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Hi, good morning, Welcome Tuesday, Chuck, Powlell, Buggy Jacobson, and
Ashley Ryan with you as we roll into our second hour,
and man, what a night in the sports world last night, locally, nationally,
globally one of the greatest baseball games that has ever
been played last night. As much as it pains us
to admit it, certainly, the Dodgers and the Blue Jays
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gave us an all time classic last night in Game
number three. Thanks to Fox with the audio there if
you didn't stay up for it. Freddie Freeman hit a
eighteenth inning home run to walk off the Toronto Blue
Jays last night, a game that pretty much had everything
and then nothing, and even the nothing was fascinating because
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previously the game had had everything, and so it came
down to Freeman walking it off in the bottom of
the eighteenth and Dodger fans like more than ten stuck
around for it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was actually a good crowdstill on hand for the
eighteenth inning walk off from Freddie Freeman. Dodgers go up
two games to one in the series. Game four will
be today at five o'clock show Aotani versus Shane Bieber.
The only two guys that didn't pitch it feels last
night in the game, so crazy crazy crazy contests last
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one week away from the National Football League trading deadline,
something that we'll discuss a little bit with Greg Bell.
Seahawks coming off the by officially after the week in
the National Football League wrapped up with Kansas City defeating
the Washington Commanders twenty eight to seven Westwood One with
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a highlight there in that highlight package. The Commanders are
the Seahawks next opponent. We'll face them Sunday Night football
and the Commanders are three and five now on the season.
Husky's going on by this week, but all the talking
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And the Sounders lost their first match of the playoffs
in Minnesota last night. No goals scored in regulation, no
goals scored an extra time. It came down to a shootout,
and somehow the Sounders missed on three of their five
shootout kicks, and so Minnesota grabs game number one of
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the series. But it is a best of three, so
Sounder's still a chance to prevail before all is said
and done. All right, those are your headlines. It's now
time to talk to our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Greg Bell.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Joining us now is our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune,
Greg Bell, Good morning, Greg.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What kind of team?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't know if you watched the Monday Night football
last night, but we can now start sizing up our opponent.
We got a full night to scout the Washington Commanders
last night. Dan Quinn feels like he's just trying to
keep that thing together with you know, scotch tape and
glue right now, a lot of injuries. They're certainly not
the team they were a year ago. And even though
they hun with the Kansas City Chiefs in the first half,
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there was a big discrepancy between those two teams that
got exposed in the second half. So what's dan Quinn
rolling in with Sunday night against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, I watched parts of the game I was I
thought the World Series and even the Sounders game were
better options than watching a.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Football game, so they did that. They are injured.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Jayden Daniels, their quarterback, didn't play yesterday with a hamstring injury.
Originally it was that he probably would play this game
Sunday Night against the Seahawks, and now there's reports out
of DC that they're waiting and seeing that may not
be for sure. They've had a lot of injuries on
out their skill guys, and McClaren, their veteran wide receiver,
hasn't played most of this season, and their defense has
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been beating up. They're old, and they were running it
back with guys like Bobby Wagner, who actually had an
interception off of deflection last night, fourteenth interception.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Of his career.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
But they mostly ran it back on their defense that
was older, and now they're beating up two. So they're
three and five and haven't had their bye week yet,
which they need, and of course not going to have
it this week. Shorter week, although the trip isn't that
far from Kansas City. But there's this rest quotient that
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a lot of people look at it. Who has the
rest advantage hitting into games? And the Seahawks have the
rest advantage in this one playing one, haven't played ten
that it'll be what thirteen fourteen days since thirteen days
between games, so and only five when he Washington didn't
even get back home till this morning. Some more like
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five days for the Commanders. So all that's in the
Seahawks favor here. Having said that, if Daniels comes back,
it's a totally different deal. Marcus Mariota was a quarterback
last night in Kansas City, and yes he's mobile, Yes
the extend played, Yes they can run the same offense
that Daniels runs. But he took him to the NFC
to game and took the league by storm last year,
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and that's a big deal. If he can't play the
entire game, changes in Seattle favor to me, so did
most games come down to the quarterback? The status of
the quarterback in this game is the big issue for
the week.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Do they prepare different? Not knowing for sure whether Jade
because to me, I wouldn't feel like you would have to.
I think Marcus Mariota part of the reason they brought
him in as the backup is he's similar, just not
as good. Jayden Daniels are doing the same types of things.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, you're right, Bucky. They would prepare the same way
because Washington would run similar. But they were running as
a little I watched last night. They were running rpo plays,
they were running quarterback keepers, they were running quarterback read
options and keeping the ball and running and Mariotta was
running a lot more than most NFL quarterbacks do on
designed quarterback runs. They will do that, but you're right
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better with Daniels, So yeah, you can bet that they
will ever admit this. NFL players never would and Mariota
has played in so many games with so many teams
over the years, but they will all take a sigh
of relief if Daniels doesn't play. They think, Okay, we
can do this, but they will That's just human nature.
(08:16):
Daniels gest was supernatural last year and for him not
to play would be a real break for Seattle run
and pass, and it would to me tilt the game
in their favor.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
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Speaker 2 (08:47):
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Speaker 1 (08:47):
All right, so let's talk about the bye week. I mean,
every coach approaches it differently. You've now been around Mike
McDonald for a couple of years. Is he one of
those get away from here and I don't want to
see you again? Does he encourage people like Tony Romo
to take Jessica Simpson to Mexico during the bye week?
Is he that type of coach? Or is he don't
(09:10):
leave the center too much, especially if you're in reab
We got work to do, gentlemen. What kind of approach
does he take to the bye week?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, the former he said that he's having to kick
coaches out of a facility, and some of them stay
too long. He's I think he's changed even in talking
about it compared to last year, because he has a
young son who was born last winter. And when your dad,
it's the first time, Dad, I can tell you from experience,
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your world perspective changes and all of a sudden, whatever
you're doing for work doesn't quite matter as much as
it used to. As a matter of fact, whatever you're
doing before you had a kid, regardless work, play golf,
it just changes. Buck. You'll test the Nashley'll test it
as well. So he's somewhat different in that regard. He's
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the player when I first started covering the league. And
this makes me sound like a dinosaur, but in the
early two thousands, the players practiced in their bye week.
