what Mike McDonald
is as a personnel guy.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He is decisive.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you are not performing, bang too starting inside line,
but you're leading tackler cut middle.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of the season, I mean he that's another thing. Yeah,
it's not as if they cut him and damn it
got worse. Right he was on the money, it got
better any hand picked Ernest Jones, it's a win. So
when Mike McDonald makes a move and getting rid of
Ryan Grubb, I don't see it as oh boy, this
could be this could be bad. He is whatever he
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is done defensively, the moves he's made, it always it's
worked out, whether you question it, disagree with it. Hindsight's
twenty twenty, it worked out removing Jerome Baker and Terrell
Dotson and going on getting Ernest Jones and starting Tyrese Knight.
That worked out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, absolutely changed the season.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So there's a potential that him having say with Ryan
Grubb also is that's just his thing.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I'm saying there's a potential he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know, I'm not trying to say that he doesn't
or does, but he's shown that when you give him
the opportunity to go out there and make these decisions,
they tend to work out. I know they didn't make
the playoffs and was a successful season, Greg and I
really haven't touched on that. No, it probably wasn't. No,
it wasn't from an organizational standpoint. They wanted to be
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in the playoffs. That was like, hey, we're in the
playoffs and if we get in, we can see what
happened that didn't happen. But on the small side of thing,
you saw improving on the defense, something that I alluded
to yesterday.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
The offense stayed the same absolute transformation. So if you can.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Get that transformation with the offense and you have a
transformation with the defense, you're looking at a team next
season that could be In the conversation of eleven wins,
and if they get eleven wins, they probably win the
NFC West, get a home playoff game, which they haven't
had a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
These are things that they're looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, you say, you might be listening saying, what's Chris
talking about? Eleven wins? They got ten this year with
a flawed team, a very flawed team. Yeah, that's that's
the crazy part. So you get a good old line,
better than mediocre. Just get a good old line, all right.
The defense stays the same and gets even better. Maybe
you sign some I don't know if you've got. You
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get another linebacker who knows what they do, but the
offensive line takes another step.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Gino is healthy, Ken Walker is healthy. Eleven wins doesn't
seem crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They got to give the offensive line fticks with new
ideas and new players. They can't run it back with
what they got right now.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
The only only two save spots. I only once I
like Abes. I'll go to Abe.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Lucas told me yesterday this is as healthy as he's
been in an off season, maybe before college.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So the two spots that I'm confident in saying they
should be back. No questions asked, are right tackle and
left tackle, Charles Cross and right tackle Ablop anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Your job's up.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You gotta either You're gonna fight for your job. Yeah,
you're gonna compete. I'll bring on somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I talked to Lake and Thomlinson yesterday at his locker
and said, what do you think is gonna happen next?
And I don't know which was the code word for
I'm not playing here. I think he knows he's not
coming back. The telemorode text line four nine, four or
five one when his game time it is toking him.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Two oh six? Is how about hiring Brent Brown as
the Hawks? O? See, I see what you did there?
MS freed him up. I see what you did there?
He was the MS offensive coordinator. That was such a
silly move.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Can you just bring in a hitting guy that knows
what he's talking about and knows what he's doing? Oh, Edgar,
great job, guys. I know he won't be there for
every game, but we'll take it.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Up.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Next we're gonna talk cracking hockey. They've lost eight out
of ten.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Last night at home after being tied for most of
the game against New Jersey. Now they head on the
road against Columbus. Mike Benton, who was actually on the
radio call last night because Evertitsche was on television. He
joins us next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
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Now back to the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
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Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Welcome back to the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
on a Tuesday, Happy Tuesday, to thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The Kraken last night played at.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Home and they lost again to the New Jersey Devils
three to two. We've been talking about Ryan Grebb and
the offensive coordinator situation and who the candidates are, including
an in house one, Jake Pets.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You'll hear from Devin Witherspoon at ten forty five about
his second season, second consecutive Pro Bowl to begin his
NFL career. But right now, Mike Benton, our voice for
the Krakens pre postgame intermission report shows and I think
was on the play by.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Play last night on the radio, if I'm not mistaken,
He joins us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Good morning, Mike, I agreg yes, I think I was
on by play two orls. Last night was a fever dream,
but I thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It second time. See yeah, great, great to be here
bout how are you well? Thank you and thanks for
the flex from yesterday to today. Nice Mike. What's your
record when you when you call games?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Had they beat Anaheim? Right? So you're one and one?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
That was actually my first loss last night. We were
two in those previously, so to run is unfortunately over here.
But me, hey, the only thing that's I think undefeated
is father time. So eventually it was going to come
here at some point. But a great, great game though
last night.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
They were in it here for the thick of it.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
But I think we saw too much. If you leave
open holes here for New Jersey and the firepower they have,
they're going to come back and bite you and the
krack and at some points just got out. Goalie Marshall
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Let's talk about going Joey de Courd. What is his
injury situation?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Put on the injured list and it's going to be
Grubauer for now or what are they going to do.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, it's still a bit opaque, I think as far
as his timeline, because he is on IR now that
was retroactive to a little before the holiday break in.
He has been practicing here with the team, which kind
of gives us the indication that he's getting closer and
closer here to a return. So you make that move
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just for roster space, for cap space as well here sometimes,
but to at least get him officially shelled and to
get him through the process to recover here from an
upper body injury. Dan Bilsa said that there was some
bruising involved that took a little bit more of a
length of your period of time to get through. I
think the signs are there that you could be seeing
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him very very soon. I think it's the right time
coming up here, because you have back to back into
different cities coming up this Saturday and Sunday with lengthy
plane travel and ball Buffalo one day and in Detroit
the next year. So whether it's Alastasca's net or not
remains here to be seen. But at least the signs
are getting back here that the cord should be good
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to go here in the very very new future. But
at least in the short term here, Philip grew Bauer
has been great and a big reason why I think
he deserved at least audible mention, if not a star
in last night's game, because he was the reason why
the Kracking were able to hang around in that kind
of game against New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
For those who don't know, it's not like the NFL.
If a player goes on NHL injured list, his salary
comes off the books. While he's on that list. It
could allow for a signing of another player. That's sometimes
why they do it. But those Mike just said, that
doesn't seem to be the case with Joey to court.
This is Mike Betona course, the voice, familiar voice of
the Cracking here in your home with a Crack in
ninety three point three KJFM. They've lost eight of ten,
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and Mike, it seems as though this season is one
step forward, two steps back. What do you see as
the key to gaining some tracks inconsistent in stringing some
win together.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Well, I think a change of scenery would help them,
and I think it's coming at the right time with
five games on the road. And I mean conventional wisdom
says when you go on the road, you're sleeping in
a hotel. Life is a little more simplified for you,
depending upon you what you have at home. But honestly
it's where you know common relationships and bonds between teammates
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or fords. Now, the issue here is that that's easier
for the beginning of the season. We're officially now halfway
through the season and time is really really getting short
here on this team to hang around. Right now in
the playoff race, there are thirty seven points and the
cut line is at forty five and the crack you
still have to leap frog Anaheim, who just pass them up,
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Utah Hockey Club, Saint Louis, Calgary, and the one team
that is in this right now in the Vancouver Canucks.
