December 3, 2024 • 35 mins
Gregg and Christopher get the show rolling w/ headlines and react to the news of Mike Holmgren being a finalist for the HOF. We also talk about Geno's performance against the New York Jets and how it benefits what the defense is doing. Gregg also details the Hail Mary attempt in which Mike Macdonald was ready to risk it all, and also showcased his play calling in late-game situations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gets some Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Maybe you have sixty degrees out there, seventy.
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Maybe you got their Parkison down in Phoenix because it's
got under sixty at night. Now that'll be on Sunday
at one oh five. It's a local CBS channel seven game.
Usually Fox has the in the NFC games, but this
one is a one off and it's gonna be on
CBS Channel seven locally.
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It's also Tuesday, which means Jory Epstein will join us
the senior NFL writer for Yahoo's Sports thanks to Zeke's
Pizza homegrown on the Northwest zeks Pizza dot com.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
She'll join us at eleven o'clock. Is Aaron Rodgers done?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm gonna ask her that she's a New York person
now based there. He sure looked done when I saw
him in the Meadowlands in person. On Sunday, we'll talk
about that. We'll talk about the forty nine ers. The
sky is falling down in the Bay Area for sure.
But the biggest news in the day here in this
building probably should be in the Northwest, is that our
own Mike Holmgren, the coach, is now one step away
(01:28):
from enshrinment in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We'll
talk about more about that in a minute, but a
lot of excitement here in the building for our own
KJRS analyst Mike Holmgren. He's a finalist for enshrinement in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Current Seahawks coach Mike McDonald.
He's away from the team for a great reason. We'll
tell you why. And Chris, don't drop kickoffs if you
(01:50):
want to stay on the Seahawks. Huh that I'm not
gonna lie. I was kind of shocked they just guillotined him.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I thought, Okay, Chriscus, you know you talk to him. Hey, man,
we can't have you do. But they said, yeah, we'll
find someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It wouldn't surprise me if de Williams also isn't returning
Kicks Sunday and Hours and we'll talk about that. The
Cracking returned from there last weekend to be in a
challenging road trip back east tonight. You'll hear that game
tonight on ninety three point three Kjfemue, Home of the Crack,
and we'll detail that factor fition.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It is eleven thirty five.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's Chris's turn, his next to last turn of the contest.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because it ends on Friday. I know, sorry, broken up
about that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm broken up because I'm finishing under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you're not last.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Hey, nothing's gonna top what I did a few years back.
I don't know how that happened. You have improved. Who's
in first?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Okay, let me take a look.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'll make you doing it. The show.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Our show is in first by the way, and I
picked the army again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So if you ride with me, you're gonna win a
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're not You're not gonna like this Ian, No, it's
anders Anderson's first.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh he picks like three? What's he like?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Two and one, seven and.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Four, seven and four? Over how many weeks? Hey?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Come on, I lo ton't even count. What what am I?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Bucky is twelve and eight and then you're twenty two
and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Twenty two wins. I got ten more wins than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Come on, well to remember, Greg, it's just you and I.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
So the Morning Show they have three picks between people,
and then sander Anderson and Furness and Jessemine they have
three picks between them as well, So someone's gonna get four. Okay,
you know, how's the mayor doing? Sixteen and eighteen, twenty
two and twelve? Yeah, twenty two and fifteen for you, the.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Twenty two and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Don't take that twenty two wins if you just picked me,
if you just listen to my picks, now you pick
fact every time?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You have twenty two right answers for that little content here?
How many Army picks have you made every week?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So let's take eleven away from them and then twice
another name. So, yeah, that would be interesting if we
didn't have any Army picks.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But you know I've lost three Army I lost one
on and over and then I lost two.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
How many times you picked them? Like if you just
heard it? But nonetheless, twenty two and fifteen, that's that's not.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, thank you very much. Seven and four should pick
every other week.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it's it's tough. Eleven thirty five will be your
factor fiction chance today. Eleven thirty year texts four nine
four to five one to tell them what text slimence
game time. It's tylight time, I'll ask right off the top.
Is Aaron Rodgers done to you? You watched him closely
because you're a Seahawks fan watching Seahawks Jets Sunday that
he looked like he should just hang it up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He missed a lot of throwers, thinking, man, he makes
those three that was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The most that's the most efficient passer in NFL history,
just missing.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Wow, he's missing by a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It was windy out there. I did say that I
don't make excuses. He did say that you know Smith
threw in the same win. I was, yeah, come on, man,
what are we doing out here? I didn't hear Gino
talk about the wind in the post game conference.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Because he won't. That's true. Headlines brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (04:46):
Thirty seven year old coach Mike McDonald left the Seahawks
yesterday be with his wife, Stephanie, who apparently was close
to her went into labor yesterday after the Seahawks got
back from their win over the Jets in the meadow
Lands in New Jersey. The couples backing their first baby Anytime.
Assistant head coach Leslie Fraser did McDonald's day after being
press conference yesterday, and he's pretty excited. He's a dad
(05:08):
of three. He's pretty excited for his protege, Mike McDonald.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Really excited for Mike and Stephanie for what they experienced.
And my wife and I we have three kids, so
I remember those days. So really excited for him. But
for me, I mean, Mike has put together a great foundation.
It's just a matter of getting out of the way
and let the coaches do what they do and let
the players do what they do, and we've got a
good infrastructure set and it should bode well for us
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as we go forward.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was really soothing listen talking to Leslie Fraser. He's
a native Mississippian, and he just was spinning yarn. It
was like sitting on a porch listening to tales. I
was in the airport in Newark, which is just a madhouse,
and it was calming to just listen to his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All the stress going on, and Greg is like, you
know what, thank you, Leslie.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm boarding to playing listening on my headphones to the
press conference, and it just I was enjoying listening to how.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He spoke slowly, clearly. He gave very thoughtful and detailed
answers about Geno Smith, about facing him and how he's
grown since the last time he faced him. He was
on Baltimore staff with McDonald in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
For those who don't know who the background, why is
Leslie Fraser the assistant head coach for the Seahawks. Well
they were on the same staff, Mike McDonald and Leslie
Fraser in twenty sixteen under John Harbor with the Ravens,
same defensive assistance and when Mike McDonald got the Seahawks job.
One of the first guys he called was Leslie Fraser.
He wanted him to be his confident on his sounding wed,
his right hand man. And he's basically what Carl Tator
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Smith was to Pete Carroll for fifteen years and most
of those fifteen years, and and Mike McDonald said that
Leslie Fraser's indispensable. Fraser has his hands on a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I noticed when.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
One of the fourth downs on the fourth and goal failed,
fourth and goal for the Seahawks against the Jets on Sunday,
Fraser was the last guy on the sideline to talk
to Gino Smith before he went back out onto the
field after a timeout.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So he's involved in everything.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He's a defensive mind, defensive head coach, defensive coordinator for
the Bills for five years before at ending in twenty
twenty two before this year coming back to in the NFL,
and coach he went to Seahawks. So that's the context
to why he's talking before he left or First of all,
we ask Leslie Fraser if there's a chance Mike McDonald
would still be away for Sunday's game at Arizona, and
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of course, Fraser, being a parent, said well, as we
all know his parents, babies are on their own schedule
and the team will be playing that by a McDonald
could be back today, he could be back tomorrow the
next day. That's whenever wife Stephanie delivers their first baby.
All the best to them on that. Before he left,
McDonald cut Labiscus Chanal and we mentioned how that was
(07:47):
somewhat of a surprise. The Seahawks wave the veteran kickoff
returnment after he fumbled two kickoffs in the first half
Sunday to put Seattle in a twenty one to seven
hole at the Jets. As I mentioned, it wouldn't have
surprise me if now Dee Williams is not going to
return either. He's only on the roster to return kicks,
the undrafted rookie from Tennessee. He fumbled one two and
lost his first of the three fumbles in the first
(08:07):
half on kickoffs, and he has fumbled punts as well
this season. So if they don't want to go, they
cut Schanal. They waved him technically, and they have Dee Williams.
