December 16, 2024 • 26 mins
Hugh Millen joins to break down the loss to the Packers on SNF, and we hear from Seahawks head coach Mike MacDonald following the loss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Obviously, Patrick Mahomes week to week with a high ankle spring,
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You dovis snag Westerner Michigan defensive lineman Antario Thompson out
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
Husky's also getting a defensive tackle from Utah. According to
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Speaker 2 (01:31):
We're talking about Samote Peppa, who.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Was transferred from Utah to play defensive tackle for you
doub all right, joining us right now on the radio.
So I've been listening all day long to everything this
guy has had to say on the station.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm kind of lying, but not really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I've heard a lot of it, and I thought, you
know what, I want to get a little more at four,
so we asked him back for more four with Hugh Millen.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
How are you man, I'm doing okay, And yeah, Bill
Parcells is a pricker.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, it was a hell of a coach. I can
tell you that, well, he's a coach.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah. I try to the story.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
We don't have the time for it, but I'll tell
you a parcels prick story sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All right, it went.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You're gonna be on Wednesday with us?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, all right, a Wednesday, and then I'll write it
down on my notes, text me.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The story and all they can listen to when I'm
off on Wednesday. I try to bring up stuff that
I don't know has been brought up today.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I do want to ask you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sam Howe comes in down twenty to six, you're at
the packer twenty four after that twenty two yard pass
play to Tyler Lockett and the first snap he took
was seven oh nine. In the third quarter, twelve consecutive
plays they were either passing it, getting sacked or scrambling.
(02:44):
It took thirteen plays with Sam Howe before a running
back saw the ball and that was the twenty four
yard touchdown by Zach Sharbonay.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Why did they go so pass heavy when Sam Howe was.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
In the game in your I don't know, I don't know.
They had plenty of time.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I mean, you know, the uh, the biggest opportunity.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Man, I thought it would last longer than that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Holy cow, how.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's only on Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean it could be us, It could be it's us.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, there you go, because he was great on Friday
for four hours.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anders, you got us back there on your end. Yeah,
he's here, he's here, Okay here.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Whoa will you hear us?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think the hell are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I swear to god he was on Friday. He was
crystal clear from three until sevent p Oh my god.
Every time we have him on on Monday he craps out.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
See.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Here's the thing. I was concerned. Let me just double check, Andrews.
Are we still in the air by the way yet?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was on ourcern that it was aust that had dropped.
And Millan was on the air by himself, son of
a bitch?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Where are they got? Blah blah blah. You get you
back on the air as soon as you came back. Okay, So, Hugh,
I think we have you back.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do we have you now?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Good? All right, feeble as the right.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We got to get you a new hamster, by the way,
So go back and give us your thoughts on down
twenty to three. You've got what twenty two minutes and
change or so left in the game. Did they abandon
the run too early?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In your paper?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I thought so, yeah, absolutely. I think that you want
to help a backup quarterback. I don't think you want
to run all the time and never give him any
first and ten runs or second and meet to excuse me, passes,
or second and medium passes. You can't just say, hey,
third and eight, now go get us the first down.
So I think that's too little. But I think that
if you, if you're as a defender, if you're saying,
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all they're doing is throwing with this guy, and you
know they're in shotgun the whole time. There was only
five plays for the entire game, counting the Geno plays.
They were only under center for five plays, So they're
in shotgun too much pass mode. And what happens is
defenders they start to you know, you know, as they're
normally line up, they think, okay, here's my run keeers,
(05:00):
he here's my pass keys. And then the less running
they see, the more they just say, okay, I'm just
focusing in on my pass keys. Where's my drop. Oh
my drop from this hash is one yard outside the numbers.
All right, I'm going to get straight to there. I'm
going to turn around and be ready to break on
the ball like they're thinking pass mode, and I think that.
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I think you got to run the football at them
so that they think, okay, what do I do? What's
my gap in the run fits for example, so that
they have to play with multiplicity on defense, and Seattle
just didn't force them to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, and Hugh to add a little more gas to
this fire. It wasn't just when Sam Howell was in
the game. For example, when Gino threw the interception, that
was the eighth consecutive pass they had thrown. And this
is a team that got fourteen carries from their running
backs for seventy three yards in a touchdown. That's almost
six yards per game. So I don't want to hear
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it from anybody who said, wow, we can't run the ball.
Can't run the ball. He ran it at almost six
yards a game, and you only gave your running backs
fourteen carries. Now, so talk to me about the passing
between the twenties. It just seems like Gino again is
successful between the twenties. But to me, it almost seems
like fast food. It tastes good, it looks good, but
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it's not really nourishing for the offense because once you
get into the red zone, he just throws interceptions.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
When he throws.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, well, it's successful can be defined a couple of
different ways. So are you talking about just efficiency getting
completions avoiding interceptions as you say in the middle of
the field.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think there's another way to define successful.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean, if you're going to drop back and pass
and run the risk of sack, there's got to be
a higher payoff, and you got to get big.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Plays, and you know, just the.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I don't know, I don't know how many times I'm
tired of a banging my head. Well it's against a
moving door with DK metcalf and and you know, it's
it's just an.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Absolute I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It's one of the great discouragements that I've had as
a Seahawk fan. And so yeah, I mean, I guess
they were successful. Were they scoring points, were they getting
big plays. They did a lot of what's called spacing
concepts where they would just have an array of receivers
in front of of DK. You know, like it's kind
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of like a buffet, but there's no meat. It's just
a buffet of like broccoli and peas and Brussels sprouts,
you know, cauliflower. Like it's just everybody's just kind of
you know, sitting there. I mean, what do you see
DK Metcalf catching balls, you know, four yards from the
lion of scrimmage. So I would I would say they
(07:46):
were successful in one definition, as I'm implying, I think
that they were not successful in terms of generating explosive
plays in the past game.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, looking at DK Metcalf, the first play of the
game for fifteen yards, he had two catches for thirteen yards,
or the next fifty four minutes on two targets, had
an eight yard catch on the second drive of the game.
