Oh hello 2026! We are back and all fans of #1 seeds, how about that!?!? The Seahawks grabbed the NFC West Division title and the #1 seed in the NFC after a defensively dominant win in San Francisco. The run-game got going and Sam Darnold did enough to move the offense down the field in the 13-3 win as the defense absolutely shut the 49ers down. ;#0- Grab your Cold turkey Sandwich, let’s check the board of scores! Last night’s battle for the AFC North was one of the more exciting games of the year, but there was a lot on the line in the final week of the season. And now, it’s Playoff time! :45- Coach Bucky is here and ready to go! - How does Coach Bucky feel about getting back to a 5-day work week? - The playoff picture is set- who does Coach Bucky think the Seahawks want to avoid in the NFC? - Who does Coach Bucky want his Bronco to avoid in the AFC?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Morning class pleads and gentlemen who.
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Speaker 3 (01:14):
Here we are on a Monday.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Back to a full week, regular work week here on
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Speaker 3 (01:23):
Like so many of you out there driving around or.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Just listening because you cann't wait to listen to us
here at six p' oh one on a Monday morning, Yes,
we get back to the daily grind, the ritual and
the routine, and I kind of am excited to be
here to do that and so welcome in Happy twenty
twenty six to all of you. And man, there are
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a lot of reasons to celebrate. Ashley Ryan's here to
do it, Bucky Jacobson's here to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
My name is Chuck Powell. I'm here to do it
as well.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
For the next four hours, we got a pack Monday
show for you where we're gonna talk all lot of
football today, Seattle Seahawks football. There's not anybody on this
show that their their team that they root for isn't a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Number one seed. It has a buye in the first round.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah yeah, we all of us get next weekend advance.
Everybody here were advance the Yeah yeah, you guys had
to earn it. You didn't play backups. But whatever it is,
what it is, We'll all take number one.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Nothing but number ones.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
They don't support anybody but number ones on this show's
right that much. I'm not gonna clarify that any further.
I'm just gonna tell you this group follows one seed.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's right. Anything other than that and you're just a loser.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh, your team's a four seeds, two seed, first loser.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There might be some radio shows out there that have
to root for a two seed losers.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Oh yeah, but not this show, not in this town.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Not right now. The Seahawks are going to be the
number one seed in so or the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
As we get things started here postseason. We now go
into the post season officially, as the regular season came
to a close last night with one of the best
fourth quarters you'll ever see in football history. We'll talk
more about that with a cold turkey sandwich, but we
of course begin with the Seahawks getting done what they
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needed to get done. Saturday night they roll into San Francisco.
I mean, this was a matchup where at first people
saw how aesthetically pleasing the forty nine Ers looked and
narrowly defeating the Bears the previous week, where the Seahawks
looked a little clunky offensively, and so initially the reaction was, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The forty nine ers and the way they're playing right now.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And then all of a sudden, over the course of
seven days, the football experts were like, I don't care
how many points they put up against the Chicago Bears
that defense is for real in Seattle, and it went
for four and a half point favorite. It opened San
Francisco to By the time kickoff occurred, the Seahawks were
a two and a half point road favorite. The points
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spread swung seven points because the wise guy money came
in as the week went along. They knew Vegas knew,
and they're really I mean, I realized the game was close,
and there was a moment where San Francisco the McCaffrey
interception that deflected off of his hands. But that would
have been rather unfortunate if San Francisco would have found
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their way to win that game last night or excuse me,
Saturday night, because they got dominated from beginning to end.
That was a dominant performance by the Seahawks. The only
thing that kept it from being a blowout is that
the Seahawks did not execute offensively when it came time
to scoring points. But in terms of physicality, in terms
of winning the line of scrimmage, they were better offensively,
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They were better defensively. They weren't as good on special
teams this time around. I don't know what happened, but
we can talk about that later. They actually ran the
football and kind of established that you're not going to
beat us this way, as both Charbonnet and ken Walker
had over seventy yards rushing in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So I mean in terms of I mean you kind
of joked about it a little bit. We got to
play backups in Denver.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You did earn it.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If you are a Seahawks team, you had to go
all the way to the end. Fourteen and three with
a two point cushion, a two game win cushion over
San Francisco and Los Angeles kind of looks on paper
now like he ran away with things, but you had
to take it all the way to the bitter end,
and boy, did you just absolutely earn it on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Highly impressive from the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, well, I mean the defense, We've been watching it
all year and it doesn't seem like they've even crescendoed.
I mean like it reached the mountaintop. They're still kind
of growing when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, the scorer kind of might lead you down the
path of man to be that dog minute and yet
still have it be kind of close for the majority
of the game. Was it's something that you I'm sure
that they're going to be talking about this week and
leading up to their first game when they they do
have to play, of like, we got to clean some
of that stuff up because it was they would just
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drive the ball. I mean, the run game looked better
than it has looked and some year to some degree.
I mean maybe the Niners, all of their injuries and
the things that have, you know, the people that they're missing,
maybe that had something to do with it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But who cares.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You're going out there and you're this is still a
team that is twelve and five. I mean, it was
twelve and four coming into the game. It's not like
it's it was a pushover whether you're not they have
the injuries or not. I think that that, yeah, you
want to clean some stuff up. You want to if
you get down there, you want to end up putting
up more points because their offense played better than thirteen points. Yes,
and but the defense, I mean did it matter. Did
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you need more than four points? I think four points
would have got it done.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yea would have done it been quite the game.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I would love.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That would have been in all some way to win
the division.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, well it would have been a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I think then we would be even a little bit
more critical of how the heck do you not score
any points if you only got two safeties offensively? Because
they did they looked. I mean, Donald was efficient. But
not all games are the same. I mean, thirteen to
three is not the same as just a thirteen to
three where you don't do anything, but you have, you know,
two long field goals and some you know, punt return
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for a touchdown where you didn't do anything offensively. Sam
Darnald was efficient, the run game was spectacular, and the
defense just said, we're not going to give them anything.
I mean not anything. We're not going to give them.
I mean, every single blade of grass was fought for
and they took it from them. They said, Nope, all
that matters is that we get to win. Whether or
not we score thirteen or thirty three, it doesn't matter.
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Just get the win. And they went out there and
absolutely dominated them.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
It's interesting too, though, because in a thirteen to three game,
ordinarily you'd be stressing out, like, oh god, because if
you know, at any moment, we can make a mistake
and they're right back in this game.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
But you did not.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Get the impression that that defense was going to make
a mistake on Saturday night, like the thirteen to three
was not nearly as stressful as ordinarily I think it
would have.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, I think that's absolutely right now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
There was that moment, the interception that bounced off McCaffrey's hands,
where there was certainly he had to give rise to
the thought of are you serious, Are you really gonna
let them have one touchdown? Drive this entire game and
make the close of this game excruciating? Because it certainly
didn't feel that way throughout the contest. But once Drake
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Thomas got that interception, I might have even written that
down game. I think I wrote game over right at
that moment in the contest. But defensively, I mean considering
how well San Francisco looked like they were playing on
the offensive side of the ball. I mean, Christian McCaffrey
had twenty three yards rushing. It was like he was
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running and putting, like every time he got the ball
it was just a wall there to greet him. And
I'm not sure I Brock Purty threw five passes where
he wasn't harassed in the game, and I thought he
got murdered on the last.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Play of the game. I might like it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh that I mean, I actually was just like, oh gosh,
I was worried. I was worried for the opposing quarterback
that he wasn't going to get up from it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And he did, Thank goodness. He just kind of got,
you know, saying.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Are two different directions.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, he kind of.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Got lawn chaired in the middle of the field and
he was fine. And I'm glad that he is fine.
But man, you know, a guy that had been playing untouched,
unscathed the last couple of weeks. I think he was
responsible for ten touchdowns the previous two weeks, and once
again one against a playoff caliber team and the Bears,
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for goodness sake, for Seattle to dominate defensively that much
shows you how phenomenal that Mike McDonald is and how
great a head coach that John Schneider picked. And I'll
tell you a couple of years ago, this organization was
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admitted a crossroads, and I don't think it was a
slam dunk decision to get rid of Pete Carroll. I
understood why they did. I was surprised, though I was surprised.
I thought Pete Carroll had earned you have to bottom out,
you got to have like a four and thirteen season,
five and twelve season if you're going to get rid
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of Pete Carroll, considering everything he'd accomplished here in Seattle.