They don't want to do that. Kenny McIntosh is on
the roster in name only he's not doing anything he
could be and has done some kickoff return and including
(08:27):
a little bit this year. And Trey Brown, who also
is now not doing much of anything except special teams.
He's not playing on defense right now. It's an extra corner.
He's another option to kickoff return. He's wanted to do
it for years. I remember talking to him at the
FanFest game in August in Lumenfield and he's saying he's
really itching to return kicks. He's an option too, So
(08:48):
they have some in house options. They now have an
open roster spot. The Seahawks do for cutting for Waving Chanalt,
but that most likely at least reading the tea leaves
is going to go to a chin and Wo Soup,
the outside linebacker's been on injured reserve and has played
only twenty snaps all season, been on injured reserve twice.
Mike McDonald said it's maybe sooner than later that in
(09:08):
Wilso comes back as soon as this week, and he
mentioned as long ago it was Friday before the Jets game,
that there's a possibility that in Wolsu plays on Sunday
at Arizona and that would help a defense on top
of what they're already doing. That would be a big
ad for them. Jamis Winston had a four hundred passing
last game last night, but through two interceptions, the Bronco's
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returned for two touchdowns, including the clinching one late. Denver
won and home over Cleveland last night forty one thirty two.
The Broncos are now eight and five, firmly in an
AFC playoff contention. Browns didn't play like a three and
eight team last night. I watched that game on the
plane coming home. I think Jameis Winston should be their
quarterback for foreseeable future, right. I mean, I know they
gave two hundred and fifty million dollars Deshaun Watson, but
(09:51):
man four hundred plus yards I think two pick sickles.
But that last one just behind the receiver though, to
make across the field is you gotta really rip it?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He did not exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The NFL this morning suspended Houston's disease au share three
games for the hit on sliding Trevor Lawrence. You may
have seen that in the Texans Jaguars game. The Jaguars
quarterback got knocked out of the game on that hit.
Three games suspension for Alser. The Kraken begin their tough
road trip tonight in Carolina. Pregame shows at six thirty
with Mike Benton, puck drop with every fitzchuw Al Kaminski
(10:26):
against the Strong Hurricanes seven pm. Tonight here in your
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College basketball. Last night Washington State their men's team now
seven to two. They had a good win last night,
Chris at Nevada in Reno. That's a good team, sixty
eight to fifty seven, six and two Nevada Wolfpack.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now after losing to Washington State now seven and two, and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Tonight on nine to fifty KJR AM, the Washington Huskies
men's team is down in Los Angeles to play UCLA
in their Big Ten opening. You know the ancient rivalry
of Washington, Big Ten rivalry of Washington, Ucla said seven
thirty tip off with Tony cast Cone, Jason Hamilton and
a seven o'clock pregame. That's on a nine to fifty
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AM side, because we get cracking pucks on the FM side.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Your tax four nine four or five one, tell him
we're do tax Islands game time. It's tele a time again.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We will ask first off the top is to you,
did you think Aaron Rodgers has done or do you
think he's just on a bad team. He will probably
try to play and some team will probably try to
sign him, which means he'll probably play through his forty
second birthday next year. He turned forty one yesterday. At
one point, Chris the NFL's career leader in passing efficiency
(11:37):
in that game Sunday was fourteen for twenty eight, and
we talked about the wide open throw to Garrett Wilson
that he had. Wilson beat Josh Job in the second
quarter down the right sideline in the end zone, a
fade wall. If he underhand tosses that it's probably twenty
eight to seven, missed him by three yards. And that
play was the play before Leondard Williams's Epich pick six
(12:00):
that changed the game. Instead of twenty eight seven Jets,
it was twenty one to thirteen. Jets never scored again,
never even got close to scored again, and the Seahawk
scored nineteen consecutive points. I'm reading my notes and there's
a correction here because the Kraken start at four o'clock
tonight on the East Coast in Raleigh, North Carolina. They'll
be done by the time you dubbed tips off. So
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the East coast. Got that, So we get a doubleheader
tonight of kracking. It's actually three thirty pregame show with
the Crack in four o'clock East Coast time, because I've
been in the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
For the last four days.
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Three thirty pregame show with Mike Benton Kracking at Carolina
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Drop at four then seven o'clock.
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You dub at UCLA Men's Hoops from Polly Pavilion on
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Speaker 1 (12:54):
So I get that straight.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Chris Girpayton, you saw Iron Rodgers, you've seen him. That
was very Do you think that was the end of
Aaron Rodgers' career?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
To be honest, the Jets are in a really tough
situation because if they don't bring Aaron Rodgers back, it's
not like they're gonna really I don't know what quarterback
they're going to bring in Tyrod Taylor is the number
two right now? Well, we saw him in Seattle. It
didn't No, it wasn't. Who who am I thinking of?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That was in Seattle? Oh my gosh, PJ.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Walker? Never mind two different quarterbacks? But any who?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, so you go with Tyrod Taylor, Well, it sounds
like you're gonna have maybe seven wins, maybe eight wins.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Double what they're gonna have this year.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah, which is also maybe it's time for a clean slate.
You already fired your coach, you're looking for others, looking
for a new GM. They got a lot of issues
going on. Are you really ready to punt on it?
Because the defense is still good. The defense has a
lot of pieces they just can't tackle and they suck
this season. But that is the question they're gonna have
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to figure out these next few weeks. And if you
punt on Aaron Rodgers, does he still want to play?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He disputed that he never said that he would not
play with the Jets next season, although Russini and for another, oh,
Zach Rosenblat of the Athletic clearly have the insight.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So they just Aaron Rodgers yet lying again.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I don't know why he does that, but I if
I were the Jets, I were to try to keep
another year and hope that, you know, he plays better.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But I just they're in limbo.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They're really in a they're in purgatory right now.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
How about for the Seahawks, who would you put back
at kickoff return?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Now that you've cut Leabiscus, Give de Williams another chance?
Hell though, Jackson Smith and gippit back there. Yeah, he
was lobbying for it during the game. I don't know
if the TV cameras I noticed that, but someone said
he was yelling at the coaches, but it was more asking.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
He wasn't exactly berating him, But yeah, he was definitely
trying to get in the game on that.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But I understand, Oh, crazyes our wide receiver, Why do
you want to put him a harm's way?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Look, buddy, you know who they should put back there
because he's sure as hell ain't getting touches in the
open field right now, Ken Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They tried, though, they did.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I mean, hell, they gave him a jet sweep pass
that went for one yard because Tomlinson missed the key.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Give him a thirty yard gap between the defenders and him.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I could if I say thow Jackson Smith and jabb
back there in the text line says Chris, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's one of our star receivers.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They're not gonna like Kim walking out there either.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But I'm just saying it's not I feel you. They
get him touches. My goodness. He only had what forty
yards again, sixteen carries for that's just and they tried.
