December 27, 2024 • 39 mins
Hugh Millen is back for his weekly visit to talk about all things Seahawks after an ugly win over the Chicago Bears. We also read texts from listeners to wrap up the hour.
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Welcome back to watching State Beef Commissions Football Friday on
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the line waiting for me to quit talking about headlines
so he can join us and talk about Seahawks and Bears.
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Chill You saw Seahawks six Bears three almost know much
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more to say about that. Offensively, I'm Hugh Millan's probably offended.
We'll talk to him about the offense for the Seahawks
last night in Chicago. Now the Seahawks. He really needed
Cardinals to beat the Rams tomorrow in Inglewood. Five point
fifteen start, five point ten start here on ninety three
point three Kid JRFM. If that happens, Seahawks Rams next
week in Inglewood will be for the NFC West Championship,
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probably the Saturday night game.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
It looks like Lions Vikings are going.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
To have some import either for the number one seed
or the NFC North title or both. That would likely
be the Sunday night game. Mike McDonald said this morning
that the team is expecting to play on Saturday just
in case it has to, and they expect to learn
from the NFL by the end of Sunday play, meaning
Sunday night Seattle time on whether they're playing Saturday or
Sunday against the Rams. If the Rams win Tomorrow night,
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then they go to strength of victory tiebreakers. The Seahawks
need at least three and preferably more of the falling
six teams to lose this weekend to keep in contention
on strength of victory tiebreaker. If the Rams win tomorrow,
they need the Vikings to lose the Green Bay, the
Commanders to lose the Falcons, the Niners to lose the Lions,
the Bengals to lose to the Broncos in Cleveland to
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lose the Dolphins, plus or the Bills to lose the Jets.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So that ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
So they really need four of those five other things
to happen. That's how most people say it's at eleven
to fourteen percent chance the Seahawks make the playoffs tomorrow.
Charges at Patriots tripleheader tomorrow in the NFL. Charges at
Patriots at ten am, Broncos at Bengals at one thirty,
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ESPN is reporting wait if Marinis could use him than
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Man Kings in the NBA Kings fired coach Mike Brown
Sacramento former Sacramento player Doug Christie.
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He also was a radio.
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Commentator when I worked in Sacramento, cover in the aas
Doug Christie's new King's interim coach. Longtime sports broadcaster Greg
Gumbel passed away today at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Joining us now.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
A rare Friday postgame Seahawks edition of breaking down Seahawks
and Bears is jum Ellen, our quarterback.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Hello you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What's happening?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
We are well tired? I get forty five minutes of sleep.
I'm good. I'm good. Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know if me getting to the airport was
uglier than that Seahawks game last night.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I don't think it was. That was pretty ugly.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
What what do you make of six points against the Bears?
Do you chalk it up to this short week to travel?
Do you chalk up to the Bears defensive front and
the more offensive line issues? Where do we start on
why the Seahawks get three fourteen passing from Gino Smith
against the Vikings and only one sixty and no touchdowns
against the team.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Well, first of all, I acknowledge you know, you know,
it wasn't just a good it was a really good
to great defensive performance. And I only say that because
the Seahawks did win, and had they lost, I would
be more more than happy to start off with with
just going right into the offense. But let's note that
I know you'll ask me questions about the defense, but
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offensively for me, well, you have to take into consideration
that it was really a driving rain, as you know,
and it's hard to have execution.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now, the wins seemed to be manageable.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You're right, it wasn't supposed to rain last night, and
it did. There was like a ten chance, and you're right,
it did affect both teams.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I thought, I'm I'm kind of struggling with two guys
right now, in no particular order. I think Ryan Grubb
he was a guy out sided these numbers this morning.
If you if you take last year with when he
was the offense as a coordinator at the University of Washington,
if you filter passes outside the numbers, now, the numbers
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are wider seven yards to the bottom of the numbers
in college at that point. Notwithstanding, if you compare him
to the other quarterbacks, Michael Pennix had exactly one hundred
completions outside the numbers beyond five yards, so that eliminates
all the wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Screen in the equation.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
He was number one in all college football several hundred quarterbacks.
The next closest guy was eighty four completions, and of
the guys who were in the first round, the next
closest guy was Jayden Daniels at seventy two, and again
Pennis had one hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I'm used to seeing.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
A grub offense that pushes the ball vertically, but also
pushes the ball to the sidelines yesterday, if you exclude
balls behind the line of scrimmage, because there was five
RPO completions behind the line of scrimmage that Gino had,
if you exclude those, there was one completion outside the
numbers that was to Fan when he did that little
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toe dance for a three yard game. So they just
constricted themselves. Now there was a few that were on
the numbers, so you can say was it twelve yards
fourteen yards? At the very minimum, they took twenty four
yards of the field and just took it right off
of the plate by not throwing it outside. And that's
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further exacerbated in my mind in that the Bears. The
second most common coverage that the Bears had yesterday was
Cover two, where the corners are in the flat, and
I would understand why you don't hit the sidelines as
much on that. That was nine snaps. The number one
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most common coverage that the Bears had was Cover three,
of which they had fifteen snaps. Cover three is a
three deep, four inner zone where there's plenty of opportunity
and it needs to get both to the shallow and
deep to the sidelines. And see, I'll just didn't go
after that that area of the field. Maybe it had
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to do with the wet ball. There's a feeling those
balls can get not just slip slippery, but they get heavier.
That's a real thing. But you know they also rotate
in a lot of balls, so it should should be
relatively manageable. So that's my part on Grub and then
Gino Smith just a number of times where he's just
turning down opportunities. I almost feel like he got spooked
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on that first drive when he almost threw the interception
over the middle, and then he just got really cautious,
and I've just got i mean, I could walk you
through him, but I've got notes after notes of DK's
open on a dig which is an intermediate in route.
K's opened on a skid route that's a little skinny
post where you idle.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Down on it.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
He's open on and over. He's open on a glance route,
a five step skinny post. Tyler Lockett is open up
on a deep dagger. I'm just I'm looking at like,
why are we not looking there?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Why are we not one? Two, three?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hitch and and and stripe that ball in there, and
and I think the one that just has me. I mean,
I literally feel like my blood is boiling. You go
back to a minute and three to go in the
second quarter, and right now, one of the few times
the Bears ran a cover four, they have DK on
line up on the left side and he does a
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skinny post and go. It's a double move. And they've
got helped me out on this, Christopher. It's Simone Biles husband.
So whatever his name is, we'll just call him mister Biles.
All right, you talk about give you a second okay,
number thirty six Owens, but but we'll just call him
mister Biles. He bit down on on DK running that
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that inbreaking route over the middle, on a on a
on a little bender, a bender and go owen, and
he's going right up the numbers. DK's going straight up
the numbers. I'm just telling you I've been in a
lot of quarterback meeting rooms. Most quarterback coaches don't swear
they teach court. They coach quarterbacks differently.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Some do.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
And I'm telling you there are some quarterback coaches in
this league that would look at that play right in
DK and all the other quarterbacks and say, throw the
effing ball to the freaking double move so that the
next play is a pat and a story. Do we
understand each other? Like like we're dancing around this crap
and I'm getting sick of it. And for a guy
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that just who has a beautiful ball when he throws it,
is a plus athlete, a great competitor, a leader in
the locker room, and we get, we get, we get
influenced by all these wonderful attributes of Geno.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's a great story. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No, watch the freaking tape and it'll piss you the
hell off, because I'm sick and tired of seeing fourteen
freaking open and Ryan g You know, some people wally
websites wanna wanna U take shots at Ryan Grubb and
they don't know their head from their ass from a
hole in the ground. About football, watch the freaking All
twenty two and you gotta you gotta a double move
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beater to get if you get the safety, if this
is pro football, everything that you want from that play
is there. And why is the quarterback turning, turning that
play down and looking over elsewhere? Because now, look, there
was late pressure and he had to scramble. But the
point is, if he'd have been on time, he's got it.
He's got like, I don't care if it's incomplete, throw
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the freaking ball because you will, look, you will alluding
lighting up the defense the next time you run it,
and and then the intermediate stuff will be open. It's
just uh man, it's it's it's just got to be better.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Let me got to make better.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Better make decision because listen, that's how you're gonna do it.
