Best of Chuck & Buck 11-7

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Phil your home for the twelfth Man Free sents Football Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hey, good morning, welcome in. It is a football Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Chuck Powell, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson, and Ashley Ryan with
you until ten o'clock this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Happy Friday to you all.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
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(01:12):
Make it a short, oh cool glass.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
There you go. Yeah, that's more like it.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
That's more responsible.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Football Friday sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka. We welcome you
into this Friday show. Ashley Ryan Bucky Jacobson, Chuck Powell
with you, and all sorts of things to discuss here
on a Friday, A lot of football things to discuss
here on a friday. But we got to start with
this golden ticket that Bucky Jacobson has gotten for the weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Oh yeah, you just casually said it too.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, he just kind of threw it out there, like.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah, family is flying off to Hawaii, so Bucky
has the place to himself. And I don't know, I
mean this is like, uh, there's there are layers to
this you have here is I mean, number one, you

(02:10):
don't get to go to Hawaii all right with your family,
which would be fun.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, why is amazing and families are cool too.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But on the flip side, you are left home as
a father of two and a husband that doesn't get
a lot of alone time.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I'm guessing no, you are left home at your homestead
to your own devices to do whatever you want. Plus,
because there's a plus here, because that's not like, you know,
wife and kids are gonna go visit family, which is
a little bit of one of those like yes, I
want to do it, but I also feel like I
have to do it. This is they're going.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
To paradise, so that gives you the free ticket to
really do whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
And I'm not like, don't go, don't go.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Take your minds there. I'm not talking about like things
that right, compromise your marriage or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I was just thinking, you'd play with a chainsaw, whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
You want to do, whatever you would get in trouble for,
Like should you be drinking that much? Right?

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, at some point, should.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You be eating all of those ribs? You know you're
not gonna have to hear that one time.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
And because she and the kids are off having paradise
level fun, Yeah, you get to do whatever that if
you want.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
This is true.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Well, when you paint it like that, it makes me
feel a little bit better about the fact that I
am going to be missing my kids, you know, swimming
frolicking in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, that's real, that's true.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
There's like, oh man, like seeing my kids snorble for
the first time that I am going to miss, right,
and and just the fact that they're going to to Hawaii.
How excited my kids were this morning. Woke them up
at four o'clock this morning and bears.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Like this is great. Ye crazy.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
What are we more excited about the long plane ride
or the short bus ride. When we get there, he's
all excited about the trip. So like, I'm there's a
part of me that is really genuinely like oh man
and yeah, and then there's a part of it it's like, oh,
I'm gonna stay up really late one night with music
plane in my house.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
But I think that's the point, like, because there is
a part of you that it's you're bummed. Yeah, it
is also the license to like, Okay, yeah, you know,
I have to make up for this sadness. I have
to fill this hole, and the only way that I
can clearly fill it is by doing things Bucky loves
to do, Bucky alone loves to do, and to do

(04:47):
them at a level that.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wouldn't make my wife comfortable.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (04:52):
Yeah, yeah, things that I mean, because there's not a lot.
I mean to do what I want for the most part,
but there's like, for example, one thing that is for
certain I have.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You know, I've dropped like.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Thirty pounds in the last few months and been working out,
and I'm gonna keep doing that. That's actually something that
I've actually kind of got into and started to enjoy now.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
One of the.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
Things that has changed is my diet, right I've been
I've been eating better and not having as much bad stuff.
I'll still from time to time have something here and there,
and you know, Halloween candy for has been kind of
a bit of a bugaboo as of late, but I
have already decided that today for on my way home,
I will be ordering too family size Frankie's pizzas.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
And I will be eating them. I'm talking. I will
be eating them for lunch today.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Then I'm going to the uh Nate Bargatzi comedy show tonight, Yes, yeah,
oh sweet, I guess and Duster Nikos and will be
there as well, so that'll be fun now. And then
uh for breakfast tomorrow, I'll be having more of that pizza,
and then when I'm just a little tiny bit hungry,
I'll have another piece of that pizza.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
So it's one of those you don't have to heat
it up.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I didn't have to give you a guy, I didn't
have to tip you off to what you got last night.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I did the dishes right because my wife was I
don't have to do those all weekend till Sunday night.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, not even then, I guarantee it won't be a
dish used. There'll be a paper plate used. Come home
like Wednesday, I think Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
So not till Tuesday night, I won't do anything. I
won't know.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
I So last night, my wife's finishing packing up, you know,
and it's difficult for a mom packing for herself and
then two kids and trying to figure out everything, even
though they whatever, you forget they have it Hawaii probably so,
but she's doing that. So I cooked dinner and then afterwards,
I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna get the
dishes done because they're not going.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
To be used again.

Speaker 7 (06:51):
They're just not gonna I'm full blown like and I
to some of you, it's like I've been doing this
for the change in my diet was for my own good,
not for the.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Next four days five days. It isn't.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Doctor will tell you it's not for your own good
to keep eating healthy while your family's right right.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
You got to break out of that.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
I have a very specific picture for how I feel
like your day is gonna go now that I know
you've got two pizzas coming, It's gonna be get home,
eat your pizza.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Take a nap because you can.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Because there's no one keeping you wake up.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Poor a drink.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
All of this, by the way, the second you get home,
it's like you're gonna have sweat shorts on or sweatpants
and that's it and no shir no shirt.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
And then it's gonna be poor drink.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
You're gonna be out by the bonfire, TV on music
blasting more drinks. Sometimes cans will get crushed. Cans will
get crushed, ah, thrown on the ground. There's gonna be
some arm raising in front of the bonfire.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, pretty much nailed it. That's just this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, that's that was only today.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, that was only today before I go to Barkata.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, uh huh.

Speaker 7 (08:08):
Pretty much nailed it. There would be some chainsaw running
some track or driving.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
And I was picturing with the chainsaw that you might
even try to be like, oh, I'm going to carve
something out of this, and then you give that you have.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
A piece of wood that I was thinking about carving.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, that sounds like work. Yeah, just really have been
longing to do.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
It, do it.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
I didn't longing to do it and if I have
a glass of penalty, anything we get with a glass
of penalty next year, it becomes no longer work.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
That's enjoyable and creative.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Liquid courage, liquid encouragement.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right, Well, I don't know, Yes, without it hurting
a little bit, it isn't doesn't give you the.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
License to have as much fun as it could potentially have.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
But also think about it, you don't have to deal
with kids in an airport or.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
On an airplane. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't like that whole like whole pass argument. I
think that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
But this, this is what a guy really likes. Yeah,
just the place to himself.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
That we've got a lot better relationship advice than Paul
Pierce does.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Look at us.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
All right, Well, the Seahawks are going to take on
the Cardinals this Sunday. The week in the National Football
they got started last night with the Denver Broncos winning
over the Raiders by a final score of ten to seven.
For the Broncos, they just kind of figure out ways
to win this year. They've won seven straight games they

(09:31):
have they're the only team in the National Football League
with eight wins. But I think for our purposes this morning,
it's a little bit more about the Raiders, who once
again could not perform two wins on the season. For
Pete Carroll, Gino Smith and the new look Raiders, they
were I mean, they brought Pete Carroll in to compete, right,

(09:52):
They brought Pete Carroll in to take the next step.
They brought Geno Smith in and sign him to a
big deal to actually be a playoff competitor, and they
have instead taken a step back. I used this topic
at the close of yesterday's show, and so we didn't
really get to sink our teeth into it. And I'm

(10:12):
not sitting here like, you know, nanny Nanny booboos. That's
not the approach I take to this topic. But I
do believe it is worth noting that whatever happened between
Pete and John, when John won the power struggle within
the organization, I think we should all be really happy

(10:34):
about that here in Seattle, because I don't know it
feels to me, and I don't root against Pete Carroll whatsoever,
but it does feel to me that maybe Pete was
standing in the way, not just maybe it feels to
me Pete was standing in the way of John. Really
wanting to do what he wanted to do with this organization,
and maybe Pete was making more of the personnel decisions

(10:58):
than John was comfortable with. In the last past few years,
I said it repeatedly, this Jamal Adams trade does not
feel like something John Schneider would do. And even though
we don't have any evidence to support that, or at
least any guarantee to support that, I think it feels
more evident than ever that that was a peate thing.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
The Jamal Adams love affair.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I think the Geno Smith marrying yourself to Geno Smith
felt like a Pete thing. Otherwise he doesn't his first
item of business isn't to go trade for Geno Smith.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
The moment he's got a brand new job, he.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Had an opportunity to be out from underneath a decent
but not very good quarterback, and instead he went and
got He went and convinced Tom Brady and others to
go grab him, a brand new general manager there in Vegas,
to go grab him.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So, you know, it kind of feels like, now we know.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
John Schneider needed to get Pete Carroll out of the
way so that John Schneider could do John Schneider things.
And since Pete left, really the Seahawks have kind of
taken off again. And so I'm glad John Schneider won
the power struggle, and I hold no ill will against
Pete Carroll, but it's becoming more evident with every day
that he was a problem.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
Yeah, well the more. I mean, I've never had a
big love affair for Pete Carroll. I'm not a giant
fan of the raw raw coach. I do think that
he's great. Obviously, he was great here. I think he
there's a place for those types of coaches and it
works for a while, and it worked for a long
time here, but he most certainly was stuck. I mean,

(12:36):
the team was not getting better, right. It kind of
it took him to greatness, I mean, honestly, really close
a yard away from being dynastic, quite possibly, and yet
after that it fell off, and then it kind of
just stayed there, and then it seemed like it was
even trickling even further.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
So I think that it was the right time.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
I think that that type of coaching, while there's definitely
some upside to it, I think Gino Smith is a
prime example of hey, come here, be the backup when
the time comes. If the time comes, we will give
you your opportunity. And when you do, all of a
sudden it changed his world. It changed Geno Smith's world.
So Gino Smith, I think is way more, you know,

(13:18):
like closely, you know, tied to Pete Carroll and the
opportunity that he gave him. On the flip side of it,
it isn't usual that you notice the coach actually falling
in love with someone's story.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
The way that I think Pete Carroll does.

Speaker 7 (13:31):
I think Pete Carroll, he'll he loved the.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Idea of Jamal Adams. Well, is X factor? Boy? This
guy plays a game different.

