November 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Headlines and GREGG BELL (Tacoma News Tribune) Gregg brings us the latest 12th man news and some key injury updates ahead of a BIG game against the Rams on Sunday. :30- The College football rankings come out again tonight, will there be any surprising shakeups? :35- our pick yesterday didn’t go well… thanks Packers, but we look to get back on track with Ashley’s fact or fiction pick today! :45- MLB is now dealing with their own gambling scandal and their “fix” doesn’t seem like an actual fix, so what should be done?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
First down in ten Green Bay thirty six for Philadelphia's
shotgun snap fake the Bigsby back, the pass, hurts, goes long,
larging spiral down the middle, leaping catch of the goal line,
touchdown at the goal line.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
To Fuck Taysmith, a thirty six.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yard strike and the Eagles have scored the game's first touchdown.
In the fourth quarter, Green Bay is down ten to nothing.
Love second down three, Eagles seven in the gun surveys
the deepense shotgun snap hand to Jacobs over the right guard, plowing,
breaking tackles, carries it up thunder in touchdown. Green Bay
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chess Jacobs a six yard pulldozing touchdown run and the
Packers are back in business. With five forty nine to
go in the game, trailing now ten to six, extra
point is coming up. It's a sixty four yard field
goal and the kick is so wide left it ends
up in Sheboygan and the ball is wide and not
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even close. The game is over. Zeros on the clock.
A failed sixty four yard field goal by Green Bay
and the Eagles have survived.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Kevin Carlin, Kevin Harlan there on the call. He's everywhere,
feels like he's everywhere. It really was that Kurt Warner
laughing in the bat That was the giggle of Hall
of Famer Kurt Warner there in the background on Westwood
One last night, where we brought you Monday Night football
right here on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
Final score ten to seven on a Monday night. The
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Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Green Bay Packers. And so the
week comes to a close. And that's a good thing
because now we can get excited about the week that
lies ahead and the biggest game of the year, the
Seahawks taking on the Rams this Sunday in Los Angeles
for first place in the NFC West. We'll talk all
about it with Greg Bell, who will join us in
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a matter of moments. But first let's rip through your
frost brewed cors Light Chill headlines here on this Tuesday.
College football rankings come out tonight. It's the second version
of them. There will be some changes that are going
to take place. We'll go through all of that for
you at seven point thirty here this morning. You double
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be taking on Purdue this week, and with the Jedfish
cloud hanging over the program at this point yesterday taken
to task at a press conference for whether or not
he does want to be here. He was, excuse me,
rather adamant, and maybe the most adamant he's been about
this entire topic yesterday, assuring people are attempting to assure
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people that he absolutely wants to be here and is
here for the long term. We'll talk to coach new
Eiel about it a little bit later on in the show.
College Basketball. It'sww excuse me, ub wazoo Apple Cup Hardwood Week.
If that's just way too much to say, I don't
even think I should say it. Frankly, It's going to
be Friday Night crack and taking on Columbus tonight at
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seven o'clock, and the American League Rookies of the Year
were Nick Kurtz of the Athletics Drake Baldwin of the Braves.
Today tonight we'll find out the Managers of the Year.
Dan Wilson a finalist there. So we'll certainly talk about
a little bit later on in the show, But right now,
let's welcome in our Seahawks insider Greg Bail.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thank you, sir. Yeah. Happy Veterans Day to all of
my brothers and sisters and arms and our country. Appreciates you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Thank you Tuesday. How about Veterans days normally on Mondays?
Am I missing this or does it flow during the
course of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, I think it's always been on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's always on a Tuesday, Okay, I think, okay, maybe
wrong about that.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, how old is the Army?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The Army?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, cheez, make you do math. At seven am.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
West Point was eighteen oh two, so the Army was
before that.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was just wondering because I know yesterday was the
two hundred and fiftieth birthday for the Marines. I sent
my brother in law that was a marine or is
a marine the thanks type of a text message or whatever,
And so I just wonder because I figured the Army
was the oldest.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, the Army is the oldest, and the Marines copied
off the Army, so that you've heard my joke many times.
You've heard my marine joke many times. Marines are Navy
guys who flunked out of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The Army, by the way, I was wondering, and then
we'll get into the seahawks.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Was one of my jar heads out there? I'm sorry.
I love my jar heads. Don't send any nasty text was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
There any part of you that ever roots for Navy, Like,
were you rooting for Navy over Notre Dame this Saturday?
Just curious?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I was rooting for a competitively. I don't like Notre Dame.
I can't stand her name personally, but honestly, no, the
last time, yeah, the last time I heard it for
Navy was against Iraq.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I think we won and covered. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah. All right, well let's get into this
Seahawks Rams week this week, and yeah, as much as
we have to still talk about from this past Sunday,
it's hard not to think about the biggest game of
the year so far coming up on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, they turned the page pretty quickly. Yesterday they didn't
break down the Rams because they had just gotten out
of film and they were doing their food trucks. Mike
McDonald has this deal where they win on Sunday, they
get food trucks come out to the facility on Monday.
And I jokingly asked them, so if they lose, they
go hungry and here, yeah, they lose, they go on.
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But what's interesting is Matt Stafford is just lighting it up, right.
He's an MVP candidate, maybe the favorite to win the
MVP right now, and they've been just boat racing everybody.
I think it's four wins in a row by fourteen
and more points. Yet this game features the two teams
that are allowing the fewest points in the NFC right
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now and are two of the best four best point
allowed defenses in the league. So while Stafford and Darnold
are getting all the attention, defenses are why these two
teams are combined fourteen and four right now. That pretends
it's going to be a low scoring game.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It's just interesting to me that Sean McVay, for all
the acumen he has offensively and the kudos he gets
there being a genius offensively, when the Rams of the
best and they're really humming, it's their defense. Ernest Jones
was part of that defense that won the Super Bowl
for the Rams in twenty twenty one. When they go far,
it's because of their defense. They remade their defense on
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the fly, and they had Barbie Whyding to go through
there for a year, and they had the greatest defensive
tackle maybe an NFL history, retire on them, and they
just keep reloading on the fly they went a couple
of years without even top draft picks because the trades,
and yet here they are really didn't dip much at all.
Was one drive away from a snowstorm in Philadelphia last
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year from beating the eventual Super Bowl champions in the playoffs.
But I would not overlook the defensive matchup and what
the Rams present. Defensively, it's usually an attacking, blitzing shore tackling,
stopped the run defense.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
In that, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I mean, I know that the headline is McVeigh versus McDonald,
which would presume mcveigh's offensive mind in his offense versus
the Seahawks defense. And yet I do think the other
side of that coin is going to be interesting as well.