That means for the final forty six minutes of the game,
he had one catch on one target for five yards.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
How does that happen?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Unacceptable?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I think, Look he gets Chris Collinsworth has he said
it in the pregame to you guys last week. He
said it on the broadcast last night.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He said, DK Metcalf is like a gravitational pull, right,
Like so he doesn't talk that way every week talking
about Collinsworth.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
He is.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He is expressing to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Us a unique aspect of DK's ability to garner double
coverage and safety over the top. People squeeze to him
when he runs a corner out the corners really sink
to get underneath it. He has a way of attracting
double teams. But on the occasions where you're getting single
high and he's got one on one, they need to
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go to him more. They've got to have automatic checks
where they just say, oh, oh, a single on DK,
let's let's go, let's make this happen. And you know,
and and and you can do it all outside the numbers.
You can do curls and hooks that stay outside the numbers. Comebacks,
stutter comebacks, stutter goes, go routes. Just put that corner in,
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you know, give him the fear of God and even
just throw it up to him. You know, he's six
' three and he had a forty one inch vertical
at the combine and you know, thirty five inch arms.
I mean, I just I don't get it. I don't
get the waste. And so yeah, that's another thing to
be salty about.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, Greg go Sell last week said quote, this is
no knock on DK, but I think JSN is just
becoming the guy. So as JSN continues to become the guy,
partially thanks to what you just mentioned, the over coverage
on DK, metcalf will teams now have to adjust put
more resources to JSN. So now DK it's open, more.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That could happen.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I mean you're seeing JSN work in the slot more
so coverages. You know, how you squeeze to a slot
guy is generally different than I mean, if you just
unless you want to just all out bracket play man
and man everywhere else and then truly two men manned
a man on the slot. The type of double teams
you see in the slot happen to be more with
(10:22):
zone and how you.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Squeeze to it.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
But you know there's plays, for example, in one of
the key plays of the game. In my mind, I
always think, guys, when the margin on the scoreboard is
fourteen points, I always think.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Things are really really tenuous.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Now because if the team behind scores now they're only
down seven and they have momentum. If the team that's
ahead by two touchdown scores now they're up three touchdowns,
it's really unlikely ever coming back from three touchdowns. So
when Seattle was down fourteen to nothing and they drive
down and they had a second and one, yeah, Barner
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and Barner, you know, you know it's a split zone. Like, dude,
you gotta where's your urgency? I could show you split
zones that that the Packers were running. What split zone
means that you're running the inside zone to the right,
the tight end that's on the right, he seals back
across the formation. You gotta get there. And Barner just
you know, he just didn't get there. And the tight ends.
(11:25):
I'll tell you what, I'm about to blow my gasket
as a Sea Off fan with these damn tight ends
please and penalties and they're they're not getting open. And
I mean and Noah fan and how he runs those
damn options just come up and and it's like he's
stomping on bubble wrap. You know when you're a kid
and you see a kid, like a toddler stomping on
bubble wrap, like like he's like yeah, he goes up
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like four wrap for like nineteen steps, and I mean,
there's you lose all your speed. You can't get excel
as it's a hor If I was a quarterback, I go,
are you even serious? Like if you're running that technique,
I am never looking at you. And so anyway, so
but these tight ends are just driving me to drink
brown liquor and the goods, the hard stuff, right and
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and so anyways, yeah, Barner misses the block. And by
the way, Gino, he's a good enough of athlete and
that if he sees the end crash like that, keep
the ball in the alley.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Keep the ball have a reasoned component to it.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that he should run the ball once a
game in that and it would keep people honest. But anyways,
you get a loss there, and then the third and
two where they take a sack.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
On the next play, he's looking.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Gino's looking to his right on Manda Man coverage and
you've got Jackson Smith and Jigba on an intermediate dig
round about twelve fourteen yards intermediate in breaking. He's holding
the ball, he's looking to his right and yet to
his left. They had clearly a third and short Manda
Man beater where Tyler Locket goes out and he's gonna
act like he's gonna pick for DKT Tyler's in the slot,
(13:00):
but then he wheels back in. He pivots back in
on a slant, and it's open. If you throw it
on time, it's open. It's a third and two play,
and our quarterback is acting like his third and twelve
and he's looking for Jackson Smith and jig But way
down the field or first and ten. That would be
something you say, all right, let me try and get
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a twelve fourteen fifteen yard on play.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The concept grub gave you the concept for this coverage
to your left. Stop looking at Jackson Smith and Jigba
on your right on a route that doesn't fit the
down and distance, and so you take a sack there,
and you know you lose the momentum. Now, fourteen three
it's better than fourteen nothing, but you know there's an
(13:46):
opportunity missed there. If he just grabbed the ball and
he carried out the offense the way it's supposed to
be executed. He throws that little snare slant on the
fake pick.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Nice concept. They got the coverage and he wasn't looking there.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, you mentioned down fourteen to three. Green Bay got
held to a field goal to make it seventeen to
three and then a crucial part of the game, the
Seahawks hu were driving. They're at the Green Bay thirteen
first and ten and the Packers on two consecutive plays
get their hands on the football. Second play they picked
it off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
In the end zone. So what are we gonna do
about this?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Because Geno Smith in the red zone is like that
Nazi soldier in Raiders looking right into the arc and
his face just melts right off his seakallt I mean,
it's unbelievable to me. So, and this is just kind
of who he is. I mean, he's thirty three whatever
years old.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Can we fix this? Who's counting? Well, things speed up there.