Speaker 6 (13:38):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
We'll give up the farm basically to bring this guy
in and then I'll use him in a way that
will break records for DB's and sacks and whatnot. Well, yeah,
but is he good at the whole position? I mean,
does he really make your defense better? Well, it's one
of those That's where I think Pete Carroll's kind of
stuck to some degree, Like, no, I firmly believe in
my thing. Well, your thing worked when you when you

(14:02):
you and John together, you know, found Sherman in the
fifth or whatever around it was, and it cam in
the third and all of the things Earl Thomas, all
of the way in which they built that team, and
then his philosophy poured into it.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
It worked.

Speaker 7 (14:17):
And then when you had to somehow maneuver your way
around less than stellar drafts and some injuries and some
declining quarterback play, all of a sudden it just kind
of fizzled out to some extent. And now he goes
to the Raiders, and I'm obviously not going to cheer
for him when he's coaching the Raiders. And yet there's
a lot of the retreads, not just Gino but or Jamal.

(14:37):
I mean, I saw yesterday Tyler Lockett, now John Radigan,
a great story army guy, he's on special teams. I mean,
there's a lot of guys that he's like, no, I
still want them, and you're like, MS weren't very good.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I think the three like red flags now that seems
so obvious. And they were talking points at the time.
They were debatable at the time, but they seem very
obvious now. Number One, when you are a player's coach,
and he always walked a really fine line, and I
think he did a tremendous job of it. He should

(15:10):
write a book on how to manage players, because he
had a really interesting locker room and for a short period,
actually a long period of time by NFL standards, he
was getting the most out of that group. They were
practically a dynasty. He had a record setting defense, and
there it was a great era of football here in Seattle, Washington.

(15:33):
But in doing that, he broke the locker room because
he had to give his quarterback preferential treatment, and it
pissed off everybody else who couldn't see why Russell wasn't
really part of the team. And then the first warning
sign was then when Russell sort of turned on Pete,

(15:55):
like was blaming Pete. So here you've broken the locker
room of a team that might have launched a dynasty
for one guy, the quarterback, and then the quarterback the
moment he started being told that he needs to cook
kind of turned on Pete Carroll.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
That was warning sign number one.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Warning sign number two was and this goes were any
level of football. When you're a defensive coordinator, a defensive specialist,
and you're the head coach and the problem with your
team year after year is defense, that's warning sign number two.
And then number three the red flag that was debatable
at the time, and I feel as obvious now he

(16:40):
obviously was way too involved with personnel decisions. He was
getting way too involved with John's job, maybe enacting his
power over John in certain decisions. And I think that's
ultimately what led John Schneider in a closed door meeting
to tell the owners tim of like a him or
me kind of deal, like I can't do my job

(17:03):
if he's going to continue to interfere with it, so
I can go get another general manager job.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Like that.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'll go if you want me to go, but I'm
not doing this anymore. And since that time, John Schneider's
probably been on as big a heater as he's been
on as a general manager since he put together the
last championship team.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, I mean, I love Pete Carroll. You guys know
that I call him Uncle Pete.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
But I do think that Pete's strength is also his weakness,
because I don't think he has the ability to move
on from these players that he, you know, grows an
affinity for, and he just keeps thinking I'm the one
that can make the difference. And I think that's why
he held on to Russell too long. I think that's
why he's got half the Seahawks on the Raiders, and
that's why he interfered with John. He was determined that

(17:48):
he had all these you know these he because of
his connection with his players.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
He's the one that could get more out of him.
He can do it. He can do it, he can
do it well.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
At some point that relationship has grown old and a
lot of different with a lot of different people, but
he has still wanted to cling to it, and so
I do think, yeah, that was the right time for
them to move on.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Obviously, it's worked out very well for the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
And if anything, it was a little late.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, I would agree with that actually, And I mean
at the.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Time it's felt kind of shocking, but if anything, if anything,
it was a little late.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, I would say that.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
And it's but I just also been watching last night
and seeing Pete on TV and seeing how terrible the
Raiders are.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I just kind of almost felt bad for him.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Too, though, And Gina looks horrible, horrible, And it wasn't
just last night now, it has been all season long.
So uh yeah, if there was a power struggle and
it kind of feels like that there was. Yeah, I
think we are all we should all feel very fortunate
here in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
That the right guy won the power struggle.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
rest of the show.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
What's on what's on tep.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Hright, Broncos over the Raiders to start the new week
of the National Football League ten to seven will play
some Factor fiction at seven thirty five. That's a win
for US Seahawks Cardinals Sunday at one o'clock. Reg Bell
will join us at seven oh five, Hugh Millen for
x'es and o's at nine, and coach Holmgren will be
with us at nine thirty. This Sunday will mark the

(19:17):
debut of Rashid Shaheed in a Sea Hawk uniform. It
will also mark maybe the first game of the Jacoby
Brissette era for the Arizona Cardinals, depending on what rumor
you want to believe, either Kyler Murray really has a
bad foot injury and is out for a month more
or Jacoby Brissett has taken the job for him there

(19:40):
as the starting quarterback for the Cardinals at least for
the rest of the season. NFL Week number ten Man
it is bevy of really good matchups this weekend. He
got Atlanta, Indiana will be a six to thirty start
from Germany. You got Baltimore and Minnesota, which suddenly looks
very interesting. Cleveland at the Jets is even interesting because
the losers probably going to get the number one pick

(20:01):
in the draft. New England and Tampa Bay's a fantastic matchup.
You got the Rams and the forty nine Ers playing
this Sunday, and then the Sunday night game will be
Pittsburgh and the Chargers. College Football Week number eleven fascinating
as well. The game of the week. I don't know
if you would have had this on your BINGO card
at the beginning of the year, but BYU at Texas
Tech seven versus eight in the country is your game

(20:24):
of the week in college football. Will talk more about
that in the OCHO at eight o'clock. Huskies will be
in Madison, Wisconsin to take on the Badgers. We'll do
our Big Den preview at eight forty five and more
on that matchup coming up with Rick new eisl here
in a bit sounders, excuse me. College basketball Huskies moved
to two to zero on the young season I'm surprised

(20:44):
that there were so many eyeballs on the Broncos last night.
Most Denver fans, of course, locked into Dent University of
Denver basketball, their favorite thing there.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I wouldn't be supposed to people change the channel that
way through that game.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Eighty four to seventy the final score of the Huskies Denver.
And now they get ready for Baylor on Sunday, So
the child's plays over.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Now you're gonna face a real team coming up on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Sounders Minnesota will play Saturday at one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
If I said Sunday yesterday, I'm stupid. Okay, oh, you
just told no soccer.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Sounders at Minnesota tomorrow at one o'clock to decide that series.
Cracking at Saint Louis tomorrow at four point thirty. And
there's some news from the stove that we will have
to discuss before the show comes to a close. But
coming up next here on the program, Rick new Isil
was with us on Tuesday, in case you missed it.
He had some interesting things to say about Wisconsin Badgers

(21:38):
football and Washington Huskies football. So we'll replay some of
that for you and react next on Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's the bombing running three on two.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
Wesley Yates heroes that proter is good. The bigger role
for Wesley Yates is gonna have dozen bird.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Tries the signon at the other end of his stuff by.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
Frank Knong, Balchard loose py Peers and picked up by Peterson.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Bounce ahead of Yates. Here we clumps show time on
the right.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
Hand for Wesley, who has eight of the first dozen
for the Huskies. Tonight, Washington out towards twelve eight lead
on Wesley Yates Night JJ Maniquitt head of the circle
bounces for Summerville powerd Rebel spins through traffic. He's hit
a plus one and let's out of yell. Late in Summerville.
The transfer for Rutgers is going to the line for
the N one grabb by Peterson, wrap around past the

(22:24):
saving and bounce grab by Diallo floats it up.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
To cow ring kep dogg slams at.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Home round to the ram Tucker a third three. He's hot,
He's on fire.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
As they'd say in NBA, jam anit quit pump think
on a three.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
He gives it to Peterson.

Speaker 8 (22:41):
Peterson for three hits k Mari Peterson second three pointers
at night, He's got eight why soaky outs off coming
down clock from behind by Steinbach off the glass and
grab by MANI quit three on two outlet left to
Peterson for three polls I for t Mauri Peterson and
the Dogs are up eighty to sixty three.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Heinsteinbach double double last night, sixteen rebounds.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
For goodness, it's pretty good. It looks like it looks
like it.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Chuck it back in the mornings here seven o'clock hour
on a football Friday, sponsored by Tito's Handmade Vodka. Ashley Ryan,
Bucky Jacobson, Chuck Powell with you as we roll into
our number two. Greg Bell will be joining us shortly
our Seahawks Insider to preview the upcoming Seahawks Cardinals game.
But first let us tell you that Washington lear Field

(23:33):
is the responsible for the highlights you just heard, and
that's where we'll start our frost brewed course like hush
chill headlines here on a Friday. As the Huskies do
win over Denver, eighty four to seventy is the final score,
and that one they're off to a two and oh start.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
But Child's plays.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
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. Zags will be
home for that one, and the Coogs are playing tonight

(24:09):
at four o'clock. In college basketball, Sounders in Minnesota will
play the third and final match of their three match
series and round number one of the MLS playoffs.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
It'll be tomorrow at one o'clock.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Some idiot was saying Sunday yesterday, but it is tomorrow
exactly Saturday, 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 in deciding match to see who advances in the
MLS playoffs. Kraken will be an action in Saint Louis

(24:43):
tomorrow at four thirty, so they are back on the road.
College football Badgers taking on the Huskies at You.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Dub versus You Dub tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
That's going to be a one thirty Honks get things
started at nine to thirty tomorrow live from Madison, and
so I've got it for you right here at Sports
Radio ninety three point three KRFM. Husky's entered the week
finally ranked twenty third in the country for the first
time this year. National Football League Week number ten got

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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 punt
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.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
And then this.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
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 expectation now is that the Seattle Seahawks are going
to murder the Arizona Cardinals. They're just flying way too high.

(25:55):
Right now. What's been the mood like in covering the
team this week? How are they handling? Suddenly the entire
world talking about how great they are?

