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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Rata on the ground back up the middle of the
center field to base hit. Crawford's speeding around third, he
will score. Randy Rosarna has his first RBI in the postseason,
and it's two nothing, Seattle. He swings and sends one
out towards deep left field.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This one's way back there, and Aujano Suarez returns to
Detroit with a bang.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's three nothing, Seattle.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
He's gonna go to Montero, but it's five to one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Crawford sends a fly ball out towards right field.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
That one's way back and gone.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
JP.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Crawford right on cue delivers.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He sends one the other way, well struck ball deep
left field and gone. Rawley's first of the playoffs, and
it's eight to one seanle. They are feeling it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Down the right field line.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Naylor makes the catch, doubles it off, and then's the
ball game. Josh Naylor on a frozen roof, snared it,
stepped on the back and finishes off.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Game three and the Mariners are one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Step away from the LCS Box Sports on the call
last night, as the Mariners do win eight to four
over the Detroit Tigers at Camerica Park, It's Chuck Powell,
Bucky Jacobson.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We are on the road. We are broadcasting live from Detroit, Michigan.
We will be again tomorrow morning and hopefully talking about
an Alds victory. The Mariners do have a chance to
take the series this afternoon here in Detroit with a victory.
They got two bites at the Apple. If they need to,
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they can close it out at home Friday back there
in Seattle. But let's get this thing done tonight. I
think is sort of the mentality that the entire organization,
and I think all of the state of Washington has
as we enter this win. So welcome into the program.
We roll into our seven o'clock hour here on a
hump day, Mariner's eight to four winners last night. The
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pitching matchup this evening will be Bryce Miller for US,
Casey Mize going for the Tigers. Start is at noon
Seattle time, three o'clock out here in Detroit, Michigan, and
an opportunity, as I mentioned, to close things out. Josh
Naylor still is not hitting, but he was at least
in the lineup last night. There was a lot of
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question about that. Josh Naylor has made it very well
known that I don't like my personal affairs to be
mentioned anywhere, So he has controlled the narrative when it
comes to his first child's birth. But he did at
least admit last night that all is good, that they
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did have a baby. Mister and missus Naylor had their
first baby last night, and he wouldn't really mention anything else.
I think there was a bit of a gender reveal though,
last night by his belt choice, because that thing was special.
That thing was. It was blue, and it was sparkly,
and it was and it said navels on it. I mean,
that was something else right there. That was like a
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beauty pageant.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't wholeheartedly understand the dazzled belt thing.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Now, don't get me wrong. I've had jeans.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I've had some jeans that had some bedazzles on the
on the back pockets, Oh is that right?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
And I got made fun of by my friends a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And now, yeah, I just the bedazzled belt drawing attention
to my waistline. But he, the dude just got flair.
He's got a swagger about him. And that belt was
I mean, it was ARCOLDI.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know if I've ever seen anybody as gritty
and also as fashion as what Josh Naylor is. It's
a rare combination. The rest of your headlines just quickly
because we got to get Greg Belt in here, and
we're already a couple of minutes late to his segment.
The Huskies will host Rutgers Friday night. Cam Cleveland will
(04:03):
join us today at eight o'clock NHL's opening night. Last night,
three games took place, but the Kraken won't start until
Thursday at home against the Anaheim Ducks. We'll talk to
al Kiniski for the first time today at nine thirty.
And of course it is hump Day, so I don't
even know what happened Sunday to the Seahawks because I
think about the next game starting on Wednesday, and that's
(04:25):
in Jacksonville against the Jaguars. And joining us now, our
Seahawks insider, Greg Bell, what do you think we're gonna
close this thing out here tonight?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I think, yeah, I think Brycemember does it?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I do it?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Schools would be a tougher proposition in one rather not face,
I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Think, yeah, why didn't you warn us that Detroit was
so hospitable? We've been very kind to us. Since we've
been here. He didn't tell me about that. And all
your travels, all your worldly travels bell the.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Midwest people, Man, there's some you know that Illinois. Man,
it's a different it's different there. It's yeah, my mother
lives there, my sister lives there and spent a lot
of time in Detroit and always have a great time.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
I'm glad to turn you out as it should. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, they're treating us well up here. All right, Well
let's dive into it. Of course, coming off a tough
loss on Sunday, and now suddenly a Jacksonville team that
is playing much better than what people believed they were
going to be this year. A four and one football
team that's gonna host us host the Seahawks on Sunday.
(05:32):
So Jacksonville just a different entity than maybe we thought
we were up against five weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yeah, four and one. They beat the Chiefs the other night,
came from behind to do it. They've beaten the forty
nine ers on the road. The Seahawks haven't done very
much in the last decade. They've also beaten Carolina and Houston.
The early loss was to the Joe Burrow Bengals before
Burrow got hurt thirty one, thirty one, twenty seven. I
think they lost in Cincinnati. I certainly lost. The biggest
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thing that stands out to the knee about the Jaguars
their defense. They have ten interceptions and four fumble recoveries
in five games. That's fourteen turnovers they produced in five games.
You're gonna win a lot of games doing that. They
had brought Purty turning the ball over in Santa Clara
a couple weeks ago. That's the most startling thing about
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this team. Trevor Lawrence is still not what they drafted
him to be. He's six touchdowns in five interceptions so
far this season. He's barely a sixty percent passer. His
passer ratings are in the seventies. He's not. It's their defense.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So far.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
They have Travis ANDTN is their lead running back, but
the defense is what the Seahawks attention. I mean, if
you're producing that many turnovers, you're gonna win games. And
that'll that is an equalizer and that is probably number
one on the Seahawks dive and the Jaguars and how
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they're doing that.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well, how do you figure the Seahawks got to match
up with it. Obviously the key would be, well, don't
turn the ball over to them. But okay, if they're
really good at finding ways to do it, whether it's
disguises or just super athletic guys making plays, I mean,
how do you combat that with trying to make Trevor
Lawrence make some mistakes because, like you said, he still
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is prone to do that.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Well, it's the same ole thing. I think you could
just cut and pace. You've probably saved the time and
not call me when you asked me what the Kiva
game is. Just replay a tape from the last two years.
Run the ball and that's how That's the best of
Sam Darnold, and that's how this team has been designed,
is to keep the ball away from offenses, run field position, control,
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the clock control. That's how they want to play. They've
rarely played that way. Right. Pittsburgh in Week two is
the only game that you can really say the running game.
