October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
HUGH MILLEN’S X’s and O’s It’s not all about football today with Game 7 just hours away, so how can this Mariners team come up clutch tonight when it matters most? The Seahawks host the Texans, whose defense is nothing to scoff at. How can the Hawks get their offense going and what can we expect from a defensive unit that’s been all over the place? :30- MIKE HOLMGREN joins us with some words of encouragement for the Mariners and his thoughts on the Seahawks and Texans tonight. How is he feeling about this offense versus the Texans defense? We get Coach’s thoughts on Texans QB, CJ Stroud and the lack home home-field advantage the Seahawks are struggling with right now. :45- We close out this BIG Monday with one last thing and a deep breath! GO MARINERS!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just happened to have at five o'clock Game seven of
the American League Championship Series being played tonight. We've been
talking about the Mariners all morning long, but we will
not ignore the Seahawks Monday night football matchup against the
Houston Texans. And so Mike Holgern will join us at
nine point thirty this morning, and joining us now for
his normal x's and o's segment. It's our guy, the
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QB one, Hugh Millen, Good morning, sir, what's happening? Good morning?
Oh everything, everything all at once, it is happening, no
time for anything else. You got a take on this
game seven to night.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, look, you guys are the experts. You guys are
doing a phenomenal job. You should get an Emmy or something.
So I just got a late person's take, which would be,
you know, think of an NFL football player.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You only play once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
There's just seventeen games, obviously, and you usually play in
front of a full stadium or nearly full, and there's
a lot of importance. And then when you get to
the playoffs, every game isn't out. It's like a seventh game.
So the Mariners are the equivalent of the of playing
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in the NFC Championship game tonight, and so a player,
you've already kind of been in those pressure situations. Now,
let's contrast that to baseball. The whole regular season, you're
playing in relatively insignificant games, not any one game. An
NFL player has the weight of ten baseball games. A
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baseball player on any one game when he goes to
the park for three hours, he can say, well, you know, look,
if I don't play real well, there's not a lot
of weight to it. And then when you get to
the playoffs, you know, usually there's another playoff game. You
rarely get into a deciding game. So for the Mariners
to be in the seventh game, there is no professional
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athlete that has a bigger delta that jump between how
he usually goes park and the weight that is on
the game when he usually goes to the park to
what the Mariners have tonight. Every one of those players
knows that the Mariners have never been to the World Series.
You say, well, what about the seventh game of the
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World Series. Yeah, most circumstances, But I think for the
Mariners uniquely tonight, they they know that if they make
the World Series this is a successful season. They've got
to know that. And even if they were to lose,
hell if they if they go, they're gonna be underdogs
to the Dodgers. I think in a way they might
be looser in a seventh game of the World Series
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than they would be tonight. There's a hell of a
lot of pressure, and so to me, I would just say,
don't think about who's the better team. Stop talking about
who's the better team. It doesn't matter. The only thing
that matters tonight is who is clutch. Somebody is gonna
be a clutch player tonight, and somebody is gonna be
a relative goat. I don't want to know say the
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whole game falls on them, but somebody's gonna have. People
are gonna have good games tonight and see people are
gonna poor games tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Obviously we hope it's it's the mirrors, but.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think it's it's it's it's all about who is clutch.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And we're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna I mean, I'm kind of on that topic.
I mean, you played in some big games, right, You'll
you'll demean and you'll talk down about how you were
a backup guy and whatnot. But I know you played
in some big games whatever, but you still you played
in some big games in your life. You were parts
of that. And yet I mean, knowing you, I know
how cerebral you are, how much you think about what
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it is you're supposed to be thinking about, and so
what type of mindset, how how would you think is
the best way to try to arrive at being clutch
in that moment? I mean, what is the thing that
you have to kind of channel to hopefully find yourself
in the zone when when the pressure gets the toughest.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think everybody processes it differently. I think some really
look at it and they say, hey, yes, this is
the uh, this is the the crucible of pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Tell me that the whole world is watching, and tell
in fact, tell me, tell me they're watching in the
Southern hemisphere, like I want it all. Some guys just
they'll say, hey, you know, I want to I want
to bring it back to normalcy. What what if this
was just a spring training game and it's just me
against the pitcher, then you know, how would I, well,
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I'd break against this guy if it was spring training.
So let's just try and have the attitude. So I
think I think different athletes just process it differently in
that regard, and you're going to have a lot of
guys that that are trying to say, hey, I relish this.
There's gonna be guys that are going to be trying
in their mind to diminish, Hey, it's no big deal.
It's just like a game in May, and you know,
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you know, I just think that's the nature. But I
do think it is noteworthy that baseball players, for the
reasons I've stated, they have a bigger vault that they
are not used to going to the park and walking
into that locker room and getting dressed. They are not
used to having this kind of wait, at least in
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terms of relative to other athletes and other team sports.
And so it's really not about who's the best team.
It's about who is going to be clutched in the
moment with us. Yeah, and we don't know it until
we don't know it until we see it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ur QB one. Yes, we got a Monday night football
game tonight, Seahawks taking on the Texans, along with every
other game in the world apparently being played tonight as well.
So let's dive into this Monday Night affair. What stands
out to you as the pivotal aspect of this matchup?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, first of all, let's talk about the Texans. This
was a team that in twenty twenty two, where's three
and thirteen, they got the second pick in the draft
draft after Bryce Young went to Carolina. They pick up CJ.
Stroud and they trade so they got the second pick
in the draft, and they pick up Will Anderson, the
great linebacker with a third pick, so they get the
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second and third pick. Then they go that next year
twenty twenty three, they go ten and seven, and they
went ten and seven last year, so a huge vault,
right with a new coach as well. And I just
look at them now, they're two and three, but they're
off of two wins. They've got to buy. If you
look at the AFC in that division, the Colts are
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six and one. Let's assume they're running away from it.
But from a wildcard standpoint, the Bills are would be
the number one wildcard right now at four and two.
Then you've got four other teams that have three losses,
and the Texans are one of them. So in their mind,
we look at two and three, we say you're not
even a five hundred team. In their mind, they are
right equal with a playoff team. And so they're going
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to come in here. And this is the part that
I want to say concerns you, but it sure as
hell gets your attention. Number One defensively and fewest points
allowed at twelve point two Seattle. We think of seattleven
a damn good defense. They're at nine. They're at sixth
in the NFL with nineteen and a half. So there's
a touchdown less that the Texans. The yards the Texans
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are third, the first downs on defense, first downs allowed fourth.
I look at I go to the NFL stat portal
and I just I just look at page after page
on the website. It would be too many to discuss
it in a segment like this or another segment.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How many stats.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They're in the top five defensively, and so they've got
a hell they got a hell of a front four.
