Headlines and 12th Man News with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) The Seahawks are looking to get back on track against a 1-9 Titans team, but there are some O-Line concerns. We get Gregg’s key to the game, injury updates, Ken Walker possibilities and more! :30- The Mariners keep getting mentioned in connection with Murakami, do we want him? :35- Chuck doesn’t like his Fact or Fiction pick, so let’s see how it goes! :45- Sam Darnold is fully taking the blame for last week’s loss, can he put that behind him and be the Sam Darnold we’ve seen most of the season?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's Shane right again below the goal line.
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Cat takes it away on the left wing side, Grizzly
all over him. Cat top Evan shoots techscos, Shane right
redirects the.
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Pucket in front.
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Have a Seattle Pucket tie the game two two twelve
forty seven to play at the third.
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You gotta intimidate it a little bit by all that
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Take on UCLA Saturday night at seven thirty. Will get
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thirty against the three and seven Bruins. College football weekend
not a great college football weekend, but considering how much
is at stake, of course, everything is sort of pins
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so even good matchups turn into very, very intriguing matchups.
USC and Oregon is the best matchup of the weekend,
and it will start at twelve thirty and the National
Football League Indianapolis at Kansas City might be the most
intriguing game in the NFL this Sunday. Meanwhile, the Seahawks
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will be hosting excuse me, they will be on the road,
taking on the Tennessee Titans.
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At ten am there in Nashville.
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Last night, the week got started with a twenty three
to nineteen win for the Houston Texans. Suddenly, the defense
of the Houston Texans looks as good as anybody's in
the National Football League.
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They defeated the Buffalo.
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Speaker 4 (04:31):
Good morning, Greg, Good morning. Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
When do you head to Music City?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
About this time tomorrow? Take most of the day to
get there. Get there early Saturday evening.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I picture Reba McIntyre picking you up at the airport,
driving you to your hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I figure that kind of service you get in Nashville.
Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I think you are wrong. She probably has other things
to do. I would guess, Yeah, would have other things
to do unless it's their job to pick me up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He was really kind though, really giving, like a big
heart on that. Reba McIntire might read her all wrong,
but got a good persona that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I think that if it just boils down to whether
or not you have your ostrich skin boots and a
bolo tie on, maybe a cowboy hat, I'm you're not
going to pick you up if you dress normal.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, they'll be wearing any army sweaters.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Look like we love it or something that work.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That would work. That would definitely a gay friend.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I used to be roommates of Mind and Federal Away.
We split a house when we were lieutenants, three lieutenants
at Fort Lewis. Lived in this place out at dash
Point Road and cea Away and he lives Titus Rodriguez.
He lives outside Nashville, So I'm probably going to see.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Him, Okay, all right, so more of a chance he'll
pick you up at the airport than Riba Mac.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, okay, I would say.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That sounds fair more likely.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
All right, Well, let's dive in Seahawks in Nashville with Greg.
They'll be taking on the Titans, and certainly there haven't
been a lot of flowers thrown at the feet of
the Tennessee Titans this year.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
They seem like a rudderless ship.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I have a feeling cam Ward's not exactly excited
about facing Mike McDonald's defense this week. He's looked confused
against lesser defenses throughout the course of the season. He's
down at Calvin Ridley. They can't run the football. I
mean I heard one guy go as far as saying
the Seahawks are going to shut them out.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What do you think of that, Greg.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Who's that guy? Yeah? I do. I do think this
is a chance for a shutout for the defense. No
matter if the offense plays poorly and they don't get
the run game going and Donald turns it over some
more times, I think the defense is another one of
those games that defense can win. They're leading pass receivers,
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a tight end and you mentioned Ridley's out. They have
a couple other wide receivers banged up. They don't run
the ball very effectively. They don't do anything very effectively.
And we mentioned Ward he's a good quarterback, and McDonald
talked about how he's really good for his age at
making plays that aren't quite there. But he's running around
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and often with his head cut off because of his
offensive lines issues, pass protection issues. It's worth mentioning again
he's been sacked. The Titans have allowed forty one sacks
in ten games. For perspective, the Seahawks have allowed ten,
So four times a game, more than four times a
game against anybody, he gets sacked, and you would think
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that's where the Seahawks can make their hay and would
sack them at least four times. If you get a
sack on a drive, the numbers in the NFL say
it's about less than thirty percent that you're going to
get a first down on that drive, let alone score.
That's how much sacks meet in the NFL. That's why
creamium on pass rush and disguising blitzes and things like that.
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So that's four drives a game on average that cam
Ward and the Titans are completely ruined. Second and twenty
or whatever, because of sacks and four drives a game.
Sometimes you only get eight possessions in a game. That's
why their offenses last in the league. And that's where
the Seahawks I think will win the game. They put
them in situations where they have to throw, and then
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Leonard Williams and the Markets Lawrence and Byron Murphy and
those guys will do what they've been doing all season.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Not a lot of talent on that side of the ball,
which you would expect when you get the first overall
pick the year before, and so yet on the other
side of it, it's kind of a similar situation where
especially if Gray's Abel's out, are we looking at three
backup into your guy? I guess two and your starter
at right tackle maybe should be a backup because that's
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where the pressure is going to be coming from with
Jeffrey Simmons, and that's the only way I could see
them creating short fields or possibly being able to put
up any any amount of points.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Really, yeah, Bucky, Jeffrey Simmons can wreck the game by himself.
The most surprising thing I saw the week's so far
was a great Zabel on the practice field yesterday. He
was looking like he was fully participating in the part
we were allowed to watch. They listened him as a
limited participant. He didn't practice Wednesday. He did practice yesterday,
which is only four days after. He was on his
knees and face down on the turf. Looked like he
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was seriously injured against the Rams. So that is a
good sign that, as Mike maccone said, it's not a
serious injury. The calculus now becomes do we want to
put him into this game and give it or give
him another weekend to rest and be ready for the
following well not just next week, but the next six
games to end the regular season. Zabel, of course, is
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pushing to play. That's his personality. I asked Kubiak, are
all the trades that we talk about with Zabel, where's
his toughness rank? And he said he's a little gangster.
Little for six six three fifteen, you can call him
a little gangster, but he said he is. The look Kubiak,
the offensive corner said, the look that Zabel gave him
when he asked him after the Rams game, are you
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all right? The look he gave him saying I'm coming
back and he made it seem to him like he
was going to play this week. That'll be interesting whether
they want to run him out there or would they
give him the weekend off. We've mentioned Seahawks historically have
been conservative medically and having guys rest that maybe could play,
but on the erring on the side of getting him
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for the longer term. Let's see if they do that
was able. If they don't, Christian Haynes is on the spot.
