November 21, 2025 • 35 mins
Early morning driving struggles are real! The parity in the NFL is out of control this season. Last night the Texans beat the Bills and the defense dominated. The Bills struggles are just another example of teams playing inconsistent football and at this point, we have no idea who the great teams really are. :30- ICYMI Rick Neuheisel: we chatted with Coach on Tuesday and revisit the part of the conversation focused on the big matchups this weekend. :45- The Seahawks head to Nashville this weekend to face the Titans and we give our keys to a Seahawks victory, no cliches allowed!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh, good morning, and welcome in. Happy Friday to you.
That is right, it is a Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We did make it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Ashley Ryan, Bucky Jacobson and Chuck Powell with you. It's
a football Friday around these here parts. Sponsored by Tito's
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volume Saber Responsibly. And yes, we've got lots of football
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to discuss here on the radio program here today, and
so we welcome you into the show. And I really
don't like to make a habit of talking about the
drive in. I mean, sometimes though, that's the freshest thing
on your mind, is the drive in to work, and
so sometimes it just happens. I think I have catapulted
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to the top of the list the most annoying drivers,
and I don't think they get enough credit for this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh or blame depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
This one never gets pointed out in the bad driver category.
But it's the person when you are stuck behind and
you can't get around either an accident or like one
of those oversized loads that's taken up two lanes, and
so everybody's stuck driving like fifteen miles per hour for
this long stretch of time. And then you finally break
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out and you emerge and you've got the window to
get out of there, and the person in front of
you still wants to drive like twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That person, that is everybody else on the highway is like.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I free finally like in it hammers down the gas
pedal and tries to speed and catch up time. And
then there's that one person you don't want to get
stuck behind that emerges out of the pack and drives
like five miles per hour faster than.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What we were all driving before. It's definitely blame. It's
not credit.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's definitely blame.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I used to put the person who, like late at night,
when you're going down a side street, like a surface street,
you know, and you're like, you and the person that's
getting ready to pull out on the side street are
like the only two people.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
On the road, and they still pull out in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
They can't wait like one second to try to avoid
not having an act.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They're like, there's no way I'm waiting one and a.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Half seconds for this person to pass me when I
could go right now and maybe avoid a car collision.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, that used to be my number one person, But
after today, I think I've I'm not given enough blame
to the person that escapes the stuck in trasition and
decides I'm just gonna drive just a little bit faster than.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
We all just were forced to drive.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Felt really comfortable back there, you know, I think thirty
on the freeways, it just feels right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The further left I do this, it's really fun.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, And you're you know, you still don't have the
open way to get into all four lanes, and you're
just like, are.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You kidding me?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, we are finally out from behind this guy, and
you've decided to go from fifteen miles per hour to
nineteen miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of all the bad drivers, that one's not going to
be up at the top of my list.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But that's because it's it. It's like Nascar.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
The green light just opened and that guy is gone
in my opinion, and you were gone, and it might
be if you can just you can almost sense it too,
because they're the ones that as it starts to open up,
nobody can switch lane yet, but you can see the
opening the head and they're just like, n I'm really
lucking this right now. And I'm like, whole the first
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second that there is fourteen feet between me and another car,
I am around you.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I really like the person that drives all the way
up and then gets in front of you, even though
there's one hundred yards behind you, Like.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You're yeah, you're yeh, got like a normal.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Amount of car length between you and the person in
front of you with a safe amount, And they're.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like, and you're the last person in the line.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
And they're like, so I got to get in front
of you. It's like, and it's your job to let
me in here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah. I had one of those today too. Yeah, yeah,
I don't get that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because we had an accident and sure enough, I just
like scream up there and try to squeeze in and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Like they're dude, there's a lot of room behind me. Yeah,
you could have taken all of that. Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, yeah, oh man, drivers, good morning, Welcome into the
radio program. And we don't even have to deal with
the congestion. I mean, that's the one benefit about this
shift is that we have fewer drivers. We don't ever
get caught in rush hour traffic. But man, you should
see some of these turns in the morning if you're
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just now waking up.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, it is something. All right, Well we get started
here on this Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sorry to veer off into that, but man, we do
come fresh off the roads, and so sometimes you just.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Can't resist talking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, let's get into the National Football League. Very interesting
that we have a game this week that the Seahawks
are involved in that should be a blowout. Almost everybody
is predicting a blowout. I mean it's a thirteen and
a half point spread, which I think I heard that's
largest points spread the Seahawks have ever had for a
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road game in franchise history at thirteen and a half points.
And yet people are expecting them to obliterate the thirteen
and a half points, and they probably should, but man,
it sure is something. I mean, after watching that game
last night, I mean, the Buffalo Bills, the Houston Texans
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just look like animals out there on the field, just
devouring everything that Josh Allen and the Bills are trying
to do. And this is a team that really the
Seahawks weren't given much credit for beating in Houston. Well,
if Buffalo's supposed to be one of the best teams
in the National Football League, maybe Houston's not so bad.
Maybe that's not so soft to win. I mean, they
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even had CJ. Stroud at the time that we face
the Houston Texans. I guess what my point is is
that parody's sort of running wild in the National Football League.
Even in college football, the gap has closed. Alabama, Georgia, others,
they're just not dominating college football the way they were
before the nil period came here. But in the National
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Football League, anybody that's just resigning themselves to thinking Buffalo
looks like a world champion and then three weeks later,
Buffalo looks like they're not even going to make the playoffs.
I think that's where we are with the National Football League.
Que pointed it out last night or yesterday on the
round table, like there aren't any teams in the National
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Football League that are dominating every single quality opponent that
they face. You usually go five hundred against them, and
then you whip up on those that are struggling. The
lesser thans in the National Football League. That seems to
be where we are. And just because one team looks
on top of the world one week, two weeks later,
just wait, they're probably going to be questioned whether or
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not they can even.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Remember the Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to be looking
like the Kansas City Chiefs Again.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, they've lost two straight games.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They're five and five, and some people are saying it's
a must win this weekend against the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I don't know why it feels particularly parite ish this year,
but it certainly does. Nobody seems to be just in,
locked in. They all seem to be behind that double
size load and trying to emerge from behind it and
hoping that they can hit the gas pedal on the
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other side, and they're just running into more traffic on
the other side of that double load.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It felt like this season that the the undefeated team
went away quicker than normal, right, and felt like, I mean,
I don't know what it was. We're Week three or
four or something where it was like, all of a sudden,
there was no more undefeated teams. So that it to
me feels like there's been no one that is no
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one I mean not. I don't think the Broncos are
in that category. I don't think the Eagles or even
in that category, you know, the I don't think the
Patriots or Colts are in that category of look at
how amazing this team has looked from start to finish, right,
I mean, right now, you would figure there would be
a team that would be, you know, ten and oh.
