September 17, 2024 • 28 mins
Gregg Bell is back from the eastcoast after the Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots! Gregg shares about being able to see his daughter, plus much more. The fellas talk a little Mariners as they'll take on the Yankees as they look to make the postseason. We play audio of Mike Macdonald talking about the defense and the offensive line which is struggling, but it comes down to guys playing better.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, back from Boston. It was a I'm going to
talk about this later, but it really does validate how
you know, you watch that game and you go, oh,
Geno Smith thirty three or forty four, three twenty seven,
he's the star of the game. He won an almost
single handley And that's of course what my story was,
the one I posted at the News Tribune dot com
immediately as the game ended. Then I get downstairs and
I wrote in the immediate aftermath, I wrote about Tyler Lockett.
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But then when I get downstairs to hear Jaron Reid
and to hear DK Metcalf and to hear to hear
Mike McDonald, to hear Gino Smith, guys all across the
locker room, we're talking about Tyler Lockett. Weren't talking about
in the minute you see two catches fifteen yards and
you think Tyler Lockett yielded to Smith and Jigbin.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The biggest catches of the game, biggest plays too.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That was theatrics that got him the second touchdown on
the defensive pass interference in the end zone right under
me in the press box. But it was it was
you don't write the story until you get you know,
part of my job is to tell what the team
is saying and thinking about a game. And I go
downstairs and I ended up writing a second story about
Tyler Lockett with two catches in fifteen yards. I'll explain
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that the Mariners are hanging around Chris. I guess we
still have talking about him because they still matter.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
As I mentioned every other week, I say how they
reeled you back in. Guess what, Greg, I've been reeled
back in.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Where do you stand? Well, here's how it work. This
is just facts and everyone listening, well not everyone, A
lot of you listening may agree with me here. Tuesday
and Wednesday now are the only non football days of
the week between the NFL, college football, high school football.
So the Mariners have our attention today and tomorrow. Tonight
and tomorrow night, they are two games back in the Wildcard.
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They beat the Yankees in two games. The Minnesota Twins
are in Cleveland, first place, twenty games over five hundred Cleveland.
These are the two nights to catch our attention, right
because on Thursday its back to football. I mean, that's
just the fact. Everyone forgot about the Mariners until they
looked up this morning and said, well, they're two games back.
At eleven am. We're gonna talk to Joey Epstein. She
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is Epstein is the senior NFL right for y'all who's sports.
She's going to join us to talk about week two
in the NFL. Talk about Bryce young Man. The owner
pulled the hook on that right under Dave Kanalis's nose
in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Also, Justin Fields SIPs tea.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wow, he's literally sipping tea in the control room as
he said that. We'll look ahead the week three with
Joey at eleven o'clock, her weekly segment brought to you
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our show at eleven thirty five, we are rolling Chris.
We are rolling Man. I know no one believes in me.
You got to me yesterday, you got a big free
agent edition this offseason, and all of a sudden you're
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in first place. Your show, that's how we roll Man.
Beavers didn't do me any favors.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Be one.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
When I lost, I was that was the one game
that I was nervous about. But I said, Oregon needs
to have a blowout wind and they still haven't delivered,
so eventually they'll do that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right if they want to be considered a top team,
well they blew out the beaves and not to the
not forty nine seventeen or whatever it was. Anyway, four
and one last week for us, we are in first
place on the station. Right now. You know what's coming
today Factor fiction eleven thirty five. If you've listened to
this show more than a day, you know what's coming
out eleven thirty five. Your text will reading back in
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the tilemore do tax line four nine four five, eleven
thirty eleven forty five. As he is every day, Ian
Forness will join us. I'm sure he was very happy
yesterday on the show, his show from twelve until three
headlines brought to you by Frostbreed Corps Light. We've kind
of the card already ran out ahead of the horse
here on some of these headlines. But the Seahawks two
and oh in first place. I did some digging last night.
Didn't take me too long because it was that was
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exhausted up till two am. This is the seventh time
in twenty five years the Seahawks have started a season
two and oh. They've made the playoffs in all six
of those other times, four of those seasons they won
a division title, including when they won their only Super
Bowl championship at the end of the twenty thirteen Seeds.
I'm just saying, I'm not I mean, we've got fifteen
games to go, but two and oh has been good
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to the Seahawks in the last quarter century. Lots more
on what I saw in New England, heard and learned
in the locker room in Foxboro. Coming up a few
minutes nowhere yet on the status of the lead running
back Kenneth Walker, North, starting linebacker Jerome Baker, or starting
right tackle George Fan for the Seahawks game Sunday against
Miami at Lumenfield. Walker course missed the New England game
with a bleaku injury. As we mentioned last week. He
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had that injury last season in November and he missed
two and a half games. Baker's hamstring injury, he's had
that for a month. He barely practiced in training camp
limited him to just twenty one plays in New England.
On Sunday. Rookie Tyree Knight replaced him at weak sidelinebacker,
and coach Mike McDonald said the learning goes on for
Tyree Knight. Third string right tackle Stone Forsyth started against
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the Patriots because Fant missed the game with a knee injury.
I thought Forsyth was the best player on the line,
including Charles Cross. I know Pro Football Focus loves Charles
Cross's first two games. I saw Cross getting pushed into
Gino Smith with Lake and Tomlinson quite a bit. The
left side of the line was caving, but I thought
so in Forsyth was solid, sometimes strong, but definitely solid.
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The Patriots own the left side of the Seahawks offensive
line pass the end run. Meanwhile, in Miami Dolphins, because
Mike McDonald said that quarterback to a Tungo Biola is
due to see a neurologist, the team doesn't believe it
has enough information yet to determine if he's going on
injured reserve. It's assumed he won't and he shouldn't play
Sunday against the Seahawks that third confirmed concussion of his career.
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We all saw the scary scene and the Dolphins lost
the Bills on Thursday night. Chris, I can't and not
imagine he plays. That would be malpractice.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, what if he clears everything Greg what if even
if we'll see I don't think that's fair. If he
clears everything, he's healthy, wife to whom, to him, to him,
to his teammates. If he's cleared, I don't think he
will be. But if he's clear to play, you're good
to go.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now. If he's not clear, that's different. Every concussion is different,
but in general the NFL concussion protocols, players have minimum
of seven days out, so he's should be out well.
The fact that the Dolphins played will have played ten
games ten days prior to this one, because the Thursday
night game would suggest that he could come back, he
could should is a better question. No third confirmed concussion.