But you know on that play, the second and nine
that preceded that, they're trying to do a double move
with Jackson Smith and Jigba as the widest guy to
gene was left. And you know that's that's a that's
a single safety beater play that that concept is not
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for because the corner sinks, he's got help with the
safety over the top, and Tyler is just right underneath it.
It's a high low, it's right in your vision. Just
throw it to Tyler. And so the idea that. It's
almost as if he predetermined, I'm gonna throw to JSN
no matter what, Like I know, it's the it's.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
The touchdown call all week long.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I'm sure they practice that against single safety either man
deman or cover three zone. And and then you know,
and and and so in his mind he probably has
three or four completions this week in practice against that coverage. Well,
now they throw him at different coverage, and you gotta
just you gotta, you got to handle the different coverage.
And and so he forces that and then the interception.
(15:50):
Don't love the spacing there. Don't love the idea. If
I was you know, Ryan Grubbs, Uh, you know, uncle,
I'd probably and we had a ball busting type relationship.
I'd be busting his ball. He's like, dude, what are
you doing fant on a safety. I don't like that.
The spa scene between Tyler Lockett at the four yard
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line and going to the back pylon is questionable from
the right hash too. That's the far hash that gives
an opportunity for the guy who's playing man to man
on Tyler on the outbreaking route, the eight yard outbreaking route.
He looks back for the ball and then he because
it's the far hash, he has enough time.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
To fall back into the play higher up.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Now, you know, for fans part I would I would say, look,
you got to take a higher angle, almost like inside
of the pylon, and let the ball pull you to
the pylon because the defender will match your high angle.
So I don't like fans angle. I don't like the call.
I don't like the SPA scene. I don't like Charles
Cross getting beat forcing Rachiet Gino to retreat. I don't
(16:58):
like Sharbone on the play step up and being soft
on blitz pickup and and him getting trucked now Gino's
I don't like Gino backing up, throwing late, lofting, like
there's so many I can I give you double digit?
Can we check ten different things that were wrong in
that play? But it's the court you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know what. The football in this guy's hand is.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Like the the the Nazi and the emblem burning in
his hand.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He just feels like he's got to get rid of it,
like like, oh well, I gotta Maybe it's not a
good decision, but I just got to get.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Rid of this.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
This football is burning a hole trying to segue that
was really lame. But anyways, that that that the quarterback
is responsible. Ultimately, he's got the fortunes of the franchise
in his hands. And you know for him to you
know that that was a relatively easy pick.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt right.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He's got to be aware that guy's gonna can fall off.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
You know, it looks like a zone posture, a zone
guy falling off even knows man, man, he's got to
be aware.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, we know what you don't like.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Uh maybe Wednesday Dick, make it a point to find
out what he does like on on Wednesday show.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, and I want to discuss that. I want his
Bill Parcell's story. Yeah, you'll get that one. I'm gonna
reserve a segment, all right, love it?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Justify if I'm gonna call him a uh up, you
got just a p You.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Caught him a prick? I did you have to? Yeah?
The audio evidence of it right here, I will.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I will give you a story that's prick worthy. How
about it? All right?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I love it. Everybody likes a prick worthy story.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Here, you're the man we'll talk to.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Here, we're gonna hear from Mike McDonald, what's going on
with Gino next?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
On ninety three three kJ A r F M.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Apparently Ian Fernesse took some heat for not having Travis
Hunter on his palate at.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
All, and he went viral.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Anders?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
By the way, I not awful announcing one after him.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I'm scrolling through awful announcing this weekend. It says it's
a Seattle radio host.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Blah blah blah. You know, I don't know exactly what the.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Left Travis Hunter off his ballot, And some people were
praising him, but a lot of people were crushing him
as well, which is a perfect ratio.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He had.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
He had gent, he had cam Ward number two for Kuges,
and he had Scataboo number three, right, And you know
it didn't bother me because people vote regionally all the time,
and and so.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How was that Kim Ward plays in Miami? You think, no,
cam Ward is his quarter? I mean, that's his guy.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't think he's this guy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You know, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He's not voting for cam Ward because cam Ward played
at Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It was cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Vote that got everybody pissed off.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It was the Skataboo vote, right, But wasn't it the
fact that Travis Hunter wasn't on the ballance right?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, But I don't think he's voting for cam Ward
because he went to Wazoo. He's voting for cam Ward
because he legitimately thinks he's one of the top three
players in the country.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I mean he hates cam Ward. I mean the fact
that he even voted for cam wored.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's actually kind of cool that he put that bias
aside and voted for him. I mean, hell, I had,
you know, a damn duck on my belt, I'd voted
for Mariota when he won the thing. This is the
one thing in my life that I do where I
can't be a fan. It's the one thing that I
do in my life where I just say, I've got
to just take this and just approach it from an
impartial perspective and vote for the guys that I think
are the best players. And I think Ashton Jenny is
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a freaking beast. I think he's one of the best
college running backs I've ever seen, and if he played
anywhere else, he probably.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Would have won the Heidsman Trophy. Now, to be honest,
with you. I have the problem with Travis.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I mean, Travis Hunter was a All Big twelve caliber
defender and offensive player in the same year.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I can't argue with that.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
But I don't have a problem with West Coast voters
propping up West Coast candidates because they know that a
lot of the East Coast voters don't even.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
See an obligation almost well, I mean, I see, I
don't think that way. I mean, I'm not gonna just
start voting for West Coast guys because the East Coast
guys vote for East Coast dudes, right, I mean, I
think that's wrong. I think you just vote for the
top three players regards some region whatever, and if other
people are doing it like that, then that's their problem.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
But if you're one of the few West Coast voters,
and we know that there's way.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Fewer First Coast voters than the.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Right, if you if you just go by that, right,
the West Coast guys are always gonna get hammered because
the East Coast guys totally vote regionally.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's always voted regionally. McCaffrey didn't win the freaking heighs.
