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first time this year. National Football League Week number ten
got started last night with Denver defeating the Las Vegas
Raiders by a final score of ten to seven. That's right,
ten to seven was the final score. A blocked Hunt
set up the game winning field goal in the fourth
quarter for the Broncos, who are the first team in
the National Football League to reach eight wins this season.
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And then this Sunday, the Seahawks will be in action
against the Arizona Cardinals. And to preview it, we welcome
our Seahawks insider. All right, So Seahawks Cardinals, the matchup
here on Sunday, And of course the x afectation now
is that the Seattle Seahawks are going to murder the
Arizona Cardinals. They're just flying way too high. Right now,
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what's been the mood like and covering the team this week?
How are they handling? Suddenly the entire world talking about
how great.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
They are.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well professionally, I mean, this is This is not high
school football.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
These guys have been around for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And the Marcus Lawrence, for instance, has played for the
Dallas Cowboys for eleven years and used to spotlight and attention.
And Sam Donald's been eight years and buns of different
teams and some ups, a lot of downs. They've been
around the block a little bit, a lot of these guys.
So yeah, I mean, every week, new challenge. Now it's
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Jakobe Brissett and a different kind of offense than they're used to.
When Arizona comes in every week is itself in the NFL.
We know that, And well it looks like Seattle should roll.
It doesn't always work out that way in the league.
And there's pretty thin margins and you turn them all over,
you have penalties, mistakes, you lose, and that's pretty much
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against anybody. So yeah, it's just another week and they
don't get into Oh where the Cats me out because
we want on national television and nothing's really changed.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
In that regard, right.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, I mean, I think it would be cool if
they did play a high school.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Team this week.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'd like to watch that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I think that wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You know what, everyone's going to face their challenges.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I don't think the kids need that or deserve that.
I think at times Arizona Monday like it. That's that's true,
just some of today's kids. I think. I'm thinking that
if the defense just goes out there and does what
they've done majority of the season, that that they they're
gonna end up being able to figure find a way
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to pull this game out. I think kind of the
key get after Jacoby Brissett and make him uncomfortable in
the pocket, and then maybe you force him into something
that's even better than just a punt. So how are
we feeling just about the way in which that front
seven is getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, that's been the strength of the team all season,
and that's really been the surprise buckis because Mike McDonald
he acknowledged it last week. They're playing a lot differently
than he planned to play this season on defense. He's
had to because of the personnel, and he hasn't had
a full still since the first game, hasn't had a
full secondary of starters because of injuries, and so he
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hasn't blitzed as much because it's been Blitzer guys Nick
even Worry and Devin Witherspoon haven't played together all that much.
Last week in Washington was the first time since the
first five players of the season they were on the
field at the same time.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So he found, without.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Blitzing early in the season, wait a minute, Leonard Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And the Marcus Lawrence and.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The leader in sacks Byron Murphy and Jared Reed. Those
guys are getting after it and getting to affect the
quarterback without me having to give up any of the
seven in coverage behind them. And once he started getting
away with that, McDonald's realizing that we will win in
coverage if we can get pressure with four and have
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seven covering four or five eligible receivers at most. That's
that's those numbers are in the Seahawks favor and that's
really in a nutshell how the defense has changed in
mid season. They've taken away teams runs, which created third
down and longs. And when it's third and long, the
past rush doesn't have to worry about reading run keys
and they can get right after the quarterback and the
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front four have benefited.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Mightily from that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Great in the NFL, if you have seven in coverage,
you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's just really what it comes down to.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Greg Bell with It's our Seahawks inside. If you want
to follow him, do so at Gmail Seattle and of
course Thenewstribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage. Speaking of
that front seven, what's the health status of Ernest Jones
right now?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, the part of practice we could watch yesterday, he
was out there doing his own stretching and had a
brace on his right knee. He's on the field, and
the way it sounded right after the Washington game in
DC the other night, I didn't think he'd be on
the field this week. So he is on the field.
He was a limited participant in practice, which is more
than I expected.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Him to be on Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
So if I had the guess, this is questionable today,
they probably are hesitant to think this, but they may
be able to get away with not playing them, rest
them and have him play against the Rams next week
and that all important game for first place. They don't
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think that way, of course, but if there's any if
he's gonna make it worse by playing, if that's what
the medical staff decides, then he won't play. But I
was surprised he's been on the field this week.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I saw that Tory Horton was on the injury thing
as well as Cooper Cup obviously, so what does that's
what's the deal with his health? And what does that
say about Rashid Shaheed possibly being thrust right into action?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well, good timing. And when I asked Wednesday McDonald if
she was gonna play, so I would hope so.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, now they.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Almost need him to. It's new that Tory Horton's injury
he's got. They listed him with a groin in the
sin yesterday. He was a full participant in practice on
Wednesday and then did not practice yesterday. We'll see if
they were just resting him or if that's a new injury,
that a new concern. Again, I say this every time
about these injuries. We go from before practice on Wednesday
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till after practice on Friday without talking to the loan
authority on injuries and give you information on it, the
head coach. And so that's three practices that happened without
you having any in your injury information. And that's when
these new things crop up, like last week when Cup
and Bobo both got injured during practices. During last week,
you don't find that out the details on it until
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for afternoon, so I'll know more than one thirty or so.
But that was a new concern. Kupp was on the
field yesterday. I didn't expect him to be. He looked
like he was doing a limited amount of stuff and
didn't look full go, and he was in fact this
as a limited participant. But it did surprise me he
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was on the field.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I've heard nothing but great things about Rashid sha he'd
the person and the teammate since this trade went down.
What kind of first impression has he made around the place?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Really at pervescent guy. I mean, he was beaming, smiling, walked.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In and said, Hi, how are you guys doing? That
was his first words to us.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Very outgoing for a guy who was an undrafted rookie
free agent just three years ago. He seemed very self
assured and first impression, very favorable, very personable, and the
team of course embracing him and somebody that they think
could really really helped, and they put him right in.