And that didn't happen till the second half in Pittsburgh.
They the yardage numbers in the game. The other day
in Tampa Bay game showed that they ran one hundred
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and twenty two yards total, But you didn't feel that
the running game was dictating field position, time possession, keeping
the ball away from Tampa Bay, who's still gained four
and twenty five yards and Mayfield stiff for three seventy
five and for four touchdowns. So they've really yet to
play a full game offensively how they're designed to. I
don't know what's coming because they are still running the
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ball and whether they're producing yards or not. Koviak has
shown time and again he's gonna run. He's gonna run
his head and then bang it into the wall if
they have to keep running. But to me, that would
be the way to mitigate your risk of turning the
ball over. Of course, you could still lose fumbles, and
they've done that too, But it bears repeating that if
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Sam Darnold holds onto the ball does not turn the
ball over in the final minutes of two games games,
they could be five and oh. A lot of NFL
teams could say that, But that's how important turnovers are,
and turnovers at the quarterback position in particular hard Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Inside of Greg Bell joining us here on the radio program,
of course, you can follow at g bel Seattle on
x and Thenewstribune dot com for complete comprehensive coverage of
your Seattle Seahawks all year long. They take on the
Jaguars this Sunday. We don't have a defense problem, do we?
I mean, this seems like a ridiculous question to ask
of a Mike McDonald team, But my Baker Mayfield had
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way too much time to throw and too easy a
time to score thirty eight points against the Seahawks on Sunday.
So I mean, what's Mike McDonald's doing to scramble and
make sure that that was an outlier of fluke and
not something that could be repeated.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
I think they do have a defense problem, and it's
one we've talked about since the beginning of the season,
is tackling, especially in the secondary. But they got exposed
even more than that in the front against Tampa Bay
and they're mistackling. Everyone on the team pretty much had
mistackles at some point.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
In the game.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
And McDonald said they're going back to the drawing board
on Monday. He said they are going to reevaluate how
they're coaching and drilling tackling. He doesn't use it as
an excuse that they can't go pads, but for fourteen
practices of the entire regular season by CBA rule he
doesn't make. He doesn't think it's an excuse that you
can't you don't bring guys to ground because of injury concerns.
(10:28):
He said, everybody else is playing by the same rules too.
They drill it a lot, They talk about it a lot.
They have form tackling drills that they tailor buy defensive position,
depending if you're an open field secondary guy, you have
different open field tackling drills than say a defensive lineman does.
They do spend a lot of time on him. McDonald's
point was, we are not getting the results for as
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much as effort and investment of time and just strategizing
how are we going to tackle, They're not getting the
results for all they're putting into it. So he said,
they are revalued and they've got to do it on
the fly here before they leave for Florida on Friday.
It's a problem in the NFL off and early in seasons.
We've talked about that from not doing it in training camp.
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But when it's now October and you're still having those problems,
I'd say they do have a problem on defense. If
you can't tackle in the NFL now the ball is
the game in the past, game is get the ball
out quick, mitigate pass rush. Okay, so if you're going
to not get to the quarterback because the quarterbacks getting
rid of it in less than two seconds and they're
throwing four yard passes, that means that there is you
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got to tackle the guy or that four yard pass
becomes ten, twelve, fifteen yards. And that's what happened with
Baker Mayfield getting three hundred and seventy five yards.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
The other day.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Now, they were a lot of passes down the field, yes,
but if you're not tackling dudes when they're getting the
ball out quick, then they might as well be fifteen
and twenty yard passes because that's what the games are anyway.
And that's what happened on Sunday. That's we've talked about
this more than just in that game, the tackling issue
they've had.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean, I agree tackling. You can't allow them
to just do the little short pitching catch for five
yards and then run for ten more. That's not gonna
work out in the long run. But I mean, is
there anything that needs to change. Is it the pass
rush that needs to get there? Quicker or do they
need to tighten up the coverage because the fact that
he completes twenty nine out of thirty three passes is
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beyond tackling, right, I mean tackling. You've got to do
something there where it's not three hundred and seventy nine
yards of passing in a couple of touchdowns. But I mean,
what about just not allowing him to complete passes at
an eighty or ninety percent clip.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, that was the first game they didn't get any
pressure and it didn't touch Mayfield until eight minutes left
in the game. The safety plitz by the Anthony Bell
was not only the first sec but the first hit
on the quarterback with eight minutes left in the game. Yeah,
you're gonna give up tons of yards and completions if
you do that in this league. But before that, and
actually it could go back to before five point fifty
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left in the game. In Arizona, they were the best
pressure rate team in the league eighty plus percent of
the time, and they were using form down linemen and
they were getting forty plus percent pressure rates, which is
like when you blitz all the time, usually get presser
rates like that. And they weren't blitzing, so he tried
blitzing more as the game went on against Tampa, but
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his blitzers were depleted. Derek Hall was injured, Devin Witherspoon
wasn't playing, Julian Love wasn't playing, so they had Tyo
Kotta blitzing, and Tyle Kotta was just running into the
line and getting swallowed by three hundred pounds lineman. It
was a useless endeavor to blitz Tyle Katta, and that
seemed to be who he wanted to blitz because he
was afraid of using his corners to blitz because he
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didn't want to give up the few cover guys he
had left. Devin Witherspoon may play, he's not practicing yet
and we'll see how this week goes through him, and
same with Julian Love. If those two guys come back,
those are two of your primary blitzers out of the
secondary and now he has more options in coverage in
and blitzing. But you can bet that he's coming up
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with a different plan this week against Trevor Lawrence to
get more pressure than he did on Baker Mayfield last thing.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Today, let's jump to the offensive side of the ball
for an offensive question? Is it time to just scrap
the Jalen Milroe package idea. I mean they're zero for
three in trying to use it in games. Maybe he's
not quite ready for that. Maybe they don't get enough
time to practice it. Are they thinking about tabling it
for a while, or what's the situation with that?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Well? I intended to ask more about that today when
I got out there, but I would say it's not
fair to the mill Row to put him in for
one play in three of the five games. I mean,
it's like not even cameos. It's like lightning stroke. Oh
here he is, and I was gone. Kenneth Walker told
me after the game that they had practiced that pitch
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hops play quite a bit and that it just didn't
execute it as we had practiced it. But don't it
doesn't appear to practice is the issue to me, it's
the issue of doing it more than once. And so far,
the three times they've done it, it's all been on runs.
