December 16, 2024 • 38 mins
The Seahawks played on Sunday Night Football, and got packed up in their own crib, chants of Go Pack Go, echoed through the stadium, and starter Geno Smith went down w/ a lower leg injury. Mike Benton who is the host pre and post for the Seattle Kraken talks about the team's tough loss over the weekend, and looks ahead to their homestand ahead of the Christmas break, we also share updates on Geno Smith, there's optimism about him playing against the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just that's that's kind of scary.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is, because, yeah, it's cool to to win games
on the road, but you gotta you want to be
able to come home and know that this is our place,
and outsiders aren't welcome, dear, I say, and you want
to protect it, and they haven't done a good job
of that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
They're three and five at home.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Outsiders and their money are welcome. That Luman, no doubt
about that. Yeah, go pac Go was the lead of
my story at the News Tribune dot Com because I
heard it for three and a half hours. Josh Jacob
got the ball for eight consecutive times, six runs, two passes,
screen pass eight consecutive times, and nine of the ten
plays of that first drive were Josh Jacob insane. It
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had me looking up reminding myself of what he did
in twenty nineteen with the Raiders here when he went
for two twenty nine with the eighty six yard overtime
touchdown run. I thought Josh Jacob should have gotten the
ball thirty five plus times. He ended up with twenty
six fourteen carries in the first half, twenty six carries
for ninety four yards overall. Chris the game was over
on the first drive.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I don't. I'm sure you might have filted, but
when I saw that, I said, dan't winning this game.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They absolutely feel let one man do this to you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
One man.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I can see if he was throwing it to Christian Watson,
and he did that later in the game, but it
was literally a statement, you cannot stop number eight. I
have a bunch of things to throw at you, and
we're gonna watch down the field and score.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And then after the game, typical well silver lining questions
from well did defense due to a justin said they
seen the hold the package.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm not going to the game was over, no adjustments,
the game was over. The floor kept running the football.
I'm thinking, bro, just throw it on third and three.
Why are you trying to run the football? Then Seahawks
know what you want to do. So that's me being
very nitpicky about Matt Lafour's game play, because yeah, they
did do better in the second half, but this is over.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The Seahawks knew you were running it. It wasn't a surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The game was over by then. It didn't adjustment, so
the Cockers just throttle it down.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hey, Sam Howell got in there.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How do you look? Guys?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, all you Texters? Sorry, I didn't you did it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I watched it and was thinking, there are people out
there that really do not like Geno, and I just
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I know, man, five or fourteen?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Twenty three yards?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, y'all believe me. I've been telling you since the
came of July. I mean, I wasn't making that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Up, and I'm not trying to. I'm sure I've never
met Sam. I'm sure he was a great guy. But
a franchise quarterback is that's just not in his bag.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
He saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
They ran five wide, it's cover two, as he mentioned
in the presser, and he throws it right at the seam.
Oh there's a linebacker because it's covered too. Did you
got to get some depth on the receiver allow him
to get up field? Those it right to him thinking
it was cover three?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Probably? Well that's another thing. Five wide and throwing what
fifteen consecutive times after he entered the game.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That it's just tough. He's in a situation where it's
obviously passing.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Help him out. Many Geno Smith's injury, We'll give you
the latest on that. Mike McDonald at Latest does in
twenty five minutes ago. I'll tell you in a minute
about that. We'll talk about where the Seahawks now standing
in the playoff race. That was a damaging l last
night at ten thirty, Mike Ben's gonna catch us up
on Cracking weekend. Let's go crack Yep, that didn't go
as well either Saturday night, and then a week ahead
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for the Crack and one more game on their homestand
ten thirty we'll talk to Mike Benton. Just after eleven o'clock,
we're gonna talk about Geno Smith. We're going to talk
about Sam how the quarterback situation for the Vikings in
the eleven o'clock segment as well. And we're also gonna
play you from Friday my interview with Miss USA Second
Lieutenant Alma Cooper. And you sound like, okay, fine, pretty
woman on the uh so much more than that? Yeah,
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she's that, but she's so much more than that. Well,
you'll hear from her and her story from Arlington National Cemetery.
Jessman McIntyre and I talked to her. We didn't get
the air it live because we were absolutely stacked as
it was. Poor Chris Kidd was running around producing ninety
four interviews and no, Jess, you were doing them number
or whatever you were doing this. Oh it just had all.
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Oh it was easy. It was hit play, let it roll,
miss you. I say, just as a preview of what
you're going to hear from her just after eleven. She
has a Stanford she's a master's degree student at Stanford
on a fellowship studying statistics and food insecurity. She was
a star wreath cadet at West Point, and what that
means is you're not only the valedict torne of your class,
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the star academic, the wreath, if you wear it on
Unifornie is your highest ranked military cadet in the class
as well. Just absolutely impressive. You'll hear you'll hear from
her and uh A, twenty two year olds in that generation,
they're not all what the stereotypes say they are. She
was very impressive. Talking to her on Freddy eleven thirty,
we'll read back your text and telemore to dex line
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four nine four five one. When it's game time, it's
Tully time. How do you feel about the Seahawks quarterback
situation going forward. You got a glimpse of the future
last night, or which some of you wanted to be
the future, and I wrote my father my second story
last night of the News Tribune to top right now
at the News Tribune dot com is the Seahawks are
in the same situation they were in the spring after
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the draft when I asked John Schnyder about his quarterback
of the future question, he didn't like it, and the
same situation they were in the summer. They do not
have a quarterback in the future. Both quarterbacks who played
last night's contract end after next season. That's the situation
they put themselves in. Four nine four five one tell them.
We'll do text on how you feel about the Seahawks
quarterback situation Geno Smith or Sam Howe going forward beyond
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twenty twenty five. Right now headlines reaching Bye frostbred Corse.
Choose chill and to choose chill Monday, which is gonna
take you up to five o'clock tonight for Monday Night
football vikings hosting the Bears. You get to see the
Seahawks next two opponents playing each other. Well here those
two opponents playing each other right here on ninety three
point three j five pm. Seahawks are exposed and all
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the Pacific Northwest put back in their reality. Last night
Packers mauled them from the first place of the game,
and then Gino Smith through his fifth reds one interception
of the season, most in the league, that killed all
hopes for a comeback out of pressure's come and gets
rid of it to the back of the end zone.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The time it is intercepted by Valentine and he is
keeping this going.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Valentine dropped out the fourteen yard line guy Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That whole play looked a little bit off snap, guys
getting out of their stance and it turns into yet
another rid zone interception.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
He said that one is intercepted, meaning he had just
mentioned the fact that the previous play Smith could have
been intercepted. I don't I remember that that easily could
have an interception like the two yard line before that
last back foot play, rolling right off your back foot,
throwing left to two out routes on the left side,
the corner peeled off a Tyler locket was about eight
yards in front of Noah Fan who's trying to get
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the ball to and if he hadn't intercepted the past
the safety that was Garden. No fan would have intercepted
the past. Both guys got a chance with that one.
That's the fifth threadzone interception of the season for Gino Smith,
and they's just kill you.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Not only do you lose points in the Seahawks case,
they've often turned into points for the other team. Those
are two score swings. Team's not good enough to overcome
that against the Packers. Could have been seventeen to ten there,
but that interception kept at seventeen three on the way
to twenty to six, and then you know Smith got hurt.
Sam Howe came in, went five for fourteen thirty to thirteen.
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Last smiss entered his knee gettings like twisted Badrian Cooper
after you threw an incomplete screen pass midway through the
third quarter. Smith was fifteen for nineteen hundred and forty
nine yards and the crucial interceptions before he got hurt.
We're going to play what Mike McDonald said last night
about the injury, because it's really not much different than
what he said about half hour ago on his Coaches show.
I'll mention that too.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
It's a great atmosphere. Just I just told a team
it really stings. We had a great opportunity at home
in front of the twelves and they it was a
great our fans did a great job, so we appreciate them.
So just in generally, you got to give Green Bay
a lot of credit. I thought they out Koches. We
didn't have a good enough plan in all three phases.
I'm responsible for that. And then frankly, we just we
didn't play good enough, didn't do the things that we've
been doing that one have won us games. We didn't
(07:58):
do those things. So we can rattle those off if
you want, but just still the team. Hey, good news
is everything that all of our goals are still ahead
of us, and we'll go back to work tomorrow. So
we'll watch the tape and attack the heck out of
it like we've done the rest of this season, and
move forward and get ready for a good Vikings team
coming in here and let's go. We got to learn
from it, which we will and move on.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Bike.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What do you know right now about Gino's injury?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Is a knee for Gino? Tell you this, I mean,
this guy probably the toughest player I've ever been around,
was severe enough for him not to come back in
the game. We'll do all the tests tomorrow and kind
of figure it out as we go, but right now,
just structurally, it looks like it's okay. You know, we
got to get it imaged in all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And then this morning on his Coaches Show about a
half hour ago, McDonald said that he traded text messages
this morning with his quarterback and that Smith quotes seemed
optimistic in those text messages. McDonald said that they're still
waiting him going. Smith going to get the MRI exams
to get the internal workings of the knee looked at.