But certainly the Seahawks were stuck in this almost Pittsburgh
Steelers mode of just kind of they're not bad, but
we're not getting any.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Closer to great here in the last few years.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And so for John Schneider to kind of make that
decision in twenty twenty four and then to just absolutely
pick a gym from that head coaching cycle to get
Mike McDonald at that point, and then ever since that time,
ever since Mike McDonald started letting John know the type
of player that he needed, has John Schneider missed anything.
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I mean like it that I mean it has just
been a John Schneider masterpiece.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
In twenty twenty five, the.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Quarterback decisions that he had to make, because again same situation,
Geno wasn't bad, but getting an upgrade at quarterbacks not
the easiest thing to do when you're not picking at
the top of the draft. Ever, and so for him
to not just make the not just find a trade partner,
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but then have the counter move of getting Sam Darnold
in free agency and for that tool worked out as
well as it has, plus DeMarcus Lawrence plus all of
the draft picks that he's nailed the last three years.
I mean, this organization has just had a phenomenal year.
The poor Mariners had their best year in franchise history,
and hear the Seahawks the same year, maybe putting together
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their masterpiece season. Now they still have the postseason to go,
but this was a masterpiece by John Schneider to put
this team together with this head coach who got this
kind of buy in from beginning of last season until now,
and for them to go from a little north of
mediocrity to statistically the best team in franchise history. I mean,
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they are statistically the best team in franchise history, most
wins in a season in franchise history, and to go
into the playoffs as the one seed and I think
the undisputed favorite to win the Super Bowl right now,
I mean, in terms of the Vegas odds, just remarkable.
What a phenomenal twenty twenty five for the Seahawks organization.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, I mean I think a lot of times when
you I'm not one and I don't think any of
us here on our show are one that are in
a hurry to lop off heads and fire people when
they're not doing very well. And yet I think there's
a lot of times that what you've done in the
past gives you credibility, and understandably so, and yet that'll
go too far. Sometimes the powers that be will just
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stick with its status quo because well, he you know,
we will just win our super Bowl and you know,
really could have been two and and and yet there
comes a point in time where you just have to say,
are we okay with middling and mediocre?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are we okay with it?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And a lot of people stick with it simply because
it's like, well, do we know the grass is greener
on the other side of the fence. Well, what John
Schneider said was, I don't care. Well, I do care,
but I don't know if the grass is going to
be greener. But I can't find out unless I jump
across the fence. And he basically, yeah, I got rid
of one of the you know, definitely the most decorated
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coach in Seahawk's history. I mean, the only guy that
won a Super Bowl here and Pete carrolln said, I
need some new blood. I need something new, I need
a fresh voice. I need I need to probably go
with a new version of what is the next best defense?
What is the defense that can stop the Sean mcvays
and and the Kyle Shanahans. And we just basically watched
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right down the stretch of this thing when when the
division was up up for grabs with the Rams and
the Niners. The coaching part of this thing I saw
before the game started. Did you guys see It was
on the telecast and all of a sudden, they're getting
ready to kick off, and you just saw this smile
from Mike McDonald. I don't know if you guys caught
that that little moment. It was almost like he knew,
like we're here, this is us, We're gonna take this.
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It was just like this, a very confident smile. And
I don't know if he was looking across looking at
Kyle Shanahan, but it just felt to me like I'm
the one that's I'm taking over this thing. I'm taking
over the division, and they went out there and did
exactly that.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I did catch that moment, and the only reason I
remember it is because my two girlfriends that were at
our house were going on about how hot Kyle Shanahan was,
and then they showed Mike McDonald and they're.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Like, whooh, but our coach is pretty hot too, And
so that's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
The only think of the same thing.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And that's the only.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Reason it sticks in my mind because I was like, gosh,
you didn't catch that smile. Note wait, I remember that
part of the conversation. All the husbands and I were like, Okay,
we can be done talking about how hot the coaches
aren't good.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, that's all. I couldn't get over it either.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, I know, I know you were having the same thoughts.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Hot, Shane Sdyke, And you didn't get knocked out of
the playoffs because you're.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Ugly, Shane.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You know it's because you're bad.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Right right, not as attractive as apparently Kyle Shanahan and
my girlfriend night.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
All right, Well, the Seahawks don't have to play this week,
and we get to watch football just with joy on Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. We'll actually introduce a little competition as
well to the festivities this weekend.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But today today is.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
About setting you all up for where we sit right
now in the National Football League season. What an exciting
time of the sports year. So let's find out what
is on tap for the rest of the show today.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
All right, So Seahawks went thirteen to three against the
forty nine Ers Saturday night to win the division, take
the buye and get the home field advantage throughout the
NFC playoffs, and of course the buys more valuable than
ever because you're the only team that gets it. So
a lot of people, i mean, Kyle Shanahan said going
into the game they were treating like a playoff game.
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This is as important as a playoff game to try
to get the difference between a one seed and a
five seed or possibly a six seed in San Francisco's case,
which is what they ended up with. So we'll set
that scene for you in a moment. But Greg Bell,
I'll let you know we'll be joining us today at
seven oh five, so we'll recap the victory and also
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Monday morning quarterback today, so Hugh Millan will be with
us at eight o'clock till ten o'clock. Mike Holmgren will
be with us from nine o'clock until ten o'clock. So
the NFL Wild Card schedule is set, including times and
dates for which the teams will play. Saturday at one
thirty is when the postseason gets underway. Did I mention
the Seahawks don't have to play this week? Carolina will
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host the Los Angeles Rams starting at one thirty, So
that's the four And I had an interesting conversation with
my sushi guy and we're trying to like figure out
like the best path for the Seahawks, and he was
actually kind of hoping to avoid both the Rams and
the forty nine ers in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And you got to remember that they do reshuffle.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
They recede after the first round, so there is a
way that you could avoid both of them, but it
requires Green Bay to beat the Bears. So if the
Green Bay beats the Bears, you face the Packers. Seahawks
face face the Packers in round number two, and then
whatever else happens, they would have to square off against
one another. So not only I mean it sounds like
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we're wanting our cake and eat it too. Not only
do we have the buye in the one seed in
the home field, and bad and and everything else. Now,
I got my sushi guy wanting us to face the
worst team in the NFC playoffs in round number two.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So but there is a way, there is a way
that you.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Don't face the Rams Panthers winner and round number two
because they receive Green Bay will play at Chicago at
five o'clock on Saturday night. The Sunday lineup is Buffalo
at Jacksonville, which I think is the best game of
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I think that's so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Then you got San Francisco at Philadelphia, as Nick Sirianni
decided it wasn't worth getting the two seed yesterday, which
we can talk about a little bit later on in
the show, so he didn't play a starters yesterday. And
the Chargers will be at New England to take on
the Patriots as well. That will be the seven in
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the AFC versus the number two Denver getting the number
one seed. And then Monday night, Yes, there will be
a Monday night playoff game this week, Houston at Pittsburgh.
As the Steelers did take the North last night. If
you did not stay up to watch it or got distracted,
you missed.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Like football history. That was unbelievable. That fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
We'll cover all that with cold Turkey Sandwich coming up
here at six point thirty a board of scores. It
is Black Monday. We've already have some victims. We know
that Raheem Morris and Terry Fontineau are out as head
coach in GM and Atlanta and the Falcons have already
announced their replacements in terms of the front office. They
have not announced their head coach, but Matt Ryan is
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going to have a position in the front office with
the Atlanta Falcons. And they've also gotten rid of their
president as well, Rich McKay. They've reassigned him somewhere else
within the organization. Kevin Stefanski rumors started yesterday that he
wasn't going to keep his job. These rumors are usually
true when you start hearing him this time of the year.
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So Kevin Stefanski is out as of this morning as
head coach of the Cleveland Browns, despite winning two Coach
of the Year honors as a member of the Cleveland Browns.
He is going to be a hot candidate for some
of these other vacancies this offseason, and it hasn't been
announced officially yet, but the expectation is that Pete Carroll
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will also be let go by the Las Vegas Raiders
after just one year on the job and finishing with
the worst record in the National Football League. The draft
order is set. The Raiders will have the number one
selection in the draft. We'll go over the rest of
the top ten in cold Turkey sandwich here at the
bottom of the hour. College Football Playoff the final four
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will be held Thursday and Friday of this week, and
so college football resumes with its three most important games
starting on Thursday. And of course, the transfer portal opened
as well since last week opened on the second, and
we had our most significant signing as Brandon Soresby, the
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star quarterback at Cincinnati, was courted by several premier programs.
