November 13, 2025 • 33 mins
Headlines and Thursdays with SOFTY. We cover everything when Softy joins the show: - Will Cal Raleigh win the AL MVP award tonight? - Update on the polls! Sorry, couldn’t help it- Softy’s got a problem with the polls! - The defense looked good, but what the heck happened to the Huskies in Madison? - Would Chris Petersen consider coaching again? :30- As if there wasn’t enough to talk about with this Rams-Seahawks game, the Rams are debuting their Rivalry unis andddd… shocker, they’re not good. :35- It’s Fact or Fiction time! Is this Penn State’s week? :45- We could really shake up this rivalry on Sunday… if we went an signed Aaron Donald.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
All right, here we go, Chuck Powle, Bluggy Jacobs and
Ashley Ryan. We roll into the seven o'clock hour Factor
Fiction coming your way at seven thirty five today, Softy
Air In a matter of moments, It's Thursdays with Softy
on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. But first
we have your headlines. They are brought to you by
Frost brewed cors like choose Chill. We will start with
(00:30):
the National Football League Seahawks getting ready to take on
the Rams Sunday at one o'clock. We got a roundtable
to discuss it today with Greg Bell and Hugh Millan
at eight o'clock. Thursday Night football gets started tonight the
Jets taking on the New England Patriots. Mike Sandal will
be with us today our NFL Insider at nine thirty
to discuss that very uninteresting matchup. And then I do
(00:51):
want to I said this in our first headline segment yesterday.
The Dallas Cowboys finally had a chance to mourn their
teammate Marshawn Neeland. Brian Schottenheimer, who we know very well
here in Seattle. Now the head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys spoke about it yesterday at the press conference, and
I thought it was worth playing here this morning for
you because, man, is this is about as good as
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you can do it. Here's Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'd like to just take a few moments and offer
my condolences to you know, Marshawn's family, Catalina, his girlfriend,
and we had an opportunity last night to celebrate Marshawn's life,
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tell some stories, share laugh, cry. Marshawn loved the words
one love, so we talked a lot about love as
we grieve, and I just had a chance to really
share a couple of things that I'll miss the most
about Marshawn. Those top couple things was he had the
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most playful spirit of any young man I've been around.
His smile could take you to your knees, and in
terms of him as an athlete, no one had a
better motor than him. So my heart is heavy, our
team's heart is heavy. We don't move on, but we
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do move forward.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Brian Schottenheimer. Yesterday there was a little bit more to
it which was really impactful. But Brian Schottenheimer, Yeah, I
thought he just handled it perfectly. I now understand why
people think so highly of that guy. At least that
was a nice job by him. I'm not going to
transition right like that into softy. Let's rip through the
other headlines for you. Husky's taking on Purdue this Saturday,
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and this Friday Tomorrow night, Husky's basketball taking on the
Koogs and Pullman Friday eight o'clock. Tip number two Perdue
versus Alabama. If you actually want to watch a good
sporting Tonight versus Thursday night football is a very good game.
Crack in and the Jets played tonight at Climate Pledge Arena,
and Paul Skins and Tarik Skubel are your cy Young
(03:10):
Award winners tonight, we know the most valuable players in
both the national and American leagues joining us now to
talk about that and many other things. Our guy David Sooft.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Joined the buckets of rain that are coming down outside
my house right now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah. Do you think you're gonna be talking about cal
Raley MVP tonight?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know, I have said for the last month and
a half I think he's gonna win it, and so yeah,
I think he's gonna win it, you know, but nobody
can be surprised or angry. I think on either side, right.
I mean, if you're a Yankee fan, you're pulling for Judge.
You're a Mariner fan, you're pulling for cal Rally. I mean,
I don't think any fan base can be pissed off
if their guy didn't win. I mean, for us, from
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our perspective, if caw doesn't get it done. Look, man,
Aaron Judge, I don't know, ps two hundred points higher
than cal. He I had like thirty seven extra hits
in seven less games than cal Rawley did. Obviously he's
a much more well rounded I think you guys would
agree with that offensive player. But when you factor in
the defense and the impact that cal Rawley had on
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the sport and in his clubhouse, I don't know. I've
just had a funny feeling since the middle of September
that cal is gonna win it. And I don't know
if I've heard anything from any potential voters that's made
me change my mind since the end of the regular season.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
What do you think? I mean?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I if I told you pick the winner of the
MVP tonight, guys, and if you're wrong, you're going to
sleep on the sidewalk for a week.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Who do you take?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I would pick Cal to win it, but I think
Aaron's going to edge him out slightly. That's my that's
my feeling.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, which is again, I'm not going to throw
a fit if that happens, right Like, I'm trying to
pick myself and prepare everybody that if Aaron Judge wins,
it's not some I don't think it's some highway criminal robbery.
If Aaron Judge wins the MVP, I mean, he's an
unbelievable player. The MVP is supposed to go to the
best player in baseball, regardless of where their team finished.
(05:05):
I think a lot of people would agree with that.
It's the best player. I mean, you and I are
old enough to remember when Andre Dawson won the MVP
on the last place Cubs team forty years ago, right
in eighty seven the Hawk. He was amazing, man, So hey,
look I get it. You know, maybe there's some Yankee
fatigue that will help out col But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We've been talking about this for a while in the
year with the Heisman, and maybe it's send to do
a baseball with how many teams are making the playoffs,
guys that maybe we should start including the postseason when
it comes to voting for the MVP as well.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh, you're taking a little level out of approach. Ashley
and Bucky both threatened to kidnap Aaron Boone and hold
him for ransom. Yeah, Cal doesn't wall.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It just goes to show you how wacko those people are.
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
There are other things, but I'm not allowed to say it,
but actually.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Has got a lot of I mean, the engine is running,
but there's nobody behind the wheel.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, just be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
A couple wacko nut John, You're not the first person
to say that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
What I got to deal with every day.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
There's not that from Mark, by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, there's not a lot of time.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, there's there's not a lot of times that I'll
get super frustrated, especially about something like this that really
is neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I mean, it'd be nice to win.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
An MVP, but yeah, I think Cal would rather If
you asked Cal, hey, would you rather win a World
Series and not win the MVP or not win the
World Series and but you get that trophy, he wouldn't
even be close.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So totally.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
It's but I yeah, I don't know if I want
to sleep on the sidewalk, but I might be stomping
up and down some sidewalks.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Interesting, mad, Yeah, I mean, look, the guy's a stud man,
no doubt. I mean, you know the amount of time
he spent behind the dish. I mean, he's the captain
of the team.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I mean, you guys. I've told you, guys.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
The exact moment in time that I fell in love
with cal Rawley is when he called out the baseball
team when they missed the playoffs in twenty three. Scott
Service told him to calm down. That's the exact day
that Scott Service lost me. In the exact day I
turned AI over to cal Raley. Remember the movie That
Natural when Roy Hobbs struck out the Whammer and Barbara
Hershey went from stocking the Whammer to stocking Roy Hobbs. Yeah,
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at that exact second, that was you. That's that was me, man,
I was I was Barbara Hershey when I could not
believe it. Yeah, could not, Bucky, I mean, you played
the game. Can you imagine a former catcher as this
guy's manager and he's showing all that emotion, all that passion.