They got their own sorts of issues here at this point.
But beside the point here, they got the third hardest
trait of schedule at this point. What they need is
that they have got to play as close to seven
hundred hockey for the rest of the way by initial
calculations here to get to ninety five points in general
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consenuses that could be the cut line coming up here
in the Western Conference. They made their own bet here
through forty one games. Unfortunately by way of defense. Dan
Bilsma said, that's been inconsistent here from the get go.
It's it's hurt them in some games, it's cost them
in other games as well. I go back and think of,
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you know what if for the first you know, seven
to ten minutes, if they could have you know, last Saturday,
back against Edmonton, they were down to nothing, it could
have been for nothing. Connor McDavid had a breakaway. Philip
Grubauer was lights out stopping him and they kept McDavid
oppibor before they you know, were able to right the
ship and eventually got that to within a goal. Before
you know, the Oilers got an empty net goal. So
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Dan Bielsma was hired here. For offense, they have seen
they have shown signs of offense, and there are different
reasons why that has been inconsistent, but they've been showing
more and more. I think of a new way to
play in getting the pock up into the offensive zone
and using their own new method here to find new
ways to attack the net with simplicity defensively is where
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it's got to get better here. I mean, goaltending has
not been the issue, but it's just more obstructure and
then finding a way to break out of their own
zone in a connected manner here. So again, time is
short and they've got a pile wins here by the
bolt load here. But if they can get this going
and get them going quickly here on what's going to
be a tough road trip, that could be a sparkle potentially.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Seven hundred winning percentage to get to the playoff for
you getting ninety five wins. You put it like that,
it seems like a mountain to climb, Chris.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, speaking of that mountain to climb, are you confident
that they can get things turned around? Because it doesn't
seem as if this team is a bad team. They're
just not consistent enough. Is there a possibility they can
swing things around and potentially make the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Well, if you want to look at confidence here, Chris,
with getting this thing turned around, first, you have to
look at goal to me, and that's at least been
a consistent thing here for this team over this last
month or so. And I think getting Joey Decor back
in that if he can return to form from this
injury whenever that's going to be, is going to really
really help them out. Philip Grewbauer had a rough ride
it begin the season, and this is a league now
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where you can't rely on like QB one and QB
two in the NFL. It is a tandem system. It
is a tandem game now. That's the way it's been
for the last seven to eight years. The last guy
who played north of seventy games was Cam Talbot about
middle of last decade. I mean those days of your
starting goalie and backup goalie you're long gone. When you
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have your one A guy who is not who is
no more gas in the tank, you've got to have
your one B guy as well, performed up the task
and at least make the basic saves. We've seen that
now out of Philip Groubauer, and I think last night
maybe was one of his best games of not his
best game, based on the high degree of difficulty he
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had in as far as challenges with saves as well.
He had a great stop on Jack Hughes early in
the game. I look back at five on five, New
Jersey had the krakend out chance ten to nothing in
the second period. He had to be sharp as well,
and then a couple of great stops additionally in the
third to keep this team in the conversation despite being
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down by a goal, and he was a big reason
why this game was tied here for a long long time.
After this, I think once you get this Maddy Beneer's
line set and they're as close to being set as
a get. Schwartz is looked great right there. Jayden Schwartz
Compo Kaco as well. From this trade left the teas
looked great on that line. After this, you have to
find some consistency I think here in your top six,
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and that revolves Rend's going to play with Chandler Stevenson.
They got to get Jared McCann going right back once
again we set up before here. I think he misses
Jordan Everley, and they need Andre Berakowski as well to
start producing more and play a simplified game where turnovers
are not the norm and production is coming more and
more game by game. Here at this point, I thought
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Shane right look great last night. He had a big
power play goal. He's been great for this man of vantage,
which has gone through the dol drums over the recent
twenty some odd chances here. So they've got some pieces
in place again, what they need is a cleaner game
out of the gates and a cleaner game that this
one gets tighter and tighter into the third period on
a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
What's up with Yanni Gord? Mike, he's the lower body
injuries on the injured list. Of course seven game minimum
you have to miss once you're on the list. Seven
games would be through the road trip, the five game
road trip that ends January sixteenth at Winnipeg. He could
be eligible to play at January eighteenth at home when
they come back against the Kings. Does that seem like
that's going to be the timeline or is it longer term?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Just as Opake I think as the Joey the Cord situation, Greg,
if not even more on, I think unclear if you will,
And oftentimes we're not giving a length of your timeline
when it comes to the recovery here of these players.
I think the Gord situation was funny. You know, it
was almost kind of like a mystery, I think to
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us with what happened about a couple of games ago
and him getting knocked out and you know, seeing him
on the ice and then being unable to go as
far as a game time decision. Maybe it was a
bit of a surprise here. So if he goes on
this trip, I think it's at least something, you know,
to say that he might be working his way back
very soon. But this is something I think to I
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think close, keep close watch on and monitor because he's
been great from an energy standpoint with that line between
Ty Cartier and Brandon tannev and we've seen before when
you need energy to start a game, or if you
need someone to shut down a team based on pace
and I think based on ferociousness, that's your line right
there to go to. So something that we can easily
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keep a look on right now.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Mike, I appreciate you as always. We'll talk to you
next week, if not before. Thanks for joining us now
any time. Greg, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Mike Benton, our pre post game host here on the
Voice of the Crack in the Home of the Crack
in ninety three point three KJRFM. I mean he spelled
it out like that to say, to get the ninety
five points, they have to play seven hundred hockey. They've
only won seventeen of their first forty one games. That's
the hole they've dug for themselves.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Chris, Yeah, it's not looking really good right now. Brought
in for offense and it's not really working out. So
hopefully they can turn things around over these next few
weeks and maybe we're looking at a nice ten actually
looking at eight wins of the last ten games.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hope, right, So they lost up.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Next, Devin Witherspoon, he made the Pro Bowl for the
second time in his first two years in the NFL,
talks about his second season where he's taken a leap,
what he thinks about the defense. You'll hear from Devin
Witherspoon next eleven o'clock. Jory Epstein, senior NFL reporter for
Yahoo Sports, joined us thanks to Zekes pizzazegspizza dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We're gonna ask her league wide candidates.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Who might be interested in fitting the Seahawks offensive coordinator.
Opening eleven thirty year text four nine four to five one.
We'll read them back on the telemoordue text line when
it's game time. It's toutday time and eleven forty five.