The biggest run he had was wiped away because Lucas
was caught holding.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Just what that was a legitimate hold time.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, no argument.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
For me, No neither from Abe. Lucas, by the way,
had really colorful shoes on. I could see him from
the press box. I meant to go up to him
after the game and asked him about.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Is he fine for that? By chance?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I know the NFL has no this was there. Mike
cleats my cause week, that's right, okay, So I wanted
to ask him what his cause was, and I just
was busy doing other things. But yeah, he had a
potpourri of colors on his feet. They were out, they
were the most I don't know if you could catch
that on TV, but they were the most colorful shoes
on the field. I did notice that from the seven
hundred level of the MetLife Stadium, so I meant to
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ask him about that, and I forgot. Coming up next,
Gino Smith. He didn't win the Seahawks game Sunday against
it just but he didn't lose it either. In the
way that Mike McDonald's defense is playing, that's really what's
most important.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's what the head coach wants.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You'll hear from Mike mcdoe'll tell you what he said
after the game about that, and we'll talk about Geno
Smith and his playing Sunday, which may not have stood
out to you, but it did to his coach. That's
next eleven o'clock. Jorry Epstein, senior NFL writer from Yahoo
Sports and Factor Fictions is eleven thirty five. All that
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Cracking Ticket Tuesday. Geo Smith on Sunday, he didn't win
the game. It's not like the offense took out is
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Leonard Williams's pick six and the two sacks by Leonard
Williams and the last drive when the Jets had gotten
across midfield and then the Kobe Bryant blitz in the
final play that affected Aaron Rodgers on fourth down.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's what won the game.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But Genal Smith didn't lose the game either, and Mike
McDonald talked after the game on why that was. And
there was one reason and one reason only. He didn't
turn the ball over he had thrown. We get this
right off the top of my head, I think it
was six interceptions in the previous four games. He had
entered the game Sunday leading the league in interceptions with twelve.
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He no longer does that because Kirk Cousins blew up
on himself in Atlanta against the Chargers on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We're gonna talk to joey Epstein about that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
By the way, is Michael like I almost said Michael Biggs,
Is Michael Pennix gonna be a starting quarterback in Atlanta
this year? The way Kirk Cousins is playing. He doesn't
have a touchdown in four games, and he threw four
interceptions against the Chargers. He now leads the league. Cousins
does in interceptions with thirteen, which is totally against his career.
But anyway, Gino Smith did not do that against the Jets,
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and after the game, that's what Mike mcdonaldnald was talking about,
is the fact that Smith, if he can play like this,
the way the defense is playing, this is how the
team can win. And that's what they need from the
quarterback position. Chris as much as he's throwing the ball
and as much as Ryan Grubb is calling pass plays,
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he just can't make mistakes. The amount of opportunity make mistakes,
of course, is much more when you're leading the league attempts.
And so after the game on Sunday, we ask Mike McDonald,
as we often do, to assess we just Brady Henderson
and VSPN dot Com is the guy to do it
this time, But we always ask some form of the question,
what did you think of Gino smith day? He's an
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open canvas so that the coach can go wherever he wants.
And McDonald said, quote, I mean we won the game.
He took care of the ball for the most part.
He made some critical fourth down extended plays that not
a lot of people on this planet can make. And
then thought he managed the game well. We didn't have
to run any time out meaning playclock running down, didn't
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have the right personnel whatever, he managed that part of it.
I mean, those are the type of games. That's the
way he has to play for us to win. And
he did that. And McDonald's point is, I want to
win this gague. I want to win with our defense
and with our quarterback taking care of the ball and
not giving the other team the ball. He threw thirty
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one passes on Sunday, completed twenty and the thirty one
throws all thirty one of them did not go to
the other team. And that really is the bottom line
right now for Geno Smith at quarterback. Yeah, he's been
leading the league in completions and yards for most of
the season, but he's also led him in the interceptions,
led the league in interceptions. So Chris all this angst
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about Gino Smith, if he just doesn't turn the ball over,
they can win the division. With the way the defense
is playing out. We'll see if the defense can sustain this.
But between Leonard Williams and Ernest Jones and Devin Witherspoon
and Kobe Bryant, Riek Wollman had a good game. I
thought on Jillian Loved Jolliane Love had an out standing game.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Back to back weeks.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
If those guys continue this up the middle of the
spine of the defense, which is where Mike McDonald wants
to be strongest, they can win with Gino Smith not
turning the ball over.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
That's what it comes down to. What did Russell Wilson
do when they had that deep run. He didn't turn
the football over. They didn't need him to do anything
other than hand the ball off to Marshawn Lynch, make
pivotal throws on maybe third down, throw a touchdown here
or there. It's not as if he was thrown for
three hundred yards a game or two ninety. And that's
kind of the same blueprint, although it's different with Mike
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McDonald's defense and the Seahawks offense obviously, but that's kind
of the blueprint. Hey, we just need you to take
care of the football, get us some points, and we'll
do the rest.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Second fewest yards throwing in the game on Sunday two
o six and second fewest completions that he had this
season with no good thing for second with twenty did
But do you know that technically the game winning drive,
even though the Jets handed him to drive with two
penalties on fourth downs, the twelve men on the field
and then the passing inference for twenty yards on fourth
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and one, the Jets absolutely gave the Seahawks the Zach
Sarbonny touchdown drive.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh they gave up on that run. I'm not gonna
lie five and a half, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, the linebacker missed the tackle in the hole and
he was the only guy in position.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
He would just look like, all right, bro, you just
go ahead score.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But that was even though it was gifted to him.
That was still Smith's eighth game winning drive in the
fourth quarter overtime the last two seasons. He and Patrick
Mahomes lead the NFL in game winning drives of the
last two seasons. You would never think that, right he
led the league. Smith did last year with five. Now
he's got three this year. Smith has eleven game winning
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drives late in the last three seasons. That's the second
most in the NFL in the last three years. So
when everyone's angst in about Gino Smith, remember inside the
building what they think of him. He wins games in
the clutch, and.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
When he doesn't turn the ball over, they win by
and large, and he makes.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Plays in the term of his coach Mike McDonald that
few on the planet can make the fourth and one
in the third quarter. Excuse me, it was fourth and
sixth and take that back. Jackson played at Jackson, Smith
and Jig, but I thought was as good a play
as he's had, maybe all season, but certainly recently.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was flushed.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He originally was looking to throw to Jackson, Smith and
jigbond An en route, and then Quinn Williams came right
up the middle beat Lake and Tomlinson with an inside
swim move, and so he had to get away from
that and Smith ran to his left and Jackson Smith
and Jigbas saw that and.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Did a tiger Lockett.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
He averted his route from a crosser to sprinting out
to the opposite direction, right to the left, to the
left sideline to run in the direction of his quarterback,
and that's when Gino Smith threw a perfect pass away
from the defender and for a first down. I think
it was twenty six yard game it ended up being
only that was the field goal drive that got him
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to twenty one sixteen twenty one nineteen. But that was
mcgonal was talking about a few plays on the planet
can make, and we saw him do it against Arizona
where he ran to the left and he ran to
the right and he threw the DK metcalf for eighteen
yards on the key drive that assaulted the game away
with the clinching field goal late. So those kind of plays, Chris,
on top of not turning the ball over, they'll win
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with the defense doing what they're doing right now. Now again,
there's still five games left. They still have to go
two Arizona this weekend, they have to go to the Rams,
who already beat him on the final game of the
regular season, and they have those back to back home
games against Green Bay and Minnesota, which are not going
to be picnics at all, and then the game at
meant at Chicago. The fifth game of those five is
at Chicago on December twenty sixth, where they're going to
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leave on Christmas afternoon. So far to say that, hey,
they're as long as you know, the Smith doesn't turn
the ball over, they're going to win the division. But Chris,
the defense allows the quarterback to have the opportunity to
games at the end as long as he's not turned
the ball over. That was the point that Mike McDonald
made after the game four nine, four to five one
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on the tell him We'll do text line. We've talked
about Geno Smith in his future for a long time
on the show and all the shows here on kJ
are But where you stand on him when he doesn't
turn the ball over? Can you see how the Seahawks
see him as the quarterback not just for this year,
for next year, perhaps for twenty twenty six and beyond,
because they have no air parent. The guy that is
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their backup led the NFL in interceptions last season, Sam Howe,
who's played just one snap all year, Or do you
want him to just rip it up a quarterback and
go a completely different direction next year, which means signing
a free agency or drafting one, and they're not going
to be drafting in a high enough position to get
one at the top the top.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Of the draft.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The free agency situation of signing a quarterback that could
help you immediately, you think upgrade the position from Geno
Smith is going to cost you money that you're going
to have to spend or may make a decision to
spend on dCas metcalf and we've talked about how he's
gonna probably be one hundred million dollar guy, if not
from Seattle, from somebody his contract ending next year, and
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you would think, I think, and I've talked about this,
and I've told you the reasons why that they're going
to resign him for one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So wouldn't you wouldn't think that they're.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Going to go out and get a quarterback that could
make a difference and be an upgrade on Geno Smith?