There's too many voters and the window is open way
too long.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean, it's just there's all those issues I've always
had with the Heisman, and even more now than ever.
We should be waiting until the playoffs are over because
all these guys, the majority of them playing much bigger
games as the year goes by. All Right, Mike McDonald,
Seahawk head coach, with.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The media today.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
This includes, I believe as well an update on on
Geno Smith's health.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
How do you get yourself back to center and the
team back to center after a frustrating loss.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
We just do what we do, Brian for just we
go back. We you know, going to the meeting. The
mentality of kind of dissecting, you know why why we're
having this conversation where we're at, Let's be honest about
what's going on, about how we see it and go
go attack. That's just the guy our guys mentality or
(22:12):
where it needs to be. They know what we need
to do, they know what they want it to look
like right now. You know, I felt like we were
on it. We're on a good you know, like a
good growth stage, you know, to our team and hit
a little bit of a hit, a hit a speed bump,
and now we've got to go regroup and move forward.
But our guys know what to do and that's what
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we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thanks Josas. Last night and the defenses were seven mcgraft.
I don't know if you ready to say that, Yeah,
those might be the words that I use. I could.
Is that a fine line for you when you want
to change and be diverse on defense? Yet not to
the point where it's got to.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Be like that.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Yeah, Look, there's there's uh, there's trade offs to everything, right,
and so those are things you're just always going to
weigh in your mind of what's best for the team
and how you want to operate, what's gonna help you
guys be in the best position to win that particular situation.
And so and it's not just it's not just what
(23:17):
comes out of my mouth on how we game plan
and it's how we communicate it. It's how we work
together when when it's loud and when things are rolling.
So I think it's a learning experience.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
For us so we can move forward.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Have you play we played and also the two pp
I and the put wants to go with you.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Uh, it wasn't Reak's best game, but he's a guy
that we're going to continue to lean on and trust
to make plays for us and lock down the his
area of the field. I think Reek's tackling well, he's
doing some a lot of good things. When the ball
doesn't come his way, there's a reason where they're not
throwing his direction. But there's just a couple of plays
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right now per game where we just you know, want
want more from him, and he knows that and he's
he's the I want to tell you on the DPIs
we're looking for some clarity on that, on some of
the coaching points of how we want those guys to
play those plays, because the underthrown deep ball is a
tough play to make. Man Like, those guys are moving
really fast and they're trying to make the smart decision
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make plays on the ball and there's a timing mechanism
to it and when the ball gets there, so it's
it's a tricky play. So understand why they threw the flag,
but probably want some more clarity on it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
What did you think of how Sam played?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, just like I said last night, I mean it's
you know, we played better. Frankly, I mean, just get
us back in the game and move the ball little
bit more, But he's putting in a tough spot where
you know, they know that we're throwing and we know
what we're throwing. So they're they're rocking and rolling doing
their stuff. But talking to Sam, he's he's mentally tough
as nails. I know he's physically tough as nails. So
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if he gets the opportunity again, he's gonna go do
what he does and be Sam, How'll be the guy
we love?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'd had troubled trading pressure most of the year. What
did you see that allowed them to be most so
effective yesterday?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Without giving you, like all the details of it, I mean,
they just they married their Russian coverage really well in
passing situations and we can do a better job on
offense and getting the ball out quicker and picking up
some of the stunts that they were running and then
trying to you know, probably open some of those throw lanes.
But they did a good job of marrying it up.
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And there wasn't a lot of places to go with
the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You guys have had any sacks?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Was there something when he's getting wear the ball fast?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's just the opposite.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
We just didn't create enough passing situations, and then when
we did, we didn't marry it up. So look at
the sack and it's gonna be the same answer all
the time. And it's just it's the way it goes.
You know, you deny the ball, the quarterback holds it,
your rush wins, you get sacks. You don't do that,
he's gonna throw it or he's gonna scramble and and
create extended plays.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's just that's what happens.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Latino stays not being a guarantee. Does that change how
Sam or how you want Sam to prepare this week?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
To the point no, Gino Smith is going to take
the majority of reps for the number ones until they
feel differently. So that's very good news because if you've
got any shot of beating Minnesota on Sunday, I think
we all agree for as much as there's criticism that's
warranted of number seven, he is clearly the best option
at quarterback. Right now, we're gonna break some texts four nine,
four five one, and then Bears Vikings coming up on
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
Bajill Parcels is a freaking.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Prickzuo quarterback Johnny Macteer leaving Wazoo.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
He's in the portal. Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
He was offered, according to Jake Dickard, and offer an
excess of a million dollars, but he's taken off. He's
got two years left of eligibided his old OC. By
the way, just fyi, Ben Arbuckle is now the OC
at Oklahoma, So keep eye on the Sooners.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Obviously, Patrick Mahomes week to week with a high ankle spring,
Nick Chubb out of the season with a broken foot,
and the Steelers think maybe possibly DJ Watt could playow
on Sunday just has a sprain ankle.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Russell Wilson's in the postseason. Steelers have clinched a playoff spot.