After missing the playoffs, he's pissed off, he's angry, and
his manager tells him to control himself get out of here.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Well, yeah, because that manager was best buddies with the
guy he was calling out. And now, I bet if
you asked Scott's service, do you regret that? Now He's like, no,
I was thinking the same damn thing.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, I just want my blood still to this day.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just want to point out, by the way, to
our listeners and maybe to you. Maybe you need to
hear this. You do know Barbara Hershey ended up shooting
Roy Hobbs. Yes, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right, yeah, unless cal Rowley wants to take like twenty
years off and then come back and play at the
age of forty five with a bullet has gout hit
a game home run to put the M's on the
World Series?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, we got to win the World Series. That would
be incredible. Yeah right, all right, Well, uh, let me
ask you, since Bucky's already thinking about stomping up and
down the sidewalks. Were you were you stomping up and
down the sidewalks when I lumped you into my little
lesson in how you can't go by head to head
so heavily in college football playoff basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, I gotta be honest with you, and I
don't know how else to say it, so I'll just
say it. Your argument that you had yesterday for people
that are mad about you can't just go head to
head and all that stuff. I've never said that on
the air like ever. So I don't even know where
that came from.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
No, you said it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We were talking and you were like, you couldn't believe
a couple of weeks ago the one team wasn't rated
when they beat them head down.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I got, I've got problems with the poll overall.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Okay, but to just go strictly on head to head
dot down the top twenty five, I totally agree with
that shock. I mean, just because you beat one team
doesn't mean you got a better overall resume than that team.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You should apology. Yeah, So I spent the entire night
just stewing. Man, I was mean to my wife, I
was impatient with my dogs.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I flung up the phone on.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My mond the dogs terrible mood because of your ridiculous
cockamami accusation from yesterday's show. But here's my problem with
the poll. My problem really is with the AP pole
and not even the CFP, to be totally honest with you.
First of all, I find it ridiculous the teams are
getting rewarded with head starts during the preseason for things
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they haven't earned yet.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Like I'll give you an example.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Notre Dame has one win over a top twenty five
team in USC They're number nine in the country right now.
You know why, because they began the year at number six.
How about the Iowa Hawk guys, the Iowaha guys, you
saw this buckey. They pushed your ducks to the limit
baby on Saturday in Iowa City. They're six and three.
They got three losses by ten points combined to Indiana,
Oregon in Iowa State. They're not even ranked in the
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AP pole anymore. You know why, partially because they began
the year at number forty four in the country. Tennessee
began the year in the top twenty five. They're six
and three, they've beaten nobody, and they're still in the.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Top twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I think these teams that get these head starts
over the offseason, I think it's ridiculous. I'm glad the
AP Pole doesn't play any role whatsoever in selecting these teams, unless,
like me, you're a little bit convinced and maybe concerned
that the Committee is slightly influenced by the eight Peopole
when they make their initial selections, which I think they
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possibly are influenced by the AP Pole, and I don't
think they should be whatsoever. So look, the AP Pole
is never going away. It's a third party entity. They
make many off it. It's a great news organization, as
John Wilner has said over and over again. But the
only freaking poll that matters is the one that came
out last week for the first time, and that's the
c if people.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
The APO Pole, in my opinion, needs to die. That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I'm with you, that's you. Just kind of put it
the way they have one frustrating to me.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
One more? Can I add one more?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Please?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
How in the hell do you guys beat Iowa and
then flip spots with old Miss who beat the Citadel?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
They didn't flip spots All Miss was in the ap
Poes again.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
In the AP Pole, they absolutely fliped spots, which is why, like,
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Why do we even bother with the AP pole. I mean, guys,
how often do you look at the coaches poll these days?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Never?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Ever, that's the way the AP polls gotta go the
way the coaches pull right down the toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So you don't want any polls at all during the
regular only.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Poll that I want, The only poll that I want
is the CFP poll that comes out in the early
part of November.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's where I completely disagree. That's why I like the polls.
I like the numbers, and I like the conversation around
the numbers. You have a problem with them, great, but
I think we need the numbers. I think we would
miss the numbers if we didn't have that. I think
you would miss the numbers.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I think a lot of people would agree with you.
But I also think you're smart enough to know who's
good and who's not. And again, I think in the NFL,
for example, we don't need preseason rankings to tell us
who's good and who's bad. In the NFL, we watched
the sport because we love the sport, and I agree
with you initially, Chuck, it would be odd because it's
all we know. But eventually they go away and the
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only poll you have is the one that comes out
in the second week in November.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You'd get used to it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The Dogs did not remain ranked for very long. What
the hell happened in Madison?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Disgrace, disgrace. They they gave it away everything Wisconsin had.
They gave it away three scoring drives that all began
inside the Husky fifty yard line. Thought the defense was
actually pretty damn good man. I mean, the defense gave
up the one touchdown when Wisconsin got the ball on
the seven yard line and they couldn't stop him from
getting out of the end zone. Bad special teams punting
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was terrible. Some of the decisions by Demon Williams, and
there's a reason for it. He's nineteen years old. He
hasn't figured out the road thing yet. We're terrible. The
interception to des Roebuck, it was obvious that that annoyed
the coaching staff.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Can't make throwing that ball down the field third and twelve, scrambling,
turning his back away from the defense and dropping the pill.
You want to go down and just go down and
punt and live to see another day. But you know
this offense for me, and I'll just say this. I
think they're a bit of a paper tiger, right, I mean,
I don't know what else to say. Like, some of
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the numbers look great, you know, overall, but then you
look at the way they've played on the road at
Michigan and at Wisconsin for an entire half against Maryland
Ohio State. I mean, if they're really one of the
elite offenses in football, they're not gonna play four games
like that where they just get totally shut down, totally
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shut down by the opponent. You know, maybe it happens
once and you play the number one team in the country, Okay, whatever,
you can excuse it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But this is now three or four.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Times, guys, where their offense hasn't even shown up in
a game, and that's not the mark of an elite offense.
So I don't even really care what the numbers say
overall nationally, guys. I just think that they're they're kind
of a paper tiger. And when it comes to how
elite people really think they are.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I thought, I know you agree with that book.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah, but I mean I don't have the disdain that
most Duck fans do for UW. You know that and
so to me, it was just I thought it was preemptive.
I thought that there was a wow, number one offense
in the country, and it's like, but they there's things
that I think are going to come back to haunt them.
