October 27, 2025 • 33 mins
- Headlines and 12th Man news with GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) It’s back to work as the Seahawks come off the bye week and start preparing for the Commanders on Sunday night. Can the defense find some consistency? What is the plan for the run game and can the Seahawks get it going? :30- Oh look at that, somebody went 5-0 in fact or fiction last week! Oh hey, it was us! Looks like we may be sending Bucky to more colonoscopies if things start going downhill again. :35- Bucky makes the first FoF pick of the week; can we keep it going? :45- ABCs of the Mariners - U is for underpaid: suddenly Cal Raleigh looks underpaid after his historic season and new contract extension. Should the M’s rip up the deal and give Cal a little something extra? - V is for VIP: Julio has really embraced Seattle as his home and he immerses himself in the local scene. He was given a standing ovation during the Kraken game on Saturday.
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Go out of the shock though with Coleman on his
right hand, there's a snap. Looks into the flat. Now
he's gonna throw it to the ends of.
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Wide open des Robuck got it again. Waiting on the signal,
was he in bounced? Two arms out touchdown Washington. Touchdown
number two for true freshman danz Roebuck.
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Demon Williams goes under center Jonah Fulman deep in the
back that they'll throw it backwards to Denzel body bos.
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To the ends and wide open Jonah Coleman touchdown Washington.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
They drew up of beauty.
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And how about the arm on Denzel Boston.
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Williams takes a snap hand off Jonah cleming off to.
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The right, makes a man miss John touch.
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Gets to the right, polon to get in.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Waiting for the signal. Two arms up, touchdown Washington snap.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Demon looking left, looks over the middle, staying cool at the.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
W Down's gonna go hangling.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Left forty five forty fact thirty. Demon has a first
time does he puss off a Tuckler Spence inside the
twenty demand. Williams says, get off me and rolls into
the red zone.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
As the Huskies have first and ten.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They got to the right Williams on the run speed
to the ads fires.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Head zone top.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Did he hold on?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Touchdown Denzel Boston.
Speaker 8 (01:24):
What a game for Denzel Boston, My goodness, ten catches
over in fifty yards receiving a touchdown catch also through
a touchdown pass. Of all the guys on this team,
he's the one the NFL scouts are drooling over. He's
the one that's going to be in the first round
of the NFL Draft this year. Even though he doesn't
get as much attention as our quarterback or Jonah Coleman
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at running back, but he put it on full display
on Saturday at the expense of Illinois. Man, when you
beat a powerhouse like that one that just year after year,
one hundred years, just a steady teig of mediocrity, Okay, yeah,
I mean, I wonder where you're going to land, intimidating,
especially when it's raining and you never know because they
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you know, whatever element Illinois just seems to fight through it,
fight through it. And come on the other side being okay.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, just average.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Yeah yeah, they just just bring on all comers, guys,
doesn't matter whatever, whatever, However much the deck is stacked
against them, they will come out very mediocre.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah exactly. I grew up with it. I know all
about it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
It's Chuck, it's buckets Ashley here.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
On this Monday morning, the Dogs went over Illinois forty
two to twenty five.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
On Saturday, they moved to six and two on the season.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
They are currently ranked twenty eighth in the Associated Press,
which officially makes them unranked at this stage, but the
pathway a bit clear. Should have three winnable games before Oregon.
And so yes, you are a this morning to think
about a path toward the college football playoff. And that's
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where we'll start with our Frostbrewed Corps Frostbrewed Corps.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Light Choose Chill headlines.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
It is a Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to
Monday Night football Tonight at five fifteen pm. It will
be the Washington Commanders taking on the Kansas City Chiefs
to wrap up a week that did not feature the Seahawks,
who were on by Jets won their first game of
the year. Baltimore won their first game in five weeks,
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and the Texans defeated the San Francisco forty nine Ers
to drop the forty nine ers to third place in
the NFC West. Tonight, the Sounders will start their postseason.
They're in Minnesota to take on Minnesota United. They will
start that match at six o'clock. Jackson Felts will join
us to preview at eight thirty. Cracking back to back
(03:52):
nice wins here early in the season, including a Saturday
win over Edmonton at home. They'll be back in action
at Climate Pledge tomorrow at seven point thirty, and Game
three of the World Series is going to be tonight.
The series shifts to Los Angeles. Max Schurzer will pitch for.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The Blue Jays BOO, and Tyler glass Now will pitch
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
BOO.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
World Series coverage right here on KJR, brought to you
by Seattle's closest no Qualmie Casino and Hotel. Ryan Healy
is actually going to join us this morning at nine
o'clock to talk some baseball, But right now we talked
Seahawks football with our Seahawks insider Greg Though.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, what did you do this weekend. What did
you do that was adventurous?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Hung out? We just relaxed and hung out. I was
telling Ashley, it was kind of refreshing. Yeah, been home
for a week in the long time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Yeah, rainy weekend, no, yeah, there really wasn't much of
an opportunity to go outside.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You just had to watch the leaves get wet.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Yeah, we were going to go do some mountain biking adventure,
and the weather so we'll just stay home and got nice.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Yeah, you needed reset. I mean, you've been working hard.
You've been covering two sports for goodness sake here as
of late. Well, the Seahawks don't play this week, but
they got a little bit of help from the Houston Texans.
I know it's very dangerous to kind of compare games,
but you know, the Seahawks most recently had a pretty
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easy time with Houston. Meanwhile, Houston sort of blew the
doors off of San Francisco. So in the big picture,
as this team's trying to win the division, how much
how much respect do we give the Texans knocking off
the forty nine ers yesterday?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Well, first of all, those are now the first place Seahawks,
don't you know? Yeah, I've heard two of the forty
nine ers lost yesterday. Look, the last two times the
forty nine ers haven't made the playoffs in the decade,
it's because they were just decimated by injuries in those seasons,
and they're racked by injuries again. Rock Perdy's not in.
Fred Warner has been heard. Nick Bosta didn't play yesterday.
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Talking to best players on the team. Some of the
best players in the league. Christian McCaffery is back from injury,
as is George Kittle.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They had a touchdown yesterday.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You know, George Kittle last week didn't have a catch
for the first time in his career with Mac Jones
as his quarterback, and the Mac Jones magic seems to
have run out.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
At least it did in Houston.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
The most glaring thing to me was Houston. I watched
some of that game. Houston ran up four hundred and
seventy I think it was four seventy four to seventy
two something like that total yards on San Francisco's defense.
And when I saw Houston's offense and c. J. Stott,
they didn't look like a juggernut at all. Against Seattle.
They were sputtering they couldn't run the ball, they couldn't
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convert on third downs. The Seahawks really neutralized them compared
to what San Francisco did. But again, the forty nine
Ers are a shell of their full team and teams
are taking advantage of them because of it. So the
Seahawks are in first place by virtue of a better
division record.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So far, it's early one and one in the division
and Rams are zero one.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Both of them have lost the forty nine Ers so far,
and of course the Seahawks haven't played the Rams yet.