It's interesting you're talking about how they turned the page
and it's they had food truck Day or whatever. I
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saw something yesterday and I think it was Leonard Williams
that was talking about how when or lose coaches just
basically getting them all right back to the process, all
right back to the process, which is a great leadership tool,
I think, to get guys understanding that whatever happened in
the past, the outcome is where it is and now
it's back to getting heading towards the direct, in the
direction of getting better. So what is it that you're
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seeing now a year and a half into this thing
about the culture that you like or maybe something that
you don't like.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I really like how Mike McDonald relates to his players, Bucky,
You're right about the leaders It is a leadership thing
to talk about the process over the results. The NFL
football in general is more conducive to that than say
your sport baseball, because you know they're playing baseball every day,
one hundred and sixty two games a year. The results
take precedence because there is the process is the result.
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Every day is a result. In the NFL, the results
come on every seven days mostly, and so there are
six days between games to focus on that process. Not
to mention that in base training camps are essentially spring
training six weeks, and in football the practices start in
April and go all the way to the end of August.
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So the process takes precedence in football because of the calendar,
and so coaches have a ton of time to instill
the process and do instill the way they want to train,
and training becomes more important than performance because training, the
Gats performance. What's impressed me most personally about McDonald as
the first time head coach, the buy in he's gotten
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from his players and the methods he's using. He really
does have a carrot and stick approach. There are times
that he is really hard on them and just unyielding,
both verbally and demanding physically in the physicality of the practices,
and not so much during the season. They don't have
many rules that allow them to do that, but especially
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during training camp. Yet he does little things like the
food trucks. It's just a silly example, but what was
really telling to me was the bye week. Almost every
NFL team, Now, Pete Carroll was one of the first
to do this fifteen years ago, but almost every NFL
team takes the entire week by week off winner lose
the previous game, right, but almost every team comes back
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from their game on Sunday, come back Sunday, they play
game on Sunday, and they come back Monday and they
do film, they do training, and then they let him
go Monday night to be off till the following Monday morning.
Mike McDonald, it was a very small thing, but Mike
McDonald told him in the locker room after they beat
Houston the week the game, right before the bye see you,
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I'll see you in eight days. Don't even come in tomorrow.
We're not doing film. That's a little thing, but that's
unexpected one and two. They loved it. Unexpectedly. He's taken
them to Fort Lewis Well Joint what Base Lewis McCord
it's called now to train with the Army Rangers. Just
throw him on a bus and said, we're not practicing today.
We're going down to Lewis McCord and we're gonna go
meet with the Army Rangers. Are saws and artillery weapons
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and STU a good old time meeting the military. He
brings special Forces guys in. He's brought Navy seals in.
He's brought special operations units from our civilian law enforcement
into practices. He doesn't like us to publicize that. A
lot of it is because there's operational security of people
that are coming in and don't want to be recognized.
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But he does a lot of military things. He's the
son of a West Point graduate, I've said, and he
has a lot of military influence. The stuff he says,
if you're walking you're wrong and the commander's intent tip
of the spear. Things I heard every day in my
army life. I hear out on the Seahawks practice field
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from Mike McDonald's and he's twenty something. Guys are really
buying into it. Couse, winning helps, but even before they
started winning, at the beginning of the last season, they
were brought.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
In Greg bell Is with us our Seahawks insider. You
can follow him at g mel Seattle on X and
of course whre's Thenewstribune dot com for complete Seahawks coverage.
And we have, of course a major injury coming out
of this game on Sunday. How long is Jalen Sundell
going to be out? And then secondarily is olu Ola
with Timmy ready to step in in the biggest game
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of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, it could be a month. McDonald mentioned that they
are considering injured reserve for Sundel with the knee injury
he got in the first half against Arizona. And of course,
if you go on injury reserve, you after miss four weeks.
If he goes on injury reserve this week, the first
time he could play would be December fourteenth against the
Colts the home game they have. Then Ol with Timmy
came in and then the first snap he had a
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snap infraction on what was supposed to be a short
yard He's pushbush type of play with Barner. It was
he picked the ball up before he snapped it. That's
a five yard penalty. They went from the one yard
line to the sixth. Fortunately for the Seahawks, Ax Sharbonney
ran right behind Oval with Timmy in the next play.
We saw Old Timmy fumble the snap. On the next drive,
his third snap mishandled snap with Sam Donald that cost
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him a turnover and handed the Cardinals their first touchdown.
But it bears mentioning that on Zach Sarbone's six yard
touchdown run after the snap infraction by Oli Timmy Ola,
Timmy spun and buried the nose tackle put him on
the ground on a pancake block, and that's why Sharbone
ran into the end zone for the touchdown. He ran
right over him, So it wasn't as if it was
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just a mess for Olo Timmy. But in the center position,
as we know, if you don't get the snap of
the quarterback doesn't matter what else you do. You have
to get the snap to the quarterback and Donald chocked
it up and McDonald chucked it up to not having
a lot of reps at the center of exchange. Donald
did say they tried as much as they could once
Sundale got hurt, of course, on the side to try
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to take some practice snaps. But suffice to say he'll
take a lot more snaps from old Timmy this week
than he did the first nine weeks combined.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Pritchett did well in his time when he was filling
in for Job. Do you have any idea about Job's
status and does it matter necessarily considering how well he played, No.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It matters. Josh Job is great. He's great on the ball,
and he's a sure tackler. Nami. Pritchett was the sixth
defensive backend dime, so he wasn't starting and getting the
reps that Josh Job would get if he comes back.
Job is still in the protocol, the concussion protocol, so
that's going to probably be the end of the week
type of thing. It'll go the way it went with
Breke Wollan when Woman had a concussion to missed the game.
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He brought him back to practice in the middle of
the following week, tried to bring him back a second
consecutive day. It didn't go well. He fell behind in
the protocol, didn't have the baseline the test results closer
to his baseline like he was supposed to, and he
didn't play the following week. So that'll be Job's week
to see if he can get on the field and
then what his cognitive tests looked like compared to his
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baseline test after he comes back to practice. Pritchett made
what McDonald said yesterday was one of the most amazing
plays on the ball he's seen a cornerback ever make
and on that end zone one and he was falling down.
The receiver had it and was right below me in
the press box. I thought it was a touchdown, but Joe,
while falling down, reached back and ripped the ball out.
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They were both splayed on the ground and that play
kept it from being a two score game with about
six minutes left. I mean, it was a blowout, but
it would have been a two score game if Pritchett
hadn't done that. So he's there more time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh yeah, yeah. Phenomenal play. Phenomenal play from Pritchett day
on Sunday if.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They're going to go excuse me, I asked if they
were going to go more dying because of Pritchett, and
he goes, yeah, it makes me think we should do
more dime when Pritchett's playing like this. McDonald has not
been a dime coach for most of his career here
so far, the first two seasons. But if Pritchett's playing
like this, you could see more. I think dyme would
be more. He'd be easier to do more dyme if
Heernie Jones is on the field as the low linebackers
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Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
All right, last minute here, just curious. I mean, another
coach fired yesterday in the National Football League. How far
away are we from Clint Rumors going to considering the
success that he's having with this offense this year.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, I thought about that yesterday, Chuck, and I thought
it would be premature for me to ask McDonald about
Kubiak and the possibility of teams coming to interview him.
