January 2, 2026 • 38 mins
CFP Semifinals are set, and while there are blowouts, this is still so much better than how it used to be. What's playing better: the Seahawks defense or the 49ers offense? No Cliché Keys to Victory.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get a sound Rick.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, folks.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's time.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Good morning class, lady and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (00:10):
Holding six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
High school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jumped any conclusions? Not a god.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 7 (00:36):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Wow, this is Chuck and Buck in the Morning with
Ashley Ryan, fought to you by to Latok Casino Resort
and Quilse de Creek DRAFTKINI sports book where the action
never stopped.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
Get Hey, good morning and happy New Year to you all.
Welcome into the first show of twenty twenty six. It
(01:21):
is Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson with you here. On the
second day of January twenty twenty six, we usher.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
In a brand new year.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
But my goodness, do we have a lot to discuss.
So at least we're starting the new year with a
lot of content because it is all over the place,
it is bursting.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ashley Ryan is not here.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
She took the day off, and so our friend Anders
Hurst Face himself has made his appearance here to start
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Happy new year, Anders.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
Chuck, appreciate it. Thank you guys for inviting me on
your show today. Oh really, it's not like this thing
I have to do.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
It was an invitation that I had to accept.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, Yeah, man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, I'm glad that you're you got a positive
attitude exactly. Twenty sticks off.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Yeah, I just thought Ashley was jealous over everybody's time
off that they were getting and just took a day off.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, well it probably is. But I think Andrew's probably
just chomping at the bit. Why don't you just, you know,
get a little bit of an extended weekend to start
the year off. And I'd love to come in and.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I missed those two guys. Yeah you do. Yeah, sure,
you know what, I ain't too Harry bastard.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I did late crack and post game last night.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh you did.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I could come in right after that. Why nuts? Why nots?
You did crack your post with Mike Benton. Check it
out Crack an Audio Network podcast page.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We didn't make a call on this.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Well anyway, Happy New Year everyone, and welcome into the show.
It is a Football Friday sponsored by Tito's Hand Made Vodka.
Tito's Handmade Vodka's proud sponsor of the Seahawks, Distilled and
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by volume, savor responsibly. This is two weeks in a
row that I've done this two days off in the
(03:14):
middle of the week and then showed up on a
football Friday. This is the first week Bucky's done it
out of the two. I'm just gonna tell you, prepare
yourself for the Monday eiest feeling you've ever had on
a Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, well that makes sense because last night was
very Sunday ish feeling, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I had to remind myself, was I like, I'm like,
oh man, what did you dub? I forgot to watch
you dub Indiana last night? And I'm like, where is
the game? When did they cancel it?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now it's Sunday. Yeah, I thought it was Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, I after watching all of the playoff games and whatnot,
kids go to bed and that's usually when Kate and
now log on for you know, half hour, forty five
minutes of a show, maybe maybe a full hour. And yeah,
yesterday I was really irritating. I'm like, why is Landman
not out yet? Why is it not out? And I'm
looking at the page and Kate's like, is there a
(04:07):
new one? And I'm like, oh, no, I guess there's not.
It's it's it's Thursday, it's not Sunday. Yeah, so's I'm
already there. But that's a beautiful thing to feel like
a Monday, because I guarantee halfway through the show, it's
gonna feel like a Friday.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
It'll be at some point it's gonna feel like a Friday.
And so it's just that we've just had a lot
of Fridays here lately. So anyway, good to be with you,
great to have you with us, And certainly we weren't
gonna miss this football Friday with the biggest game of
the season. Coming up tomorrow night, and of course we'll
spend a little time recapping what we watched yesterday as well,
(04:47):
so most of the show will be focused on Seahawks
forty nine ers Saturday night in Santa Clara. We do
have our experts, which we'll go through here in a
moment with what's on tap, but I do think we
have to start with the college football playoff yesterday, some
spectacular stuff, a couple well, one blowout, I would say
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one blowout and then the other where Oregon's defense was
dominant or was Texas Texas offense really just that bad.
So we'll dive first into the college football playoffs. The
final four is set, and I'm not sure a lot
of people saw this final four coming. It will be
ole Miss taking on Miami next Thursday, and then it'll
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be Indiana versus Oregon, and then the next step, of course,
is the National Championship game. But certainly our New Year's
was well mine was spent anyway watching three straight games,
you know, twelve straight hours of college football, and it
certainly got paid off last night because that George ole
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Miss game was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Wow, what an amazing football college football player that he is.
And what a remarkable, truly remarkably stunning job by the
officials to ruin a good moment.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Seriously right at the end.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
What on earth was that?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I mean, that is you know, that's like you know,
handing a newborn baby to its mother and husband and
then all of a sudden the doctor just going you
can't have it, yeah, no, not yet, yeah, and then
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I'm gonna put it over here, and you're too weak
to come get.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It from me. By what in the f were they doing?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I mean, I mean, I realized there's a I guess
there was a second on the clock, but two different
opportunities to I mean, they ruined the whole celebration.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They ruined it.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
I mean, the whole moment was ruined. And you know,
unfortunately that's gonna happen with instant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Replay on occasion.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
But to then not even take a second off the
clock on the onside kick recovery, uh, and make them
do it all over again.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Can you even imagine had Georgia pulled off some ridiculous
touchdown after that, that would have been the most crushing
defeat in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The history of sports.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, it would have been, but I think that was
but I mean, to the letter of the rules, that's
the way it was supposed to be. If they after that,
you know whatever, the lateral that goes out of bound,
so it's a safety, and then essentially they have to
do the kickoff and they get the on side kick
if if you recover it as a down person, note
the time the clock doesn't go And so to me,
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it was like, oh my god, there actually still is
a chance. Now, how often do you see that crazy
lateral They needed to have a band or something run
out on the field is yeah, they should have called
the band out on the field play. But you know,
I mean to me it was I wasn't expecting it
to happen. Obviously that would have been crazy, far fetched,
But oh my gosh, would that have been the biggest turnaround? Yeah?
(08:06):
Would have been the most crushing thing ever for old
miss ever in.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The history of sports.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Could you imagine like you've taken the championship stage. I mean,
I've had some crushing losses playing sports in my life,
and I could I could recount them for you, but
I won't because they were at the very lower levels.
But stuff that's still to this day, like I'll wake
up in the middle of the night with like night tears.
(08:33):
I'll still to this day. I can't imagine putting the
championship stage out on the middle of the If you're
telling the story fifty years from now and then they
rolled the championship stage out twice, you know, your great
grandkids would absolutely think that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're, Oh, you're just blowing smoke, old man.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Now I'm gonna go if you're not gonna stop lying, Grandpa,
I'm going to enter this, you know, time travel and
go back to the year nineteen thirty five now, because
fifty years.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
From now we'll have time travel. Yeah, that was the
point of that.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
So so yeah, I can't even imagine. I mean, it
was just a cluster there towards the end, but it
doesn't take away from what was a sensational game and
we needed one yesterday. And ole Miss does advance over Georgia.
And we'll talk more about this Lane Kiffin situation in
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a moment, because it's getting even more interesting now for
the ole Miss program. But I would also say before
we start like diving into some other things that happened yesterday,
I mean the constant on Twitter like this college football
playoffs is this all we're going to get? Or blowouts
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narrative that you read all of the time. Hey, what
the heck is wrong with you people? I mean, this
is the point of having a college football playoff because
we have a subjective process of trying to determine who's
in the tournament. I mean it's you're trying to get
as close as you can to getting the best representation
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out there in America. But there's still some subjectivity, not
just to the twelve that get in, but how they're seeded,
how they're ranked, who they faced. All of that stuff
gets poured into this. And had we gone by the
old system, Oregon would not have even made the tournament.