So when you get when they say they do tests
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at the stadium, what's that mean. Well, there only have
X rays machines in NFL stadiums, So he got structural
look as far as no broken bones, but nobody assumed
he'd broken his leg last night. He's came back onto
the field and tried to jog to the sideline. So
the X rays and then the manipulation that the doctors
do working on his knee, those are the tests that
get done right after games. So once a team says
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tests didn't show this didn't show that they're really just
going off of the doctor's exam and the X rays,
because that's all you have in the stadium. If it's
bad enough, you go straight to the hospital for test
or for treatment during the game, which it wasn't like
that for Smith at all. So those tests will come today,
the MRI and such. So this morning on his Coaches show,
McDonald stopped short of saying that he had any definitive
(09:39):
reason to be optimistic, but when asked if here was
a possibility that Smith would play against the Vikings on Sunday,
he said, yeah, that's a possibility, but he doesn't know yet.
He said he hopes to know more before we talked
to him at three point thirty this afternoon in his
press conference in Renting. So that's where it stands for
Gino Smith. Where it stands for Sam Howe is five
(10:00):
for fourteen, twenty four yards. The interception right at Edward Cooper,
the linebacker done. In the middle of that, Chris talked about, Okay,
then he had four sacks. Then he had a scramble,
so that means he dropped back nineteen times, Chris and
had just five completions. That has happened nineteen dropbacks and
only five completions in the game has only happened twenty
times in a quarter century of NFL football, twenty times
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in twenty five years as a quarterback dropped back that
many times and completed that few of passes. This is
what Sam Hall had to say about his performance.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day,
I gotta be better. My job is to be ready
to go in there and play well and help his
team win, and I didn't do that today. So I
mean I just got to be better, and you know,
watch the film learn from it. Definitely, we had chances
there in the second half. Defense played well, put us
in good position. I just got to be better.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Defense played well later when by the time he got
in the game, but earlier, the defense was not ready.
Literally they were not ready. They were walking around as
the Packers snapped the ball quickly ran right at him.
With with Josh Jacobs to the beginning of the game,
Ernest Jones talked about that about how the Seahawks defense
was caught trying to change quote, trying to do too much.
As the middle linebacker put.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
It, I think it was just a lot of like
just mechanics and stuff that we were trying to do.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Our feet weren't sitting in the ground.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
We were moving around and not setting the ground, and
we were more so like they were ready to go play,
and we just we were trying to do too much
up front, trying to change things and just wasn't said.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Chris, this is the backside, the bad side of Mike
McDonald's changing defense and trying to confuse offenses.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right, yeah, other teams say, you know what we're gonna do.
We can move around too, and Boyd and Matt Lafour
had his guys moving the fly jet sweeps, the end
a rounds, all that motion. They just couldn't get settled.
They were wondering, are we gonna get attacked here?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, at the very first part of the game, they
were going quick count and not even doing any of
that and just catching the Seahawks, not even red. They
were just going one first sound And it reminded me
of the New England game in week two when they
ran for one hundred and eighty five yards and had
Romander Stevenson render that I remember the tight end was
wide open in the middle of the field, Henry and Henry.
That was all also because the Seahawks weren't set at
the snap, and the Packers or the Patriots that day
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were snapping the ball in first sound. If I was
playing Mike McDonald, do that all the time. Don't even
give him a chance to change and confuse. You just
go and they're a good chance that you're gonna catch
Mike McDonald's defense. Still walking around, I saw Leonard Williams
and Roy Robertson Harris turned around with their back to
the ball talking to Ernest Jones and earn Jenerales trying
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to traffic cop him on that first drive, and then
the ball was snapped. I mean, the two guys took
themselves completely out of the play by trying to get
real lined. And that's some of what Earnest Jones was
saying about trying to do too much. I think you're
gonna see a correction here, Chris. We've seen it already
once this season, when when Mike McDonald thinks he's given
his guys too much, he's pulled it back. Now the
fourth Street wins. Probably in Bolden the new rookie coach
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to say, okay, I can give you a little more
of the Ravens changing and scheming and tricking, and then
last night he gave him too much at least to
start the game, and the Packers took advantage of it.
Before I knew what McDonald did. He knew that they
were going to move around to snap and he caught him.
And then to your point, Chris Ernest Jones also mentioned
that the motion pre snap motion that was tricked the
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Seahawks early in the game. They said that they fooled
the linebackers got their eyes moving in the wrong places.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
As a football nerd, that was beautiful. Not gonna lie,
he said, was the chess match.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
He said that those were motions out of different formations
than they had seen in their study.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Matt Lafleur, he's pretty smart, guys. He was in his bag.
As I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He said, Yeah, we're gonna put failm out on one
thing of the past what thirteen fourteen weeks. But when
we play you guys, I got a few tricks up
my sleeve.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The Rams beating the forty nine Ers Thursday night means
LA has the NFC at West lead by tiebreaker right now.
This because the Rams won up there, come down to
that game. If the Seahawks are lucky right now, it
will because here's what happened. The Seahawks fell from third
to outside the playoff picture with that loss. The Rams
play at the Jets, then home to the Cardinals while
the Seahawks are playing the eleven and two Vikings, and
then at the four and nine Bears a day after Christmas,
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which we've talked about how tricky that game might be.
Then the Seahawks and Rams play each other in the
final regular season game in Engle with the first weekend
in January. The Seahawks need to stay at least tied
with LA in one lost record heading into that final
game to make it to that game for the NFC
West title. If they're a game behind the Rams, comes
down to a tiebreaker that will be probably beyond the
division division for head to heads, the first they would
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have split if the Seahawks win the final game, and
then in the division records the second one and that
could end up tied depending on how the Rams do
against the Cardinals the week before the Seahawks, and then
it would go down to the conference record where the
Seahawks would lose. Yeah, Gians comes up correct, right, The
Giants game could be the one by tiebreaker. If they
send in a tie in the season, that could be
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the one that keeps Seattle out. So to avoid all
of that, the Seahawks have to at least have the
same record as the Rams going into that final game,
which means Chris, either the Rams have to lose one
of their next two games against the Jets and Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Don't see that happen.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I don't either, Or the Seahawks have to beat the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Probably not gonna happen. Just saying it could because Sam
Donald's the quarterback. But I'll say this, if Gino is
not healthy, the chances of the Seahawks winning against the
eleven and I can't believe. I'm Sam eleven and two Vikings, yep, don't.
I don't know if Sam can do that. I'm sorry,
Sam's just gonna I just don't see it, at least
off of this one game now, obviously a full week
(15:16):
of practice that would help and couldn't be worse. Yeah,
it couldn't be worse. But man, that defense for the
I don't know if they even blitz them. I think
if I were the defensive defensive coordinator for the Vikings,
I would say, let's rush four, Let's send three, Let's
play a bunch of zones.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's not what Brian Flores does I know, but can
he read a defense?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, because it's easy. When you get blitzed, you just
throw it up to DK and hope that he catches.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It or Also in the NFL, the NFC is leading legals.
Eagles dominated the AFC North leading Steelers in the second
after win twenty seven thirteen. Eagles our twelve and two,
even with the Lions atop the entire NFC for best
record of the Lions had the tiebreaker. Bills beat the
Lions in Detroit forty eight to forty two. Josh Allen's
still ridiculously good. Three hundred and sixty two yards and
two TV's passing sixty eight more yards and two more
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TV he's rushing for Josh Allen. Bills are eleven and three.
Seven of the fourteen NFL playoff teams are already set.
That's the first time that's happened this early with still
three games left in the regular season. Chiefs, Bill Steelers,
Texans are one two three four in the AFC, and
they've all clinched. In the NFC. The Lions, the Eagles,
and the Vikings are in one, two and five of
their current seeds. Vikings are five because the Lions are
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the division leader, Vikings are the top wild card. So
even though they clinched, the Vikings still have plenty to
play for Sunday in Seattle, trying to win the NFC
North and get a home playoff game to start the postseason. Tonight,
the Vikings host the Bears. I said five pm here
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Speaker 3 (18:08):
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We'll take you right up to kickoff at five pm.
If you missed it earlier, we'll recap what we know.
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The latest as of a half hour ago about Gino
Smith and the optimistic text messages he's had with his coach.