I will say this that, yes, if an offense has
success like this, that they get attention and the coordinator
to play caller gets attention for it, especially unexpected somewhat
unexpected around the league that the Seahawks are having. I'll
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also say this, Clint Kubiak is a great, great, meticulous
eaches guy and in the weeds and comfortable in that realm.
He's not very dynamic. I don't know how. And that's
just not just with us. But I've asked players as
he joked, as he laughed, and YE know, at bit.
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But and this may be fullhearty in me to say,
because I'm not inside the meetings and whatnot, he doesn't
strike me as head coach material at this point. His
career is what I'm trying to say. He's really good
at what he does, leading, being a CEO of a team,
being the front man, motivating, standing up on a pedestal
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in the middle of the locker room. We're rawing them,
we're cracking the whip. And he had I don't I
haven't been around him a ton, but I don't see that.
He certainly has a pedigree and having been around football
his entire life because his dad was a quarterback in
the Broncos and then a coach for the Super Bowl Broncos.
But I don't see it yet. His name's going to
get flowed. It probably already has been floated around in
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New York. Of course, they're going to float every name
of any coach who ever had a whistle after him,
the Giants have been in the last few years. My honest,
gut opinion, without really having scientific evidence is that he's
not head coach material at this point. Well he'll get yeah,
he'll get mentioned.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A Thank you, Sara, We appreciate it. We will talk
to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Thank you, all right, Greg Bell, of course, Happy Veterans Day,
all the veterans out there, and Greg Bell joining us
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Coming up next, Factor Fiction at seven thirty five, It's
Ashley's Pick today plus College football rankings come out tonight.
(18:37):
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Speaker 7 (18:50):
Right Factor Fiction at seven thirty five.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Little Beast of breaking news for you. The Mavericks are
expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison today, less than
one one year after he traded away Luka doncicch On
not very favorably to fans in Dallas. They have been
chanting fire Nico ever since. It's spilled over into this year.
If Nico Harrison did make that trade because the NBA
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wanted him to, we might finally find out.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah, when he gets fired and then he blames them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, and then he sues them, we might have finally
find out for dirt behind the scenes on that. But yeah,
I don't think they could have kept going. I mean,
I don't want fans to necessarily dictate if I'm an owner,
my decisions that I make and what I feel are
best for the organization going forward. But when your entire
fan base for five straight months and hasn't forgotten about
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it through the off season, continues to chant during every
game while he's in the building, fire Nico. Yeah, I
don't know if he can do that anymore. And they're
two and eight or whatever and three and seven or
something like that to start the year. So whatever he
did because he said, he said, we made this trade
to make the team better, Well they've gotten not gotten better.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, Well that's the that's the bottom line is you
can't come out there and just lay an egg to
start off the season. Expect that everybody's going to turn
their turn a blind eye to it, especially consider how
how badly they were hurt by the actions last year.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, fire Nico, you got your wish. Dallas Mavericks fans,
looks like he is going to be let go today.
All right, college football rankings come out tonight. We'll certainly
talk about them with Rick Newel at nine o'clock today.
I know, you probably need just an extra hour back
in your life this evening, maybe to take a walk,
you know, maybe join a pottery class, you know, maybe
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take the wife out for you know, nachos. Yeah, there
are a lot of different things you can do at
that hour and not watch an hour long college football
ranking of something that really doesn't mean anything. So I'm
just gonna go ahead and give it to you right now.
Ohio State will be number one. I think there's a
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chance Texas A and M jumps Indiana to number two
and Indiana comes in at number three, as Indiana barely
survived with that win and the Aggies have racked up
quite the impressive resume, so I think there's a chance
they could flip flop those two at two and three.
Alabama was four last week, there'll be four this week.
Georgia will be five, Ole Miss will be six, BYU
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will be out at seven, So Texas Tech, having beaten
them soundly, will jump into that seven hole. I would
assume Oregon, despite a tough one with Iowa, will still
move up. I think they'll go to eight. Notre Dame
will move up to nine. The new ten will be Texas.
They were eleven last week even though they didn't make
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the twelve team field, but they certainly didn't do anything
to hurt their resume, so I think they'll to be
the team that jumps newly in to the pool. They
go with the ACC leader at eleven because none of
them are ranked in the top twelve. So right now
that's Georgia Tech. But there are five teams in the
ACC with only one loss, so that could be anybody
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that comes out of there. And then number twelve, I'm
just gonna I'm just gonna go with James Madison. I
don't know what the what the ranking committee is thinking
right now, but they're currently the highest ranked AP team
that's outside the power for So I'll put James Madison
at twelve. But that should be that should be your twelve.
I'd be surprised if it was anything else.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay, I mean it's weird to me how the rankings.
I you know how I feel about the rankings early
in the year, and yet then they still matter then,
but then as that teams fall off a little bit,
then they don't matter as much. Like Penn State's a
prime example of that. And yet when I just watched
that game, the Oregon Penn State game, it looks like
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two really good teams going at it. Now Penn State's
falling off, and so now it's discredited. It's taken away
from it to some extent. I've read a couple different
articles talking about oh Miss and how they might jump
Oregon and or whatever, that they're gonna fin it be higher,
and yet it's like, but they just be I mean,
whooped up on Citadel. But it's like, how is it
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just seems odd to me? And that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Ahead of them though they won't they won't jump them,
they were already ahead of them that they're going.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Okay, Well, it's that that to me is one where
I don't know, beating Citadel if that equates to very
much to me. And yet it just is. It just
continues to as I watch how some of the predictions go,
and then when the rankings come out, just part of
it makes me feel like, thank God, none of these
matter until it matters till the final one. I'm just
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happy that it doesn't matter until then, because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well, I don't think I don't think Oregon's gonna jump
for Old Miss jump three spots because ole Miss had
Citadel on its schedule last week and they still have
a resume of accomplishment so far this year.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they have. Yeah, they definitely have
a resume. I'm not saying that they're not good. I
think that it's it goes into again some of the
teams that they play just in the SEC that aren't
necessarily great teams, but they get credit for them as
if it's like not great, but there's still a little
plus signed by it because that they're an SEC team
we know who.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Won't be in the top twenty five. Yeah, yeah, we do.
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Speaker 7 (24:36):
All right, Ashley speak today.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sorry, I didn't come through well last night. I had
a chance. Should have gone with the under Yeah, the
under gosh, I set it off there, set it off
the air, but I didn't go with it. Went with
my original fault that the Packers are gonna win the game.
It didn't happen, and they look like crap. All right, Ashley,
redeem me. What do we got today? I'm gonna try.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
I'm gonna try, and Bucky apologize in advance for taking
what might have been your pick. Kansas City is heading
to Denver on Sunday, and Kansas City is a four
and a half point favorite. Now you love you know
I love a foreign or a home underdog. It's my favorite.
