September 27, 2024 • 33 mins
Gregg Bell and Christopher are live and react to the unfortunate news regarding the Seattle Mariners missing the playoffs YET AGAIN! We talk about the Seahawks offensive line, and play audio from Seahawks offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb talking about Anthony Bradford, Christian Haynes and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big show for us today, most of a football as
you probably would want see how it's got a positive
development yesterday for their offense. Monday night in Detroit, we'll
talk about that. At eleven o'clock, We're gonna talk to
Sam Taylor, Washington state beat writer for the Lewiston Tribune.
He's from the Lacey Tumwater Olympia area. I met him
over in Pullman at the Portland State WSU game Labor
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Day weekend. Been hamping his family and his parents. We
were breakfast in Moscow, Idaho together at the Breakfast Club.
You ever been there? Yes, sir, he's pretty good. Any
anyone who's been to Wazo who probably knows the breakfast
club in Moscow, Ida. We'll talk about the biggest question
with the Mariners now not final three games here against
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Oakland this weekend at the Yard. Will Edgar Martinez return
as a hitting coach? I mean that's really the next question,
because how are they going to maintain what they did
the last thirty games. If Martinez says, you know what,
thanks appreciate it, I'm out of here. Other question is
why would he come back for higher season from February
to October? He doesn't need that. I told you we'll
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talk to Ian Farness at noon. He'll join us, not
for his show, but for our show, which is ten
to one today at twelve thirty. We're gonna twelve twenty.
We're gonna take Ann's normal spot talking to Danny O'Neal,
former Seattle PI Seattle Times beat writer for the Seahawks
colleague of mine on the beat now in New York,
contributed to the News Tribune talking Seattle sports. I'm sure
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he'll have the thing or two to say about the Mariners.
That could be a whole segment there. I wonder if
he's going to the Dogs game tonight. You dub grad
Rutgers is like twenty minutes west of Manhattan on like
good traffic day. Factor Fiction eleven thirty five am is
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
Did the mayor. He went one to know I took
the Giants and you know what we were. He actually
took Buffalo oh Monday night. Yeah, so last week, no,
for this week, it counts, So it counts for this week. Yes,
I think it's I think we're up by a game
now because I remember we were eight and six and
I think there were seven is Yeah, everybody else is
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seven and seven.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
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want tocock as I said. The Husky Hanks pre game
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Bailey will take you up to kick off at five
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the Mariners, if for only to put it on the
record that they got eliminated while doing nothing yesterday. They
were off coming back from Houston, needed Kansas City or
Detroit to lose out and the Royals and Tigers both won.
I mean they were eliminated by one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
So the Mariners missed the playoffs for the twenty second
time in twenty three years. Final three games this season
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or tonight through Sunday against Open at the Yard and Soda.
I'm actually going to be there tonight. My wife has
a children's hospital work function at the Yard and I
was hoping that the game would have some kind of meeting,
but oh, it's fireworks nights. They'll be thirty five thousand
people there. The Seahawks got their biggest best sign yet
that Kenneth Walker may play Monday night at Detroit. They
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lead back practice yesterday. It's the next step in his
return from the oblique injury that's kept him out since
the end of the Denver game September eighth. He was
appearing to do everything everybody else was doing, helmets, cleats.
He was listed as a limited practice participant, which officially
by NFL injury rules, means he didn't He missed at
least one portion of the practice. Could have been team,
could have been individuals. Usually it's eleven or eleven. But
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he's trending toward playing Monday night in Detroit, that's about
ninety minutes east to where he played college football at
Michigan State. But three of Seattle's four starting linebackers misspractice yesterday,
one of them Chenna Wilsa. We made a big deal
in the show here about him practicing on Wednesday for
the first time in a month from that sprain knee
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and the cut block that Cleveland's wiat Teller gave him
sprained mcl Well, yesterday he didn't practice, and Chris, that's
what we were talking about. Can he stack practice days
together back to back to back to back without getting
sore the knee bothering him. Well, yesterday he didn't practice,
So today we'll be telling can he get back on
the field today? And if not, chances are he may
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not be able to play Monday night in Detroit. We'll see.
That may come up to a game time situation again.
The Seahawks' injury designations for out, doubtful and questionable will
be tomorrow, not to customary today for a Sunday game,
but tomorrow Saturday at one o'clock for a Monday night game.
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Chenna and Wilson not practicing. Jerome Baker did not practice.
He's still missing from the hamstring injury to cause him
to miss Seattle's win last week and over Miami. Boy
ma Famous practiced yesterday with a sore knee, but he
did that last week, then played against the Dolphins in
at his third sack of the season, So we're expecting
him to play Mafe. We'll see. And then there's right guard.
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We'll talk about that in a minute. The right guard
situation is still up in the air for Seattle. And
some of you may be happy to hear that Dallas
beat the Giants last night in the middle ends twenty fifteen.
That gets the Cowboys to two and two and maybe
quells all the chicken littles down there in Dallas Fort
Worth Metroplex for a couple of days. Anyway, told you
about the Army team, the Pride and Dream, every Heart
and Gray just Maul Temple last night, forty two to fourteen.
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It's another win for Factor fiction for US, another win
for Army. Army's four to ozho for only the third
time in twenty eight years. If Navy can beat UAB tomorrow, Chris,
I think I mentioned so, that'd be the first time
Army and Navy have both been four to o to
start a season since World War Two nineteen forty five,
when they were worried about more things than football games.
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Army in the Naval Academy. I already mentioned. The Huskies
are three in one today for the Big Ten game.
They're actually road underdogs at neighborhood rival Rutgers. The Big
Ten preseason poll said Rutgers would finish ninth in Washington tenth.
That's a five o'clock kick off again here on ninety
three point three KJRFM with the one pm pre game
show with Dave Softy Maler Forwing our show. The Coogs
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are four to oh played twenty first, twenty fifth, ranked
two in one Boise State. Excuse me, seven pm Saturday
in the Blue Turf and Idaho, and we'll talk to
Sam Taylor of the Lewis In Tribune at eleven o'clock
about COOG football. They're Cracking play their first home preseason
game to night seven pm against Vancouver Climbate Pledge Arena. Tomorrow,
they're going to play at Edmonton six pm. That's going
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to be on KGr nine to fifty AM or sister station,
The Sounders host to Houston Dynamo tomorrow at the Stadium
in Soto. It's a seven thirty kickoff. Jackson Feld's pregame
show seven pm here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
Squeezed in around all the football that's going to be
going on tomorrow. Man, that's scheduled tomorrow, and we got
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all kinds of stuff on the radio Tomorrow. We got
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State at Kansas State at the Tygler
Lockett's Old School. That's going to be at eight thirty am.
It's a noon Eastern time kickoff on Westwood One. I
mentioned Sounders in Houston seven pm. Oklahoma at Auburn is
going to be on nine to fifty AM Tomorrow at
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twelve thirty. Cracking at Edmonton six to eight thirty on
nine to fifty tomorrow, and then on Sunday, of course,
the NFL takes over at nine thirty. It's going to
be Jaguars at Texans. Pregame show at nine to thirty,
game at ten one o'clock, Chiefs at Chargers on ninety
three point three KJRFM, and then the Sunday night game
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on the FM on KJRFM is four thirty pre game
five fifteen kickoff, Bills at Ravens. Chris has got the
Ravens winning that for a factor fiction on nine to
fifty Sunday, Broncos at Jets, nine thirty pre game ten
and am kickoff, and then at one o'clock Brown's at Raiders.