You're gonna go six points and hopefully your defense holds
them to three. But if you, if you, if you
call plays like that and your quarterback makes decisions like that,
that's what you deserve.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, AT's this point, let me ask you, is that
a residual of all the pressure and hits and sacks
and knee injury and the tentativeness you're talking about, the
unwillingness to throw to the primary and they open and
the opportunity guy. Do you think this is just a
build up of all that he's had. I make an excuses.
It sounds blame me a violin. Blame me a violin.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Man.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Look, look it's you're one of thirty two guys in
this league that have that job. Yeah, you get smacked around.
Some guys get smacked around more than others. Some guys
have an easier job. But you know what, you have
to stand in there and you have to read the defense.
And when the play call comes in and you know
it's a double move, you know this is a that
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you are calling this play to get a touchdown. You
better you better take a good look at that touch
because we're getting mister Biles coming out of the middle
and DK running down the numbers. By professional football standards,
this is wide open. That ball's got to be gone.
And you know, and then and then hey, eventually, remember
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the play where DK cut the ball off the grass.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes, you know on the over.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Hey, what do you know if we take Jackson Smith
and Jigba run him on the high corner on the
clear out and then we clear DK coming over, which
which ninety nine times out of one hundred it's the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Because we say, well, DK's the fast guy.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Well, we finally say, well let's get you know, so
that we don't have our wide receiver blow a gasket.
Why don't we just inverse this and let let UH,
Jackson Smith and Jigma run the clay out And guess what,
there's DK running over in a perfect spot in a
position that had he had he been hit on the numbers,
it could have got really, really dangerous for Chicago with Gina.
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With DK speed as it was, he dirted the ball
and UH and DK bailed him out.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So you're saying, you're saying Ryan Grebs designing the right place,
by and large, and Genus was not throwing them.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
They they he's he's designing enough of them. Now there's
too much spacing concepts where where guys were just in
the middle of the field hitching up at five yards
early in the game. I thought they did They did
a little bit too much of that where all the
receivers were mostly all all or almost all of the
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receivers were within five or six yards a line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Those are zone beaters.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
They didn't always have zone So I don't I don't
think it was Ryan Grebb's finest hour, but he he
he started to get into a rhythm and he started
to to to to get guys open and at this juncture.
Now I'm not in Geno's head, uh, I don't know,
but but I think it's fair to at least ask
the question whether or not he was a little spooked
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by that that near interception. But as it is, you
have you have these opportunities again against against Cover three,
that is a cover three is a safety in the box.
I mean we all know Cover three because that's what
Pete Carroll ran and with the legion of boom, that's
Cam Chancellor at the line screaming. That is a cover
that is a safety down in the box, opportunity on
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the outsides and to the sidelines.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
And of the.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Fifteen times that Seattle threw the ball against Cover three,
they got one hundred and eight yards at seven point
two not per completion per play, and the sum of
the air yards of all fifteen was fifty eight air yards.
That's three point nine air yards per attempt against cover three.
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That's that's that's a that's a cockhai fastball right down Broadway?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And what are you doing bunting? You know, I mean
at any rate you follow me? I do, We're following.
This is Hugh Millon. If you hadn't noticed on ninety
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Speaker 7 (15:56):
Even though Gino was playing a little spooked out, there
was the run game. Why do you think they got
away from it? Was it just the fact that they
they want to put up a touchdown because I thought
the run game was pretty effective. Both Kim Wark and
Kim Wark excuse me, Zach Sharbonney and Kim McIntosh. They
played really good football on the ground and they blocked
yeah too.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They and they had some new schemes.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I mean early on they had a basic stretch play
and Barner, who've been a little critical of, he had
a wonderful block on.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The edge that uh.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
They also had a power play, a great kickout block
by Lameo and and a nice off tackle crease there.
McIntosh had a twenty five yard or where the Bears
just flat up lined up wrong. Fifty three the linebacker.
They have two pretty good linebackers, but fifty three wherever
he was.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
On the edge, Edwards, Yeah, and then forty nine he's
like a he's a.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Poor man's Fred Warren.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Player.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, they've got some and number one their corners good,
They've got some dudes now. But both the inside linebackers
played that play hideous. So anybody you and I, well,
we'll just say Greg. Let's just say Christopher. Christopher could
have smoked that and got if if macintist got twenty five,
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Christopher could have got twenty.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Four and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Is that just that I got some highlights for you, brother.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I know you can go. I know I've heard, I've heard.
But at any event, so and now they were doing something.
They ran more draws, delayed draws. That's something we haven't seen.
And they were doing some fold blocking where they were
bringing Abe Lucas in from the right tackle. They did
a tackle trap with him coming across.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's rare. Uh, they did.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
They did a draw, a true draw. But but because
of the front there was a bubble. What's a bubble
is where the strong tackle is uncovered, and so they
had Lucas folding in from his right tackle spot leading.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Up over left guard.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
So there was some schemat They had a they had
a gap scheme where they they pulled the center guard
and tackled. Now, I don't know if that was miscommunication
or if that was intended, but that's something I haven't seen,
so that they were they were showing some wrinkles. I
think the Bears went and talked about it and dialed
it up, and I think I think Seattle just kind
of uh got away from it. But they had some
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early success and and and uh and and then they
couldn't find some of those creases like they had in
the first drive.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Okay, you will go to the defense because they won
the game. I went a big deal, made a whole
separate story last night. Out of the nine zero blitz,
they had the final play of the game, nine men
on the line, the hit by unblocked Kobe Bryant, Ernest
Jones holding the other edge to keep Williams from escaping
out the front side, and the interception for the winning game.
Are we seeing did you notice when you're watching film
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that a more Mike McDonald Baltimore ravens full meal deal
schematically than he were earlier in the season.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Has that progressolutely? Absolutely no, They're they're showing a lot.
For example, that the Seahawks only faced on offense from
the Bears defense one play of man to man and
that was Cover one.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That's the standway. That's with a free safety.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
The Seahawks, even with those really good receivers by Chicago,
they played seven snaps of Cover zero that's man to
man with no free safety help. And they played eight
snaps of Cover one. So that's that's fifteen snaps of
mando man Island style mand a man, where the Bears
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only played one. And when they play zone, they had
an array of different zones.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I think they're much more tied together.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And think about this since Week eight, which was the
disaster where they played hideous defense against the Bills. From
Week nine and beyond, the Seahawks in terms of defensive
points allowed, that excludes things like pick six'es and kickoff
returns that have put up points. But if you go
deef the points allowed by the Seahawks defense, the Seahawks
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are number three in the NFL. This is over eight
games now and if you take out the touchdown in overtime,
and you filter it for all not just the Seahawks,
but all teams quarters one through four, and exclude all
the overtimes, just to make it fair. So you're comparison
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apples and apples. Now, the Seahawks come climb up to second.
There's second in the NFL in points allowed by the
defense in the second half of the season, and the Ravens.
That's exactly what McDonald did in twenty twenty two in
the second half. We talked about that, Greg and number
of times. Right, So yes, and on that play, I'll
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just say this. If I'm a quarterback preparing to play
the Seahawks, how do I process this? I'm gonna use
first person in this case. I'm Caleb Williams, but I'm
imagining me playing against the Seahawks. All right, that makes sense?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So okay, So I got bunch left and I've got
my running back to the left, and I've got my
tight end to the right. WHOA, what the hell are
the Seahawks doing. They've got two linebackers from the right,
my right tackle over. They've got Boy Mafe and Tyrese
Knight to the outside.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On the line.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
That reminds me of the Chicago Bears when they used
to have Wilbelm Marshall and Otis Wilson on the same side.
Oh and now beyond them, Julian Love is outside of that,
and Kobe Bryant is outside of that. We got four
non defensive linemen on the line to my right, and
now I've got their middle linebacker Ernest Jones on my left.
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Now at the snap of the ball, they're playing cover zero.