So Denver has two losses, they have been by a
combined total of four points. Give me Denver plus the
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four and a half at home against Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
All right, look at that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I like that pick. I wouldn't have taken it. I
don't need the double whammy. True if I get a
pick wrong and it was my team losing. But yeah,
so this is one where I like that.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I think that they have they've you can't say they've
had their number, but they've played Kansas City really tough
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah. I think that's our way of kissing up to
you because she won't carry you to the bathroom to pee.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Oh, yes, that's why I picked that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, I appreciate that. That's her way of saying I'm sorry.
I would if I physically could carry you to the
bathroom with your bad knee so that you didn't have
to walk the entire way in your pand yeah, no
so and lieu of that, I'm going to pick your
favorite football team. And here's an empty bottle. I mean
losely but still cover. Oh that's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Really carefully win or lose, just don't lose by more
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the hour at eight o'clock to talk about some officiating
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the call again last night.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You notice that, Yeah, but I noticed there was like
only one penalty in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Was there really? Yeah? There were a lot though, weren't there?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't think, I mean, it ended up being some,
but there was a bunch that. That was a big
talking point today was that they weren't calling all the
tush bushes or false starts. They finally we're.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Gonna ask about that one. Yeah, exactly. We will be
talking to Gene about that. I also, but I want
to talk about this right now. This this just broke
this morning. Apparently Major League Baseball. There was a report
yesterday that Major League Baseball and the sports books and
the daily prop bet people we're gonna get together. There's
been a recent obviously NBA scandal when it comes to
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prop betting, revolving around Terry Rogier, and Major League Baseball
has its own involving Luis Ortiz and also Emmanuel Classe,
one of the best closers in the game, and they're
never gonna play in base They're not gonna play baseball again.
And it sounds like it's gonna be a while before
they breathe free air again, those two gentleman. But there
(29:02):
was a report yesterday suggesting that they were meeting and
there could be some changes made, and now we know
one of the changes. I'm hoping this is just scratching
the surface, but MLB is gonna limit pitch bets to
two hundred dollars after the pitching indictments of the two
Guardians pitchers. How about just not having the ability to
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bet on balls or strikes or which pitch was thrown?
Can we do that? Why does it? Let's eliminate nonsense
like that, there should not be an ability to bet
on the assist total of the ninth man on a
team in the NBA. I mean, it's not like people
are gonna stop betting if they can't bet that second
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on what's going to happen next. The more fine you
make it, the more you open it up to corruption.
And so to me, this doesn't go far and just
eliminate the ability to bet pitch to pitch in Major
League Baseball games. Don't even allow it, Rob, What on earth?
Why are we stopping so short like this is gonna
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solve the problem. Now they're just gonna make more two
hundred dollars bets. I mean, it's not gonna solve the problem.
It's just gonna delay an even bigger scandal. Now all
of a sudden, people pitchers are like, oh, that's all
it's gonna be changed. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You have to crack down on this. Sportsbooks need to
get together with all the professional sports and take some
of these options off of the table, these minutia options
off the table.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, I'll just start by saying, I don't you have
to be an idiot to just be a professional athlete.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And join in any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now, back when you know the Black Sox thing was
going on, I mean, those players were, you know, making
peanuts compared to what today's players are making even relative
to the times, and and you know how much.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A dollar is worth.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
And so I'm not I'm not overly concerned about the
you can't get rid of stupid, Like there's gonna be
people that are gonna do stupid things regardless. And you're
never going to get rid of gambling because especially the
fact that now these all of these uh, these leagues
realize how much money they can make. I'm not saying
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to get rid of gaming. Well, I know you're saying
then just you know, nip it in the bud. As
far as the the uh you know, pitch you know bets,
the two and dollars pitch bets, to me, it's just
kind of one of those I don't I think the
gambling is kind of there's a gross element to it.
I think there's a part of it that turns if
I would want to get rid of it to some degree.
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It's the idea of how empowered Now some guy that
puts a couple hundred bucks or more money on something
and then you fail to come through while you're entertaining
him with your athletic prowess, and now he wants to
give you death threats or just literally wishes ill upon you.
To me, that's the that's it's the ugly part of gambling.
And yet it's not going anywhere. And I don't know
for sure if you're going to even cutting it back
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a step toward now all of a sudden, you can't
you do you do incentivize the idea of somebody thinking
we'll shoot you know. I mean, maybe it's just a
rookie that came up to the big leagues. He doesn't
have much time. He's thinking, I don't know if I'm
going to last up here. I could put big chunks
of change on something and make a stupid decision, but
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maybe cash out and all of a sudden walk away
with a couple hundred thousand dollars. If you want to
do that, go ahead and do that. But to me,
you're risking so much more than what it's worth, and
so I just don't. I mean, to me, this is
a step in the right direction, and yet the direction
where I would want him to go is kind of
eliminate some of this. Some of it bet on the games, fine,
but the prop bets part of it I would, I
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would love for it to be gone, and yet I
just don't think that they're ever going to do it.
There's too much money to be well.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
If the Ortiz class A store is not the not
the warning that players need. This is what can happen
you sixty five years in prison. You lose your career
in sixty five years in prison for a little extra
spending cash when you're already a millionaire. Terry Rogier makes
twenty seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
For goodness sake, you need to get so oh yeah,
go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So if that's the warning against the players, But I'm
talking about why are these Why should you even have
the ability to bet on a pitch that should not
even be an option. I mean, the smaller of a
bet that you make, the more ripe you are for
corruption and nasty things to occur. So this is about
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the gambler. The gambler shouldn't have an opportunity to bet
on whether or not the eleventh man on the Mavericks
ends up with an assist or not that night. That
garbage needs to go. Prop Bets are fine. Prop bets
are fine, but we can't you can't be able to
bet on anything for goodness sake, and if you want
to do it, just bet with your buddy right next
(33:57):
to you two hundred bucks he throws a curveball. Here
on earth is this being made available to begin with.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
It's the more degenerate part of gambling, honestly, because you
are at that point facilitating to the lowest common denominator. Right,
You're saying that here you can bet on something that
somebody can actually control. For example, in this place, class
A can control what pitch he's gonna throw, you know,
somebody can. Rosier can control if he's gonna go out
of the game early. And those those types of things
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where a player can actually control that aspect should not
be allowed to be bet on at all.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Or you have to bet the over right, like on
a Rogier assists he's got to go over the mark.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
But at that point he can't control all of it, right, yes, exactly, yeah, exactly.
Now I'm great, I'm afraid, yeah yeah. And so I mean,
this just doesn't go far enough.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I really thought we were going to get some reasonable
people meeting on this gambling, realizing that it needs sports
and sports, realizing that gambling is just going to be
a part of it. We're not never going to get
rid of it. Let's work together, and let's figure out
how we can do a better job of making it
so tempting for people to throw games or throw moments
(35:08):
in games. And this just isn't far enough. Take the
ability to bet on a pitch completely out of the sport.