There were a couple of rumors that had him locked
in somewhere else over the weekend, but it is now official.
He's going to Texas Tech. So if you were watching
the Red Raiders facing the Ducks, and you were rooting
for the Red Raiders like Ashley and I were, then
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you might have been saying, well, if they had a quarterback,
they could beat this team. That quarterback was terrible against Oregon,
and Oregon made him that way. But the Red Raiders
obviously saw the same thing, and they went out and
got the best quarterback in the transfer portal, at least
on paper. Brandon Soarsby College basketball UDB lost to Indiana,
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but it was kind of fun to watch them play
at Indiana's Assembly Hall. Ninety to eighty was the final
score last night. And the Kraken. We'll be at Calgary
tonight at six point thirty taking on the Flames. All right,
A lot to do today coming up next though, a
board of scores. That's right, we'll eat, will feast on
a cold turkey sandwich. On Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
(21:50):
ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Tyler loop Made is only trot tonight from forty He
is thirty of thirty three on the season. He has
not missed brook the inside of the yards. This will
be a forty four yard attempt. It will come from
the middle of the field. And here's the snap, the spot,
the kick is on the way.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It is no god, they missed it.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
It's why to the right, and the Pittsburgh Steelers had
won the division.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The Steelers are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Tyler Luke missed it?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Why right?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And the Steelers had.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Won the game twenty six to twenty four.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Pittsburgh winsd they AFC North. Wow, that was a game.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I almost didn't even want to just play that highlight
because there was so many other good ones, especially in
even the last three minutes of the game.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Oh, Aaron Rodgers, MA, it's beautiful throws last night, great
concept designs to get Zay Flowers open down field. Lamar
Jackson actually reminded us that he's Lamar Jackson a couple
of times last night. Back in forth fourth quarter, one
of the great fourth quarters, considering what was at stake,
you're ever gonna see between two of the great rivals
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in all of sports. And it ends up Pittsburgh winning
by a final score of twenty six to twenty four
as Tyler Loop misses a game winning forty four yard
field goal attempt for the win. I mean, it was
a big storyline in the offseason, you know. The Justin
Tucker seemed like a pretty obvious decision. He was coming
off a bad year, had a terrible off field story
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attached to him, and so they decide it's time to leave.
And man, even when you try to do the right thing,
you try to take the moral high ground. What happens
you lose your season because your rookie kicker can't handle
the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I mean it wasn't even close. He missed that thing
by a mile.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, and yet I mean he's was pretty good for them, yeah,
most of the year. I mean if there was anything,
I mean, you can look at the ravens now sitting
outside of the playoffs, and there's nobody wh would say
up until that kick that it's because you have a
bad kicker. I mean, he's great all year long. And
and that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Men.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I mean you kind of just figure, Okay, he's gonna make.
He's gonna make. Most of these kickers are going to
make the ones that are within their range more often
than not. But with all the marbles on the table
and you have, you have to do it. It's either you
make it and you advance, and if you don't, your
season's over. To miss that one. I would hate to
be like his parents more than even him.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I think, well, that's the one thing I think now, Yeah,
when I do watch that stuff now, I think, oh
my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
That poor kid, like yeah, and like a parent, like oh,
I feel so bad. For him that. I mean, he
just put his hands to his face.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And you could tell he was already like crying. I
just felt so bad for him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The Ravens, really, I mean, you don't have anybody to
blame but yourself as a team. You did not play
very well this year and you finish eight nine, So
it's not like you were some you know, spectacular thing
that just got edged at the last moment because your
kicker didn't come through. So the Ravens are out, the
Steelers are in with a twenty six to twenty four victory.
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The highlight provided there by Westwood One Ryan Radkey on
the call. Let's get to the rest of the board
of scores here on cold turkey sandwich, Tampa Bay, going
back to Saturday afternoon, in a driving rain, defeated the
Carolina Panthers sixteen to fourteen. Now, the NFL had planned
for this game to be a lot more meaningful than
it actually turned out to be. Because Atlanta defeated the
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Rams last week after the NFL had already said its
schedule for the weekend, the Falcons opened up an avenue
where Carolina, even with a loss, gets into the playoffs.
There ended up being a three way tie, the tiebreaker
would fall to Carolina. A two way tie and it
would have fallen to Tampa Bay. Atlanta had to then
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lose to New Orleans on Sunday in order for the
Buccaneers to make it in to the postseason by winning
the division with an eight to nine record, Atlanta defeated
the New Orleans Saints nineteen to seventeen, and so it's
Carolina that facts into the playoffs as the South Division
champions in the NFC. And I know we saw the
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sad Baker Mayfield face on the couch. That's got to
be disappointing. But again, like Baltimore, you have nobody to
blame it yourself. You had a huge lead in that
division and you couldn't win a game in the second
half of the season until the last game of the year.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yeah, I mean, if you end up not getting in
and you're eight and nine, I don't know if you
can really blame anybody. Now, somebody had to get in
from that division, the Carolina Panthers did. I kind of
feel like it's a bullet dodged for the NFC, just
simply because the way Baker Mayfield played in that game,
where it was like, we got to win just to
give ourselves a chance. They looked a whole heck of
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a lot more like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that you
expected or that you saw in the first half of
the season, and instead Carolina's getting in there. Who knows
what you get with them, You know, if you you
end up playing a loss.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think they're getting a loss with them.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, I think the Carolina Panthers are probably a seed.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Minnesota Vikings ended up nine to eight on the year.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Somehow, they defeated the Packers yesterday sixteen to three. The
Packers set their starters, as coach l Floor decided it
is far more important not to lose another player to injury,
and so we're going to just accept our seven seed
fate and we're gonna go ahead and take this one
on the chin.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We don't care if we move up the rankings. So
they did end up with the seven seed.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Philadelphia made the same decision, and yet Philadelphia seem to
have a lot more to play for.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah, they set their starters and decided.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's more important, And Sirianni explained this afterwards, that we
don't lose a player to injury a valuable player to
injury than.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It is to get the two seed in the NFC.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Playoffs, And so they have just outright accepted the fact
that we are perfectly willing to go to Chicago in
round number two if that's what it comes to, rather
than risk losing a good player for the postseason. Now,
little criticism has been heaped on Nick Sirianni, but it
sounds like a lot of coaches felt that way heading
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into the last week of the regular season. Philadelphia does
lose to the Commanders twenty four to seventeen. Washington finishes
five to twelve, and we'll have the seventh pick in
the draft. The Chicago Bears played their guys and lost anyway,
They lost to the Detroit Lions, so the Lions ended
up sweeping them. This year, Ben Johnson gets the laugh
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over his former employer by winning the division and Detroit
not even making the playoffs. But he never did get
to defeat Dan Campbell head to head this year. Nineteen
to sixteen was the final score yesterday. The Bears will
get the number two seed in the playoffs. Jacksonville forty
one seven winners over the Tennessee Titans. This could have
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ended with any seed for Jacksonville but the four seed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They could have gotten the.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
One, two of three, five, six, seven, anything but the
four seed. Yesterday, they ended up on the number three seed,
winning forty one to seven over Tennessee. The Titans end
up with the number four pick in the draft. Houston
had started CJ Stroud. As soon as they saw Jacksonville
pulling away, they decided it's not worth risking anything the
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rest of the way, so they pulled their starters and
they still managed to beat the Indianapolis Colts thirty eight
to thirty, so the Texans get the five seed. They'll
face Pittsburgh on the road on Monday night. Houston finished
the season on a nine game winning streak, nine games
in a row. They won ten of their last eleven.
They finished with the number one defense statistically in the NFL.
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Not Mike McDonald and the Seahawks, not the Denver Broncos.
The Houston Texans finished with the number one defense in
the National Football League. Meanwhile, the other side of it,
Bucky the Indianapolis Colts lost seven straight to close out
the year, eight of their last nine.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They didn't even finish with a five hundred record.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Crazy considering how hot they were at the beginning of
the year. And yet I mean the injury to the quarterback,
and you know, Daniel Jones was playing well and then
he went down and they kind of went south. And
obviously we got to witness first hand here that you know,
Philip Rivers was not going to be able to get
the job done. But yeah, I think the Texans and Jacksonville,
both those teams are dangerous when when it comes right
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down to it, both of them.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Have good defenses and you never know.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
It kind of feels like both those quarterbacks would go
out there and whoop you as well.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I have no idea what's going to happen in the
AFC playoffs.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
None nofin So yeah, New England Patriots have the two seed.