Ian Fernts joins us heading into his show from noon
to three on ninety three point three kJ RFM. Welcome
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back to the show, Greg Best Show with Christopher Kidd
rolls on here on a Tuesday or tracking ticket Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
When you hear the sounder.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Ever fits you goal calling a fairy horn, be the
tenth caller to two of six two eight six ninety
five ninety five, you will win two tickets to see
the cracking against the Washington Capitals Vechkin. You know, Vechkin
is about to He's like nine goals away from breaking
Wayne Gretzky's all time goals record. That was thought unthink
when I remember when Gretzky said that, it was like, well,
no one ever break that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No. Vechkin's nine goals away.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
From that, So I get it. Maybe by January twenty third,
he'll be close. That'd be a national an interest game
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and a cracking ticket Tuesday. The Jacksonville Jaguars are looking
for a new coach because they fired Doug Peterson yesterday,
and they today published a list of the candidates that
were already requested interviews with and one of them is
(30:17):
Jet former Jets coach Robert Sala, who's interested in the interview.
Apparently in Jacksonville. Back here in Seattle, they're looking for
a new offensive coordinator. One o'clock today, Mike McDonald have
a press conference in Rent, and I will be there
and I'm going to ask him what prerequisite for the
new head offensive coordinator play caller is for having previous
NFL play calling experience. Yesterday I was there for locker
(30:40):
cleanout day and Rent and Seahawks players. One of them
was Devin Witherspoon before a team meeting. He talked about
his second season and he made the Pro Bowl, and
he talked about why how he views the Mike McDonald
defense so good.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
He has something going when it's something that we could
build on, and then just the disappointment that I'm not
making the playoff.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You let that go and just build on like you
just said, yeah, we got to.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I mean, it's nothing else we could do about itself.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You gotta let What.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Was this season like for you from year one the
year or two when you coach, What was the adjustment
that was made for you? I say, I think I
stepped up more than my leadership role, and that was
like I think that was the biggest jungle.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
That I made.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He Mike's mentioned that a bunch of leadership for you.
What does that look like to your leadership?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Man?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I think I lead more so by example than like
just talking. So it's like it's easy for my teammates
to trust me because they knew what I did.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
But you've more healthy. What it feels like to be
healthy this year is the last year you were kind
of battling. How did that feel for you? Feel good?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
It's one of my goals to finish all seventeen games
this year, and that's something I did.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
So heard a lot of guys that should talk about
with the future of the team, the direction, How confident
are you and what Mike spilt year or what you
must do.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To say something we can build out for ten ten
waing team and year. But it's a lot of things
we left out there on the team. Soon, Devin, what
you like about the defense where you guys hit the
last half of the season.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Once Scott came, you guys got I mean, we started
playing a lot better than we was befosed. So that's
how we got a.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Little den just being a ten win team and then
still sitting here not going to the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Is it a weird feeling? Do you feel like you
guys did enough to lady to typically get at it.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Nah. I feel like we didn't do it though, because
we ain't in it.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
If we did do we would be in a how
does it?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
We gotta take more shocks at the ball, like when
the ball came going down and stuff like that. So
we got Creamo tours, Like I said, I said that earlier.
That's more some on us as the players from not
getting the turns.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Front seven can just talk about their play, you know
Leo and oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I think they play speed for himself, to be honest,
they go out there and they made my job a
lot easier.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
So what strange do for you guys in the defense.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
And he turned us all around so as he got here,
he was able to like fit right on in. I
mean it was easy to play off for him once
he he went out there and played off first game together.
It's like the more we care practiced and bending wood,
he said that it was he's for us connected.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So what's stood down to you the most about Kobe
jumping in the lineup with safety in the way he
gets flame with him back.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
There that he communicated very well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
You know, he got your seats and when you back down,
man like you always said each other day.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And once he got his hand, they ain't never look back.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
So another guy kind of earned a chance with Josh Jones.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And what did he show you guys?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Wore his way from the practice squad, did pretty good
grow dayDay.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
He ain't afraid of the moment. He stepped on where
you need him to so and he came in and
he did that a good press. That was Devin Witherspoon yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
My question I asked if you couldn't hear it was
about Ernest Jones and what impact he had on the
defense and Witherspoon he changed us, and he said he
made it a lot easier to play behind him with
a middle linebacker who was as a student and run
and a pass. He saw him intercept the passing as well.
He's coming back, he said. Ernest Jones told me I
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had in the locker room in Inglewood Sunday, We're going
to get it done with a new contract. His rookie
contracted to see how inherited from the Rams and the
Titans end and did with Sunday's game. The other thing
Devin Witherspoon mentioned, you heard him talk about, we need
to get the ball out more. Punch the ball out,
rip it out in the middle of tackles. The Seahawks
were twenty fifth in the NFL at minus six and
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turnover margin. And of all the numbers there are in
the NFL, Chris turnover margin pretty much decides because think
here are the bottom teams in the NFL and turnover
margin this year Browns, Titans, Raiders, Jaguars, Patriots, forty nine, Ers, Giants, Seahawks, Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
All of them missed the playoffs, all of them.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Here are the top teams in turnover margin. Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
Green Bay, the Chargers, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Houston, Detroit, all of
them playoff teams. There's a direct correlation to turnover margin
and winning and getting to the playoffs. And Seattle got
only eighteen takeaways in seventeen games. Of all the things
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Mike McDonald talked about his defense and the growth and
the change and what they need to do more of,
and turnovers is the thing that he keeps talking about
that you got to get more than just won a
game over a long haul of the entire season, and
you also have to have your quarterback not throw six
red zone interceptions. But it suffice to say that that
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is a big, big point of Mike McDonald's offseason and
defenses to finding ways to generate more pressure on quarterbacks
and to rip the ball out of ball carriers once
they have it, because pressure on quarterbacks leads, of course
to turnovers. Buffalo and Pittsburgh, for instance, Chris thirty two
to thirty three takeaways this season. The Seaharks had eighteen,
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and that's a huge difference to give your offense the
ball instead of having to get it on a punt
and the field.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Position switches all of that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So that was what Devin Witherspoon was talking about there,
and I think that's the next step for McDonald is
to bring in guys who can do that. And it
may be another pass rusher or two. One thousand percent
agree with that. So they didn't get the turnovers they
wanted and they find themselves outside. Then you give that
glaring stat about the teams that are in the playoffs
and how many turnovers they create.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So that's definitely something to keep an eye on for
next season.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
How are they attacking these offensive players, stripping out the ball,
getting interceptions, getting that simulated pressure, because that's something Might
and Donald's big on.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm next our weekly visit with Jorry Epstein's senior NFL
reporter for Yahoo Sports. Thanks to Zeke's pizzas Pizza dot com.
Homegrown in the Northwest is Tyreek Hill out of Miami
after just flat refusing to go to the game. I'd
certainly not whatever coach him again. I don't think i'd
want him in my locker room. If I was a
Miami Dolphin player, Doug Peterson, would he want to come
home and be an offensive coordinator with the Seahawks. We'll
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talk about Aaron Glenn, the Detroit Lyons defensive coordinator and
how he set himself up for a head coaching job,
as well as Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator for the Lions.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Lots to talk about around the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Next, with Jory eleven thirty year text, we'll read him
back a lot coming in about the Seahawks offensive coordinator situation.