If you're going to give metcalf ae hundred million, And
I know I'm going to hear some of you on
the text line saying, well, don't give me a metcalf
A one hundred million and go get you by your quarterback.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Who's that going to be?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Who's available as a free agent for one hundred million
dollars at quarterback? That's going to be better than what
they have right now?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You did that exercise, it's slim. It is slim four.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Nine, four to five one, and tell him what to
text line will read that back at eleven thirty eleven
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We'll talk to her at eleven as we do every
Tuesday at this time.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Up next, there were two defensive plays.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You all saw the Leonard Williams pick sixth and we
broke that down yesterday schematically on what Mike McDonald did there.
But there was another play at the end of the game,
and those two plays really show that Mike McDonald is
quote in his bag, as Devin Witherspoon said last week, schematically,
and we'll explain that next ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (27:38):
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Color, Yes, we did. Brian what was the last name, Beverly.
Brian Beverly was our last winner, So congratula agents to
Brian Beverly.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
He's going to the Cracking game on December thirty.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Brian heard the cracking sounder from ever Fitsu and the
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Speaker 1 (28:06):
Five ninety five.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We'll do it again next hour and at the twelve
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December thirtieth game against Utah. Will do that every hour,
every Tuesday. We do that here on ninety three point
three KJRFM. On Sunday in the Meadowlands, I was watching
Leonard Williams dropped from nose tackle into pass coverage after
faking a pass rush and fooling the twenty year veteran
(28:50):
three time League MVP Aaron Rodgers into the interception last
time on the plane home. Do you follow the coach
thirty on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh, it's hilarious Brendan Clinton. He does parodies of being
a coach in film.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Sessiony see, these are things we got to play on
the air.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh man, Well, some of it is not suitable for work.
Well I can edit it out. Man. If it's a
couple of bleeds, baby, I got it. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So here's what you're gonna do for those of you
that don't you guys got to see this, so yeah,
we're gonna have to make this Brendon Clinton. It's at
mister Go thirty, at MRG thirty. Okay, what's the latest one?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, I'm asking. The latest one was a Highest State Michigan.
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I've seen this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yes, it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He said they're gonna have to have squabble practice because
they were so bad. Like he is hilarious. I know exactly.
I didn't know that was okay, continue though, Well.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I was watching because I had seven and a half
hours on the plane last night. I was watching the
backclips of him I haven't seen during the season. I
missed it for last month or so. The Highest State
Michigan is classic. I grew up in Ohio. Sent to
my son.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He loved it.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
They had a Phineas and Ferb reference. For those of
you old enough, new finishing, young enough to know who
Phineas and furmore, he said, the Ohio state kicker. Man,
we were so close. We were closer than Phineas and
Ferb and you still missed. He's great and he does
what coaches. He talked just like coaches do. And at
MRG thirty, Yes, Brendan Clinton. Yes, we're gonna thank you, Chris,
(30:20):
We're gonna start doing that. Matter of fact, maybe at
the break I can get you some of the higher
state Michigan.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
No, I'm on it right now, but anyway, Yes, I
was going back through those and he was doing the
Jets and Vikings in London. He did a spoof of that,
and the very first play of that game he showed
the spoof. He said he was talking about Aaron Rodgers said,
you were fooled on the double mugget at your age,
how could you be fooled on that? And the play
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the Vikings had was very similar to what the Seahawks did,
and the linebacker faked the blitz. They faked the double
mug blitz is it the double wind side linebacker blitz
and then dropped off, and they fooled Roger into thinking
there'd be nobody in the middle of the field for
a crosser route on a quick cross thinking he was
going to beat the blitz picked six touchdown for the Vikings.
(31:08):
I guarantee you, Mike McDonald.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Course he saw that in game film study. He took
put a tweak on that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Instead instead of sending my dropping my linebackers off. I'm
going to crowd them on the line with my line man,
and I'm going to drop the nose tackle off. So
he took a version of what the Vikings beat Rogers with,
knowing that Rogers would then work extra hard not to
do that and to prepare for other teams to show
him a double linebacker, a gap blitz and drop off
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in the coverage.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And he did the opposite.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He sent his nose tackle off the line and basically
did the same thing the Vikings did, but with a
different person a sixty five three hundred pound, three pound
nose tackle. Another example of Mike McDonald's thinking. And here
I am watching clips trying to be entertained, and I saw,
haha McDonald used a version of m Now he might
have done that anyway, but he saw an example of
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the Vikings scoring a pick six on it, He tweaks it,
uses nose tackle, gets his own pick six for the Seahawks,
and wins the game that play plus the final play
of the game, Chris fourth down, running clock, no timeouts
for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Down by five, They're on the plus side of the field.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
A first down there and it gets dicey for the Seahawks,
they spike it and Rogers will have three plays from
about the twenty five yard line to win the game.
Most teams on that I think it was fourth and eight.
Most teams would drop three to the goal line and
five to the linus to the line the game, to
the sticks and say, don't be us here.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What did Mike McDonald do.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
He blitz Kobe Bryant. A lot of coaches would not
blitz your safety in that situation. He's your one of
your last men back. Well, he blitz Kobe Bryant, and
I was watching through the binoculars at the time on
Holy Coow, here goes number eight into the backfield. At
number eight, McDonald didn't sit back and let Aaron Rodgers
dictate that place. He talks a lot about McDonald does
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about dictating to an offense. And on the final play
of the game, they had to have the sticks, had
to have to win. He dictated to Aaron Rodgers by
blitzing Kobe Bryant, and Bryant affected the throw. He made
Rogers throw sooner. He was in Rodgers's face when he
did it, and the pass came nowhere near I think
it was Devontae Adams on Devin Witherspoon, and Witherspoon had
him blanketed at about the ten yard line and went five
(33:23):
yards past them, both incomplete game over Seahawks first place.
Those two plays, Chris the Leonard Williams dropped from those
tackle and Kobe Bryant blitzing on the final play of
the game show you that those days of him just
worried about the guys being in the right place and
doing the right things are long gone.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
And it took him two to three months of the season.
But now he's getting into his bag.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
As Devin Witherspoon said last week, schematically and doing these
things that he was not able to do earlier in
the season. And these are the things that made the
Baltimore Ravens the number one defense in the NFL. And
only now in late November early December are we seeing
that at showing up on the Seahawks defense. It's because
of how Lennard Williams is playing. It's because of how
Kobe Bryant, Julian Love, Devin Witherspoon, and Ernest Jones a
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plan up the center of his defense. It's in emboldening
the rookie coach to get into his bag. But I
wanted to point out those two plays that I thought
stood out to show I don't think McDonald calls those
plays even a month ago because of the problems they
were having in basic run defense and in the basics
of being in the right spot and lining up four.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Nine, four to five one.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Your impressions of Mike McDonald as a rookie head coach.
We'll answer that at eleven thirty. Are you impressed?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You wanted some of you wanted them fired about three
weeks ago when they were four and five.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
They're seven to five and in first place going into
Arizona six and six Arizona on Sunday one oh five,
Channel seven locally. Up next, Jory Epstein, senior NFL writer
for Yahoo Sports. He joined us every Tuesday at eleven.