And this week, this past weekend, was one of those games. So,
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I mean, demon Williams. We've talked a lot about him.
He's unbelievably explosive and fantastic to watch when things are clicking.
But what is it when you're watching him right now?
Because if if it is a paper tiger, at times
it looks like a tiger and other times it looks
very paperish, paper mache ish, And so I'm wondering, what
is it that you think most he needs to he
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needs to grow up with.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I think they're putting way too much on his plate period,
end of story. I think he's a nineteen year old
quarterback and I think they are putting way too much
on his shoulders. They don't have a running game right
now at all. They have no consistent wide receiver even
really behind Denzel Boston, and Denzel Boston's been up and
down himself at times this year. They're relying on a
ton of freshmen Desmond Roebuck, Radon Vines Bright for example.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
They have no tight end.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
At all, none, no pass catching tight end on this
football team whatsoever. Their offensive line obviously has been banged up,
and that's certainly a part of it. But I just
think the identity of the football team, the responsibility to
move the ball and score points, falls on the shoulders
of a nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I think it's too much. They're just putting too much
on his plate.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Like go back and look at the twenty twelve Seahawks
for example, when Russell Wilson was a rookie, he had
the league's highest paid offensive line. He had Marsharnon Lynch,
Michael Robinson, Sydney Rice, Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate, and Zach Miller.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He did not have to do anything.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean, obviously he played great, but he had an
incredible supporting cast. And I understand Bucky why that is
at Washington because the roster two years ago got blown
to bits when Caitlyn de Boree took off for Alabama,
and there just hasn't been enough time, I think, to
rebuild the offense to give a quarterback those types of
pieces yet, right, let's see what happens a year or
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two years from now. But just overall, I think they're
putting way, way, way too much of the responsibility on
the shoulders of a nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm gonna just skip perdue entirely this week because I've
been wanting to ask you this all week long and
I only got like a minute and a half. If
that is Chris Peterson done done? Yeah, he has done.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if he came back to
coach college football.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
If he hadn't removed himself for four years just to
kind of gauge how NIL was gonna work, and then Okay,
I think I can manage it now.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You'll never say never, right, But I mean I was
just talking to him like three weeks ago, and he's
doing other stuff, right, And I think I'd be less
surprised if Nick Saban came back. I mean, Nick Saban
honestly has stayed way more involved in college football, as
you know, than Chris Peterson has. So I'd be fairly
surprised if Pete got back in the game.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Ok.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Why you want to bring him back?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, I don't know. I mean, just sa all this
fish Talk this week, and I'm like, uh, well, why
steal somebody else when we've got somebody right here.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He seems like the kind of guy that maybe he
would come back on an interim basis if something happened
in the middle of the year or late in the
game over the offseason, Like God, was it Barry Alvarez
that went back to Wisconsin to be like their interim AD?
Remember that for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I think he was their AD for a long time.
I think he was their AD and then became the
interim head coach Okay a little while.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
But you know what I'm talking about, Like we've seen
you know, names name coaches come back, name AD's come
back and see I'll help you out for a while,
maybe do something like that. But I'd be pretty surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
If he came back for good to know, Good to know,
all right, you the man, Thank you very much. We
appreciate anything. I need to plug this quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Let's say we're at the five twenty Mike calm grin,
Rick new Heizel today, David Sampson, you guys know, Dave,
the former president of the Marlin still join us in
the five o'clock hour, and by then we'll well know
if it's Coyle Rawley or Aaron Judge, so that should
be announced around four o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All right, sale o to the wife and dogs.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Okay, guys, all right, see you see.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
David Softy Molly joining us right here on Chugging Buck
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it is my pick here today. Of course, we're getting
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today Greg Bell Hugh Millen set to dissect the biggest
game of the year so far, football game of the
year so far, as the Seahawks get ready to take
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on the Los Angeles Rams, and is if there wasn't
enough cool stuff going on in this matchup, the Rams
are cracking out their rivalry uniforms. I guess they've never
worn these before. Everybody's got rivalry uniforms this year, and
most of the rivalry uniforms I don't those throwbacks don't count.
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I don't think those are the rivalry unit because there
are a lot of bad throwback uniforms in the National
Football League. But the rivalry ones I think have looked
pretty good to this point. The Rams might break that
there's a sizzle reel that is available where they're black.
They're like midnight uniforms. They put black into their color schemes,
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so they're almost all black. Even in the sizzle reel
uniform they don't look good, and that's that's the idea
of a sizzle reel, is to really showcase the brand
new uniform in its best way possible. So I think
it's gonna be kind of gaudy looking. I think we're
gonna I think we're gonna win the uniform battle no
matter what this weekend.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I don't think they're that bad. But then again, I
don't mind in the blacked out ones. When I see
there's a bunch of people with these new rivalry ones
where they're all white within accents of their colors, or
midnight blacked out where they're all black with accents of
their colors. And I kind of like, I haven't seen
one yet that I don't like. I don't mind this one.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I well, everybody had a problem with the Seahawks one
because they look kind of like Ducks uniforms, so around
they came out, there was that this.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
One, I admit, I admit, yeah, they're terrible.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Yeah, but this one, I feel like it's the sleeve
is really bothering me.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Kind of gotta go all black, don't you. Yeah, you
just got a tuck air of blue Ram thing.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It looks like their shoulder pads sticking out and they
need to pull the uniform back over their shoulder pad.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I mean, granted, it's just a sizzle reel, but it
looks like they're like wearing a vest over their uniform. Yeah,
as opposed to creating a brand new rivalry uniform for
the occasion so it'll look different. We've never seen the
Rams dressed like this before, and and I'm not sure
that it's gonna look all that good on television. It
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doesn't even look good on the suit. I think it
falls flat on the photos. And just so you know
I'm not being biased, I think that our sizzle reel
uniforms are terrible.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah again, they look like Ducks uniforms.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
They're not good.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
They're not good.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, they're not great. But I think they look all
right too. Well yeah, yeah, all right. Let's play some
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Speaker 4 (21:23):
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Speaker 1 (21:57):
Probably got two picks that I'd like to make today.
Of course I can only make one. And since someone
is allowing you to have some skin in the game
tonight and Thursday night football, I am going to skip
over to the college football side of things. It's been
a rough year for the Penn State Nitney Lions. I
mean it has been a rough year for the Penn
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State Nitney Lions. They've lost six straight games. They're o
and six and Big Ten conference play. In many publications,
they were the favorite, believe it or not, over both
Ohio State and Indiana to win the conference this year.
So it can't get worse than looking at your oh
and six conference record. They fired their head coach for
goodness sake, and yet they have been rallying as of late.