They they play mostly zone defense. In Cover one, which
is man and man, their twentieth. In Cover zero, which
is an aggressive man and man with no free safety,
they're twenty ninth. But the percent of the time where
they have five rushers, they're fifth in the league. What
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does that tell me? So they're a zone team, but
they rush five five is a blue that's a lot
of zone dogs. They want to fool you. So for
Sam Darnold, he got an extra day of preparation. You
cannot be fueled. A year ago. You had Justin Herbert,
the only quarterback in the history of the NFL, more
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interceptions in one playoff game than he had had the
entire regular season. He had three interceptions in the regular season,
four in the playoff game. So that zone blitz that
are reflected in the numbers that I said has got
to be something that that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're prepared for.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean you're talking about the way in which
their defense, where they rank number one obviously, and the
points allowed and whatnot. I was looking through some stuff
and and you know there, I think fifth in passing
yards allowed and they've only given up three touchdown passes
through six games.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's a pretty low number.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
They're rushing numbers against are pretty good as well, And
so I'm kind of wondering where your thoughts at as
far as is this a game where they have to
rush the ball effectively against this team because of the
fact that they don't give up a whole heck of
a lot in the passing game.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Either, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But I think that Seattle has been able to put
up points without rushing the ball. That's just a testimony
to how good of a season Sam Darnold's had. I
think that when you look at there's I don't see
a lot of defensive lines that have the ratings. H
you know it's you got. You've got Rankins, Sheldon Rankins,
and Tim Settle as the defensive tackles. We mentioned Will
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Anderson the third overall pick. He's he's got a lot
of juice. He's going to be over Lucas. I think
you got to protect him. But then you know, on
the other side, Daniel Hunter. Now, if if I'm assuming
you're a pretty good NFL fan, let's just make if
I told you that here's the top highest paid defensive ends.
If I told you Micah Parsons is number one, you're
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not surprised. If I told you Tz Wats is number two,
you're not surprised. Miles Garrett's number three, You're not surprised.
Daniel Hunter's number four, not Will Anderson. Daniel Hunter for
the Texans is going over Charles Cross and then oh,
by the way, behind him are Max Crosby, Nick Moson,
Trey Henderson. You would you would expect all those guys.
So I think Daniel Hunter of those seven is the
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guy you go hunt. Oh, I didn't know him, and
and so that front four, and then you take their secondary.
Now Stingley is the third overall pick, the corner on
on Seattle's right side. Uh, and then Kamari Lassiter, the
second rounder out of Georgia. I mean, they got talented corner.
The corners aren't probably playing to the level of their talent.
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But then Jalen Petre's playing his ass off as a
nickel and a safety guy. So so I think that
they're Oh, by the way, they're middle linebacker. It seems
like every week Seattle's playing good middle linebackers. But but uh, yeah,
there's just there's a lot of talent out there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But but I think it's it's the coaching.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And uh, when they brought in cjs Route, they also
they they lovey Smith is gone and they've got They've
got Demiko Ryans as a hell of a defensive coach.
They are tied together. As you said, I'm more impressed
with the coaching when I see a team that plays zoned,
because you have to play more as a unit as
opposed to man to man, and and so in that regard,
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there's some similarities between the Texans defensively and what Mike
McDonald has done with Baltimore and Seattle.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Hu melanis Weather's our QB one x'es and o's segments
here on a Monday with a Monday night football game
being played tonight at Looming Field against the Houston Texans.
But it's been such a busy week. I mean, it's
a week in which Hugh Millan's Washington Husky's faced as
mister Millons Michigan Wolverines. Yeah, over the weekend, and so
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obviously did not go the way of the dogs. What's
your take from that Saturday debacle.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I'm just kind of thinking about Jedfish today and
I'm wondering whether Saturday, on that plane ride and yesterday
was add or near the bottom of his just his
mood at lowest point of his coaching career. Maybe maybe
certainly head coaching for the following reasons. So he's on
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record as having said that he'd be very intrigued by
the Florida job, he wears a advisor as an homagi
to Steve Spurrier. He has said it'd be very hard
to turn that away. So the Florida jobs, as most
no came open. Billy Napier got fired yesterday. I'm theorizing
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that he wants that job, and he could have reasonably
thought that he was a candidate for that job. And
so now going back to ann Arbor at this time,
when when Florida is considering different candidates to go back
and only score seven points against a good but not
great Michigan team and lose by seventeen, and then furthermore,
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it's the way they did it because his prize pupil,
Demond Williams. We all love Demond Williams, we all see
his talent. And yet a year ago, let's say on
November eleventh, a year ago, after playing Penn State, this
is what Jedfish said. He goes quote and now when
demand gets in there next year, meaning this year, he's
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going to have the experience of playing in a white
out in front of one hundred and seven thousand, He's
going to have the experience of what does it feel
like to try and make a slant throat into tight
coverage on fourth and fifth and be able to draw
from that experience end quote that there's some irony there
because you were you played demand at sometimes at awkward
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times a year ago, and maybe the senior senior players
were grousing like, hey, are we playing for twenty twenty four?
We plan for the future. And so Demon Williams was
given that experience for Saturday's game against Michigan. And the
irony is that he had he had spoken to Now
it wasn't fourth and a five this past Saturday, and
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it wasn't a white out, but it wasn't front. It
was in front of one hundred and seven thousand, and
the critical interception the base when it was the score
was tied seven to seven, and it was essentially a
pick six that was a slant route and which which
against Fish had commented on that particular route a year ago.
And both of those interceptions, the first two interceptions that
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were on first and ten, the first one was a
slant route. He just didn't see the will linebacker. That
was a good good play for that defense. You just
you got to in and out high low that will
linebacker and and he didn't see him. So that's on
Demon Williams. The second interception was called why stick? That
is the most ubiquitous. I was literally coaching that in
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seventh grade. It's all over high school call in the NFL.
That concept. It's been around for a long damn time.
And you don't want to run that against a five
hundred two deep z. So so wink what Martinel the
defeats defensive coordinator for Michigan. He out coached him on
that play. And then the confusion where the tight ends
breaking out and Demon Williams is expecting him to hook apparently.
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You know when I coach that, I was like, hey,
tight end, if you're going to hook it up in
the zone, then turn inside. If you're going to break
away from that, what's called the third defender, you count
outside end. If you're going to break away from the
number three, then then you break to the outside. And
then there's there is a a cohesion, an understanding between
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quarterback and receiver and so on that play. The second interception, Uh,
Washington out coached and so I think it's a I
think it was really a probably a disillusioning plane ride going.
We just scored seven points and the damn Florida jobs
open and DeMont Williams just threw it three interceptions. And
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I thought we had groomed him so that he this
would be the type of game he could take over.
And he still has yet to have a quality win
against a good opponent.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know, he's beat beat, beat up on, beat up
mightily on the feeble. But Demond Williams has yet to
have that signature win. And don't tell me the Louisville game.
When they missed their start. You know, their their starting
quarterback bout out for the Bowl. Their second string went
in the transferred poll, their their best defense, and they
had got their their best defensive dB. Everybody pulling out
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of that game. That was You watched that tape. It
looked like there was eight guys playing defense for Louisvill.
So don't tell me the Bowl game. He's got to
have a win like he should have had on Saturday.