They defeated Miami thirty eight to ten yesterday. They did
not get help from the Los Angeles Chargers in a
lot of different ways. Jim Harbaugh decided to rest a
lot of his starters, including Justin Herbert. Again, another coach
that decided, I don't want injuries telling the story, bigger
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story next week. So let's just we're in the playoffs.
We'll take our seventh seed and We'll be happy with that,
Denver and Sean Payton. They approached it like a playoff game,
very valuable obviously to get that one seed and play
and the home field advantage throughout the playoffs. So they
accomplished what they set out to accomplish. They won nineteen
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to three, the Broncos fourteen and three on this season.
And then you've got the part of cold turkey sandwich.
We'll call this.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
The you know, you know, this is the.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Salad and oh yeah, okay, the fresh veggies.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah, then the fresh vege that we're throwing on cold
turkey sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
The draft.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The New York Giants won yesterday. They had a chance
that the number one pick in the draft, but of
course had to start with them losing and then the
Raiders winning. Well, they went out and won their fourth
game of the year, So not only do they not
get the number one pick, they fell all the way
to number five with their thirty four to seventeen win
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over the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Now, the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
As good of a situation as Pete Carroll could have
expected under the circumstances that they still end up with
the number one pick, but he got a win to
close out the year over the Kansas City Chiefs. He's
probably gonna get fired today, and so at least Pete
Carroll got to walk off the field and which I'm
sure is going to be his last game as an NFL.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Head coach with a victory. Yeah, So I'm happy for
him for.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
You, Yeah, I mean, I only want good things for
Uncle Pete.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah. Kansas City finished six and eleven.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yeah, that was a surprise.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Travis Kelcey was asked about retirement. When he's gonna make
the decision, he goes, I have no idea. So he's
not any rush to do anything to satisfy the media,
nor should he be. The Arizona Cardinals are going to
have the number three pick in the draft. They lost
to the Rams yesterday thirty seven to twenty. The Rams
ended up with the five seed, which bumped the San
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Francisco forty nine ers down to the six seats. Stafford
four touchdown passes in the last game of the year
gave him forty six for the year. He definitely had
an MVP caliber season. The Jets will pick second in
the draft. They lost to the Buffalo Bills thirty five
to eight. The Bills did not risk Josh Allen yesterday
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and they still won by twenty seven points over the
New York Jets. They'll face Jacksonville this weekend, and then
finally record breaking day four. Miles Garrett. He looked like
he was gonna crush the single season sack record earlier
in the season.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He couldn't get one the last.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Couple of weeks, and he only got one yesterday, but
he only needed one his twenty third sack of the year.
It makes him the record setter for most sacks in
one season.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
He got one against Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
In a twenty to eighteen win over the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday,
So Miles Garrett has now the sack record for most
sacks and a single season with twenty three. Brown celebrated
that by firing their head coach this morning. And Kevin Stefanski,
So here is your draft order. It'll be Las Vegas one,
Jets two, Cardinals three, Titans four, Giants five, Cleveland six,
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Washington seven, New Orleans eight, Cincinnati nine, and Kansas City ten.
And here is your wild card slate for this weekend's playoffs.
The Rams at Carolina at one thirty on Saturday, Green
Bay at Chicago at five o'clock. Then on Sunday Buffalo
at Jacksonville ten am at one thirty, San Francisco at Philadelphia,
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and the Chargers will be at New England at five
o'clock Sunday night. Then on Monday, yes, there will be
a Monday playoff game this week Houston at Pittsburgh at
five fifteen.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It's all settled now. And now we get ready for
the postseason. And I don't remember who has the number.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
One seed in the NFC playoffs.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I forgot.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Oh, I know who, Ashley, It's.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
The Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Babe.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Wow, that seems like important. Maybe we should discuss that more.
Coach Bucky's gonna join us next Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM. We are back to a full work week,
back to the routine, back to the grind. I for one,
Coach Bucky kind of fired up for it, kind of
looking forward to getting back into the normal schedule here.
(35:23):
Would you advise me to feel that way? Or does
Coach Bucky coach and teach to his young people to
try to avoid work as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, yeah, I go that route.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
I mean no, as a coach, I would be like, yes,
it's right, get back into it, get those five days in,
you go work your little butt off and you get
good at it and you just keep going. And then
But as an older coach, now I'm like, no, I
really like the two days off, even if it's in
the middle of the week. Yeah, you know, I'd prefer
Monday and Friday off. You know, just have forty weekend everyone.
(35:56):
But I would not complain if the world just decided
everybody from now on gets Wednesday and Thursday off. All right,
just go Monday, Tuesday, bang out those two days real quick,
get a couple, get a reprieve, come back and finish
it up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Just get yourself ready for the weekend. I would be
okay with that.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
You're teaching efficiency, right, yeah hard.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
If I can get done five days worth of great
content or whatever in three days, then do that.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I needed to coach.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I coach Bucky when I was younger, because I'm sitting
here thinking, coming in on a Monday, and I'll just
to get back on track. We should do two a
day's two shows a day. They do one this morning
and then we come back later and do softy show.
Go ahead and do that. I'm just gonna go.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
I'm gonna probably I will participate from home with my
ears only.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
All right, heart, all right, Coach Bucky Well, The Seahawks
ended up with the number one seed in the NFC playoffs,
all the dust settled from the regular season, the schedules
all mapped out.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
So what's the team and the NFC to avoid right now?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I mean, we just faced the forty nine Ers, seem
to have a pretty easy time with them. Face the
Rams not long ago. They're not playing their best football
right now. Philadelphia is the defending champs. The Chicago Bears
could be dangerous. So as we get ready to start
the NFC playoffs, already accomplished the buy the one seed
and all of that stuff, but certainly you still got
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games to win. Who should the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Want to avoid?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
I mean, I would think the Rams kind of seems
like the team. I mean, the Bears, you don't know
for sure they are the number two seed, but they
don't feel like they're that scary necessarily.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Rams.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
You know, you ended up losing a game to them
early that you probably outplayed them, and then you won
a game that you got outplayed in and you kind
of you know, had some bounces and things go your
way for that comeback victory that propelled them right here
to the number one seed. I would think, you're that's
probably the team if there was one of them that
you don't want to face that you're thinking, and I
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wouldn't think anybody is like, oh, I don't want to
face anybody. I think that they are clear cut the
number one team in the NFC, and rightfully so. But yeah,
that's probably the team that'd be like. I don't know
if I necessarily would like that. I think if you
had your drugs at this point, I would want If
I'm a Seahawks fan, I would want the Bears to
win their game, the Eagles to win their game, and
then have the Panthers knock off the Rams and you
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get to play the Panthers in your first game to
send yourself to the NFC Championship.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
No, you would have to face San Francisco and.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And the Bears one.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Yeah, if they win as chalk, then I think that
would be the way you'd want it to go.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
But I don't think that. I don't think the Panthers
are going to beat the Rams.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah, I would like to also ride a unicorn over
a rainbow to a pot of gold.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Oh but if you can get that Panthers and in
your first game and a unicorn ride, yeah, that would
be I mean, think you're things are looking good around
here right now?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, maybe you get that all right.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
AFC playoffs, the Broncos are the one seed. Who's the
team that you most want to avoid in the AFC?
I would like to buy like three buys. Is there
any way that Broncos can get three buys with them? No,
that would be a lot cool because I have no idea,
to be honest. I mean, the Steelers would be the
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team I would say you'd want to face. That would
be the Panthers of the a f C. And yet
everybody else.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
The Texans are dangerous defensively, Jaguars just kind of have.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Something going on right now.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
The Bills have the best quarterback in the city in
the entire you know situation as far as who could
just go take the game from you, And yet the
Patriots and Chargers are both dangerous as well.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
So to me, bring on all comers.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
If the Broncos go out and play the way that
they're capable, they can beat any team.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
If they go out and play the way.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
That I've seen them at certain times, they could lose
any of these teams as well.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah. Is there snow in the forecast. That was just
way too pretty yesterday in Denver for this time of
the year. Yeah, snow.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I haven't lived for the forecast.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It look like palm springs yesterday.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Well, it's like that to have to have. It might
snow two feet one day and the next day it's seven.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
It's one of the sunniest spots in the CA.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, it's a wonderful place playoff time, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, No, we need winter weather in winter weather in Denver, Colorado,
for goodness sake.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
At least flurries flir and live, lovely little flurries.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
All right, Well, coming up next, we've got your headlines
for you. Greg Bell is going to join us here
at seven o five this morning. We'll get the latest
from our Seahawks insider. Oh, it's a fun time of year.