This is casino, this is fourth and ten. There's a
lot of defensive coaches that say, hell no, I'm not
running that kind of risk on fourth and ten. But
the Bears had shown a high propensity to not pick
up blitzes. So I think McDonald was feeling like, hey,
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we got him. That they were feasting on the week.
This was like the Discovery Channel when the predator is
going for the thinnest one, you know, the slowest one
in the herd, and they were they were feasting. Now,
I will say this, if I'm preparing, I say, wait
a minute, one of those blitzers off of my right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They've got to be key dogging.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And what key dogging means is you can't have all
these guys blitzing, because what if Cole comt the tight
end instead of blocking.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
What if he the released.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
What if the running back who's on my left is
going to he he goes coast to coast to pick
up the blitzer inside out, but if he released, if
he bluffed and released, then he'd be wide open. There'd
be nobody within twenty yards. So so I'm looking to say, Seattle,
you are not sound. If we have that that bluff
and release, you guys are not covering. And so they
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you know, that's a gamble, and I'll go furthermore. You
had to my left. I've got three receivers that I
really I mean, you got Roma Dunes. They do the
outside He's one which meaning close to the sideline. Then
DJ Moore and then and then uh oh the kid
from cal from San Diego Chargers Allan and Allen.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So those are three really good receivers.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Right, Witherspoon is the point man out of the three
on the bunch. He's got man and man on DJ Moore.
DJ Moore gets an inside release and again this is
cover zero. There's no safety help. If Caleb Williams had
had a half a second more and lobbed it out there.
Russell Wilson had a victory on a go route with
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guys in his face that he threw late in the
game to the commanders and beat the commanders. There was
a vulnerability there where dj Moore had Witherspoon by at
least a step, maybe a step and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But you know what, why did see don't win?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
They they won because they had a very very very
aggressive blitz. They were almost borderline on sound because they
didn't even green dog or key dog meaning green dog
is is is. Let's say you tell Kobe Bryant, Kobe,
you start to blitz, but if that running back comes
up and to block, uh, Julian Love, but he doesn't
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block him. He just releases, we're screwed. So you have
to delay and you got to make sure that he's
in fact blocking Julian And Kobe didn't come off the
edge like that. He came off the edge as if
it was it was Julian Love who was doing the
key dog right.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Nobody was doing the key so they hey, they just said, hey,
we're gonna throw everything at you, and we just think
you guys are gonna I mean, look at how many
how ill prepared from the clock management to Hannah and
blitzes like they just said, you guys are a bunch
of j C. This is like yakam ya, I'm on
junior college in your scheming. This is the National Football League.
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You guys have shown yourselves as to be clowns over
and over and again.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
So we're just gonna throw everything at you because I
bet you can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And guess what, they were right. The Seahawks were right.
Mike McDonald was right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
They were right you. You did not disappoint. I knew
a Friday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Afternoon of a holiday weekend you would be awesome, and
you were. Thanks for breaking down. Good talk all night.
Always love being with you guys. Enjoy thanks man, have
a great weekend. Hugh Milling as only he can. If
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Jorry Epstein seeing your NFL writer for y'all who sport
six twenty five. Alica Charleston Smith from Fox thirteen Seattle
(26:05):
was in the press box with me last night in Chicago.
Lots more to do on the Washington State Beef Commissions
Football Friday. Syracuse just scored a touchdown to even the
Holiday Bowl midway through the first quarter with Washington stay.
Actually the Syracuse went for two and got it Syracuse
eight Washington State seven, midway through the first quarter of
the Holiday Bowl. Much want to come on to Washington
State Beef Commission Football Friday in ninety three point three
(26:26):
KJRFM back to our in Living Color section of the
Greg bellt Show with Kisser diod If Washington State Beef
Commissions Football Friday.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I don't know why that intro song always reminds me
of in Living Color.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You've seen that since we've talked about it, right, Oh,
I've seen it before Beef before you talked about it.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
But yeah, I get where you're coming from. The drums
the beef all did the Wayne's brother.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I can see like Jennifer Lopez dancing to Rosie Perez's number.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
You know they got their start there. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Now, if you were the KJR fan watched the State
Beef Commission football Friday. Remember I said Syracuse took an
eight to seven lead on two point version after that
looked like tying touchdown. Well they officials took it away
upon review. The running back stepped out of bounds on
the two point play, so the Coople lead seven to
six mid first almost late first quarter down in San Diego.
(27:23):
The quarterback, Zebbi eCos is formerally from Bryant College, Culver City, California.
He's playing because John Matteer transferred to Oklahoma following his
Coove's offensive coordinator to Norman.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh, zeb a Coos tonight is wearing in and out
Burger socks, the ones you buy at in and Out.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You can buy t shirts, you can buy socks. Sure
you got to deal with an il there, no way.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Just they're in San Diego for the bowl game. In
and out Burgers every street corner like Starbucks in San Diego.
I'm sure the team or he himself went out while
they've been there the last four or five days, went
in and out, and he bought the socks and he's
wearing in the game.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
That's hilarious. Too bad you can't have fun like that. Yeah, exactly,
I'm just Chris. I thought that, Chris.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I thought if a guy did that in the NFL,
he get fined five figures.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
So stupid.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Your uniform violation, whatever you want, but when the game starts,
your stocks and be rolled up to your kneecap, there's
just no style. It's very plain. You can't be yourself
on the football field. I missed those days of seeing
Dion Sanders dressing. You look good, you feel good, you
play good, they pay good. You can't do that now
you just got to look the part. After a while,
Sanders just used to take through fines. He used to
just he didn't care. He would pull the socks down.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
He was he was mega, so it didn't matter to him.
But not everybody is Dion in the league. Like, if
there was one player that could pull it off on
the Seahawks, it had to be deferent with us. For
everybody else, be like, hey, you know your play isn't
you know? I get that you're trying to be stylish,
but man, we need you to we need to play better.
While Devin he has earned Hey, if I want to
wear my socks a little low, I want to wear whatever, right,
(28:54):
I would say, you know what, Devin, you've earned that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
For those who don't know, the NFL has uniform inspectors
out on the field pre game and during the game.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And if you.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Violate the NFL's rules on how this sock should be,
if your pants aren't long enough, you will get fined.
You'll you don't find out. Then they're very feckless about this.
They don't tell you on the sideline. They send you
a fine check or find notice later in the week. Hey,
in the game in Chicago the other night, in pregame,
you didn't have your socks high enough or they didn't
match the color of the uniform. Ten thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
That happens every week across the league. Crazy. It's just ridiculous.
Four nine four five one to tell them, we'll do
text line.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You can fit a couple in now and then we'll
after the second, after the break, we'll come.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Back to the text line.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Then six o'clock we'll have Joey Epsteiner weekly visit from
the senior reporter from y'all who sports on all things NFL.
The three six oh says your Mariners offseason updates. Signed
three minor league deals, one backup catcher, zero free agent starters.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I don't know why you started them great, they just
left it alone. They couldn't have liked to. We're almost
into a new year.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
We could have went I think a few more days
without Mariners, just because I think listeners know fans. No,
I guess fans and listeners are all the same thing.
But they realize it's all just the ploy to get
you back in the seats to see another year of
we just missed the playoffs because of AB and C.
Or we we know we have the money and decide
to be a little cheap. No one wants to hear
(30:18):
that anymore. The fans are done, they are over it.
Can you can you give us a playoff run? Can
they get that?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't have the answers. Can they show their improving
the lineup? Syracus scored a touchdown on a run to
take a twelve to seven lead at the Holiday Bowl
late first quarter in San Diego. I'm next, we'll read
back your text, Telemorty to take. There's more of them
about the questions. We asked, what was the worst game
you've seen that was worse than six three Seahawks over
Bears last night?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Who's the best player on the Seahawks? I said it's
Devin Witherspoon. Do you agree? You disagree? Who's better this season?
Right now?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The best player for all the games most consistently, games
one through sixteen. Who's been the best Seahawks player? I say,
Devin spit Witherspoon, What say you? We'll lead back your
text and that six o'clock. Jorry Epstein, senior NFL writer
for Yahoo Sports All Things NFL six twenty five. Alissa
Charleston Smith of Fox thirteen Seattle talking about what she
saw with the Seahawks last night, and I'll ask her
(31:12):
her interview with DK Metcalf in the locker room last night.