I mean there's a lot of times that you do
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have a team's ten and oh, or at least if
they weren't ten and oh, they were eight to o
or nine and oh at some point in time, and
yet you haven't seen that. And so I feel like
there's not a giant, top heavy part of it. So
there's a whole bunch of teams on that are kind
of in that top to middle and you could rank them,
and then there's a group that are down at the box,
like the Titans, yea, that are just like, Okay, you
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have to beat these guys, and you should beat them handedly.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And then I think there's a couple of teams that
kind of will can bounce in and out of that, right.
I mean, I think the Raiders are not good, but
you might want to watch out. They could go out
there that they're bad, well, but they could they could
go out there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I'm just telling you that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Divisional football, like, you can lose to anybody on any week,
but I would definitely put the Raiders in the bad
category that you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, bad category.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I'm just saying that there's a couple of teams that
basically are in the either the haves or the have nots,
that from time time can jump out of their skin
and all of a sudden play with somebody that's in
the other category.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And vice versa for football, vice versa.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I think that there's teams this year that more so
that in than in recent years that I can remember
that that are will play down to their competition. Typically,
if you're a Super Bowl contender, you don't end up
playing down to your competition. But the Bills not so
much yesterday, because I think the Texans defense is legit,
and that's basically what kind of controlled the game yesterday.
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I mean, they were harassing Josh Allen the entire time,
but the way in which they lost to Miami, which
Miami is one of those teams it's bad, but they
have some talent. Then every once in a while they
showed up and and the and they played better than
a team that probably overlooked them or played down to them,
which I don't understand considering being a division foe. But yeah,
to me, it feels like there's teams that don't necessarily
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they're not necessary themselves all the time. You know, they don't.
They don't play like how they're capable. To me, I
don't feel like, oh, wow, the Bills, are they any good? No,
I think they're still Super Bowl contender, but I just
think right.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Now they're not.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But they but there's no reason to think they can't
rebound in a couple of weeks and look like they
are again.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I think I think that's what the SEA. I
think that's what the NFL is right now.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Well, and I think the interesting thing is too you
look at the Patriots or you look at the Colts,
and these teams that they're everyone's waiting for them to
show their true colors, right, Everyone's like, this record's not real,
this is this is fake. You know they're gonna who
have they played? They're gonna lose their schedules hard.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
But I don't know, are they real?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I have no idea, And that makes it so hard
each week to try to look at these matchups. You're like,
is this the week they're going to show their true
colors and lose? Because everyone says that's what's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I think that they certainly are the overachieving teams,
but and I think they're all good.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I think that they are all.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Better than what the national average conversation was. Certainly I
didn't give Indianapolis as much credit as what they deserved.
And New England and Denver I think are pretty similar stories.
Both with second year quarterbacks. They're not exactly lighting things
up offensively, but Denver as a great defense that's leading
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them week in and week out, and they're just they're
doing just enough to win games. And so I think
that they have good consistent products those three.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But honestly, I.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Mean, does that should any of those three teams scare
you if you're in the AFC playoffs, if you're the
Buffalo Bills and you get in as a wildcard, you
don't win the division. New England ends up running away
with it because you're wildly inconsistent. Are the Buffalo Bills
shaking in their boots over having to go to any
of those three teams and play in the playoffs. I
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don't think there's a great team in the National Football League,
even the defending champions, who are eight and two. The
call about the description of the Philadelphia Eagles this year
is they're not good at anything except winning games.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean, think about that description.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I mean that's insane, and I do think they're playing
great defense this year, but the offense looks completely broken.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
They just they look.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Terrible, but they still figure out ways to win games.
I don't think maybe the Rams.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But then again, as I've said throughout this week, I
think we uplayd the Rams and lost by two on
the road.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Because of a punt that went out at the one
yard line, or because Sam Darnold threw one more interception
than he should have, or whatever, one play away from
beating the Rams in Los Angeles, and yet they've probably
looked as consistently great as any team in.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The National Football League.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So I don't know if this is something's just going
to continue in perpetuity or if it's just special to
twenty twenty five. But it just doesn't feel like there's
a great team in the National Football League right now.
But wait a couple of weeks, because teams like Buffalo
and Kansas City and Tampa Bay and Philadelphia weeks from
now might look great. It kind of feels like whoever
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is peaking at the right time is going to end
up winning the Super Bowl and we have no idea
none as to who that's.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Going to be. Yeah, that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I mean, it's always that the who's peaking at the
right time, who's getting hot when it matters most, That's
always the case. And yet it's this year does feel like, well,
who's that going to be? And I think the large
part of that is because teams like Indianapolis or Denver
or the Bears, those aren't teams that anybody was thinking
was necessarily going to be on top of their conference.
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You know, most certainly they weren't. I mean, I I
heard Broungovan, I thought's I think the defense is legit,
but I think bo Nick still has some learning to do,
and I still think it is that's why they're not
rolling people on a regular basis, is because bo Nicks
is still making some mistakes that a guy that's only
a couple of years into the league will make. But yeah,
it just seems odd to me. And then those that
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are the haves, those that the Eagles defending champs, and
you know, the and the Ravens and teams that you
just were almost automatically assuming they're going to be great
and they were for sure going to be in the mix,
they've played down a little bit and they've found ways
to lose games that typically they find a way to win.
It's a It is interesting because some of the teams
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that you thought for sure were going to be on
top of the heap are just kind of middling around
right now. And it's typically because they're losing to some
of those names I mentioned earlier, or names that shouldn't
even be in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And I think in past years we would sit there
and we would say, hey, Buffalo's not as good as
what we thought, and you would kind of bury them,
but not not today, not in today's game, because two
weeks from now, I mean maybe they're flying high again,
maybe by the playoffs if they could squeeze in, but
be playing the best football in the National Football League.
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I mean, think about Baltimore kind of started the season
as a team that people thought was the best, and
then one in five and now they're right back to
five hundred, even though they're not even playing well, they're
still not clicking.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tampa Bay. Five weeks ago, Baker.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Mayfield was the MVP of the National Football League and
they've since lost all of his weapons, and now they
seem to be struggling six and four. But you're telling
me they couldn't beat the Rams in Los Angeles Sunday night.
You better believe they could beat the Law and then
we'll start talking about the Buccaneers favorably again.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, the Seahawks and.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
The Colts are both averaging over thirty points per game
this year. The Seahawks were mentioned nationally as maybe the
best team in the NFL going into that Rams week.
So it's like different teams have taken turns this year
being called the best team in the National Football League.