It'll be Tuesday at eleven, so we'll talk to her again.
Thanks to Zeke's Pizza zekespizza dot com. Eleven thirty five
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Gets some Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Maybe you have sixty degrees out there, seventy.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Maybe you got their Parkison down in Phoenix because it's
got under sixty at night. Now that'll be on Sunday
at one oh five. It's a local CBS channel seven game.
Usually Fox has the in the NFC games, but this
one is a one off and it's gonna be on
CBS Channel seven locally.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Today's a cracking ticket Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
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kJ r f M.
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It's also Tuesday, which means Jory Epstein will join us
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
She'll join us at eleven o'clock. Is Aaron Rodgers done?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm gonna ask her that she's a New York person
now based there. He sure looked done when I saw
him in the Meadowlands in person. On Sunday, we'll talk
about that. We'll talk about the forty nine ers. The
sky is falling down in the Bay Area for sure.
But the biggest news in the day here in this
building probably should be in the Northwest, is that our
own Mike Holmgren, the coach, is now one step away
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from enshrinment in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We'll
talk about more about that in a minute, but a
lot of excitement here in the building for our own
KJRS analyst Mike Holmgren. He's a finalist for enshrinement in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Current Seahawks coach Mike McDonald.
He's away from the team for a great reason. We'll
tell you why. And Chris, don't drop kickoffs if you
(01:50):
want to stay on the Seahawks. Huh that I'm not
gonna lie. I was kind of shocked they just guillotined him.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I thought, Okay, Chriscus, you know you talk to him. Hey, man,
we can't have you do. But they said, yeah, we'll
find someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It wouldn't surprise me if de Williams also isn't returning
Kicks Sunday and Hours and we'll talk about that. The
Cracking returned from there last weekend to be in a
challenging road trip back east tonight. You'll hear that game
tonight on ninety three point three Kjfemue, Home of the Crack,
and we'll detail that factor fition.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
It is eleven thirty five.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's Chris's turn, his next to last turn of the contest.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because it ends on Friday. I know, sorry, broken up
about that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm broken up because I'm finishing under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But you're not last.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Hey, nothing's gonna top what I did a few years back.
I don't know how that happened. You have improved. Who's
in first?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Okay, let me take a look.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I'll make you doing it. The show.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Our show is in first by the way, and I
picked the army again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So if you ride with me, you're gonna win a
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're not You're not gonna like this Ian, No, it's
anders Anderson's first.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh he picks like three? What's he like?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Two and one, seven and.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Four, seven and four? Over how many weeks? Hey?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Come on, I lo ton't even count. What what am I?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Bucky is twelve and eight and then you're twenty two
and fifteen.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Twenty two wins. I got ten more wins than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Come on, well to remember, Greg, it's just you and I.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
So the Morning Show they have three picks between people,
and then sander Anderson and Furness and Jessemine they have
three picks between them as well, So someone's gonna get four. Okay,
you know, how's the mayor doing? Sixteen and eighteen, twenty
two and twelve? Yeah, twenty two and fifteen for you, the.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Twenty two and fifteen.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Don't take that twenty two wins if you just picked me,
if you just listen to my picks, now you pick
fact every time?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You have twenty two right answers for that little content here?
How many Army picks have you made every week?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So let's take eleven away from them and then twice
another name. So, yeah, that would be interesting if we
didn't have any Army picks.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But you know I've lost three Army I lost one
on and over and then I lost two.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
How many times you picked them? Like if you just
heard it? But nonetheless, twenty two and fifteen, that's that's not.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, thank you very much. Seven and four should pick
every other week.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it's it's tough. Eleven thirty five will be your
factor fiction chance today. Eleven thirty year texts four nine
four to five one to tell them what text slimence
game time. It's tylight time, I'll ask right off the top.
Is Aaron Rodgers done to you? You watched him closely
because you're a Seahawks fan watching Seahawks Jets Sunday that
he looked like he should just hang it up.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He missed a lot of throwers, thinking, man, he makes
those three that was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
The most that's the most efficient passer in NFL history,
just missing.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Wow, he's missing by a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It was windy out there. I did say that I
don't make excuses. He did say that you know Smith
threw in the same win. I was, yeah, come on, man,
what are we doing out here? I didn't hear Gino
talk about the wind in the post game conference.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Because he won't. That's true. Headlines brought to you by
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Speaker 3 (04:46):
Thirty seven year old coach Mike McDonald left the Seahawks
yesterday be with his wife, Stephanie, who apparently was close
to her went into labor yesterday after the Seahawks got
back from their win over the Jets in the meadow
Lands in New Jersey. The couples backing their first baby Anytime.
Assistant head coach Leslie Fraser did McDonald's day after being
press conference yesterday, and he's pretty excited. He's a dad
(05:08):
of three. He's pretty excited for his protege, Mike McDonald.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Really excited for Mike and Stephanie for what they experienced.
And my wife and I we have three kids, so
I remember those days. So really excited for him. But
for me, I mean, Mike has put together a great foundation.
It's just a matter of getting out of the way
and let the coaches do what they do and let
the players do what they do, and we've got a
good infrastructure set and it should bode well for us
(05:34):
as we go forward.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was really soothing listen talking to Leslie Fraser. He's
a native Mississippian, and he just was spinning yarn. It
was like sitting on a porch listening to tales. I
was in the airport in Newark, which is just a madhouse,
and it was calming to just listen to his voice.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All the stress going on, and Greg is like, you
know what, thank you, Leslie.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm boarding to playing listening on my headphones to the
press conference, and it just I was enjoying listening to how.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He spoke slowly, clearly. He gave very thoughtful and detailed
answers about Geno Smith, about facing him and how he's
grown since the last time he faced him. He was
on Baltimore staff with McDonald in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
For those who don't know who the background, why is
Leslie Fraser the assistant head coach for the Seahawks. Well
they were on the same staff, Mike McDonald and Leslie
Fraser in twenty sixteen under John Harbor with the Ravens,
same defensive assistance and when Mike McDonald got the Seahawks job.
One of the first guys he called was Leslie Fraser.
He wanted him to be his confident on his sounding wed,
his right hand man. And he's basically what Carl Tator
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Smith was to Pete Carroll for fifteen years and most
of those fifteen years, and and Mike McDonald said that
Leslie Fraser's indispensable. Fraser has his hands on a little
bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I noticed when.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
One of the fourth downs on the fourth and goal failed,
fourth and goal for the Seahawks against the Jets on Sunday,
Fraser was the last guy on the sideline to talk
to Gino Smith before he went back out onto the
field after a timeout.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So he's involved in everything.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
He's a defensive mind, defensive head coach, defensive coordinator for
the Bills for five years before at ending in twenty
twenty two before this year coming back to in the NFL,
and coach he went to Seahawks. So that's the context
to why he's talking before he left or First of all,
we ask Leslie Fraser if there's a chance Mike McDonald
would still be away for Sunday's game at Arizona, and
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of course, Fraser, being a parent, said well, as we
all know his parents, babies are on their own schedule
and the team will be playing that by a McDonald
could be back today, he could be back tomorrow the
next day. That's whenever wife Stephanie delivers their first baby.
All the best to them on that. Before he left,
McDonald cut Labiscus Chanal and we mentioned how that was
(07:47):
somewhat of a surprise. The Seahawks wave the veteran kickoff
returnment after he fumbled two kickoffs in the first half
Sunday to put Seattle in a twenty one to seven
hole at the Jets. As I mentioned, it wouldn't have
surprise me if now Dee Williams is not going to
return either. He's only on the roster to return kicks,
the undrafted rookie from Tennessee. He fumbled one two and
lost his first of the three fumbles in the first
(08:07):
half on kickoffs, and he has fumbled punts as well
this season. So if they don't want to go, they
cut Schanal. They waved him technically, and they have Dee Williams.