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Well, professionally. I mean, this is this is not high
school football. These guys have been around for a while.
And DeMarcus 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

(26:27):
around the block a little bit a lot of these guys.
So yeah, I mean every week, new challenge. Now it's
Jakobe Brussett and a different kind of offense than they're
used to. When Arizona comes in every week, it's itself
in the NFL. We know that. And well it looks
like Seattle should roll. It doesn't always work out that

(26:47):
way in the league. And there's pretty thin margins and
you turn them all over, you have penalties, you make mistakes,
you lose, and that's pretty much against anybody. So yeah,
it's just another week. And they don't get into where
the Cats me out because we want on national television
and nothing's really changed in that regard.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
All right. Well, I mean I think it would be
cool if they did play a high school team this week.
I'd like to watch that. That wouldn't be fair. I
think that that wouldn't be fair.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
You know what, Everyone's going to face their challenges.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Yeah, I don't think kids need that or deserve that.
I think at times Arizona Mountain like it. That's that's true,
just some of today's kids. I I I am thinking.
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 find
a way to pull this game out. I think kind

(27:41):
of the key get after Jacoby Brissett and make him
uncomfortable in the pocket and then maybe force 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 6 (27:56):
Yeah, that's been the strength of the team all season,
and it'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 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 hasn't

(28:19):
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. So he found without blitzing
early in the season, well, wait a minute, Leonard Williams
and the Marcus Lawrence and the leader in sacks Byron

(28:42):
Murphy and Jaren 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 him.
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 seven covering four or five

(29:04):
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 front four have benefited mightily

(29:27):
from that. Great in the NFL. If you have seven
in coverage, you're gonna win. That's just really what it
comes down to.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Greg mel with us our Seahawks inside.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
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 6 (29:47):
Well, what the part of practice we could watch yesterday?
He was out there doing his own stretching and hit
a brace on his right knee. He's on the field,
and the way it sounded after 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 him to be on Wednesday

(30:08):
and Thursday. 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

(30:29):
don't 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 7 (30:41):
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 a thrust right into action?

Speaker 6 (30:54):
Well, good timing. And when I asked Wednesday McDonald if
she who was going to play? So I would hope so, Well,
now they almost need him to. It's new that Tory
Horton's injury he's got. They listed him with a groin
in the shin yesterday. He was a full participate in
practice on Wednesday and then did not practice yesterday. We'll
see if they were just resting him or if that's

(31:15):
a new injury, that a new concern. Again, I say
this every time about these injuries. We go from before
practice on Wednesday 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

(31:38):
week when Cup and Bobo both got injured during practices
during last week. You don't find that out the details
on it until Friday afternoon, so I'll know more than
one thirty or so. But that was a new concern.
Cupp was on the field yesterday. I didn't expect him
to be. He looked like he was doing a limit

(32:00):
the amount of stuff and didn't cook full go and
he was in fact this as a limited participant. But
it did surprise me he was on the field.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I've heard nothing but great things about Rashid sa he'd
the person and the teammates since this trade went down.
What kind of first impression has he made around the place?

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Really effervescent guy, I mean he was beaming, smiling, walked
in and said, Hi, how are you guys doing? That
was his first words to us. 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

(32:44):
him and somebody that they think really really helped them
and they put him right in. I mean he's been
getting a 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 drilling quite a bit
with Sam Darnold and with Clim Kubiak and the offense.
Of course, he knows kubi x offense from having run
it in New Orleans last year, so he's not starting

(33:07):
from scratch and that's probably gonna help this week get
him on the field sooner than maybe he would have
had come from way out some import Is.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
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 6 (33:32):
Well, we keep saying that, and that's something that has
to get going. We'll see. They're gonna keep trying. But
it just comes down to they need to move guys
and whether they're facing stack boxes, which we talked about,
which is part of the reason Shiita is here. No
matter what the league knows, to Seattle's gonna run. They

(33:53):
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 catching passes that it has

(34:15):
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 ubnov a lot to affect defenses.
And that was the first thing Mike McDonald wanted to do.

(34:37):
He wanted to dictate two defenses how to play. He
has done that. Now. 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

(34:58):
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 have yet better beginning next
week against the Rams. It would help them, of course
to do it against Arizona. Arizonattacks defensively, you don't just
stand there and let you block them. They usually come
at you and they blitz and they change the front.

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So they one of those multiple teams. It's long overdue
that they have a running game like they want to have.
We'll see if it happens. On Sunday.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Greg bellis with us SEHAWKX in Center of course, Thenewstremune
dot com, where he's got a brand new article up
about Sam Darnald, 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, uh and they
take in greater stride successes and failures than what fans

(35:50):
do and what talk show hosts do. That said, based
off your article about Sam Darnald, 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 hard of hearts.

Speaker 6 (36:07):
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,
play action passes off of it. We're gonna run the ball,

(36:29):
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 now. The success he
had last year in Minnesota told him in the league
that this is not I mean out of them, it's
not a meteor strike that he's done this. Now he
has done it over eight years. This is new. These

(36:50):
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 he wasn't with the Seahawks. But for
Donald himself, this is kind of what happened last year.
He forty three hundred yards, thirty five touchdows and went
fourteen and three. That was out of nowhere. This is

(37:14):
more like last year. And if you remember when they
signed him, our questions were, which Sam Donald, We're gonna
get it. We're gonna get the Jets, the 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

(37:37):
we keep trashing the offensive line. The one thing the
line has done is protected him. And part of what
I wrote at the newstributing dot 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 protection, getting the ball out quicker, for instance,
and having a better throwing motion with more accurate throws it.

(38:00):
He acknowledged that, yes, he absolutely changed his throwing motion
after USCS. You talked about he 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 a cock eye and winding up. And the
other thing he said was interesting, And I talked to

(38:20):
Andrew Jenoko, the quarterbacks coach, after practice. Yes, stay about this,
he said, to Janoko when they 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

(38:42):
going to throw to the right for instance. And pretty
much all the plays in the playbook have a place
for the quarterback's eyes to go to to see 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 rolled into these quarterbacks in Seattle for each of

(39:02):
the plays, and Kubiak said, yesterday, you can tell that
he's 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

(39:26):
him the eye deception that quarterback play and that's why
when Hughes 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 (39:39):
All Right, we will close with this what we always
close with.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
So Sunday one o'clock start against the Arizona Cardinals. Interesting matchup,
divisional matchup. What's the game going to look like? What's
going to be the key to victory?

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Well, I'm with Bucky. I think that the defense leads
a day here. I think this is a team, as
Hughes said yesterday, it's about time and 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 Ernie Jones doesn't play, it looks like he might.
I think the defense is rolling enough to dictate this game.
I do think that Jacoby Brissett as well as he

(40:16):
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 passer wresh when it's
a Kyler Murray type escaping quarterback a pocket passer is
trouble going against Seattle right now, and I think Brissette's

(40:37):
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 raining. 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 (40:54):
All right.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Excellent stuff, Thank you very much all week long. Excellent
to 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 6 (41:08):
Thank you, sir. Happy Monday, all.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
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Speaker 3 (42:15):
Oh, have a Friday to you all Friday, Friday, Friday.
People tend to like Fridays on average more than they like, let's.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Say, Tuesdays, way more than Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, buckie a
lot more.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
I woke up this morning and I was like, oh,
I'm tired. I don't want to get out of bed.
And then I went, it's Friday, It's Friday. Popped out
of bed.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
I pictured you popping out of bed.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
I was even going to be early today.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Just floating to the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
Basically, I was already I was going to be early,
but then my dog pooped all over the house and
I couldn't leave.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
You just fired up for Friday.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
He couldn't hold it. He's too excited about Friday.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah, he was fired up for Friday. Yeah, Bunker, he can't.
He can't contain some stuff.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
I don't blame him.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
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Speaker 2 (43:14):
Nice little reminder for me. They're Tito's. Yeah, you see
what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
What do you know what album you're gonna listen to tonight?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Christmas?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
It's a Christmas album.

Speaker 6 (43:23):
I like. I like.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
I just wanted to make.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Sure Bucky doesn't like it.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
That's perfectly fancy with a Martini Christmas tree decorating the
Christmas album.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
So dumb, you're like a.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
Classic Christmas photo. I can picture it.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, And I have new clothes that I bought that
I'm cracking out tonight.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
So yeah, it's so much sense. A pure Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (43:46):
I put my tree up before Thanksgiving, but I don't
put decorations on it till now.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
Okay, if you want to call it a things, same tree,
but just put hang shoes with buckles on them, and
turkeys and yeah and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
They better be all fall colors, no greens and reds.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
And I don't on the tree until after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
You just put a tree up there, Yeah, it's just
a winter tree.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Lights lights on it, yeah, just the lights that came
with the tree.

Speaker 9 (44:16):
Lights.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Never happy.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
Yeah, So anything that could bring joy for you. You know what,
Every year we have this discussion and I end up saying, okay,
I can see okay for you.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
For me.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Is still wrong.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
I need a little extra boost this Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
So I'm going, okay, you got a dog that craps everywhere,
all right, and you've got bad stuff going on your
damn tree.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Thanksgiving last year. Yes, so I've earned some extra joy.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
But up up, all right, Well, let's get started with
your eight top stories of the day, a recap of
the week, a preview of the week. And we provide
this service every Friday. So let's get started. Your number
one story the the talk of the nation their football
team coming off their best performance maybe in years, maybe

(45:08):
the best performance this season we've seen from any football team,
dominant victory over the Washington Commanders on the road on
Sunday night, and people are wondering, or is they as good?
Are they as good as any team in the National
Football League? Well, time to get grounded, Mike boys. Yep,
time to remind yourself that this is a game by
game process and a division opponent is in town this

(45:32):
on Sunday afternoon to face the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
So what are the keys to victory? Greg Bell reminds
us I.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
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 to even if Ernest Jones as a
play so it looks like he might, I think the
defense is rolling enough to dictate this game. I do
think that Jacoby said as well as he played in Dallas,

(46:02):
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 passer, wresh when it's a Kyler Murray
type escaping quarterback. A pocket passer is trouble going against
Seattle right now, and I think Brissette's going to have

(46:22):
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 raining. Defense plays when your offense
is stumbling and can't run and turn the ball over.
Defense wins. And McDonald's got them humming on defense right now.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
All right, Greg Bell.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
If you want to hear the entire conversation with Greg,
including injury updates, do so at our podcast ninety three
to three kjar dot com. So yes, headline, Jacoby Brissette
starts over Kyler Murray. We've talked about that a lot
this week. Seahawk Injury Updates, Ernest Jones actually trying to play.
I thought a decent point by Greg.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
I mean you.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Can't overlook Arizona. I mean I've mapped out how competitive
they've been even in their losses. They've never lost by
more than four points and five losses any of the
five losses and certainly don't want to look overlook any
opponent in the National Football League. But I sure do
like the idea of Ernest Jones being at perfect health
next week against the Rams.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. You can't overlook anybody.
I mean literally, anybody you can't overlook. I mean, I
don't care. Maybe if you're going up against the Saints
or something, you could overlook it a little bit, but
a division fote you better. That's probably true. Yes, somebody has,
somebody has to lose to him at some point, and
has I think one team has already this year.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
But I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (47:39):
I think that it's a situation where it's not the
most dynamic position. I think he is a dynamic player.
I think that he being the kind of captain of
the defense or the guy that's calling the plays. I
think that being the quarterback of that side of the
ball is important to me. It's just a matter of
can you go out there and play without aggravating something
worse to where now you're lesser or you maybe missed

(48:02):
next week.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
I think you do.

