Best of Chuck and Buck 10-31

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
Happy Friday to you all, Good morning, and welcome into
the radio program. It is Chuck them back in the
Morning's here on a Tito's Handmade Vodka Football Friday. That's right,
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(01:37):
this blessed, blessed day, not only is it Friday, it's
Halloween Friday. Ashley grew a mustache.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Over cal Rawly Morning Show producer in an atmospheric river.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Wow, look at that. You really went all out.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I really did?

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Blown, yes, close the second five I was like, I
can't smile it all.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And here I thought that the game plan was to
dress down. You did both.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I did both. Well, I told you guys, I was going.
I was inspired by the idea of being someone being
someone Okay, good stop, the plan of being cal Rawly
as a morning show producer dressing down in an atmosphere
river Wow, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Might have to stand up. I don't know if I'm
getting enough.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Of the worst nugeen.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh oh, she.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
Looks like a Thursday night football player. Cal Rawly dressed
is a Thursday night color rush Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's a multi You've just covered every part of the
spectrum here.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
How do you people grow these? It's although I do
think I have it up my nose basically.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, it's real. Well, yours is artificial attached. Usually mustaches
are just part of a person's face.

Speaker 8 (03:04):
I think you do have a valid point there.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, so there's that.

Speaker 8 (03:07):
There is this So I had it too high up
on my mouth.

Speaker 7 (03:09):
If I went from never having one to having the
one you have to it'd be uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah overnight, Yeah, it's different. Leasers didn't itch while it
was growing in, that's true.

Speaker 8 (03:19):
I didn't have to go through all the growing pains
of it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, good morning everybody, and happy Halloween. Yes, as a
show back on Monday, PS thought it would be such
a great idea for us to wear costumes and then
put out photos. He's always trying to get us to
do social media, and Bucky and I are always like no, yeah, yeah,
And so he's like, man, you got to dress up.

(03:44):
I mean, Halloween's on a football Friday, and we were
just tossing it around, uh, you know, kind of a
brainstorming session, and I just threw out there like, well,
while everybody else is dressing up, maybe we should dress
down for Halloween. And I think maybe this is something
that could catch on that the kids their Halloween is
dress up. You know, they have so much fun doing that.

(04:07):
Meanwhile the adults have to spend so much energy trying
to come up with the perfect costume for the kids
that they're exhausted to come up with their own costume.
And so, uh, maybe this is something that we'll catch on.
We just decided we were gonna dress down. We're just
gonna wear pajamas to work here today, and so we're

(04:28):
doing it. We're all in our onesies here on Halloween Friday, so.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Here we go. Great idea ps because we're on radio.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, but I will say thanks for the suggestion of
dressing down because it was real easy to figure out
what to wear it at. Yeah, and I'm I'm actually
warmer right now than I usually am.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
I'm not going to be in this very long. This
thing is hotter than don't agree.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to watch a look at Bucky's
bear chest apparently zipping up.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
Pretty soon, it'll be off almost sitting here with no shirt,
I have an out.

Speaker 8 (05:09):
I have a tank top. I could take mine off.
You could wear my tank top.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
You brought a pair of shorts and shirt, my normal
attire that I wear. Yeah, this one has footies too,
But if I put those on, then I even then
I even sweat more.

Speaker 8 (05:22):
It does look like it's a very like a valure.
It's very Yeah, it's like it's almost like a blanket.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, snuggy.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
And he's got like monogram initials over there left breast.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
Pretty fancy.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
This was my first endorsement here at I heart back
for me.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
If I had to say on the ad that they're
so comfortable, they are very comfortable.

Speaker 8 (05:48):
I think I remember hearing you do those, but they're
just so hot.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, the onesie is warm. I think that's kind of
the idea there. You don't remember when were anything else,
but mine was more like yours. Yours is just like
looks like T shirt material, not this fluffy blanket. Yeah,
yours looks thicker. Yeah, and mine's warm enough.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, that's more like kids they have like their fluffy Yeah,
that's like what kids.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I'll tell you this. I think Bucky was feeling
less than himself wearing this this morning because I always
come in and we always and it's strategic, like our
hello is just very brief. Yeh. I've told Bucky when
we first started, I'm like, I don't like to talk
too much in the morning because I don't want to
give any good stuff away. I want our initial reactions

(06:31):
and conversation to be on the air, no matter what
we're wearing, or what we're doing, or how our lives
are going, whatever the case may be. Just a little
thing that radio people have done for a long time,
especially mourning people, and so usually it's just a hey,
what's up. What's up? Today? Bucky's what's up was a
lot deeper than normal what's up? Yeah, it was a

(06:52):
lot deeper. Yeah, yeah, oh it was. It was subconscious.
Yeah yeah, like I'm feeling a little bit like a
kid right now, and so I think I think it
was more so.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
I got this eight years ago, put it on one time,
started to melt it, then went in the closet and
hasn't been touched since. And then I put it on today.
I'm like, okay, but I knew it was warm. I
didn't realize how warm it is. I forgot over the
last eight years. So I think what you heard was,
oh man, this is hot. What's up? This is I'm

(07:27):
smoldering in this thing right now.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
Excellent.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
The only segment. So if anybody wants to take a picture,
we're going to have.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
To take a picture where we're going to get in trouble.
And we did this for nothing.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Not for nothing. Actually we're starting a new trend.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
No I like that, but I'm saying, we did it
what the boss told us to do for nothing.

Speaker 8 (07:47):
You have to at least get credit for doing what
he told us.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
He's not even in town right now, so we can't
even hear this segment.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
So yeah, better be dressed up or down.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
We better provide some pictorial evidence that we did something
as a show for Halloween Friday. Before I get naked,
before Bucky strips down right, I could.

Speaker 7 (08:06):
Be a strip. I could be a guy in a
onesie that strips strip.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
A gram that'll that'll go over well. A households tonight.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
As you're on radio find for everybody except for YouTube
on our radio program.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
You just take like we weren't, weren't worm kind of
music with you as you're taking the kids trigger.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Shoulder, Actually you want to shoot one of these bad boys.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Another thing, little sidebar that is kind of funny is
for some reason, as Bucky was like unzipping his thing,
because Buggy doesn't have a belly button. Oh, I was
thinking for some reason, I'm like, wait a minute, you
don't have nipples.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
What are your showing?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
And then I remember that, Oh no, it was the
belly button. Yeah, a little nipples. I am sans belly button.
But for a second, across my mind like why are
you show I don't want to see your nipples chest
That would look weird, looks normal?

Speaker 6 (09:05):
No nips?

Speaker 8 (09:07):
What if you didn't have either of them?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
We would think that Buggy's actually just an android, not
really ab been fooling us for years, which does transition
neatly into today's first sports topic of the day. Because
it is Halloween, the Seahawks will play on Sunday. It's
not like they're playing tonight. But I think they've been
a part of a little bit of a masquerade so

(09:32):
far this season. I think that we've gone half a
football season through the bye week, and we've talked about
all sorts of things with this football team. Sam Darnold
having a great year, JSN has probably broken through to
the top tier of wide receivers in the National Football League.
Mike McDonald's defense gets praise every week that doesn't include Tampa.

(09:55):
Uh So we we've covered a lot of different angles,
and for whatever, I think that this maybe other shows
have been doing this thoroughly. I think this show's may
be falling a little bit short. Even with our analysts
in talking about how infrequently Sam Donald has been sacked
this year, we are currently I mean, you could argue

(10:21):
well fewest sacks in the National Football League. Sam's Denver.
Denver's the only team. Boonex is the only quarterback that's
been sacked less than Sam Darnald so far this season,
so nine times. That's it. Sam Donald's been sacked nine times.
Consider how much it has been discussed in the last

(10:42):
decade plus the Sea Hawk offensive line issues and how
terrible this offensive line was, and if you'd give Geno
Smith more time than need look, look the results that
you could potentially have. Russell's just running for his life
at all times. And I'm not here to discredit that criticism.

(11:05):
Over the last ten years, there was something to it.
The offensive line wasn't great, But I think what you're
seeing this year is it really does And I'm not
saying all of it, but there's a large percentage of
sack totals comes down to whether or not the quarterback
knows how to get rid of the football and how

(11:26):
quickly to get rid of the football and on time
to get rid of the football, And even if the
play's not there, I'm still going to get rid of
the football because I'm not going to take a sack. Look,
I think the offensive line is improved. I think grays
Abel's having a really good year and has been a
terrific addition to this team. But you really think Gray's
Abel just adding a rookie guard out of some tiny

(11:50):
college has been the reason why the Seahawks don't get
sacked anymore. We don't have sacks anymore. No, it's part
of it. I mean he's obviously contributed to that. The
system with Clint Kubiak. Yeah, that's a significant portion of
this equation as well. I think he is coaching to
get rid of the football quicker and certainly something Greg

(12:13):
talks about all the time, the establishment of the running game,
no matter if it's working. That's contributed certainly. But I
think the main issue is and has been Gino and
Russ not getting rid of the football. That's why he
had fifty sacks last year. I mean maybe, yeah, the
offensive line wasn't as good and the offensive system maybe

(12:36):
not as sharp under Ryan Grubb, but Gino Smith's still
getting sacked. I mean he has twice the number of
sacks that Sam Darnold has this year with the Las
Vegas Raiders. So what's the common denominator there. It's that
we got rid of a quarterback that holds onto the
ball too long, and he didn't hold on the ball

(12:57):
as long as Russell did. Yeah, right, I mean Russell's
abilities overcame some of that, especially early in his career,
but he was terrible at getting rid of the football,
and Gino wasn't much better. We've got a quarterback that's
getting rid of the football for goodness sake, and so yes,
offensive lines improved. Yes, Clint Kubiak system I think does

(13:18):
help a quarterback not get sacked getting rid of the football.
But mostly it is Sam Darnold being aware enough of
the pass rush and understanding how important it is to
get rid of the football. That's why we're not getting sacked, right.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
I think that the I mean, I'm with you that
I think that is the predominant reason as to why
you're sitting as well as you are, And that's statistical
category is because of the quarterback getting rid of the balls,
not waiting so long to either decide there is nothing
and you dirt it, or you throw it out of bounds,
or you just throw it near somebody but away from

(13:52):
trouble because he's covered.