If and there's no way that the daily prop people
can't agree with that. I get that there's money to
be made there, but if that person is such a
degenerate that they're betting from pitch to pitch, they're gonna
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find something else to bet on. Yeah, that doesn't need
to be such minutia, because the more minute you make it,
the more you open it up to somebody thinking nobody
will be able to detect this. Yeah, I'll just miss
two fuel goals. I'll miss two free throws in a
row on purpose because somebody bet that I'd make at
least one of them. Yeah, in the moment, we can't
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do that. It needs to be gone, So go further,
go further agreed, all right, Geene Sterotur Next Sports Radio
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even close. The game is over. Zeros on the clock.
A failed sixty four yard field goal by Green Bay
and the Eagles have survived.
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Final score ten to seven on a Monday night. The
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Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Green Bay Packers. And so the
week comes to a close. And that's a good thing
because now we can get excited about the week that
lies ahead and the biggest game of the year, the
Seahawks taking on the Rams this Sunday in Los Angeles
for first place in the NFC West. We'll talk all
about it with Greg Bell, who will join us in
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a matter of moments. But first let's rip through your
frost brewed cors Light Chill headlines here on this Tuesday.
College football rankings come out tonight. It's the second version
of them. There will be some changes that are going
to take place. We'll go through all of that for
you at seven point thirty here this morning. You double
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be taking on Purdue this week, and with the Jedfish
cloud hanging over the program at this point yesterday taken
to task at a press conference for whether or not
he does want to be here. He was, excuse me,
rather adamant, and maybe the most adamant he's been about
this entire topic yesterday, assuring people are attempting to assure
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people that he absolutely wants to be here and is
here for the long term. We'll talk to coach new
Eiel about it a little bit later on in the show.
College Basketball. It'sww excuse me, ub wazoo Apple Cup Hardwood Week.
If that's just way too much to say, I don't
even think I should say it. Frankly, It's going to
be Friday Night crack and taking on Columbus tonight at
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seven o'clock, and the American League Rookies of the Year
were Nick Kurtz of the Athletics Drake Baldwin of the Braves.
Today tonight we'll find out the Managers of the Year.
Dan Wilson a finalist there. So we'll certainly talk about
a little bit later on in the show, But right now,
let's welcome in our Seahawks insider Greg Bail.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thank you, sir. Yeah. Happy Veterans Day to all of
my brothers and sisters and arms and our country. Appreciates you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Thank you Tuesday. How about Veterans days normally on Mondays?
Am I missing this or does it flow during the
course of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, I think it's always been on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's always on a Tuesday, Okay, I think, okay, maybe
wrong about that.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, how old is the Army?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The Army?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah, cheez, make you do math. At seven am.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
West Point was eighteen oh two, so the Army was
before that.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I was just wondering because I know yesterday was the
two hundred and fiftieth birthday for the Marines. I sent
my brother in law that was a marine or is
a marine the thanks type of a text message or whatever,
And so I just wonder because I figured the Army
was the oldest.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, the Army is the oldest, and the Marines copied
off the Army, so that you've heard my joke many times.
You've heard my marine joke many times. Marines are Navy
guys who flunked out of.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The Army, by the way, I was wondering, and then
we'll get into the seahawks.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Was one of my jar heads out there? I'm sorry.
I love my jar heads. Don't send any nasty text was.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
There any part of you that ever roots for Navy, Like,
were you rooting for Navy over Notre Dame this Saturday?
Just curious?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I was rooting for a competitively. I don't like Notre Dame.
I can't stand her name personally, but honestly, no, the
last time, yeah, the last time I heard it for
Navy was against Iraq.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I think we won and covered. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah. All right, well let's get into this
Seahawks Rams week this week, and yeah, as much as
we have to still talk about from this past Sunday,
it's hard not to think about the biggest game of
the year so far coming up on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, they turned the page pretty quickly. Yesterday they didn't
break down the Rams because they had just gotten out
of film and they were doing their food trucks. Mike
McDonald has this deal where they win on Sunday, they
get food trucks come out to the facility on Monday.
And I jokingly asked them, so if they lose, they
go hungry and here, yeah, they lose, they go on.
(05:55):
But what's interesting is Matt Stafford is just lighting it up, right.
He's an MVP candidate, maybe the favorite to win the
MVP right now, and they've been just boat racing everybody.
I think it's four wins in a row by fourteen
and more points. Yet this game features the two teams
that are allowing the fewest points in the NFC right
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now and are two of the best four best point
allowed defenses in the league. So while Stafford and Darnold
are getting all the attention, defenses are why these two
teams are combined fourteen and four right now. That pretends
it's going to be a low scoring game.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
It's just interesting to me that Sean McVay, for all
the acumen he has offensively and the kudos he gets
there being a genius offensively, when the Rams of the
best and they're really humming, it's their defense. Ernest Jones
was part of that defense that won the Super Bowl
for the Rams in twenty twenty one. When they go far,
it's because of their defense. They remade their defense on
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the fly, and they had Barbie Whyding to go through
there for a year, and they had the greatest defensive
tackle maybe an NFL history, retire on them, and they
just keep reloading on the fly they went a couple
of years without even top draft picks because the trades,
and yet here they are really didn't dip much at all.
Was one drive away from a snowstorm in Philadelphia last
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year from beating the eventual Super Bowl champions in the playoffs.
But I would not overlook the defensive matchup and what
the Rams present. Defensively, it's usually an attacking, blitzing shore tackling,
stopped the run defense.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
In that, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I mean, I know that the headline is McVeigh versus McDonald,
which would presume mcveigh's offensive mind in his offense versus
the Seahawks defense. And yet I do think the other
side of that coin is going to be interesting as well.
It's interesting you're talking about how they turned the page
and it's they had food truck Day or whatever. I
(07:55):
saw something yesterday and I think it was Leonard Williams
that was talking about how when or lose coaches just
basically getting them all right back to the process, all
right back to the process, which is a great leadership tool,
I think, to get guys understanding that whatever happened in
the past, the outcome is where it is and now
it's back to getting heading towards the direct, in the
direction of getting better. So what is it that you're
(08:17):
seeing now a year and a half into this thing
about the culture that you like or maybe something that
you don't like.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I really like how Mike McDonald relates to his players, Bucky,
You're right about the leaders It is a leadership thing
to talk about the process over the results. The NFL
football in general is more conducive to that than say
your sport baseball, because you know they're playing baseball every day,
one hundred and sixty two games a year. The results
take precedence because there is the process is the result.
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Every day is a result. In the NFL, the results
come on every seven days mostly, and so there are
six days between games to focus on that process. Not
to mention that in base training camps are essentially spring
training six weeks, and in football the practices start in
April and go all the way to the end of August.