You stayed away from that, right you were about to
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do something of that. No, that wasn't the game I
was thinking of. Okay, all right, Brown's at Raiders is
at one o'clock on nine to fifty AM. So tons
of football this weekend, all right, Chris, what's the game
you're most looking forward to this weekend? Ooh, the Seahawks
aren't Planets Monday night.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know it's got to be Baltimore and the Buffalo Bills.
Just because Buffalo is undefeated, They've looked really good. But
Baltimore's they got off to a tough start, going on
to two and they having a huge win on the
road beating Dallas.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think that was a step forward. But now they're
being child with Buffalo coming to their house and this
is an arrival game. So these two quarterbacks, Lamar and.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Josh are two of the best in the league outside
of obviously Patrick Mahomes. So this is a chance for
them to take the next step. I know it's still
early on this season, but for Lamar, you don't want
to be one in three. And then for the Bills, okay,
you go three on one. Their next couple of games
are just as challenging. So I believe that they have
the Jets and let me just pull up the schedule.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But you putting the Jets in the challenging category.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah, with their defense. Aaron Rodgers, I mean, we
saw we do with the Patriots. He may look very
very easy. He looked Achille looked just fine earlier, you know,
first two weeks, Okay, their offense looked a little shaky,
but as it presents itself now, they look far better
than they have in a while. So Aaron Rodgers is
definitely He's definitely making everything worth the while for them.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And I think I think if I'm the Ravens, I
run Derrick Henry twenty ten plus times.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So yeah, but back to your question about who the
Bills played after the Ravens. They had the Texans. That'll
be a tough one. The Jags, or excuse me, they
have the Texans and then.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Why is it why? Why is this showing it that way?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, so they have the Texans, then the Jets, and
then the Titans. So two games I would say, Okay,
not gonna be easy ones. The Titans should be a
w Then they face the Seahawks. I'm sure the twelves
think we have a chance. Not mad at that. Do
you see in the cornerbacks strapping down? And then they
play the Miami Dolphins. I think Tua could be back
by that one. Yeah, Tua should be back by then.
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So but they have their.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Numbers, that's another question. Should be back with another question.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So yeah, they have a I would say a two
game stretch after the Ravens game where it's okay, another challenge.
Don't have a let down, especially if they do end
up losing to the Ravens on the road, So yeah,
they have a nice interesting challenge. But for the most part,
I think those two teams, the Ravens and Bills going
head to head is okay. Well, who's taking that throne?
Who's who's trying to be the best team in the
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AFC offside Kansas City? Besides Kansas City? Who's the little
brother of the two?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sorry he Chris has got the Ravens Tomorrow night for
Factor Fiction four, tell him techt ligned game. Are you
looking forward to the mode? What are you looking forward
to seeing the most this weekend? Or you're gonna mow
your grass for the last time before the rains come.
It was running last night, shoe, I know, I know,
I got to get a cover for that Mustang convertible
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we have Now my wife is freaking out about the rain.
Well it's baby.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I thought it would be here a little earlier, but
here we are about to be in October.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Can you believe that? No, it isn't. Yeah four to
tell Himore text line what you're looking for. Since the
Seahawks aren't playing on Monday night, you got a full
slate of anything else to be looking forward to this week.
Maybe it's the Huskies here in a few hours on
a Friday night, a rare Friday night game five pm
thanks to Fox Television Washington at Rutgers. I don't know
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how many Husky fans made the trip to New York
in the middle of the week. Did have to take
two three days off of work to do it, but
a rare I'm sure that when I travel with washing
and then they left two days ahead. I remember we
played at Soldier Field in Chicago against Illinois and left
on a Thursday for a Saturday game. So I wondered
the Hutskies the dog's probably left after practice Wednesday for
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that game tonight at Rutgers. Used to be Rutgers played
in the Metal Lands, but now they play in their
own own on campus stadium since they got a bigger,
newer One brother in law played for Rutgers back in
then Dick Anderson here when they were zero to eleven,
they played in the metal Lands, but four nine, four
to five. Want to tell them what do tex on?
What you're interested in? Remember eleven thirty five factor fixtion
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your chance to win one thousand dollars from the Emerald
Queen Casino at eleven o'clock. We're and talked to Sam Taylor,
the Lewist and Tribune beat writer for Washington State. Tons
to talk about with Washington State not just a football team.
I saw Sam wrote an article about Jake Dickard and
his accountability, which reminded me of a coach we have
here in Seattle and how much Jake Dickard stresses accountability
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for himself, as coaching staff and the players, much like
Mike McDonald does and has done so six essfully. We're
also going to talk during the show about the right
guard situation for the Seahawks. Christian Haynes was the starting
right guard yesterday. I'll tell you why and we'll talk
to We talked yesterday to Ryan Grubb about that situation.
He was Greub was pretty candid about what the strengths
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are of both Anthony Bradford and Christian Haynes and what
Christian Haynes needs to work on. We'll revisit Gary Hill
Junior's comments to us yesterday about what he thinks Edgar
Martinez is going to do, and he brought up a
really good point about Edgar Martinez as the Mariner's hitting coach.
It's not a fat acomp leieve that he's coming back again.
They hired him when they hired Dan Wilson, of course,
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for the final thirty plus games of the season, and
they were trending in the right direction. They just had
dug so big as a hole they couldn't get themselves
out of. And now fans are tid why they should
have fired Scott Service earlier. But the hitting is what changed,
And by all accounts, it was Edgar Martinez saying, don't
swing as hard. As simple as that, don't try to.
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I had every pitch of three thousand miles, hit the
ball where it's pitched and place it into play seventy
to eighty percent. Sway I got to tell my high
school guys. I mean it's that simple. Well, if Edgar
Martinez is not the hitting coach next year, who's going
to carry on that approach? And that approach needs to
come from the top down. Who's the top Jerry Depoto,
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the same one who did to control the zone and
exit velocity and launch angle and all that that got
him in the mess they were in, leading the free
world and record breaking strikeouts and the lowest batting average
in a half century of baseball. All I care about
how the money I want? Thank you, Julio. Twenty home
runs for Julio Rodriguez. I still am trying to get
over the stat that he and Bobby Wood Junior are
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the only players in major league history to have twenty
home runs and twenty stolen bases in each of their
first three years of their career. It seems like Willie
Mays maybe, or Mickey Mantle, or it seems like other
guys would have done that. Yeah, but no, Olio Rodried
that's the that's the stat I read this week that holya.
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Rodriguez and Bobby With Junior of the Royals are the
only players in major league history to hit twenty home
runs and twenty stolen bases in each of the first
three seasons of their career. That's that's wild. That doesn't
seem right, does it? Like it? That's like a fact
checked or something.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, they published it, so it's too late for that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Does that how work?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, I guess you can go back, but by
then the people have already read it. Hell, Greg already
came online and so came on the year at noon,
I and Fordess is going to join us not for
our show, for his show, but for ours because we're
giving him the day off since we only have an
hour before the Husky pregame show. And again twelve to
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
At four nine four five one the tough lemore due
techt sign. When it's game time, it's tull a time up.
Next that right guard situation for the Seahawks offensive coordinator
Ryan Grebb. You ask him a question, he gives you
an answer. It's really refreshing. He asked about right guard
about both Anthony Bradford and Christian Haynes, and he gave
us a straight answer. You'll hear from him next. A
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
How there's your game show music again, Chris. It's game time.