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I mean he's been getting the crash course, some special
teams with Jay Harbor in the return game. He's been
talking to Frisman Jackson, the wide receiver coach. He's been
thrilling quite a bit with Sam Darnold and with Clint
Kubiak in the offense. Of course, he knows Kubiak's offense
from having run it in New Orleans last year, so
he's not starting from scratch and that's probably gonna help
this week get him on the field sooner than maybe
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he would have had he come from way out some
import Is.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This a week possibly that they could get the run
game clicking a little bit? I mean, it's you know,
I guess there's a lot of things to like about
what the team's been doing as of late, and yet
that's the one thing that maybe is not clicking. And
so is this a weekend that they could get that going.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Well, we keep saying that, and that's something that has
to get going.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
They're going to keep trying. But it just comes down today,
need to move guys, and whether they're facing stack boxes,
which we talked about is part of the reason Shieita
is here.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
No matter what, the league knows.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That Seattle's going to run, they bring an extra man
in the box to deny the run, and Seattle said, well, okay,
we'll throw over the top of that. And that's very
simple terms. That's kind of been the offense for Seattle
and it's worked. It's not how they were designed to
be offensively, but Donald has been so efficient, Jackson Smith
and Jigba has been so good at getting open and
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catching passes that it has worked that way. The run
game hasn't succeeded in yards, but it has succeeded in
getting its reputation out there that Seattle's going to run
the ball, and let's stop the run. So while they're
not running the ball effectively, they are running it enough
a lot to affect defenses. And that was the first
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thing Mike McDonald wanted to do. He wanted to dictate
to defenses how to play. He has done that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
The second step to me, the evolution of this season
and for this team to win the division is to
be able to run the ball better against the Rams
and forty nine ers to win the division. I don't
think they can be one dimensional and beat those two teams.
If they can't beat those two teams again, they're not
going to win the division. And that to me is
the challenge. Can they run it as much as they
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have yet better beginning next week against the Rams. It
would help them, of course to do it against Arizona.
Arizona tacks defensively. They don't just stand there and let
you block them. They usually come at you and they
blitz and they change the front. So they want of
those multiple teams. It's long overdue that they have a
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running game like they want to have.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We'll see if it happens. On Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Greg mellis with US SEAHAWKX in Cider of course, Thenewstribune
dot com, where he's got a brand new article up
about Sam Darnold, And I'll just go back to the
original kind of question that I asked you, and Uh, yeah,
I get it that there are professionals and they take
with in greater stride successes and failures than what fans
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do and what talk show hosts do. That said, based
off your article about Sam Darnold, is there any part
of him that truly is surprised that he's having this
much success halfway through his first year with the Seahawks
and it's.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Hard of hearts? Maybe again, when he got signed, it
wasn't hey, we need you to throw for three hundred
and twenty five yards and four touchdowns and go seventeen
for seventeen in the first half. That was the opposite
of that. It was we need you to play complimentary
with our run, game.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Play action passes off of it. We're gonna run.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
The ball, We're gonna pound pound pound and then throw
over the top. And that has not been the case.
So how he's done it has to surprise him.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The success he had last year in Minnesota told him
in the league that this is not I mean out
of It's not a meteor strike that he's done this.
Now he has done it over eight years.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
This is due.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
These last two seasons were done like the first six.
But it's not quite out as no out of nowhere
as last year was. It's more out of nowhere to
us because we didn't see him. He wasn't with the Seahawks.
But for Donnov himself, this is kind of what happened
last year. He forty three hundred yards, thirty five touchdows
and won fourteen and three. That was out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
This is more like last year.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And if you remember when they signed him, our questions were,
which Sam Donald, We're gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We're gonna get the Jets the.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Panthers the forty nine ers version, or we're gonna get
the Vikings version. And so far we've gotten the Vikings
version without the Vikings cast the receivers, without a run
game the Vikings had, and without as good of an
offensive line. Now having we keep trashing the offensive line,
the one thing the line has done is protected him.
And part of what I wrote a the neewstributing dot
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com for the story is the change in mechanics that
Donald went through that we talked about on the round
table yesterday has helped that pass protect and getting the
ball out quicker, for instance, and having a better throwing
motion with more accurate throws. He acknowledged that, yes, he
absolutely changed his throwing motion after Uscush talked about he
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was throwing from almost his hip and he said, yeah,
I needed to change that. He said it was to
help his arm and shoulder health. First of all, you
didn't want to rip out his shoulder throwing cock eye
and winding up and the other thing he said was interesting,
And I talked to Andrew Jenoko, the quarterbacks coach, after
practice yesterday about this. He said to Jenoko, when they
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installed plays this spring and summer, installed as he installed
each play, he told he drilled the quarterbacks on the
eye the deception that Hugh talked about yesterday. So when
they put in play acts, they said, okay, on this
play act, you're going to start with your eyes here
to the left, but we're going to throw to the
right for instance. And pretty much all the plays in
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the place book have a place for the quarterback's eyes
to go to deceive the defense. And Darnold explained he'd
never been coached that way before. He was just kind
of left up to him a quarterback, to do the
eye trick on his own. Well, now they drill it
into these quarterbacks in Seattle for each of the plays.
And Kubiak said, you actually you can tell that he's
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really taken to that and he's really been well trained
in that. Jinoko said, I said, where'd you learn that?
Because he's thirty seven, he's still pretty much young around
the league. And he said, he coached under North Turner
and Kevin O'Connell with the Vikings. He was at the
Vikings for three couple of years, and those guys taught
him the eye deception, the quarterback play, and that's why
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when Hugh said he's so good at doing that. He's
been coached uniquely and that skill it's really helped him
this season.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
All right, we will close with this what we always
close with. So Sunday one o'clock start against the Arizona Cardinals.
Interesting matchup, divisional matchup. What's the game gonna look like?
What's gonna be the key to victory?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, I'm with Bucky.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I think that the defense leads a day here. I
think this is a team, as Hughes said yesterday, it's
about time they start beating back up quarterbacks that come
in here to Seattle and play them. And I think
the defense is rolling. Who even if Ernest Jones doesn't play,
it looks like he might. I think the defense is
rolling enough to dictate this game. I do think that
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Jacoby Brissett as well as he played in Dallas, although
any team it looks like can beat Dallas defensively right now,
I think Brissette playing plays right into the Seahawks strength
on defense. The Seahawks have more of a problem with
their pass rush. When it's a Kyler Murray type escaping quarterback.
A pocket passer is trouble going against Seattle right now,
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and I think Brissette's going to have more trouble than
a lot of backups of coming in here to Seattle.
I think the defense dominates the game. That's the way
it looks like to me. Defense travels, Defense plays when
it's defense plays when your offense is stumbling and can't
run and turn them all over. Defense wins. And McDonald's
got them humming on defense right now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All right, excellent stuff, Thank you very much, all week long.