That's why you played him a year ago. And so
at an event, I think that it's a little bit
of a sobering experience for Jed Fish trying to get
over that game.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well to night, we got to enjoy the craziness of this.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It is yeah, crazy, it can be well tomorrow, you
guys are going to kill it again no matter what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So keep up the good work. All right. We'll talk
to you now too. Well all right, r QB one
Hugh Millan and he will be with us tomorrow whether
the Mariners winn or lose. To spend some time on
the Seahawks and their game against the Texans tonight, we
will spend a little bit more time on it with
Mike Holmgren, who joins us next Sports Radio ninety three
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Hi, Yes, coach, o'ma joins us here on this Monday,
So much going on around these here on parts. Uh,
and yet we do have a Monday night football game.
We haven't talked to coaching a little while. We miss him,
and so here he is with us on Chuck and Buck.
Good morning, sir, Good morning Chuck. How's it going? All right?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Going?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
All right? What do you think? What do you think
about Game seven tonight? What's your gut feel? What are
you feeling? Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, the Marriers are gonna do it. It's gonna be exciting.
Uh uh, they got it. It's been so good and
then last night it just, uh, you know, it got
away from him. So see how the pitching is. That's
the big thing.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, I like, do you get you in that clubhouse? Maybe?
Uh meal, little pep talk.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well, I don't think, you know, Dan, Dan seems to
be able to get him going, so you know, we
hope he does it again.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I don't know. I think a holmgrun fire needs to
be unders I couldn't hurt. Yeah, that's what I think.
What do you what do you chart out as the
key to this thing tonight? Going up against a great
defense in Houston.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be It could be a
low scoring game. And they you know, Houston has a
good defense, a good line up front. So the matchup
between the offensive line for the Seahawks and the upfront
for the for the Texans is going to be the
deciding factor, I think. So I hope a lot of
play action. That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well that's what I was gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was the play action, and yet they haven't really
ran the ball super effectively, and yet the play action
still works. So being the offensive mastermind that you are,
is do you do you have to establish.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
The run or is it no?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Just run it a couple of times and then do
what's been working more often than not, even though you
know you're going up against a defense that doesn't give
up a bunch running or passing.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, you know what, it always helps when you can
establish the runner for your playpack, play pass game. But
I think the just have to come out and call things,
you know, throw it on first down, call your game
a little differently, you know, to keep the defense off
balance because they've got a good defense. So that's what
I'm hoping to see.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Mike Comrian with US says, the Seahawks take on the
Houston Texans here this evening, What is your take on
c J. Stroud? He got off to such a great
start as an NFL quarterback, and then maybe a little
bit of a sophomore slump a year ago, even though
he still helped his team get into the playoffs, and
then this year off to a little bit of a
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slow start. A lot of people thought he was going
to have a rebound. So what's your read on CJ.
Stroud as he plays in his third year in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, I think he's kind of hot and cold. He's
not real consistent right now. But he's really a talented guy.
So when I watch him play, it looks like some
of the decision making physically he's got everything okay, But
typically with quarterbacks and you guys know this, you know
their decision making and how they redefense is how they
prepare for the game. Even the great physical talent doesn't
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get you through things unless you prepare properly, unless you understand,
really understand what you're trying to do and every pass.
So that's what I see. I see at a little bit,
not throwing it on time, making some bad decisions on occasion.
Otherwise he's got everything. I really love to have this
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guy on my team.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What do they have to do the Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, is it just as simple as win to
try to get over this hump? A little bit of
the home field advantage? I mean it used to be
back you know, you kind of brought that thing here
and it was the worst place to come play.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Nobody liked doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And yet they're going on the road and winning left
and right, but finding it more difficult to do at home.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
What do they got to change?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, you know, Buck, it's a puzzle, honestly, because we
talk about it each week. It seems like and and
they you have such an advantage, the team has such
an advance, and that advantage should equate to wins. And
I don't know, you know, I mean I was even
thinking if I do they stay in hotels and that
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before the game? Do they let them stay home? I
don't know what they do, but I always said, if
I can control them at home, I'm going to control them.
So they're going to stay in the hotel, I'm going
to check them for bedcheck, and then we're going to
go to the stadium. I don't know if they do that.
If they do that, fine, but there's something that they're
not taking advantage of. And so to your point, they
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got to win. They got to win big at home
and get them rolling that way and get them using
the crowd and the fans will react accordingly.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You know, coach and the National Football League quarterbacks, if
they get off to a rough start in their careers,
they tend to get put to the back of the line.
But we've seen a couple of guys Baker Mayfield and
Sam Darnold with the Seahawks that are kind of taking
that rich Gannon approach. Like something clicked here in the
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last couple of years. I don't know what it is.
Maybe you can tell me. What is it that like
a veteran quarterback who's not really found his success until
later in life, what tends to kick in? What do
they tend to have in common when it finally does
start to go well?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I think, first of all, it's the combination, is the
connected activity between the coach or the coordinator and the player.
Because you know, we talked about it for as well.
You know, you go to the Jets as your number
one draft pick and a lot of expectations, It's New
York and it doesn't work, and all of a sudden,
you go into a little bit of a slump, saying,
maybe I wasn't as good as I thought it was.
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But then you get with the right coach, the right program,
surrounded by some people that can really play, and then
you're calling the game to his strength, and all of
a sudden you get to be more effective. And then
it builds your confidence and you become the player that
you were supposed to be, and you know, you see
it and at Baker Mayfield's a great example of that.
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Sam Donald's is a great example of that. He finally
had a place. Well, I think he went to the
place last year, so he got a good, good situation
in Minnesota. Look at Minnesota now, I mean they're struggling
a little bit with their quarterback situation because of injury.
But with those guys that come into your program, and
you know that when you get one of those guys
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and then you say, okay, I always saw it throwing
complete caution to the win. Just give me somebody, give
me somebody with physical talents, and I can help him
be the best he can be. And I think that's
how you have to approach it. And then then you
get the kid to buy in and then you got something.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Coach, obviously.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I mean, even after this week, they're going to have
ten weeks of football, so long ways to go. But
how important do you feel it is for them to
keep with the forty nine ers and Rams considering if
they win this one, they'll still be tied record wise
anyways with them versus fallowing the game behind.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, No, I think it's this game is really important, Buck.
It's really important because the forty nine ers are doing
it even though they're quarterbacks. A lot of people are hurt.
But it's going to go down to the wire in
the division, in my opinion, it's going to be really close.
So every single game is important, and this game in
particular because then they have the buy I think next week, right, yep, yep, yeah,
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so going into the buy, kind of regroup, get the
injury guys back, and then play the rest of the season.
But listen, we thought they were going to be pretty good,
but they're they're pretty good. I mean, they're doing fine,
But this game, this game tonight is really important for
all the reasons you mentioned, not the downplay at all,
win at home, get it going at home, and then
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you can see a really bright future. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
When you were at coach of the Seahawks, you were
here for each your omania, the record setting a regular
season that the Mariners had, and uh, of course World
Series dreams, and so what what is that like to
be the football team in town that usually gets the
most attention.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And then all of a sudden, you know, you start
sharing that stage, if not handing the stage over to
the local baseball team in town. What was that experience
like for you? And uh? And and what is the
what is it like for the players?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I didn't like it. It put a lot of pressure on me,
you know, No, I I you know, I gotta. I
got a chance to visit with all the managers, not
not this year, but when when I was coaching, and
we kind of had a mutual respect and mutual relationship
and I was rooting for them all the way and
they knew that. And so yeah, this is it's you
(26:57):
just you're happy for them. You're happy for them, You're
happy for the fans. This is a really exciting deal.