That was the norm around the NFL. They would practice
maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then be off for the
rest of the weekend. Have a three day weekend. And
Pete Carroll actually was one of the four bearers of
(10:22):
Now you get the entire week off, and the Seahawks
case they didn't even have McDonald has swung around the
other way so much. He didn't have them come in
for film. The day after the Houston game, I had
the Tuesday, after the Monday night Houston game. I asked him, well,
did you show this at film today? And he's like, oh,
I didn't even have him come in. So they were
done from Monday night at Luomenfield, tearing out of the
(10:44):
parking lot and gone wherever they went. They had an
extra night and full day Tuesday of that. So yeah,
he was way on the other side of get the
heck out of here. Having said all that, we were
talking to him yesterday about some three time things and
somebody asked her, if you had an extra day, a
twenty fifth hour in your day, what would you do,
(11:05):
and he said something football related, and I thought, I
thought to myself, your wife probably doesn't want to hear
that right now when she's got a six month old
at home. But he has given them. I won't say
it's different than last year, but his perspective to me
has changed out of just the course of maturing and
being now a father. He did say the coaches did
(11:28):
a dive on especially the offense in the running game,
and his summation of what they found was we're closed
and we don't need a ton of changes. We're going
to stick it with what we're doing, which is what
we talked about yesterday, probably will do. And he was asked,
do you anticipated did you think about during the buy
any personnel changes on the offensive line? You can imagine
(11:50):
which ones we're talking about. But Brady Henderson of ESPN
dot com was smart enough not the name names because
he wouldn't answer that, and he said, no, no, we
didn't take about personnel changes. So Anthony Bradford will stay
the right guard, although he has struggled mightily, and according
to mcdonnoald, nothing will change there. What will change in
the running game is that Robbie Utz is going to play.
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He came back to practice yesterday. He was desigated to
return from injured reserve in the morning and practiced in
the afternoon. His teammates were saying welcome back and patting
him on the back. They needed two hundred and seventy
five pounds fullback. They drafted for the job last year
with the Saints the Clint Kibiak Randy formation with fullback
twenty five percent of the time. So far this season,
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they've only win. Oots has missed last four games. They've
only been in twenty one formation twenty one personnel, which
is two backs and one tight end eleven percent of
the time. They've been in twenty two two backs and
two tight ends only ten percent of the time. So
by and large, they're using two backs far feward as
pretty Russells had to be the fill in fullback, and
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those numbers should get back up to twenty percent now
that they got Robbie Hoots back and they can do
a lot more, as McDonald said, in two back sets
with Loots at fullback, and perhaps their run game will
spike just because they get their starting full back back.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Gee. I mean, I think when you're sitting in first place,
you know at this point in the season, you know
it's not something to criticize in a bad way necessarily,
but constructive criticism wise. The run game is the thing
we continue to talk about that doesn't look as good
as we had hoped, or that they want or however
you want to look at that. What is the reason
(13:32):
is it health that they're not going just more to
Ken Walker? You know, it's not going to be more
of a time split thing where you're kind of breaking
up carries fairly evenly, even maybe not exactly even because
it's just the numbers wise, he's running the ball far
better than Jack charbonnay is Is it just trying to
keep them both healthy or what?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
YEP, been trying to play the long game. For Walker.
We've talked about, I've talked about the foot issue they've
been managing since August is not going away very easily,
and they've become convinced that he can't run seventy five
percent of the snaps for the season. Charbone has run
fifty four percent of the snaps, yet is the lowest
yards per carry in the league among guys who are regulars,
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and Walker is at forty three percent of the offensive
snaps and an outside zone. As you pointed out, he's
a five and a half yards of carry guy, and
they just haven't run as much outside zone because Walker
has him on the field as much. It's one point
something for Charbone in outside zone runs five point five
to one point one on your bellcal play. It seems
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like a no brainer to put Walker in. And I
get Twitter messages and emails from fans during games saying
why isn't Walker Why don't you ask him? Well, I
have asked him and I got the answer. He won't
come out and say he's got a foot injury because
he doesn't want to advertise it. But I learned that
back in Green Bay at the last week of August
that this wasn't going to and it was something they're
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going to have to manage. A couple of people on
the team told me that, and that's what that's where
this stands. Walker is all for this job share agreement
because he's trying to get through seventeen games. We've talked
about this. It's the last year of his contract, so
he doesn't want to miss a game because every week
is an audition to get a new contract, whether it's
in Seattle, which somewhere else he's planned for his future.
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He right now is scheduled to get zero dollars from
zero teams next year. That's the nature of this league.
So he needs to be on the field. So if
it takes him to Billy only forty percent of the
snaps in a game, he's gonna do it. And he's
not gonna complain because he wants to play every game.
The eyes tell you, common sense tells you just put
Walker in the game the entire game and see how
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your run game improves. They have come convinced that they
won't be able to do that and get him to
get through the entire season.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
All right, So we're a week away from the NFL
trading deadline. What's the temperature of that water right now?
It's the with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Well, I knew this was gonna happen. Someone's gonna ask him,
do you expect to be active for the microschoan to
go or the athletic astim what do you expect to
be active before the trade deadline? Which is November fourth,
next Tuesday. And he's always active, you know us where
John Schneider is. He loves to say that, and everyone
in Seattle loves to say that, But there is some
truth behind that. They, as we've talked about before, they
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make a ton of calls and their type of want
to be in on everything. They want to hear what
the league's talking about. They want to float out their
own trade proposals to see if they're any bites. So
they're doing that right now. Whether that results into anything,
I don't know. He had the weekuell In situation. I
think when there's where they smoke, there's fire. In this case,
he to me is the odd man out. If they
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want to keep even worry as the nickel that would
put Weatherspoon as an outside corner, which he hasn't been.