We got two Monday night games, by the way tonight,
both of them in some ways on kJ R Bears
Vikings will go first at five o'clock on the FM
stick Atlanta and the Raiders will start over on ten
ninety and we'll join that game in progress after the
Husky basketball coaches show as well.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
You dovis snag Westerner Michigan defensive lineman Antario Thompson out
of the transfer portal. He had thirty four tackles on
a sack for the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Husky's also getting a defensive tackle from Utah. According to
my good buddy Bill Riley down there, the voice of
the Utes. He says he's a solid player, borderline starter,
good rotation guy.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We're talking about Samote Peppa, who.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Was transferred from Utah to play defensive tackle for you
doub all right, joining us right now on the radio.
So I've been listening all day long to everything this
guy has had to say on the station.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'm kind of lying, but not really.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I've heard a lot of it, and I thought, you
know what, I want to get a little more at four,
so we asked him back for more four with Hugh Millen.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
How are you man, I'm doing okay, And yeah, Bill
Parcells is a pricker.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, it was a hell of a coach. I can
tell you that, well, he's a coach.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah. I try to the story.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
We don't have the time for it, but I'll tell
you a parcels prick story sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
All right, it went.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You're gonna be on Wednesday with us?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, all right, a Wednesday, and then I'll write it
down on my notes, text me.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The story and all they can listen to when I'm
off on Wednesday. I try to bring up stuff that
I don't know has been brought up today.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I do want to ask you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sam Howe comes in down twenty to six, you're at
the packer twenty four after that twenty two yard pass
play to Tyler Lockett and the first snap he took
was seven oh nine. In the third quarter, twelve consecutive
plays they were either passing it, getting sacked or scrambling.
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It took thirteen plays with Sam Howe before a running
back saw the ball and that was the twenty four
yard touchdown by Zach Sharbonay.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Why did they go so pass heavy when Sam Howe was.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
In the game in your I don't know, I don't know.
They had plenty of time.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I mean, you know, the uh, the biggest opportunity.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Man, I thought it would last longer than that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Holy cow, how.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It's only on Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I mean it could be us, It could be it's us.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, there you go, because he was great on Friday
for four hours.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anders, you got us back there on your end. Yeah,
he's here, he's here, Okay here.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Whoa will you hear us?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think the hell are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I swear to god he was on Friday. He was
crystal clear from three until sevent p Oh my god.
Every time we have him on on Monday he craps out.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
See.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Here's the thing. I was concerned. Let me just double check, Andrews.
Are we still in the air by the way yet?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I was on ourcern that it was aust that had dropped.
And Millan was on the air by himself, son of
a bitch?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Where are they got? Blah blah blah. You get you
back on the air as soon as you came back. Okay, So, Hugh,
I think we have you back.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do we have you now?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Good? All right, feeble as the right.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
We got to get you a new hamster, by the way,
So go back and give us your thoughts on down
twenty to three. You've got what twenty two minutes and
change or so left in the game. Did they abandon
the run too early?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
In your paper?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I thought so, yeah, absolutely. I think that you want
to help a backup quarterback. I don't think you want
to run all the time and never give him any
first and ten runs or second and meet to excuse me, passes,
or second and medium passes. You can't just say, hey,
third and eight, now go get us the first down.
So I think that's too little. But I think that
if you, if you're as a defender, if you're saying,
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all they're doing is throwing with this guy, and you
know they're in shotgun the whole time. There was only
five plays for the entire game, counting the Geno plays.
They were only under center for five plays, So they're
in shotgun too much pass mode. And what happens is
defenders they start to you know, you know, as they're
normally line up, they think, okay, here's my run keeers,
(05:00):
he here's my pass keys. And then the less running
they see, the more they just say, okay, I'm just
focusing in on my pass keys. Where's my drop. Oh
my drop from this hash is one yard outside the numbers.
All right, I'm going to get straight to there. I'm
going to turn around and be ready to break on
the ball like they're thinking pass mode, and I think that.
(05:22):
I think you got to run the football at them
so that they think, okay, what do I do? What's
my gap in the run fits for example, so that
they have to play with multiplicity on defense, and Seattle
just didn't force them to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Well, and Hugh to add a little more gas to
this fire. It wasn't just when Sam Howell was in
the game. For example, when Gino threw the interception, that
was the eighth consecutive pass they had thrown. And this
is a team that got fourteen carries from their running
backs for seventy three yards in a touchdown. That's almost
six yards per game. So I don't want to hear
(05:57):
it from anybody who said, wow, we can't run the ball.
Can't run the ball. He ran it at almost six
yards a game, and you only gave your running backs
fourteen carries. Now, so talk to me about the passing
between the twenties. It just seems like Gino again is
successful between the twenties. But to me, it almost seems
like fast food. It tastes good, it looks good, but
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it's not really nourishing for the offense because once you
get into the red zone, he just throws interceptions.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
When he throws.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, well, it's successful can be defined a couple of
different ways. So are you talking about just efficiency getting
completions avoiding interceptions as you say in the middle of
the field.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think there's another way to define successful.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean, if you're going to drop back and pass
and run the risk of sack, there's got to be
a higher payoff, and you got to get big.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Plays, and you know, just the.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I don't know, I don't know how many times I'm
tired of a banging my head. Well it's against a
moving door with DK metcalf and and you know, it's
it's just an.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Absolute I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
It's one of the great discouragements that I've had as
a Seahawk fan. And so yeah, I mean, I guess
they were successful. Were they scoring points, were they getting
big plays. They did a lot of what's called spacing
concepts where they would just have an array of receivers
in front of of DK. You know, like it's kind
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of like a buffet, but there's no meat. It's just
a buffet of like broccoli and peas and Brussels sprouts,
you know, cauliflower. Like it's just everybody's just kind of
you know, sitting there. I mean, what do you see
DK Metcalf catching balls, you know, four yards from the
lion of scrimmage. So I would I would say they
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were successful in one definition, as I'm implying, I think
that they were not successful in terms of generating explosive
plays in the past game.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, looking at DK Metcalf, the first play of the
game for fifteen yards, he had two catches for thirteen yards,
or the next fifty four minutes on two targets, had
an eight yard catch on the second drive of the game.