So you can stack the box and crowd the line
and bring everybody off the edge and run blitz and
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pretty much be assured so far that Milroe is only
going to run the ball and they haven't shown that
they trust him to pass the ball in the game,
so it's not like there's a huge secret what's going
to happen when number six comes in. They're going to
run something either up the middle, around the end. That's
what they've done. I don't think it's fair to say
Milroe is not ready when he's only had three opportunities
in five games. If they're gonna do it, it needs
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to be more than once. If they're not going to
do it, then it means to be zero. But this
half in, half out thing is just wasting everybody's time
and it's wasting downs and to me, they haven't fully committed,
not even halfway committed to it yet to make it work.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
All right, Greg, thank you Sarah for joining us, So
we do appreciate it. We're kind of in the midst
of we got baseball up to our elbows.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, enjoyed destrois okay? Are you downtown?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We are actually really conveniently located to the Irheart studios
and of the ballpark, So it's been it's been a
lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
When I was doing Monday night games and then do
a Tuesday show from now. I was doing some studio
on the suburbs. I'm guide your downtown. Yeah that I
think they're gonna do it today. It would really behoove
them to give a couple of days off to their closer.
Doesn't need to pitch too many more times. It's too
bad they can't rely on more than three relievers at
this point, but so be it never works, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
All right, Greg, thank you. We'll talk to you Friday.
I think I think that's how the game. Yeah, all right,
Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us right here on
Chuck and Buck in the morning, of course, follow Greg
at gmail, Seattle there on x and at the News
Tribune dot com, and we'll get back into our baseball
conversations coming up in our next segment, Matt Brash, we'll
(17:00):
be joining us here on the radio program. Plus we'll
play some Factor fiction at seven thirty five Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Why from Detroit. Tears delicious.
Tiger tears are delicious. You can clown. I put them
in my champagne glass. Coming up, we've got Factor fiction
here in about four minutes. But after last night's eight
(17:23):
four win over the Detroit Tigers. I was down in
the clubhouse here in Detroit and I caught up with
Matt Brash.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Congrats, thank you, grat nice outing. Yeah, the quick ones
are always nice.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You know what, you're a strikeout guy and you get
three little measly ground balls.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Out there, did you even feel like you worked up
a sweat?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Like I said, those quick ones are nice, and I mean,
obviously you like to get strikeouts, So I'll take the
all day every day, especially in playoffs when you're throwing
a lot. So sure it'll help me feel little more fresh.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Tomorrow, for sure. What are the marching orders here?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Are?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Are you just available at any time at this point?
Is that what you've been told? Are you mostly into
the eighth? What do you what's the marching orders?
Speaker 9 (18:03):
I think it's just kind of based on the guys
who are up. I feel like Gabe's probably gonna face
the lefties at the top and unless he goes in
early and I'll face them later in the game, kind
of like yesterday's game. But yeah, today I feel like
Logan was rolling and I had a feeling maybe I
would sneak in there against some of the right's at
the bottom. So I'm always ready. You know, it's a
life of a bullpen pitcher. You're kind of always ready
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for whatever. And you get moving in the fourth and
then playoff times, anything can happen.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So yeah, I'm ready to go up.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
You're always ready. But it's postseason. Lights are brighter.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You're playing in front of fifty thousand people for goodness
sake every night. Do the nerves I'm sure they started
that first time you got to the mound back back
in game one, But do they start to dissipate? Does
it just turn into baseball again? The further you get
into this, I feel like.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
I'm more nervous, like earlier on in the game, and
then once you get into your routine and the phone
rings and you're warming up, it's just second nature by now.
And especially when to get on the game ount it's
like I always say, like I kind of like blackout,
Like you're just you're going, you're competing, you're not thinking
about nothing. You don't hear anybody that, you don't really
hear the crowd until after the thing's over. So yeah,
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I mean, you always got the nerves, you got the butterflies.
But that's good that that means you care and that's
what you kind.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Of look for. So all right, play pitching analysts for me,
what'd you think of Logan tonight?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I mean, he's been doing what he's been doing all year,
and I feel like he really attacked guys early today
and he was rolling. His pitch count was down, which
was awesome, and I mean he gritted out at the end.
He got big outs, some full counts there where he
made big pitches and that's what we need. Were getting
those six innings is huge for us, and save Gabe
there today was huge too. So I mean, whenever your
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starters can go deep in the game in the playoffs,
it's a huge advantage.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And he looked great.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I love when your Canadian slips into one of my interviews.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Yeah, it happens every What's uh, It was funny last
thing for you.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I was sitting there overhearing Tom Berducci legend talking to
who and was he the only question you asked him
was talk about the pictures, and I think Tom was
seeking something about their stuff, your stuff, all your stuff,
and Julio goes.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
They get along so well, it's crazy, And I thought
that was such an incredible thing to overhear from the
center fielder with a gorgeous smile.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But talk about that, talk about the bond that you
guys have, because I'm always amazed whenever I'm around it.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Yeah, I mean, a lot of us as came up
through the miners together and we've been here for a while,
like being young guys for some of the big leagues,
and I feel like we've had a couple of years together,
and you you just bond. I mean, you spend a
lot of time together, obviously.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
But sometimes that can cause friction and you move apart.
You guys seem to get closer every time I'm around you.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Yeah, I feel like everyone just likes each other on
and off the field. We do things even when we're
not out of the field. Guys hang out or live together,
whatever it is. But yeah, we just have a good time.
And everyone has amazing stuff here. So yeah, I just
feel like we get along really well and we enjoy
what we do, and that makes it really easy.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You can't be jealous of someone else's stuff when you
two have great stuff.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Everybody's got great.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yeah, everyone has great stuff, and everyone's cheering each other on,
which is also a big thing too. I feel like,
especially down in the bullpen, like next guy up, whoever's
going in, like we fully support them.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
And if some guys aren't throwing as much.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
First others, you never feel like they're, you know, rooting
against you or anything. Like we're one unit down there
and we're just we're trying to win.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
That's all. We get ready for a game for yes, sir,
there you go, all right, good luck.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Thank you Matt Brash joining me last night in the clubhouse.
We're gonna talk more about that comment about how close
these pictures are a little bit later on in the show,
but right now, we have to play some fact or fiction.
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Red River rivalry the Texas Longhorns to win. Apparently it's
turned into a pick them. I'll take that all day
long because Texas, I think at one point was a
three and a half point favorite, So I guess the
money is coming in on the Oklahoma side. So if
it's a pick them, that makes it real simple for
me and anybody playing. I'm taking the Texas Longhorns to
(22:51):
defeat the Oklahoma Sooners. I realize the Sooners are highly ranked.