He still hasn't had MRIs done on his knee yet
to find out exactly the extent of the injury, so
that's still a holding pattern on whether he can play
against the Vikings on Sunday. That was the latest a
half hour ago from coach Mike McDonald. The Kraken played
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this past weekend five to one. They lost at home
to Tampa Bay Lightning, one of the best teams in
the NHL, and now the Ottawa Senators come in tomorrow,
one of the lower teams in the NHL, to finish
the four game homestand before the Cracking head back out,
cracking a right back to five hundred. It seems to
be where they're gravitating to have a strong streak. Couple
of good games, lose one back to five hundred, win
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a few losing for you back to five hundred. Mike
Betton was there on the Cracking Audio Network with the
pre and post game show and intermission reports. He joins
us in a Beacon Plumbing hotline, as he does every
Monday at ten thirty to talk about the Cracking. Good morning,
sir Craig, Good morning buddy. How are you man?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm tired, but I'm okay. It was well worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Just pedal to the metal right before the holiday break,
like me.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Right, exactly exactly, Yeah, Washington, d C. On a three
am Eastern time wake up for a game day in
the Seahawks in Seattle. That was That's my Army Navy
every year. But that was fun. Tell me what happened now?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You need a coffee endorsement here.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know that I never drink coffee.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Amazing, You'll break no coffee for you, right, I.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Never drink coffee never. You're right, I need to hot
maybe caffeine there. I take actually non caffeine tea on
playing yesterday. But yeah, you're right, I need some kind
of endorsement that would bel that fact. I'm sure that
might help you, might help you. You're right, Mike smarter
than I. What happened with the crack in five to
one in Tampa Bay? I saw Grooveauer started, can't say
(20:19):
I was up on it. I was a little busy
with some buddies in Washington, d C. But it is
the Cords still not able to play. What happened there, Well.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That was a game where they wanted to try Tevil
Groubauer out again because we've seen his play come out
of the woods a little bit from about a couple
of weeks ago. I think deservedly so as well. And
I think you know, it's just just from the whole
goaltending split, right, we're seeing the needle move right toward
back the desired not so much like a fifty to
fifty split. But you're going to give the Cord the
(20:51):
Bolk games yet you want to get Grouauer in there,
so you know, you don't run one fully into the
ground versus the other, and you're hoping that when you can,
when you can get Groupauer in for games, he can
spell the cord, that he can make the basic says
and keep this team in games or win them as well.
And we've seen that happen. I mean, the Ranger game
was sloppy, but he came right back and had maybe
(21:13):
the best game of his entire season against Boston. And
that loss against Tampa Bay. I don't really fault, you know,
a goalie like him for a loss like that. The
crack And went up one nothing and then Greg got
that the foot just came right out the gas pedal.
They had a lead in shots at seven to nothing,
and then Tampa Bay, who's still got you know, a
lot of pieces in place, the aura from their back
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to back Stanley Cup championships, and went on a fourteen
to one run. He had shots on and three in
that time to completely flipped the script in this game.
John Cooper, who was a master of this behind bench,
was continuously shuffling his lines to get his ideal matchups.
The crack And were chasing that very early on, and
then they were the ones that were beginning to chase
that game before Tampa Bay were you know, finally able
(21:56):
to pull away as well in period three. So that
team is still going to make a lot of annoise
in the Eastern Conference. They're going to be the toughest team,
I think, on this entire Homestand so now you've gotten
out of a team coming up tomorrow night who's a
little bit further down the standings, but yet they've been
playing some pretty hot hockey here. So there's no way
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that you can essentially let foot off of gas against
the team that is going to want to make a
lot of noise on a long and I mean super
long nine game road trip here.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'm concerned about McCann, but do you think he's playing hurt?
And hopefully if that's the case, maybe during Christmas it'll
allow him time to heal up.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What's your thoughts on how McCann's been playing recently.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yeah, I've learned, Chris that you know, whatever a player
is going through a slump, that you just can't automatically
assume that it's a player who's, you know, going through
a bit of a hiccup with this game, or whether
it's mental or physical. Sometimes players do play her and
we don't often know about this until at the very
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end of the season. Now he's healthy enough to play.
But you know, John Portland and I had a great
conversation on this topic here because the krank and need
to get their top guys going again in him and
Matty Veneers as well. But did you kind of get
the feeling that I think maybe mccannon missus Jordan Everley
a little bit. There's instant chemistry that they've had, you know,
going you know, last season, season prior even right toward
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the very beginning here, and there are just some players that,
you know, whether it's a mental thing or not, they
just find better chemistry with different line Mason. So this
is kind of the whole challenge for Jared McCann right
now to you know, find his fit here at this
point for his game. Whether it's an injury issue, we
don't know, but he's healthy enough to play through this.
And he's the kind of guy that is not going
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to pull the shoot really so easily here on that
kind of a situation. So I mean, without question, yet
they need to get him going, and I think it's
a matter of time because he's already had one empty
net goal. But for players like that, for goal scorers
who are streaky. You just get one bound, doesn't matter
if you're scoring off the rush, if you're getting one
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off your knee, your leg, your earround, your helmet, whatever,
you get one to go in, and more often than not,
you're gonna see the the fluk gates open up once again.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What did you think of Vince Done and Brandon Montour
together against Tampa Bay And could you see that becoming
more of a thing that there's two are paired together.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, I saw that just from the standpoint of the
crack and had to find something for their offense to
get going, to wake up. And those are two defensemen
who you know, are able to drive their own pairing
because they moved the pucks so well and they're able
to generate offense from the back end so well. That was,
you know, to me, more of a you know, in
case of emergency break glass maneuver, Chris, They're they're they're
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usually better off spread out through the lineup because you've
got Done playing with a stay at home guy in
Adam Larsen, you've got Montor playing with the stay at
home guy in Jamie Alexiak. But when you're trailing, when
you're down, we'll see teams. I mean, I even use
y You're as an example. You know, they'll they'll play
Connor McDavid and Leon dryst saddle separately because they need
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to spread the minutes out and the depth out. But
when they need offense and they need a joel, they'll
put them together and they'll put them back out there
over and over and they'll see if they can get
a nibble. As far as getting a goal up on
the board, it didn't work out the other night, but
there is always that option just in case you have
to find something and in desperate times to get your
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team going. But unfortunately didn't happen two nights ago.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So the week ahead for the Crack and Mike is
versus Autawa to night. Then they go at Chicago at
Vegas on Saturday night at Colorado at Vancouver. They take
a break for Christmas. The NHL doesn't play through Christmas.
Haven't good for them, but they they're off from the
twenty second to the twenty eighth, so a weird road
trip that there's really three games, and they come home
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for Christmas break, then they go back out December twenty eighth,
and then their next home game is not till December
thirtieth against Utah and then January second, it's Vancouver. What
are you looking forward to this week? What do you see?
The Crack and Ottawa Chicago? Those are two gettable games, now.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Those are winnable games. And I go back here to
the word of caution, I think based on Ottawa and
how they're playing, and their power play looks very, very good.
But the Kracking didn't help themselves in their previous loss
to Ottawa several weeks back, so there's a good chance
to correct that. Chicago's a team that you've got to
find your way to get two points out of there,
There's no question about it. The Vegas game, I think
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is much more of a concern for me. The Crack
and I've always had their issues playing well in that
building against Golden Knights, but that they yet will have
I think a guy who's got a little bit of
extra motivation for a game like that in Chandler Stevenson.
That will be his first game back there since he
left Vegas via free agency. And then you's got cab
a Loto the very next night. There's something about that
(26:52):
building where I think you put Philip Rubauer in that
place and he finds a way to you know, play
out his best, whether it might be just facing his
old teammates and call the Hodel. But they have found
success over and over from regular season games, even winning
in seven against the Avalanche two years ago. So carl
Alada starting to find their game. But yet they've still
got question mark, They've still got wholes. So you know,
(27:15):
I think for this next stretch, if you can find
a way to get you know, at least two wins
out of three, you're going to be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Great, Mike Benton, you're the man. Thanks a lot giving
us the week ahead and the weekend. It was for
the Krack. And we'll talk to you next week, if
not before.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Thank you, Mike, Thanks Greg, and I raise a cup
of tea for you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
That's here, sir. Thank you very much. Mike Beton joining
us every Monday in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline and thanks
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Home with the Crack. In ninety three point three kJ
R FM up next the Seahawks quarterback situation. Will update
(27:59):
you on what Sam Gee. I won't update you on
what Sam Howe did because you already saw that. We
updates you on Gino Smith's injury situation, what the coach
said about that this morning with his knee eleven o'clock
Alma Cooper, second Lieutenant in the United States Military Academy
Class of twenty twenty three in miss USA and Stanford
Master's student. And we'll talk more about the Seahawks and
(28:19):
the Vikings, what is ahead for them on Sunday at
Lumenfield in the stakes for that game. Lots more to come.
