November 5, 2024 • 33 mins
Gregg and Christopher get the show rolling w/ headlines from across the sports world, the duo then catch up w/ Mike Benton to talk all things Seattle Kraken as they play the Colorado Avalanche. Mike Macdonald spoke to the media on Monday and we play by audio of his response regarding "everything on the table", and what it means.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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four nine four y five one. I'm just going to
tell you right off the top of the show. I'm
going to ask you on the text line to give
us your opinion. What should quote everything's on the table?
(00:22):
What the Seahawks mean to you? What does that mean?
What should it mean? What do you wish it mean?
It means? Which should mean?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Make it it's okay?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Which what do you think it meant? When Mike McDonald
said that. We'll talk about what Mike McDonald said when
I asked her about that and a minute headlines brought
to you by Frostbrud Cors Light Cho's chill, Yeah, Coach
McDonald's everything on the table to change and fix the
Seahawks during this bye week.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The players are in a team meeting yesterday. Then they
took off from their team vacation for the week they're
won in season one, they don't.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Have to be back at team headquarters in rented until
practice on Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But Gino Smith says he is not getting away.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's good to have the days the rest, but I
got work to do and I'll be working.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He said. He will get right.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I will do my thing and I will fix this,
and that includes during this bye week. I know some
of you out there saying, wait a minute, what is
this team losing five out of six going away for
a week. If you would want to lose a locker
room as a rookie head coach take away their bye week,
that doesn't go very well. Dude, have union grievances and
all kinds of things. When Pete Carroll first took the
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job fifteen years ago, there were teams that had them
come into practice and meetings till about Wednesday during the
bye week, maybe Thursday. Gave himn extended three or four
day weekend. Pete Carroll was one of the few who
did not, and he gave him from like the game Sunday.
He didn't even have him come in to watch film
with the Monday game. Sometimes he went from the game
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ending Sunday to the following Monday, eight days and said,
go see you win our loss?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And now that has become a norm in the league
that a lot of coaches went, hey, and players is
that we're in Seattle would say.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, you know when I was in Seattle, we had
the whole.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Bye week off gone. Well, now it's the norm in
the NFL. So there's no way that Mike McDonald's go say, yeah,
you lost the Rams, You're not you're staying here this week.
Those guy said planes and cabo condos, and yeah, he's
not gonna take that away. So and again it's looking bleak,
but they're a game out of first place in the
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NFC West that nobody seems to want to win. Do
you know Smith leads the NFL in interceptions and in
getting pressured, hurried in his fourth.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And being sacked. We'll talk about that in a minute too.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Buccaneers scored a touchdown twenty seven seconds left in the
rain and unbeting Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I side Chris the whole drive. I'm thinking, well, they're
going to go for two.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
If they score a touchdown here, they're not gonna give
Mahmes a chance to win the game on his home field,
and that's what they did. They kicked the extra point
instead of going for two and the win. The Chiefs
won the overtime coin toss. You could see the look.
Did you see the look on Baker Mayfield?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He knew, Yeah, it's it's a risky move. I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But then again, do you really want to risk a
flip a coin flip? Do you will really want to
risk all of that just to potentially lose the game
because if he gets the ball, as we all saw, right,
so that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Against Mahomes, especially if you're say two yards for the win,
I'm taking that over coin tosses and at the defense
point stopping.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They're undefeated, you are potentially they're going to be five
and four or four and five. And it didn't work
out for them. They lost the toss, and as you
mentioned with Baker Mayfield's reaction, he knew it's probably over.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, that's that's unfortunate. Yeah, that's and it was the
chief right down the field.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
If it was a playoff game, though, the Bucks would
have had a chance. So you know what, in the playoffs,
you can do that, coach. But to your point, Greg,
two yards you go for two and try to get
that win, and then you have to hope that your
defense can hold up, which you know they twenty seven second,
Yeah they did, I.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Know, seven seconds, But I'm just saying, man, two yards
after they just marched.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
On the field, go for the win with two yards.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well that's why, that's why everyone was shocked that they
called a time out. Well that didn't help him either,
because if they let the clock run down, now, you
can go for two with ten seconds they say, they
do score, you can go for two now, you give
my homes.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I don't know who called that time and they
panicked there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't know if it's Mayfield on the field or
stay panicked after that long game to the one yard
line a learning lesson, right, Yeah, you wouldn't think Mayfield.
He's probably old enough to know to let that clock
run down.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Anyway. I bet Mike McDonald would have gone for two there.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
He would have decided before the Now I know he
didn't go for two the other day, and why didn't
he do this? And time of game is a big
deal to him. He has analytics broken down by time
left in the game, and with twenty seven seconds left,
he would have definitely gone for two at least I was.
I've known him for here for the first half of
a season. The Lions added five time Pro Bowl pass
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rushes Zadarius Smith in the trade from Cleveland this morning,
swap a draft pick late round draft picks. The NFL
tradeline deadline is one today. Chuck and Bucket been trying
to get me to go on and on about their
Seahawks are going to trade for a whole new offensive line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's not how the NFL works. There's no one available
on four things. Just don't It's not everyone that is available.
They're not getting well, I just said that wrong. No
one's getting traded, and the guys are available are probably
not good.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So there you have it, right, And anyone who has
a offensive lineman worth another team starting right away isn't
going to give them up.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's a commodity is so rare.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look at the Panthers, right, if they have a good
left tackle, do you really think they're gonna give their
good left tackle just so they can get whoever the
quarterback is destroyed for the rest of the season. Probably not.
They'll give you their second string third thing, maybe, but
that doesn't help you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
There aren't as.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Many sellers in the NFL one because everybody's playing for
contracts because there are no guaranteed conscious not like baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And two.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
In baseball, you could be twenty games out at the
at the trade deadline. In football, you're one or two
or three games out. So there are much more. There's
much less I should say a team saying well.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This season's over.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I mean even one or two win teams right now
aren't saying well this season and the players don't feel
that way because they're trying to play for their contracts
next year. It's just a whole different dynamic than in
baseball in a trading deadline. Dak Prescott is going to
miss quote multiple games, reports say for the Cowboys with
his hamstring injury got in Dallas' loss at Atlanta. Former
Cowboys beat reader jrery Epstein's going to join us eleven
o'clock and we're going to say, ask her, are the
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Cowboys dead now?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Are they done? Season over?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Cracking have scored one total goal in the three last
games on the road trip, the last three back to
back shutout losses at Ottawa and at Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That road trip ends tonight. In Colorado.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Man, They've gone all over the place, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston
and now to Colorado. Five thirty pre game show with
Mike Ben right after Dave Softy Mat and the weekly
Husky Hank Show from four to five year on ninety
three point three KJFM, and the six pm puck drop
here on your home with the Cracking tonight from Denver.
Expecting Avalanche former Avalanche playoff goaltender Philip Grubyer to the
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starting tonight for Seattle. I'm sure Dan Bowsman was gonna
throw him a bone there, let him play against his
former team. Cracking are five and seven with overtime loss.
The Avalanche are five and seven. Sounders advanced through Houston
to the Western Conference Semifinals of the MLS Playoffs. They
play the winner of Game three Friday between the LAFC
and Vancouver Washington Husky's five and four three and three
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in the Big Ten. They play at six Drank Penn
State Saturday, five pm, with the Husky Arms pregame show
at Happy Valley at one pm. I think Dave's going
to soft He's going to Penn State. I don't know
if I don't think he's ever been there. He's talking
about that, and it is a cool scene middle of Pennsylvania.