He said one interesting thing about what he thinks the
offense should do going forward against the Rams next week.
All that coming up in the Washington State Beef Commission
Football Friday on ninety three point three KJRFMO.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Welcome back to an evening edition of The Greg Bellt
Show with Christopher Kidd.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
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Speaker 5 (31:55):
The Washington State.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Beef Commission Jeory Epstein will join us at six o'clock.
Let's talk about all things NFL Holiday Bowl. Late first quarter,
Washington State has tied Syracuse fourteen to fourteen, after Syracuse
had scored two unanswered touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You know what time the music is?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Reading back the Telemortier text line four nine four five
one on it's game time.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It's toughly time.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
A lot of you are new here, but yeah, every day,
Greg and I just readthrough texta the text line and
now's your chance to be a part of the show.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Oh Kushius Bock the punch Scooper score here we go
from the four too. Just take the league twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Greg Bill asked, who's the best player on the Seahawks.
You could argue Leonard Williams from the four to two
to five, but I agree Spoon is the lifeblood of
the team and shows up every game. You better be
a Sea ought for a long time.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's what Mike McDonald alluded to last night, and Soldier
Field after the game. He said he is going to
be around for a long time. He's going to get
the best big contract in two years.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Greg was also curious would you watch for the holidays?
Usually it's the NBA, but this year the NFL said, aha,
we are trying to get in the race for entertainment.
So you had NFL and NBA from Tom two O
six the NBA, what is that? I tuned the NBA
on Christmas and I see Chris Paul on the Spurs.
I had no idea he entered the quarter again. NFL
(33:16):
all the way. Greg also threw out what's the worst
game that you've witnessed Seahawks related or not? From the
two five to three Seahawks Cardinals twenty sixteen, six to
six zero or ot tie that was a joke.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Remember that game both teams missfield goals in overtime chip
shots I do.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
That was a Sunday night game six six overtime time
from the six to two nine. That Seahawks game was
so bad to watch it reminded me of the last
Mariner season. Ooh, yeah, I probably shouldn't have read that,
but hey, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
From the two O six screwed in behind see thanks
for listening from Nashville. By the way, six.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Oh, I didn't even think of asking you that, but yes,
shout out from the two O six screw the NBA.
Rather watch bad NFL than no defense NBA wars Seahawks
game nineteen seventy nine Seahawks versus Ram Negative seven total
yards by Seahawks still an NFL record.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Cheese, how do you have minus seven yards? How bad
was that? Yeah? Well, that was their first year in
the league, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
No, seventy six was the first tea Yeah, okay, but yeah,
seventy nine wasn't exactly the glory years of Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Foot of seven. Did that include the knees that they
took at the end of the game. Oh, they.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
That's bad. I've seen some bad football. The worst game
that I have seen on TV from the Seahawks was
last season against the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Oh, that was a boat race.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
That was bad on both That was well. That was
excellent from Baltimore though. Yeah, but it was still terrible
for the Seahawks. Yeah, but they were excellent that The
McDonald's defense was a terror. Man Gino Smith Dgregor junior
high quarterback that day four was it forty one three
and they took a knee on the goal line. It
should have been forty eight. It was so bad.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
They ran for three hundred yards and then took two
knees to go ninety eight. It was so bad.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
They benched Lamar on the third Obj caught a touchdown
on his birthday. They said, hey, Obj, it's your birthday, man,
why don't you get on out there and want a
whip route. We'll throw you a touchdown, no problem. Baltimore
ran for three hundred yards on Pete Carroll's defense last
I think it was December, in.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Late November, and then they took two knees at the
goal and they were the goal line to score again
up forty one three. They took two eight knees to
finish with two ninety eight.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Very nice of them. That could have been the game
that got among many that got Pete Carroll fired.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Oh yeah, Mi McDonald said, I need that guy. I
don't care what it takes.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
You mean Jude Schneider.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
Yeah, yes, excuse me, John Schneider. Let's see what else
you got on this here? Text line?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Mmmm?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Is this live?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
I love when he was fired up? You bet you
from the two five three we are live. This is
not taped, although we thought about it, but no, we
decided to give you some live ray to go.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Two OHO six says, go Navy, What the hell is that?
How do you do that? It's everything's nice? Two o six.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
When I was listening to the Bulver Season radio and
suffering through the announcers trying to fill time during the
lightning delay at the Birmingham bull before a show, hearing
Return of the Mac came on brought a smile to
my face. Happy New Year, everyone, Thanks, appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Indeed those of you that are new to listening, because
of course we're not usually on this time slot. The
reason we play Return of the Mac to then begin
the show is. They asked me when I took over
the show in April, what intro song would you like?
And I said, my daughter's favorite song, Return of the Mac.
I'm proud of my daughter for liking a nineteen nineties
R and B hip hop song and Return of the Mac.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
But Mark Morrison has ever since been the show.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Leading show and I and then we started playing it
and they said, don't cut it off, get it to
at least the refrain. So that's why it plays as
long as it does. So now you know the story
is if you needed to.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Know that, Yeah, sometimes I think we're listening to the
old Cube and you know we're playing rap.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yeah, exactly, which if you if you go to on
FM radio and hit FM again, like FM two, there
is still a Cube ninety three point three did you
know I did?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Is that only on satellite or I don't know what
that is?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
I don't know, but you could still hear music. Yeah,
if you go to the FM two like Greg mentioned, yeah,
just so you know that's the both worlds maybe.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah, just fuck just between the F one and FM two.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Just wait until after seven pm to do that. So
before six am and after seven pm you got it.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, well said, was that game into it? Four? Two
five months?
Speaker 6 (37:27):
To know?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Was that game in Chicago last.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Night between the Seahawks and the Bears or back in
nineteen thirty three between Fordham and NYU?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Did you know that?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
I don't know those of you who have been to
Chicago or you can see it on TV.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Soldier Field, what's left of the original Soldier Field is
still there, with the colonnades, the columns that are on
the east and west sides of the stadium. The outside
Rock Bowl still exists. And that place used to hold
like one hundred and twenty thousand people. They had a
giant track and when the Bears first played in there
they moved from Wrigley Field to Soldier Field. They used
(38:01):
the entire stadium and it was like city blocks from
the end zone to the bowl seating to the actual
end zone of the field because the stadium was so.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Large, and then they had started partition off the edges.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
But yeah, they had World's Fairs in there, they had
presidents speeches in there, they've had I think Jesse Owens
ran a track.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Me to the original Soldier Field.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
All that's left of it is the columns, sadly, they're
talking about moving them out of downtown Chicago out to
the suburbs where everything else is going and pro sports. Yeah,
that'd be sad. I love the location. I don't I
love the stadium Soldier Field, but I love the location,
really cool, right off Grant Park in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Next, Jory Epstein joins us every week. It's usually on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Because of the holidays, it's on Friday, so talk about
all things NFL. The senior NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports.
Six twenty five the LISTA Charleston Smith, who hopefully just
landed from Chicago. Fox thirteen Seattle will join us. Lots
more on Washington State Beef Commissions Football Friday on ninety
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ninety three point three kjr FM Bell Christopher Kidd at
Eliot Bay Studios in downtown Seattle. Hugh Mellon is on
the line waiting for me to quit talking about headlines
so he can join us and talk about Seahawks and Bears.
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Chill You saw Seahawks six Bears three almost know much
(01:17):
more to say about that. Offensively, I'm Hugh Millan's probably offended.