Texas Tech would have just been assumed that they were
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better than Oregon, you know. I mean, Miami would not
have had a chance to even play Ohio State. And
if you want to go back even further to when
you had just two teams make it, it would have
been Georgia versus Indiana for the national championship.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That would have been our national championship game. It would
have been determined.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
That those two teams look like the best to US,
and obviously Georgia doesn't belong anywhere close.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
To the national championship game.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And if we would have gone back even further, we
are going to in my lifetime. By the way, we're
just gonna let writers determine who they think is the
best and then vote for it. Hey, this process, no
matter how flawed it is, no matter how many blowouts
we get, is the best and only way to clarify
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who the best teams in the country are. And Oregon
faced Texas Tech and absolutely demolished any hope that they
had of getting a first down. And yet if and
yet you people that look for anything to complain about
are sitting here complaining about blowouts. I'm glad we got
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the blowouts. I mean, I'd rather have close games, but
at least Bucky I know going into the offseason that
Texas Tech earned a shot to prove they were the
best team in the country, and Oregon earned the shot
to have the opportunity to prove no, they're not better
than us. And they proved it on Friday. And the
same thing. Indiana proved it that Alabama can't hang with it.
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And by the way, SEC, it's proven now you're not
heading shoulders above everybody else. It's freaking proven out there
right now. So that's a music playing.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
So to me, I mean, this is why we have
the college play football player.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is why I've wanted it my entire life.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
And for people to sit there and just look for
anything to complain about about the process, you have got
to be kidding me. What would you like to do?
Draw the champion out of a hat? I mean, I mean,
do you want to go back to those days? I mean,
thank god for the college football playoffs?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I ended up having a good conversation with my son
last yesterday about because he's just trying to and he
doesn't know. He didn't know football at all, you know,
and so he's trying to figure out. And I mentioned
something like, you know, after the Oregon win, and it
was well, they got one more game to get them
get a chance to get to the final national championship game.
And I said, they've never won a national championship in football.
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And he's He's like, huh never, And I said yeah,
And so then I went into explaining well, for the
longest time, it was just writers just decided based on
what they thought that this is the national champion, and
sometimes it was even co national champion. They couldn't even
make up their mind. And then it was okay, we'll
just put a couple of teams in. Then it was
four teams. And now we've gotten into this to where
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there's an actual bracket, and he loves brackets. He'll make
up a bracket for anything. And so yeah, he gets
the idea of well that just makes more sense. I mean,
my eight year old's like, well, that just makes more sense.
Why would you just pick one at the end versus
having them play? Because he I said, he goes, so
somebody would just decide that you're the national champion without
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you playing. I said, well, they'd play the regular season
and then at the end, without playing each other, they'd
just say, yep, you are the best team. Here's trophy.
And he goes, well, that's not even earned. That's my
eight year old. So yeah, college football, it took you
one hundred years to figure out that it wasn't really
earned if you just write somebody's name in that at
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the end. So I'm with you. I I mean, I
like the idea of the little guys. There's some tinkering
that needs to be done. Still, I think I'm okay
with the idea that they're gonna they're gonna make some
adjustments to this chair, because I.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Do think adjust Miami made.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, as much as I can't stand Miami for one reason,
one reason only, they most certainly deserve to be in there. Miami, Oregon,
and Old Miss would not even have been in the
tournament under just the most previous rule setting, and yet
there are three of the final four that get into it.
I think that there's there's a reason why you need
to have, you know, more than just four teams. I'm
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glad that they're doing it this way. It doesn't Texas
Tech was better, a better team over the course of
the season than they looked yesterday. They just they didn't
look good. And to some degree, I'll give some credit
to Oregon. Another degree, they just did didn't play very well.
They didn't play as good as they they could have.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That quarterback.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I can say this because I know he's not listening.
He's in Lubbock, Texas right now. He should have been
crying after the game. That I mean, because you I've
never seen an offense let down its defense.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And maybe I'm a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
But I'm gonna go ahead and make the statement anyway,
I've never seen an offense let down a defense more
than what Texas Tech offense.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, Oregon going for it eight thousand times on fourth
down and not getting it most of the time set
them up to where it's like, Okay, now here's your chance.
They gave you a chance, gave the offense a chance,
Texas Tech offense a chance to go down and do something.
They just could not get it done. And I don't
give that all that credit to the Ducks. I mean,
I think they played well defensively, play really well, but
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I don't I think that there was a lot of
just mistakes made by Texas Tech. And yeah, they're going
to have some hard night sleep in that quarterback.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Quarterback played scared and it was he wasn't even the
biggest problem that was that coordinator.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't know who he is. He better not have
a job tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I mean, I know, you just had the best season
in program history, but that guy does not know what
he's doing. That was terrible by by Texas Tech. And
so I mean it's one thing like here's here's what
I truly didn't understand about Texas Tech's approach is that
they were they they slowed it down a little bit
in the second half, but in the first half they
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were all about the hurry up, and they just kept
making mistake after mistake after mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean, when you're not being effective, the last thing
you should do is rush through it.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Because it's one thing to not score, it's another thing
to give the other team the ball, well the ball
back period and with a short field to have to
overcome and then at least at least chew up more
than a minute, so your defense, which is playing its
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ass off, can at least have a little bit of
time to recover before it has to come back in
and carry your ass all day long. So it's like,
we're not only going to fail and cataclysmic ways, we're
gonna hurry through it. Imagine if you just hired somebody
to build your house and you're like, man, you're not
very good at this, and they're like, yeah, but I'm
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gonna get it done in no time.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And I don't want you too. This is my house.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I want a nice house, But slow down and build
it the right way. If you're not going to be
effective at it. At least give yourself a chance. Don't
rush through the damn project.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well, in construction there actually most contracts tell you I
can do it cheap, I can do it faster, I
can do it well. Pick two, pick two, Yeah you
don't get all three. Yeah, you don't get cheap, fast
and done well. So yeah, they were basically they were
doing it the cheap way and the fast way, but
they let they would have probably better off, been better
off to do it well. And yet yeah, it was
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it was an unfortunate game for them. It was not
one even though the score twenty three to zero, it
was not that it was not that far. It kind
of got it kind of got blown out a little
bit more there later on in the fourth quarter. It
was one of those majority of the game you were like, man,
you were just going to give him another chance. And
that Baron, which he just spelled your kid's name wrong,
that's on his parents. Yeah, that was the thing Baron
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was talking about the full time. He's like, why would
he spell his name like that? Like it wasn't his choice, son,
Like you didn't get a choice either. He's like, Batron Betran,
I don't like it. So, yeah, it was an interesting
thing to say the least. But I'm pretty happy that
that one team advanced.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah, well they earned it, There's that's for sure. And
that's I'm glad we have a college football playout to
determine these things now. There's no way to figure it out.
Too many teams that scared it out all over the country.