He's been a primary nickel until the emergence of Weierston
even worried, if even worry, if they keep him where
he's excelled, and why wouldn't you then to me, it's
Witherspoon and Job at the two starting corners. I don't
think you benched Job over Woolan. So I would think
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Woolan's the odd man out, which means he's a piece
you don't need once everybody's healthy. Of course, you could
use him when everyone's not been healthy, which has been
for most of the season, so they will probably try
to dangle a former Pro Bowl rookie cornerback and see
what the interest is. I don't think it's going to
be enough to trade him, because, as I mentioned, if
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they held on to him and lose him in free agency,
they could end up he may qualify as a third
round comp pick because of all the playing time in
the Pro Bowl he made, and no team in the
league I would think is going to trade a third
round pick for him at this point, knowing that Seorks
aren't even probably going to start him. We'll see how
this stakes out on Washington on Sunday night in Washington.
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But when he doesn't start, as I don't expect him to,
his trade value to me will go down. For what
Why would someone trade decent value for a guy who's
now been benched?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
All right, last minute? Here, how many innings did you
make it last night?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Then, Paul and Sir captivated? I was captivated. My son,
who gets a bit four point thirty for work right now,
who's living with us for temporary job.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
He tried to make it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
He actually turned and fell asleep on the floor in
front of the fireplace. But then but they heard me
exclaim when Freddy Freeman hit the home run. But yeah,
that baseball at its best this time of jan have
to tell this show this, it's the best. It's better
than that Monday night football. It's better than that show
that Sounders tried to put on went straight to penalties
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last night, and those penalty kicks were not very good.
But yeah, yeah that they I mean the Seattle games
in Toronto. And here I turned in Toronto in the
press box to my colleagues from the Seattle Times, and
I said, man, we're pretty fortunate to be here. This
is sports at its best. Yeah, and it's the last
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night was great.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Six hours and thirty nine minutes of mad Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You got start getting up with five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good for you. Yeah, all right, man, Well we'll talk
more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Thank you very much, Happy Tuesday. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
All right.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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More on the NFL trading deadline and how I think
that there's a chance John Schneider is going to have
one foot in each boat. Plus factor fiction, My pick
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back to fiction coming up at seven thirty five, so
not a lot of time to discuss this. We do
have a week to sort of break it down in
greater detail. I'll probably spend more time on it tomorrow,
but the NFL trade deadline is in a week from now.
Greg Bell said that of course John Schneider is going
to be participatory from the standpoint of making the phone calls.
(20:23):
I don't think he can resist himself. I think he's
going to make a trade. I wouldn't be surprised if
he made a couple of trades between now and the
trading deadline. And even though there's sort of feeling around
the National Football League that teams are extraordinarily thin at
offensive line, pass rusher, and cornerback, it might not make
a lot of sense to move when you're in contention
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a cornerback like Tarik Woollen. It wouldn't surprise me at
all if he moved him to get to get a pick,
and then also moved to pick to get a player
that he wanted, either another cornerback or another pass rusher.
So I do think he's going to be active, and
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I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't sell on Woolen
just so he could buy something else. I think he
might play that. You know, I'm going to play both
sides of the fence kind of game, even though we
are clearly contenders that we are not sellers. But if
there's not a spot for Rek Woolan in this secondary
with everybody getting healthy right now and a lot of
(21:29):
teams want to give you value because they're desperate for
defensive back help right now, wouldn't surprise me at all.
If John Schneider took advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I won't be surprised. I mean, you're playing with fire
to some degree just because of the how important, well,
every position is important. But if you all of a
sudden had a game where you'd end up getting guys
dinged up again, right if you all of a sudden,
I mean I could see it four weeks from now,
if you were to trade him and then all of
a sudden like damn, I wish we had him back
(21:58):
because of an injury situation. But you can't necessarily say, well,
that value is not that I'm going to keep this
insurance policy versus going out and using that as a
bargaining chip to get something. In a roundabout way, that
you feel like you actually need right now that you
don't think of as an insurance policy. So I'm with
(22:19):
you on that. I mean, I think that there's a
few things you're thinking pass rushers, something possibly.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Pass rusher, And I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't
try to get cornerback depth, just somebody different. It wouldn't
surprise me if he went like, right now, Green Bay
has a guy by the name of Kingsley Anigbari, and
if you watched Sunday night, he flashed. I mean, he
made a couple plays and you're like, man, how was
this guy not playing every down?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's just a reserve.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And the reason he's not is because he was supposed
to be the starter and they traded for Michael Parsons
right before the season started. So if Green Bay, for example,
who has a lot of problems in their secondary, would
like Arek Woolen, and both of these players have expiring contracts,
they're going to be free agents.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I wouldn't even be surprised if you saw a classic,
oh one for one kind of swap right there, and
then John looking for cornerback depth, you know, gets like
a Cam Taylor Britt from the Bengals or one of
these other teams that are nearly out of it, and
you know, swaps a six seventh round pick in order
to get some corner, true cornerback depth. I wouldn't be
(23:26):
surprised if he gets really creative. I wouldn't be surprised
if he made multiple moves by next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Now we'll see him. It's going to be interesting to
see what avenue they decide to go.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, they dangled rec out there already, so that definitely
doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
If they can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We think they did. Yeah, yeah, but we shall see.
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Alright, it's my pick today, and I love two college games.
I mean love two college games this week, and I
do have two picks this week, right, Yeah, So what
I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get them both.
So I'm trying to figure out which one is the
least likely for Fame to steal. Oh yeah, always do
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that today, is it really? I guarantee he's gonna take
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it down for you so you can read it off
a slip of paper tomorrow. All right, So I am
gonna go. I'm going to kind of cost tossing a
coin between these two games because I love them equally,
but I'm gonna go ahead and go with Arizona State
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getting six points at Iowa State. I'm picking against Iowa
State at home for a second week in a row.
It worked for me last week. They have lost five
of six games against the spread. They have lost three
consecutive games. They lost by fourteen when they were a
favorite at home against BYU last week, and the previous
week they beat Colorado in Colorado by only seven points.
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And I might be the worst team in Power five
football right now, so I don't think Iowa State's going
all that great. Meanwhile, Arizona State still a pretty good
team with a really good head coach who this week
got involved in trade rumors everywhere and stood on top
of the table and said, I've got my dream job,
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which I think is going to fire up the troops
this week. So giving them a touchdown on the road
two teams that I think on a neutral field, Arizona
State probably edges out. Anyway, you better believe I'm gonna
take six points at Iowa State. I don't think Ames
is some intimidating place to win football games. So give
me the sun Devils plus six at Iowa State this week.