Excellent stuff from Greg Bell, Trade Deadline, all sorts of
stuff that we've covered with Greg here this week. So
enjoy the weekend and we'll chat with you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Thank you, Sarah, Happy Monday, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
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at nine o'clock for x's and o's drop this little
nugget about the little nugget that won't be starting for
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the Arizona Cardinals this Sunday, Kyler Murray.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I think Kyler Murray is the worst leader I've ever
seen at the quarterback position in over fifty years of
watching football. I think he can't handle. He throw you know,
he throws players under the bus. He threw his coach
under the bus. I think his body language is among
the worst I've ever the worst i've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think there's some leadership problems. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
When you saw Trey McBride, the Cardinals great tight end,
interviewed on Monday night after that game, Scott Van Pelt said, look,
I'm not asking a load of question, just what does
Jacoby Brissette bring to you? Well, the response that Trey
McBride had where he he was raving about Jacoby Brissett,
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there's messages and he's talking about how he works and
he watches tape. Well, every quarterback should work and watch tape. Well,
that's been an issue for Kylerie Murray.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Hugh Millen earlier this week on Kyler Murray worst he's
ever seen studied a quarterback or two. I think there's
a I think there's a very good chance Kyler Murray
has played his last game for the Arizona Cardinals. And
I think part of it is per our discussion a
little bit earlier with our no cliche keys to victory.
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I think the Arizona Cardinals really believe in Jonathan Gannon
as a head coach. He's a young man that they
gave a shot to very early in his process, his
coaching process, and since that time, he sort of created
a different type of identity, and I'm not sure Kyler
Murray kind of fits with that identity that Jonathan Gannon
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wants going forward. I think Arizona's married to Jonathan Gannon
going forward, and I don't think Jonathan and I think
Jonathan Gannon wants a divorce from Kyler Murray. I think
he wants an offense that runs the way his defense
runs going forward. And so I don't blame any general
manager or head coach. I mean, sometimes these jobs are fleeting.
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Sometimes you are on thin ice the moment you walk
through a door, not a lot of head coaches get
to adopt and inherit a team that's super Bowl ready.
Very few do. And here's Jonathan Gannon in the fairly
new the even newer general manager at Arizona saying, you
at least got to give us a chance to name
our quarterback, to play with, a quarterback that we've chosen.
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I mean, right now, we're opting for Jacoby Brissett, a
career backup, and we think we're better off with Brissett
than the guy you gave me. So at least give
me the chance this offseason before you fire me, to
get a quarterback in here that I've chosen.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, I would imagine that any coach, right, I mean
you're like, okay, I'll take this on.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
It's not like he didn't know who was his quarter
back when he took the job. And yet you go, okay,
I can fix this, or if he listens to me,
I can get this guy playing up to his potential. Well,
I mean, Hugh Millen has studied a quarterback or two,
Like you said, I mean, if he can see it,
and I think there is something that you can see
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about how somebody acts their body language says things to you,
and I think Kyler Murray might have some of the
worst body language out there. If that's the case, and
therefore you're not very much of a leader. People don't
want to follow you because you pout when things aren't
going your way, and you tend to do things that
lead us down a path that's not going the way
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we all want to go. Then I can see how
as a head coach you'd be like, Okay, I'm kind
of over this experiment. To me, having a guy like
Kyler Murray is a double edged sword. I mean there's
things people around here watched it with Russell Wilson for years.
He would do things that not all quarterbacks could do,
and then at times that would also backfire and you'd
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be second twenty five. To me, I can see where
a quarterback or a coach would be like, I would
really like to try something different.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, remember when the Cardinals drafted Kyler Murray, they had
just hired Cliff Kingsbury, and there was a personal connection.
And of course when you hire a head coach, you
think it's going to be great. Kingsbury's going to be
is a young man. He's going to be our coach
for the next ten to fifteen years, and so you're
thinking you're drafting a quarterback based on who you're marrying
to the new head coach that you're sure is going
to be there for a decade. And then all of
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a sudden, that experiment didn't work and the guy that
you drafted specifically for a head coach and the head
coach isn't there anymore, and so they went in a
different direction. And I don't know if it was a
direction that was right for Kyler Murray and vice versa,
but I think there's a very good chance he's played
his last game for the Cardinals as a starter. Let's
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play some factor fiction.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Where's that to go? Glad you're with us?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
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Speaker 2 (26:10):
All right, Bucky's pick here on a Friday, our last
pick of the week. We are coming off a victory.
You picked Monday night, Ashley, How did we We didn't?
I didn't mean I didn't mean that that's right.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
No, I had the Arizona at Dallas over they went under.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I knew we picked the games so that it already
had results this week. So those two one and one,
all right, We're gonna go four and one this week, Bucky,
what do you got here?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'm gonna go back to one of my old trustees.
I think the New York Jets basically just sold off
two of their best players on their defense, and and
therefore that I don't think they're gonna be feeling all
that great. The bad thing is that they're playing the
Cleveland Browns. But I think the Cleveland Browns can cover
a point and a half, even though they have to
go to New York. It's a horrible game Cleveland versus
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New York Jets. But I do genuinely think the Jets.
The Browns have a really good defense. So I don't
think the Jets are scoring a whole bunch. The Jets
had a good defense, or they played Okay, they had
a defense. I think, yes, yes, they have two less
they have too fewer. Now two of their best ones
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are out, and so I think that the Cleveland Browns
do just enough to squeak past the Jets. So I'm
going to take the Cleveland Browns minus one and a
half at New York.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I mean, it's crazy to pick the Cleveland Browns, period,
but I think you're right as a road favorite. I mean,
it's gonna be hard for me to believe. I mean,
unless Aaron Glenn's got some head coaching matchup. He's magic
and he's going to rally this troop around what they
did this week. But pretty much the entire locker rooms
feeling like you just sold away two of our best players.
What chances are you're giving us to win? And then
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the other half of the locker rooms like, why didn't
you trade me? Yeah? I wanted to be traded. Why
wasn't I traded? Now I'm stuck here with this nonsense
when you're clearly rebuilding, actually maybe even starting over. So
I think that's a terrific pick. All right, So the
Cleveland Browns they're giving or getting a point, Nino giving
a point and a half, Okay, minus one and a
half at New York again, Jets, how about that? The
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with Kid and MJ coming up next. Well, we are
forty eight days shy of Christmas, and yet could the
Mariners deliver us a Christmas present between now and then?
(29:40):
They're going to have a deadline to do so, it
turns out we'll talk about that next. Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM. I'm going Christmas for tree shopping.