We'll read those back on the telemore Dude text line.
When it's game time, It's Tully time. We will do
that at eleven thirty and eleven forty five for NAS
joined us before his show begins twelve to three. Right
here is the Great Belt Show with Christopher kid rolls
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And that's the most painful thing. When I'm walking to
the store, I'm seeing people in vehicles that are customed
for the snow, and I'm just like, that could be me.
But here I am freezing my butts off walking to
the store to get groceries or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's beautiful, though it is not snowing. If you're not
in Seattle right now, it's not snowing. Chrisanine's girding against
the case it does. It's a cracking ticket Tuesday here
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
You'll hear that this hour, you hear that next hour.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You're here one o'clock hour with the infirness and so
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win two cracking tickets to January twenty third against the
Washington Capitol was a climate pledgerna. Mike McDonald's seeking a
new offensive coordinator after firing Ryan Grubb. We'll talk about
candidates putting a top in house. One, McDonald said, Devin
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Witherspoon became a real team leader this season by how
he played. You know, he made the second Pro Bowl
for the second consecutive season. You'll hear from the Pro
Bowl cornerback right here on our show at ten forty five.
At ten to thirty, Mike Benton is going to join
us talk about the Kraken. He was going to yesterday,
but the Ryan Grubb news took precedence and he has.
Now Mike Benton has the latest cracking game to talk about.
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Last night, eleven o'clock, joey Epstein, a senior NFL writer
for Y'allhoo Sports, makes her weekly visit thanks to Zeke's
Pizza z Expizza dot Grum, home grown in the Northwest.
I'm going to ask her who she thinks the candidates
across the league with play calling experience in the NFL
who might be interested in the Seahawks coaching job. Eleven thirty,
weere reback to a text four nine, four to five
one on the TELEHM. We're do text sign when it's
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game time, it's Tully time. Eleven thirty is our time
to do that. Our headlines brought to you by Frostbrewed
cors Lightsh's Chill. Mike McDonald did Ryan Grebb like Pete
Carroll di Jeremy Bates fourteen years ago. He fired him
as offensive coordinator after only one season with the Seahawks
and several reasons because Greub didn't run the ball enough
for how McDonald wants his team to play, for the
mentality that McDonald wants his team to have on both
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sides of the ball. Twenty eighth in rushing yards, twenty
ninth in rushing attempts, despite the fact they were middle
of the pack seventeenth in yards per carry.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That, in a nutshell, is why Ryan.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Grubb is no longer the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks
Mike McDonald. I'd been told McDonald was considering this in
the bye week, which tells you that that was broken
from almost the start it was not McDonald's higher it
was John Schneider's hier, Ryan Grubb, And when McDonald took
the job, Schnyder said, I think we can get Ryan Grub.
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We gotta get him now as he was starting to
dig in Alabama, and that's how that went down. So
that will be different this time around.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
As we talked about yesterday, Chris, he would not have
made this move Mike McDonald if he didn't already have
his guy in mind.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh. Absolutely, It's just that's that simple.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Mike knows who he wants or knows a couple of
guys that he's looking at, and I think we'll get
an answer who this new OC will be pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I would think. So we're gonna talk. I am going
to talk to Ryan gros Excuse me, I'm not talking
to Ryan Grub today. I'm talking to Mike McDonald at
one o'clock down and renting his press conference. I'll be
down there for it, and I'm gonna ask him how
important is the prerequisite for this new offensive coordinator that
the he have NFL play calling experience, because that does
funnel the candidate list. We'll talk about the top in
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house candidate the Seahawks have, but he doesn't have NFL
play calling experience. Stories will be up at Twitter, exit
GBL Seattle and at the Newstribune dot com later today
after the Mike McDonald press conference. I have my stories
up now of why Mike McDonald did what he did yesterday,
and it was his decision, not John Schneiders, to fire
Ryan Grabb.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The NFL draft order is set.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
The Seahawks are picking eighteenth, as we talked about yesterday.
That's not high enough to go get a quarterback for
those of you who think they should draft a quarterback,
not one that could help him right away anyway. The
playoffs begin this weekend in the NFL with the Chargers
at Houston. The first game ten thirty excuse me, one
to thirty on Saturday, and then the night game Saturday
is Pittsburgh at Baltimore. The Steelers have lost four in
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a row, only the third team in NFL history to
enter the playoffs with a four game losing streak. Sunday,
Denver at Buffalo at ten am, Green Bay at Philadelphia.
I think the best game of the weekend four to
thirty on Sunday. Packers have a real shot to win
that game. If Jalen Hurts is still banged up and
his health is an issue, we'll talk to jury about that.
At levee o'clock Washington at Tampa Bay five o'clock on
Sunday night, the NBC Sunday Night Game, and then Monday
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night ESPN's Monday Night game for the playoffs. Minnesota at
the Los Angeles Rams. The Titans day fired General Major
Ram Carthon after Tennessee went three and fourteen this season.
The Titans say Brian Callahan is remaining as their head
coach after his one season again three and fourteen in Tennessee.
The Cracking lost again last night at home three two
to New Jersey on a goal early in the third period.
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Adam Lars and Shane Wright scored for Seattle. Philip Grubarer
twenty six saves while starting with Joey to Cord injured.
The Cracking have lost three straight, one of those an
overtime loss to Vancouver last week, and eight of ten now.
As they continue to one step forward, two steps back
in the season, Krack and put joe to Cord Aanyonni
Gordon injured reserve yesterday. There are seventeen wins twenty one
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loss of three overtime losses overall, that's seventh in the
Pacific Division. They're double digits out of a playoffs. By
they they got some more than a little bit of
work to do on what's already been a very frustrating
season for the Crack And now they had on the
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It's Tully time. Who do you want is the next
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Seahawks offensive cordator? That's the question I posed at the
top of the show. We'll reback your text at eleven
thirty candidates. Again, you wouldn't think it'd go with one
that doesn't have NFL play calling experience, because we just
saw that in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You got a young, thirty seven year old, first time
head coach. It would seem that he wants to swing
it the other way for experience, people who have played
calling experience. How about Mike Kafka, Giants offensive coordinator the
last three years. He interviewed here in Seattle this time
last year before they hired Ryan Grubb. Kafa impressed a
lot of people, not just in Seattle but around the league.