Speaker 7 (48:03):
You can make a call on that. And yet they
typically in the NFL just if you're good to go. Yep,
you're you go. You're right, You're right about that.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
They did seem to be in this position with Witherspoon
a couple of weeks ago, decided not to play him.
We ended up winning the game, he got the bye week,
got the extra rest, and then the team's been cooking
ever since. So we'll see how Mike McDonald wants to
play it. It probably just does come down to whether
or not Ernest Jones feels good enough to play. Hawk's
a seven point favorite. Sunday kickoff is at one oh five.

(48:32):
We've got a lot more analysis coming your way on
this game, including Hugh Millan at nine o'clock with x's
and o's, and Mike Holmeran will join us at nine thirty.
The NFL week started last night Thursday Night Football. The
Broncos and the Raiders. What a great matchup of uniforms.
I'll tell you that about it. I love those two uniforms, boy,
that Broncos orange and that Raiders.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Silver and white. Oh that's sexy. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
I don't like the Raiders new the silver numbers, the
black numbers.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
I agree with you.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
I don't like it.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
It's organ like I agree, Bucky.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I don't think that's anything that it looks like. Actually,
you can almost always get to be too cute. No,
not even close.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
You guys try to follow suit, but you're not doing
a very good job of it. I just it's hard
to see him kind of they you know, it's basically
the black outline.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
You see the silver kind of blends in. But I
am with you.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Silver and black is timeless, traditional uniform and luckily the
one of the ugliest games of the year in my team.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Somehow traditional game.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Yeah, I mean, the uniforms were pretty and that was
about it because the play was.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
You g l y. It ain't got no alibi.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Second of goal to seven yard line for them, trailing
seven nothing late, first sat Nick's free thing in to
change place.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
They'll send Harvey.

Speaker 8 (49:50):
Out wide left, Chuck un snap on the left, Hash
back pedals to throw, steps up in the pocket, throws
to the goal line.

Speaker 6 (49:56):
It is top.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
It's a touchdown right a little bit well the inside
he finds Troy Franklin seven yard score, the fifth.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Of the year for Franklin, and the Proncos are an
extra point away from tying it up.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, A couple of ducks feeling good about that.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
I guess I like that there was like a little
clip in there, and it sounded like he called it
a chicken snap instead of a shotgun snap, and that
made me last.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Thanks to Kevin Coogler, Ryan Harris Westwood won for the
audio proof that somebody scored a touchdown last night. In
that game, the Broncos had more penalties than first downs
last night. They went three and out on seven of
their thirteen possessions, but a block punt set up Denver
for the game winning field goal in the fourth quarter
and they win ten to seven.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
I don't know who.

Speaker 7 (50:43):
That crew was, but I was expecting you to come
in here and say that was a horrible crew, or
this is a crew that flows. There was a lot
of flags horrible. It was literally, I mean when the
broadcast is saying the entire second half light, but there's
another flag. Probably could have said that before the snap.
There was tons of flag. Now, part of it is
stop doing things that are penalties, stop committing fouls, and

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yet they couldn't figure out a way to do that.
But that does lead into now you're behind the change.
It was ugly all the way around. When they would
start to roll. Peyton called some weird little backwards pass
to Court and Sutton that they were.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Gonna double pass. Like, just run it. They're the Raiders.
They suck.

Speaker 7 (51:21):
Just run the ball and go win the game. No, no,
it's try Bow's off. He's almost seems like he's got
the yips to some degree, like he's like just missing.
There's all kinds of things that I didn't like about
that game, but they won.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
They won.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
They keep winning. They won seven straight games. They're the
first team in the league to eight wins. Meanwhile, Pete
and Gino fell to two and seven in their first
year as the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
They're not good.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
They're not good. They are not good.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
And that starts the week. It's gonna be a pretty
fun week, pretty exciting week. It's next game Sunday morning,
six thirty, and that's one worth getting up for. Atlanta
Indianapolis is a pretty good matchup from Berlin. Then the
New England Tampa Bay early game. That's fantastic. Rams in
San Francisco are playing the afternoon game on the other

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side of US, and then the Sunday night game will
be Pittsburgh and the Chargers. So a pretty good weekend.
Of football for you in the National Football League. What
about college football Week eleven kicks off tomorrow and the
biggest game. I don't know if you would have circled
this at the beginning of the year of being one
of the biggest games of the year. But now that
the college football playoff rankings are out, the very first

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week of college football playoff rankings, we can see that
undefeated BYU is number seven in America and then one
lost Texas Tech is number eight in America, and they
are going to meet up this Saturday in Lubbock, Texas,
where the Red Raiders are a ten point favorite. Vegas
still doesn't think BYU's real, does Rick Neuheisel.

Speaker 10 (52:52):
This will be a very big test. They're a ten
and a half point underdog to Texas Tech this weekend.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Texas Tech is the.

Speaker 10 (52:58):
Number one offense to the number one defense in the
Big Twelve. They're well resourced with the guys from Double
Eagle Energy, Cody Campbell and John Sellers. They're putting up
a lot of money. They were the number one team
in the Transfer Portal in terms of purchasing talent.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
That's not to knock them.

Speaker 10 (53:16):
That's just a kind of a baseline as to how
they've done it, but by you going in there with
this young quarterback Bear Bachmeier, is going to be a
fun game. And given what I watched BYU do over
the course of the game, they find themselves in it late.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I'd take the ten and a half points Ashley did.
Sure did.

Speaker 5 (53:37):
I think it was only ten when I got it,
But I'm still comfortable with that.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yeah, Yeah, a double digit win. That's what Vegas is
predicting for Texas Tech over the constantly overlooked BYU Cougar's
That's going to be a fun game. But there are
others number three Texas A and M at number twenty
two Mazoo LSU trying to rally around you know, their
new head coach. They'll be at number four Alabama. And
is there any chance that Navy can upset Notre Dame?

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Not looking like it, but nonetheless that's a one lost
Navy at number ten Notre Dame, a full Big Ten conference.
A weekend preview coming your way at eight forty five
this morning here on Chuck and Bucking Oh.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
By the way, the Koogs are on by the.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Huskies are in Madison, Wisconsin taking on the badgers.

Speaker 11 (54:22):
The honey badger has been referred to by the Guinness
Booker World Records as the most fearless animal in all
the animal kingdom. It really doesn't give a shot if
it's hungry, it's hungry. Yeah, what's that in its mouth?
Oh it's got a cobra. Oh, it runs backwards and
I'll watch this. Look it snake's up in the tree.
Honey badger, don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit.
It just takes what it wants whenever it's hungry. It's

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just ill and it eats snakes. Oh my god, watch
it dig Look at that digging. The honey badger is
really pretty badass. They have no regard for any other
animal whatsoever. Looking it's just grunting and ill eating snakes.
Now what side of mouse? Oh that's Oh they're so nasty.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Great analysis of badgers.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
There way to break down Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
There's nothing left for the honks to break down after that,
but they will try nine to thirty from Madison for
a one thirty kickoff on Saturday. The twenty third ranked
Washington Huskies will be at two and six Wisconsin Husky's
coming off of by Badgers or zero to five and
Big ten play and get this, they rank one hundred
and thirty fifth in college football and offense.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Strange part about that there are only one hundred and
thirty teams.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Oh that's not good.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Then that's terrible.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Yeah, and Wisconsin maybe starting their third different quarterback this year,
a true freshman, Luke Fickle, And meantime, the head coach
has been given a vote of confidence he will be
back next year.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
But I just never thought we'd see Wisconsin be this bad.

Speaker 7 (55:49):
Well yeah, I mean they've been outscored ninety two to
seven the last three weeks, So idea, you're probably feeling
pretty good flying across country, time change, Big ten travel,
whatever that is.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
This is a game that Washington just got ranked.

Speaker 7 (56:03):
You got to go in there and obviously win, but
you got to go in there and win decisively.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
And what they're saying in Madison is that they're just
not financially supported in this new NIL era. They're just
the boosters aren't stepping up and it's not important enough
for them to be excellent at college football, which is fine.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
I think that's surprising though, because I feel like it's
so big a big deal there.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
But it really is when you think back to BYU
and Texas Tech and the money that's flooding in for
both of those programs. In Texas Tech because of money
came in Overnight's success, and look out for BYU in
the future.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
The church likes to win stuff.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
So they're going to spend a lot of money on
their product, where in Wisconsin they've just decided they're boosters,
they're CEOs and all the cheese. Yeah we're yeah, We're
more interested in having great cheese over great football teams.
So kick off at one thirty. Ride here at Sports
Radio ninety three point three k a RFM. Meanwhile, the
Huskies basketball team played last night against Denver and improved

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it to and oh.

Speaker 8 (57:02):
Grab By Peterson wrap around, passed the saving in bounds,
grab By Diallo floats it up to call you Ring
Knong slips at home run to the rim, Tucker a
third three. He's hot, He's on fire, as they'd say
an NBA jam.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Ohy sockey out top coming.

Speaker 8 (57:20):
Down clock for behind by Steinbach off the glass and
grab by man to quit three on two outlet left
to Peterson for three. Pull time from t Mari Peterson
and the dogs are up eighty to sixty.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Three, Tony castra Cone and Jam on the call eighty
four to seventy. The final score right here on Sports
Radio ninety three point three. kJ R f M freshman
Hans Steinbach thirteen points and sixteen of the team's thirty
seven rebounds last night.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
That's a freshman's pretty good.