And I think they're about twelve that by the end
of the season could end up being But right now
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we don't have a clue. I mean, the Green Bay
Packers look terrible right now. At one point earlier this
year they were the best team in the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Right, Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It makes the confidence pool I do every week really
hard to predict.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
You have to just guess on one upset if you
want to win, basically it.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't think you can have much confidence right
now thinking hey, wow, I'm a Rams fan, We're a
flying I right now we're going to rattle off ten
straight and win it all.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
No, not a lot of confidence in any team.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I don't think you can feel that way. I
think this is good. This is like the most wait.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And see kind of season that I can ever remember
as a fan of the National Football League. And I
do expect the Bills at some point to be back
playing dominant football again. But right now they don't look
like a playoff team. They that did not look like
a playoff.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Team last night just didn't. They didn't last night.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
But to me, it's I just two of the last
three weeks, well, I think the last four weeks they
beat Kansas City, then got smoked by Miami, then beat
Tampa Bay, and then lost last night. To me, it's
just the jekylin Hyde. I feel like they they sometimes
they show up and play the way they're cable, and
other times they owned. Yesterday was one where I think
Houston just kind of smacked him in the mouth and
they never recovered.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
Friday show.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
What's on tap, what's untapped?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I have never been more sure that a person was
seriously injured and then turns out he's not injured at
all than what Josh Allen was.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Like I thought he we all thought he broke his wrist.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I I'll put it this way.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
It was one of those situations where I didn't want
to see the replay because I thought we were going
to see like a Jade and Daniel something grewsome thing,
And then I'm like, oh, that doesn't look so bad.
He must have separated his shoulder. He was kicking his
legs on the field like immediately, like kicking his legs.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
When they went to show the replay, I put my
hands up, like watch. I was like, I don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't want to. I thought for sure. I'm like,
we just lost the most entertaining football player in the
game and he didn't even sit out of play. Nope,
it's crazy. I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Seahawks will play the Tennessee Titans at ten am on Sunday.
Indianapolis Kansas City might be the most interesting game of
the weekend that'll take place in week number twelve of
the NFL. Week number thirteen of the college football season.
USC and Oregon might take the crown for the most
fascinating matchup that'll kick off at twelve thirty on Saturday.
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You dub will be in Los Angeles. It is a
night game against the Bruins. Seven point thirty is your
kickoff there. The Honks will get things started at three
thirty right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
You Dubbed Soccer had a banner night, greatest night in
the history of the U dub soccer programs. They both
won tournament games last night. The women advanced to the
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Sweet sixteen a beautiful one on one breakaway goal for
the only goal of the entire match.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So you dub women are in.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
The Sweet sixteen. They will take on number one seed
virgin on Sunday, and the men's team beat the Beavers
in the first round of the playoff of the tournament
three to two. They will also play on Sunday, so
they both played yesterday, they will both play on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
That's fun.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I thought for some reason that the nctwoa A tournament
didn't start till December fifth, when we were talking about
them winning the Big Ten, but it must be when
the championship is is December fifth, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, cracking three two winners over the Blackhawks, and that's
a heck of a win. It's a road win in
which they were trailing two to nothing after two periods
in that game, but they rallied to win it by
a final score of three to two. Jaden Schwartz ends
up with the game winning goal. And we'll find some
time today to talk stove as well, heading into what
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is looking like an already turned on stove, which it
usually doesn't get clicked on this early, not these days.
But maybe the Mariners are close to another move. We'll
discuss that at some point during our four hours together.
Plus you Millan Mike Holmer and Greg Bell. They'll all
be with us, but coming up next in case you missed,
at Rick new Eiel on This Week in College Football
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Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M,
Fire Happy Briday, Chuck Pile, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson, and
Ashley Ryan with you here on a football Friday. Yes,
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we've got plenty of Seahawks and Titans to discuss, So
later with Greg Bell at seven o five, Hugh Millon
at nine o'clock, Mike Holmgren at nine to thirty. Actually
has got to get away day. She's gonna get out
of here before Mike Holmgren joins.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Us on sad I love, saying to coach, maybe that's.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The last thing you can do.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Yeah, just stay hi in the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And then you can leave. Just wanted to stick around.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It, just wanted to stay hi.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I hope he gets bad at you about it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He will.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to like you too as much
as he likes me.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Is that wrong? Yeah, That's what I've picked up on.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
No, he likes me.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, I thought for sure it was me one, Ashley
two and Kid three.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean, you're closer there probably.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I think Kid is third. Rick new Eiel, on the
other hand, Ashley didn't care to stick around talk to coach,
especially when he's on recorded.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So every Friday we find a time in the show
to replace some of our conversation from Tuesday with Rick
new Heisel joins us every Tuesday at nine o'clock. Today,
we're just going to chop up the portion of the
best games that are heading into this thirteenth week of
the college football season, and we'll pick it up at
the very top, because I don't think there's a more
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interesting game than USC versus Oregon in Eugene on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And Coach tends to agree.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
This is going to be a great contest because they
have played gritty this year. You got to give Lincoln
credit for what they've done to kind of make themselves
a little bit more physical from a standpoint of running
the football. They've won a couple of basic ground and
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pound type of games against both Michigan and last week
against Iowa. And when you win those kind of games,
you put yourself in position to play for big prizes.
And that's exactly what will take place in Eugene and
give the Ducks credit to They went to Kinnick Stadium
and beat Iowa in Iowa weather and basically held served
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and did so again last week against Minnesota on a
Friday night. So this is going to be a great game.
I think Oregon has the advantage. I think Oregon's probably
a little bit more talented except at the wide receiver position.
But if Dante Moore plays like he did against Minnesota,
I'm gonna take the Ducks.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
And of course that's on CBS on Okay, all right,
I got the big one there. All right, how's this
ACC going to shake out? And will Georgia Tech versus
Pitt have a say in that?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Big time? Pitt gets to write their own story here
at the end. Now, they've laid an egg against Notre
Dame last week, but if they can beat Georgia Tech,
and Georgia Tech's defense has given up massive chunks of yardage.
So if this Mason Hinchel, that freshman quarterback, can have
a day again and they can beat Georgia Tech at
Georgia Tech, then they'll get to play Miami the next
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week to get a chance to be in the SEC
excuse me, ACC Championship Virginia has a clear path. They
just have Virginia Tech. They get this week off, they
get Virginia Tech next week. But they've struggled against Virginia
Tech over the a long time. And you know who's
sneaking around the chicken coop is SMU. SMU only has
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one loss. They get Louisville at home this week. Louisville
lost again last week to Clemson, so they're out. But
if they knock off Louisville, then they're going to go
to cal to try to also be in that number
that can be playing in Charlotte. So much still to
be determined in the ACC, and there's only going to
be one team that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Emerges, Cincinnati BYU. Is that a playoff game in essence?
Or Cincinnati do they have too big of a hurdle
to overcome?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Cincinnati can get there. If Cincinnati knocks off BYU, that
gives BYU the second loss in the conference, and that
makes Cincinnati on par and they would own the tiebreaker. Unfortunately,
Cincinnati lost the Utah so then other things come into play.
And I haven't done all that math yet, but Utah
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is hoping like heck that Cincinnati can pull this off.
So they can get themselves another chance at the Red Raiders.
But beat if you're Brett, your Mark and the commissioner
of the league, you want BYU to get to Arlington
against Texas Tech because those two teams, I think, regardless
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of the outcome, would both get into the playoff.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Ring new Isel our College Football inside of the former
UDUB ed coach, he breaks down U dub's game of
UCLA for us. A little bit later on the show,
we will throw that into the ochow at eight o'clock.