Because Jeffrey Simmons usually lines up on the right side
of the Titans defensive line. He moves around, but his
primary places interior right defensive tackle out to end. He
plays over the center out to end, and if he's
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the right defensive tackle, that's right opposite of Christian Haynes
or whoever the left guard is. So that would be
the biggest matchup for Seattle to wreck their day. Haines
was getting would get his first start. Of course, we've
talked about. He was on injured reserve for all season.
He's been preparing up to now's if he's going to start.
It was able. Walked out on the practice field yesterday.
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Johnsondell is uninjured reserve as we know. With Timmy starting
at center, and Anthony Bradvers had his problems at right guard.
If I'm the Titans defense, that's where my game plan
is going right through those three guys, and that's the
key to the game.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
M Yeah, what other injuries risks could affect this game
for the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, yesterday Ernest Jones, you remember he played in the
LA game with the big rap on his knee after
missing one game with the knee injury, the Washington knee injury.
He full go practice Wednesday looked like oh okay. I
think he came out of it well from the game,
and then yesterday he was a limited participant. That could
have been rest or in that point where we didn't
talk to McDonald since before Wednesday's practice and won't again
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until after Fridays. But Jones took a step back at
least to decelerate a little bit yesterday. We'll see what
that means today. And the injured list. Robbie Oots has
been gone all week for what the team is calling
a personal matter. He hasn't been a practice Wednesday or Thursday,
and Tory Horton has not been on the field. And
this's a lucky He's going to play again this week
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the wide receiver Jay.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Is this a week where you figure Kubiak might really
put the pedal to the medal with Ken Walker or
is this another one where, considering it's an opponent you
feel like you should win, that you're going to we
might see even more of Zach Charboney or George Halawey,
well Bucky.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They don't game plan into a week saying well, well,
we should both raise this team by three touchdowns, so
when we get up to two touchdowns, let's do this.
So they'll come in with a game plan of winning
the game. And if you believe McDonald to say sally
of his words, that will mean a much fuller Kenneth
Walker as the running back one. So I'm expecting that
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I'm expecting him to get the ball more in short yardage.
I'm expecting him to get the ball and stay in
the lineup more when they're inside ten and twenty yard lines,
those two and now the third down, I think Sharvony's
going to remain the third down back by and large
and then two minutes drills. But if he would, if
Walker would just get all of the short yardage in
red zone carries, he'd probably end up with more snaps
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than Charboney for a game, and that hasn't happened yet
this season, so let's see if that changes. When they're
at the goal line, we've mentioned it, they need to
put Walker as their guy. So if there is a
play that's unblocked and there's defenders in the backfield, at
least you have a chance to have the running back
make a guy miss. You don't have that chance nearly
as much with charbon Ay. That's where I put Walker.
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Let's see Sunday if Walker gets the short yards goal
line reps that a lot of have gone to Charbonay,
and yet.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You might have a week since you're down a couple
of lignemen potentially that you might need the extra help
and pass protection. So you're damned if you do, and
you're damned if you don't. In terms of trying to
get Walker more playing time, it could come at the
risk of something else in your offense.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, and if you do that, I mean it's not
the Walker can't do it, but you're right, the reason
that Charbonay is or down to back as the blocking.
If you do that, I would expect a lot more
to tight ends with chipping and helping with the tight ends.
They don't want to devote Barnard to tight end blocking
on pass routes because he's become such a pass place
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because it's such becomes such a good pass receiver. I mean,
he had twelve targets in LA. Many of those were
secondary reads after he's been looked as Donald was looking elsewhere.
By the way, Donald yesterday said, it's a couple of
things interesting about the Rams game. He said, he's got
to come off sticking to just one or two guys
and go through his progressions, trust his feet, all the
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things that Koubek says. But I asked him, what do
you mean sticking to one or two guys, and he
said he's got a There were times in LA well
he just stayed the one side of the field to
one or two guys primary receivers, without going through his
entire progressions. I'm thinking of the interception outside to the
cornerback to Jackson Smith and Jigruary threw it laid outside
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as he was getting hit. But you can understand, and
I mean, for up until the Rams game, we were
praising and talking about how much he was focused on
Smith and Jigga right, Yeah, so it you can understand
why Smith and Jiggba is on pace to break Calvin
Johnson's single season receiving record. If he averages what he's
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been averaging up to this point, he will go past
nineteen hundred and forty six yards for the season. He's
got eleven forty seven or whatever it is now. It's
one of the highest totals ever for through ten games
of an NFL season. So of course Darnold's trying to
stick on Hi because no one's been able to cover
him the Rams. The difference in the Rams game was one,
he didn't recognize the two shell coverages that the Rams
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kept changing and switching in and out of. And two
the pass rush got to him more than in most games.
And when the passers got to him, then he had
to get rid of the ball, sometimes often when they
were covered, instead of waiting for Smith and Jigger to
break open. So, for whatever that's worth, we'll see if
he changed against the Titans. The Titans pass is the
one formidable thing they have to go against Seattle.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
How important would you think it is? I mean, I
know Tory Horton is probably still out. He didn't practice
right and yet I mean to me, I still feel
like there's as well as well as Jackson, Smith and
jigg but is playing and yes, continue to give him
his targets and let him do his thing. But I
still feel like, even aside from aj Barner, I think
you got to get Cooper Cup or Rashid Shaheed, somebody
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else involved in the game plan a little bit for
when you go into big games against teams that you've
played once in the season, like your division foes and
possibly the big games in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My sense that you're right, Bucky, they need to do that,
and Shaheed in particular can diversify this offense and really
change how defenses cover Smith and Jigba. We've talked about
his speed, deep speed Shaheed, especially if you send them
down the middle on post routes and seam routes, so
they put a safety in a bind whether they want
to continue to shew cover over the top against Smith
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and Jigba or have to devote that extra safety, that
extra cover top guy to Shaheed. They haven't really unleashed
Shaheed that way yet, and there were a couple of
times the Rams game that Hugh and I talked about
on the roundtable yesterday. That would have been a touchdown
had Donald just laid it out a little bit more,
was an example, But that even that was like a
fifteen yard route. They haven't really done home run balls
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down the middle of the field enough to deter teams
from having bracket coverage over Smith and Jigua. I'm not
I don't think it has not been in the game plan.