Takes a while to get there, flying to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
(07:40):
But man, if you've never been to Happy Valley, one
hundred hundred and nine thousand people, great college town, it's
a really cool setting. The College Football Playoff rankings, the
first one comes out of four PM today, don't quite
have the same meaning for U dub as it did
this time last year. Washington State and Army are likely
to be somewhere in the twenties or so in the
top twenty five rankings for the College Football Playoff. The
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interesting spot outside the top ten is where Boise State
is going to get ranked. Because they're the highest non
Power four.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Team it's going to get ranked in these rankings, and the.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Highest ranked Power four in the College Football Playoff pole
gets an automatic spot in the playoff. So let's see
where Boise State is. Their thirteenth They were a thirteenth
going into last weekend in the ape hole.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Let's see where Boise.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
States ranked today in the relation to where they have
a chance at an automatic qualifying bid into the College
Football Playoff. That's next month, Chris, You know it's like
six weeks from now a college FOOTBA playoff again.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Crazy. It is crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Once you get in the football season, it just flies by,
it does. It doesn't make any sense. We're already going
into week ten on Thursday, and it feels as if
just yesterday we were at training camp.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, if exactly my life from August to January.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Bam. I mean, I'm constantly just doing Seahawks. He actually,
and all of a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Sudden, it's Christmas. College football. The college basketball began last night.
The women's Washington Huskies basketball team beat Seattle U ninety
five fifty three and its opener or on ten ninety AM.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The Husky's man.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They host U c Irvine tonight in its opening game
of the Danny Sprinkle Era six to thirty pre game
show seven pm tip off on our AM station nine
to fifty KJAR six Ranke Gonzaga beat eighth rank Baylor
and Deep beat him Bad one oh one sixty three
in Spokane last night, and the men's opener, Ohio State
beat Texas in Las Vegas. I mentioned the Mariners cal Rawley,
already a Gold Glove catcher, as a finalist for the
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Silver Slugger Award for American League catchers, and he should
get it. No catcher in the league hit more than
Raley's thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Four home runs with his hundred RBIs this past season
and in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Greg Popovich is going to miss San Antonio Spurs games
indefinitely because the seventy five year old coach has an
undisclosed health issue came up before a game Saturday against Minnesota.
So former Odai High School in Stanford point guard Mitch
Johnson is going to be the Spurs coach while Papovich
is out.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Johnson from Chris's Went Today class of two thousand and five.
I got to know him a little bit when I
was thirteen years old. I went to Stanford's basketball camp
and he was coaching and training as well as I
want to say, one of the Lopez brothers, maybe both
of them. I don't even remember, but I was down
there for that camp and I got to hang out
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So that was a cool, cool visit.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I think I've only seen Mitch maybe one time after that,
and that was at like an O Day basketball game.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But happy for him.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He's been an assistant with the Spurs for quite some
time now, and I'm sure, he's getting closer, closer and
closer to be getting that head coaching job in the
NBA because he's a definitely really good person and a
great coach as well. So I'm sure the Spurs will
be just fine, and they lost it tough on last night,
but he'll definitely get a shot in the league for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What was a Stanford basketball camp like in two thousand, Oh,
my gosh, it was. It was six so it was
it was incredible. I mean there was Trent Johnson. Okay, no,
actually I lied Trent Johnson had I went to that
camp thinking Trent would be there and he was actually
the head coach in the Vada He actually during the
offseason got a new deal, if I'm not mistaken, because
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I ended up going to Reno's basketball camp to be
to get a chance to because my uncle and Trent
are best friends. So that was the thing like, oh, yeah,
my nephew is playing basketball. You know he wants to
do this and this. Oh yes, in to my camp.
Oh I'm actually out here. So end up going to
the Stanford camp at the time, but that was great.
End up winning the one on one competition, So I
think there was sixty kids and you had three dribbles.
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I still have the trophy, but that was it was
very competitive. There was a young young man that I
think maybe a year older than me, probably about five
to nine, just as quick as I was, and it
was a battle.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
That was That was the highlight of the camp, that
one on one tournament, because it lasted two days and
it was, you know, a single elimination.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You win, you move on.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
But yeah, I went through some dogs at that time.
There were some really talented players and they were all
across the country. It wasn't just oh right local you
know cats from new not New England, but Boston, Newland.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well you're right, okay, AnyWho. But yeah, it was you
stay in the dorms. I did.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I did stay stand for dorms are different kind of dorms,
aren't they. Well I'm trying to remember it. For me,
it was everything because I'd never been to a college.
This is my first experience and I'm only thirteen. But yeah,
we did get to stay in the dorms. That was
a cool experience.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And then it was always sunny and they had a
black top so it was like turf for basketball, and
we were hooping outside and it was. It was a
great summer. I will never never forget that one.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Good luck to Mitch Johnson. Oh, Dave Grad.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, he'll be fine'll be I'm excited for him. It
should be a blast to see him take the next
step as he's looking to be a head coach in
the NBA soon four nine.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To tell him we do text sign when you hear
Seahawks coach Mike McDonald's say quote, everything's on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What do you want that to mean? I have a
feeling on some people's line. Greg Bell is getting signed
off of waivers.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's not going to help him. Maybe the Notre Dame
running back for my Rams, running back Greg Bell would
help them at this point, whether they wouldn't run the
ball with him.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Okay, wreck myself.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So Trent Johnson was the coach in Nevada from ninety
nine two thousand and four. So in two thousand and
six I went to that camp.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Okay, So I must have got the years mixed up.
But I did do the Stanford basketball camp and I
did the Nevada basketball.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But I know that works. The head coach just has
his players run the camp exactly he gets out.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
That's how I got to I was with the point
guards and Mitch was the point guard head honcho, and
he was training us for the week. And then you
had the small forwards and I'm pretty sure it was
Brook Lopez that was for the centers. I was like, God,
he's tall and he's like all seven two.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But yes, did he know that Mitch Johnson know you
were an Oday guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Because when I was I got today in two thousand
and six, I'm pretty sure I had gone to a
bunch of games and I got to see him and
meet him because I knew Jamal McMillan as well, who
is a year younger, and they're pretty close if I'm
not mistaken. But nonetheless, I had seen him before. I
don't know how the connection came about, but every time
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I see him, and again it's been a long time
con since I have it's all love. As a matter
of fact, we used to go to the same barber.
Now it's all clicking. So I had I have seen
him maybe a couple more times.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You're in line, some freeze spurs tickets. You better head
down to Portland. Hey, you stay right behind the bench
dock to Mitch Johnson during timeouts. Well, you better find
out when they're going to the Rose Garden to play Portland.
He does not have to worry about me ask for tickets,
but no. Yeah, he's cool piece for sure. That's good, good, good,
good luck to Mitch Johnson as he fills in for
Greg Popovitch and the Spurs up Next, this Everything on
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the Table. Yeah, I'm stuck on. I wrote a whole
story on it for the News Tribute and posted it
last night. I want to check it out at the
Newstribute dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What's it mean?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Does it mean Geno Smith's starting job is up for grabs?
That's next a ninety three point three kJ RFM.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialists Broadcast Studio.
Now back to the Great Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
on your Home for the Huskies and the Crooking Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Welcome back The Great Best Show with Christopher kid rolls
on in ninety two point three KJRFM. We're going to
talk about what Everything on the Table means for the Seahawks. First,
we're gonna talk to Mike Benton about the Kraken. We
usually talked him on Mondays. But we had the coach
Mike McDonald press conference live yesterday from Renton.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Cracking at Colorado today.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The final game of the five game road trip that
hasn't gone well the last three only won goal for
the Cracking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
In the last three games.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Tonight they play at Colorado five thirty pre game show
with Mike Betton and six o'clock puck drop here on
the home of the Crack of ninety three point three
k j RFM with Everett fitz Hugh and Al Kaminski.
We're expecting Philip Grubauer to be in goal tonight. It
was it's been for most of the road trip. Joey Decord.