We're just getting started on chews Chill Monday on ninety
three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Welcome back to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Happy Monday to you. The correct same thing I said earlier.
The NFL tie breaking system for two teams head to
head when we were talking about the Seahawks and the
Rams head to head is the first one, and the
best winning percentage in games played within division is the
second one. The third one is the best winning percentage
in common game games, meaning that both teams have played
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the same teams and who've won the most. I haven't
done the math exactly on what the common games record
is between the Seahawks and the Rams right now and
how that would pencil out. And then the fourth is
games within the conference, so the NFC record would come
after the common games one loss. Correct that thank you
for the text line. Someone who was that that texted
(29:24):
and said that. Two o six texted and said that,
so thank you for that. Gino Smith. The latest one
coach Mike McDonald this morning on the quarterbacks knee injury
is that he was quote optimistic in text messages with
the coach today, but that he still has to go
get his MRI done on the knee that got him
out of the game in the third quarter. He went
(29:45):
into the tent. First, what happened was he the doc
and the trainers walked to the sidelines with him, and
then I don't know if they showed it on NBC
last then the broadcast Chris but Smith spiked his helmet,
slammed it on the ground when he reached the sideline.
They showed it in frustration, okay, and then he went
into the tent and then he walked. He didn't seem
(30:05):
to be limping too badly when he walked into the
locker room to get more tests into the X ray.
Then he came back out late in the third quarter
and started jogging. It was almost like he wanted to
show that he was okay, and he started jogging to
the middle of the sideline and when he jogged Chris,
he looked terrible. I mean he barely could move on
that knee twisted by Edrin Cooper, the linebacker for the Packers,
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and the end of a screen pass. It was incomplete
middle of the third quarter, and when he jogged in,
I thought, well, that looks really bad. He didn't play
the rest of the game. He say it took his
helmet away.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
McDonald said that Smith tried to come back into the
game and thought for a moment he was going to
and then he just couldn't go in the coach's words,
So the MRI today will show more. Asked this morning
on his Coaches Show, if there's a possibility that Smith
can play against the Vikings, MacDonald said yeah, without elaboration.
(30:58):
So the structural test last night, we're just an X
ray in the stadium. All NFL stadiums have X ray machines.
And then the doctor manipulating tug and pulling and twisting
on the knee and that's it. So there weren't any
structural damage in that there's no broken bones in there,
but much more to come on Geno Smith and his
knee injury. Sam Howe, we talked about not to use
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it as an excuse that he didn't get any first
team reps in practice because he doesn't, but because that's
now his job as a backup quarterback is to have
to come in on no notice after not getting first
team reps during practice. Toddler Lockett was telling me in
the locker room last night that Sam Howe stands behind
Geno Smith. I've seen him do it in practices in
training camp two, but during the regular season as well
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as Smith's running the play game plan and running the
place the first team offense, and Hall is right behind him.
And when Gino Smith on a place SAI are three
receivers out on the route. Smith throws to one, Sam
Howe throws to another. And that was Lockett saying, we
still have something of a connection with Sam Howe and
we still are receiving passes from him. What's suffice to say,
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he's not running the game plan. I would expect Chris
that Sam Howe is going to be the quarterback on Wednesday,
at least maybe Thursday in practice. No reason to bring
Geno Smith out in the middle of the week to
test the knee only two and a half days after
he first injured it. They practice tomorrow for the first
time they have the Monday. The players get Monday off
unless you need medical treatment like Smith does, and then
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they come back in and do light work on Tuesday,
and then the fuller practice on Wednesday. And it wouldn't
surprise me at all if Gino Smith's either non participant
or limited and Sam how is going to get those
first team reps that he didn't get last week. Again,
the bigger picture here is that both quarterbacks Geno Smith
and Sam Howe contracts end with the twenty twenty five season.
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Hall is ten years younger than Smith at twenty four
years old, but the last anyone has seen him play
meaningful football he went four and thirteen for the Washington Commander's,
a bad team that end up redoing the whole thing
after that last seas in, and he led the NFL
in interceptions. So that, plus we've we talked about his
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training camp struggles here with Seattle and what happened last
night doesn't exactly bolster the Seahawks and the coaching staff
and the personnel side thinking that he's the guy of
the future. When I asked John Schneider, the general manager,
the data draft ended and the Seahawks yet again did
not draft a quarterback, as they haven't for thirteen of
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the fifteen years that Snyder has been a GM. Remember
Russell Wilson, Alex Magoo. Those are the only two quarterbacks
he's drafted in fifteen years. And I said, who's the
future quarterback? He said, you're really serious with that question? Yes,
and that question still applies now on December fifteenth, sixteenth,
even more pressing six seven months later, that that question
is still in play. So Gino Smith is your guy,
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and you saw last night what happens if he's not
in there. Now, Chris, let's talk about the offensive line
for a moment. We've talked all two three years about
how bad it's been, but last night it got worse.
Javinsondell had to play because Oloa Timmy got injured with
a knee injury, knee and quad. Mike McDonald said, that
doesn't sound good for him playing against the Vikings. The
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only read to old Timmy has playned is because Connor
Williams is up and retired out of nowhere in the
middle of the season. They signed Connor Williams eight and
a half months after the torn acl because Ola Timmy
wasn't cutting it as they're thought to be starting center
for the year. And now Javinsondell, He's an undrafted rookie
from North Dakota State, was mostly a tackle at the
end of his college career, yet the Seahawks moved into
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center and training camp, so Sundell was the guy traffic
copying last night. So you had Sondell, you had rookie
Seto Lamea and only his fourth NFL start. That was
your center and right guard Leamy. I got beaten a
couple times soundly on a spin move, a power rush move.
He got called for a holding. It was a come
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down to earth game for Satal Lamea after a couple
of really strong starts to his NFL career. And then
you have ab lucash Is just a month into his
return from knee surgery that kept him out from January
until November that's three fifths of your offensive line. Lakean
Tomlinson has fixed his early issues of allowing everybody anybody
inside the a gap of him early in the season.
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He's been much better there. And Charles crossed the left tackle.
That's the offensive line that Ryan Grebb has to work with.
Having said that, Chris I could not figure out why
once Sam Howe came into a twenty to six game,
Yes they were already beaten most likely, but they're only
down two scores and is still twenty plus minutes left
in the game, five minutes left in third quarter, that
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the first twelve to fifteen plays were passes. The only
run in the first two and alfter he drives was
the twenty four yard touchdown run by Sharmina on the
right sideline. It wasn't exactly a soft landing. I didn't
think in only a twenty to six game. What'd you
make of that?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, Ryan Grebb did him no favors and trying to
get him into the game.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It was kind of a he dies situation. That's what
it looked like. They just threw him outher to the Wolves. Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.
That's all I have written down on my when I
was taking notes for the game, it was a shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.
He was trying to throw the football and obviously passing
downs Packers knowing you're down, and the Packers just say, yeah,
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we're just gonna rush for and we're gonna play zone
and see if you can read the defense. And he
held the ball a lot of the times he tried
running away didn't work. When he did throw it, it
was short gains or unfortunately intercepted, so there was no
play action. There was a few, but it was really
just a really it was a difficult spot for Sam
(36:37):
to be in. And if Gino is out at least,
as you mentioned earlier on in the show, it can't
get much worse. And the fact that it'll have a
week of practice with the starter the offensive line, and
perhaps we'll have a better rhythm with this unit, just
because last night on Sunday Night Football, there was no rhythm.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
No, there wasn't and the Packers beat soundly the offensive line,
especially when they knew the Seahawks weren't going to run
the ball any more. So I get the criticism of
the play calling when Sam Howe came in and there
was no soft Landings. But I do believe that you
know that Ryan Grebb has come to believe that they
can only run by exception at most games against most teams,
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the Cardinals out being one of them. We talked about
how the Cardinals were so messed up in the defensive front.
Hugh brought that up quite a bit up next, more
about what's at stake for the Seahawks and the Vikings.
Second Lieutenant Alma Cooper west Point Class at twenty twenty three.
Her remarkable story on who she is and what she represents.