That means for the final forty six minutes of the game,
he had one catch on one target for five yards.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
How does that happen?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Unacceptable?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I think, Look he gets Chris Collinsworth has he said
it in the pregame to you guys last week. He
said it on the broadcast last night.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He said, DK Metcalf is like a gravitational pull, right,
Like so he doesn't talk that way every week talking
about Collinsworth.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
He is.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
He is expressing to.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Us a unique aspect of DK's ability to garner double
coverage and safety over the top. People squeeze to him
when he runs a corner out the corners really sink
to get underneath it. He has a way of attracting
double teams. But on the occasions where you're getting single
high and he's got one on one, they need to
(08:55):
go to him more. They've got to have automatic checks
where they just say, oh, oh, a single on DK,
let's let's go, let's make this happen. And you know,
and and and you can do it all outside the numbers.
You can do curls and hooks that stay outside the numbers. Comebacks,
stutter comebacks, stutter goes, go routes. Just put that corner in,
(09:18):
you know, give him the fear of God and even
just throw it up to him. You know, he's six
' three and he had a forty one inch vertical
at the combine and you know, thirty five inch arms.
I mean, I just I don't get it. I don't
get the waste. And so yeah, that's another thing to
be salty about.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, Greg go Sell last week said quote, this is
no knock on DK, but I think JSN is just
becoming the guy. So as JSN continues to become the guy,
partially thanks to what you just mentioned, the over coverage
on DK, metcalf will teams now have to adjust put
more resources to JSN. So now DK it's open, more.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
That could happen.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I mean you're seeing JSN work in the slot more
so coverages. You know, how you squeeze to a slot
guy is generally different than I mean, if you just
unless you want to just all out bracket play man
and man everywhere else and then truly two men manned
a man on the slot. The type of double teams
you see in the slot happen to be more with
(10:22):
zone and how you.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Squeeze to it.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
But you know there's plays, for example, in one of
the key plays of the game. In my mind, I
always think, guys, when the margin on the scoreboard is
fourteen points, I always think.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Things are really really tenuous.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Now because if the team behind scores now they're only
down seven and they have momentum. If the team that's
ahead by two touchdown scores now they're up three touchdowns,
it's really unlikely ever coming back from three touchdowns. So
when Seattle was down fourteen to nothing and they drive
down and they had a second and one, yeah, Barner
(11:03):
and Barner, you know, you know it's a split zone. Like, dude,
you gotta where's your urgency? I could show you split
zones that that the Packers were running. What split zone
means that you're running the inside zone to the right,
the tight end that's on the right, he seals back
across the formation. You gotta get there. And Barner just
you know, he just didn't get there. And the tight ends.
(11:25):
I'll tell you what, I'm about to blow my gasket
as a Sea Off fan with these damn tight ends
please and penalties and they're they're not getting open. And
I mean and Noah fan and how he runs those
damn options just come up and and it's like he's
stomping on bubble wrap. You know when you're a kid
and you see a kid, like a toddler stomping on
bubble wrap, like like he's like yeah, he goes up
(11:46):
like four wrap for like nineteen steps, and I mean,
there's you lose all your speed. You can't get excel
as it's a hor If I was a quarterback, I go,
are you even serious? Like if you're running that technique,
I am never looking at you. And so anyway, so
but these tight ends are just driving me to drink
brown liquor and the goods, the hard stuff, right and
(12:12):
and so anyways, yeah, Barner misses the block. And by
the way, Gino, he's a good enough of athlete and
that if he sees the end crash like that, keep
the ball in the alley.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Keep the ball have a reasoned component to it.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I think that he should run the ball once a
game in that and it would keep people honest. But anyways,
you get a loss there, and then the third and
two where they take a sack.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
On the next play, he's looking.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Gino's looking to his right on Manda Man coverage and
you've got Jackson Smith and Jigba on an intermediate dig
round about twelve fourteen yards intermediate in breaking. He's holding
the ball, he's looking to his right and yet to
his left. They had clearly a third and short Manda
Man beater where Tyler Locket goes out and he's gonna
act like he's gonna pick for DKT Tyler's in the slot,
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but then he wheels back in. He pivots back in
on a slant, and it's open. If you throw it
on time, it's open. It's a third and two play,
and our quarterback is acting like his third and twelve
and he's looking for Jackson Smith and jig But way
down the field or first and ten. That would be
something you say, all right, let me try and get
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a twelve fourteen fifteen yard on play.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
No.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The concept grub gave you the concept for this coverage
to your left. Stop looking at Jackson Smith and Jigba
on your right on a route that doesn't fit the
down and distance, and so you take a sack there,
and you know you lose the momentum. Now, fourteen three
it's better than fourteen nothing, but you know there's an
(13:46):
opportunity missed there. If he just grabbed the ball and
he carried out the offense the way it's supposed to
be executed. He throws that little snare slant on the
fake pick.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Nice concept. They got the coverage and he wasn't looking there.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, you mentioned down fourteen to three. Green Bay got
held to a field goal to make it seventeen to
three and then a crucial part of the game, the
Seahawks hu were driving. They're at the Green Bay thirteen
first and ten and the Packers on two consecutive plays
get their hands on the football. Second play they picked
it off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
In the end zone. So what are we gonna do
about this?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Because Geno Smith in the red zone is like that
Nazi soldier in Raiders looking right into the arc and
his face just melts right off his seakallt I mean,
it's unbelievable to me. So, and this is just kind
of who he is. I mean, he's thirty three whatever
years old.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Can we fix this? Who's counting? Well, things speed up there.