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He was Joey Cord, New England native at Boston on
Sunday and now Philip Grubauer, a former Colorado Avalanche playoff goalie,
probably going to get the start.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sure Dan Bowsman will give it to him against
his former team. Mike ben Jordin is on the Beacon
Plumbing Hotline. Good morning, Mike, Greg, Hey, how are you, Bud?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm well, sir. Out of they score goals? What happened?
They got eight in Montreal and one since. What's changed?
Besides this not putting the puck in the net.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Well, I think if you look at disappointment here, it's
in the fact that this start really looked good at
four and two, and then the way that this thing
has put over the last.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Six or seven games.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I mean that's where I look at it, where at
times play is kind of taking a nosedive here, if
you will, and I think what we saw last two games, Greg,
I mean maybe even before that. I mean, at times
you get to hint from some of the guys talking
after the game that there's this you know, too many
passengers and not enough guys driving the bus, and it's
evident in their start, and it's been evident here, I
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think in the penalties that they've been taking. It's been
evident in the way that at the last two nights
that guys like Joey to Corden, Philip group Bauer have
played well enough to win but aren't getting the run
support and you're kind of getting Felix Hernandez as if
you will. So I think in a case like this, yeah,
it's I think in a case like this, it really
kind of goes back to me the slow start, where
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it's been you know more and more routine.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
They've allowed the first goal nine times in the first
thirteen games. And when you're chasing, you're playing usually right
into a team's hands. And by the time that you're
still trailing in period three, teams just go into lockdown
mode and go into lead preservations. So it really goes
back to that slow slug to start this kind of
you know, cramp this team here from the get go,
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and that's where they kind of want to begin this
evening here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It reminds me of the question can you win night
overnight and consistently? Can you win in the NHL without
a frontline guy a number one, a grade A score
and they have a collective the crack and do relative
to some teams, can you win without a superstar scorer
in this league?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You can to a certain point, though, and that's what
history tells us, Greg And this is something that John
Forslund and I had a great conversation on, you know,
during our Crack in this morning podcast about a couple
of games ago. Here it's not easy just to say, well,
we need a top line guy and we got to
go out and you know, throw the money at them
because it doesn't work like baseball. And we're into this
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day and age now and this time of year where
we're seeing, you know, guys in the base ball side
hit the free agent market and then we start getting,
you know, wide eyed and thinking what president can fall under.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The tree here.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
It's different in the NHL, where you may have a
top line guy available, but usually those guys, when they're
effective enough, they're either basically taken via the draft and
you had and you have to develop them, you know,
over time, or if they're on the free agent market,
they're usually on the back nine of their career, and
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the question bears how effective can they be? Are you
getting the guy that you were looking for a couple
of years ago rather than the guy that you know
may see his authens decline because of as here and
the trade market is even tougher. So I think for
me again, it goes back to you can win collectively,
but to a certain point. The crack improved this two
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years ago. Other teams that have proved this, you can
get there scoring by committee wise that will get you
through Round one to the depths of Round two, maybe
even into the conference final. And sometimes teams basically hit
every note along the way and get to the Stanley
Cup final. But those teams are a few and far between.
Its top line power that pushes you through, usually to
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a Stanley Cup championship. So for the Krack and right now,
the question bears when is Maddy Beneer's going to come through.
He's now in year three as a full time NHLer
and he's starting to kind of show signs of life.
This game flickering alive here. Shane Wright is supposed to
be a big part of the score, but he's still
twenty years of age and they're looking to see when
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you can take this next step after just about roughly
two goals I believe here in the first thirteen games,
so there's a long run runway to go. Top line
scoring will help answer this problem, but it is going
to be a test of patience here, Greg Mike.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Has there been any noticeable change in the Krakens defensive
and or goaltending play within this slump or is it
mainly a result of the issues on the offensive side.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
So defensive coverage, can you know, use a little bit
of tweaking and that's been you know, the hint dropped.
You know, for the first few games of this season.
The good news is that goaltending right now is the
least of this team's problems. Chris, I mean, Joey decorde
Is Blay has played terrific. His say percentage last four
games ever since the end of the home stand I
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put this together is nine two three.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That is very very good.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Philip Grubauer looked great in this most recent road trip
game against Ottawa. I don't fault him for the first
goal giving up. That was a scramble play at the
front of the net and the crack and couldn't clear
the puck. And the second one was a dull deflection
goal where you know, you have to kind of cut
you know, the playoff at the root and that's ten
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fifteen seconds before. That's the whole defensive thing right there.
So the good news is that, you know, I think
we're showing signs of that this team has got the
goaltending here to keep them in games on a sustainable level. Now,
what they have to do is find a way to
tap into their identity over and over and on a
consistent basis, and that is pushing the puck up ice,
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playing with speed, playing with pace, and then, as I've
said this before, causing chaos in the other team's zone
to where they can execute and find a way to
you know, rack up a three four goals a game,
and sometimes you get fortunate and you can hit North
the five. And that's what that's what they kind of
have to look to in all of this, is to
you know, find a way to simplify things and get
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the tuck moving back up byce quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What have you noticed about the new coach during this
dry spell and a little spate of adversity here.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well, tough for me because you know, in the last
few games, I don't travel Greg obviously, so I'm only
you know, privy to you know what's happening, you know
from folks who are there on the trip, and you
know we communicate and talk.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You know, what I have seen up.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Close when Dan Bielsma is home, and this has been
evident here for a few games on the road, is
that you know he's he's not he's not alergstick here
to changing things up now. The question is when you
switch line combinations over and over, you're looking for some
consistency and I think ultimately that's where Dan Bilesman wants
to get to I'm curious where Dan Bilesman goes with
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this lineup after this morning's call up here with Ryan Winterton.
I mean, I mean, facts are facts five seven and one.
It's been short circuiting a lot. I mean, Jared McCann,
Jordan Eberley, Manny Beniers for the most part have been fine.
Yanni Gore's been playing great with Ty Cartier, Brandon Tannev
as an energy source. We've seen gard move to you know,
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his old linemate's back recently. But you know, again, I
go back to, you know, guys who have one goal
or more. I mean Ty Kariah, Yeah, he's he's in
that category, but he's a role player. Shane Wright is
still young. Chandler Stevenson, you know they're they're paying him
to be a playmaker with veteran presence, and while the
numbers are concerning, those goals will certainly come. I wonder
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about guys like Andre Berrokowski has been getting moved around
to a new line and or a variation of one
for about five games in a row. I mean that's
a player who's been paid five million a year to
score goals and generate offense, and so far, He's got
no goals in thirteen games. That's way beneath the bar
for an offense that's supposed to unleash the beast, if
you will, with the way that they play, and thirteen
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games without a goal is a big, big concern, you know,
for whatever reason, we don't know right now, but he's
been healthy enough to play. So John Hayden's up here
for a reason. Ryan Winterton is up here for a reason.
They've got a little bit of grit, a little bit
of jam, and there's some offensive touch as well too,
right there. So that's a recipe that I think this
team needs that could use a jolts. So I don't
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know how much longer the same old, same old goal
goes here. We'll find out here tonight at six pm.
But one thing's for sure with Dan bios Mutt, he
doesn't fall into the category of just standing pat and
waiting for things to happen. He's consistently putting his brain
to thinking how can we make this better? And so
now the question bears when will things fall into place
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where he can finally achieve some consistency.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Do you think Winterton goes right onto the fourth line?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Not sure? Yet because they haven't had their morning skate
yet in Colorado. I mean he's available. I think if
he were to get in, that might be a spot
for him. You know, he's been praised for his penalty
killing effort and playing a big role for that in
Coachella Valley. He's got enough, you know, juicing his legs
to you know, keep up ice and playing against Colorado,
they can fly. I mean, the kin in that line
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is so dangerous. They play like a freight train. But
that's a possibility where if you were to shake things up,
he might be able to slide into you right there.