Speaker 7 (57:48):
Yeah, it's a nice little pickup there, Sprinkle, Dah nice
off Sprinkle.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
I thought you were calling me Sprinkle for a second.
I thought I got a new nickname, and I remember Dad.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Uh up, season though, is over for the Dogs and
for Danny Sprinkle, as they will be at Baylor Sunday
at five thirty. One of the better programs in college
basketball today first weekend of the college basketball season, Koogs
will be at Davidson the Fighting Steph Curry's tonight at

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four o'clock and then tomorrow night Zag's hosting Oklahoma at
seven thirty. So some good college basketball this weekend for
all the locals.

Speaker 5 (58:27):
Yeah, you get to have good stuff on your TV
while you sif your martinis with your Christmas tree.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
It's going to be wonderful. Yeah, this really does feel
like Christmas.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
It does.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Sounders will be in action tomorrow at one, not Sunday,
that's stupid.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
They'll be taking on Minnesota United.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
It is match number three of a three match series
in the first round of the MLS Playoffs. The Sounders
lost with a lackluster shootout performance, and match one they
responded with a four to two blowout in match number two.
Will Minnesota United now magically counter what the Sounders did

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to we erupt for four runs against a very conservative team.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Bryan Schmitzer has been wondering that himself.

Speaker 6 (59:10):
I really don't know. I mean, he said in the pross.

Speaker 9 (59:13):
Eric Ramsey's a good guy, nice guy like him.

Speaker 6 (59:15):
He's good coach. He says, you know, we are who
we are. But after he took four and he.

Speaker 10 (59:23):
Allowed us to get on top of him with that
type of intensity, he's going to have to come out
a little bit more, at least at least that's what
I think.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
I don't question Matt Scientists at all his tactics work.
I impressed with your tactics, tactics, But that's throwing a
little shade right there. That's him saying we just stomped
you trying to play that way? Can you play another way? Really?
Is there any you can play, because it looks like
we've solved your chess game.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Yeah, well it did. Early.

Speaker 7 (59:53):
I was getting ready to send to Jackson a text
and just looks like a weekend of butt whoo whoopans
for Seattle teams. And then bang bang they came back
and almost tied it up. Now they pulled away and
ended up doing it. I hope it works again. I
hope that he can figure out a way. It does
feel like you go with the Mad Scientists whenever you're
in Dow.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
I do, I for sure do. And by the way,
Jackson tone he blocked you, so I don't anyway, And
I don't even know his numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
That three game threes tomorrow in the MLS and one
actually tonight. So if you're putting up your Christmas tree
tonight like most people who most people, you can watch
a little soccer in the background if you'd lie. Yeah,
but the Sounders in Minnesota will play tomorrow at one
o'clock out at Minnesota. Major League Baseball off season. Yeah,

(01:00:42):
free agency is officially underway. Not only have players declared
this week, teams can now start signing Major League Baseball players.
We've already seen a signing, and it's a familiar name.
Leoti Tavares, there's your trivia question. The first free agent
to sign this offseason now a former Mariner. He signed
with the Baltimore Orioles yesterday. But now that we're underway,

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my goodness, let's heat up the stove.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Stove, stove. What a kind of name is that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
That's a great name, that's a perfect name.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
But it's all about the Mariner's nay role here in Seattle,
and it hadn't been sounding good based on a few
different little comments. But Justin Hollander totally redeemed himself yesterday
and said that we are on course. He is our priority,
and they certainly have the funds to bring Josh Naylor back.
Maybe he takes up all the off season funds. I

(01:01:40):
don't know, but I think it is sounding good that
he'll be in a Mariner uniform.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Just not great.

Speaker 7 (01:01:46):
Yeah, well, I want it to be great and I
want it to be done. I mean, I was part
of me. It was having a hard time getting over
the fact that deary and Justin let Leo de Tavares go.
I mean, I don't know what we're going to do now.
Willie's a lot cheap ownership.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Remember at one point you were thought that maybe that
was going to be the only addition that they made.

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
We shall probably bring the lost him.

Speaker 7 (01:02:05):
No, no, no, no, no, but yes, bring Naylor back, please,
I mean I I'll put up a Christmas tree tomorrow,
Josh Naylor tree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
If we get this thing done.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Mariners, come on, let's put the cart before the horse here,
put it up now, and then you'll be ruling no, no, no,
no with surely no.

Speaker 7 (01:02:24):
I'll celebrate Thanksgiving in the Josh Naylor kind of way.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
I like celebrating Thanksgiving with my Christmas tree.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
Now, yeah, that's the best way. It gives your house
extra festiveness.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Uh crack.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
It will be an action tomorrow in Saint Louis against
the Blues. They'll drop the puck at four point thirty
and Mike Benton will be there to salibate. We'll come
back on the other side with a friend of the
radio program, if not of mine, Dustin Nickerson joins us.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
On Sports Radio ninety three point.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Three KJRFF, great friend of the program and personal friends
of Ashley Ryan and Bucky Jacobson.

Speaker 7 (01:03:00):
I would think mostly just me I mean, I think
it's just me. I'm the only one that went to
a show that's true. Maybe best friends with Buck.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
Yeah oh yeahs and none of Ashley, None of my
other fans have kids.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
That had sporting. I've only built a whole career off
of being a volleyball dad.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
Yeah, we talked about it. You were going to volleyball.

Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
Yeah, a tournament all day?

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:03:31):
Every once in a while people will point out the
logic fail. They're like, you just you talk about how
you're like at these volleyball tournaments all the day, but
we see your calendar. You work saturdays on the road.
I'm pretty sure your wife is at those tournaments. I've
been to a few. Let's not get all nitpicky. I'm
paying for him. He's right here in studio.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
So you're back in Seeattle. That's awesome. And and what
brings you to Seattle this time?

Speaker 12 (01:04:01):
I'm opening for a much more successful comedian. I know
I got deemed an up and commer. I think this
one has arrived. I kept that radio friendly. I was
trying to figure out how to take an up and
comer and put it in in current tents. I think
arrived is the cleanest way we could say that that
he I'm opening for. Yeah, exactly, there you go. I'm

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opening for ny Bourgetsi this weekend here. And we were
Tacoma on Wednesday and the venue formerly noticed Kiirina Climate
Pedge Pledge Pedge Pledge. It's early last night tonight, and
then we're in Portland tomorrow, so.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Yeah, it's it's silly.

Speaker 12 (01:04:44):
The last time I was in the Tacoma Dome, I
was graduating high school. So I like walked on the
stage like have you been here? I was like have
I been here?

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Yeah, baby, And I was like, you been frequenting the
yearly monster druve.

Speaker 6 (01:04:56):
No. No.

Speaker 12 (01:04:57):
I was funny walking in and I was like, you know,
I walked on stage and I was thinking like, well, we're,
you know, to my valedictorian Decatur High School two thousand
and three. Who's got the mic? Now, Desiree, I'm on stage.
They got to listen to me for eight minutes and
not some crappy speech about the bird leaving the nest
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
So yeah, you told then, yeah, yeah yeah, And she's
like who And I'm like, I cheated on your biology
to get through. I'm so I'm so stupid.

Speaker 12 (01:05:27):
But yeah, so I'm in town open for Nate, and
uh yeah, I was just yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Let's talk about your cool friend Nate.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Yeah, how where did the relationship start? You guys have
known each other for a while.

Speaker 12 (01:05:39):
Then, yeah, I met Nate like seven eight years ago
something like that. Twenty seventeen, his half an hour special
on Netflix came out, so he at the time was
like kind of like I wouldn't say medaling, like he
was like established but not. He wasn't selling a ton

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of tickets or anything. It just shows how fast it can
happen for some comics like he. I when I met him,
we were just I met him on the road in
Nashville where he lives.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Nashville.

Speaker 12 (01:06:09):
I was just doing a spot at saying He's comedy
club out there, and we connected and and he looks
You look for people that you kind of naturally connect
and maybe do similar You want openers who do who
work kind of the same brand as you but talk
about different things than you. So, uh, you know, we
were kind of a natural fit. And then my my

(01:06:29):
Nate story is I remember, you know, Nate golf's a lot,
and I I'm not I don't have that kind of money.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
I don't have golf money. I didn't, right, didn't. It
wasn't raised on golf.

Speaker 12 (01:06:42):
And I was like, okay, but a lot of people
around me do golf, so I should learn how to
do this a little bit. I had golfed a couple
of times, and uh, we were in Spokane, did Spokane
Comedy Club with him, and he took us out to
a course in Ida called Circling Raven, very nice course,
and I'm like, it's pretty nervous. Its almost an audition
to to like, hey, am I going to work with

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this guy for a while and get thousands and thousands
of dollars over the next decade of my career. And
We're on like the driving range and I'm very nervous.
I like, am missing the ball on the driving range, nervous,
Like they're looking at me like usually you don't have
to replace divots on the driving range on the mat.

Speaker 6 (01:07:26):
On the.

Speaker 12 (01:07:29):
I'm missing the ball, and I was like, this is
yeah exactly. It's like a mirror and they and Nate's
not even looking at me, thankfully. And then we go
to like the putting green. I remember I miss a
ten footer by ten feet like I'm and I was like,
this is I'm gonna get fired first hole, Like he's like,

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you said you knew how to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
I always say this.

Speaker 12 (01:07:52):
I'm like if I if I can golf in two digits,
it's a decent round for me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
So it's a good round.

Speaker 12 (01:07:58):
Now I'm underplaying myself, but I'm and then out of
out of just this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
Pure divine god looking out for me. Miracle.

Speaker 12 (01:08:07):
The first I'm so nervous, like shaking it like this
is gonna be which is not good in golf. First hole,
I put it right in the middle of the green.
H second one, I now get ten feet within the hole.
I birdy the first hole. What I'm missing the ball
on the driving range. And now I realize, oh no,
I better not play too well or I'm going to

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get fired for that reason. So now I have eighteen
holes of sandbagging myself.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Okay, and I'll be a climate pledge with him tonight.
So there you go. That's great. I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Yeah, I think that the there's a connection because I
love the way that both of you take like normal
stuff that everybody goes through, and you both have very
like unique comedic ways of spinning that and telling that story.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Yeah, but he.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Tells and and and and and and you and our
experience with you. You tell like the like mundane things,
talk about mundane things that everybody goes through. But it's like,
how did you see that right right string of comedy?