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So the process takes precedence in football because of the calendar,
and so coaches have a ton of time to instill
the process and do instill the way they want to train,
and training becomes more important than performance because training, the
Gats performance. What's impressed me most personally about McDonald as
the first time head coach, the buy in he's gotten
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from his players and the methods he's using. He really
does have a carrot and stick approach. There are times
that he is really hard on them and just unyielding,
both verbally and demanding physically in the physicality of the practices,
and not so much during the season. They don't have
many rules that allow them to do that, but especially
(09:54):
during training camp. Yet he does little things like the
food trucks. It's just a silly example, but what was
really telling to me was the bye week. Almost every
NFL team, Now, Pete Carroll was one of the first
to do this fifteen years ago, but almost every NFL
team takes the entire week by week off winner lose
the previous game, right, but almost every team comes back
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from their game on Sunday, come back Sunday, they play
game on Sunday, and they come back Monday and they
do film, they do training, and then they let him
go Monday night to be off till the following Monday morning.
Mike McDonald, it was a very small thing, but Mike
McDonald told him in the locker room after they beat
Houston the week the game, right before the bye see you,
(10:38):
I'll see you in eight days. Don't even come in tomorrow.
We're not doing film. That's a little thing, but that's
unexpected one and two. They loved it. Unexpectedly. He's taken
them to Fort Lewis Well Joint what Base Lewis McCord
it's called now to train with the Army Rangers. Just
throw him on a bus and said, we're not practicing today.
We're going down to Lewis McCord and we're gonna go
meet with the Army Rangers. Are saws and artillery weapons
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and STU a good old time meeting the military. He
brings special Forces guys in. He's brought Navy seals in.
He's brought special operations units from our civilian law enforcement
into practices. He doesn't like us to publicize that. A
lot of it is because there's operational security of people
that are coming in and don't want to be recognized.
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But he does a lot of military things. He's the
son of a West Point graduate, I've said, and he
has a lot of military influence. The stuff he says,
if you're walking you're wrong and the commander's intent tip
of the spear. Things I heard every day in my
army life. I hear out on the Seahawks practice field
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from Mike McDonald's and he's twenty something. Guys are really
buying into it. Couse, winning helps, but even before they
started winning, at the beginning of the last season, they
were brought.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
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And we have, of course a major injury coming out
of this game on Sunday. How long is Jalen Sundell
going to be out? And then secondarily is olu Ola
with Timmy ready to step in in the biggest game
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of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Well, it could be a month. McDonald mentioned that they
are considering injured reserve for Sundel with the knee injury
he got in the first half against Arizona. And of course,
if you go on injury reserve, you after miss four weeks.
If he goes on injury reserve this week, the first
time he could play would be December fourteenth against the
Colts the home game they have. Then Ol with Timmy
came in and then the first snap he had a
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snap infraction on what was supposed to be a short
yard He's pushbush type of play with Barner. It was
he picked the ball up before he snapped it. That's
a five yard penalty. They went from the one yard
line to the sixth. Fortunately for the Seahawks, Ax Sharbonney
ran right behind Oval with Timmy in the next play.
We saw Old Timmy fumble the snap. On the next drive,
his third snap mishandled snap with Sam Donald that cost
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him a turnover and handed the Cardinals their first touchdown.
But it bears mentioning that on Zach Sarbone's six yard
touchdown run after the snap infraction by Oli Timmy Ola,
Timmy spun and buried the nose tackle put him on
the ground on a pancake block, and that's why Sharbone
ran into the end zone for the touchdown. He ran
right over him, So it wasn't as if it was
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just a mess for Olo Timmy. But in the center position,
as we know, if you don't get the snap of
the quarterback doesn't matter what else you do. You have
to get the snap to the quarterback and Donald chocked
it up and McDonald chucked it up to not having
a lot of reps at the center of exchange. Donald
did say they tried as much as they could once
Sundale got hurt, of course, on the side to try
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to take some practice snaps. But suffice to say he'll
take a lot more snaps from old Timmy this week
than he did the first nine weeks combined.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Pritchett did well in his time when he was filling
in for Job. Do you have any idea about Job's
status and does it matter necessarily considering how well he played, No.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It matters. Josh Job is great. He's great on the ball,
and he's a sure tackler. Nami. Pritchett was the sixth
defensive backend dime, so he wasn't starting and getting the
reps that Josh Job would get if he comes back.
Job is still in the protocol, the concussion protocol, so
that's going to probably be the end of the week
type of thing. It'll go the way it went with
Breke Wollan when Woman had a concussion to missed the game.
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He brought him back to practice in the middle of
the following week, tried to bring him back a second
consecutive day. It didn't go well. He fell behind in
the protocol, didn't have the baseline the test results closer
to his baseline like he was supposed to, and he
didn't play the following week. So that'll be Job's week
to see if he can get on the field and
then what his cognitive tests looked like compared to his
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baseline test after he comes back to practice. Pritchett made
what McDonald said yesterday was one of the most amazing
plays on the ball he's seen a cornerback ever make
and on that end zone one and he was falling down.
The receiver had it and was right below me in
the press box. I thought it was a touchdown, but Joe,
while falling down, reached back and ripped the ball out.
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They were both splayed on the ground and that play
kept it from being a two score game with about
six minutes left. I mean, it was a blowout, but
it would have been a two score game if Pritchett
hadn't done that. So he's there more time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh yeah, yeah. Phenomenal play. Phenomenal play from Pritchett day
on Sunday if.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
They're going to go excuse me, I asked if they
were going to go more dying because of Pritchett, and
he goes, yeah, it makes me think we should do
more dime when Pritchett's playing like this. McDonald has not
been a dime coach for most of his career here
so far, the first two seasons. But if Pritchett's playing
like this, you could see more. I think dyme would
be more. He'd be easier to do more dyme if
Heernie Jones is on the field as the low linebackers
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Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
All right, last minute here, just curious. I mean, another
coach fired yesterday in the National Football League. How far
away are we from Clint Rumors going to considering the
success that he's having with this offense this year.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, I thought about that yesterday, Chuck, and I thought
it would be premature for me to ask McDonald about
Kubiak and the possibility of teams coming to interview him.
I will say this that, yes, if an offense has
success like this, that they get attention and the coordinator
to play caller gets attention for it, especially unexpected somewhat
unexpected around the league that the Seahawks are having. I'll
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also say this, Clint Kubiak is a great, great, meticulous
eaches guy and in the weeds and comfortable in that realm.
He's not very dynamic. I don't know how. And that's
just not just with us. But I've asked players as
he joked, as he laughed, and YE know, at bit.
(16:50):
But and this may be fullhearty in me to say,
because I'm not inside the meetings and whatnot, he doesn't
strike me as head coach material at this point. His
career is what I'm trying to say. He's really good
at what he does, leading, being a CEO of a team,
being the front man, motivating, standing up on a pedestal
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in the middle of the locker room. We're rawing them,
we're cracking the whip. And he had I don't I
haven't been around him a ton, but I don't see that.
He certainly has a pedigree and having been around football
his entire life because his dad was a quarterback in
the Broncos and then a coach for the Super Bowl Broncos.