Like we're giving away a car or something. We are
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Every day Seahawks Monday Night at Detroit five point fifteen
Star at local time, we do it. Friday's Seahawks stud
of the week. Who we think is gonna be the
Seahawks stud of the game. I'm going with Devin Witherspoon.
I think he's gonna have a turnover or two. He
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might have a sack because they're gonna blitz. They're gonna
play man and they're gonna blitz. And there. I know
that's risky to play man against Jameis and Williams and
Amara Saint Brown and all those guys. But yeah, I
think Devin Witherspoon comes up with a turnover that ends
up being pivotal in this game. So I'm going with
Devin Witherspoon as my Seahawks stead.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What about you, Chris, Well, it sucks because last week
I took by my Murphy and his hammiking.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh yeah, I know, so that sucked. This week I
took DK Metcalf. Last week he had seventy one yard touchdown.
Look at that. I took Kenneth Walker week one. He
had one hundred and three yards two for two.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But I will go. This is tough, but I will
Can I take a whole unit? Yeah, I'll take the
offensive line. Oh, you win this game, what you're gonna
have to have the offensive line so everything. I know,
it doesn't matter for the defense. You know all Greg
he's the interception he wins pretty much. But offensively, if
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the Seahawks have any chance to win this game. Very cliche, Chris,
you brought something new to the table.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If they're gonna do anything, it's gonna start with that
front five. Like, these guys got to show up and
do their job. And if they do, seatows can be
four and O. If they don't, seats can still be
four and oh. But we'll have the same concern, the
same discussion. So I'm looking for a better performance than
that we've seen so far this year.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Can't get some much worse four nine four to five one,
and tell them were do text on who's your Steaks
stud for the game? Who are you predicting to have
a standout game that might end up being pivotal and
decisive and get the Seahawks to four and oh, which
has only happened I think in three times in team history.
Last I think it was twenty twenty. Who's your Seahawks stud?
Four nine four to five one, And tell them, we
do text on your prediction who's going to stand out
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Monday night in Detroit? The offensive line? It's it's interesting
you picked that in Detroit because last year, remember going
into that game Week two, Yep, they had Jake Kerrn
starting at right tackle. They had Stone Foresight at left tackle,
both backup fill and injury fill ins. Yeah, woe is them.
They're going to get steamrolled by Aiden Hutchinson and the
Gang and Stone forsythe stoned Aiden Hutchinson, go back and
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look at the tape of the final drive, the overtime
winning drive for the Seahawks that won thirty seven thirty
seven thirty one. Forsythe time and a time and a
time and again repelled Hutchinson they kept Hutchinson on Forsyth's side.
They usually flop him left and right. They kept him
on that side of the game on the line, and
stone Forsyde did his job. He talked about this this week.
I wrote it the News Tribune and News Tribune dot Com.
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We talked about stone Forsythe yesterday. Well, now stone forth
Ice is on stone foressythe on the right tackle side,
right side for George fan who was in for Abe Lucas.
He's going to start stone Forsythe visit right tackle on
Monday night and you can bet Aiden Hutchson's going to
go line up against him again. Hutchinson was injured a
lot of last season Forstythe talked about that and how
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Hutchinson looks like the train right now and that is
going to be a key matchup on Monday nights. Can
stone foresyd at right time? I will hold off Aidan
Hutchinson for the second consecutive season. That's not the only
question on the offensive line. Right guard. Yesterday rookie Christian
Haynes was starting right guard at practice. That may make
some of you happy. Why did that happen? Because Anthony
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Bradford has a new knee issue. He didn't practice yesterday.
Bradford has six penalties in the first three games. That's
second most in the NFL among all players of any position.
It's twice as many as any other Seahawk. Devin Witherspoon
and DK Metcalf have three. We talked to Ryan Grubb
yesterday after practice. Reporters did out in Renton and we
asked them about the right guard situation, about Bradford and
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what Christian Haynes has to do better to play more.
This is what Ryan Grubb said.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You know, as soon as you can get that established,
I think the more comfort those guys have working together,
and that just shores up the whole operation where guys
aren't guessing. So we certainly hope that we can start
to get that hammered down here.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I can't be obviously played the whole games of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't think Anthony would. He'd probably tell you didn't
have his best game. I think he's a young player
still that hopefully has continued to develop, and I think
he has a very good skill set and there's some
of the things that just got to come along in
his game, and we're just still trying to develop.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That part of Christians game. Do you feel like he
needs to take a step.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Forward technique and power. I mean, I think that just
raw power at the guard position in the NFL is
so critical and that's why obviously you know Anthony can
with stand a lot in there, just his sheer size
and just what he can take on on the inside.
So I think for Christian is not getting overpowered and overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
At least Grubs honest. I mean, he's just come right
out and said Haines hasn't been strong enough. And that
is what at Bradford at six four three thirty five
is known for is his strength is just brute force
and strength inside and that's why he's been starting. Greb
just basically outlined it for you there. He was much
more direct than when I was trying to talk to
Ryan or Scott Huff last week about rotating at right guard.
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The start of that answer you didn't hear there was
when we asked when would you like to have five
sets offensive lineman starting offensive lineman? He said first day
of training camp, which is long gone at the end
of July. So no, this is not optimal, this is
not what they want to have done. But this is
what they have to do. And now with this knee issue,
Anthony Bradford had mispracticed city with it. Perhaps this is
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the entre, the entry point for Christian Haynes, the rookie
from third round pick from Connecticut, to take over the
starting job. Remember, Haynes played one series at New England
in the first half, one series in the second half
in a preordained rotation schedule. That game and the Sea
how scored a touchdown on the first drive that he
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was in in the first half of the longest best
looking drive of the first two and a half quarters.
And then he'd only played one series second half. I
think it was thirteen place total. In the opener, Anthony
Bradford left with a knee twist. The twisted knee missed
a play, and Christian Haynes came in for his NFL
debut in the opener septemb Break against Denver. But then
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Bradford came back in, came out of the blue tent,
came back in the game for the start of the
next series, and finished the game. And it'd be interesting
to see if they're gonna go with Christian Haynes and
his first NFL start if they have to, if Bradford's
knee is hurt. But his first NFL started being in
the noise in ford Field. He didn't play in noise
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at Connecticut. Maybe Kneeland Stadium at Tennessee. He played last
year on the spring ankle and played really well and
impressed the Seahawks with playing with grit that day. One
hundred thousand people in Knoxville maybe, But in that Dome
Stadium in ford Field. I've mentioned it this week, Chris.
That's the loudest NFL stadium I've ever been in, including Arrowhead,
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including the Kingdome, well maybe the Kingdome and back in
the day, but including Lumenfield. That place last year was
crazy off the hook. It was right after the Remember
the Lions had won on the NFL opening night at
Kansas City and they came back for Week two. And
that's another reason why I thought to see if we're
can get boat raised, is that the Chiefs had just
that the Lions had just beating the Chiefs of Arrowhead,
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and that noise last year was crazy. It was a
one o'clock Sunday start. This is going to be eight
point fifteen Michigan time. On Monday night after a few
root beers. There's seven thousand people off the hook in
that place. It's gonna be the loudest, probably one of
the loudest crowd Detroit's ever had, going back to the
Silver Rush Silver Dome days. So that's gonna be Christian
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Haines's first NFL start. In that Ran Grebb talked about
the communication and he said, well, some of it is
you just have to experience it. And we said we
can prepare. We can turn the volume up to eleven
on the music at practice, which they have this week,
and we can do all that and silent counts and
the guard tapping center Connor Williams, which you'll see again
on Monday night. If you're wondering what it was all about.