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Yeah, situation that we've all been through it. Well, that's
very kind of you to say.

Speaker 12 (01:09:17):
I mean Nate in particular, I mean if you were like,
when you tell a Rodney Dangerfield joke, you know, it
reads like a joke.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
My wife says, have sex in the car she wants
me to drive.

Speaker 12 (01:09:28):
It reads like a joke. You're like, you read you
read that, like that's when you read a transcript of
Nate's jokes. They're not even funny. You ever try and
repeat a Nate joke, They're not funny. They're like, you
just you sound stupid, And you're like, well, yeah, but
that's kind of the appeal of him. And people say,
you know, with him in particular, like oh gosh, you

(01:09:49):
just make it look so easy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
They do not say that with me. They're like, that
looks like a lot of work.

Speaker 7 (01:09:58):
I see, you guys are very so because I think
there's a dryness to it. That is where you can
just be talking about something and it does fall flat
without the comedic timing and the way in which you
pros are able to do it. Because I've told Nate
jokes before, trying to tell people about him, and all
of a sudden, I try to replay one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
It doesn't sound good.

Speaker 7 (01:10:17):
I did the same thing with you, and my buddies
are like, yeah, I guess I'll have to give it
a Google.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Look him up.

Speaker 12 (01:10:25):
The that was a funny show at the Neptune because
Bucky and five Rascal friends were joining you, and I
was kind of waiting for him to text, like, hey,
we made it, as I think, I said, text me
when you're in the building, the tour manager will come grab.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
You and bring you backstage and stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:10:44):
And then Bucky just emerged backstage, very out of breath.

Speaker 7 (01:10:50):
Yeah, well, you didn't tell me you were in the
top of the castle.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
I didn't have a chance because you didn't tell me
you were there.

Speaker 12 (01:10:56):
You were just like Wayne's World, flashing your pass or
were you like, yeah, where do I where does this
take me?

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Kevin? Yeah, I saw.

Speaker 7 (01:11:03):
Kevin, I said, Kevin, I'm supposed to go behind that
red velvet curtain, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
I don't even know Kevin is. Yeah, all players know
how to pass, no kidding, Yeah, like they're supposed to
be there.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
He was.

Speaker 12 (01:11:17):
I think he's about ready to go on stage. I
think he's like, I think I'm doing a guest set
after the host.

Speaker 7 (01:11:22):
I believe after those stairs. Those aren't even stairs, that's more.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Like a ladder. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:11:27):
Well, the the Neptune there in the U district, which
you know I walked and bust by for years, not
four years, two years community college transfer out of here.
Uh and uh everyone's like, oh man, did you e
just like dream of playing here like it was a
movie theater when I wasn't even a venue that did comedy,
which means it has not been it's not. Uh, it

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was never meant for people to go upstairs that often.
So in your defense, it wasn't built for that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Yeah, just left that let down or exactly. Yeah, that
was a lot easier back in the day. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
All right, So.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
We haven't talked to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
You on the air anyway about the Mariners season coming
to a close. You've had plenty of time to grieve.
How's that process been like for you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:12:14):
I think you know I've talked about it a little
on stage I did that night. It ended up turning
into a group therapy session. Yeah yeah, and I think
I think other than the Sonics joke, everybody liked all
of it, and I you know, it was I mean,
the funniest part about it all was, you know, I

(01:12:34):
planned that show on October. I think I'm gonna have
told you guys this in studio October twenty fifth, and
I had people messaging me during the run like dude,
what in the world it's the World Series and aren't
you a Mariners fan?

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
And then it hit me. I was like, dude, I'm
the most Mariners fan.

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
Because it never occurred to me, not one chance that
I was like, dude, late October, there might be a conflict, and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Because my birthday is October.

Speaker 12 (01:13:02):
Twenty fourth and the Mariners have never played a baseball
game on my birthday, and I was like, there's just
zero chance. And then there was a bit of a chance.
And I think that shows how much of a Mariners fan.
I had financial incentive for the Mariners not to make
the World Series, like ticket sales went way up when
they have. I have thanks to you guys and some
online stuff. I've carved out a nice little fan group

(01:13:25):
of Northwest sports fans, and ticket sales went way up
when they they lost, and I was still sad. Yeah, yeah,
I made yeah exactly. I did go to the Illinois game,
the Husk.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
The Illinois at Washington. That was fun.

Speaker 12 (01:13:43):
That was a surreal moment because I think maybe even
how I got on your radar was a joke I
did about the Ducks in Eugene where I said, uh,
I said this in Eugene where I saw the Phil
Night quote where he said, I, you know, I'm just
but every resource I can to making sure the Ducks

(01:14:04):
win a national championship before I die. And that was
a real heat check for like, oh my gosh, I mean,
am I a monster? Do I want this guy to
die before they win a national championship? Then it hit me,
He's like, no, I don't want that. I want him
to live forever and then never win a national championship.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
That's what I want.

Speaker 12 (01:14:22):
And I didn't know that joke really made the rounds
at the athletic department at you dub so they're like, hey,
do you reach out? Do you want some tickets? I
was like, of course, they're like, hey, do you want
to sound the siren. I was like, I'm the most
pathetic alum in the hit. I'm a two point eight
graduate here in the International Studies degree who was only
here two years and only got here because I got

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a community college degree.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
And they're like, do you want to meet Dubbs? And
I got in trouble with Dubbs because they I got
you pet Dub's chest and They're like, you're not allowed
to do that, and I was like, okay, well maybe
if it was Joel McHale I could, but and then
you're supposed to scratches. Yeah exactly, Yeah, they just work.

Speaker 12 (01:15:04):
But then they're like, do you want to go up
to Pat Chun's the athletic director suite? And I was like,
I mean obviously, and he was like, dude, I love
the organ joke. Very surreal for me, and I want
to be like, hey, can you extend fish already? But
you got to be you got to be professional in
that environment. And I'm like, thanks for the chicken tenders.

(01:15:28):
I didn't belong in that suite, by the way, and
the reason is because it was raining, and you know,
there's like the the well to do that. You know,
these are like the high they're whining and dining and
me and my friend are and ponchos actually in the
seats in front of the suite and they're like, wow,
you're like really committed. Like, hey, I'm a fan of
the team. I don't want to watch this behind glass point.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Did Chun say you can rub my chest if you
will pay for a safety around you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
He didn't.

Speaker 12 (01:15:56):
He said it with his eyes, you know, And that
was that was the funny thing is that I told
my friend who I went with, Tristan. I was like, oh,
do they think I have like money?

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Uh huh am I.

Speaker 12 (01:16:10):
Being wined and dying right now because I can share
some Instagram stuff and I can help the department get
a few followers I can't. At best, I might be
able to get you a volleyball player maybe if it's
a good year. Yeah no, Liberro, and it would. And

(01:16:30):
I'll be particularly incentivized if it's two years from now
and it's my volleyball player whose grades are also not
getting her in here. So we'll see where I'm in
two years. Maybe I can get some of that. I
need some nepotism benefits, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Man, Well, great to see you. Shows tonight and yeah,
my shows.

Speaker 12 (01:16:54):
I'm gonna be back in March Everett Historical Theater March nineteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
Ashley said she might be there. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
I'm going to be there. And then tournament, I'll just
skip it and send my mom to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I mean, that's what I do every weekend.

Speaker 12 (01:17:08):
So you're sending your mom to watch my show or
the tournament. Tournament and then March twentieth and twenty first
four shows down at the Tacoma Comedy Club.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Well, one of us has to go watch up on
the other one has to go watch it your choice.
Great to see you, man, Thanks for coming in. We
appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
The hilarious Dustin Nickerson joining us right here on Chuck
and Buck. We'll preview the Big Ten weekend next on KJR.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Chuck and Buck on Sports Radio ninety three point three
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Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Holy makes it sound so official.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
X is a nos time here on a Friday. They
are brought to you by Frost Brewed Course Line. Joining
us now is the QB one. Hugh Millin is with us.
Good morning you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
What's happening, gentlemen? How are you we're great.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
What stands out to you about this Seahawks Cardinals matchup
on Sunday most and first and foremost.

Speaker 13 (01:18:01):
Well, I think just the uh what the the changes
what we've seen in the Cardinals that that with Jacoby Brisset.
You know, it's three big games, that the very very
impressive win at Dallas. You know, what's their mindset coming in?
Do they still think that they they have like you know,

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it's it's not whether or not they actually have a
chance to make the playoffs, it's what's the state of
mind of the Cardinals with respect to that they may
have a boost.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
We've talked about Kyler Murray.

Speaker 13 (01:18:34):
You you know my opinion, I think it's just uh
humiliating that a team would be compelled to put an
independent study clause in a player in a quarterbacks contract
that he has to study four hours a week of
tape otherwise wise he's he's in default. You know that

(01:18:57):
Now they pulled that because they recognized how he milliat
and it was but you can't undo that. You know,
you see the the body language Kyler Murray has, you know,
his response to adversity is, uh, what Mike Comingan calls
his affect his body language, Uh is as bad as
I've seen. And then and then, you know, if you
think I'm being harsh, go on YouTube and just type

(01:19:21):
in Kyler Murray yells at coach. And it was a
game on a Thursday night game National TV. They're playing
the Saints, and you'll see the play come up. It
only takes a minute to watch it. It's right there
on YouTube. And you watch Kyler Murray on a timeout situation. Uh,
late in the second quarter, he comes off and he
is screening at his head coach Cliff Kingsbury, and I

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have never ever ever seen that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
In that fashion.

Speaker 13 (01:19:50):
And DeAndre Hopkins had to intercede, get in the middle,
you know, put his arm around him, calm him down.
And I've heard the term a lot, h you know,
the coach loses the locker room.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
And a lot of.

Speaker 13 (01:20:03):
Times I'm going, all right, well give me the evidence,
you know, and we can make inferences. We don't always know,
you know, you were not in everybody's head. So I'm
I often kind of push back on that statement. When
I saw that, I just kind of said out loud,
I said, Cliff Kingsbury will never have the Cardinals again.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
After that moment, and.