But I don't see it yet. His name's going to
get flowed. It probably already has been floated around in
(17:31):
New York. Of course, they're going to float every name
of any coach who ever had a whistle after him,
the Giants have been in the last few years. My honest,
gut opinion, without really having scientific evidence is that he's
not head coach material at this point. Well he'll get yeah,
he'll get mentioned.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
A Thank you, Sara, We appreciate it. We will talk
to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Happy Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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all the veterans out there, and Greg Bell joining us
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Coming up next, Factor Fiction at seven thirty five, It's
Ashley's Pick today plus College football rankings come out tonight.
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I'm gonna ruin it for you. I'm gonna tell you
exactly what's gonna happen. Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Right Factor Fiction at seven thirty five.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Little Beast of breaking news for you. The Mavericks are
expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison today, less than
one one year after he traded away Luka doncicch On
not very favorably to fans in Dallas. They have been
chanting fire Nico ever since. It's spilled over into this year.
If Nico Harrison did make that trade because the NBA
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wanted him to, we might finally find out.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah, when he gets fired and then he blames them.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, and then he sues them, we might have finally
find out for dirt behind the scenes on that. But yeah,
I don't think they could have kept going. I mean,
I don't want fans to necessarily dictate if I'm an owner,
my decisions that I make and what I feel are
best for the organization going forward. But when your entire
fan base for five straight months and hasn't forgotten about
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it through the off season, continues to chant during every
game while he's in the building, fire Nico. Yeah, I
don't know if he can do that anymore. And they're
two and eight or whatever and three and seven or
something like that to start the year. So whatever he
did because he said, he said, we made this trade
to make the team better, Well they've gotten not gotten better.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, Well that's the that's the bottom line is you
can't come out there and just lay an egg to
start off the season. Expect that everybody's going to turn
their turn a blind eye to it, especially consider how
how badly they were hurt by the actions last year.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, fire Nico, you got your wish. Dallas Mavericks fans,
looks like he is going to be let go today.
All right, college football rankings come out tonight. We'll certainly
talk about them with Rick Newel at nine o'clock today.
I know, you probably need just an extra hour back
in your life this evening, maybe to take a walk,
you know, maybe join a pottery class, you know, maybe
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take the wife out for you know, nachos. Yeah, there
are a lot of different things you can do at
that hour and not watch an hour long college football
ranking of something that really doesn't mean anything. So I'm
just gonna go ahead and give it to you right now.
Ohio State will be number one. I think there's a
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chance Texas A and M jumps Indiana to number two
and Indiana comes in at number three, as Indiana barely
survived with that win and the Aggies have racked up
quite the impressive resume, so I think there's a chance
they could flip flop those two at two and three.
Alabama was four last week, there'll be four this week.
Georgia will be five, Ole Miss will be six, BYU
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will be out at seven, So Texas Tech, having beaten
them soundly, will jump into that seven hole. I would
assume Oregon, despite a tough one with Iowa, will still
move up. I think they'll go to eight. Notre Dame
will move up to nine. The new ten will be Texas.
They were eleven last week even though they didn't make
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the twelve team field, but they certainly didn't do anything
to hurt their resume, so I think they'll to be
the team that jumps newly in to the pool. They
go with the ACC leader at eleven because none of
them are ranked in the top twelve. So right now
that's Georgia Tech. But there are five teams in the
ACC with only one loss, so that could be anybody
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that comes out of there. And then number twelve, I'm
just gonna I'm just gonna go with James Madison. I
don't know what the what the ranking committee is thinking
right now, but they're currently the highest ranked AP team
that's outside the power for So I'll put James Madison
at twelve. But that should be that should be your twelve.
I'd be surprised if it was anything else.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Okay, I mean it's weird to me how the rankings.
I you know how I feel about the rankings early
in the year, and yet then they still matter then,
but then as that teams fall off a little bit,
then they don't matter as much. Like Penn State's a
prime example of that. And yet when I just watched
that game, the Oregon Penn State game, it looks like
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two really good teams going at it. Now Penn State's
falling off, and so now it's discredited. It's taken away
from it to some extent. I've read a couple different
articles talking about oh Miss and how they might jump
Oregon and or whatever, that they're gonna fin it be higher,
and yet it's like, but they just be I mean,
whooped up on Citadel. But it's like, how is it
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just seems odd to me? And that's right.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Ahead of them though they won't they won't jump them,
they were already ahead of them that they're going.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Okay, Well, it's that that to me is one where
I don't know, beating Citadel if that equates to very
much to me. And yet it just is. It just
continues to as I watch how some of the predictions go,
and then when the rankings come out, just part of
it makes me feel like, thank God, none of these
matter until it matters till the final one. I'm just
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happy that it doesn't matter until then, because.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Well, I don't think I don't think Oregon's gonna jump
for Old Miss jump three spots because ole Miss had
Citadel on its schedule last week and they still have
a resume of accomplishment so far this year.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they have. Yeah, they definitely have
a resume. I'm not saying that they're not good. I
think that it's it goes into again some of the
teams that they play just in the SEC that aren't
necessarily great teams, but they get credit for them as
if it's like not great, but there's still a little
plus signed by it because that they're an SEC team
we know who.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Won't be in the top twenty five. Yeah, yeah, we do.
All right, let's play some factor fiction of cour's that
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Speaker 7 (24:36):
All right, Ashley speak today.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Sorry, I didn't come through well last night. I had
a chance. Should have gone with the under Yeah, the
under gosh, I set it off there, set it off
the air, but I didn't go with it. Went with
my original fault that the Packers are gonna win the game.
It didn't happen, and they look like crap. All right, Ashley,
redeem me. What do we got today? I'm gonna try.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
I'm gonna try, and Bucky apologize in advance for taking
what might have been your pick. Kansas City is heading
to Denver on Sunday, and Kansas City is a four
and a half point favorite. Now you love you know
I love a foreign or a home underdog. It's my favorite.
So Denver has two losses, they have been by a
combined total of four points. Give me Denver plus the
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four and a half at home against Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
All right, look at that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I like that pick. I wouldn't have taken it. I
don't need the double whammy. True if I get a
pick wrong and it was my team losing. But yeah,
so this is one where I like that.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I think that they have they've you can't say they've
had their number, but they've played Kansas City really tough
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah. I think that's our way of kissing up to
you because she won't carry you to the bathroom to pee.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Oh, yes, that's why I picked that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Well, I appreciate that. That's her way of saying I'm sorry.
I would if I physically could carry you to the
bathroom with your bad knee so that you didn't have
to walk the entire way in your pand yeah, no
so and lieu of that, I'm going to pick your
favorite football team. And here's an empty bottle. I mean
losely but still cover. Oh that's unfortunate.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Really carefully win or lose, just don't lose by more
than five four, four and a half.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Ashley's going to take the Denver Broncos at home against
Kansas City Chiefs. They are getting four and a half
points at home against the Chiefs, And so if you
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of things have broken here today, and one of them
out of Major League Baseball. They're trying to deal with
their gambling scandal. Have they gone far enough? Sports Radio
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the morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRF. M.
