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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, but thank you for the information.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
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need a heavy handed reminder, right yeah, right, yeah. So anyway,
so here we go your eight top stories as we
get ready for the weekend and also recap this week.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Not that we've been here all week long, and we.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Will, of course start it off with the game of
the year in the National Football League's regular season Seahawks
forty nine Ers to play tomorrow night in Santa Clara.
There is a lot on the line. The division title
is on the line. The number one seed throughout the
NFC playoffs is on the line, a first round by
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which no one else anymore gets in the NFL playoffs.
Just the one seed gets a first round by that
is on the line. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs,
that's on the line, and the Seahawks have that to
play for. But here's the catch. The forty nine ers
have the exact same incentive that can fall their way.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Did you know what time it is? It's game time?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
All ready for this?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh no, they were ready for that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, forty nine ers are just as ready for that
as we are.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let's get it on. I'm a little.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Surprised the forty nine ers are here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think most of the countries a very surprised that
the Seahawks are here in this position.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But they both earned it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Kyle Shanahan's done a remarkable coaching job, overcoming injuries and
various other hindrances this year. Meanwhile, the Seahawks have overcome expectations.
They've gotten Pro Bowl quarterback play out of free agent
signee Sam Darnold, and Mike McDonald's defense has certainly kicked
it into a high gear here in year number two.
(02:45):
This is a sensational matchup just on its own merits Bucky,
but yeah, everything else that goes into it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Man, this is what being a sports fans all about.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, I mean, you get through the long season right,
and started with the loss to the San Francisco forty
nine ers in Week one, and so you'd get that
full season of all right, well we got to basically
right the ship after Week one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They did that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Basically, and then they've found themselves, you know, battling kind
of you gotta go tit for tat with all these
other teams in your division to try to figure this
whole thing and out. Now it's coming out in the
wash that the Rams have basically fallen off just enough
to where they're no longer in the mix. But the
Niners have somehow clung and found away with without the quarterback,
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without a couple of their bigger playmakers on the defensive side,
and I mean even George Kittle missing a bunch of time,
They've found a way to still be sitting here, like, hey,
everybody counted us out, you know when we were whatever
six and five or seven and five or something. At
one point in the season. They rattled off a bunch
of wins. You're going against the Seahawks. I think it's big.
I think that both these teams kind of feel like
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this might be the difference between really making a run
and winning a Super Bowl and not not to say
you can't. I feel like the Seahawks could go on
the road from a wild card spot and still do
damage in the playoffs, but boy, the road is a
whole heck of a lot easier if you get to
stay at home the whole time.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Think about San Francisco's situation. They get to be at
home for the entire playoffs because the Super bowls in
Santa Clara this year, so they would have home field
advantage throughout the entire playoffs, or they could lose and
end up with the sixth seed. They like, the Seahawks
can only fall to the five seed and have all
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road game against Carolina in Round number one, of the
playoffs are possibly Tampa, where the forty nine Ers could
go from home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs, or
you start your playoffs on the road, potentially at Philadelphia
for goodness sake, right, crappy weather defending champs. I mean
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those are two completely different roads.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, to some degree.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, deciding and Wizard of Oz just like you know,
there's a golden brick road that I could follow, or
I could just go over through this briar patch.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, and go see him. Nobody chooses. Nobody chooses
the briar patch, but.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
The Seahawks might tell him, you don't have a choice.
You go through those brambles.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Go through the brambles, Niners, We're sending you through the brambles.
Charles Cross is not gonna play at left tackle for
the Seahawks. We don't know if Trent Williams is gonna
play at left tackle for the San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
He's on the injury report, but our backup is also
at left tackle. On the injury report is Josh Jones
is questionable for this game. Thankfully, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider,
was on the ball this morning at seven o'clock with
us and gave us the latest update on Josh Jones.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, Josh Jones is trending toward playing now. He practiced
yesterday for the first time this week. This is questionable,
but he looked the very fact he was on the
field yesterday, the last full practice. I'm gonna like practice
forget him the plane afternoon to Santa Clara, but I
think he's gonna play. We'll talk to Mike McDonald this afternoon.
(06:06):
They did bring up Amari Kite, the undrafted rookie from
Central Florida who has impressed them since the spring. They
signed him to the active roster from the practice squad
as an insurance contingency plan. But I'm gonna think right
now without having you talk to McDonald. Reading the tea
leaves at what I saw yesterday, I think it's going
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to be Josh Jones starting again. And they like what
they've seen him. As Quint Kobek said yesterday, as we've
been talking about, this is why they signed him. The
two games that Jones has played for Cross being injured.
They like what they've seen from Josh Jones, and it
looks like perhaps crisis averted that Jones will be able
to start in place across on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, I mean that's the NFL and you get to
week eighteen. I mean, part of winning a Super Bowl
is staying healthy. It's a much bigger part than what
we even led on. We want to talk about matchups
all the time and this and that and free agent
signings and trades and everything else. Really a big part
of whether or not you can win a Super Bowl
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is whether or not you're the healthiest team toward the
end of the year and ready for the playoff run.
Forty nine ers are banged up too. I mentioned Trent Williams.
George Kittle's questionable for this game. Christian McCaffrey is going
to play, but he's not one hundred percent right now.
But Bucky, to go into your biggest game of the
year and maybe.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Have to play your third string.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Left tackle, that pivotal of a position, with your quarterback
not playing his best right now, and your inability all
season long to establish that running game even though you've
tried your hardest, it feels very important that Josh Jones
plays and pays in this game and plays well.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Is healthy enough to play well? Yeah? Well, I mean, ultimately,
everybody's going to have injuries.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's how good is the next guy up or how
important is the position? And left tackle is one that
I think are pretty lucky. Lucky the fact that they
have a guy like Josh Jones that can fill in,
and I mean he would be starting if he was
better than Charles Cross. But the fact that it's not
a giant drop off you haven't seen like, oh my gosh,
it's a how did you call it a turnstile or
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like a revolving door. He's not a revolving door out there.
He can play, and he's been playing pretty well, and
when he has had to fill in for anybody, yeah,
if he's not there, I mean, I don't even know
what you're going to feel like at that next point
in such a big game, right when all of a sudden,
somebody that just doesn't get any snaps period is all
of a sudden thrust into the biggest game of the
season with all this on the line.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I feel good about it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I felt to me like after last week there was
an awful lot of talk about how how bad the
Seahawks looked because the offense isn't functioning quite as highly
as it was earlier in the season, and how phenomenal
San Francisco looked against the Bears, even though they gave
up a lot of points and nearly lost that game
to the Chicago Bears at home. Oh by the way,
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but I think our defense is playing every bed as
well as their offense right now, and I feel good
about it. I mean, opening line of the Seahawks being
a four and a half point underdog to suddenly being
a point and a half favorite on the road against
the San Francisco forty nine Ers shows you where the
smart money seems to be for this game.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It feels to.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Me like it started off people were expecting the forty
nine ers to trounce and the more that they thought
about it, they're like, I don't know, this Seahawks team
looks pretty complete, and suddenly they emerge as the favorites
going into Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, you get to this point in the season and
you know you're gonna go over all the aspects. You're
gonna look at what it is that teams do well,
and then you're gonna kind of nitpick and point out
the things that they do poorly. I think that you know, Obviously,
turnovers is a big one for Sam Donold and just
for the Seahawks in general. But there's way more pros.