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They lost by one to Northwestern, they lost by one
to Iowa. They were leading the number one ranked team
in the country at halftime fourteen to seven, and they
lost by a toe to the number two ranked team
in the country just last week. I'm feeling like this
is their super Bowl, Like there's not going to be
a more motivated team in college football this weekend to win,
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and not just win, but to win convincingly. It feels
like to me the Penn State Nitney Lions not only
need a win, they could really use a blowout to
make them feel better about themselves. And they've got the
right team to face. Michigan State this year has lost
also six games in conference play. They've lost five of
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them by double figures, including twenty five point home loss
to UCLA, so home field advantage doesn't really work for them,
and they've given up two hundred and eighty nine yards
rushing to USC two hundred and seventy six yards rushing
to Michigan two hundred and thirty eight yards rushing to UCLA.
So you're getting my trend. And although Penn State doesn't
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have Drew Aller anymore, they still have both of their
running backs and one of them has had an exceptional
season in k Tron Allen. So I think Penn State's
going to go into Michigan State, where home field advantage
has not mattered this year, and they are going to
run the f over the Michigan State Sparties and cover
seven and a half on the road against Michigan State.
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Plus Michigan State just found out yesterday they're on probation,
so don't kid yourself. There are a lot of Michigan
State Spartan players that are thinking about where am I
going to play football next year? So give me Penn
State minus seven and a half on the road to
just truck the Michigan State Spartans this weekend. That is
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Kidd coming up next on the program. A little more
on the Seahawks and Rams. I know something that'll really
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The most important roundtable of our lives is coming your
way at eight o'clock. Yes, those two guys are gonna
join us to talk about the Seahawks and Rams. I'm
sure we've had a bigger, more impactful playoff roundtable in
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the past with these guys. But I'm a p prisoner
of the moment. Okay, this feels like the most important
thing right now.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Okay, right now, all right, But because you made me
more nervous than normal, I get really nervous talking to
these two. And then when you throw that on top
of it, Yeah, I'm like what.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I'm sure we did a playoff round table at one point,
but it does right now. All that matters is the Rams.
That's just how I operate. Oh yeah, good for you.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't think about things in the past. No, past
can't change it. That's right. It's just whatever is in
front of me, and I just put everything into it.
Good for you, so good, what a great mind. So Greg, Hugh.
I think they feel the same way. I think Hugh
was just chewing on glass this morning, getting ready for
his his analysis today, Greg Bell breaking through walls. You know,
(26:47):
Greg is Yeah, so not calm at all. Cold, not
a head cold could keep that guy down. So eight
to nine, we'll have them join us to talk Seahawks
Rams for one entire hour, all right, in the meantime,
I mean, yes, we're getting ready to this game. This
has been on my mind a little bit, and I
don't even know. I mean, I've been looking it up,
(27:09):
and you find different information everywhere. But for whatever reason,
I don't know why this is happening everywhere I look,
Aaron Donald keeps popping up. Oh, and Aaron Donald looks
as good physically as he ever has in his entire life.
Like he looks like he could put on a uniform
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and be a pro bowler Sunday if he wanted to.
That's how good he looks. I mean, he retired very
early after years of dominating this Sea Hawks. You want
to shake up the rivalry. I think he has been
retired longer than his contract with the Rams. Let's go
(27:58):
get him. Yeah, my kid, try to kidnap him. Let's
go sign him. Let's go make an offer he can't refuse.
Let's go get Aaron Donald. Let's shake up this rivalry.
And I mean, like before.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Sunday, let's watch him wreck their crap.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Now that's silly. I mean obviously can't, but but honestly,
like he I know, he keeps saying over and over
and over he's not going to play again. Why is
he working out so damn hard? Why is he suddenly
going to football games? Why is he suddenly going on
ANFL podcast? Maybe he's got the itch to play again.
And I think, and I don't know this for a fact,
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there's various things, different reports about how these contracts work.
But I think once he's been retired longer than his
contract was with the team he left, he he is
a free agent and he can sign with any team
now maybe not, maybe only the Rams he could come
back to. And my guess is that he probably would
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if he did come back from retirement. I don't think
he left on bad terms with the Rams. I think
he still lives in Los Angeles. He'd probably suit up
for the Rams. So I don't want to put any
thoughts in his head because I don't want him suiting
up for the Rams this year. But this is somebody
that I'm telling you within two weeks is playing Pro
Bowl caliber defensive line. So let's go get him. Let's
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really pull a fast one on the old Rams. Let's
shake up this rivalry. Come on, John, you got a
silver tongue. Come on, Mike McDonald, you got the best
defensive mind and all of football. Imagine what Aaron, what
you could convince you could do with Aaron Donald. Come on, Seattle,
you know, let's let's all join together and sing a
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song at the holiday time to make a miracle happen.
Let's hat Aaron Donald suit up for the Seahawks before
the season comes to it.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
You say, everybody, shake it up.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
And he is a free agent as of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, I read that too, but I've also read that
the I don't know. You might be right, you might
be wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yeah, I've read different things this morning.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what the contract thing. I
don't know if that would matter. My first wrestlers And
he came back like with a mask on Andre the Giant.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Basically and came to the seat of the Rams anyway,
he wrote to us. But he wore like a mask
or like hul Cogan did he just you know, you know,
died his goatee, you know, came back as a different wrestler,
right right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Just he could do that.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I mean I suppose, I think, because boy, that would
shake it up.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That would be unbelievable. I think that really good at
this point.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Ye.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah, I think it would be really very bright on
his part, and I think he is pretty bright to
just be like, yeah, I kind of wanted to step away,
just take care of my body, and now I just
like he's a different Honestly.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Michael Jordan stepped away twice. Michael Jordan stepped away twice
and was so desperate to get back to the competitive
spirit that he played for the Wizards for goodness sake.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I mean, boxers retire thirteen times because they think they're
ready and then all of a sudden one day they're like,
I can't replace the high of playing, of fighting somebody
or playing football or whatever the case. Plenty of people
have come out of retirement that are a lot worse
shape than Aaron Donald looks like right now, he looks
like he's preparing to play football.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, well he's he's a lot closer to it than
most people. Right after the retire half the football players
like shrink. They just turn in like what you were
an offensive lineman? You're not even You're like a shadow
of yourself. I think he'd probably would be like, yeah,
I'll come back and be a Ram again. And so
I don't even know if you like putting this out
in the universe.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Here's the thing is that he has repeatedly said his
passion for the game is gone. So I blame the
Rams for that. So if I'm him, I'm not going
to go sign with the team that made me lose
my pass for the game. I need to play for
a new team and then kindle that phenomenal point.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think he lost his passion because it was like
too easy.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
No, I think it was.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Crap every single years, think of wrecking the same people's crap.
I got to turn it around and wreck the Rams crap.
That'll be the full circle.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You know what, I'm going to take this further. Ashley
has inspired me. We're going to sign Aaron Donald. As
a matter of fact, play the breaking news. It's just
play the breaking news audio areas. I got news just
this and not kJ R is ready to announce that.