They don't want to do that. Kenny McIntosh is on
the roster in name only he's not doing anything he
could be and has done some kickoff return and including
(08:27):
a little bit this year. And Trey Brown, who also
is now not doing much of anything except special teams.
He's not playing on defense right now. It's an extra corner.
He's another option to kickoff return. He's wanted to do
it for years. I remember talking to him at the
FanFest game in August in Lumenfield and he's saying he's
really itching to return kicks. He's an option too, So
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they have some in house options. They now have an
open roster spot. The Seahawks do for cutting for Waving Chanalt,
but that most likely at least reading the tea leaves
is going to go to a chin and Wo Soup,
the outside linebacker's been on injured reserve and has played
only twenty snaps all season, been on injured reserve twice.
Mike McDonald said it's maybe sooner than later that in
(09:08):
Wilso comes back as soon as this week, and he
mentioned as long ago it was Friday before the Jets game,
that there's a possibility that in Wolsu plays on Sunday
at Arizona and that would help a defense on top
of what they're already doing. That would be a big
ad for them. Jamis Winston had a four hundred passing
last game last night, but through two interceptions, the Bronco's
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returned for two touchdowns, including the clinching one late. Denver
won and home over Cleveland last night forty one thirty two.
The Broncos are now eight and five, firmly in an
AFC playoff contention. Browns didn't play like a three and
eight team last night. I watched that game on the
plane coming home. I think Jameis Winston should be their
quarterback for foreseeable future, right. I mean, I know they
gave two hundred and fifty million dollars Deshaun Watson, but
(09:51):
man four hundred plus yards I think two pick sickles.
But that last one just behind the receiver though, to
make across the field is you gotta really rip it?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He did not exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
The NFL this morning suspended Houston's disease au share three
games for the hit on sliding Trevor Lawrence. You may
have seen that in the Texans Jaguars game. The Jaguars
quarterback got knocked out of the game on that hit.
Three games suspension for Alser. The Kraken begin their tough
road trip tonight in Carolina. Pregame shows at six thirty
with Mike Benton, puck drop with every fitzchuw Al Kaminski
(10:26):
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College basketball. Last night Washington State their men's team now
seven to two. They had a good win last night,
Chris at Nevada in Reno. That's a good team, sixty
eight to fifty seven, six and two Nevada Wolfpack.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now after losing to Washington State now seven and two, and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Tonight on nine to fifty KJR AM, the Washington Huskies
men's team is down in Los Angeles to play UCLA
in their Big Ten opening. You know the ancient rivalry
of Washington, Big Ten rivalry of Washington, Ucla said seven
thirty tip off with Tony cast Cone, Jason Hamilton and
a seven o'clock pregame. That's on a nine to fifty
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AM side, because we get cracking pucks on the FM side.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Your tax four nine four or five one, tell him
we're do tax Islands game time. It's tele a time again.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We will ask first off the top is to you,
did you think Aaron Rodgers has done or do you
think he's just on a bad team. He will probably
try to play and some team will probably try to
sign him, which means he'll probably play through his forty
second birthday next year. He turned forty one yesterday. At
one point, Chris the NFL's career leader in passing efficiency
(11:37):
in that game Sunday was fourteen for twenty eight, and
we talked about the wide open throw to Garrett Wilson
that he had. Wilson beat Josh Job in the second
quarter down the right sideline in the end zone, a
fade wall. If he underhand tosses that it's probably twenty
eight to seven, missed him by three yards. And that
play was the play before Leondard Williams's Epich pick six
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that changed the game. Instead of twenty eight seven Jets,
it was twenty one to thirteen. Jets never scored again,
never even got close to scored again, and the Seahawk
scored nineteen consecutive points. I'm reading my notes and there's
a correction here because the Kraken start at four o'clock
tonight on the East Coast in Raleigh, North Carolina. They'll
be done by the time you dubbed tips off. So
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the East coast. Got that, So we get a doubleheader
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the Crack in four o'clock East Coast time, because I've
been in the East Coast.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
For the last four days.
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Drop at four then seven o'clock.
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Speaker 1 (12:54):
So I get that straight.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Chris Girpayton, you saw Iron Rodgers, you've seen him. That
was very Do you think that was the end of
Aaron Rodgers' career?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
To be honest, the Jets are in a really tough
situation because if they don't bring Aaron Rodgers back, it's
not like they're gonna really I don't know what quarterback
they're going to bring in Tyrod Taylor is the number
two right now? Well, we saw him in Seattle. It
didn't No, it wasn't. Who who am I thinking of?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That was in Seattle? Oh my gosh, PJ.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Walker? Never mind two different quarterbacks? But any who?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, so you go with Tyrod Taylor, Well, it sounds
like you're gonna have maybe seven wins, maybe eight wins.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Double what they're gonna have this year.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah, which is also maybe it's time for a clean slate.
You already fired your coach, you're looking for others, looking
for a new GM. They got a lot of issues
going on. Are you really ready to punt on it?
Because the defense is still good. The defense has a
lot of pieces they just can't tackle and they suck
this season. But that is the question they're gonna have
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to figure out these next few weeks. And if you
punt on Aaron Rodgers, does he still want to play?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He disputed that he never said that he would not
play with the Jets next season, although Russini and for another, oh,
Zach Rosenblat of the Athletic clearly have the insight.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So they just Aaron Rodgers yet lying again.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
I don't know why he does that, but I if
I were the Jets, I were to try to keep
another year and hope that, you know, he plays better.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But I just they're in limbo.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They're really in a they're in purgatory right now.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
How about for the Seahawks, who would you put back
at kickoff return?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Now that you've cut Leabiscus, Give de Williams another chance?
Hell though, Jackson Smith and gippit back there. Yeah, he
was lobbying for it during the game. I don't know
if the TV cameras I noticed that, but someone said
he was yelling at the coaches, but it was more asking.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
He wasn't exactly berating him, But yeah, he was definitely
trying to get in the game on that.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But I understand, Oh, crazyes our wide receiver, Why do
you want to put him a harm's way?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Look, buddy, you know who they should put back there
because he's sure as hell ain't getting touches in the
open field right now, Ken Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They tried, though, they did.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I mean, hell, they gave him a jet sweep pass
that went for one yard because Tomlinson missed the key.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Give him a thirty yard gap between the defenders and him.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I could if I say thow Jackson Smith and jabb
back there in the text line says Chris, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
He's one of our star receivers.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They're not gonna like Kim walking out there either.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But I'm just saying it's not I feel you. They
get him touches. My goodness. He only had what forty
yards again, sixteen carries for that's just and they tried.
The biggest run he had was wiped away because Lucas
was caught holding.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Just what that was a legitimate hold time.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, no argument.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
For me, No neither from Abe. Lucas, by the way,
had really colorful shoes on. I could see him from
the press box. I meant to go up to him
after the game and asked him about.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Is he fine for that? By chance?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I know the NFL has no this was there. Mike
cleats my cause week, that's right, okay, So I wanted
to ask him what his cause was, and I just
was busy doing other things. But yeah, he had a
potpourri of colors on his feet. They were out, they
were the most I don't know if you could catch
that on TV, but they were the most colorful shoes
on the field. I did notice that from the seven
hundred level of the MetLife Stadium, so I meant to
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ask him about that, and I forgot. Coming up next,
Gino Smith. He didn't win the Seahawks game Sunday against
it just but he didn't lose it either. In the
way that Mike McDonald's defense is playing, that's really what's
most important.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's what the head coach wants.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You'll hear from Mike mcdoe'll tell you what he said
after the game about that, and we'll talk about Geno
Smith and his playing Sunday, which may not have stood
out to you, but it did to his coach. That's
next eleven o'clock. Jorry Epstein, senior NFL writer from Yahoo
Sports and Factor Fictions is eleven thirty five. All that
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Cracking Ticket Tuesday. Geo Smith on Sunday, he didn't win
the game. It's not like the offense took out is
(17:55):
Leonard Williams's pick six and the two sacks by Leonard
Williams and the last drive when the Jets had gotten
across midfield and then the Kobe Bryant blitz in the
final play that affected Aaron Rodgers on fourth down.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
That's what won the game.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But Genal Smith didn't lose the game either, and Mike
McDonald talked after the game on why that was. And
there was one reason and one reason only. He didn't
turn the ball over he had thrown. We get this
right off the top of my head, I think it
was six interceptions in the previous four games. He had
entered the game Sunday leading the league in interceptions with twelve.