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I mean we're talking about quality of life of this man. Now,
he's got a young children.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not a neurologist, no, nor am I I was
doctor Sittorer. He has a YouTube channel and he breaks
down injuries to players, and he talked about this. It
really comes down to him talking to a specialist. If
he's good now, I mean one hundred percent, not ninety eight,
then I think he could play.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He should play. And that's the NFL concussion rule is
you have to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I think that's legit, and to your point, ten days
is a long time.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, it depends on the concussion and.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It depends Now. I know everyone's gonna say, well, Chris,
didn't you see his fingers. I don't have the I
can't explain how important or not important that's specificencing posture.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, that's indicative of correct exactly. We're absolutely not qualified,
of course.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, so I would just say we'll wait and see. Obviously,
it's it literally is a wait and see game. Unless
Mike McDaniel comes out and says he's not playing, end
of story. I don't care what the doctors say. We're
gonna give him enough time to heal and see. That's
what I think he should do, even when the doctors.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If the doctors clear him, that McDaniel and the Dolphins
should just say no. And that's that's what it does. Exactly.
They're paying him two hundred million dollars. They're in a
sport where it's win now or you get fired. McDonald's
got an owner that is tired of losing in the
first round of the playoffs. If they don't even get there,
I yeah, that's pro sports for you, that's the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It'd be nice if the owner says it, sure would,
But I don't know if it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Would be nice for Bryce Young if the owner didn't
come in and say you're done after Connall, I said,
you're our guy. I mean, yeah, but the owner is
the one who's got all the money and paying the players.
But and the coaches. Yeah, man, I saw him on
the ground through Thursday night, and I said, just sit
him down for a long time so he can be
a dad and a husband and a quality of life.
Four one tell him we'll do text line. You're happy
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to sound off about that. Back up. Skylar Thompson is
preparing in South Flori to start in Seattle on Sunday.
The Dolphins signed quarterback Tyler Huntley off Baltimore's practice squad
yesterday for depth, so Mike McDaniel said not to compete
with Thompson if tug O Beola cannot play on Sunday.
The Eagles, you saw Chris mentioned blue the game late
last night, lost by a point to the Falcons. Saquon
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Barkley dropped that third down pass in the flat. If
he catches it, games over because that Falcons are out
of timeout. That's why you don't pass it. Exactly run
the ball twice there in the game would have almost
been over and you kick a field goal and anyway,
no pass rush, no coverage from Philadelphia. You talk about preventing,
prevent defense, preventing the team. That was terrible. And it
was a four man rush. They didn't drop eight.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And of his part, I was telling my fiance, I said,
if I'm the dB, I know you want to get
to the sideline. I am sitting on every outrun making
you go in sidewhere there's help. I don't know how
these dbs weren't coached that or they didn't show it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The problem was they were in two deep safety coverage
that last drive with the safety's thirty five yards off
the ball. When you looked at the back the end zones,
cameras and you're like, wait a minute, I start counting
the lines. I said, that's seven lines from the line
of scrimmage. They were back on the ten yard line
when the ball was at the thirty five to forty
yard line. There's too many gaps for a cornerback to
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cover there. Even when you have seven defensive backs. If
your two safeties are thirty five yards off the ball,
those are wide zones for your corners to have to
cover outside, and that's what happened. They couldn't cover all
that ground with the safety is thirty five yards back.
That was crazy and no pass rush. I'm sure Philadelphia
is not hearing anything about that today because their fans
at media are really easy there. The Panthers benched quarterback
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Bryce Young after just nineteen starts after they traded a
boatload and a half up from nine to one in
the draft last year to get him. Andy Dalton, the
red Baron is going to start for Carolina against the Raiders.
Your man, Christopher Kidd took Carolina and the points against
the Raiders, thinking he's an anti Dalton, going to be
like the Bengals Andy Dalton or something.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, I'll tell you this, heemus flawed man wof we'll
find out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Former Seaux assist and Dave Kanala has already deep in
at two games into his head coaching career in Carolina,
just had the entire football ops taken from him by
owner Dave Tepper there and said, Nope, you're not. I
don't care who you think the quarterback is gonna be.
Here's who I think is going to be. That's what
you're gonna do. Marriers are off yesterday I mentioned it
gained in their long shot playoff chase. Minnesota in Houston lost,
So the Mariners are two games behind the Twins for
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the final wildcard spot in the America League, four games
behind the trash Cans for the al Wes League, twelve
games left. Remember, they got to get the three games
back by Monday because they got three games in Houston Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Next week. Tonight, the EM's host the Yankees started three
games series at the Yard. Brian wu who went six
perfect innings against San Diego in the win the last
time he started, he gets the ball tonight eight and
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two to two three eight ERA against the Yankees. Tonight,
Minnesota is at first place Cleveland as I mentioned, and
Houston is playing at hot San Diego here the next
two days. San Diego has won four in a row
in the National League playoff race and holding a playoff
spot right now and closing in on their Dodgers a
little but in the NLS. So all right, Marion, as
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you got our attention for today and tomorrow, go Bryan Woo. Tonight,
Husky coach Jed Fish defended his fourth down play, called
that option pitch into the short sideline that lost the
Apple Cup. Here's what he said yesterday, probably the same.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We had a chance, how we didn't execute to play.
Filed the team. Last year it was fourth and one
with a minute fifteen left on the minus twenty nine
and the eleven to zero Washington team against the Bible
sixth Washington State team, and they converted or reverse. A
year later, it's fourth and one with a minute twelfth
with a twenty four to nineteen game. We don't convert
on an option play. It had appens if the reverse
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doesn't convert. Washington State Whens last year twenty four to
twenty one. So in our case, the option plague didn't convert.
We didn't execute to play.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They called time out and went with that play, tried
to catch the defense off guard, and boy did they
not do that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That was not blocked. There were six Cougars waiting on
him the crack and start training camp Thursday at Northgate
and the new coach, Dan bosmanth three days later as
their first preseason game against Calgary. We're gonna talk about
Tyler Lockett winning that game. At the end in the
next segment, but a couple of things I wanted to
get to out of New England. Julian Love and some
other players in the Seahawks. I knew about this. I
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think I wrote about it. I did write about it
on the Seahawks' trip to New England. Their contract with
Delta ran out. So now they have a new charter plane.
It's Atlas Air. It's a seven forty seven with all
first class seats. That is a big deal. It used
to be that they had a commercial jet that had
the regular number of first class and business class seats
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and the rest of them were coach seats. And you
saw you have three hundred pound chucks after a three
and a half hour NFL game sitting in coach for
five hours. No bueno. Well, now the whole plans first class.
So it used to be that the veterans. One of
the cookies Pete Carroll used to get players was you
win a road game, veterans, you get up front, coaches
and everybody gets back and coach veterans get the first
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class in business class seats. Well, there's only a certain
number of them. There's more veterans in there were seats.
So they had to rotate that deal. Not anymore. Now
the whole team gets first class seats. Everyone was talking
about that. They were talking about Tyler Lockett in the
first class seats on their plane on the way home.
That's that was the postgame chuck and Buck asked me,
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was warning what was talking the locker room? That was
the talking the locker room. And then DK metcalts touchdown celebration.