I don't know when or how or what's going to happen,
(32:37):
but it is unofficially official. Aaron Donald is a Seahawks,
very unofficially.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Let's focus on the unofficially.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Unofficially unofficial leads signing with the Seahawks right as we speak.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
It makes, oh boy, a very little amount of sense.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think he's going to help our defense.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, it makes a ton of sense if you're a Seahawks.
Face makes no sense for any other person involved.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
I love it, though, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I can't believe we got Aaron Donald today.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I can't believe this is just happening right now as
we speak.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Can't believe he's a Seahawk. This is awesome. I'm getting
a Jersey top Man roundtable next on kJ RT
All right, here we go, Chuck Powle, Bluggy Jacobs and
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The Dallas Cowboys finally had a chance to mourn their
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here in Seattle. Now the head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys spoke about it yesterday at the press conference, and
I thought it was worth playing here this morning for
you because, man, is this is about as good as
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you can do it. Here's Brian Schottenheimer.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'd like to just take a few moments and offer
my condolences to you know, Marshawn's family, Catalina, his girlfriend,
and we had an opportunity last night to celebrate Marshawn's life,
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tell some stories, share laugh, cry. Marshawn loved the words
one love, so we talked a lot about love as
we grieve, and I just had a chance to really
share a couple of things that I'll miss the most
about Marshawn. Those top couple things was he had the
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most playful spirit of any young man I've been around.
His smile could take you to your knees, and in
terms of him as an athlete, no one had a
better motor than him. So my heart is heavy, our
team's heart is heavy. We don't move on, but we
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do move forward.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Brian Schottenheimer. Yesterday there was a little bit more to
it which was really impactful. But Brian Schottenheimer, Yeah, I
thought he just handled it perfectly. I now understand why
people think so highly of that guy. At least that
was a nice job by him. I'm not going to
transition right like that into softy. Let's rip through the
other headlines for you. Husky's taking on Purdue this Saturday,
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Koogs and Pullman Friday eight o'clock. Tip number two Perdue
versus Alabama. If you actually want to watch a good
sporting Tonight versus Thursday night football is a very good game.
Crack in and the Jets played tonight at Climate Pledge Arena,
and Paul Skins and Tarik Skubel are your cy Young
(03:10):
Award winners tonight, we know the most valuable players in
both the national and American leagues joining us now to
talk about that and many other things. Our guy David Sooft.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Joined the buckets of rain that are coming down outside
my house right now.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah. Do you think you're gonna be talking about cal
Raley MVP tonight?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
We talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You know, I have said for the last month and
a half I think he's gonna win it, and so yeah,
I think he's gonna win it, you know, but nobody
can be surprised or angry. I think on either side, right.
I mean, if you're a Yankee fan, you're pulling for Judge.
You're a Mariner fan, you're pulling for cal Rally. I mean,
I don't think any fan base can be pissed off
if their guy didn't win. I mean, for us, from
(03:53):
our perspective, if caw doesn't get it done. Look, man,
Aaron Judge, I don't know, ps two hundred points higher
than cal. He I had like thirty seven extra hits
in seven less games than cal Rawley did. Obviously he's
a much more well rounded I think you guys would
agree with that offensive player. But when you factor in
the defense and the impact that cal Rawley had on
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the sport and in his clubhouse, I don't know. I've
just had a funny feeling since the middle of September
that cal is gonna win it. And I don't know
if I've heard anything from any potential voters that's made
me change my mind since the end of the regular season.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
What do you think? I mean?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I if I told you pick the winner of the
MVP tonight, guys, and if you're wrong, you're going to
sleep on the sidewalk for a week.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Who do you take?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I would pick Cal to win it, but I think
Aaron's going to edge him out slightly. That's my that's
my feeling.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, which is again, I'm not going to throw
a fit if that happens, right Like, I'm trying to
pick myself and prepare everybody that if Aaron Judge wins,
it's not some I don't think it's some highway criminal robbery.
If Aaron Judge wins the MVP, I mean, he's an
unbelievable player. The MVP is supposed to go to the
best player in baseball, regardless of where their team finished.
(05:05):
I think a lot of people would agree with that.
It's the best player. I mean, you and I are
old enough to remember when Andre Dawson won the MVP
on the last place Cubs team forty years ago, right
in eighty seven the Hawk. He was amazing, man, So hey,
look I get it. You know, maybe there's some Yankee
fatigue that will help out col But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
We've been talking about this for a while in the
year with the Heisman, and maybe it's send to do
a baseball with how many teams are making the playoffs,
guys that maybe we should start including the postseason when
it comes to voting for the MVP as well.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh, you're taking a little level out of approach. Ashley
and Bucky both threatened to kidnap Aaron Boone and hold
him for ransom. Yeah, Cal doesn't wall.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It just goes to show you how wacko those people are.
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
There are other things, but I'm not allowed to say it,
but actually.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Has got a lot of I mean, the engine is running,
but there's nobody behind the wheel.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, just be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
A couple wacko nut John, You're not the first person
to say that.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
What I got to deal with every day.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
There's not that from Mark, by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, there's not a lot of time.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah, there's there's not a lot of times that I'll
get super frustrated, especially about something like this that really
is neither here nor there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I mean, it'd be nice to win.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
An MVP, but yeah, I think Cal would rather If
you asked Cal, hey, would you rather win a World
Series and not win the MVP or not win the
World Series and but you get that trophy, he wouldn't
even be close.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So totally.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
It's but I yeah, I don't know if I want
to sleep on the sidewalk, but I might be stomping
up and down some sidewalks.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Interesting, mad, Yeah, I mean, look, the guy's a stud man,
no doubt. I mean, you know the amount of time
he spent behind the dish. I mean, he's the captain
of the team.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I mean, you guys. I've told you, guys.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
The exact moment in time that I fell in love
with cal Rawley is when he called out the baseball
team when they missed the playoffs in twenty three. Scott
Service told him to calm down. That's the exact day
that Scott Service lost me. In the exact day I
turned AI over to cal Raley. Remember the movie That
Natural when Roy Hobbs struck out the Whammer and Barbara
Hershey went from stocking the Whammer to stocking Roy Hobbs. Yeah,
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at that exact second, that was you. That's that was me, man,
I was I was Barbara Hershey when I could not
believe it. Yeah, could not, Bucky, I mean, you played
the game. Can you imagine a former catcher as this
guy's manager and he's showing all that emotion, all that passion.