There's way more things that you look at and you're like,
that is a maze. I mean, all of this talk
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about Sam Arnold, he still is basically second as far
as quarterbacks go in the league, behind Matt Stafford. And
I just think that there's there's a whole heck of
a lot of ways in which the Seahawks can.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Win this thing.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I don't think the Niners have as many ways, although
they still have ways. They have some players and their
offenses playing well.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here's what I've decided is the way that I want
to win tomorrow night. I want us to lose the
turnover battle by six turnovers and still win by thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh yeah, that'd be interesting, likely.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
For turnover ratio, and yet the Seahawks still won.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Forty to ten. That's gonna be hard to do. You
want to make it hard on yourself, We'll be hard
if you win by thirty. True.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, NFL Week number eighteen is here. It will
start tomorrow at one thirty Carolina at Tampa Bay. And
that's not a I mean, if Carolina they win the division.
Not the case anymore with Tampa Bay because Atlanta has
ugly things up for the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers are going
to need to win and Atlanta has to lose on
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Sunday otherwise Carolina gets in either way. So that's on
the line.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It will feel a.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Bit playoff of a but it's not as cut and
dry as what the schedule makers hoped it would be
when they put it to lead off week number eighteen
at one thirty tomorrow and then the Hawks forty nine
ers at five o'clock Sunday. Mostly just seating is on
the line. Number one pick in the draft will be
on the line. But Sunday night, Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Now
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that's a cut and dry affair right there. That's for
the AFC North title. The winner gets the final seat
on the playoff bus. The loser is completely out. And
if you were wondering, Lamar Jackson said, one hundred percent,
I'm going to play.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Couldn't miss it.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I never could on my team before, you know, SOO
quit any king of Also, I don't know where I
know it came from, but like I already know, my
brother gonna he gonna put it off if I couldn't
get it done, you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Know, so Lamar's gonna play in this game. Look, I
love Lamar Jackson. I think he's had a phenomenal career.
I think he got absolutely rob blind for the MVP
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But I'm here a little bit of this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like, it's not fair to criticize Lamar Jackson now considering
the great.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Career he said.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I don't care how great of a career a guy
puts together. If he's not doing the things to be
a leader and he's not focused on the task at hand,
of course he's open to criticism. I mean Tom Brady
would have shown up after winning a Super Bowl for
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and came back like four in
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the Avengers end game with a big beer belly and
you know was trying to sleep with it all his
teammates wives. Yeah, you better believe. I don't care. If
you are to the goat, you're subject to criticism in
the moment. So if he's not as been as focused,
if he's playing too many video games, if he's smoking
too much weed.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Or whatever the reputation is.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, Lamar Jackson has not had as good a season
this year, and it sounds like there are some reasons why.
So he's fair play for criticism just as much as
everybody else. And that doesn't mean that he's not phenomenal
and hasn't had a phenomenal Hall of Fame career. But
in this moment, Lamar Jackson's got a lot to prove.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
On Sunday Night.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He says he's one hundred percent ready to go. Let's
see you play like Lamar Jackson. Otherwise I think it
will be an off season.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Of criticism for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I mean, I suppose outside of maybe being forty four
years old retired for five years, but even that, I mean,
if you know, if Phillis phil Philip Rivers are calling
Phillis quivers, you know that. But if Rivers would have
came back and thrown three four picks and just looked atrocious,
he would have gotten criticized. And yet people would have been, yeah, well,
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what do you expect he hasn't played in five years.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
If you're an MVP.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Caliber guy and then you come and you have a
subpar year and your team is on the outs and
might possibly miss the playoffs, yeah there's room for criticism.
You're still getting paid that big money. You're still the
quarterback that's running the team. If you're not playing up
to what the standard you've set for yourself and.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The Yeah, and there are some reasons, unflattering reasons as
to why people or speculating as to why you're not
playing as well. If those are true in any way,
you better believe you you have to face criticism at
that point. I don't care what you've accomplished in the past.
So anyway, that'll be Sunday night. It will be fantastic.
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And I'm rooting for Lamar and Baltimore quite frankly, let's uh,
I'd like to see them get that done. College football playoff, well,
we had a triple adder yesterday on New Year's Day.
The first couple of games were blowouts. Some people were
a little noisy about that, not sure why. But in
the last game of the day, Ole Miss and Joy.
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If you were starting to lose steam being on your tenth, eleventh,
twelfth hour of sitting on your butt watching football yesterday,
man did Ole Miss and Georgia infuse the excitement to
see that one through? It was an instant plastic.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Chambles love bing it up day Fox Day shots truggling
Turco from behind by the medal jobs of the thirty
want to call my Charlie Weiss a forty yards.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They're in field goal range. Now for card Errow to.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Give them the lead and likely send them on to
the semifinal forty seven yards.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
And it is dude right on the medal.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yes, being on the call last night, Ole Miss wins.
It ended up with a weird safety late and went
at thirty nine to thirty four. Three things. That kicker
might be the best kicker in the world eighty not
just college football, he might be the best kicker in
the world too. I've never heard Sean McDonough more excited
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on a call for four s great quarters than what
I saw because he just kept having to go back
to that top ten, like I got to go to
a ten again because he started at Yeah, he just
had to keep going back to it. He was like
Gus Johnson like last night and then number three man.
That Chamberliss is one heck of a playmaker. I'm so
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happy for old Miss, and I hope Lane Kifvin's miserable.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, I wish he was too, but I don't know
if he is, he's probably pretty happy that his team's
going out there and performing. I'm sure he loves those guys,
even though he kind of jumped ship. That game was crazy.
I mean that fourth downs are fake punts and all
of the stuff that It felt very college football.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I'm here for all of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Rebels advanced to me Miami in the final four. The Canes.
They defeated Ohio State on New Year's Eve, winning the
Cotton Bowl twenty four to fourteen. Oregon whooped up on
Texas Tech, shutting out the Red Raiders twenty three to nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And Indiana just.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Absolutely crushed Alabama thirty eight to three to advance two
the semifinals. The final four is now set in college football. Thursday,
it'll be Miami versus Old Miss at four thirty. Friday
Oregon versus Indiana at four thirty as well, And we're
gonna talk more about these games coming up at eight
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thirty here.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Today on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh, by the way, it's not the only thing going
on in college football. As if it wasn't enough to
prepare for a final four game in college football, the
transfer portal opens today today. Ole Miss coaches didn't fly
back with their team because so many of them are
on Lane Kiffin's staff at LSU. They to LSU after
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that thrilling victory last night to prepare for transfer portal
to put on purple hats, purple and yellow hats as
opposed to blue and red. Nick Saban has had enough
of it, and he talked about it yesterday on game day.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You need to change the calendar. Okay, So chaos and
college football starts tomorrow the portal opens. There's all already
been one hundred and twenty starters say they're getting in
the port from you.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Know, big powerful schools. Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
So what happens if ole Miss wins and Oregon wins?