I think that Donald has just so trusted Smith and
Jigua that he hasn't gone that way. I've they Shahit
has run some deep routes, now not habitually deep posted
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puts the center in the safety in the box. But
there are times that Shaheed has been opened that he
hasn't thrown to him. And that's true of any quarterback
in every game, of course. But it's going to take
a couple deep throws to Shahed, probably a couple of
deep completions to get on film for the rest of
the league before teams start thinking about what they're going
to devote to Shahikause. Right now, if I'm watching film
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of the Seahawks and developing a defensive game plan, I
don't think he's thrown to twenty two. I think he's
throwing to eleven and I'm tilting my coverage that way.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Less than a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
They're gonna wear wear helmet stickers with forty five on
or Ken Easily on Sunday? Are they gonna do anything
else once they return home.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I haven't heard that this is typical for players that
have been legends, that have been around for or haven't
played for decades, that they honor him in some way.
Suffice to say that he is a absolute Seattle legend
and redefined the position before cam Chancellor. Did we know
most listeners know the story of how he got a
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strange from football and the ibuprofen and his kidney and
the kidney trans transplant, and now how Paul Allen if
you don't know, Paul Allen was the man who reconciled
that whole situation and reached out to Kenny Easily and
brought up back into the fold soon after he bought
the Seahawks what some thirty plus years ago to get
Kenny Easley back as a seat Hawk legend and have
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him in the ring of honor, and then fortunately for him,
fortunately for the team, it was a much more amicable
relationship through the time up to the time of his death.
So a lot of the Seahawks don't know of him,
of course, because they're now twenty some years old and
they don't remember Kenny easy with that guy do and
watching him play. He was a stud before UCLA in
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the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. He was the first
quarterback in Virginia high school history to rush for a
thousand yards and throw for a thousand yards. And he
had a pick of wherever he wanted to go to school.
Every college in the country recruited him. He went to
USC four year starter, UCLA Hall of Famer, All American
and then the Seahawks pick him fifth. Over All, the
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rest is history. But I just throw that out there
because there are a lot of listeners who may not
know Kenny Easley's background. But he was an absolute legend.
And again he was pretty much the enforcer Cam Chancellor
before Chancellor was almost even born.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Safe travels, Greg, and we will I'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
On Monday, Okay, Happy weekend? All right?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
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on the radar for the.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mariners this offseason? I sure hope so. Sports Radio ninety
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five minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I don't even believe myself the pick I'm about to
make at Factor Fiction at seven thirty five. I can't
believe I've convinced myself of this, but I have. So
we'll have that for you here in about five minutes.
But I can't get through the week. I'm not going
to be here next week. I don't know what the
Mariners might do. It feels like the hot stoves cooking
a little earlier than it's ever been cooking before. So
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I just want to weigh in on this topic before
something might happen in the nine days that I am away.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I would really like.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
This Moonataka Murakami from Japan to be a Mariner going forward,
and there are a lot of hesitations out there, Bucky,
because of how high his strikeout rate is over in Japan.
And he's gonna come over here and face obviously a
lot more fastball pitchers, but a lot of fastball pitchers
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now in Japan.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's not the league that he used to be.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, shoe Otani and Yamamoto and Sasaki are coming
over here throwing one hundred and two miles per hour,
for goodness sake. So I don't think it's the Jamie
Moyer League that it used to be or its reputation is.
So I don't know if it's as big a jump
as it used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And this guy has just dominated. He hit third in.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The Japanese lineup that won the World Baseball Classic two
years ago, for goodness sake, third as a twenty three
year old. And now he's coming over to the majors,
and I hear a lot of Mariner fans.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That don't want him. I don't want that guy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I don't like guys to strike out all the time, either,
but I sure like guys who are twenty five years
old who've dominant, who are considered Japanese superstars. Tell me
the last Japanese superstar that failed over here and has
the potential right away with an eighty power on his
scouting grade, the highest scouting grade you can get for power,
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and has the potential to hit sixty homers when he
comes over here at any given season. I kind of
want that guy. I don't know why so many people
don't want that guy.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The idea of the home runs obviously, and just like
I do, I'm a big fan of them. I am
a little worried about the strikeout. You're right, it's not
the same Japanese league that it once was, but it's
it's a definite step below as far as the amount
of stuff you're gonna see over there versus over here.
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But I mean, I'll take a strikeout of game. I
mean that's a wonderful That's what I typically would be
is a strikeout of game, and then you have the
opportunity for four different times to maybe lock up on one.
He doesn't do a whole heck of a lot other well,
he doesn't. He gets quite a few walks too. Looking
at his numbers, I mean as Jerry walks. Yeah, Well,
it just it's the part of it's it's part of
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the way in which baseball hitting has gone where it
was the three outcomes strikeout, walk or home run. I
don't like that, yeah, but you can have that in
your lineup. As a matter of fact, just about every
good team has a guy like that. And you know
you're right when you say, who's the last Japanese stud
that has come over here? Assuming he was going to
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be good, that wasn't good. I don't even can't even
remember one. I mean, for the typically they I didn't
kind of know who they are. And if they're gonna
come over here, they're not coming over here to just
give it a shot. They're coming over like I think
I can do it. I know I can do it.
I'm ready to do it, and typically they do.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, Yoshida from Boston's kind of falling flat, But I
don't think he was considered like a Japanese This guy's
considered a superstar. This guy in the Japanese lineup. Two
years ago, at age twenty three, it was show Hey
hitting I think second, and he was hitting behind Showey.
He was hitting third. Sho Hay was in the Japanese
League as a hitter and a pitcher, and he wasn't
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putting up the numbers. This dude's been putting up before
the age of twenty five. He's setting records over there.
He broke sadaharo Oh's single season home run record. He
had just fifty six this past year. I mean, I
can't even, for the life of me, imagine somebody not
wanting this guy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
If the Mariners are willing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
To pony up the money now, I don't know what
that's going to cost. There are wildly varied reports about him.
I don't know what it would cost. But if we
end up, if I come back to work, you know,
two Mondays from now and we've got Munataka Morikami, I'm pumped.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, yeah, I had to move in the direction of Hey,
let's add to this, right. We talked to Jerry earlier
this week and he was like, well, we're not going backwards, right,
We're not trying to go backwards. I mean, the idea
of moving on from guys is not what we wanting
to do. Want to keep moving forward. This should be
a step in the forward direction, for sure. I mean,
I think right now they're focused on Polonco. But if
he's posted, then I guarantee they're having conversations about it,
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whether or not you're right with the varied reports of
what it could be. You know, twenty million dollars a year,
thirty million dollars a year, down to fifteen million.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They're in on some one of those.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Now, it's just a matter of whether or not a
big time team, one of the big market clubs is like, no,
we love him more than you.