We'll talk to him about the offense for the Seahawks
last night in Chicago. Now the Seahawks. He really needed
Cardinals to beat the Rams tomorrow in Inglewood. Five point
fifteen start, five point ten start here on ninety three
point three Kid JRFM. If that happens, Seahawks Rams next
week in Inglewood will be for the NFC West Championship,
(01:37):
probably the Saturday night game.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
It looks like Lions Vikings are going.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
To have some import either for the number one seed
or the NFC North title or both. That would likely
be the Sunday night game. Mike McDonald said this morning
that the team is expecting to play on Saturday just
in case it has to, and they expect to learn
from the NFL by the end of Sunday play, meaning
Sunday night Seattle time on whether they're playing Saturday or
Sunday against the Rams. If the Rams win Tomorrow night,
(02:04):
then they go to strength of victory tiebreakers. The Seahawks
need at least three and preferably more of the falling
six teams to lose this weekend to keep in contention
on strength of victory tiebreaker. If the Rams win tomorrow,
they need the Vikings to lose the Green Bay, the
Commanders to lose the Falcons, the Niners to lose the Lions,
the Bengals to lose to the Broncos in Cleveland to
(02:25):
lose the Dolphins, plus or the Bills to lose the Jets.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
So that ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
So they really need four of those five other things
to happen. That's how most people say it's at eleven
to fourteen percent chance the Seahawks make the playoffs tomorrow.
Charges at Patriots tripleheader tomorrow in the NFL. Charges at
Patriots at ten am, Broncos at Bengals at one thirty,
Cardinals at Rams right right here on ninety three point three,
KJRF at five to ten College Bulls. Navy beat Oklahoma.
(02:53):
I just don't know how they did that, but they did.
Oklahoma's walk ons and managers should be able to beat Navy,
but Navy beat them twenty one twenty Ou went for
a two at the end of the Armed Forces Bowl
and for wth Texas missed it and lost by one.
Vanderbilt is leading Georgia Tech thirty five to twenty late
in the Birmingham Bull that was delayed by lightning and
heard right here A ninety three point three at just
(03:13):
one final Vanderbilt thirty five, Georgia Tech twenty seven in
the Birmingham Bowl. Arkansas leads Texas Tech twenty one to
twelve in the second quarter of the Liberty Bowl. The
Koogs Washington State What's Left of Him? Play Syracuse in
the Holiday Bowl in a few minutes in San Diego,
USC and Texas. A and M play tonight in the
Las Vegas Bowl. Krack can come back from their mini
(03:35):
Christmas break tomorrow night play at Vancouver at one pm,
twelve thirty puck drop of the Matine up in BC
with Mike Benton, puck drop at one from Vancouver, and
the Kraken right here in Your Home with the Crack
at ninety three point three, Kid JRFM and taoscar Andez
Remember him Chris, He and the Los Angeles starters are
an agreement on a three year, sixty six million dollar contract.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
ESPN is reporting wait if Marinis could use him than
he struck out too much.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Man Kings in the NBA Kings fired coach Mike Brown
Sacramento former Sacramento player Doug Christie.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
He also was a radio.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Commentator when I worked in Sacramento, cover in the aas
Doug Christie's new King's interim coach. Longtime sports broadcaster Greg
Gumbel passed away today at the age of seventy eight.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Joining us now.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
A rare Friday postgame Seahawks edition of breaking down Seahawks
and Bears is jum Ellen, our quarterback.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Hello you.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What's happening?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
We are well tired? I get forty five minutes of sleep.
I'm good. I'm good. Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I don't know if me getting to the airport was
uglier than that Seahawks game last night.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I don't think it was. That was pretty ugly.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
What what do you make of six points against the Bears?
Do you chalk it up to this short week to travel?
Do you chalk up to the Bears defensive front and
the more offensive line issues? Where do we start on
why the Seahawks get three fourteen passing from Gino Smith
against the Vikings and only one sixty and no touchdowns
against the team.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Well, first of all, I acknowledge you know, you know,
it wasn't just a good it was a really good
to great defensive performance. And I only say that because
the Seahawks did win, and had they lost, I would
be more more than happy to start off with with
just going right into the offense. But let's note that
I know you'll ask me questions about the defense, but
(05:24):
offensively for me, well, you have to take into consideration
that it was really a driving rain, as you know,
and it's hard to have execution.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now, the wins seemed to be manageable.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You're right, it wasn't supposed to rain last night, and
it did. There was like a ten chance, and you're right,
it did affect both teams.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I thought, I'm I'm kind of struggling with two guys
right now, in no particular order. I think Ryan Grubb
he was a guy out sided these numbers this morning.
If you if you take last year with when he
was the offense as a coordinator at the University of Washington,
if you filter passes outside the numbers, now, the numbers
(06:05):
are wider seven yards to the bottom of the numbers
in college at that point. Notwithstanding, if you compare him
to the other quarterbacks, Michael Pennix had exactly one hundred
completions outside the numbers beyond five yards, so that eliminates
all the wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Screen in the equation.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
He was number one in all college football several hundred quarterbacks.
The next closest guy was eighty four completions, and of
the guys who were in the first round, the next
closest guy was Jayden Daniels at seventy two, and again
Pennis had one hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So I'm used to seeing.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
A grub offense that pushes the ball vertically, but also
pushes the ball to the sidelines yesterday, if you exclude
balls behind the line of scrimmage, because there was five
RPO completions behind the line of scrimmage that Gino had,
if you exclude those, there was one completion outside the
numbers that was to Fan when he did that little
(07:05):
toe dance for a three yard game. So they just
constricted themselves. Now there was a few that were on
the numbers, so you can say was it twelve yards
fourteen yards? At the very minimum, they took twenty four
yards of the field and just took it right off
of the plate by not throwing it outside. And that's
(07:28):
further exacerbated in my mind in that the Bears. The
second most common coverage that the Bears had yesterday was
Cover two, where the corners are in the flat, and
I would understand why you don't hit the sidelines as
much on that. That was nine snaps. The number one
(07:48):
most common coverage that the Bears had was Cover three,
of which they had fifteen snaps. Cover three is a
three deep, four inner zone where there's plenty of opportunity
and it needs to get both to the shallow and
deep to the sidelines. And see, I'll just didn't go
after that that area of the field. Maybe it had
(08:10):
to do with the wet ball. There's a feeling those
balls can get not just slip slippery, but they get heavier.
That's a real thing. But you know they also rotate
in a lot of balls, so it should should be
relatively manageable. So that's my part on Grub and then
Gino Smith just a number of times where he's just
turning down opportunities. I almost feel like he got spooked
(08:33):
on that first drive when he almost threw the interception
over the middle, and then he just got really cautious,
and I've just got i mean, I could walk you
through him, but I've got notes after notes of DK's
open on a dig which is an intermediate in route.
K's opened on a skid route that's a little skinny
post where you idle.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Down on it.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
He's open on and over. He's open on a glance route,
a five step skinny post. Tyler Lockett is open up
on a deep dagger. I'm just I'm looking at like,
why are we not looking there?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Why are we not one? Two, three?
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Hitch and and and stripe that ball in there, and
and I think the one that just has me. I mean,
I literally feel like my blood is boiling. You go
back to a minute and three to go in the
second quarter, and right now, one of the few times
the Bears ran a cover four, they have DK on
line up on the left side and he does a
(09:26):
skinny post and go. It's a double move. And they've
got helped me out on this, Christopher. It's Simone Biles husband.
So whatever his name is, we'll just call him mister Biles.
All right, you talk about give you a second okay,
number thirty six Owens, but but we'll just call him
mister Biles. He bit down on on DK running that
(09:51):
that inbreaking route over the middle, on a on a
on a little bender, a bender and go owen, and
he's going right up the numbers. DK's going straight up
the numbers. I'm just telling you I've been in a
lot of quarterback meeting rooms. Most quarterback coaches don't swear
they teach court. They coach quarterbacks differently.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Some do.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
And I'm telling you there are some quarterback coaches in
this league that would look at that play right in
DK and all the other quarterbacks and say, throw the
effing ball to the freaking double move so that the
next play is a pat and a story. Do we
understand each other? Like like we're dancing around this crap
and I'm getting sick of it. And for a guy
(10:38):
that just who has a beautiful ball when he throws it,
is a plus athlete, a great competitor, a leader in
the locker room, and we get, we get, we get
influenced by all these wonderful attributes of Geno.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
It's a great story. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
No, watch the freaking tape and it'll piss you the
hell off, because I'm sick and tired of seeing fourteen
freaking open and Ryan g You know, some people wally
websites wanna wanna U take shots at Ryan Grubb and
they don't know their head from their ass from a
hole in the ground. About football, watch the freaking All
twenty two and you gotta you gotta a double move
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beater to get if you get the safety, if this
is pro football, everything that you want from that play
is there. And why is the quarterback turning, turning that
play down and looking over elsewhere? Because now, look, there
was late pressure and he had to scramble. But the
point is, if he'd have been on time, he's got it.