So Oregon's got two coordinators trying to take guys from
their team to their team and guys from other teams
to their team. And ole Miss has got six coaches
going to LSU trying to take guys to LSU from
their team. But they got to play a game. So
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now is that chaos or is that chaos totally? This
whole college football calendar knee change.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Immediately like that has to be the objective. As soon
as the season's over, you do it. This one crazy
last time, and then that has to change immediately. So
a lot of people want Nick Saban to be a
commissioner of college football.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Maybe that's the right decision there.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, Indiana's basketball program is sort of an afterthought these days,
and yet you double get to face them coming up
on Sunday. And if I know anything about coaches basketball
coaches in Indiana, you dubb has to worry about one
play and one play only.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
All right, listen to it, not just the last shot
that we got. All right, we're going to run the
pick of fans out. Yep, you're the swing man, Jimmy,
You're all the right, alright, we should be open swinging
around the end of that fans yew. Boys, don't get
caught watching a painton.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Hear that, Danny Sprinkle. I don't think you need to
learn anything else. Just don't get caught watching the painte
right now.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
That'll catch you for sure. And I understand the picket fence.
I mean he should be able to run a practice
against it and figure out how to defend it.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's the only play they run in the state of Indiana.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I hear the Huskies are nine to four coming off
a seventy four to sixty five win over Utah. Here
we are January tewond and this team is a part
of an eighteen team conference, and yet they've only played
two Big Ten games so far this year. Splitting him
as they prepare for Sunday showdown with what used to
be a basketball school. Indiana is also one in one
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in conference play and ten and three on the year.
I believe that's a five o'clock start on Sunday night.
Cracking last night, man, they're back to winning ways. They
defeated the Predators, Seattle back.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Yet off the faces, the captain down the left wing,
a squirmvel in front, but Maddy Vaneers leaves the handshake,
lide free nothing Seattle.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Everybody got a touch on it as well.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
But it was a good crash to the debt and
everybody put the second shot on net and it was
finally Matty Veneers.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Its found it the blue paint, push it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
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Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh yeah, you have to get to the apparently makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
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Speaker 2 (22:59):
All Right, Chuck Pou, Buggy Jacobson, and andrews Hearst with you.
We will be talking Seahawks forty nine ers as we
have throughout the morning for the rest of the show.
So this is one opportunity for us to talk about
the other big story here on this second day of January,
on a football Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Sounders off season. The Sounders off season.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Exactly what are you looking for and winger this offseason?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Come up with a holiday or something about it. I mean,
draft Patty's Day or something.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Don't be silly, ok the top, Jason, You have off seasons,
don't you religious? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Uh? No college football playoff yesterday. It's our second year
with this format, and certainly there are a lot of
things to talk about about the games themselves, and I'll
start there. I mean, what we're watching from in Indiana.
I realized that they make a big deal out of it.
I don't think you can make a big enough deal
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out of it. I mean, this is the losingest program
in college football history, and in two years Kurt Signetti
has turned them into not only the best team in
college football it appears, but.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
They just destroyed Alabama. That wasn't even close.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And Alabama, you know, of course out of the SEC
and everybody from the SEC. Oh, finally Indiana, any I
hadn't playing anybody all year. Ohowo State, Oregon, and so
they're finally gonna see what it's like to play a
real team. And you saw what it's like to play
(24:47):
a real team.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
All right, beat him. Thirty eight to three was the
final score. And so I know he comes up a.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Little bit arrogant, but man, I just love like the cold,
calculated arrogance of Signetti. It's just like so matter of
fact what he says, Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
We're gonna win. Yeah, we're awesome, We're gonna keep being awesome.
He's just so matter of fact about it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It didn't even offend me at all that he's clearly
very arrogant about the way that he approaches things.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
There's a part, I mean, I love confidence, and then
there's a line obviously where it turns into cockiness or arrogance.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And he's he's probably over that line for me.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, I like I said, if you back it up,
then you back it up, and he most certainly is
backing it up. There's a there's a part of it
that's just like it's I don't know, part is just
kind of cringey to me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And you didn't beat Oregon, would you feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, Well, it's just how he is when they were
going through this game with him twice in one season.
That hasn't happened and it's not going to Uh, I'm
not going to make that bold prediction today, but no,
it's the when the game was still a game, so
basically for the first quarter, Yeah, when they were kind
of doing some stuff and all of a sudden they
(26:03):
panned to him and he's got this weird look on
his face.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's like, dude, what are you like?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You know, there's cameras on you, and it's it's almost
like when John Gruden would be making that chucky face. Yeah,
it's like, stop, but that's a face the facial expression
does in your face.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
He does that when you have hand him breakfast cereal.
I don't think so. I think there's part of it
that there's a show now it works. He's got a program.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Like you said, that's one of the what was historically
one of the worst, and right now they are, without
a doubt, the best team in college football now. Somebody's
got to hopefully reverse that trend next week. But that
doesn't look like it's very easy to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Urban Meyer said, it's the greatest coaching job in the
history of sports.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Urban Meyer.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I know he fell on his face in Jacksonville. I
realize that, but that's that guy's in the conversation for.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Greatest college football coach of all.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Time, and he's like, not even He's dismissing himself entirely
from his own sport and then taking it even further.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think there might be I mean, he's still got
more proving to do. You don't get that title in
just two years. But I mean, it is just it's unreal.
It's just unreal.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And so I know they talk about it a lot.
I don't think you can talk about it enough. It
is one of the great stories of in my lifetime
what Indiana has done to turn things around. The other
thing I think I do want to just repeat from
our six o'clock hour is I don't care that there
are blowouts in the first round of the college football
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playoff or the second I don't care if there's blowouts
in the next round of the playoffs. If Indiana wins
each of the next two games by fifty, then we
will know, by God, that's the best team in college
football and they deserve to win a national championship. That's
what this college football playoff format, this is what we've
been waiting for, at least I've been waiting for my
entire life.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
To prove it on the field. And what you saw
over the.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Past forty eight hours, Miami, who would never have had
a shot to prove it on the field, proved, my
goodness is that a defense and they Ohio State was
not the better football team. And so we just didn't decide.
We just didn't declare because a committee said it or
some people voted for it, that Ohio State gets ushered
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to the front of the line. They had to face
a really good team who might be better than them,
but probably not, and it turns out they were. I
love that result, even though I had Ohio State winning
at all and I'm gonna lose green jacket. I love
that result for college football and for the playoff. And
I realized there were two blowouts yesterday, but in the
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old format, Texas Tech would have been in the final
four and Oregon wouldn't even have made it to the turn. Now,
now now we know what a mistake that would have
been had we done it that way. And so that's
what we want a college football Playoff four is to
actually take this subjective process, and there's some subjectivity that's
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still involved in it, and figure out a playoff format
where we can decide who's the better team on the
football field and not with a committee.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Or a vote.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And so I don't mind that there were blowouts yesterday
because now I feel very good about Oregon being in
the Final four.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
And knowing that they are worthy of that.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Had you just declared Oregon gets to get in over
Texas Tech because they're from a bigger conference, I'd had
a huge problem with it. But now I feel perfectly
awesome with Oregon being in there over Texas Tech because
they're clearly the better team.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And I think you can say that across the board. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Well, I mean the opportunity is what basically this creates, right,
It creates it for everybody in college football, including some
of the small guys.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I think that there's room for some tweaks to make
sure that you still are getting some of the teams
that may or may not have been able to do
some damage in this tournament format that are left on
the outside. You know the fact that there was all
the stuff about Miami and Notre Dame. Notre Dame was
playing really good football. Wouldn't it have been fun to
see what they would have done against somebody in this tournament.