And if they go to the World Series, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
But I went to went to church yesterday and I
had guys come up to me. I was at the game.
I was at the game, you know game. I said, Okay,
calm down, we still got a little to play here.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
You know, I want to.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
How about you mean football? No, not football?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Uh well it's fun, there's no question about it. So
get out the popcorn tonight, you know, yes, and enjoy yourself.
I mean, you got a lot of stuff to choose from.
You got your cracking hockey at four o'clock. That's when
I get started, and then you got baseball at five,
and you got football at seven. So just buckle in,
get your snacks ready.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, I'm in fact, I'm taking some pressure off Catthy tonight.
I'm making ribs. You're making ribs, coleslaw, and garlic mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Those three, all right? So Bucky and I are broadcasting
Hive from the Holme grins. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I was hoping Buck you'd bring a little dip over,
but I guess that's what could happen.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Well, if I'm invited for all those fictions, I'll bring
some elk dip for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
They'll bring a vat bring a keg. You just go
ta keg? All right, coach, Well, enjoy we'll talk to
you tomorrow, right guy. Thanks, all right, Mike Homberan joining
us right here on Chuck and Buck in the Mornings.
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Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, you know, prepping for Game seven. We're doing our
postgame show out at the snow Kwami Casino at the
Hawk's Peak. Probably the coolest sportsmart around that. I mean,
it's really cool. The thing makes it the coolest is
that it's in my town, so that's what makes it
really cool. But I was looking yesterday and kind of,
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you know, everything was running together. I got the right
before game time, ended up getting some wings. They were delicious,
But I figured out what I'm doing today. Oh, I
got a meal that is guaranteed to get bring us
a w in our first ever game seven.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I didn't know you could do such a thing.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yep, yep, I found it. It's like flashing out at me.
It's called a squatch burger. I don't know if you
looked at it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I think it's a playing off of a sasquatch because
there's been a sack Watch. Maybe it is sack watchburger, sackwatchburger.
I eat one of those, Okay, sackwatchburger. I think we're
gonna win because we're on Sackwatch.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Okay, well it's called squatch, so sack squatch Burger. It's
Hempler's bacon tillhm of cheddar, a fried egg, an onion
ring tomato. I'll probably lose that those are gross, Jalapeno
dejon A's, and some house made pickles, and then I'm
going to top it off with a brownie Sunday. Okay,
(30:36):
it's called a game seven meal. First time to the
World Series meal. I'm getting it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Good for you. I do love. By the way, I
don't know who posts this, Maybe it was Ashley. Did
you post the kh a R We have ten hours
to go until the Mariners playing a game seven? Yeah?
Was that your hand with a gift? That was a
brilliant idea And the responses have been a ma and
so representative of how I feel. Yeah, but they're all
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so different. You can tell that people are really tapping
into their own feelings about it. So if you get
a chance, that's so funny, like you get one gift
to kind of or gift to represent how you're feeling
right now about tonight's game, and the variety that we
got back is hilarious worth checking out and going through.
(31:25):
Nice job, Ashley, Ryan, Oh thank you? What's your one
last thing?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
So, of course the one game we haven't really mentioned
much about the cracking game tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We've you know, just briefly talked about it.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Because in the sea of things that are happening, it's
early in their season, so there's not as much pressure.
But Berkeley Catton is going to make his NHL debut
tonight Berkeley, which is a pretty big deal. And Jared
mccannon is out with a lore body injury, So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I noticed those hockey guys they do with Berkeley Catton
kind of what they do with cap O Cackle. They
can't help it, they can't help, but just like, really
pop it out there, Berkeley, especially that Mike Benton, Mike
Ben's going to change both his kids' names to Berkeley Caton.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
He should.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
His head might explode if he did that. Watching baseball
with Mike Benton, he takes everything so literally. Oh yeah,
I uh so, Revos made that great play Friday night
on the backhand up the middle, and I I go
to speak around Benton to Bucky because he was sitting
in between us, arose between two thorns. Oh yes, And
(32:30):
I said, Plonko get that. I didn't say like the
full sent Bucky goes no chance. Bucky knew exactly what
I said. Does Polonco make that same play without having
to say the entire thing. Benton goes, No, that was Revos. Oh,
Mike Benton. I was like, thanks Mike, Yeah, we know
who's out there. But well you missed the one later
(32:52):
because later Wilson, Dan Wilson challenged the canzone home run
down the left field line, and I will hell challenges that. Yeah,
it seemed weird. That was Mike. He goes it was
Dan Wilson, like, why are.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
You challenging that, especially someone who looks at it on
video first?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
There was no reason to challenge none, none at all.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That was Dan Wilson. You're the manager of the team.
He does those things. He's the one on TV they
show it. He puts his hands on his ears. Thanks Mike,
Thanks hockey boy. Yeah, but yeah I missed it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Sorry, Dan. You can't just because you really want it
to be a home run, you can't challenge it.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
You'd be like, you know what, I'm gonna challenge and
they're like, you know what, Actually that was really close,
So you have to have evidence that actually it should
be overturned.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
All right, Well here we go Game number seven. My
one last thing is, look, I know what Hugh just
told me. He said, it's not going to come down
tonight to who the better team is. It's going to
come down to who's clutch. And I know that he's right,
but when you make these kind of predictions beforehand, I
just feel like we're the better team. And then seven games,
that's all they're giving us. It's not a best of
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nineteen to really figure out who the better team is.
Seven games. It's more than five. It's better than five,
certainly better than three. Beats the hell out of one.
So seven games is what they give us to try
to prove that we're better. And the longer the series,
the more opportunity that the better team emerges. And so yes,
I do realize that one game isolated is going to
(34:35):
come down to who comes through in the clutch. But
I just think that the aggregate of the entire seven
game series, the better team is going to prevail. I
just think that we are doesn't look like we're playing
better right now, but I do believe we are the
better team. We've got the deeper pitching, which is going
to come in handy tonight. So I'm just gonna stick
with it. We're gonna take game number seven, We're gonna
get it done. I'm going to tell you who's going
(34:57):
to come through. It's Josh Naylor. Nails Nails is the game.
It's going to come through in the big moment for
us because I think he was born for it so
and it's going to payoff. You have Gino come through
on Friday in game five and Nayler to come through
in game seven shows you how important it is to
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add the right pieces at the trading deadline and to
be aggressive at the trading deadline. And it's going to
be the difference. It's been the difference in US winning
the division. It's going to be the difference in US
getting to the World Series. That's my prediction.