Speaker 6 (13:54):
I think that's it. I do think a gray is able.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
You adding one guard because I think the other guard
is still kind of a weakness for you. But you
can help one week spot if you just figure just
say that more often than not, if there's somebody a
decent pass rusher in the middle, you can send your
center over to help one of these guys if you
don't have to send it to one side, and you
can more often send it the other. Plus Abe Lucas

(14:17):
being back, there's help. I think that the line is better,
but I don't think the drastic drop from one of
the worst offensive lines, which is what they've been called
for years, because yeah, Russell Wilson was always wanting to
make some spectacular play, make something out of nothing, when
sometimes the best play is just take nothing, and then
it's still second and ten, not second and twenty two.

(14:39):
And same thing.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
With well take four yards, take a profit. Yeah, you
don't go broke taking a profit.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah, So I think that. I mean, I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
I think the main reason why they're looking good in
that situation isn't because the offensive line is some drastically
different thing, right, I mean, you essentially have eighty percent
of it was here last year, you have one new thing.
Did they just get from one of the worst to
now one of the best offensive lines?

Speaker 10 (15:02):
No?

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Because of Gray's ab Yeah, No, I think you got better.
I think he's able makes it better. I think that
having only one spot that maybe you would deem as
a weakness, and maybe it's one and a half. If
you don't think Jalen Sundell's some super world beating center, Okay, fine,
you still have those two together that can say, hey,
it's not like they're usually sending somebody at every offensive lineman.
So it's kind of a team thing. But most importantly

(15:25):
is the quarterback making good decisions and saying I'm not
going to put myself in the situation where not only
do you get sacked, but then you got the strip
sacks and you've got all kinds of just bad things
happen if you hold onto the ball too long.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
It is interesting because it seems like, yeah, with the
offensive line with Sam Darnold, everything that they're doing is
just solid. But isn't When you're watching the game, you're
not thinking it's spectacular. Right, So nobody has gone from
the preseason thinking like, oh, here we go again. You know,
we have we really addressed our offensive line issues. It
seems it's what six years or longer that we've had

(15:57):
all these problems, and so you're watching every game, I'm thinking, well,
this is a solid, like we're playing. We're a solid team.
There's nothing that has stood out to seem exceptional. I
know you can't take me seriously and so that, but
that's what I think is so interesting because then to
hear you say the stats on the sacks, I mean,
you never watch the game thinking like, man, just another

(16:20):
dynamite performance by the offensive line, and Sam Donald, it's
just another solid performance.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, it's just dramatically improved, yes in that area, and yes,
I'm going to give the offensive line some credit, and
I'm going to give Clint Kubiak some credit, but I
think most of the credit goes to Sam Donald. It's
just like stealing bases in Major League baseball. Now, you
can't just look at cal Rawley's throw them out percentage

(16:48):
because so much of that has to do with how
close the pitcher, how good or bad the pitcher is
at holding on runners. I mean, it's something that has
been u under reported for years, and that is really
it probably has more to do with the pitchers and

(17:09):
how well they hold runners on first base. But every
time that statistical sack category comes up, it's not just
an offensive line stat And yet we've hung every so
many people and I say us because I've tried to
fight the good fight. So many people have tried to
hang every single sack. Our offensive line stinks, and I

(17:32):
don't think that's what has been So I think they
that they've been parading around as villains, and here on
Halloween they actually get to take off the mask and say, see,
we're not that bad of an offensive line, right, we
haven't been as bad as you think we've been. Maybe
we've been not as we're not as good. We haven't
been as good as we want to be. There was

(17:53):
an issue there, but we're not nearly as bad as
you think we've been. And now we have a quarterback.
And do you think that it's you know that that
gets rid of the football? Anythink we just Gray's Abel
got added and just poof, we've turned into Now we're
an excellent offensive line, well of the worst to one
of the best. Yeah, it doesn't happen that way. Just

(18:14):
like with throwing out runners, it's not just sometimes the
catcher doesn't have a chance. A lot of throwing out
runners has more to do with the pitcher not holding
you on than the catcher throwing down the second.

Speaker 6 (18:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
Well, I mean I think that's just speaking in absolute
pretty much cross the board, not just in sports, but
in sports most definitely that they this sucks, they can't
do it, They're not ever going No, there's so many
things that go into it, right, whether it's okay, you
could upgrade a position or two or three, or boy,
you were running with your second tackle, your second best

(18:47):
right tackle, which typically we understand how important tackles are.
That's where the best edge rushers are coming off of,
so kind of important to have your best two guys
out there more often than not. Otherwise it's only going
to compound the weakness on the inside if you're sending
help out there and they're running stunts and now they're
going against another weak spot in your in your line.
But yes, I think that most certainly play calling and

(19:10):
a quarterback understanding that my best punting the ball or
or you know, throwing an incompletion and having second and
ten and then maybe even third and ten is not
the worst thing that can happen.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
So a lot better than second and twenty one.

Speaker 7 (19:24):
And it's a whole of a lot better than getting
sacked and you know, they strip it away and next
thing you know, they got a short field and some
points on the board almost automatically.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
Halloween showing.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
What's on TEP.

Speaker 6 (19:40):
What's on TEP?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
All right, Seahawks Commanders Sunday Night Football. We will have
the National Stage five point twenty on Sunday against the Commanders.
Greg Bell's going to join us today at seven o
five to discuss at Hugh Milling at nine o'clock with
x's and o's, and coach Holmgern will be with us
at nine thirty. Greg will also update us on some
key injuries at seven o five as well well, and

(20:01):
the big rumor with the Seahawks that Boye Mafe may
be playing his final game as a Seahawk this Sunday,
as he could be the guy that the Seahawks move
at the trading deadline. Thursday Night Football. The Baltimore Ravens
one of the Miami Dolphins last night twenty eight to six.
They are now three and five on the year, and
their schedule gets really soft here over the next six weeks,

(20:25):
and so there's a reason why they've never not been
the favorite to win the AFC North. And they kind
of reminded us of that last night. Kansas City at
Buffalo highlights Week nine of the National Football League season.
That'll be the afternoon game on Sunday. Week number ten
of the college football season will not feature the Huskies
there on bye, but it will feature the Pac twelve

(20:46):
championship game. Washington State and Oregon State will play tomorrow
at four thirty Sounders in Minnesota. United won't play their
second match of the playoff series until Monday. The college
basketball season also starts on Monday. There will be one
hundred and sixty nine games played Monday in college basketball.

(21:07):
I think that's what I HI layd up this morning.
So lots of college basketball activity obviously on Monday, and
tonight is the first chance that a team could win
the World Series. The Toronto Blue Jays are up three
to two on the Los Angeles Dodgers, and so they
need one win out of two at home in Canada

(21:28):
to claim World Championship status. It'll be Yama Moto versus
Gosman tonight. That is your pitching matchup, and we'll have
some time to talk about that a little bit later
on in the show. Speaking of Major League Baseball, I
realized that this isn't a top of mind story. But
I am so curious. I don't have an answer to this.

(21:49):
I'm hoping that Bucky does. I don't know how to
explain what's happening in the MLB manager hiring cycle, and
so I want to talk about it.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
Next.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM drown to its feed.

Speaker 11 (22:03):
You're off fourth from gold to two, say Flowers motion
snaw back to the right side the snap.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Lamar rolling out to his right, throws.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Talk back of the end zone, touchdown, Ravens more and
Andrews down to the ground to make the ground. Baltimore
caps off on the fumble recovery deep in Miami territory
and Lamar Jackson throws his first touchdown passage Week four,
back to throw, back pedaling, backpedaling towards.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
The end zone.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Talk to five, Mark Andrews to the goal line, touchdown.
Ravens Baltimore's tight end with his second touchdown grab of
the first half, and it's thirteen to three Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Fifty seconds into the second.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
Quarter one on the play clock. This snap a play
faith back to throw in the pocket, dancing in the
pocket hard for the middle, touch down.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Baltimore Rashaan Bateman in the back of the end zone.
It's the fourth touchdown of the game for Lamar.

Speaker 12 (22:58):
Jackson, and generally it's it's a bad omen to be
very capable of being in the lead and being behind.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
What his press conference was something they're kind of all
like that.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
No, I don't know. I don't know if he's doing
it intentionally he's a genius and he just throws people off,
or if he really.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
Is just that loss I am thrown off the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
I don't know if he's just thrown off, doesn't know
what to say, and so it just comes out as
gobbledegook every single press conference that he has, especially those
after losses. And it was a loss last night for
the Miami Dolphins twenty eight to six to the Baltimore Ravens,
who look like they're getting right right before our eyes.
Not a fun day to have Derrick Henry in fantasy football.