I think we're putting up the tree tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yeah, do you realize there's another holiday before that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think I got the result I thought I was
going to get from that little impromptu.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
It's going to be so cozy. I'm a little decorated
turkeys all season.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I get to wake up from my nap and it
might already be up.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
That's the way are you getting it from?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Uh? I think I am sure, But.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
You're getting a real one.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, get get a real.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
One up right now? It would die?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Well, then get another one when they're supposed to get
another one.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
By two trees? Goodness, my bags.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
No, no down our own tree, not everybody's trees just
fall down around them.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Yeah, that's your side that it's time to put up
a tree. That tree fell for you to put it up.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
No, not true, that tree fell because you guys are
prematurely putting up Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh I hoped it was God. Yeah, being angry. Then
why did he have it fall in your ear?
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yeah, you're not the one that puts it on.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Go after you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Well, Christmas is in forty eight days, so maybe I
am jumping.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
And forty eight days.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But today Munataka Morikami, the Japanese babe ruth, actually we
already have one of those has just been posted. So
that means, by the rules, in forty five days he
asked to have made his decision where he wants to play,
So forty eight days till Christmas, Murakami has forty five
(31:27):
days to decide. I mean, there's a very good chance
we could have a nice little Christmas present this offseason,
because he is being majorly linked to the Mariners and
the Dodgers and certainly the Yankees and other big price teams.
But this is somebody that sort of profiles as a
young Gino Suarez, like he might have like sixty home
(31:48):
run potential at the major league level, but he's probably
gonna hit like two twenty. He's probably going to strike
out a crap ton and not sure he's all that
great of a defensive third basement or even first baseman.
But twenty six years old, he's coming over here. Mariners
have been linked to him. I've seen all sorts of
different financials attached to him. Ten years to twenty I
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saw from spotrack, I saw eight years one eighty was
posted by MLB Trade Rumors, six years one thirty two
by fangrass. That's twenty two million dollars a year right there.
And then Kylie McDaniel from ESPN, who Jeff Passing endorses
as really knowing what they're talking about in this area.
Five years, eighty million, sixteen million a year. If that's
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the price, he's going to be a Mariner. Jerry de
PoTA will jump all over that.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, I'm down with that. I mean, I'll say this,
there's a distinct difference I think between the big leagues
in Japan, but I will I kind of where I'm
okay with a guy coming over that has this kind
of power potential, even though he's kind of a you know,
an all or none and type of a guy he's
not going to for a very high average. I think
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that there's a drastic change that has happened and we're
kind of seeing it. We saw it. We see it
with our pitchers. We saw it with that you savage
kid from Toronto. There's a lot more split fingers being
thrown today. For a long time, when you and I
were growing up, change ups and you had the occasional
guy that threw a split finger. Back before that, it
was even a fork ball.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
The old circle change.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
The old circle change worked, and then people started coming
up with different changes, and then all of a sudden,
people started realizing, wait a second, why don't I try
this split finger thing. There's a lot more split fingers
in the game right now. You know where another place
that has a lot of split fingers Japan, Japan. I
read where you were going. Yeah, he saw the bay
I may okay with him signing a guy. I think
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that his I think that he will be able to
hit the off speed stuff that some of the guys
over here are going to throw. So I think you'll
come over here and you know a little bit of
growing pains, possibly just coming to a new country and
trying to impress and whatnot. But I still think he's
a guy that could go thirty forty runs to start off.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I do too, I'll take that. I want him, I
do want him, and I want him with Naylor. I
don't want one or the other. I want him with Naylor.
But let's take a look at the Nay roll, because again,
Kyler McDaniel says, Naylor three years fifty two and a half. Oh,
that's a slam dunk. Oh that's if that's right. Oh,
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we'll go over that. We'll take that for sure. That
will take that all day long. Fangraft says four years
eighty eight. I'll take that, and then trade rumor says
five years ninety for Josh Naylor. I think where the
sticking point might be in the negotiations. And Justin Hollander
reminded us yesterday that Josh Naylor is the number one priority.
(34:44):
Is going to be Josh Naylor saying this is probably
my one big contract in my life. So I want
five years, and I think the Mariners will only want
to go four. But if you can say i'll do
it five years at eighteen million and bring down the
per year value, then I think there's a marriage there.
So five years ninety. If that's what it takes, I
(35:05):
think the Mariner should do that.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Uh five years not yeah, yes, uh huh please, I
don't to me if you're gonna say he's the number
one priority and there is no salary cap and you're
not anywhere near the salary cap. You have a budget,
a self imposed budget, and I'm okay with you wanting
to make money, but you just recognize how much more
money you make when you get to play a whole
bunch of extra postseason games. That was money in your pocket.
(35:29):
This is the dude you've You've come out and said it.
There's no reason to hide the ball. There's no reason
to make it a secret. Our number one priority is
Josh Naylor. I don't care if it's one extra year
you have to give him. I don't care if it's
a few extra million per year. There's there's a Sometimes
the cost is yeah, I gotta feel maybe am paying
a little bit more than what makes me feel comfortable,
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But I feel really good about it because you're going
to reap the benefits of it for a long time.
If this guy ends up being the dude that we
just got to witness for the second.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Half well, I don't think a Tiger's going to change
its stripes no matter how much they like Josh Naylor.
I just pointed out in this segment one other guy
that might be able to fill this role. I think
that they will go a little uncomfortable financially to keep
Josh Naylor, but they're not gonna go a lot of
uncomfortable to make it happen. So if it does get
the twenty five million, they're not gonna pay that. They're
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just not going to pay it. I would imagine what
they'd feel comfortable most comfortable paying is four years eighty
somewhere in that range, and then he will be a Mariner.
But if Josh Naylor is after the highest price possible,
I don't think that he will be in Seattle next year.
But it's something we'll be talking about probably for a
while now, because I don't know if he's in any
(36:39):
rush to make his decision. The Mariner's Hot Stove will
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hein Steinbach double double last night, sixteen rebounds. For goodness,
it's pretty good. It looks like it looks like it.
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win over Denver, eighty four to seventy is the final score,
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but Child's plays over. They get ready for a ranked
Baylor team on Sunday, and that'll be our first indication
of just what kind of team that Danny Sprinkle has
put together for twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six.
Gonzaga playing Oklahoma, by the way, tomorrow night at seven thirty.
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in Minnesota will play the third and final match of
their three match series and round number one of the
MLS playoffs. It'll be tomorrow at one o'clock. An idiot
was saying Sunday yesterday, but it is tomorrow exactly Saturday,
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one o'clock in Minnesota. Winner moves on to the second
round of the playoffs. There will be three such matches
tomorrow in the MLS, and one tonight, a third and
deciding match to see who advances in the MLS playoffs.