There's no way they can all play each other. That's
why we've needed a college football playoff since jump and
and and. Yeah, there have been a couple of blowouts,
and there are a couple of things wrong with the process,
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but we are close to being right than we've ever
been in the history of the sports. So please stop
complaining about some lopsided games. The lopsided games indicate to
us who really does deserve to move on in the
champion You know, does anybody in Alabama right now think
they got screwed over?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We should be advancing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I would not think so.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I would not think so. No, just got hammered.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
They're gonna beat you by one hundred Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Mean I had more touchdown passes than incompletions.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
But going into that game, if people everywhere, Indiana's gonna
about ready to get exposed.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They don't know what it's like to face SEC competition.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Here we go, and had Alabama not made the playoff,
what would we have been in, Harry, Alabama should be
in this tournament.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, no way, they're not one of the best. Well,
you just got hammered by a thousand points by a
team from Bloomington, Indiana. So live with that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, wear that one, Kaylen arrogant a holes.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
rest the show'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What's on Tech?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What's Ontech? All right?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Final four set Miami versus Ole Miss four to thirty
on Thursday, Oregon versus Indiana four thirty on Friday of
next week. They won't have to wait till more than
a week to play their next game. Well, actually, I
guess two of them will Ole Miss thirty nine thirty
four over Georgia, Indiana thirty eight three over Alabama, Oregon
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twenty three nothing over Texas Tech, and Miami won twenty
four fourteen over Ohio State on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And oh, by the way, just in case.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You're wondering if college football has a few things to fix,
the College Football Portal opens today. Does that makes sense
today with the three most important games of the season
still yet to be played. Now, these teams all miss
coaches that are going with Lane Kiffin did not fly home.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
With the team yesterday. They went to LSU to prepare
for the poor. Oh that makes sense, doesn't it. Yeah,
that's great. We'll get it fixed. We'll get it fixed.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
NFL Week number eighteen will start Saturday with a fantastic
double header Carolina at Tampa one thirty to determine maybe
the champion will yeah, it will one way or the
other be part of it. One thirty kickoff for that
the champion of the AFC or the NFC South Division,
and then of course the NFC West Division, which is
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going to be the primary focus of our show today.
Seahawks at forty nine Ers tomorrow at five o'clock. Charles
Cross is officially out for that game and his.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Backup is even questionable and Josh Jones.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
So we'll talk to Greg Bell at seven oh five
today and see what we've got going on on that front.
Sunday Night football will be Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Lamar Jackson
will play in that game, he says one hundred percent guaranteed.
And that one will determine the AFC North champion in
the final spot in the AFC playoffs. Cracking won last
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night over the Predators four to one. The final score
Matty Benier's had two goals in the first period and
the Kracking have now won five out of six. They'll
play again tonight, this time in Vancouver against the Canucks.
All right, so we got a lot to do today.
On the program, we'll have our no cliche Keys to Victory.
We'll have the Friday ocho and more coming up next.
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What's playing better right now? The Seahawks defense or the
forty nine ers offense? We'll discuss it. Chuckin' Buck with
anders Hurst on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM from.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Who was ready by some football?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And Hurst?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You you just tell we got fire in his eyes?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You might want to he has a USA Soccer hat on.
He might mean, I think you mean that kind of football?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Is that way? You met football.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Like when he says, who's ready for some football grid
iron or soccer?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Both those?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Does oh boy, Bucky, are you ready for I'm ready
for some football, some highly consequential football.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
An American football, some brit On.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And some soccer.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Later, I wasn't even trying to bring that in that
this was all you.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I wore a hat, that's it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Soccer really stands out, so first I was like, I
don't like it. Then I saw the US behind that
him like I du.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Like, it's the old school logo, a forty Niners suck hat.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, a lot of hates.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Around there hate.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Well, we're here on a football Friday for a reason.
It is to get you ready for tomorrow night Seahawks
taking on the forty nine ers. Of course, Greg Bell
will be with us at seven o five, Hugh millin
X's and O's at nine o'clock, Mike Holmgrian at nine thirty,
and all sorts of juicy little bits to discuss in between.
(24:29):
And really, I mean, you know, I think that football
fans see great offense and they just think that is
you know, that team's just playing great. Forty nine Ers
offense is playing great there's no getting around it. I mean,
rock party, I've questioned at times, dudes on fire right now.
(24:52):
Christian McCaffrey might not be the you know, yardage gainer
that he's been on the ground throughout most of his
Maybe there is a little something missing either from him
or the offensive line, but certainly, with over two thousand
yards of total offense, he is as dangerous as a
weapon that the National Football League has. And so they're
(25:15):
flying high right now offensively. But I think on the
flip side, I think the Seahawks are playing just as
good a defense right now as the forty nine ers
are offense. It just doesn't look as pretty, it doesn't
look as sexy. And so there was a lot of well,
Seahawks are on a beat to forty nine ers playing
that way kind of talk coming out of last week.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And yet I think, you know, I think.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
It does go overlooked how damaging a great defense can be.
I mean, we just watched it yesterday in the College
Football Playoff. I mean that day was dominated by defense.
The night was dominated by offense, but the day both
the early games was dominated by physicality and defense in
the College Football Playoff, And so they're the wise guys
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and and some of the experts that are chiming in
late here in the week. Feels to me like a
lot of people are picking the Seahawks right now because
they recognize it. Even if the general public thinks only
great offense is when you're playing good.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Football, I think that there's I mean, you know how
I am. I have a tendency, and it's probably not
good for sports talk radio. I have a tendency to
look at things almost through like a curve of what
brings it back to the median, what brings it back.
So it's like, yeah, I'll look at the Niners and
how they've put up thirty seven and forty eight and
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forty two points the last three weeks after they're they
had the late bye week, and then the offense, and
Brock Purty and Kyle Shanahan has basically said, wait a second,
we got a chance at the number one seed, and
you know, we got a bunch of injuries, but those
that aren't injured, Christian McCaffrey and Brock purties back and
let's go out and ball out and see what we
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can do and put up crazy numbers offensively. Now their
their defense is given up a bunch at the same
time because of those injuries that that they've sustained on
that side of the ball. But then to me, it's like,
my natural instinct is, okay, well you played Tennessee, and
you know Daniel Jones lists Indianapolis and then Chicago. Chicago's legit.
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But that's where it was that shootout basically with it
being so close and nearly eighty points or eighty points
being scored between the two of them. So it just
makes me go, Okay, I can see why the I
can see why the pundits go out there and are like,
look at this offense. But I think going into this
game you most certainly have most people would sit and
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go that offense is legit, but look how who they're
going to be going up against, and and so to me,
this whole thing, and I know we'll get into, you know,
more as this show goes on, especially next segment with
the c no cliche keys to victory, But to me,
it's that other side then soloversus Clint Kubiak, you know,
because you are going to have that the prime thing
(28:07):
that everybody's going to be invested in watching is Mike
McDonald how does he slow down? You know, Kyle Shanahan,
those two minds going against each other. That's why he
was hired for crying out loud, I think is to
try to slow him down. Well, now you got a
kind of all the chips are on the table type
of a game, and we're going to get to see
how that hood thing pans out.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I think it's a really good point, and it probably
is what's going to determine the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
As you know.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Will the Seahawks offense look better than what it has
in the last couple of weeks, because I think they
have looked their worst here going into this big game,
and will the forty nine Ers defense be able to
show it up. Maybe it will come down to whether
or not Sam Donald can go back to revert to
playing like he did in the first half of the season.
(28:52):
Maybe the game does come down to that. But it's
very interesting because coming out of that last week, it was,
you know, forty nine Ers look fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How are you gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Beat the forty nine Ers playing the way that Sam
Darnold's playing right now? Well, it's because the Seahawks play
just as good a defense as the forty nine Ers
are playing on the offensive side of the ball, and
they started as a four and a half point favorite when.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
The week began.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Well guess what, Seahawks are a point and a half
favorite right now. Vegas understands that great defense is real
and great defense can wreck things, and so yeah, maybe
it does come down to who's playing better the Seahawks
defense or the forty nine ers offense, or maybe it
comes down to the other side, the two areas that
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have not shined here recently, and who will actually play
better the Seahawks offense or the forty nine ers defense.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well, ultimately it's it's the difference between the two, right,
I mean, you're I would be willing to bet that
this Niners, as much as they've been high flying on offense, there,
I don't see him going out there and putting up
four forty plus points. I just don't. I think there's
just too much on the line. There's gonna be a conservativeness.