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the radio program. It was one of the greatest games
in baseball history and the star might be the greatest
player in baseball history. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Last night, Oh show, Hey, he put on a show
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last night. But it wasn't just him. I mean it
really was. As much as we kind of want to
close our eyes and ears to it because we were
so close to being here ourselves.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I kind of did that for the.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Most part for the first two games gave into it.
I'm a baseball fan first, probably more so than anything else,
and was there front and center. I'm going to see
a show Otani makes history, and he did. He got
on base nine times last night. Nine times he got
on base in one game. But beyond that, I mean,
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it was one of the greatest games I've ever watched.
Eighteen innings. I mean, I was feeling that way, Bucky
when Shoe It's the home run to tie it at
five and the seventh and I'm like, my goodness, this
is one of the greatest games I've ever seen played.
And there were twelve more innings of just nothing but intensity.
(28:32):
The rest of the way. There was a moment where
the shore Fire Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw survived in
the smallest role possible, and then the smallest player possible
in terms of a roster decision, not size wise, but
the last guy on the roster may have played the
biggest role of the entire night. And Will Klein going
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above and beyond to go four scoreless innings in an
extra time to try to save the Dodgers from having
to pitch show Hey or somebody else. In the nineteenth
inning or beyond and then they won it with a
walk off in the eighteenth. Never seen any game like
it in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, I haven't seen one like that either. I mean
definitely not with the stakes. I mean in the World Series,
the biggest stage of all and you basically have everything
from like really really good sound baseball plays to then
lasadaisical plays had kind of mental mistakes here and there,
and yet that's part of that.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Add to the soup too, yeah, and added to the
flavor of the game.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, there's all kinds of different stuff that you're just like,
what the heck? And then okay, well, now can you
pitch out of it? Or can are you going to
capitalize on that mistake and put up a number? And
I mean the amount of base runners there early and
then the amount of not I mean, there was nothing
going on. All of a sudden, you felt like everybody
(29:58):
was kind of swinging for the downs, like, well, I
got a homer, I guess, like, no, you could just
get that like leadoff double and then bump the guy
over and then get him in. But and so there
was opportunities for that, and then the dude pops it
up like that one in and of itself. There was
that was the Toronto situation. They get the guy over
there and they have I don't remember who it was
up of the dish, but it was actually a very
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good swing, Like as far as I'm getting to the
bottom half hitting the sack fly here and you're talking
about a quarter of an inch from it being an
easy sack fly that goes into the outfield versus a
pop up the short and then you go four more
innings after that with no call. Yeah. Yeah, it just was.
It was like there's times where it's like you, oh,
you let him off the hook. Well, I let him
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off the hook, but not with a poor approach. There
was other times where there was bad approaches, there was
bad execution. It just was one thing after another, and
it was like answering you know, the show Haego's Yard,
and then then all of a sudden, the complete opposite
in Christian Kirk, I mean show he have Tani runs
like a deer throws a million a Christian Kirk. Yeah, yeah,
(31:02):
different guy. It also runs like a deer. Yeah well yeah,
the Alejandro Kirk does not run like a deer. I
mean the exact opposite. Here comes to yeah, the amount
of athleticism, and yet he's the one that answers the
show hey thing. Early in the game, it just was
one thing after another.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It was forty three year runners left on base over
eighteen innings, ten pitchers used by the Dodgers in the game,
which is a record. And then of course, at the
forefront of it all, even though it was there, there was,
there was everything in the contest Shoe a Otani just
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I mean Baki, I mean Barry Bonds is the greatest
player I've ever seen, but that's steroid Berry. Clean Berry
was still one of the ten best players I've ever seen,
But Steroid Berry was something like I never thought we'd
seen before. And show he's not that as a hitter
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the pitching element that he adds to it as well.
The only person you can compare him to is Babe Ruth.
And then people say, well, bab Ruth only did that
for three years, true, and show he's been doing that
where they were full time. He's a little bit beyond that.
But then again, Babe Ruth went five years of potentially
his prime apparently being wasted as a pitcher, even though
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he was an All Star caliber pitcher. So how much
more offense would he have added to his resume. So
I don't dismiss Babe Ruth. I don't dismiss Barry Bonds
in this conversation, but I do think not being a
prisoner in the moment, we are watching the greatest baseball
player that's ever played, and it turns out that once
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you get him away from the Angels and Mike Trout
and he actually gets to the playoffs, he's better here
than at any other time.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, well nine times, yes, Dair, that's ridiculous. I mean,
I'll just say, Babe Ruth is cemented in the or
of baseball history forever as somebody that did something way
before his time, Like he was sitting more home runs
than most of the other teams combined at that point
in time. He's Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat. That's it.
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But I'm sorry, Babe, step aside, Joe Altani is better.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
He show.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Babe wasn't throwing one hundred, Babe, wasn't. I mean, he
was hitting fifty five homers. It was against it in
a different era. And I'm not taking away from that
because playing a simple things were not as good back then.
I mean, think about the gear they had in the
I mean just nothing. It's completely different. It's it's comparing
apples to tomatoes. They're not the same thing. But there's
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just nothing that I mean. This guy runs hits for average,
hits for power. I mean, he had some scuffles early
in the in the postseason, and yet corrected it to
where now all of a sudden, yesterday, it's like, we
can't pitch this guy. Just put him on basically five bis.
I mean, it's he almost stole a bag in a
(34:05):
key situation. I think Babe was stealing a bait. Yeah
he came. Yeah, But it's just there's there's just not
I mean, when you watch it, there's almost a part
of perfection that's going on when you watch the way
in which he's not impervious to making outs, but he is.
He just does things that are way different. There's not
very often you're going to see somebody that's head and
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shoulders better than everybody else in the game in their era,
and he is. Right now, he has had two games.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The last two games he's played at Dodger Stadium are
two of the greatest games ever played by an individual player.
That's back to back home games that he's treated Dodger
fans to the Jason Bateman too, Yeah, you're welcome, Bateman.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I didn't even know what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, he didn't even hop aboard his baitmobile last night
to get away from it. He stayed for all eighteen innings.