Kraken will be an action in Saint Louis tomorrow at
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Sports Radio ninety three point three KRFM. Huskies entered the
week finally ranked twenty third in the country for the
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first time this year. National Football League Week number ten
got started last night with Denver defeating the Las Vegas
Raiders by a final score of ten to seven. That's right,
ten to seven was the final score. A blocked Hunt
set up the game winning field goal in the fourth
quarter for the Broncos, who are the first team in
the National Football League to reach eight wins this season.
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And then this Sunday, the Seahawks will be in action
against the Arizona Cardinals. And to preview it, we welcome
our Seahawks insider. All right, So Seahawks Cardinals, the matchup
here on Sunday, And of course the x afectation now
is that the Seattle Seahawks are going to murder the
Arizona Cardinals. They're just flying way too high. Right now,
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what's been the mood like and covering the team this week?
How are they handling? Suddenly the entire world talking about
how great.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
They are.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well professionally, I mean, this is This is not high
school football.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
These guys have been around for a while.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And the Marcus Lawrence, for instance, has played for the
Dallas Cowboys for eleven years and used to spotlight and attention.
And Sam Donald's been eight years and buns of different
teams and some ups, a lot of downs. They've been
around the block a little bit, a lot of these guys.
So yeah, I mean, every week, new challenge. Now it's
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Jakobe Brissett and a different kind of offense than they're used to.
When Arizona comes in every week is itself in the NFL.
We know that, And well it looks like Seattle should roll.
It doesn't always work out that way in the league.
And there's pretty thin margins and you turn them all over,
you have penalties, mistakes, you lose, and that's pretty much
(05:09):
against anybody. So yeah, it's just another week and they
don't get into Oh where the Cats me out because
we want on national television and nothing's really changed.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
In that regard, right.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well, I mean, I think it would be cool if
they did play a high school.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Team this week.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'd like to watch that.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I think that wouldn't be fair.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You know what, everyone's going to face their challenges.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I don't think the kids need that or deserve that.
I think at times Arizona Monday like it. That's that's true,
just some of today's kids. I think. I'm thinking that
if the defense just goes out there and does what
they've done majority of the season, that that they they're
gonna end up being able to figure find a way
(05:52):
to pull this game out. I think kind of the
key get after Jacoby Brissett and make him uncomfortable in
the pocket, and then maybe you force him into something
that's even better than just a punt. So how are
we feeling just about the way in which that front
seven is getting after the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, that's been the strength of the team all season,
and that's really been the surprise buckis because Mike McDonald
he acknowledged it last week. They're playing a lot differently
than he planned to play this season on defense. He's
had to because of the personnel, and he hasn't had
a full still since the first game, hasn't had a
full secondary of starters because of injuries, and so he
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hasn't blitzed as much because it's been Blitzer guys Nick
even Worry and Devin Witherspoon haven't played together all that much.
Last week in Washington was the first time since the
first five players of the season they were on the
field at the same time.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
So he found, without.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Blitzing early in the season, wait a minute, Leonard Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And the Marcus Lawrence and.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
The leader in sacks Byron Murphy and Jared Reed. Those
guys are getting after it and getting to affect the
quarterback without me having to give up any of the
seven in coverage behind them. And once he started getting
away with that, McDonald's realizing that we will win in
coverage if we can get pressure with four and have
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seven covering four or five eligible receivers at most. That's
that's those numbers are in the Seahawks favor and that's
really in a nutshell how the defense has changed in
mid season. They've taken away teams runs, which created third
down and longs. And when it's third and long, the
past rush doesn't have to worry about reading run keys
and they can get right after the quarterback and the
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front four have benefited.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Mightily from that.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Great in the NFL, if you have seven in coverage,
you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's just really what it comes down to.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Greg Bell with It's our Seahawks inside. If you want
to follow him, do so at Gmail Seattle and of
course Thenewstribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage. Speaking of
that front seven, what's the health status of Ernest Jones
right now?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well, the part of practice we could watch yesterday, he
was out there doing his own stretching and had a
brace on his right knee. He's on the field, and
the way it sounded right after the Washington game in
DC the other night, I didn't think he'd be on
the field this week. So he is on the field.
He was a limited participant in practice, which is more
than I expected.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Him to be on Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
So if I had the guess, this is questionable today,
they probably are hesitant to think this, but they may
be able to get away with not playing them, rest
them and have him play against the Rams next week
and that all important game for first place. They don't
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think that way, of course, but if there's any if
he's gonna make it worse by playing, if that's what
the medical staff decides, then he won't play. But I
was surprised he's been on the field this week.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
I saw that Tory Horton was on the injury thing
as well as Cooper Cup obviously, so what does that's
what's the deal with his health? And what does that
say about Rashid Shaheed possibly being thrust right into action?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Well, good timing. And when I asked Wednesday McDonald if
she was gonna play, so I would hope so.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, now they.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Almost need him to. It's new that Tory Horton's injury
he's got. They listed him with a groin in the
sin yesterday. He was a full participant in practice on
Wednesday and then did not practice yesterday. We'll see if
they were just resting him or if that's a new injury,
that a new concern. Again, I say this every time
about these injuries. We go from before practice on Wednesday
(09:37):
till after practice on Friday without talking to the loan
authority on injuries and give you information on it, the
head coach. And so that's three practices that happened without
you having any in your injury information. And that's when
these new things crop up, like last week when Cup
and Bobo both got injured during practices. During last week,
you don't find that out the details on it until
(09:59):
for afternoon, so I'll know more than one thirty or so.
But that was a new concern. Kupp was on the
field yesterday. I didn't expect him to be. He looked
like he was doing a limited amount of stuff and
didn't look full go, and he was in fact this
as a limited participant. But it did surprise me he
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was on the field.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I've heard nothing but great things about Rashid sha he'd
the person and the teammate since this trade went down.
What kind of first impression has he made around the place?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Really at pervescent guy. I mean, he was beaming, smiling, walked.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
In and said, Hi, how are you guys doing? That
was his first words to us.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Very outgoing for a guy who was an undrafted rookie
free agent just three years ago. He seemed very self
assured and first impression, very favorable, very personable, and the
team of course embracing him and somebody that they think
could really really helped, and they put him right in.