He's got like, I don't care if it's incomplete, throw
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the freaking ball because you will, look, you will alluding
lighting up the defense the next time you run it,
and and then the intermediate stuff will be open. It's
just uh man, it's it's it's just got to be better.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Let me got to make better.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Better make decision because listen, that's how you're gonna do it.
You're gonna go six points and hopefully your defense holds
them to three. But if you, if you, if you
call plays like that and your quarterback makes decisions like that,
that's what you deserve.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Well, AT's this point, let me ask you, is that
a residual of all the pressure and hits and sacks
and knee injury and the tentativeness you're talking about, the
unwillingness to throw to the primary and they open and
the opportunity guy. Do you think this is just a
build up of all that he's had. I make an excuses.
It sounds blame me a violin. Blame me a violin.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Man.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Look, look it's you're one of thirty two guys in
this league that have that job. Yeah, you get smacked around.
Some guys get smacked around more than others. Some guys
have an easier job. But you know what, you have
to stand in there and you have to read the defense.
And when the play call comes in and you know
it's a double move, you know this is a that
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you are calling this play to get a touchdown. You
better you better take a good look at that touch
because we're getting mister Biles coming out of the middle
and DK running down the numbers. By professional football standards,
this is wide open. That ball's got to be gone.
And you know, and then and then hey, eventually, remember
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the play where DK cut the ball off the grass.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes, you know on the over.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Hey, what do you know if we take Jackson Smith
and Jigba run him on the high corner on the
clear out and then we clear DK coming over, which
which ninety nine times out of one hundred it's the
other way around.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Because we say, well, DK's the fast guy.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Well, we finally say, well let's get you know, so
that we don't have our wide receiver blow a gasket.
Why don't we just inverse this and let let UH,
Jackson Smith and Jigma run the clay out And guess what,
there's DK running over in a perfect spot in a
position that had he had he been hit on the numbers,
it could have got really, really dangerous for Chicago with Gina.
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With DK speed as it was, he dirted the ball
and UH and DK bailed him out.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So you're saying, you're saying Ryan Grebs designing the right place,
by and large, and Genus was not throwing them.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
They they he's he's designing enough of them. Now there's
too much spacing concepts where where guys were just in
the middle of the field hitching up at five yards
early in the game. I thought they did They did
a little bit too much of that where all the
receivers were mostly all all or almost all of the
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receivers were within five or six yards a line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Those are zone beaters.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
They didn't always have zone So I don't I don't
think it was Ryan Grebb's finest hour, but he he
he started to get into a rhythm and he started
to to to to get guys open and at this juncture.
Now I'm not in Geno's head, uh, I don't know,
but but I think it's fair to at least ask
the question whether or not he was a little spooked
(14:49):
by that that near interception. But as it is, you
have you have these opportunities again against against Cover three,
that is a cover three is a safety in the box.
I mean we all know Cover three because that's what
Pete Carroll ran and with the legion of boom, that's
Cam Chancellor at the line screaming. That is a cover
that is a safety down in the box, opportunity on
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the outsides and to the sidelines.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
And of the.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Fifteen times that Seattle threw the ball against Cover three,
they got one hundred and eight yards at seven point
two not per completion per play, and the sum of
the air yards of all fifteen was fifty eight air yards.
That's three point nine air yards per attempt against cover three.
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That's that's that's a that's a cockhai fastball right down Broadway?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And what are you doing bunting? You know, I mean
at any rate you follow me? I do, We're following.
This is Hugh Millon. If you hadn't noticed on ninety
three point three KJRFM, Hugh a bright spot.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Even though Gino was playing a little spooked out, there
was the run game. Why do you think they got
away from it? Was it just the fact that they
they want to put up a touchdown because I thought
the run game was pretty effective. Both Kim Wark and
Kim Wark excuse me, Zach Sharbonney and Kim McIntosh. They
played really good football on the ground and they blocked
yeah too.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They and they had some new schemes.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I mean early on they had a basic stretch play
and Barner, who've been a little critical of, he had
a wonderful block on.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The edge that uh.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
They also had a power play, a great kickout block
by Lameo and and a nice off tackle crease there.
McIntosh had a twenty five yard or where the Bears
just flat up lined up wrong. Fifty three the linebacker.
They have two pretty good linebackers, but fifty three wherever
he was.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
On the edge, Edwards, Yeah, and then forty nine he's
like a he's a.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Poor man's Fred Warren.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Player.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah, they've got some and number one their corners good,
They've got some dudes now. But both the inside linebackers
played that play hideous. So anybody you and I, well,
we'll just say Greg. Let's just say Christopher. Christopher could
have smoked that and got if if macintist got twenty five,
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Christopher could have got twenty.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Four and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Is that just that I got some highlights for you, brother.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
I know you can go. I know I've heard, I've heard.
But at any event, so and now they were doing something.
They ran more draws, delayed draws. That's something we haven't seen.
And they were doing some fold blocking where they were
bringing Abe Lucas in from the right tackle. They did
a tackle trap with him coming across.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's rare. Uh, they did.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
They did a draw, a true draw. But but because
of the front there was a bubble. What's a bubble
is where the strong tackle is uncovered, and so they
had Lucas folding in from his right tackle spot leading.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Up over left guard.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
So there was some schemat They had a they had
a gap scheme where they they pulled the center guard
and tackled. Now, I don't know if that was miscommunication
or if that was intended, but that's something I haven't seen,
so that they were they were showing some wrinkles. I
think the Bears went and talked about it and dialed
it up, and I think I think Seattle just kind
of uh got away from it. But they had some
(18:18):
early success and and and uh and and then they
couldn't find some of those creases like they had in
the first drive.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Okay, you will go to the defense because they won
the game. I went a big deal, made a whole
separate story last night. Out of the nine zero blitz,
they had the final play of the game, nine men
on the line, the hit by unblocked Kobe Bryant, Ernest
Jones holding the other edge to keep Williams from escaping
out the front side, and the interception for the winning game.
Are we seeing did you notice when you're watching film
(18:46):
that a more Mike McDonald Baltimore ravens full meal deal
schematically than he were earlier in the season.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Has that progressolutely? Absolutely no, They're they're showing a lot.
For example, that the Seahawks only faced on offense from
the Bears defense one play of man to man and
that was Cover one.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
That's the standway. That's with a free safety.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
The Seahawks, even with those really good receivers by Chicago,
they played seven snaps of Cover zero that's man to
man with no free safety help. And they played eight
snaps of Cover one. So that's that's fifteen snaps of
mando man Island style mand a man, where the Bears
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only played one. And when they play zone, they had
an array of different zones.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I think they're much more tied together.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And think about this since Week eight, which was the
disaster where they played hideous defense against the Bills. From
Week nine and beyond, the Seahawks in terms of defensive
points allowed, that excludes things like pick six'es and kickoff
returns that have put up points. But if you go
deef the points allowed by the Seahawks defense, the Seahawks
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are number three in the NFL. This is over eight
games now and if you take out the touchdown in overtime,
and you filter it for all not just the Seahawks,
but all teams quarters one through four, and exclude all
the overtimes, just to make it fair. So you're comparison
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apples and apples. Now, the Seahawks come climb up to second.
There's second in the NFL in points allowed by the
defense in the second half of the season, and the Ravens.
That's exactly what McDonald did in twenty twenty two in
the second half. We talked about that, Greg and number
of times. Right, So yes, and on that play, I'll
(20:43):
just say this. If I'm a quarterback preparing to play
the Seahawks, how do I process this? I'm gonna use
first person in this case. I'm Caleb Williams, but I'm
imagining me playing against the Seahawks. All right, that makes sense?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So okay, So I got bunch left and I've got
my running back to the left, and I've got my
tight end to the right. WHOA, what the hell are
the Seahawks doing. They've got two linebackers from the right,
my right tackle over. They've got Boy Mafe and Tyrese
Knight to the outside.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
On the line.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
That reminds me of the Chicago Bears when they used
to have Wilbelm Marshall and Otis Wilson on the same side.