It's going to be going on on both sides, right
or wrong, and so I don't see that happening. It
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is going to come down to a porous defense with
the Niners versus an offense that can shown times of
being explosive. And this is the number two scoring offense
in all of football, the Seahawks, And yet we're watching
you know, Sam Darnold not play as well as he
has majority of the season, and them do slow starts,
and so the feel of the game could change. It
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could you're not gonna win or lose the game in
the first quarter, but boy, it could make it a
really different way of looking at it and the way
that they might have to attack. And so yeah, it's
it's okay, if the defense can slow down their offense enough, fine,
but then can your offense go and take advantage of
their poress defense enough to where you know, you don't
expect the Seahawks or you don't you know, you're not
(30:54):
asking them to go out there and throw a shutout
by any stretch. Imagine it is because I don't see
that happening either.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Man, I mean, if you're playing hockey for goodness sake,
and you're struggling scoring the puck, if you've got a
goalie that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Doesn't get anything up, yeah, you don't have to do
a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
There's a reason why they say once you get into
the Stanley Cup playoffs that you get a hot goaltender.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Watch out.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
How about starting pitching in baseball?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Starting pitching in baseball, If you're not allowing runs, you
don't even need to be clicking on all cylinders on
the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So yeah, it'll be fascinating, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
But but yes, there's an absolute acknowledgment that forty nine
ers offense is probably playing its best football right now.
But I would argue that Mike McDonald's Seahawk defense is
playing its best football right now as well. So what
a clash we're going to have for tomorrow night? Coming
up next? Our no cliche keys the victory. We do
(31:48):
it before every Seahawks game. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Ah Yes, every Friday, you're no cliche keys
to victory here at six forty five before Greg Bell
comes on and starts acting all smarty pants and tells
us what the real key to victory is.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Going to be at seven o five.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
So that's coming your way, our Seahawks insider, push your
headlines at the top of the hour. But the no
cliche keys to victory are our keys individually. We can
only have one, and it can't be a cliche. Don't
tell me winning the trenches. Don't tell me all three phases.
Don't tell me the turnover battle unless you've got a
really specific reason as to why that is going to
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be the difference in the game. Uh so Andrews is
here filling in for Ashley today, Bucky, you need to
show Andrews he might have forgotten better.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, better not have forgotten No cliches. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Pretty easy self explainatory, right, well, I would say sometimes
you will stumble right into one accidentally.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Although Ashley gives a cliche pretty much everything.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
True if you got if you got a good explanation
for it, fine, But I'm just as sick.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I've joked about Sam Donald. He's got like a ginger beard,
but he's kind of more brown hair on his head.
He needs to channel the ginger. Oh yeah, he needs
to because that's when he's playing his best. It's you
just see a vibrant the beard is Wow, he's very
ginger right on. Really in all serious Sam Donald just
(33:21):
needs to play the way that he's that he has
majority of the season. To me, because I think that
Mike McDonald versus Kyle Shanahan is gonna be a knockdown,
drag out fight. And yet they're they're gonna win some
possessions and get some points, and they're gonna they're gonna
probably get, you know, plenty of three and outs and
and force some punts and and so it's just gonna
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boil down to Sam, don't play down right, don't be
that one that goes backwards and you're relying on the
defense to make some big plays or score points on defense.
You just go out and do what you're supposed to be.
Smart at times, push the ball down the field. You've
been very successful at that. You're gonna they're gonna call
some run plays, and so hopefully the run game supports
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you to where you're not having third and lungs and
you're feeling like you gotta fit it in mailboxes left
and right. But just be smart, Just be your There's
Sam Darnold that that came out and was young and
played for the Jets and wasn't very good, and then
he has learned and grown and turned into something that
was great last year with Minnesota, and he carried that
over majority of this season, with the exception of a
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couple of games that he just made some poor decisions
and let his team down. To me, it's just just
be you, dude. You don't got to be over the top.
You most certainly don't need to be passive and scared,
and don't make a mistake. Fit it in there every
once in a while, but make certain decisions. Right when
you've got points on the board, you're already knocking on
the door of a touchdown, you don't throw picks there. Uh,
(34:47):
And if you're backed up against your own end zone,
you don't throw picks. And you protect the ball if
you if you feel some heat coming, you make sure
that that ball doesn't come loose right there. So to me,
it's just play the way that you've played majority this year.
Don't think you're going to do something spectacular, because I
think your defense is going to keep you in it.
But don't be scared either. Just go out there and
play kind of care free and let it rip.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, Sam Darnold, the Bucky's key.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Be good, Sam, Yes, be good to stender, Sam be ginger,
Sam m.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I like that, all right, Andrews. What's your no cliche
key to victory?
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Well? I like what Bucky said, and I'm gonna just
take it even more specific and while this, if this
doesn't happen, you could definitely still win the game. I
think this was something they were doing when the offense
was very successful. And it's the first drive scores. You
need to score on your first drive. You need to
have an effective drive offensively on your first drive. I
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don't care if that's a field goal. Just show you
can move the ball a little bit, get some confidence,
but just make sure you have a game plan going
in to that first drive, because that is not what
happened against Carolina was just pass pass pass, instantly three
and out off the rip.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
And it's just and you're talking about the first drive
of the game, not the second half.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Correct typically waited for it exactly exactly.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
So that's that's where I'm like, I think, if you
do what I'm doing, you will get the ginger Sam
Darnold too later in the game.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
So I like that.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
Yeah, I think that's maybe something that's gone a little
bit overlooked at least on this show. Part of our
conversations just the for whatever reason, this team just plays
their worst offense in the first half. Get off to
a good start, get some rhythm going and see where
the offense can go for four quarters if you actually
play the first two fairly well, I like it weird,
(36:33):
all right, I'm gonna go my no cliche key to victory,
and man, this really is bordering on a cliche because
it gets used a lot when talking about football games
and keys to victories.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
But the whole.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Establishing the run, you know line, which normally I think
it's gets a little bit overdone. But per our conversation
we just had about the forty nine Ers offense versus
the Seahawks defense, I think Seahawks defense is so good
that there's no way the forty nine Ers offense is
going to be what it's been as of late. But
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also the forty nine Ers offense has been so good
there's no way that the Seahawks are going to sit
there and hold him thirteen points either. So you're gonna
have to come up with twenty points or more, I think,
in order to win this football game tomorrow night. And
I don't think you're going to do that by just
purely relying on Sam Donald dropbacks and play actions, especially
(37:29):
when his blind side is so questionable right now with
cross being out and Jones at the very best being
limited and so I think to take some heat off
of Sam Donald, you got to get this running game
going a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And if ken Walker is, I mean, he gets my
first shot at it. And I would like for you
to actually run the ball this week to where the
play's designed to go.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
And if you can't do that, then Charbonna's coming off
the best game he's played as a as a seahawk.
In my opinion, I've got shortleashow you. We've got to
get this running game established. We've got to not be
one dimensional, otherwise Robert Salah will torture us the entire game.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
So I rarely do this. I don't know if I've
ever done this. Established the run, Oh.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Wow, I think all three of us kind of ty
into each.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Establish the run, all right. Coming up next, Greg Bell,
he does that a lot. By the way. That's established
run established y seven oh five.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
Greg Bell will join his plus Your Headline Sports Radio
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning, folks.