You'll hear that from Owington National Cemetery. We take that
(37:34):
on Friday and we'll talk of eleven thirty. We'll have
your text back four nine, four or five one. A
lot of you wanting to just bury me for Army
losing the Navy. I enjoy that. That's fine. And some
of you that have actually constructive comments about the Army
Navy game for watching it, appreciate that. We'll read back
to your text. At eleven thirty and eleven forty five,
the Infinescial join us, leading into his show from twelve
(37:55):
to three, all on a choose chill Monday, taking you
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showcased on Monday Night Football to Night, five pm here
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I just that's that's kind of scary.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is, because, yeah, it's cool to to win games
on the road, but you gotta you want to be
able to come home and know that this is our place,
and outsiders aren't welcome, dear, I say, and you want
to protect it, and they haven't done a good job
of that.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
They're three and five at home.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Outsiders and their money are welcome. That Luman, no doubt
about that. Yeah, go pac Go was the lead of
my story at the News Tribune dot Com because I
heard it for three and a half hours. Josh Jacob
got the ball for eight consecutive times, six runs, two passes,
screen pass eight consecutive times, and nine of the ten
plays of that first drive were Josh Jacob insane. It
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had me looking up reminding myself of what he did
in twenty nineteen with the Raiders here when he went
for two twenty nine with the eighty six yard overtime
touchdown run. I thought Josh Jacob should have gotten the
ball thirty five plus times. He ended up with twenty
six fourteen carries in the first half, twenty six carries
for ninety four yards overall. Chris the game was over
on the first drive.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I don't. I'm sure you might have filted, but
when I saw that, I said, dan't winning this game.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
They absolutely feel let one man do this to you.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
One man.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I can see if he was throwing it to Christian Watson,
and he did that later in the game, but it
was literally a statement, you cannot stop number eight. I
have a bunch of things to throw at you, and
we're gonna watch down the field and score.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And that's what they did.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And then after the game, typical well silver lining questions
from well did defense due to a justin said they
seen the hold the package.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm not going to the game was over, no adjustments,
the game was over. The floor kept running the football.
I'm thinking, bro, just throw it on third and three.
Why are you trying to run the football? Then Seahawks
know what you want to do. So that's me being
very nitpicky about Matt Lafour's game play, because yeah, they
did do better in the second half, but this is over.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
The Seahawks knew you were running it. It wasn't a surprise.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
The game was over by then. It didn't adjustment, so
the Cockers just throttle it down.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hey, Sam Howell got in there.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How do you look? Guys?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, all you Texters? Sorry, I didn't you did it.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I watched it and was thinking, there are people out
there that really do not like Geno, and I just
don't get it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I know, man, five or fourteen?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Twenty three yards?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now, y'all believe me. I've been telling you since the
came of July. I mean, I wasn't making that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Up, and I'm not trying to. I'm sure I've never
met Sam. I'm sure he was a great guy. But
a franchise quarterback is that's just not in his bag.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
He saw it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
They ran five wide, it's cover two, as he mentioned
in the presser, and he throws it right at the seam.
Oh there's a linebacker because it's covered too. Did you
got to get some depth on the receiver allow him
to get up field? Those it right to him thinking
it was cover three?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Probably? Well that's another thing. Five wide and throwing what
fifteen consecutive times after he entered the game.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That it's just tough. He's in a situation where it's
obviously passing.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Help him out. Many Geno Smith's injury, We'll give you
the latest on that. Mike McDonald at Latest does in
twenty five minutes ago. I'll tell you in a minute
about that. We'll talk about where the Seahawks now standing
in the playoff race. That was a damaging l last
night at ten thirty, Mike Ben's gonna catch us up
on Cracking weekend. Let's go crack Yep, that didn't go
as well either Saturday night, and then a week ahead
(03:12):
for the Crack and one more game on their homestand
ten thirty we'll talk to Mike Benton. Just after eleven o'clock,
we're gonna talk about Geno Smith. We're going to talk
about Sam how the quarterback situation for the Vikings in
the eleven o'clock segment as well. And we're also gonna
play you from Friday my interview with Miss USA Second
Lieutenant Alma Cooper. And you sound like, okay, fine, pretty
woman on the uh so much more than that? Yeah,
(03:35):
she's that, but she's so much more than that. Well,
you'll hear from her and her story from Arlington National Cemetery.
Jessman McIntyre and I talked to her. We didn't get
the air it live because we were absolutely stacked as
it was. Poor Chris Kidd was running around producing ninety
four interviews and no, Jess, you were doing them number
or whatever you were doing this. Oh it just had all.
(03:55):
Oh it was easy. It was hit play, let it roll,
miss you. I say, just as a preview of what
you're going to hear from her just after eleven. She
has a Stanford she's a master's degree student at Stanford
on a fellowship studying statistics and food insecurity. She was
a star wreath cadet at West Point, and what that
means is you're not only the valedict torne of your class,
(04:16):
the star academic, the wreath, if you wear it on
Unifornie is your highest ranked military cadet in the class
as well. Just absolutely impressive. You'll hear you'll hear from
her and uh A, twenty two year olds in that generation,
they're not all what the stereotypes say they are. She
was very impressive. Talking to her on Freddy eleven thirty,
we'll read back your text and telemore to dex line
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four nine four five one. When it's game time, it's
Tully time. How do you feel about the Seahawks quarterback
situation going forward. You got a glimpse of the future
last night, or which some of you wanted to be
the future, and I wrote my father my second story
last night of the News Tribune to top right now
at the News Tribune dot com is the Seahawks are
in the same situation they were in the spring after
(05:00):
the draft when I asked John Schnyder about his quarterback
of the future question, he didn't like it, and the
same situation they were in the summer. They do not
have a quarterback in the future. Both quarterbacks who played
last night's contract end after next season. That's the situation
they put themselves in. Four nine four five one tell them.
We'll do text on how you feel about the Seahawks
quarterback situation Geno Smith or Sam Howe going forward beyond
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twenty twenty five. Right now headlines reaching Bye frostbred Corse.
Choose chill and to choose chill Monday, which is gonna
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football vikings hosting the Bears. You get to see the
Seahawks next two opponents playing each other. Well here those
two opponents playing each other right here on ninety three
point three j five pm. Seahawks are exposed and all
(05:46):
the Pacific Northwest put back in their reality. Last night
Packers mauled them from the first place of the game,
and then Gino Smith through his fifth reds one interception
of the season, most in the league, that killed all
hopes for a comeback out of pressure's come and gets
rid of it to the back of the end zone.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The time it is intercepted by Valentine and he is
keeping this going.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Valentine dropped out the fourteen yard line guy Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
That whole play looked a little bit off snap, guys
getting out of their stance and it turns into yet
another rid zone interception.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
He said that one is intercepted, meaning he had just
mentioned the fact that the previous play Smith could have
been intercepted. I don't I remember that that easily could
have an interception like the two yard line before that
last back foot play, rolling right off your back foot,
throwing left to two out routes on the left side,
the corner peeled off a Tyler locket was about eight
yards in front of Noah Fan who's trying to get
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the ball to and if he hadn't intercepted the past
the safety that was Garden. No fan would have intercepted
the past. Both guys got a chance with that one.
That's the fifth threadzone interception of the season for Gino Smith,
and they's just kill you.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Not only do you lose points in the Seahawks case,
they've often turned into points for the other team. Those
are two score swings. Team's not good enough to overcome
that against the Packers. Could have been seventeen to ten there,
but that interception kept at seventeen three on the way
to twenty to six, and then you know Smith got hurt.
Sam Howe came in, went five for fourteen thirty to thirteen.
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Last smiss entered his knee gettings like twisted Badrian Cooper
after you threw an incomplete screen pass midway through the
third quarter. Smith was fifteen for nineteen hundred and forty
nine yards and the crucial interceptions before he got hurt.
We're going to play what Mike McDonald said last night
about the injury, because it's really not much different than
what he said about half hour ago on his Coaches show.
I'll mention that too.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
It's a great atmosphere. Just I just told a team
it really stings. We had a great opportunity at home
in front of the twelves and they it was a
great our fans did a great job, so we appreciate them.
So just in generally, you got to give Green Bay
a lot of credit. I thought they out Koches. We
didn't have a good enough plan in all three phases.
I'm responsible for that. And then frankly, we just we
didn't play good enough, didn't do the things that we've
been doing that one have won us games. We didn't
(07:58):
do those things. So we can rattle those off if
you want, but just still the team. Hey, good news
is everything that all of our goals are still ahead
of us, and we'll go back to work tomorrow. So
we'll watch the tape and attack the heck out of
it like we've done the rest of this season, and
move forward and get ready for a good Vikings team
coming in here and let's go. We got to learn
from it, which we will and move on.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Bike.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What do you know right now about Gino's injury?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Is a knee for Gino? Tell you this, I mean,
this guy probably the toughest player I've ever been around,
was severe enough for him not to come back in
the game. We'll do all the tests tomorrow and kind
of figure it out as we go, but right now,
just structurally, it looks like it's okay. You know, we
got to get it imaged in all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And then this morning on his Coaches Show about a
half hour ago, McDonald said that he traded text messages
this morning with his quarterback and that Smith quotes seemed
optimistic in those text messages. McDonald said that they're still
waiting him going. Smith going to get the MRI exams
to get the internal workings of the knee looked at.