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and man, what a night in the sports world last night, locally, nationally,
globally one of the greatest baseball games that has ever
been played last night. As much as it pains us
to admit it, certainly, the Dodgers and the Blue Jays
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gave us an all time classic last night in Game
number three. Thanks to Fox with the audio there if
you didn't stay up for it. Freddie Freeman hit a
eighteenth inning home run to walk off the Toronto Blue
Jays last night, a game that pretty much had everything
and then nothing, and even the nothing was fascinating because
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previously the game had had everything, and so it came
down to Freeman walking it off in the bottom of
the eighteenth and Dodger fans like more than ten stuck
around for it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It was actually a good crowdstill on hand for the
eighteenth inning walk off from Freddie Freeman. Dodgers go up
two games to one in the series. Game four will
be today at five o'clock show Aotani versus Shane Bieber.
The only two guys that didn't pitch it feels last
night in the game, so crazy crazy crazy contests last
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And the Sounders lost their first match of the playoffs
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goals scored an extra time. It came down to a shootout,
and somehow the Sounders missed on three of their five
shootout kicks, and so Minnesota grabs game number one of
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the series. But it is a best of three, so
Sounder's still a chance to prevail before all is said
and done. All right, those are your headlines. It's now
time to talk to our Seahawks insider.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Greg Bell.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Joining us now is our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune,
Greg Bell, Good morning, Greg.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
What kind of team?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I don't know if you watched the Monday Night football
last night, but we can now start sizing up our opponent.
We got a full night to scout the Washington Commanders
last night. Dan Quinn feels like he's just trying to
keep that thing together with you know, scotch tape and
glue right now, a lot of injuries. They're certainly not
the team they were a year ago. And even though
they hun with the Kansas City Chiefs in the first half,
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there was a big discrepancy between those two teams that
got exposed in the second half. So what's dan Quinn
rolling in with Sunday night against the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Well, I watched parts of the game I was I
thought the World Series and even the Sounders game were
better options than watching a.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Football game, so they did that. They are injured.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Jayden Daniels, their quarterback, didn't play yesterday with a hamstring injury.
Originally it was that he probably would play this game
Sunday Night against the Seahawks, and now there's reports out
of DC that they're waiting and seeing that may not
be for sure. They've had a lot of injuries on
out their skill guys, and McClaren, their veteran wide receiver,
hasn't played most of this season, and their defense has
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been beating up. They're old, and they were running it
back with guys like Bobby Wagner, who actually had an
interception off of deflection last night, fourteenth interception.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Of his career.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
But they mostly ran it back on their defense that
was older, and now they're beating up two. So they're
three and five and haven't had their bye week yet,
which they need, and of course not going to have
it this week. Shorter week, although the trip isn't that
far from Kansas City. But there's this rest quotient that
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a lot of people look at it. Who has the
rest advantage hitting into games? And the Seahawks have the
rest advantage in this one playing one, haven't played ten
that it'll be what thirteen fourteen days since thirteen days
between games, so and only five when he Washington didn't
even get back home till this morning. Some more like
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five days for the Commanders. So all that's in the
Seahawks favor here. Having said that, if Daniels comes back,
it's a totally different deal. Marcus Mariota was a quarterback
last night in Kansas City, and yes he's mobile, Yes
the extend played, Yes they can run the same offense
that Daniels runs. But he took him to the NFC
to game and took the league by storm last year,
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and that's a big deal. If he can't play the
entire game, changes in Seattle favor to me, so did
most games come down to the quarterback? The status of
the quarterback in this game is the big issue for
the week.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Do they prepare different? Not knowing for sure whether Jade
because to me, I wouldn't feel like you would have to.
I think Marcus Mariota part of the reason they brought
him in as the backup is he's similar, just not
as good. Jayden Daniels are doing the same types of things.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, you're right, Bucky. They would prepare the same way
because Washington would run similar. But they were running as
a little I watched last night. They were running rpo plays,
they were running quarterback keepers, they were running quarterback read
options and keeping the ball and running and Mariotta was
running a lot more than most NFL quarterbacks do on
designed quarterback runs. They will do that, but you're right
(07:55):
better with Daniels, So yeah, you can bet that they
will ever admit this. NFL players never would and Mariota
has played in so many games with so many teams
over the years, but they will all take a sigh
of relief if Daniels doesn't play. They think, Okay, we
can do this, but they will That's just human nature.
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Daniels gest was supernatural last year and for him not
to play would be a real break for Seattle run
and pass, and it would to me tilt the game
in their favor.
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Speaker 2 (08:47):
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Speaker 1 (08:47):
All right, so let's talk about the bye week. I mean,
every coach approaches it differently. You've now been around Mike
McDonald for a couple of years. Is he one of
those get away from here and I don't want to
see you again? Does he encourage people like Tony Romo
to take Jessica Simpson to Mexico during the bye week?
Is he that type of coach? Or is he don't
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leave the center too much, especially if you're in reab
We got work to do, gentlemen. What kind of approach
does he take to the bye week?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, the former he said that he's having to kick
coaches out of a facility, and some of them stay
too long. He's I think he's changed even in talking
about it compared to last year, because he has a
young son who was born last winter. And when your dad,
it's the first time, Dad, I can tell you from experience,
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your world perspective changes and all of a sudden, whatever
you're doing for work doesn't quite matter as much as
it used to. As a matter of fact, whatever you're
doing before you had a kid, regardless work, play golf,
it just changes. Buck. You'll test the Nashley'll test it
as well. So he's somewhat different in that regard. He's
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the player when I first started covering the league. And
this makes me sound like a dinosaur, but in the
early two thousands, the players practiced in their bye week.