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Wow?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I did not expect that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I didn't either, I really didn't. I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I mean, we started the show today talking about how
crazy the NFL is this season, where a team looks
good and then they look terrible, and then they I mean,
there just has been such little consistency this year. The
Dallas Cowboys have felt like the most dysfunctional organization in
the National Football League this year, and yet Philadelphia, with
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an eight and two record, might be more dysfunctional right now,
like right now, right in this moment.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, but apparently nobody likes Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Everybody's sick of aj Brown by the Philadelphia Eagles seem
more dysfunctional than the recently galvanized Dallas Cowboys. Behind the
death of Marshawn Neeland and the additions of Quinn Williams,
who's been added to the addition of Kenny Clark, who's
been added to the addition of Logan Wilson, who's been
added to the return of Overshown, who's a freak pass
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rusher that is back into the lineup. I just got
back last week. Malie Hooker is back for them. And
suddenly the Dallas Cowboys not only don't feel dysfunctional, they
feel galvanized. The defense not only doesn't seem like the
worst in the National Football League right now, it looks scary,
healthy and fast and potent. They're getting three and a
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half points at home against a Division rival, a Eagles
team that everybody says does not look good.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But they keep winning games.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, go ahead and win and don't cover, because that
means I win. So I'm tagging the Dallas Cowboys plus
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Home against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Uh, you definitely have talked yourself into that. But all
those things are valid points. I do think they're playing better,
but I don't know. To me, I feel like the
whole Eagles thing, I feel like it's blown out of
proportion to some degree. I mean it's like if they say, well,
aj Brown is like he's frustrated, right, he has not
been involved a whole heck of a lot together. They're like,
are you not the same guy? And then he just
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wants to throw out, well, what a sake? One not
the right guy either. I don't know if it's as
much dysfunction in the building, because I think that winning
does cure a lot of things. Even if you're irritated,
you win, you go out there. I think this is
a game where the Philadelphia Eagles offense gets right all right.
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Speaker 1 (30:00):
Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Sam Donald taking too much of the blame for his
four interceptions on Sunday. We'll discuss it next on KJR.
And it turns out beautiful Sunday, sixty three degrees. N
ain't no win, no chance for rain. So yeah, exactly,
let's talk about Sam Donald. Our quarterback has been beating
up this week for the first time all season along
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really taken to task the national guy's having a lot
of fun, kind of throwing out the old you know,
big games. Maybe Sam's not a big game quarterback. Of course,
his interception rate turnover rate has been more emphasized this week,
coming off of a four interception game. He was even
quoted yesterday as describing his own tendencies to turn the
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ball over as being unacceptable fourteen of them this year
ten interceptions, which is a third most in the National
Football League.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I hope it's lip service.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Because I as much as he cost us the game
of the four interceptions on Sundawn. So with Hugh Millen
and his rant yesterday on the Roundtable, I mean, we've
gotten nothing but terrific quarterback play out of this guy,
and I don't want it to change because he suddenly
feels an emphasis that I can't turn the ball over,
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and now he starts getting timid. I got a lot
of other categories where he ranks pretty highly too. Sure,
he's third in the league in interceptions, that's not good,
but he's also fourth in QBR, sixth and overall rating.
PFF says he's the second best quarterback so far in
the National Football League few at sacks allowed of any
starter in the NFL, top ten in touchdown passes first,
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and yards per pass third, in completion percentage.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Bring any harm to that all those other statistics because
Sam Darnold thinks he's got to change his game to
avoid criticism or to avoid four interceptions games.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What did Mike McDonald say about Sam Sunday? He let
it rip, He let it rip.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I mean they want him to let it rip. And
when you let it rip, it comes a consequence. Sometimes
sometimes they make the interception as opposed to it deflecting
off the fingertips and a harm and landing harmlessly over
on the sideline. I don't want him to change. I mean,
if he does back to back for interception games, then
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maybe there's something to think about. But I don't want
him to change just because he had a stinker of
a game on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The idea of the over well, it's not an idea.
The overreaction of an individual game in just sports in
general is ridiculous. I mean it's the dude, is you
just rattled off ten things that he's in the top
of the NFL in.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Over exact same way.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yes, yeah, over the course of the season so far,
and yet oh just don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Can't what because of four bad throws?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Bad throws?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Okay? Good?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, I wish that he was. He wishes he was
as perfect as his critics are apparently. It's yeah, you
were going against a good defense too. I mean there's
part of it. You got a tippy cap. Yeah, I
meant you gotta tippyr cap. There was you have a
couple guys that were dinged up. There's all kinds of excuses,
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and I don't want to give them because I don't
think that he necessarily would give him. He would just
say I got to be better, period. I can't make
those throws like I haven't been all season. So no,
I to me, I think that this is a get
right game. This is a and you're not like, well,
hopefully he only has to throw it ten times because
that'll minimize his mistakes. Well, yeah, hopefully you get the
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run game going, and I think you can against this defense.
They're not very good, but so you're not sitting there
thinking you have to sling it around. But at the
same time, you kind of want to get that monkey
off his back a little bit. You want him to
feel free to go out there and rip it and
and the windows aren't going to be quite as tight.
Hopefully it's not a last second game where you have
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to make this throw. It's just kind of you start
the game, you say, hey, we're gonna do this. We're
gonna be balanced, we're gonna go out there. We want
you to keep playing the way you have been the
entire season and not feel like you have to.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Succumb to the critics that think, oh man, maybe you
aren't capable of it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There's nothing he can do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
He can go out there and go sixteen for sixteen,
perfect game, and there's still going to be people that say, well,
when it's a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Big game, I don't trust him.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, so who cares? Just go do you? The team
believes in him. I mean right after the game, everybody
from coaches down to teammates, that's our dude. We're not
worried about it, and I don't think he should be
worried about it.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I mean that was the positive thing too coming out
of the Rams game, is that he wasn't afraid, even
at the end of the game to keep throwing the ball.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So I love that.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Actually, I mean I hated they through the interception, but yeah, yeah,
he kept going. So I don't think he's going to
be any different this week. I have faith, right, if.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm the coach, if I'm Mike McDonald, if i'm the
coaching staff, there's not any mention about an interception problem
in my hallways, in my meeting rooms, there's no Sam.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Come on now, I mean turnovers, I've been part of
the game.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, we all understand that Sam. No one understands that
more than Sam Donald. He's a bright guy. I don't
want him changing the way he's played this season. My
message is, I'm coming out of the tunnel. I'm Mike McDonald.
I'm going to stand right next to Sam m Sam
Donald and the tunnel coming out in Nashville at ten
oh one, or whenever on Sunday morning, and the last
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thing he's going to hear out of my lips is
let her rip.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
That's what I want to tell them.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, if you're not if you're not encouraging him as
a coach, whether it's Clint, whether it's Mike McDonald, whether
it's his teammates, you're doing yourself a disservice as an organization,
as a team. He has done a great job of
leading this team to where they were talked about as
the best team in the NFL of like eight days ago.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I'm not going to risk nine straight terrific performances because
he had a stinker on Sunday against a great defense. Yes,
I mean he's not going to do it all right.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We'll tackle that and other topics in our next segment.