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Speaker 3 (01:23):
Like so many of you out there driving around or.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Just listening because you cann't wait to listen to us
here at six p' oh one on a Monday morning, Yes,
we get back to the daily grind, the ritual and
the routine, and I kind of am excited to be
here to do that and so welcome in Happy twenty
twenty six to all of you. And man, there are
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a lot of reasons to celebrate. Ashley Ryan's here to
do it, Bucky Jacobson's here to do it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
My name is Chuck Powell. I'm here to do it
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Speaker 4 (01:55):
For the next four hours, we got a pack Monday
show for you where we're gonna talk all lot of
football today, Seattle Seahawks football. There's not anybody on this
show that their their team that they root for isn't a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Number one seed. It has a buye in the first round.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah yeah, we all of us get next weekend advance.
Everybody here were advance the Yeah yeah, you guys had
to earn it. You didn't play backups. But whatever it is,
what it is, We'll all take number one.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Nothing but number ones.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
They don't support anybody but number ones on this show's
right that much. I'm not gonna clarify that any further.
I'm just gonna tell you this group follows one seed.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's right. Anything other than that and you're just a loser.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh, your team's a four seeds, two seed, first loser.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There might be some radio shows out there that have
to root for a two seed losers.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Oh yeah, but not this show, not in this town.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Not right now. The Seahawks are going to be the
number one seed in so or the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
As we get things started here postseason. We now go
into the post season officially, as the regular season came
to a close last night with one of the best
fourth quarters you'll ever see in football history. We'll talk
more about that with a cold turkey sandwich, but we
of course begin with the Seahawks getting done what they
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needed to get done. Saturday night they roll into San Francisco.
I mean, this was a matchup where at first people
saw how aesthetically pleasing the forty nine Ers looked and
narrowly defeating the Bears the previous week, where the Seahawks
looked a little clunky offensively, and so initially the reaction was, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
The forty nine ers and the way they're playing right now.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And then all of a sudden, over the course of
seven days, the football experts were like, I don't care
how many points they put up against the Chicago Bears
that defense is for real in Seattle, and it went
for four and a half point favorite. It opened San
Francisco to By the time kickoff occurred, the Seahawks were
a two and a half point road favorite. The points
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spread swung seven points because the wise guy money came
in as the week went along. They knew Vegas knew,
and they're really I mean, I realized the game was close,
and there was a moment where San Francisco the McCaffrey
interception that deflected off of his hands. But that would
have been rather unfortunate if San Francisco would have found
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their way to win that game last night or excuse me,
Saturday night, because they got dominated from beginning to end.
That was a dominant performance by the Seahawks. The only
thing that kept it from being a blowout is that
the Seahawks did not execute offensively when it came time
to scoring points. But in terms of physicality, in terms
of winning the line of scrimmage, they were better offensively,
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They were better defensively. They weren't as good on special
teams this time around. I don't know what happened, but
we can talk about that later. They actually ran the
football and kind of established that you're not going to
beat us this way, as both Charbonnet and ken Walker
had over seventy yards rushing in the game.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So I mean in terms of I mean you kind
of joked about it a little bit. We got to
play backups in Denver.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You did earn it.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
If you are a Seahawks team, you had to go
all the way to the end. Fourteen and three with
a two point cushion, a two game win cushion over
San Francisco and Los Angeles kind of looks on paper
now like he ran away with things, but you had
to take it all the way to the bitter end,
and boy, did you just absolutely earn it on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Highly impressive from the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, well, I mean the defense, We've been watching it
all year and it doesn't seem like they've even crescendoed.
I mean like it reached the mountaintop. They're still kind
of growing when it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah, the scorer kind of might lead you down the
path of man to be that dog minute and yet
still have it be kind of close for the majority
of the game. Was it's something that you I'm sure
that they're going to be talking about this week and
leading up to their first game when they they do
have to play, of like, we got to clean some
of that stuff up because it was they would just
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drive the ball. I mean, the run game looked better
than it has looked and some year to some degree.
I mean maybe the Niners, all of their injuries and
the things that have, you know, the people that they're missing,
maybe that had something to do with it.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
But who cares.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You're going out there and you're this is still a
team that is twelve and five. I mean, it was
twelve and four coming into the game. It's not like
it's it was a pushover whether you're not they have
the injuries or not. I think that that, yeah, you
want to clean some stuff up. You want to if
you get down there, you want to end up putting
up more points because their offense played better than thirteen points. Yes,
and but the defense, I mean did it matter. Did
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you need more than four points? I think four points
would have got it done.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yea would have done it been quite the game.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I would love.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That would have been in all some way to win
the division.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, well it would have been a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I think then we would be even a little bit
more critical of how the heck do you not score
any points if you only got two safeties offensively? Because
they did they looked. I mean, Donald was efficient. But
not all games are the same. I mean, thirteen to
three is not the same as just a thirteen to
three where you don't do anything, but you have, you know,
two long field goals and some you know, punt return
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for a touchdown where you didn't do anything offensively. Sam
Darnald was efficient, the run game was spectacular, and the
defense just said, we're not going to give them anything.
I mean not anything. We're not going to give them.
I mean, every single blade of grass was fought for
and they took it from them. They said, Nope, all
that matters is that we get to win. Whether or
not we score thirteen or thirty three, it doesn't matter.
(07:45):
Just get the win. And they went out there and
absolutely dominated them.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
It's interesting too, though, because in a thirteen to three game,
ordinarily you'd be stressing out, like, oh god, because if
you know, at any moment, we can make a mistake
and they're right back in this game.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
But you did not.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Get the impression that that defense was going to make
a mistake on Saturday night, like the thirteen to three
was not nearly as stressful as ordinarily I think it
would have.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, I think that's absolutely right now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
There was that moment, the interception that bounced off McCaffrey's hands,
where there was certainly he had to give rise to
the thought of are you serious, Are you really gonna
let them have one touchdown? Drive this entire game and
make the close of this game excruciating? Because it certainly
didn't feel that way throughout the contest. But once Drake
(08:30):
Thomas got that interception, I might have even written that
down game. I think I wrote game over right at
that moment in the contest. But defensively, I mean considering
how well San Francisco looked like they were playing on
the offensive side of the ball. I mean, Christian McCaffrey
had twenty three yards rushing. It was like he was
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running and putting, like every time he got the ball
it was just a wall there to greet him. And
I'm not sure I Brock Purty threw five passes where
he wasn't harassed in the game, and I thought he
got murdered on the last.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Play of the game. I might like it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh that I mean, I actually was just like, oh gosh,
I was worried. I was worried for the opposing quarterback
that he wasn't going to get up from it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And he did, Thank goodness. He just kind of got,
you know, saying.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Are two different directions.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, he kind of.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Got lawn chaired in the middle of the field and
he was fine. And I'm glad that he is fine.
But man, you know, a guy that had been playing untouched,
unscathed the last couple of weeks. I think he was
responsible for ten touchdowns the previous two weeks, and once
again one against a playoff caliber team and the Bears,
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for goodness sake, for Seattle to dominate defensively that much
shows you how phenomenal that Mike McDonald is and how
great a head coach that John Schneider picked. And I'll
tell you a couple of years ago, this organization was
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admitted a crossroads, and I don't think it was a
slam dunk decision to get rid of Pete Carroll. I
understood why they did. I was surprised, though I was surprised.
I thought Pete Carroll had earned you have to bottom out,
you got to have like a four and thirteen season,
five and twelve season if you're going to get rid
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of Pete Carroll, considering everything he'd accomplished here in Seattle.
But certainly the Seahawks were stuck in this almost Pittsburgh
Steelers mode of just kind of they're not bad, but
we're not getting any.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Closer to great here in the last few years.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And so for John Schneider to kind of make that
decision in twenty twenty four and then to just absolutely
pick a gym from that head coaching cycle to get
Mike McDonald at that point, and then ever since that time,
ever since Mike McDonald started letting John know the type
of player that he needed, has John Schneider missed anything.