(23:48):
I'll tell you that. Just get it inside the twenty
and then Lamar just throws touchdown pass. Four touchdown passes
for Lamar Jackson and a twenty eight to six win
over the Dolphins on Thursday Night Football. This Sunday, the
Kansas City Chiefs will be taking on the Buffalo Bills.
That's the big game this Sunday. But Sunday Night Seahawks
taking on the Washington Commanders. And we'll talk to Greg

(24:11):
Bell here in a matter of seconds. First though, let
me breeze through these frost brewed course light choose chill headlines.
It's also a week ten of the college football season,
my whereas the time Gone Huskies are on buy this week,
but the Koogs in action against conference rival Oregon State
kickoff at four point thirty. There Also, Sounders won't play

(24:32):
until Monday, Game two, or match two of their three
match series with Minnesota United, and Brian Schwetzer in company
have to win back to back matches in order to
advance in the tournament. College basketball season will start in
three days on that Monday as well. Nearly two hundred
college basketball games will be played on Monday, believe it

(24:53):
or not, and World Series Game number six is tonight.
This is the first chance either team has to close
out this series and become World champs, as the Blue
Jays are up three games to two, but they will
have to face the hottest pitcher in the entire postseason,
as Yamamoto is pitching for the Dodgers tonight. Those are
your frost brewed course light, Choose Chill headlines. Now let's

(25:16):
talk to Greg Bell. Good morning, Greg, Good morning. A
lot to talk about with this commander's game, But just
so we don't risk running out of tom, I want
to ask you about something that you closed our roundtable
discussion with yesterday and we just kind of threw it
out there and we didn't have time to discuss it
at all. So I want you to elaborate a little

(25:36):
bit on this boy A Mafe rumor as we sit
here just a few days short of the NFL trade deadline.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well, I mean, I'm guilty of just supposition here, but
boy Mafe plays a position of premium value in the
NFL edge rusher, and he plays every down, and he
hasn't had the production of a guy that you'd want
to re sign beyond his rookie contract ending this year.
And those are ingredients of potential trade because other teams

(26:05):
know the value of his position, that he's under a
relatively inexpensive rookie deal. It would be something of a
rental now, but they could envision if they liked his
production for half a season to resign him. But at
the very least, you're augmenting a spot that in the
NFL is paramount. It's either throw the ball or pressure
the guy who throws the ball. That's basically the NFL today,

(26:29):
and Mafey has not been what they need him to be,
and Derek Hall being out has exacerbated that fact. Hal's injury,
he's been a limited participant in practice all week. But
they need those two guys, and despite the pressure that
the four down linemen have given the team, they mostly

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affected quarterbacks without Derek Hall and boy Mafey involve too
much consistently in that. So it's more of a piecing
together the situation, the current circumstances around him, and the
fact that to me, unlike Wolan, who has been penalized
highly and been beaten for big plays and high profile moments,

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is also at the end of his rookie deal, I
think mafe would have more of attraction over time. He
has been a guy who has affected quarterbacks in the
previous seasons more than he has there. So I'm not
saying it's going to happen. I don't know that it's
gonna that the Seahawks are going to make any trades
because for all the talk about trades before the trade deadline,

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there were only eighteen of them in the thirty two
team league.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Last year.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
The Seahawks, of course, or one of them, whether it's Jones,
had transformed their defense. But I'm not sure I see
a transformation type of move the Seahawks are going to
make between down and Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
If they were going to make something, where do you
think they should make or where should they upgrade the.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
Interior line, offensive defensive lines, defensive tackle depth. They have
an issue at right guard. Anthony Bradford's still there, largely
I think because they don't feel they have anybody in
the house that can take his place. They had signed
Shane Lemieux with the practice squad. He'd been a starter
with Klink Kobe k system last year in New Orleans,

(28:17):
and now he's gone. He was on the practice squad
a couple of weeks and then they put him on
practice squad injured reserve, and I'm still never quite got
to the bottom of how he got hurt on the
practice squad. And Christian Haynes just returned this week from
the injured reserve list. To practice. He's had about four
different chances in a year and a half under three
four different coaches to win that job, and he hasn't

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won it. So Anthony Bradford is almost the right guard
by default at this point, and he's given up a
lot in pass protection and he hasn't in the entire line,
hasn't performed run blocking like they'd hoped. So defensive tackle guard,
those are the areas that not just now, but longer term,

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they need depth.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Greg Bell is with US our Shawks insider, joining us
here on Chucking Buck in the Morning. You can of
course follow him at gmail, Seattle on x or his
complete coverage of the Seahawks for you at Thenews Tribune
dot com. All right, so is there any hope that
Julian Love is playing on Sunday or has that been dashed?

Speaker 5 (29:21):
I don't think so. When McDonald chuck puts out, well
we're considering injured reserve for him, that doesn't mean he's
going to play in four days. I mean he's the opposite.
And he has been not a practice. He was out
on the practice field yesterday but did not participate in practice.
I saw him coming in from the field, but there's
nothing to suggest he's going to play. I'm expecting to

(29:43):
listed us out today. Derek Hall has been a limited
participant coming off his hip injury from a couple of
games ago, and that's better than nothing. Of course, I
think he's going to be questionable. Devin Witherspin's been full
go all week. He looks like he's going to play
for first time since Week four at Arizona, and we've
talked about how that may have it moving the chairs

(30:05):
around effect and including potentially week Woolen depending on whether
they want to put Whittishman inside or outside. Can't see
him moving Nick emn worry out of the at Nickel.
He's just been too good and too impacting there to
change the rookie for what he's been doing the last
few weeks that Whtishpoon has been out. So they're getting
better and healthier, but they still won't be whole in

(30:27):
the secondary because Love is out. It bears repeating this
team has not had its starting secondary together since the
fifth play of the season. Yeah, yet there five and
two and being led by their defense often.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Gee, I mean Chuck and I I think are a
little bit different and far as far as how confident
going into this game. I do think the Seahawks are better.
I think they're playing better football. I think they're healthier.
They're not worried about their quarterbacks health going into the game.
And yet there's a part of me that just kind
of feels like, boy, you still better go out there
and play a really good game, because I think that

(31:01):
the ceiling of the Commanders could still be pretty high
if Jaden Daniels goes out there and balls the way
he should. So confidence level going into this, I mean,
everything looks like you should win this ball game, but
how confident are you that they will?

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Not a lot? This is still a Commander's team that
went to the NFC title game last year. They are
shell of themselves. To help wise, I mentioned they missing
both their defense, starting defensive end, they're starting safety. They've
had issues on the offensive line, and other quarterbacks been hurt.
Although Jalen Daniels has practiced fully all week coming off
the hamstring injury that causing missed the mind of night game.

(31:38):
Maybe the most dangerous thing about this game for the
Seahawks and having from the Commanders is the Commanders are desperate.
They've lost three in a row. They're three and five,
they're talking in Washington about trading some of their older
players to get draft picks and build for the future.
Is there's something of a rounding up of the cattle

(31:58):
for a last charge mentality going on Washington right now,
and there are a lot of older players in that
team that maybe at the end of their tenures in Washington,
that they're at the tipping point of a season of
whether this still matters to them or not. And if
they lose this game to go to three and six,
all of a sudden, they may be looking forward to

(32:18):
the end of their tenures in a long season, and
they could get traded before Tuesday. So this is a
pivotal game for them. Obviously, they could go either four
and five and still be there or three and six
on a four game losing streak. So you're going to
see a very desperate team playing on its home field
in the primetime game with their quarterback returning from injury.
All of that suggests a pretty strong challenge to winning

(32:43):
that game if you're the road team. And again, the
Seahawks are not a dominant dynamo that just runs over teams.
We've seen that time and again, even the Jacksonville game
that they completely controlled and we're winning twenty to six.
Suddenly look up in the fourth quarter it's twenty to twelve.
Exmwell has the ball at midfield trying to drive for
the tying score. And I remember sitting in that press

(33:04):
box in jackson a couple weeks ago, and how is
this game close? The Jaguars haven't even close to competing
for most of the day, and yet it was a
one score game. That's where the Seahawks are right now.
They make enough mistakes, they turned the ball over. I
mentioned their minus four turnover margin. They had four turnovers
against Houston, another game they dominated, and you looked up

(33:26):
in the fourth quarter and said, how is this a
one score game? You started doing that against Washington on
Sunday night and Jaden Daniels is liable to make a play,
and all of a sudden you're losing. So that's where
they are right now.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
To me, Greg bellis with us, our Seahawks insider. Well,
if they're rounding up their cattle, I know a great
place all the commanders cowboys should look in the training room.
That's where most of the prize cows are right now.
For this roster Terry mclaurin's not going to play. How
does that change things for Mike McDonald.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Well, honestly, McDonald focuses on the stopping the run first,
making the one dimensional, trying to get your pass rush
to affect the quarterback on long third downs, and McLaren
has nothing to do with all that. They're gonna use
Deebo Samuel as something of a runner. The Seahawks have
seen that more than anybody in the league. The forty
nine ers using Samuel that way. But they don't have
too many backs. They traded Brian Robinson, Austin Eckler's on

(34:23):
injured reserve out for the year. They just got some
dudes back there. They got hyphenated dames and a bunch
of other guys I never heard of. That's they're running back,
which is why Jayden Daniels off in the runs when
he's healthy, and why they're going to use Deebo Samuel
some more so, to me, Samuel is a bigger concern
even if McLaren was in there, because of his multi
dimensional use and what he's done to the Seahawks in

(34:45):
the past. I think that McDonald's game plan would be
too focus primarily on everything that Deebo Samuel could possibly
do to them, not to mention Jayden Daniels. Yes, he's
coming off the hamstring injury. Say he may not run
as much or tested as much, but he's playing, then
he's going to play. It's not like you can tell
a twenty two to twenty three year old quarterback just
don't run if they're pressuring you because you've been hurt recently.

(35:08):
He's going to take off running and he's going to
be a threat outside the pocket.

Speaker 7 (35:13):
Yeah, I mean, my key, I've been thinking, you just
got to kind of make sure you control the run game.
And that's Jayden Daniels and Deebo Samuel and there's the
crosskey Merrit kid. I mean, they statistically have been the
most doubt as far as rushing yards allowed.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Up to this point, number one in the league.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
And so does it just keep doing what you've been doing,
because I mean, outside of Kyler Murray, I suppose maybe
even I guess yeah he said, Kyler Murray think would
probably be the only one that I can think of
a running quarterback. They haven't had this kind of dual threat.
Now this is almost maybe even a triple threat. Of
guys that can run the ball for them.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Yeah, I would submit to Baker Mayfield as well, not
a running quarterback, as a quarterback back can run and
extend plays and take off up the field. And he
killed them, I mean absolutely killed them. They've had trouble
containing the edge. They've had trouble tackling included quarterbacks in
the open field, and that will be that Jayden Daniels,

(36:13):
even with coming off a hamstring injury, will will expose
if you have problems in those regards on Sunday night.
I I'm just when they are statistically number one in
the league against the run, but when you sit and
watch a game, teams just don't run a lot against them.
They haven't had an early down success. They've had a
lot of long third downs that have caused them to

(36:34):
throw even long second downs that have put in passing situations,
and that has fed into this pressure rate. The Seahawks
have be able to generate in long yardage. The teams
just haven't done it a lot to test them. Then
Washington the other night, they had a very sharp opening
drive with run and pass and then they end up
with just sixty yards for the whole game. For rushing.