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Good morning everyone, Good morning, it's time.
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Good morning class, lady and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (00:09):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (00:10):
Holding six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former.
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High school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Jumped any conclusions? Not a god.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
You've got to lower lower your expectations.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball to Pluto.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll just
openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped X athlete.
Speaker 7 (00:36):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.
Speaker 6 (00:39):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.
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There's a lot of useless crap up here.
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Speaker 7 (00:59):
Get Hey, good morning and happy New Year to you all.
Welcome into the first show of twenty twenty six. It
(01:21):
is Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobson with you here. On the
second day of January twenty twenty six, we usher.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
In a brand new year.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
But my goodness, do we have a lot to discuss.
So at least we're starting the new year with a
lot of content because it is all over the place,
it is bursting.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ashley Ryan is not here.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
She took the day off, and so our friend Anders
Hurst Face himself has made his appearance here to start
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Happy new year, Anders.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
Chuck, appreciate it. Thank you guys for inviting me on
your show today. Oh really, it's not like this thing
I have to do.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Or anything like that.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
It was an invitation that I had to accept.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Okay, Yeah, man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, I'm glad that you're you got a positive
attitude exactly. Twenty sticks off.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Yeah, I just thought Ashley was jealous over everybody's time
off that they were getting and just took a day off.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, well it probably is. But I think Andrew's probably
just chomping at the bit. Why don't you just, you know,
get a little bit of an extended weekend to start
the year off. And I'd love to come in and.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I missed those two guys. Yeah you do. Yeah, sure,
you know what, I ain't too Harry bastard.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I did late crack and post game last night.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh you did.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I could come in right after that. Why nuts? Why nots?
You did crack your post with Mike Benton. Check it
out Crack an Audio Network podcast page.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We didn't make a call on this.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Well anyway, Happy New Year everyone, and welcome into the show.
It is a Football Friday sponsored by Tito's Hand Made Vodka.
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(03:14):
middle of the week and then showed up on a
football Friday. This is the first week Bucky's done it
out of the two. I'm just gonna tell you, prepare
yourself for the Monday eiest feeling you've ever had on
a Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, well that makes sense because last night was
very Sunday ish feeling, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I had to remind myself, was I like, I'm like,
oh man, what did you dub? I forgot to watch
you dub Indiana last night? And I'm like, where is
the game? When did they cancel it?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now it's Sunday. Yeah, I thought it was Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, I after watching all of the playoff games and whatnot,
kids go to bed and that's usually when Kate and
now log on for you know, half hour, forty five
minutes of a show, maybe maybe a full hour. And yeah,
yesterday I was really irritating. I'm like, why is Landman
not out yet? Why is it not out? And I'm
looking at the page and Kate's like, is there a
(04:07):
new one? And I'm like, oh, no, I guess there's not.
It's it's it's Thursday, it's not Sunday. Yeah, so's I'm
already there. But that's a beautiful thing to feel like
a Monday, because I guarantee halfway through the show, it's
gonna feel like a Friday.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
It'll be at some point it's gonna feel like a Friday.
And so it's just that we've just had a lot
of Fridays here lately. So anyway, good to be with you,
great to have you with us, And certainly we weren't
gonna miss this football Friday with the biggest game of
the season. Coming up tomorrow night, and of course we'll
spend a little time recapping what we watched yesterday as well,
(04:47):
so most of the show will be focused on Seahawks
forty nine ers Saturday night in Santa Clara. We do
have our experts, which we'll go through here in a
moment with what's on tap, but I do think we
have to start with the college football playoff yesterday, some
spectacular stuff, a couple well, one blowout, I would say
(05:07):
one blowout and then the other where Oregon's defense was
dominant or was Texas Texas offense really just that bad.
So we'll dive first into the college football playoffs. The
final four is set, and I'm not sure a lot
of people saw this final four coming. It will be
ole Miss taking on Miami next Thursday, and then it'll
(05:30):
be Indiana versus Oregon, and then the next step, of course,
is the National Championship game. But certainly our New Year's
was well mine was spent anyway watching three straight games,
you know, twelve straight hours of college football, and it
certainly got paid off last night because that George ole
(05:52):
Miss game was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Wow, what an amazing football college football player that he is.
And what a remarkable, truly remarkably stunning job by the
officials to ruin a good moment.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Seriously right at the end.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
What on earth was that?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I mean, that is you know, that's like you know,
handing a newborn baby to its mother and husband and
then all of a sudden the doctor just going you
can't have it, yeah, no, not yet, yeah, and then
(06:39):
I'm gonna put it over here, and you're too weak
to come get.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It from me. By what in the f were they doing?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I mean, I mean, I realized there's a I guess
there was a second on the clock, but two different
opportunities to I mean, they ruined the whole celebration.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They ruined it.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
I mean, the whole moment was ruined. And you know,
unfortunately that's gonna happen with instant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Replay on occasion.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
But to then not even take a second off the
clock on the onside kick recovery, uh, and make them
do it all over again.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Can you even imagine had Georgia pulled off some ridiculous
touchdown after that, that would have been the most crushing
defeat in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The history of sports.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, it would have been, but I think that was
but I mean, to the letter of the rules, that's
the way it was supposed to be. If they after that,
you know whatever, the lateral that goes out of bound,
so it's a safety, and then essentially they have to
do the kickoff and they get the on side kick
if if you recover it as a down person, note
the time the clock doesn't go And so to me,
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it was like, oh my god, there actually still is
a chance. Now, how often do you see that crazy
lateral They needed to have a band or something run
out on the field is yeah, they should have called
the band out on the field play. But you know,
I mean to me it was I wasn't expecting it
to happen. Obviously that would have been crazy, far fetched,
But oh my gosh, would that have been the biggest turnaround? Yeah?
(08:06):
Would have been the most crushing thing ever for old
miss ever in.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
The history of sports.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Could you imagine like you've taken the championship stage. I mean,
I've had some crushing losses playing sports in my life,
and I could I could recount them for you, but
I won't because they were at the very lower levels.
But stuff that's still to this day, like I'll wake
up in the middle of the night with like night tears.
(08:33):
I'll still to this day. I can't imagine putting the
championship stage out on the middle of the If you're
telling the story fifty years from now and then they
rolled the championship stage out twice, you know, your great
grandkids would absolutely think that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're, Oh, you're just blowing smoke, old man.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Now I'm gonna go if you're not gonna stop lying, Grandpa,
I'm going to enter this, you know, time travel and
go back to the year nineteen thirty five now, because
fifty years.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
From now we'll have time travel. Yeah, that was the
point of that.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
So so yeah, I can't even imagine. I mean, it
was just a cluster there towards the end, but it
doesn't take away from what was a sensational game and
we needed one yesterday. And ole Miss does advance over Georgia.
And we'll talk more about this Lane Kiffin situation in
(09:29):
a moment, because it's getting even more interesting now for
the ole Miss program. But I would also say before
we start like diving into some other things that happened yesterday,
I mean the constant on Twitter like this college football
playoffs is this all we're going to get? Or blowouts
(09:49):
narrative that you read all of the time. Hey, what
the heck is wrong with you people? I mean, this
is the point of having a college football playoff because
we have a subjective process of trying to determine who's
in the tournament. I mean it's you're trying to get
as close as you can to getting the best representation
(10:10):
out there in America. But there's still some subjectivity, not
just to the twelve that get in, but how they're seeded,
how they're ranked, who they faced. All of that stuff
gets poured into this. And had we gone by the
old system, Oregon would not have even made the tournament.