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I mean like it that I mean it has just
been a John Schneider masterpiece.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
In twenty twenty five, the.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Quarterback decisions that he had to make, because again same situation,
Geno wasn't bad, but getting an upgrade at quarterbacks not
the easiest thing to do when you're not picking at
the top of the draft. Ever, and so for him
to not just make the not just find a trade partner,
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but then have the counter move of getting Sam Darnold
in free agency and for that tool worked out as
well as it has, plus DeMarcus Lawrence plus all of
the draft picks that he's nailed the last three years.
I mean, this organization has just had a phenomenal year.
The poor Mariners had their best year in franchise history,
and hear the Seahawks the same year, maybe putting together
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their masterpiece season. Now they still have the postseason to go,
but this was a masterpiece by John Schneider to put
this team together with this head coach who got this
kind of buy in from beginning of last season until now,
and for them to go from a little north of
mediocrity to statistically the best team in franchise history. I mean,
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they are statistically the best team in franchise history, most
wins in a season in franchise history, and to go
into the playoffs as the one seed and I think
the undisputed favorite to win the Super Bowl right now,
I mean, in terms of the Vegas odds, just remarkable.
What a phenomenal twenty twenty five for the Seahawks organization.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, I mean I think a lot of times when
you I'm not one and I don't think any of
us here on our show are one that are in
a hurry to lop off heads and fire people when
they're not doing very well. And yet I think there's
a lot of times that what you've done in the
past gives you credibility, and understandably so, and yet that'll
go too far. Sometimes the powers that be will just
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stick with its status quo because well, he you know,
we will just win our super Bowl and you know,
really could have been two and and and yet there
comes a point in time where you just have to say,
are we okay with middling and mediocre?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are we okay with it?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And a lot of people stick with it simply because
it's like, well, do we know the grass is greener
on the other side of the fence. Well, what John
Schneider said was, I don't care. Well, I do care,
but I don't know if the grass is going to
be greener. But I can't find out unless I jump
across the fence. And he basically, yeah, I got rid
of one of the you know, definitely the most decorated
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coach in Seahawk's history. I mean, the only guy that
won a Super Bowl here and Pete carrolln said, I
need some new blood. I need something new, I need
a fresh voice. I need I need to probably go
with a new version of what is the next best defense?
What is the defense that can stop the Sean mcvays
and and the Kyle Shanahans. And we just basically watched
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right down the stretch of this thing when when the
division was up up for grabs with the Rams and
the Niners. The coaching part of this thing I saw
before the game started. Did you guys see It was
on the telecast and all of a sudden, they're getting
ready to kick off, and you just saw this smile
from Mike McDonald. I don't know if you guys caught
that that little moment. It was almost like he knew,
like we're here, this is us, We're gonna take this.
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It was just like this, a very confident smile. And
I don't know if he was looking across looking at
Kyle Shanahan, but it just felt to me like I'm
the one that's I'm taking over this thing. I'm taking
over the division, and they went out there and did
exactly that.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I did catch that moment, and the only reason I
remember it is because my two girlfriends that were at
our house were going on about how hot Kyle Shanahan was,
and then they showed Mike McDonald and they're.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Like, whooh, but our coach is pretty hot too, And
so that's.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
The only think of the same thing.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
And that's the only.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Reason it sticks in my mind because I was like, gosh,
you didn't catch that smile. Note wait, I remember that
part of the conversation. All the husbands and I were like, Okay,
we can be done talking about how hot the coaches
aren't good.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, that's all. I couldn't get over it either.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, I know, I know you were having the same thoughts.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Hot, Shane Sdyke, And you didn't get knocked out of
the playoffs because you're.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Ugly, Shane.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You know it's because you're bad.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Right right, not as attractive as apparently Kyle Shanahan and
my girlfriend night.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
All right, Well, the Seahawks don't have to play this week,
and we get to watch football just with joy on Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. We'll actually introduce a little competition as
well to the festivities this weekend.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But today today is.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
About setting you all up for where we sit right
now in the National Football League season. What an exciting
time of the sports year. So let's find out what
is on tap for the rest of the show today.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What's on TEP?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
All right, So Seahawks went thirteen to three against the
forty nine Ers Saturday night to win the division, take
the buye and get the home field advantage throughout the
NFC playoffs, and of course the buys more valuable than
ever because you're the only team that gets it. So
a lot of people, i mean, Kyle Shanahan said going
into the game they were treating like a playoff game.
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This is as important as a playoff game to try
to get the difference between a one seed and a
five seed or possibly a six seed in San Francisco's case,
which is what they ended up with. So we'll set
that scene for you in a moment. But Greg Bell,
I'll let you know we'll be joining us today at
seven oh five, so we'll recap the victory and also
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Monday morning quarterback today, so Hugh Millan will be with
us at eight o'clock till ten o'clock. Mike Holmgren will
be with us from nine o'clock until ten o'clock. So
the NFL Wild Card schedule is set, including times and
dates for which the teams will play. Saturday at one
thirty is when the postseason gets underway. Did I mention
the Seahawks don't have to play this week? Carolina will
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host the Los Angeles Rams starting at one thirty, So
that's the four And I had an interesting conversation with
my sushi guy and we're trying to like figure out
like the best path for the Seahawks, and he was
actually kind of hoping to avoid both the Rams and
the forty nine ers in the postseason.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And you got to remember that they do reshuffle.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
They recede after the first round, so there is a
way that you could avoid both of them, but it
requires Green Bay to beat the Bears. So if the
Green Bay beats the Bears, you face the Packers. Seahawks
face face the Packers in round number two, and then
whatever else happens, they would have to square off against
one another. So not only I mean it sounds like
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we're wanting our cake and eat it too. Not only
do we have the buye in the one seed in
the home field, and bad and and everything else. Now,
I got my sushi guy wanting us to face the
worst team in the NFC playoffs in round number two.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
So but there is a way, there is a way
that you.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Don't face the Rams Panthers winner and round number two
because they receive Green Bay will play at Chicago at
five o'clock on Saturday night. The Sunday lineup is Buffalo
at Jacksonville, which I think is the best game of
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I think that's so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Then you got San Francisco at Philadelphia, as Nick Sirianni
decided it wasn't worth getting the two seed yesterday, which
we can talk about a little bit later on in
the show, so he didn't play a starters yesterday. And
the Chargers will be at New England to take on
the Patriots as well. That will be the seven in
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the AFC versus the number two Denver getting the number
one seed. And then Monday night, Yes, there will be
a Monday night playoff game this week, Houston at Pittsburgh.
As the Steelers did take the North last night. If
you did not stay up to watch it or got distracted,
you missed.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Like football history. That was unbelievable. That fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
We'll cover all that with cold Turkey Sandwich coming up
here at six point thirty a board of scores. It
is Black Monday. We've already have some victims. We know
that Raheem Morris and Terry Fontineau are out as head
coach in GM and Atlanta and the Falcons have already
announced their replacements in terms of the front office. They
have not announced their head coach, but Matt Ryan is
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going to have a position in the front office with
the Atlanta Falcons. And they've also gotten rid of their
president as well, Rich McKay. They've reassigned him somewhere else
within the organization. Kevin Stefanski rumors started yesterday that he
wasn't going to keep his job. These rumors are usually
true when you start hearing him this time of the year.
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So Kevin Stefanski is out as of this morning as
head coach of the Cleveland Browns, despite winning two Coach
of the Year honors as a member of the Cleveland Browns.
He is going to be a hot candidate for some
of these other vacancies this offseason, and it hasn't been
announced officially yet, but the expectation is that Pete Carroll
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will also be let go by the Las Vegas Raiders
after just one year on the job and finishing with
the worst record in the National Football League. The draft
order is set. The Raiders will have the number one
selection in the draft. We'll go over the rest of
the top ten in cold Turkey sandwich here at the
bottom of the hour. College Football Playoff the final four
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will be held Thursday and Friday of this week, and
so college football resumes with its three most important games
starting on Thursday. And of course, the transfer portal opened
as well since last week opened on the second, and
we had our most significant signing as Brandon Soresby, the
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star quarterback at Cincinnati, was courted by several premier programs.
There were a couple of rumors that had him locked
in somewhere else over the weekend, but it is now official.