Oh and now beyond them, Julian Love is outside of that,
and Kobe Bryant is outside of that. We got four
non defensive linemen on the line to my right, and
now I've got their middle linebacker Ernest Jones on my left.
(21:41):
Now at the snap of the ball, they're playing cover zero.
This is casino, this is fourth and ten. There's a
lot of defensive coaches that say, hell no, I'm not
running that kind of risk on fourth and ten. But
the Bears had shown a high propensity to not pick
up blitzes. So I think McDonald was feeling like, hey,
(22:03):
we got him. That they were feasting on the week.
This was like the Discovery Channel when the predator is
going for the thinnest one, you know, the slowest one
in the herd, and they were they were feasting. Now,
I will say this, if I'm preparing, I say, wait
a minute, one of those blitzers off of my right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
They've got to be key dogging.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
And what key dogging means is you can't have all
these guys blitzing, because what if Cole comt the tight
end instead of blocking.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
What if he the released.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
What if the running back who's on my left is
going to he he goes coast to coast to pick
up the blitzer inside out, but if he released, if
he bluffed and released, then he'd be wide open. There'd
be nobody within twenty yards. So so I'm looking to say, Seattle,
you are not sound. If we have that that bluff
and release, you guys are not covering. And so they
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you know, that's a gamble, and I'll go furthermore. You
had to my left. I've got three receivers that I
really I mean, you got Roma Dunes. They do the
outside He's one which meaning close to the sideline. Then
DJ Moore and then and then uh oh the kid
from cal from San Diego Chargers Allan and Allen.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So those are three really good receivers.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Right, Witherspoon is the point man out of the three
on the bunch. He's got man and man on DJ Moore.
DJ Moore gets an inside release and again this is
cover zero. There's no safety help. If Caleb Williams had
had a half a second more and lobbed it out there.
Russell Wilson had a victory on a go route with
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guys in his face that he threw late in the
game to the commanders and beat the commanders. There was
a vulnerability there where dj Moore had Witherspoon by at
least a step, maybe a step and a half.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But you know what, why did see don't win?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
They they won because they had a very very very
aggressive blitz. They were almost borderline on sound because they
didn't even green dog or key dog meaning green dog
is is is. Let's say you tell Kobe Bryant, Kobe,
you start to blitz, but if that running back comes
up and to block, uh, Julian Love, but he doesn't
(24:23):
block him. He just releases, we're screwed. So you have
to delay and you got to make sure that he's
in fact blocking Julian And Kobe didn't come off the
edge like that. He came off the edge as if
it was it was Julian Love who was doing the
key dog right.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Nobody was doing the key so they hey, they just said, hey,
we're gonna throw everything at you, and we just think
you guys are gonna I mean, look at how many
how ill prepared from the clock management to Hannah and
blitzes like they just said, you guys are a bunch
of j C. This is like yakam ya, I'm on
junior college in your scheming. This is the National Football League.
(25:05):
You guys have shown yourselves as to be clowns over
and over and again.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
So we're just gonna throw everything at you because I
bet you can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
And guess what, they were right. The Seahawks were right.
Mike McDonald was right.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
They were right you. You did not disappoint. I knew
a Friday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Afternoon of a holiday weekend you would be awesome, and
you were. Thanks for breaking down. Good talk all night.
Always love being with you guys. Enjoy thanks man, have
a great weekend. Hugh Milling as only he can. If
you missed it, the iHeart Radio up download for free
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(25:42):
on he took his buddy Ryan Grebb out the task
a little bit there for missed opportunities in the past
game and then Gino Smith missing open DK metcalf a
couple of times you can hear that if you missed
it on the iHeartRadio app or at nine tough three
KGr dot com. Well recap that coming up next then
we'll read back your text and then at six o'clock
Jorry Epstein seeing your NFL writer for y'all who sport
six twenty five. Alica Charleston Smith from Fox thirteen Seattle
(26:05):
was in the press box with me last night in Chicago.
Lots more to do on the Washington State Beef Commissions
Football Friday. Syracuse just scored a touchdown to even the
Holiday Bowl midway through the first quarter with Washington stay.
Actually the Syracuse went for two and got it Syracuse
eight Washington State seven, midway through the first quarter of
the Holiday Bowl. Much want to come on to Washington
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(26:26):
KJRFM back to our in Living Color section of the
Greg bellt Show with Kisser diod If Washington State Beef
Commissions Football Friday.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I don't know why that intro song always reminds me
of in Living Color.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You've seen that since we've talked about it, right, Oh,
I've seen it before Beef before you talked about it.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
But yeah, I get where you're coming from. The drums
the beef all did the Wayne's brother.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
I can see like Jennifer Lopez dancing to Rosie Perez's number.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
You know they got their start there. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Now, if you were the KJR fan watched the State
Beef Commission football Friday. Remember I said Syracuse took an
eight to seven lead on two point version after that
looked like tying touchdown. Well they officials took it away
upon review. The running back stepped out of bounds on
the two point play, so the Coople lead seven to
six mid first almost late first quarter down in San Diego.
(27:23):
The quarterback, Zebbi eCos is formerally from Bryant College, Culver City, California.
He's playing because John Matteer transferred to Oklahoma following his
Coove's offensive coordinator to Norman.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Uh, zeb a Coos tonight is wearing in and out
Burger socks, the ones you buy at in and Out.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You can buy t shirts, you can buy socks. Sure
you got to deal with an il there, no way.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Just they're in San Diego for the bowl game. In
and out Burgers every street corner like Starbucks in San Diego.
I'm sure the team or he himself went out while
they've been there the last four or five days, went
in and out, and he bought the socks and he's
wearing in the game.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
That's hilarious. Too bad you can't have fun like that. Yeah, exactly,
I'm just Chris. I thought that, Chris.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I thought if a guy did that in the NFL,
he get fined five figures.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
So stupid.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Your uniform violation, whatever you want, but when the game starts,
your stocks and be rolled up to your kneecap, there's
just no style. It's very plain. You can't be yourself
on the football field. I missed those days of seeing
Dion Sanders dressing. You look good, you feel good, you
play good, they pay good. You can't do that now
you just got to look the part. After a while,
Sanders just used to take through fines. He used to
just he didn't care. He would pull the socks down.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
He was he was mega, so it didn't matter to him.
But not everybody is Dion in the league. Like, if
there was one player that could pull it off on
the Seahawks, it had to be deferent with us. For
everybody else, be like, hey, you know your play isn't
you know? I get that you're trying to be stylish,
but man, we need you to we need to play better.
While Devin he has earned Hey, if I want to
wear my socks a little low, I want to wear whatever, right,
(28:54):
I would say, you know what, Devin, you've earned that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
For those who don't know, the NFL has uniform inspectors
out on the field pre game and during the game.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
And if you.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Violate the NFL's rules on how this sock should be,
if your pants aren't long enough, you will get fined.
You'll you don't find out. Then they're very feckless about this.
They don't tell you on the sideline. They send you
a fine check or find notice later in the week. Hey,
in the game in Chicago the other night, in pregame,
you didn't have your socks high enough or they didn't
match the color of the uniform. Ten thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
That happens every week across the league. Crazy. It's just ridiculous.
Four nine four five one to tell them, we'll do
text line.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
You can fit a couple in now and then we'll
after the second, after the break, we'll come.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
Back to the text line.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Then six o'clock we'll have Joey Epsteiner weekly visit from
the senior reporter from y'all who sports on all things NFL.
The three six oh says your Mariners offseason updates. Signed
three minor league deals, one backup catcher, zero free agent starters.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I don't know why you started them great, they just
left it alone. They couldn't have liked to. We're almost
into a new year.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
We could have went I think a few more days
without Mariners, just because I think listeners know fans. No,
I guess fans and listeners are all the same thing.