Texas Tech would have just been assumed that they were
(10:33):
better than Oregon, you know. I mean, Miami would not
have had a chance to even play Ohio State. And
if you want to go back even further to when
you had just two teams make it, it would have
been Georgia versus Indiana for the national championship.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That would have been our national championship game. It would
have been determined.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
That those two teams look like the best to US,
and obviously Georgia doesn't belong anywhere close.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
To the national championship game.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And if we would have gone back even further, we
are going to in my lifetime. By the way, we're
just gonna let writers determine who they think is the
best and then vote for it. Hey, this process, no
matter how flawed it is, no matter how many blowouts
we get, is the best and only way to clarify
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who the best teams in the country are. And Oregon
faced Texas Tech and absolutely demolished any hope that they
had of getting a first down. And yet if and
yet you people that look for anything to complain about
are sitting here complaining about blowouts. I'm glad we got
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the blowouts. I mean, I'd rather have close games, but
at least Bucky I know going into the offseason that
Texas Tech earned a shot to prove they were the
best team in the country, and Oregon earned the shot
to have the opportunity to prove no, they're not better
than us. And they proved it on Friday. And the
same thing. Indiana proved it that Alabama can't hang with it.
(12:09):
And by the way, SEC, it's proven now you're not
heading shoulders above everybody else. It's freaking proven out there
right now. So that's a music playing.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
So to me, I mean, this is why we have
the college play football player.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
This is why I've wanted it my entire life.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
And for people to sit there and just look for
anything to complain about about the process, you have got
to be kidding me. What would you like to do?
Draw the champion out of a hat? I mean, I mean,
do you want to go back to those days? I mean,
thank god for the college football playoffs?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I ended up having a good conversation with my son
last yesterday about because he's just trying to and he
doesn't know. He didn't know football at all, you know,
and so he's trying to figure out. And I mentioned
something like, you know, after the Oregon win, and it
was well, they got one more game to get them
get a chance to get to the final national championship game.
And I said, they've never won a national championship in football.
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And he's He's like, huh never, And I said yeah,
And so then I went into explaining well, for the
longest time, it was just writers just decided based on
what they thought that this is the national champion, and
sometimes it was even co national champion. They couldn't even
make up their mind. And then it was okay, we'll
just put a couple of teams in. Then it was
four teams. And now we've gotten into this to where
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there's an actual bracket, and he loves brackets. He'll make
up a bracket for anything. And so yeah, he gets
the idea of well that just makes more sense. I mean,
my eight year old's like, well, that just makes more sense.
Why would you just pick one at the end versus
having them play? Because he I said, he goes, so
somebody would just decide that you're the national champion without
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you playing. I said, well, they'd play the regular season
and then at the end, without playing each other, they'd
just say, yep, you are the best team. Here's trophy.
And he goes, well, that's not even earned. That's my
eight year old. So yeah, college football, it took you
one hundred years to figure out that it wasn't really
earned if you just write somebody's name in that at
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the end. So I'm with you. I I mean, I
like the idea of the little guys. There's some tinkering
that needs to be done. Still, I think I'm okay
with the idea that they're gonna they're gonna make some
adjustments to this chair, because I.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Do think adjust Miami made.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, as much as I can't stand Miami for one reason,
one reason only, they most certainly deserve to be in there. Miami, Oregon,
and Old Miss would not even have been in the
tournament under just the most previous rule setting, and yet
there are three of the final four that get into it.
I think that there's there's a reason why you need
to have, you know, more than just four teams. I'm
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glad that they're doing it this way. It doesn't Texas
Tech was better, a better team over the course of
the season than they looked yesterday. They just they didn't
look good. And to some degree, I'll give some credit
to Oregon. Another degree, they just did didn't play very well.
They didn't play as good as they they could have.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That quarterback.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
I can say this because I know he's not listening.
He's in Lubbock, Texas right now. He should have been
crying after the game. That I mean, because you I've
never seen an offense let down its defense.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And maybe I'm a prisoner of the moment.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
But I'm gonna go ahead and make the statement anyway,
I've never seen an offense let down a defense more
than what Texas Tech offense.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, Oregon going for it eight thousand times on fourth
down and not getting it most of the time set
them up to where it's like, Okay, now here's your chance.
They gave you a chance, gave the offense a chance,
Texas Tech offense a chance to go down and do something.
They just could not get it done. And I don't
give that all that credit to the Ducks. I mean,
I think they played well defensively, play really well, but
(15:44):
I don't I think that there was a lot of
just mistakes made by Texas Tech. And yeah, they're going
to have some hard night sleep in that quarterback.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Quarterback played scared and it was he wasn't even the
biggest problem that was that coordinator.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't know who he is. He better not have
a job tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I mean, I know, you just had the best season
in program history, but that guy does not know what
he's doing. That was terrible by by Texas Tech. And
so I mean it's one thing like here's here's what
I truly didn't understand about Texas Tech's approach is that
they were they they slowed it down a little bit
in the second half, but in the first half they
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were all about the hurry up, and they just kept
making mistake after mistake after mistake.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I mean, when you're not being effective, the last thing
you should do is rush through it.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Because it's one thing to not score, it's another thing
to give the other team the ball, well the ball
back period and with a short field to have to
overcome and then at least at least chew up more
than a minute, so your defense, which is playing its
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ass off, can at least have a little bit of
time to recover before it has to come back in
and carry your ass all day long. So it's like,
we're not only going to fail and cataclysmic ways, we're
gonna hurry through it. Imagine if you just hired somebody
to build your house and you're like, man, you're not
very good at this, and they're like, yeah, but I'm
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gonna get it done in no time.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And I don't want you too. This is my house.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I want a nice house, But slow down and build
it the right way. If you're not going to be
effective at it. At least give yourself a chance. Don't
rush through the damn project.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Well, in construction there actually most contracts tell you I
can do it cheap, I can do it faster, I
can do it well. Pick two, pick two, Yeah you
don't get all three. Yeah, you don't get cheap, fast
and done well. So yeah, they were basically they were
doing it the cheap way and the fast way, but
they let they would have probably better off, been better
off to do it well. And yet yeah, it was
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it was an unfortunate game for them. It was not
one even though the score twenty three to zero, it
was not that it was not that far. It kind
of got it kind of got blown out a little
bit more there later on in the fourth quarter. It
was one of those majority of the game you were like, man,
you were just going to give him another chance. And
that Baron, which he just spelled your kid's name wrong,
that's on his parents. Yeah, that was the thing Baron
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was talking about the full time. He's like, why would
he spell his name like that? Like it wasn't his choice, son,
Like you didn't get a choice either. He's like, Batron Betran,
I don't like it. So, yeah, it was an interesting
thing to say the least. But I'm pretty happy that
that one team advanced.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah, well they earned it, There's that's for sure. And
that's I'm glad we have a college football playout to
determine these things now. There's no way to figure it out.
Too many teams that scared it out all over the country.