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The last coaching cycle hires. He's thirty seven, and so
you got the young versus youngster. It would be that
dynamic still, but he does have the play calling experience
in the NFL as again, just finished his third season
doing that for the New York Giants, who only won
three games this year. We talked yesterday about Doug Peterson
born in Bellingham, raised in Ferndale, who's now unemployed because
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the Jaguars fired him as their head coach.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Today.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's fifty seven six going on fifty seven. Would he
want to be a former Super Bowl winning head coach
at the Philadelphia the top of his profession about six
years ago. Would he want to subvert himself to be
the offensive coordinator for a thirty seven year old first
time head coach, and I'm not sure he'd want to
do that. And we'll see if anybody would be interested
in him as a head coach after the Jaguars fired
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him yesterday. The top in house candidate when we didn't
talk about yesterday, Chris, with all that was going on,
is Jake Pets. He's thirty nine years old. He's the
Seahawks pass game coordinator this season. For the first time
I mentioned yesterday, I saw Jake Pets thrown for thirty
minutes at ten forty five am in Sofi Stadium Sunday morning,
two hours forty five minutes before the kickoff against the Rams.
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He does that with Lockett all that. Tay did it
all the time early pregame this season. He has experience
coaching for four NFL teams, does Jake Pets. He was
always an offensive assistant in twenty twenty one. He was
an offensive coordinator at LSU, but he has not played
had play calling experience at the NFL level. He is
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their top end house candidate would appear, but I don't
know Chris that they want to go again with the
route of someone who hasn't done the job before.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I will say this though, at least he's familiar with it,
meaning he has been around the game. He wasn't He's
not just coming from college or whatever he was doing.
So you're going to be in this position. That's what
Ryan Grubb did. He didn't come in as a passing
game coordinator. That probably would have been a better direction
for Ryan based on what the Seahawks want to do,
because now he can learn what Mike McDonald does and
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doesn't like, right, because you're not really responsible for the
entire offense. You're just a coordinator for the specific area
of the office.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Christ he would have never left Alabama to be.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
A probably not, but maybe he sees the vision like, okay,
maybe this can set me up. But to your point,
he probably wouldn't have left, so it was either OC
or nothing. But I think that's what makes Pete a
little bit more of a possibility, just because he's been
around and he knows McDonald and now, which Grubb did not. Yes,
so he understands fully well. He wants to play a
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physical style using the running game, and in certain situations
you just have to know that and if you don't,
then there's going to be obviously an issue between the
head coach and the offensive coordinate. As we have now
realized that was the problem with Brian Grubb and Mike and.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
That speaks to the yeah, he's a past Jake Pets
is a pass game cordner. Why would you have a
guy a past game coordinator come in when you don't
want to run the ball more. But he knows Mike
McDonald's system, he knows his mentality, just coached in it.
This is what McDonald said about Jake Pets late in
the season quote. He adds a lot of experience. I've
known Jake for a long time and he's been around
the block. He's seen a lot of things. People that
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offer their opinions, and it's well thought out, detailed and
built around the principles that we want to do. And
that's a lot of stuff that Jake does both as
a program and with our offense. Definitely respect his opinion.
So if they want some continuity, they could go that route.
If they had made the move at the bye week,
as a I told Mike McDonald was contemplating, that's probably
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what they would have done to bring something you wouldn't
bring somebody from another NFL staff in the middle of
the season unless that other guy got fired, So that
would have been probably the move then, So.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I could be the move now.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I will again ask at one o'clock about internal
candidates and specific specifically, I will ask how big a
deal previous NFL play calling experience is to Mike McDonald
and hiring the new guy. But as we've said, he's
got his guy in mind. It's not like he's gonna
border it out at the press conference today, but he
absolutely has this guy in mind, or he wouldn't have
made this move four nine four five one to tell
(10:36):
him a new text line, who would you like to
see as the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks. We'll read
back your text already getting some opinions on that. You
could pie in this guy to. Some people are going
to put some names in there that probably aren't gonna happen.
But he puts Steve Sarkisian or somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, I doubt that will happen, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Sar Gee's not gonna leave Texas for an offensive coordator job,
and he NFL. He's got unlimited bank right now in Texas.
Peterson does interest me from the dynamic of a older, experienced,
been in the league guy that I think would swing.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That would be the.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Opposite of what they did with Ryan grem Remember we
talked yesterday about Grubb. He was the first offensive coordinator
in thirty years for the Seahawks who had no NFL
experience before taking the job, no NFL experience. Remember we
talked Bob Rakowski in the early nineties at Washington State.
OC came in was the Seahawks offensive cordator for three years.
So the Seahawks have tried that twice in thirty years,
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and having just done it, it failed and spectacularly failed
in the terms of him Grub lasting only one season.
I'm just not sure they're going to go that route
with a college or somebody that's now. Jake Peatz doesn't
fall into that category. As we just said, He's coached
for four different NFL teams as an offensive assistant, so
at least he has coached in the league and now
he has just coached one year under Mike McDonald. Suffice
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to say, Chris that last year McDonald did not have
nearly the input on this decision that he's going to
have this year.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is his baby, so he is going to make
sure whoever he gets obviously John got the sign off
on it, but whoever he gets it is one hundred
percent a match physicality, offensively, schematically, everything they won in
the offense. It's going to mirror his vision kind of
what he alluded to on the show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
What's interesting about that If remember in January this time,
when they fired Pete Carroll last year, John Schneider made
a point, a big one, of saying, I'm in charge
of the coaching staff for the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's my authority, not.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Pete Carroll's executive vice president of football operations.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Me.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm in charge of the coaching staff. And that's why
I dug yesterday when I got to rent and to
find out was this Snyder's decision or was at McDonald's.
And it was clear, crystal clear to me. The guy
who would know directly would know that this was Mike
McDonald's call. So this hiring is going to be Mike
McDonald's call.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Grub was not.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Grub was presented to him by John Schneider as an
opportunity to get this guy we want to get him, now,
would you be on board?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
And this was.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thirteen day they hired Grub, thirteen days after they hired McDonald.
So exactly the opposite going on here and that Chris.
It also speaks to the larger thing that's going on
this offseason that McDonald's going to be far more involved
in all personnel, coaching.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
And players than he was last year.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And if we've haven't, we've already seen what Mike McDonald
is as a personnel guy.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He is decisive.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
If you are not performing, bang too starting inside line,
but you're leading tackler cut middle.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of the season, I mean he that's another thing. Yeah,
it's not as if they cut him and damn it
got worse. Right he was on the money, it got
better any hand picked Ernest Jones, it's a win. So
when Mike McDonald makes a move and getting rid of
Ryan Grubb, I don't see it as oh boy, this
could be this could be bad. He is whatever he
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is done defensively, the moves he's made, it always it's
worked out, whether you question it, disagree with it. Hindsight's
twenty twenty, it worked out removing Jerome Baker and Terrell
Dotson and going on getting Ernest Jones and starting Tyrese Knight.