(11:02):
I mean he's been getting the crash course, some special
teams with Jay Harbor in the return game. He's been
talking to Frisman Jackson, the wide receiver coach. He's been
thrilling quite a bit with Sam Darnold and with Clint
Kubiak in the offense. Of course, he knows Kubiak's offense
from having run it in New Orleans last year, so
he's not starting from scratch and that's probably gonna help
this week get him on the field sooner than maybe
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he would have had he come from way out some
import Is.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This a week possibly that they could get the run
game clicking a little bit? I mean, it's you know,
I guess there's a lot of things to like about
what the team's been doing as of late, and yet
that's the one thing that maybe is not clicking. And
so is this a weekend that they could get that going.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Well, we keep saying that, and that's something that has
to get going.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We'll see.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
They're going to keep trying. But it just comes down today,
need to move guys, and whether they're facing stack boxes,
which we talked about is part of the reason Shieita
is here.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
No matter what, the league knows.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That Seattle's going to run, they bring an extra man
in the box to deny the run, and Seattle said, well, okay,
we'll throw over the top of that. And that's very
simple terms. That's kind of been the offense for Seattle
and it's worked. It's not how they were designed to
be offensively, but Donald has been so efficient, Jackson Smith
and Jigba has been so good at getting open and
(12:26):
catching passes that it has worked that way. The run
game hasn't succeeded in yards, but it has succeeded in
getting its reputation out there that Seattle's going to run
the ball, and let's stop the run. So while they're
not running the ball effectively, they are running it enough
a lot to affect defenses. And that was the first
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thing Mike McDonald wanted to do. He wanted to dictate
to defenses how to play. He has done that.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Now.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
The second step to me, the evolution of this season
and for this team to win the division is to
be able to run the ball better against the Rams
and forty nine ers to win the division. I don't
think they can be one dimensional and beat those two teams.
If they can't beat those two teams again, they're not
going to win the division. And that to me is
the challenge. Can they run it as much as they
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have yet better beginning next week against the Rams. It
would help them, of course to do it against Arizona.
Arizona tacks defensively. They don't just stand there and let
you block them. They usually come at you and they
blitz and they change the front. So they want of
those multiple teams. It's long overdue that they have a
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running game like they want to have.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
We'll see if it happens. On Sunday.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Greg mellis with US SEAHAWKX in Cider of course, Thenewstribune
dot com, where he's got a brand new article up
about Sam Darnold, And I'll just go back to the
original kind of question that I asked you, and Uh, yeah,
I get it that there are professionals and they take
with in greater stride successes and failures than what fans
(14:04):
do and what talk show hosts do. That said, based
off your article about Sam Darnold, is there any part
of him that truly is surprised that he's having this
much success halfway through his first year with the Seahawks
and it's.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Hard of hearts? Maybe again, when he got signed, it
wasn't hey, we need you to throw for three hundred
and twenty five yards and four touchdowns and go seventeen
for seventeen in the first half. That was the opposite
of that. It was we need you to play complimentary
with our run, game.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Play action passes off of it. We're gonna run.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
The ball, We're gonna pound pound pound and then throw
over the top. And that has not been the case.
So how he's done it has to surprise him.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
The success he had last year in Minnesota told him
in the league that this is not I mean out
of It's not a meteor strike that he's done this.
Now he has done it over eight years.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
This is due.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
These last two seasons were done like the first six.
But it's not quite out as no out of nowhere
as last year was. It's more out of nowhere to
us because we didn't see him. He wasn't with the Seahawks.
But for Donnov himself, this is kind of what happened
last year. He forty three hundred yards, thirty five touchdows
and won fourteen and three. That was out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
This is more like last year.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And if you remember when they signed him, our questions were,
which Sam Donald, We're gonna get it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
We're gonna get the Jets the.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Panthers the forty nine ers version, or we're gonna get
the Vikings version. And so far we've gotten the Vikings
version without the Vikings cast the receivers, without a run
game the Vikings had, and without as good of an
offensive line. Now having we keep trashing the offensive line,
the one thing the line has done is protected him.
And part of what I wrote a the neewstributing dot
(15:57):
com for the story is the change in mechanics that
Donald went through that we talked about on the round
table yesterday has helped that pass protect and getting the
ball out quicker, for instance, and having a better throwing
motion with more accurate throws. He acknowledged that, yes, he
absolutely changed his throwing motion after Uscush talked about he
(16:18):
was throwing from almost his hip and he said, yeah,
I needed to change that. He said it was to
help his arm and shoulder health. First of all, you
didn't want to rip out his shoulder throwing cock eye
and winding up and the other thing he said was interesting,
And I talked to Andrew Jenoko, the quarterbacks coach, after
practice yesterday about this. He said to Jenoko, when they
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installed plays this spring and summer, installed as he installed
each play, he told he drilled the quarterbacks on the
eye the deception that Hugh talked about yesterday. So when
they put in play acts, they said, okay, on this
play act, you're going to start with your eyes here
to the left, but we're going to throw to the
right for instance. And pretty much all the plays in
(16:59):
the place book have a place for the quarterback's eyes
to go to deceive the defense. And Darnold explained he'd
never been coached that way before. He was just kind
of left up to him a quarterback, to do the
eye trick on his own. Well, now they drill it
into these quarterbacks in Seattle for each of the plays.
And Kubiak said, you actually you can tell that he's
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really taken to that and he's really been well trained
in that. Jinoko said, I said, where'd you learn that?
Because he's thirty seven, he's still pretty much young around
the league. And he said, he coached under North Turner
and Kevin O'Connell with the Vikings. He was at the
Vikings for three couple of years, and those guys taught
him the eye deception, the quarterback play, and that's why
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when Hugh said he's so good at doing that. He's
been coached uniquely and that skill it's really helped him
this season.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
All right, we will close with this what we always
close with. So Sunday one o'clock start against the Arizona Cardinals.
Interesting matchup, divisional matchup. What's the game gonna look like?
What's gonna be the key to victory?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Well, I'm with Bucky.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I think that the defense leads a day here. I
think this is a team, as Hughes said yesterday, it's
about time they start beating back up quarterbacks that come
in here to Seattle and play them. And I think
the defense is rolling. Who even if Ernest Jones doesn't play,
it looks like he might. I think the defense is
rolling enough to dictate this game. I do think that
(18:27):
Jacoby Brissett as well as he played in Dallas, although
any team it looks like can beat Dallas defensively right now,
I think Brissette playing plays right into the Seahawks strength
on defense. The Seahawks have more of a problem with
their pass rush. When it's a Kyler Murray type escaping quarterback.
A pocket passer is trouble going against Seattle right now,
(18:49):
and I think Brissette's going to have more trouble than
a lot of backups of coming in here to Seattle.