So when you get when they say they do tests
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at the stadium, what's that mean. Well, there only have
X rays machines in NFL stadiums, So he got structural
look as far as no broken bones, but nobody assumed
he'd broken his leg last night. He's came back onto
the field and tried to jog to the sideline. So
the X rays and then the manipulation that the doctors
do working on his knee, those are the tests that
get done right after games. So once a team says
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tests didn't show this didn't show that they're really just
going off of the doctor's exam and the X rays,
because that's all you have in the stadium. If it's
bad enough, you go straight to the hospital for test
or for treatment during the game, which it wasn't like
that for Smith at all. So those tests will come today,
the MRI and such. So this morning on his Coaches show,
McDonald stopped short of saying that he had any definitive
(09:39):
reason to be optimistic, but when asked if here was
a possibility that Smith would play against the Vikings on Sunday,
he said, yeah, that's a possibility, but he doesn't know yet.
He said he hopes to know more before we talked
to him at three point thirty this afternoon in his
press conference in Renting. So that's where it stands for
Gino Smith. Where it stands for Sam Howe is five
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for fourteen, twenty four yards. The interception right at Edward Cooper,
the linebacker done. In the middle of that, Chris talked about, Okay,
then he had four sacks. Then he had a scramble,
so that means he dropped back nineteen times, Chris and
had just five completions. That has happened nineteen dropbacks and
only five completions in the game has only happened twenty
times in a quarter century of NFL football, twenty times
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in twenty five years as a quarterback dropped back that
many times and completed that few of passes. This is
what Sam Hall had to say about his performance.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day,
I gotta be better. My job is to be ready
to go in there and play well and help his
team win, and I didn't do that today. So I
mean I just got to be better, and you know,
watch the film learn from it. Definitely, we had chances
there in the second half. Defense played well, put us
in good position. I just got to be better.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Defense played well later when by the time he got
in the game, but earlier, the defense was not ready.
Literally they were not ready. They were walking around as
the Packers snapped the ball quickly ran right at him.
With with Josh Jacobs to the beginning of the game,
Ernest Jones talked about that about how the Seahawks defense
was caught trying to change quote, trying to do too much.
As the middle linebacker put.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
It, I think it was just a lot of like
just mechanics and stuff that we were trying to do.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Our feet weren't sitting in the ground.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
We were moving around and not setting the ground, and
we were more so like they were ready to go play,
and we just we were trying to do too much
up front, trying to change things and just wasn't said.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Chris, this is the backside, the bad side of Mike
McDonald's changing defense and trying to confuse offenses.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Right, yeah, other teams say, you know what we're gonna do.
We can move around too, and Boyd and Matt Lafour
had his guys moving the fly jet sweeps, the end
a rounds, all that motion. They just couldn't get settled.
They were wondering, are we gonna get attacked here?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, at the very first part of the game, they
were going quick count and not even doing any of
that and just catching the Seahawks, not even red. They
were just going one first sound And it reminded me
of the New England game in week two when they
ran for one hundred and eighty five yards and had
Romander Stevenson render that I remember the tight end was
wide open in the middle of the field, Henry and Henry.
That was all also because the Seahawks weren't set at
the snap, and the Packers or the Patriots that day
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were snapping the ball in first sound. If I was
playing Mike McDonald, do that all the time. Don't even
give him a chance to change and confuse. You just
go and they're a good chance that you're gonna catch
Mike McDonald's defense. Still walking around, I saw Leonard Williams
and Roy Robertson Harris turned around with their back to
the ball talking to Ernest Jones and earn Jenerales trying
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to traffic cop him on that first drive, and then
the ball was snapped. I mean, the two guys took
themselves completely out of the play by trying to get
real lined. And that's some of what Earnest Jones was
saying about trying to do too much. I think you're
gonna see a correction here, Chris. We've seen it already
once this season, when when Mike McDonald thinks he's given
his guys too much, he's pulled it back. Now the
fourth Street wins. Probably in Bolden the new rookie coach
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to say, okay, I can give you a little more
of the Ravens changing and scheming and tricking, and then
last night he gave him too much at least to
start the game, and the Packers took advantage of it.
Before I knew what McDonald did. He knew that they
were going to move around to snap and he caught him.
And then to your point, Chris Ernest Jones also mentioned
that the motion pre snap motion that was tricked the
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Seahawks early in the game. They said that they fooled
the linebackers got their eyes moving in the wrong places.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
As a football nerd, that was beautiful. Not gonna lie,
he said, was the chess match.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
He said that those were motions out of different formations
than they had seen in their study.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Matt Lafleur, he's pretty smart, guys. He was in his bag.
As I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He said, Yeah, we're gonna put failm out on one
thing of the past what thirteen fourteen weeks. But when
we play you guys, I got a few tricks up
my sleeve.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
The Rams beating the forty nine Ers Thursday night means
LA has the NFC at West lead by tiebreaker right now.
This because the Rams won up there, come down to
that game. If the Seahawks are lucky right now, it
will because here's what happened. The Seahawks fell from third
to outside the playoff picture with that loss. The Rams
play at the Jets, then home to the Cardinals while
the Seahawks are playing the eleven and two Vikings, and
then at the four and nine Bears a day after Christmas,
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which we've talked about how tricky that game might be.
Then the Seahawks and Rams play each other in the
final regular season game in Engle with the first weekend
in January. The Seahawks need to stay at least tied
with LA in one lost record heading into that final
game to make it to that game for the NFC
West title. If they're a game behind the Rams, comes
down to a tiebreaker that will be probably beyond the
division division for head to heads, the first they would
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have split if the Seahawks win the final game, and
then in the division records the second one and that
could end up tied depending on how the Rams do
against the Cardinals the week before the Seahawks, and then
it would go down to the conference record where the
Seahawks would lose. Yeah, Gians comes up correct, right, The
Giants game could be the one by tiebreaker. If they
send in a tie in the season, that could be
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the one that keeps Seattle out. So to avoid all
of that, the Seahawks have to at least have the
same record as the Rams going into that final game,
which means Chris, either the Rams have to lose one
of their next two games against the Jets and Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Don't see that happen.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I don't either, Or the Seahawks have to beat the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Probably not gonna happen. Just saying it could because Sam
Donald's the quarterback. But I'll say this, if Gino is
not healthy, the chances of the Seahawks winning against the
eleven and I can't believe. I'm Sam eleven and two Vikings, yep, don't.
I don't know if Sam can do that. I'm sorry,
Sam's just gonna I just don't see it, at least
off of this one game now, obviously a full week
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of practice that would help and couldn't be worse. Yeah,
it couldn't be worse. But man, that defense for the
I don't know if they even blitz them. I think
if I were the defensive defensive coordinator for the Vikings,
I would say, let's rush four, Let's send three, Let's
play a bunch of zones.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's not what Brian Flores does I know, but can
he read a defense?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, because it's easy. When you get blitzed, you just
throw it up to DK and hope that he catches.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It or Also in the NFL, the NFC is leading legals.
Eagles dominated the AFC North leading Steelers in the second
after win twenty seven thirteen. Eagles our twelve and two,
even with the Lions atop the entire NFC for best
record of the Lions had the tiebreaker. Bills beat the
Lions in Detroit forty eight to forty two. Josh Allen's
still ridiculously good. Three hundred and sixty two yards and
two TV's passing sixty eight more yards and two more
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TV he's rushing for Josh Allen. Bills are eleven and three.
Seven of the fourteen NFL playoff teams are already set.
That's the first time that's happened this early with still
three games left in the regular season. Chiefs, Bill Steelers,
Texans are one two three four in the AFC, and
they've all clinched. In the NFC. The Lions, the Eagles,
and the Vikings are in one, two and five of
their current seeds. Vikings are five because the Lions are
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the division leader, Vikings are the top wild card. So
even though they clinched, the Vikings still have plenty to
play for Sunday in Seattle, trying to win the NFC
North and get a home playoff game to start the postseason. Tonight,
the Vikings host the Bears. I said five pm here
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Speaker 3 (18:08):
Welcome back to the Greg Best Show with Christopher Kidd
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We'll take you right up to kickoff at five pm.
If you missed it earlier, we'll recap what we know.
(18:30):
The latest as of a half hour ago about Gino
Smith and the optimistic text messages he's had with his coach.