I realize that Texas is not ranked right now, but
we're talking about a team that, on paper, was considered
the most talented team in college football coming into this year.
Nothing has really happened according to script for Texas this season,
and I think everything is along the line for Texas
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in this game, not just the rivalry, but also like
their entire season. I mean, they might they might already
be out of the tournament. Certainly, if there's any chance
to make the tournament, it has to start this weekend,
and so I think this is the super Bowl, the
Red River Rivalry, the National Championship, everything rolled into one.
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If Sart can't get Texas to play at its peak
level with all the talent that they have, then it's
just not gonna happen and they're going to fall apart
this season. So I think everything is coming together for
a Texas win and maybe even a comfortable win against
the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend on a neutral field. So
give me Texas with my factor fiction.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Pick this week. All right?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Well, I mean I do think that they are back.
They've painted themselves into a corner to some extent. If
they're not going to answer the bell this weekend, I
don't know when you're gonna It'll be too late if
they don't.
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hanging out a great, great sports bar there with this
amazing view. I mean, how many sports of ours can
you just go out on the patio, sit by the fire,
watch fourteen games at a time, and then have this
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gorgeous view that you can just look over at Bucky's backyard.
It was amazing. Yeah, awesome, it really is.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
You said, we're doing today's show, postgame show, later, tomorrow's show,
probably every show for the future, if my family will
move out here.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, Bucky's really locked in on this. That's pretty reckless at.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Breakfast right there. Yeah it is. Yeah, you're just ready
to move in home.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I don't think it is when you live there.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I don't know. I'm pretty sure they would be.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Camp Cleveland's gonna join us at eight o'clock. But it
is time to get a little reckless at breakfast. And
certainly I'm not gonna get reckless with any sort of
bold predictions for today in game number four, but I
will get reckless from this standpoint. I'm gonna make Dan
Wilson's game plan for him. I believe in Bryce Miller.
I know a lot of people have been a little disappointed,
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disappointed in him, maybe disenfranchised with the season that he
has had. Most of his struggles this year, I think
we're due to injuries, and I think actually he tried
to fight through some stuff because he's such a team guy.
I don't think he was right at the beginning of
the year, but he's not been the dominant Bryce that
we saw at the end of last season. But Bucky,
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I think it's in him. I often called him Clint Eastwood.
He has this quiet swagger about him. He's not going
to be overtaken by the moment, and I think he
has a very good chance to go out tonight, be
sensational and not let the Tigers off the mat. And
maybe Bryce Miller's the player of the game and we're
celebrating him and a Division Ald title here tonight. But
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that being said, even though I do express confidence in
Bryce Miller, I'm kind of treating this game. I don't
really want it to come down to a game five
winner take Saul, even though it would be at home,
having to face Trek Scooble for a second time, having
to beat him for a second time. So I'm treating
this game if I'm Dan Wilson, almost like it is
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a Game five, and the moment Bryce Miller gets into
any trouble, I'm going to my pen. I think I've
got I think I got more than three guys Greg
Bell that I can count on out of that bullpen.
And yeah, they're pitching a little more than what they
normally do during the regular season, but this is why
you pace guys during the regular season so that when
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they get to the postseason you can ask a little
bit more of them. And I know, if it's the
second inning, if it's the third inning, I'm not letting
the Tigers put together too many runs at the beginning
of the game off of Bryce Miller. It's gonna be
a pretty short leash on him tonight. And I'm treating
this like a bullpen game if I have to, because
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I want to finish this thing tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
So do I want to. And I think that they're
kind of riding the fact that they you know, after
dropping that, after dropping one, you understand how big Game
three was, and then to come back now and all
of a sudden find yourself on the brink of advancing,
you do not want to let him back up. I mean,
because it's not the same as just well it's tied,
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it's just game five. It's like that they forced Game
five and then they know they're gonna have Trek scoubl.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
It's going to be a different feel. So I'm I'm
with you. I think Brice can do it. I do
think when you use that Clint Eastwood analogy, I think
it's perfect. I think he does have a little bit
of that just kind of oh, make come on, make
my day, that type of thing. I think he's got that. Uh,
he's gonna have to go out and do it. But
with execution, this isn't a you know, a start in
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mid April where it's like I'm gonna let it eat
and we'll see if they hit it at people. No,
you top of the pitch at top rail, found the inside.
I want to do best, set things up. Make I'm
not saying nibble, but I'm saying, execute good pitches, even
if it means you're going deeper into counts because you're
not worried about the pitch count. Like you said, I'm
not worried about pitch count. I'm not necessarily worried about
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getting him to be the pitcher of record. If I'm
if I'm Dan Wilson, I'm saying, go out there, attack
these guys, but attack the corners of the zone. Be
careful with where you're going with these We don't want
to fall behind because yeah, I think they will pull
the trigger quick and in a hurry. But if he
can go out there and give you five, give up
a couple. If that, I think you think you set
yourself up for this offense to do what they've been doing.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And it's unfortunate that Caleb Ferguson may have been the
only Mariner that didn't do his job last night. But
he didn't do his job last night, and it's unfortunate
because he had to bring Munyose out. Otherwise you could
be staring at giving him two innings tonight. They probably
won't do that, but he certainly will be available. Everybody's
going to be available, everybody willing and capable to go
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a little extra to try to close this thing out tonight.
So that's how I'm treating it. If I'm Dan Wilson,
I'm gonna treat this like it is the decisive game tonight,
and then if it doesn't work out, I got a
day off to rest everybody, and I got George Kirby
on a full four days rest and ready to go
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for game number five at home. I've got him in
a normal rotation to try to tackle Trek's schooble, and
I have my bullpen there and ready obviously to treat
it like a fifth and decisive game on Friday. But
I want to make sure that I take care of
things tonight if I can. So let's go Bryce, Let's
go Ems Bucky, and I want to fly home from
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Detroit Thursday, not worrying about having to attend a fifth
and deciding game at home on Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
No, I mean, I'm not scared of it, but at
the same time, I would prefer to not have to
go through it. I think that this is the kind
of the prime you know, jumping off point. This is
where you go ahead and say, when you get somebody
where they're backed into a corner, you finish it. You
finish the job, and go out there and do it
in game four. You don't have to get to Game five,
even though it would probably be par on par for
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the Seattle Mariners. Let's have a game five, Let's beat
Let's try to beat Terrek Schouler for a fourth time
this year.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Former baseball player Cam Cleveland is going to join us
on the other side. Yeah, it's our normal Wednesday conversation
with the voice of your Washington Husky, so Cam Cleveland.
Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
Rata on the ground back up the middle of the
center field to base hit. Crawford's speeding around third, he
will score. Randy Rosarna has his first RBI in the postseason,
and it's two nothing, Seattle. He swings and sends one
out towards deep left field.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This one's way back there, and Aujano Suarez returns to
Detroit with a bang.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's three nothing, Seattle.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
He's gonna go to Montero, but it's five to one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Crawford sends a fly ball out towards right field.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
That one's way back and gone.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
JP.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Crawford right on cue delivers.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He sends one the other way, well struck ball deep
left field and gone. Rawley's first of the playoffs, and
it's eight to one seanle. They are feeling it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Down the right field line.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Naylor makes the catch, doubles it off, and then's the
ball game. Josh Naylor on a frozen roof, snared it,
stepped on the back and finishes off.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Game three and the Mariners are one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Step away from the LCS Box Sports on the call
last night, as the Mariners do win eight to four
over the Detroit Tigers at Camerica Park, It's Chuck Powell,
Bucky Jacobson.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
We are on the road. We are broadcasting live from Detroit, Michigan.
We will be again tomorrow morning and hopefully talking about
an Alds victory. The Mariners do have a chance to
take the series this afternoon here in Detroit with a victory.
They got two bites at the Apple. If they need to,
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they can close it out at home Friday back there
in Seattle. But let's get this thing done tonight. I
think is sort of the mentality that the entire organization,
and I think all of the state of Washington has
as we enter this win. So welcome into the program.
We roll into our seven o'clock hour here on a
hump day, Mariner's eight to four winners last night. The
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pitching matchup this evening will be Bryce Miller for US,
Casey Mize going for the Tigers. Start is at noon
Seattle time, three o'clock out here in Detroit, Michigan, and
an opportunity, as I mentioned, to close things out. Josh
Naylor still is not hitting, but he was at least
in the lineup last night. There was a lot of
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question about that. Josh Naylor has made it very well
known that I don't like my personal affairs to be
mentioned anywhere, So he has controlled the narrative when it
comes to his first child's birth. But he did at
least admit last night that all is good, that they
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did have a baby. Mister and missus Naylor had their
first baby last night, and he wouldn't really mention anything else.
I think there was a bit of a gender reveal though,
last night by his belt choice, because that thing was special.
That thing was. It was blue, and it was sparkly,
and it was and it said navels on it. I mean,
that was something else right there. That was like a
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beauty pageant.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I don't wholeheartedly understand the dazzled belt thing.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Now, don't get me wrong. I've had jeans.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I've had some jeans that had some bedazzles on the
on the back pockets, Oh is that right?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
And I got made fun of by my friends a lot.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
And now, yeah, I just the bedazzled belt drawing attention
to my waistline. But he, the dude just got flair.
He's got a swagger about him. And that belt was
I mean, it was ARCOLDI.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't know if I've ever seen anybody as gritty
and also as fashion as what Josh Naylor is. It's
a rare combination. The rest of your headlines just quickly
because we got to get Greg Belt in here, and
we're already a couple of minutes late to his segment.
The Huskies will host Rutgers Friday night. Cam Cleveland will
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join us today at eight o'clock NHL's opening night. Last night,
three games took place, but the Kraken won't start until
Thursday at home against the Anaheim Ducks. We'll talk to
al Kiniski for the first time today at nine thirty.
And of course it is hump Day, so I don't
even know what happened Sunday to the Seahawks because I
think about the next game starting on Wednesday, and that's
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in Jacksonville against the Jaguars. And joining us now, our
Seahawks insider, Greg Bell, what do you think we're gonna
close this thing out here tonight?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I think, yeah, I think Brycemember does it?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I do it?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Schools would be a tougher proposition in one rather not face,
I would.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Think, yeah, why didn't you warn us that Detroit was
so hospitable? We've been very kind to us. Since we've
been here. He didn't tell me about that. And all
your travels, all your worldly travels bell the.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Midwest people, Man, there's some you know that Illinois. Man,
it's a different it's different there. It's yeah, my mother
lives there, my sister lives there and spent a lot
of time in Detroit and always have a great time.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
I'm glad to turn you out as it should. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, they're treating us well up here. All right, Well
let's dive into it. Of course, coming off a tough
loss on Sunday, and now suddenly a Jacksonville team that
is playing much better than what people believed they were
going to be this year. A four and one football
team that's gonna host us host the Seahawks on Sunday.
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So Jacksonville just a different entity than maybe we thought
we were up against five weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Yeah, four and one. They beat the Chiefs the other night,
came from behind to do it. They've beaten the forty
nine ers on the road. The Seahawks haven't done very
much in the last decade. They've also beaten Carolina and Houston.
The early loss was to the Joe Burrow Bengals before
Burrow got hurt thirty one, thirty one, twenty seven. I
think they lost in Cincinnati. I certainly lost. The biggest
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thing that stands out to the knee about the Jaguars
their defense. They have ten interceptions and four fumble recoveries
in five games. That's fourteen turnovers they produced in five games.
You're gonna win a lot of games doing that. They
had brought Purty turning the ball over in Santa Clara
a couple weeks ago. That's the most startling thing about
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this team. Trevor Lawrence is still not what they drafted
him to be. He's six touchdowns in five interceptions so
far this season. He's barely a sixty percent passer. His
passer ratings are in the seventies. He's not. It's their defense.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
So far.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
They have Travis ANDTN is their lead running back, but
the defense is what the Seahawks attention. I mean, if
you're producing that many turnovers, you're gonna win games. And
that'll that is an equalizer and that is probably number
one on the Seahawks dive and the Jaguars and how
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they're doing that.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well, how do you figure the Seahawks got to match
up with it. Obviously the key would be, well, don't
turn the ball over to them. But okay, if they're
really good at finding ways to do it, whether it's
disguises or just super athletic guys making plays, I mean,
how do you combat that with trying to make Trevor
Lawrence make some mistakes because, like you said, he still
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is prone to do that.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Well, it's the same ole thing. I think you could
just cut and pace. You've probably saved the time and
not call me when you asked me what the Kiva
game is. Just replay a tape from the last two years.