Later this month, a couple weeks, the Seahawks will be
down in Inglewood. It's still really early and there's still
time for Brock Purdy and Warner and those that get
healthy again. But the Seahawks need to take advantage of this.
That's the way seasons go and division titles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can win them.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You can't win them in October November, but you could
sure lose them or lose a chance to win them.
So the Seahawks need to keep doing what they have
been doing, which is their defense keeping them in most
games except Tampa Bay, and then their offense taking advantage
in most times of their passing opportunities, and now they're
gonna get three defensive starters back.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It appears Sunday Night.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Ed Washington, Devin Witherspoon, Jullian Love, and Derek Hall all
expected to play. All expected to practice this week and
play on Sunday night.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Gee, I mean, you go into a bye week sitting
in good position. I think maybe it's you know, it
hasn't been a perfect season, but still been pretty durn good,
and like you said, you find yourself in first place
after the way in which the other team's played out.
And so I mean, I think that this is about
the time of the season that I'm, like, might start
feeling good about how I was, how I think about
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a team. So I mean that this defense is legit.
You talk about the difference between what you watched in
the Houston Texans, what they did to a decimated forty
nine ers team versus what we just watched them not
do or in being capable of doing against the Seahawks.
I think that's legit. I think it has been the
entire time. I think anybody that was thinking that is right.
And yet when it comes to the offense and the
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running is what we're watching in the run game, even
though there's room for improvement, is that kind of who
they are where there's going to be scuffles regardless of
how much they can try to improve it, it's probably
not going to be maybe as good as I thought
it could be at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, they're sure going to try, Bucky.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It is who they are right now.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
It's not who they want to be, it's not who
they're designed to be on offense, and so they're going
to keep running. They run it more than anybody in
the NFL, yet they're gaining the third fewest yards in
the NFL, thirtieth yards per carry. So they'll keep running
even when the results aren't there. I think Klinkubiak has
proven that, and we talked about that even before the
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season started. At would likely be the case. So they're
going to give it such ample opportunities that there's a
chance that law of averages says they will run the
ball better just because they're going to run it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They're not going to stop.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
They are going to continue to design their offense around
running the ball, play action passes off of it. They
are convinced their line coaches and their offensive designers are
convinced this offensive line needs to have a running game
to slow down opposing pass rushers, and I fully believe
that is the case. I don't think you can just
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wing it forty five times with Sam Donald and expect
to have the same results that they've had so far.
One of the reasons Donald is leading the league in
yards per pass attempt is because they're.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Running the ball so much.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
They're facing a lot of stack boxes safeties coming down
near the line of scrimmage, and a lot of those
Smith and Jigba plays over the top are because there's
one fewer guy back in the back defending. It's simple
math that when they see a stack box, they're throwing
over the top of it. And running into stack boxes
in the NFL is usually not a great result, and
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that's usually what's happened to the Seahawks run game. We'd
look at Zach Sharbone the fewish yards per attempt because
most of the time he's got four dudes staring at
him as soon as he grabs the ball. Doesn't matter
who the running back is, you're gonna have a tough
time sledding against that. The push on the offensive line
has been the most disappointing thing we saw in the
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preseason reminder that preseasons don't always mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We saw them.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Pushing and opening huge holes, and they haven't done that
consistently at all. I've said it before, They've really only
had one half of one game where they played offensively
like they want to, and that's at Pittsburgh, the only
one hundred yard rushing day of the season for Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But they will keep trying.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
It's their identity, it's their design, it's how they've built
the roster, but how they built the offensive line, and
they have to do it, and that probably the first
seven games are an indication that's probably going to lead
to some more very frustrating games if fans watching them
just run into a brick wall literally.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Of course, you can follow Mat g bel Seattle on
x and Thenewstribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage, and.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Look, it's the football, National Football League.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Injuries are part of it all, and I'm sure there
were some temptations to rush back Devin Witherspoon and Julian
Love throughout these first few weeks, But here you sit
five and two first place. As we've pointed out, Witherspoon
hasn't played since San Francisco. For goodness sake, Witherspoon and
Love obviously haven't played together since San Francisco. So to
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resist that temptation to them back and pee in such
good position and coming off a bye what kind of rejuvenation,
what kind of a spark could Witherspoon in Love's return
provide for Mike McDonald on Sunday night.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Yeah, that's a big deal. And the guy who might
benefit the most is Nick even Worry because he can
now play how Mike McDonald designed him and drafted him
to play and expected him to play. It's gonna really
be I asked last week. Okay, it looks like Witherspon's
gonna play. First of all, just to be clear, witherspin
did come back for the Week four at Arizona. He
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re injured his knee in that game, and so they
haven't been a whole since the fifth play of the
season when Nick Even Worry went out in Week one.
But they were trying to get Witherspoon back. Wasn't like,
let's just shelve you through the bye week, right, right?
He was consistently getting tested, retested, leaving the team to
go get all kinds of tests and work done on
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that mcl bruise, and it wasn't responding, but they.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did try and they didn't.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Just just worked out this way that the bye week
is now maximizing his rest for it. But I think
Emon Worry is the guy that's going to really benefit
and therefore the defense is going to really benefit. Demon
Worrey has quickly become maybe the surest tackler on the defense,
and he's get a lot of opportunities to do it
because of where they're playing and when they play him
in that slot alley position and teams throw quickly to
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get rid of the ball before the pass rush, that
guy in the slot corner the inside slot safety position
has to tackle in the open field or else you're
dead because there's nobody behind you and you're going to
get You're gonna lose fifteen to twenty yards before your
fellow defensive backs run him down. Well, even Worri has
been dropping dudes as soon as they catch passes, and
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that turns five yard passes into five yard games instead
of fifteen yard games. And that's the difference between punting
and first downs, which becomes a difference between no points
and points. That's how important Nick Emon.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Worriy is.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Week I said, Okay, now Witherspoon's coming back. Coach Mike McDonald,
what does that mean for who your nickel's going to be.
Because when Witherspoon has been on the field, of course,
he's been the nickel on third downs and they bring
an extra cornerback usually onto the field to play three
corners in the nickel. And he said, that's an interesting
problem to have. Meaning to me, Nick even Worey is
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going to stay where he's been because of how good
he's been. I would expect Witherspoon and Joe Josh Job
to be the outside corners, and I would think Nick
Rick reek Woollen will be the odd man out in
that and that they'll go with three safeties with love
back and Nick even Worry as the nickel. I'm expecting
that in Washington on Sunday that gives them a better
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run defender, a stouter, bigger run defender near the line
of scrimmage. If Washington wants to counter with runs against nickel,
and it gives them their shorest tackler in the open
field against receivers Leam and worry, even though he's only
played a couple full games because of that injury, and
Week one really has been exactly maybe even more than
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they thought he would be right away.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Jay.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
One of the brighter spots on the season up to
this point has been Jackson Smith and Jig. Obviously Sam
Darnold getting him the ball too. But do you think
there's a chance that they're going to go in the
avenue of we got to get others incorporated into this
a little bit more, or might as well just double down.