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Just happened to have at five o'clock Game seven of
the American League Championship Series being played tonight. We've been
talking about the Mariners all morning long, but we will
not ignore the Seahawks Monday night football matchup against the
Houston Texans. And so Mike Holgern will join us at
nine point thirty this morning, and joining us now for
his normal x's and o's segment. It's our guy, the
(00:21):
QB one, Hugh Millen, Good morning, sir, what's happening? Good morning?
Oh everything, everything all at once, it is happening, no
time for anything else. You got a take on this
game seven to night.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, look, you guys are the experts. You guys are
doing a phenomenal job. You should get an Emmy or something.
So I just got a late person's take, which would be,
you know, think of an NFL football player.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You only play once a week.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
There's just seventeen games, obviously, and you usually play in
front of a full stadium or nearly full, and there's
a lot of importance. And then when you get to
the playoffs, every game isn't out. It's like a seventh game.
So the Mariners are the equivalent of the of playing
(01:06):
in the NFC Championship game tonight, and so a player,
you've already kind of been in those pressure situations. Now,
let's contrast that to baseball. The whole regular season, you're
playing in relatively insignificant games, not any one game. An
NFL player has the weight of ten baseball games. A
(01:30):
baseball player on any one game when he goes to
the park for three hours, he can say, well, you know, look,
if I don't play real well, there's not a lot
of weight to it. And then when you get to
the playoffs, you know, usually there's another playoff game. You
rarely get into a deciding game. So for the Mariners
to be in the seventh game, there is no professional
(01:53):
athlete that has a bigger delta that jump between how
he usually goes park and the weight that is on
the game when he usually goes to the park to
what the Mariners have tonight. Every one of those players
knows that the Mariners have never been to the World Series.
You say, well, what about the seventh game of the
(02:13):
World Series. Yeah, most circumstances, But I think for the
Mariners uniquely tonight, they they know that if they make
the World Series this is a successful season. They've got
to know that. And even if they were to lose,
hell if they if they go, they're gonna be underdogs
to the Dodgers. I think in a way they might
be looser in a seventh game of the World Series
(02:35):
than they would be tonight. There's a hell of a
lot of pressure, and so to me, I would just say,
don't think about who's the better team. Stop talking about
who's the better team. It doesn't matter. The only thing
that matters tonight is who is clutch. Somebody is gonna
be a clutch player tonight, and somebody is gonna be
a relative goat. I don't want to know say the
(02:55):
whole game falls on them, but somebody's gonna have. People
are gonna have good games tonight and see people are
gonna poor games tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Obviously we hope it's it's the mirrors, but.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I think it's it's it's it's all about who is clutch.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And we're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna I mean, I'm kind of on that topic.
I mean, you played in some big games, right, You'll
you'll demean and you'll talk down about how you were
a backup guy and whatnot. But I know you played
in some big games whatever, but you still you played
in some big games in your life. You were parts
of that. And yet I mean, knowing you, I know
how cerebral you are, how much you think about what
(03:33):
it is you're supposed to be thinking about, and so
what type of mindset, how how would you think is
the best way to try to arrive at being clutch
in that moment? I mean, what is the thing that
you have to kind of channel to hopefully find yourself
in the zone when when the pressure gets the toughest.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think everybody processes it differently. I think some really
look at it and they say, hey, yes, this is
the uh, this is the the crucible of pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Tell me that the whole world is watching, and tell
in fact, tell me, tell me they're watching in the
Southern hemisphere, like I want it all. Some guys just
they'll say, hey, you know, I want to I want
to bring it back to normalcy. What what if this
was just a spring training game and it's just me
against the pitcher, then you know, how would I, well,
(04:25):
I'd break against this guy if it was spring training.
So let's just try and have the attitude. So I
think I think different athletes just process it differently in
that regard, and you're going to have a lot of
guys that that are trying to say, hey, I relish this.
There's gonna be guys that are going to be trying
in their mind to diminish, Hey, it's no big deal.
It's just like a game in May, and you know,
(04:48):
you know, I just think that's the nature. But I
do think it is noteworthy that baseball players, for the
reasons I've stated, they have a bigger vault that they
are not used to going to the park and walking
into that locker room and getting dressed. They are not
used to having this kind of wait, at least in
(05:13):
terms of relative to other athletes and other team sports.
And so it's really not about who's the best team.
It's about who is going to be clutched in the
moment with us. Yeah, and we don't know it until
we don't know it until we see it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Ur QB one. Yes, we got a Monday night football
game tonight, Seahawks taking on the Texans, along with every
other game in the world apparently being played tonight as well.
So let's dive into this Monday Night affair. What stands
out to you as the pivotal aspect of this matchup?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, first of all, let's talk about the Texans. This
was a team that in twenty twenty two, where's three
and thirteen, they got the second pick in the draft
draft after Bryce Young went to Carolina. They pick up CJ.
Stroud and they trade so they got the second pick
in the draft, and they pick up Will Anderson, the
great linebacker with a third pick, so they get the
(06:08):
second and third pick. Then they go that next year
twenty twenty three, they go ten and seven, and they
went ten and seven last year, so a huge vault,
right with a new coach as well. And I just
look at them now, they're two and three, but they're
off of two wins. They've got to buy. If you
look at the AFC in that division, the Colts are
(06:30):
six and one. Let's assume they're running away from it.
But from a wildcard standpoint, the Bills are would be
the number one wildcard right now at four and two.
Then you've got four other teams that have three losses,
and the Texans are one of them. So in their mind,
we look at two and three, we say you're not
even a five hundred team. In their mind, they are
right equal with a playoff team. And so they're going
(06:53):
to come in here. And this is the part that
I want to say concerns you, but it sure as
hell gets your attention. Number One defensively and fewest points
allowed at twelve point two Seattle. We think of seattleven
a damn good defense. They're at nine. They're at sixth
in the NFL with nineteen and a half. So there's
a touchdown less that the Texans. The yards the Texans
(07:15):
are third, the first downs on defense, first downs allowed fourth.
I look at I go to the NFL stat portal
and I just I just look at page after page
on the website. It would be too many to discuss
it in a segment like this or another segment.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How many stats.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They're in the top five defensively, and so they've got
a hell they got a hell of a front four.
They they play mostly zone defense. In Cover one, which
is man and man, their twentieth. In Cover zero, which
is an aggressive man and man with no free safety,
they're twenty ninth. But the percent of the time where
they have five rushers, they're fifth in the league. What
(07:55):
does that tell me? So they're a zone team, but
they rush five five is a blue that's a lot
of zone dogs. They want to fool you. So for
Sam Darnold, he got an extra day of preparation. You
cannot be fueled. A year ago. You had Justin Herbert,
the only quarterback in the history of the NFL, more
(08:17):
interceptions in one playoff game than he had had the
entire regular season. He had three interceptions in the regular season,
four in the playoff game. So that zone blitz that
are reflected in the numbers that I said has got
to be something that that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You're prepared for.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, I mean you're talking about the way in which
their defense, where they rank number one obviously, and the
points allowed and whatnot. I was looking through some stuff
and and you know there, I think fifth in passing
yards allowed and they've only given up three touchdown passes
through six games.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's a pretty low number.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
They're rushing numbers against are pretty good as well, And
so I'm kind of wondering where your thoughts at as
far as is this a game where they have to
rush the ball effectively against this team because of the
fact that they don't give up a whole heck of
a lot in the passing game.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Either, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But I think that Seattle has been able to put
up points without rushing the ball. That's just a testimony
to how good of a season Sam Darnold's had. I
think that when you look at there's I don't see
a lot of defensive lines that have the ratings. H
you know it's you got. You've got Rankins, Sheldon Rankins,
and Tim Settle as the defensive tackles. We mentioned Will
(09:34):
Anderson the third overall pick. He's he's got a lot
of juice. He's going to be over Lucas. I think
you got to protect him. But then you know, on
the other side, Daniel Hunter. Now, if if I'm assuming
you're a pretty good NFL fan, let's just make if
I told you that here's the top highest paid defensive ends.