Did you see that? You see what he was trying
to do.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, after watching the presser, I understood yeah. At the
time I watched it live, I said, what the hell
was that?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So there were these dudes, older middle aged men in
the end zone dressed up in Patriots era gear like
seventeen hundreds Patriots, like the guys who founded our country gear,
and Metcalf ran into them through the end zone and
he saw them, and he turned and got in front
of them and pointed his hand out and they turned
his back on him. The guy's closest to him was
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disgusted that he scored a touchdown against his team and
he turned his back on him. Metcalf said, after the game,
we asked him, what was it? John Boyle to the
Seahawks team writer, asked him, and he said, I was
trying to reenact George Washington crossing the Doublaware River is
a famous painting of him and an iconic image of
him on a boat with leading his men across the
river holding his sword out. He said, when it failed terribly.
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I was impressed at DK Metcalf would go sixth grade
history lesson for everybody there one of the iconic images
in American history. Four nine and tell Himore, dude, text line,
it's game time. It's Tully time. Your impressions of the
game on Sunday. Who stood out to you? I'm sure
Geno Smith's going to get a lot of love. Time
to end the Geno Smith hate. By the way, gee whiz,
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how many times can I say he is the solution,
not the problem here in Seattle coming up next run
Defense that remains a problem. Mike McDonald talked about it yesterday.
You'll hear what he said next. On ninety three point
three KJRFN Hi, welcome back, Greg Mella, the newstributing back
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every Tuesday. She'll be with us at eleven o'clock to
talk about Bryce Young getting benched, and a lot more
around the league, going on to Tucker Bola's situation in Miami.
That's coming up with Jorry Epstein at eleven am. Your
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will be at eleven thirty five. The Storm play Las
Vegas tonight at home. Christopher Kid just informed me that
he's going to be there. Their playoff matchup in the
WNBA first Round is set. They are going to play
Las Vegas as the fifth seed versus Las Vegas the
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fourth seed. That starts this weekend early next week live
early next week.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But I would wait to have the season ends, which
is Thursday, the last gamage to Mercury.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
We'll find out more then. Tyler Lockett won that Seahawks
game on Sunday. At the end two catches fifteen yards
and like, what are you talking about? First half play
right under me in the press box in Foxborough. The
pass on third and down in the red zone, Gino
Smith's worst throw the day. It was about seven yards
past and out of bounds from Lockett. I could see it.
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I was right in the line of the throw as
he was throwing it. We were the end zone, that
end zone. Lockett recognized this too, and when he saw
the ball was that far outside and beyond him, he
just fell down. I mean he yeah, okay, the cornerback
contacted him, but when he felt a little bit of contact,
he felt like a broken table that's legs chopped off.
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Just fell and the officials bought it. Pass interference in
the end zone means first and goal at the one
Zach Sharbonnay touchdown. Next play. Instead of a field goal,
they stole Tyler Lockett stole four points for them end
of the game. In regulation. Same thing. Now, that was
more of a contact, more of an egregious PI than
certainly the first one in the end zone. But Lockett
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again craftily saw the ball. He wasn't going to catch it,
although it was a much more accurate throat to the sideline,
fell down with the contact twenty yard pass interference penalty.
Seahawks are on their way overtime. The playground play that
he made with sixteen yard connection with Gino Smith. Smith
was laughing after the game, how ridiculous that was, that
he should never do that, and a quarterback should never
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go to his right, roll to his left and throw
back across the field. Lockett was outside left. He was
running an in route, backside in route, chasing Smith rolling right,
and when he saw Smith stop Tyler, Lockett did what
he has done for ten years and is so good
at improvisational routes. The thing that's so great about Lockett
when plays breakdown is the quarterbacks trust and know where
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he's going to go. Smith knew that Lockett knew that
that corner could not get back to the left sideline
could not because he had inside leverage on the crossing route.
He was cutting off the crossing route from left to right.
If you can pay sure that as soon as Smith
stopped and went to the left, Lockett ran to the
Seahawks sideline to the left. Smith threw it out there.
Sixteen yard game, the yards they needed for Jason Myers's
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winning field goal. That's wins. That's the stuff that the
player Jaron Reid after the game was saying, man, I
was right outside the locker room asked him, Hey, g
you know Smith, He goes man to me it was
Tyler Lockett. We love that guy. He's the most clutch
player on the team, Jaron Reid said, nine year veteran
for for two catches in fifteen yards. Mike McDonald at
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the game said, we love that guy, Tyler Lockett. Two
catches in fifteen yards, the most influential two catches in
fifteen yard game you're ever going to see. All right, now,
that a negative. They're two and oh in first place.
I mentioned it's two and oh for the seventh time
in a quarter century, and what that's meant six other
times when they're two and oh this quarter century they
made the playoffs. But their run defense, Chris, Yeah, it
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was okay against Denver thirty five yards by the quarterback
though ninety nine yards and all then on Sunday one
five by the Patriots for on thirty six carries. Gibson
actually had more than Romando Stevenson did. They had one
hundred and twenty eight of those yards in the second half.
I thought New England did them a favor by throwing
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the ball early in the game. Ten of the first
thirteen throws were Jacobe Brissett throwing. Ten of the first
thirteen plays were passes. Once New England started running the
ball downhill at him, play after play after play in
the second half, you saw what happened. New England took
the lead twenty to seventeen. This was Mike McDonald cannot
stand play like that. He wants their team to be
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physical and tough and hard minded, and they were none
of that in the second half. Here's what he said
about the run. Defense covered our butts. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't knowssarily think in.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Terms of that one. That was when I asked him,
we'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, we got to move people man right now.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The running offense, that's a challenge for anyway. Mike McDonald said,
is it we asked them, is it scheme or is
it Okay, we asked them, is it scheme or player execution?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
This is what he said, second half played the run.
I don't know the yard splits on first half versus
second half. But to answer your question, it's both scheme wise.
Some things that without getting all the details, I'm putting
on that on my shoulders. How we prepare, how we
call it situations, we're putting guys in we can be
better on that front me in particular. And then on
the other hand, old school football fundamentals that we need
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to be better at in our front seven, our edged mechanics,
how we're taking on blocks, some of our run fits
at the second level, those things need to be improved.
So I'd say it's a combination of.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Both second level meeting the linebackers. They missed ten tackles
on Sunday by McDonald's count. We talked last week about
how great their opener was against Denver for not missing
tackles early in the season, that's been a Seahawks problem. Well,
they missed ten double digits on Sunday against the Patriots.
All right, so let's talk schematically. All along, we've told
you that they aren't all in. The entire defense isn't
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in yet. So yesterday I asked him schematically, how far
is this Seahawk defense right now to the full meal
deal Ravens defense that he ran in Baltimore. Schematically, all
the schemes, all the tricks, all these guys as he
ran when the Ravens were really rolling last year. Here's
what he said, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I don't necessarily think in terms of comparing the two.