He still hasn't had MRIs done on his knee yet
to find out exactly the extent of the injury, so
that's still a holding pattern on whether he can play
against the Vikings on Sunday. That was the latest a
half hour ago from coach Mike McDonald. The Kraken played
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this past weekend five to one. They lost at home
to Tampa Bay Lightning, one of the best teams in
the NHL, and now the Ottawa Senators come in tomorrow,
one of the lower teams in the NHL, to finish
the four game homestand before the Cracking head back out,
cracking a right back to five hundred. It seems to
be where they're gravitating to have a strong streak. Couple
of good games, lose one back to five hundred, win
(19:14):
a few losing for you back to five hundred. Mike
Betton was there on the Cracking Audio Network with the
pre and post game show and intermission reports. He joins
us in a Beacon Plumbing hotline, as he does every
Monday at ten thirty to talk about the Cracking. Good morning,
sir Craig, Good morning buddy. How are you man?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I'm tired, but I'm okay. It was well worth it.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Just pedal to the metal right before the holiday break,
like me.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Right, exactly exactly, Yeah, Washington, d C. On a three
am Eastern time wake up for a game day in
the Seahawks in Seattle. That was That's my Army Navy
every year. But that was fun. Tell me what happened now?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You need a coffee endorsement here.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know that I never drink coffee.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Amazing, You'll break no coffee for you, right, I.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Never drink coffee never. You're right, I need to hot
maybe caffeine there. I take actually non caffeine tea on
playing yesterday. But yeah, you're right, I need some kind
of endorsement that would bel that fact. I'm sure that
might help you, might help you. You're right, Mike smarter
than I. What happened with the crack in five to
one in Tampa Bay? I saw Grooveauer started, can't say
(20:19):
I was up on it. I was a little busy
with some buddies in Washington, d C. But it is
the Cords still not able to play. What happened there, Well.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
That was a game where they wanted to try Tevil
Groubauer out again because we've seen his play come out
of the woods a little bit from about a couple
of weeks ago. I think deservedly so as well. And
I think you know, it's just just from the whole
goaltending split, right, we're seeing the needle move right toward
back the desired not so much like a fifty to
fifty split. But you're going to give the Cord the
(20:51):
Bolk games yet you want to get Grouauer in there,
so you know, you don't run one fully into the
ground versus the other, and you're hoping that when you can,
when you can get Groupauer in for games, he can
spell the cord, that he can make the basic says
and keep this team in games or win them as well.
And we've seen that happen. I mean, the Ranger game
was sloppy, but he came right back and had maybe
(21:13):
the best game of his entire season against Boston. And
that loss against Tampa Bay. I don't really fault, you know,
a goalie like him for a loss like that. The
crack And went up one nothing and then Greg got
that the foot just came right out the gas pedal.
They had a lead in shots at seven to nothing,
and then Tampa Bay, who's still got you know, a
lot of pieces in place, the aura from their back
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to back Stanley Cup championships, and went on a fourteen
to one run. He had shots on and three in
that time to completely flipped the script in this game.
John Cooper, who was a master of this behind bench,
was continuously shuffling his lines to get his ideal matchups.
The crack And were chasing that very early on, and
then they were the ones that were beginning to chase
that game before Tampa Bay were you know, finally able
(21:56):
to pull away as well in period three. So that
team is still going to make a lot of annoise
in the Eastern Conference. They're going to be the toughest team,
I think, on this entire Homestand so now you've gotten
out of a team coming up tomorrow night who's a
little bit further down the standings, but yet they've been
playing some pretty hot hockey here. So there's no way
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that you can essentially let foot off of gas against
the team that is going to want to make a
lot of noise on a long and I mean super
long nine game road trip here.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'm concerned about McCann, but do you think he's playing hurt?
And hopefully if that's the case, maybe during Christmas it'll
allow him time to heal up.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What's your thoughts on how McCann's been playing recently.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yeah, I've learned, Chris that you know, whatever a player
is going through a slump, that you just can't automatically
assume that it's a player who's, you know, going through
a bit of a hiccup with this game, or whether
it's mental or physical. Sometimes players do play her and
we don't often know about this until at the very
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end of the season. Now he's healthy enough to play.
But you know, John Portland and I had a great
conversation on this topic here because the krank and need
to get their top guys going again in him and
Matty Veneers as well. But did you kind of get
the feeling that I think maybe mccannon missus Jordan Everley
a little bit. There's instant chemistry that they've had, you know,
going you know, last season, season prior even right toward
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the very beginning here, and there are just some players that,
you know, whether it's a mental thing or not, they
just find better chemistry with different line Mason. So this
is kind of the whole challenge for Jared McCann right
now to you know, find his fit here at this
point for his game. Whether it's an injury issue, we
don't know, but he's healthy enough to play through this.
And he's the kind of guy that is not going
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to pull the shoot really so easily here on that
kind of a situation. So I mean, without question, yet
they need to get him going, and I think it's
a matter of time because he's already had one empty
net goal. But for players like that, for goal scorers
who are streaky. You just get one bound, doesn't matter
if you're scoring off the rush, if you're getting one
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off your knee, your leg, your earround, your helmet, whatever,
you get one to go in, and more often than not,
you're gonna see the the fluk gates open up once again.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
What did you think of Vince Done and Brandon Montour
together against Tampa Bay And could you see that becoming
more of a thing that there's two are paired together.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, I saw that just from the standpoint of the
crack and had to find something for their offense to
get going, to wake up. And those are two defensemen
who you know, are able to drive their own pairing
because they moved the pucks so well and they're able
to generate offense from the back end so well. That was,
you know, to me, more of a you know, in
case of emergency break glass maneuver, Chris, They're they're they're
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usually better off spread out through the lineup because you've
got Done playing with a stay at home guy in
Adam Larsen, you've got Montor playing with the stay at
home guy in Jamie Alexiak. But when you're trailing, when
you're down, we'll see teams. I mean, I even use
y You're as an example. You know, they'll they'll play
Connor McDavid and Leon dryst saddle separately because they need
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to spread the minutes out and the depth out. But
when they need offense and they need a joel, they'll
put them together and they'll put them back out there
over and over and they'll see if they can get
a nibble. As far as getting a goal up on
the board, it didn't work out the other night, but
there is always that option just in case you have
to find something and in desperate times to get your
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team going. But unfortunately didn't happen two nights ago.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So the week ahead for the Crack and Mike is
versus Autawa to night. Then they go at Chicago at
Vegas on Saturday night at Colorado at Vancouver. They take
a break for Christmas. The NHL doesn't play through Christmas.
Haven't good for them, but they they're off from the
twenty second to the twenty eighth, so a weird road
trip that there's really three games, and they come home
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for Christmas break, then they go back out December twenty eighth,
and then their next home game is not till December
thirtieth against Utah and then January second, it's Vancouver. What
are you looking forward to this week? What do you see?
The Crack and Ottawa Chicago? Those are two gettable games, now.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Those are winnable games. And I go back here to
the word of caution, I think based on Ottawa and
how they're playing, and their power play looks very, very good.
But the Kracking didn't help themselves in their previous loss
to Ottawa several weeks back, so there's a good chance
to correct that. Chicago's a team that you've got to
find your way to get two points out of there,
There's no question about it. The Vegas game, I think
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is much more of a concern for me. The Crack
and I've always had their issues playing well in that
building against Golden Knights, but that they yet will have
I think a guy who's got a little bit of
extra motivation for a game like that in Chandler Stevenson.
That will be his first game back there since he
left Vegas via free agency. And then you's got cab
a Loto the very next night. There's something about that
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building where I think you put Philip Rubauer in that
place and he finds a way to you know, play
out his best, whether it might be just facing his
old teammates and call the Hodel. But they have found
success over and over from regular season games, even winning
in seven against the Avalanche two years ago. So carl
Alada starting to find their game. But yet they've still
got question mark, They've still got wholes. So you know,
(27:15):
I think for this next stretch, if you can find
a way to get you know, at least two wins
out of three, you're going to be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Great, Mike Benton, you're the man. Thanks a lot giving
us the week ahead and the weekend. It was for
the Krack. And we'll talk to you next week, if
not before.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Thank you, Mike, Thanks Greg, and I raise a cup
of tea for you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
That's here, sir. Thank you very much. Mike Beton joining
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R FM up next the Seahawks quarterback situation. Will update
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you on what Sam Gee. I won't update you on
what Sam Howe did because you already saw that. We
updates you on Gino Smith's injury situation, what the coach
said about that this morning with his knee eleven o'clock
Alma Cooper, second Lieutenant in the United States Military Academy
Class of twenty twenty three in miss USA and Stanford
Master's student. And we'll talk more about the Seahawks and
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the Vikings, what is ahead for them on Sunday at
Lumenfield in the stakes for that game. Lots more to come.
We're just getting started on chews Chill Monday on ninety
three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Welcome back to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Happy Monday to you. The correct same thing I said earlier.