Speaker 13 (01:20:23):
So at an event they now turn to Jacoby Bussett,
and you know they can be they can be a
scrappy team, and they present a little bit of a
challenge of Seattle. Is it handling the success that they
showed the country from Sunday night?

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
You know something that has stuck out to me all
week and long, week long, and I want to ask
you this, but I have a feeling you could do
like a six hour seminar at like Princeton on this topic.
So forgive me for bringing it up in a fifteen
minute segment, but I know that you have sort of

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have been a little suspicious about this league going to
short quarterbacks. And we've had two under five foot eleven
that have been drafted number one overall in the last decade,
including Kyler Murray. It's been a really bad year for
short quarterbacks in the National Football League. We got a
pretty good one on a college campus down the street,

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but in the National Football League this has been a
bad year.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
And I'm wondering if you think.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
That it's going to mark a reversal in believing that
quarterbacks should be drafted this high when they can't ride
this ride well I think that.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
It's been a bad year for short quarterbacks, as you mentioned,
and you've got and skinny quarterbacks as well. I mean
you've got in right, because there was a lot of
questions about Jaden Daniels and his his frame coming out,
and you've got young down in in Carolina, you've got

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I think what you see on the tape is that
clearly these guys are not going to be able to see.
After Russell Wilson was drafted, I asked every quarterback I
ran into for a couple of months there. I asked
Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Warren Moon, Danny White if you
remember him, the quarterback of the Cowboys, Rich gann and

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an MVP. You know, I asked everybody what percent of
the time when you were in an NFL pocket could
you not see? And it was remarkable hot and everybody
had an answer. There wasn't anybody goes I never thought
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:22:45):
Everybody seemed to say about thirty to forty of the
time they couldn't see something that they wanted to see.
Danny White actually had the most interesting comment. He says, well,
when I got to Dallas, the offensive line was good.
You know, maybe ten percent, he says, by the time
I got done, it was ninety percent. Yeah, But anyway,

(01:23:07):
I digress. So not seeing is real. I'm six five
and I don't know how many games I have played in,
but but you know, it's mostly a backup. But the
games I there's a lot of times you just don't see.
That's why sket seven on seven teams you can throw
it all over the art because no pass rush, and

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so uh you see it particularly over.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
The middle of the field.

Speaker 13 (01:23:34):
And and and what happens is is we get enamored
with the the athletic quarterbacks ability to to avoid sacks,
and yet the numbers just to I've been asked to
present for thirty thirteen by Mike tannahem Timebaum, I've got
the thirteen pages of PowerPoint that in any era, the

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quote unquote, and you and I made metrics to decide
who's an athletic quarterback, who's who's more of a pocket
passer in any era, the pocket passers always avoid more
sacks because they they don't try and extend plays because
they know they can't. And and you know, when you're

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they asked me, uh back to back, Tom Brady had
the lowest sack rate in the NFL and Justin Fields
had had the highest. And so I'm going through these
plays and and I'm showing where where Tom Brady. He
knows exactly where his his outlets are.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
And you know, and.

Speaker 13 (01:24:39):
And given the same situation, the athletic quarterback when when
when there's a guy in his face, instead of just
saying let me dump into the outlet, he'll start running
and trying and extend the play and then you take
sacks that way. Now, admittedly there are certainly free running
situations where the athletic quarterback will will get out of
a situation and that the pocket passer will be dumped.

(01:25:03):
But you know, the Theater thre third team asked me
to present for Daniel Jones, which I kind of smiled
when I read the text, and like Daniel Jones, Well,
I've actually had an affinity to him for four or
five years. So I in the last week I've studied
over three hundred and fifty plays of Daniel Jones, you know,
with the culture number one in offense. And I see,

(01:25:24):
and I'm gonna get this to Sam Darnold because people,
so let's get relevant there there are a lot and
and uh, you've got in Daniel Jones eleven touchdowns, no
interceptions in the red zone. There's times where you see
where he's looking to his left and then somebody comes
off and and he will get to a checkdown, his
fifth guy in the progression, and and I look, and

(01:25:47):
I go, wait a minute, right then, Daniel Jones pretty athletic.
He he could have he could have migrated to a
spot to run the ball, but he's he's looking for
the checkdown. So what happens is the you know, the
sort of quarterback when he doesn't see he says, well,
let me let me try and move around, distort the defense,

(01:26:07):
distort the pass rush, get out of here so I
can see. And you know, when guys are are able
to make those plays. We said, I don't need to
convince people Seahawks fans, and they saw it with Russell Wilson.
But Sam Darnold is doing a lot of the stuff
that even in my notes I put TV just you know,

(01:26:27):
Tom Brady, like number five he's got he just got
to the number five guy in the progression and and
and so I think there's just a different Uh, there's
a different mindset when you get you know, a bigger
guy who can see and doesn't have great mobility, he
has to find other ways to uh to to beat
the blitz and avoid sacks. And you know, right right

(01:26:50):
now Donald, uh you know he's he's I think in
his sack avoidance he's number one in the NFL. So
so uh yeah, no, it's it's it's an interesting topic.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
You're right.

Speaker 13 (01:27:00):
I could go a long time and I already have
had and I already have.

Speaker 7 (01:27:04):
Well, I'm gonna ask one more about Sam Donald just
because I'm curious of your opinion. I mean, after that
first half that he played last week and the way
he's played all season so far, I mean, do you
put him up there with the top of the heap
quarterbacks in the NFL right now for this season?

Speaker 13 (01:27:19):
Absolutely, there's just so many It's gonna have to look
at the stat portal of the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
There are so many cool stats.

Speaker 13 (01:27:27):
And I'm gole, oh my god, I'd love to say
that on the radio. I'd love to say that on
the radio, like I could stuff a whole segment, two
segments on cool stats. But Sam Donald, let me give
one for the day. Okay, So we know that the
Seahawks plays of twenty plus yards, the Seahawks are number
one in the NFL. Plays of fifty plus, they're number

(01:27:47):
one in the NFL air yards per attempt nine point
one three, Sam Donald, number one in the NFL. He
is pushing the ball down the field more than any
quarterback in the NFL. But in addition to that, the
NFL has off target percentage sam Donold six point four percent.

(01:28:12):
That's number two in the NFL. So and that's counting
all passes. So the idea that you would be number
one in all these statistics about pushing the ball down
the field but have the second best, second lowest percentage
of off target passes, Like, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
I don't know that that that kind of dumbfounds me.

Speaker 13 (01:28:38):
Yeah, you know, and and so, and there's many more,
but yeah, I know, you know, just look at at
the performance that he's given you and and at this juncture.
I think it's interesting that if if you go by
how many quarterbacks have won seventy five percent of their games?

(01:28:59):
Now this is with sixty starts minimum. Okay, there's only
three quarterbacks in history autogram in the fifty you know,
he played in the fifties, dar Ala Monica he played
in the sixties, and Pat m Pat Mahomes. Tom Brady
was seventy four point nine percent, So he misses it
by point one percent. Point is seventy five percent is

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a really lofty level. So Donald came to Seattle twenty four, uh,
excuse me, eighteen and six in his last twenty four games.
Now he's six and two. Obviously, that's seventy five percent.
So he's twenty four and eight in his last thirty
two games, So he's more than halfway to sixty. Do

(01:29:41):
I think that he's going to be over the next
twenty eight games seventy five percent? I bet against it.
But the point is, at some point we're gonna say
say what, wait a minute. You know this is like
signetty man. You know, I win Google me, you know,
like Donald. Now he's that's not his personality. He's never
gonna say that, but at some point Donald wins Google him.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Yeah. Uh, and now he's added another weapon. So in
our last couple of minutes, how do you think Sam
Donald takes advantage of Rashid sha Heed's talents on Sunday?

Speaker 13 (01:30:17):
And first of all, yeah, just real quickly, you know,
I think that it bears mentioning. You know, I think
that we had and I love Tory Hohrton, but you know,
he's getting nicked up. He's he's growing his ankle this,
you know, and he keeps showing up on the injury report.
I think there was a concern there. Uh, Cooper Cupp,
there's a concern. Remember now that's only really a one
year deal for Seattle. And and and the part about

(01:30:38):
Cup is he is a remarkable He's like a coach
in the building. In fact, don't be surprised if in
a couple of years he's a coach on that. He's
local his wife, I think it's from Tacoma, check me
on that. But in any event, he has been Cup
has been a monumental force for you know, Jackson Smith
and Jigma's development. You know, he took two years off

(01:31:01):
his development. But Rasid Shaheed, uh So the point is
is there's some concern about some of the other guys
where she she heat as I mentioned yesterday, uh more
outside receiver than than slot. And with with Kubiak with
the Saints, he was only twenty five percent of slot.
So he's an outside receiver, A lot of speed relatively small.

(01:31:21):
You know, at five point ten he measured one eighty
five at the combine. I'm certain he's not that he's
pushing two hundred. Just looking at his body weight. I now,
I think there's some some aspects of his route running
that I think need refinement. When he does speed outs,
he tends to slow down coming.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Out of it.

Speaker 13 (01:31:40):
I think that that that could be something that he improves. Uh,
you know, his height, he's if he doesn't win with
speed and a good release off the top.

Speaker 6 (01:31:50):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:31:50):
You know, I've seen him lose some battles down the
field on some deep ball route deep routes. But but
I think you got a guy obviously knows the system
in Clint Kubiak, having played with the Saints a lot
of speed. We're gonna see some bubble screens and jet sweeps.
I watched the entire reel of that. I thought it
was good. I didn't think there was nothing that went.

(01:32:10):
I go, oh wow, I can't wait for the Jet
the Rockets sweep game to come alive for Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
With this guy, I think it's solid.

Speaker 13 (01:32:18):
You'd expect it to be pretty good for a guy
his size, So so I think that he kind of
checks a lot of boxes, and you know, you give
him like a B. I mean, he's played forty he's
had forty two games in his career, and he's got
two games over one hundred yards. Now on the positive
side of that, I filter all number two receivers. I
just did this week. Here's my spreadsheet. You know when

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you asked me, well, think of a number two receiver?
Who comes to mind? Well, how about T Higgins? Well
he's got fifty five catches. He's got more catches than
T Higgins by two. The other one I'd say, well,
how about AJ Brown and or DeVante Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
At Philadelphia that's a tandem.