He's going to Texas Tech. So if you were watching
the Red Raiders facing the Ducks, and you were rooting
for the Red Raiders like Ashley and I were, then
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you might have been saying, well, if they had a quarterback,
they could beat this team. That quarterback was terrible against Oregon,
and Oregon made him that way. But the Red Raiders
obviously saw the same thing, and they went out and
got the best quarterback in the transfer portal, at least
on paper. Brandon Soarsby College basketball UDB lost to Indiana,
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but it was kind of fun to watch them play
at Indiana's Assembly Hall. Ninety to eighty was the final
score last night. And the Kraken. We'll be at Calgary
tonight at six point thirty taking on the Flames. All right,
A lot to do today coming up next though, a
board of scores. That's right, we'll eat, will feast on
a cold turkey sandwich. On Chuck and Buck Sports Radio
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ninety three point three KJRFM.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Tyler loop Made is only trot tonight from forty He
is thirty of thirty three on the season. He has
not missed brook the inside of the yards. This will
be a forty four yard attempt. It will come from
the middle of the field. And here's the snap, the spot,
the kick is on the way.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It is no god, they missed it.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
It's why to the right, and the Pittsburgh Steelers had
won the division.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
The Steelers are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Tyler Luke missed it?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Why right?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
And the Steelers had.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Won the game twenty six to twenty four.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Pittsburgh winsd they AFC North. Wow, that was a game.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
I almost didn't even want to just play that highlight
because there was so many other good ones, especially in
even the last three minutes of the game.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Oh, Aaron Rodgers, MA, it's beautiful throws last night, great
concept designs to get Zay Flowers open down field. Lamar
Jackson actually reminded us that he's Lamar Jackson a couple
of times last night. Back in forth fourth quarter, one
of the great fourth quarters, considering what was at stake,
you're ever gonna see between two of the great rivals
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in all of sports. And it ends up Pittsburgh winning
by a final score of twenty six to twenty four
as Tyler Loop misses a game winning forty four yard
field goal attempt for the win. I mean, it was
a big storyline in the offseason, you know. The Justin
Tucker seemed like a pretty obvious decision. He was coming
off a bad year, had a terrible off field story
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attached to him, and so they decide it's time to leave.
And man, even when you try to do the right thing,
you try to take the moral high ground. What happens
you lose your season because your rookie kicker can't handle
the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I mean it wasn't even close. He missed that thing
by a mile.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Yeah, and yet I mean he's was pretty good for them, yeah,
most of the year. I mean if there was anything,
I mean, you can look at the ravens now sitting
outside of the playoffs, and there's nobody wh would say
up until that kick that it's because you have a
bad kicker. I mean, he's great all year long. And
and that's a tough one.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Men.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I mean you kind of just figure, Okay, he's gonna make.
He's gonna make. Most of these kickers are going to
make the ones that are within their range more often
than not. But with all the marbles on the table
and you have, you have to do it. It's either you
make it and you advance, and if you don't, your
season's over. To miss that one. I would hate to
be like his parents more than even him.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I think, well, that's the one thing I think now, Yeah,
when I do watch that stuff now, I think, oh
my gosh.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
That poor kid, like yeah, and like a parent, like oh,
I feel so bad. For him that. I mean, he
just put his hands to his face.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
And you could tell he was already like crying. I
just felt so bad for him.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The Ravens, really, I mean, you don't have anybody to
blame but yourself as a team. You did not play
very well this year and you finish eight nine, So
it's not like you were some you know, spectacular thing
that just got edged at the last moment because your
kicker didn't come through. So the Ravens are out, the
Steelers are in with a twenty six to twenty four victory.
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The highlight provided there by Westwood One Ryan Radkey on
the call. Let's get to the rest of the board
of scores here on cold turkey sandwich, Tampa Bay, going
back to Saturday afternoon, in a driving rain, defeated the
Carolina Panthers sixteen to fourteen. Now, the NFL had planned
for this game to be a lot more meaningful than
it actually turned out to be. Because Atlanta defeated the
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Rams last week after the NFL had already said its
schedule for the weekend, the Falcons opened up an avenue
where Carolina, even with a loss, gets into the playoffs.
There ended up being a three way tie, the tiebreaker
would fall to Carolina. A two way tie and it
would have fallen to Tampa Bay. Atlanta had to then
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lose to New Orleans on Sunday in order for the
Buccaneers to make it in to the postseason by winning
the division with an eight to nine record, Atlanta defeated
the New Orleans Saints nineteen to seventeen, and so it's
Carolina that facts into the playoffs as the South Division
champions in the NFC. And I know we saw the
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sad Baker Mayfield face on the couch. That's got to
be disappointing. But again, like Baltimore, you have nobody to
blame it yourself. You had a huge lead in that
division and you couldn't win a game in the second
half of the season until the last game of the year.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Yeah, I mean, if you end up not getting in
and you're eight and nine, I don't know if you
can really blame anybody. Now, somebody had to get in
from that division, the Carolina Panthers did. I kind of
feel like it's a bullet dodged for the NFC, just
simply because the way Baker Mayfield played in that game,
where it was like, we got to win just to
give ourselves a chance. They looked a whole heck of
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a lot more like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that you
expected or that you saw in the first half of
the season, and instead Carolina's getting in there. Who knows
what you get with them, You know, if you you
end up playing a loss.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I think they're getting a loss with them.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah, I think the Carolina Panthers are probably a seed.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Minnesota Vikings ended up nine to eight on the year.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Somehow, they defeated the Packers yesterday sixteen to three. The
Packers set their starters, as coach l Floor decided it
is far more important not to lose another player to injury,
and so we're going to just accept our seven seed
fate and we're gonna go ahead and take this one
on the chin.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
We don't care if we move up the rankings. So
they did end up with the seven seed.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Philadelphia made the same decision, and yet Philadelphia seem to
have a lot more to play for.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah, they set their starters and decided.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's more important, And Sirianni explained this afterwards, that we
don't lose a player to injury a valuable player to
injury than.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
It is to get the two seed in the NFC.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Playoffs, And so they have just outright accepted the fact
that we are perfectly willing to go to Chicago in
round number two if that's what it comes to, rather
than risk losing a good player for the postseason. Now,
little criticism has been heaped on Nick Sirianni, but it
sounds like a lot of coaches felt that way heading
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into the last week of the regular season. Philadelphia does
lose to the Commanders twenty four to seventeen. Washington finishes
five to twelve, and we'll have the seventh pick in
the draft. The Chicago Bears played their guys and lost anyway,
They lost to the Detroit Lions, so the Lions ended
up sweeping them. This year, Ben Johnson gets the laugh
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over his former employer by winning the division and Detroit
not even making the playoffs. But he never did get
to defeat Dan Campbell head to head this year. Nineteen
to sixteen was the final score yesterday. The Bears will
get the number two seed in the playoffs. Jacksonville forty
one seven winners over the Tennessee Titans. This could have
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ended with any seed for Jacksonville but the four seed.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
They could have gotten the.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
One, two of three, five, six, seven, anything but the
four seed. Yesterday, they ended up on the number three seed,
winning forty one to seven over Tennessee. The Titans end
up with the number four pick in the draft. Houston
had started CJ Stroud. As soon as they saw Jacksonville
pulling away, they decided it's not worth risking anything the
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rest of the way, so they pulled their starters and
they still managed to beat the Indianapolis Colts thirty eight
to thirty, so the Texans get the five seed. They'll
face Pittsburgh on the road on Monday night. Houston finished
the season on a nine game winning streak, nine games
in a row. They won ten of their last eleven.
They finished with the number one defense statistically in the NFL.
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Not Mike McDonald and the Seahawks, not the Denver Broncos.
The Houston Texans finished with the number one defense in
the National Football League. Meanwhile, the other side of it,
Bucky the Indianapolis Colts lost seven straight to close out
the year, eight of their last nine.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
They didn't even finish with a five hundred record.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Crazy considering how hot they were at the beginning of
the year. And yet I mean the injury to the quarterback,
and you know, Daniel Jones was playing well and then
he went down and they kind of went south. And
obviously we got to witness first hand here that you know,
Philip Rivers was not going to be able to get
the job done. But yeah, I think the Texans and Jacksonville,
both those teams are dangerous when when it comes right
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down to it, both of them.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Have good defenses and you never know.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
It kind of feels like both those quarterbacks would go
out there and whoop you as well.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
I have no idea what's going to happen in the
AFC playoffs.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
None nofin So yeah, New England Patriots have the two seed.
They defeated Miami thirty eight to ten yesterday. They did
not get help from the Los Angeles Chargers in a
lot of different ways. Jim Harbaugh decided to rest a
lot of his starters, including Justin Herbert. Again, another coach
that decided, I don't want injuries telling the story, bigger
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story next week. So let's just we're in the playoffs.