There's no way they can all play each other. That's
why we've needed a college football playoff since jump and
and and. Yeah, there have been a couple of blowouts,
and there are a couple of things wrong with the process,
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but we are close to being right than we've ever
been in the history of the sports. So please stop
complaining about some lopsided games. The lopsided games indicate to
us who really does deserve to move on in the
champion You know, does anybody in Alabama right now think
they got screwed over?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We should be advancing.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I would not think so.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I would not think so. No, just got hammered.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
They're gonna beat you by one hundred Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Mean I had more touchdown passes than incompletions.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
But going into that game, if people everywhere, Indiana's gonna
about ready to get exposed.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
They don't know what it's like to face SEC competition.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Here we go, and had Alabama not made the playoff,
what would we have been in, Harry, Alabama should be
in this tournament.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, no way, they're not one of the best. Well,
you just got hammered by a thousand points by a
team from Bloomington, Indiana. So live with that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, wear that one, Kaylen arrogant a holes.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
rest the show'll be.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What's on Tech?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What's Ontech? All right?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Final four set Miami versus Ole Miss four to thirty
on Thursday, Oregon versus Indiana four thirty on Friday of
next week. They won't have to wait till more than
a week to play their next game. Well, actually, I
guess two of them will Ole Miss thirty nine thirty
four over Georgia, Indiana thirty eight three over Alabama, Oregon
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twenty three nothing over Texas Tech, and Miami won twenty
four fourteen over Ohio State on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
And oh, by the way, just in case.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
You're wondering if college football has a few things to fix,
the College Football Portal opens today. Does that makes sense
today with the three most important games of the season
still yet to be played. Now, these teams all miss
coaches that are going with Lane Kiffin did not fly home.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
With the team yesterday. They went to LSU to prepare
for the poor. Oh that makes sense, doesn't it. Yeah,
that's great. We'll get it fixed. We'll get it fixed.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
NFL Week number eighteen will start Saturday with a fantastic
double header Carolina at Tampa one thirty to determine maybe
the champion will yeah, it will one way or the
other be part of it. One thirty kickoff for that
the champion of the AFC or the NFC South Division,
and then of course the NFC West Division, which is
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going to be the primary focus of our show today.
Seahawks at forty nine Ers tomorrow at five o'clock. Charles
Cross is officially out for that game and his.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Backup is even questionable and Josh Jones.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
So we'll talk to Greg Bell at seven oh five
today and see what we've got going on on that front.
Sunday Night football will be Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Lamar Jackson
will play in that game, he says one hundred percent guaranteed.
And that one will determine the AFC North champion in
the final spot in the AFC playoffs. Cracking won last
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night over the Predators four to one. The final score
Matty Benier's had two goals in the first period and
the Kracking have now won five out of six. They'll
play again tonight, this time in Vancouver against the Canucks.
All right, so we got a lot to do today.
On the program, we'll have our no cliche Keys to Victory.
We'll have the Friday ocho and more coming up next.
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What's playing better right now? The Seahawks defense or the
forty nine ers offense? We'll discuss it. Chuckin' Buck with
anders Hurst on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM from.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
Who was ready by some football?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And Hurst?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You you just tell we got fire in his eyes?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You might want to he has a USA Soccer hat on.
He might mean, I think you mean that kind of football?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Is that way? You met football.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Like when he says, who's ready for some football grid
iron or soccer?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Both those?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Does oh boy, Bucky, are you ready for I'm ready
for some football, some highly consequential football.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
An American football, some brit On.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And some soccer.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Later, I wasn't even trying to bring that in that
this was all you.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I wore a hat, that's it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Soccer really stands out, so first I was like, I
don't like it. Then I saw the US behind that
him like I du.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Like, it's the old school logo, a forty Niners suck hat.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, a lot of hates.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Around there hate.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Well, we're here on a football Friday for a reason.
It is to get you ready for tomorrow night Seahawks
taking on the forty nine ers. Of course, Greg Bell
will be with us at seven o five, Hugh millin
X's and O's at nine o'clock, Mike Holmgrian at nine thirty,
and all sorts of juicy little bits to discuss in between.
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And really, I mean, you know, I think that football
fans see great offense and they just think that is
you know, that team's just playing great. Forty nine Ers
offense is playing great there's no getting around it. I mean,
rock party, I've questioned at times, dudes on fire right now.
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Christian McCaffrey might not be the you know, yardage gainer
that he's been on the ground throughout most of his
Maybe there is a little something missing either from him
or the offensive line, but certainly, with over two thousand
yards of total offense, he is as dangerous as a
weapon that the National Football League has. And so they're
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flying high right now offensively. But I think on the
flip side, I think the Seahawks are playing just as
good a defense right now as the forty nine ers
are offense. It just doesn't look as pretty, it doesn't
look as sexy. And so there was a lot of well,
Seahawks are on a beat to forty nine ers playing
that way kind of talk coming out of last week.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And yet I think, you know, I think.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
It does go overlooked how damaging a great defense can be.
I mean, we just watched it yesterday in the College
Football Playoff. I mean that day was dominated by defense.
The night was dominated by offense, but the day both
the early games was dominated by physicality and defense in
the College Football Playoff, And so they're the wise guys
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and and some of the experts that are chiming in
late here in the week. Feels to me like a
lot of people are picking the Seahawks right now because
they recognize it. Even if the general public thinks only
great offense is when you're playing good.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Football, I think that there's I mean, you know how
I am. I have a tendency, and it's probably not
good for sports talk radio. I have a tendency to
look at things almost through like a curve of what
brings it back to the median, what brings it back.
So it's like, yeah, I'll look at the Niners and
how they've put up thirty seven and forty eight and
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forty two points the last three weeks after they're they
had the late bye week, and then the offense, and
Brock Purty and Kyle Shanahan has basically said, wait a second,
we got a chance at the number one seed, and
you know, we got a bunch of injuries, but those
that aren't injured, Christian McCaffrey and Brock purties back and
let's go out and ball out and see what we
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can do and put up crazy numbers offensively. Now their
their defense is given up a bunch at the same
time because of those injuries that that they've sustained on
that side of the ball. But then to me, it's like,
my natural instinct is, okay, well you played Tennessee, and
you know Daniel Jones lists Indianapolis and then Chicago. Chicago's legit.
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But that's where it was that shootout basically with it
being so close and nearly eighty points or eighty points
being scored between the two of them. So it just
makes me go, Okay, I can see why the I
can see why the pundits go out there and are like,
look at this offense. But I think going into this
game you most certainly have most people would sit and
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go that offense is legit, but look how who they're
going to be going up against, and and so to me,
this whole thing, and I know we'll get into, you know,
more as this show goes on, especially next segment with
the c no cliche keys to victory, But to me,
it's that other side then soloversus Clint Kubiak, you know,
because you are going to have that the prime thing
(28:07):
that everybody's going to be invested in watching is Mike
McDonald how does he slow down? You know, Kyle Shanahan,
those two minds going against each other. That's why he
was hired for crying out loud, I think is to
try to slow him down. Well, now you got a
kind of all the chips are on the table type
of a game, and we're going to get to see
how that hood thing pans out.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
I think it's a really good point, and it probably
is what's going to determine the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
As you know.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Will the Seahawks offense look better than what it has
in the last couple of weeks, because I think they
have looked their worst here going into this big game,
and will the forty nine Ers defense be able to
show it up. Maybe it will come down to whether
or not Sam Donald can go back to revert to
playing like he did in the first half of the season.
(28:52):
Maybe the game does come down to that. But it's
very interesting because coming out of that last week, it was,
you know, forty nine Ers look fantastic.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
How are you gonna.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Beat the forty nine Ers playing the way that Sam
Darnold's playing right now? Well, it's because the Seahawks play
just as good a defense as the forty nine Ers
are playing on the offensive side of the ball, and
they started as a four and a half point favorite when.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
The week began.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Well guess what, Seahawks are a point and a half
favorite right now. Vegas understands that great defense is real
and great defense can wreck things, and so yeah, maybe
it does come down to who's playing better the Seahawks
defense or the forty nine ers offense, or maybe it
comes down to the other side, the two areas that
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have not shined here recently, and who will actually play
better the Seahawks offense or the forty nine ers defense.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Well, ultimately it's it's the difference between the two, right,
I mean, you're I would be willing to bet that
this Niners, as much as they've been high flying on offense, there,
I don't see him going out there and putting up
four forty plus points. I just don't. I think there's
just too much on the line. There's gonna be a conservativeness.