He seems really difficult to cover and he catches everything
that gets near him. I mean, are they gonna just
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say we don't need to spread it around necessarily. We
got a guy that's leading the world right now. We're
just gonna continue that trend here, Buggy.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think Chuck and I talked about this last week.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I think what's gonna happen is they're gonna say they
need to spread it around. They're gonna make play calls
that design more Cooper Cup, more of a j Barner,
more of Tory Horton, who has been opened down the field.
Ash has pointed out in our round table. They're going
to design it that way to want more balance so
that teams can't defend one receiver. But I think when
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push is coming to show of the guy who actually
has to throw the ball under pressure and get it
out before the rush comes, is thrown at number eleven
because he trusts that he's going to get open under
any and all coverage situation. So far he has so
they can design and say all they want. But when
Donald's got a three hundred pound guy in his face,
he's thrown a number eleven crossing the middle of the
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end zone for a touchdown and a dunk over the goalpost.
It doesn't matter what the play design is. It doesn't
matter what they've said. On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, when the
quarterback is about to get hit, he's thrown at to
Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So so far, that's what's happened.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Clint Kobiak has not had game plans that fourteen targets
go to Smith and Jigua and three to Cooper Cup.
He's called many more plays with Cup as the primary receiver,
and Donald has thrown backside third redthrows to Smith and Jigba.
He's thrown on the fourth and one play against Houston.
Instead of the two yard out to the tight end
at every quarterback in the league throws, he throws an
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eighteen yard out to Smith and Jigpa the lower percentage place.
In Donald's mind, that's the better option right now. So
I think until some teams designed a coverage that completely
tilts the field of Smithenjigba and leaves dudes just running
Scott free down the middle like Cup and Horton, I think.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's going to continue.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
There's no reason for Donald not to throw it to
number eleven right now, the way he's beating every coverage.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Well, I woke up this morning feeling good about one thing.
If Luke Wilson and Chris Carson and Red Bryant want
to make a return to the National Football League, we
know they're going to the Raiders. So how about Lockett
and Pete and Gino reuniting over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You know, you gotta give Pete Carroll credit for his
loyal don't you. I mean when he sends guys out
the door, and he.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Didn't send Locket out the door. Of course he wasn't
the coach.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Then, But when guys depart Seattle or in this case
he departed Seattle. He maintains the relationships. He sees him
at off season things, he sees them at combines, and
he goes up and hugs him and loves them and
slaps on the back and laughs about the times they had.
There are no bridges burned and I'm putting with Russell Wilson, nobody.
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That's how who Pete Carroll is.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And it pays oftentimes like this. I'm glad Tyler Hawkin
has a job.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I'm glad someone had sign him, and I'm glad it's
a guy that he really likes in the doors and
then brought him.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Up in the NFL and drafted him. Uh good for
Tyler Hawckett. But yeah, it does speak to Pete Carroll.
Not only is he loyal, he puts a.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Lot of work into relationships that we'll see if it
actually pays off, but it certainly keeps guys close and
wanting to play with Pete Carroll. And we know Gino
Smith loves him.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Maybe Earl and Pete had a little work to do,
I don't know, but everybody else seems to be on board,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Greg.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, that's that's a unique situation. Harol Thomas departure is
a unique situation.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
But yeah, event well, we'll talk to you tomorrow, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
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Speaker 8 (19:06):
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
All right.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Factor fiction comes up at seven thirty five. Yes, there
are some hot teams in the professional football world, but
none hotter than this team. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. You know what I think, maybe Bucky being
out for a couple of days. You know, you just
they say that in baseball, if you're going in a slump,
you just got to do something weird to like shake
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things up, and so, uh, Yeah, maybe next time we're
in a slump, we'll figure it out quicker and we'll
just send Bucky to get his old bum checked out.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yeah, like, hey, we lost to in a row, Bucky,
go get.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
I mean, I'd like to do a different way to
get out of a slump. I mean, I'll just take
a couple of days off if that's needed.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I feel like they should.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Maybe we should alternate who gets to take the day
off to bust the slump.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
That might be it's just taking days off, all stick
with it. If it's having to do what I had
to do.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If you take the day off, what you had the street.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Come on, it worked, come on, it worked perfectly.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Okay, Well then if you guys want to have your
turn at it, then well.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I mean I've done it once. It wasn't terrible.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Uh well, we went five and oh this week we
were like kind of dominating the whole time, and then
all of a sudden we had two crappy weeks. But
everybody's kind of picking well I mean except Ian.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They were hopeless.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But you know MJ and Kid despite kids like oh
and nine start, they've battled back to five hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, he could both write last week.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Yeah, good for them, kid carrying him carrying that show
last week?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Softy and Dick have been on fire as of late,
particularly Dick, he's pretty good at this. They went three
and two, so they're twenty and sixteen right now. But
we went five and oh this week in Factor Fiction, so.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We are back on track. Yeah, we're back, baby.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Looks like we never left.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Came out of first place right now. When you go
five and oh, boy, that can turn things on a dime.
That's helpful. Yeah, it is helpful. Twenty one and eighteen
now the record for the morning show.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
We're back.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Wow, I didn't know it'd slipped below five hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
It was dark time.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah yeah, really really sad. I'd like to not think
about it. Yeah, a lot of people probably very upset out.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It hurt.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's the reason why it rains so much.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Well, I know that we have had Yeah, we've had
a lot of We've had a lot of times where
for whatever reason, the bounce backs don't work right.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That happens on our show.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
It's not our fault, but I do notice this when
I see that happen, and I'll tell you or you'll
tell me or whoever tells somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It's a lot of facts. Oh, there's a lot of facts.
They trust it, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
So when we go into a little slump, there's I
mean probably millions of people that are disappointed.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yes, well, we're sorry, We've learned our lesson. We're back
on track, so we got to keep it that way.
Let's play some factor fiction.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Where's that to go?
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Speaker 8 (23:03):
All right, Bucky didn't really cool off like Ashley and
I had there for those couple of weeks. As a
matter of fact, he got our only win last week,
so Bucky kind of kept our nose above water.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And then uh oh did Ashley and I start to swim? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Yeah, so Bucky keep it rolling. We it's your turn.
You're up for a second Monday in a row.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Yeah, well this would be great. I'll do Monday and
then you guys do the next couple days. I'll take
a couple of days off. You guys kick ass in
Thursday Friday. No, you don't mess with the streak. So anyways,
I got I got one here that I feel pretty
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super high on the Steelers. I think they can beat that.
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They're not going to be bad this year. They're gonna
beat the teams they are supposed to, but they're not
going to beat a bunch of the teams that they should.