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not a great college football weekend, but considering how much
is at stake, of course, everything is sort of pins
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the needles edgier seat at this point the college football season,
so even good matchups turn into very, very intriguing matchups.
USC and Oregon is the best matchup of the weekend,
and it will start at twelve thirty and the National
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intriguing game in the NFL this Sunday. Meanwhile, the Seahawks
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will be hosting excuse me, they will be on the road,
taking on the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
At ten am there in Nashville.
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Last night, the week got started with a twenty three
to nineteen win for the Houston Texans. Suddenly, the defense
of the Houston Texans looks as good as anybody's in
the National Football League.
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They defeated the Buffalo.
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Speaker 4 (04:31):
Good morning, Greg, Good morning. Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
When do you head to Music City?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
About this time tomorrow? Take most of the day to
get there. Get there early Saturday evening.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I picture Reba McIntyre picking you up at the airport,
driving you to your hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I figure that kind of service you get in Nashville.
Am I wrong about that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I think you are wrong. She probably has other things
to do. I would guess, Yeah, would have other things
to do unless it's their job to pick me up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He was really kind though, really giving, like a big
heart on that. Reba McIntire might read her all wrong,
but got a good persona that.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I think that if it just boils down to whether
or not you have your ostrich skin boots and a
bolo tie on, maybe a cowboy hat, I'm you're not
going to pick you up if you dress normal.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, they'll be wearing any army sweaters.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Look like we love it or something that work.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That would work. That would definitely a gay friend.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I used to be roommates of Mind and Federal Away.
We split a house when we were lieutenants, three lieutenants
at Fort Lewis. Lived in this place out at dash
Point Road and cea Away and he lives Titus Rodriguez.
He lives outside Nashville, So I'm probably going to see.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Him, Okay, all right, so more of a chance he'll
pick you up at the airport than Riba Mac.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, okay, I would say.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That sounds fair more likely.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
All right, Well, let's dive in Seahawks in Nashville with Greg.
They'll be taking on the Titans, and certainly there haven't
been a lot of flowers thrown at the feet of
the Tennessee Titans this year.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
They seem like a rudderless ship.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I have a feeling cam Ward's not exactly excited
about facing Mike McDonald's defense this week. He's looked confused
against lesser defenses throughout the course of the season. He's
down at Calvin Ridley. They can't run the football. I
mean I heard one guy go as far as saying
the Seahawks are going to shut them out.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
What do you think of that, Greg.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Who's that guy? Yeah? I do. I do think this
is a chance for a shutout for the defense. No
matter if the offense plays poorly and they don't get
the run game going and Donald turns it over some
more times, I think the defense is another one of
those games that defense can win. They're leading pass receivers,
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a tight end and you mentioned Ridley's out. They have
a couple other wide receivers banged up. They don't run
the ball very effectively. They don't do anything very effectively.
And we mentioned Ward he's a good quarterback, and McDonald
talked about how he's really good for his age at
making plays that aren't quite there. But he's running around
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and often with his head cut off because of his
offensive lines issues, pass protection issues. It's worth mentioning again
he's been sacked. The Titans have allowed forty one sacks
in ten games. For perspective, the Seahawks have allowed ten,
So four times a game, more than four times a
game against anybody, he gets sacked, and you would think
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that's where the Seahawks can make their hay and would
sack them at least four times. If you get a
sack on a drive, the numbers in the NFL say
it's about less than thirty percent that you're going to
get a first down on that drive, let alone score.
That's how much sacks meet in the NFL. That's why
creamium on pass rush and disguising blitzes and things like that.
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So that's four drives a game on average that cam
Ward and the Titans are completely ruined. Second and twenty
or whatever, because of sacks and four drives a game.
Sometimes you only get eight possessions in a game. That's
why their offenses last in the league. And that's where
the Seahawks I think will win the game. They put
them in situations where they have to throw, and then
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Leonard Williams and the Markets Lawrence and Byron Murphy and
those guys will do what they've been doing all season.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Ah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Not a lot of talent on that side of the ball,
which you would expect when you get the first overall
pick the year before, and so yet on the other
side of it, it's kind of a similar situation where
especially if Gray's Abel's out, are we looking at three
backup into your guy? I guess two and your starter
at right tackle maybe should be a backup because that's
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where the pressure is going to be coming from with
Jeffrey Simmons, and that's the only way I could see
them creating short fields or possibly being able to put
up any any amount of points.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Really, yeah, Bucky, Jeffrey Simmons can wreck the game by himself.
The most surprising thing I saw the week's so far
was a great Zabel on the practice field yesterday. He
was looking like he was fully participating in the part
we were allowed to watch. They listened him as a
limited participant. He didn't practice Wednesday. He did practice yesterday,
which is only four days after. He was on his
knees and face down on the turf. Looked like he
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was seriously injured against the Rams. So that is a
good sign that, as Mike maccone said, it's not a
serious injury. The calculus now becomes do we want to
put him into this game and give it or give
him another weekend to rest and be ready for the
following well not just next week, but the next six
games to end the regular season. Zabel, of course, is
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pushing to play. That's his personality. I asked Kubiak, are
all the trades that we talk about with Zabel, where's
his toughness rank? And he said he's a little gangster.
Little for six six three fifteen, you can call him
a little gangster, but he said he is. The look Kubiak,
the offensive corner said, the look that Zabel gave him
when he asked him after the Rams game, are you
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all right? The look he gave him saying I'm coming
back and he made it seem to him like he
was going to play this week. That'll be interesting whether
they want to run him out there or would they
give him the weekend off. We've mentioned Seahawks historically have
been conservative medically and having guys rest that maybe could play,
but on the erring on the side of getting him
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for the longer term. Let's see if they do that
was able. If they don't, Christian Haynes is on the spot.
Because Jeffrey Simmons usually lines up on the right side
of the Titans defensive line. He moves around, but his
primary places interior right defensive tackle out to end. He
plays over the center out to end, and if he's
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the right defensive tackle, that's right opposite of Christian Haynes
or whoever the left guard is. So that would be
the biggest matchup for Seattle to wreck their day. Haines
was getting would get his first start. Of course, we've
talked about. He was on injured reserve for all season.
He's been preparing up to now's if he's going to start.
It was able. Walked out on the practice field yesterday.
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Johnsondell is uninjured reserve as we know. With Timmy starting
at center, and Anthony Bradvers had his problems at right guard.
If I'm the Titans defense, that's where my game plan
is going right through those three guys, and that's the
key to the game.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
M Yeah, what other injuries risks could affect this game
for the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, yesterday Ernest Jones, you remember he played in the
LA game with the big rap on his knee after
missing one game with the knee injury, the Washington knee injury.