But they realize it's all just the ploy to get
you back in the seats to see another year of
we just missed the playoffs because of AB and C.
Or we we know we have the money and decide
to be a little cheap. No one wants to hear
(30:18):
that anymore. The fans are done, they are over it.
Can you can you give us a playoff run? Can
they get that?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I don't have the answers. Can they show their improving
the lineup? Syracus scored a touchdown on a run to
take a twelve to seven lead at the Holiday Bowl
late first quarter in San Diego. I'm next, we'll read
back your text, Telemorty to take. There's more of them
about the questions. We asked, what was the worst game
you've seen that was worse than six three Seahawks over
Bears last night?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Who's the best player on the Seahawks? I said it's
Devin Witherspoon. Do you agree? You disagree? Who's better this season?
Right now?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
The best player for all the games most consistently, games
one through sixteen. Who's been the best Seahawks player? I say,
Devin spit Witherspoon, What say you? We'll lead back your
text and that six o'clock. Jorry Epstein, senior NFL writer
for Yahoo Sports All Things NFL six twenty five. Alissa
Charleston Smith of Fox thirteen Seattle talking about what she
saw with the Seahawks last night, and I'll ask her
(31:12):
her interview with DK Metcalf in the locker room last night.
He said one interesting thing about what he thinks the
offense should do going forward against the Rams next week.
All that coming up in the Washington State Beef Commission
Football Friday on ninety three point three KJRFMO.
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Let's talk about all things NFL Holiday Bowl. Late first quarter,
Washington State has tied Syracuse fourteen to fourteen, after Syracuse
had scored two unanswered touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You know what time the music is?
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Reading back the Telemortier text line four nine four five
one on it's game time.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It's toughly time.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
A lot of you are new here, but yeah, every day,
Greg and I just readthrough texta the text line and
now's your chance to be a part of the show.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Oh Kushius Bock the punch Scooper score here we go
from the four too. Just take the league twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Greg Bill asked, who's the best player on the Seahawks.
You could argue Leonard Williams from the four to two
to five, but I agree Spoon is the lifeblood of
the team and shows up every game. You better be
a Sea ought for a long time.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That's what Mike McDonald alluded to last night, and Soldier
Field after the game. He said he is going to
be around for a long time. He's going to get
the best big contract in two years.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Greg was also curious would you watch for the holidays?
Usually it's the NBA, but this year the NFL said, aha,
we are trying to get in the race for entertainment.
So you had NFL and NBA from Tom two O
six the NBA, what is that? I tuned the NBA
on Christmas and I see Chris Paul on the Spurs.
I had no idea he entered the quarter again. NFL
(33:16):
all the way. Greg also threw out what's the worst
game that you've witnessed Seahawks related or not? From the
two five to three Seahawks Cardinals twenty sixteen, six to
six zero or ot tie that was a joke.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Remember that game both teams missfield goals in overtime chip
shots I do.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
That was a Sunday night game six six overtime time
from the six to two nine. That Seahawks game was
so bad to watch it reminded me of the last
Mariner season. Ooh, yeah, I probably shouldn't have read that,
but hey, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
From the two O six screwed in behind see thanks
for listening from Nashville. By the way, six.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Oh, I didn't even think of asking you that, but yes,
shout out from the two O six screw the NBA.
Rather watch bad NFL than no defense NBA wars Seahawks
game nineteen seventy nine Seahawks versus Ram Negative seven total
yards by Seahawks still an NFL record.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Cheese, how do you have minus seven yards? How bad
was that? Yeah? Well, that was their first year in
the league, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
No, seventy six was the first tea Yeah, okay, but yeah,
seventy nine wasn't exactly the glory years of Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Foot of seven. Did that include the knees that they
took at the end of the game. Oh, they.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
That's bad. I've seen some bad football. The worst game
that I have seen on TV from the Seahawks was
last season against the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Oh, that was a boat race.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
That was bad on both That was well. That was
excellent from Baltimore though. Yeah, but it was still terrible
for the Seahawks. Yeah, but they were excellent that The
McDonald's defense was a terror. Man Gino Smith Dgregor junior
high quarterback that day four was it forty one three
and they took a knee on the goal line. It
should have been forty eight. It was so bad.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
They ran for three hundred yards and then took two
knees to go ninety eight. It was so bad.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
They benched Lamar on the third Obj caught a touchdown
on his birthday. They said, hey, Obj, it's your birthday, man,
why don't you get on out there and want a
whip route. We'll throw you a touchdown, no problem. Baltimore
ran for three hundred yards on Pete Carroll's defense last
I think it was December, in.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Late November, and then they took two knees at the
goal and they were the goal line to score again
up forty one three. They took two eight knees to
finish with two ninety eight.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Very nice of them. That could have been the game
that got among many that got Pete Carroll fired.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Oh yeah, Mi McDonald said, I need that guy. I
don't care what it takes.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
You mean Jude Schneider.
Speaker 7 (35:35):
Yeah, yes, excuse me, John Schneider. Let's see what else
you got on this here? Text line?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Mmmm?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Is this live?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
I love when he was fired up? You bet you
from the two five three we are live. This is
not taped, although we thought about it, but no, we
decided to give you some live ray to go.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Two OHO six says, go Navy, What the hell is that?
How do you do that? It's everything's nice? Two o six.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
When I was listening to the Bulver Season radio and
suffering through the announcers trying to fill time during the
lightning delay at the Birmingham bull before a show, hearing
Return of the Mac came on brought a smile to
my face. Happy New Year, everyone, Thanks, appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Indeed those of you that are new to listening, because
of course we're not usually on this time slot. The
reason we play Return of the Mac to then begin
the show is. They asked me when I took over
the show in April, what intro song would you like?
And I said, my daughter's favorite song, Return of the Mac.
I'm proud of my daughter for liking a nineteen nineties
R and B hip hop song and Return of the Mac.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
But Mark Morrison has ever since been the show.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Leading show and I and then we started playing it
and they said, don't cut it off, get it to
at least the refrain. So that's why it plays as
long as it does. So now you know the story
is if you needed to.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Know that, Yeah, sometimes I think we're listening to the
old Cube and you know we're playing rap.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Yeah, exactly, which if you if you go to on
FM radio and hit FM again, like FM two, there
is still a Cube ninety three point three did you
know I did?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Is that only on satellite or I don't know what
that is?
Speaker 7 (37:04):
I don't know, but you could still hear music. Yeah,
if you go to the FM two like Greg mentioned, yeah,
just so you know that's the both worlds maybe.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah, just fuck just between the F one and FM two.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Just wait until after seven pm to do that. So
before six am and after seven pm you got it.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, well said, was that game into it? Four? Two
five months?
Speaker 6 (37:27):
To know?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Was that game in Chicago last.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Night between the Seahawks and the Bears or back in
nineteen thirty three between Fordham and NYU?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Did you know that?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
I don't know those of you who have been to
Chicago or you can see it on TV.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Soldier Field, what's left of the original Soldier Field is
still there, with the colonnades, the columns that are on
the east and west sides of the stadium. The outside
Rock Bowl still exists. And that place used to hold
like one hundred and twenty thousand people. They had a
giant track and when the Bears first played in there
they moved from Wrigley Field to Soldier Field. They used
(38:01):
the entire stadium and it was like city blocks from
the end zone to the bowl seating to the actual
end zone of the field because the stadium was so.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Large, and then they had started partition off the edges.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
But yeah, they had World's Fairs in there, they had
presidents speeches in there, they've had I think Jesse Owens
ran a track.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Me to the original Soldier Field.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
All that's left of it is the columns, sadly, they're
talking about moving them out of downtown Chicago out to
the suburbs where everything else is going and pro sports. Yeah,
that'd be sad. I love the location. I don't I
love the stadium Soldier Field, but I love the location,
really cool, right off Grant Park in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Next, Jory Epstein joins us every week. It's usually on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Because of the holidays, it's on Friday, so talk about
all things NFL. The senior NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports.
Six twenty five the LISTA Charleston Smith, who hopefully just
landed from Chicago. Fox thirteen Seattle will join us. Lots
more on Washington State Beef Commissions Football Friday on ninety
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