And they're playing the Colts. The Colts have to go
to Pittsburgh, but they're only giving them two and a
half points. I'll go ahead and take the Colts minus
two and a half. At the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
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Speaker 1 (25:55):
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Speaker 6 (26:00):
Up next, we've got the ABC's of the MS.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
We're not going to finish the abcs of the MS
until we finished the Alphabet. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM ABC's of the MS. The Alphabet our guide
through a number of different topics, and today we are
to the letters to the letter you U is for underpaid. Suddenly,
Cal Raleigh, after getting his massive contract extension, looks grossly
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underpaid at this point an average of seventeen and a
half million dollars over the course of his contract. That's
the average salary. The big money really doesn't even kick
in for a couple of years. Meanwhile, they're going to
be given Logan Gilbert a contract extension this offseason that's
probably going to make him paid more than his buddy
Cal Raley. Even though Cal's coming off a historic season.
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Hell Randy a Rose Arena and arbitration this year is
probably going to make a higher salary than Cal's average
salary over the course of his contract. What do you
think I mean? Usually, when a guy signs a deal,
he signed a deal, and it doesn't matter if the
team came out on top. Great, if the player came
out on top, dems the breaks. There was one exception.
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Salvador Perez early in his career, signed an early contract
extension with Kansas City and the Royals got about halfway
through it and they're like, this just isn't even fair
for what this guy's contributing to this team right now,
and so they ripped it up, and now Salvador and
the Royals have one of the great relationships in all
of professional sports. What do you think should the Mariners
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do a solid and just say, you know what, cow,
We're gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Ten extra million over this contract, rip it up and
give him something. Don't even negotiate it.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
You're just gonna give him a little bit extra this
offseason because suddenly he seems that much more.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Valuable than he was at the time of his signature.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point over the
next five years, maybe six years, of making seventeen Yeah,
I don't think he's going to care. To be honest,
I really don't think he's going. I don't think he
looks at where he's at in the on the on
the rankings of who makes the most on this team.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Logan makes more than well, I think that they'll just.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Be like, well, fine, now you pick up the tab, right,
You're making five million more year than I am. So
you pick up the tab every time eyes that's it.
And I think that, honestly, it would probably that's what
it would be. I'd be willing to bet you that
this year when they went out to dinner, Cayle get it, dude,
I got the letter. Yeah, you're getting all of them.
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He makes seventeen million this year, I'm making seven You're
getting it. And then it's like, okay, okay, Walter, when
you make more than me, you're getting all of them,
and I for what it's worth, that is kind of
the way that it typically goes. And and I think
that I think I don't think cal will care.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's said.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
I mean, he ends up continuing down the path that
he's on right now. I wouldn't be surprised if they
with two three years left on the deal kind of
say hey, we want you to be here until you're forty.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
You're gonna end up DH in your last five years maybe,
but let's just go ahead and sign this bad boy
and basically give him a raise or an extension type
of a.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Thing, an extension extension.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
See, that's what I wouldn't do. I would rather give
it something now. I don't want to pay him when
he's not the same guy, especially this organization. I'm not
going to pay him more when he's over the hill.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
I'm just saying, I don't think I'm not going to
cal Rawley is a guy that I have a feeling's
going to be able to leave Seattle whenever he damn
will feels like it. And I think he's going to
be just fine as a guy even when he's thirty four,
thirty five, thirty six and he's maybe not as good
behind the dish anymore. And you say, dude, just you
play first for a couple of years, you just DH
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and then yes, you're gonna go straight from probably being
our catcher to being our manager. I think he's gonna
be able to drop bombs until he's thirty seven thirty
eight years old, So I'm not worried about it. I
would I would end up seeing them. I could see
them signing him through twenty thirty five at some point
in time.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
All Right vs Four VIP. Julio Rodriguez got the VIP treatment.
First time we'd seen him since the season came to
a close. He shows up at a Cracking game. He
really does immerse himself in the other sports. He goes
to U dub games, he goes to cracking games, and
I'm sure he goes to Seahawks games as well. But
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he got a bit of a standing ovation during the
cracking game, so and he seemed a little bit touched
by it. He seemed a little caught off guard by it.
But man, these are our Cal and Julio are locked
up for the next decade. Basically, this is the foundation,
and obviously most people are just fine with that.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't be. I guess
to each their own. I suppose you can have whatever opinion.
I can't wait to see what this dude ends up
being because while I think some of his criticism is ridiculous,
you know, calling him you know, you know, Jay Fraud,
that's silly. He's he's on track to like a Hall
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of Fame career at this point, and yet he still
has not figured out how to hit coming out of
spring training for a couple months. And so I'm just
excited to see. I think that there still is a
lot of that iceberg that we can't see just yet
as far as how what this guy's potential is. But yeah,
I'm about as pumped as I could possibly be having
a couple position players that are as young as him
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and Cal that think the way that they do, that
love Seattle the way that they do, that genuinely care
about us as fans, the way that I think that
they do. Yeah, I think we're sitting up in a
really good position starting with those two dudes.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
I love it when the players show up for other
teams games, and Julio might be number one guy at that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, goes to cracking games.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Yeah, And I think he went to a U dub
game with with Julio the other day.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
That was like a thing that they set up though
with the Mariners and u W.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Yeah, but Naylor's obviously a huge cracking fan. I mean
he's Canadian for goodness sake, so not a big surprise
that he's gonna yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
But I love it. And Julio might be the king
of it.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
And he really just when he says I love it
in Seattle, man, you believe it because he goes out
there and uh puts his face out there everywhere. So
it's awesome, great to see, great to see, no doubt
about it. And man, I am very excited. And if
second half Julio and first half Julio ever get together
in the cage, m and second half Julio can give
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him a few tips.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, imagine, yeah, just imagine what we we.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Goesome, The conversation would be really interesting.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Between now and then, I'm between here and Spring Trem
I'm gonna learn hypnotism, I'm gonna do something. He's a
walk back, but you're and then before we leave, he's
gonna think it's.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
July I'm gonna bring I'm gonna invite them both to
a dinner and introduce them to my new friend.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Full season Julio.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Yeah, going to be the best I'm just gonna give
them a pen and paper and just job a lot
of things down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Hate sure, all right?
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Coming up next the college football world. I mean, we've
entered a brave new world when it comes to college football.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm not sure how.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
It's going to adjust and change and shift here for
the next few years. Here's another thing that I didn't
really see coming, and it's now just part of our lives.