But man, it's really some fascinating stuff. I don't think
there's much time left for conference championship games. I don't
think they're going to survive this new tournament era. But
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for now we have them, and they tend to go,
and they go to the top two teams. I mean,
we don't have divisions anymore, so it's just the top
two teams from the regular season and some couple of
really interesting races. Because the ACC, for example, Miami's best
shot at getting to the tournament is winning the ACC.
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Coach said, you win the ACC or you don't make it.
I don't know if that's one hundred percent sure, because
you still have that.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Miami Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
If Miami could finish out the regular season with the
same record for Notre Dame, they keep inching up the
College Football playoff rankings, and maybe maybe there is a
conversation if you're talking about two ten and two teams,
does Miami somehow get there? But if they make the
conference championship game and they've got hurdles to it right now,
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they're fifth, so they and they lose the tiebreaker to
SMU because they lost SMU, that's one of the teams
that they trail in the conference. Obviously, the best path
to the tournament is win the conference championship, but their
second best path is probably not to make the conference
championship game at allow because if you lose the conference
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championship game, then you have no chance of leapfrogging Notre Dame,
where maybe there's a chance to leapfrog them if you
finish the season ten and two and the committee thinks
you were the best team in the ACC and you
did beat Notre Dame head to head and you didn't
lose a stinker game at the end of the regular
seas that taints your your your resume even further.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, if you end up getting
there and then you are, you basically have that opportunity.
I mean I would I would much rather get there
and then try my hand at it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
If you lose.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
If you lose and then it comes back to haunting,
you're like, man, what would have happened? Right well, crystal Ball,
what would have happened if we just didn't make it
and then everything else played out the way that it
plays out, and you maybe would have made it. And
yet I know the last thing you want to do
is leave it into the committee's hand.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well yeah, I mean obviously you're going to try to
keep it in your hands and win it all. I'm
just saying, like in big pictures, step away from it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's probably better for them.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
The second best route is probably for them not to
make the conference championship game at all. Then you look
at the SEC and everybody thinks, oh man, Alabama is
in trouble. Alabama is the team in the SEC that
actually controls its own destiny. If Alabama beats Auburn, they're in,
and they only have one conference loss, and they beat
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Georgia head to head, and they win all tiebreakers against
Ole Miss. So the only thing they don't have a
tiebreaker over is Texas A and M because they're undefeated.
But if Texas A and M loses to Texas next week,
Alabama even jumps them. So Alabama actually is in fantastic
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position to make the tournament because they play a cream
puff this week and Auburn's not any good this year.
So Alabama, despite their tumble from last week and despite
having a bad out of conference loss to Florida State,
actually are in great position to win it. And yet
a lot of people think that they're on the on
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the on the ledge of maybe getting left out by
the committee. No, Alabama kind of controls its own destiny
as well. All they got to do is win their
next game against Auburn, and Alabama's in the conference championship game.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
The way in which the committee it looks like they're
doing things right now when they're rnking teams is like,
how bad are your losses?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And they compare that to other stuff. Well, once the
entire resumes of these guys are coming out, then they're
gonna put the full gravity of how good are your wins?
And the fact that they beat Georgia is a big one.
I mean that's gonna weigh heavy in their favor because
Georgia's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Georgia's right up there. I mean, they're they're one of
the top teams.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I think everybody knows that, regardless of how that game went,
and if you beat them head to head, then it's
gonna it's gonna carry a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I don't know though, if it's gonna be a committee decision,
because if they I think, they control their own destiny
to get to the conference championship game, they win it,
they're obviously in. But if they lose, now they've got
three losses, now you do. I mean, it's gonna be
hard to be a three.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Loss team and to get into the tournament this year.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So I think the best news for Alabama is that
they control their own destiny. The bad news is you
better not lose a game, you know, down the stretch,
because then you're not getting in or potentially might not
get in. All right, Coming up next, no cliche Keys
to victory for you on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
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That's right, we give you a key to a Seahawks
victory against the Tennessee Titans this week without using the
old cliches. You know, all three phases, winning the trenches,
win the turnover battle, that all that garbage. So we
have to be unique and different and specific with our
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keys to victory.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Bucket, show us how it's done.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I kind of feel like it would almost have to
be a cliche in order for them to not win
this ballgame, like they would have to turn it over
five times or something. But I'm just going to say,
just the defense, just continue to play the way you are.
I mean, the defense has been good against good teams,
good offensive teams. Last week was another one of the
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situations where you come out of that game you weren't
feeling bad about that side of the ball. I mean,
if there was anything, it was the Sam Darnold situation.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
To me.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
The defense went went toe to toe and basically outmatched
a Rams offense. This is like the exact opposite of
the Rams offense. This is if you just go out
there and you can impose your will on these guys,
I think you can just kind of make them cower
a little bit and maybe tuck their tail by halftime.
And so I'm just going to say, just in general,
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just defense. Just keep playing the way you have been.
It shouldn't be too terribly difficult, but you got to
go out there and do it right off the bat
and kind of just let them know that you're there
to play hardball.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And if they do that, I think that they run
away with this thing.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, Titans are last, and points scored last, and rushing
yards last and sacks allowed. Rookie quarterback's been running for
his life all season long in cam Ward and now
he has to go up against the Mike McDonald mind
on defense, not to mention a very talented defense as well. Yeah, well,
I think I had two key he's written down.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
One of them was just keeping cam Ward confused, and
I think that speaks to Bucky's point, Ashley.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
What's your key to victory? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
I had two as well, in defense obviously being one,
especially if they're going to have the shutout like Greg
predicted yesterday, So you got to have the defense there.
But I'm going to go with the offensive line and
just the uncertainties that we've got there, just to be
a little different, right.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Sam Darnold had a rough game last week.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
He was pressured quite a bit, so I think if
we can get these guys that are going to be
kind of pluck, you know, band aids to our for
our current offensive line situation, if they can step up
protect Sam, I'd like to see him be able to
have a very good game and kind of leave last
week's game in the past.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, if there's anybody on the Tennessee Titans team that's
good to great, it's Jeffrey Simmons.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
And now all of a sudden, you're going to be
starting with three interior offensive linemen that are backups. Yeah,
and so that creates quite the whole I mean, if
ever there a week and this will be my key
where it's good that we're talking about Ken Walker so
much this week.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
This is the week he needs to go out. Just domin. Yes,
please take some heat off.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Of Sam Donald and just establish yourself with the run
outside zone.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It run away from Jeffrey Simmons. If you have to
ola with.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Timmy's better in the run block game than he is
the pass block game. It would be nice to keep
the Titans from being able to put pressure on Sam
Donald up the middle because they can't do anything to
stop our run game. So a lot of talk about
let's just hand over the running game to ken Walker
this week.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Let's just hand over the run game to ken Walker
this week. Hopefully he runs wild and Sam Donald only
has to throw like twelve times this week to kind
of get him back on track. So I'm just gonna say,
ken Walker being what we want in Walker to be
is going to be my no cliche keat of victory,
Greg Bell, that's right. He he predicted a shutout? How
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many times? Yeah, we hear a analyst predicting a shutout
in an NFL game. That's how dominant he expects the
defense to be this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
We'll talk to him next.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
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to discuss here on the radio program here today, and
so we welcome you into the show. And I really
don't like to make a habit of talking about the
drive in. I mean, sometimes though, that's the freshest thing
on your mind, is the drive in to work, and
so sometimes it just happens. I think I have catapulted
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to the top of the list the most annoying drivers,
and I don't think they get enough credit for this.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh or blame depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
This one never gets pointed out in the bad driver category.