He full go practice Wednesday looked like oh okay. I
think he came out of it well from the game,
and then yesterday he was a limited participant. That could
have been rest or in that point where we didn't
talk to McDonald since before Wednesday's practice and won't again
(11:46):
until after Fridays. But Jones took a step back at
least to decelerate a little bit yesterday. We'll see what
that means today. And the injured list. Robbie Oots has
been gone all week for what the team is calling
a personal matter. He hasn't been a practice Wednesday or Thursday,
and Tory Horton has not been on the field. And
this's a lucky He's going to play again this week
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the wide receiver Jay.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Is this a week where you figure Kubiak might really
put the pedal to the medal with Ken Walker or
is this another one where, considering it's an opponent you
feel like you should win, that you're going to we
might see even more of Zach Charboney or George Halawey,
well Bucky.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
They don't game plan into a week saying well, well,
we should both raise this team by three touchdowns, so
when we get up to two touchdowns, let's do this.
So they'll come in with a game plan of winning
the game. And if you believe McDonald to say sally
of his words, that will mean a much fuller Kenneth
Walker as the running back one. So I'm expecting that
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I'm expecting him to get the ball more in short yardage.
I'm expecting him to get the ball and stay in
the lineup more when they're inside ten and twenty yard lines,
those two and now the third down, I think Sharvony's
going to remain the third down back by and large
and then two minutes drills. But if he would, if
Walker would just get all of the short yardage in
red zone carries, he'd probably end up with more snaps
(13:08):
than Charboney for a game, and that hasn't happened yet
this season, so let's see if that changes. When they're
at the goal line, we've mentioned it, they need to
put Walker as their guy. So if there is a
play that's unblocked and there's defenders in the backfield, at
least you have a chance to have the running back
make a guy miss. You don't have that chance nearly
as much with charbon Ay. That's where I put Walker.
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Let's see Sunday if Walker gets the short yards goal
line reps that a lot of have gone to Charbonay,
and yet.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You might have a week since you're down a couple
of lignemen potentially that you might need the extra help
and pass protection. So you're damned if you do, and
you're damned if you don't. In terms of trying to
get Walker more playing time, it could come at the
risk of something else in your offense.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Right, and if you do that, I mean it's not
the Walker can't do it, but you're right, the reason
that Charbonay is or down to back as the blocking.
If you do that, I would expect a lot more
to tight ends with chipping and helping with the tight ends.
They don't want to devote Barnard to tight end blocking
on pass routes because he's become such a pass place
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because it's such becomes such a good pass receiver. I mean,
he had twelve targets in LA. Many of those were
secondary reads after he's been looked as Donald was looking elsewhere.
By the way, Donald yesterday said, it's a couple of
things interesting about the Rams game. He said, he's got
to come off sticking to just one or two guys
and go through his progressions, trust his feet, all the
(14:35):
things that Koubek says. But I asked him, what do
you mean sticking to one or two guys, and he
said he's got a There were times in LA well
he just stayed the one side of the field to
one or two guys primary receivers, without going through his
entire progressions. I'm thinking of the interception outside to the
cornerback to Jackson Smith and Jigruary threw it laid outside
(14:56):
as he was getting hit. But you can understand, and
I mean, for up until the Rams game, we were
praising and talking about how much he was focused on
Smith and Jigga right, Yeah, so it you can understand
why Smith and Jiggba is on pace to break Calvin
Johnson's single season receiving record. If he averages what he's
(15:19):
been averaging up to this point, he will go past
nineteen hundred and forty six yards for the season. He's
got eleven forty seven or whatever it is now. It's
one of the highest totals ever for through ten games
of an NFL season. So of course Darnold's trying to
stick on Hi because no one's been able to cover
him the Rams. The difference in the Rams game was one,
he didn't recognize the two shell coverages that the Rams
(15:40):
kept changing and switching in and out of. And two
the pass rush got to him more than in most games.
And when the passers got to him, then he had
to get rid of the ball, sometimes often when they
were covered, instead of waiting for Smith and Jigger to
break open. So, for whatever that's worth, we'll see if
he changed against the Titans. The Titans pass is the
one formidable thing they have to go against Seattle.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
How important would you think it is? I mean, I
know Tory Horton is probably still out. He didn't practice
right and yet I mean to me, I still feel
like there's as well as well as Jackson, Smith and
jigg but is playing and yes, continue to give him
his targets and let him do his thing. But I
still feel like, even aside from aj Barner, I think
you got to get Cooper Cup or Rashid Shaheed, somebody
(16:25):
else involved in the game plan a little bit for
when you go into big games against teams that you've
played once in the season, like your division foes and
possibly the big games in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
My sense that you're right, Bucky, they need to do that,
and Shaheed in particular can diversify this offense and really
change how defenses cover Smith and Jigba. We've talked about
his speed, deep speed Shaheed, especially if you send them
down the middle on post routes and seam routes, so
they put a safety in a bind whether they want
to continue to shew cover over the top against Smith
(16:55):
and Jigba or have to devote that extra safety, that
extra cover top guy to Shaheed. They haven't really unleashed
Shaheed that way yet, and there were a couple of
times the Rams game that Hugh and I talked about
on the roundtable yesterday. That would have been a touchdown
had Donald just laid it out a little bit more,
was an example, But that even that was like a
fifteen yard route. They haven't really done home run balls
(17:18):
down the middle of the field enough to deter teams
from having bracket coverage over Smith and Jigua. I'm not
I don't think it has not been in the game plan.
I think that Donald has just so trusted Smith and
Jigua that he hasn't gone that way. I've they Shahit
has run some deep routes, now not habitually deep posted
(17:38):
puts the center in the safety in the box. But
there are times that Shaheed has been opened that he
hasn't thrown to him. And that's true of any quarterback
in every game, of course. But it's going to take
a couple deep throws to Shahed, probably a couple of
deep completions to get on film for the rest of
the league before teams start thinking about what they're going
to devote to Shahikause. Right now, if I'm watching film
(18:00):
of the Seahawks and developing a defensive game plan, I
don't think he's thrown to twenty two. I think he's
throwing to eleven and I'm tilting my coverage that way.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Less than a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
They're gonna wear wear helmet stickers with forty five on
or Ken Easily on Sunday? Are they gonna do anything
else once they return home.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I haven't heard that this is typical for players that
have been legends, that have been around for or haven't
played for decades, that they honor him in some way.