(36:55):
They only had five rushing attempts after halftime and a
score that was it was tied and then a one
score fourteen to seven game until late in the third quarter,
and they didn't even try to run. And part of
what Seattle's run defense success has been is teams don't
run against them because they've been in long yardis off
of early down failures. That's the rest of the McDonald's

(37:16):
keep trying to replicate every year, every week. I mean,
the defensive game plan is boiled down most simply is
stop them on early downs, so it's second and third
and long so you can then dictate. You can pressure,
you can blitz, you can disguise and change coverages, you
can do a lot of things. The other thing that's
going to change for Seattle with Nick even Worry and

(37:37):
Devin Witherspoon on the field Sunday night for the first
time since the first five plays of the year, is
McDonald's gonna blitz more. We mentioned that he's got a
really low blitz rate compared to what he expected to.
He said, he's not at all played like he thought
he was going to be playing this year. But now
with even Worry and Witherspoon back. They're going to blitz
more out of the back end and that's going to

(37:57):
change the pressure in how Seattle gets to the quarterback. Now,
of course, the dangers you're blitzing Jadan Daniels. You've got
to be pretty quick and pretty latterly able to run
laterly to catch him going outside. But I'm expecting to
see more pressure than four on Sunday night that we've
been seeing in a while.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Awesome stuff. Thank you, Greg, We appreciate it. Have a
great weekend and we'll talk to you Monday morning.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Okay, happy weekend. Thank you, Greg Bell.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
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Speaker 2 (39:04):
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Speaker 9 (39:22):
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Speaker 8 (39:22):
You think that's weird though.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
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Speaker 8 (39:27):
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Speaker 2 (39:29):
She's actually good at it. Yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 8 (39:31):
She got a record contract.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
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that aren't they Oh, yeah for sure. But yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 8 (39:38):
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Speaker 8 (39:42):
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Speaker 2 (39:44):
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Speaker 8 (39:49):
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onesies are sexy.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
You'll make it sexy for you.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
See, I have seen a lot of Bucky's upper torso today,
a lot of it, A lot more than I bargained
for it.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
When I brought in the show sheets earlier, I almost
felt like I needed to look away, Like I felt
like I was like staring at too much cleavage.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Yeah, seemed like a guy at a swimming pool.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
But it's not usually unzipped to just show like the
deep v it feels like you're feels.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Like, so I take it. The entire top part of.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
It feels uncomfortable, all right, this one had this onesie
idea and I wouldn't this. I didn't factor in because
he's doing it again.

Speaker 8 (40:43):
Yeah, he is just taking it off.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
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stories of the day. We'll get you ready for the weekend.
Wrap up the week with the Friday OCHO plus Hughes
coming Coach is coming. We got a lot to do
on this program. I mentioned at the beginning of the
show that the Seahawks a little bit of a masquerade.

(41:06):
I don't think that the offensive line was some villain,
some monster, and then all of a sudden, grays Abel
came in and oh, we've just took off our mask.
We're actually really good. I think maybe there was more
that went into it. I think it was a little deceiving.
I think that there was a lot more that had
to do with quarterbacks not getting rid of the football

(41:27):
than it did that our offensive line was just the
worst thing ever. And then this year it's fixed because
of Grey's Abel. Another thing that may have been masking
arraiding around since the beginning of the year. And I
want to compare Dk Metcalf with Terry McLaurin, who are
getting ready to face. And I think Terry mclaurin's a

(41:47):
terrific wide receiver. But is he like upper echelon? Is
he on that top tier? Is he Jamar Chase? Is
he justin Jefferson? I think we all agreed no, right,
he not on the top tier? And yet he got
thirty two million dollars a year this year to disrupt

(42:07):
camp and then get hurt, and he hasn't really contributed.
And even when he does contribute, I mean they were
looking to Deebo Samuel more than McLaurin in games that
even McLaren was playing, and you paid thirty two million
dollars a year for this guy. I think it's time
maybe to give credit to John Schneider for a very

(42:29):
difficult DK Metcalf situation and decision that he had made
from earlier this year, because we were in the similar
vote and decided not to give the second tier wide
receiver the first tier money for wide receiver to put
faith that Jackson Smith and Jigba is our future wide
receiver one. And even though it would be nice, it

(42:53):
would be luxurious to be able to have both of
these guys on the field at the exact same time.
Can we spend that thirty million dollars more effectively in
the off season getting a DeMarcus Lawrence, I mean, Cooper
Cup obviously is part of that equation without DK Metcalf,
But by going with Cupp and then you give yourself

(43:14):
the chance to add other pieces to this team. Plus
you're not hamstrung going forward as the decline starts in
Terry mclaurin's game now that he's over thirty, and the
decline starts potentially in DK's game even though he still
looks just as you know athletic as ever. So I
think there's time. It's time to, like halfway through this season,

(43:37):
to give credit because that was not an easy decision.
It's one that we bantered about for a long, long
period of time, and I think John Schneider nailed it
by saying I like to have him, but it just
makes more sense to move off of DK metcalf right
now get a little bit of return in a trade
while we can and turn our future wide receiver one

(44:00):
position over to number eleven.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Well, instead of putting a bunch of eggs into that
one basket. As good as that basket looks, it hadn't
it hadn't performed that way. Now, there's a part of
me that it would is curious, right if you could
have a pill and go back now and see what
DK looks like with Sam Darnold versus Geno Smith. There's
a part of me it's like, maybe he wouldn't be

(44:24):
second tier, Maybe he actually would be worthy of the
money that he's getting paid. Now that said, I do
think that that you have to make difficult decisions. I
think that's one of the things that does get overlooked
for GMS. Across the board is sometimes you have to
say goodbye to something that you really really like because
you can get three things that you like and three

(44:45):
you know, the sum of the parts might meet me
equal more than just the amount of what you thought
you could get. Or you would hope that you get
out of a big, high price player like what DK
was expecting.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah, you extended Ernest Jones and gave him a pay raise.
I mean, think about that. I mean, I don't think
DeMarcus Lawrence is dominated or anything. And Cooper Cup obviously
has been very used, very little. And yeah, we could
entertain the prospect of having DK and JSN together with
Sam Darnold throwing them footballs. Absolutely, But I think that

(45:20):
Washington might have made a mistake. Maybe they should have
traded Terry McLaurin rather than sign him to a long
term extension. Everybody in the league now talking about how
the Commanders, we didn't really notice how old they were
when they were making their push to the NFC title game,
and that could have been an opportunity for them to
get a couple younger pieces for an older receiver and

(45:45):
max out his value without having to pay him thirty
two million dollars a year, which he might not be worth.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Right, Yeah, Yeah, I think I definitely think that it's
time to give Schneider the full credit for that move.

Speaker 8 (45:56):
I think it was the right move.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
I know, obviously a difficult move to do in the
way that he was questioned, not just locally but nashally,
like what is he doing?

Speaker 8 (46:04):
This is I mean especially nationally.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Actually they thought the Seahawks were going to be terrible
because you got rid of Geno Smith and DK Metcalf
And I used this word earlier, but I'll use it again.
I just think it was a solid plan. Like what
has transpired now you've got You've got more of a
well rounded opportunity.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
We are a better football Teayes this year than we
were here yes at this time. So anyway, just a thought.
Both of those things crossed my mind as I was
driving into work this morning. I do want to mention
one last thing before we go to the top.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
Of the break.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Right now, and I don't even know why it's on,
but Steven A. Smith's talk show is on our television
right now, and Ryan Clark today because it's Halloween dressed
up as the Mad Hatter. Oh and it's a great costume.
He's got the crush velvet purple you know jacket and
the big orange top hat. And so we dressed up
for Halloween. And what's funny about it is Cam Newton

(47:02):
did not dress up for Halloween. And they look exactly.

Speaker 8 (47:05):
The sound is amazing.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
He's mad Hattering, the Mad Hatter though, Oh man, do
you think that's a costume.

Speaker 6 (47:13):
This is my everyday attire.

Speaker 8 (47:15):
I don't know if he's dressed my life.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Yeah, maybe he's dressed as Cam. I don't know. I
thought it was the Mad Hatter.

Speaker 8 (47:19):
But that's actually funny. Maybe it is Kim.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
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It's time for the Friday O Show. And yes, I
know there are huge sports stories that we have to

(47:58):
get to, but I'll go to hallowe we not be
the top story. But happy Halloween everyone, Ashley, Bucky and
I we decided to dress down for Halloween this year. Yes,
I just maybe we're uncovering some new way to do Halloween.
Like the kids, you get their costumes ready, and then

(48:20):
the adult, the parent is just like, now I've got
to come up with a costume for a lot of work.
That has a lot of work to put on my plate.
And so maybe maybe we'll start a trend. We showed
up today in our onesies, so we're basically wearing pajamas today. Uh,
and so maybe this is the new way to do Halloween.

(48:40):
Halloween is now dress you dress up the kids and
dressed down yourself.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
About this plan, I'm down with it. Yeah, I mean
I don't really have the urge.

Speaker 7 (48:51):
I never really, as an adult, really got into dressing
up a whole heck of a lot. My thing is
if I had a good one. One time I went
as a ping pong champion. It was he I made
a shirt that said ping Bung Champ and I had
a big like afro red wig and a head band
and super short shorts and tube socks.

Speaker 8 (49:09):
I find things where you wear a lot of short shorts.

Speaker 6 (49:12):
I do.

Speaker 7 (49:13):
I dovation, Yeah, and so like that one.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
If you don't have to explain the costume. I like it.
If I have to explain it, I feel like it's
not a good costume.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I think that's fair. That's good.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Mine and five Irons best costume. We're not big costume people,
but if.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
We do it, we do it big. And he was
Bob Ross one year, you know, the painter, and I
was the painting.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Oh.