And which also helps his team too, because Coachella Valley
is in Colorado, just about the Eagles, the AHL team
about forty five minutes north here, so you know, if
you bring him up for a reason, if he gets in,
that that might be a good place to put him
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right there.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Mike, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I know you're between meetings and then you got a
pre game show to prepare for. Mike Bend'll be on
the night at five point thirty, cracking at Colorado at six.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanks Mike, you got it man. Thank you appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Mike Benton, our pre and post game host between periods
hosts on the Home of the Crack at ninety three
point three KJRFM, he says, Ryan Winterton, maybe fourth line
break Kowsky time to score. Thirteen games no goals at
five million dollars, that's not very good and I ask
them can they win without a top line score in
the NHL? His answer was when will Maddy Beniers come
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through the franchise score showing some signs early in the
season at a two goal game last week, nobody's had
any two goals for the last three games for the
Crack and only one goal in the last three total
combined back to back shutout to Ottawa and Boston Saturday
and Sunday, and now today into Colorado to play the Avalanche,
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who are also struggling five and seven, end of a
five game road trip, and then the Crack can come.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Home to play Vegas at the end of this work week.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Up next the Seahawks. What should they change? Everything's on
the table? Their coach says, what should they change? What
does everything on the table mean? I asked Mike McDonald thatt,
you'll hear about that next eleven o'clock. Jorry Epstein, Senior
NFL writer Yahoo's Sports will recap some of the trades
this morning in the NFL Lots to talk about on
ninety three point three kJ RFM. Welcome back the Greg
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Best Show with Christopher good Rolls On on ninety three point
three kJ RFM. Jorry Epstein's senior NFL writer for Yahoo Sports,
joined this courtesy of Zeke's Pizza Coming up at eleven o'clock.
Mike McDonald says, everything's on the table. Well, what's that mean? Well,
I asked him yesterday. Here's what he said, all the above.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I think we're doing a lot of good things. But
if you go in kind of just with a myopic
view of hey, it's only over here, then you might
miss something. I don't want to miss something. So let's
go through it with a fine tooth comb, and let's
be honest, and let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
All of the above was the answer to my question
of does that mean playing starter changes the new starting players?
Does that mean new schemes, a change in schemes, a
sailing down to the playbook?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Does that mean different ways you practice? And then his
answer was all of the above.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We also asked him what his assessment was of Gino
Smith through nine games, and here's what the coache said.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
We got to do a better job of taking care
of Gino throughout the course of the game. We have
to be more efficient on those early downs so teams
aren't teeing off on us on second long and it's
hard now in those situations. At the end of the day,
we've got to be ball dominant, so we can't put
the ball in harm's way. Gino knows that. I know,
that's why he's really hard on himself right now. But
it is more of a reflection of us as as
a football team than just Gino when the quarterbacks getting hit.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
So we got to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
People see the ten interceptions in nine games leads the
NFL and say bench Gino Smith, But it is a
lot more to it than that. The Seahawks have allowed
one hundred and forty four pressures in pass protection. That's
the most in the NFL. According to Pro Football Focus,
Seattle has one hundred and three quarterback hurries. That's twelve
more than any other team. Seattle has the most fourth
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most sex in the league. Smith's taking the fourth most,
behind only the Sean Watson for Cleveland c J straut Ford, Houston,
Caleb Williams for Chicago. Those the only court quarterbacks have
been Sacamore. Of course, Smith's thrown it more than anybody
in the league two, but you can hear it in
McDonald's answer that he's won both. He wants better offensive
line play and better support around Smith to make life
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better for him, but he also wants Smith to be
better with the ball. The three interceptions on Sunday, you
see three interceptions in the box scoring you see Gino.
Smith hasn't thrown three interceptions since twenty fourteen for the Jets.
The first one was off Jackson Smith in Jacoba's hands,
marring an otherwise career day for Jackson, Smith and Jigway.
If you realize, if it wasn't for the two holding
penalties by Mike Direll, Chris Smith and Jigbab would have
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had those were seven eight yards and lost completion, Smith
and Jagoba would have had two hundred and fifty eight
yards receiving.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
It would have been like a Rose Bowl again for
him in the NFL. Man So, Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Turned the first completion into an interception at midfield. First half,
second half second interception the one into the end zone
that Kitchens caught on both knees and ran out of
the end zone hundred and three yards for touchdown. It
next Gen Stats said he actually ran one hundred and
twenty eight yards oh side to side dagon, the most
run anyone is running a play in the league this year.
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Smith said he was trying to throw it out of
the back of the end zone and his mistake was
he held onto the ball too long, and he allowed
himself to get hit and deflected the throw and it
caused it to be in the front of the end
zone instead of out of the back where Kitchens was
and four other rams were. That was a problem that
Hugh Millen has talked about this week of Smith holding
onto the ball too long. They talk a lot about
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on time, on schedule and once. The problem with that
for Smith is once the protection breaks down, you have
two choices, throw it away or make something out of it. Chris, honestly,
and I'm bringing this up with you tomorrow. Honestly, if
Gino Smith just threw it away every time protection broke down,
he'd be like, oh for forty because he protection breaks
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down every time he drops back the pass, so he
realizes that I can't do that every time, or else
we'll never complete a pass. I've got to try to
extend the play and hope to Tyler Lockett and DK
Metcalf when he comes back, we'll get into the improv
routes to find something open and make something out of nothing.
But you really can't throw on time and on schedule
every time with this offensive lineer, you'll never complete a pass. Yeah,
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it's been a struggle for him, and it's a gift
and a curse. When you hang onto the football a
little longer, you're always susceptible to make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And that was the mistake. He tried to throw it
out a bound but when he got hit, you saw
what happened. Everyone can see with eyes that it was
picked off and it was a pick six. I'm sure
he regrets it. But nine times out of ten, g
you know, does that same thing and what it resulting? Oh,
by the way, if I'm not mistaken. Before the half ended,
he was able to find Jsam a similar play rolling
out to his right, do it across his body and
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helps with all the rams stopped.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
On that play because they jumped off sides. That was
kind of a man Darius Williams. The corner just stopped.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
No, I'm talking about the one, not the one the
tire lockett. The other one right before the half, That one.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
On the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
No, the one over the middle where JSN comes across
over the middle and is open and catches the touchdown
right before the half to make it thirteen to three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That one, right, that was an extended play. That was
I said that was. I didn't know that was. I
thought that was. I can't remember the.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Tyre lockert one was extended. That was their first touchdown,
the second one because that was their extra point got
missed or blockb. The second one was when Gino rolle
to his right and JSN ran a nice little pattern
over the middle and he found him.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So on time, on schedule means a different thing when
your offensive line doesn't pass protect because again, you can't
dart it and just throw it in the ground every
single time you under pressure. Because he's the most pressured
quarterback in the NFL. It's just a nuanced deal. You
just can't say bench Gino Smith because he has ten interceptions.
We also brought up yesterday the falloff between one and
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two at quarterback and Seattle is Niagara Falls. I mean
it's a cliff and they aren't about to turn the
season over to Sam Howe when they're one game out
of the playoffs and they're going into San Francisco. No,
a team you have to beat you haven't beaten six
times in a row, and you're gonna bench Gino Smith. No,
they're convinced their best chance to win is Gino Smith
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having better support around him, which is why we played
the answer there from Mike McDonald. So no, according to McDonald,
everything on the table does not include Gino Smith's job
four nine four five one on the tell him we're
doe text line?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Does that add up to you?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You understand what he's start coming from. Are you saying
he's wrong? Mike McDonald is down the wrong path there
and the Seahawks aren't going to improve. We'll read back
your text at eleven thirty Up next Joey Epstein, our
weekly visit with the senior NFL writer from Yahoo Sports.
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Speaker 2 (33:51):
Lots more on ninety three point three KJRFM,
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four nine four y five one. I'm just going to
tell you right off the top of the show. I'm
going to ask you on the text line to give
us your opinion. What should quote everything's on the table?