(30:24):
It would have been fun. Yes, So there's room for tweaks.
There's room for whatever you have to do expansion wise
or however you figure out how to do it. But yes,
the idea that you flat out now have to go
earn it, Yes, you have to go earn it. If
I you know, I'm glad that Indiana did advance, so
we didn't have two years in a row with the
teams that had to buy and had that time off
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all failed in the first their first game of the
College FOOTBA playoffs. I'm glad that they showed up and
didn't look like they were rusty at all. And yet
the other ones, Oh, Miss Georgia, that game was a
barn burner, and you know, two conference foes going at
it and figuring out who's better at the end of
that day. You're right, Oregon being able to have an opportunity,
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whereas with the old format they would not have. And
and same for Miami to be able to go out
there and go up against Ohio State where most people
weren't giving them much of a chance, and they said,
we believe and they wouldn't absolutely put it on Ohio
State and kind of snipered that from them early and
then held on it just is the way it's supposed
to be done. You're supposed to And like I said,
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doesn't mean it's perfect yet, but it's closer now than
it's ever been before.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yes, for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And yeah, they made adjustments after last year and learned
from it. We're in the infancy two year old. This
is a two year old child here.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah. Two year olds don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Two year olds aren't even sure if they should grab
their pants or not.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
No, yeah, that's something they do.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, so so, yeah, they grapped their pants on a
couple of things. Time to change out the diaper patcham
how not to you don't throw it away?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, exactly. So I'm thoroughly pleased with.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The two years of I don't care about the blowouts
because we are actually getting results.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
We're deciding this thing on the field for the first
time ever, and I love it. All right.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Speaker 3 (32:52):
Hey, that guy a cup of coffee full of joy?
Yeah he is his face dimple face, Yeah, always full
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you ready for Seahawks forty nine. Ers Man, going back
to Monday and Tuesday. Man, We've had a lot of
different ways to discuss this thing, breaking it down. We
got to jump on it all the way back to
Monday Morning Quarterback. I think we spent half the show
(33:35):
recapping Carolina and then the other half of that Monday
show getting you ready for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Everything's on the line, and certainly we've covered a lot
of different angles on this program. But an interesting one
brought up by Greg Bell. He's really thinks Nick emon Worri,
it's gonna be like the difference in this game. And
when you think back, he got injured in that first game,
and it was very interesting to see how he was
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being I mean, we just got a little taste of
it because it happened so early in the game. But
I mean you got an indication in those first few
plays of the year that this is somebody that was
going to be, you know, essential and having to defend
an offense that had Christian McCaffrey in it and might
be able to cover you know, a Kittle or a
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Tungis who ended up burning us, and yes I call
him Tungis ended up burning us at the end of
that game on a terrible defensive play by Reek Woolan.
And that contest to use him in blitz packages because
I keep hearing Mike McDonald's saving stuff for the.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Maybe there's stuff he's gonna do with nick emon War
that we haven't seen thus far. It's just been a
runaway success rookie year for this young man. I can't
wait to see what he becomes over the course of
the next few years. But you better believe, Bucky that
there's a major difference with this defense taking on the
forty nine ers and all of their different interesting parts
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they have on the offensive side of the ball. I
feel a lot better having him against the forty nine
ers than not.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Having him, Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I mean, I think you know your number one thing
is Christian McCaffrey, and figure out how you contain that.
He's gonna get his to some degree, But how do
you contain it. That's a full on, entire unit project,
you know what I mean. You've got Ernest Jones, You're
gonna have to be in that whole waiting for him.
But the defensive lines and have show up guys, gonna
have set edges. You're gonna have to have your other
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linebackers covering him from time to time out in the
flat and when he comes out in patterns. So that's
its own issue. But outside of that, it's George Kittle
and Tundlas. You have to make sure that those guys
don't end up hurting you. I think em and Worry
is that little bit of an X factor. Now, it's
not like you're just going to line him up and
say you follow George Kittle everywhere. You're going to send
(35:56):
him in to stop the run and get after the passer.
But at times he's going to be a guy that
most certainly creates what is supposed to be a mismatch.
You're supposed to have tight ends that they want to
be faster than linebackers and bigger or bigger than linebackers,
and fast enough that they can they can create some distance.
George Kittle's not really all that fast. He just is
(36:18):
very creative. Well, one thing that you can do if
a guy is like that is hey stick with him
and then outmatch him physically. Just be more athletic than
he is. And I think that uh Emon Worry is
probably more athletic than just about everybody on the field.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah, and yet I think that it's the thing I'm
more interested about is how he factors into defending McCaffrey.
And even even with that, he's faster and more athletic
than McCaffrey, and he's bigger.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know, it might not be stronger.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
McCaffrey's pretty uh you know, loaded up there. Yeah, but uh,
I'm curious to see if. I mean, the moment Mike
McDonald was hired, there was this immediate thought about the
chess matches between him and Sean McVay going forward for
years to come. The moment we started thinking about the
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versatility of this freakish athlete and emon worry, when do
you start applying it to the teams you have to face.
I mean, very few teams have an answer for Christian McCaffrey.
That's very clear in the National Football League. I'd like
to find out Saturday night that we have maybe a
recipe for shutting him down that nobody else has. And
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that's my sick and number three on him wherever he goes.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, I mean, it can't hurt. I mean, I think
it only made it like five plays into it before
he got hurt. And he had that one play was
a tackle in the backfield, right, And so yeah, I
mean I think you're feeling a whole heck of a
lot better. I do remember going into that game us
talking about training camp, talking about Emon Worry, him being
the Taka camp and all that stuff, and I thought
to mysel, I wonder if a guy like Kyle Shanahan
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will recognize things that he sees in the first or
second half, first or second quarter and then use his
youth or exuberance against him to some agree, well, we
still haven't seen that play out because it only lasted
for five plays. I think that Eve and Worry might
be better between the years than most people are in
their first year. Hence the reason Mike McDonald, the defensive
(38:25):
guru that he is, is like, how about you just
play seven different positions? Well, that's a lot to think about.
It's a lot to be able to absorb and know
what your responsibility is. But apparently he's picking it up.
It's going to be a very intriguing part of the game.
Whether you can shut Christian McCaffrey down. I wouldn't go
that far, but contain him and make them one dimensional
(38:45):
with and with George Kittle and whoever else. Juwan Jennings
is their leading receiver, not too terribly worried about that.
With the defensive backs that we.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Have all right coming up next, you mellon x's and
oh's got to be applied to this game.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Not that we've been here all week long, and we.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Will, of course start it off with the game of
the year in the National Football League's regular season Seahawks
forty nine Ers to play tomorrow night in Santa Clara.
There is a lot on the line. The division title
is on the line. The number one seed throughout the
NFC playoffs is on the line, a first round by
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which no one else anymore gets in the NFL playoffs.