(18:27):
He no longer does that because Kirk Cousins blew up
on himself in Atlanta against the Chargers on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We're gonna talk to joey Epstein about that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
By the way, is Michael like I almost said Michael Biggs,
Is Michael Pennix gonna be a starting quarterback in Atlanta
this year? The way Kirk Cousins is playing. He doesn't
have a touchdown in four games, and he threw four
interceptions against the Chargers. He now leads the league. Cousins
does in interceptions with thirteen, which is totally against his career.
But anyway, Gino Smith did not do that against the Jets,
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and after the game, that's what Mike mcdonaldnald was talking about,
is the fact that Smith, if he can play like this,
the way the defense is playing, this is how the
team can win. And that's what they need from the
quarterback position. Chris as much as he's throwing the ball
and as much as Ryan Grubb is calling pass plays,
(19:18):
he just can't make mistakes. The amount of opportunity make mistakes,
of course, is much more when you're leading the league attempts.
And so after the game on Sunday, we ask Mike McDonald,
as we often do, to assess we just Brady Henderson
and VSPN dot Com is the guy to do it
this time, But we always ask some form of the question,
what did you think of Gino smith day? He's an
(19:40):
open canvas so that the coach can go wherever he wants.
And McDonald said, quote, I mean we won the game.
He took care of the ball for the most part.
He made some critical fourth down extended plays that not
a lot of people on this planet can make. And
then thought he managed the game well. We didn't have
to run any time out meaning playclock running down, didn't
(20:01):
have the right personnel whatever, he managed that part of it.
I mean, those are the type of games. That's the
way he has to play for us to win. And
he did that. And McDonald's point is, I want to
win this gague. I want to win with our defense
and with our quarterback taking care of the ball and
not giving the other team the ball. He threw thirty
(20:22):
one passes on Sunday, completed twenty and the thirty one
throws all thirty one of them did not go to
the other team. And that really is the bottom line
right now for Geno Smith at quarterback. Yeah, he's been
leading the league in completions and yards for most of
the season, but he's also led him in the interceptions,
led the league in interceptions. So Chris all this angst
(20:42):
about Gino Smith, if he just doesn't turn the ball over,
they can win the division. With the way the defense
is playing out. We'll see if the defense can sustain this.
But between Leonard Williams and Ernest Jones and Devin Witherspoon
and Kobe Bryant, Riek Wollman had a good game. I
thought on Jillian Loved Jolliane Love had an out standing game.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Back to back weeks.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
If those guys continue this up the middle of the
spine of the defense, which is where Mike McDonald wants
to be strongest, they can win with Gino Smith not
turning the ball over.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
That's what it comes down to. What did Russell Wilson
do when they had that deep run. He didn't turn
the football over. They didn't need him to do anything
other than hand the ball off to Marshawn Lynch, make
pivotal throws on maybe third down, throw a touchdown here
or there. It's not as if he was thrown for
three hundred yards a game or two ninety. And that's
kind of the same blueprint, although it's different with Mike
(21:32):
McDonald's defense and the Seahawks offense obviously, but that's kind
of the blueprint. Hey, we just need you to take
care of the football, get us some points, and we'll
do the rest.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Second fewest yards throwing in the game on Sunday two
o six and second fewest completions that he had this
season with no good thing for second with twenty did
But do you know that technically the game winning drive,
even though the Jets handed him to drive with two
penalties on fourth downs, the twelve men on the field
and then the passing inference for twenty yards on fourth
(22:02):
and one, the Jets absolutely gave the Seahawks the Zach
Sarbonny touchdown drive.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Oh they gave up on that run. I'm not gonna
lie five and a half, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, the linebacker missed the tackle in the hole and
he was the only guy in position.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
He would just look like, all right, bro, you just
go ahead score.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But that was even though it was gifted to him.
That was still Smith's eighth game winning drive in the
fourth quarter overtime the last two seasons. He and Patrick
Mahomes lead the NFL in game winning drives of the
last two seasons. You would never think that, right he
led the league. Smith did last year with five. Now
he's got three this year. Smith has eleven game winning
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drives late in the last three seasons. That's the second
most in the NFL in the last three years. So
when everyone's angst in about Gino Smith, remember inside the
building what they think of him. He wins games in
the clutch, and.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
When he doesn't turn the ball over, they win by
and large, and he makes.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Plays in the term of his coach Mike McDonald that
few on the planet can make the fourth and one
in the third quarter. Excuse me, it was fourth and
sixth and take that back. Jackson played at Jackson, Smith
and Jig, but I thought was as good a play
as he's had, maybe all season, but certainly recently.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He was flushed.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
He originally was looking to throw to Jackson, Smith and
jigbond An en route, and then Quinn Williams came right
up the middle beat Lake and Tomlinson with an inside
swim move, and so he had to get away from
that and Smith ran to his left and Jackson Smith
and Jigbas saw that and.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Did a tiger Lockett.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
He averted his route from a crosser to sprinting out
to the opposite direction, right to the left, to the
left sideline to run in the direction of his quarterback,
and that's when Gino Smith threw a perfect pass away
from the defender and for a first down. I think
it was twenty six yard game it ended up being
only that was the field goal drive that got him
(24:01):
to twenty one sixteen twenty one nineteen. But that was
mcgonal was talking about a few plays on the planet
can make, and we saw him do it against Arizona
where he ran to the left and he ran to
the right and he threw the DK metcalf for eighteen
yards on the key drive that assaulted the game away
with the clinching field goal late. So those kind of plays, Chris,
on top of not turning the ball over, they'll win
(24:23):
with the defense doing what they're doing right now. Now again,
there's still five games left. They still have to go
two Arizona this weekend, they have to go to the Rams,
who already beat him on the final game of the
regular season, and they have those back to back home
games against Green Bay and Minnesota, which are not going
to be picnics at all, and then the game at
meant at Chicago. The fifth game of those five is
at Chicago on December twenty sixth, where they're going to
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leave on Christmas afternoon. So far to say that, hey,
they're as long as you know, the Smith doesn't turn
the ball over, they're going to win the division. But Chris,
the defense allows the quarterback to have the opportunity to
games at the end as long as he's not turned
the ball over. That was the point that Mike McDonald
made after the game four nine, four to five one
(25:06):
on the tell him We'll do text line. We've talked
about Geno Smith in his future for a long time
on the show and all the shows here on kJ
are But where you stand on him when he doesn't
turn the ball over? Can you see how the Seahawks
see him as the quarterback not just for this year,
for next year, perhaps for twenty twenty six and beyond,
because they have no air parent. The guy that is
(25:28):
their backup led the NFL in interceptions last season, Sam Howe,
who's played just one snap all year, Or do you
want him to just rip it up a quarterback and
go a completely different direction next year, which means signing
a free agency or drafting one, and they're not going
to be drafting in a high enough position to get
one at the top the top.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Of the draft.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The free agency situation of signing a quarterback that could
help you immediately, you think upgrade the position from Geno
Smith is going to cost you money that you're going
to have to spend or may make a decision to
spend on dCas metcalf and we've talked about how he's
gonna probably be one hundred million dollar guy, if not
from Seattle, from somebody his contract ending next year, and
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you would think, I think, and I've talked about this,
and I've told you the reasons why that they're going
to resign him for one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So wouldn't you wouldn't think that they're.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Going to go out and get a quarterback that could
make a difference and be an upgrade on Geno Smith?