(00:22):
What the Seahawks mean to you? What does that mean?
What should it mean? What do you wish it mean?
It means? Which should mean?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Make it it's okay?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Which what do you think it meant? When Mike McDonald
said that. We'll talk about what Mike McDonald said when
I asked her about that and a minute headlines brought
to you by Frostbrud Cors Light Cho's chill, Yeah, Coach
McDonald's everything on the table to change and fix the
Seahawks during this bye week.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The players are in a team meeting yesterday. Then they
took off from their team vacation for the week they're
won in season one, they don't.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Have to be back at team headquarters in rented until
practice on Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But Gino Smith says he is not getting away.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's good to have the days the rest, but I
got work to do and I'll be working.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He said. He will get right.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I will do my thing and I will fix this,
and that includes during this bye week. I know some
of you out there saying, wait a minute, what is
this team losing five out of six going away for
a week. If you would want to lose a locker
room as a rookie head coach take away their bye week,
that doesn't go very well. Dude, have union grievances and
all kinds of things. When Pete Carroll first took the
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job fifteen years ago, there were teams that had them
come into practice and meetings till about Wednesday during the
bye week, maybe Thursday. Gave himn extended three or four
day weekend. Pete Carroll was one of the few who
did not, and he gave him from like the game Sunday.
He didn't even have him come in to watch film
with the Monday game. Sometimes he went from the game
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ending Sunday to the following Monday, eight days and said,
go see you win our loss?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And now that has become a norm in the league
that a lot of coaches went, hey, and players is
that we're in Seattle would say.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, you know when I was in Seattle, we had
the whole.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Bye week off gone. Well, now it's the norm in
the NFL. So there's no way that Mike McDonald's go say, yeah,
you lost the Rams, You're not you're staying here this week.
Those guy said planes and cabo condos, and yeah, he's
not gonna take that away. So and again it's looking bleak,
but they're a game out of first place in the
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NFC West that nobody seems to want to win. Do
you know Smith leads the NFL in interceptions and in
getting pressured, hurried in his fourth.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And being sacked. We'll talk about that in a minute too.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Buccaneers scored a touchdown twenty seven seconds left in the
rain and unbeting Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I side Chris the whole drive. I'm thinking, well, they're
going to go for two.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
If they score a touchdown here, they're not gonna give
Mahmes a chance to win the game on his home field,
and that's what they did. They kicked the extra point
instead of going for two and the win. The Chiefs
won the overtime coin toss. You could see the look.
Did you see the look on Baker Mayfield?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He knew, Yeah, it's it's a risky move. I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But then again, do you really want to risk a
flip a coin flip? Do you will really want to
risk all of that just to potentially lose the game
because if he gets the ball, as we all saw, right,
so that.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Against Mahomes, especially if you're say two yards for the win,
I'm taking that over coin tosses and at the defense
point stopping.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
They're undefeated, you are potentially they're going to be five
and four or four and five. And it didn't work
out for them. They lost the toss, and as you
mentioned with Baker Mayfield's reaction, he knew it's probably over.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, that's that's unfortunate. Yeah, that's and it was the
chief right down the field.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
If it was a playoff game, though, the Bucks would
have had a chance. So you know what, in the playoffs,
you can do that, coach. But to your point, Greg,
two yards you go for two and try to get
that win, and then you have to hope that your
defense can hold up, which you know they twenty seven second,
Yeah they did, I.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Know, seven seconds, But I'm just saying, man, two yards
after they just marched.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
On the field, go for the win with two yards.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well that's why, that's why everyone was shocked that they
called a time out. Well that didn't help him either,
because if they let the clock run down, now, you
can go for two with ten seconds they say, they
do score, you can go for two now, you give
my homes.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I don't know who called that time and they
panicked there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I don't know if it's Mayfield on the field or
stay panicked after that long game to the one yard
line a learning lesson, right, Yeah, you wouldn't think Mayfield.
He's probably old enough to know to let that clock
run down.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Anyway. I bet Mike McDonald would have gone for two there.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
He would have decided before the Now I know he
didn't go for two the other day, and why didn't
he do this? And time of game is a big
deal to him. He has analytics broken down by time
left in the game, and with twenty seven seconds left,
he would have definitely gone for two at least I was.
I've known him for here for the first half of
a season. The Lions added five time Pro Bowl pass
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rushes Zadarius Smith in the trade from Cleveland this morning,
swap a draft pick late round draft picks. The NFL
tradeline deadline is one today. Chuck and Bucket been trying
to get me to go on and on about their
Seahawks are going to trade for a whole new offensive line.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's not how the NFL works. There's no one available
on four things. Just don't It's not everyone that is available.
They're not getting well, I just said that wrong. No
one's getting traded, and the guys are available are probably
not good.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So there you have it, right, And anyone who has
a offensive lineman worth another team starting right away isn't
going to give them up.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's a commodity is so rare.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look at the Panthers, right, if they have a good
left tackle, do you really think they're gonna give their
good left tackle just so they can get whoever the
quarterback is destroyed for the rest of the season. Probably not.
They'll give you their second string third thing, maybe, but
that doesn't help you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
There aren't as.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Many sellers in the NFL one because everybody's playing for
contracts because there are no guaranteed conscious not like baseball.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
And two.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
In baseball, you could be twenty games out at the
at the trade deadline. In football, you're one or two
or three games out. So there are much more. There's
much less I should say a team saying well.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This season's over.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I mean even one or two win teams right now
aren't saying well this season and the players don't feel
that way because they're trying to play for their contracts
next year. It's just a whole different dynamic than in
baseball in a trading deadline. Dak Prescott is going to
miss quote multiple games, reports say for the Cowboys with
his hamstring injury got in Dallas' loss at Atlanta. Former
Cowboys beat reader jrery Epstein's going to join us eleven
o'clock and we're going to say, ask her, are the
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Cowboys dead now?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Are they done? Season over?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Cracking have scored one total goal in the three last
games on the road trip, the last three back to
back shutout losses at Ottawa and at Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That road trip ends tonight. In Colorado.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Man, They've gone all over the place, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston
and now to Colorado. Five thirty pre game show with
Mike Ben right after Dave Softy Mat and the weekly
Husky Hank Show from four to five year on ninety
three point three KJFM, and the six pm puck drop
here on your home with the Cracking tonight from Denver.
Expecting Avalanche former Avalanche playoff goaltender Philip Grubyer to the
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starting tonight for Seattle. I'm sure Dan Bowsman was gonna
throw him a bone there, let him play against his
former team. Cracking are five and seven with overtime loss.
The Avalanche are five and seven. Sounders advanced through Houston
to the Western Conference Semifinals of the MLS Playoffs. They
play the winner of Game three Friday between the LAFC
and Vancouver Washington Husky's five and four three and three
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in the Big Ten. They play at six Drank Penn
State Saturday, five pm, with the Husky Arms pregame show
at Happy Valley at one pm. I think Dave's going
to soft He's going to Penn State. I don't know
if I don't think he's ever been there. He's talking
about that, and it is a cool scene middle of Pennsylvania.
Takes a while to get there, flying to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
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But man, if you've never been to Happy Valley, one
hundred hundred and nine thousand people, great college town, it's
a really cool setting. The College Football Playoff rankings, the
first one comes out of four PM today, don't quite
have the same meaning for U dub as it did
this time last year. Washington State and Army are likely
to be somewhere in the twenties or so in the
top twenty five rankings for the College Football Playoff. The
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interesting spot outside the top ten is where Boise State
is going to get ranked. Because they're the highest non
Power four.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Team it's going to get ranked in these rankings, and the.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Highest ranked Power four in the College Football Playoff pole
gets an automatic spot in the playoff. So let's see
where Boise State is. Their thirteenth They were a thirteenth
going into last weekend in the ape hole.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Let's see where Boise.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
States ranked today in the relation to where they have
a chance at an automatic qualifying bid into the College
Football Playoff. That's next month, Chris, You know it's like
six weeks from now a college FOOTBA playoff again.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Crazy. It is crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Once you get in the football season, it just flies by,
it does. It doesn't make any sense. We're already going
into week ten on Thursday, and it feels as if
just yesterday we were at training camp.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, if exactly my life from August to January.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Bam. I mean, I'm constantly just doing Seahawks. He actually,
and all of a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Sudden, it's Christmas. College football. The college basketball began last night.