We're in chase mode. We're doing a lot of good
things defensively. I thought we covered our butts off yesterday.
The corners in particular deserve a ton of credit on
how sicky they were on their wide outs. We have
to improve our man coverage in the middle of the
field and out of the backfield. But it's this constant
chasing of this alignment of what the expectation is all times,
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all eleven working together. This is a different crew personnel wise,
we have different personnel variations we can get to. I
think we're also trying to find what the best combination
of guys on the field given who's available at a
certain time. I think we're phase right now. There's a
lot of good on tape, and there's a lot that
right now. I mean, you guys can see it. There's
a lot there where we had the mentality, Hey, we
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need to attack this thing moving forward because teams are
going to see the same stuff that you do on
tape exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Miami's running Adham Sunday bet that, especially with Skyler Thompson,
the quarterback. Draymond Jones missed a couple edge contains on
a nineteen yard run in the first half in particular,
and he missed one earlier later on a Jacobe Brissett
getting outside of him. It caused Tyrell Dotson to have
to leave his man Hunter Henry in coverage and run
up and take the quarterback, and Henry ended up getting
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a catch behind him into the red zone that led
to a touchdown. Henry had all seven catches for ninety
some yards in the first half, and a lot of
them like that on broken plays and loss of contained
for a couple plays in that series. In the second quarter,
they benched Draymont Jones and brought Trevis Gibson in. He
Gibson only played seven snaps, but about five of them
were on that drive that darrem Mont Jones lost contained
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four nine four or five one on the telemore dude
text line when its game time, it's Tully time. Your
reaction to accountability that Mike McDonald show fight out said,
I got to be better. He said that he was
running some schemes they hadn't practiced and that he can't
do that. We'll at least get them to practice them
more so he can't do it. But they aren't there
yet with what they don't want to do. Their secondary
remains the strength of the team, as McDonald alluded to there,
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but they are nowhere near what they're going to be
probably by November December. Parschematics go coming up. What about
running game? They need to get better on the offensive
line before they can get better in the run game.
SU would help the have Kenneth Walker back. Mike McDonald's
thoughts on the run game. You'll hear that next on
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read those back. At eleven thirty the Seahawks run game,
I got the impression Ryan Grubb really wanted to run
the ball against New England and test their defensive front.
And he just like he switched in the first game,
he went halftime, came in and adjusted the run game
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two different angled runs. He adjusted in New England, but
in the opposite way Chris, he abandoned the run. He
just said, we're not gonna do it anymore. Forty four
attempts to throw by Gino Smith, not counting a couple
of sacks, so forty six pass calls, and he just
quit running. He said, we can't do it. The offensive
line is getting no push. We're going to win the game.
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We even went empty backfield had sharpening outside left. He
didn't even hide the fact that he was just going
to put it in Gino Smith's hands. And Smith after
the game said his thinking in those situations put the
ball in seven hands, and he did so. Credit Ryan
Greb again for in game switching what he had game
planned all week to do. But that doesn't mean that
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they are going to give up on the run. They
want to do it. And we asked Mike McDonald about
the run game. This is what he said yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah, we got to move people, man, all right now
we're not moving them. That's a challenge for us moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Simple as that. The offensive line is the people who
have to move people. What can they do in the line, Chris,
that they haven't done yet well. Right guard, they it
looked like a pre planned rotation of Christian Haynes, the
rookie third round pick one series in the second quarter,
one series in the second half, and it was Anthony
Bradford otherwise. Bradford had the unnecessary roughness penalty that was
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more like it was truly unnecessary, more than rough. He
just tackled the guy after the play away from the
ball and it wasn't all that rough, but it was
just unnecessary, so they flagged him forward fifteen yards. He
also had a false start penalty. He has four penalties
and two games, and he's not making all of his
box Chris. To me, the bigger issue on the line
is left guard. Through two games, Tomlinson's missing a lot
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of blocks and most of them are off the snap.
He's just not fast enough off to snap at age
thirty two right now.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Well, unfortunately, we've talked about this too, Greg. It's not
as if there is some offensive tackle or guard excuse me,
that's available to just plug and play. Oh, he's fitting
perfectly right. Unfortunately, he's just going to have to be better.
And it's sad because it's kind of what he's been
doing for the past two weeks. So how much better
can he Get's not as if the sharouts are gonna
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be facing lesser than talent, right, So he's gonna have
to figure it out and quickly, because there are going
to be times where teams are just gonna say, hey,
Aiden Hutchison, why don't you just.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Go line up over there on that right side and
just attack him all game. That's two Monday nights from
now when they go to Detroit after the Miami game
for US.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So this is then, Nick Bosa guest nine. It doesn't
get much better. You had your soft landing. Now it's
getting real you They're gonna have to figure it out
and play better. It's it's very cliche, but that's the
reality of the situation they're in.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's the question. Would they be two and oh without
the schedule they've had so far. My answers, no, not
the way they've run the ball.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Probably I don't want to get into that because there's
so many variables, but probably not four.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Nine, four to five one and the tone of new texts.
I'm happy to get into it with my question to
you on the text line four nine, four or five one?
Would the Seahawks be two and oh without the schedule?
We talked about the schedule since it came out in May.
How it was a soft landing and it gave Mike
McDonald a chance to get thinks how many losses can
they absorb making the mistakes that they're going to make
early in the season with these new systems. So far
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it's been zero. Is that because of the Seahawks or
is that because they played the Denver Broncos and Bonnicks,
who people in Denver already talking about benching after two games.
Think Bryce Young's tenure has been short. And the New
England Patriots who had Jacoby Brissett and no wide receivers.
I don't think they put any wide receivers on the
field Sunday in Foxborough. They were just empty spaces out there.
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They had nineteen yards from the wide receivers. That was crazy.
In an NFL game in twenty twenty four, they don't
have any receivers, to be honest. Jalen Polk from the
University of Washington touchdown passion in the back of the
end zone when he got behind the dots and the
linebacker and got away from the safety love and that
was it. That was twelve of the nineteen yards they
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had for wide receivers on that play. Up next, Jorry Epstein,
senior NFL writer, going to join us as she does
every Tuesday at eleven am thanks to Zeke's Pizza. We're
gonna talk to her about the two tugo viola situation
in Miami, the Cowboys, how they got boat raced by
the suddenly rolling Saints. We're gonna talk a lot about
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the league and general her impressions of Seattle and the
Seahawks after their two and oh start. Jory's up next
on ninety three point three kJ RFM.
Yeah, back from Boston. It was a I'm going to
talk about this later, but it really does validate how
you know, you watch that game and you go, oh,
Geno Smith thirty three or forty four, three twenty seven,
he's the star of the game. He won an almost
single handley And that's of course what my story was,
the one I posted at the News Tribune dot com
immediately as the game ended. Then I get downstairs and
I wrote in the immediate aftermath, I wrote about Tyler Lockett.