If you're going to give metcalf ae hundred million, And
I know I'm going to hear some of you on
the text line saying, well, don't give me a metcalf
A one hundred million and go get you by your quarterback.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Who's that going to be?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Who's available as a free agent for one hundred million
dollars at quarterback? That's going to be better than what
they have right now?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You did that exercise, it's slim. It is slim four.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
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We'll talk to her at eleven as we do every
Tuesday at this time.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Up next, there were two defensive plays.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You all saw the Leonard Williams pick sixth and we
broke that down yesterday schematically on what Mike McDonald did there.
But there was another play at the end of the game,
and those two plays really show that Mike McDonald is
quote in his bag, as Devin Witherspoon said last week, schematically,
and we'll explain that next ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 1 (27:38):
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three KJRFM. On Sunday in the Meadowlands, I was watching
Leonard Williams dropped from nose tackle into pass coverage after
faking a pass rush and fooling the twenty year veteran
(28:50):
three time League MVP Aaron Rodgers into the interception last
time on the plane home. Do you follow the coach
thirty on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I do not know.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Oh, it's hilarious Brendan Clinton. He does parodies of being
a coach in film.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Sessiony see, these are things we got to play on
the air.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh man, Well, some of it is not suitable for work.
Well I can edit it out. Man. If it's a
couple of bleeds, baby, I got it. Oh man.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So here's what you're gonna do for those of you
that don't you guys got to see this, so yeah,
we're gonna have to make this Brendon Clinton. It's at
mister Go thirty, at MRG thirty. Okay, what's the latest one?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Well, I'm asking. The latest one was a Highest State Michigan.
It's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I've seen this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yes, it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He said they're gonna have to have squabble practice because
they were so bad. Like he is hilarious. I know exactly.
I didn't know that was okay, continue though, Well.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I was watching because I had seven and a half
hours on the plane last night. I was watching the
backclips of him I haven't seen during the season. I
missed it for last month or so. The Highest State
Michigan is classic. I grew up in Ohio. Sent to
my son.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
He loved it.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
They had a Phineas and Ferb reference. For those of
you old enough, new finishing, young enough to know who
Phineas and furmore, he said, the Ohio state kicker. Man,
we were so close. We were closer than Phineas and
Ferb and you still missed. He's great and he does
what coaches. He talked just like coaches do. And at
MRG thirty, Yes, Brendan Clinton. Yes, we're gonna thank you, Chris,
(30:20):
We're gonna start doing that. Matter of fact, maybe at
the break I can get you some of the higher
state Michigan.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
No, I'm on it right now, but anyway, Yes, I
was going back through those and he was doing the
Jets and Vikings in London. He did a spoof of that,
and the very first play of that game he showed
the spoof. He said he was talking about Aaron Rodgers said,
you were fooled on the double mugget at your age,
how could you be fooled on that? And the play
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the Vikings had was very similar to what the Seahawks did,
and the linebacker faked the blitz. They faked the double
mug blitz is it the double wind side linebacker blitz
and then dropped off, and they fooled Roger into thinking
there'd be nobody in the middle of the field for
a crosser route on a quick cross thinking he was
going to beat the blitz picked six touchdown for the Vikings.
(31:08):
I guarantee you, Mike McDonald.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Course he saw that in game film study. He took
put a tweak on that.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Instead instead of sending my dropping my linebackers off. I'm
going to crowd them on the line with my line man,
and I'm going to drop the nose tackle off. So
he took a version of what the Vikings beat Rogers with,
knowing that Rogers would then work extra hard not to
do that and to prepare for other teams to show
him a double linebacker, a gap blitz and drop off
(31:35):
in the coverage.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And he did the opposite.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He sent his nose tackle off the line and basically
did the same thing the Vikings did, but with a
different person a sixty five three hundred pound, three pound
nose tackle. Another example of Mike McDonald's thinking. And here
I am watching clips trying to be entertained, and I saw,
haha McDonald used a version of m Now he might
have done that anyway, but he saw an example of
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the Vikings scoring a pick six on it, He tweaks it,
uses nose tackle, gets his own pick six for the Seahawks,
and wins the game that play plus the final play
of the game, Chris fourth down, running clock, no timeouts
for the Jets.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Down by five, They're on the plus side of the field.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
A first down there and it gets dicey for the Seahawks,
they spike it and Rogers will have three plays from
about the twenty five yard line to win the game.
Most teams on that I think it was fourth and eight.
Most teams would drop three to the goal line and
five to the linus to the line the game, to
the sticks and say, don't be us here.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What did Mike McDonald do.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
He blitz Kobe Bryant. A lot of coaches would not
blitz your safety in that situation. He's your one of
your last men back. Well, he blitz Kobe Bryant, and
I was watching through the binoculars at the time on
Holy Coow, here goes number eight into the backfield. At
number eight, McDonald didn't sit back and let Aaron Rodgers
dictate that place. He talks a lot about McDonald does
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about dictating to an offense. And on the final play
of the game, they had to have the sticks, had
to have to win. He dictated to Aaron Rodgers by
blitzing Kobe Bryant, and Bryant affected the throw. He made
Rogers throw sooner. He was in Rodgers's face when he
did it, and the pass came nowhere near I think
it was Devontae Adams on Devin Witherspoon, and Witherspoon had
him blanketed at about the ten yard line and went five
(33:23):
yards past them, both incomplete game over Seahawks first place.
Those two plays, Chris the Leonard Williams dropped from those
tackle and Kobe Bryant blitzing on the final play of
the game show you that those days of him just
worried about the guys being in the right place and
doing the right things are long gone.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
And it took him two to three months of the season.
But now he's getting into his bag.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
As Devin Witherspoon said last week, schematically and doing these
things that he was not able to do earlier in
the season. And these are the things that made the
Baltimore Ravens the number one defense in the NFL. And
only now in late November early December are we seeing
that at showing up on the Seahawks defense. It's because
of how Lennard Williams is playing. It's because of how
Kobe Bryant, Julian Love, Devin Witherspoon, and Ernest Jones a
(34:07):
plan up the center of his defense. It's in emboldening
the rookie coach to get into his bag. But I
wanted to point out those two plays that I thought
stood out to show I don't think McDonald calls those
plays even a month ago because of the problems they
were having in basic run defense and in the basics
of being in the right spot and lining up four.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Nine, four to five one.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Your impressions of Mike McDonald as a rookie head coach.
We'll answer that at eleven thirty. Are you impressed?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
You wanted some of you wanted them fired about three
weeks ago when they were four and five.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
They're seven to five and in first place going into
Arizona six and six Arizona on Sunday one oh five,
Channel seven locally. Up next, Jory Epstein, senior NFL writer
for Yahoo Sports. He joined us every Tuesday at eleven.
It'll be Tuesday at eleven, so we'll talk to her again.
Thanks to Zeke's Pizza zekespizza dot com. Eleven thirty five
factor fixtion your chance to win one thousand dollars from
(34:58):
the emeral Queen Sudo on the text line, what would
you like to ask Jory about the NFL beyond Seattle?
Put that on four nine, four or five one and
we'll ask her. Coming up next on ninety three point
three kJ RFM,
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