Just the one seed gets a first round by that
is on the line. Home field advantage throughout the playoffs,
that's on the line, and the Seahawks have that to
play for. But here's the catch. The forty nine ers
have the exact same incentive that can fall their way.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Did you know what time it is? It's game time?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
All ready for this?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Oh no, they were ready for that.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, forty nine ers are just as ready for that
as we are.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Let's get it on. I'm a little.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Surprised the forty nine ers are here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think most of the countries a very surprised that
the Seahawks are here in this position.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But they both earned it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Kyle Shanahan's done a remarkable coaching job, overcoming injuries and
various other hindrances this year. Meanwhile, the Seahawks have overcome expectations.
They've gotten Pro Bowl quarterback play out of free agent
signee Sam Darnold, and Mike McDonald's defense has certainly kicked
it into a high gear here in year number two.
(02:45):
This is a sensational matchup just on its own merits Bucky,
but yeah, everything else that goes into it.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Man, this is what being a sports fans all about.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, I mean, you get through the long season right,
and started with the loss to the San Francisco forty
nine ers in Week one, and so you'd get that
full season of all right, well we got to basically
right the ship after Week one.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They did that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Basically, and then they've found themselves, you know, battling kind
of you gotta go tit for tat with all these
other teams in your division to try to figure this
whole thing and out. Now it's coming out in the
wash that the Rams have basically fallen off just enough
to where they're no longer in the mix. But the
Niners have somehow clung and found away with without the quarterback,
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without a couple of their bigger playmakers on the defensive side,
and I mean even George Kittle missing a bunch of time,
They've found a way to still be sitting here, like, hey,
everybody counted us out, you know when we were whatever
six and five or seven and five or something. At
one point in the season. They rattled off a bunch
of wins. You're going against the Seahawks. I think it's big.
I think that both these teams kind of feel like
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this might be the difference between really making a run
and winning a Super Bowl and not not to say
you can't. I feel like the Seahawks could go on
the road from a wild card spot and still do
damage in the playoffs, but boy, the road is a
whole heck of a lot easier if you get to
stay at home the whole time.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeh.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Think about San Francisco's situation. They get to be at
home for the entire playoffs because the Super bowls in
Santa Clara this year, so they would have home field
advantage throughout the entire playoffs, or they could lose and
end up with the sixth seed. They like, the Seahawks
can only fall to the five seed and have all
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road game against Carolina in Round number one, of the
playoffs are possibly Tampa, where the forty nine Ers could
go from home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs, or
you start your playoffs on the road, potentially at Philadelphia
for goodness sake, right, crappy weather defending champs. I mean
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those are two completely different roads.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, to some degree.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, deciding and Wizard of Oz just like you know,
there's a golden brick road that I could follow, or
I could just go over through this briar patch.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, and go see him. Nobody chooses. Nobody chooses
the briar patch, but.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
The Seahawks might tell him, you don't have a choice.
You go through those brambles.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Go through the brambles, Niners, We're sending you through the brambles.
Charles Cross is not gonna play at left tackle for
the Seahawks. We don't know if Trent Williams is gonna
play at left tackle for the San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
He's on the injury report, but our backup is also
at left tackle. On the injury report is Josh Jones
is questionable for this game. Thankfully, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider,
was on the ball this morning at seven o'clock with
us and gave us the latest update on Josh Jones.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, Josh Jones is trending toward playing now. He practiced
yesterday for the first time this week. This is questionable,
but he looked the very fact he was on the
field yesterday, the last full practice. I'm gonna like practice
forget him the plane afternoon to Santa Clara, but I
think he's gonna play. We'll talk to Mike McDonald this afternoon.
(06:06):
They did bring up Amari Kite, the undrafted rookie from
Central Florida who has impressed them since the spring. They
signed him to the active roster from the practice squad
as an insurance contingency plan. But I'm gonna think right
now without having you talk to McDonald. Reading the tea
leaves at what I saw yesterday, I think it's going
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to be Josh Jones starting again. And they like what
they've seen him. As Quint Kobek said yesterday, as we've
been talking about, this is why they signed him. The
two games that Jones has played for Cross being injured.
They like what they've seen from Josh Jones, and it
looks like perhaps crisis averted that Jones will be able
to start in place across on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, I mean that's the NFL and you get to
week eighteen. I mean, part of winning a Super Bowl
is staying healthy. It's a much bigger part than what
we even led on. We want to talk about matchups
all the time and this and that and free agent
signings and trades and everything else. Really a big part
of whether or not you can win a Super Bowl
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is whether or not you're the healthiest team toward the
end of the year and ready for the playoff run.
Forty nine ers are banged up too. I mentioned Trent Williams.
George Kittle's questionable for this game. Christian McCaffrey is going
to play, but he's not one hundred percent right now.
But Bucky, to go into your biggest game of the
year and maybe.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Have to play your third string.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Left tackle, that pivotal of a position, with your quarterback
not playing his best right now, and your inability all
season long to establish that running game even though you've
tried your hardest, it feels very important that Josh Jones
plays and pays in this game and plays well.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Is healthy enough to play well? Yeah? Well, I mean, ultimately,
everybody's going to have injuries.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
It's how good is the next guy up or how
important is the position? And left tackle is one that
I think are pretty lucky. Lucky the fact that they
have a guy like Josh Jones that can fill in,
and I mean he would be starting if he was
better than Charles Cross. But the fact that it's not
a giant drop off you haven't seen like, oh my gosh,
it's a how did you call it a turnstile or
(08:15):
like a revolving door. He's not a revolving door out there.
He can play, and he's been playing pretty well, and
when he has had to fill in for anybody, yeah,
if he's not there, I mean, I don't even know
what you're going to feel like at that next point
in such a big game, right when all of a sudden,
somebody that just doesn't get any snaps period is all
of a sudden thrust into the biggest game of the
season with all this on the line.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I feel good about it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I felt to me like after last week there was
an awful lot of talk about how how bad the
Seahawks looked because the offense isn't functioning quite as highly
as it was earlier in the season, and how phenomenal
San Francisco looked against the Bears, even though they gave
up a lot of points and nearly lost that game
to the Chicago Bears at home. Oh by the way,
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but I think our defense is playing every bed as
well as their offense right now, and I feel good
about it. I mean, opening line of the Seahawks being
a four and a half point underdog to suddenly being
a point and a half favorite on the road against
the San Francisco forty nine Ers shows you where the
smart money seems to be for this game.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It feels to.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Me like it started off people were expecting the forty
nine ers to trounce and the more that they thought
about it, they're like, I don't know, this Seahawks team
looks pretty complete, and suddenly they emerge as the favorites
going into Saturday Night.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Well, you get to this point in the season and
you know you're gonna go over all the aspects. You're
gonna look at what it is that teams do well,
and then you're gonna kind of nitpick and point out
the things that they do poorly. I think that you know, Obviously,
turnovers is a big one for Sam Donold and just
for the Seahawks in general. But there's way more pros.