How college football's new world is affecting coaches. Next Sports
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Go out of the shock though with Coleman on his
right hand, there's a snap. Looks into the flat. Now
he's gonna throw it to the ends of.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Wide open des Robuck got it again. Waiting on the signal,
was he in bounced? Two arms out touchdown Washington. Touchdown
number two for true freshman danz Roebuck.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Demon Williams goes under center Jonah Fulman deep in the
back that they'll throw it backwards to Denzel body bos.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
To the ends and wide open Jonah Coleman touchdown Washington.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
They drew up of beauty.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
And how about the arm on Denzel Boston.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Williams takes a snap hand off Jonah cleming off to.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
The right, makes a man miss John touch.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Gets to the right, polon to get in.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Waiting for the signal. Two arms up, touchdown Washington snap.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Demon looking left, looks over the middle, staying cool at the.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
W Down's gonna go hangling.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Left forty five forty fact thirty. Demon has a first
time does he puss off a Tuckler Spence inside the
twenty demand. Williams says, get off me and rolls into
the red zone.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
As the Huskies have first and ten.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They got to the right Williams on the run speed
to the ads fires.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Head zone top.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Did he hold on?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Touchdown Denzel Boston.
Speaker 8 (01:24):
What a game for Denzel Boston, My goodness, ten catches
over in fifty yards receiving a touchdown catch also through
a touchdown pass. Of all the guys on this team,
he's the one the NFL scouts are drooling over. He's
the one that's going to be in the first round
of the NFL Draft this year. Even though he doesn't
get as much attention as our quarterback or Jonah Coleman
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at running back, but he put it on full display
on Saturday at the expense of Illinois. Man, when you
beat a powerhouse like that one that just year after year,
one hundred years, just a steady teig of mediocrity, Okay, yeah,
I mean, I wonder where you're going to land, intimidating,
especially when it's raining and you never know because they
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you know, whatever element Illinois just seems to fight through it,
fight through it. And come on the other side being okay.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, just average.
Speaker 9 (02:17):
Yeah yeah, they just just bring on all comers, guys,
doesn't matter whatever, whatever, However much the deck is stacked
against them, they will come out very mediocre.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah exactly. I grew up with it. I know all
about it.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
It's Chuck, it's buckets Ashley here.
Speaker 8 (02:36):
On this Monday morning, the Dogs went over Illinois forty
two to twenty five.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
On Saturday, they moved to six and two on the season.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
They are currently ranked twenty eighth in the Associated Press,
which officially makes them unranked at this stage, but the
pathway a bit clear. Should have three winnable games before Oregon.
And so yes, you are a this morning to think
about a path toward the college football playoff. And that's
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where we'll start with our Frostbrewed Corps Frostbrewed Corps.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Light Choose Chill headlines.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
It is a Choose Chill Monday, counting you down to
Monday Night football Tonight at five fifteen pm. It will
be the Washington Commanders taking on the Kansas City Chiefs
to wrap up a week that did not feature the Seahawks,
who were on by Jets won their first game of
the year. Baltimore won their first game in five weeks,
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and the Texans defeated the San Francisco forty nine Ers
to drop the forty nine ers to third place in
the NFC West. Tonight, the Sounders will start their postseason.
They're in Minnesota to take on Minnesota United. They will
start that match at six o'clock. Jackson Felts will join
us to preview at eight thirty. Cracking back to back
(03:52):
nice wins here early in the season, including a Saturday
win over Edmonton at home. They'll be back in action
at Climate Pledge tomorrow at seven point thirty, and Game
three of the World Series is going to be tonight.
The series shifts to Los Angeles. Max Schurzer will pitch for.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The Blue Jays BOO, and Tyler glass Now will pitch
for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
BOO.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
World Series coverage right here on KJR, brought to you
by Seattle's closest no Qualmie Casino and Hotel. Ryan Healy
is actually going to join us this morning at nine
o'clock to talk some baseball, But right now we talked
Seahawks football with our Seahawks insider Greg Though.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All right, what did you do this weekend. What did
you do that was adventurous?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Hung out? We just relaxed and hung out. I was
telling Ashley, it was kind of refreshing. Yeah, been home
for a week in the long time.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Yeah, rainy weekend, no, yeah, there really wasn't much of
an opportunity to go outside.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You just had to watch the leaves get wet.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Yeah, we were going to go do some mountain biking adventure,
and the weather so we'll just stay home and got nice.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Yeah, you needed reset. I mean, you've been working hard.
You've been covering two sports for goodness sake here as
of late. Well, the Seahawks don't play this week, but
they got a little bit of help from the Houston Texans.
I know it's very dangerous to kind of compare games,
but you know, the Seahawks most recently had a pretty
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easy time with Houston. Meanwhile, Houston sort of blew the
doors off of San Francisco. So in the big picture,
as this team's trying to win the division, how much
how much respect do we give the Texans knocking off
the forty nine ers yesterday?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Well, first of all, those are now the first place Seahawks,
don't you know? Yeah, I've heard two of the forty
nine ers lost yesterday. Look, the last two times the
forty nine ers haven't made the playoffs in the decade,
it's because they were just decimated by injuries in those seasons,
and they're racked by injuries again. Rock Perdy's not in.
Fred Warner has been heard. Nick Bosta didn't play yesterday.
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Talking to best players on the team. Some of the
best players in the league. Christian McCaffery is back from injury,
as is George Kittle.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
They had a touchdown yesterday.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You know, George Kittle last week didn't have a catch
for the first time in his career with Mac Jones
as his quarterback, and the Mac Jones magic seems to
have run out.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
At least it did in Houston.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
The most glaring thing to me was Houston. I watched
some of that game. Houston ran up four hundred and
seventy I think it was four seventy four to seventy
two something like that total yards on San Francisco's defense.
And when I saw Houston's offense and c. J. Stott,
they didn't look like a juggernut at all. Against Seattle.
They were sputtering they couldn't run the ball, they couldn't
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convert on third downs. The Seahawks really neutralized them compared
to what San Francisco did. But again, the forty nine
Ers are a shell of their full team and teams
are taking advantage of them because of it. So the
Seahawks are in first place by virtue of a better
division record.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So far, it's early one and one in the division
and Rams are zero one.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Both of them have lost the forty nine Ers so far,
and of course the Seahawks haven't played the Rams yet.
Later this month, a couple weeks, the Seahawks will be
down in Inglewood. It's still really early and there's still
time for Brock Purdy and Warner and those that get
healthy again. But the Seahawks need to take advantage of this.
That's the way seasons go and division titles.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You can win them.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You can't win them in October November, but you could
sure lose them or lose a chance to win them.
So the Seahawks need to keep doing what they have
been doing, which is their defense keeping them in most
games except Tampa Bay, and then their offense taking advantage
in most times of their passing opportunities, and now they're
gonna get three defensive starters back.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
It appears Sunday Night.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Ed Washington, Devin Witherspoon, Jullian Love, and Derek Hall all
expected to play. All expected to practice this week and
play on Sunday night.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Gee, I mean, you go into a bye week sitting
in good position. I think maybe it's you know, it
hasn't been a perfect season, but still been pretty durn good,
and like you said, you find yourself in first place
after the way in which the other team's played out.