We'll take our seventh seed and We'll be happy with that,
Denver and Sean Payton. They approached it like a playoff game,
very valuable obviously to get that one seed and play
and the home field advantage throughout the playoffs. So they
accomplished what they set out to accomplish. They won nineteen
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to three, the Broncos fourteen and three on this season.
And then you've got the part of cold turkey sandwich.
We'll call this.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
The you know, you know, this is the.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Salad and oh yeah, okay, the fresh veggies.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah, then the fresh vege that we're throwing on cold
turkey sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
The draft.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The New York Giants won yesterday. They had a chance
that the number one pick in the draft, but of
course had to start with them losing and then the
Raiders winning. Well, they went out and won their fourth
game of the year, So not only do they not
get the number one pick, they fell all the way
to number five with their thirty four to seventeen win
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over the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Now, the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
As good of a situation as Pete Carroll could have
expected under the circumstances that they still end up with
the number one pick, but he got a win to
close out the year over the Kansas City Chiefs. He's
probably gonna get fired today, and so at least Pete
Carroll got to walk off the field and which I'm
sure is going to be his last game as an NFL.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Head coach with a victory. Yeah, So I'm happy for
him for.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
You, Yeah, I mean, I only want good things for
Uncle Pete.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah. Kansas City finished six and eleven.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yeah, that was a surprise.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Travis Kelcey was asked about retirement. When he's gonna make
the decision, he goes, I have no idea. So he's
not any rush to do anything to satisfy the media,
nor should he be. The Arizona Cardinals are going to
have the number three pick in the draft. They lost
to the Rams yesterday thirty seven to twenty. The Rams
ended up with the five seed, which bumped the San
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Francisco forty nine ers down to the six seats. Stafford
four touchdown passes in the last game of the year
gave him forty six for the year. He definitely had
an MVP caliber season. The Jets will pick second in
the draft. They lost to the Buffalo Bills thirty five
to eight. The Bills did not risk Josh Allen yesterday
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and they still won by twenty seven points over the
New York Jets. They'll face Jacksonville this weekend, and then
finally record breaking day four. Miles Garrett. He looked like
he was gonna crush the single season sack record earlier
in the season.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He couldn't get one the last.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Couple of weeks, and he only got one yesterday, but
he only needed one his twenty third sack of the year.
It makes him the record setter for most sacks in
one season.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
He got one against Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
In a twenty to eighteen win over the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday,
So Miles Garrett has now the sack record for most
sacks and a single season with twenty three. Brown celebrated
that by firing their head coach this morning. And Kevin Stefanski,
So here is your draft order. It'll be Las Vegas one,
Jets two, Cardinals three, Titans four, Giants five, Cleveland six,
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Washington seven, New Orleans eight, Cincinnati nine, and Kansas City ten.
And here is your wild card slate for this weekend's playoffs.
The Rams at Carolina at one thirty on Saturday, Green
Bay at Chicago at five o'clock. Then on Sunday Buffalo
at Jacksonville ten am at one thirty, San Francisco at Philadelphia,
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and the Chargers will be at New England at five
o'clock Sunday night. Then on Monday, yes, there will be
a Monday playoff game this week Houston at Pittsburgh at
five fifteen.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
It's all settled now. And now we get ready for
the postseason. And I don't remember who has the number.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
One seed in the NFC playoffs.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I forgot.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Oh, I know who, Ashley, It's.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
The Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Babe.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Wow, that seems like important. Maybe we should discuss that more.
Coach Bucky's gonna join us next Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM. We are back to a full work week,
back to the routine, back to the grind. I for one,
Coach Bucky kind of fired up for it, kind of
looking forward to getting back into the normal schedule here.
(35:23):
Would you advise me to feel that way? Or does
Coach Bucky coach and teach to his young people to
try to avoid work as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, yeah, I go that route.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
I mean no, as a coach, I would be like, yes,
it's right, get back into it, get those five days in,
you go work your little butt off and you get
good at it and you just keep going. And then
But as an older coach, now I'm like, no, I
really like the two days off, even if it's in
the middle of the week. Yeah, you know, I'd prefer
Monday and Friday off. You know, just have forty weekend everyone.
(35:56):
But I would not complain if the world just decided
everybody from now on gets Wednesday and Thursday off. All right,
just go Monday, Tuesday, bang out those two days real quick,
get a couple, get a reprieve, come back and finish
it up on Friday.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Just get yourself ready for the weekend. I would be
okay with that.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
You're teaching efficiency, right, yeah hard.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
If I can get done five days worth of great
content or whatever in three days, then do that.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I needed to coach.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I coach Bucky when I was younger, because I'm sitting
here thinking, coming in on a Monday, and I'll just
to get back on track. We should do two a
day's two shows a day. They do one this morning
and then we come back later and do softy show.
Go ahead and do that. I'm just gonna go.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
I'm gonna probably I will participate from home with my
ears only.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
All right, heart, all right, Coach Bucky Well, The Seahawks
ended up with the number one seed in the NFC playoffs,
all the dust settled from the regular season, the schedules
all mapped out.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
So what's the team and the NFC to avoid right now?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I mean, we just faced the forty nine Ers, seem
to have a pretty easy time with them. Face the
Rams not long ago. They're not playing their best football
right now. Philadelphia is the defending champs. The Chicago Bears
could be dangerous. So as we get ready to start
the NFC playoffs, already accomplished the buy the one seed
and all of that stuff, but certainly you still got
(37:21):
games to win. Who should the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Want to avoid?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
I mean, I would think the Rams kind of seems
like the team. I mean, the Bears, you don't know
for sure they are the number two seed, but they
don't feel like they're that scary necessarily.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Rams.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
You know, you ended up losing a game to them
early that you probably outplayed them, and then you won
a game that you got outplayed in and you kind
of you know, had some bounces and things go your
way for that comeback victory that propelled them right here
to the number one seed. I would think, you're that's
probably the team if there was one of them that
you don't want to face that you're thinking, and I
(37:58):
wouldn't think anybody is like, oh, I don't want to
face anybody. I think that they are clear cut the
number one team in the NFC, and rightfully so. But yeah,
that's probably the team that'd be like. I don't know
if I necessarily would like that. I think if you
had your drugs at this point, I would want If
I'm a Seahawks fan, I would want the Bears to
win their game, the Eagles to win their game, and
then have the Panthers knock off the Rams and you
(38:21):
get to play the Panthers in your first game to
send yourself to the NFC Championship.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
No, you would have to face San Francisco and.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And the Bears one.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Yeah, if they win as chalk, then I think that
would be the way you'd want it to go.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
But I don't think that. I don't think the Panthers
are going to beat the Rams.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Yeah, I would like to also ride a unicorn over
a rainbow to a pot of gold.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Oh but if you can get that Panthers and in
your first game and a unicorn ride, yeah, that would
be I mean, think you're things are looking good around
here right now?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, maybe you get that all right.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
AFC playoffs, the Broncos are the one seed. Who's the
team that you most want to avoid in the AFC?
I would like to buy like three buys. Is there
any way that Broncos can get three buys with them? No,
that would be a lot cool because I have no idea,
to be honest. I mean, the Steelers would be the
(39:12):
team I would say you'd want to face. That would
be the Panthers of the a f C. And yet
everybody else.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
The Texans are dangerous defensively, Jaguars just kind of have.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Something going on right now.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
The Bills have the best quarterback in the city in
the entire you know situation as far as who could
just go take the game from you, And yet the
Patriots and Chargers are both dangerous as well.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
So to me, bring on all comers.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
If the Broncos go out and play the way that
they're capable, they can beat any team.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
If they go out and play the way.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
That I've seen them at certain times, they could lose
any of these teams as well.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Yeah. Is there snow in the forecast. That was just
way too pretty yesterday in Denver for this time of
the year. Yeah, snow.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I haven't lived for the forecast.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It look like palm springs yesterday.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Well, it's like that to have to have. It might
snow two feet one day and the next day it's seven.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
It's one of the sunniest spots in the CA.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, it's a wonderful place playoff time, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, No, we need winter weather in winter weather in Denver, Colorado,
for goodness sake.
Speaker 6 (40:14):
At least flurries flir and live, lovely little flurries.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
All right, Well, coming up next, we've got your headlines
for you. Greg Bell is going to join us here
at seven o five this morning. We'll get the latest
from our Seahawks insider. Oh, it's a fun time of year.
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M
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