Suffice to say that he is a absolute Seattle legend
and redefined the position before cam Chancellor. Did we know
most listeners know the story of how he got a
(18:39):
strange from football and the ibuprofen and his kidney and
the kidney trans transplant, and now how Paul Allen if
you don't know, Paul Allen was the man who reconciled
that whole situation and reached out to Kenny Easily and
brought up back into the fold soon after he bought
the Seahawks what some thirty plus years ago to get
Kenny Easley back as a seat Hawk legend and have
(19:00):
him in the ring of honor, and then fortunately for him,
fortunately for the team, it was a much more amicable
relationship through the time up to the time of his death.
So a lot of the Seahawks don't know of him,
of course, because they're now twenty some years old and
they don't remember Kenny easy with that guy do and
watching him play. He was a stud before UCLA in
(19:23):
the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia. He was the first
quarterback in Virginia high school history to rush for a
thousand yards and throw for a thousand yards. And he
had a pick of wherever he wanted to go to school.
Every college in the country recruited him. He went to
USC four year starter, UCLA Hall of Famer, All American
and then the Seahawks pick him fifth. Over All, the
(19:44):
rest is history. But I just throw that out there
because there are a lot of listeners who may not
know Kenny Easley's background. But he was an absolute legend.
And again he was pretty much the enforcer Cam Chancellor
before Chancellor was almost even born.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Safe travels, Greg, and we will I'll talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
On Monday, Okay, Happy weekend? All right?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Greg bell Arciahawks in Siety can follo him at GML
Seattle on x and of course Thenewstribune dot Com with us.
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Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mariners this offseason? I sure hope so. Sports Radio ninety
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five minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I don't even believe myself the pick I'm about to
make at Factor Fiction at seven thirty five. I can't
believe I've convinced myself of this, but I have. So
we'll have that for you here in about five minutes.
But I can't get through the week. I'm not going
to be here next week. I don't know what the
Mariners might do. It feels like the hot stoves cooking
a little earlier than it's ever been cooking before. So
(21:22):
I just want to weigh in on this topic before
something might happen in the nine days that I am away.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I would really like.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
This Moonataka Murakami from Japan to be a Mariner going forward,
and there are a lot of hesitations out there, Bucky,
because of how high his strikeout rate is over in Japan.
And he's gonna come over here and face obviously a
lot more fastball pitchers, but a lot of fastball pitchers
(21:51):
now in Japan.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
It's not the league that he used to be.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, shoe Otani and Yamamoto and Sasaki are coming
over here throwing one hundred and two miles per hour,
for goodness sake. So I don't think it's the Jamie
Moyer League that it used to be or its reputation is.
So I don't know if it's as big a jump
as it used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And this guy has just dominated. He hit third in.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The Japanese lineup that won the World Baseball Classic two
years ago, for goodness sake, third as a twenty three
year old. And now he's coming over to the majors,
and I hear a lot of Mariner fans.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
That don't want him. I don't want that guy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I don't like guys to strike out all the time, either,
but I sure like guys who are twenty five years
old who've dominant, who are considered Japanese superstars. Tell me
the last Japanese superstar that failed over here and has
the potential right away with an eighty power on his
scouting grade, the highest scouting grade you can get for power,
(22:51):
and has the potential to hit sixty homers when he
comes over here at any given season. I kind of
want that guy. I don't know why so many people
don't want that guy.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The idea of the home runs obviously, and just like
I do, I'm a big fan of them. I am
a little worried about the strikeout. You're right, it's not
the same Japanese league that it once was, but it's
it's a definite step below as far as the amount
of stuff you're gonna see over there versus over here.
(23:21):
But I mean, I'll take a strikeout of game. I
mean that's a wonderful That's what I typically would be
is a strikeout of game, and then you have the
opportunity for four different times to maybe lock up on one.
He doesn't do a whole heck of a lot other well,
he doesn't. He gets quite a few walks too. Looking
at his numbers, I mean as Jerry walks. Yeah, Well,
it just it's the part of it's it's part of
(23:42):
the way in which baseball hitting has gone where it
was the three outcomes strikeout, walk or home run. I
don't like that, yeah, but you can have that in
your lineup. As a matter of fact, just about every
good team has a guy like that. And you know
you're right when you say, who's the last Japanese stud
that has come over here? Assuming he was going to
(24:03):
be good, that wasn't good. I don't even can't even
remember one. I mean, for the typically they I didn't
kind of know who they are. And if they're gonna
come over here, they're not coming over here to just
give it a shot. They're coming over like I think
I can do it. I know I can do it.
I'm ready to do it, and typically they do.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, Yoshida from Boston's kind of falling flat, But I
don't think he was considered like a Japanese This guy's
considered a superstar. This guy in the Japanese lineup. Two
years ago, at age twenty three, it was show Hey
hitting I think second, and he was hitting behind Showey.
He was hitting third. Sho Hay was in the Japanese
League as a hitter and a pitcher, and he wasn't
(24:40):
putting up the numbers. This dude's been putting up before
the age of twenty five. He's setting records over there.
He broke sadaharo Oh's single season home run record. He
had just fifty six this past year. I mean, I
can't even, for the life of me, imagine somebody not
wanting this guy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
If the Mariners are willing.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
To pony up the money now, I don't know what
that's going to cost. There are wildly varied reports about him.
I don't know what it would cost. But if we
end up, if I come back to work, you know,
two Mondays from now and we've got Munataka Morikami, I'm pumped.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, yeah, I had to move in the direction of Hey,
let's add to this, right. We talked to Jerry earlier
this week and he was like, well, we're not going backwards, right,
We're not trying to go backwards. I mean, the idea
of moving on from guys is not what we wanting
to do. Want to keep moving forward. This should be
a step in the forward direction, for sure. I mean,
I think right now they're focused on Polonco. But if
he's posted, then I guarantee they're having conversations about it,
(25:39):
whether or not you're right with the varied reports of
what it could be. You know, twenty million dollars a year,
thirty million dollars a year, down to fifteen million.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
They're in on some one of those.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Now, it's just a matter of whether or not a
big time team, one of the big market clubs is like, no,
we love him more than you.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
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Speaker 4 (26:26):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I did not expect that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I didn't either, I really didn't. I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I mean, we started the show today talking about how
crazy the NFL is this season, where a team looks
good and then they look terrible, and then they I mean,
there just has been such little consistency this year. The
Dallas Cowboys have felt like the most dysfunctional organization in
the National Football League this year, and yet Philadelphia, with
(26:57):
an eight and two record, might be more dysfunctional right now,
like right now, right in this moment.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, but apparently nobody likes Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Everybody's sick of aj Brown by the Philadelphia Eagles seem
more dysfunctional than the recently galvanized Dallas Cowboys. Behind the
death of Marshawn Neeland and the additions of Quinn Williams,
who's been added to the addition of Kenny Clark, who's
been added to the addition of Logan Wilson, who's been
added to the return of Overshown, who's a freak pass
(27:29):
rusher that is back into the lineup. I just got
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suddenly the Dallas Cowboys not only don't feel dysfunctional, they
feel galvanized. The defense not only doesn't seem like the
worst in the National Football League right now, it looks scary,
healthy and fast and potent. They're getting three and a
(27:51):
half points at home against a Division rival, a Eagles
team that everybody says does not look good.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But they keep winning games.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, go ahead and win and don't cover, because that
means I win. So I'm tagging the Dallas Cowboys plus
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Speaker 1 (28:06):
Home against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Uh, you definitely have talked yourself into that. But all
those things are valid points. I do think they're playing better,
but I don't know. To me, I feel like the
whole Eagles thing, I feel like it's blown out of
proportion to some degree. I mean it's like if they say, well,
aj Brown is like he's frustrated, right, he has not
been involved a whole heck of a lot together. They're like,
are you not the same guy? And then he just
(28:30):
wants to throw out, well, what a sake? One not
the right guy either. I don't know if it's as
much dysfunction in the building, because I think that winning
does cure a lot of things. Even if you're irritated,
you win, you go out there. I think this is
a game where the Philadelphia Eagles offense gets right all right.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
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Speaker 1 (30:00):
Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Sam Donald taking too much of the blame for his
four interceptions on Sunday. We'll discuss it next on KJR.