That was the norm around the NFL. They would practice
maybe Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then be off for the
rest of the weekend. Have a three day weekend. And
Pete Carroll actually was one of the four bearers of
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Now you get the entire week off, and the Seahawks
case they didn't even have McDonald has swung around the
other way so much. He didn't have them come in
for film. The day after the Houston game, I had
the Tuesday, after the Monday night Houston game. I asked him, well,
did you show this at film today? And he's like, oh,
I didn't even have him come in. So they were
done from Monday night at Luomenfield, tearing out of the
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parking lot and gone wherever they went. They had an
extra night and full day Tuesday of that. So yeah,
he was way on the other side of get the
heck out of here. Having said all that, we were
talking to him yesterday about some three time things and
somebody asked her, if you had an extra day, a
twenty fifth hour in your day, what would you do,
(11:05):
and he said something football related, and I thought, I
thought to myself, your wife probably doesn't want to hear
that right now when she's got a six month old
at home. But he has given them. I won't say
it's different than last year, but his perspective to me
has changed out of just the course of maturing and
being now a father. He did say the coaches did
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a dive on especially the offense in the running game,
and his summation of what they found was we're closed
and we don't need a ton of changes. We're going
to stick it with what we're doing, which is what
we talked about yesterday, probably will do. And he was asked,
do you anticipated did you think about during the buy
any personnel changes on the offensive line? You can imagine
(11:50):
which ones we're talking about. But Brady Henderson of ESPN
dot com was smart enough not the name names because
he wouldn't answer that, and he said, no, no, we
didn't take about personnel changes. So Anthony Bradford will stay
the right guard, although he has struggled mightily, and according
to mcdonnoald, nothing will change there. What will change in
the running game is that Robbie Utz is going to play.
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He came back to practice yesterday. He was desigated to
return from injured reserve in the morning and practiced in
the afternoon. His teammates were saying welcome back and patting
him on the back. They needed two hundred and seventy
five pounds fullback. They drafted for the job last year
with the Saints the Clint Kibiak Randy formation with fullback
twenty five percent of the time. So far this season,
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they've only win. Oots has missed last four games. They've
only been in twenty one formation twenty one personnel, which
is two backs and one tight end eleven percent of
the time. They've been in twenty two two backs and
two tight ends only ten percent of the time. So
by and large, they're using two backs far feward as
pretty Russells had to be the fill in fullback, and
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those numbers should get back up to twenty percent now
that they got Robbie Hoots back and they can do
a lot more, as McDonald said, in two back sets
with Loots at fullback, and perhaps their run game will
spike just because they get their starting full back back.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Gee. I mean, I think when you're sitting in first place,
you know at this point in the season, you know
it's not something to criticize in a bad way necessarily,
but constructive criticism wise. The run game is the thing
we continue to talk about that doesn't look as good
as we had hoped, or that they want or however
you want to look at that. What is the reason
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is it health that they're not going just more to
Ken Walker? You know, it's not going to be more
of a time split thing where you're kind of breaking
up carries fairly evenly, even maybe not exactly even because
it's just the numbers wise, he's running the ball far
better than Jack charbonnay is Is it just trying to
keep them both healthy or what?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
YEP, been trying to play the long game. For Walker.
We've talked about, I've talked about the foot issue they've
been managing since August is not going away very easily,
and they've become convinced that he can't run seventy five
percent of the snaps for the season. Charbone has run
fifty four percent of the snaps, yet is the lowest
yards per carry in the league among guys who are regulars,
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and Walker is at forty three percent of the offensive
snaps and an outside zone. As you pointed out, he's
a five and a half yards of carry guy, and
they just haven't run as much outside zone because Walker
has him on the field as much. It's one point
something for Charbone in outside zone runs five point five
to one point one on your bellcal play. It seems
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like a no brainer to put Walker in. And I
get Twitter messages and emails from fans during games saying
why isn't Walker Why don't you ask him? Well, I
have asked him and I got the answer. He won't
come out and say he's got a foot injury because
he doesn't want to advertise it. But I learned that
back in Green Bay at the last week of August
that this wasn't going to and it was something they're
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going to have to manage. A couple of people on
the team told me that, and that's what that's where
this stands. Walker is all for this job share agreement
because he's trying to get through seventeen games. We've talked
about this. It's the last year of his contract, so
he doesn't want to miss a game because every week
is an audition to get a new contract, whether it's
in Seattle, which somewhere else he's planned for his future.
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He right now is scheduled to get zero dollars from
zero teams next year. That's the nature of this league.
So he needs to be on the field. So if
it takes him to Billy only forty percent of the
snaps in a game, he's gonna do it. And he's
not gonna complain because he wants to play every game.
The eyes tell you, common sense tells you just put
Walker in the game the entire game and see how
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your run game improves. They have come convinced that they
won't be able to do that and get him to
get through the entire season.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
All right, So we're a week away from the NFL
trading deadline. What's the temperature of that water right now?
It's the with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Well, I knew this was gonna happen. Someone's gonna ask him,
do you expect to be active for the microschoan to
go or the athletic astim what do you expect to
be active before the trade deadline? Which is November fourth,
next Tuesday. And he's always active, you know us where
John Schneider is. He loves to say that, and everyone
in Seattle loves to say that, But there is some
truth behind that. They, as we've talked about before, they
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make a ton of calls and their type of want
to be in on everything. They want to hear what
the league's talking about. They want to float out their
own trade proposals to see if they're any bites. So
they're doing that right now. Whether that results into anything,
I don't know. He had the weekuell In situation. I
think when there's where they smoke, there's fire. In this case,
he to me is the odd man out. If they
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want to keep even worry as the nickel that would
put Weatherspoon as an outside corner, which he hasn't been.
He's been a primary nickel until the emergence of Weierston
even worried, if even worry, if they keep him where
he's excelled, and why wouldn't you then to me, it's
Witherspoon and Job at the two starting corners. I don't
think you benched Job over Woolan. So I would think
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Woolan's the odd man out, which means he's a piece
you don't need once everybody's healthy. Of course, you could
use him when everyone's not been healthy, which has been
for most of the season, so they will probably try
to dangle a former Pro Bowl rookie cornerback and see
what the interest is. I don't think it's going to
be enough to trade him, because, as I mentioned, if
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they held on to him and lose him in free agency,
they could end up he may qualify as a third
round comp pick because of all the playing time in
the Pro Bowl he made, and no team in the
league I would think is going to trade a third
round pick for him at this point, knowing that Seorks
aren't even probably going to start him. We'll see how
this stakes out on Washington on Sunday night in Washington.