After missing the playoffs, he's pissed off, he's angry, and
his manager tells him to control himself get out of here.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Well, yeah, because that manager was best buddies with the
guy he was calling out. And now, I bet if
you asked Scott's service, do you regret that? Now He's like, no,
I was thinking the same damn thing.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, I just want my blood still to this day.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just want to point out, by the way, to
our listeners and maybe to you. Maybe you need to
hear this. You do know Barbara Hershey ended up shooting
Roy Hobbs. Yes, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Right, yeah, unless cal Rowley wants to take like twenty
years off and then come back and play at the
age of forty five with a bullet has gout hit
a game home run to put the M's on the
World Series?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, we got to win the World Series. That would
be incredible. Yeah right, all right, Well, uh, let me
ask you, since Bucky's already thinking about stomping up and
down the sidewalks. Were you were you stomping up and
down the sidewalks when I lumped you into my little
lesson in how you can't go by head to head
so heavily in college football playoff basketball.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, I gotta be honest with you, and I
don't know how else to say it, so I'll just
say it. Your argument that you had yesterday for people
that are mad about you can't just go head to
head and all that stuff. I've never said that on
the air like ever. So I don't even know where
that came from.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
No, you said it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We were talking and you were like, you couldn't believe
a couple of weeks ago the one team wasn't rated
when they beat them head down.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I got, I've got problems with the poll overall.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Okay, but to just go strictly on head to head
dot down the top twenty five, I totally agree with
that shock. I mean, just because you beat one team
doesn't mean you got a better overall resume than that team.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You should apology. Yeah, So I spent the entire night
just stewing. Man, I was mean to my wife, I
was impatient with my dogs.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I flung up the phone on.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
My mond the dogs terrible mood because of your ridiculous
cockamami accusation from yesterday's show. But here's my problem with
the poll. My problem really is with the AP pole
and not even the CFP, to be totally honest with you.
First of all, I find it ridiculous the teams are
getting rewarded with head starts during the preseason for things
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they haven't earned yet.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Like I'll give you an example.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Notre Dame has one win over a top twenty five
team in USC They're number nine in the country right now.
You know why, because they began the year at number six.
How about the Iowa Hawk guys, the Iowaha guys, you
saw this buckey. They pushed your ducks to the limit
baby on Saturday in Iowa City. They're six and three.
They got three losses by ten points combined to Indiana,
Oregon in Iowa State. They're not even ranked in the
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AP pole anymore. You know why, partially because they began
the year at number forty four in the country. Tennessee
began the year in the top twenty five. They're six
and three, they've beaten nobody, and they're still in the.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Top twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I think these teams that get these head starts
over the offseason, I think it's ridiculous. I'm glad the
AP Pole doesn't play any role whatsoever in selecting these teams, unless,
like me, you're a little bit convinced and maybe concerned
that the Committee is slightly influenced by the eight Peopole
when they make their initial selections, which I think they
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possibly are influenced by the AP Pole, and I don't
think they should be whatsoever. So look, the AP Pole
is never going away. It's a third party entity. They
make many off it. It's a great news organization, as
John Wilner has said over and over again. But the
only freaking poll that matters is the one that came
out last week for the first time, and that's the
c if people.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
The APO Pole, in my opinion, needs to die. That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I'm with you, that's you. Just kind of put it
the way they have one frustrating to me.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
One more? Can I add one more?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Please?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
How in the hell do you guys beat Iowa and
then flip spots with old Miss who beat the Citadel?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
They didn't flip spots All Miss was in the ap
Poes again.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
In the AP Pole, they absolutely fliped spots, which is why, like,
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Why do we even bother with the AP pole. I mean, guys,
how often do you look at the coaches poll these days?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Never?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Ever, that's the way the AP polls gotta go the
way the coaches pull right down the toilet.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So you don't want any polls at all during the
regular only.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Poll that I want, The only poll that I want
is the CFP poll that comes out in the early
part of November.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's where I completely disagree. That's why I like the polls.
I like the numbers, and I like the conversation around
the numbers. You have a problem with them, great, but
I think we need the numbers. I think we would
miss the numbers if we didn't have that. I think
you would miss the numbers.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I think a lot of people would agree with you.
But I also think you're smart enough to know who's
good and who's not. And again, I think in the NFL,
for example, we don't need preseason rankings to tell us
who's good and who's bad. In the NFL, we watched
the sport because we love the sport, and I agree
with you initially, Chuck, it would be odd because it's
all we know. But eventually they go away and the
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only poll you have is the one that comes out
in the second week in November.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
You'd get used to it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The Dogs did not remain ranked for very long. What
the hell happened in Madison?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Disgrace, disgrace. They they gave it away everything Wisconsin had.
They gave it away three scoring drives that all began
inside the Husky fifty yard line. Thought the defense was
actually pretty damn good man. I mean, the defense gave
up the one touchdown when Wisconsin got the ball on
the seven yard line and they couldn't stop him from
getting out of the end zone. Bad special teams punting
(12:46):
was terrible. Some of the decisions by Demon Williams, and
there's a reason for it. He's nineteen years old. He
hasn't figured out the road thing yet. We're terrible. The
interception to des Roebuck, it was obvious that that annoyed
the coaching staff.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's a mistake.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Can't make throwing that ball down the field third and twelve, scrambling,
turning his back away from the defense and dropping the pill.
You want to go down and just go down and
punt and live to see another day. But you know
this offense for me, and I'll just say this. I
think they're a bit of a paper tiger, right, I mean,
I don't know what else to say. Like, some of
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the numbers look great, you know, overall, but then you
look at the way they've played on the road at
Michigan and at Wisconsin for an entire half against Maryland
Ohio State. I mean, if they're really one of the
elite offenses in football, they're not gonna play four games
like that where they just get totally shut down, totally
(13:42):
shut down by the opponent. You know, maybe it happens
once and you play the number one team in the country, Okay, whatever,
you can excuse it.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
But this is now three or four.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Times, guys, where their offense hasn't even shown up in
a game, and that's not the mark of an elite offense.
So I don't even really care what the numbers say
overall nationally, guys. I just think that they're they're kind
of a paper tiger. And when it comes to how
elite people really think they are.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I thought, I know you agree with that book.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Yeah, but I mean I don't have the disdain that
most Duck fans do for UW. You know that and
so to me, it was just I thought it was preemptive.
I thought that there was a wow, number one offense
in the country, and it's like, but they there's things
that I think are going to come back to haunt them.
And this week, this past weekend, was one of those games. So,
(14:31):
I mean, demon Williams. We've talked a lot about him.
He's unbelievably explosive and fantastic to watch when things are clicking.
But what is it when you're watching him right now?