If I told you Micah Parsons is number one, you're
(09:54):
not surprised. If I told you Tz Wats is number two,
you're not surprised. Miles Garrett's number three, You're not surprised.
Daniel Hunter's number four, not Will Anderson. Daniel Hunter for
the Texans is going over Charles Cross and then oh,
by the way, behind him are Max Crosby, Nick Moson,
Trey Henderson. You would you would expect all those guys.
So I think Daniel Hunter of those seven is the
(10:16):
guy you go hunt. Oh, I didn't know him, and
and so that front four, and then you take their secondary.
Now Stingley is the third overall pick, the corner on
on Seattle's right side. Uh, and then Kamari Lassiter, the
second rounder out of Georgia. I mean, they got talented corner.
The corners aren't probably playing to the level of their talent.
(10:38):
But then Jalen Petre's playing his ass off as a
nickel and a safety guy. So so I think that
they're Oh, by the way, they're middle linebacker. It seems
like every week Seattle's playing good middle linebackers. But but uh, yeah,
there's just there's a lot of talent out there.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
But but I think it's it's the coaching.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And uh, when they brought in cjs Route, they also
they they lovey Smith is gone and they've got They've
got Demiko Ryans as a hell of a defensive coach.
They are tied together. As you said, I'm more impressed
with the coaching when I see a team that plays zoned,
because you have to play more as a unit as
opposed to man to man, and and so in that regard,
(11:19):
there's some similarities between the Texans defensively and what Mike
McDonald has done with Baltimore and Seattle.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Hu melanis Weather's our QB one x'es and o's segments
here on a Monday with a Monday night football game
being played tonight at Looming Field against the Houston Texans.
But it's been such a busy week. I mean, it's
a week in which Hugh Millan's Washington Husky's faced as
mister Millons Michigan Wolverines. Yeah, over the weekend, and so
(11:52):
obviously did not go the way of the dogs. What's
your take from that Saturday debacle.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, I'm just kind of thinking about Jedfish today and
I'm wondering whether Saturday, on that plane ride and yesterday
was add or near the bottom of his just his
mood at lowest point of his coaching career. Maybe maybe
certainly head coaching for the following reasons. So he's on
(12:22):
record as having said that he'd be very intrigued by
the Florida job, he wears a advisor as an homagi
to Steve Spurrier. He has said it'd be very hard
to turn that away. So the Florida jobs, as most
no came open. Billy Napier got fired yesterday. I'm theorizing
(12:43):
that he wants that job, and he could have reasonably
thought that he was a candidate for that job. And
so now going back to ann Arbor at this time,
when when Florida is considering different candidates to go back
and only score seven points against a good but not
great Michigan team and lose by seventeen, and then furthermore,
(13:07):
it's the way they did it because his prize pupil,
Demond Williams. We all love Demond Williams, we all see
his talent. And yet a year ago, let's say on
November eleventh, a year ago, after playing Penn State, this
is what Jedfish said. He goes quote and now when
demand gets in there next year, meaning this year, he's
(13:30):
going to have the experience of playing in a white
out in front of one hundred and seven thousand, He's
going to have the experience of what does it feel
like to try and make a slant throat into tight
coverage on fourth and fifth and be able to draw
from that experience end quote that there's some irony there
because you were you played demand at sometimes at awkward
(13:50):
times a year ago, and maybe the senior senior players
were grousing like, hey, are we playing for twenty twenty four?
We plan for the future. And so Demon Williams was
given that experience for Saturday's game against Michigan. And the
irony is that he had he had spoken to Now
it wasn't fourth and a five this past Saturday, and
(14:13):
it wasn't a white out, but it wasn't front. It
was in front of one hundred and seven thousand, and
the critical interception the base when it was the score
was tied seven to seven, and it was essentially a
pick six that was a slant route and which which
against Fish had commented on that particular route a year ago.
And both of those interceptions, the first two interceptions that
(14:35):
were on first and ten, the first one was a
slant route. He just didn't see the will linebacker. That
was a good good play for that defense. You just
you got to in and out high low that will
linebacker and and he didn't see him. So that's on
Demon Williams. The second interception was called why stick? That
is the most ubiquitous. I was literally coaching that in
(14:57):
seventh grade. It's all over high school call in the NFL.
That concept. It's been around for a long damn time.
And you don't want to run that against a five
hundred two deep z. So so wink what Martinel the
defeats defensive coordinator for Michigan. He out coached him on
that play. And then the confusion where the tight ends
breaking out and Demon Williams is expecting him to hook apparently.
(15:22):
You know when I coach that, I was like, hey,
tight end, if you're going to hook it up in
the zone, then turn inside. If you're going to break
away from that, what's called the third defender, you count
outside end. If you're going to break away from the
number three, then then you break to the outside. And
then there's there is a a cohesion, an understanding between
(15:42):
quarterback and receiver and so on that play. The second interception, Uh,
Washington out coached and so I think it's a I
think it was really a probably a disillusioning plane ride going.
We just scored seven points and the damn Florida jobs
open and DeMont Williams just threw it three interceptions. And
(16:04):
I thought we had groomed him so that he this
would be the type of game he could take over.
And he still has yet to have a quality win
against a good opponent.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know, he's beat beat, beat up on, beat up
mightily on the feeble. But Demond Williams has yet to
have that signature win. And don't tell me the Louisville game.
When they missed their start. You know, their their starting
quarterback bout out for the Bowl. Their second string went
in the transferred poll, their their best defense, and they
had got their their best defensive dB. Everybody pulling out
(16:38):
of that game. That was You watched that tape. It
looked like there was eight guys playing defense for Louisvill.
So don't tell me the Bowl game. He's got to
have a win like he should have had on Saturday.
That's why you played him a year ago. And so
at an event, I think that it's a little bit
of a sobering experience for Jed Fish trying to get
over that game.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well to night, we got to enjoy the craziness of this.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It is yeah, crazy, it can be well tomorrow, you
guys are going to kill it again no matter what happens.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So keep up the good work. All right. We'll talk
to you now too. Well all right, r QB one
Hugh Millan and he will be with us tomorrow whether
the Mariners winn or lose. To spend some time on
the Seahawks and their game against the Texans tonight, we
will spend a little bit more time on it with
Mike Holmgren, who joins us next Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Hi, Yes, coach, o'ma joins us here on this Monday,
So much going on around these here on parts. Uh,
and yet we do have a Monday night football game.