It's going to be going on on both sides, right
or wrong, and so I don't see that happening. It
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is going to come down to a porous defense with
the Niners versus an offense that can shown times of
being explosive. And this is the number two scoring offense
in all of football, the Seahawks, And yet we're watching
you know, Sam Darnold not play as well as he
has majority of the season, and them do slow starts,
and so the feel of the game could change. It
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could you're not gonna win or lose the game in
the first quarter, but boy, it could make it a
really different way of looking at it and the way
that they might have to attack. And so yeah, it's
it's okay, if the defense can slow down their offense enough, fine,
but then can your offense go and take advantage of
their poress defense enough to where you know, you don't
expect the Seahawks or you don't you know, you're not
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asking them to go out there and throw a shutout
by any stretch. Imagine it is because I don't see
that happening either.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Man, I mean, if you're playing hockey for goodness sake,
and you're struggling scoring the puck, if you've got a
goalie that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Doesn't get anything up, yeah, you don't have to do
a lot.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
There's a reason why they say once you get into
the Stanley Cup playoffs that you get a hot goaltender.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Watch out.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
How about starting pitching in baseball?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Starting pitching in baseball, If you're not allowing runs, you
don't even need to be clicking on all cylinders on
the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
So yeah, it'll be fascinating, no question about it.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
But but yes, there's an absolute acknowledgment that forty nine
ers offense is probably playing its best football right now.
But I would argue that Mike McDonald's Seahawk defense is
playing its best football right now as well. So what
a clash we're going to have for tomorrow night? Coming
up next? Our no cliche keys the victory. We do
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it before every Seahawks game. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. Ah Yes, every Friday, you're no cliche keys
to victory here at six forty five before Greg Bell
comes on and starts acting all smarty pants and tells
us what the real key to victory is.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Going to be at seven o five.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
So that's coming your way, our Seahawks insider, push your
headlines at the top of the hour. But the no
cliche keys to victory are our keys individually. We can
only have one, and it can't be a cliche. Don't
tell me winning the trenches. Don't tell me all three phases.
Don't tell me the turnover battle unless you've got a
really specific reason as to why that is going to
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be the difference in the game. Uh so Andrews is
here filling in for Ashley today, Bucky, you need to
show Andrews he might have forgotten better.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, better not have forgotten No cliches. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Pretty easy self explainatory, right, well, I would say sometimes
you will stumble right into one accidentally.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Although Ashley gives a cliche pretty much everything.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
True if you got if you got a good explanation
for it, fine, But I'm just as sick.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I've joked about Sam Donald. He's got like a ginger beard,
but he's kind of more brown hair on his head.
He needs to channel the ginger. Oh yeah, he needs
to because that's when he's playing his best. It's you
just see a vibrant the beard is Wow, he's very
ginger right on. Really in all serious Sam Donald just
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needs to play the way that he's that he has
majority of the season. To me, because I think that
Mike McDonald versus Kyle Shanahan is gonna be a knockdown,
drag out fight. And yet they're they're gonna win some
possessions and get some points, and they're gonna they're gonna
probably get, you know, plenty of three and outs and
and force some punts and and so it's just gonna
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boil down to Sam, don't play down right, don't be
that one that goes backwards and you're relying on the
defense to make some big plays or score points on defense.
You just go out and do what you're supposed to be.
Smart at times, push the ball down the field. You've
been very successful at that. You're gonna they're gonna call
some run plays, and so hopefully the run game supports
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you to where you're not having third and lungs and
you're feeling like you gotta fit it in mailboxes left
and right. But just be smart, Just be your There's
Sam Darnold that that came out and was young and
played for the Jets and wasn't very good, and then
he has learned and grown and turned into something that
was great last year with Minnesota, and he carried that
over majority of this season, with the exception of a
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couple of games that he just made some poor decisions
and let his team down. To me, it's just just
be you, dude. You don't got to be over the top.
You most certainly don't need to be passive and scared,
and don't make a mistake. Fit it in there every
once in a while, but make certain decisions. Right when
you've got points on the board, you're already knocking on
the door of a touchdown, you don't throw picks there. Uh,
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And if you're backed up against your own end zone,
you don't throw picks. And you protect the ball if
you if you feel some heat coming, you make sure
that that ball doesn't come loose right there. So to me,
it's just play the way that you've played majority this year.
Don't think you're going to do something spectacular, because I
think your defense is going to keep you in it.
But don't be scared either. Just go out there and
play kind of care free and let it rip.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, Sam Darnold, the Bucky's key.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Be good, Sam, Yes, be good to stender, Sam be ginger,
Sam m.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I like that, all right, Andrews. What's your no cliche
key to victory?
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Well? I like what Bucky said, and I'm gonna just
take it even more specific and while this, if this
doesn't happen, you could definitely still win the game. I
think this was something they were doing when the offense
was very successful. And it's the first drive scores. You
need to score on your first drive. You need to
have an effective drive offensively on your first drive. I
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don't care if that's a field goal. Just show you
can move the ball a little bit, get some confidence,
but just make sure you have a game plan going
in to that first drive, because that is not what
happened against Carolina was just pass pass pass, instantly three
and out off the rip.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
And it's just and you're talking about the first drive
of the game, not the second half.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Correct typically waited for it exactly exactly.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
So that's that's where I'm like, I think, if you
do what I'm doing, you will get the ginger Sam
Darnold too later in the game.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
So I like that.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
Yeah, I think that's maybe something that's gone a little
bit overlooked at least on this show. Part of our
conversations just the for whatever reason, this team just plays
their worst offense in the first half. Get off to
a good start, get some rhythm going and see where
the offense can go for four quarters if you actually
play the first two fairly well, I like it weird,
(36:33):
all right, I'm gonna go my no cliche key to victory,
and man, this really is bordering on a cliche because
it gets used a lot when talking about football games
and keys to victories.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
But the whole.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Establishing the run, you know line, which normally I think
it's gets a little bit overdone. But per our conversation
we just had about the forty nine Ers offense versus
the Seahawks defense, I think Seahawks defense is so good
that there's no way the forty nine Ers offense is
going to be what it's been as of late. But
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also the forty nine Ers offense has been so good
there's no way that the Seahawks are going to sit
there and hold him thirteen points either. So you're gonna
have to come up with twenty points or more, I think,
in order to win this football game tomorrow night. And
I don't think you're going to do that by just
purely relying on Sam Donald dropbacks and play actions, especially
(37:29):
when his blind side is so questionable right now with
cross being out and Jones at the very best being
limited and so I think to take some heat off
of Sam Donald, you got to get this running game
going a little bit.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And if ken Walker is, I mean, he gets my
first shot at it. And I would like for you
to actually run the ball this week to where the
play's designed to go.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
And if you can't do that, then Charbonna's coming off
the best game he's played as a as a seahawk.
In my opinion, I've got shortleashow you. We've got to
get this running game established. We've got to not be
one dimensional, otherwise Robert Salah will torture us the entire game.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
So I rarely do this. I don't know if I've
ever done this. Established the run, Oh.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Wow, I think all three of us kind of ty
into each.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Establish the run, all right. Coming up next, Greg Bell,
he does that a lot. By the way. That's established
run established y seven oh five.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
Greg Bell will join his plus Your Headline Sports Radio
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