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There's a timing mechanism. I mentioned it yesterday. It's usually
the right guard, which would be Christian Haynes's responsibility in
his first NFL start, to turn around and look at
the quarterback, to not be in a three point stance,
to not have his hand on the ground so we
can do it, and to turn around and look at
the quarterback, and when Gino Smith gives a signal, then
the right guard taps Connor Williams on the thigh and
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then there's a beat, either a one or two beat,
whatever they counted in the huddle after that tap, so
the defense can't time the tap. Well, that'll be Christian
Haynes's responsibility Monday night if he has to start. So
we'll see Today will be another practice report to see
if Anthony Bradford can get on the field today and
again tomorrow. The Seahawks' injury report will come out about
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out doubtful and questionable at one pm tomorrow for the
Monday night game. But right now it's a question mark
whether Anthony Bradford will start, and that's what a lot
of people have been calling for. Give Christian Haines his
chance after Bradford's penalty field mistake. Field not only has
given up penalties, to give up safeties and sacks and
end to drives, and it's rare that a right guard
has been that conspicuous through the first three games of
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a season. Four nine, five one on tell them we'll
do a text line. Who do you think is going
to be your Seahawks stud on Monday night in Detroit
and who whose big game you're predicting? Might be decisive
in it. At eleven thirty five Factor Fiction your chance
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That's when we'll pick our game for the week. At noon,
we're going to talk to Ian Fernez, who's not going
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to be in here today. We're getting to the day
off because our show's going right up to one o'clock
in the Husky Honks pregame show before the game at Rutgers,
we'll talk Washington State football. At eleven o'clock. Sam Taylor,
the Tribune, Lewiston Tribune's beat writer for the Coops, is
going to talk to us. That's at twelve twenty again,
we're going to have Dannie O'Neal his weekly appearance usually
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with Ian Forness, but his weekly twelve twenty Friday appearance
will be then in the Tublemore Doue text line four nine,
four to five one. We'll be back your text at
twelve forty up next no huddle. It's worked on offense.
Ryan Greb has gotten his offense unstuck for the Seahawks
their first three games. Using it. You'll hear from the
play caller about his thinking about hurry up and no
Huddle next on ninety three point three KJRFM. Hi, welcome back,
(27:13):
Craig Bell, Christopher Kidd with you as we are every weekday,
usually ten am the noon. Today we're going ten am
to one. We're going to take you right up to
the Husky Hanks pregame show. They gotta do it for Kirkland.
I believe beer haul over there in Kirkland at one o'clock.
The Husky Hanks will be on from one until five,
taking you right up to kickoff here on ninety three
(27:33):
point three KJRFM of Washington at Rutgers. The Huskies first
Big ten road game is all the way over in
New Jersey. So we're taking up to one o'clock today.
Eleven thirty five is still going to be the same
time as it is every day for us. Factor Fiction
your chance to win one thousand dollars from the Emerald
Queen Casino. We're one and zero on the week thanks
to the Army team. Last night Stick with Army. Someone
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on the text line said we should have an Army
Navy viewing party down it Wammee Theater or something. Why
not maybe you had to get on that. I'll be
at the Army Navy game, So I wouldn't be able
to be there. You'd have to run the show. That's fine,
can easily do that. To talk too rich about that
no huddle, I talked to you before the break about
how it has worked. If you watch the games, when
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the Seahawks have bogged down offensively, Ryan Grubb has gone
to no huddle. Now, what's a take to even startup? Right? Well,
you got to get a completed pass or a first
down or a gain on first down just to make
it work. You don't go no huddle when you just
got sacked in at second and eighteen. But when Grub
has gotten the offense, when the offense has stagnated in
each of the first three games, it has every time
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Grub has gone to no huddle, and it's worked. It's
gotten him going, it's got him in a series of
first downs. And so I asked him, Ryan Grubb, the
offensive coordinator, yesterday about his use of no huddle. This
is what he said.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I've always felt like, you know, generating tempo against a
defense is you know for us, we just we have
more calls than they do, more concepts and scheme that
we can run on an uptick versus what a defense
is capable of running. They're not used to making calls fast,
and they definitely have those and defenses always do. I
know Detroit does as well, and we have to be
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aware of that and not think that the whole game
plan is going to rely on just going fast. But
you certainly can see when teams struggle to line up
quickly and uh, then you can attack that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So reading between the lines, there he saw in his
film study of New England and Miami in particular, just
go fast and they can't keep up. Miami couldn't keep up.
You could see them, and He's right, they wouldn't. They
weren't even lined up. Sometimes the Seahawks were snapping the ball.
But he says Detroit is, and they've got coaches Glenn
for instance, Aaron Glen. He's gonna be ready for that. Yeah,
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we mad enough. Everybody get a man corner. Where's let's go,
and Glenn's gonna be ready. I love him. He's a
fun coach. Looks like you watched Hard Knocks. I was
ready to strap him up. I know I'm on the
side where you want to put me. Man, We'll hand
you the water. You can pass that out to some
of the players. What do you say to that? The
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way I played that Grub answer The one that the
part of that really intrigued me is he said, we
have more calls than they do.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I would get there's so many audibles. For instance, my
favorite play was against the Patriots. They come out and empty.
Geno feels okay, they're sending pressure.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
DK.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I need you to hit the fade route, Zach Scharbonnay,
you just chill, we might be able to confuse him here. Noah,
I need you to come in motion in and block
this edge rusher coming off the side here. And it
worked just as he watched it on tape. That was
an example of what you're alluding to. When we have
something drawn up. I see the defense doing something. Let's
go over here and try this. I think we can
catch them slipping. And what do they do? They caught
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them slipping. New England was like, oh, we're both guarding Sharbonny,
no one of you.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You were supposed to stay on detas touchdown. And that
was the confusion there.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And to Ryan Grubb's point, we got a counter for
our counter, right, you got to move.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
We got two more. Are you ready for those two
more moves. I'm glad you brought up the motion on
that play because that's what made that touchdown in New England.
Was no a fan. If they don't motion no a
fan the tight end from right to left, he's sacked free.
That's a fleet briltzer who is unaccounted for in their
protection scheme, but grub scheme. That particular motion not to
see whether they were in man or not, but to
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get a blocker on the edge rusher in case they blitzed.
If they hadn't blitzed, he would have Fant would have
just gone into the flat or maybe hooked up in
the middle of the field in the left slot. His
job was. Fant's job was as you've come across the formation,
if you see a blitzer, that's your guy. And that's
exactly what happened. And to your point, Chris, that's coaching.
That's what film study does. And they said, when New
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England is in this set doing this on this down
and distance, we're going to go to this and we're
going to go a tight end on the right wing
and motion him to left and tight end you've got
the blitzer because we're gonna we're gonna man up inside
with our protection on the interior offensive line, and you
tight end, don't You often don't see that that somebody,
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an eligible receiver in motion is the blitz pickup guy.