Run the ball and that's how That's the best of
Sam Darnold, and that's how this team has been designed,
is to keep the ball away from offenses, run field position, control,
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the clock control. That's how they want to play. They've
rarely played that way. Right. Pittsburgh in Week two is
the only game that you can really say the running game.
And that didn't happen till the second half in Pittsburgh.
They the yardage numbers in the game. The other day
in Tampa Bay game showed that they ran one hundred
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and twenty two yards total, But you didn't feel that
the running game was dictating field position, time possession, keeping
the ball away from Tampa Bay, who's still gained four
and twenty five yards and Mayfield stiff for three seventy
five and for four touchdowns. So they've really yet to
play a full game offensively how they're designed to. I
don't know what's coming because they are still running the
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ball and whether they're producing yards or not. Koviak has
shown time and again he's gonna run. He's gonna run
his head and then bang it into the wall if
they have to keep running. But to me, that would
be the way to mitigate your risk of turning the
ball over. Of course, you could still lose fumbles, and
they've done that too, But it bears repeating that if
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Sam Darnold holds onto the ball does not turn the
ball over in the final minutes of two games games,
they could be five and oh. A lot of NFL
teams could say that, But that's how important turnovers are,
and turnovers at the quarterback position in particular hard Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Inside of Greg Bell joining us here on the radio program,
of course, you can follow at g bel Seattle on
x and Thenewstribune dot com for complete comprehensive coverage of
your Seattle Seahawks all year long. They take on the
Jaguars this Sunday. We don't have a defense problem, do we?
I mean, this seems like a ridiculous question to ask
of a Mike McDonald team, But my Baker Mayfield had
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way too much time to throw and too easy a
time to score thirty eight points against the Seahawks on Sunday.
So I mean, what's Mike McDonald's doing to scramble and
make sure that that was an outlier of fluke and
not something that could be repeated.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
I think they do have a defense problem, and it's
one we've talked about since the beginning of the season,
is tackling, especially in the secondary. But they got exposed
even more than that in the front against Tampa Bay
and they're mistackling. Everyone on the team pretty much had
mistackles at some point.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
In the game.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
And McDonald said they're going back to the drawing board
on Monday. He said they are going to reevaluate how
they're coaching and drilling tackling. He doesn't use it as
an excuse that they can't go pads, but for fourteen
practices of the entire regular season by CBA rule he
doesn't make. He doesn't think it's an excuse that you
can't you don't bring guys to ground because of injury concerns.
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He said, everybody else is playing by the same rules too.
They drill it a lot, They talk about it a lot.
They have form tackling drills that they tailor buy defensive position,
depending if you're an open field secondary guy, you have
different open field tackling drills than say a defensive lineman does.
They do spend a lot of time on him. McDonald's
point was, we are not getting the results for as
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much as effort and investment of time and just strategizing
how are we going to tackle, They're not getting the
results for all they're putting into it. So he said,
they are revalued and they've got to do it on
the fly here before they leave for Florida on Friday.
It's a problem in the NFL off and early in seasons.
We've talked about that from not doing it in training camp.
(11:11):
But when it's now October and you're still having those problems,
I'd say they do have a problem on defense. If
you can't tackle in the NFL now the ball is
the game in the past, game is get the ball
out quick, mitigate pass rush. Okay, so if you're going
to not get to the quarterback because the quarterbacks getting
rid of it in less than two seconds and they're
throwing four yard passes, that means that there is you
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got to tackle the guy or that four yard pass
becomes ten, twelve, fifteen yards. And that's what happened with
Baker Mayfield getting three hundred and seventy five yards.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
The other day.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Now, they were a lot of passes down the field, yes,
but if you're not tackling dudes when they're getting the
ball out quick, then they might as well be fifteen
and twenty yard passes because that's what the games are anyway.
And that's what happened on Sunday. That's we've talked about
this more than just in that game, the tackling issue
they've had.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, I mean, I agree tackling. You can't allow them
to just do the little short pitching catch for five
yards and then run for ten more. That's not gonna
work out in the long run. But I mean, is
there anything that needs to change. Is it the pass
rush that needs to get there? Quicker or do they
need to tighten up the coverage because the fact that
he completes twenty nine out of thirty three passes is
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beyond tackling, right, I mean tackling. You've got to do
something there where it's not three hundred and seventy nine
yards of passing in a couple of touchdowns. But I mean,
what about just not allowing him to complete passes at
an eighty or ninety percent clip.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, that was the first game they didn't get any
pressure and it didn't touch Mayfield until eight minutes left
in the game. The safety plitz by the Anthony Bell
was not only the first sec but the first hit
on the quarterback with eight minutes left in the game. Yeah,
you're gonna give up tons of yards and completions if
you do that in this league. But before that, and
actually it could go back to before five point fifty
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left in the game. In Arizona, they were the best
pressure rate team in the league eighty plus percent of
the time, and they were using form down linemen and
they were getting forty plus percent pressure rates, which is
like when you blitz all the time, usually get presser
rates like that. And they weren't blitzing, so he tried
blitzing more as the game went on against Tampa, but
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his blitzers were depleted. Derek Hall was injured, Devin Witherspoon
wasn't playing, Julian Love wasn't playing, so they had Tyo
Kotta blitzing, and Tyle Kotta was just running into the
line and getting swallowed by three hundred pounds lineman. It
was a useless endeavor to blitz Tyle Katta, and that
seemed to be who he wanted to blitz because he
was afraid of using his corners to blitz because he
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didn't want to give up the few cover guys he
had left. Devin Witherspoon may play, he's not practicing yet
and we'll see how this week goes through him, and
same with Julian Love. If those two guys come back,
those are two of your primary blitzers out of the
secondary and now he has more options in coverage in
and blitzing. But you can bet that he's coming up
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with a different plan this week against Trevor Lawrence to
get more pressure than he did on Baker Mayfield last thing.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Today, let's jump to the offensive side of the ball
for an offensive question? Is it time to just scrap
the Jalen Milroe package idea. I mean they're zero for
three in trying to use it in games. Maybe he's
not quite ready for that. Maybe they don't get enough
time to practice it. Are they thinking about tabling it
for a while, or what's the situation with that?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Well? I intended to ask more about that today when
I got out there, but I would say it's not
fair to the mill Row to put him in for
one play in three of the five games. I mean,
it's like not even cameos. It's like lightning stroke. Oh
here he is, and I was gone. Kenneth Walker told
me after the game that they had practiced that pitch
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hops play quite a bit and that it just didn't
execute it as we had practiced it. But don't it
doesn't appear to practice is the issue to me, it's
the issue of doing it more than once. And so far,
the three times they've done it, it's all been on runs.