There's way more things that you look at and you're like,
that is a maze. I mean, all of this talk
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about Sam Arnold, he still is basically second as far
as quarterbacks go in the league, behind Matt Stafford. And
I just think that there's there's a whole heck of
a lot of ways in which the Seahawks can.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Win this thing.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I don't think the Niners have as many ways, although
they still have ways. They have some players and their
offenses playing well.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here's what I've decided is the way that I want
to win tomorrow night. I want us to lose the
turnover battle by six turnovers and still win by thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh yeah, that'd be interesting, likely.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
For turnover ratio, and yet the Seahawks still won.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Forty to ten. That's gonna be hard to do. You
want to make it hard on yourself, We'll be hard
if you win by thirty. True.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
All right, NFL Week number eighteen is here. It will
start tomorrow at one thirty Carolina at Tampa Bay. And
that's not a I mean, if Carolina they win the division.
Not the case anymore with Tampa Bay because Atlanta has
ugly things up for the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers are going
to need to win and Atlanta has to lose on
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Sunday otherwise Carolina gets in either way. So that's on
the line.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It will feel a.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Bit playoff of a but it's not as cut and
dry as what the schedule makers hoped it would be
when they put it to lead off week number eighteen
at one thirty tomorrow and then the Hawks forty nine
ers at five o'clock Sunday. Mostly just seating is on
the line. Number one pick in the draft will be
on the line. But Sunday night, Baltimore at Pittsburgh. Now
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that's a cut and dry affair right there. That's for
the AFC North title. The winner gets the final seat
on the playoff bus. The loser is completely out. And
if you were wondering, Lamar Jackson said, one hundred percent,
I'm going to play.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Couldn't miss it.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I never could on my team before, you know, SOO
quit any king of Also, I don't know where I
know it came from, but like I already know, my
brother gonna he gonna put it off if I couldn't
get it done, you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Know, so Lamar's gonna play in this game. Look, I
love Lamar Jackson. I think he's had a phenomenal career.
I think he got absolutely rob blind for the MVP
a year ago.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But I'm here a little bit of this.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like, it's not fair to criticize Lamar Jackson now considering
the great.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Career he said.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I don't care how great of a career a guy
puts together. If he's not doing the things to be
a leader and he's not focused on the task at hand,
of course he's open to criticism. I mean Tom Brady
would have shown up after winning a Super Bowl for
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and came back like four in
(12:48):
the Avengers end game with a big beer belly and
you know was trying to sleep with it all his
teammates wives. Yeah, you better believe. I don't care. If
you are to the goat, you're subject to criticism in
the moment. So if he's not as been as focused,
if he's playing too many video games, if he's smoking
too much weed.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Or whatever the reputation is.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, Lamar Jackson has not had as good a season
this year, and it sounds like there are some reasons why.
So he's fair play for criticism just as much as
everybody else. And that doesn't mean that he's not phenomenal
and hasn't had a phenomenal Hall of Fame career. But
in this moment, Lamar Jackson's got a lot to prove.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
On Sunday Night.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He says he's one hundred percent ready to go. Let's
see you play like Lamar Jackson. Otherwise I think it
will be an off season.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Of criticism for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I mean, I suppose outside of maybe being forty four
years old retired for five years, but even that, I mean,
if you know, if Phillis phil Philip Rivers are calling
Phillis quivers, you know that. But if Rivers would have
came back and thrown three four picks and just looked atrocious,
he would have gotten criticized. And yet people would have been, yeah, well,
(13:55):
what do you expect he hasn't played in five years.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
If you're an MVP.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Caliber guy and then you come and you have a
subpar year and your team is on the outs and
might possibly miss the playoffs, yeah there's room for criticism.
You're still getting paid that big money. You're still the
quarterback that's running the team. If you're not playing up
to what the standard you've set for yourself and.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The Yeah, and there are some reasons, unflattering reasons as
to why people or speculating as to why you're not
playing as well. If those are true in any way,
you better believe you you have to face criticism at
that point. I don't care what you've accomplished in the past.
So anyway, that'll be Sunday night. It will be fantastic.
(14:38):
And I'm rooting for Lamar and Baltimore quite frankly, let's uh,
I'd like to see them get that done. College football playoff, well,
we had a triple adder yesterday on New Year's Day.
The first couple of games were blowouts. Some people were
a little noisy about that, not sure why. But in
the last game of the day, Ole Miss and Joy.
(15:00):
If you were starting to lose steam being on your tenth, eleventh,
twelfth hour of sitting on your butt watching football yesterday,
man did Ole Miss and Georgia infuse the excitement to
see that one through? It was an instant plastic.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Chambles love bing it up day Fox Day shots truggling
Turco from behind by the medal jobs of the thirty
want to call my Charlie Weiss a forty yards.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They're in field goal range. Now for card Errow to.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Give them the lead and likely send them on to
the semifinal forty seven yards.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
And it is dude right on the medal.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yes, being on the call last night, Ole Miss wins.
It ended up with a weird safety late and went
at thirty nine to thirty four. Three things. That kicker
might be the best kicker in the world eighty not
just college football, he might be the best kicker in
the world too. I've never heard Sean McDonough more excited
(16:14):
on a call for four s great quarters than what
I saw because he just kept having to go back
to that top ten, like I got to go to
a ten again because he started at Yeah, he just
had to keep going back to it. He was like
Gus Johnson like last night and then number three man.
That Chamberliss is one heck of a playmaker. I'm so
(16:36):
happy for old Miss, and I hope Lane Kifvin's miserable.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, I wish he was too, but I don't know
if he is, he's probably pretty happy that his team's
going out there and performing. I'm sure he loves those guys,
even though he kind of jumped ship. That game was crazy.
I mean that fourth downs are fake punts and all
of the stuff that It felt very college football.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I'm here for all of it.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Rebels advanced to me Miami in the final four. The Canes.
They defeated Ohio State on New Year's Eve, winning the
Cotton Bowl twenty four to fourteen. Oregon whooped up on
Texas Tech, shutting out the Red Raiders twenty three to nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
And Indiana just.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Absolutely crushed Alabama thirty eight to three to advance two
the semifinals. The final four is now set in college football. Thursday,
it'll be Miami versus Old Miss at four thirty. Friday
Oregon versus Indiana at four thirty as well, And we're
gonna talk more about these games coming up at eight
(17:36):
thirty here.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Today on Chuck and Buck.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh, by the way, it's not the only thing going
on in college football. As if it wasn't enough to
prepare for a final four game in college football, the
transfer portal opens today today. Ole Miss coaches didn't fly
back with their team because so many of them are
on Lane Kiffin's staff at LSU. They to LSU after
(18:01):
that thrilling victory last night to prepare for transfer portal
to put on purple hats, purple and yellow hats as
opposed to blue and red. Nick Saban has had enough
of it, and he talked about it yesterday on game day.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
You need to change the calendar. Okay, So chaos and
college football starts tomorrow the portal opens. There's all already
been one hundred and twenty starters say they're getting in
the port from you.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Know, big powerful schools. Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
So what happens if ole Miss wins and Oregon wins?