The women's Washington Huskies basketball team beat Seattle U ninety
five fifty three and its opener or on ten ninety AM.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The Husky's man.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They host U c Irvine tonight in its opening game
of the Danny Sprinkle Era six to thirty pre game
show seven pm tip off on our AM station nine
to fifty KJAR six Ranke Gonzaga beat eighth rank Baylor
and Deep beat him Bad one oh one sixty three
in Spokane last night, and the men's opener, Ohio State
beat Texas in Las Vegas. I mentioned the Mariners cal Rawley,
already a Gold Glove catcher, as a finalist for the
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Silver Slugger Award for American League catchers, and he should
get it. No catcher in the league hit more than
Raley's thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Four home runs with his hundred RBIs this past season
and in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Greg Popovich is going to miss San Antonio Spurs games
indefinitely because the seventy five year old coach has an
undisclosed health issue came up before a game Saturday against Minnesota.
So former Odai High School in Stanford point guard Mitch
Johnson is going to be the Spurs coach while Papovich
is out.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Johnson from Chris's Went Today class of two thousand and five.
I got to know him a little bit when I
was thirteen years old. I went to Stanford's basketball camp
and he was coaching and training as well as I
want to say, one of the Lopez brothers, maybe both
of them. I don't even remember, but I was down
there for that camp and I got to hang out
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So that was a cool, cool visit.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I think I've only seen Mitch maybe one time after that,
and that was at like an O Day basketball game.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But happy for him.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He's been an assistant with the Spurs for quite some
time now, and I'm sure, he's getting closer, closer and
closer to be getting that head coaching job in the
NBA because he's a definitely really good person and a
great coach as well. So I'm sure the Spurs will
be just fine, and they lost it tough on last night,
but he'll definitely get a shot in the league for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What was a Stanford basketball camp like in two thousand, Oh,
my gosh, it was. It was six so it was
it was incredible. I mean there was Trent Johnson. Okay, no,
actually I lied Trent Johnson had I went to that
camp thinking Trent would be there and he was actually
the head coach in the Vada He actually during the
offseason got a new deal, if I'm not mistaken, because
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I ended up going to Reno's basketball camp to be
to get a chance to because my uncle and Trent
are best friends. So that was the thing like, oh, yeah,
my nephew is playing basketball. You know he wants to
do this and this. Oh yes, in to my camp.
Oh I'm actually out here. So end up going to
the Stanford camp at the time, but that was great.
End up winning the one on one competition, So I
think there was sixty kids and you had three dribbles.
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I still have the trophy, but that was it was
very competitive. There was a young young man that I
think maybe a year older than me, probably about five
to nine, just as quick as I was, and it
was a battle.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
That was That was the highlight of the camp, that
one on one tournament, because it lasted two days and
it was, you know, a single elimination.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You win, you move on.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
But yeah, I went through some dogs at that time.
There were some really talented players and they were all
across the country. It wasn't just oh right local you
know cats from new not New England, but Boston, Newland.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Well you're right, okay, AnyWho. But yeah, it was you
stay in the dorms. I did.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I did stay stand for dorms are different kind of dorms,
aren't they. Well I'm trying to remember it. For me,
it was everything because I'd never been to a college.
This is my first experience and I'm only thirteen. But yeah,
we did get to stay in the dorms. That was
a cool experience.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And then it was always sunny and they had a
black top so it was like turf for basketball, and
we were hooping outside and it was. It was a
great summer. I will never never forget that one.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Good luck to Mitch Johnson. Oh, Dave Grad.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, he'll be fine'll be I'm excited for him. It
should be a blast to see him take the next
step as he's looking to be a head coach in
the NBA soon four nine.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
To tell him we do text sign when you hear
Seahawks coach Mike McDonald's say quote, everything's on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What do you want that to mean? I have a
feeling on some people's line. Greg Bell is getting signed
off of waivers.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's not going to help him. Maybe the Notre Dame
running back for my Rams, running back Greg Bell would
help them at this point, whether they wouldn't run the
ball with him.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Okay, wreck myself.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So Trent Johnson was the coach in Nevada from ninety
nine two thousand and four. So in two thousand and
six I went to that camp.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Okay, So I must have got the years mixed up.
But I did do the Stanford basketball camp and I
did the Nevada basketball.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
But I know that works. The head coach just has
his players run the camp exactly he gets out.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
That's how I got to I was with the point
guards and Mitch was the point guard head honcho, and
he was training us for the week. And then you
had the small forwards and I'm pretty sure it was
Brook Lopez that was for the centers. I was like, God,
he's tall and he's like all seven two.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But yes, did he know that Mitch Johnson know you
were an Oday guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Because when I was I got today in two thousand
and six, I'm pretty sure I had gone to a
bunch of games and I got to see him and
meet him because I knew Jamal McMillan as well, who
is a year younger, and they're pretty close if I'm
not mistaken. But nonetheless, I had seen him before. I
don't know how the connection came about, but every time
(13:58):
I see him, and again it's been a long time
con since I have it's all love. As a matter
of fact, we used to go to the same barber.
Now it's all clicking. So I had I have seen
him maybe a couple more times.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You're in line, some freeze spurs tickets. You better head
down to Portland. Hey, you stay right behind the bench
dock to Mitch Johnson during timeouts. Well, you better find
out when they're going to the Rose Garden to play Portland.
He does not have to worry about me ask for tickets,
but no. Yeah, he's cool piece for sure. That's good, good, good,
good luck to Mitch Johnson as he fills in for
Greg Popovitch and the Spurs up Next, this Everything on
(14:31):
the Table. Yeah, I'm stuck on. I wrote a whole
story on it for the News Tribute and posted it
last night. I want to check it out at the
Newstribute dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What's it mean?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Does it mean Geno Smith's starting job is up for grabs?
That's next a ninety three point three kJ RFM.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialists Broadcast Studio.
Now back to the Great Bell Show with Christopher Kidd
on your Home for the Huskies and the Crooking Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ r FM.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Welcome back The Great Best Show with Christopher kid rolls
on in ninety two point three KJRFM. We're going to
talk about what Everything on the Table means for the Seahawks. First,
we're gonna talk to Mike Benton about the Kraken. We
usually talked him on Mondays. But we had the coach
Mike McDonald press conference live yesterday from Renton.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Cracking at Colorado today.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
The final game of the five game road trip that
hasn't gone well the last three only won goal for
the Cracking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
In the last three games.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Tonight they play at Colorado five thirty pre game show
with Mike Betton and six o'clock puck drop here on
the home of the Crack of ninety three point three
k j RFM with Everett fitz Hugh and Al Kaminski.
We're expecting Philip Grubauer to be in goal tonight. It
was it's been for most of the road trip. Joey Decord.
(16:16):
He was Joey Cord, New England native at Boston on
Sunday and now Philip Grubauer, a former Colorado Avalanche playoff goalie,
probably going to get the start.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm sure Dan Bowsman will give it to him against
his former team. Mike ben Jordin is on the Beacon
Plumbing Hotline. Good morning, Mike, Greg, Hey, how are you, Bud?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm well, sir. Out of they score goals? What happened?
They got eight in Montreal and one since. What's changed?