Speaker 8 (49:36):
So I'd done one of.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Those like paste, paint and sip things, you know, and
I had so I had all these canvases with paintings
on it. So I cut a hole in the center
of the painting and then fit my and the strap,
put a strap to the back so that my head
went through the hole, and then I painted my face.

Speaker 8 (49:51):
To look like the painting. So I just walked around
with a painting.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
That's fantastic. It was a pretty good one. That's advanced.

Speaker 8 (49:58):
I was pretty proud of that one.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
That's good. Yeah, that's damn good. It would have been
good just at Bob Ross alone. Yeah, seeing five iron
is Bob Ross for goodness. Yeah. Then for you to
take it to that extreme, wow, I am impressed.

Speaker 8 (50:10):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, good job. Well, happy Halloween everybody. I guess we're
gonna get hit by an atmospheric river. So address your
kids accordingly tonight when they go trick or treating. Let's
get to the sports story. Seahawks are back in action finally.
It's felt like seven and a half years since they
last played a football game. It's been two weeks. They're
coming off a bye and they're getting ready to take

(50:31):
on the Washington Commanders on Sunday Night Football, and Greg
Bell told us our Seahawks Insider about an hour ago
that Mike McDonald might have a few blitzy surprises for
the Commanders.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
The other thing that's going to change for Seattle with
Nicki Man Worry and Devin Witherspoon on the field Sunday
night for the first time since the first five plays
of the year, is McDonald's going to blitzmore. We mentioned
that he's got a really low blitz rate compared to
what he expected to. He said, he's not at all
played like he was going to be playing this year.
But now with even Worry and Witherspoon back, they're going

(51:04):
to blitz more out of the back end, and that's
going to change the pressure in how Seattle gets to
the quarterback. Now, of course, the dangers you're blitzing Jaydan Daniels.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
You've got to be.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
Pretty quick and pretty latterly able to run laterly to
catch him going outside. But I'm expecting to see more
pressure than four on Sunday night that we've been seeing
in a while.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Yeah, maybe Mike McDonald's I finally I get to unveil
my true defense this week, which is a scary notion
for not just the Commanders, but for the rest of
the teams on our schedule. Seahawks won't have Julian Love
after all. The Commanders are going to be without wide
receiver one Terry McLaurin. Jaydon Daniels is very likely to start.

(51:46):
He was a full participant at practice on Wednesday, So
it looks like we have we'll have to face of
their very talented second year quarterback in this game. Seahawks
are three and a half point favorite on the road.
But I just think, I mean, I get it. The
Commanders aren't a bad football team, and I get that
they're going to be a bit desperate. Maybe their season

(52:08):
is on the line, Maybe their chances to make the
playoffs is going to be on the line, and in
front of the entire nation watching at home and their
own fans there inside the stadium that they will be
motivated by that. But man, everything else goes the Seahawks way.
The healthier quarterback, the overall healthier team, the more rest
that they've been given, they're playing better football right now.

(52:32):
You know, they're coming off a buye where the Commanders
are coming off a short week. I think we're winning
this one easily. I think this is thirty four to twenty.
I really do.

Speaker 7 (52:42):
I mean it feels like we have the more consistent
team for sure. I mean, I just don't see anything yet.
We talk about Jedfish and the Huskies and like kind
of still looking for that signature win. I don't really
feel like there's a signature win on the Seahawks schedule
so far. I mean, you can't ask for a whole
lot better. Better than five and two. Six and one
obviously would be better if you maybe didn't drop that

(53:04):
first game against the Niners, but the Niners or the Bucks,
if they had won that, You're like, I would have
felt a little bit different about this.

Speaker 6 (53:10):
See.

Speaker 7 (53:11):
I think the defense is legit, especially considering they haven't
been healthy, and I think the offense is consistent just
you know, they don't go out there and turn the
ball over a ton, and yet to me it would.
It kind of feels like I still there's still a
question mark around them, And yet there's plenty of question
marks around the Commanders. I just think that if they
go out, if you don't go out and play a

(53:31):
really sound football game, and they could show up and
play as talented as they are, especially with their quarterback
back and then being backed into a quarner a little bit,
I think they could be dangerous.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
I would say if anything's close to a signature win,
it would be that win on the road against the Steelers,
because I just think that was unexpected going into the season.
I would have thought they'd win at home against the
forty nine Ers and lose the Steelers, And the fact
that that was flip flopped through me for a bit
of a loop.

Speaker 8 (53:53):
But I'd say that was a pretty good win.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
I think they'd passed a lot of tests. I mean,
Houston's better than their record, and they handled them pretty easily.
Jacksonville's better than what we expected, and they won by
eight points on the road. The Steelers won by fourteen,
for goodness sake, against it even The most recent loss

(54:15):
was one hell of a battle. For some reason, our
defense didn't show up, But we could have very easily
beaten the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and what a plumb when
that could have been. So I just think we're just
to look like a better team than the Commanders so
far this season. And then when you think about all
the other intangible factors, how on earth is Washington going
to be more prepared to play Sunday night than what

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we are. It just feels like there's just way too
many things working in our favor and working against the
Washington Commanders come Sunday Night. But we'll see. Of course
they've got a chance. Of course they can come out
there and beat the Seahawks, but it just doesn't feel
like that to me. By the way, Greg Bell also
updated us on the round Table and a little bit
earlier this morning. That's if anybody it's moved at the

(55:01):
NFL trading deadline, which is coming up this Tuesday, it
could be boy A Mafe, But I don't know how
you make that move unless you're also adding a pass rusher.
It seems like we're already thin at pass rusher. So
if you're gonna trade a pass rusher. It better be
part of a trade deadline that also sees you acquiring
a pass rusher. Yeah, Miles Scatt for example. Yeah, it's

(55:22):
as good as done. Yeah. So a lot going on
with the Seahawks commanders. Of course, kickoff will be at
five point twenty on Sunday night. Now, the week of
the National Football League got started last night with the
Baltimore Ravens routing the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 11 (55:38):
All walks over to the line the changing play.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
Two.

Speaker 11 (55:40):
On the play, Crook claps his hands, gets the snap
back to throw back pedaling, back pedaling.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Towards the ends up part the five. Mark Andrews with
the goal line touchdown. Ravens Baltimore's tight end with his
second touchdown grab of the first half. Jackson to Andrews,
hurt it so many times, and it's thirteen to three
Baltimore fifty seconds into.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
The second quarter. I just thank you, Wes Wood one.
I just can't tell you how awesome it is, What
a great feeling it is to add Derrick Henry on
your fantasy roster. To get inside the ten yard line
four times and never give them the ball. That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (56:16):
No, I bet that's really great.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
I really enjoy that.

Speaker 8 (56:19):
Great fantasy game plan.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
Great great moment for me.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Last night Ravens won easily twenty eight to six over
the Miami Dolphins to improve to three and five. And
their next six games for people that buried the very
talented and always well coached Baltimore Ravens, they play at Minnesota,
at Cleveland, home to the Jets, and Bengals home to Pittsburgh,
and then at Cincinnati. I mean, I think they could

(56:44):
be nine to five at that point. So the Ravens
are still favored to win their division by Vegas and
pretty much have been throughout this entire process, and now
that they've won back to back games, feels like it
feels like people are coming around to acknowledging it.

Speaker 7 (57:00):
I mean, you know they're gonna have to play good
complimentary that that offense is dangerous. I mean, we saw
it last year with Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. Lamar
wasn't playing like Lamar though early even before he got hurt,
he looked more like Lamar.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Why I keep hearing that he scored forty points against
the Bills and against the the defense has been horrendous.

Speaker 6 (57:20):
Yeah, yeah, time.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
I agree with that, but I Lamar Jackson had one
bad game against the Chiefs. He did not look like
Lamar Jackson, and they've been doing that to everybody Other
than that, he was putting forty points on the board
every week.

Speaker 7 (57:33):
Yeah, I mean, I just didn't feel it felt different.
I mean I remember watching his face after during many games,
and he just looked kind of poudy, like he had
made a mistake or he wasn't doing whatever it took
for him to be able to go out there and
continue the MVP style stuff.

Speaker 6 (57:48):
And maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 7 (57:49):
Maybe it's we've been watching a dude play MVP caliber
and maybe it was something slightly less than that. I
think that there if you were throwing dirt on him
because he was hurt and they were loose and some games,
I think that was wrong.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
I just really liked when they showed the remaining schedule
during the game last night, and the toughest team they
will face is the Patriots and the next seven weeks.
Yeah that was the best. Yeah, that was the best
team on their remains the entire schedule. Yes, Yeah, that
was it.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah. Well, Sunday, Indianapolis at Pittsburgh is the best early game, arguably,
Kansas City at Buffalo undoubtedly is the best afternoon game,
and then your Sunday night affair will all be glued
to the television for the Hawks at the Commanders. Item
number four on the o JOW. The Huskies are on
by this week, but we spent plenty of time this
week discussing them. Coach new Isiel joined us on Tuesday,

(58:38):
and he mapped out a clear cut key to the
Huskies and their remaining games.

Speaker 13 (58:43):
The two teams that have beaten Washington have held Demon
Williams to minus rushing yards. His legs open up the
rest of the offense, and the schedule sets up beautifully
for him. You know they're going to be favored in
their next three games. The only exception will be the
finale against Oregon. But if they can win the next three,

(59:04):
they get to even if the Oregon game doesn't go well,
that's nine and three. A bowl game puts you into
a ten and three, ten win season. That is progress,
and anybody paying attention to Washington football is going to
start taking very close notice about wanting to come to
play at Montlay.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Yeah, that's really well said.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
Coach.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
Usually is you dub at Wisconsin next Saturday. Meanwhile, tomorrow
the PAC twelve Championship. Tomorrow, the red hot Washington State
Cougars will be at Oregon State to take on the Beavers.
The rest of your lineup tomorrow. Some of the highlights
Penn State at number one Ohio State, that was supposed
to be the game of the year and instead big

(59:44):
noon kickoff. They're not even going to get the most eyeballs.
I wouldn't think. I would think more people will watch
Vanderbilt at Texas at nine am than Penn State at
Ohio State afternoon, Oklahoma at Tennessee that's eighteen versus fourteen,
and then later seventeen Cincinnati at twenty four Utah. We'll
have a full Big ten weekend preview coming up. At

(01:00:06):
eight forty five tonight, the Toronto Blue Jays have a
chance to close out the World Series and become world champs.
And Canadians. Man, they can't figure out why suddenly all
of America has turned against them as fans.