And so I mean, I think that this is about
the time of the season that I'm, like, might start
feeling good about how I was, how I think about
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a team. So I mean that this defense is legit.
You talk about the difference between what you watched in
the Houston Texans, what they did to a decimated forty
nine ers team versus what we just watched them not
do or in being capable of doing against the Seahawks.
I think that's legit. I think it has been the
entire time. I think anybody that was thinking that is right.
And yet when it comes to the offense and the
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running is what we're watching in the run game, even
though there's room for improvement, is that kind of who
they are where there's going to be scuffles regardless of
how much they can try to improve it, it's probably
not going to be maybe as good as I thought
it could be at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, they're sure going to try, Bucky.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It is who they are right now.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
It's not who they want to be, it's not who
they're designed to be on offense, and so they're going
to keep running. They run it more than anybody in
the NFL, yet they're gaining the third fewest yards in
the NFL, thirtieth yards per carry. So they'll keep running
even when the results aren't there. I think Klinkubiak has
proven that, and we talked about that even before the
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season started. At would likely be the case. So they're
going to give it such ample opportunities that there's a
chance that law of averages says they will run the
ball better just because they're going to run it so much.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They're not going to stop.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
They are going to continue to design their offense around
running the ball, play action passes off of it. They
are convinced their line coaches and their offensive designers are
convinced this offensive line needs to have a running game
to slow down opposing pass rushers, and I fully believe
that is the case. I don't think you can just
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wing it forty five times with Sam Donald and expect
to have the same results that they've had so far.
One of the reasons Donald is leading the league in
yards per pass attempt is because they're.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Running the ball so much.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
They're facing a lot of stack boxes safeties coming down
near the line of scrimmage, and a lot of those
Smith and Jigba plays over the top are because there's
one fewer guy back in the back defending. It's simple
math that when they see a stack box, they're throwing
over the top of it. And running into stack boxes
in the NFL is usually not a great result, and
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that's usually what's happened to the Seahawks run game. We'd
look at Zach Sharbone the fewish yards per attempt because
most of the time he's got four dudes staring at
him as soon as he grabs the ball. Doesn't matter
who the running back is, you're gonna have a tough
time sledding against that. The push on the offensive line
has been the most disappointing thing we saw in the
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preseason reminder that preseasons don't always mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We saw them.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Pushing and opening huge holes, and they haven't done that
consistently at all. I've said it before, They've really only
had one half of one game where they played offensively
like they want to, and that's at Pittsburgh, the only
one hundred yard rushing day of the season for Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
But they will keep trying.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
It's their identity, it's their design, it's how they've built
the roster, but how they built the offensive line, and
they have to do it, and that probably the first
seven games are an indication that's probably going to lead
to some more very frustrating games if fans watching them
just run into a brick wall literally.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Of course, you can follow Mat g bel Seattle on
x and Thenewstribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage, and.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Look, it's the football, National Football League.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Injuries are part of it all, and I'm sure there
were some temptations to rush back Devin Witherspoon and Julian
Love throughout these first few weeks, But here you sit
five and two first place. As we've pointed out, Witherspoon
hasn't played since San Francisco. For goodness sake, Witherspoon and
Love obviously haven't played together since San Francisco. So to
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resist that temptation to them back and pee in such
good position and coming off a bye what kind of rejuvenation,
what kind of a spark could Witherspoon in Love's return
provide for Mike McDonald on Sunday night.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Yeah, that's a big deal. And the guy who might
benefit the most is Nick even Worry because he can
now play how Mike McDonald designed him and drafted him
to play and expected him to play. It's gonna really
be I asked last week. Okay, it looks like Witherspon's
gonna play. First of all, just to be clear, witherspin
did come back for the Week four at Arizona. He
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re injured his knee in that game, and so they
haven't been a whole since the fifth play of the
season when Nick Even Worry went out in Week one.
But they were trying to get Witherspoon back. Wasn't like,
let's just shelve you through the bye week, right, right?
He was consistently getting tested, retested, leaving the team to
go get all kinds of tests and work done on
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that mcl bruise, and it wasn't responding, but they.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Did try and they didn't.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Just just worked out this way that the bye week
is now maximizing his rest for it. But I think
Emon Worry is the guy that's going to really benefit
and therefore the defense is going to really benefit. Demon
Worrey has quickly become maybe the surest tackler on the defense,
and he's get a lot of opportunities to do it
because of where they're playing and when they play him
in that slot alley position and teams throw quickly to
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get rid of the ball before the pass rush, that
guy in the slot corner the inside slot safety position
has to tackle in the open field or else you're
dead because there's nobody behind you and you're going to
get You're gonna lose fifteen to twenty yards before your
fellow defensive backs run him down. Well, even Worri has
been dropping dudes as soon as they catch passes, and
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that turns five yard passes into five yard games instead
of fifteen yard games. And that's the difference between punting
and first downs, which becomes a difference between no points
and points. That's how important Nick Emon.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Worriy is.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Week I said, Okay, now Witherspoon's coming back. Coach Mike McDonald,
what does that mean for who your nickel's going to be.
Because when Witherspoon has been on the field, of course,
he's been the nickel on third downs and they bring
an extra cornerback usually onto the field to play three
corners in the nickel. And he said, that's an interesting
problem to have. Meaning to me, Nick even Worey is
(14:20):
going to stay where he's been because of how good
he's been. I would expect Witherspoon and Joe Josh Job
to be the outside corners, and I would think Nick
Rick reek Woollen will be the odd man out in
that and that they'll go with three safeties with love
back and Nick even Worry as the nickel. I'm expecting
that in Washington on Sunday that gives them a better
(14:42):
run defender, a stouter, bigger run defender near the line
of scrimmage. If Washington wants to counter with runs against nickel,
and it gives them their shorest tackler in the open
field against receivers Leam and worry, even though he's only
played a couple full games because of that injury, and
Week one really has been exactly maybe even more than
(15:02):
they thought he would be right away.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Jay.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
One of the brighter spots on the season up to
this point has been Jackson Smith and Jig. Obviously Sam
Darnold getting him the ball too. But do you think
there's a chance that they're going to go in the
avenue of we got to get others incorporated into this
a little bit more, or might as well just double down.
He seems really difficult to cover and he catches everything
that gets near him. I mean, are they gonna just
(15:26):
say we don't need to spread it around necessarily. We
got a guy that's leading the world right now. We're
just gonna continue that trend here, Buggy.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I think Chuck and I talked about this last week.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
I think what's gonna happen is they're gonna say they
need to spread it around. They're gonna make play calls
that design more Cooper Cup, more of a j Barner,
more of Tory Horton, who has been opened down the field.
Ash has pointed out in our round table. They're going
to design it that way to want more balance so
that teams can't defend one receiver. But I think when
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push is coming to show of the guy who actually
has to throw the ball under pressure and get it
out before the rush comes, is thrown at number eleven
because he trusts that he's going to get open under
any and all coverage situation. So far he has so
they can design and say all they want. But when
Donald's got a three hundred pound guy in his face,
he's thrown a number eleven crossing the middle of the
(16:19):
end zone for a touchdown and a dunk over the goalpost.