I think the defense dominates the game. That's the way
it looks like to me. Defense travels, Defense plays when
it's defense plays when your offense is stumbling and can't
run and turn them all over. Defense wins. And McDonald's
got them humming on defense right now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All right, excellent stuff, Thank you very much, all week long.
Excellent stuff from Greg Bell, Trade Deadline, all sorts of
stuff that we've covered with Greg here this week. So
enjoy the weekend and we'll chat with you on Monday.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Thank you, Sarah, Happy Monday, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
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All right.
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on the roundtable yesterday and he will join us today
at nine o'clock for x's and o's drop this little
nugget about the little nugget that won't be starting for
(21:16):
the Arizona Cardinals this Sunday, Kyler Murray.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I think Kyler Murray is the worst leader I've ever
seen at the quarterback position in over fifty years of
watching football. I think he can't handle. He throw you know,
he throws players under the bus. He threw his coach
under the bus. I think his body language is among
the worst I've ever the worst i've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think there's some leadership problems. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
When you saw Trey McBride, the Cardinals great tight end,
interviewed on Monday night after that game, Scott Van Pelt said, look,
I'm not asking a load of question, just what does
Jacoby Brissette bring to you? Well, the response that Trey
McBride had where he he was raving about Jacoby Brissett,
(22:03):
there's messages and he's talking about how he works and
he watches tape. Well, every quarterback should work and watch tape. Well,
that's been an issue for Kylerie Murray.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Hugh Millen earlier this week on Kyler Murray worst he's
ever seen studied a quarterback or two. I think there's
a I think there's a very good chance Kyler Murray
has played his last game for the Arizona Cardinals. And
I think part of it is per our discussion a
little bit earlier with our no cliche keys to victory.
(22:33):
I think the Arizona Cardinals really believe in Jonathan Gannon
as a head coach. He's a young man that they
gave a shot to very early in his process, his
coaching process, and since that time, he sort of created
a different type of identity, and I'm not sure Kyler
Murray kind of fits with that identity that Jonathan Gannon
(22:54):
wants going forward. I think Arizona's married to Jonathan Gannon
going forward, and I don't think Jonathan and I think
Jonathan Gannon wants a divorce from Kyler Murray. I think
he wants an offense that runs the way his defense
runs going forward. And so I don't blame any general
manager or head coach. I mean, sometimes these jobs are fleeting.
(23:15):
Sometimes you are on thin ice the moment you walk
through a door, not a lot of head coaches get
to adopt and inherit a team that's super Bowl ready.
Very few do. And here's Jonathan Gannon in the fairly
new the even newer general manager at Arizona saying, you
at least got to give us a chance to name
our quarterback, to play with, a quarterback that we've chosen.
(23:37):
I mean, right now, we're opting for Jacoby Brissett, a
career backup, and we think we're better off with Brissett
than the guy you gave me. So at least give
me the chance this offseason before you fire me, to
get a quarterback in here that I've chosen.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, I would imagine that any coach, right, I mean
you're like, okay, I'll take this on.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
It's not like he didn't know who was his quarter
back when he took the job. And yet you go, okay,
I can fix this, or if he listens to me,
I can get this guy playing up to his potential. Well,
I mean, Hugh Millen has studied a quarterback or two,
Like you said, I mean, if he can see it,
and I think there is something that you can see
(24:18):
about how somebody acts their body language says things to you,
and I think Kyler Murray might have some of the
worst body language out there. If that's the case, and
therefore you're not very much of a leader. People don't
want to follow you because you pout when things aren't
going your way, and you tend to do things that
lead us down a path that's not going the way
(24:38):
we all want to go. Then I can see how
as a head coach you'd be like, Okay, I'm kind
of over this experiment. To me, having a guy like
Kyler Murray is a double edged sword. I mean there's
things people around here watched it with Russell Wilson for years.
He would do things that not all quarterbacks could do,
and then at times that would also backfire and you'd
(24:58):
be second twenty five. To me, I can see where
a quarterback or a coach would be like, I would
really like to try something different.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Well, remember when the Cardinals drafted Kyler Murray, they had
just hired Cliff Kingsbury, and there was a personal connection.
And of course when you hire a head coach, you
think it's going to be great. Kingsbury's going to be
is a young man. He's going to be our coach
for the next ten to fifteen years, and so you're
thinking you're drafting a quarterback based on who you're marrying
to the new head coach that you're sure is going
to be there for a decade. And then all of
(25:26):
a sudden, that experiment didn't work and the guy that
you drafted specifically for a head coach and the head
coach isn't there anymore, and so they went in a
different direction. And I don't know if it was a
direction that was right for Kyler Murray and vice versa,
but I think there's a very good chance he's played
his last game for the Cardinals as a starter. Let's
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Speaker 2 (26:10):
All right, Bucky's pick here on a Friday, our last
pick of the week. We are coming off a victory.
You picked Monday night, Ashley, How did we We didn't?
I didn't mean I didn't mean that that's right.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
No, I had the Arizona at Dallas over they went under.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I knew we picked the games so that it already
had results this week. So those two one and one,
all right, We're gonna go four and one this week, Bucky,
what do you got here?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'm gonna go back to one of my old trustees.
I think the New York Jets basically just sold off
two of their best players on their defense, and and
therefore that I don't think they're gonna be feeling all
that great. The bad thing is that they're playing the
Cleveland Browns. But I think the Cleveland Browns can cover
a point and a half, even though they have to
go to New York. It's a horrible game Cleveland versus
(26:56):
New York Jets. But I do genuinely think the Jets.
The Browns have a really good defense. So I don't
think the Jets are scoring a whole bunch. The Jets
had a good defense, or they played Okay, they had
a defense. I think, yes, yes, they have two less
they have too fewer. Now two of their best ones
(27:16):
are out, and so I think that the Cleveland Browns
do just enough to squeak past the Jets. So I'm
going to take the Cleveland Browns minus one and a
half at New York.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I mean, it's crazy to pick the Cleveland Browns, period,
but I think you're right as a road favorite. I mean,
it's gonna be hard for me to believe. I mean,
unless Aaron Glenn's got some head coaching matchup. He's magic
and he's going to rally this troop around what they
did this week. But pretty much the entire locker rooms
feeling like you just sold away two of our best players.
What chances are you're giving us to win? And then
(27:47):
the other half of the locker rooms like, why didn't
you trade me? Yeah? I wanted to be traded. Why
wasn't I traded? Now I'm stuck here with this nonsense
when you're clearly rebuilding, actually maybe even starting over. So
I think that's a terrific pick. All right, So the
Cleveland Browns they're giving or getting a point, Nino giving
a point and a half, Okay, minus one and a
half at New York again, Jets, how about that? The
(28:10):
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with Kid and MJ coming up next. Well, we are
forty eight days shy of Christmas, and yet could the
Mariners deliver us a Christmas present between now and then?