Speaker 14 (01:00:21):
I don't know what you're talking A boot, Hey, a boot.

Speaker 15 (01:00:25):
It's about what we're talking about, and enough of that
eight business.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
You can learn how to talk right understanding.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
We got ways of making you pronounce the letter. Oh.
Toronto is up three to two in the best of seven,
They're gonna have two shots at closing this thing out.
But for oot right exactly, But for those that are
already kind of putting it in the win column for Toronto,
I will just say this, of all the pitchers that

(01:00:53):
have pitched in the postseason, Yoshi Yamamado has been the best,
and he is going tonight. And if they can just
ride him tonight, then all of a sudden, we're gonna
have a Game seven. And you know what they say
about Game sevens, anything can happen.

Speaker 7 (01:01:07):
M Yeah, I mean, I think anybody if you're thinking
that there's no chance that the Dodger, I mean they're
out of all the teams, the Dodgers are the team
because they could come out and absolutely shove pitching wise,
and then if that lineup wakes up a little bit,
they can they can get some stuff done.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
That'said.

Speaker 7 (01:01:23):
I think so far the Blue Jays have played better
baseball throughout the course of the first five they outplayed it.
They've outplayed the outpaid team. And uh and so I mean,
to some degree, I'm sure it's I'm probably in the
minority here. I don't really have a dog in the fight,
and I kind of went into it not really liking
either team to win, and yet I found myself pretty
much being happier that the Blue Jays are winning versus

(01:01:46):
the instead of the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
I feel like the good news is though, that if
the Dodgers win to night and you go to a
game seven, then they could both lose Game seven.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Right, maybe maybe maybe they're as a wrinkle in the
rock just finishing a tie. Yeah, wouldn't it be something
we found out that George Springer really did just help
the Blue Jays cheat this entire time, and that's the
reason why they're hitting so well against some of the
best big I think I just did. Yeah, all right,

(01:02:20):
Sounders in action on Monday, they'll take on Minnesota United.
Of course, the Sounders and the United and Game number
one or match number one went to a shootout to
decide the game after scoreless regulation play.

Speaker 9 (01:02:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
The mad Scientists you know, probably as him just where
he wants them, but even he was frustrated by Minnesota's
game of keep away.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
That they play well.

Speaker 14 (01:02:41):
The frustrating part about the way they play Softie and
look they didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
They didn't they say it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
In the press.

Speaker 13 (01:02:47):
I mean they want to deliberately.

Speaker 14 (01:02:50):
Slow the tempo down.

Speaker 16 (01:02:51):
They want to take this thing out of the game,
even at home. I mean the goalkeeper was taking thirty
forty seconds every goalkick. You know, they every free kick,
they just push guys up the field and ticket long
and they're long throwing. Look that's who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
We know who they are.

Speaker 14 (01:03:08):
So does that frustrate us, yes, it makes it difficult
for the players, yes, But the silver lining was again,
you know, we created enough chances to get at least one,
and I think Softly, if we get one at home,
even if we get one on the road, that might
be enough because they really didn't have too much. I
mean they had to break away when when you know,

(01:03:31):
Yaimar made a you know, maybe a silly decision at
midfield and the guy broke in.

Speaker 9 (01:03:36):
That was their only chance.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Brian Schmetzer the Mad Scientists song with Softy and Nick
earlier this week. If you want to hear the entire interview,
you can do so at ninety three to three KJR
dot com Monday. That game, that match will be played
Monday at seven point thirty at Loominfield, and so don't
put it past the Sounders rallying to win back to
back games. They usually step up this time of the year. Finally,

(01:04:00):
college basketball season will also start on Monday. Head coach
Danny Sprinkle of the Dogs was with us yesterday and
talked about the lessons he learned from a disappointing year one.

Speaker 10 (01:04:12):
It was my third year in a different program. The
emotions of leaving players that you care about and leaving
programs and fan bases that you love, Like it's hard,
you know, and it took an emotional toll on me
last year that I didn't even really realize until probably
this June, you know, and like I was spent, you know.
I just was like you just you just go. You

(01:04:32):
just get through today, You get through the day, You
get through the day. And then it actually felt like
home probably the end of June. Like honestly, once the
spring quarter got over and kind of had a week,
you know, before the guys the new crew came in
for the summer, and once the new crew came in,
it was like I was refreshed, you know, it was
like Okay, let's go, you know, all the lessons we
learned in year one. Okay, I actually feel comfortable here

(01:04:55):
in Seattle. I know where I'm going, I know where
my home is. You know, I got out of storage,
like I'm not living out of Will Disley's house, and
you know, like until like that, that was like the
comfort level. It's like, okay, like I can breathe, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
They had a heck of an offseason. They got votes
for Top twenty five coming off a disastrous year record
wise a year ago. That shows you just how much
progress that they've made talent wise through the transfer portal.
Danny Sprinkle and the Dogs will debut in twenty twenty five,
twenty twenty six, Monday night at eight o'clock. As a

(01:05:30):
matter of fact, they played the last game of the day.
One hundred and sixty nine college basketball games are scheduled
to be played on Monday.

Speaker 7 (01:05:41):
Geez weeze again after it it's here. It did totally
snuck up on me, by the way. I mean, I
think the Mariners playoff run was just kind of all encompassing,
and you still had to have your eye on the NFL.
But I was completely shocked when I think it was Purple.
She was like, yeah, they already played one, like a
little tune up game, and the Sea the starts in
like three days.

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
I'm like, what that happened?

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
I think you were right there though, Bucky, because yeah,
we're never We're not used to watching the Mariners most
of the way through October, so we've got a gap.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
We'll get used to it anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:06:13):
I'm going to be used to it too. I want
to plan things around Mariners playoff games.

Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
Damn it, Cracking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Rangers Saturday night, so they cracking have had a little
extra time off in the schedule this week, so they
will be coming off three four days rest when they
take on the Rangers Saturday night at Climate Pledge Arena.
And you can hear the action right here on kJ
R all right, coming up next, why you may want
the Jays to win the World Series? Sports Radio ninety

(01:06:41):
three point three kJ RFM pretty much just trying to
pull off the unzipped check out my chest. Well oh yeah, look,
and I now know based on the photo we just took,
I dressed as a Sith Lord. Yes for Halloween. So
happy Halloween everyone. We roll into the nine o'clock hours
to be joined by our QB one Hugh Millan is

(01:07:03):
with us his X's and O segment brought to you
by Frost Brewed Corpse Light, Huice Chill. Hello Hugh, Happy Halloween,
Happy Halloween, good day, fun day. All right, what do
you what are you handing out? Are you giving the
missus sweet potatoes with the with the marshmallows?

Speaker 15 (01:07:19):
And we're going with Halloween, so you know what Sea
handles at. You know, I just say, go go to Costco.
Make sure we get the big I don't want people
talking smack about us that we give out lightweight candy,
So get the big stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
I love the idea of like you sitting there just
scooping out some sweet potatoes and just right into the
bags of the kids. Yeah, I kind of like that idea.
Let's get the house toilet papered. After that, well, let's
dive in Seahawks take on the Commanders on Sunday night.
I want to bring up something that we discussed right

(01:07:53):
off the top of the show. I think maybe we
haven't discussed enough how few times Sam Darnold has been
sacked this year, just nine, compared to the two quarterbacks
we had previously to Sam Donald, where that was a
weekly issue. That the Seahawks. And we discussed about the Seahawks.
I certainly think the offensive line is better, but I

(01:08:14):
don't know if they deserve all the credit for that.
Where does the credit go for how few times Sam
Donald's been dumped on his keyster?

Speaker 15 (01:08:21):
Well, I think that the portion that Sam Donald deserves
credit is is just an awareness of of the threats
that are, whether it's blitzes that he has an awareness
of where his hot receivers are. Oftentimes he'll be looking
down the field and and and there'll be a flash

(01:08:43):
of a potential sack of pressure and then he'll quickly
get the ball to the outlet he knows, even if
they're on the opposite side of the field. He races
through his progressions sometimes you know, will oftentimes see him
on a swing pass on this fifth progression off of
just one hit. So I think mca caanically, you know,
you know he's so signed of a veteran understanding it,

(01:09:03):
and and then you know there's a scheme portion of it.
They've they've protected a Lucas after Nick Bosa, you know
w rec Game one, uh you saw thereafter a big
effort to help a Lucas and have tight ends, chipping
and what have you really not leaving open edge to him.
So I think, you know, as is generally the case,

(01:09:24):
it's it's a uh that there's a number of factors
and you see that on tape.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
What how much do you put into how he's playing
the position in how much credit do you give to
kind of the attempt at being balanced at least? I mean,
they're trying to run the ball. Maybe it's not crazy effective.
I think it sometimes they should give ken Walker just
more times of handing it to him, you know, times
in a row, let him kind of eat a little bit.

(01:09:48):
But uh, are you giving any credit to the way
in which Sam Darnol's playing quarterback and taking care of
the ball for the most part, to the balance attack?

Speaker 15 (01:09:57):
Yeah, Well, the Seaxs are number one in terms of
their run percentage, in which means they're dead last in
terms of past percentage percentage of plays that are run,
So they're trying. Unfortunately at thirtieth in the league, they're
near the bottom in terms of the yards per rush
and I don't see any improvement likely to happen. Last

(01:10:19):
year they went in weeks one through eight they were
four point three. Then for the second half of the
year there four point two, so they went from twentieth.
That actually went to eighteenth the year before. They went
from four point three in the first half, they dropped
to four point zero the second. So you know, history
has shown as they're not likely to improve. If you

(01:10:40):
look at schematically the outside zone, it's kind of funny.
I can use the term comparative advantage. Their best play
relative to the league is the outside zone at four
point two yards per attempt, but that's just nineteenth of
all teams running the outside zone. Inside zone they're twenty fourth.