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But then when I get downstairs to hear Jaron Reid
and to hear DK Metcalf and to hear to hear
Mike McDonald, to hear Gino Smith, guys all across the
locker room, we're talking about Tyler Lockett. Weren't talking about
in the minute you see two catches fifteen yards and
you think Tyler Lockett yielded to Smith and Jigbin.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The biggest catches of the game, biggest plays too.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That was theatrics that got him the second touchdown on
the defensive pass interference in the end zone right under
me in the press box. But it was it was
you don't write the story until you get you know,
part of my job is to tell what the team
is saying and thinking about a game. And I go
downstairs and I ended up writing a second story about
Tyler Lockett with two catches in fifteen yards. I'll explain
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that the Mariners are hanging around Chris. I guess we
still have talking about him because they still matter.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
As I mentioned every other week, I say how they
reeled you back in. Guess what, Greg, I've been reeled
back in.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Where do you stand? Well, here's how it work. This
is just facts and everyone listening, well not everyone, A
lot of you listening may agree with me here. Tuesday
and Wednesday now are the only non football days of
the week between the NFL, college football, high school football.
So the Mariners have our attention today and tomorrow. Tonight
and tomorrow night, they are two games back in the Wildcard.
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They beat the Yankees in two games. The Minnesota Twins
are in Cleveland, first place, twenty games over five hundred Cleveland.
These are the two nights to catch our attention, right
because on Thursday its back to football. I mean, that's
just the fact. Everyone forgot about the Mariners until they
looked up this morning and said, well, they're two games back.
At eleven am. We're gonna talk to Joey Epstein. She
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is Epstein is the senior NFL right for y'all who's sports.
She's going to join us to talk about week two
in the NFL. Talk about Bryce young Man. The owner
pulled the hook on that right under Dave Kanalis's nose
in Carolina.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Also, Justin Fields SIPs tea.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wow, he's literally sipping tea in the control room as
he said that. We'll look ahead the week three with
Joey at eleven o'clock, her weekly segment brought to you
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our show at eleven thirty five, we are rolling Chris.
We are rolling Man. I know no one believes in me.
You got to me yesterday, you got a big free
agent edition this offseason, and all of a sudden you're
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in first place. Your show, that's how we roll Man.
Beavers didn't do me any favors.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Be one.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
When I lost, I was that was the one game
that I was nervous about. But I said, Oregon needs
to have a blowout wind and they still haven't delivered,
so eventually they'll do that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Right if they want to be considered a top team,
well they blew out the beaves and not to the
not forty nine seventeen or whatever it was. Anyway, four
and one last week for us, we are in first
place on the station. Right now. You know what's coming
today Factor fiction eleven thirty five. If you've listened to
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out eleven thirty five. Your text will reading back in
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the tilemore do tax line four nine four five, eleven
thirty eleven forty five. As he is every day, Ian
Forness will join us. I'm sure he was very happy
yesterday on the show, his show from twelve until three
headlines brought to you by Frostbreed Corps Light. We've kind
of the card already ran out ahead of the horse
here on some of these headlines. But the Seahawks two
and oh in first place. I did some digging last night.
Didn't take me too long because it was that was
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exhausted up till two am. This is the seventh time
in twenty five years the Seahawks have started a season
two and oh. They've made the playoffs in all six
of those other times, four of those seasons they won
a division title, including when they won their only Super
Bowl championship at the end of the twenty thirteen Seeds.
I'm just saying, I'm not I mean, we've got fifteen
games to go, but two and oh has been good
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to the Seahawks in the last quarter century. Lots more
on what I saw in New England, heard and learned
in the locker room in Foxboro. Coming up a few
minutes nowhere yet on the status of the lead running
back Kenneth Walker, North, starting linebacker Jerome Baker, or starting
right tackle George Fan for the Seahawks game Sunday against
Miami at Lumenfield. Walker course missed the New England game
with a bleaku injury. As we mentioned last week. He
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had that injury last season in November and he missed
two and a half games. Baker's hamstring injury, he's had
that for a month. He barely practiced in training camp
limited him to just twenty one plays in New England.
On Sunday. Rookie Tyree Knight replaced him at weak sidelinebacker,
and coach Mike McDonald said the learning goes on for
Tyree Knight. Third string right tackle Stone Forsyth started against
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the Patriots because Fant missed the game with a knee injury.
I thought Forsyth was the best player on the line,
including Charles Cross. I know Pro Football Focus loves Charles
Cross's first two games. I saw Cross getting pushed into
Gino Smith with Lake and Tomlinson quite a bit. The
left side of the line was caving, but I thought
so in Forsyth was solid, sometimes strong, but definitely solid.
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The Patriots own the left side of the Seahawks offensive
line pass the end run. Meanwhile, in Miami Dolphins, because
Mike McDonald said that quarterback to a Tungo Biola is
due to see a neurologist, the team doesn't believe it
has enough information yet to determine if he's going on
injured reserve. It's assumed he won't and he shouldn't play
Sunday against the Seahawks that third confirmed concussion of his career.
(05:23):
We all saw the scary scene and the Dolphins lost
the Bills on Thursday night. Chris, I can't and not
imagine he plays. That would be malpractice.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, what if he clears everything Greg what if even
if we'll see I don't think that's fair. If he
clears everything, he's healthy, wife to whom, to him, to him,
to his teammates. If he's cleared, I don't think he
will be. But if he's clear to play, you're good
to go.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now. If he's not clear, that's different. Every concussion is different,
but in general the NFL concussion protocols, players have minimum
of seven days out, so he's should be out well.
The fact that the Dolphins played will have played ten
games ten days prior to this one, because the Thursday
night game would suggest that he could come back, he
could should is a better question. No third confirmed concussion.
(06:10):
I mean we're talking about quality of life of this man. Now,
he's got a young children.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I'm not a neurologist, no, nor am I I was
doctor Sittorer. He has a YouTube channel and he breaks
down injuries to players, and he talked about this. It
really comes down to him talking to a specialist. If
he's good now, I mean one hundred percent, not ninety eight,
then I think he could play.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He should play. And that's the NFL concussion rule is
you have to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I think that's legit, and to your point, ten days
is a long time.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, it depends on the concussion and.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It depends Now. I know everyone's gonna say, well, Chris,
didn't you see his fingers. I don't have the I
can't explain how important or not important that's specificencing posture.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, that's indicative of correct exactly. We're absolutely not qualified,
of course.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, so I would just say we'll wait and see. Obviously,
it's it literally is a wait and see game. Unless
Mike McDaniel comes out and says he's not playing, end
of story. I don't care what the doctors say. We're
gonna give him enough time to heal and see. That's
what I think he should do, even when the doctors.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If the doctors clear him, that McDaniel and the Dolphins
should just say no. And that's that's what it does. Exactly.