But because they had Zach Charbonay split out actually wider
than Metcalf on that play, he was split out left
like Ken Walker sometimes is. The tailback was split out
as the far left X receiver because the Sharboney, who
only would be that blitz pickup guy, was out there
in an empty set. Like you mentioned, that was no
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offense guy. And the unsung hero of that play in
New England was noahfen picking up that blitz. But that
was Ryan Grubb screaming that to your point, and that
when you say, okay, what are these new coaches, how
are they going to help the team, there's an example
of Noahfense getting schemed by his offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb
into the position to make that play work. And to
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your point, confusing the defense choosing two guys, choosing a
running back running a five yard in round instead of
a six four just run a little curl, see if
they bit dummy. Rout isn't to make the defense look
like dummies for following him. Yeah, two guys jumped up
five yard in route with the six to four Pro
Bowl wide receiver ran straight down the field for a touchdown.
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Coming up next, Excited to have Sam Taylor beat writer
at Lewiston Tribune WSHU coog beat writer just witnessed one
of the wildest games he'll cover in his young career.
I met him in Moscow, idaha Ad at breakfast. We
just ran into each other, first time I'd ever met him,
and we'll have him on the show next. We're gonna
talk about the Washington State Huskies. Washington Husky Washington State
Cougar is beating the Huskies and now heading into Boise
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State undefeated for a big showdown with the Boise State
Broncos tomorrow night, eleven thirty five Factor Fiction. Your chance
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today up to the Huskies pregame show on ninety three
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Big show for us today, most of a football as
you probably would want see how it's got a positive
development yesterday for their offense. Monday night in Detroit, we'll
talk about that. At eleven o'clock, We're gonna talk to
Sam Taylor, Washington state beat writer for the Lewiston Tribune.
He's from the Lacey Tumwater Olympia area. I met him
over in Pullman at the Portland State WSU game Labor
(00:21):
Day weekend. Been hamping his family and his parents. We
were breakfast in Moscow, Idaho together at the Breakfast Club.
You ever been there? Yes, sir, he's pretty good. Any
anyone who's been to Wazo who probably knows the breakfast
club in Moscow, Ida. We'll talk about the biggest question
with the Mariners now not final three games here against
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Oakland this weekend at the Yard. Will Edgar Martinez return
as a hitting coach? I mean that's really the next question,
because how are they going to maintain what they did
the last thirty games. If Martinez says, you know what,
thanks appreciate it, I'm out of here. Other question is
why would he come back for higher season from February
to October? He doesn't need that. I told you we'll
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talk to Ian Farness at noon. He'll join us, not
for his show, but for our show, which is ten
to one today at twelve thirty. We're gonna twelve twenty.
We're gonna take Ann's normal spot talking to Danny O'Neal,
former Seattle PI Seattle Times beat writer for the Seahawks
colleague of mine on the beat now in New York,
contributed to the News Tribune talking Seattle sports. I'm sure
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he'll have the thing or two to say about the Mariners.
That could be a whole segment there. I wonder if
he's going to the Dogs game tonight. You dub grad
Rutgers is like twenty minutes west of Manhattan on like
good traffic day. Factor Fiction eleven thirty five am is
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
Did the mayor. He went one to know I took
the Giants and you know what we were. He actually
took Buffalo oh Monday night. Yeah, so last week, no,
for this week, it counts, So it counts for this week. Yes,
I think it's I think we're up by a game
now because I remember we were eight and six and
I think there were seven is Yeah, everybody else is
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seven and seven.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
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the Mariners, if for only to put it on the
record that they got eliminated while doing nothing yesterday. They
were off coming back from Houston, needed Kansas City or
Detroit to lose out and the Royals and Tigers both won.
I mean they were eliminated by one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
So the Mariners missed the playoffs for the twenty second
time in twenty three years. Final three games this season
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or tonight through Sunday against Open at the Yard and Soda.
I'm actually going to be there tonight. My wife has
a children's hospital work function at the Yard and I
was hoping that the game would have some kind of meeting,
but oh, it's fireworks nights. They'll be thirty five thousand
people there. The Seahawks got their biggest best sign yet
that Kenneth Walker may play Monday night at Detroit. They
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lead back practice yesterday. It's the next step in his
return from the oblique injury that's kept him out since
the end of the Denver game September eighth. He was
appearing to do everything everybody else was doing, helmets, cleats.
He was listed as a limited practice participant, which officially
by NFL injury rules, means he didn't He missed at
least one portion of the practice. Could have been team,
could have been individuals. Usually it's eleven or eleven. But
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he's trending toward playing Monday night in Detroit, that's about
ninety minutes east to where he played college football at
Michigan State. But three of Seattle's four starting linebackers misspractice yesterday,
one of them Chenna Wilsa. We made a big deal
in the show here about him practicing on Wednesday for
the first time in a month from that sprain knee
(04:28):
and the cut block that Cleveland's wiat Teller gave him
sprained mcl Well, yesterday he didn't practice, and Chris, that's
what we were talking about. Can he stack practice days
together back to back to back to back without getting
sore the knee bothering him. Well, yesterday he didn't practice,
So today we'll be telling can he get back on
the field today? And if not, chances are he may
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not be able to play Monday night in Detroit. We'll see.
That may come up to a game time situation again.
The Seahawks' injury designations for out, doubtful and questionable will
be tomorrow, not to customary today for a Sunday game,
but tomorrow Saturday at one o'clock for a Monday night game.
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Chenna and Wilson not practicing. Jerome Baker did not practice.
He's still missing from the hamstring injury to cause him
to miss Seattle's win last week and over Miami. Boy
ma Famous practiced yesterday with a sore knee, but he
did that last week, then played against the Dolphins in
at his third sack of the season, So we're expecting
him to play Mafe. We'll see. And then there's right guard.
(05:30):
We'll talk about that in a minute. The right guard
situation is still up in the air for Seattle. And
some of you may be happy to hear that Dallas
beat the Giants last night in the middle ends twenty fifteen.
That gets the Cowboys to two and two and maybe
quells all the chicken littles down there in Dallas Fort
Worth Metroplex for a couple of days. Anyway, told you
about the Army team, the Pride and Dream, every Heart
and Gray just Maul Temple last night, forty two to fourteen.
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It's another win for Factor fiction for US, another win
for Army. Army's four to ozho for only the third
time in twenty eight years. If Navy can beat UAB tomorrow, Chris,
I think I mentioned so, that'd be the first time
Army and Navy have both been four to o to
start a season since World War Two nineteen forty five,
when they were worried about more things than football games.
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Army in the Naval Academy. I already mentioned. The Huskies
are three in one today for the Big Ten game.
They're actually road underdogs at neighborhood rival Rutgers. The Big
Ten preseason poll said Rutgers would finish ninth in Washington tenth.
That's a five o'clock kick off again here on ninety
three point three KJRFM with the one pm pre game
show with Dave Softy Maler Forwing our show. The Coogs
(06:36):
are four to oh played twenty first, twenty fifth, ranked
two in one Boise State. Excuse me, seven pm Saturday
in the Blue Turf and Idaho, and we'll talk to
Sam Taylor of the Lewis In Tribune at eleven o'clock
about COOG football. They're Cracking play their first home preseason
game to night seven pm against Vancouver Climbate Pledge Arena. Tomorrow,
they're going to play at Edmonton six pm. That's going
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to be on KGr nine to fifty AM or sister station,
The Sounders host to Houston Dynamo tomorrow at the Stadium
in Soto. It's a seven thirty kickoff. Jackson Feld's pregame
show seven pm here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
Squeezed in around all the football that's going to be
going on tomorrow. Man, that's scheduled tomorrow, and we got
(07:19):
all kinds of stuff on the radio Tomorrow. We got
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State at Kansas State at the Tygler
Lockett's Old School. That's going to be at eight thirty am.