But it's the person when you are stuck behind and
you can't get around either an accident or like one
of those oversized loads that's taken up two lanes, and
so everybody's stuck driving like fifteen miles per hour for
this long stretch of time. And then you finally break
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out and you emerge and you've got the window to
get out of there, and the person in front of
you still wants to drive like twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That person, that is everybody else on the highway is like.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I free finally like in it hammers down the gas
pedal and tries to speed and catch up time. And
then there's that one person you don't want to get
stuck behind that emerges out of the pack and drives
like five miles per hour faster than.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What we were all driving before. It's definitely blame. It's
not credit.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's definitely blame.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I used to put the person who, like late at night,
when you're going down a side street, like a surface street,
you know, and you're like, you and the person that's
getting ready to pull out on the side street are
like the only two people.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
On the road, and they still pull out in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
They can't wait like one second to try to avoid
not having an act.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They're like, there's no way I'm waiting one and a.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Half seconds for this person to pass me when I
could go right now and maybe avoid a car collision.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, that used to be my number one person, But
after today, I think I've I'm not given enough blame
to the person that escapes the stuck in trasition and
decides I'm just gonna drive just a little bit faster than.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
We all just were forced to drive.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Felt really comfortable back there, you know, I think thirty
on the freeways, it just feels right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The further left I do this, it's really fun.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, And you're you know, you still don't have the
open way to get into all four lanes, and you're
just like, are.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You kidding me?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, we are finally out from behind this guy, and
you've decided to go from fifteen miles per hour to
nineteen miles per hour.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Of all the bad drivers, that one's not going to
be up at the top of my list.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But that's because it's it. It's like Nascar.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
The green light just opened and that guy is gone
in my opinion, and you were gone, and it might
be if you can just you can almost sense it too,
because they're the ones that as it starts to open up,
nobody can switch lane yet, but you can see the
opening the head and they're just like, n I'm really
lucking this right now. And I'm like, whole the first
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second that there is fourteen feet between me and another car,
I am around you.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I really like the person that drives all the way
up and then gets in front of you, even though
there's one hundred yards behind you, Like.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
You're yeah, you're yeh, got like a normal.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Amount of car length between you and the person in
front of you with a safe amount, And they're.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like, and you're the last person in the line.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
And they're like, so I got to get in front
of you. It's like, and it's your job to let
me in here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah. I had one of those today too. Yeah, yeah,
I don't get that, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because we had an accident and sure enough, I just
like scream up there and try to squeeze in and it's.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Like they're dude, there's a lot of room behind me. Yeah,
you could have taken all of that. Yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, yeah, oh man, drivers, good morning, Welcome into the
radio program. And we don't even have to deal with
the congestion. I mean, that's the one benefit about this
shift is that we have fewer drivers. We don't ever
get caught in rush hour traffic. But man, you should
see some of these turns in the morning if you're
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just now waking up.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Wow, it is something. All right, Well we get started
here on this Friday.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sorry to veer off into that, but man, we do
come fresh off the roads, and so sometimes you just.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Can't resist talking about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, let's get into the National Football League. Very interesting
that we have a game this week that the Seahawks
are involved in that should be a blowout. Almost everybody
is predicting a blowout. I mean it's a thirteen and
a half point spread, which I think I heard that's
largest points spread the Seahawks have ever had for a
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road game in franchise history at thirteen and a half points.
And yet people are expecting them to obliterate the thirteen
and a half points, and they probably should, but man,
it sure is something. I mean, after watching that game
last night, I mean, the Buffalo Bills, the Houston Texans
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just look like animals out there on the field, just
devouring everything that Josh Allen and the Bills are trying
to do. And this is a team that really the
Seahawks weren't given much credit for beating in Houston. Well,
if Buffalo's supposed to be one of the best teams
in the National Football League, maybe Houston's not so bad.
Maybe that's not so soft to win. I mean, they
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even had CJ. Stroud at the time that we face
the Houston Texans. I guess what my point is is
that parody's sort of running wild in the National Football League.
Even in college football, the gap has closed. Alabama, Georgia, others,
they're just not dominating college football the way they were
before the nil period came here. But in the National
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Football League, anybody that's just resigning themselves to thinking Buffalo
looks like a world champion and then three weeks later,
Buffalo looks like they're not even going to make the playoffs.
I think that's where we are with the National Football League.
Que pointed it out last night or yesterday on the
round table, like there aren't any teams in the National
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Football League that are dominating every single quality opponent that
they face. You usually go five hundred against them, and
then you whip up on those that are struggling. The
lesser thans in the National Football League. That seems to
be where we are. And just because one team looks
on top of the world one week, two weeks later,
just wait, they're probably going to be questioned whether or
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not they can even.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Make the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Remember the Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to be looking
like the Kansas City Chiefs Again.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, they've lost two straight games.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
They're five and five, and some people are saying it's
a must win this weekend against the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I don't know why it feels particularly parite ish this year,
but it certainly does. Nobody seems to be just in,
locked in. They all seem to be behind that double
size load and trying to emerge from behind it and
hoping that they can hit the gas pedal on the
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other side, and they're just running into more traffic on
the other side of that double load.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
It felt like this season that the the undefeated team
went away quicker than normal, right, and felt like, I mean,
I don't know what it was. We're Week three or
four or something where it was like, all of a sudden,
there was no more undefeated teams. So that it to
me feels like there's been no one that is no
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one I mean not. I don't think the Broncos are
in that category. I don't think the Eagles or even
in that category, you know, the I don't think the
Patriots or Colts are in that category of look at
how amazing this team has looked from start to finish, right,
I mean, right now, you would figure there would be
a team that would be, you know, ten and oh.
I mean there's a lot of times that you do
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have a team's ten and oh, or at least if
they weren't ten and oh, they were eight to o
or nine and oh at some point in time, and
yet you haven't seen that. And so I feel like
there's not a giant, top heavy part of it. So
there's a whole bunch of teams on that are kind
of in that top to middle and you could rank them,
and then there's a group that are down at the box,
like the Titans, yea, that are just like, Okay, you
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have to beat these guys, and you should beat them handedly.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And then I think there's a couple of teams that
kind of will can bounce in and out of that, right.