They're paying him two hundred million dollars. They're in a
sport where it's win now or you get fired. McDonald's
got an owner that is tired of losing in the
first round of the playoffs. If they don't even get there,
I yeah, that's pro sports for you, that's the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
It'd be nice if the owner says it, sure would,
But I don't know if it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Would be nice for Bryce Young if the owner didn't
come in and say you're done after Connall, I said,
you're our guy. I mean, yeah, but the owner is
the one who's got all the money and paying the players.
But and the coaches. Yeah, man, I saw him on
the ground through Thursday night, and I said, just sit
him down for a long time so he can be
a dad and a husband and a quality of life.
Four one tell him we'll do text line. You're happy
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to sound off about that. Back up. Skylar Thompson is
preparing in South Flori to start in Seattle on Sunday.
The Dolphins signed quarterback Tyler Huntley off Baltimore's practice squad
yesterday for depth, so Mike McDaniel said not to compete
with Thompson if tug O Beola cannot play on Sunday.
The Eagles, you saw Chris mentioned blue the game late
last night, lost by a point to the Falcons. Saquon
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Barkley dropped that third down pass in the flat. If
he catches it, games over because that Falcons are out
of timeout. That's why you don't pass it. Exactly run
the ball twice there in the game would have almost
been over and you kick a field goal and anyway,
no pass rush, no coverage from Philadelphia. You talk about preventing,
prevent defense, preventing the team. That was terrible. And it
was a four man rush. They didn't drop eight.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And of his part, I was telling my fiance, I said,
if I'm the dB, I know you want to get
to the sideline. I am sitting on every outrun making
you go in sidewhere there's help. I don't know how
these dbs weren't coached that or they didn't show it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The problem was they were in two deep safety coverage
that last drive with the safety's thirty five yards off
the ball. When you looked at the back the end zones,
cameras and you're like, wait a minute, I start counting
the lines. I said, that's seven lines from the line
of scrimmage. They were back on the ten yard line
when the ball was at the thirty five to forty
yard line. There's too many gaps for a cornerback to
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cover there. Even when you have seven defensive backs. If
your two safeties are thirty five yards off the ball,
those are wide zones for your corners to have to
cover outside, and that's what happened. They couldn't cover all
that ground with the safety is thirty five yards back.
That was crazy and no pass rush. I'm sure Philadelphia
is not hearing anything about that today because their fans
at media are really easy there. The Panthers benched quarterback
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Bryce Young after just nineteen starts after they traded a
boatload and a half up from nine to one in
the draft last year to get him. Andy Dalton, the
red Baron is going to start for Carolina against the Raiders.
Your man, Christopher Kidd took Carolina and the points against
the Raiders, thinking he's an anti Dalton, going to be
like the Bengals Andy Dalton or something.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, I'll tell you this, heemus flawed man wof we'll
find out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Former Seaux assist and Dave Kanala has already deep in
at two games into his head coaching career in Carolina,
just had the entire football ops taken from him by
owner Dave Tepper there and said, Nope, you're not. I
don't care who you think the quarterback is gonna be.
Here's who I think is going to be. That's what
you're gonna do. Marriers are off yesterday I mentioned it
gained in their long shot playoff chase. Minnesota in Houston lost,
So the Mariners are two games behind the Twins for
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the final wildcard spot in the America League, four games
behind the trash Cans for the al Wes League, twelve
games left. Remember, they got to get the three games
back by Monday because they got three games in Houston Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Next week. Tonight, the EM's host the Yankees started three
games series at the Yard. Brian wu who went six
perfect innings against San Diego in the win the last
time he started, he gets the ball tonight eight and
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two to two three eight ERA against the Yankees. Tonight,
Minnesota is at first place Cleveland as I mentioned, and
Houston is playing at hot San Diego here the next
two days. San Diego has won four in a row
in the National League playoff race and holding a playoff
spot right now and closing in on their Dodgers a
little but in the NLS. So all right, Marion, as
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you got our attention for today and tomorrow, go Bryan Woo. Tonight,
Husky coach Jed Fish defended his fourth down play, called
that option pitch into the short sideline that lost the
Apple Cup. Here's what he said yesterday, probably the same.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We had a chance, how we didn't execute to play.
Filed the team. Last year it was fourth and one
with a minute fifteen left on the minus twenty nine
and the eleven to zero Washington team against the Bible
sixth Washington State team, and they converted or reverse. A
year later, it's fourth and one with a minute twelfth
with a twenty four to nineteen game. We don't convert
on an option play. It had appens if the reverse
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doesn't convert. Washington State Whens last year twenty four to
twenty one. So in our case, the option plague didn't convert.
We didn't execute to play.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They called time out and went with that play, tried
to catch the defense off guard, and boy did they
not do that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That was not blocked. There were six Cougars waiting on
him the crack and start training camp Thursday at Northgate
and the new coach, Dan bosmanth three days later as
their first preseason game against Calgary. We're gonna talk about
Tyler Lockett winning that game. At the end in the
next segment, but a couple of things I wanted to
get to out of New England. Julian Love and some
other players in the Seahawks. I knew about this. I
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think I wrote about it. I did write about it
on the Seahawks' trip to New England. Their contract with
Delta ran out. So now they have a new charter plane.
It's Atlas Air. It's a seven forty seven with all
first class seats. That is a big deal. It used
to be that they had a commercial jet that had
the regular number of first class and business class seats
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and the rest of them were coach seats. And you
saw you have three hundred pound chucks after a three
and a half hour NFL game sitting in coach for
five hours. No bueno. Well, now the whole plans first class.
So it used to be that the veterans. One of
the cookies Pete Carroll used to get players was you
win a road game, veterans, you get up front, coaches
and everybody gets back and coach veterans get the first
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class in business class seats. Well, there's only a certain
number of them. There's more veterans in there were seats.
So they had to rotate that deal. Not anymore. Now
the whole team gets first class seats. Everyone was talking
about that. They were talking about Tyler Lockett in the
first class seats on their plane on the way home.
That's that was the postgame chuck and Buck asked me,
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was warning what was talking the locker room? That was
the talking the locker room. And then DK metcalts touchdown celebration.
Did you see that? You see what he was trying
to do.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, after watching the presser, I understood yeah. At the
time I watched it live, I said, what the hell
was that?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So there were these dudes, older middle aged men in
the end zone dressed up in Patriots era gear like
seventeen hundreds Patriots, like the guys who founded our country gear,
and Metcalf ran into them through the end zone and
he saw them, and he turned and got in front
of them and pointed his hand out and they turned
his back on him. The guy's closest to him was
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disgusted that he scored a touchdown against his team and
he turned his back on him. Metcalf said, after the game,
we asked him, what was it? John Boyle to the
Seahawks team writer, asked him, and he said, I was
trying to reenact George Washington crossing the Doublaware River is
a famous painting of him and an iconic image of
him on a boat with leading his men across the
river holding his sword out. He said, when it failed terribly.