It's a noon Eastern time kickoff on Westwood One. I
mentioned Sounders in Houston seven pm. Oklahoma at Auburn is
going to be on nine to fifty AM Tomorrow at
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twelve thirty. Cracking at Edmonton six to eight thirty on
nine to fifty tomorrow, and then on Sunday, of course,
the NFL takes over at nine thirty. It's going to
be Jaguars at Texans. Pregame show at nine to thirty,
game at ten one o'clock, Chiefs at Chargers on ninety
three point three KJRFM, and then the Sunday night game
(08:02):
on the FM on KJRFM is four thirty pre game
five fifteen kickoff, Bills at Ravens. Chris has got the
Ravens winning that for a factor fiction on nine to
fifty Sunday, Broncos at Jets, nine thirty pre game ten
and am kickoff, and then at one o'clock Brown's at Raiders.
You stayed away from that, right you were about to
(08:22):
do something of that. No, that wasn't the game I
was thinking of. Okay, all right, Brown's at Raiders is
at one o'clock on nine to fifty AM. So tons
of football this weekend, all right, Chris, what's the game
you're most looking forward to this weekend? Ooh, the Seahawks
aren't Planets Monday night.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know it's got to be Baltimore and the Buffalo Bills.
Just because Buffalo is undefeated, They've looked really good. But
Baltimore's they got off to a tough start, going on
to two and they having a huge win on the
road beating Dallas.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think that was a step forward. But now they're
being child with Buffalo coming to their house and this
is an arrival game. So these two quarterbacks, Lamar and.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Josh are two of the best in the league outside
of obviously Patrick Mahomes. So this is a chance for
them to take the next step. I know it's still
early on this season, but for Lamar, you don't want
to be one in three. And then for the Bills, okay,
you go three on one. Their next couple of games
are just as challenging. So I believe that they have
the Jets and let me just pull up the schedule.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
But you putting the Jets in the challenging category.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh yeah, with their defense. Aaron Rodgers, I mean, we
saw we do with the Patriots. He may look very
very easy. He looked Achille looked just fine earlier, you know,
first two weeks, Okay, their offense looked a little shaky,
but as it presents itself now, they look far better
than they have in a while. So Aaron Rodgers is
definitely He's definitely making everything worth the while for them.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And I think I think if I'm the Ravens, I
run Derrick Henry twenty ten plus times.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So yeah, but back to your question about who the
Bills played after the Ravens. They had the Texans. That'll
be a tough one. The Jags, or excuse me, they
have the Texans and then.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Why is it why? Why is this showing it that way?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, so they have the Texans, then the Jets, and
then the Titans. So two games I would say, Okay,
not gonna be easy ones. The Titans should be a
w Then they face the Seahawks. I'm sure the twelves
think we have a chance. Not mad at that. Do
you see in the cornerbacks strapping down? And then they
play the Miami Dolphins. I think Tua could be back
by that one. Yeah, Tua should be back by then.
(10:29):
So but they have their.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Numbers, that's another question. Should be back with another question.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So yeah, they have a I would say a two
game stretch after the Ravens game where it's okay, another challenge.
Don't have a let down, especially if they do end
up losing to the Ravens on the road, So yeah,
they have a nice interesting challenge. But for the most part,
I think those two teams, the Ravens and Bills going
head to head is okay. Well, who's taking that throne?
Who's who's trying to be the best team in the
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AFC offside Kansas City? Besides Kansas City? Who's the little
brother of the two?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Sorry he Chris has got the Ravens Tomorrow night for
Factor Fiction four, tell him techt ligned game. Are you
looking forward to the mode? What are you looking forward
to seeing the most this weekend? Or you're gonna mow
your grass for the last time before the rains come.
It was running last night, shoe, I know, I know,
I got to get a cover for that Mustang convertible
(11:21):
we have Now my wife is freaking out about the rain.
Well it's baby.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I thought it would be here a little earlier, but
here we are about to be in October.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Can you believe that? No, it isn't. Yeah four to
tell Himore text line what you're looking for. Since the
Seahawks aren't playing on Monday night, you got a full
slate of anything else to be looking forward to this week.
Maybe it's the Huskies here in a few hours on
a Friday night, a rare Friday night game five pm
thanks to Fox Television Washington at Rutgers. I don't know
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how many Husky fans made the trip to New York
in the middle of the week. Did have to take
two three days off of work to do it, but
a rare I'm sure that when I travel with washing
and then they left two days ahead. I remember we
played at Soldier Field in Chicago against Illinois and left
on a Thursday for a Saturday game. So I wondered
the Hutskies the dog's probably left after practice Wednesday for
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that game tonight at Rutgers. Used to be Rutgers played
in the Metal Lands, but now they play in their
own own on campus stadium since they got a bigger,
newer One brother in law played for Rutgers back in
then Dick Anderson here when they were zero to eleven,
they played in the metal Lands, but four nine, four
to five. Want to tell them what do tex on?
What you're interested in? Remember eleven thirty five factor fixtion
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your chance to win one thousand dollars from the Emerald
Queen Casino at eleven o'clock. We're and talked to Sam Taylor,
the Lewist and Tribune beat writer for Washington State. Tons
to talk about with Washington State not just a football team.
I saw Sam wrote an article about Jake Dickard and
his accountability, which reminded me of a coach we have
here in Seattle and how much Jake Dickard stresses accountability
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for himself, as coaching staff and the players, much like
Mike McDonald does and has done so six essfully. We're
also going to talk during the show about the right
guard situation for the Seahawks. Christian Haynes was the starting
right guard yesterday. I'll tell you why and we'll talk
to We talked yesterday to Ryan Grubb about that situation.
He was Greub was pretty candid about what the strengths
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are of both Anthony Bradford and Christian Haynes and what
Christian Haynes needs to work on. We'll revisit Gary Hill
Junior's comments to us yesterday about what he thinks Edgar
Martinez is going to do, and he brought up a
really good point about Edgar Martinez as the Mariner's hitting coach.
It's not a fat acomp leieve that he's coming back again.
They hired him when they hired Dan Wilson, of course,
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for the final thirty plus games of the season, and
they were trending in the right direction. They just had
dug so big as a hole they couldn't get themselves
out of. And now fans are tid why they should
have fired Scott Service earlier. But the hitting is what changed,
And by all accounts, it was Edgar Martinez saying, don't
swing as hard. As simple as that, don't try to.
(14:00):
I had every pitch of three thousand miles, hit the
ball where it's pitched and place it into play seventy
to eighty percent. Sway I got to tell my high
school guys. I mean it's that simple. Well, if Edgar
Martinez is not the hitting coach next year, who's going
to carry on that approach? And that approach needs to
come from the top down. Who's the top Jerry Depoto,
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the same one who did to control the zone and
exit velocity and launch angle and all that that got
him in the mess they were in, leading the free
world and record breaking strikeouts and the lowest batting average
in a half century of baseball. All I care about
how the money I want? Thank you, Julio. Twenty home
runs for Julio Rodriguez. I still am trying to get
over the stat that he and Bobby Wood Junior are
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the only players in major league history to have twenty
home runs and twenty stolen bases in each of their
first three years of their career. It seems like Willie
Mays maybe, or Mickey Mantle, or it seems like other
guys would have done that. Yeah, but no, Olio Rodried
that's the that's the stat I read this week that holya.