So Oregon's got two coordinators trying to take guys from
their team to their team and guys from other teams
to their team. And ole Miss has got six coaches
going to LSU trying to take guys to LSU from
their team. But they got to play a game. So
(18:53):
now is that chaos or is that chaos totally? This
whole college football calendar knee change.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Immediately like that has to be the objective. As soon
as the season's over, you do it. This one crazy
last time, and then that has to change immediately. So
a lot of people want Nick Saban to be a
commissioner of college football.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Maybe that's the right decision there.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Well, Indiana's basketball program is sort of an afterthought these days,
and yet you double get to face them coming up
on Sunday. And if I know anything about coaches basketball
coaches in Indiana, you dubb has to worry about one
play and one play only.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
All right, listen to it, not just the last shot
that we got. All right, we're going to run the
pick of fans out. Yep, you're the swing man, Jimmy,
You're all the right, alright, we should be open swinging
around the end of that fans yew. Boys, don't get
caught watching a painton.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Hear that, Danny Sprinkle. I don't think you need to
learn anything else. Just don't get caught watching the painte
right now.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
That'll catch you for sure. And I understand the picket fence.
I mean he should be able to run a practice
against it and figure out how to defend it.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's the only play they run in the state of Indiana.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I hear the Huskies are nine to four coming off
a seventy four to sixty five win over Utah. Here
we are January tewond and this team is a part
of an eighteen team conference, and yet they've only played
two Big Ten games so far this year. Splitting him
as they prepare for Sunday showdown with what used to
be a basketball school. Indiana is also one in one
(20:33):
in conference play and ten and three on the year.
I believe that's a five o'clock start on Sunday night.
Cracking last night, man, they're back to winning ways. They
defeated the Predators, Seattle back.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Yet off the faces, the captain down the left wing,
a squirmvel in front, but Maddy Vaneers leaves the handshake,
lide free nothing Seattle.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Everybody got a touch on it as well.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
But it was a good crash to the debt and
everybody put the second shot on net and it was
finally Matty Veneers.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Its found it the blue paint, push it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
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Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh yeah, you have to get to the apparently makes sense.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, Cracking have won five of their last six games
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Speaker 2 (22:59):
All Right, Chuck Pou, Buggy Jacobson, and andrews Hearst with you.
We will be talking Seahawks forty nine ers as we
have throughout the morning for the rest of the show.
So this is one opportunity for us to talk about
the other big story here on this second day of January,
on a football Friday.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Sounders off season. The Sounders off season.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Exactly what are you looking for and winger this offseason?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Come up with a holiday or something about it. I mean,
draft Patty's Day or something.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Don't be silly, ok the top, Jason, You have off seasons,
don't you religious? Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Uh? No college football playoff yesterday. It's our second year
with this format, and certainly there are a lot of
things to talk about about the games themselves, and I'll
start there. I mean, what we're watching from in Indiana.
I realized that they make a big deal out of it.
I don't think you can make a big enough deal
(24:07):
out of it. I mean, this is the losingest program
in college football history, and in two years Kurt Signetti
has turned them into not only the best team in
college football it appears, but.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
They just destroyed Alabama. That wasn't even close.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And Alabama, you know, of course out of the SEC
and everybody from the SEC. Oh, finally Indiana, any I
hadn't playing anybody all year. Ohowo State, Oregon, and so
they're finally gonna see what it's like to play a
real team. And you saw what it's like to play
(24:47):
a real team.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
All right, beat him. Thirty eight to three was the
final score. And so I know he comes up a.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Little bit arrogant, but man, I just love like the cold,
calculated arrogance of Signetti. It's just like so matter of
fact what he says, Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
We're gonna win. Yeah, we're awesome, We're gonna keep being awesome.
He's just so matter of fact about it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It didn't even offend me at all that he's clearly
very arrogant about the way that he approaches things.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
There's a part, I mean, I love confidence, and then
there's a line obviously where it turns into cockiness or arrogance.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And he's he's probably over that line for me.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, I like I said, if you back it up,
then you back it up, and he most certainly is
backing it up. There's a there's a part of it
that's just like it's I don't know, part is just
kind of cringey to me.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And you didn't beat Oregon, would you feel the same way.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, Well, it's just how he is when they were
going through this game with him twice in one season.
That hasn't happened and it's not going to Uh, I'm
not going to make that bold prediction today, but no,
it's the when the game was still a game, so
basically for the first quarter, Yeah, when they were kind
of doing some stuff and all of a sudden they
(26:03):
panned to him and he's got this weird look on
his face.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
It's like, dude, what are you like?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
You know, there's cameras on you, and it's it's almost
like when John Gruden would be making that chucky face. Yeah,
it's like, stop, but that's a face the facial expression
does in your face.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
He does that when you have hand him breakfast cereal.
I don't think so. I think there's part of it
that there's a show now it works. He's got a program.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Like you said, that's one of the what was historically
one of the worst, and right now they are, without
a doubt, the best team in college football now. Somebody's
got to hopefully reverse that trend next week. But that
doesn't look like it's very easy to do.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Urban Meyer said, it's the greatest coaching job in the
history of sports.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Urban Meyer.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I know he fell on his face in Jacksonville. I
realize that, but that's that guy's in the conversation for.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Greatest college football coach of all.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Time, and he's like, not even He's dismissing himself entirely
from his own sport and then taking it even further.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think there might be I mean, he's still got
more proving to do. You don't get that title in
just two years. But I mean, it is just it's unreal.
It's just unreal.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And so I know they talk about it a lot.
I don't think you can talk about it enough. It
is one of the great stories of in my lifetime
what Indiana has done to turn things around. The other
thing I think I do want to just repeat from
our six o'clock hour is I don't care that there
are blowouts in the first round of the college football
(27:37):
playoff or the second I don't care if there's blowouts
in the next round of the playoffs. If Indiana wins
each of the next two games by fifty, then we
will know, by God, that's the best team in college
football and they deserve to win a national championship. That's
what this college football playoff format, this is what we've
been waiting for, at least I've been waiting for my
entire life.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
To prove it on the field. And what you saw
over the.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Past forty eight hours, Miami, who would never have had
a shot to prove it on the field, proved, my
goodness is that a defense and they Ohio State was
not the better football team. And so we just didn't decide.
We just didn't declare because a committee said it or
some people voted for it, that Ohio State gets ushered
(28:22):
to the front of the line. They had to face
a really good team who might be better than them,
but probably not, and it turns out they were. I
love that result, even though I had Ohio State winning
at all and I'm gonna lose green jacket. I love
that result for college football and for the playoff. And
I realized there were two blowouts yesterday, but in the
(28:44):
old format, Texas Tech would have been in the final
four and Oregon wouldn't even have made it to the turn. Now,
now now we know what a mistake that would have
been had we done it that way. And so that's
what we want a college football Playoff four is to
actually take this subjective process, and there's some subjectivity that's
(29:09):
still involved in it, and figure out a playoff format
where we can decide who's the better team on the
football field and not with a committee.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Or a vote.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
And so I don't mind that there were blowouts yesterday
because now I feel very good about Oregon being in
the Final four.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
And knowing that they are worthy of that.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Had you just declared Oregon gets to get in over
Texas Tech because they're from a bigger conference, I'd had
a huge problem with it. But now I feel perfectly
awesome with Oregon being in there over Texas Tech because
they're clearly the better team.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And I think you can say that across the board. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Well, I mean the opportunity is what basically this creates, right,
It creates it for everybody in college football, including some
of the small guys.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I think that there's room for some tweaks to make
sure that you still are getting some of the teams
that may or may not have been able to do
some damage in this tournament format that are left on
the outside. You know the fact that there was all
the stuff about Miami and Notre Dame. Notre Dame was
playing really good football. Wouldn't it have been fun to
see what they would have done against somebody in this tournament.