That worked out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, absolutely changed the season.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So there's a potential that him having say with Ryan
Grubb also is that's just his thing.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I'm saying there's a potential he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know, I'm not trying to say that he doesn't
or does, but he's shown that when you give him
the opportunity to go out there and make these decisions,
they tend to work out. I know they didn't make
the playoffs and was a successful season, Greg and I
really haven't touched on that. No, it probably wasn't. No,
it wasn't from an organizational standpoint. They wanted to be
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in the playoffs. That was like, hey, we're in the
playoffs and if we get in, we can see what
happened that didn't happen. But on the small side of thing,
you saw improving on the defense, something that I alluded
to yesterday.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
The offense stayed the same absolute transformation. So if you can.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Get that transformation with the offense and you have a
transformation with the defense, you're looking at a team next
season that could be In the conversation of eleven wins,
and if they get eleven wins, they probably win the
NFC West, get a home playoff game, which they haven't
had a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
These are things that they're looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, you say, you might be listening saying, what's Chris
talking about? Eleven wins? They got ten this year with
a flawed team, a very flawed team. Yeah, that's that's
the crazy part. So you get a good old line,
better than mediocre. Just get a good old line, all right.
The defense stays the same and gets even better. Maybe
you sign some I don't know if you've got. You
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get another linebacker who knows what they do, but the
offensive line takes another step.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Gino is healthy, Ken Walker is healthy. Eleven wins doesn't
seem crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They got to give the offensive line fticks with new
ideas and new players. They can't run it back with
what they got right now.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Nah.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
The only only two save spots. I only once I
like Abes. I'll go to Abe.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Lucas told me yesterday this is as healthy as he's
been in an off season, maybe before college.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So the two spots that I'm confident in saying they
should be back. No questions asked, are right tackle and
left tackle, Charles Cross and right tackle Ablop anyone else.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Your job's up.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You gotta either You're gonna fight for your job. Yeah,
you're gonna compete. I'll bring on somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I talked to Lake and Thomlinson yesterday at his locker
and said, what do you think is gonna happen next?
And I don't know which was the code word for
I'm not playing here. I think he knows he's not
coming back. The telemorode text line four nine, four or
five one when his game time it is toking him.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Two oh six? Is how about hiring Brent Brown as
the Hawks? O? See, I see what you did there?
MS freed him up. I see what you did there?
He was the MS offensive coordinator. That was such a
silly move.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Can you just bring in a hitting guy that knows
what he's talking about and knows what he's doing? Oh, Edgar,
great job, guys. I know he won't be there for
every game, but we'll take it.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Up.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Next we're gonna talk cracking hockey. They've lost eight out
of ten.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Last night at home after being tied for most of
the game against New Jersey. Now they head on the
road against Columbus. Mike Benton, who was actually on the
radio call last night because Evertitsche was on television. He
joins us next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
on your home for the Huskies and the Kruken Sports
Radio ninety three point three kjr FM.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Welcome back to the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
on a Tuesday, Happy Tuesday, to thank you for listening.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The Kraken last night played at.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Home and they lost again to the New Jersey Devils
three to two. We've been talking about Ryan Grebb and
the offensive coordinator situation and who the candidates are, including
an in house one, Jake Pets.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We'll talk more about that.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
You'll hear from Devin Witherspoon at ten forty five about
his second season, second consecutive Pro Bowl to begin his
NFL career. But right now, Mike Benton, our voice for
the Krakens pre postgame intermission report shows and I think
was on the play by.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Play last night on the radio, if I'm not mistaken,
He joins us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Good morning, Mike, I agreg yes, I think I was
on by play two orls. Last night was a fever dream,
but I thoroughly enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It second time. See yeah, great, great to be here
bout how are you well? Thank you and thanks for
the flex from yesterday to today. Nice Mike. What's your
record when you when you call games?
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Had they beat Anaheim? Right? So you're one and one?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
That was actually my first loss last night. We were
two in those previously, so to run is unfortunately over here.
But me, hey, the only thing that's I think undefeated
is father time. So eventually it was going to come
here at some point. But a great, great game though
last night.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
They were in it here for the thick of it.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
But I think we saw too much. If you leave
open holes here for New Jersey and the firepower they have,
they're going to come back and bite you and the
krack and at some points just got out. Goalie Marshall
was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Let's talk about going Joey de Courd. What is his
injury situation?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Put on the injured list and it's going to be
Grubauer for now or what are they going to do.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, it's still a bit opaque, I think as far
as his timeline, because he is on IR now that
was retroactive to a little before the holiday break in.
He has been practicing here with the team, which kind
of gives us the indication that he's getting closer and
closer here to a return. So you make that move
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just for roster space, for cap space as well here sometimes,
but to at least get him officially shelled and to
get him through the process to recover here from an
upper body injury. Dan Bilsa said that there was some
bruising involved that took a little bit more of a
length of your period of time to get through. I
think the signs are there that you could be seeing
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him very very soon. I think it's the right time
coming up here, because you have back to back into
different cities coming up this Saturday and Sunday with lengthy
plane travel and ball Buffalo one day and in Detroit
the next year. So whether it's Alastasca's net or not
remains here to be seen. But at least the signs
are getting back here that the cord should be good
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to go here in the very very new future. But
at least in the short term here, Philip grew Bauer
has been great and a big reason why I think
he deserved at least audible mention, if not a star
in last night's game, because he was the reason why
the Kracking were able to hang around in that kind
of game against New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
For those who don't know, it's not like the NFL.
If a player goes on NHL injured list, his salary
comes off the books. While he's on that list. It
could allow for a signing of another player. That's sometimes
why they do it. But those Mike just said, that
doesn't seem to be the case with Joey to court.
This is Mike Betona course, the voice, familiar voice of
the Cracking here in your home with a Crack in
ninety three point three KJFM. They've lost eight of ten,
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and Mike, it seems as though this season is one
step forward, two steps back. What do you see as
the key to gaining some tracks inconsistent in stringing some
win together.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Well, I think a change of scenery would help them,
and I think it's coming at the right time with
five games on the road. And I mean conventional wisdom
says when you go on the road, you're sleeping in
a hotel. Life is a little more simplified for you,
depending upon you what you have at home. But honestly
it's where you know common relationships and bonds between teammates
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or fords. Now, the issue here is that that's easier
for the beginning of the season. We're officially now halfway
through the season and time is really really getting short
here on this team to hang around. Right now in
the playoff race, there are thirty seven points and the
cut line is at forty five and the crack you
still have to leap frog Anaheim, who just pass them up,
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Utah Hockey Club, Saint Louis, Calgary, and the one team
that is in this right now in the Vancouver Canucks.
They got their own sorts of issues here at this point.
But beside the point here, they got the third hardest
trait of schedule at this point. What they need is
that they have got to play as close to seven
hundred hockey for the rest of the way by initial
calculations here to get to ninety five points in general
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consenuses that could be the cut line coming up here
in the Western Conference. They made their own bet here
through forty one games. Unfortunately by way of defense. Dan
Bilsma said, that's been inconsistent here from the get go.