Besides this not putting the puck in the net.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Well, I think if you look at disappointment here, it's
in the fact that this start really looked good at
four and two, and then the way that this thing
has put over the last.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Six or seven games.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I mean that's where I look at it, where at
times play is kind of taking a nosedive here, if
you will, and I think what we saw last two games, Greg,
I mean maybe even before that. I mean, at times
you get to hint from some of the guys talking
after the game that there's this you know, too many
passengers and not enough guys driving the bus, and it's
evident in their start, and it's been evident here, I
(17:21):
think in the penalties that they've been taking. It's been
evident in the way that at the last two nights
that guys like Joey to Corden, Philip group Bauer have
played well enough to win but aren't getting the run
support and you're kind of getting Felix Hernandez as if
you will. So I think in a case like this, yeah,
it's I think in a case like this, it really
kind of goes back to me the slow start, where
(17:44):
it's been you know more and more routine.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
They've allowed the first goal nine times in the first
thirteen games. And when you're chasing, you're playing usually right
into a team's hands. And by the time that you're
still trailing in period three, teams just go into lockdown
mode and go into lead preservations. So it really goes
back to that slow slug to start this kind of
you know, cramp this team here from the get go,
(18:08):
and that's where they kind of want to begin this
evening here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
It reminds me of the question can you win night
overnight and consistently? Can you win in the NHL without
a frontline guy a number one, a grade A score
and they have a collective the crack and do relative
to some teams, can you win without a superstar scorer
in this league?
Speaker 5 (18:33):
You can to a certain point, though, and that's what
history tells us, Greg And this is something that John
Forslund and I had a great conversation on, you know,
during our Crack in this morning podcast about a couple
of games ago. Here it's not easy just to say, well,
we need a top line guy and we got to
go out and you know, throw the money at them
because it doesn't work like baseball. And we're into this
(18:55):
day and age now and this time of year where
we're seeing, you know, guys in the base ball side
hit the free agent market and then we start getting,
you know, wide eyed and thinking what president can fall under.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
The tree here.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
It's different in the NHL, where you may have a
top line guy available, but usually those guys, when they're
effective enough, they're either basically taken via the draft and
you had and you have to develop them, you know,
over time, or if they're on the free agent market,
they're usually on the back nine of their career, and
(19:28):
the question bears how effective can they be? Are you
getting the guy that you were looking for a couple
of years ago rather than the guy that you know
may see his authens decline because of as here and
the trade market is even tougher. So I think for
me again, it goes back to you can win collectively,
but to a certain point. The crack improved this two
(19:51):
years ago. Other teams that have proved this, you can
get there scoring by committee wise that will get you
through Round one to the depths of Round two, maybe
even into the conference final. And sometimes teams basically hit
every note along the way and get to the Stanley
Cup final. But those teams are a few and far between.
Its top line power that pushes you through, usually to
(20:13):
a Stanley Cup championship. So for the Krack and right now,
the question bears when is Maddy Beneer's going to come through.
He's now in year three as a full time NHLer
and he's starting to kind of show signs of life.
This game flickering alive here. Shane Wright is supposed to
be a big part of the score, but he's still
twenty years of age and they're looking to see when
(20:33):
you can take this next step after just about roughly
two goals I believe here in the first thirteen games,
so there's a long run runway to go. Top line
scoring will help answer this problem, but it is going
to be a test of patience here, Greg Mike.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Has there been any noticeable change in the Krakens defensive
and or goaltending play within this slump or is it
mainly a result of the issues on the offensive side.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
So defensive coverage, can you know, use a little bit
of tweaking and that's been you know, the hint dropped.
You know, for the first few games of this season.
The good news is that goaltending right now is the
least of this team's problems. Chris, I mean, Joey decorde
Is Blay has played terrific. His say percentage last four
games ever since the end of the home stand I
(21:20):
put this together is nine two three.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That is very very good.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Philip Grubauer looked great in this most recent road trip
game against Ottawa. I don't fault him for the first
goal giving up. That was a scramble play at the
front of the net and the crack and couldn't clear
the puck. And the second one was a dull deflection
goal where you know, you have to kind of cut
you know, the playoff at the root and that's ten
(21:45):
fifteen seconds before. That's the whole defensive thing right there.
So the good news is that, you know, I think
we're showing signs of that this team has got the
goaltending here to keep them in games on a sustainable level. Now,
what they have to do is find a way to
tap into their identity over and over and on a
consistent basis, and that is pushing the puck up ice,
(22:05):
playing with speed, playing with pace, and then, as I've
said this before, causing chaos in the other team's zone
to where they can execute and find a way to
you know, rack up a three four goals a game,
and sometimes you get fortunate and you can hit North
the five. And that's what that's what they kind of
have to look to in all of this, is to
you know, find a way to simplify things and get
(22:26):
the tuck moving back up byce quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What have you noticed about the new coach during this
dry spell and a little spate of adversity here.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well, tough for me because you know, in the last
few games, I don't travel Greg obviously, so I'm only
you know, privy to you know what's happening, you know
from folks who are there on the trip, and you
know we communicate and talk.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You know, what I have seen up.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Close when Dan Bielsma is home, and this has been
evident here for a few games on the road, is
that you know he's he's not he's not alergstick here
to changing things up now. The question is when you
switch line combinations over and over, you're looking for some
consistency and I think ultimately that's where Dan Bilesman wants
to get to I'm curious where Dan Bilesman goes with
(23:14):
this lineup after this morning's call up here with Ryan Winterton.
I mean, I mean, facts are facts five seven and one.
It's been short circuiting a lot. I mean, Jared McCann,
Jordan Eberley, Manny Beniers for the most part have been fine.
Yanni Gore's been playing great with Ty Cartier, Brandon Tannev
as an energy source. We've seen gard move to you know,
(23:35):
his old linemate's back recently. But you know, again, I
go back to, you know, guys who have one goal
or more. I mean Ty Kariah, Yeah, he's he's in
that category, but he's a role player. Shane Wright is
still young. Chandler Stevenson, you know they're they're paying him
to be a playmaker with veteran presence, and while the
numbers are concerning, those goals will certainly come. I wonder
(23:57):
about guys like Andre Berrokowski has been getting moved around
to a new line and or a variation of one
for about five games in a row. I mean that's
a player who's been paid five million a year to
score goals and generate offense, and so far, He's got
no goals in thirteen games. That's way beneath the bar
for an offense that's supposed to unleash the beast, if
you will, with the way that they play, and thirteen
(24:20):
games without a goal is a big, big concern, you know,
for whatever reason, we don't know right now, but he's
been healthy enough to play. So John Hayden's up here
for a reason. Ryan Winterton is up here for a reason.
They've got a little bit of grit, a little bit
of jam, and there's some offensive touch as well too,
right there. So that's a recipe that I think this
team needs that could use a jolts. So I don't
(24:40):
know how much longer the same old, same old goal
goes here. We'll find out here tonight at six pm.
But one thing's for sure with Dan bios Mutt, he
doesn't fall into the category of just standing pat and
waiting for things to happen. He's consistently putting his brain
to thinking how can we make this better? And so
now the question bears when will things fall into place
(25:01):
where he can finally achieve some consistency.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Do you think Winterton goes right onto the fourth line?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Not sure? Yet because they haven't had their morning skate
yet in Colorado. I mean he's available. I think if
he were to get in, that might be a spot
for him. You know, he's been praised for his penalty
killing effort and playing a big role for that in
Coachella Valley. He's got enough, you know, juicing his legs
to you know, keep up ice and playing against Colorado,
they can fly. I mean, the kin in that line
(25:29):
is so dangerous. They play like a freight train. But
that's a possibility where if you were to shake things up,
he might be able to slide into you right there.