We haven't talked to coaching a little while. We miss him,
and so here he is with us on Chuck and Buck.
Good morning, sir, Good morning Chuck. How's it going? All right?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Going?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
All right? What do you think? What do you think
about Game seven tonight? What's your gut feel? What are
you feeling? Oh?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, the Marriers are gonna do it. It's gonna be exciting.
Uh uh, they got it. It's been so good and
then last night it just, uh, you know, it got
away from him. So see how the pitching is. That's
the big thing.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, yeah, I like, do you get you in that clubhouse? Maybe?
Uh meal, little pep talk.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well, I don't think, you know, Dan, Dan seems to
be able to get him going, so you know, we
hope he does it again.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I don't know. I think a holmgrun fire needs to
be unders I couldn't hurt. Yeah, that's what I think.
What do you what do you chart out as the
key to this thing tonight? Going up against a great
defense in Houston.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be It could be a
low scoring game. And they you know, Houston has a
good defense, a good line up front. So the matchup
between the offensive line for the Seahawks and the upfront
for the for the Texans is going to be the
deciding factor, I think. So I hope a lot of
play action. That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well that's what I was gonna go with.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It was the play action, and yet they haven't really
ran the ball super effectively, and yet the play action
still works. So being the offensive mastermind that you are,
is do you do you have to establish.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
The run or is it no?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Just run it a couple of times and then do
what's been working more often than not, even though you
know you're going up against a defense that doesn't give
up a bunch running or passing.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Yeah, you know what, it always helps when you can
establish the runner for your playpack, play pass game. But
I think the just have to come out and call things,
you know, throw it on first down, call your game
a little differently, you know, to keep the defense off
balance because they've got a good defense. So that's what
I'm hoping to see.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Mike Comrian with US says, the Seahawks take on the
Houston Texans here this evening, What is your take on
c J. Stroud? He got off to such a great
start as an NFL quarterback, and then maybe a little
bit of a sophomore slump a year ago, even though
he still helped his team get into the playoffs, and
then this year off to a little bit of a
(20:33):
slow start. A lot of people thought he was going
to have a rebound. So what's your read on CJ.
Stroud as he plays in his third year in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Well, I think he's kind of hot and cold. He's
not real consistent right now. But he's really a talented guy.
So when I watch him play, it looks like some
of the decision making physically he's got everything okay, But
typically with quarterbacks and you guys know this, you know
their decision making and how they redefense is how they
prepare for the game. Even the great physical talent doesn't
(21:05):
get you through things unless you prepare properly, unless you understand,
really understand what you're trying to do and every pass.
So that's what I see. I see at a little bit,
not throwing it on time, making some bad decisions on occasion.
Otherwise he's got everything. I really love to have this
(21:26):
guy on my team.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
What do they have to do the Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, is it just as simple as win to
try to get over this hump? A little bit of
the home field advantage? I mean it used to be
back you know, you kind of brought that thing here
and it was the worst place to come play.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Nobody liked doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
And yet they're going on the road and winning left
and right, but finding it more difficult to do at home.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
What do they got to change?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, you know, Buck, it's a puzzle, honestly, because we
talk about it each week. It seems like and and
they you have such an advantage, the team has such
an advance, and that advantage should equate to wins. And
I don't know, you know, I mean I was even
thinking if I do they stay in hotels and that
(22:12):
before the game? Do they let them stay home? I
don't know what they do, but I always said, if
I can control them at home, I'm going to control them.
So they're going to stay in the hotel, I'm going
to check them for bedcheck, and then we're going to
go to the stadium. I don't know if they do that.
If they do that, fine, but there's something that they're
not taking advantage of. And so to your point, they
(22:34):
got to win. They got to win big at home
and get them rolling that way and get them using
the crowd and the fans will react accordingly.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You know, coach and the National Football League quarterbacks, if
they get off to a rough start in their careers,
they tend to get put to the back of the line.
But we've seen a couple of guys Baker Mayfield and
Sam Darnold with the Seahawks that are kind of taking
that rich Gannon approach. Like something clicked here in the
(23:04):
last couple of years. I don't know what it is.
Maybe you can tell me. What is it that like
a veteran quarterback who's not really found his success until
later in life, what tends to kick in? What do
they tend to have in common when it finally does
start to go well?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I think, first of all, it's the combination, is the
connected activity between the coach or the coordinator and the player.
Because you know, we talked about it for as well.
You know, you go to the Jets as your number
one draft pick and a lot of expectations, It's New
York and it doesn't work, and all of a sudden,
you go into a little bit of a slump, saying,
maybe I wasn't as good as I thought it was.
(23:46):
But then you get with the right coach, the right program,
surrounded by some people that can really play, and then
you're calling the game to his strength, and all of
a sudden you get to be more effective. And then
it builds your confidence and you become the player that
you were supposed to be, and you know, you see
it and at Baker Mayfield's a great example of that.
(24:09):
Sam Donald's is a great example of that. He finally
had a place. Well, I think he went to the
place last year, so he got a good, good situation
in Minnesota. Look at Minnesota now, I mean they're struggling
a little bit with their quarterback situation because of injury.
But with those guys that come into your program, and
you know that when you get one of those guys
(24:32):
and then you say, okay, I always saw it throwing
complete caution to the win. Just give me somebody, give
me somebody with physical talents, and I can help him
be the best he can be. And I think that's
how you have to approach it. And then then you
get the kid to buy in and then you got something.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Coach, obviously.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I mean, even after this week, they're going to have
ten weeks of football, so long ways to go. But
how important do you feel it is for them to
keep with the forty nine ers and Rams considering if
they win this one, they'll still be tied record wise
anyways with them versus fallowing the game behind.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, No, I think it's this game is really important, Buck.
It's really important because the forty nine ers are doing
it even though they're quarterbacks. A lot of people are hurt.
But it's going to go down to the wire in
the division, in my opinion, it's going to be really close.
So every single game is important, and this game in
particular because then they have the buy I think next week, right, yep, yep, yeah,
(25:33):
so going into the buy, kind of regroup, get the
injury guys back, and then play the rest of the season.
But listen, we thought they were going to be pretty good,
but they're they're pretty good. I mean, they're doing fine,
But this game, this game tonight is really important for
all the reasons you mentioned, not the downplay at all,
win at home, get it going at home, and then
(25:55):
you can see a really bright future. You know.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
When you were at coach of the Seahawks, you were
here for each your omania, the record setting a regular
season that the Mariners had, and uh, of course World
Series dreams, and so what what is that like to
be the football team in town that usually gets the
most attention.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
And then all of a sudden, you know, you start
sharing that stage, if not handing the stage over to
the local baseball team in town. What was that experience
like for you? And uh? And and what is the
what is it like for the players?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I didn't like it. It put a lot of pressure on me,
you know, No, I I you know, I gotta. I
got a chance to visit with all the managers, not
not this year, but when when I was coaching, and
we kind of had a mutual respect and mutual relationship
and I was rooting for them all the way and
they knew that. And so yeah, this is it's you
(26:57):
just you're happy for them. You're happy for them, You're
happy for the fans. This is a really exciting deal.