It's it's hurt them in some games, it's cost them
in other games as well. I go back and think of,
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you know what if for the first you know, seven
to ten minutes, if they could have you know, last Saturday,
back against Edmonton, they were down to nothing, it could
have been for nothing. Connor McDavid had a breakaway. Philip
Grubauer was lights out stopping him and they kept McDavid
oppibor before they you know, were able to right the
ship and eventually got that to within a goal. Before
you know, the Oilers got an empty net goal. So
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Dan Bielsma was hired here. For offense, they have seen
they have shown signs of offense, and there are different
reasons why that has been inconsistent, but they've been showing
more and more. I think of a new way to
play in getting the pock up into the offensive zone
and using their own new method here to find new
ways to attack the net with simplicity defensively is where
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it's got to get better here. I mean, goaltending has
not been the issue, but it's just more obstructure and
then finding a way to break out of their own
zone in a connected manner here. So again, time is
short and they've got a pile wins here by the
bolt load here. But if they can get this going
and get them going quickly here on what's going to
be a tough road trip, that could be a sparkle potentially.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Seven hundred winning percentage to get to the playoff for
you getting ninety five wins. You put it like that,
it seems like a mountain to climb, Chris.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, speaking of that mountain to climb, are you confident
that they can get things turned around? Because it doesn't
seem as if this team is a bad team. They're
just not consistent enough. Is there a possibility they can
swing things around and potentially make the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Well, if you want to look at confidence here, Chris,
with getting this thing turned around, first, you have to
look at goal to me, and that's at least been
a consistent thing here for this team over this last
month or so. And I think getting Joey Decor back
in that if he can return to form from this
injury whenever that's going to be, is going to really
really help them out. Philip Grewbauer had a rough ride
it begin the season, and this is a league now
(24:22):
where you can't rely on like QB one and QB
two in the NFL. It is a tandem system. It
is a tandem game now. That's the way it's been
for the last seven to eight years. The last guy
who played north of seventy games was Cam Talbot about
middle of last decade. I mean those days of your
starting goalie and backup goalie you're long gone. When you
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have your one A guy who is not who is
no more gas in the tank, you've got to have
your one B guy as well, performed up the task
and at least make the basic saves. We've seen that
now out of Philip Groubauer, and I think last night
maybe was one of his best games of not his
best game, based on the high degree of difficulty he
(25:04):
had in as far as challenges with saves as well.
He had a great stop on Jack Hughes early in
the game. I look back at five on five, New
Jersey had the krakend out chance ten to nothing in
the second period. He had to be sharp as well,
and then a couple of great stops additionally in the
third to keep this team in the conversation despite being
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down by a goal, and he was a big reason
why this game was tied here for a long long time.
After this, I think once you get this Maddy Beneer's
line set and they're as close to being set as
a get. Schwartz is looked great right there. Jayden Schwartz
Compo Kaco as well. From this trade left the teas
looked great on that line. After this, you have to
find some consistency I think here in your top six,
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and that revolves Rend's going to play with Chandler Stevenson.
They got to get Jared McCann going right back once
again we set up before here. I think he misses
Jordan Everley, and they need Andre Berakowski as well to
start producing more and play a simplified game where turnovers
are not the norm and production is coming more and
more game by game. Here at this point, I thought
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Shane right look great last night. He had a big
power play goal. He's been great for this man of vantage,
which has gone through the dol drums over the recent
twenty some odd chances here. So they've got some pieces
in place again, what they need is a cleaner game
out of the gates and a cleaner game that this
one gets tighter and tighter into the third period on
a consistent basis.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
What's up with Yanni Gord? Mike, he's the lower body
injuries on the injured list. Of course seven game minimum
you have to miss once you're on the list. Seven
games would be through the road trip, the five game
road trip that ends January sixteenth at Winnipeg. He could
be eligible to play at January eighteenth at home when
they come back against the Kings. Does that seem like
that's going to be the timeline or is it longer term?
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Just as Opake I think as the Joey the Cord situation, Greg,
if not even more on, I think unclear if you will,
And oftentimes we're not giving a length of your timeline
when it comes to the recovery here of these players.
I think the Gord situation was funny. You know, it
was almost kind of like a mystery, I think to
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us with what happened about a couple of games ago
and him getting knocked out and you know, seeing him
on the ice and then being unable to go as
far as a game time decision. Maybe it was a
bit of a surprise here. So if he goes on
this trip, I think it's at least something, you know,
to say that he might be working his way back
very soon. But this is something I think to I
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think close, keep close watch on and monitor because he's
been great from an energy standpoint with that line between
Ty Cartier and Brandon tannev and we've seen before when
you need energy to start a game, or if you
need someone to shut down a team based on pace
and I think based on ferociousness, that's your line right
there to go to. So something that we can easily
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keep a look on right now.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Mike, I appreciate you as always. We'll talk to you
next week, if not before. Thanks for joining us now
any time. Greg, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Mike Benton, our pre post game host here on the
Voice of the Crack in the Home of the Crack
in ninety three point three KJRFM. I mean he spelled
it out like that to say, to get the ninety
five points, they have to play seven hundred hockey. They've
only won seventeen of their first forty one games. That's
the hole they've dug for themselves.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Chris, Yeah, it's not looking really good right now. Brought
in for offense and it's not really working out. So
hopefully they can turn things around over these next few
weeks and maybe we're looking at a nice ten actually
looking at eight wins of the last ten games.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Hope, right, So they lost up.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Next, Devin Witherspoon, he made the Pro Bowl for the
second time in his first two years in the NFL,
talks about his second season where he's taken a leap,
what he thinks about the defense. You'll hear from Devin
Witherspoon next eleven o'clock. Jory Epstein, senior NFL reporter for
Yahoo Sports, joined us thanks to Zekes pizzazegspizza dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
We're gonna ask her league wide candidates.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Who might be interested in fitting the Seahawks offensive coordinator.
Opening eleven thirty year text four nine four to five one.
We'll read them back on the telemoordue text line when
it's game time. It's toutday time and eleven forty five.
Ian Fernts joins us heading into his show from noon
to three on ninety three point three kJ RFM. Welcome
(29:27):
back to the show, Greg Best Show with Christopher Kidd
rolls on here on a Tuesday or tracking ticket Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
When you hear the sounder.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Ever fits you goal calling a fairy horn, be the
tenth caller to two of six two eight six ninety
five ninety five, you will win two tickets to see
the cracking against the Washington Capitals Vechkin. You know, Vechkin
is about to He's like nine goals away from breaking
Wayne Gretzky's all time goals record. That was thought unthink
when I remember when Gretzky said that, it was like, well,
no one ever break that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No. Vechkin's nine goals away.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
From that, So I get it. Maybe by January twenty third,
he'll be close. That'd be a national an interest game
at the Climate Pledger. A're in and when you hear
the sounder, you have a chance to win two tickets
two oh six two eight six ninety five ninety five
and a cracking ticket Tuesday. The Jacksonville Jaguars are looking
for a new coach because they fired Doug Peterson yesterday,
and they today published a list of the candidates that
were already requested interviews with and one of them is
(30:17):
Jet former Jets coach Robert Sala, who's interested in the interview.