I mean, I think the Raiders are not good, but
you might want to watch out. They could go out
there that they're bad, well, but they could they could
go out there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I'm just telling you that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Divisional football, like, you can lose to anybody on any week,
but I would definitely put the Raiders in the bad
category that you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, bad category.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I'm just saying that there's a couple of teams that
basically are in the either the haves or the have nots,
that from time time can jump out of their skin
and all of a sudden play with somebody that's in
the other category.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And vice versa for football, vice versa.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I think that there's teams this year that more so
that in than in recent years that I can remember
that that are will play down to their competition. Typically,
if you're a Super Bowl contender, you don't end up
playing down to your competition. But the Bills not so
much yesterday, because I think the Texans defense is legit,
and that's basically what kind of controlled the game yesterday.
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I mean, they were harassing Josh Allen the entire time,
but the way in which they lost to Miami, which
Miami is one of those teams it's bad, but they
have some talent. Then every once in a while they
showed up and and the and they played better than
a team that probably overlooked them or played down to them,
which I don't understand considering being a division foe. But yeah,
to me, it feels like there's teams that don't necessarily
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they're not necessary themselves all the time. You know, they don't.
They don't play like how they're capable. To me, I
don't feel like, oh, wow, the Bills, are they any good? No,
I think they're still Super Bowl contender, but I just
think right.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Now they're not.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But they but there's no reason to think they can't
rebound in a couple of weeks and look like they
are again.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, I think I think that's what the SEA. I
think that's what the NFL is right now.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Well, and I think the interesting thing is too you
look at the Patriots or you look at the Colts,
and these teams that they're everyone's waiting for them to
show their true colors, right, Everyone's like, this record's not real,
this is this is fake. You know they're gonna who
have they played? They're gonna lose their schedules hard.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
But I don't know, are they real?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I have no idea, And that makes it so hard
each week to try to look at these matchups. You're like,
is this the week they're going to show their true
colors and lose? Because everyone says that's what's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, I think that they certainly are the overachieving teams,
but and I think they're all good.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, I think that they are all.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Better than what the national average conversation was. Certainly I
didn't give Indianapolis as much credit as what they deserved.
And New England and Denver I think are pretty similar stories.
Both with second year quarterbacks. They're not exactly lighting things
up offensively, but Denver as a great defense that's leading
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them week in and week out, and they're just they're
doing just enough to win games. And so I think
that they have good consistent products those three.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But honestly, I.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Mean, does that should any of those three teams scare
you if you're in the AFC playoffs, if you're the
Buffalo Bills and you get in as a wildcard, you
don't win the division. New England ends up running away
with it because you're wildly inconsistent. Are the Buffalo Bills
shaking in their boots over having to go to any
of those three teams and play in the playoffs. I
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don't think there's a great team in the National Football League,
even the defending champions, who are eight and two. The
call about the description of the Philadelphia Eagles this year
is they're not good at anything except winning games.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I mean, think about that description.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I mean that's insane, and I do think they're playing
great defense this year, but the offense looks completely broken.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
They just they look.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Terrible, but they still figure out ways to win games.
I don't think maybe the Rams.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But then again, as I've said throughout this week, I
think we uplayd the Rams and lost by two on
the road.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Because of a punt that went out at the one
yard line, or because Sam Darnold threw one more interception
than he should have, or whatever, one play away from
beating the Rams in Los Angeles, and yet they've probably
looked as consistently great as any team in.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
The National Football League.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So I don't know if this is something's just going
to continue in perpetuity or if it's just special to
twenty twenty five. But it just doesn't feel like there's
a great team in the National Football League right now.
But wait a couple of weeks, because teams like Buffalo
and Kansas City and Tampa Bay and Philadelphia weeks from
now might look great. It kind of feels like whoever
(14:04):
is peaking at the right time is going to end
up winning the Super Bowl and we have no idea
none as to who that's.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Going to be. Yeah, that's the difference.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I mean, it's always that the who's peaking at the
right time, who's getting hot when it matters most, That's
always the case. And yet it's this year does feel like, well,
who's that going to be? And I think the large
part of that is because teams like Indianapolis or Denver
or the Bears, those aren't teams that anybody was thinking
was necessarily going to be on top of their conference.
(14:35):
You know, most certainly they weren't. I mean, I I
heard Broungovan, I thought's I think the defense is legit,
but I think bo Nick still has some learning to do,
and I still think it is that's why they're not
rolling people on a regular basis, is because bo Nicks
is still making some mistakes that a guy that's only
a couple of years into the league will make. But yeah,
it just seems odd to me. And then those that
(14:55):
are the haves, those that the Eagles defending champs, and
you know, the and the Ravens and teams that you
just were almost automatically assuming they're going to be great
and they were for sure going to be in the mix,
they've played down a little bit and they've found ways
to lose games that typically they find a way to win.
It's a It is interesting because some of the teams
(15:16):
that you thought for sure were going to be on
top of the heap are just kind of middling around
right now. And it's typically because they're losing to some
of those names I mentioned earlier, or names that shouldn't
even be in the conversation.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And I think in past years we would sit there
and we would say, hey, Buffalo's not as good as
what we thought, and you would kind of bury them,
but not not today, not in today's game, because two
weeks from now, I mean maybe they're flying high again,
maybe by the playoffs if they could squeeze in, but
be playing the best football in the National Football League.
(15:49):
I mean, think about Baltimore kind of started the season
as a team that people thought was the best, and
then one in five and now they're right back to
five hundred, even though they're not even playing well, they're
still not clicking.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tampa Bay. Five weeks ago, Baker.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Mayfield was the MVP of the National Football League and
they've since lost all of his weapons, and now they
seem to be struggling six and four. But you're telling
me they couldn't beat the Rams in Los Angeles Sunday night.
You better believe they could beat the Law and then
we'll start talking about the Buccaneers favorably again.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I mean, the Seahawks and.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
The Colts are both averaging over thirty points per game
this year. The Seahawks were mentioned nationally as maybe the
best team in the NFL going into that Rams week.
So it's like different teams have taken turns this year
being called the best team in the National Football League.
And I think they're about twelve that by the end
of the season could end up being But right now
(16:50):
we don't have a clue. I mean, the Green Bay
Packers look terrible right now. At one point earlier this
year they were the best team in the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Right, Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
It makes the confidence pool I do every week really
hard to predict.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
You have to just guess on one upset if you
want to win, basically it.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, I don't think you can have much confidence right
now thinking hey, wow, I'm a Rams fan, We're a
flying I right now we're going to rattle off ten
straight and win it all.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
No, not a lot of confidence in any team.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, I don't think you can feel that way. I
think this is good. This is like the most wait.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And see kind of season that I can ever remember
as a fan of the National Football League. And I
do expect the Bills at some point to be back
playing dominant football again. But right now they don't look
like a playoff team. They that did not look like
a playoff.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Team last night just didn't. They didn't last night.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
But to me, it's I just two of the last
three weeks, well, I think the last four weeks they
beat Kansas City, then got smoked by Miami, then beat
Tampa Bay, and then lost last night. To me, it's
just the jekylin Hyde. I feel like they they sometimes
they show up and play the way they're cable, and
other times they owned. Yesterday was one where I think
Houston just kind of smacked him in the mouth and
they never recovered.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for today's
Friday show.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
What's on tap, what's untapped?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I have never been more sure that a person was
seriously injured and then turns out he's not injured at
all than what Josh Allen was.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Like I thought he we all thought he broke his wrist.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I I'll put it this way.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
It was one of those situations where I didn't want
to see the replay because I thought we were going
to see like a Jade and Daniel something grewsome thing,
And then I'm like, oh, that doesn't look so bad.