But you know on that play, the second and nine
that preceded that, they're trying to do a double move
with Jackson Smith and Jigba as the widest guy to
gene was left. And you know that's that's a that's
a single safety beater play that that concept is not
(15:06):
for because the corner sinks, he's got help with the
safety over the top, and Tyler is just right underneath it.
It's a high low, it's right in your vision. Just
throw it to Tyler. And so the idea that. It's
almost as if he predetermined, I'm gonna throw to JSN
no matter what, Like I know, it's the it's.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
The touchdown call all week long.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I'm sure they practice that against single safety either man
deman or cover three zone. And and then you know,
and and and so in his mind he probably has
three or four completions this week in practice against that coverage. Well,
now they throw him at different coverage, and you gotta
just you gotta, you got to handle the different coverage.
And and so he forces that and then the interception.
(15:50):
Don't love the spacing there. Don't love the idea. If
I was you know, Ryan Grubbs, Uh, you know, uncle,
I'd probably and we had a ball busting type relationship.
I'd be busting his ball. He's like, dude, what are
you doing fant on a safety. I don't like that.
The spa scene between Tyler Lockett at the four yard
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line and going to the back pylon is questionable from
the right hash too. That's the far hash that gives
an opportunity for the guy who's playing man to man
on Tyler on the outbreaking route, the eight yard outbreaking route.
He looks back for the ball and then he because
it's the far hash, he has enough time.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
To fall back into the play higher up.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Now, you know, for fans part I would I would say, look,
you got to take a higher angle, almost like inside
of the pylon, and let the ball pull you to
the pylon because the defender will match your high angle.
So I don't like fans angle. I don't like the call.
I don't like the SPA scene. I don't like Charles
Cross getting beat forcing Rachiet Gino to retreat. I don't
(16:58):
like Sharbone on the play step up and being soft
on blitz pickup and and him getting trucked now Gino's
I don't like Gino backing up, throwing late, lofting, like
there's so many I can I give you double digit?
Can we check ten different things that were wrong in
that play? But it's the court you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know what. The football in this guy's hand is.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Like the the the Nazi and the emblem burning in
his hand.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
He just feels like he's got to get rid of it,
like like, oh well, I gotta Maybe it's not a
good decision, but I just got to get.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Rid of this.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
This football is burning a hole trying to segue that
was really lame. But anyways, that that that the quarterback
is responsible. Ultimately, he's got the fortunes of the franchise
in his hands. And you know for him to you
know that that was a relatively easy pick.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt right.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He's got to be aware that guy's gonna can fall off.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
You know, it looks like a zone posture, a zone
guy falling off even knows man, man, he's got to
be aware.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, we know what you don't like.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Uh maybe Wednesday Dick, make it a point to find
out what he does like on on Wednesday show.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well, and I want to discuss that. I want his
Bill Parcell's story. Yeah, you'll get that one. I'm gonna
reserve a segment, all right, love it?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Justify if I'm gonna call him a uh up, you
got just a p You.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Caught him a prick? I did you have to? Yeah?
The audio evidence of it right here, I will.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I will give you a story that's prick worthy. How
about it? All right?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I love it. Everybody likes a prick worthy story.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Here, you're the man we'll talk to.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Here, we're gonna hear from Mike McDonald, what's going on
with Gino next?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
On ninety three three kJ A r F M.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Apparently Ian Fernesse took some heat for not having Travis
Hunter on his palate at.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
All, and he went viral.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Anders?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
By the way, I not awful announcing one after him.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I'm scrolling through awful announcing this weekend. It says it's
a Seattle radio host.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Blah blah blah. You know, I don't know exactly what the.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Left Travis Hunter off his ballot, And some people were
praising him, but a lot of people were crushing him
as well, which is a perfect ratio.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He had.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
He had gent, he had cam Ward number two for Kuges,
and he had Scataboo number three, right, And you know
it didn't bother me because people vote regionally all the time,
and and so.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
How was that Kim Ward plays in Miami? You think, no,
cam Ward is his quarter? I mean, that's his guy.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't think he's this guy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You know, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He's not voting for cam Ward because cam Ward played
at Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It was cam Ward.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Vote that got everybody pissed off.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It was the Skataboo vote, right, But wasn't it the
fact that Travis Hunter wasn't on the ballance right?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, But I don't think he's voting for cam Ward
because he went to Wazoo. He's voting for cam Ward
because he legitimately thinks he's one of the top three
players in the country.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I mean he hates cam Ward. I mean the fact
that he even voted for cam wored.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's actually kind of cool that he put that bias
aside and voted for him. I mean, hell, I had,
you know, a damn duck on my belt, I'd voted
for Mariota when he won the thing. This is the
one thing in my life that I do where I
can't be a fan. It's the one thing that I
do in my life where I just say, I've got
to just take this and just approach it from an
impartial perspective and vote for the guys that I think
are the best players. And I think Ashton Jenny is
(20:22):
a freaking beast. I think he's one of the best
college running backs I've ever seen, and if he played
anywhere else, he probably.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Would have won the Heidsman Trophy. Now, to be honest,
with you. I have the problem with Travis.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I mean, Travis Hunter was a All Big twelve caliber
defender and offensive player in the same year.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I can't argue with that.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
But I don't have a problem with West Coast voters
propping up West Coast candidates because they know that a
lot of the East Coast voters don't even.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
See an obligation almost well, I mean, I see, I
don't think that way. I mean, I'm not gonna just
start voting for West Coast guys because the East Coast
guys vote for East Coast dudes, right, I mean, I
think that's wrong. I think you just vote for the
top three players regards some region whatever, and if other
people are doing it like that, then that's their problem.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
But if you're one of the few West Coast voters,
and we know that there's way.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Fewer First Coast voters than the.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Right, if you if you just go by that, right,
the West Coast guys are always gonna get hammered because
the East Coast guys totally vote regionally.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's always voted regionally. McCaffrey didn't win the freaking heighs.