Apparently in Jacksonville. Back here in Seattle, they're looking for
a new offensive coordinator. One o'clock today, Mike McDonald have
a press conference in Rent, and I will be there
and I'm going to ask him what prerequisite for the
new head offensive coordinator play caller is for having previous
NFL play calling experience. Yesterday I was there for locker
(30:40):
cleanout day and Rent and Seahawks players. One of them
was Devin Witherspoon before a team meeting. He talked about
his second season and he made the Pro Bowl, and
he talked about why how he views the Mike McDonald
defense so good.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
He has something going when it's something that we could
build on, and then just the disappointment that I'm not
making the playoff.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You let that go and just build on like you
just said, yeah, we got to.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
I mean, it's nothing else we could do about itself.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You gotta let What.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Was this season like for you from year one the
year or two when you coach, What was the adjustment
that was made for you? I say, I think I
stepped up more than my leadership role, and that was
like I think that was the biggest jungle.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
That I made.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He Mike's mentioned that a bunch of leadership for you.
What does that look like to your leadership?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Man?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
I think I lead more so by example than like
just talking. So it's like it's easy for my teammates
to trust me because they knew what I did.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
But you've more healthy. What it feels like to be
healthy this year is the last year you were kind
of battling. How did that feel for you? Feel good?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
It's one of my goals to finish all seventeen games
this year, and that's something I did.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
So heard a lot of guys that should talk about
with the future of the team, the direction, How confident
are you and what Mike spilt year or what you
must do.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Last year.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To say something we can build out for ten ten
waing team and year. But it's a lot of things
we left out there on the team. Soon, Devin, what
you like about the defense where you guys hit the
last half of the season.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Once Scott came, you guys got I mean, we started
playing a lot better than we was befosed. So that's
how we got a.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Little den just being a ten win team and then
still sitting here not going to the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Is it a weird feeling? Do you feel like you
guys did enough to lady to typically get at it.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Nah. I feel like we didn't do it though, because
we ain't in it.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
If we did do we would be in a how
does it?
Speaker 5 (32:25):
We gotta take more shocks at the ball, like when
the ball came going down and stuff like that. So
we got Creamo tours, Like I said, I said that earlier.
That's more some on us as the players from not
getting the turns.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Front seven can just talk about their play, you know
Leo and oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I think they play speed for himself, to be honest,
they go out there and they made my job a
lot easier.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
So what strange do for you guys in the defense.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
And he turned us all around so as he got here,
he was able to like fit right on in. I
mean it was easy to play off for him once
he he went out there and played off first game together.
It's like the more we care practiced and bending wood,
he said that it was he's for us connected.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
So what's stood down to you the most about Kobe
jumping in the lineup with safety in the way he
gets flame with him back.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
There that he communicated very well.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
You know, he got your seats and when you back down,
man like you always said each other day.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And once he got his hand, they ain't never look back.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
So another guy kind of earned a chance with Josh Jones.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And what did he show you guys?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Wore his way from the practice squad, did pretty good
grow dayDay.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
He ain't afraid of the moment. He stepped on where
you need him to so and he came in and
he did that a good press. That was Devin Witherspoon yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
My question I asked if you couldn't hear it was
about Ernest Jones and what impact he had on the
defense and Witherspoon he changed us, and he said he
made it a lot easier to play behind him with
a middle linebacker who was as a student and run
and a pass. He saw him intercept the passing as well.
He's coming back, he said. Ernest Jones told me I
(33:54):
had in the locker room in Inglewood Sunday, We're going
to get it done with a new contract. His rookie
contracted to see how inherited from the Rams and the
Titans end and did with Sunday's game. The other thing
Devin Witherspoon mentioned, you heard him talk about, we need
to get the ball out more. Punch the ball out,
rip it out in the middle of tackles. The Seahawks
were twenty fifth in the NFL at minus six and
(34:15):
turnover margin. And of all the numbers there are in
the NFL, Chris turnover margin pretty much decides because think
here are the bottom teams in the NFL and turnover
margin this year Browns, Titans, Raiders, Jaguars, Patriots, forty nine, Ers, Giants, Seahawks, Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
All of them missed the playoffs, all of them.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Here are the top teams in turnover margin. Buffalo, Pittsburgh,
Green Bay, the Chargers, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Houston, Detroit, all of
them playoff teams. There's a direct correlation to turnover margin
and winning and getting to the playoffs. And Seattle got
only eighteen takeaways in seventeen games. Of all the things
(34:56):
Mike McDonald talked about his defense and the growth and
the change and what they need to do more of,
and turnovers is the thing that he keeps talking about
that you got to get more than just won a
game over a long haul of the entire season, and
you also have to have your quarterback not throw six
red zone interceptions. But it suffice to say that that
(35:17):
is a big, big point of Mike McDonald's offseason and
defenses to finding ways to generate more pressure on quarterbacks
and to rip the ball out of ball carriers once
they have it, because pressure on quarterbacks leads, of course
to turnovers. Buffalo and Pittsburgh, for instance, Chris thirty two
to thirty three takeaways this season. The Seaharks had eighteen,
(35:37):
and that's a huge difference to give your offense the
ball instead of having to get it on a punt
and the field.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Position switches all of that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So that was what Devin Witherspoon was talking about there,
and I think that's the next step for McDonald is
to bring in guys who can do that. And it
may be another pass rusher or two. One thousand percent
agree with that. So they didn't get the turnovers they
wanted and they find themselves outside. Then you give that
glaring stat about the teams that are in the playoffs
and how many turnovers they create.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So that's definitely something to keep an eye on for
next season.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
How are they attacking these offensive players, stripping out the ball,
getting interceptions, getting that simulated pressure, because that's something Might
and Donald's big on.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm next our weekly visit with Jorry Epstein's senior NFL
reporter for Yahoo Sports. Thanks to Zeke's pizzas Pizza dot com.
Homegrown in the Northwest is Tyreek Hill out of Miami
after just flat refusing to go to the game. I'd
certainly not whatever coach him again. I don't think i'd
want him in my locker room. If I was a
Miami Dolphin player, Doug Peterson, would he want to come
home and be an offensive coordinator with the Seahawks. We'll
(36:39):
talk about Aaron Glenn, the Detroit Lyons defensive coordinator and
how he set himself up for a head coaching job,
as well as Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator for the Lions.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Lots to talk about around the NFL.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Next, with Jory eleven thirty year text, we'll read him
back a lot coming in about the Seahawks offensive coordinator situation.
We'll read those back on the telemore Dude text line.
When it's game time, It's Tully time. We will do
that at eleven thirty and eleven forty five for NAS
joined us before his show begins twelve to three. Right
here is the Great Belt Show with Christopher kid rolls
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