He must have separated his shoulder. He was kicking his
legs on the field like immediately, like kicking his legs.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
When they went to show the replay, I put my
hands up, like watch. I was like, I don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I didn't want to. I thought for sure. I'm like,
we just lost the most entertaining football player in the
game and he didn't even sit out of play. Nope,
it's crazy. I don't know what happened there.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Seahawks will play the Tennessee Titans at ten am on Sunday.
Indianapolis Kansas City might be the most interesting game of
the weekend that'll take place in week number twelve of
the NFL. Week number thirteen of the college football season.
USC and Oregon might take the crown for the most
fascinating matchup that'll kick off at twelve thirty on Saturday.
(19:25):
You dub will be in Los Angeles. It is a
night game against the Bruins. Seven point thirty is your
kickoff there. The Honks will get things started at three
thirty right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
You Dubbed Soccer had a banner night, greatest night in
the history of the U dub soccer programs. They both
won tournament games last night. The women advanced to the
(19:48):
Sweet sixteen a beautiful one on one breakaway goal for
the only goal of the entire match.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So you dub women are in.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
The Sweet sixteen. They will take on number one seed
virgin on Sunday, and the men's team beat the Beavers
in the first round of the playoff of the tournament
three to two. They will also play on Sunday, so
they both played yesterday, they will both play on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
That's fun.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I thought for some reason that the nctwoa A tournament
didn't start till December fifth, when we were talking about
them winning the Big Ten, but it must be when
the championship is is December fifth, I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, cracking three two winners over the Blackhawks, and that's
a heck of a win. It's a road win in
which they were trailing two to nothing after two periods
in that game, but they rallied to win it by
a final score of three to two. Jaden Schwartz ends
up with the game winning goal. And we'll find some
time today to talk stove as well, heading into what
(20:41):
is looking like an already turned on stove, which it
usually doesn't get clicked on this early, not these days.
But maybe the Mariners are close to another move. We'll
discuss that at some point during our four hours together.
Plus you Millan Mike Holmer and Greg Bell. They'll all
be with us, but coming up next in case you missed,
at Rick new Eiel on This Week in College Football
(21:02):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M,
Fire Happy Briday, Chuck Pile, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson, and
Ashley Ryan with you here on a football Friday. Yes,
(21:22):
we've got plenty of Seahawks and Titans to discuss, So
later with Greg Bell at seven o five, Hugh Millon
at nine o'clock, Mike Holmgren at nine to thirty. Actually
has got to get away day. She's gonna get out
of here before Mike Holmgren joins.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Us on sad I love, saying to coach, maybe that's.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The last thing you can do.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Yeah, just stay hi in the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And then you can leave. Just wanted to stick around.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It, just wanted to stay hi.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I hope he gets bad at you about it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He will.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, he doesn't seem to like you too as much
as he likes me.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Is that wrong? Yeah, That's what I've picked up on.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
No, he likes me.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeah, I thought for sure it was me one, Ashley
two and Kid three.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean, you're closer there probably.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I think Kid is third. Rick new Eiel, on the
other hand, Ashley didn't care to stick around talk to coach,
especially when he's on recorded.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So every Friday we find a time in the show
to replace some of our conversation from Tuesday with Rick
new Heisel joins us every Tuesday at nine o'clock. Today,
we're just going to chop up the portion of the
best games that are heading into this thirteenth week of
the college football season, and we'll pick it up at
the very top, because I don't think there's a more
(22:42):
interesting game than USC versus Oregon in Eugene on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And Coach tends to agree.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
This is going to be a great contest because they
have played gritty this year. You got to give Lincoln
credit for what they've done to kind of make themselves
a little bit more physical from a standpoint of running
the football. They've won a couple of basic ground and
(23:13):
pound type of games against both Michigan and last week
against Iowa. And when you win those kind of games,
you put yourself in position to play for big prizes.
And that's exactly what will take place in Eugene and
give the Ducks credit to They went to Kinnick Stadium
and beat Iowa in Iowa weather and basically held served
(23:36):
and did so again last week against Minnesota on a
Friday night. So this is going to be a great game.
I think Oregon has the advantage. I think Oregon's probably
a little bit more talented except at the wide receiver position.
But if Dante Moore plays like he did against Minnesota,
I'm gonna take the Ducks.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
And of course that's on CBS on Okay, all right,
I got the big one there. All right, how's this
ACC going to shake out? And will Georgia Tech versus
Pitt have a say in that?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Big time? Pitt gets to write their own story here
at the end. Now, they've laid an egg against Notre
Dame last week, but if they can beat Georgia Tech,
and Georgia Tech's defense has given up massive chunks of yardage.
So if this Mason Hinchel, that freshman quarterback, can have
a day again and they can beat Georgia Tech at
Georgia Tech, then they'll get to play Miami the next
(24:34):
week to get a chance to be in the SEC
excuse me, ACC Championship Virginia has a clear path. They
just have Virginia Tech. They get this week off, they
get Virginia Tech next week. But they've struggled against Virginia
Tech over the a long time. And you know who's
sneaking around the chicken coop is SMU. SMU only has
(24:54):
one loss. They get Louisville at home this week. Louisville
lost again last week to Clemson, so they're out. But
if they knock off Louisville, then they're going to go
to cal to try to also be in that number
that can be playing in Charlotte. So much still to
be determined in the ACC, and there's only going to
be one team that.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Emerges, Cincinnati BYU. Is that a playoff game in essence?
Or Cincinnati do they have too big of a hurdle
to overcome?
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Cincinnati can get there. If Cincinnati knocks off BYU, that
gives BYU the second loss in the conference, and that
makes Cincinnati on par and they would own the tiebreaker. Unfortunately,
Cincinnati lost the Utah so then other things come into play.
And I haven't done all that math yet, but Utah
(25:43):
is hoping like heck that Cincinnati can pull this off.
So they can get themselves another chance at the Red Raiders.
But beat if you're Brett, your Mark and the commissioner
of the league, you want BYU to get to Arlington
against Texas Tech because those two teams, I think, regardless
(26:04):
of the outcome, would both get into the playoff.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Ring new Isel our College Football inside of the former
UDUB ed coach, he breaks down U dub's game of
UCLA for us. A little bit later on the show,
we will throw that into the ochow at eight o'clock.
But man, it's really some fascinating stuff. I don't think
there's much time left for conference championship games. I don't
think they're going to survive this new tournament era. But
(26:28):
for now we have them, and they tend to go,
and they go to the top two teams. I mean,
we don't have divisions anymore, so it's just the top
two teams from the regular season and some couple of
really interesting races. Because the ACC, for example, Miami's best
shot at getting to the tournament is winning the ACC.