(30:24):
It would have been fun. Yes, So there's room for tweaks.
There's room for whatever you have to do expansion wise
or however you figure out how to do it. But yes,
the idea that you flat out now have to go
earn it, Yes, you have to go earn it. If
I you know, I'm glad that Indiana did advance, so
we didn't have two years in a row with the
teams that had to buy and had that time off
(30:47):
all failed in the first their first game of the
College FOOTBA playoffs. I'm glad that they showed up and
didn't look like they were rusty at all. And yet
the other ones, Oh, Miss Georgia, that game was a
barn burner, and you know, two conference foes going at
it and figuring out who's better at the end of
that day. You're right, Oregon being able to have an opportunity,
(31:07):
whereas with the old format they would not have. And
and same for Miami to be able to go out
there and go up against Ohio State where most people
weren't giving them much of a chance, and they said,
we believe and they wouldn't absolutely put it on Ohio
State and kind of snipered that from them early and
then held on it just is the way it's supposed
to be done. You're supposed to And like I said,
(31:28):
doesn't mean it's perfect yet, but it's closer now than
it's ever been before.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yes, for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And yeah, they made adjustments after last year and learned
from it. We're in the infancy two year old. This
is a two year old child here.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah. Two year olds don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Two year olds aren't even sure if they should grab
their pants or not.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
No, yeah, that's something they do.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, so so, yeah, they grapped their pants on a
couple of things. Time to change out the diaper patcham
how not to you don't throw it away?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, exactly. So I'm thoroughly pleased with.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The two years of I don't care about the blowouts
because we are actually getting results.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
We're deciding this thing on the field for the first
time ever, and I love it. All right.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
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Speaker 2 (32:46):
All Right, nine o'clock hour comes your way here on
a football Friday, and Reshears is fired up for it.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Hey, that guy a cup of coffee full of joy?
Yeah he is his face dimple face, Yeah, always full
of joy. Happy New Year, Andres, Happy new to you
guys too. This is my favorite day hanging out with
you in twenty twenty six. Greg. It can only go
downhill from here, I guess probably, but I'm just trying
to stay positive here you.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Melan will join us at nine o'clock with x AS
and o's Mike Holmgeran in nine thirty as we get
you ready for Seahawks forty nine. Ers Man, going back
to Monday and Tuesday. Man, We've had a lot of
different ways to discuss this thing, breaking it down. We
got to jump on it all the way back to
Monday Morning Quarterback. I think we spent half the show
(33:35):
recapping Carolina and then the other half of that Monday
show getting you ready for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Everything's on the line, and certainly we've covered a lot
of different angles on this program. But an interesting one
brought up by Greg Bell. He's really thinks Nick emon Worri,
it's gonna be like the difference in this game. And
when you think back, he got injured in that first game,
and it was very interesting to see how he was
(34:03):
being I mean, we just got a little taste of
it because it happened so early in the game. But
I mean you got an indication in those first few
plays of the year that this is somebody that was
going to be, you know, essential and having to defend
an offense that had Christian McCaffrey in it and might
be able to cover you know, a Kittle or a
(34:24):
Tungis who ended up burning us, and yes I call
him Tungis ended up burning us at the end of
that game on a terrible defensive play by Reek Woolan.
And that contest to use him in blitz packages because
I keep hearing Mike McDonald's saving stuff for the.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Maybe there's stuff he's gonna do with nick emon War
that we haven't seen thus far. It's just been a
runaway success rookie year for this young man. I can't
wait to see what he becomes over the course of
the next few years. But you better believe, Bucky that
there's a major difference with this defense taking on the
forty nine ers and all of their different interesting parts
(35:05):
they have on the offensive side of the ball. I
feel a lot better having him against the forty nine
ers than not.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Having him, Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I mean, I think you know your number one thing
is Christian McCaffrey, and figure out how you contain that.
He's gonna get his to some degree, But how do
you contain it. That's a full on, entire unit project,
you know what I mean. You've got Ernest Jones, You're
gonna have to be in that whole waiting for him.
But the defensive lines and have show up guys, gonna
have set edges. You're gonna have to have your other
(35:35):
linebackers covering him from time to time out in the
flat and when he comes out in patterns. So that's
its own issue. But outside of that, it's George Kittle
and Tundlas. You have to make sure that those guys
don't end up hurting you. I think em and Worry
is that little bit of an X factor. Now, it's
not like you're just going to line him up and
say you follow George Kittle everywhere. You're going to send
(35:56):
him in to stop the run and get after the passer.
But at times he's going to be a guy that
most certainly creates what is supposed to be a mismatch.
You're supposed to have tight ends that they want to
be faster than linebackers and bigger or bigger than linebackers,
and fast enough that they can they can create some distance.
George Kittle's not really all that fast. He just is
(36:18):
very creative. Well, one thing that you can do if
a guy is like that is hey stick with him
and then outmatch him physically. Just be more athletic than
he is. And I think that uh Emon Worry is
probably more athletic than just about everybody on the field.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah, and yet I think that it's the thing I'm
more interested about is how he factors into defending McCaffrey.
And even even with that, he's faster and more athletic
than McCaffrey, and he's bigger.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know, it might not be stronger.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Man.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
McCaffrey's pretty uh you know, loaded up there. Yeah, but uh,
I'm curious to see if. I mean, the moment Mike
McDonald was hired, there was this immediate thought about the
chess matches between him and Sean McVay going forward for
years to come. The moment we started thinking about the
(37:15):
versatility of this freakish athlete and emon worry, when do
you start applying it to the teams you have to face.
I mean, very few teams have an answer for Christian McCaffrey.
That's very clear in the National Football League. I'd like
to find out Saturday night that we have maybe a
recipe for shutting him down that nobody else has. And
(37:37):
that's my sick and number three on him wherever he goes.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, I mean, it can't hurt. I mean, I think
it only made it like five plays into it before
he got hurt. And he had that one play was
a tackle in the backfield, right, And so yeah, I
mean I think you're feeling a whole heck of a
lot better. I do remember going into that game us
talking about training camp, talking about Emon Worry, him being
the Taka camp and all that stuff, and I thought
to mysel, I wonder if a guy like Kyle Shanahan
(38:03):
will recognize things that he sees in the first or
second half, first or second quarter and then use his
youth or exuberance against him to some agree, well, we
still haven't seen that play out because it only lasted
for five plays. I think that Eve and Worry might
be better between the years than most people are in
their first year. Hence the reason Mike McDonald, the defensive
(38:25):
guru that he is, is like, how about you just
play seven different positions? Well, that's a lot to think about.
It's a lot to be able to absorb and know
what your responsibility is. But apparently he's picking it up.
It's going to be a very intriguing part of the game.
Whether you can shut Christian McCaffrey down. I wouldn't go
that far, but contain him and make them one dimensional
(38:45):
with and with George Kittle and whoever else. Juwan Jennings
is their leading receiver, not too terribly worried about that.
With the defensive backs that we.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Have all right coming up next, you mellon x's and
oh's got to be applied to this game.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
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The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.