It doesn't matter what the play design is. It doesn't
matter what they've said. On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, when the
quarterback is about to get hit, he's thrown at to
Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So so far, that's what's happened.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Clint Kobiak has not had game plans that fourteen targets
go to Smith and Jigua and three to Cooper Cup.
He's called many more plays with Cup as the primary receiver,
and Donald has thrown backside third redthrows to Smith and Jigba.
He's thrown on the fourth and one play against Houston.
Instead of the two yard out to the tight end
at every quarterback in the league throws, he throws an
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eighteen yard out to Smith and Jigpa the lower percentage place.
In Donald's mind, that's the better option right now. So
I think until some teams designed a coverage that completely
tilts the field of Smithenjigba and leaves dudes just running
Scott free down the middle like Cup and Horton, I think.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's going to continue.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
There's no reason for Donald not to throw it to
number eleven right now, the way he's beating every coverage.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Well, I woke up this morning feeling good about one thing.
If Luke Wilson and Chris Carson and Red Bryant want
to make a return to the National Football League, we
know they're going to the Raiders. So how about Lockett
and Pete and Gino reuniting over the weekend.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You know, you gotta give Pete Carroll credit for his
loyal don't you. I mean when he sends guys out
the door, and he.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Didn't send Locket out the door. Of course he wasn't
the coach.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Then, But when guys depart Seattle or in this case
he departed Seattle. He maintains the relationships. He sees him
at off season things, he sees them at combines, and
he goes up and hugs him and loves them and
slaps on the back and laughs about the times they had.
There are no bridges burned and I'm putting with Russell Wilson, nobody.
(18:15):
That's how who Pete Carroll is.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
And it pays oftentimes like this. I'm glad Tyler Hawkin
has a job.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
I'm glad someone had sign him, and I'm glad it's
a guy that he really likes in the doors and
then brought him.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Up in the NFL and drafted him. Uh good for
Tyler Hawckett. But yeah, it does speak to Pete Carroll.
Not only is he loyal, he puts a.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Lot of work into relationships that we'll see if it
actually pays off, but it certainly keeps guys close and
wanting to play with Pete Carroll. And we know Gino
Smith loves him.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Maybe Earl and Pete had a little work to do,
I don't know, but everybody else seems to be on board,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Greg.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, that's that's a unique situation. Harol Thomas departure is
a unique situation.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
But yeah, event well, we'll talk to you tomorrow, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
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All right.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Factor fiction comes up at seven thirty five. Yes, there
are some hot teams in the professional football world, but
none hotter than this team. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM. You know what I think, maybe Bucky being
out for a couple of days. You know, you just
they say that in baseball, if you're going in a slump,
you just got to do something weird to like shake
(20:04):
things up, and so, uh, Yeah, maybe next time we're
in a slump, we'll figure it out quicker and we'll
just send Bucky to get his old bum checked out.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Yeah, like, hey, we lost to in a row, Bucky,
go get.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
I mean, I'd like to do a different way to
get out of a slump. I mean, I'll just take
a couple of days off if that's needed.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I feel like they should.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Maybe we should alternate who gets to take the day
off to bust the slump.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
That might be it's just taking days off, all stick
with it. If it's having to do what I had
to do.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
If you take the day off, what you had the street.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Come on, it worked, come on, it worked perfectly.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Okay, Well then if you guys want to have your
turn at it, then well.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
I mean I've done it once. It wasn't terrible.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Uh well, we went five and oh this week we
were like kind of dominating the whole time, and then
all of a sudden we had two crappy weeks. But
everybody's kind of picking well I mean except Ian.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
They were hopeless.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
But you know MJ and Kid despite kids like oh
and nine start, they've battled back to five hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, he could both write last week.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Yeah, good for them, kid carrying him carrying that show
last week?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Softy and Dick have been on fire as of late,
particularly Dick, he's pretty good at this. They went three
and two, so they're twenty and sixteen right now. But
we went five and oh this week in Factor Fiction, so.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We are back on track. Yeah, we're back, baby.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Looks like we never left.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Came out of first place right now. When you go
five and oh, boy, that can turn things on a dime.
That's helpful. Yeah, it is helpful. Twenty one and eighteen
now the record for the morning show.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
We're back.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Wow, I didn't know it'd slipped below five hundred.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah we did.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
It was dark time.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah yeah, really really sad. I'd like to not think
about it. Yeah, a lot of people probably very upset out.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It hurt.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's the reason why it rains so much.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Well, I know that we have had Yeah, we've had
a lot of We've had a lot of times where
for whatever reason, the bounce backs don't work right.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That happens on our show.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
It's not our fault, but I do notice this when
I see that happen, and I'll tell you or you'll
tell me or whoever tells somebody.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It's a lot of facts. Oh, there's a lot of facts.
They trust it, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
So when we go into a little slump, there's I
mean probably millions of people that are disappointed.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Yes, well, we're sorry, We've learned our lesson. We're back
on track, so we got to keep it that way.
Let's play some factor fiction.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Where's that to go?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
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Speaker 8 (23:03):
All right, Bucky didn't really cool off like Ashley and
I had there for those couple of weeks. As a
matter of fact, he got our only win last week,
so Bucky kind of kept our nose above water.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And then uh oh did Ashley and I start to swim? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Yeah, so Bucky keep it rolling. We it's your turn.
You're up for a second Monday in a row.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Yeah, well this would be great. I'll do Monday and
then you guys do the next couple days. I'll take
a couple of days off. You guys kick ass in
Thursday Friday. No, you don't mess with the streak. So anyways,
I got I got one here that I feel pretty
good about after watching the night game last night. Not
super high on the Steelers. I think they can beat that.
(23:44):
They're not going to be bad this year. They're gonna
beat the teams they are supposed to, but they're not
going to beat a bunch of the teams that they should.
And they're playing the Colts. The Colts have to go
to Pittsburgh, but they're only giving them two and a
half points. I'll go ahead and take the Colts minus
two and a half. At the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Are on fire. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
So all right, So the pick for Bucky is the
Colts minus two and a half on the road to
take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Means the Colts have to
win by a field goal or more in this game
and order for Bucky to be right, if you believe
he is right, if you think he is dead on
with this one, or even just mostly right, you go
(24:23):
ahead and text fact to four nine four to five
to one. If you think he's wrong, text fiction to
four nine four or five to one. That's how the
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to four nine four five one. If you agree with
the pick, fiction to four nine four to five one.