There's too many voters and the window is open way
too long.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean, it's just there's all those issues I've always
had with the Heisman, and even more now than ever.
We should be waiting until the playoffs are over because
all these guys, the majority of them playing much bigger
games as the year goes by. All Right, Mike McDonald,
Seahawk head coach, with.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
The media today.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
This includes, I believe as well an update on on
Geno Smith's health.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
How do you get yourself back to center and the
team back to center after a frustrating loss.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
We just do what we do, Brian for just we
go back. We you know, going to the meeting. The
mentality of kind of dissecting, you know why why we're
having this conversation where we're at, Let's be honest about
what's going on, about how we see it and go
go attack. That's just the guy our guys mentality or
(22:12):
where it needs to be. They know what we need
to do, they know what they want it to look
like right now. You know, I felt like we were
on it. We're on a good you know, like a
good growth stage, you know, to our team and hit
a little bit of a hit, a hit a speed bump,
and now we've got to go regroup and move forward.
But our guys know what to do and that's what
(22:33):
we're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Thanks Josas. Last night and the defenses were seven mcgraft.
I don't know if you ready to say that, Yeah,
those might be the words that I use. I could.
Is that a fine line for you when you want
to change and be diverse on defense? Yet not to
the point where it's got to.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Be like that.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Yeah, Look, there's there's uh, there's trade offs to everything, right,
and so those are things you're just always going to
weigh in your mind of what's best for the team
and how you want to operate, what's gonna help you
guys be in the best position to win that particular situation.
And so and it's not just it's not just what
(23:17):
comes out of my mouth on how we game plan
and it's how we communicate it. It's how we work
together when when it's loud and when things are rolling.
So I think it's a learning experience.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
For us so we can move forward.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Have you play we played and also the two pp
I and the put wants to go with you.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Uh, it wasn't Reak's best game, but he's a guy
that we're going to continue to lean on and trust
to make plays for us and lock down the his
area of the field. I think Reek's tackling well, he's
doing some a lot of good things. When the ball
doesn't come his way, there's a reason where they're not
throwing his direction. But there's just a couple of plays
(23:55):
right now per game where we just you know, want
want more from him, and he knows that and he's
he's the I want to tell you on the DPIs
we're looking for some clarity on that, on some of
the coaching points of how we want those guys to
play those plays, because the underthrown deep ball is a
tough play to make. Man Like, those guys are moving
really fast and they're trying to make the smart decision
(24:17):
make plays on the ball and there's a timing mechanism
to it and when the ball gets there, so it's
it's a tricky play. So understand why they threw the flag,
but probably want some more clarity on it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
What did you think of how Sam played?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, just like I said last night, I mean it's
you know, we played better. Frankly, I mean, just get
us back in the game and move the ball little
bit more, But he's putting in a tough spot where
you know, they know that we're throwing and we know
what we're throwing. So they're they're rocking and rolling doing
their stuff. But talking to Sam, he's he's mentally tough
as nails. I know he's physically tough as nails. So
(24:55):
if he gets the opportunity again, he's gonna go do
what he does and be Sam, How'll be the guy
we love?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I'd had troubled trading pressure most of the year. What
did you see that allowed them to be most so
effective yesterday?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Without giving you, like all the details of it, I mean,
they just they married their Russian coverage really well in
passing situations and we can do a better job on
offense and getting the ball out quicker and picking up
some of the stunts that they were running and then
trying to you know, probably open some of those throw lanes.
But they did a good job of marrying it up.
(25:30):
And there wasn't a lot of places to go with
the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You guys have had any sacks?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Was there something when he's getting wear the ball fast?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's just the opposite.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
We just didn't create enough passing situations, and then when
we did, we didn't marry it up. So look at
the sack and it's gonna be the same answer all
the time. And it's just it's the way it goes.
You know, you deny the ball, the quarterback holds it,
your rush wins, you get sacks. You don't do that,
he's gonna throw it or he's gonna scramble and and
create extended plays.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's just that's what happens.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Latino stays not being a guarantee. Does that change how
Sam or how you want Sam to prepare this week?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
To the point no, Gino Smith is going to take
the majority of reps for the number ones until they
feel differently. So that's very good news because if you've
got any shot of beating Minnesota on Sunday, I think
we all agree for as much as there's criticism that's
warranted of number seven, he is clearly the best option
at quarterback. Right now, we're gonna break some texts four nine,
four five one, and then Bears Vikings coming up on
(26:30):
a Monday right here on ninety three three KJRFM
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