So you can stack the box and crowd the line
and bring everybody off the edge and run blitz and
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pretty much be assured so far that Milroe is only
going to run the ball and they haven't shown that
they trust him to pass the ball in the game,
so it's not like there's a huge secret what's going
to happen when number six comes in. They're going to
run something either up the middle, around the end. That's
what they've done. I don't think it's fair to say
Milroe is not ready when he's only had three opportunities
in five games. If they're gonna do it, it needs
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to be more than once. If they're not going to
do it, then it means to be zero. But this
half in, half out thing is just wasting everybody's time
and it's wasting downs and to me, they haven't fully committed,
not even halfway committed to it yet to make it work.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
All right, Greg, thank you Sarah for joining us, So
we do appreciate it. We're kind of in the midst
of we got baseball up to our elbows.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, enjoyed destrois okay? Are you downtown?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
We are actually really conveniently located to the Irheart studios
and of the ballpark, So it's been it's been a
lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
When I was doing Monday night games and then do
a Tuesday show from now. I was doing some studio
on the suburbs. I'm guide your downtown. Yeah that I
think they're gonna do it today. It would really behoove
them to give a couple of days off to their closer.
Doesn't need to pitch too many more times. It's too
bad they can't rely on more than three relievers at
this point, but so be it never works, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
All right, Greg, thank you. We'll talk to you Friday.
I think I think that's how the game. Yeah, all right,
Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us right here on
Chuck and Buck in the morning, of course, follow Greg
at gmail, Seattle there on x and at the News
Tribune dot com, and we'll get back into our baseball
conversations coming up in our next segment, Matt Brash, we'll
(17:00):
be joining us here on the radio program. Plus we'll
play some Factor fiction at seven thirty five Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. Why from Detroit. Tears delicious.
Tiger tears are delicious. You can clown. I put them
in my champagne glass. Coming up, we've got Factor fiction
here in about four minutes. But after last night's eight
(17:23):
four win over the Detroit Tigers. I was down in
the clubhouse here in Detroit and I caught up with
Matt Brash.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Congrats, thank you, grat nice outing. Yeah, the quick ones
are always nice.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You know what, you're a strikeout guy and you get
three little measly ground balls.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Out there, did you even feel like you worked up
a sweat?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Like I said, those quick ones are nice, and I mean,
obviously you like to get strikeouts, So I'll take the
all day every day, especially in playoffs when you're throwing
a lot. So sure it'll help me feel little more fresh.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
Tomorrow, for sure. What are the marching orders here?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Are?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Are you just available at any time at this point?
Is that what you've been told? Are you mostly into
the eighth? What do you what's the marching orders?
Speaker 9 (18:03):
I think it's just kind of based on the guys
who are up. I feel like Gabe's probably gonna face
the lefties at the top and unless he goes in
early and I'll face them later in the game, kind
of like yesterday's game. But yeah, today I feel like
Logan was rolling and I had a feeling maybe I
would sneak in there against some of the right's at
the bottom. So I'm always ready. You know, it's a
life of a bullpen pitcher. You're kind of always ready
(18:24):
for whatever. And you get moving in the fourth and
then playoff times, anything can happen.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
So yeah, I'm ready to go up.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
You're always ready. But it's postseason. Lights are brighter.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You're playing in front of fifty thousand people for goodness
sake every night. Do the nerves I'm sure they started
that first time you got to the mound back back
in game one, But do they start to dissipate? Does
it just turn into baseball again? The further you get
into this, I feel like.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
I'm more nervous, like earlier on in the game, and
then once you get into your routine and the phone
rings and you're warming up, it's just second nature by now.
And especially when to get on the game ount it's
like I always say, like I kind of like blackout,
Like you're just you're going, you're competing, you're not thinking
about nothing. You don't hear anybody that, you don't really
hear the crowd until after the thing's over. So yeah,
(19:12):
I mean, you always got the nerves, you got the butterflies.
But that's good that that means you care and that's
what you kind.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Of look for. So all right, play pitching analysts for me,
what'd you think of Logan tonight?
Speaker 9 (19:21):
I mean, he's been doing what he's been doing all year,
and I feel like he really attacked guys early today
and he was rolling. His pitch count was down, which
was awesome, and I mean he gritted out at the end.
He got big outs, some full counts there where he
made big pitches and that's what we need. Were getting
those six innings is huge for us, and save Gabe
there today was huge too. So I mean, whenever your
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starters can go deep in the game in the playoffs,
it's a huge advantage.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
And he looked great.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I love when your Canadian slips into one of my interviews.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Yeah, it happens every What's uh, It was funny last
thing for you.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I was sitting there overhearing Tom Berducci legend talking to
who and was he the only question you asked him
was talk about the pictures, and I think Tom was
seeking something about their stuff, your stuff, all your stuff,
and Julio goes.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
They get along so well, it's crazy, And I thought
that was such an incredible thing to overhear from the
center fielder with a gorgeous smile.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But talk about that, talk about the bond that you
guys have, because I'm always amazed whenever I'm around it.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Yeah, I mean, a lot of us as came up
through the miners together and we've been here for a while,
like being young guys for some of the big leagues,
and I feel like we've had a couple of years together,
and you you just bond. I mean, you spend a
lot of time together, obviously.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
But sometimes that can cause friction and you move apart.
You guys seem to get closer every time I'm around you.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
Yeah, I feel like everyone just likes each other on
and off the field. We do things even when we're
not out of the field. Guys hang out or live together,
whatever it is. But yeah, we just have a good time.
And everyone has amazing stuff here. So yeah, I just
feel like we get along really well and we enjoy
what we do, and that makes it really easy.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You can't be jealous of someone else's stuff when you
two have great stuff.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Everybody's got great.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Yeah, everyone has great stuff, and everyone's cheering each other on,
which is also a big thing too. I feel like,
especially down in the bullpen, like next guy up, whoever's
going in, like we fully support them.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
And if some guys aren't throwing as much.
Speaker 9 (21:20):
First others, you never feel like they're, you know, rooting
against you or anything. Like we're one unit down there
and we're just we're trying to win.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
That's all. We get ready for a game for yes, sir,
there you go, all right, good luck.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Thank you Matt Brash joining me last night in the clubhouse.