Speaker 6 (01:32:56):
Well, A J.

Speaker 13 (01:32:57):
Brown's number two right now to Devonte Smith, he's got
fifty six catches. Uh receid she he does fifty five.
So so I think, uh, you know on Ceedee Lamb
and oh god, who's the guy that acquired from Pickens?

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
Yeah, Pickens.

Speaker 13 (01:33:12):
Ceedee Lamb is the that has the highest number of
uh of catches our yards per game rather of any
number two.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
And you don't think of Ceedee Lamb.

Speaker 13 (01:33:24):
He's up there at eighty two yards a game and
and so received heat at fifty five yards a game.
As thought that was the stat I was referencing, if
I didn't make that clear. So so even he's comparing
this year with a very you know, uh suspect quarterback play,
he's comparing in his numbers to some of the guys
that we think of as Okay, that's they've got a

(01:33:46):
great tandem of receivers that team. And he's comparing with
the number two uh A Lobby obviously had been the
uh uh is the number one receiver at New Orleans.
So and anyway, I think it's a solid, solid acquisition.
Here's what I'm hoping as a fan. Just he doesn't
have to prove anything to me. But we do a
lot of draft coverage, and I love that about you, Chuck.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
You love the draft.

Speaker 13 (01:34:08):
Let's make it a goal that you know, in the
weeks and the days and the hours leading up to
the draft, that we can sit there and go, yeah, damn,
I wish we had that fourth and fifth draft pick.
But man, did we get a lot out of received Shaheed.
I'm totally cool with the idea that we don't have
a fourth and fifth because remember all those great things

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that Shaheed did.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
For us last year and what we expect from him
moving forward.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
Here's what I got out of that. Hugh wants us
to do more draft coverage than what we do right now.
That's what I got out of that. Bucky, No, just
get ready draft than normal. We started talking. Yeah, Buck
text me, I have Tex. I have the text.

Speaker 13 (01:34:51):
He's like, every everything would be really good if we
could just have more draft cover, more draft coverage.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
Good point, Hugh. We'll go ahead and satisfy Bucky this
upcoming year. That sounds great to me.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Enjoy Tall Quarterback Day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
On Sunday, indeed, and we'll talk to you then on Monday.
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Speaker 3 (01:35:56):
Oh yeah, before I bring coaching, just quickly want to
let you know Terry Fader, who is the famous impersonator
slash Ventriloquist, is going to be performing November fifteenth at
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(01:36:16):
did you ever put that in Big Mic and the
Boppers or whatever act that was that you had. Did
you ever did you have a Ventriloquist impersonation act that
you you could do?

Speaker 6 (01:36:27):
No? No, you know what.

Speaker 9 (01:36:28):
No, that's about the only thing we didn't do though.
I mean, if you go, if you're going to dress
up like a cheerleader in a wig, you're gonna do
about just him, about anything. So we did that. Be
true to your school, yeah, be.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
True to your school. What was the name of the
band again.

Speaker 9 (01:36:44):
Big Bop in the Choppers.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Big Bop in the Choppers. That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
If you just thought coach Holmgren was just a football genius,
you didn't know how many hidden talents did he actually had.

Speaker 9 (01:36:56):
Oh no, I mean it was it was I tell
you what. We raise a lot of money though for
the school, so that was good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
All right, Well let's talk about Seahawks and Cardinals. Let's
talk about their quarterback to get us started. How much
do things get shaken up and Mike McDonald's defensive room.
When you go from a tiny, fast quarterback to a big,
lumbering quarterback, I think.

Speaker 9 (01:37:21):
It changes a lot the pass rush lanes, how you're
going to approach that Murray was, you know, he was
so fast and that was a big threat when you
played against them. But this Brissette seems to me, they're
moving the ball, there's got a confidence now, they're moving
the ball better, and he's making good decisions. So he's

(01:37:42):
a good quarterback, but quite a different type of quarterback
than Murray.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Yeah, without a doubt.

Speaker 7 (01:37:47):
On the other side, I mean, Sam Darnold is playing
better than either of the quarterbacks on the other side
of the ball. I mean, at this point we've been
talking about the run game doesn't really hasn't really got
on track, and yet the offense has been Do you
just lean into this thing and just keep throwing the
ball to Jackson Smith and Jigbur or you think that
they need to continue to try to pound it.

Speaker 6 (01:38:07):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:38:08):
I think it's clear to me that when they mix
it up a little bit more and with play action
and insert some more passing game into their offense, it
works better. That's not to say they don't want to
run the ball and they're trying, and the way they're
moving the backs, they're splitting time a little bit more.

(01:38:30):
I thought Walker would play more, but they're they're doing that.
But I think they still want to do this stick
with their plan of the new style of running and
handing the ball to the back. But clearly the play
action pass off of that has worked very very well
and Jigma, you know, its just shut lights out. So

(01:38:53):
I think they're going to stay with what they have.
Probably a sixty to forty I would think Ratio.

Speaker 3 (01:38:58):
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about that on Monday, so we've had a conversation about that.
One thing we haven't had a conversation about is this
team has added a new wide receiver, a new deep

(01:39:18):
threat weapon to the rosters since last we spoke on
Tuesday's trade deadline. So when it comes to adding a
wide receiver talent, how quickly can you incorporate that player
into the game plan? Do you feel like there are
no holds barred with Rashid Shaheed this weekend?

Speaker 9 (01:39:37):
You know what, I don't think he'll have everything, But
you can in certain wide receivers sooner than other positions,
I think because you know the routes essentially, you know
you're on a post, you're in a corner, you run
this rack. They're kind of similar where whoever you play for.
But as far as learning that, you know the injury

(01:40:00):
of a particular pattern and how they want to do it.
You have to learn that. But I think, you know,
it's a good addition because it gives a little another
added thing to the receiver corps. He's a different receiver
than Cup, He's a different receiver than Jigma, you know,
and so he adds that speed and stretching coverages. I

(01:40:21):
think you're going to see him a little bit. But
he's the fourth receiver. Horton has done a great job,
I think, and they want to keep bringing him along.
But it's a nice addition.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
Do you like the idea of being able to have
a guy that's under because we've got pretty decent contributions
from the tight ends this season, and then in Jigba
has been doing his thing, and Tory Horton when he's healthy,
he's been a nice surprise. Do you do you just
as an offensive mind, like the idea of somebody that
you just can always send downfield that can kind of

(01:40:52):
take the top off the defense.

Speaker 9 (01:40:54):
I love that buck. You know, give me receivers. I
love receivers. Don't give me don't give me a right
guard or a center, Give me a receiver, and certainly
don't give me a punter or place kicker. You know,
give me a receiver. So it's going to help him,
I think. I mean it's a nice pickup. I don't
know how many snaps he's going to get in a game.
But a lot of times now offense is now compared

(01:41:18):
to when I first started in the league, you're seeing
a lot more for receiver than that kind of offense,
and here he is the fourth receiver. So I think
it's a nice addition. I really do now. Having said that,
I don't want them to stop throwing the ball to
the tight ends. I think that's a valuable thing and
it will help also help the running game essentially.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
So that's your mindset.

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
You're an offensive coordinator, you're general ron Wolf at the
trading deadline gives you another weapon, even though you seem
to have enough, Like we got a lot of weapons,
we might not have enough offensive lineman. But your mindset
is no, I can never have enough weapons on offense.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
You know what.

Speaker 9 (01:41:57):
I just said that, and so I'll stick with it. However,
I thought, to your point check, I thought they might
look and add another interior lineman offensive lineman, because I
think on the team, if you evaluate the team, you know,
you can see a lot of really good things about
the offensive line, but there is some questions. Again, I

(01:42:18):
think about the interior, you know, the guard position, the center,
you know, it's maybe it's not working exactly the way
they wanted to, but maybe they see it's coming. You know,
it's getting better each week. But that's where I thought
they were going to go. But I'll take the receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
I'll take the receiver.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
No, you had Brent Jones and Jerry Rice and John
Taylor and Roger Craig and Tom Rathman, and yet you
know you had Rinaldo Neamayah to the group. Did you
have Rinaldo ne Amayah.

Speaker 9 (01:42:46):
No, No, he was he was out before I got there.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Who Mike Girard? Did you have Mike?

Speaker 9 (01:42:55):
Yeah, we had him, yep. If he got me in
a lot of trouble. I'll tell you one quick story.
We're playing the Bears in my last year in Green Bay,
and I had players that I coach in college that
were playing for the Bears, and we beat them in
the last game. They were going to the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (01:43:11):
We were not.

Speaker 9 (01:43:12):
And uh, the quarterback called a pass play. We were
beating him badly, and in the last thirty seconds he
called a pass play for a touchdown to Mike Girard.
After the game, I didn't call the play. I was
on the sideline. He audibled to the play, and the
players that I had came streaming over me. We thought,
you knew, we knew you. What are you doing these?

(01:43:33):
I said, I didn't call the play. As it turns out,
Mike Schirard needed that for a big bonus. So he
got into the huddle and he goes, Billy's coach in
the league, throw me the ball. I need the ball.
And that's what they did, and it put me in jail.

Speaker 6 (01:43:48):
Yep, it did.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
You have a Mike Gerard story ready to tell? Do
you have a do you have a Ronaldo nami? Because
my guest says, you wouldn't have wanted just a track
guy to try learn football on your watch.

Speaker 9 (01:44:02):
No, but I heard the story. I heard, I'll tell
you one quick one. And when I got there, of
course he was, you know, he was Bill Walsh would
take chances on players. We had a couple of defensive
linemen that were track guys, discus throwers, and they never
played defensive line, but he liked that kind of stuff
and so they were good players who turned out. Ronaldo
was a good receiver and then in a game he

(01:44:23):
just got clocked by a safety or a linebacker. You know,
he was running the slant and whammo, he got hit over.
We're back in the track, we're running the relays.

Speaker 6 (01:44:33):
We're not doing this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
I've never once got crushed by a safety running a
four by one hundred relay.

Speaker 9 (01:44:41):
So all you got to do is drop the baton
and then you're in trouble. You're not gonna get hit.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
All right, Coach, Well, enjoy Sunday. We'll talk to you
on Monday, and always appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:44:52):
All right, guys, take care, have a good weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
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