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I was impressed at DK Metcalf would go sixth grade
history lesson for everybody there one of the iconic images
in American history. Four nine and tell Himore, dude, text line,
it's game time. It's Tully time. Your impressions of the
game on Sunday. Who stood out to you? I'm sure
Geno Smith's going to get a lot of love. Time
to end the Geno Smith hate. By the way, gee whiz,
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how many times can I say he is the solution,
not the problem here in Seattle coming up next run
Defense that remains a problem. Mike McDonald talked about it yesterday.
You'll hear what he said next. On ninety three point
three KJRFN Hi, welcome back, Greg Mella, the newstributing back
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from Boston here with Christopher Kidd on nineteen three point
three k j RF and Jory Epstein. She is the
senior NFL writer for y'all who's sports that joins us
every Tuesday. She'll be with us at eleven o'clock to
talk about Bryce Young getting benched, and a lot more
around the league, going on to Tucker Bola's situation in Miami.
That's coming up with Jorry Epstein at eleven am. Your
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text at four nine four five one on the top
of them were new text line. We'll readose back at
eleven thirty Factor Fiction, our first place show Factor Fiction
will be at eleven thirty five. The Storm play Las
Vegas tonight at home. Christopher Kid just informed me that
he's going to be there. Their playoff matchup in the
WNBA first Round is set. They are going to play
Las Vegas as the fifth seed versus Las Vegas the
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fourth seed. That starts this weekend early next week live
early next week.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But I would wait to have the season ends, which
is Thursday, the last gamage to Mercury.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
We'll find out more then. Tyler Lockett won that Seahawks
game on Sunday. At the end two catches fifteen yards
and like, what are you talking about? First half play
right under me in the press box in Foxborough. The
pass on third and down in the red zone, Gino
Smith's worst throw the day. It was about seven yards
past and out of bounds from Lockett. I could see it.
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I was right in the line of the throw as
he was throwing it. We were the end zone, that
end zone. Lockett recognized this too, and when he saw
the ball was that far outside and beyond him, he
just fell down. I mean he yeah, okay, the cornerback
contacted him, but when he felt a little bit of contact,
he felt like a broken table that's legs chopped off.
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Just fell and the officials bought it. Pass interference in
the end zone means first and goal at the one
Zach Sharbonnay touchdown. Next play. Instead of a field goal,
they stole Tyler Lockett stole four points for them end
of the game. In regulation. Same thing. Now, that was
more of a contact, more of an egregious PI than
certainly the first one in the end zone. But Lockett
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again craftily saw the ball. He wasn't going to catch it,
although it was a much more accurate throat to the sideline,
fell down with the contact twenty yard pass interference penalty.
Seahawks are on their way overtime. The playground play that
he made with sixteen yard connection with Gino Smith. Smith
was laughing after the game, how ridiculous that was, that
he should never do that, and a quarterback should never
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go to his right, roll to his left and throw
back across the field. Lockett was outside left. He was
running an in route, backside in route, chasing Smith rolling right,
and when he saw Smith stop Tyler, Lockett did what
he has done for ten years and is so good
at improvisational routes. The thing that's so great about Lockett
when plays breakdown is the quarterbacks trust and know where
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he's going to go. Smith knew that Lockett knew that
that corner could not get back to the left sideline
could not because he had inside leverage on the crossing route.
He was cutting off the crossing route from left to right.
If you can pay sure that as soon as Smith
stopped and went to the left, Lockett ran to the
Seahawks sideline to the left. Smith threw it out there.
Sixteen yard game, the yards they needed for Jason Myers's
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winning field goal. That's wins. That's the stuff that the
player Jaron Reid after the game was saying, man, I
was right outside the locker room asked him, Hey, g
you know Smith, He goes man to me it was
Tyler Lockett. We love that guy. He's the most clutch
player on the team, Jaron Reid said, nine year veteran
for for two catches in fifteen yards. Mike McDonald at
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the game said, we love that guy, Tyler Lockett. Two
catches in fifteen yards, the most influential two catches in
fifteen yard game you're ever going to see. All right, now,
that a negative. They're two and oh in first place.
I mentioned it's two and oh for the seventh time
in a quarter century, and what that's meant six other
times when they're two and oh this quarter century they
made the playoffs. But their run defense, Chris, Yeah, it
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was okay against Denver thirty five yards by the quarterback
though ninety nine yards and all then on Sunday one
five by the Patriots for on thirty six carries. Gibson
actually had more than Romando Stevenson did. They had one
hundred and twenty eight of those yards in the second half.
I thought New England did them a favor by throwing
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the ball early in the game. Ten of the first
thirteen throws were Jacobe Brissett throwing. Ten of the first
thirteen plays were passes. Once New England started running the
ball downhill at him, play after play after play in
the second half, you saw what happened. New England took
the lead twenty to seventeen. This was Mike McDonald cannot
stand play like that. He wants their team to be
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physical and tough and hard minded, and they were none
of that in the second half. Here's what he said
about the run. Defense covered our butts. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't knowssarily think in.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Terms of that one. That was when I asked him,
we'll get to that.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Yeah, we got to move people man right now.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
The running offense, that's a challenge for anyway. Mike McDonald said,
is it we asked them, is it scheme or is
it Okay, we asked them, is it scheme or player execution?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
This is what he said, second half played the run.
I don't know the yard splits on first half versus
second half. But to answer your question, it's both scheme wise.
Some things that without getting all the details, I'm putting
on that on my shoulders. How we prepare, how we
call it situations, we're putting guys in we can be
better on that front me in particular. And then on
the other hand, old school football fundamentals that we need
(20:32):
to be better at in our front seven, our edged mechanics,
how we're taking on blocks, some of our run fits
at the second level, those things need to be improved.
So I'd say it's a combination of.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Both second level meeting the linebackers. They missed ten tackles
on Sunday by McDonald's count. We talked last week about
how great their opener was against Denver for not missing
tackles early in the season, that's been a Seahawks problem. Well,
they missed ten double digits on Sunday against the Patriots.
All right, so let's talk schematically. All along, we've told
you that they aren't all in. The entire defense isn't
(21:04):
in yet. So yesterday I asked him schematically, how far
is this Seahawk defense right now to the full meal
deal Ravens defense that he ran in Baltimore. Schematically, all
the schemes, all the tricks, all these guys as he
ran when the Ravens were really rolling last year. Here's
what he said, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I don't necessarily think in terms of comparing the two.
We're in chase mode. We're doing a lot of good
things defensively. I thought we covered our butts off yesterday.