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The gap scheme where you're blocking down and then pulling
guards gaping power encounter. Those are gap skins. They're twenty
eighth and twenty first in the league and yards per
tempt respectively. Another play called duo where you get double
teams on to the strong side but you don't pull
it back. Guy, they're three and a half yards. They're
twenty sixth. So I'm looking for ways like, hey, you know,

(01:11:21):
you know, maybe maybe have a little shift away from that,
you know, go from here. This has really been working
for you. I'm looking for it. I can't find it.
I don't expect there to be a real material change
in the quality of the running game. But I think
that to your point, if you do keep investing in
those body blows, maybe that helps reduce the sacks. For

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what that's worth, the Commanders come in at at eight
point eight percent of passes result in sacks against the
Commander defense. That's eighth in the NFL. A little bit
of a concern there, particularly deron pain over on Abe
Lucas's side. As I mentioned, he's got the highest cap
number of any defensive player in the league. How about

(01:12:06):
that at twenty six million, So so you got to
you gotta be aware of him. Other than that, the defense,
you know, the Commander defenses is not good. They're falling off,
and so I think that there should be opportunities for
some some you know, get their running game going a
little bit and and certainly Sam Darnold on papers should
have another good game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Yeah, I'm expecting it. Hugh Millan is with us ARA
QB one here x is and O segment every Friday
during the football season on the defensive side of the ball.
I know that you are a member of the Mike
McDonald Admiration Society. You think a lot of his skill
as a defensive minded head coach. And and yet he

(01:12:48):
says earlier this week, or at least revealed to Greg Bell,
that I finally get to implement my defense now that
I got Witherspoon and Emon Worri in the secondary together.
What do you think that means? What is that unlock
for McDonald? Well, I've spent a lot of time thinking
about this week. I think for me, I think that

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involves Witherspoon playing out at cornerback when they're in nickel
and the and the Seahawks right now are number one
in the percentage of nickel at eighty seven point eight percent.
They're just twentieth in the use of dime at three
and a half percent. So I think you're gonna see
more dime with Witherspoon as one overhang defender and Emon

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Worry as the other. So I you know, I think
you can bring more blitzes, you know, and he likes
to bring the zone pressures that you know, there is
something about Nick m and Worry. You know.

Speaker 15 (01:13:45):
I'm really interested in in when the Seahawks play cover one.
So I went in and look, there's been thirteen snaps.
Cover one is just man and man with a free safety.
That is the conventional way teams play man and man.
There's been thirteen snaps with m and Worry. I'm playing
cover one. He has just lined up. Here's the evidence.
He just lines up and he covers whoever number two is,

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number two is is counting outside in the widest guy
to the sideline, that's number one. He whoever's in number two,
and you know he's he has, he has Ammin Worry
has covered Jalen Nowell three times. He's five foot ten,
two hundred one pounds. He's covered Braxton Barrios five nine
and one hundred and eighty fives. He's covered Jaydon Higgins

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sixty four two fifteen. He's covered Tim Patrick sixty four
to two ten. He's covered tight ends on three or
four occasions. He's covered. He covered Christian McCaffery up for
one snap before he got hurt in the forty nine ers.
He covered Chris Godwin uh uh a sixty one two
nine a Mecha Buka sixty one to two of five.
Like all side, what that should tell you? In thirteen snaps,

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he has covered whomever, however, big or small receiver, tight
end doesn't matter. He just covers that guy. And by
the way, he's only been targeted one time out of
those thirteen snaps. It was on a fader route. Who's
fourteen for Houston uh uh xavior Hutchinson. I think it

(01:15:12):
was Jaylen noel Ok and he covered him beautifully and
and it was an incomplete So he has in man coverage.
He has targeted once no completion, So so that is
very encouraging to me when I consider, you know him
at six three two twenty, I ran into Buddha Baker
kind of in a golf thing and we were talking
about Emon Warry in the offseason and he had worked

(01:15:35):
out with him. I hope I'm not violating any confidence
from Buddha, but you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
Know he had he really praised Nick.

Speaker 15 (01:15:41):
But you know, we kind of talked about does he
have that short area, you know, if somebody runs a
whip route, starts the shall across, snaps back out, does
he have the quickness? And Buddha's like, well, you know,
he kind of gave well, you know, you want to
say it, but you know he kind of could read
into it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
So, you know, so.

Speaker 15 (01:15:55):
There's legit concerns about a two hundred and twenty pounds.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Man.

Speaker 15 (01:15:59):
Uh, you know, guardy and as I said, a five
nine eighty five, I promise you if your business card
says wide receiver and you are five nine one eight five,
you are quick as hell. And and yet the the
sea arcs hey because of his length. It's kind of
like when you play a guy in one on one basketball.
I'm six five, so I I you know, on long arms.

(01:16:20):
But but you know, if I play a shorter guy,
you know, I say, hey, he's quicker than me. But
if I'm quick enough, my length is going to be
a problem. Even though he absolutely he's quicker than me.
But but I can still, you know, you know, just
create some create some problems, or at least that's the theory,
you know, you know. So yes, Roxon Barrios at five
nine five is quicker, but he him and Worry is

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quick enough and his strength and his length is able
to compensate. So it's an important part of what they do.

Speaker 9 (01:16:48):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:16:49):
And and now with Witherspoon, we'll see what kind of
uh zone pressures and simulated pressures. I can't wait to
see it. U. We haven't seen those two guys on
the field together. And and uh, I'm just that's going
to be a Halloween treat in itself.

Speaker 7 (01:17:02):
All right, You keep that Mike McDonald defensive hat on,
because I mean, I have a little bit of concern
about the strength that is the Seahawks defense, or the
defense in general is the strength. But they do tend
to stop the run. I think their ranked number one
in the NFL at that right now, and yet I
could foresee some possible trouble if they let Jayden Daniels

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get loose or this Bill McCroskey, merrit Kid get loose,
and possibly even Deebo Samuel that they might use. Greg
was mentioning that he might be used in the run
game as well. So what's your game plan to make
sure that that run game stastes out like it has been?

Speaker 9 (01:17:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:17:37):
I like the Seahawks matchup against to Gory cross get
merit Man. He's their number one running back, but rusting
yards per attempt on designed runs, that's excluding the scrambles
the Commanders at five point zero, that's second in the NFL.
That gets your tention, But I think I still think Seattle.
That's a strength of Seattle. They're number one in the NFL.

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The Seahawks at three point three opponent yards per rush.
By the way, the Commanders are are nineteenth in the league.
But I think that the question when you're talking about
Jayden Daniels and the scramble Daniels per game he has,
He's five exactly five scrambles per game. That's first in
the NFL. To put that into context, Lamar Jackson is

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only two point two scrambles per game. Again, Daniels five
rushing yard or excuse me, yards per game in scrambles
thirty six doesn't sound a lot, but if you get
three or four first downs, that can really hurt you.
And his scramble percentage thirteen point seven percent of his
times when he drops back, that's number one. Again, Lamar

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is only seven and a half percent. So here's the thing. Contain.
This has been a problem for Seattle. It costs, you know,
on a contained DeMarcus Lawrence lost. Contain when Brock Purty
extended to play on the game winner in Week one.
If Jacksonville was going to have an unlikely back, remember
when they Trevor Lawrence converted that unlikely fourth and five

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that was losing contained right handed quarterback out the right side,
he throws across his body if you if you win
that play, you're not even sweating that game. So this
has been a problem. Obviously, Daniel's a right handed quarterback.
You've got to keep him outside.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:19:20):
When he does get outside the pocket, his attempts three
point eight per per per game, that's thirty third. But
his scramble percentage when he gets out he you know
a lot of times they say guys are looking when
they scramble, they're looking to pass.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
When he scrambles, he's looking to scramble.

Speaker 15 (01:19:39):
When he gets outside the pocket, fifty one percent times
he's gonna run the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
That's second in the NFL.

Speaker 15 (01:19:45):
And outside the pocket his passer rating is one hundred
and eighteenth, that's eighth. So so I would just say this,
he's a right handed quarterback. If you're gonna make if
you're gonna allow him to get out of the pocket,
have your breakdown beast so that he's a right hand
quarterback going to his left.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
But don't.

Speaker 15 (01:20:00):
But we got to stop this issue of of letting
a right handed quarterback out the right handed side of
the pocket, so that those components in stopping the run,
I think are're gonna be a vital on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Well, you have Daniels, who obviously is a running threat.
Samuel is your wide receiver one without Terry McLaurin, and
he's mostly a running back threat. And then you have
the actual run game that they implement. Does that work
for the Seahawks and their number one ranked rush defense
or does that work against it? To have that many

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weapons coming at you. I kind of like seat.

Speaker 15 (01:20:38):
I think that they have an ability to build a
wall and really spill things to the outside. I think
now with with Witherspoon back on the field, they're gonna
have more team speed. If if they want to run outside,
I think you spill that. And and if Emon Worries
an alley player an overhang player on one side and
uh and and Witherspoon is on the other, I think

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I think those guys are gonna they can cover a
lot of ground to the flat.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
So I don't know, I feel pretty good about it, Chuck, You.

Speaker 15 (01:21:07):
Know, I think I think the concern You know, we
talked about the Seahawks and covering tight ends, and we
talked about it before the Cardinals and then trade McBride
steel he went off relatively So the Seahawks giving up
sixty three yards per game to tight ends. That's that's
eighth most, and they're passer rating. When the Seahawks all

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passes going to non tight ends, the opponent passer rating
against the Seahawks is seventy eight, so Seahawks are fourth best.
But when opponents target a tight end, the passer rating
jumps from seventy eight to one hundred and seven passer rating.
So in zach Ertz, you know, look, he's passes pride,
he's on the injury report, but he's.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
A heady guy.