And which also helps his team too, because Coachella Valley
is in Colorado, just about the Eagles, the AHL team
about forty five minutes north here, so you know, if
you bring him up for a reason, if he gets in,
that that might be a good place to put him
(25:50):
right there.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Mike, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I know you're between meetings and then you got a
pre game show to prepare for. Mike Bend'll be on
the night at five point thirty, cracking at Colorado at six.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanks Mike, you got it man. Thank you appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Mike Benton, our pre and post game host between periods
hosts on the Home of the Crack at ninety three
point three KJRFM, he says, Ryan Winterton, maybe fourth line
break Kowsky time to score. Thirteen games no goals at
five million dollars, that's not very good and I ask
them can they win without a top line score in
the NHL? His answer was when will Maddy Beniers come
(26:24):
through the franchise score showing some signs early in the
season at a two goal game last week, nobody's had
any two goals for the last three games for the
Crack and only one goal in the last three total
combined back to back shutout to Ottawa and Boston Saturday
and Sunday, and now today into Colorado to play the Avalanche,
(26:44):
who are also struggling five and seven, end of a
five game road trip, and then the Crack can come.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Home to play Vegas at the end of this work week.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Up next the Seahawks. What should they change? Everything's on
the table? Their coach says, what should they change? What
does everything on the table mean? I asked Mike McDonald thatt,
you'll hear about that next eleven o'clock. Jorry Epstein, Senior
NFL writer Yahoo's Sports will recap some of the trades
this morning in the NFL Lots to talk about on
ninety three point three kJ RFM. Welcome back the Greg
(27:20):
Best Show with Christopher good Rolls On on ninety three point
three kJ RFM. Jorry Epstein's senior NFL writer for Yahoo Sports,
joined this courtesy of Zeke's Pizza Coming up at eleven o'clock.
Mike McDonald says, everything's on the table. Well, what's that mean? Well,
I asked him yesterday. Here's what he said, all the above.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I think we're doing a lot of good things. But
if you go in kind of just with a myopic
view of hey, it's only over here, then you might
miss something. I don't want to miss something. So let's
go through it with a fine tooth comb, and let's
be honest, and let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
All of the above was the answer to my question
of does that mean playing starter changes the new starting players?
Does that mean new schemes, a change in schemes, a
sailing down to the playbook?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Does that mean different ways you practice? And then his
answer was all of the above.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
We also asked him what his assessment was of Gino
Smith through nine games, and here's what the coache said.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
We got to do a better job of taking care
of Gino throughout the course of the game. We have
to be more efficient on those early downs so teams
aren't teeing off on us on second long and it's
hard now in those situations. At the end of the day,
we've got to be ball dominant, so we can't put
the ball in harm's way. Gino knows that. I know,
that's why he's really hard on himself right now. But
it is more of a reflection of us as as
a football team than just Gino when the quarterbacks getting hit.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
So we got to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
People see the ten interceptions in nine games leads the
NFL and say bench Gino Smith, But it is a
lot more to it than that. The Seahawks have allowed
one hundred and forty four pressures in pass protection. That's
the most in the NFL. According to Pro Football Focus,
Seattle has one hundred and three quarterback hurries. That's twelve
more than any other team. Seattle has the most fourth
(28:57):
most sex in the league. Smith's taking the fourth most,
behind only the Sean Watson for Cleveland c J straut Ford, Houston,
Caleb Williams for Chicago. Those the only court quarterbacks have
been Sacamore. Of course, Smith's thrown it more than anybody
in the league two, but you can hear it in
McDonald's answer that he's won both. He wants better offensive
line play and better support around Smith to make life
(29:19):
better for him, but he also wants Smith to be
better with the ball. The three interceptions on Sunday, you
see three interceptions in the box scoring you see Gino.
Smith hasn't thrown three interceptions since twenty fourteen for the Jets.
The first one was off Jackson Smith in Jacoba's hands,
marring an otherwise career day for Jackson, Smith and Jigway.
If you realize, if it wasn't for the two holding
penalties by Mike Direll, Chris Smith and Jigbab would have
(29:42):
had those were seven eight yards and lost completion, Smith
and Jagoba would have had two hundred and fifty eight
yards receiving.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
It would have been like a Rose Bowl again for
him in the NFL. Man So, Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Turned the first completion into an interception at midfield. First half,
second half second interception the one into the end zone
that Kitchens caught on both knees and ran out of
the end zone hundred and three yards for touchdown. It
next Gen Stats said he actually ran one hundred and
twenty eight yards oh side to side dagon, the most
run anyone is running a play in the league this year.
(30:18):
Smith said he was trying to throw it out of
the back of the end zone and his mistake was
he held onto the ball too long, and he allowed
himself to get hit and deflected the throw and it
caused it to be in the front of the end
zone instead of out of the back where Kitchens was
and four other rams were. That was a problem that
Hugh Millen has talked about this week of Smith holding
onto the ball too long. They talk a lot about
(30:38):
on time, on schedule and once. The problem with that
for Smith is once the protection breaks down, you have
two choices, throw it away or make something out of it. Chris, honestly,
and I'm bringing this up with you tomorrow. Honestly, if
Gino Smith just threw it away every time protection broke down,
he'd be like, oh for forty because he protection breaks
(31:01):
down every time he drops back the pass, so he
realizes that I can't do that every time, or else
we'll never complete a pass. I've got to try to
extend the play and hope to Tyler Lockett and DK
Metcalf when he comes back, we'll get into the improv
routes to find something open and make something out of nothing.
But you really can't throw on time and on schedule
every time with this offensive lineer, you'll never complete a pass. Yeah,
(31:24):
it's been a struggle for him, and it's a gift
and a curse. When you hang onto the football a
little longer, you're always susceptible to make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And that was the mistake. He tried to throw it
out a bound but when he got hit, you saw
what happened. Everyone can see with eyes that it was
picked off and it was a pick six. I'm sure
he regrets it. But nine times out of ten, g
you know, does that same thing and what it resulting? Oh,
by the way, if I'm not mistaken. Before the half ended,
he was able to find Jsam a similar play rolling
out to his right, do it across his body and
(31:50):
helps with all the rams stopped.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
On that play because they jumped off sides. That was
kind of a man Darius Williams. The corner just stopped.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
No, I'm talking about the one, not the one the
tire lockett. The other one right before the half, That one.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
On the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
No, the one over the middle where JSN comes across
over the middle and is open and catches the touchdown
right before the half to make it thirteen to three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That one, right, that was an extended play. That was
I said that was. I didn't know that was. I
thought that was. I can't remember the.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Tyre lockert one was extended. That was their first touchdown,
the second one because that was their extra point got
missed or blockb. The second one was when Gino rolle
to his right and JSN ran a nice little pattern
over the middle and he found him.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So on time, on schedule means a different thing when
your offensive line doesn't pass protect because again, you can't
dart it and just throw it in the ground every
single time you under pressure. Because he's the most pressured
quarterback in the NFL. It's just a nuanced deal. You
just can't say bench Gino Smith because he has ten interceptions.
We also brought up yesterday the falloff between one and
(32:53):
two at quarterback and Seattle is Niagara Falls. I mean
it's a cliff and they aren't about to turn the
season over to Sam Howe when they're one game out
of the playoffs and they're going into San Francisco. No,
a team you have to beat you haven't beaten six
times in a row, and you're gonna bench Gino Smith. No,
they're convinced their best chance to win is Gino Smith
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having better support around him, which is why we played
the answer there from Mike McDonald. So no, according to McDonald,
everything on the table does not include Gino Smith's job
four nine four five one on the tell him we're
doe text line?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Does that add up to you?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You understand what he's start coming from. Are you saying
he's wrong? Mike McDonald is down the wrong path there
and the Seahawks aren't going to improve. We'll read back
your text at eleven thirty Up next Joey Epstein, our
weekly visit with the senior NFL writer from Yahoo Sports.
Thanks to Zeke's Pizza eleven thirty five factor fixtion, your
chance to win a thousand dollars from the Amo Queenis Casino.
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