Because if if it is a paper tiger, at times
it looks like a tiger and other times it looks
very paperish, paper mache ish, And so I'm wondering, what
is it that you think most he needs to he
(14:51):
needs to grow up with.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I think they're putting way too much on his plate period,
end of story. I think he's a nineteen year old
quarterback and I think they are putting way too much
on his shoulders. They don't have a running game right
now at all. They have no consistent wide receiver even
really behind Denzel Boston, and Denzel Boston's been up and
down himself at times this year. They're relying on a
ton of freshmen Desmond Roebuck, Radon Vines Bright for example.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
They have no tight end.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
At all, none, no pass catching tight end on this
football team whatsoever. Their offensive line obviously has been banged up,
and that's certainly a part of it. But I just
think the identity of the football team, the responsibility to
move the ball and score points, falls on the shoulders
of a nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I think it's too much. They're just putting too much
on his plate.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Like go back and look at the twenty twelve Seahawks
for example, when Russell Wilson was a rookie, he had
the league's highest paid offensive line. He had Marsharnon Lynch,
Michael Robinson, Sydney Rice, Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate, and Zach Miller.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
He did not have to do anything.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I mean, obviously he played great, but he had an
incredible supporting cast. And I understand Bucky why that is
at Washington because the roster two years ago got blown
to bits when Caitlyn de Boree took off for Alabama,
and there just hasn't been enough time, I think, to
rebuild the offense to give a quarterback those types of
pieces yet, right, let's see what happens a year or
(16:10):
two years from now. But just overall, I think they're
putting way, way, way too much of the responsibility on
the shoulders of a nineteen year old kid.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I'm gonna just skip perdue entirely this week because I've
been wanting to ask you this all week long and
I only got like a minute and a half. If
that is Chris Peterson done done? Yeah, he has done.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if he came back to
coach college football.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
If he hadn't removed himself for four years just to
kind of gauge how NIL was gonna work, and then Okay,
I think I can manage it now.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You'll never say never, right, But I mean I was
just talking to him like three weeks ago, and he's
doing other stuff, right, And I think I'd be less
surprised if Nick Saban came back. I mean, Nick Saban
honestly has stayed way more involved in college football, as
you know, than Chris Peterson has. So I'd be fairly
surprised if Pete got back in the game.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Ok.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Why you want to bring him back?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, I don't know. I mean, just sa all this
fish Talk this week, and I'm like, uh, well, why
steal somebody else when we've got somebody right here.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
He seems like the kind of guy that maybe he
would come back on an interim basis if something happened
in the middle of the year or late in the
game over the offseason, Like God, was it Barry Alvarez
that went back to Wisconsin to be like their interim AD?
Remember that for a while.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I think he was their AD for a long time.
I think he was their AD and then became the
interim head coach Okay a little while.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
But you know what I'm talking about, Like we've seen
you know, names name coaches come back, name AD's come
back and see I'll help you out for a while,
maybe do something like that. But I'd be pretty surprised.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
If he came back for good to know, Good to know,
all right, you the man, Thank you very much. We
appreciate anything. I need to plug this quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Let's say we're at the five twenty Mike calm grin,
Rick new Heizel today, David Sampson, you guys know, Dave,
the former president of the Marlin still join us in
the five o'clock hour, and by then we'll well know
if it's Coyle Rawley or Aaron Judge, so that should
be announced around four o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All right, sale o to the wife and dogs.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Okay, guys, all right, see you see.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
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on the Los Angeles Rams, and is if there wasn't
enough cool stuff going on in this matchup, the Rams
are cracking out their rivalry uniforms. I guess they've never
worn these before. Everybody's got rivalry uniforms this year, and
most of the rivalry uniforms I don't those throwbacks don't count.
(19:16):
I don't think those are the rivalry unit because there
are a lot of bad throwback uniforms in the National
Football League. But the rivalry ones I think have looked
pretty good to this point. The Rams might break that
there's a sizzle reel that is available where they're black.
They're like midnight uniforms. They put black into their color schemes,
(19:36):
so they're almost all black. Even in the sizzle reel
uniform they don't look good, and that's that's the idea
of a sizzle reel, is to really showcase the brand
new uniform in its best way possible. So I think
it's gonna be kind of gaudy looking. I think we're
gonna I think we're gonna win the uniform battle no
matter what this weekend.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I don't think they're that bad. But then again, I
don't mind in the blacked out ones. When I see
there's a bunch of people with these new rivalry ones
where they're all white within accents of their colors, or
midnight blacked out where they're all black with accents of
their colors. And I kind of like, I haven't seen
one yet that I don't like. I don't mind this one.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I well, everybody had a problem with the Seahawks one
because they look kind of like Ducks uniforms, so around
they came out, there was that this.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
One, I admit, I admit, yeah, they're terrible.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Yeah, but this one, I feel like it's the sleeve
is really bothering me.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Kind of gotta go all black, don't you. Yeah, you
just got a tuck air of blue Ram thing.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
It looks like their shoulder pads sticking out and they
need to pull the uniform back over their shoulder pad.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I mean, granted, it's just a sizzle reel, but it
looks like they're like wearing a vest over their uniform. Yeah,
as opposed to creating a brand new rivalry uniform for
the occasion so it'll look different. We've never seen the
Rams dressed like this before, and and I'm not sure
that it's gonna look all that good on television. It
(21:01):
doesn't even look good on the suit. I think it
falls flat on the photos. And just so you know
I'm not being biased, I think that our sizzle reel
uniforms are terrible.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah again, they look like Ducks uniforms.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
They're not good.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
They're not good.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, they're not great. But I think they look all
right too. Well yeah, yeah, all right. Let's play some
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Speaker 1 (21:57):
Probably got two picks that I'd like to make today.
Of course I can only make one. And since someone
is allowing you to have some skin in the game
tonight and Thursday night football, I am going to skip
over to the college football side of things. It's been
a rough year for the Penn State Nitney Lions. I
mean it has been a rough year for the Penn
(22:17):
State Nitney Lions. They've lost six straight games. They're o
and six and Big Ten conference play. In many publications,
they were the favorite, believe it or not, over both
Ohio State and Indiana to win the conference this year.
So it can't get worse than looking at your oh
and six conference record. They fired their head coach for
goodness sake, and yet they have been rallying as of late.
(22:42):
They lost by one to Northwestern, they lost by one
to Iowa. They were leading the number one ranked team
in the country at halftime fourteen to seven, and they
lost by a toe to the number two ranked team
in the country just last week. I'm feeling like this
is their super Bowl, Like there's not going to be
a more motivated team in college football this weekend to win,
(23:03):
and not just win, but to win convincingly. It feels
like to me the Penn State Nitney Lions not only
need a win, they could really use a blowout to
make them feel better about themselves. And they've got the
right team to face. Michigan State this year has lost
also six games in conference play. They've lost five of
(23:23):
them by double figures, including twenty five point home loss
to UCLA, so home field advantage doesn't really work for them,
and they've given up two hundred and eighty nine yards
rushing to USC two hundred and seventy six yards rushing
to Michigan two hundred and thirty eight yards rushing to UCLA.