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Rodriguez and Bobby With Junior of the Royals are the
only players in major league history to hit twenty home
runs and twenty stolen bases in each of the first
three seasons of their career. That's that's wild. That doesn't
seem right, does it? Like it? That's like a fact
checked or something.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Well, they published it, so it's too late for that.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Does that how work?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, I guess you can go back, but by
then the people have already read it. Hell, Greg already
came online and so came on the year at noon,
I and Fordess is going to join us not for
our show, for his show, but for ours because we're
giving him the day off since we only have an
hour before the Husky pregame show. And again twelve to
twenty we'll talk to Danny Onneil eleven thirty five Factor
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
At four nine four five one the tough lemore due
techt sign. When it's game time, it's tull a time up.
Next that right guard situation for the Seahawks offensive coordinator
Ryan Grebb. You ask him a question, he gives you
an answer. It's really refreshing. He asked about right guard
about both Anthony Bradford and Christian Haynes, and he gave
us a straight answer. You'll hear from him next. A
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Speaker 3 (16:09):
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Speaker 1 (16:26):
How there's your game show music again, Chris. It's game time.
Like we're giving away a car or something. We are
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Every day Seahawks Monday Night at Detroit five point fifteen
Star at local time, we do it. Friday's Seahawks stud
of the week. Who we think is gonna be the
Seahawks stud of the game. I'm going with Devin Witherspoon.
I think he's gonna have a turnover or two. He
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might have a sack because they're gonna blitz. They're gonna
play man and they're gonna blitz. And there. I know
that's risky to play man against Jameis and Williams and
Amara Saint Brown and all those guys. But yeah, I
think Devin Witherspoon comes up with a turnover that ends
up being pivotal in this game. So I'm going with
Devin Witherspoon as my Seahawks stead.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What about you, Chris, Well, it sucks because last week
I took by my Murphy and his hammiking.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Oh yeah, I know, so that sucked. This week I
took DK Metcalf. Last week he had seventy one yard touchdown.
Look at that. I took Kenneth Walker week one. He
had one hundred and three yards two for two.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
But I will go. This is tough, but I will
Can I take a whole unit? Yeah, I'll take the
offensive line. Oh, you win this game, what you're gonna
have to have the offensive line so everything. I know,
it doesn't matter for the defense. You know all Greg
he's the interception he wins pretty much. But offensively, if
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the Seahawks have any chance to win this game. Very cliche, Chris,
you brought something new to the table.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If they're gonna do anything, it's gonna start with that
front five. Like, these guys got to show up and
do their job. And if they do, seatows can be
four and O. If they don't, seats can still be
four and oh. But we'll have the same concern, the
same discussion. So I'm looking for a better performance than
that we've seen so far this year.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Can't get some much worse four nine four to five one,
and tell them were do text on who's your Steaks
stud for the game? Who are you predicting to have
a standout game that might end up being pivotal and
decisive and get the Seahawks to four and oh, which
has only happened I think in three times in team history.
Last I think it was twenty twenty. Who's your Seahawks stud?
Four nine four to five one, And tell them, we
do text on your prediction who's going to stand out
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Monday night in Detroit? The offensive line? It's it's interesting
you picked that in Detroit because last year, remember going
into that game Week two, Yep, they had Jake Kerrn
starting at right tackle. They had Stone Foresight at left tackle,
both backup fill and injury fill ins. Yeah, woe is them.
They're going to get steamrolled by Aiden Hutchinson and the
Gang and Stone forsythe stoned Aiden Hutchinson, go back and
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look at the tape of the final drive, the overtime
winning drive for the Seahawks that won thirty seven thirty
seven thirty one. Forsythe time and a time and a
time and again repelled Hutchinson they kept Hutchinson on Forsyth's side.
They usually flop him left and right. They kept him
on that side of the game on the line, and
stone Forsyde did his job. He talked about this this week.
I wrote it the News Tribune and News Tribune dot Com.
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We talked about stone Forsythe yesterday. Well, now stone forth
Ice is on stone foressythe on the right tackle side,
right side for George fan who was in for Abe Lucas.
He's going to start stone Forsythe visit right tackle on
Monday night and you can bet Aiden Hutchson's going to
go line up against him again. Hutchinson was injured a
lot of last season Forstythe talked about that and how
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Hutchinson looks like the train right now and that is
going to be a key matchup on Monday nights. Can
stone foresyd at right time? I will hold off Aidan
Hutchinson for the second consecutive season. That's not the only
question on the offensive line. Right guard. Yesterday rookie Christian
Haynes was starting right guard at practice. That may make
some of you happy. Why did that happen? Because Anthony
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Bradford has a new knee issue. He didn't practice yesterday.
Bradford has six penalties in the first three games. That's
second most in the NFL among all players of any position.
It's twice as many as any other Seahawk. Devin Witherspoon
and DK Metcalf have three. We talked to Ryan Grubb
yesterday after practice. Reporters did out in Renton and we
asked them about the right guard situation, about Bradford and
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what Christian Haynes has to do better to play more.
This is what Ryan Grubb said.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You know, as soon as you can get that established,
I think the more comfort those guys have working together,
and that just shores up the whole operation where guys
aren't guessing. So we certainly hope that we can start
to get that hammered down here.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I can't be obviously played the whole games of the day.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't think Anthony would. He'd probably tell you didn't
have his best game. I think he's a young player
still that hopefully has continued to develop, and I think
he has a very good skill set and there's some
of the things that just got to come along in
his game, and we're just still trying to develop.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That part of Christians game. Do you feel like he
needs to take a step.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Forward technique and power. I mean, I think that just
raw power at the guard position in the NFL is
so critical and that's why obviously you know Anthony can
with stand a lot in there, just his sheer size
and just what he can take on on the inside.
So I think for Christian is not getting overpowered and overwhelmed.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
At least Grubs honest. I mean, he's just come right
out and said Haines hasn't been strong enough. And that
is what at Bradford at six four three thirty five
is known for is his strength is just brute force
and strength inside and that's why he's been starting. Greb
just basically outlined it for you there. He was much
more direct than when I was trying to talk to
Ryan or Scott Huff last week about rotating at right guard.
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The start of that answer you didn't hear there was
when we asked when would you like to have five
sets offensive lineman starting offensive lineman? He said first day
of training camp, which is long gone at the end
of July. So no, this is not optimal, this is
not what they want to have done. But this is
what they have to do. And now with this knee issue,
Anthony Bradford had mispracticed city with it. Perhaps this is
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the entre, the entry point for Christian Haynes, the rookie
from third round pick from Connecticut, to take over the
starting job. Remember, Haynes played one series at New England
in the first half, one series in the second half
in a preordained rotation schedule. That game and the Sea
how scored a touchdown on the first drive that he
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was in in the first half of the longest best
looking drive of the first two and a half quarters.
And then he'd only played one series second half. I
think it was thirteen place total. In the opener, Anthony
Bradford left with a knee twist. The twisted knee missed
a play, and Christian Haynes came in for his NFL
debut in the opener septemb Break against Denver. But then
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Bradford came back in, came out of the blue tent,
came back in the game for the start of the
next series, and finished the game. And it'd be interesting
to see if they're gonna go with Christian Haynes and
his first NFL start if they have to, if Bradford's
knee is hurt. But his first NFL started being in
the noise in ford Field. He didn't play in noise
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at Connecticut. Maybe Kneeland Stadium at Tennessee. He played last
year on the spring ankle and played really well and
impressed the Seahawks with playing with grit that day. One
hundred thousand people in Knoxville maybe, But in that Dome
Stadium in ford Field. I've mentioned it this week, Chris.