And if they go to the World Series, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
But I went to went to church yesterday and I
had guys come up to me. I was at the game.
I was at the game, you know game. I said, Okay,
calm down, we still got a little to play here.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
You know, I want to.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
How about you mean football? No, not football?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Uh well it's fun, there's no question about it. So
get out the popcorn tonight, you know, yes, and enjoy yourself.
I mean, you got a lot of stuff to choose from.
You got your cracking hockey at four o'clock. That's when
I get started, and then you got baseball at five,
and you got football at seven. So just buckle in,
get your snacks ready.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
No, I'm in fact, I'm taking some pressure off Catthy tonight.
I'm making ribs. You're making ribs, coleslaw, and garlic mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Those three, all right? So Bucky and I are broadcasting
Hive from the Holme grins. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I was hoping Buck you'd bring a little dip over,
but I guess that's what could happen.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Well, if I'm invited for all those fictions, I'll bring
some elk dip for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
They'll bring a vat bring a keg. You just go
ta keg? All right, coach, Well, enjoy we'll talk to
you tomorrow, right guy. Thanks, all right, Mike Homberan joining
us right here on Chuck and Buck in the Mornings.
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Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, you know, prepping for Game seven. We're doing our
postgame show out at the snow Kwami Casino at the
Hawk's Peak. Probably the coolest sportsmart around that. I mean,
it's really cool. The thing makes it the coolest is
that it's in my town, so that's what makes it
really cool. But I was looking yesterday and kind of,
(29:40):
you know, everything was running together. I got the right
before game time, ended up getting some wings. They were delicious,
But I figured out what I'm doing today. Oh, I
got a meal that is guaranteed to get bring us
a w in our first ever game seven.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I didn't know you could do such a thing.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yep, yep, I found it. It's like flashing out at me.
It's called a squatch burger. I don't know if you
looked at it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I think it's a playing off of a sasquatch because
there's been a sack Watch. Maybe it is sack watchburger, sackwatchburger.
I eat one of those, Okay, sackwatchburger. I think we're
gonna win because we're on Sackwatch.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Okay, well it's called squatch, so sack squatch Burger. It's
Hempler's bacon tillhm of cheddar, a fried egg, an onion
ring tomato. I'll probably lose that those are gross, Jalapeno
dejon A's, and some house made pickles, and then I'm
going to top it off with a brownie Sunday. Okay,
(30:36):
it's called a game seven meal. First time to the
World Series meal. I'm getting it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Good for you. I do love. By the way, I
don't know who posts this, Maybe it was Ashley. Did
you post the kh a R We have ten hours
to go until the Mariners playing a game seven? Yeah?
Was that your hand with a gift? That was a
brilliant idea And the responses have been a ma and
so representative of how I feel. Yeah, but they're all
(31:03):
so different. You can tell that people are really tapping
into their own feelings about it. So if you get
a chance, that's so funny, like you get one gift
to kind of or gift to represent how you're feeling
right now about tonight's game, and the variety that we
got back is hilarious worth checking out and going through.
(31:25):
Nice job, Ashley, Ryan, Oh thank you? What's your one
last thing?
Speaker 6 (31:29):
So, of course the one game we haven't really mentioned
much about the cracking game tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
We've you know, just briefly talked about it.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Because in the sea of things that are happening, it's
early in their season, so there's not as much pressure.
But Berkeley Catton is going to make his NHL debut
tonight Berkeley, which is a pretty big deal. And Jared
mccannon is out with a lore body injury, So there
you go.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I noticed those hockey guys they do with Berkeley Catton
kind of what they do with cap O Cackle. They
can't help it, they can't help, but just like, really
pop it out there, Berkeley, especially that Mike Benton, Mike
Ben's going to change both his kids' names to Berkeley Caton.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
He should.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
His head might explode if he did that. Watching baseball
with Mike Benton, he takes everything so literally. Oh yeah,
I uh so, Revos made that great play Friday night
on the backhand up the middle, and I I go
to speak around Benton to Bucky because he was sitting
in between us, arose between two thorns. Oh yes, And
(32:30):
I said, Plonko get that. I didn't say like the
full sent Bucky goes no chance. Bucky knew exactly what
I said. Does Polonco make that same play without having
to say the entire thing. Benton goes, No, that was Revos. Oh,
Mike Benton. I was like, thanks Mike, Yeah, we know
who's out there. But well you missed the one later
(32:52):
because later Wilson, Dan Wilson challenged the canzone home run
down the left field line, and I will hell challenges that. Yeah,
it seemed weird. That was Mike. He goes it was
Dan Wilson, like, why are.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
You challenging that, especially someone who looks at it on
video first?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
There was no reason to challenge none, none at all.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That was Dan Wilson. You're the manager of the team.
He does those things. He's the one on TV they
show it. He puts his hands on his ears. Thanks Mike,
Thanks hockey boy. Yeah, but yeah I missed it.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Sorry, Dan. You can't just because you really want it
to be a home run, you can't challenge it.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
You'd be like, you know what, I'm gonna challenge and
they're like, you know what, Actually that was really close,
So you have to have evidence that actually it should
be overturned.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
All right, Well here we go Game number seven. My
one last thing is, look, I know what Hugh just
told me. He said, it's not going to come down
tonight to who the better team is. It's going to
come down to who's clutch. And I know that he's right,
but when you make these kind of predictions beforehand, I
just feel like we're the better team. And then seven games,
that's all they're giving us. It's not a best of
(34:15):
nineteen to really figure out who the better team is.
Seven games. It's more than five. It's better than five,
certainly better than three. Beats the hell out of one.
So seven games is what they give us to try
to prove that we're better. And the longer the series,
the more opportunity that the better team emerges. And so yes,
I do realize that one game isolated is going to
(34:35):
come down to who comes through in the clutch. But
I just think that the aggregate of the entire seven
game series, the better team is going to prevail. I
just think that we are doesn't look like we're playing
better right now, but I do believe we are the
better team. We've got the deeper pitching, which is going
to come in handy tonight. So I'm just gonna stick
with it. We're gonna take game number seven, We're gonna
get it done. I'm going to tell you who's going
(34:57):
to come through. It's Josh Naylor. Nails Nails is the game.
It's going to come through in the big moment for
us because I think he was born for it so
and it's going to payoff. You have Gino come through
on Friday in game five and Nayler to come through
in game seven shows you how important it is to
(35:17):
add the right pieces at the trading deadline and to
be aggressive at the trading deadline. And it's going to
be the difference. It's been the difference in US winning
the division. It's going to be the difference in US
getting to the World Series. That's my prediction.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
All right, all rights today.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
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You can come out there and be a part of
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hour game.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
A lot, a lot one Squatchburger Sasquatch Watchburger, squatch Burger
and multiple brownies and dull ups of ice.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
There you go. I mean, who's gonna miss that? Right
to see that for yourself? Uh huh. And the game
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