The corners in particular deserve a ton of credit on
how sicky they were on their wide outs. We have
to improve our man coverage in the middle of the
field and out of the backfield. But it's this constant
chasing of this alignment of what the expectation is all times,
(21:43):
all eleven working together. This is a different crew personnel wise,
we have different personnel variations we can get to. I
think we're also trying to find what the best combination
of guys on the field given who's available at a
certain time. I think we're phase right now. There's a
lot of good on tape, and there's a lot that
right now. I mean, you guys can see it. There's
a lot there where we had the mentality, Hey, we
(22:03):
need to attack this thing moving forward because teams are
going to see the same stuff that you do on
tape exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Miami's running Adham Sunday bet that, especially with Skyler Thompson,
the quarterback. Draymond Jones missed a couple edge contains on
a nineteen yard run in the first half in particular,
and he missed one earlier later on a Jacobe Brissett
getting outside of him. It caused Tyrell Dotson to have
to leave his man Hunter Henry in coverage and run
up and take the quarterback, and Henry ended up getting
(22:30):
a catch behind him into the red zone that led
to a touchdown. Henry had all seven catches for ninety
some yards in the first half, and a lot of
them like that on broken plays and loss of contained
for a couple plays in that series. In the second quarter,
they benched Draymont Jones and brought Trevis Gibson in. He
Gibson only played seven snaps, but about five of them
were on that drive that darrem Mont Jones lost contained
(22:53):
four nine four or five one on the telemore dude
text line when its game time, it's Tully time. Your
reaction to accountability that Mike McDonald show fight out said,
I got to be better. He said that he was
running some schemes they hadn't practiced and that he can't
do that. We'll at least get them to practice them
more so he can't do it. But they aren't there
yet with what they don't want to do. Their secondary
remains the strength of the team, as McDonald alluded to there,
(23:14):
but they are nowhere near what they're going to be
probably by November December. Parschematics go coming up. What about
running game? They need to get better on the offensive
line before they can get better in the run game.
SU would help the have Kenneth Walker back. Mike McDonald's
thoughts on the run game. You'll hear that next on
ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back Greg Bell the
(23:40):
news to being in Christopher Kay with you here on
ninety three point three KJRFM. Jory Epstein, senior writer for
NFL All Things NFL for Yahoo Sports, will join us
at eleven o'clock to talk about the week that was
in the NFL. In the league coming up here in
week three, He joined us at eleven o'clock eleven thirty five.
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(24:02):
thirty five. If you listen to the show regularly, you
have an idea where I'm headed today, we'll do that
at eleven thirty five you're texta four nine, four to
five one to tell them we're due text hun, we'll
read those back. At eleven thirty the Seahawks run game,
I got the impression Ryan Grubb really wanted to run
the ball against New England and test their defensive front.
And he just like he switched in the first game,
he went halftime, came in and adjusted the run game
(24:26):
two different angled runs. He adjusted in New England, but
in the opposite way Chris, he abandoned the run. He
just said, we're not gonna do it anymore. Forty four
attempts to throw by Gino Smith, not counting a couple
of sacks, so forty six pass calls, and he just
quit running. He said, we can't do it. The offensive
line is getting no push. We're going to win the game.
(24:48):
We even went empty backfield had sharpening outside left. He
didn't even hide the fact that he was just going
to put it in Gino Smith's hands. And Smith after
the game said his thinking in those situations put the
ball in seven hands, and he did so. Credit Ryan
Greb again for in game switching what he had game
planned all week to do. But that doesn't mean that
(25:08):
they are going to give up on the run. They
want to do it. And we asked Mike McDonald about
the run game. This is what he said yesterday.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yeah, we got to move people, man, all right now
we're not moving them. That's a challenge for us moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Simple as that. The offensive line is the people who
have to move people. What can they do in the line, Chris,
that they haven't done yet well. Right guard, they it
looked like a pre planned rotation of Christian Haynes, the
rookie third round pick one series in the second quarter,
one series in the second half, and it was Anthony
Bradford otherwise. Bradford had the unnecessary roughness penalty that was
(25:42):
more like it was truly unnecessary, more than rough. He
just tackled the guy after the play away from the
ball and it wasn't all that rough, but it was
just unnecessary, so they flagged him forward fifteen yards. He
also had a false start penalty. He has four penalties
and two games, and he's not making all of his
box Chris. To me, the bigger issue on the line
is left guard. Through two games, Tomlinson's missing a lot
(26:04):
of blocks and most of them are off the snap.
He's just not fast enough off to snap at age
thirty two right now.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Well, unfortunately, we've talked about this too, Greg. It's not
as if there is some offensive tackle or guard excuse me,
that's available to just plug and play. Oh, he's fitting
perfectly right. Unfortunately, he's just going to have to be better.
And it's sad because it's kind of what he's been
doing for the past two weeks. So how much better
can he Get's not as if the sharouts are gonna
(26:31):
be facing lesser than talent, right, So he's gonna have
to figure it out and quickly, because there are going
to be times where teams are just gonna say, hey,
Aiden Hutchison, why don't you just.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Go line up over there on that right side and
just attack him all game. That's two Monday nights from
now when they go to Detroit after the Miami game
for US.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
So this is then, Nick Bosa guest nine. It doesn't
get much better. You had your soft landing. Now it's
getting real you They're gonna have to figure it out
and play better. It's it's very cliche, but that's the
reality of the situation they're in.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's the question. Would they be two and oh without
the schedule they've had so far. My answers, no, not
the way they've run the ball.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Probably I don't want to get into that because there's
so many variables, but probably not four.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Nine, four to five one and the tone of new texts.
I'm happy to get into it with my question to
you on the text line four nine, four or five one?
Would the Seahawks be two and oh without the schedule?
We talked about the schedule since it came out in May.
How it was a soft landing and it gave Mike
McDonald a chance to get thinks how many losses can
they absorb making the mistakes that they're going to make
early in the season with these new systems. So far
(27:34):
it's been zero. Is that because of the Seahawks or
is that because they played the Denver Broncos and Bonnicks,
who people in Denver already talking about benching after two games.
Think Bryce Young's tenure has been short. And the New
England Patriots who had Jacoby Brissett and no wide receivers.
I don't think they put any wide receivers on the
field Sunday in Foxborough. They were just empty spaces out there.
(27:57):
They had nineteen yards from the wide receivers. That was crazy.
In an NFL game in twenty twenty four, they don't
have any receivers, to be honest. Jalen Polk from the
University of Washington touchdown passion in the back of the
end zone when he got behind the dots and the
linebacker and got away from the safety love and that
was it. That was twelve of the nineteen yards they
(28:19):
had for wide receivers on that play. Up next, Jorry Epstein,
senior NFL writer, going to join us as she does
every Tuesday at eleven am thanks to Zeke's Pizza. We're
gonna talk to her about the two tugo viola situation
in Miami, the Cowboys, how they got boat raced by
the suddenly rolling Saints. We're gonna talk a lot about
(28:39):
the league and general her impressions of Seattle and the
Seahawks after their two and oh start. Jory's up next
on ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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