That's the loudest NFL stadium I've ever been in, including Arrowhead,
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including the Kingdome, well maybe the Kingdome and back in
the day, but including Lumenfield. That place last year was
crazy off the hook. It was right after the Remember
the Lions had won on the NFL opening night at
Kansas City and they came back for Week two. And
that's another reason why I thought to see if we're
can get boat raised, is that the Chiefs had just
that the Lions had just beating the Chiefs of Arrowhead,
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and that noise last year was crazy. It was a
one o'clock Sunday start. This is going to be eight
point fifteen Michigan time. On Monday night after a few
root beers. There's seven thousand people off the hook in
that place. It's gonna be the loudest, probably one of
the loudest crowd Detroit's ever had, going back to the
Silver Rush Silver Dome days. So that's gonna be Christian
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Haines's first NFL start. In that Ran Grebb talked about
the communication and he said, well, some of it is
you just have to experience it. And we said we
can prepare. We can turn the volume up to eleven
on the music at practice, which they have this week,
and we can do all that and silent counts and
the guard tapping center Connor Williams, which you'll see again
on Monday night. If you're wondering what it was all about.
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There's a timing mechanism. I mentioned it yesterday. It's usually
the right guard, which would be Christian Haynes's responsibility in
his first NFL start, to turn around and look at
the quarterback, to not be in a three point stance,
to not have his hand on the ground so we
can do it, and to turn around and look at
the quarterback, and when Gino Smith gives a signal, then
the right guard taps Connor Williams on the thigh and
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then there's a beat, either a one or two beat,
whatever they counted in the huddle after that tap, so
the defense can't time the tap. Well, that'll be Christian
Haynes's responsibility Monday night if he has to start. So
we'll see Today will be another practice report to see
if Anthony Bradford can get on the field today and
again tomorrow. The Seahawks' injury report will come out about
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out doubtful and questionable at one pm tomorrow for the
Monday night game. But right now it's a question mark
whether Anthony Bradford will start, and that's what a lot
of people have been calling for. Give Christian Haines his
chance after Bradford's penalty field mistake. Field not only has
given up penalties, to give up safeties and sacks and
end to drives, and it's rare that a right guard
has been that conspicuous through the first three games of
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twelve forty up next no huddle. It's worked on offense.
Ryan Greb has gotten his offense unstuck for the Seahawks
their first three games. Using it. You'll hear from the
play caller about his thinking about hurry up and no
Huddle next on ninety three point three KJRFM. Hi, welcome back,
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Craig Bell, Christopher Kidd with you as we are every weekday,
usually ten am the noon. Today we're going ten am
to one. We're going to take you right up to
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I believe beer haul over there in Kirkland at one o'clock.
The Husky Hanks will be on from one until five,
taking you right up to kickoff here on ninety three
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Eleven thirty five is still going to be the same
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to be there. You'd have to run the show. That's fine,
can easily do that. To talk too rich about that
no huddle, I talked to you before the break about
how it has worked. If you watch the games, when
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the Seahawks have bogged down offensively, Ryan Grubb has gone
to no huddle. Now, what's a take to even startup? Right? Well,
you got to get a completed pass or a first
down or a gain on first down just to make
it work. You don't go no huddle when you just
got sacked in at second and eighteen. But when Grub
has gotten the offense, when the offense has stagnated in
each of the first three games, it has every time
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Grub has gone to no huddle, and it's worked. It's
gotten him going, it's got him in a series of
first downs. And so I asked him, Ryan Grubb, the
offensive coordinator, yesterday about his use of no huddle. This
is what he said.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I've always felt like, you know, generating tempo against a
defense is you know for us, we just we have
more calls than they do, more concepts and scheme that
we can run on an uptick versus what a defense
is capable of running. They're not used to making calls fast,
and they definitely have those and defenses always do. I
know Detroit does as well, and we have to be
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aware of that and not think that the whole game
plan is going to rely on just going fast. But
you certainly can see when teams struggle to line up
quickly and uh, then you can attack that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
So reading between the lines, there he saw in his
film study of New England and Miami in particular, just
go fast and they can't keep up. Miami couldn't keep up.
You could see them, and He's right, they wouldn't. They
weren't even lined up. Sometimes the Seahawks were snapping the ball.
But he says Detroit is, and they've got coaches Glenn
for instance, Aaron Glen. He's gonna be ready for that. Yeah,
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we mad enough. Everybody get a man corner. Where's let's go,
and Glenn's gonna be ready. I love him. He's a
fun coach. Looks like you watched Hard Knocks. I was
ready to strap him up. I know I'm on the
side where you want to put me. Man, We'll hand
you the water. You can pass that out to some
of the players. What do you say to that? The
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way I played that Grub answer The one that the
part of that really intrigued me is he said, we
have more calls than they do.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
I would get there's so many audibles. For instance, my
favorite play was against the Patriots. They come out and empty.
Geno feels okay, they're sending pressure.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
DK.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I need you to hit the fade route, Zach Scharbonnay,
you just chill, we might be able to confuse him here. Noah,
I need you to come in motion in and block
this edge rusher coming off the side here. And it
worked just as he watched it on tape. That was
an example of what you're alluding to. When we have
something drawn up. I see the defense doing something. Let's
go over here and try this. I think we can
catch them slipping. And what do they do? They caught
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them slipping. New England was like, oh, we're both guarding Sharbonny,
no one of you.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
You were supposed to stay on detas touchdown. And that
was the confusion there.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
And to Ryan Grubb's point, we got a counter for
our counter, right, you got to move.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
We got two more. Are you ready for those two
more moves. I'm glad you brought up the motion on
that play because that's what made that touchdown in New England.
Was no a fan. If they don't motion no a
fan the tight end from right to left, he's sacked free.
That's a fleet briltzer who is unaccounted for in their
protection scheme, but grub scheme. That particular motion not to
see whether they were in man or not, but to
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get a blocker on the edge rusher in case they blitzed.
If they hadn't blitzed, he would have Fant would have
just gone into the flat or maybe hooked up in
the middle of the field in the left slot. His
job was. Fant's job was as you've come across the formation,
if you see a blitzer, that's your guy. And that's
exactly what happened. And to your point, Chris, that's coaching.
That's what film study does. And they said, when New
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England is in this set doing this on this down
and distance, we're going to go to this and we're
going to go a tight end on the right wing
and motion him to left and tight end you've got
the blitzer because we're gonna we're gonna man up inside
with our protection on the interior offensive line, and you
tight end, don't You often don't see that that somebody,
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an eligible receiver in motion is the blitz pickup guy.
But because they had Zach Charbonay split out actually wider
than Metcalf on that play, he was split out left
like Ken Walker sometimes is. The tailback was split out
as the far left X receiver because the Sharboney, who
only would be that blitz pickup guy, was out there
in an empty set. Like you mentioned, that was no
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offense guy. And the unsung hero of that play in
New England was noahfen picking up that blitz. But that
was Ryan Grubb screaming that to your point, and that
when you say, okay, what are these new coaches, how
are they going to help the team, there's an example
of Noahfense getting schemed by his offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb
into the position to make that play work. And to
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your point, confusing the defense choosing two guys, choosing a
running back running a five yard in round instead of
a six four just run a little curl, see if
they bit dummy. Rout isn't to make the defense look
like dummies for following him. Yeah, two guys jumped up
five yard in route with the six to four Pro
Bowl wide receiver ran straight down the field for a touchdown.
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