And it turns out beautiful Sunday, sixty three degrees. N
ain't no win, no chance for rain. So yeah, exactly,
let's talk about Sam Donald. Our quarterback has been beating
up this week for the first time all season along
(30:25):
really taken to task the national guy's having a lot
of fun, kind of throwing out the old you know,
big games. Maybe Sam's not a big game quarterback. Of course,
his interception rate turnover rate has been more emphasized this week,
coming off of a four interception game. He was even
quoted yesterday as describing his own tendencies to turn the
(30:47):
ball over as being unacceptable fourteen of them this year
ten interceptions, which is a third most in the National
Football League.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I hope it's lip service.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Because I as much as he cost us the game
of the four interceptions on Sundawn. So with Hugh Millen
and his rant yesterday on the Roundtable, I mean, we've
gotten nothing but terrific quarterback play out of this guy,
and I don't want it to change because he suddenly
feels an emphasis that I can't turn the ball over,
(31:18):
and now he starts getting timid. I got a lot
of other categories where he ranks pretty highly too. Sure,
he's third in the league in interceptions, that's not good,
but he's also fourth in QBR, sixth and overall rating.
PFF says he's the second best quarterback so far in
the National Football League few at sacks allowed of any
starter in the NFL, top ten in touchdown passes first,
(31:39):
and yards per pass third, in completion percentage.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Bring any harm to that all those other statistics because
Sam Darnold thinks he's got to change his game to
avoid criticism or to avoid four interceptions games.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What did Mike McDonald say about Sam Sunday? He let
it rip, He let it rip.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I mean they want him to let it rip. And
when you let it rip, it comes a consequence. Sometimes
sometimes they make the interception as opposed to it deflecting
off the fingertips and a harm and landing harmlessly over
on the sideline. I don't want him to change. I mean,
if he does back to back for interception games, then
(32:23):
maybe there's something to think about. But I don't want
him to change just because he had a stinker of
a game on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The idea of the over well, it's not an idea.
The overreaction of an individual game in just sports in
general is ridiculous. I mean it's the dude, is you
just rattled off ten things that he's in the top
of the NFL in.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Over exact same way.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yes, yeah, over the course of the season so far,
and yet oh just don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Can't what because of four bad throws?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Bad throws?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Okay? Good?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, I wish that he was. He wishes he was
as perfect as his critics are apparently. It's yeah, you
were going against a good defense too. I mean there's
part of it. You got a tippy cap. Yeah, I
meant you gotta tippyr cap. There was you have a
couple guys that were dinged up. There's all kinds of excuses,
(33:17):
and I don't want to give them because I don't
think that he necessarily would give him. He would just
say I got to be better, period. I can't make
those throws like I haven't been all season. So no,
I to me, I think that this is a get
right game. This is a and you're not like, well,
hopefully he only has to throw it ten times because
that'll minimize his mistakes. Well, yeah, hopefully you get the
(33:38):
run game going, and I think you can against this defense.
They're not very good, but so you're not sitting there
thinking you have to sling it around. But at the
same time, you kind of want to get that monkey
off his back a little bit. You want him to
feel free to go out there and rip it and
and the windows aren't going to be quite as tight.
Hopefully it's not a last second game where you have
(33:59):
to make this throw. It's just kind of you start
the game, you say, hey, we're gonna do this. We're
gonna be balanced, we're gonna go out there. We want
you to keep playing the way you have been the
entire season and not feel like you have to.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Succumb to the critics that think, oh man, maybe you
aren't capable of it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There's nothing he can do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
He can go out there and go sixteen for sixteen,
perfect game, and there's still going to be people that say, well,
when it's a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Big game, I don't trust him.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, so who cares? Just go do you? The team
believes in him. I mean right after the game, everybody
from coaches down to teammates, that's our dude. We're not
worried about it, and I don't think he should be
worried about it.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I mean that was the positive thing too coming out
of the Rams game, is that he wasn't afraid, even
at the end of the game to keep throwing the ball.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
So I love that.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Actually, I mean I hated they through the interception, but yeah, yeah,
he kept going. So I don't think he's going to
be any different this week. I have faith, right, if.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm the coach, if I'm Mike McDonald, if i'm the
coaching staff, there's not any mention about an interception problem
in my hallways, in my meeting rooms, there's no Sam.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Come on now, I mean turnovers, I've been part of
the game.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, we all understand that Sam. No one understands that
more than Sam Donald. He's a bright guy. I don't
want him changing the way he's played this season. My
message is, I'm coming out of the tunnel. I'm Mike McDonald.
I'm going to stand right next to Sam m Sam
Donald and the tunnel coming out in Nashville at ten
oh one, or whenever on Sunday morning, and the last
(35:27):
thing he's going to hear out of my lips is
let her rip.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
That's what I want to tell them.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, if you're not if you're not encouraging him as
a coach, whether it's Clint, whether it's Mike McDonald, whether
it's his teammates, you're doing yourself a disservice as an organization,
as a team. He has done a great job of
leading this team to where they were talked about as
the best team in the NFL of like eight days ago.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I'm not going to risk nine straight terrific performances because
he had a stinker on Sunday against a great defense. Yes,
I mean he's not going to do it all right.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
We'll tackle that and other topics in our next segment.
It's Friday, it's eight o'clock. It is time for the
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