(29:40):
They're going to have a deadline to do so, it
turns out we'll talk about that next. Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM. I'm going Christmas for tree shopping.
I think we're putting up the tree tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yeah, do you realize there's another holiday before that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I think I got the result I thought I was
going to get from that little impromptu.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
It's going to be so cozy. I'm a little decorated
turkeys all season.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I get to wake up from my nap and it
might already be up.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
That's the way are you getting it from?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Uh? I think I am sure, But.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
You're getting a real one.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, get get a real.
Speaker 6 (30:20):
One up right now? It would die?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Man.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Well, then get another one when they're supposed to get
another one.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
By two trees? Goodness, my bags.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
No, no down our own tree, not everybody's trees just
fall down around them.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Yeah, that's your side that it's time to put up
a tree. That tree fell for you to put it up.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
No, not true, that tree fell because you guys are
prematurely putting up Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh I hoped it was God. Yeah, being angry. Then
why did he have it fall in your ear?
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yeah, you're not the one that puts it on.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Go after you guys.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Well, Christmas is in forty eight days, so maybe I
am jumping.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
And forty eight days.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But today Munataka Morikami, the Japanese babe ruth, actually we
already have one of those has just been posted. So
that means, by the rules, in forty five days he
asked to have made his decision where he wants to play,
So forty eight days till Christmas, Murakami has forty five
(31:27):
days to decide. I mean, there's a very good chance
we could have a nice little Christmas present this offseason,
because he is being majorly linked to the Mariners and
the Dodgers and certainly the Yankees and other big price teams.
But this is somebody that sort of profiles as a
young Gino Suarez, like he might have like sixty home
(31:48):
run potential at the major league level, but he's probably
gonna hit like two twenty. He's probably going to strike
out a crap ton and not sure he's all that
great of a defensive third basement or even first baseman.
But twenty six years old, he's coming over here. Mariners
have been linked to him. I've seen all sorts of
different financials attached to him. Ten years to twenty I
(32:11):
saw from spotrack, I saw eight years one eighty was
posted by MLB Trade Rumors, six years one thirty two
by fangrass. That's twenty two million dollars a year right there.
And then Kylie McDaniel from ESPN, who Jeff Passing endorses
as really knowing what they're talking about in this area.
Five years, eighty million, sixteen million a year. If that's
(32:35):
the price, he's going to be a Mariner. Jerry de
PoTA will jump all over that.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, I'm down with that. I mean, I'll say this,
there's a distinct difference I think between the big leagues
in Japan, but I will I kind of where I'm
okay with a guy coming over that has this kind
of power potential, even though he's kind of a you know,
an all or none and type of a guy he's
not going to for a very high average. I think
(33:03):
that there's a drastic change that has happened and we're
kind of seeing it. We saw it. We see it
with our pitchers. We saw it with that you savage
kid from Toronto. There's a lot more split fingers being
thrown today. For a long time, when you and I
were growing up, change ups and you had the occasional
guy that threw a split finger. Back before that, it
was even a fork ball.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
The old circle change.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
The old circle change worked, and then people started coming
up with different changes, and then all of a sudden,
people started realizing, wait a second, why don't I try
this split finger thing. There's a lot more split fingers
in the game right now. You know where another place
that has a lot of split fingers Japan, Japan. I
read where you were going. Yeah, he saw the bay
I may okay with him signing a guy. I think
(33:44):
that his I think that he will be able to
hit the off speed stuff that some of the guys
over here are going to throw. So I think you'll
come over here and you know a little bit of
growing pains, possibly just coming to a new country and
trying to impress and whatnot. But I still think he's
a guy that could go thirty forty runs to start off.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I do too, I'll take that. I want him, I
do want him, and I want him with Naylor. I
don't want one or the other. I want him with Naylor.
But let's take a look at the Nay roll, because again,
Kyler McDaniel says, Naylor three years fifty two and a half. Oh,
that's a slam dunk. Oh that's if that's right. Oh,
(34:22):
we'll go over that. We'll take that for sure. That
will take that all day long. Fangraft says four years
eighty eight. I'll take that, and then trade rumor says
five years ninety for Josh Naylor. I think where the
sticking point might be in the negotiations. And Justin Hollander
reminded us yesterday that Josh Naylor is the number one priority.
(34:44):
Is going to be Josh Naylor saying this is probably
my one big contract in my life. So I want
five years, and I think the Mariners will only want
to go four. But if you can say i'll do
it five years at eighteen million and bring down the
per year value, then I think there's a marriage there.
So five years ninety. If that's what it takes, I
(35:05):
think the Mariner should do that.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Uh five years not yeah, yes, uh huh please, I
don't to me if you're gonna say he's the number
one priority and there is no salary cap and you're
not anywhere near the salary cap. You have a budget,
a self imposed budget, and I'm okay with you wanting
to make money, but you just recognize how much more
money you make when you get to play a whole
bunch of extra postseason games. That was money in your pocket.
(35:29):
This is the dude you've You've come out and said it.
There's no reason to hide the ball. There's no reason
to make it a secret. Our number one priority is
Josh Naylor. I don't care if it's one extra year
you have to give him. I don't care if it's
a few extra million per year. There's there's a Sometimes
the cost is yeah, I gotta feel maybe am paying
a little bit more than what makes me feel comfortable,
(35:50):
But I feel really good about it because you're going
to reap the benefits of it for a long time.
If this guy ends up being the dude that we
just got to witness for the second.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Half well, I don't think a Tiger's going to change
its stripes no matter how much they like Josh Naylor.
I just pointed out in this segment one other guy
that might be able to fill this role. I think
that they will go a little uncomfortable financially to keep
Josh Naylor, but they're not gonna go a lot of
uncomfortable to make it happen. So if it does get
the twenty five million, they're not gonna pay that. They're
(36:19):
just not going to pay it. I would imagine what
they'd feel comfortable most comfortable paying is four years eighty
somewhere in that range, and then he will be a Mariner.
But if Josh Naylor is after the highest price possible,
I don't think that he will be in Seattle next year.
But it's something we'll be talking about probably for a
while now, because I don't know if he's in any
(36:39):
rush to make his decision. The Mariner's Hot Stove will
be part of our Friday OCHO, one of the eight
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