(26:49):
Coach said, you win the ACC or you don't make it.
I don't know if that's one hundred percent sure, because
you still have that.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Miami Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
If Miami could finish out the regular season with the
same record for Notre Dame, they keep inching up the
College Football playoff rankings, and maybe maybe there is a
conversation if you're talking about two ten and two teams,
does Miami somehow get there? But if they make the
conference championship game and they've got hurdles to it right now,
(27:19):
they're fifth, so they and they lose the tiebreaker to
SMU because they lost SMU, that's one of the teams
that they trail in the conference. Obviously, the best path
to the tournament is win the conference championship, but their
second best path is probably not to make the conference
championship game at allow because if you lose the conference
(27:41):
championship game, then you have no chance of leapfrogging Notre Dame,
where maybe there's a chance to leapfrog them if you
finish the season ten and two and the committee thinks
you were the best team in the ACC and you
did beat Notre Dame head to head and you didn't
lose a stinker game at the end of the regular
seas that taints your your your resume even further.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, if you end up getting
there and then you are, you basically have that opportunity.
I mean I would I would much rather get there
and then try my hand at it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
If you lose.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
If you lose and then it comes back to haunting,
you're like, man, what would have happened? Right well, crystal Ball,
what would have happened if we just didn't make it
and then everything else played out the way that it
plays out, and you maybe would have made it. And
yet I know the last thing you want to do
is leave it into the committee's hand.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well yeah, I mean obviously you're going to try to
keep it in your hands and win it all. I'm
just saying, like in big pictures, step away from it.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's probably better for them.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
The second best route is probably for them not to
make the conference championship game at all. Then you look
at the SEC and everybody thinks, oh man, Alabama is
in trouble. Alabama is the team in the SEC that
actually controls its own destiny. If Alabama beats Auburn, they're in,
and they only have one conference loss, and they beat
(29:05):
Georgia head to head, and they win all tiebreakers against
Ole Miss. So the only thing they don't have a
tiebreaker over is Texas A and M because they're undefeated.
But if Texas A and M loses to Texas next week,
Alabama even jumps them. So Alabama actually is in fantastic
(29:25):
position to make the tournament because they play a cream
puff this week and Auburn's not any good this year.
So Alabama, despite their tumble from last week and despite
having a bad out of conference loss to Florida State,
actually are in great position to win it. And yet
a lot of people think that they're on the on
(29:47):
the on the ledge of maybe getting left out by
the committee. No, Alabama kind of controls its own destiny
as well. All they got to do is win their
next game against Auburn, and Alabama's in the conference championship game.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
The way in which the committee it looks like they're
doing things right now when they're rnking teams is like,
how bad are your losses?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Right?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And they compare that to other stuff. Well, once the
entire resumes of these guys are coming out, then they're
gonna put the full gravity of how good are your wins?
And the fact that they beat Georgia is a big one.
I mean that's gonna weigh heavy in their favor because
Georgia's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Georgia's right up there. I mean, they're they're one of
the top teams.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I think everybody knows that, regardless of how that game went,
and if you beat them head to head, then it's
gonna it's gonna carry a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I don't know though, if it's gonna be a committee decision,
because if they I think, they control their own destiny
to get to the conference championship game, they win it,
they're obviously in. But if they lose, now they've got
three losses, now you do. I mean, it's gonna be
hard to be a three.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Loss team and to get into the tournament this year.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
So I think the best news for Alabama is that
they control their own destiny. The bad news is you
better not lose a game, you know, down the stretch,
because then you're not getting in or potentially might not
get in. All right, Coming up next, no cliche Keys
to victory for you on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
(31:13):
ninety three point three kha RFM checking Buck Radio program.
That's right, we give you a key to a Seahawks
victory against the Tennessee Titans this week without using the
old cliches. You know, all three phases, winning the trenches,
win the turnover battle, that all that garbage. So we
have to be unique and different and specific with our
(31:35):
keys to victory.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Bucket, show us how it's done.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I kind of feel like it would almost have to
be a cliche in order for them to not win
this ballgame, like they would have to turn it over
five times or something. But I'm just going to say,
just the defense, just continue to play the way you are.
I mean, the defense has been good against good teams,
good offensive teams. Last week was another one of the
(31:58):
situations where you come out of that game you weren't
feeling bad about that side of the ball. I mean,
if there was anything, it was the Sam Darnold situation.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
To me.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
The defense went went toe to toe and basically outmatched
a Rams offense. This is like the exact opposite of
the Rams offense. This is if you just go out
there and you can impose your will on these guys,
I think you can just kind of make them cower
a little bit and maybe tuck their tail by halftime.
And so I'm just going to say, just in general,
(32:27):
just defense. Just keep playing the way you have been.
It shouldn't be too terribly difficult, but you got to
go out there and do it right off the bat
and kind of just let them know that you're there
to play hardball.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And if they do that, I think that they run
away with this thing.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, Titans are last, and points scored last, and rushing
yards last and sacks allowed. Rookie quarterback's been running for
his life all season long in cam Ward and now
he has to go up against the Mike McDonald mind
on defense, not to mention a very talented defense as well. Yeah, well,
I think I had two key he's written down.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
One of them was just keeping cam Ward confused, and
I think that speaks to Bucky's point, Ashley.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
What's your key to victory? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
I had two as well, in defense obviously being one,
especially if they're going to have the shutout like Greg
predicted yesterday, So you got to have the defense there.
But I'm going to go with the offensive line and
just the uncertainties that we've got there, just to be
a little different, right.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Sam Darnold had a rough game last week.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
He was pressured quite a bit, so I think if
we can get these guys that are going to be
kind of pluck, you know, band aids to our for
our current offensive line situation, if they can step up
protect Sam, I'd like to see him be able to
have a very good game and kind of leave last
week's game in the past.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, if there's anybody on the Tennessee Titans team that's
good to great, it's Jeffrey Simmons.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
And now all of a sudden, you're going to be
starting with three interior offensive linemen that are backups. Yeah,
and so that creates quite the whole I mean, if
ever there a week and this will be my key
where it's good that we're talking about Ken Walker so
much this week.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
This is the week he needs to go out. Just domin. Yes,
please take some heat off.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Of Sam Donald and just establish yourself with the run
outside zone.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It run away from Jeffrey Simmons. If you have to
ola with.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Timmy's better in the run block game than he is
the pass block game. It would be nice to keep
the Titans from being able to put pressure on Sam
Donald up the middle because they can't do anything to
stop our run game. So a lot of talk about
let's just hand over the running game to ken Walker
this week.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Well, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Let's just hand over the run game to ken Walker
this week. Hopefully he runs wild and Sam Donald only
has to throw like twelve times this week to kind
of get him back on track. So I'm just gonna say,
ken Walker being what we want in Walker to be
is going to be my no cliche keat of victory,
Greg Bell, that's right. He he predicted a shutout? How
(35:02):
many times? Yeah, we hear a analyst predicting a shutout
in an NFL game. That's how dominant he expects the
defense to be this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
We'll talk to him next.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
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