So you're getting my trend. And although Penn State doesn't
(23:44):
have Drew Aller anymore, they still have both of their
running backs and one of them has had an exceptional
season in k Tron Allen. So I think Penn State's
going to go into Michigan State, where home field advantage
has not mattered this year, and they are going to
run the f over the Michigan State Sparties and cover
seven and a half on the road against Michigan State.
(24:06):
Plus Michigan State just found out yesterday they're on probation,
so don't kid yourself. There are a lot of Michigan
State Spartan players that are thinking about where am I
going to play football next year? So give me Penn
State minus seven and a half on the road to
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(25:34):
Kidd coming up next on the program. A little more
on the Seahawks and Rams. I know something that'll really
spice up this rivalry. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
The most important roundtable of our lives is coming your
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join us to talk about the Seahawks and Rams. I'm
sure we've had a bigger, more impactful playoff roundtable in
(25:56):
the past with these guys. But I'm a p prisoner
of the moment. Okay, this feels like the most important
thing right now.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Okay, right now, all right, But because you made me
more nervous than normal, I get really nervous talking to
these two. And then when you throw that on top
of it, Yeah, I'm like what.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I'm sure we did a playoff round table at one point,
but it does right now. All that matters is the Rams.
That's just how I operate. Oh yeah, good for you.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't think about things in the past. No, past
can't change it. That's right. It's just whatever is in
front of me, and I just put everything into it.
Good for you, so good, what a great mind. So Greg, Hugh.
I think they feel the same way. I think Hugh
was just chewing on glass this morning, getting ready for
his his analysis today, Greg Bell breaking through walls. You know,
(26:47):
Greg is Yeah, so not calm at all. Cold, not
a head cold could keep that guy down. So eight
to nine, we'll have them join us to talk Seahawks
Rams for one entire hour, all right, in the meantime,
I mean, yes, we're getting ready to this game. This
has been on my mind a little bit, and I
don't even know. I mean, I've been looking it up,
(27:09):
and you find different information everywhere. But for whatever reason,
I don't know why this is happening everywhere I look,
Aaron Donald keeps popping up. Oh, and Aaron Donald looks
as good physically as he ever has in his entire life.
Like he looks like he could put on a uniform
(27:32):
and be a pro bowler Sunday if he wanted to.
That's how good he looks. I mean, he retired very
early after years of dominating this Sea Hawks. You want
to shake up the rivalry. I think he has been
retired longer than his contract with the Rams. Let's go
(27:58):
get him. Yeah, my kid, try to kidnap him. Let's
go sign him. Let's go make an offer he can't refuse.
Let's go get Aaron Donald. Let's shake up this rivalry.
And I mean, like before.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Sunday, let's watch him wreck their crap.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Now that's silly. I mean obviously can't, but but honestly,
like he I know, he keeps saying over and over
and over he's not going to play again. Why is
he working out so damn hard? Why is he suddenly
going to football games? Why is he suddenly going on
ANFL podcast? Maybe he's got the itch to play again.
And I think, and I don't know this for a fact,
(28:41):
there's various things, different reports about how these contracts work.
But I think once he's been retired longer than his
contract was with the team he left, he he is
a free agent and he can sign with any team
now maybe not, maybe only the Rams he could come
back to. And my guess is that he probably would
(29:03):
if he did come back from retirement. I don't think
he left on bad terms with the Rams. I think
he still lives in Los Angeles. He'd probably suit up
for the Rams. So I don't want to put any
thoughts in his head because I don't want him suiting
up for the Rams this year. But this is somebody
that I'm telling you within two weeks is playing Pro
Bowl caliber defensive line. So let's go get him. Let's
(29:24):
really pull a fast one on the old Rams. Let's
shake up this rivalry. Come on, John, you got a
silver tongue. Come on, Mike McDonald, you got the best
defensive mind and all of football. Imagine what Aaron, what
you could convince you could do with Aaron Donald. Come on, Seattle,
you know, let's let's all join together and sing a
(29:46):
song at the holiday time to make a miracle happen.
Let's hat Aaron Donald suit up for the Seahawks before
the season comes to it.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
You say, everybody, shake it up.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
And he is a free agent as of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, I read that too, but I've also read that
the I don't know. You might be right, you might
be wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yeah, I've read different things this morning.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what the contract thing. I
don't know if that would matter. My first wrestlers And
he came back like with a mask on Andre the Giant.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Basically and came to the seat of the Rams anyway,
he wrote to us. But he wore like a mask
or like hul Cogan did he just you know, you know,
died his goatee, you know, came back as a different wrestler,
right right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Just he could do that.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I mean I suppose, I think, because boy, that would
shake it up.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That would be unbelievable. I think that really good at
this point.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Ye.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah, I think it would be really very bright on
his part, and I think he is pretty bright to
just be like, yeah, I kind of wanted to step away,
just take care of my body, and now I just
like he's a different Honestly.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Michael Jordan stepped away twice. Michael Jordan stepped away twice
and was so desperate to get back to the competitive
spirit that he played for the Wizards for goodness sake.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I mean, boxers retire thirteen times because they think they're
ready and then all of a sudden one day they're like,
I can't replace the high of playing, of fighting somebody
or playing football or whatever the case. Plenty of people
have come out of retirement that are a lot worse
shape than Aaron Donald looks like right now, he looks
like he's preparing to play football.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, well he's he's a lot closer to it than
most people. Right after the retire half the football players
like shrink. They just turn in like what you were
an offensive lineman? You're not even You're like a shadow
of yourself. I think he'd probably would be like, yeah,
I'll come back and be a Ram again. And so
I don't even know if you like putting this out
in the universe.
Speaker 7 (31:50):
Here's the thing is that he has repeatedly said his
passion for the game is gone. So I blame the
Rams for that. So if I'm him, I'm not going
to go sign with the team that made me lose
my pass for the game. I need to play for
a new team and then kindle that phenomenal point.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think he lost his passion because it was like
too easy.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
No, I think it was.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Crap every single years, think of wrecking the same people's crap.
I got to turn it around and wreck the Rams crap.
That'll be the full circle.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You know what, I'm going to take this further. Ashley
has inspired me. We're going to sign Aaron Donald. As
a matter of fact, play the breaking news. It's just
play the breaking news audio areas. I got news just
this and not kJ R is ready to announce that.
I don't know when or how or what's going to happen,
(32:37):
but it is unofficially official. Aaron Donald is a Seahawks,
very unofficially.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Let's focus on the unofficially.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Unofficially unofficial leads signing with the Seahawks right as we speak.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
It makes, oh boy, a very little amount of sense.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think he's going to help our defense.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yeah, it makes a ton of sense if you're a Seahawks.
Face makes no sense for any other person involved.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
I love it, though, Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I can't believe we got Aaron Donald today.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I can't believe this is just happening right now as
we speak.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Can't believe he's a Seahawk. This is awesome. I'm getting
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