Speaker 15 (01:21:50):
He's got moxie, knows how to find holes and zones.
You know, that's an issue and and somewhat related to that,
and you know, I'm just kind of my notes here.
Here's an interesting split for Jaden Daniels his pass Now,
you wouldn't expect that teams would play a lot of
man to man because Jaden Daniels has such a running threat,

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and they say, well, who's gonna who's gonna cover him?
If you uh, who's gonna spy him if he runs?
But if against cover one, Jaden Daniels his passer rating
is sixty eight. That's thirty third in the NFL. You know,
contrast that to uh, you know, a cover two of
five under zone where everybody's eyes are on the quarterback.

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That's probably what he's used to seeing throughout his career
because he probably doesn't see a lot of man.

Speaker 6 (01:22:39):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (01:22:40):
His passer ratings one hundred and fourteen. Let me say
that again, man to man sixty eight and it jumps
to one hundred and fourteen and against a very conservative zone.
So so and then I say.

Speaker 6 (01:22:48):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 15 (01:22:50):
There's two ways to play man and man cover one.
You can rush four and have a spy, and you
can rush five. If there's no way he's seeing five
man rushes because there's literally nobody for the quarterback. Well,
it's happened, and his passer rating is only forty four.
So how lucky are you feeling, Mike McDonald if you

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want to run a five man cover one? This guy
has really had a problem. As I said, he doesn't
see a lot of man to man. I think there's
more of a primacy on accuracy, maybe less of a
primacy on anticipation, you know, so there's a skill set
that's different.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
He doesn't see a lot of man to man.

Speaker 8 (01:23:28):
If you want to throw five guys out of him.

Speaker 15 (01:23:30):
I wouldn't have the guts to do it, but those
who have have had success. So that's something to watch
as well. If you see on Sunday night where Jade
Daniels scrambles for like a twenty seven yard er and
they're going man to man, just count the number are there?
Is it a four man rush or a five because
you know four man rush? Yeah, at least you gonna
have a spy there. Maybe Ernest Jones will whoever it is,

(01:23:52):
feel like he can he can hunt him down. But
if you rush five man, you better hold your breath.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
Hell of a breakdown right there. Yeah. I just started
this week really listening to this. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:24:03):
Why once you told me that he's a former NFL quarterback,
I was like, then he probably I should probably pay
at day?

Speaker 5 (01:24:11):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:24:12):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
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omgrin with Chuck and Buck. What Coach Holmgren's got planned
for Halloween tonight? I probably just scared a cry about
all the kids.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
In the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Do you think so?

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
More?

Speaker 6 (01:25:03):
Is that? I mean?

Speaker 7 (01:25:04):
I think nowadays he's just kind of uh, you know,
answers a door, big burly but you know, calm, and
then hands out probably king sized candyll.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Sin as far from b Bbe pulled that trick on.
It doesn't trust Halloween anymore possible.

Speaker 9 (01:25:20):
Oh yeah, good morning guys. Yeah, ruined Halloween for me forever. No,
it's uh, but Bucky's right. I'm a hand out, big
candy bars person.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
But we.

Speaker 9 (01:25:36):
Live in a condos, so we don't get anything. No
one comes where we are. So, but when we were
in a neighborhood and I had a house. Yeah, it was,
it was and Green Bay. It was funny in Green Bay.
They they said it was very structured. They set times
between six and eight or you know, and then they
shut everything down. And in small city can do that.

(01:25:56):
Small town So it was fun always like Halloween. And
then growing up, I remember one quick thing. We didn't
have any money. So my dad, it's Halloween. Okay, what
are you going to be? My dad goes, I think
he should be a hobol. So I wore a my
T shirt, jeans that he got a stick for me.
He had a bag on the end of it. You're

(01:26:16):
all set go same.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
Yeah, I say.

Speaker 7 (01:26:18):
I wore his T shirt, his jeans, stuffed a pillow
in the butt and a pillow in the stomach, and
then the stick in a handkerchief. With that I walked
around with and charcoal on my face for a five. Yeah,
we're all the same.

Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Coach Olgrin with us right here on Chuck and Buck
in the morning. All right, let's talk a little football
taking on the Commanders on Sunday night. Man, the Commanders
are just so beat up and they're playing on short
rest where the Seahawks might be the healthiest they've been
all season long and got a bye week. I mean,
how big of an advantage does that feel like the
Seahawks have heading into Sunday Night.

Speaker 9 (01:26:57):
Well, I couldn't have come at a better time, and
it's a huge advantage, and particularly the way Washington schedules
set up. And it also goes to show you, and
not just Washington, but all the teams. You lose your
starting quarterback for a while, it changes everything. It just
changes everything. Your defense has to be spectacular otherwise you're

(01:27:17):
going to lose the football game. It's not the same
now they get Jayden Daniels back. Washington does. But I
think tremendous advantage to the Seahawks this week.

Speaker 7 (01:27:27):
Coach, I've been kind of discounting the five and two
to some degree, not totally. I mean, I think that
this is a really good football team, and yet I
was saying earlier in the show that I don't feel
great about any of their wins and the couple teams
they've lost to, I think I feel like they maybe
are better. Maybe not the Niners as hurt as they are,
but the Buccaneers, I do think, even though that was

(01:27:48):
a close ball game, So I kind of want you
to coach me up as if you were to have
heard me say that. Just let me know exactly how
difficult wins are, whether it's against the Cardinals, Saints, you know,
Texas there even the you know, Steelers and Jaguars, who
both have winning records.

Speaker 9 (01:28:04):
Yeah, I agree with you, Bucky. That's kind of how
I've been thinking as well. They won some really close games,
and you know, they lost a couple of close games,
but they've been relatively close most of the time against
teams that in the beginning of the season I thought
would just be okay, you know that they're middle of

(01:28:24):
the road teams, and now I thought Washington, excuse me,
would be a real challenge. But they've been hurt and
banged up and they're not the same team that was
at the beginning of the season. So I kind of
agree with you. I think, however, they would stand out.
What stood out to me was how their defense and

(01:28:44):
how the secondary in particular has played even with the
injured guys, the new guys, the young guys come in
and they're playing pretty well. Why because the defensive front
has been spectacular. I mean, they've really done a nice
job up front. And then Sam Darnold is playing very
very well well on offense, and of course the receiver
Enigma is just shooting lights out. I suspect in the

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second half of the season, though, teams have to do
something about him, you know, because it's he's just he's
just doing whatever he wants out there, and he's looking
great doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
What would you do with him? You have a wide
receiver that just continuously keeps getting open and a quarterback
that loves throwing to him. At one point, do you say, well,
if you're not going to take it away from me,
I'm just going to keep going. Or do you have
to kind of create the balance that might be more
long term beneficial.

Speaker 9 (01:29:37):
Yeah, I think you have to create the balance. And
then you know, I can remember, I can remember I
think I don't know if we mentioned it before, but
we played Carolina in the championship game in d Steve
Smith was a great receiver for them, and I stayed
away from frit Sherman and my coordinators in Seattle as

(01:29:58):
well them do it, except when I knew the receiver
and I knew kind of what I knew the team
on offense would do, and I went in and I
just said, listen, I don't know you make your plan,
but I want him hit or at the line of
scrimmage on every play. I want him banged round so
he just can't get into the secondary. And so I
think teams, if it was me, that's what I would

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do with Jigma, you know, just make sure that he
just can't release cleanly. When he does that, he finds
he's good enough and he finds the open area. And
you know, to say, okay, if we stop Jigma, that
will open up other guys. I said, okay, fine, but
we're going to stop this guy. This guy can't can't
beat this by himself.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Well what about Jayde Daniels? What would you do with him?
If you had a talent who's who's a little banged
up right now, but you know you want him to
run a little bit. But how much do you just
uncork him? Considering his recent injuries. What kind of factor
is he going to be someday?

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
Now?

Speaker 9 (01:31:00):
Well, I think he's going to be a big factor.
He's going to be a big boost to the team. Now,
how how he handles his injury, how the injury affects
his play, That'll be one one thing to watch. I
don't think Chuck that I think he's gonna play the
way he plays. You might tell him now, just you know,
be a little cautious, but that falls on deaf ears.

(01:31:22):
He's going to play and react to a particular play
or a situation because he's an athlete and that's what
he does. So you just pray that that he doesn't
get bad if you're the you know, Washington, that he
doesn't get banged up again, because they really need him
to play well to have a chance to win the game.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
All right, So is there any truth to uh Halloween
trick or treating? In Green Bay? You just hand out cheese,
just like craft singles and kurds and stuff like that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:48):
Yeah, cheese, kurds, crackers, maybe some maybe some sausage. I would,
I would, You know, you gotta you gotta kind of
heavy heavy it up and the kids look at you.
Oh ont candy? No no, no, had this taste this?

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
You know?

Speaker 9 (01:32:06):
Look at you either? Are you serious?

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
I'd love to.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
I love the idea of just uh Kathy just dropping too,
you know, well cooked brought worst into a little kids
a candy bag.

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
I love that.

Speaker 9 (01:32:17):
There you go, and you might give a little jar,
that little mustard with it, you know, just just to
make sure that you know, and if it's lucky I listened,
since I had BUCkies, since you treated me with the dip,
I would figure out a way to do that somehow
to and include that in make it a buffet.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Yeah, all right, individual ELK dip packets.

Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:32:38):
Or I could just put I could actually could stop
me from having to even answer the door. I don't
have trick of cheers, but just put the crock pot
full of it with a bag of chips and just
let them come up and just dip a chip and ill.

Speaker 9 (01:32:51):
Yeah, but well, you know that how long would that last?

Speaker 5 (01:32:53):
You know?

Speaker 9 (01:32:54):
You have these people that put the bucket of candy.
I just take one, you know, and then you get
some some dingling come in there and just dumps the
whole thing into his thing and say eight, I'm here first,
I'm getting all. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
I love the idea that you just look out there
and it's coach.

Speaker 6 (01:33:10):
Yeah, you know, is give me your purse.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
Yeah that he just said, all right, coach, we'll enjoy.
We'll talk to you on Monday.

Speaker 9 (01:33:23):
Great, guys, have a good weekend, all right.

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