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But when he doesn't start, as I don't expect him to,
his trade value to me will go down. For what
Why would someone trade decent value for a guy who's
now been benched?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
All right, last minute? Here, how many innings did you
make it last night?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Then, Paul and Sir captivated? I was captivated. My son,
who gets a bit four point thirty for work right now,
who's living with us for temporary job.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
He tried to make it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
He actually turned and fell asleep on the floor in
front of the fireplace. But then but they heard me
exclaim when Freddy Freeman hit the home run. But yeah,
that baseball at its best this time of jan have
to tell this show this, it's the best. It's better
than that Monday night football. It's better than that show
that Sounders tried to put on went straight to penalties
(18:32):
last night, and those penalty kicks were not very good.
But yeah, yeah that they I mean the Seattle games
in Toronto. And here I turned in Toronto in the
press box to my colleagues from the Seattle Times, and
I said, man, we're pretty fortunate to be here. This
is sports at its best. Yeah, and it's the last
(18:53):
night was great.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Six hours and thirty nine minutes of mad Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
You got start getting up with five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Good for you. Yeah, all right, man, Well we'll talk
more tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Thank you very much, Happy Tuesday. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
All right.
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More on the NFL trading deadline and how I think
that there's a chance John Schneider is going to have
one foot in each boat. Plus factor fiction, My pick
Today Sports Radio ninety three point three KHARFM. We went
(20:00):
back to fiction coming up at seven thirty five, so
not a lot of time to discuss this. We do
have a week to sort of break it down in
greater detail. I'll probably spend more time on it tomorrow,
but the NFL trade deadline is in a week from now.
Greg Bell said that of course John Schneider is going
to be participatory from the standpoint of making the phone calls.
(20:23):
I don't think he can resist himself. I think he's
going to make a trade. I wouldn't be surprised if
he made a couple of trades between now and the
trading deadline. And even though there's sort of feeling around
the National Football League that teams are extraordinarily thin at
offensive line, pass rusher, and cornerback, it might not make
a lot of sense to move when you're in contention
(20:47):
a cornerback like Tarik Woollen. It wouldn't surprise me at
all if he moved him to get to get a pick,
and then also moved to pick to get a player
that he wanted, either another cornerback or another pass rusher.
So I do think he's going to be active, and
(21:09):
I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't sell on Woolen
just so he could buy something else. I think he
might play that. You know, I'm going to play both
sides of the fence kind of game, even though we
are clearly contenders that we are not sellers. But if
there's not a spot for Rek Woolan in this secondary
with everybody getting healthy right now and a lot of
(21:29):
teams want to give you value because they're desperate for
defensive back help right now, wouldn't surprise me at all.
If John Schneider took advantage of that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I won't be surprised. I mean, you're playing with fire
to some degree just because of the how important, well,
every position is important. But if you all of a
sudden had a game where you'd end up getting guys
dinged up again, right if you all of a sudden,
I mean I could see it four weeks from now,
if you were to trade him and then all of
a sudden like damn, I wish we had him back
(21:58):
because of an injury situation. But you can't necessarily say, well,
that value is not that I'm going to keep this
insurance policy versus going out and using that as a
bargaining chip to get something. In a roundabout way, that
you feel like you actually need right now that you
don't think of as an insurance policy. So I'm with
(22:19):
you on that. I mean, I think that there's a
few things you're thinking pass rushers, something possibly.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Pass rusher, And I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't
try to get cornerback depth, just somebody different. It wouldn't
surprise me if he went like, right now, Green Bay
has a guy by the name of Kingsley Anigbari, and
if you watched Sunday night, he flashed. I mean, he
made a couple plays and you're like, man, how was
this guy not playing every down?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's just a reserve.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And the reason he's not is because he was supposed
to be the starter and they traded for Michael Parsons
right before the season started. So if Green Bay, for example,
who has a lot of problems in their secondary, would
like Arek Woolen, and both of these players have expiring contracts,
they're going to be free agents.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I wouldn't even be surprised if you saw a classic,
oh one for one kind of swap right there, and
then John looking for cornerback depth, you know, gets like
a Cam Taylor Britt from the Bengals or one of
these other teams that are nearly out of it, and
you know, swaps a six seventh round pick in order
to get some corner, true cornerback depth. I wouldn't be
(23:26):
surprised if he gets really creative. I wouldn't be surprised
if he made multiple moves by next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Now we'll see him. It's going to be interesting to
see what avenue they decide to go.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, they dangled rec out there already, so that definitely
doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
If they can.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We think they did. Yeah, yeah, but we shall see.
All right, let's play some Factor fiction. Where's that to go?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
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Speaker 1 (24:08):
Alright, it's my pick today, and I love two college games.
I mean love two college games this week, and I
do have two picks this week, right, Yeah, So what
I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get them both.
So I'm trying to figure out which one is the
least likely for Fame to steal. Oh yeah, always do
(24:30):
that today, is it really? I guarantee he's gonna take
one of these. You can mark it down. I'll write
it down for you so you can read it off
a slip of paper tomorrow. All right, So I am
gonna go. I'm going to kind of cost tossing a
coin between these two games because I love them equally,
but I'm gonna go ahead and go with Arizona State
(24:50):
getting six points at Iowa State. I'm picking against Iowa
State at home for a second week in a row.
It worked for me last week. They have lost five
of six games against the spread. They have lost three
consecutive games. They lost by fourteen when they were a
favorite at home against BYU last week, and the previous
week they beat Colorado in Colorado by only seven points.
(25:15):
And I might be the worst team in Power five
football right now, so I don't think Iowa State's going
all that great. Meanwhile, Arizona State still a pretty good
team with a really good head coach who this week
got involved in trade rumors everywhere and stood on top
of the table and said, I've got my dream job,
(25:35):
which I think is going to fire up the troops
this week. So giving them a touchdown on the road
two teams that I think on a neutral field, Arizona
State probably edges out. Anyway, you better believe I'm gonna
take six points at Iowa State. I don't think Ames
is some intimidating place to win football games. So give
me the sun Devils plus six at Iowa State this week.