If you disagree with the pick. If you're right, we
enter your name into a drawing for one thousand dollars
(24:44):
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Bucky has taken the Indianapolis Colts the Red Hot Colts,
giving the Pittsburgh Steelers two and a half points, even
though they'll be playing in catch up country against Aaron
Rodgers and the Steelers. So if you agree with Bucky's pick,
(25:27):
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Fiction comes to eleven thirty five This Morning with the
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We'll play again tomorrow at seven thirty five. But come
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Speaker 1 (25:55):
A five and oh week from your morning show. We're
back on track, all right.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Up next, we've got the ABC's of the MS.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
We're not going to finish the abcs of the MS
until we finished the Alphabet. Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJRFM ABC's of the MS. The Alphabet our guide
through a number of different topics, and today we are
to the letters to the letter you U is for underpaid. Suddenly,
Cal Raleigh, after getting his massive contract extension, looks grossly
(26:27):
underpaid at this point an average of seventeen and a
half million dollars over the course of his contract. That's
the average salary. The big money really doesn't even kick
in for a couple of years. Meanwhile, they're going to
be given Logan Gilbert a contract extension this offseason that's
probably going to make him paid more than his buddy
Cal Raley. Even though Cal's coming off a historic season.
(26:49):
Hell Randy a Rose Arena and arbitration this year is
probably going to make a higher salary than Cal's average
salary over the course of his contract. What do you
think I mean? Usually, when a guy signs a deal,
he signed a deal, and it doesn't matter if the
team came out on top. Great, if the player came
out on top, dems the breaks. There was one exception.
(27:12):
Salvador Perez early in his career, signed an early contract
extension with Kansas City and the Royals got about halfway
through it and they're like, this just isn't even fair
for what this guy's contributing to this team right now,
and so they ripped it up, and now Salvador and
the Royals have one of the great relationships in all
of professional sports. What do you think should the Mariners
(27:35):
do a solid and just say, you know what, cow,
We're gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Ten extra million over this contract, rip it up and
give him something. Don't even negotiate it.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
You're just gonna give him a little bit extra this
offseason because suddenly he seems that much more.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Valuable than he was at the time of his signature.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point over the
next five years, maybe six years, of making seventeen Yeah,
I don't think he's going to care. To be honest,
I really don't think he's going. I don't think he
looks at where he's at in the on the on
the rankings of who makes the most on this team.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Logan makes more than well, I think that they'll just.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Be like, well, fine, now you pick up the tab, right,
You're making five million more year than I am. So
you pick up the tab every time eyes that's it.
And I think that, honestly, it would probably that's what
it would be. I'd be willing to bet you that
this year when they went out to dinner, Cayle get it, dude,
I got the letter. Yeah, you're getting all of them.
(28:40):
He makes seventeen million this year, I'm making seven You're
getting it. And then it's like, okay, okay, Walter, when
you make more than me, you're getting all of them,
and I for what it's worth, that is kind of
the way that it typically goes. And and I think
that I think I don't think cal will care.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's said.
Speaker 9 (28:58):
I mean, he ends up continuing down the path that
he's on right now. I wouldn't be surprised if they
with two three years left on the deal kind of
say hey, we want you to be here until you're forty.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
You're gonna end up DH in your last five years maybe,
but let's just go ahead and sign this bad boy
and basically give him a raise or an extension type
of a.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Thing, an extension extension.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
See, that's what I wouldn't do. I would rather give
it something now. I don't want to pay him when
he's not the same guy, especially this organization. I'm not
going to pay him more when he's over the hill.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
I'm just saying, I don't think I'm not going to
cal Rawley is a guy that I have a feeling's
going to be able to leave Seattle whenever he damn
will feels like it. And I think he's going to
be just fine as a guy even when he's thirty four,
thirty five, thirty six and he's maybe not as good
behind the dish anymore. And you say, dude, just you
play first for a couple of years, you just DH
(29:59):
and then yes, you're gonna go straight from probably being
our catcher to being our manager. I think he's gonna
be able to drop bombs until he's thirty seven thirty
eight years old, So I'm not worried about it. I
would I would end up seeing them. I could see
them signing him through twenty thirty five at some point
in time.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
All Right vs Four VIP. Julio Rodriguez got the VIP treatment.
First time we'd seen him since the season came to
a close. He shows up at a Cracking game. He
really does immerse himself in the other sports. He goes
to U dub games, he goes to cracking games, and
I'm sure he goes to Seahawks games as well. But
(30:36):
he got a bit of a standing ovation during the
cracking game, so and he seemed a little bit touched
by it. He seemed a little caught off guard by it.
But man, these are our Cal and Julio are locked
up for the next decade. Basically, this is the foundation,
and obviously most people are just fine with that.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Yeah, I don't know why you wouldn't be. I guess
to each their own. I suppose you can have whatever opinion.
I can't wait to see what this dude ends up
being because while I think some of his criticism is ridiculous,
you know, calling him you know, you know, Jay Fraud,
that's silly. He's he's on track to like a Hall
(31:20):
of Fame career at this point, and yet he still
has not figured out how to hit coming out of
spring training for a couple months. And so I'm just
excited to see. I think that there still is a
lot of that iceberg that we can't see just yet
as far as how what this guy's potential is. But yeah,
I'm about as pumped as I could possibly be having
a couple position players that are as young as him
(31:41):
and Cal that think the way that they do, that
love Seattle the way that they do, that genuinely care
about us as fans, the way that I think that
they do. Yeah, I think we're sitting up in a
really good position starting with those two dudes.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
I love it when the players show up for other
teams games, and Julio might be number one guy at that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah, goes to cracking games.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Yeah, And I think he went to a U dub
game with with Julio the other day.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
That was like a thing that they set up though
with the Mariners and u W.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
Yeah, but Naylor's obviously a huge cracking fan. I mean
he's Canadian for goodness sake, so not a big surprise
that he's gonna yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
But I love it. And Julio might be the king
of it.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
And he really just when he says I love it
in Seattle, man, you believe it because he goes out
there and uh puts his face out there everywhere. So
it's awesome, great to see, great to see, no doubt
about it. And man, I am very excited. And if
second half Julio and first half Julio ever get together
in the cage, m and second half Julio can give
(32:45):
him a few tips.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, yeah, imagine, yeah, just imagine what we we.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Goesome, The conversation would be really interesting.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Between now and then, I'm between here and Spring Trem
I'm gonna learn hypnotism, I'm gonna do something. He's a
walk back, but you're and then before we leave, he's
gonna think it's.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
July I'm gonna bring I'm gonna invite them both to
a dinner and introduce them to my new friend.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Full season Julio.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Yeah, going to be the best I'm just gonna give
them a pen and paper and just job a lot
of things down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Hate sure, all right?
Speaker 8 (33:17):
Coming up next the college football world. I mean, we've
entered a brave new world when it comes to college football.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm not sure how.
Speaker 8 (33:26):
It's going to adjust and change and shift here for
the next few years. Here's another thing that I didn't
really see coming, and it's now just part of our lives.
How college football's new world is affecting coaches. Next Sports
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