Jean Stertor is gonna join us at the top of
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the hour at eight o'clock to talk about some officiating
in the National Football League. My guy Clay Martin on
the call again last night.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You notice that, Yeah, but I noticed there was like
only one penalty in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Was there really? Yeah? There were a lot though, weren't there?
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't think, I mean, it ended up being some,
but there was a bunch that. That was a big
talking point today was that they weren't calling all the
tush bushes or false starts. They finally we're.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Gonna ask about that one. Yeah, exactly. We will be
talking to Gene about that. I also, but I want
to talk about this right now. This this just broke
this morning. Apparently Major League Baseball. There was a report
yesterday that Major League Baseball and the sports books and
the daily prop bet people we're gonna get together. There's
been a recent obviously NBA scandal when it comes to
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prop betting, revolving around Terry Rogier, and Major League Baseball
has its own involving Luis Ortiz and also Emmanuel Classe,
one of the best closers in the game, and they're
never gonna play in base They're not gonna play baseball again.
And it sounds like it's gonna be a while before
they breathe free air again, those two gentleman. But there
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was a report yesterday suggesting that they were meeting and
there could be some changes made, and now we know
one of the changes. I'm hoping this is just scratching
the surface, but MLB is gonna limit pitch bets to
two hundred dollars after the pitching indictments of the two
Guardians pitchers. How about just not having the ability to
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bet on balls or strikes or which pitch was thrown?
Can we do that? Why does it? Let's eliminate nonsense
like that, there should not be an ability to bet
on the assist total of the ninth man on a
team in the NBA. I mean, it's not like people
are gonna stop betting if they can't bet that second
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on what's going to happen next. The more fine you
make it, the more you open it up to corruption.
And so to me, this doesn't go far and just
eliminate the ability to bet pitch to pitch in Major
League Baseball games. Don't even allow it, Rob, What on earth?
Why are we stopping so short like this is gonna
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solve the problem. Now they're just gonna make more two
hundred dollars bets. I mean, it's not gonna solve the problem.
It's just gonna delay an even bigger scandal. Now all
of a sudden, people pitchers are like, oh, that's all
it's gonna be changed. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
No.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You have to crack down on this. Sportsbooks need to
get together with all the professional sports and take some
of these options off of the table, these minutia options
off the table.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Well, I'll just start by saying, I don't you have
to be an idiot to just be a professional athlete.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And join in any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Now, back when you know the Black Sox thing was
going on, I mean, those players were, you know, making
peanuts compared to what today's players are making even relative
to the times, and and you know how much.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A dollar is worth.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
And so I'm not I'm not overly concerned about the
you can't get rid of stupid, Like there's gonna be
people that are gonna do stupid things regardless. And you're
never going to get rid of gambling because especially the
fact that now these all of these uh, these leagues
realize how much money they can make. I'm not saying
(31:23):
to get rid of gaming. Well, I know you're saying
then just you know, nip it in the bud. As
far as the the uh you know, pitch you know bets,
the two and dollars pitch bets, to me, it's just
kind of one of those I don't I think the
gambling is kind of there's a gross element to it.
I think there's a part of it that turns if
I would want to get rid of it to some degree.
(31:44):
It's the idea of how empowered Now some guy that
puts a couple hundred bucks or more money on something
and then you fail to come through while you're entertaining
him with your athletic prowess, and now he wants to
give you death threats or just literally wishes ill upon you.
To me, that's the that's it's the ugly part of gambling.
And yet it's not going anywhere. And I don't know
for sure if you're going to even cutting it back
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a step toward now all of a sudden, you can't
you do you do incentivize the idea of somebody thinking
we'll shoot you know. I mean, maybe it's just a
rookie that came up to the big leagues. He doesn't
have much time. He's thinking, I don't know if I'm
going to last up here. I could put big chunks
of change on something and make a stupid decision, but
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maybe cash out and all of a sudden walk away
with a couple hundred thousand dollars. If you want to
do that, go ahead and do that. But to me,
you're risking so much more than what it's worth, and
so I just don't. I mean, to me, this is
a step in the right direction, and yet the direction
where I would want him to go is kind of
eliminate some of this. Some of it bet on the games, fine,
but the prop bets part of it I would, I
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would love for it to be gone, and yet I
just don't think that they're ever going to do it.
There's too much money to be well.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
If the Ortiz class A store is not the not
the warning that players need. This is what can happen
you sixty five years in prison. You lose your career
in sixty five years in prison for a little extra
spending cash when you're already a millionaire. Terry Rogier makes
twenty seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
For goodness sake, you need to get so oh yeah,
go ahead, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
So if that's the warning against the players, But I'm
talking about why are these Why should you even have
the ability to bet on a pitch that should not
even be an option. I mean, the smaller of a
bet that you make, the more ripe you are for
corruption and nasty things to occur. So this is about
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the gambler. The gambler shouldn't have an opportunity to bet
on whether or not the eleventh man on the Mavericks
ends up with an assist or not that night. That
garbage needs to go. Prop Bets are fine. Prop bets
are fine, but we can't you can't be able to
bet on anything for goodness sake, and if you want
to do it, just bet with your buddy right next
(33:57):
to you two hundred bucks he throws a curveball. Here
on earth is this being made available to begin with.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
It's the more degenerate part of gambling, honestly, because you
are at that point facilitating to the lowest common denominator. Right,
You're saying that here you can bet on something that
somebody can actually control. For example, in this place, class
A can control what pitch he's gonna throw, you know,
somebody can. Rosier can control if he's gonna go out
of the game early. And those those types of things
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where a player can actually control that aspect should not
be allowed to be bet on at all.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Or you have to bet the over right, like on
a Rogier assists he's got to go over the mark.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
But at that point he can't control all of it, right, yes, exactly, yeah, exactly.
Now I'm great, I'm afraid, yeah yeah. And so I mean,
this just doesn't go far enough.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I really thought we were going to get some reasonable
people meeting on this gambling, realizing that it needs sports
and sports, realizing that gambling is just going to be
a part of it. We're not never going to get
rid of it. Let's work together, and let's figure out
how we can do a better job of making it
so tempting for people to throw games or throw moments
(35:08):
in games. And this just isn't far enough. Take the
ability to bet on a pitch completely out of the sport.
If and there's no way that the daily prop people
can't agree with that. I get that there's money to
be made there, but if that person is such a
degenerate that they're betting from pitch to pitch, they're gonna
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find something else to bet on. Yeah, that doesn't need
to be such minutia, because the more minute you make it,
the more you open it up to somebody thinking nobody
will be able to detect this. Yeah, I'll just miss
two fuel goals. I'll miss two free throws in a
row on purpose because somebody bet that I'd make at
least one of them. Yeah, in the moment, we can't
(35:52):
do that. It needs to be gone, So go further,
go further agreed, all right, Geene Sterotur Next Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM
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