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fiction to four nine four to five one. I'm taking
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Speaker 2 (27:11):
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Speaker 1 (27:14):
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this morning, MJ and Christopher Kid coming up next on
the radio program. It was one of the greatest games
in baseball history and the star might be the greatest
player in baseball history. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Last night, Oh show, Hey, he put on a show
(27:36):
last night. But it wasn't just him. I mean it
really was. As much as we kind of want to
close our eyes and ears to it because we were
so close to being here ourselves.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I kind of did that for the.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Most part for the first two games gave into it.
I'm a baseball fan first, probably more so than anything else,
and was there front and center. I'm going to see
a show Otani makes history, and he did. He got
on base nine times last night. Nine times he got
on base in one game. But beyond that, I mean,
(28:11):
it was one of the greatest games I've ever watched.
Eighteen innings. I mean, I was feeling that way, Bucky
when Shoe It's the home run to tie it at
five and the seventh and I'm like, my goodness, this
is one of the greatest games I've ever seen played.
And there were twelve more innings of just nothing but intensity.
(28:32):
The rest of the way. There was a moment where
the shore Fire Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw survived in
the smallest role possible, and then the smallest player possible
in terms of a roster decision, not size wise, but
the last guy on the roster may have played the
biggest role of the entire night. And Will Klein going
(28:55):
above and beyond to go four scoreless innings in an
extra time to try to save the Dodgers from having
to pitch show Hey or somebody else. In the nineteenth
inning or beyond and then they won it with a
walk off in the eighteenth. Never seen any game like
it in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, I haven't seen one like that either. I mean
definitely not with the stakes. I mean in the World Series,
the biggest stage of all and you basically have everything
from like really really good sound baseball plays to then
lasadaisical plays had kind of mental mistakes here and there,
and yet that's part of that.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Add to the soup too, yeah, and added to the
flavor of the game.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yeah, there's all kinds of different stuff that you're just like,
what the heck? And then okay, well, now can you
pitch out of it? Or can are you going to
capitalize on that mistake and put up a number? And
I mean the amount of base runners there early and
then the amount of not I mean, there was nothing
going on. All of a sudden, you felt like everybody
(29:58):
was kind of swinging for the downs, like, well, I
got a homer, I guess, like, no, you could just
get that like leadoff double and then bump the guy
over and then get him in. But and so there
was opportunities for that, and then the dude pops it
up like that one in and of itself. There was
that was the Toronto situation. They get the guy over
there and they have I don't remember who it was
up of the dish, but it was actually a very
(30:19):
good swing, Like as far as I'm getting to the
bottom half hitting the sack fly here and you're talking
about a quarter of an inch from it being an
easy sack fly that goes into the outfield versus a
pop up the short and then you go four more
innings after that with no call. Yeah. Yeah, it just was.
It was like there's times where it's like you, oh,
you let him off the hook. Well, I let him
(30:39):
off the hook, but not with a poor approach. There
was other times where there was bad approaches, there was
bad execution. It just was one thing after another, and
it was like answering you know, the show Haego's Yard,
and then then all of a sudden, the complete opposite
in Christian Kirk, I mean show he have Tani runs
like a deer throws a million a Christian Kirk. Yeah, yeah,
(31:02):
different guy. It also runs like a deer. Yeah well yeah,
the Alejandro Kirk does not run like a deer. I
mean the exact opposite. Here comes to yeah, the amount
of athleticism, and yet he's the one that answers the
show hey thing. Early in the game, it just was
one thing after another.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It was forty three year runners left on base over
eighteen innings, ten pitchers used by the Dodgers in the game,
which is a record. And then of course, at the
forefront of it all, even though it was there, there was,
there was everything in the contest Shoe a Otani just
(31:40):
I mean Baki, I mean Barry Bonds is the greatest
player I've ever seen, but that's steroid Berry. Clean Berry
was still one of the ten best players I've ever seen,
But Steroid Berry was something like I never thought we'd
seen before. And show he's not that as a hitter
(32:00):
the pitching element that he adds to it as well.
The only person you can compare him to is Babe Ruth.
And then people say, well, bab Ruth only did that
for three years, true, and show he's been doing that
where they were full time. He's a little bit beyond that.
But then again, Babe Ruth went five years of potentially
his prime apparently being wasted as a pitcher, even though
(32:23):
he was an All Star caliber pitcher. So how much
more offense would he have added to his resume. So
I don't dismiss Babe Ruth. I don't dismiss Barry Bonds
in this conversation, but I do think not being a
prisoner in the moment, we are watching the greatest baseball
player that's ever played, and it turns out that once
(32:45):
you get him away from the Angels and Mike Trout
and he actually gets to the playoffs, he's better here
than at any other time.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, well nine times, yes, Dair, that's ridiculous. I mean,
I'll just say, Babe Ruth is cemented in the or
of baseball history forever as somebody that did something way
before his time, Like he was sitting more home runs
than most of the other teams combined at that point
in time. He's Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat. That's it.
(33:14):
But I'm sorry, Babe, step aside, Joe Altani is better.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
He show.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Babe wasn't throwing one hundred, Babe, wasn't. I mean, he
was hitting fifty five homers. It was against it in
a different era. And I'm not taking away from that
because playing a simple things were not as good back then.
I mean, think about the gear they had in the
I mean just nothing. It's completely different. It's it's comparing
apples to tomatoes. They're not the same thing. But there's
(33:42):
just nothing that I mean. This guy runs hits for average,
hits for power. I mean, he had some scuffles early
in the in the postseason, and yet corrected it to
where now all of a sudden, yesterday, it's like, we
can't pitch this guy. Just put him on basically five bis.
I mean, it's he almost stole a bag in a
(34:05):
key situation. I think Babe was stealing a bait. Yeah
he came. Yeah, But it's just there's there's just not
I mean, when you watch it, there's almost a part
of perfection that's going on when you watch the way
in which he's not impervious to making outs, but he is.
He just does things that are way different. There's not
very often you're going to see somebody that's head and
(34:25):
shoulders better than everybody else in the game in their era,
and he is. Right now, he has had two games.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The last two games he's played at Dodger Stadium are
two of the greatest games ever played by an individual player.
That's back to back home games that he's treated Dodger
fans to the Jason Bateman too, Yeah, you're welcome, Bateman.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I didn't even know what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, he didn't even hop aboard his baitmobile last night
to get away from it. He stayed for all eighteen innings.
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