The NFL tie breaking system for two teams head to
head when we were talking about the Seahawks and the
Rams head to head is the first one, and the
best winning percentage in games played within division is the
second one. The third one is the best winning percentage
in common game games, meaning that both teams have played
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the same teams and who've won the most. I haven't
done the math exactly on what the common games record
is between the Seahawks and the Rams right now and
how that would pencil out. And then the fourth is
games within the conference, so the NFC record would come
after the common games one loss. Correct that thank you
for the text line. Someone who was that that texted
(29:24):
and said that. Two o six texted and said that,
so thank you for that. Gino Smith. The latest one
coach Mike McDonald this morning on the quarterbacks knee injury
is that he was quote optimistic in text messages with
the coach today, but that he still has to go
get his MRI done on the knee that got him
out of the game in the third quarter. He went
(29:45):
into the tent. First, what happened was he the doc
and the trainers walked to the sidelines with him, and
then I don't know if they showed it on NBC
last then the broadcast Chris but Smith spiked his helmet,
slammed it on the ground when he reached the sideline.
They showed it in frustration, okay, and then he went
into the tent and then he walked. He didn't seem
(30:05):
to be limping too badly when he walked into the
locker room to get more tests into the X ray.
Then he came back out late in the third quarter
and started jogging. It was almost like he wanted to
show that he was okay, and he started jogging to
the middle of the sideline and when he jogged Chris,
he looked terrible. I mean he barely could move on
that knee twisted by Edrin Cooper, the linebacker for the Packers,
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and the end of a screen pass. It was incomplete
middle of the third quarter, and when he jogged in,
I thought, well, that looks really bad. He didn't play
the rest of the game. He say it took his
helmet away.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
McDonald said that Smith tried to come back into the
game and thought for a moment he was going to
and then he just couldn't go in the coach's words,
So the MRI today will show more. Asked this morning
on his Coaches Show, if there's a possibility that Smith
can play against the Vikings, MacDonald said yeah, without elaboration.
(30:58):
So the structural test last night, we're just an X
ray in the stadium. All NFL stadiums have X ray machines.
And then the doctor manipulating tug and pulling and twisting
on the knee and that's it. So there weren't any
structural damage in that there's no broken bones in there,
but much more to come on Geno Smith and his
knee injury. Sam Howe, we talked about not to use
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it as an excuse that he didn't get any first
team reps in practice because he doesn't, but because that's
now his job as a backup quarterback is to have
to come in on no notice after not getting first
team reps during practice. Toddler Lockett was telling me in
the locker room last night that Sam Howe stands behind
Geno Smith. I've seen him do it in practices in
training camp two, but during the regular season as well
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as Smith's running the play game plan and running the
place the first team offense, and Hall is right behind him.
And when Gino Smith on a place SAI are three
receivers out on the route. Smith throws to one, Sam
Howe throws to another. And that was Lockett saying, we
still have something of a connection with Sam Howe and
we still are receiving passes from him. What's suffice to say,
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he's not running the game plan. I would expect Chris
that Sam Howe is going to be the quarterback on Wednesday,
at least maybe Thursday in practice. No reason to bring
Geno Smith out in the middle of the week to
test the knee only two and a half days after
he first injured it. They practice tomorrow for the first
time they have the Monday. The players get Monday off
unless you need medical treatment like Smith does, and then
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they come back in and do light work on Tuesday,
and then the fuller practice on Wednesday. And it wouldn't
surprise me at all if Gino Smith's either non participant
or limited and Sam how is going to get those
first team reps that he didn't get last week. Again,
the bigger picture here is that both quarterbacks Geno Smith
and Sam Howe contracts end with the twenty twenty five season.
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Hall is ten years younger than Smith at twenty four
years old, but the last anyone has seen him play
meaningful football he went four and thirteen for the Washington Commander's,
a bad team that end up redoing the whole thing
after that last seas in, and he led the NFL
in interceptions. So that, plus we've we talked about his
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training camp struggles here with Seattle and what happened last
night doesn't exactly bolster the Seahawks and the coaching staff
and the personnel side thinking that he's the guy of
the future. When I asked John Schneider, the general manager,
the data draft ended and the Seahawks yet again did
not draft a quarterback, as they haven't for thirteen of
(33:27):
the fifteen years that Snyder has been a GM. Remember
Russell Wilson, Alex Magoo. Those are the only two quarterbacks
he's drafted in fifteen years. And I said, who's the
future quarterback? He said, you're really serious with that question? Yes,
and that question still applies now on December fifteenth, sixteenth,
even more pressing six seven months later, that that question
is still in play. So Gino Smith is your guy,
(33:52):
and you saw last night what happens if he's not
in there. Now, Chris, let's talk about the offensive line
for a moment. We've talked all two three years about
how bad it's been, but last night it got worse.
Javinsondell had to play because Oloa Timmy got injured with
a knee injury, knee and quad. Mike McDonald said, that
doesn't sound good for him playing against the Vikings. The
(34:14):
only read to old Timmy has playned is because Connor
Williams is up and retired out of nowhere in the
middle of the season. They signed Connor Williams eight and
a half months after the torn acl because Ola Timmy
wasn't cutting it as they're thought to be starting center
for the year. And now Javinsondell, He's an undrafted rookie
from North Dakota State, was mostly a tackle at the
end of his college career, yet the Seahawks moved into
(34:35):
center and training camp, so Sundell was the guy traffic
copying last night. So you had Sondell, you had rookie
Seto Lamea and only his fourth NFL start. That was
your center and right guard Leamy. I got beaten a
couple times soundly on a spin move, a power rush move.
He got called for a holding. It was a come
(34:56):
down to earth game for Satal Lamea after a couple
of really strong starts to his NFL career. And then
you have ab lucash Is just a month into his
return from knee surgery that kept him out from January
until November that's three fifths of your offensive line. Lakean
Tomlinson has fixed his early issues of allowing everybody anybody
inside the a gap of him early in the season.
(35:17):
He's been much better there. And Charles crossed the left tackle.
That's the offensive line that Ryan Grebb has to work with.
Having said that, Chris I could not figure out why
once Sam Howe came into a twenty to six game,
Yes they were already beaten most likely, but they're only
down two scores and is still twenty plus minutes left
in the game, five minutes left in third quarter, that
(35:37):
the first twelve to fifteen plays were passes. The only
run in the first two and alfter he drives was
the twenty four yard touchdown run by Sharmina on the
right sideline. It wasn't exactly a soft landing. I didn't
think in only a twenty to six game. What'd you
make of that?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, Ryan Grebb did him no favors and trying to
get him into the game.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
It was kind of a he dies situation. That's what
it looked like. They just threw him outher to the Wolves. Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.
That's all I have written down on my when I
was taking notes for the game, it was a shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.
He was trying to throw the football and obviously passing
downs Packers knowing you're down, and the Packers just say, yeah,
(36:16):
we're just gonna rush for and we're gonna play zone
and see if you can read the defense. And he
held the ball a lot of the times he tried
running away didn't work. When he did throw it, it
was short gains or unfortunately intercepted, so there was no
play action. There was a few, but it was really
just a really it was a difficult spot for Sam
(36:37):
to be in. And if Gino is out at least,
as you mentioned earlier on in the show, it can't
get much worse. And the fact that it'll have a
week of practice with the starter the offensive line, and
perhaps we'll have a better rhythm with this unit, just
because last night on Sunday Night Football, there was no rhythm.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
No, there wasn't and the Packers beat soundly the offensive line,
especially when they knew the Seahawks weren't going to run
the ball any more. So I get the criticism of
the play calling when Sam Howe came in and there
was no soft Landings. But I do believe that you
know that Ryan Grebb has come to believe that they
can only run by exception at most games against most teams,
(37:14):
the Cardinals out being one of them. We talked about
how the Cardinals were so messed up in the defensive front.
Hugh brought that up quite a bit up next, more
about what's at stake for the Seahawks and the Vikings.
Second Lieutenant Alma Cooper west Point Class at twenty twenty three.
Her remarkable story on who she is and what she represents.
You'll hear that from Owington National Cemetery. We take that
(37:34):
on Friday and we'll talk of eleven thirty. We'll have
your text back four nine, four or five one. A
lot of you wanting to just bury me for Army
losing the Navy. I enjoy that. That's fine. And some
of you that have actually constructive comments about the Army
Navy game for watching it, appreciate that. We'll read back
to your text. At eleven thirty and eleven forty five,
the Infinescial join us, leading into his show from twelve
(37:55):
to three, all on a choose chill Monday, taking you
right up to Monday night fotball, the Chicago Bears at
the Minnesota Vikings tonight. The seahawks next two opponents are
showcased on Monday Night Football to Night, five pm here
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