We're gonna talk more about that comment about how close
these pictures are a little bit later on in the show,
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I realize that Texas is not ranked right now, but
we're talking about a team that, on paper, was considered
the most talented team in college football coming into this year.
Nothing has really happened according to script for Texas this season,
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in this game, not just the rivalry, but also like
their entire season. I mean, they might they might already
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Speaker 6 (23:59):
Pick this week. All right?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Well, I mean I do think that they are back.
They've painted themselves into a corner to some extent. If
they're not going to answer the bell this weekend, I
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hanging out a great, great sports bar there with this
amazing view. I mean, how many sports of ours can
you just go out on the patio, sit by the fire,
watch fourteen games at a time, and then have this
(26:20):
gorgeous view that you can just look over at Bucky's backyard.
It was amazing. Yeah, awesome, it really is.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
You said, we're doing today's show, postgame show, later, tomorrow's show,
probably every show for the future, if my family will
move out here.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yeah, Bucky's really locked in on this. That's pretty reckless at.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Breakfast right there. Yeah it is. Yeah, you're just ready
to move in home.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I don't think it is when you live there.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I don't know. I'm pretty sure they would be.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Camp Cleveland's gonna join us at eight o'clock. But it
is time to get a little reckless at breakfast. And
certainly I'm not gonna get reckless with any sort of
bold predictions for today in game number four, but I
will get reckless from this standpoint. I'm gonna make Dan
Wilson's game plan for him. I believe in Bryce Miller.
I know a lot of people have been a little disappointed,
(27:15):
disappointed in him, maybe disenfranchised with the season that he
has had. Most of his struggles this year, I think
we're due to injuries, and I think actually he tried
to fight through some stuff because he's such a team guy.
I don't think he was right at the beginning of
the year, but he's not been the dominant Bryce that
we saw at the end of last season. But Bucky,
(27:37):
I think it's in him. I often called him Clint Eastwood.
He has this quiet swagger about him. He's not going
to be overtaken by the moment, and I think he
has a very good chance to go out tonight, be
sensational and not let the Tigers off the mat. And
maybe Bryce Miller's the player of the game and we're
celebrating him and a Division Ald title here tonight. But
(28:02):
that being said, even though I do express confidence in
Bryce Miller, I'm kind of treating this game. I don't
really want it to come down to a game five
winner take Saul, even though it would be at home,
having to face Trek Scooble for a second time, having
to beat him for a second time. So I'm treating
this game if I'm Dan Wilson, almost like it is
(28:24):
a Game five, and the moment Bryce Miller gets into
any trouble, I'm going to my pen. I think I've
got I think I got more than three guys Greg
Bell that I can count on out of that bullpen.
And yeah, they're pitching a little more than what they
normally do during the regular season, but this is why
you pace guys during the regular season so that when
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they get to the postseason you can ask a little
bit more of them. And I know, if it's the
second inning, if it's the third inning, I'm not letting
the Tigers put together too many runs at the beginning
of the game off of Bryce Miller. It's gonna be
a pretty short leash on him tonight. And I'm treating
this like a bullpen game if I have to, because
(29:07):
I want to finish this thing tonight.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
So do I want to. And I think that they're
kind of riding the fact that they you know, after
dropping that, after dropping one, you understand how big Game
three was, and then to come back now and all
of a sudden find yourself on the brink of advancing,
you do not want to let him back up. I mean,
because it's not the same as just well it's tied,
(29:30):
it's just game five. It's like that they forced Game
five and then they know they're gonna have Trek scoubl.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
It's going to be a different feel. So I'm I'm
with you. I think Brice can do it. I do
think when you use that Clint Eastwood analogy, I think
it's perfect. I think he does have a little bit
of that just kind of oh, make come on, make
my day, that type of thing. I think he's got that. Uh,
he's gonna have to go out and do it. But
with execution, this isn't a you know, a start in
(29:57):
mid April where it's like I'm gonna let it eat
and we'll see if they hit it at people. No,
you top of the pitch at top rail, found the inside.
I want to do best, set things up. Make I'm
not saying nibble, but I'm saying, execute good pitches, even
if it means you're going deeper into counts because you're
not worried about the pitch count. Like you said, I'm
not worried about pitch count. I'm not necessarily worried about
(30:18):
getting him to be the pitcher of record. If I'm
if I'm Dan Wilson, I'm saying, go out there, attack
these guys, but attack the corners of the zone. Be
careful with where you're going with these We don't want
to fall behind because yeah, I think they will pull
the trigger quick and in a hurry. But if he
can go out there and give you five, give up
a couple. If that, I think you think you set
yourself up for this offense to do what they've been doing.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And it's unfortunate that Caleb Ferguson may have been the
only Mariner that didn't do his job last night. But
he didn't do his job last night, and it's unfortunate
because he had to bring Munyose out. Otherwise you could
be staring at giving him two innings tonight. They probably
won't do that, but he certainly will be available. Everybody's
going to be available, everybody willing and capable to go
(31:02):
a little extra to try to close this thing out tonight.
So that's how I'm treating it. If I'm Dan Wilson,
I'm gonna treat this like it is the decisive game tonight,
and then if it doesn't work out, I got a
day off to rest everybody, and I got George Kirby
on a full four days rest and ready to go
(31:23):
for game number five at home. I've got him in
a normal rotation to try to tackle Trek's schooble, and
I have my bullpen there and ready obviously to treat
it like a fifth and decisive game on Friday. But
I want to make sure that I take care of
things tonight if I can. So let's go Bryce, Let's
go Ems Bucky, and I want to fly home from
(31:44):
Detroit Thursday, not worrying about having to attend a fifth
and deciding game at home on Friday.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
No, I mean, I'm not scared of it, but at
the same time, I would prefer to not have to
go through it. I think that this is the kind
of the prime you know, jumping off point. This is
where you go ahead and say, when you get somebody
where they're backed into a corner, you finish it. You
finish the job, and go out there and do it
in game four. You don't have to get to Game five,
even though it would probably be par on par for
(32:13):
the Seattle Mariners. Let's have a game five, Let's beat
Let's try to beat Terrek Schouler for a fourth time
this year.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Former baseball player Cam Cleveland is going to join us
on the other side. Yeah, it's our normal Wednesday conversation
with the voice of your Washington Husky, so Cam Cleveland.
Next Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM,
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